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Year: 1878

A special meeting Of the JefSarson
Democratic Club viii be held this even.
ing at their roOms in the Askew build
ing. A full attendance is reQuesed ~
business Of Importance viii be brought
before the meeting.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, May 16, 1878.
CONTINUANCE OF THE DEADLOCK IN


THE HOUsE-FUTILE EFFORTS


AT COMPROMISE.


The deadlock continues in the House
and may continue for some days yet.


The democratic position is that they
want to pass their resolution, and they
are ready to agree that when this Is done
they will let the republicans pass their
resolution, giving them q chairman Of
their own selection for their own commit
tee. The republicans, ontheir side, In
sist on making the resolution an amend
ment to and part of the Potter resolution
and meantime they oppose the Potter
resolution as revolutionary attempt to
reopen the question of the Presidential
title. The democrats object to accepting
the republican resolution as an amend
ment to their own, on the ground that 1t
would force an amount OF work on
single committee which it could not DO,
and would make the whole inquiry futile.


General J. d. Cox came to Mr.. Potter
to-day with the proposition that the demo
Gratis should embody in the recital of
their resolution the statement that the
democrats have no intention of impugn-
ing the title or position of Mr.. Hayes, and
should also so amend the resolution as to
extend the inquiry to all the States that
were in question before the Electoral
Commission. Mr.. Potter without COM
Uniting himself, asked first to be assured
THAT If this proposition were accepted 1t
would be satisfactory to the republicans,
and, on consultation, General Cox was
obliged to report that it would not be-
and for this reason the proposal fell to the
: ground.
Year: 1878

Nearly every family puts up a barrel
or two, to bridge over the time from
January 1st to May, when they are
scarce poor and favorIess. We con
slider salt mullet fully equal to mack
erel.


Our weather is superb, in fact lit
tie too much SO, for we need rain bad
ly. Cloudless skies, bright sunshine,
cool nights and prevalence of north
winds is the rule now. The only
trouble is, the days are not long
enough to do all we want to do; now
is the time to clear land and prepare
for setting trees next January, be-
sides making winter gardens, etc.


Can't you find time to visit us this
winter and see how it is yourself?


Ex-ALABAMTAN.
Year: 1878

able living and, perhaps, ultimately a
competency. The one is possible for
man of very limited means, the
other is impracticable for all but men
of wealth except by series of years
devoted to hard work and close econ
omy. If man has resolved to mi
crate it is much more important to
him to consider what he wants and
expects Of a country than it is to
what state he can go cheapest for he
will not find any very considerable
difference In the cost of accomplish
ing equal results west OF south. Men
of moderate means who own their
places and can see their way clear to
a comfortable living had best stay at
home. Men who are young and
strong, ambitious and without homes,
who find the standing room about
them all occupied are the men who
should migrate and if they are Of the
right stuff they will do we'll in either
section.


q Wy TT
Year: 1878

Editor Florida Agricultatrist


1t is often said that Florida is no
home for a poor man. This is true
so far that there seems to be no home
for poor man anywhere, but as for
it's being worse place than the west
OF other parts of the country, for
that class to emigrate to, it is not.
In the plan of nature, certainly in
social economy, there seems to be no
place for the poor; but if there is a
place for those who are destitute, it
is here. If there is no such place,
this is the nearest approach to 1t.


There are thousands of people in
the great cities north who are both
hungry and cold and this Winter and
every succeeding one VIII occur suci1
scenes as the papers have heretofore
reported for Winters now past there
will be crowds gathered about the
doors of charitable institutions and
about the offices of the overseers of
the Door, begging for food and cloth
ING. Mothers will hold up their ema-
ciated babes and beg poor crust to
supply the nouqshment their own
breasts refuse; men will shoot them
selves because there is no work and
women will prostitute themselves be-
cause thev connot see e'their little ones
starve. These things have been in
the past and will be in the future and
that too among families that are indus
trious when there is work and always
economical. Such families had bet
ter be penniless here than north. for
here, at The worst, it can only be a
question of hunger, while there it is
one of both hunger and biting cold.
A family that is on the road to penu-
ry, north, that each month sees hung
er and cold drawing a little nearer
had better come and take the chance
of the open sky by the sea side, and
fish cooked by a fire of pine knots,
than await the hunger that will come
to the children and the ignorance and
crime that follow in the train of hung
er. But there is no such, long con-
tinued, extreme poverty in Florida,
and no need of it, unless sickness and
disaster wait on every move Of fam
lily and that may occur north as well
as south.


These remarks apply only to the
extremely poor who have nothing
more than the means to get here,
very few such families migrate to any
place, but if they are to 60, manifest
ly they had best seek mild climate.
It is urged that such settlers are Of no
benefit to the country. A willing
heart and strong hands will create
wealth, and the modest improve
ments of many poor families will add
to the wealth Of the State as pcrcept-
IDLY as the more pretentious works
of the few people of means but if
this were not so it would be hard to
show why it is a valid reason for dis
couraging such immigration unless
men base their actions upon more
selfish motives than most are willing
to admit. The cry that poor people
should notcome to Florida, is usually
raised by those who are not familiar
byactual experience with the priva'
tions attending such emigrants to
the west. 1t is bad logic to reason
that the west is better than the south
merely because the Prospeeti is snot
brilliant here. The west is no Edo.
Year: 1878

We have received the following
letter from a we'll known citizen of
Boston, Mass, in reference to the
article that we wrote some numbers
ago. We are pleased to see that the
Editor of the Sun and Press is quite
alive to the Importance of encourag-
ing into the State, some of our con-
temporaries may make fun of it, but
it is a matter of life or death to most
of our people, who have recently set
tied and are not yet firmly established
and to those who have too much
land and are anxious to dispose of the
overplus to help them along. Mr..
Snow says:


Editor Florida Agricuttwia 4


read your article on the reason
why Florida does not get more of the
settlers from the North, with much
interest, you tell the reason plainly.
1 took hold Of FLORIDA emigration in
fi-NarasiaLer 1875, and attended 10 81
faithfully until November 1877 and
printed over 10000 folio circplars
principally like the enclosed and had
great many calls and sent q GREAT
many people to Florida and most Of
them purchased land, but up to this
Time have not received dcommis-
sion enough to pay for one,half the
printing to say nothing about nv
time and office rent, am havino
calls now tor information about Flor.
da, and have on my books the names
If over 1000 persons who have prev.
ously applied, but having the printed
natter supply them with such as 7
ave and succeeded in most cases in
ending them TO Rail Roads & Land
jos.' who furnish the printed matter
nd pay me for doing the business
u them Ifthe State ofFlorida, or
ny company or individual who has
Ino for sale, would pay a man a fair
ompensatlon to attend to their in
crest have a large number of good
,ttlers with money could be locat-
| In Florida we want the product


your State in this market and
'rtnern capital will go there to pro.
ice them if its advantages are kept
'1ore the people. Why don't they
Ok after their own interest {?


Yours truly.


J. p. Snow.
Exchange Place, Boston Mass.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Henry Krouse has in his


orange nursery two little orange
plants not exceeding eight inches in
height, each of which has borne a
small orange. The oranges are about
the size of the Mandarin orange. and
tney are now turning yellow. We
nave known of instances before of
young orange plants putting forth
blossoms and even little oranges
forming, soon to drop off, however,
but this is the first time that we ever
knew or heard of the fruit on these
little bits OF twigs from the seed
growing SO large or coming to some
thing like maturity. Now If there is
my other place in the State that can
beat Tampa in orange precocity- we
want to hear from Tribune.
Year: 1878

The majority of our Democratic citizens
are exceedingly remiss in the performance
of their political duty. In no way is this
more apparent than in the matter of dele
gate elections. As q rule there Is no in
quiry made as to the policy the delegate
will advocate, or the candidate he will vote
for, but the sole question is the preference
for one or other of the delegates. As an
instance, we give the answer of gentle.
man who Is running In one of the wards
"Who are you going to support for tho
nomination for Governor and Congress
man." II have not made up my mind
! am going down to Dover In the interest of
the Democratic party" This man ought
not to receive vote for delegate, as his
intention politically is not hones., but
truculent. Such delegate will swop or
wriggle any way to effect some purpose Of
his own. We forbear mentioning his name +,
as personally he is q good fellow. Again
In some of the wards, an Irishman, for
instance, is picked up and put on as alter
nate, the politicians who use him among
bis countrymen, laughing at him mean
time, for his Stiffness In permitting himself
to be so fooled as to help elect delegate
who is intent upon voting for policy
which make the poor alternate work
harder for less money than ever before.


It is the duty of every citizen to fairly
understand the intentions and political pur-
pose of the candidate fol delegate. An
honest and fair man ought to have nothing
to keep from his constituents, and he that
will not answer frankly ought to be kept
from going to Dover next Tuesday.
Year: 1878

A special despatch from Washington
have been sent to officers Of
the customs revenue at all the seaboard
and Western river ports to promptly tele-
graph to the Supervising Surgeon General
Of the Marine Hospital Service the first sp-
pearance of yellow fever at their stations or
vicinity.
Year: 1878

The Queens County Hunt met AZ Garden City at five
O'Clock last evening, the ned being small though the
number of spectators in carriages quite large The
drsg having been sent out In good time during the
afternoon the huntsmen joggec half mile toward
Hampstead and went into cover the south side Of
the Rockaway road. The hounus quickly found their
way into bordering wheat field, where they picked
up the scent and with the well known musical chorus
as evidence OF the good luck the pack dashed
across the Rockaway road, when the initial jumps
had These were formidable obstacles, but they
taken in excellent style aud the running Tor
lew minutes was last aud exciting Through some


isun the hounds called of the scent
toward the eastward, which caused serious check.
The was soon recthed BY The huntsmen aud the
cover again returned TO. In finding their way into
the turnpike leading TO Garden City four
or five barriers were mot, and tue good
steeds never faltering, took their roers SAFELY
over. In searching ior the lost scent the hounds
nnuily ran to the southwest and crossed the
railway track, gong over very bad country.
They so long nj fault that darkness
came on, and the grand things promised when the
pack arst broke away In the westerly line came 10
naugbt. IL was late when the return to the kennel
was made, and though the gaop that was mai proved
pleasant the reuion was not cons ldered very sue
cessiuL


The meet on Saturday next Will be at Huntington,
n Two p. NJ.
Year: 1878

Senior Canovas del Castillo announces
that with the passage of bill by the Cortes
limiting the franchise the work Of consolI-
dating the constitutional monarchy will
be completed. While the experiment of
extending the suffrage has gone on over
the greater part Of Europe The experiment
Of taking away voting power once held
deserves watching. Since the accession
of King Alfonso the work Of the
reaction in Spain has been steadily pro-
gressing and it is only punctuated by such
an event rs the speech of SeiIor CASTELAR,,
brief account Of which will be found
elsewhere. Helpless to stay the work which
he is suffered to witness, he speaks ''more
in sorrow than in anger !" but there is
significance in what he says which no
Minister can overlook, though he has
made up his mind not to heed it.
CASTELAR, exclaimed against the disfranchise-
ment Of two-ffths Of the male adult popula-
ton Of Spain, whom this act would place
"in an abyss from which they will think
they can only escape by war or revolution
That is, unfortunately, what the act
means. If all those opposed to the
monarchy are comprised in the ex-
cluded two-fiths the pretty structure of
Castillo may last as long as the tanner
Of the gravedigger in Hamlet but
even this is very doubtful The govern
ment that is squeamish enough to object to
a French Duke as representative of his
country at Madrid, on the ground that lie
would become the centre of republican in
trigue. must have more than twc-fiiths of
the Spanish people to fear. All the same
there is frankness about this Spanish re-
action which shows that it does not shirk
any portion Of its huge and unpleasant task
Of rolling Spain back to the time Of the
fragrant Isabella.
Year: 1878

A test case involving the question OF the
sutiiciency of the naturalization papers
issued by New York courts in 1868 and the
legality OF the action of Commissioners
Davenport in arresting persons rs illegal
voters who offered to register or vote on
such papers, is to come up for argument
before Judge Blatchtor2 Tomorrow. The
issue is one of Importance, involving other
interests besides those o. political char
acter, and it is desirable that it should be
iudically decided at the earliest possible
moment. Ii the naturalization papers
of 1868 are so deficient as to rem
der them powerless to confer citizenship
their holders are still aliens, and all acts
they may have done in the capacity of cti-
zens of the United States are illegal. But
if the papers should be found thus fatally
deficient it does not follow that the persons
to whom they are issued and who have be-
come possessed of them in good faith COM
nit an offence against the law by offering to
exercise the rights of citizenship they
profess to confer. The question will
main whether the persons arrested by





not acting in good faith and strictly
within the law when they made the at
tempt to register and vote on papers bear
ing the stamp Of regularity and issued to
them by the courts of the city after they
had fulfilled all the preliminary require
ments to entitle them to citizenship. These
points should be settled by legal decision
before the close of the next Legislative
session, so that if the naturalization papers
in question are really valueless some mode
Of relief may be found for those to whom
they have been granted. Ten years have
elapsed since the issue of those certificates,
and it would be gross injustice to pro-
nounce their holders still aliens. They are
clearly entitled to citizenship now, and it
seems only fair that they should be held
harmless for an irregularity for which they
have no responsibility and which works
injury only to themselves
Year: 1878

of the works which represented America
at the greatest art display which the nations
Of the world have ever made. To their mar
row-minded policy we owe the TACT that
many artists were unrepresented VINO
would have done us much credit ana
would have raised the standard OF the
collection. 1t is stated by competent
judges that on passing from the art
galleries of other countries into that
OF our own the general idea of weakness
given by the assembled paintings was pain
tul The French art critics were very graz
cous. as they could afford to be. talked OF
the signs of promise for the future OF our
art which could be discerned, and praised
chiefly the few really American genre pic
lures exhibited. The jury. however, did
not medal these or few landscapes and ma
rines which should have received recogni-
ton. They gave well deserved second and
third medals and an honorable mention
to canvas Of archaeological genre, ma
rine and foreign genre picture painted
abroad by Americans, and an honora-
BILE mention to one landscape executed
III lnlS country III uccIueuiy ioTsiSA mum
ner Judged, then, by the opinion Of the
jury we have made little or no advance in
landscape painting since 1867, when Mr..
Church was our only medallist. This, how.
ever, is not so, for our advance has been
steady in landscape, though not rs great as
it should have been. 1t is in figure paint
ing that we are weak, and in this branch
the rate Of progression has so far been very
slow, though there is much to hope tor in
the future The home patronage OF
American art, which has decreased OF
late years instead of increased, has much


to do with the present state of affairs. 1t
is however encouraging to be able to state
that some of the pictures at Paris were sold
to foreigners, and that it is thought that
distinctively American pictures, chiefly OF
genre, will sell if placed upon the foreign
market When, then, American pictures are
stamped with foreign approval we will see
the buyers of this country follow the lead.
and American art, backed by proper patron.
age, improve with rapid strides.
Year: 1878

column will be one more body of British
troops sacrificed to that blind and foolish
contempt for an enemy which is a common
element in the first stages of many wars.
Our Western plains are covered with the
bones of men whose lives have expiated
that sort of folly and in the wide limits
through which the British standard has
been borne by British soldiers there is not
a region but has some scene made memoir
able by the splendid valor with which the
men have faced the death brought upon
them by the incredible imbecility of their
commanders Should that column perish,
however, the invasion will not necessarily
be failure, since it is but one of three
columns sent on the same errand. But
if, distressed in the mountains for want
of supplies, and, cut off from all assistance,
it is worn away by enemies from whom it
cannot force battle, it's loss will close the
year painfully enough Tor the people in
England who want "a spirited foreign
policy"
Year: 1878

In another column will be found report
of the address Of Seiior Zamacona, the
Mexican Minister at Washington, delivered
at Baltimore yesterday before the Board OF
Trade of that city. Commerce, not diplo-
macy, is the subject handled in the adj
dress, the Minister doubtless believing
firmly that the labors Of the diploma
lists will be made very easy if the
two peoples can be made thoroughly
we'll acquainted with one another
through intimate commercial relations.
Our people are apt to take very kindly to
diplomatic fances Of that sort, and our
merchants will be glad to know that any
one whose voice is likely to be respected in
Mexico is authorized to advocate the ex-
tended development Of its trade with this
country. Perhaps there are fewer practical
hints than might have been expected in an
address Of this nature in regard to coun-
try Of which the mass Of our people know
too little; but the expedition organized to
go to Mexico in January on q voyage OF
commercial exploration is, perhaps, relied
upon by the Minister to fill up all deficien-
cies Of that kind upon its return.
Year: 1878

The party of Arctic explorers on board
the Eothen, under the command Of Lieuten-
ant Schwatka, has gone into winter quarters
at Depot Island, in the northern end Of
Hudson's Bay. From brief letter of the
commander to Chief Justice Daily it ap-
pears that his plans regarding the main
object of the expedition-the recovery OF
the remains and records of Sir John
Franklin not been fully de-
cided. Until Lieutenant Schwatka learns
the exact place of the deposit, of which
the Nachillas informed Captain Barry he
cannot, of course, say what course he shall
take. From the two possible routes the
Lieutenant refers to it would seem that he
expects to make the long sought discovery
in King Williams Lind or Doo.hia-that
is, in about the SEVENTEEN parallel of
latitude. In the meantime Lieutenant
Schwatka will find plenty of work surveying
the coast line from Cape Fullerton to Ches-
terfield In ct, and whether he succeeds or
fails in his chief object we may be certain
that geographical knowledge will be en-
riched by his journey.
Year: 1878

Unless the Governor of Kentucky derives
his policy from Kilkenny. where the con-
tentlous eats were lett to fight it out on
certain line until there was nothing left but
the tails, lie will promptly order a couple
of companies Of militia to the heroic
Sheriff of that county and his followers
were barricaded in the Court House at Jack
son, while the Sheriff-elect and his
friends were barricaded and intrenched
within convenient shooting distance.
Bullets were whistling playfully along
the streets, here and there stopping
to investigate the vitals of the prominent
citizens" who had no particular interest in
the question at issue. 1t is solely in the
interest OF the prominent citizens" who
have not yet been thus Investigated that we
think the pastime Of "Ned" Strong
and his friends should be interfered
with. These fellows know so much about
fighting that they will not be likely to
expose themselves TO the Sheriff's missiles,
and the "prominent citizens" might be ami
hilated before one party or the other gained
q decisive victory. 1t may perhaps occur
to Governor McCrary that it is disgraceful
TO have such scenes Of violence and blood
shed enacted in sovereign State of the
Union; but i'm any case the need of preserv-
ing the "prominent citizens Of even SO
small place as Jackson should move him
Year: 1878

II is stated that q lawyer, appropriately
named Furey, procured warrants OF ar
rest against nineteen directors OF .
Jersey City suspended savings bank on the
sworn complaint that he had deposited
thirty-seven dollars in tho bank under the
inducement Of q statement that the institu-
ton was solvent and that his money was
safe in its keeping, which statement proved
to be q false and fraudulent pretence.