The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-02-18


plies which had been ordered and paid
Tor in the manufacturers hands They
were usually Of an imperisllable charac
ter, such as army cloth for uniforms, gun
powder aud percussion caps, shoes, dc.
A graduate of one of the war schools,
now a prominent railway superintendent,
who inspected many thousand stands
of muskcts at great armory fac
tory in Belgium, says there could not
have been less than 100000 worth of
arms ready for shipment on December
20, 1864, at this one place, and that they
were paid for This was not An isolated
instance. One of the shrewdest and
ablest of toe Confederate agents told the
writer that there was nearly s7,0Oo,000
worth Of good military stores belonging
to the Confederate Government, which
were on hand in four places in Europe on
March |, 1865, and the same authority
believes that, including cash on deposit
under various names, stores, credits, and
all, there is now not less than $40, 900, 900
belonging To somebody in the hands of
various English and continental mauufac-
turers and bankers. 1t is thought that
the syndicate which has been advertising
for Confederate bonds through the Lon
don newspapers, has had careful corps
of experienced persons looking up the as
sets of the Contederacy in the various
continental and English cities, and it is
thought that an attempt is To be made to
get possession OF these assets OF the Con
ttdtracy in Europe in order to apply
them toward the payment ct the Confed
crate bonds. The best information avail
able places the amount OF Confederate
securities of inquest ioned validity As
against such assets still exiant at face
value "f $500, ,0O0, ,oO0.'
-Ex President Arthur appeared on
Fifth Avenue in New York on Monday
afternoon His illness has made him some
ten Years Older in appearance, and his
quick, stylish step of n few years az" is
now slow, deliberate movement His
cheeks have much less color in them than
they had when he left Washington, and
his closely cut sidewhlsker> are now
pure white. A genilenln who clle | on
the ex.President on Tuesday says that he
Is bv no means on his drathbed, as has
been reported, nor even in immediate
danger. His trouble is a peculiar one
and very much complicated, but not ne
cessarily fatal. Mr.. Arthur keeps as close
a watch of affairs, both business aud po-
itical. "a if he Were moving among them
as actively as ever, but the talk about
making him Senator Or bringing him
prominently forward as an active partici-
pant in political affairs is entirely without
his consent and against his wishes He is
going to practice law if he ever gets well
enough.
The Baltimore 4Namut;lcturers' Re
cord has published All annual review of
the industrial growth OF the South. The
amoun, of capital, including capita, stock
of Incorporated companies organized
during the year, and in enlarglng and re-
building those destroyed by fire, aggre-
gates $66, ,sl2 900, divided among the
fourteen Southern States as follows: Ala
bama, 7,S4l 900; Arkansas, 81, ,220, 900;
Florida, s., ,OI9,00o Georgia, 50 500, 900;
Kentucky, SIS, ,30+, 200; Louisiana, 81
lls,5oo; Maryland, s6,66s, 500; Mi>sis-
sippi, 1851 800; North Carolina, IS, ,23O,-
600; South Carolina, ss56,OOO Tennes-
see, s2.692, 900; Texas, "a, 3,232 900; Vir-
ginia, $3,3l4 700, and West Virginia,
$l2,056,0Oo. Summing up some statis-
tics of the South's progress since 1880,
the Record shows that since then IO,4OO
miles have been added to the South's rail
road mileage. The assessed value of
property in the South has increased
nearly 81 ,0oO, 900, 900 since 1879.
There is report among protection
lists in Congress that Mr.. Randall recent
ly announced 20 a delegation of steel men
from Pennsylvania that he had changed
his mind on the tariff They came to
have conference with him in regard to
protection for the steel interests aud
were, it is said, greatly surprised when
he told them that he had talked with the
President, and after listening to his views
on tariff, hal concluded To change the
ideas on high tariff hitherto held by him.
He said that the President, after full
and free discussion on the tariff, had con
cluded that the present duties could be
very materially reduced without inter.
frring with the wages now received by
the workingmen of this county. Mr..
Randall thinks that such a reduction
might be made without harm. Great ef-
forts are being made by railroad CON-
panies of the West to secure the almis-
sion of steel rails. at reduced duty. and
hence the Eastern steel men came on to
see Mr.. Randall, to get his aid. They
were surprised at his answer.
The postal card iend has again
bobbed mp serenely. This time he wants
to know what has become of the Florida
boom. Why, most esteemed tiend, Flor