The Weekly Democrat from Natchez, Mississippi • Page 2

THE NEXT CENSUS. Domestic Miscellany. spirit of detraction toward continued effort. All armies bave stragglers, and deserters, who love to tell of disaster and defeat, when the brave and persevering have gone on and conqureed. We have such stragglers here, but for all that, the head of the column is -moving on to victory under command of necessity, unmindful of the feeble croaking voices far in tbe rear.

FEDERAL PATRONAGE. A special telegram to the New Orlean Times-Democrat from Washington says: "At the first Cabinet meeting of the jiew administration it was decided that the patronage In the several States should be disposed of through the Republican Congressmen from tli ie States, and if, as In the case of Mississippi, there should 1)0 no Republican holding a seat In Con to be worked up into marketable fabrics, has long slr.ee been proven an absurd fallacy, and the mill owners of New England are becoming restless and alarmed, at the growing enterprise of the Southron's In manufactures, who are destined to absorb the entire business of cotton jaanufaqtarlng -among the fields where the staple Is produced. It is ereedlbly reported that the mill owners at Fall River are. debating the question, of removal of their, plants to some poinf within the cotton belt. The idea is that while the" New England mills are, farily prosperous they can be made more so if removed to the cotton fields, i 5 The: reason', for such i removals are potent and little can be urged against A Railroad Injunction Against CarryB 5 Chicago, March 13 A dispatch from Waverly, Iowa, Judge Ruddick yesterday granted a temporary injuno.

Hon agaipst the Burlington, Cedar San. ids Northern Railroad and C. ifoselnian, gr)nt for a St. Louis brewing company, restraining them from bring, lug beer into Waverly. The Icomplaln.

ant was Dr. Brooks, a Methodist minis, ter. FoBseirnan, was jakjng orders fot the firm and subsequently delivering the beer, which arrived by the car load. The cars were side tracked until the beer was delivered. Fbsselman's attorney held that the sale was consummated inSt.

Louis, while for( the railroad argued that under. decision of the United States Supreme Court the road was obliged to accept the claimed, had been treated the same any other The judge held, however, that the brewers had no right to have an agent in Iowa, and that when FoBselman'' took orders and delivered their goods here the sale was completed in was illegal." He 'also held It is estimated that the next census of 1890 will show the population of the United States to be 64,000,000. i About the first of June of that year the enumeration will be commenced by about 60,000 men who will go from door to door seeking all sorts" 6( Information of the dwellers therein, and asking nu tnerous questions which would be in sultingly Impertinent, except under the authority of Uncle Sam. It will be. so to speak, a taking an ao count of stock or progress of the Nation al con com, by which the government can estimate Its past and future business and progress for the next dedade, Its sources and possibilities as well' as Its war strength In men.

Happily this latter Is a matter Uncle Sam seems the least concerned about. The work Is a gigantic one, though owing to the systematized methods by which it is conducted, Is made simple toward a completed result. Its magnitude may be conjectured by the following estimate of Mr. Cox, which we quoto from Jan exchange: "That when all these reports on population come la they will exceed In bulk 1,500 merchants' ledgers, and that the reports on other subjects, such as taxa tion, schools, would make a stack, If piled one above the other, twice as high as Washington's monument. The cost will be about 96,000,000, or a little less than ten cents for each inhabitant, big and little, of the country." 1 It Is a reasonable estimate that the West will make the greatest showing in the way of gains in all items, but the South will follow In a maiked degree, not oaly in the increase of population, but In general development of its wonderful resources, far beyond the ratio In the East.

It has only been In the last decade that the South has begun to discover the results arising from the efforts which have been steadily directed to her development through all the years succeeding the war. The plant progress Is of slow growth at first, but after It has taken deep root good so it soon matures Into a fruit producing tree of sturdy stature, defying the winds and storms. GROVER CLEVELAND. There is something sturdily charac teristic In all that Mr. Cleveland has done, from the time he was Mayor and Sheriff, to that of his becoming Governor and afterwards President.

He has never done anything for effect, but tils course has been a sturdy one, self-reliant, unmoved by plaudits or by abuse, undeterred by threatening consequences in the discharge of what he conceived to be right. When elevated to the highest office In the gltt of the people, he was plain un pretentious Groyer Cleveland, who con scientiously believed that public office was a public trust, and discharged the trust honestly to the best of his ability. Having discharged his whole duty he retires with quiet dignity aud drops back among the people from whom he came, as unpretentiously as though he had never been the leader of his party to Victory, and had been ruler of the great Republic He does not, after having been crowned Ith a great nation's honors, accompanied by his beautiful and accomplished wife, thirst for more honors, and start around the world to receive the hospitality, the welcome and attentions of royalty, and old world homage, to rulers past present and to come, but goes to work as one of the people, and In the courts of his country, before judges whom his word had created as such. If Grover Cleveland had done nothing else great, the exemplification of the true Republican citizenship in his person and life wouldhave proven sufficient. He Is the best type and example of true American manhood, clear cut, aud uuadorned by pretences aud shams.

He may have retired for a time, but four years hence his fellow countrymen may demand his services again. COMING SOUTHWARD. Mr. Abiam S. Hewitt, late Mayor of New York, a hit go rnpltaliBt in iron works, Is reported as having left New York last Saturday In company with Mr.

Inman and other capitalists, on a prospecting tour through the South. It is stated that the principal purpose of this tiip, is that Mr. Hewitt may personally examiRe the coal and iron fields in Tennessee and Georgia, with a view of removing his Iron manufacturing plant from Pennsylvania to the South. An exchange says "This possibility foreshadows a thing of the greatest importance to the Souih, as Mr. Hewitt now employs in his Pennsylvania Irou Industry over 2,000 men, and a change of base would Involve his carrying all those hands, with their families to his new field of operation." Such events dor "foreshadow things of the greatest importance to the South" and arc not confined to the coal and iron fields of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, Blnce the Iron producticn Is not the only enterprise capable of vast and profitable development In the South.

There was a time when the idea of a cotton mill, or any other manufacturing enterprise in the South was one of derision, but It has been demonstrated question that the South Is the proper home of manufactories of almost every description, and to the South they must and will ultimately come. The system of carrying a product fifteen hundred or two thousand miles from the field to a mill In the faf North, Th4 Original Greenbacks Dying. v. Chicago, 'tMarch 14 A Detroit spec-la! The Hon. Moses W.

Field, the original Greenback advocate In Michigan, the man who called the Greenback movement Into political prominence in the United States, and suggested the convention to nominate Peter Cooper for President, is dying at his residence in this city from a stroke of apoplexy. Later Mr. Field died this morning at 1:30 o'clock surrounded by his family. fishery License to be Refused, Glodckjtsb, March 14 Re-i ports from New Foundland say1 that the issue of licenses to American vessels for the purchase of bait and other necessary outfit will be refused this season, add that tbe government will coincide with tbe dominion government in its policy. The reason alleged is that American vessels last season violated the licenses given them, and' bait purchased in New Foundland was sold to tbe French at St.

Pierre. The fishermen who have recently returned from Fortune and Placentla bays say the cutters are already paroling the coast and every port is 1 strictly guarded so that no violation of the bait act can be accomplished. Cargoes can be purchased for export 'under one thousand dollars bond that they are to be landed in American ports, a receipt from the consignee through tbe Brltsh consul being also required. i The Supreme Coart Decide! Against Can Charleston, W. March 14 The Supreme Court decided against Carr's claim as Governor.

ashinffton Motes. The Assistant Secretary of State. Wa8hingtok, March 14 Mr. Eugene Schuyler, the nominee tor Assistant Secretary of State, is at present in Italy and is not expected to arrive in Washington for at least a month. Meanwhile Mr.

Walker Blaine, whose nomination as Solicitor of the State Department was confirmed yesterday, is occupying the Assistant Secretary's desk vacated by Mr. Rives. Presidential Nominations. Washington, March 14 The Presi dent sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day: James S. Clarkson, of Iowa, to be first assistant Postmas ter-General, vice A.

E. Stevenson resigned; Lewis Wolfley, of Tucson, Arizona, to be Governor of Arizona Rath-( bone Gardner, of Rhode Island, to be United States Attorney for the district of Rhode Island; Wm. L. Dunlap, of Indiana, to be United States Marshal for the district of Indiana; Jeremiah Sullivan, of Montana, to be collector of customs for the district of Montana and Idaho; John A. Kasson, of Iowa, Wm.

Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, and George H. Bates, of Delaware, to be commissioners to represent the United States at tbe conference to be held In Berlin concerning affairs in the Samoan Island; Elbert B. Weed, of Montana, to be United States Attorney for the Territory of Montana. ,7, Minister to Japan. Washington, March 14 John A.

Swift bas taken the oath of office as United States Minister to Japan. Appointment in the Treasury Depart- i Washington' March 14 Secretary Windem to-day appointed Charles G. Johnson, of New Orleans, to be superin tendent of repairs of publio buildings in the State of Louisiana vice Mr. Bradley removed. Visitors te the Treasury Department.

Washington, March 14 A large del- gatlon from Georgia waited on Secretary Windom at the Treasury Department today and urged the appointment of Col. James Atkins, of that State, as solicitor of the treasury. The secretary promised to consider the matter. This office is under the department of justice, and is now held by Judge Carr of New York. Commissioners on Samoan Affairs.

Washington, March 14 George H. Bates, who to-day was nominated to be one of the commissioners to negotiate with Germany respecting Samoa.is about 40 years of age, a Democrat aud a warm personal friend of ex-Secretary Bayard. William Walter Phelps and John A. Kasson, who were also nominated to be commissioners, have had long and distinguished congressional careers and have acquired au intimate knowledge of diplomacy through service as United States Ministers in Europe, Mr. Phelps having been Minister to Austria in 1881, and Mr.

Kasson Minister to Austria in 1S77 and to Germany in 1884. England's "oldest" clergyman, Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, is dead. He lacked but a week or thereabouts of beiug a century old and has been rector of one church for 76 years. Elisha Lathrop, of Bozrah, showed himself a man of unusual nerve, a few days ago, by setting his own leg when It was broken by a falling log in a a lumber camp.

When the doctor arrived he asked who performed the operation, and said he never saw a better Ethan Allen, the once famous trotting horse, still lives at the age of 32 at By-field Parish, Mass. A St. Louis man believes that the number of his home, should correspond with that of the year and to carry out that hobby be has moved every year fincel863. i gress, then those who made the race and were defeated, or who are contesting the seats of Democrats who were elected, should be recognized." It Is very questionable whether the above is well founded, if for no other reasons than its reflection upon the Intelligence of President Harrison and his Cabinet as well as being stuliiiuatlori a of the President's utterauces in the Inaugural. Mr.

Harrison has as yet indicated no preference for politicians of the school of Mahone, Longstreet and Chalmers and he is aware that such men do not represent the better element of the Republican party of the South; that they are nothing more than politicians and have no more attachment for the principles of the party than just as much as will serve their ends and lift them into office. On the other hand Mr. IlarrUeo has knowledge of the fact that there are good and true, earnest Republicans in the South attached to the principles of the party and calculated to do honor to it and fill honestly the Federal offices These men are not likely to quietly per mit such men as Chalmers, 11 ill, Brooks, Cunningham, Kernagban and Duchesne to control the Federal patronage in Mississippi without protest of the most emphatlo kind. There are Republicans In Adams coun ty of merit and standing who would not hesitate to let their voices be heard in vehement protest against the awarding of the patronage to the aspirant, Duchesne, and his faction, whose voices would carry weight and be heeded. The Republican puny has become so successful, has gathered so much In its grasp, that its disintegration may begin sooner than expected.

They have four years of unterruptod rule, but, aj)rc mvt le deluge. THE SOLIDITY OF THE SOUTH Mr. Henry Grady, of the Atlanta Constitution, in an article on the South und itssolldlty, thustrloquently and hopefully looks upon the future "But what Is the South going to do? Remain in the political minority and thereby shut out from political power? If necessary, for greater things than spoils or patronage would be otherwise Imperilled! But we hope forbet'er things. We hope that the North will understand at last that the South deplores the attitude of apparent estrangement Into which she Is forced, and will give her patient and brotherly judgment. We 'hope tiiat the time will come when, Instead of being 'Irrltiited' at the political action of the South, the North will nlike that no 'political' purpose Is Involved, but that It is the simple instinct of self-preservation, We hope the time will come when, Instead being a burden on the party of Its alliance, the South will win to the support of that party pledged to the fair and patient solving of Its problem, the fair-minded and impartial men of the North.

We hope that by education we will at last enlighten the Ignorant In our population that by kludnesa we will confirm their friendly sentiment; that by full and ample justice we will hold their Increas ing coalldence; and that with a helping and encouraging hand we will lead them in the ways of steadfast citizenship. We hope that the richness of our resources, the fertility of our fields, the kindliness of our climate and the heartiness of our welcome, will bring us widening streams of immigrants who will swell the volume of our intelligence and responsibility and will bind us more nearly to the section that now looks on us with suspicion and distrust. These are some of the hopes that rescue us frem pessimism, when we consider the future of the Smith." W.J. Arkell, of the "Judge," has purchased Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, both English and German, for 9400,000. The new owner will tako control of the property May 1st.

After that date it will be issued from (he Judge tiullding, at Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street. Mr. Harrison Is enjoying some of tha delights attendant upon high position, and is being hospitably received by the olllee seekers, who have congregated In Washington by legions. The wonder Is, that anyone man can stand the tremendous strain which Is brought to bear upon an Incoming President by the patriots of the land, who are eager to serve their country as public servants. It is worthy to be recorded as honorable to the heart and head of Gen.

Harrison, that he refused to accept from the railroad company a special train to convey himself and party to Washington, but insisted upon paying the full fair, only accepting the courtesy of special cars for his Gen. Harrison has shown a commeu-dable independence in this small matter, and we hope to be able to add our tribute for a like Independence in great matters. The total receipts from the sale of tickets to the Inaugural ball aggregated 70,000, enough to pay the whole amount advanced ty citizens to meet the expenses of the inauguration. I THE' DfcATH OF7. CAPTY DAWSON The telegraph-could -scarcely have flashed a more startling and sorrow laden message than that which told of the cruel murder of Captain W.

Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Cou rier. it Murder at all times sends a painful thrill of horror through 'the 1 humau breast, but when its victim is singled out from the best, the noblest, the bravest, tbe gentlest, the truest and manliest of men, then truly does humanity blush and sbudderfof itself. Tbe loss of such a man as Dawson Is always an irreparable but when such a life is taken by the- assassin against whem he was endeavoring to shield the honor of an unprotected female domestic, the loss partakes of keen sense of unheard of outrage and wrong beyond expression. Capt. Dawson was an Englishman by birth but had spent the greater part c.f his life in the Southern States, I i ihg passed gallantly through the war in the Confederate army.

Afterwards he became a journalist In Charleston and soon reached the front rank In the profession. It was through his influence that tbe practice of duelling, which existed in South Carolina, was suppressed and ciis countent need, for which he received honorable! endorsement from the Pope. Capt. Dawson was lion hearted, yet of as gentle and tender a nature as a wo man, ever ready to succor the distressed and suffering, a brilliant journalist and commanding a wide-spread influence for good. He died in the cause of outraged womanhood, when merely seeking by the gentle magnetism of his own magninim-Ity, to dissuade the beastly assassin to desist from his cruel profligacy! He died a rnattyr in defense of woman's honor.

The death of such a man sends bereavement far outside the little family circle left behind, through the press, through the South, to his manv distant and admiring friends, among whom was the proprietor the Democrat, who sadly adds his tribute to the noble and honored dead. Mj. Thomas Grafton. The Banner of yesterday announced that with that issue of the paper Major Grafton assumed the position of associate editor. We congratulate the Banner on the acquisition of Maj.

Grafton's journalistic services, and cordially welcome back our old friend to the field in which he has so long and ably labored. He bas our heartiest good wishes. The recent ejection of Senator Riddle-berger while beastly intoxicated by the Sergeant at Arms from the Sen am Chamber, was the tilting close of a disreputable career. Riddleberger was a carpet-bagger, who, by force of assurance backed by some little talent and a great deal trickery, managed to have himself se lected to the Senate, to the disgrace of the old Commonwealth of Virginia. He should, and doubtlegs will, sink to the obscure level of his Ilk.

The Memphis Public Ledger commenting upon tbe collapse of the Eve ning Tribune a Republican paper re cently started in that city, remarks: "We really hoped the paper would liye and become a healthy competitor, but newspapers cannot be run on wind a man had better try to lift himself ver a fence by the straps of his boots. Solid paying newspapers are not built up in a day or a year. It takes time, steady growth, aud the work of many hands and minds to accomplish success." The Tribune was the paper whose coming, under the protective wing of Gen. Chalmers, has been so loudly her alded. Chalmers' perseverance Is worthy of a better cause than that of convincing the people of his merits.

Sailing of Noted Sport. New York, March 13 Jake Kilrain who is matched to fight John L.Sullivan, sailed for England this afternoon on the Steamer Adriatic, to join Charley Mit chell, with whom he will make a tour of England. Billy O'Brien and other well-known sporting men assembled at the pier to see him off. Kilrain looks well but fat. He will train Mitchell for his fight with Smith, and return to America to get ready for bis own fiht with Sullivan, aUout May 12.

The Marquis of Queensbiiry was to have-sailed on the same steamer, but at the last moment postponed his trio. i Theie is a well-founded impression in i-piritualistio circles that Miss Coffin, who recently attempted to shoot Kyrle Bellew, Is controlled by the spirit of Shakspeare. San Francisco Music and Drama. In Rnleigh, N. lately the cold was so Intense and travel, in consequence, so light that the street cars were "tied up" shortly after dark.

This being so, tbe Inference is overwhelmingly convincing that, tbe establishment of cotton factories by our own people must in the end prove a most pro fitable The experiment has been thoroughly tried in our own city and its success established, proving the world that Natchez is an eligible locality for just such work. In climate, in geographical and 'topographical position, as well as the cotton producing surroundings. In the search by Eastern capitalists for Southern Investments, we of Natchez should be holding out Inducements to them to come and see for themselves the advantages we have to offer. A little effort and the expenditure of a very little money, utilized In present ing to tbe men of tbe East the facte, nothing but the facts, would bring among us prospecting capitalists equal in means and progressive spirit to those iron kings who are investigating the resources of our more eastern Southern States. PERSEVERANCE.

The quality of perseverance Is one which as completely markes a people as it does an individual, or is possessed in a comparative degree, as the circumstan ces have by necessity forced its growth and development. Necessity has the world over been the forcing power of man's development, and when the climate has been rigid, the soil unyielding, the exercise of perse vering ingenuity has become more im perative, resulting In greater develop ment of mental and muscular powers. In the North, necessity theu, hag forced the work of greater development in the arts and sciences, than It has done In the South, under a temperature more genial and on a soil more generous, which required less labor and design. Mr. Harrison In his inaugural, alluded to the unprogressive condition of the South superinduced by the system of slavery, In which reference he was large ly correct, but not entirely so, as the very climate und soil which gave such abundant yield for so little labor, was another and quite as potent a reason for the encouragement of a contentment ment which overspread the Southern people.

Since, however, the abolition of si a very, and the complete overturning of the whole social system, new elements have been evolved, calculated to put into motion sluggish blood, the most notable of which is necessity. wave of ruin which swept over the South left no wealth above the ground, and dire, gaunt "necessity," with its grimy, ugly but kindly face, appeared upon the scene and pointed downward to the hidden wealth to which the people must go for restoration. Gradually the Southern people have been realizing the depth of meaning in the gesture of necessity, and as they dug and toiled patiently and perseveringly the storehouses of nature have given up their treasures, until the hard and unyielding task master has developed into a beneficent genii, and metals, minerals' and the vegetable products of tbe soil have yielded an abundant harvest. Yet the half Is not told, for while necessity will pinch with its many thousand griping bands, nature will still yield more and more. Necessity comes in so many myriad forms that, the onslaught would seem to be overwhelming, but as they come, each drives its own solution, all of which when combined form the great current of progress, into which the South is rushing.

New lessons are being learned every day through the tuition of necessity, and Involuntarily and almost imperceptibly the knowledge gained is being utilized. In our community, this has been exemplified, and he who cannot see the splendid results right here, unfortunately wears the scales of prejudice over his eyes. The lessons which have been aud are being taught by necessity, are of little purpose however, If nut supported by a purserveiauce aud determination to final utility. No good effort, however feeble should be discredited and laughed to scorn by the inert and indifferent. It is impossible to tell which seed will produce the greatest yield.

All honest efforts de-rseve the honest support of the well in-teutloned. The seemingly impossibility of to-day, often becomes the amazing possibility of to-morrow, and when necessity is behind all, things are possible. The people of our city need tocultivate the spirit of perseverance as a unity, and to recognize possibilities which can only he achieved hy persistent effort, at the same time calmly considering the foilyof pessimism and tbe unworthiness of a that the 'l oad agent, knowing 'how such sales weie should not have permitted them on the premises of the road and therefore granted the injunction a both CtaeS. tnftA. i "SBNATM, Washington', March 13- A 'resolution-.

authorizing the committee on coast defense, to sit during the to em ploy a cleric was introduced, and referred to the committee oh contingent expen ses. A like resolution as to tbe committee on privileges and elections was agreed to-, Resolutions offered by Mr. Stewart for tbe purchase of $4,000,000 of silver bul lion per month for colnatre, and by Senators Gibson and Call, for special com mittees on the commercial, relations of the United States with Mexico and with Cuba and tbe West India islands was laid on the table for the present. The Senate thea at 12: 05 proceeded to the consideration of executive business. The doors were opened and the Senate adjourned.

The Judge's Incubator. The election was over and the Judge was beaten. His days of office were numbered, and somebody said to him: "Well, Judge, what are you going to do?" "I am going to start a chicken ranch." "Going to stock It, eh?" "I've go, the sjoek all right." "Where did you buy the chickens?" "I didn't buy them." "Collected them swearing Chinamen iri court." 1 The Judge had had a number of cus in which Chinamen were witnesses, be made every Chinaman bring his own chicken to be sworn on. San Francisco Chronicle. 1 The Past is Forgotten.

The generous subscriptions tbat have been made in New York and Boston, especially by Grand Army posts, toward a home for aged and crippled Confederate soldiers in the South, show about as well as anything how little of the resentments or animosities of the war linger among the soldiers themselves. As General Grant once said "It is the fellows who stayed at home who want the war fought over again; the men who did the fighting are satisfied." Philadelphia Times. Can Men Learn to Fly? A company has been organized in New York with a capital of to back an inventor with a new flying ma chine. The inventor is a Scotchman. He has been at work on his machine along time, and it is said that he recently took a trip of two miles in it.

The Academy of Science is taking enough interest in the matter to discuss it, aud tbe opinion seems to be that a machine modeled after the form of a seabird will some day be made to traverse the air. The New York machine is 60 feet long and 42 feet in diameter. It is cigar-shuped, and its wings work like those of a bird, by aid of an electric propeIt and the passenger is carried just the eagle carries his prey. One reason whv scientific men feel 80 much confidence in the final success of aerial navigation because it is no new thing. It was practiced by the ancients, and we are told that 400 years before Christ a wooden pigeon was made to fly successfully.

If the Scotch inventor is able with bis unperfected machine to travel a couple of miles, he will doubtless be able to do still better with improved facilities. Tbe million dollars placed at his disposal by the stock company ought to enable kio to find but whether his invention is success or a failure. Atlanta Constitution. The American Magazine, recently of No. 749 Broadway, after a career of less than two years has died, and, although efforts are making to resuscitate it, there Is at present not much probability that they will prove successful.

Mr Daoosta Elected a Director oi the C. Road. Chicago, March 14The stockholders of the Illinois Central Railroad reconvened this morning and elected 5Ir E. M. Dacosta, of New York; to fill tt vacaucy in the board of directors caused by the resignation of Levi P.

Mrto Vice-President of the United States..