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Show tiV)S fWit WAS1IJSOTON. tl rom Oar lltiulir tori tpoiultDt.1 Waiiiiiotoc, Oct.. 13, 1800. South Africa is a long ways Irom the iUJij..but tlir aiimiinroaa, ttatoni wiy vfc-rauioi Uil iovtuirivt watching with Intenio Intettil the pro grrn ol tbe war between Great Brllalr and the Transvaal Republic. There are In Ihe Transvaal Republic and the adjoining ad-joining country, the Orange Frit State, more than a thousand Americans, many ol them representing large American builneii Inlereiti. Theie men and their inteieits muit be protected, sod In addition, the two or three coniular officers we have no mlnliter In South African territory will alio look alter the intertill ol Ilrltlih subjects, Juit at the Brltlih coniular offlcen In Cuba did alter American intertill In Cuba during tbe war with Spain. There li also great dinger that other powers may get mixed up In this war. Germany Is understood to be In sympathy with tho Boers, and Russia would probably be glad to do anything, ibort ol sctually atilitlng the Boeri, that would be calculated cal-culated to lenen Brltlih Influence. The governmiut will obierve tbe Uriel-eit Uriel-eit neutrality, and will bavo teveral wanhlps In African wuten ai quick as tbey ran be gottin there. Wbllo there li little doubt nl tbe ultimate remit, thliwar li'nt likely to bo a thlrtv-diy affair. Tbe Boeri aro hard flghtert, and until Great Britain has time to send a much larger number ol troops than it now has on the grounds, the advantage will be on their tide, Rev. R, M. Lowery, ol Alabama It one ol tbe molt progrenive coloreJ men olhli section, ind au enlhutlaitio believer be-liever In the poiilbilltlei ol profitablo Ilk culture In the South. Hepaiied through Waiblngton on his way to the North to purchato ioomi to weave the silk that be has produced onhliown (arm, He laldi "The land which crowred cotton king forty or fifty years ago can even more easily make silk Iti queen If people will only devote some attention to tbecolture ol the worm and the growing of the inulbe ry tree In-duitrinl In-duitrinl punolte offer the only hope of tbe negto ol the South. He should leave politics to the white man, and he nlll be aiiured tbo enjoyment ol his llbertj and will become proiperoui. It li became ol Ihli belhf that I am now v .1', 4 , ;"-""" ' ' de otlng a large portion ol tny time and WSm attention towardi Inducing tho colored WH people ol the South to take up the cut- II tureoliilk, and I am striving to open H an industrial ichool where the culture SS rnn bo taught, Thete l abundance ol $9 money In railing the illk worm, and It fe will give eniplojincnt to the Indolent UEj and the idle. hat cotton hai been to jR the South in the pan, slik can be made MB In Ihe future. Tho climate ol Alabama IH iseinrclallvadantedio ilinilnFlAmnnt se ol silk wormi, and the toll Is admlrablo H lor the gronth ol the mulberry tree H What is needed moit ii a little capital H lor the Introduction ol Ioomi to weave M the H |