The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-07

10th, 1888; ANNAPOLIS; November 18th. 1Is3:
Trenton, November Isl, 1871; and ar News
York on January 4 th,s IT'S. 1t ended lis
existence In N CIV orkson March I'd, 1850
Please give particulars alb BUT pubic
s TRANSFORMATION out from Dawson CITY?
THE White Pass and Yukon Railroad
was completed early in July, 1863, from
sskaguay to the head OF Lake Bennett.
a distance Of about iorty miles. From
Bennett City to Dawson the journey is
now made in four days In conmodic1,si
and comfortable steamers, at q cost of
less thai. 500, l1dinsS Errth ana meals
The up-trip from Dawson to Bennett
CITY occupies from six to ten days, ac-=
cording to stage of water. AS a conse-s
I. quence Of the great improvements in
Transportation on the upper Yukon and
the lakes, the st. Michael route is now
but little used for passenger traffic to
and from the States.
What is now the actual population of
the Yukon district?
@ According to the census taken by the
Northwest mounted police, the popula-.
ton of the Yukon district in the spring
of 1890 was $4,000. Dawson had a popu-.
1ation Of Is, coo, and about the same mum
Der of people We're located on the klon-
dixie and ldian rivers and their tribu-5
taries, while 5000 were scattered on out
lying creeks There were 1900 women in
the district. Fully 10000 of those who
spent the winter in town Were idle, and a
large proportion of this vast number was
destitute depending on private charity
for subsistence During the summer o
1899. about 5000 people left Dawson,
half IF whom returned to the coast by
the upper river route. or the other
half, about 2,.,GO went to Nome, and the
remainder entered the Forty Mile district.
Not to exceed 1000 people arrived in
Dawson from the outside world during
the season.
Does the new Deutschland carry freight,
and wherein does she differ from other
steamers?
The Deutschland is wholly a passenger
and mail steamer She does not carry.
freight. She has great capacities and
great speed, and she is now a possibility
because of the immense travel between
Europe and America, and because people
are willing to pay more tor accommoda-
lions, and want more accommodations
now than formerly. She will carry l,lao
passengers across the Atlantic. Among
her equipments are a complete refrigerat-
ing plant, four hospitals, a safety desposlt
vault, light Kitchens complete post
office with clerks, 30 electric motors, SO
pumps, II steam engines, a complete
drug store, a complete fire department
with outfit for fre-fghting, library,
1900 electric lights, Two barber shops,
a telegraph system, a telephone sys-
tenn, q complete printing establishment,
Photographic darkroom, etc.
How many slaves were there in Brazil
at the time of emancipation, and when
was that?
The Brazilian act of emancipation was
passed en- the Sth Gay OF September, ISL,
and from that date it was enacted that
..children henceforth born Of slave wo-
men shall be of free condition. This
emancipation, however. was not complete,
for the children We're not actually free
until they were twenty-one years old;
but it was, so arranged that they might
be gradually released from bondage. Then,
in 1883, an abolition movement started in
different localities and gnned momentum
until on the 18th of September, 1850, the
Brazilans passed a new emancipation
act, which fastened the extension Of free
dom. On March so, 1857, the number Of
slaves in Brazil was officially placed at
723,419, md their legal value was reported
as $4S5, 225.2l2. The next year the abolition
OF slavery was completed and the Con-
gress of Brazil refused to consider any
bill looking for compensation to slave
owners
Was President Andrew Jackson ever
censured by the Senate and if SO why?
He was, In a resolution introduced by
Henry Clay, in December, 1883, because
he (Jackson) had dismissed the late Sec
rotary of the United States Treasury, be-
cause he was not in sympathy with Jack
son in relation to the public revenue and
disagreed with him N regard to the place
where United States funds should. be de-
posted. Mr.. Clay declared that the Pres
ident assumed the legislative, executive
and judicial powers OF the Government,
Nearly three months of debate followed,
and in March following the resolution In
a modified form was passed, 26 to 20.
Jackson then sent protesting message
to the Senate, which body promptly pass
ed a resolution declnring that the Presi-
dent had no right to send protest to
the Senate against any of its proceedings.
Three years afterward the Clay resolution
was eXpunged from the records of the
Senate after Senator Benton had daily
for those three years introduced a resolu-
ton to that effect and made a speech IA
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