The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-08-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular Correspondents }

Washins.sn, Alg. 16. 19o0.-If
R'issia's order to its Minister TO ac
c,pt a Chinese escort from Fekin to
rien Tsin, after all the other govern.
IN ,nts had ordered their Ministers to
remain in Pekin, should turn out to
mean that deal had been made be.
tween Russia and China there would
be very little surprise in Washington,
where the probability Of one or more
of the powers supposed t. be acting
in concert against China making some
sort of dicker on their own hook for
their own benefit has been recogsiz d
from the first as one Of the most pro
picking things about the whole busi.
ness.
Ii Hung Chang request that this
government endeavor 20 prevent the
landing of British troops at Shanghai
will be ignored, az it is the recognize!
right of any nation to land armed
forces in another country when it is
considered necessary to protect The
Mucn' derends- db66 f3w aarnrng
is done. For Cuban or Spauiard or
anybody else, to call the average
American liar means to get knocked
down, yet in effect they are constantly
calling our government a liar and a
cheat and the most that any American
does about it is to scratch his heal
and wonder if the talker has got il
straight. Following are words usei
by Mr.. Roderick Alvarez, of Havana.
in Washington hotel, while discussing
the announced intention of our gov.
ernment to withdraw from Cuba next
year: IF the better. class of the
Cubans and the Spanish on the Islaud
believed that the United States had
any intention of turning tn, Island
over to the Cubans you would See Il
scatteration and removal Of everything
movable that woull surprise you,
The fact of the matter is, we all think
that the United States will be in CON.
troll of the Island for the next ten
years. 1t is not safe 10 turn the
Island over to a people utterly in
capable of self government"
AS usual, the Carnegie and Beth.
lehem Companies submitted bids for
supplying armor to war ships which
divided the lot required and mado the
price the same. A new bidder, the
Mldvalo Steel Co., of Pennsylvania,
entered the contest with a lower bid.
but setting longer time limit for the
delivery ,f the armor and failing to
specify that the armor would be made
by the krupp process. Secretary
Long must decide whether he will
accept either of these bids or exercise
the authority conferred upon him by
the last naval Appropriation Bill to
establish government plant for
making armor. He will take up the
matter as soon as he returns to Wash.
ington.
Mr.. Albert Cobb, cf Augusta, Ga,
Is one Of those who believes there will
so>ner or later be a big rush of gold
hunters to the abandoned placer
mines in NCrthern Geor gia. While
he WAS in Washington day or two
ago he said: "Long years ago plenty
of people were making money in the
plac>r business there, and | know a
number of men who are washing out
ten or fifteen dollars a day in the little
streams or branches that run in the
mountains. Some very large plants
are in operation, aud are panning out
good profits, but the real extent of
The gold veins III those old hills is not
understood generally. Ia tie olden
days primitive machinery wa, in use
in the numerous mines that were
opened and worked until that ma.
chinery became Ineffective. Then the
mines were deserted, and the conss.
Iuonce is that you can fad deserted
gold mines scattered all over that