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Anns and Ammunition Jacksonville, March 18.-The steadi? er Three Friends of Jacksonville, in cotnmaud of Captain Napoleon B. Broward, arrived here at noon to-day. having successfully succeeded in land ing io Cuba Gen. Eorique Ujliaz>, Maj. Chas. Hernandez and Duke Es? trada, besides 51 men taken off the schooner Ardeil from Tampa, and the entire cargo of arms and ammunition of the schooner Maliory, from Cedar Keys^ It was by long odds the most important expedition that has set out from this country and the Cubans here, when they learned that the Three Friends had safely fulfilled her mission shouted "Viva la Cuba" until they were hoarse. They declared that it would change the character of "the whole war, as the unarmed men would now be armed aod those without ammu? nition would be supplied, and that Maceo, who had before been wary and cautious, would be more aggressive than he had ever been before. The cargo of arms landed -by the -Three Friends aud Mallory was as fol? lows : 750,000 rounds of cartridges, 1,200 rifles, 2,100 machetes, 400 re? volvers, besides stores, reloading tools, etc. The Three Friends met the Mallory at Alligator Key. The Ardeil had just finished transferring the men to her. While they were rendezvoused there behind the pines in a deep corai walled creek, three big Spanish men-of war steamed slowly by, but they did not discover that there was anything saspicious-looking inshore, although wirb a glass men could be seen in their lookouts soanning the horizon, as well as searching the shore. Sunday, about noon, no vessels being in sight, the Three Friends took in tow the Mallory and steamed southward under a good head of steam. The Three .friends is a powerful tug, and by donday nigh' was close enough to the Cuban shore to hear the breakers. Several shipiights to the west were seen, one of which was evidently a Spanish man-of-war for she had a searchlight at her bow and was sweeping the waves with it, but t?e Three Friends was a long way off and had no light and was soon out of the neighborhood of the Spaniards. At 10 o'clock that night by the aid of a naptha launch and two big surf boats, ? which had been taken out of Jackson? ville, the Three Friends landed the ? men and ammunition from ber bold and from that of the Mallory. It took four and a half hours to complete the ! job. There were hundreds of men on sbore to assist and they did it silently, appreciating the peril of the u?dertak- J tug. The Cubans on shore recognized Genera! Collazo immediately and no words can describe their joy upon see- 1 ing him He .is a veterau of Cuban wars and is one whom Spain fears. In 1 .fact, it is known that duriog his so- ' Jjourn io Florida be has been shadowed < .by detectives, who have been instruct- * ed 6o spare EO expense io keep Collazo I 1 'from reaching Coba. When it was 1 whispered around that Collazo was 1 .really among them, they seemed not to 1 believe their ears, but came forward 1 and looked, and, seeing that there was . i realiy no u:istake, threw their arcii 1 I about bim aod wept. 1 Major Charles Hernandez and Duke ^ Estrada were also enthusiastically I welcomed. 1 [t was reported that, night that Ma? ceo had received the arms of the first ?expedition that set forth three days before the Three Friends landed These were not from the Commodore, for they reported that they were now on the lookout for that vessel. They said, too. that at the end of the week . four expeditions were afloat. Two, in- j eluding the Three Friends had landed, i ind two mere were on the way. Tues? day morning as the Three Friends was j returning, she sighted a steamer that answers to the description of the Com? modore She was beaded southward ! and pushing along apparently at the ! rate of 15 knots an hour. This ves-1 sei has an engine capable of driving a ship rwice her size and bas a speed of 17 knots aa hour. - ?a?--ian Lieut. Stokes at Work. The adjutant and inspector general j yesterday sent out the following special ! order pertaining to Lieutenant Stokes' work of instruction : "Realizing and appreciating the! necessity of the cavalry forces, I am endeavoring to bring them up to ai mach higher standard. Lieut. Marcus ? B. Stokes of the United States army j having been detailed to this State for doty with the militia of this State, ie hereby authorized to proceed to Hamp too county and issue such orders to the troops composing the First regiment of cavalry, Col. W. J. Causey command? ing, as he may deem necessary and for the best interest and improvement j of the same." Followiog this order, Lieut. M. B. Stokes issued the following letter : Col. W J. Causey, Commanding First | Regiment South Carolina Cavalry: j Sir : In accordance with special order ! No. 12, adjutant general s office, March | 19, 189G, I will be with the different j troops of your command for the pur- ; pose of drill and instruction as follows : Tuesday, March ol, Troop F. Peo? ples'; Thursday, April 2, Troop D. Daley's; Saturday, April 4, Troop E. Long's; Tuesday, April 7, Troop C. Bower's; Thursday, April 9, Troop A. Brunson's; Saturday, April ll, Troop B, Steinmeyer's. Very respectfully, M. B. Stokes, Lieut. U. S. Army. Wily Not Sugar Cane ? In the Southern Stales: Magazine (or March, Mr. James ll Randall, wiio is now as practical as he once was poetic, and whose "malaqua" theory has done so much to destroy the "malaria'' superstition in our coast country, lias an article of valu? able suggestiveness Mr. Randall says that the owners of a big plantation on the Savannah river near Augusta, capable of pro? ducing great quantities of corn but so subject to oveiflow as to make that crop a frequent failure, thought of sugar cane as a substitue and re? quested him to make inquiries in Washington as to the adaptability of! such iands to its successful growth. Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, re? sponded as follows : ' The water that ruins or injures corn in the Georgia river swamps will not hurt cane. ? would prefer that the water should be kept out, but brief submergence such as you mention will not affect the cane Frost does not hurt it either, and windrowing mitigates even freezes, which rarely come before harvest time in November I should think that great cane crops might be raised j and gathered on the Savannah river plantations, and that sugar and mo? lasses production, according to cir? cumstances, would pay At any rate, you ordinarily lose your swamp corn, and can save your swamp cane. There is no better forage for fatten? ing stock, especially hogs, than ; sugar cane ground up in the ordinary fashion." Maj. S. A. Jones, of Mississippi, an authority, 6aid in effect : "I think well of the Georgia swamp cane culture. Never was there a better time for experiment. There will never more be free su<rar legislation in this country. Cuba will be crippled for a long time Besides, as Senator Caffery says, and as the Louisiana planters have found out at a saving of many thousands of dollars, the food stuff of cane is im? mense In Louisiana, mules are fed upon molasses. In our town of Aber? deen one gentleman fattens about 1,000 head of cattle habitually, and his food is molasses at eight centR a gallon and cotton seed meal. We dilute the molasses at the rate of one gallon to two gallons of water, and then spray it over or mix with meal. The cattle 'lick the platter clean,' and no doubt, if gifted with articu? late language would, like Oliver ] Twist or the average schoolboy, ask , for more." Asked as to the raising of horses | and mules in South Carolina on cane , products, he said : , '.I would advise South Carolina to imitate Mississippi, if she can. We , had a great advantage, in my section* j jf the State, of living alongside of ( Dr in close proximity to the Illinois , Uentral and Kansas City and Bir? mingham railways. Poverty and , protracted drouths among farmers of the northwest compelled them to part with many thousands . f their horses, most of them being of fine blood from splendid imported or do ! i mestic thoroughbred stock Horses j i became cheap-in many western j ? parts too cheap for anything but ' killing and canning. But vast ( droves came southward to the only j market where, as happened this year, ; farmers had money to purchase bar- j gains And they got th?m What our farmers chiefly wanted were j mares for breeding purposes, as well ; as use As Misssissippi has become a great grazing country, she is pre I paring also to become a great horse, ! mtiie and cattle grower, not only to maintain a home supply, but a sur- : plus for sale abroad, instead of de plorihg the advent of western horses, South Carolina should, ii of a busi? ness turn, avail herself ol the western animals, at a bargain, and ; prepare, as Mississippi has done, to turn the advantage to account for : future usufruct. She cannot raise horses and mules sufficiently without the stock, and Providence hes de? livered that into her hands. At least that has been the case in Missis? sippi. '' These hints to South Carolina j farmers are too valuable to be passed j over heedlessly. No State in the j South needs more sorely a crop j which can be raised on the coast j lands formerly devoted to rice and the inland river swamp plantations ! where corn growing is made, by pe- ! riodical freshets, a mere lottery. Why not sugar cane ? We had before supposed that our j climate-in this legion, at least- | would not be favorable to this crop ; but if it is not affected by frosts and j if even November freezes may be j mitigated there is a certainty of its i suitability to our coast region and a ? strong probability that it will sue i ceed far into the interior. Certainly j if it can be grown successfully near, Augusta it can be made an equal success near Columbia on the rich ? bottom ?ands of the Congaree and 1 Wateree There isn't a county in the State which has more reason to ; test the accuracy of these theories ? than Richland. The county received its name iiom the fertility of the great fields which border its rivers, and it is bitter irony that, owing to the lack of capital to repair and ex? tend the oldtime levees along these streams, the freshets make our rich? est lands the poorest in results. We earnestly hope that some of our j farmers down the Congaree will make sugar cario experiments this year, keeping records which will eu? labie them, ir lire crops withstand overflows and mature before the autumnal freezes, to extern] the culti? vation with assurance In relation to horse, mule and cat? tle raising; the molasses idea is a new Ohe to us ; but we know that sugar cane tops constitute the standard stock food in the West Indies. It is eateri with .avidity and is all sufficient for fattening. This fodder ought to be as useful when eared as when green, and the curing should be as easy as that of corn fodder We know that sugar cane lins been successfully raised in small patches throughout the low country. Is there any climatic reason why it has not been made a staple crop ? Or why it cannot now be made one ? We shall be glad to print any infor? mation on the subject ; but mean? while hope that experiments will be undertaken in our rice-fields and ''bottom corn" lands subject to over- : flow -The State. Inman on Cotton. New York, March 18.- Referring to the recent activity and strong advance in cotton, Mr. John H. Inman to day expressed his views as follows: On October 16, just five months ago. March cotton sold on this market, ar 9. 50. From that time there has been practically a continuous decline until j March 5, wheo contracts sold at 7 20 a decline of 2^- cents. My estimate of the crop is the same to-day that it was five months ago when cotton sold at 9 50; thar is 6,900.000 bales The above decline brought our mark- ! ct much below European parity and led to large purchases of contracts in New York against sales in Europe. My experience is that, after a steady decline of so loog a time, an upward; movement is inevitable-a movement ; which will most likely recover half of ; the 2? cents decline and therefore earry ; us back to 8? and 8J cents before tbe : cotton seasou ts over. With rapidly declining stocks and j the fact that it is five and a half months : before new conon' it occuis to me that 1 the persistent sellers short of August j may get into a very uncomfortable po- ! sition before the season is over. Unless prices advance materially, I don't see how New York can avoid having a very small stock by August 1, say not over 50,0"00 bales. Trade in America is bad. perhaps worse than at any time for oO years ; but against, this, trade in j Europe is good and Liverpoo' and the ; continent will take a large amount ?fi cotton at the cheapest price they can ? get it, but will in my judgement pay ' 8|- to 8-J-. cents if necessary. Almost j every crossroad in the south is shor; of ? the crop and to my mind the extensive j preparations and increased acreage and j prospects of the new crop are greatly exaggerated. At any rate, it is the j reason that makes thc crop and not the j icreage. r?e Bermuda Steams South, j Somersport. N J., March, 18 - \ After three failures. General Calixto 1 Grarcia is **.c last upon his way to Cuba j ro fight against, the Spaniards To? gether wi?h 6? of his countrymen, fae \ was put aboard the steamship Bermuda j . off here this morning by a little pas i penger steamer frovi Atlautic City. ! ' The entire scheme was cleverly worked out and the agents of the Spanish gov- ( etnment are said to have been badly ~ j taken in. It is no'* known that the members of the expedition left Phila- : dr-lphia ia a rather open manner on ; ; Sunday night in a tug. To all intents j and purpose it was proclaimed from the j house fops that their destination was ? the Delaware breakwater and that it ' was from there that a steamer would be boarded for Cuba It is presumed that tho Spanish officiais bad the tug follow? ed when i:. ?eft Philadelphia. The Co? ban* wenr upon this presumption, at , least- and during a fog on Monday af- , remona, their tug doubled and return ed np Delaware bay and the river tu Camden, arriving Monday evening. The party afc once boarded a special train which ?anded thent at Tuckaboe The Cubans boarded thc steamboat At? lantic City, which was lying waiting for them. The Atlantic City is used for j summer traffic at the seashore resort of that name. It has beeo out ot com- j mission for several months. On Mor- ; day last the Atlantic City took out ; papers of insDection from the custom j house for the purpose, as supposed by the customs officials, of putti?g her io temporary commission, as it was known that some parties had been negotiating to purchase her. The Atlantic City left Tuckaboe at 6 o'clock yesterday j morning and steamed to Ocean City, whero ehe lay all night. While the Atlantic City was at Tuckaboe and Ocean City none of thc Cubans were visible on the deck, but this morning when the whistle of the Bermuda at? tracted the peuple along the coast, the concealed men came on deck and gave cheer after cheer as thc Atlantic City steamed out ? * J mt-et the arms-laden i steamer. Beyond the three-mile limit . the transfer of the (albans to thc Ber? muda took place and thc steamer then proceded on her way. The euston: house officials were caught Dapping and could do nothing to hinder the traosfer of thc men. They ar once communi? cated with the authorities at Washing? ton. R. II. Ingersoll, secretary o? the company which owns the Atlantic City, says that the steamer was only put in ? commission for the purpose of giving her a trial trip for the benefit of her intending purchasers. T?ie Cuban Resolutions. Washington, March 18. - At rn re;/;:i.-?r meeting o! tho senate comm?t teo or? loreign relations this m oro tog, the conference report on the (Johan rcs olutions was discussed at length, lr wa. understood that an effort was to be made to get Mr. Sherman to move in open senate to refer t'ne report hack to the committee with instruction- t.> disagree to the third clause of the ti o usc r?solu? tion This was discussed ai the meet \u-?, but fhe sentiment of the committee was largely against such action The committee, therefore, decided to .stand by the conference report and urge as speedy actio? in the senate as possible. T.here is absolutely no doubt in the minds of thc committee that the ulti? mare result will be the adoption of the conference report. Sherman holds that as soon as the senate concurs in the con fere t; ce report, the resolutions go at once to the Pre-irient, no further action by toe bouse being uecessary, iu veiw of the acceptance of the resolution of the resolution of that body by the sen? ate. Simon Hartman, of Tunnelton, West Va , has been subject to attacks of colic ahout once a year, nnd would have to CM 11 a doctor and then suffer for ?ooiit twelve hours as much as some do when they die. He was taken re? cently just the same? ?<s at other times, and concluded to try Chamberlain's Colic, Chol? era and Diarrhoet Remedy He says: "I took one dose of it and it gave me relief in five minutes. That is more than any thing else I has *ver done for me." Por sale by Dr. A. '. J. China. Death Was PreferabSe - To Prostration After the Grip j Hood's Sarsaparilla Built lip and ; Cave Perfect Health. / % ' ' TF^ 'H. WiUiam? ^ ^ j This is a well-known merchant afc Xey i West,. Florida. 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The taiile of contents cou tafos MU interesting variety that cannot fail to ner.efit its readers. The front cover pnge contains an illustration of a tynicnl Southern scene, picking cotton in ihn field, H familiar one to Southern people We ure specially pleased with tbenuniter of tbe departments tn The Cultivator, ?ll filled; with choice, practical S'l^sjest ions From', composting minare to keeping or.? hundred ! liens on an acre, und fron; manae:?^ the brood sow t.) the culture of the soil, it? read- | ers will find its pajres profitable The edito- ; rial pithes teeto with live nod progressive ; thought?, maintaining irs pre-eminence HU agricultural journal of the first rank. Even j one interested in farra i oe should *?ke it. j Toe subscription prier- is very low for so v?\ '? uaolea publication. Send 1 ? o The 0u-( ; tivfttor Publishing Comp???, Atlanta, <???[ and get the paper. 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