The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-01-18

cotton, and she Will III few days
unfnrl her sails for Liverpool with
eight thousand bales on board.
just think OF 1,000.bales on a single
vessel. There are five great com
part mehts, waler-tight and tire
proof, and the compressed bales
are put in with screw presses, that
make the whole mass solil-so
SOLID that you can hardly invert a
knife blade between them. Rail.
roads carry commerce to The ports,
and alwavs will. Two hundred
years ago Mobile was The capital OF
the Louisiana colonies, and was
owned by The French. Long years
after New Orleans was made The
call al. The French ceded all that
coast to England, and England to
Spain, but Spain was whipped out
of possession of Mobile, by the
American Colonies in the war OF
1913. There is some curious histo-
ry abont Mobile. In 1904 the
French Colony got belligerent be-
cause there were no women there.
and so The King of France called
for female volunteers, and 43 re.
spOnded, and then there was a big
row about the choice of wives, and
it was settled by lot. The next
year the women got up row be
cause they had 10 eat corn bread.
It was called the petticOat insur-
reclion, and was quieted by a pro-
mise OF wheat and barley.
Georgia has gwen many notable
men 10 Mobile john A. Cuthbert
was born in Savannah just one
hundred years ago, and died in Mo-
bile when he was ninety-three. He
was The oldest living graduate of
Princeton College. In 1918 he
represented Georgia in Congess.
In 1881 he edited the old Federal
Union at Mil,edgeyille. In 1887 he
removed 10 Mobile, and was elect
ed Judge of the Circuit Court.
John Forsythe, Jr., another nota-
BILE Georgian, moved to Mobile
and became one Of the foremost
editors of the South, and was also
Minister to Mexico.
But the busiest town | have
found in my travels of late, is the
town of BrewtOn, which is about
IS miles northeast of Mobile, and
is situated on the line OF the l.. and
N. Railroad. The latest edition of
Rand & McNally's map OF Ala
bamA, gives the town a population
of only $50. which shows how hard
it is for the map makers to keep
up with the ground swell or South
ern prosperity. BrewtOn now has a
population of near three thousand,
and there are over one hundred
new buildings going up. Over
three hundred and fifty thousand
feet Of lumber is shipped from this
point every cay. / visited one of
the great levathian mills that cuts
one hundred thousand feet daily.
and kiln dnes about half of it, cuts
aud dresses all it dries, and the
plant cost four hundred thousand
dollars. The logs float twenty miles
in a plank race that cost twenty
thousand dollars. The logs are end
to end the whole line, and move TO
The mill just as the mill wants
them. This company is from Mich
igan aud owns over one hundred
thousand acres OF pine timber and
they intend 10 cut il up. The
Yankees are taking that country.
| met one of them who was plant
ing ore hundred acres in LeConte
pears. These Yankees will find
some use for The laud after our Tor
ests are cut away. They build good
houses 10 hve in. They dress we'll
and drive good teams. They build
nice churches and academies. ]
saw one dwelling that must have
cost ten thousand dollars, and sew
eral that cost half that sum. All
This venture OF Northern people
and Northern capital has been
made within two years and the cry
is still they come. They don't
come footing horns nor waving
banners. They don't come in
Swarms nor plalioons, but they slip
down upon US quietly, and before
we know 1t, have bought up our
lands aud our mines at their own
figures. They prefer TO invest in a
new place and develop it. | find
them wherever | 90, and am glad
10 say that our people give them
welcome. They seem content in
their new homes, and their wives
and daughters 60 into raptures
over our climate. They are most
all Republicans and their morality,
civiliiy and energy make their pol.
ilies respectable. They have no
love for the negro, and say that in
few years that he will not be
factor IN national politics. They
say that their party does not need
his vote and does not desire his
affillatiOn. One OF them said 10
me: You Southern Democrats
know how 10 manage him and We
will now turn him over TO you. We
have a clear MAJORITY Ia both
Houses aud will soon takein more
Republican S;ales and run the
government until new issues come
up and new parties are formed that
will divide the South, aud IN the
meantime we will help TO divide 1t
by trnsplaniing thousands Of our