Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1893, Page 12

| i J TAEOMAHA DAILY BE F. ROSEWAT E. | IR, Edivor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. | Dafly Pee (without Sunday) Or s 800 | Datly and Sunday. One Year 10 00 81x Montha 5 00 Three Montha ) Sunday Bee Year Saturday Bee, One Year Weekly Pee, One Year OFFICES. OmAbA. The Bee Bulldine Sonth Omaha. earner N and Twenty-fourth atreets Counell Hiffs, 12 Pear] sirect g0 Ofce, 317 Chamber of Comicrce York. rooms 19, 14 and 15, Tribune b Washingion, 613 Fotrteenth atreot CORRESPONDE! ESS LETTERS | All busiiesa Jetters and_ remittances Shonid b addressed 1o The Bee Pablishing company, Omal Lrafia, checks and postofice orders 10 be ayuble 10 the order of the compan " THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY n SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION | State of Nebra [ County of Douglas. | George B, Tzschuck, secretary of Tiy Bre P Ushing company. does solemnly swear thi actual cirenlasion of Ty DAILY Bkk ending Decomber 16, 1803, was as follows Sunday. Dacombor 10, Monday. Deceniber 11 Tuesday, Decomber 19 Wednesday, December 173 Thursday. December 14 Friday. December 1 Satorday mber 1 De Gronay B TZEONCK Sworn 10 before me and sutacribed i my presence this 16/ day of December, | 1504, N. P. FriL, Notary Pubiie § i Averago Clrenlation for November, 24,210, ————eeeeee e MINISTER THURSTON sailed for Honolulu. The publie will asa conse- quence be deprived of his daily inter- views for one week at least he has VATOR MILLS of Mills bill fame is SE out in print denying the statcment that he is in any way entitled to the credit of the Wilson preparing bill. Can you blame him? BOND investment companies are said to be discontinuing the use of the mails for the purpoges of their swinales. A little effort on the part of state authori- ties will compel\ them to discontinue business altogethe Moxngy is said to be offered on call loans on Wall strect at 1 per cent with- out securing takers. Three months ago such loans were not to be had at avy price. The vagaries of a commercial crisis lead from one extreme to the other. Ir TaE Wilson bill is the cause of all this tariff talk before it has gotten out oi the hands of the committee on ways and mcans, what will we do when it comes before the house and each of the three hundred odd members conceives it t0 be his duty to unburden his views upon a patient public? TorrkA police officials have had the boldness to disregard Governor Lewel- ling’s tramp manifesto, and despite the governor's admonition have ventured to apprehend a vagrant and to sentence him to the city rock pile. The question of the hour is, What is the governor going to do about it? DELAY in acting upon the nomination of Mr. Hornblower to the bench of the United States supreme court is confirm- ing the senate’s reputation for ally moving slowly. It is said on good authority that fewer members are eag for his confirmation now than the extra sossion, but that is no excuse for not ending Mr. Hornblower's sus- pense. He should bs either confirmed or rejected at on overbi- during INCREASING strect mendicancy is re- ported inthe larger cities of all parts of the country. This is, of course, one of the natural results of the industrial dopression, but, at the same time, one of the most difficult to deal with, Wherever the ordinary machinery for relieving distress is able to attend to all applications for assistance there is no need of permitting street begging and house-to-house pilgrimages for aims. Street beggars, if worthy, should be di- rected to the proper charitable institu- tion. ALL the bitter denunciation of prize fighting which was loudly proclaimed by the governor of Florida when it was proposed to transfer a bruisers' contest from New York to that state seews to have simmered down to a state of mas- tarly inactivity upon his part. While it is by no means certain that the contem- plated fight will take p as an- nounced, yet the authorities of Florida have not made the slightest pretense to | interfere with the preparations for it. The enforcement of the laws would bo an sgrecable substitute for bluster, which dies away without result PE YLVANIA isone of the fow states in the union that has managed 1o raise all the funds required for state pur- poses without resorting to a tax on general property. The bulk of its re- ceipts comes from the tax on corporate incomes and various business licenses. Should the recommendation of Presi- dent Cleveland in favor of & federal tax on the income from cortain corporate in- vestments be embodied in law the revenue systems of those states which also levy taxes on corporation ipts will no doubt have to be reconstructed. is will put a considerable obstacle in the way of the hopes of the remaining states to attain a position where state revenues may be raised exclusively from spocial slato taxes, PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been held up to the public during his day as a re- former of almost every kind kunown to eivilized man, but he has waited for the Voice to claim him as an ardent apostle of prohibition. That passage in his message which speaks of the nefarious traffic which forees the white man's in- toxicants upon the uncivilized natives of central Afvica as something which the United States should join in re- pressing is drawn upon as conclusively indicating the president’s advocacy of prohibition in general, PresidentCleve- land of conrse intended this phrase in | no such light, but that will make little difference to the prohibition visionaries, Let them suggest that the president proseribe spirituous liquors from the | white house and that he omit them from the wenus of his stato dinners and they | will soon perceive how far ho is willing 10 go in regulating the liquor traflic. THE PROPOSED OMAHA BEET PLANT. The mass meeting to be held tomor- row morning at the rooms of the Com- mercial club to hear and consider the proposal of Count Lubienskie to estab- lish an extensive beet sugar farm and factory in Douglas county should be attended by all who are interested in the development of this industry and who appreciate the value to this eity of such an enterprise as Count Lubienskie proposes. Thoroughly informed regard- SUGAR ing the production of the cugur beet and the manufacture of sugar from them, the count, atter careful and extended investigation, selected this locality as the most available for the pro he and those associated with him have in view. He does not come here asking any bonus or subvention for his proposed enterprise. ALl that he requires is that there shall be an ample supply of the raw material to keep his factory in operation, to be provided by of Douglas and contiguaus counties. As has here- n stated in opr news column the project which Count Lubienskie, on hehalf of a syndicate of foreign capital- ists, submits to the consideration of our people, is sigyply this: erect on a farm of 600 acres in Douglas county, to be devoted to the raising of sugar beets, an extensive factory for the manufacture of beet suyav, the only condition he asks being a guaranty that the farmers of this section shall devote 6,000 acres to the cultiva- tion of the sugar beet. It this condition should be met ho proposes to expend between one and two million dollars in the enterprise, which would the farmers tofore be He proposes to | give employment, when completed, toa large number of people and distribute inthe community a very large sam of money annually. [r all 1ts aspects this proposition i3 oue of the most important that has been presented for the consider- ation of our people in a long time. There is no apparent reason why the simple conditions asked by Count Lubienskie cannot be cowmplied with. The area of Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties contains over 600,000 that it would be necessary to devote less than 1 per cent of it to the cultivation of sugar beets. 1300 of the enterprising farmers acres, #0 of these countics can be induced to devote twenty acves each to this purpose we can "have here an eatensive sugar plant that will be of great benefit to the entire com- unity. And what inducoment have the farmers to do thi The fact that the raising of sugar beets is a highly profitable industry. According to sta- tisties just at hand of the value of sugar beets per acre in Nebraska for the cur- rent year the average amount received was between $50 and , while the best ten results range from $96.34 to $69.80 per acre. The cost of raising beets is est mated to be batween $13 and 315 per acre when farmers do not have to hire more labor than usual on account of the beet crop, and about $20 peracre when he engages special service for beots. It will thus be seen that theve is a margin of profit in raising sugar beets greater thanin almost any other agricultural product, and no farmer of ovdinary in- telligenee need have any difficulty in learning how to successfully cultivate the beet, which, with proper attention, is one of the surest of crops. Another consideration of great importance to the farmer is that there is an assured market for this product as soon as it is vready to be mar- keted. There is no question that the soil and climate of this section are per- fectly suited to beet raising and that as good a quality of beets can be grown here as anyWher [t rests largely with the farmers of Douglas, Savpy and Washington counties to decide whether or not this proposed enterprise, with its large possibilities of general benefit, shall be consummated, and it is confidently hoped they will take a practical and intelligent view of the matter. L[ so there is every reason to expect that we shall have heye as s0on as it can be completed the most ex- tensive beet sugar plant in the country. AN EX0ODUS 10 EURUPE, To those who have viewed the phe- nomenon of Buropean immigration to the United States from the standpoint of economic theory, it cannot be a mat- tor of great surprise to learn that the changed industrial conditions of this country in the past few months has al- ready resulted in an emigration offset- in numbers the total number of foreigners who have come here during the same period. Justas immigration has been accounted for by the desive of energetic but discontented people of other nations to better their economic situations, so the emigration that has now set in must be explained either by the disappointment of their hopes or the attaimment of that degree of pros- perity which will permit of a return in comparative comfort to the native land. The industrial depression has been miach more y felt among the lower grade of laborers on this side of the Atlantic than on the other, and to them the relative attractiveness of Fu- rope and America has been practically reversed. The statistics from which our infor- mation regarding the emigration from the United States is derived are largely estimates based upon the figures given by particular steamship lines. But the steamship authorities claim that what- ever their business has lost in west- bound steerage traflic it has more than made up in eastbound travel, and it is known that the number of immigrants arviving at the port of New York has fallen off nearly two-thivds during the four months since the close of the last fiseal year. The number of immigrants who came to our shores during the year endin o ting sove! June 30, 1893, was 140,703, a de- :ase of about 33 per.cent from the pre- ceding year, when it was 644,353, But since July the number has fallen off s0 rapidly that if the deery is continued in even a moderate ratio the nel imwmi- gration for the year will be nominal only. The number of emigrants on the other hand bhave been steadily and alarmingly increasing. By some authorities it is estimated that the number of emigrants in already much in excess of that of the immigrants. The New York Sun, however, waintains that many of the guesses have been greatly exagger: ated and expresses the holief that the exodus will not include mors than 100,000 for the year alitold. Even ac- cepting this as & conservative figure, it must be remembered that the greater part of this number took their de- parture during the last few months of the year and that the monthly emigra- tion still on the increase. Unle: something should occur to cut short the emigration and to stimulate immigra- tion the net result for the current fiscal year can but be a loss of population of possibly 100,000 through this source of steamship traffic, which since the war has always added to our numbers. There is this to be noted in connection with this European exodus, that it scrves to eve American workingmen, in & measure, from the pressure of competis tion with “foreign immigrants who had not yet accustomed themselyes to the standard of life upon this side of the water. This, too, at a time when the demand for employment in our large cities is greatest and the struggles for existence among the poor the most The Eiropean laborer at- tracted to participate in our prosperity but is also reluctant to share the ad- versity which industrial depression has brought. Many who were assisted to the United States by the savings of friends or relatives who bad gone be- fore them are now sending to Europe for the means which will enable them to roturn. They will spread the tidings of their failures among their acquaintances at home and years will necessarily elapse before the economic advantages of the United States will be able to over- come the inertia thus created in intend- ing immigrants, In the meanwhile, with lessencd pressure from incoming foreigners, the American laborer will be able to make better headway in regain- ing the ground lost during the crisis of 18 rel severa, is INCREANING INTERNAL TAXES, The problem of internal taxation has cansed the democratic members of the 's and means committee more per- plexity than did the revision of the tariff, and they are not yet done with it. In consequence of their inability to agree uvon the excise features of the new revenus policy coincident with the changes made in the tariff schedules the consideration of the new bill in con- gress will probably not be entered upon before January, the country has been kept without knowledge of the recom- mendations of the secretary of the treas- ury for a longer time than ever before, and the very important matter of providing against a treasury de- fieit of many millions—the amount cannot now be estimated with any ap- proach to accuracy—is still unsettled. It is admitted on.all hands that the re- duction in the customs revenue under the Wilson bill, as it will go to congress, will be from 350,000,000 to $60,000,000. Possibly this loss will be somewhat de- creased, as the supporters of that meas- ure assume, after business becomes ad- Jjusted to the new conditions and im- portations increase, but in the meantime there will be & wide margin between the receipts of the government from this source and the expenditures, To meet and overcome this deficiency the democrats propose to increase in- ternal taxes, and in the endeavor to agree upon a plan more than two weeks have been consumed since the tariff Dbill was given to the public, and the task is not yet completed. Some things have been decided upon, as doubling the tax on cigarettes, im- posing an income tax on corporate in- vestments, legacies and inheritances, and a specific tax on playing cards, proprietary medicines, and a few other articles, but these proposed additions will not meot the threatened exigency. The increased revenue from these sources probably would not offset one- third of the loss from customs. It is well understood that political calcula- tions enter largely into the considera- tion of this problem of internal taxation. At the outset it was proposed to in- crease the tax on whisky and beer. It is estimated that an additional tax of 10 cents per gallon on dis- tilled spirits would yield $10,000,- 000 and an additional tax on beer of 50 cents per barrel would add $16,- 000,000 to the receipts from that source. But these interests, which are well rep- resented at Washington, vigorously op- pose any increase of taxation and the democratic members of the ways and means committee desire to avoid giving offense to the manufacturers and dealers indistilled spiritsand fermented liguors. Some time ago the browers were given a private hearing by the committee and they agreed that an ad- ditional tax would be disastrous to the industry, as the margin of profit was not large and the price to the consumer could not be increased. It was also argued that an inerease inthe tax would result in a resort to adulterants and the public health would suffer. But what made the greatest impression on the committee, it is said, and led the com- mittee toassure the represeatatives of the brewers that no change would be made in the law relating to fermented liquors, was the assurance that any in- crease in the tax would be used against the democrats in the next congressional olections. There is trustworthy au- thority for the statement that the aban- donment of the proposition to increase the tax on fermented liquors was due to the apprehension that such an addition would be made by those engaged in the manufacture and sale of beer a pretext for opposing the demoerats at the con- gressional elections of next year. The committes must agree on some plan shortly, and having abandoned whisky and beer as objects of additional taxation it would not be surprising if an agreement was finally reached on an individual income tax. It is a vexatious dilemma in which the democrats have placed themselves. aud in whatever way they get out of it at present it is certain to give them future trouble. DaviD A. WELLS has sent a lettor to the New York Hvening Post, calling at- tention to the fact that so far as the constitutional power of congress to im- pose indirect taxation without apportion- meunt among the several states is con- cerned, the income tax is in law an indirect tax, ““the opinion of every econo- _ THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE mist and student of finance from Adam | Smith to the prw Aime" to the con trary notwithsta ir‘:b_ Mr. Wells cites a recent decision of the United States in & case brought brought before it for the very purpose of raising this point, as distinctly stating that the only kinds of taxes required by the con stitution to be apportioned among the several states are capitation taxes and taxes upon land. This being true it is of course ridiculous to mointain, as some newspapers have done, that a federal income tax i4 unconstitutional Such a tax has been resorted to by con- gress as a war revenue megsuve and can be imposed agaift"Vits practicability presents an entirely different question. It failed to give satisfactory results when tried dur the' 60's and the prospects for a more successful experi- meot are no better now than then IRRIGALLN IN w:,’{u (SK. Except in a few extreme western oounties irrigation has not made rapid progress in the arid and semi-avid por- tions of Nebraska, which comprise more than one-third of the state, or practi- cally all of the terrvitory lying west of the hundredth meridian. In the sections where irvigation has boen ap- plied the results have been in the highest degree satisfactory, and when it is understood that the soil of nearly the entire irrigable area is as rich and for- tile as that which has been reclaimed, one and capable of an equal measure of pro- duction under like conditions, the im- portance of the question of irrigation to the development and future wol- fare of Nebraska will become ap- parent. The area of the state is 49,606,400 acres. Assuming that 15,000,000 acres require irrigation in order to be made productive, and esti- mating the annual value of the products per acre at the lowest figure that can reasonably be named, say $5, and the reclamation of this avea would increase the agricultural vesources of the state to the amount of at least 000,000 a year. But every practical farmer will understand that this esti- mate is much too low, especially in view of the fact that irrigated land yields more generously than land whose pro- ductiveness depends upon rainfall. At any rate it can be most reasonably as- sumed that the reclamation of the arid land of Nebraska would add annually to the value of our agricultural resources fully $100,- 000,000, with immense benefit to interest in the state. No practical mind can reflect upon the possibilities of a general system of irrigation where it is needed without reaching the conclusion that the question merits the intelligent and earnest attention of our people. Within the last year or two the peo- ple of the western mr(,iun of the state have hecome thoroughly aroused to the urgent importance of this subject, and have been organizing for a united and vigorous effort to advance the cause of irrigation. In all, or nearly all, of the counties having irrigable lands socicties have been formed with this object in view and they are manifesting great energy and al o the work. These organizations will be repre- sented in the state irrigation conv :ntion that will meet at North Platte next Tuesday. This convention promises to inaugurate throughout the state a move- ment for the promotion of irrigation from which great results are to be ex- pected. It will present to public atten- tion a great deal of valuable informa- tion regarding the condition and vossi- bilities of the arid and semi-arid por- tions of the state, the available water supply, the probable cost of a general system of 1irrigation, and other facts bearing upon the material aspects of the subject. It will also discuss means and methods, consider the relations and duties of the federal government in the working out of the prob- lem and counsel as to the best course to be pursued to arouse popular interest and to enlist capital in this work. Omaha should feel a profound concern in the question of making avail- able to agriculture the extensive areaof Nebraska that is now nonproductive. The reclamation of that region would be of almost incalculable benefit to this city, and Omaha's representatives in the North Platte convention will be e pected to take an enlightened and earn- est part in prowmoting the object of the convention. Of course everybody at all familiar with this matter understands that the work to be accomplished is not easy and that it is not free from difficnlties. It will take years of time and an enormous amount of money to carry it to ompletion. But it is practicable and there can be no question as to the bene- fits to be derived from it. Perhaps the most serious obstacle to the solution of the problem is in the relation that the federal government bears to it. The arid public lands are of no value to the government and in their present _condi- tion never can be. Why would it not be wise policy for congress tocede these lands to the state, under conditions that would require the state to utilize them in promoting irrigation? This is one of the questions, it is presnmed, which the convention at North Platte will be called upon to consider. . It 1s to be hoped the convention will ba largely attended and representative in character. every Nearing the Linit. Globe-Denocrat, Probably the pilé of idle cash in New York will not grow mueh beyond its present dimensions this season. “I'he average weekly increase in the reserves of the banks of that city for three or four mMonths past along to last week was -about $5,000,000, while last week it was less thah 8 tentn of this amount, Tho surplus of thosd' institutions 1s now about 76,500,000, whidh4s almost 12,000,000 higher than the highest figure ever touched in any preceding weele ! it e The ¥olé Evil. Philadetphia Inqutrer, ‘The school boy who said that the only effect of Arctic exploration had been to make geography lessons harder got near enough to the truth to be credited with a oull's eye, The National Geographic society appears Lo cotertain a different opinion, however, and atits meeting during the week renewed the assurauce that it was ewnently desirable that the work should go on. Its most im- | portant declaration related, not to_the value of the exploratious, which is largely mythical, but to the alleged discovery of a new and more feasible route to the vicinity of the north pole. 1t will cost $10,000 o ascertaia whether the society's theory is correct or not, after which we may again be informed that the Esquimaux are a peaceful and gentle people. There are betier ways of spenaiug the money at this time, UNDAY, DECEMBER 17,1R93--TWENTY PAG { Whers Ruin Stalks IN THE (RADLE OF SECESSION | Amid the Grandeur of the Past SUMTER'S GRANITE P/RAPET VIEWING | [ Uilapidated Conditlon ot the Famons Fort ast Glory and Present Gloom ot Charleston State Liguor Dlspensaries. Cranteston, Nov. spondence of Tur Ber was ol and the bright noonda a flood of light upon tho dark green foliage of tho great forest, through whith our 90, —(Editorial Corre. Overhean the sky sun poured | was spoeding toward the South Carolina | moetropolis. In this tropic borderland a | forest is not a beggarly oction of serub | oaks and dwarf pines. Majestic live oaks and giant cypress, sycamore, hickory and chestnut trees spread their ughs and branches ove vasy areas, in common with magnolias, sweot gums, chinguapins and persimuwons. ivery break in the densely * wooded forost opens a cloaring through cotton and tice plantations, with their annex of surrounded by variegated patches of garden truck. In the background, obscurcd by shrubbery and trellised arbors covered with honeysuckles and climbing rose bushes, the pretentious, weather-noaten planier's man sion with its broad cornice Nature egrocabins veranda and wassive s been lavish in her gifts to this suany land, but man has done comparatively little to attract or distract the tourist. With two or three exceptions the railway stations between Savannah and Charleston are wretehed little them ar e, consisting caboose. The passed had a sheds, and several of primitive as they possibly can of a stationary boxcar or towns through which wo dilapidated and poverty- stricken appearance, while the crowds at the stations reminded me of the iuscription over Dante’s “Inferno:" *\Who enters here leaves soap behind. fn Striking Contrast. What a striking contrast there is between Savannah and Charleston nnahik with S, T e e e g e | %00 TAte of preservation | confederate The brick walls And parapots standing on the edgo of the water seemod intact, hut for sonie y ears past there has been no garrison Trip to the Fort. Accosting the mule car conductor A8 1o | whether he knew angbody who woud take o| meoverto Sumter, ‘he repliod: “1f you can induce Charley Brown to take you over, you will be all right. Ho hasthe best boat of anybody round here. and is a good pilot “Who 1s Charley Brown™ [ asked. “Why, he lives in yonder cottage and maybe you will find hin at home now On knocking at the door of the cottage I was politely invited fnto the scantily fur nished parior by an old lady and wsked to waiit until they could send for Mr. Brown By her courteous manners and cultured con versation | judged thgt the lady must have be ved iu good soci During the twenty minutes Twas kent wait she related many. very interesting re nisconce he bombardment of Fort tor, and the awful times they haa ¢uring the ontthquake five years ago and recent ¢ ol Her son Charley nad sevved army and was a vetern rank “We have some relative braska.” said she; “perhaps you know themw I'heir name is Osgood and they live near North Platte.” 1assured her | had man quaintances in Nebraska, but did not ve rem by the Osgoods, though they doub 1283 had heard of me. Presently Charley Brown put in an appearance. 1o wasa olit, square-built, good-natured fol ) did not bear the slightest to the ideal vebel “gentleman,' ever ready 1o civ a throat or scuttle a ship. It lid not take lone for us to agree upon the price and we walked back to the wharf to cmbark for Sumter, The famous *yacht was o small onc-mast sail | boat, which had doubtless won many A raco i these waters, but on this vccasion proved to bu the slowest sailer [ had traveled in. 1 had almost forgotten to state that Sullivan istand kad been swopt by a ¢ this y which cithor wrecked « island bris dwell stroyed that ¢ pre could It withi cyclone and tidal wave on A, ear, and several hundred W have been built since totally de covered the wrecked ings. The same the landing at t 2%, of dwellings, war, were nolished. The with tho de cottages and cyclone had de: Fort Sumter, so ly small hoats can aporoach. As a my skipper took a small flat 18 ho feared his boat not make u safe landing 1 s of still At Short Range, was near noon when we anchored, n o hundred yar s of the fort and, tak g to the small boat, paddied to the rocky in ledgo the w of solid that the walls of the fo atits base, | Ails of Fort had always Sumter to granite and ained blocks. was surprised to find are built of brick, % 3 % aid in cement mortar, and the only granite broad, asphalt paved _streets, shaded | pout the building is the coping on the para avenues and charming parks, electric street | pets. ‘T'he walls seventeen feet thick railways and electric lights —cheerful, | and the brici-arched casements ana maga bright and exhilarating. Charleston. (/;Ilv' i ‘-v\'vrml \\Hhvvn’L‘.\ and sand. On gloomy, dismal, musty aud antiquated, |} 3CASide approach there is a great rent in 5 the walls, ana piles of brick and mortar are with narrow streets, crooked lanos, cobble- | heaped up in confusion. In fact thit s stone pavements and bobtail cars. And yet | of the fortis bady ruined. The cyclone of you are reminded at every step that | lastsummer did ‘more harm thatall of Gon Charleston has seen better duys. Up to 1520 | (£l x.‘"i"fl}'.‘;'[‘xi”“': ange guns from Fory Charleston had a larger vommerce than | 4t "Fhe Gistames Tine e Hat had looked New York. Everything about this piace | et LU DM bl bl 2 3 . ) founa to be two iron frame lighthouse has an air of bygone glory and grandeur. OWOL v > L d gra Lowers and the mast in tho center was a flag Like tho poor but proud Spaniara who | (e 0 s ENTEREIRG bt ARG Ut wraps his patched and threaabare cloak | founi no flag flying over the fore — 20 about his shoulders with the air of a | .y noWELAYTS OREe fort | o grandee, the Charlestonians are wrapped up BT s e DU soEe in the past. | Charleston is a collection of shattered ar chitectural bric-a-brac, venerated by its pos. sessors as precious relics ana heirlooms of blue blooded ancestral aristocracy. Nearly very prominent edifice in this town, from custom house to market house, is built in the classic style. Bank buildings, hotels theaters, clup Liouses and even churches and private residences present a most imposing appearance with their Doric and lonic col- onnades and Greek peristyles. The most in- teresting of these buildings arc the churches, which nearly all date beck to the scven- teenth and eignteenth century. But while great church edifices may be seen in every direction there is a lamentable absence of “school houses. There are of course several colleges and military acade- mies and seminaries, but there ave no public schools, or at least I failed to see one in my | touring about town, which included aii ponts worthy of viewing. Thisis the great- est drawback to the regeneration of the south. "'he most attractive spot in this city 1s the tery. with its wonumental mansious, fa 2 the harbor and commanding an unob- structed view of the shippug and the sur- rounding islands. From this powt of vantage the Charlestonians viewed the bombard- ment of Fort Sumter by the confederates and the subscquent engagements between the forts and war vessels that sought to re- capture it. State Dispensaries. One of the features of this cit, state liquor dispensaries. To ascer the experiment operates I called for a small bottle of brandy at one of the principal drug stores, alleging that Ineeded it for medicinal Durpose: “We are not allowed to sell liquor,” responded the clerk; *'you must get it at the swate dispensary.” +Dou’t you sell for medicinal purposes?” “We do not; we can't even fill a prescrip- tion compounded with alcohol or wine. Suppose a man was suddenly stricken down and people must get restoratives!” *“They must get them at the dispensary,” blandly replicd the druggist. Upon further inquiry Llearned that there are five of these dispensaries in this city, witn state bartenaers and state cocktail mixers. There are also more than 200 “blind tige or resorts thatsell liquor, wine and beer in defiance of law, just as the bootleggers and holes-in-the-wall do in_pro- hibition Iowa and Kausas. And there is no attempt, even, at concealment. The con stables make an occasional raid and the city police are strictly neutral, as the city does not concern itself about this grauger dis- vensary law. P P i : & Hlstorie § v way for me to reach Fort I asked the hotel clerk this amter, ‘Is the Sumter,” morning. “There are no boats now running to the fort, but Ireckon you might engage a small tug that makes trips to the fortonce ina while. You will find the owner on the wharf near the market house." After quite & scrambie among the docks, 1 succeeded in finding the man of the tug. “Iam sorry,” said he, “*but wmy large boat is engaged for today ; if you can get a rubber coat and don’t mind being splashed by the we might tryit in the little boat, though it’s mighty rough this morning." The *‘littie boat” which he pointed out to me a mere cockle shell, and as the tide was running very high, and I had no rubber coat athand, T docided w go over to Sullivan island, which ties right opposite Sumter, and take my chances of finding a boat that would take me across. A steam ferry runs egularly twice a day from Charlesion to Mount Pleasant and Sullivan istand. When Uboarded tho ferryboatat 10 a. m. there was quite & number of passengers abourd, in- cluding a party of school girls who were going over to have an outing. Sullivan island is plainly visible from Charles- ton, bute Fort Sumter looked like a small, black speck in the sea. As we approache: the island Sumter began to assume snape, and when we came nearly opposite,on round ing the point, 1ts appearance was that of an old line of battle ship with a row of port- holes near the wacer line, a big smokestack j{ and aft and a high mast in the center. The walls of the fori appeared to be perfectly black. Several siege guns were visible above the parapet. By 11 o'clock we had reached last landing on Sullivan island and all passengers went on shore, This 1slaud is about ten miles in length and before the war many of the ~wealthy citizens harleston had their summer residencos here, and some of their lived here all the year 'round. There was large summer rosort hotel half way up the island, and a horse rallway connected the steamboat wharf and the hotel. The horse railway, or rather the mulo raillway. with a rough and tumble bobtail car, is all Lnat re- mains of the glorics of former days. The summer palaces and the great hotel were ali demolished during the siege of Sumter and the bombardments by the United States fleet that followed and were kept vp off and on for nearly four years. The military reser- vation reaches across from the frout Lo the back beach and Fort Moultrie covers about two acres at the front end. At the outbreak of the war, [ am told, it was a brick struc- ture, bastioned, and had scarp wails about fitteen feev high. but the sand has drifted against it &t some points, 80 as Lo almost bury its masonry. While I had not time to muke a personal iuspection, the fort viewed at s distance of balf a wile appeared in & Presently a an_elderly man (the lighthouse i couple of hildren, followed by Keeper), her to look aver hopping down among th entleman here that v ruins nts the fort,” said the skipper. “Well, well, T'lt find the sergeant and got permission for Lim.” “In alittle while a big bearded man in half undress uniform came out, This was the geant in charye of the fort After introducing myself he volunteered to show me through. — “L have been stationed in Omaha,” said he, “way back in ‘69, I be longea to the ‘T'wenty-first infa ntry 1 remember Omaha very well, but have never been twenty minutes to see all there seeing in forme and o out,’ bastious, one above another, besid back since.” It did not take move than was worth sergeant in about three the war broke had two tiers of the guns the fort, which, the od me, covers an_area of ne half acres. *When said he, *the fort on the parapet, but the top tier was almost entirel from while at the tier ol over thir might vot believe “but cyelon top of and broke down our great was through the filled great nozzles through matte ioned these been the ground buried half way in the s great canna duriu, entire scarcely fit for habitation war have been followed by the elements, which have done th of aen ington enough tying demolished by - shot Fort Wagner,which bombaj it was occupied by the rebels, so that e present time the fort has only theone { port holes all around.” Its heightis not -tive feet above the water. “You il said the sorgeant, we bad an awful time shere during the ie. Vhe tidal wave rose clear o ser the the fort opposite our gun carringes filled the magazines with sand, and walls S0 that there was a deal wore danger inside than the during tne bombardument.” A walk magazines showed them tobe up with sand several feet deep. The 10-inch Columbians still poke itheir the port holes, but as a or - of fact these guns are alt old-fash- ,and would be of very little use in times, & al inmense guns have dismounted inside the fort, aud lie on nd. A mass of exploded shells, chainshot and u balls that bad piowed their way in g the bombardment encumbered the splace, and as it now appears it is The ravages of the ravages of nd shell od the fort uolition, and the governmen does not seem to be i in the fol on 1ts staff. rested en to keep the flag Looking from the parapet across to Fort Moultrie the sergeant nointed out the | from which, about half past 4 on day morning, April 13, 1861, a flash | of lightning ' was seen, followed #le | most instantly by a deafening roar from & monster mortar. Edmond Rufin, the South Caroling fire eater, had fired tho shot that was heard around the world. After forty ho bombardment the fort had been battered and torn up by shot | and shell. The upper tier of casements | and magazines was on fire and the smoke and heat were suffocating, but the wallant commander only yickied nfter Gen- etal Beauregard had granted honorable terms of surrender that peemitted him to | salute tho flag with 100 guns and march { out with his force with all the honors of wa I'lio next day, when the news of the sur- | render of the fort was finshed over the | vountry, the popular outburst of loyalty | swent every eity, village and hamlet in the | north. The union flag flew out of the wine dows and from every housetop in all the creat cities, and in New York excited | ev 1S marched through the streots de. | manding that the lukewarm and eutral should show their loyalty to the uniot or two years after its capture by the confederates under Genoral Beauregard, Fort Sumter was comparatively un molested. In April, 1963, Rear Admiral Dubont assaulted the fort with seven ron clads, but after several days of fierve bom ardment ho was compelied to retive, A fow weeks later General Gilmore ¢ - menced operations from Morris istand and for many weeks a rain of shot and shell was showered upon Charleston and the forts hold by the rebels. ) most serious damage inflicted on Sumpter was by the | Swamp Angel” stationed at Fort \ This gin berame the terror of the Ate garrison, and when the fort was finally ovactated on the 14th of April, 1863, four years to a day after the union flag had been hauled down, it was a great heap of brick and mortar and mass of shot and shell. Will the fort ever again bo manned by troops’ That depends on whether we ever lave another war witn a foreign power or a sectional civil wa entrance to Char Sumter commands the sston harbor, and it always will remain an important point to check in vasion from abroad T'he tide was against us and tho wind had wone down. 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