Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17
United States. Puerto Barrios is within
fifty hours or less of Mobile and
ONLY sIxTY HOURS

United States. Puerto Barrios is within
fifty hours or less OF Mobile and
ONLY SIXTY HOURS
, would be required to transfer traveller
or bale OF goods from Mobile to the
Pacific coast hsrbor OF Is Union. United
States and other steamers now pay from
$50 to $50 ton at Is Union for English
or Australian coal. 1t may be delivered
there from Alabama on the trnns-isthmianj
, railway for from S5 to 81 ton.
Therefore the government OF the United
States as well as the people must confess
keen interest in this short, easily built
railway, which surrey must accomplish
most beuefcent political and commercial
results.n
The Consul alludes to the preference
given By Salvador and Guatemala to
Americans In matters of franchises, and
concludes his report as follows: "The
rapid multiplication OF foundries, furnaces
aud forges In Alabama and other southern
states induced the writer to seek for be-
hof OF the commonwealth, which
Is his home, an unsuitable market
for its products. From every trading
place OF as many as 1000 or 5000 inhabi-
tsnts along this intermipable coast rail-
way will soon lead TO farms and villages
in the interior. Twelve such railways
are now building between the southern
confines OF Chilli and California. Ii the
rransisthminn Railway be speedily fin
ished the iron and coal and steel Of Eng
land and Australia may be supplanted
everywhere on the Pacific by that pro
duced in the United States.
RUSSIAN RXTRADITIoN TREATY.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL Colonel Charles
de Arnaud, q well known Russian officer,
who performed valuable service for the
Union cause during the late war, has just
received from General John B. Torchin
letter in reference to the Russian eXtradi-
ton treaty, In which that gentleman
criticises some of the statements made
by MIR. George KEENAN, In his series Of
articles on Siberian exiles, as well as the
statements made by Stepniak in letter
recently published.
General Torchin was 8 Mathematical
onel IN the Russian army. BE served
this country faithfully as brigadier-gen-
ersl during the war, ana is now living in
Radon, Washington county, Ill. In his
letter he says:
ST read the two articles of George
KEENAN, in the "-entury," on "The
Prison Life of the Russian Revolution
ists.n They are elaborate preliminary
articles. It is evident that the man has
given good deal of time to collect infor-
mstion aDd documents. 10 the first
article he states Whist is the object OF the
book aud II he is siacere, it Is evident that
his general premises are wrong. He
says that the principal cause
of all the attempts on the life of
the Czar is the bad treat
ment OF the arrested reyolutionists by
the authorities, which produced such an
intense hatred among the Nlhilists that
they want to revenge 1t
"This Is q wrong supposition. II ne Is
sincere, 1t shows that he hsd not studied
ansrcaism, which is the same thing what
Nlhilsm is, as Bskouuin WAS the origi-
nator OF both. suggest, IL the govern
ment, instead OF putting arrested Nihi
lists in common prisons had put them in
palaces and surrounded them with luxur-
les, 1t would not produce particle OF
difference in their methods and objects
1t looks as If Mr. KEENAN, in rowing through
Siberia and seeing SO many educated
Nihilists there suffering, na furaly h.d his
sympathy strongly enlisted in favor oi
them and by the Misrepresentation he
received an impression that, because they
wanted to ameliorate the order of things
In Russia, the government treated them
inhumanly. And there is, 1 believe, his
mistake. He does not know enough oil
the creed OF the fellows. They are the
civilized thugs OF Europe as there are
wild thugs of India. Their evapgile is to
kill everybody who is in their way and
prevents them TO overthrow the present
order of things. They commence with
the Czsr, but they would kill off1cisls and
even private individuals II they find them
dangerous to their Obi acts. They have q
: particular code OF morals, too, like tie
Jesuits have, They will lie, folswear,
deceive and do hundred things WHICH
are counted by US dishonorablei but tQ
them they are honorable, because they
help them to attain their objects.
"Neither government nor private
IndiYiduAl can deal with them in any or
binary way. knowing what ansrchism
is, and having experienced practically to
what It's teachings may lead, as the case
was in Chicsgo and partly in New York
it would be folly for this country tC
refuse to make the proposed treaty
with Russia. Here the snsrchisn
is not better than Ia Europe. They d.
not acknowledge political republic Al
the best form of government, they despis,
, it; anarchy Is their psDaccs for all evils
j and only anarchy can lead the world tt
+, happiness.
"Were 1 in Washington I would Civ,
! my opinion before the committee; or If
was asked by the chairman of that COM
D mittee my idea of 1t, would write him
but IS it is ! don't care. Mr.. Struv'
e ought to find parties to support him be
s fore the Senate"
LOOKOUT FOR A COUNTERFEIT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l2-The secre
service division of the Treasury Depart
ment has discovered that a new counter
|, felt of the IS silver certificates has beel
put In circulation. The bill Is abou
, three-sixteeDtbs Of an inch too short
: There are no distinctive lines in the pa
: per. The general appearance Is good anC
: liable to deceive.
1T WOULD Run DRY.