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If Senator Ingalls will observe closely he
will continue to discover evidence of the
unfitness of the negro, from a Republican
standpoint, for the exercise of the right of
suffrage. The latest example comes from
the state of Florida, where a colored editor
actually gives his earnest indorsement to a
democratic governor. His paper, the South-
ern Leader, published at Jacksonville, says
of the governor of the state: "He always
shows consideration for the colored people
and is ever ready to speak words of wisdom
and encouragement to them. We duly ap-
preciate the governor's liberality in this
regard, and he may feel assured that his
efforts for increased educational facilities
for our people will be remembered. Ho
shows that he appreciates the fact that he
is Ihe chief magistrate of all the people of
the state, and not of any particular party
or class of people."
A radical paper in London says that "if
but for one thing, the present system o£
legislation should be condemned to die the
death, and that is for the way in which it
makes rogues of those who might ba honest
men enough. Among the so-called rapre
sentatives of the people, who is there who
is not eating his own words, or stifling the
feeble aspirations after freedom and jis-
lice of which he was delivered on election
Platform?." Have American machine
methods and a timid, calculating partisan-
ship extended so far in the old country?
Xfcc caucus system and the convention sys
A (QUESTION OF TARTY FEALTY.
When the Port Worth Gazette makes bold
to venture a remark bearing on the prohi-
bition contest, it is always sweetened with
a bit ot taffy for the prohibitionists, which
naturally causes the inference that while
that paper may be "some of these" it is a
little more "of those," and would espouse
the prohibition cause outright but for fear
that the other side would not like it. While
the inspiration of the recent love feast of
politicians at Fort Worth still pervaded the
precincts of the Gazette, it even committed
itself far enough to observe that "future
democratic campaigns in Texas will not be
marked by efforts to ostracise men for
votes cast on the prohibition amend'
ment, save by those who may de-
sire to disrupt the democratic party.
7'his much is settled now." This was
of course intended as a gentle dose of
soothing syrup for the consciences of demo-
crats who are for the time training with the
prohibitionists. The objection to it, how-
ever, as a point in favor of the prohibition-
ists, is that it announces something which
nobody controverts and which cuts no
figure in the contest. So far as The News
has observed it has not been contended in
any quarter that "future democratic cam-
paigns" in Texas will be "marked by efforts
to ostracise men for votes cast on the pro-
hibition amendment." It has not been the
custom of the democratic party to ostracise
men who in good faith join its ranks for a
political campaign, however they may have
voted or affiliated in former cam
paigns. The rule has ever been and
Will doubtless continue to be that
While the lamp holds out to burn
The vileEt sinner may return.
And the doors will be open wide enough to
admit Brother Cranfill and Brother Flan-
agan in double file if necessary should they
become regenerate and seek admission to
the fold prior to the next national and state
elections. Bat the question of vital interest
is, how many will return to their old love if
the prohibition amendment is adopted? The
Gazette doubtless imagined that it was
meeting the point that has been made
against the consistency of those profess-
ing to be democrats who are acting
with the prohibitionists. In this it
widely missed the mark. In seeking to
relieve this class from the fears of "politi-
cal ostracism it is volunteering a service
for wlych there is no nesd. The point made
against the alleged democrats who are co-
operating with the prohibitionists is that
they are aiding a movement which, from
its very nature, is certain to become ag-
gressively antagonistic to the democratic
party if it succeeds in its present struggle.
But for the present support they are giving
it the movement would fail before the
ground work is laid for its perfoct and per
manent organization. The chances are
that it will fail anyhow, but if so the credit
will not belong to the class of demo-
crats now following the leadership of
Messrs. Cranfill and Carroll. By voting
for the prohibition amendment democrats
are aiding to form the nucleus upon whi
a new party is to bo built—a party antago-
nistic to the democratic party in principle
and policy. Some of those engaged iu fur-
thering this movement might be willing to
return to the democratic party after the
fourth of August, but how many could they
bring back with them of the masses tney
have encouraged to espouse the new faith?
There are many who would prefer to be
consistent and practical, and will adhere
to the new organization until the amend
ment should be carried into effect through
the government machinery. These would
necessarily cut loose from the democratic
party for all time, for the struggle between
it and the prohibition party would continue.
The Gazette would then realize that a ques-
tion of party fealty is involved ia the pres-
ent contest, though now it may not be the
most popular thing to admit the fact.
LEGISLATION AS A SPECIAL PROV-
IDENCE.
New Orleans is one of the places where
great expectations, founded on the assumed
cast-iron virtue of the long and short haul
provision' of the interstate commerce law,
have been dissipated by the conclusion of
the interstate commerce commission to al
Iowa liberal flexibility for the provision in
cases of railway and waterway competition.
It is now pretty well understood that the
rule forbidding a greater charge for a
shorter haul than for a longer haul, on one
continuous line, under substantially similar
circumstances and conditions, will not ba
held to apply to terminal points where rail-
way traffic must adjust itself to waterway
competition. Of course this is on the
theory that such competition confronts the
through railwav lines with substantially
dissimilar circumstances and conditions.
Before the commission had implied its
adoption of this view of the matter, New
Orleans papers were jubilant over the pros-
pect of special advantages to New Orleans
from a rapid and indefinite expansion of
steamboat business on the Mississippi river.
The jubilation was almost pathetic for its
childlike manner of trusting lathe commis-
sion as a kind of special providence evolved
and set up by act of congress for Now Or-
leans and other cities similarly situ-
ated. But what was looked to as a spe-
cial providence has shed a frost, even
in midsummer, chilling and killing this
infantile trust. The Times-Democrat
notes and laments the blighting incident.
'A month ago," says that paper, "New Or-
leans was congratulating itself that the in-
terstate commerce bill would throw a great
deal of business to the river boats, most of
which must of necessity come in this direc-
tion. The decision of the commission has
destroyed, or at least postponed, this hope.
It may be that congress will modify the bill
so as to place the steamboatmen under the
same conditions with the railroads and give
them equal competition, but it will not do
to count too confidently on thi3. New Orleans
must look in other directions for that exten-
ion of its trade which it greatly needs."
Here it is seen that faith is fatally
shaken in the special providence fraction
ot the interstate commerce commission,
hut it is not altogether lost in the special
providence potentiality of congress. And
more's the pity. "It may be," we are told,
"that congress will modify the bill so as
to place the steamboatmen under the same
conditions with the railroads and give
them equal competition." What this means
is rotto be mistaken. It means legislation
that would compel railroads to carry
through freights without exceptioa to and
from waterway competing points at short
haul rates, and to leave steamboats free to
compete by methods of their own with rail-
roads or with each other. But suppose
that congress should neglect to develop its
special providence potentiality for the nur-
ture and aggrandizement of steamboat in-
terests and sympathetic river city interests.
And suppose that congress should, oa the
other hand, decide to severely equalize
conditions for all interstate water-
way traffic and all interstate rail-
way traffic by applying an inflex-
ible long and short haul rale to
both traffics, and by requiring waterway
carriers, like railway'carriers.tostop regu-
larly for the accommodation of shippers
and passengers at designated intermediate
stations — say one to every fifteen
or twenty miles. How would that
do for the establishment of equal
competitior? There is little donbt
that it would, in effect, be prohibitory upon
bulky through shipments down or up the
Mississippi river. There can be no doubt
whatever that such a requirement; woald
be fatal to coastwise traffic by ocean steam-
ers plying between New Orleans and New
York or Galveston and New York. Oa the
whole it is evidently better that traffic of
every kind should be completely liberated
from needless restraints now Imposed on
it, than that it should be subjected to
new restraints quite as (needless, on the
pretense or with the hope of establishing
an artificial eqnality of advantages by
neutralizing advantages of nature, of lo-
cation, oi capital, of enterprise, or of in-
dustry and skill. Let commerce, in all re-
lations and through all channels, be as
free as the winds, let it simply be pro
tected in that freedom, and depend upon it,
the instincts and energies of free com-
petition wiil be found infinitely wiser and
more salutary than any conception or de-
vice of providential or special providential
legislation.
The plea of insanity is to be set up in the
case of Robert G, Hall, who deliberately
murdered a woman in Philadelphia a few
weeks ago. Without attempting to preju-
dice this case in any way, the Record of
that city thinks that "it is proper to call
attention to the notorious fact that many
crimes committed with the utmost delibera-
tion have gone unpunished simply because
when this line of defense was adopted the
jury became hopelessly entangled in a
mass of conflicting expert testimony. Crime
of any sort may in one sense be considered
both pathologically and morally as a dis
ease; yet to say that responsibility ends
with the deed would be coatrary to all
physical and moral law." Coupled with
the loose and bewildering discussioas upon
responsibility and moral guilt, in place of
the simple question of making this world a
safe place to live in whether as regards
criminals and madmen or mad dogs, there
is room for some consideration of the guilt
of those who know a person to be a lunatic
yet take no step to have him put under re-
straint, and even conceal his dangerous
condition. If moral irresponsibility is al-
lowed for the madman, ought not the re
sponslbility to fall upon those who could
have prevented his dreadful deeds and
would not take any preventive step?
The New York Star gives Cyrus Field a
very pleasant notice, intimating that there
was reason enough why he should relieve
himself of business cares. Jay Gould and
Russell Sage helped to relieve him.
Prbsident Cleveland has to all appear
ances gained public approval by the flag
incident. It is something to know that the
country has a chief executive who when Jie
thinks that he has been led into an error
will say so and correct his action. Back-
bone is very well at proper times. These
times are when a man is certain that he is
right, and that the matter in question is one
involving human welfare.
Stbakge things indeed come to pass,
Who would at any time in the past have ex
pected to read of Senator Hoar being cen-
sured for concessions to the ex confederate
soldiers? Yet his speech at the banquet
given to the R. E. Lee camp of ex-confed-
erate veterans during their recent visit to
Boston has aroused the ire of blatherskite
Boutelle, who represents the Augusta (Mel)
district in congress. The Boston Herald
says of him:
The captain looked to the senator to second
his screechings, and found him quietly seated,
hobnobbing with the assailants of the govern
ment, ana even saying soft things to them, in
view of their restored brotherhood. Boutello
was thus in despair. He soeB the way open to
the spiking of every gun at the north, except
his own and that of one or two presideatial
candidates out of and In the country. He
draws Ills robe about him, utters "Et tu.
Brute 1" and prepares to smile no more. But
Mr.IIoar is supposed to be smiling agood deal.
The message of Governor Sawyer to the
legislature of Jfew Hampshire contains a
moderate amount of the usual patronizing
benevolent talk on behalf of laborers as a
class. Governor Sawyer is one of the lead-
ing manufacturers of the state. "While,"
he says, "it would be unwise and contrary
to the spirit of our institutions for the state
to make laws that would interfere with the
freedom of individuals in the transaction
of lawful business, to buy or sell, when,
where, with whom, and upon such condi-
tions as may suit their own will and conve-
nience, yet it is right and proper to estab-
lish such limitations by general and prac-
tical laws and regulations as will serve to
protect the worker from undue hardships,
which often result from business competi-
tion." He accordingly favors a ten hour
law for manufacturing establishments,
weekly payment of wages, the exemption of
ihe wages of laborers from attachmeat for
debt, the establishment of a board of arbi-
tration or mediation for the adjustment of
differences between employers and em-
ployed and of a bureau of statistics t> col-
lect information regarding industries, for
the benefit of the people.
The New York Leader doubles the Her-
ald's estimate of the number of men who
turned out to honor Dr. McGlynn. The
Leader makes the crowd 150,000. Who will
make it a round quarter of a million? The
issue is in a great measure lost sight of, as
nobody knows how many of these paopie
were Protestants or unbelievers, aad of
course there are not lacking Protestants
and infidels who think that the papal au-
thorities should have no voice in American
affairs. But what cogency has Protestant
opinion in matters of Roman Catholic
church discipline?
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial Bulletin says that
the members of the interstate eomtnerca
commission are studying out three test
questions during their recess. The obliga-
tions of railroad s to in ventors of stock c ars,
the propriety of the commission systsra for
the sale of tickets, and the right to sell re-
duced rate tickets to traveling salesmen,
arc almost the first questions which have
regularly come before the commission in
the formal manner that demands direct
answers. Upon the precedents to be estab-
lished by these decisions depend scores of
other questions already presented, or soon
to be submitted. For a time the long and
short haul clause seemed to overshadow
all other questions and restrain them, bit
now a great variety of points are coming up
for settlement, which it will prove a puz-
zling and difficult task to decide. It is
foreshadowed that there will be very many
complaints whether the railroads act in ono
way or another under the latitude which
the commission allows in interpreting the
excepting clause of the long and short haul
rule.
The Detroit Advance, alluding to a de-
plorable incident at Warrenton, Ga., which
the bloody-shirt patriots have not used at
all, says:
If the murdering of Hoover would have
made good republican partisan campaign
thunder every republican paper in tbe land
would have been filled with accounts of tliu
lawlessness ol tbe mob and the atrocity of
their crime; tlie thrilling accounts would have
excelled ilie reports of the bomb throwing in
Chicago; but alas I It was not a republican car-
pet-bagger or a democratic election return
falsifier; It was simply a mudsill of society—a
Knlglit of Labor.
Was it as a Knight of Labor that Hoover
was killed ? Parsons and Spies are Knights
of Labor, but Mr. Powderly would certainly
not claim that that was the whole of their
offending. In nowise, however, is killing a
speaker to be commended, whatever his
doctrines. There are other modes of refut-
ing arguments, and there is a process of
legal arrest for men inciting to disturbance.
Hoover's alleged offense has been alluded
to simply as incendiary talk. It might
have been dangerous in Its effects upon ig-
norant negroes, but no self-constituted com-
mittee can be allowed to indict the death
penalty for imprudent talk in a country a
step above barbarism.
The Rhode Island prohibition law makes
the chief of state police an autocrat. Warm
work is expected, as Chief Curtis, who is
described as a "democratic prohibitionist,"
is about to begin enforcing the law. His
police are empowered to make seizures
and arrests on suspicion. A special from
Providence says that liquor is sold every-
where and that the jails of the whole state
of New York would not hold Rhodo Island
offenders against the prohibitory law if all
were arrested.
a decision of considerable interest was
recently rendered by Judge Thayer of the
United States court, sitting at St. Louis.
He held that a railroad in the matter of the
safety of its passengers and their bag?age
is only subject to its common law obliga-
tions to safely carry the same over its own
line and safely deliver to the connecting
carrier, and no further. In the case at bar
st.it was brought against the Wabash road
by a resident of St. Louis, whose baggage
wa3 injured en route from that city to Bos-
ton, and while it was on the Grand Trunk
railway in Canada, and out of the charge of
the Wabash road, which received it.
N. W. Cvney, the Texas member of the
republican national committee, was inter-
viewed at Fort Worth. He is strongly for
Blaine and against Sherman. The worst
thing he can say against the latter is that
he is on Blaine's platform. Boss Cuaey ar
gues that the labor party will have a candi-
date for president and will get more demo
cratic votes than republican votes. Perhaps
so, because so many workingmen have al-
ready left the republican party and there-
fore are not in a position to leave it now.
W biters of acrostics will be fired out of
newspaper offices hereafter. It is unpleas-
ant to be "sold" like Mr. Dana's paper, and
now Mr. Anthony of the Leavenworth
(Kan.) Times can read in a humorouspolit
ical poem printed in his paper, "1 am a
fool, D. R. A."
The New York Herald gushingly remarks
that the legislature will correct Jay Gould
if he wants to charge more than five cents
fare on the elevated roads. Gould has
never imposed upon the people of New
York to one-tenth the extent that the Al-
bany legislature has imposed upon them.
The amended law of Texas regarding
homicides provides that no ono shall be
convicted of that crime in any degree un-
less the body of the person alleged to be
slain, or portions of it, shall be found and
indentified. It is easy to suggest cases ia
which a murderer might thus escape pua-
ishment. If one should throw another into
a burning house or into a river or the gulf,
the body might never be recovered. Now
what if the homicide were a fact to which
eye witnesses could swear?
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The so-called Farmers' Journal of Corsi-
cana masquerades in the second hand cari-
cature pictures of the Waco Advance and
tries to play second fiddle to the pulverizer;
but its tones are too feeble and hardly a
squeak can be heard. There is not a line in
the Journal for the benefit of farmers. It
should throw off its mask.
The Cnero Star prints a long article from
a mcdest correspondent, over his own namo,
who begins by saying:
As the day is approaching for the decis-
ion of the all-absorbing question of pro-
hibition—whether or not |the said amend-
ment shall become an organic law of Tex-
as—I propose to tell in this short article
Where I stand and why I am what I am.
He ends by saying "I am a prohibitionist
and opposed to the saloon." That is about
the extent ot the argument with a good
many on both sides of the question. It is
"I" all the time.
"I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my
mouth let no dog bark." Tiie Denton Moni-
tor says:
It is amusing to see what a hard time
some self-important people do have in keep-
ing curs from barking at their heels.
Really, it is just too bad that great man
must be tormented by little fellows.
The Fort Worth Gazette scores one against
Dallas:
There is another beautiful opening in tbe
Three Forks for a "grand gift enterprise."
Some enterprising citizen should give an-
other promenade concert and "drawing" to
raise money to pay for the opera-bouse oc-
cupied by tne state teachers' conventioa.
The Brown County Banner says in reply
to the strictures o! the Coleman Voice on
an alleged anti-poverty agrarian society at
Brownwocd:
The meeting referred to was called by
Colonel Burns as chairman of what he
called the anti monopoly party of Texas,
the call being for a state convention at
Waco. In obedience to this call C. H. Jen-
kins called a county meeting, which was
held by him. A few republicans and some
twenty greenbackers and probably one or
two disaffected democrats. The object of
this meeting seemed to be to unite the green-
backers, Knights of Labor and the Farm-
ers' alliance into a united labor party iu
opposition to the democratic party in Texa3
Brownwood had nothing to do with this
meeting, and not more than eight or ten of
her citizens joined this triangular so-called
new party. A majority of onr citizens are
democrats who believe that the only road
to general prosperity is by advocating and
standing to the true and time-honored prin-
ciples of that party.
The Lockhart Register seems to feel that
it is not appreciated. It says:
The News should learn one important
lesson, and that is this, that it matters not
how smart a man, or able a journalist aiay
be, that there is not after all so much dif-
ference in the degree of development or at-
tainment ot the generality of cultivated
mankind.
The Register is right. The generality of
mankind are a good deal like mankind In
general, and the moral, don't be too smart,
is good. The News knew it all the time. It
never uses the arguments "wesay" or "we"
as authority for anything, but deals In facts
and what they teach. A thing is not true
because The News says so, but The News
says so because the thing is true.
Has the Texas Farmer turned humor-
ist? It says:
It is to be hoped that the Agricultural
and Mechanical college will make a grand
exhibit at the fair. The Intelligent farmers
of Texas will be in attendance, and there
will be no better opportunity for acquaint-
ing them with the doings and methods of
the institution.
The Dallas young lady of The News fam-
ily was out in all her finery last Sunday,
whether she left her trunk empty or not.
She spread herself like a ship under sail,
four sheets in the wind, and every one
swelled by the favoring gale. She took In
the Fourth of July along with the Christian
Sabbath, and did honor to both.
The Vernon Guard rises to remark:
This campaign has been well named. The
air is truly Dlue in big spots here and there
all over tne state. "Liar" is the mildest
epithet some of the disputants deign to use,
and .some of them even go outside the
realms of animated nature for Imaginary
monstrosities to give pith and point to their
wrath and withering sarcasm. All of which
has a touch of the ridiculous to the calmer
mind that sees in the question at issue
nothing but a kind of police regulation or
line of public policy on which men ought to
differ only to the extent of casting their
votes pro or con. In either event the coun-
try will neither be sent swiftly to sheol nor
ushered into the dawn of the millennium.
This is the kind of christian brother Edg-
ell of the Guard is:
The Gnard is in receipt of the Independ-
ent Pulpit, a free-lance theological journal,
or, more correctly speaking, anti-theologi-
cai journal, published at Waco by James D.
Shaw. The Independent Pulpit is a read-
able paper, and Is noted for its bold posi-
tions upon all Bible questions. The Guard
is a secular paper, but we are simple-mind-
ed enough to take our Bible straight, and,
of course, can not indorse the doctrine pro-
mulgated by Mr. Shaw. True, we have
never been accused of being overburdened
with christian piety, but all the same there
dwells in the innermost recesses of the
chunk of muscle that palpitates within our
manly bosom a reverence for and an abid-
ing faith in tbe teachings of the blessed
Bible. We may, to a great extent, disre-
gard Its admonitions and get stranded in
Ihe dark sea of perdition, but it will be with
our eyes open and a full confession of the
justness of the punishment.
That is the way to talk. An Indian
hanged at Fort Smith some years since
said he hoped to go to heaven, but if he
landed in tho other place he would stand it
like a man.
Brother Walker of the Big Springs Pauta-
graph has essayed the role of Nimrod. He
spent Sunday at Bissell's ranch, la the
frontier county of Howard, and says:
The day was pleasantly passod la par-
taking of substantial refreshments, wit-
nessing a scalp and war dance, hunting
antelope, and exceeding interest in some
experiments with Little's chemical fluid,
made by Mr. Bissell. The scriba concluded
to kill an antelope, and taking a Winchester
and field glass started out on the prairie.
After a short walk wo discovered the prey
about a mile away. Elevating our gun at
an angle of forty-five degrees we began to
stick forty-fours into the azure sky. and the
antelope made the prairie dust fly. We
didn't get an antelope.
THE IDAHO COIiNTKY.
A Lady Journeying from Texas Gives a Ro-
mance and a Pleasing Description.
To The News.
Waedsek, Idaho, June 24.—Wardaer is a
mining camp of the Creur d'Alene country,
in Idaho, and confidently believed by many
destined to have a grand future. The two
best mines are the Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van. The Sierra Nevada is also a large
mine.
The discovery of this camp is quite a
romance. A prospector had for weeks been
searching, digging for that precious matal
(silver), but unavalllngly. Worn, tired,
dispirited, almost out of provisions, be
had abandoned his labors and started for
the nearest settlement. He threw himself
down on his blanket at the foot of a moun-
tain to sleep, determining to resume bis
journey the following morning. Daring
the night his donkey, the faithful compan-
ion of his travels, wandered away from
him, and he was compelled to tramp up the
mountain for him. There, where the little
burro stood grazing, lay buried millions of
dollars in ore. The quick-practiced eye of
the prospector recognized the evidence of
a lead, and just as be had relinquished his
visions of wealtn he found them realized.
Returning to the settlement he secured
help, came back, proved bis claim and laid
out the town called Wardner.
Mr. Kellogg is the gentleman so fortunate
as to be the discoverer, although the little
donkey Is called "Discovery," and is the
pet of the place. The ore is lead aud silver.
It is authentically stated that there is In
eight within the Bunker Hill mine 250,000
tons of ore. There is a concentrator estab-
lished here, and talk of a smelter being
built soon. The Northern Pacific railroad
runs into Wardner Junction, about two
miles from Wardner, and by fall another
railroad wiil be completed.
Wardner is one long string of houses,
built in a gulch between to wering moun-
tains. The buildings are all frame or log.
It is a rough place, yet not the mining camp
of years ago, where each morning's sun
shone on one or more poor dead face3.
Fine springs of ice cold water pour from
the sides of the mountains. Tbe days are
quite hot, but the nights cool enough to re-
quire a pair of blankets and a comfort to
keep one from being cold.
The citizens are composed of different ele-
ments of society—the rougher being con-
siderably in Ihe majority.
To reach Wardner one must coma over
tho Coenr d'Alene lake and river. At Fort
Sherman, or Coenr d'Alene City, is the
the loveliest view I over beheld. Tne lovely
blue lake lying at the foot of tall moun-
tains, some covered with green foliage, and
the;next one probably snow-capped; little
tugs puffing away out on the lake, pleasure
boats filled with gay crowds of young peo-
ple, the United States ofdeers in their boats
with their families, pulling on their oars,
and from the lake the many tall white
buildings, quarters of tho troop?, bailt In a
grove of trees—pines and tamarac—all
wf:nt to make a beautiful and memorable
picture. I find so much beautiful country
in our own land that I marvel so many pre-
fer a European tour to one of our beautiful
country, l could go on thus, but fear I
have already trespassed on the time and
space of Thk New s. Texas.
EXCURSIONISTS OF EARTH.
ENCIRCLING THE WORLD IN FIFTY DAYS.
*
Two Simultaneous Gigantic Enterprises Where-
by an Earth-Girdling Journey Will Soon
Become a Vacation Amusement.
Old Veterans at Richmond.
Richmond, Va., July A special train
bearing Lander Post No. 5, G. A. It., of
Lynn, Mass., arrived here last night from
Gettysburg. Tbe northerners are guests of
R. E. Lee|Camp of Confederate Veterans.
They were received by tbe R. E. Lee and
Phil Kearney Post, G. A. R., and other mili-
tary organizations with a most hearty wel-
come, and were cheered by a large crowd
of people.
New York, July 5.—[Special]—A year or
two ago, making the best possible time, a
traveler could not have gone around tha
world in less than about 100 days. From
New York to Liverpool is a little more thau
six days; from Liverpool to the eastern
boundary of Europe is an easily made jour-
ney, but from the very edge of Asia all tha
way across that great continent or arouad
it was a slow joarney; also across the Pa-
cific to the Americaa continent again. In
America and In Europe and between thems
travel has long been reduced to a science,
but this is not half around the globe. Two
great enterprises have now been put oa
foot—one of which has just been accom-
plished and the other is intended to ba
finished within five years—whereby tbe Pa-
cific may already be crossed in ocean "grey-
hounds," and the Asiatic continent will
be traversed by a railroad. Already the
trans-Asiatic journey has been shortened
greatly by the construction of the trans-
Caspian road, now just completed by Rus-
sia. The Russian generals and soldiers
who have conquered Central Asia have
shown great bravery, but the railroad en-
gineers who constructed the trans-Caspian
railway did an even more important service,
for they have really opened a continent.
Its construction presented difficulties equal
to those of any hazardous military cam-
paign. Its route runs through ever-moving
sands of a desert, destitute of water anu.
wood. Threo grave questions presented
themselves to the engineers: How to keep
the way clear of the unruly sand? Whenca
to get water? And how to get fuel? Six
hundred and seventy miles of railway now
in actual operation is a splendid answer to
all those queries.
The danger from ever moving sand was
obviated thus: Clay was brought from a
great distance and spread over saad; sea
water was brought and sprinkled over that
uneasy element; at last fences were built
against saucy winds. Water was brought
to the railway stations from the neighbor-
ing mountains by a system of pipes without
any pumps. As to fuel, oil from Baku
proved to be a substitute for wood and
coal—a substitute that has been made in
Pennsylvania. Considering the great diffi-
culties the trans-Caspian railway has been
pushed very rapidly. This is owing in the>
first place to the unlimited supply of
money, the czar's government being its
owner. In the second place, there never was
a lack of laborers even ia tho midst of a
sandy desert, for a number of regiments of
soldiers specially trained and drilled for
railway building were always at tbe en-
gineer's command. When this railroad is
once in good working order the Russian,
government will not need to erect Isirga
fortresses in its Asiatic possessions, for,
in case of need, any number of soldiers can
be sent there with rapidity. No,v Rassla
can threaten Iudift more effectively than,
ever before. Besides its military signifi-
cances ihls railway is very important, even
purely from aneconomlc standpoint. Rus-
sia annually imports cotton (chiefly
from the United States) valued at,
70,000,000 to 80,000,000 roubles in
gold (from $50,000,000 to $80,000,#30 )-
Now it is said that a consider-
able amount of cotton will be brought
from Central Asia, Formerly a transport
from Buchara to Moscow took about four
months,and now it is only ten days. Within
a short timo from the opening of the rail-
way for private parties, there was trans-
ported by it about five millions pouuds o£
cotton. It is possible that some tima ia the
future Russian manufacturers will stop
buying our cotton; but we can take soma
satisfaction in the fact that it was an Amer-
ican locomotive that first run on that rail-
way and awakened the wild inhabitants of
deserts and oases of Central Asia. Batty
return to the journey around the world.
The trans-Caspian road has.shortened It a
good deal, because Englishmen now go by>
it to India, and save about a week 07er the
Suez canal route by water. But the greatest
shortening of the journey will be made bp
the completion of the trans Siberian road.
A projact to build a railway through the
great territory of Siberia! was made by an
American company about ten years ago
which offered its services and capital to the
Russian government. As the czar would
not agree to the terms of the offer, which
were like those on which the Pacido rail-
roads were built in this country, the project
was then dropped. But the American sug-
gestion has had its effect in Russia. Since
then the government greatly assisted tha
companies which undertook to push,
their lines toward the Ural mountains.
Now there are two lines having their
termini on the Ural, one at Oran-
burg and} the other at Ekateriaborg,
both places being distant from St, Peters-
burg about 1500 miles. The question of
pushing the railway lines beyond the Ural
has been warmly discussed in Russia for
the past five years; but the leading
railroadmen «nd statesman! Iconld
not agree as to what route
should be preferred, the south Siberian or
the central Siberian. The latter route has
been finally selected. The czar has ap-
proved the decision of the council of tha
empire to build a railway running from the
Ural mountains all the way to the Pacific—
a distance of 5130 miles by a direct route.
However, as in Siberia there are on the
route great rivers like the Mississippi and
Missouri, they will serve to shorten the
railway proper, by the establishment of
steamship lines. The great Rassian rail-
way (about 7000 miles) will run as follows:
St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nijni-Novgorod,
Tobolsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Lake Baiku^
Strotinisk, Nortchinsk. and Vladivostok oa
the Pacific. As far as Tobolsk the road is;
vet to be constructed, making 400 miles.
From Tobolsk it is easy to reach.
Tomsk by waterway, running down
the Irtysn river and up tne Obi,
river, a distance of over 1100 mile;?. Then
Irkutsk can be reached, either by direct
railway or by rail and water. From Tomsk
to Irkutsk it is more than 700 miles. Thence
onward, a railway, a part of which must ba
cut through the high mountains, mu at ex-
tend a distance of about 400 miles, aud then
the journey will be down the Amour river,,
which flows into the Pacifij. Steamers
have been running on the Amour aboat ten
years. From the point on the Amour lvinsc
the farthest south a railway must ba con-
structed, leading to Vladivostok. This
town is situated on the farthest south point
of the Pacific shore belonging to Russia,
and is the only Siberian harbor that does
not freeze during the winter. The distanca
from Nerthlnsk to Vladivostok is 2000
miles. The time that will be required for tha
journey from St. Petersburg to VUdivo3tok
is about fifteen days. The trip across ' lie Pa-
cific has just been shortened by the fast liaa
of steamers from Vancouver toYokohoma,
which makes tbe journey in fl'tean days.
This will soon be shortened. Alrsa iy it has
had the effect of lessening the price of pas-
sage from San Francisco to China n $200o-
Bv the great Siberian railway tha world-
girdling excursion will be greatly short-
ened. Let a trav eler start eastwar,! from-
New York. In six days he will be at Liv-
erpool; in three days more at St. Peters-
burg; in fifteen days more on the Pacifio
coast at Vladivostok; six days more at
Rhsnghai or Yokohoma; fifteen da?s more
at Vancouver, and five days more back
again at New York, having been gone but
fifty days. Men now living are reasonably
sure to take this excursion as a vacation,
pastime, and it may not cost more than
$1000.
At a recent service in Trinity church,
Pittsburg, a baby just big enough to stand
alono stood on a seat and crowed, and
laughed, and chattered, and clapped her
hands, and no one objected, for no one was
disturbed. The consregation were deai
mnfes, and the conversation was conducts,!
in the sign language.
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