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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. 8. D. WIKLE dc 00.. Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1!), 1877. VOL III. NO. 30. NEWS SUMMARY'. THe norm. Memphis in to have n new cotton mill Prairie fires are doing great damage in Trim*. According to the governor’ll message the debt of MUaiKaippi, on the first of De cember last, wan only 11,1000,605.22. Oranges are selling at a cent apiece in TntnpH. In Savannah they bring three cents apiece by the hundred. The number of prisoners in the Vir ginia penitentiary has increased in the |>nat year front 998 to 1,H7. The court house and nil the county records of Cocke eounty, Tetmeuee, were destroyed by tire Saturday. Nearly the enthe business part of Crockett,Texas,’burned recently. Lisa $7fl,. 000 or $100,000. A number of counties in Texas have recently voted iu favor «f prohibition, and many more will soon take a vote under the local option law. Dennis Williams presented the t )xford tN. C.) orphan asylum with a ('hristmas gift of sixty pair of sho-s and forty-eight shawls. Mr. McAdoo was elected s|>eaker of the Tennessee legislature, Mr. John K. Helms, clerk of the senate, and Mrs. Cook, cncrossing clerk. Mr. .1. Citron, of Shreveport, having been burned out of house and home, pumped the water out of bis wooden cistern and veil in. He Kiev able to come <>t wnter. Captain Eadi nther likes the change. carrying nearly 10,000 re lying up Red river un- ut on account of the low id ’ lonel Andrews Imve left New ()rleaiu to receive the first payment on the jetties. They report a clear I'liannel of two hundred feet wide and twenty feet deep fiom deep water in the river to deep water in the gnlf. '1 he content over the United States sen- utoreliip in Georgia is growing interestiug. Senator Norwood, the incumbent, tieu. Col quitt, governor elect, Col. Thus. llanleman, Hon. It. H. Hill, ex-tlovernor llerscliell, V. lohnnon, etc., etc., are nil spoken of. and several of them anxious for the honor South Florida Journal: General San ford is going to engage extensively in the culture of pine apples on Hi. Gertrude place, ill plant over jtisl show that within the Texas und Pacific rail road reservatlou there is vacant laud to the amount of 13,092,000 acres. On the first of ■September last there had beeti set aside for the benefit of the common school fund 23,* 12.'* sections of land, making iu nil 10.080,000 acres. Of domain subject to location Ht the same date there were •13,940,820 acres. For the year ending August 31st, there had been of patents issued through tho general land office, 9,794, representing 4,291,363 acres. For the sumo year there were issued in cer tificates of all classes, 8,311, representing 5,- 808,449 acres. During the same year the to- lal new tiles were 13,650, representing in acres 11,787,714. The total receipts of the land otllcc for the year ending August 31st, Notwithstanding too depression of trade during the past six months, southern cotton mills report u fair business. The seini-au- mini report of the Augusta (Gn.) factory show s profits tor the past six months of $13,- 000, from which a dividend of two per cent, was declared. In view of the fact tlmt so many manufactories have either suspended operations or run on short time, the exhibit of the Augusta concern is gratifying. Dur ing the period above mentioned the factory consumed 8391 ha.es of cotton,employed over 600 men, made 410,901 yards, and sold goods to the amount of $116,040. Well managed cotton factories, located where the staple is grown, will pay. There can be no doubt of Tint whole amount of mono for the poor women and children, and orphaned by the lirooklyn tire ed to a little over $42,bOO. Tho olticial report id deaths York foi them to 1 life with us. Tho Virgil submitted the last i fish (Mimuissio land locked s 1,200,000. Hi [•sides which large nu It, river bass and |>« rob! fish, etc., have bee one mile west of h five thousand this season. He ha ceived an importation <*r plants of i ml superior quality from ('araecaae, Yen* xualo. The following are tho achoola atatlitic •>( Tennen.li-. While—Male,l(J7,.110: female, 1 MS,010; total, .las,318. Colored—Male, 55,- -'12; female, 56,560; total, 10.,780; annul m- ; Ul,5M,1U8. Inerett.e nver.oll.l.atle p„ | ,i l | n . j lionnl 1871, ",t!'d. Number of .ehoolliouir., I 8,166; estimated value of school-houses $853,- 413.7 1. Number of teachers employed, I,. * l,) . Average cost of tuition per pupil per month, 85.6. A trader got the contraot Air furnish, ing the government post at Han Antonio, Texas, with five hundred northern horses at firj per head, and the Herald says of the stock : The horses received by the military hoard for the use of the cavalry are such very fine animals that Lo, the poor Indian, will not have much of a show to get away with colored scalps,.If Simho only gets an even start and can hold on. Brownsville (Tex.) Democrat: Tho frequent shooting of cannon and musketry over the river, nightly, is getting to he a first-class nuisance. It is simply disturbing the peace of both sides of the Rio Grande, killing nothing, making asses of themselves, and, withal, becoming the laughing-stock of the whole world. One thousand cannon tired, ten thousand cartridges exploded, and no one killed! Fort Worth special (27th) to Oalves- ton News: M. M. Brennan, of this place, has Just arrived from a frontier trip and brought with him an Indian's outfit. He says that he and three buffalo hunters sur prised a thieving band of five Comanches on the Colorado, about seventy miles from Con- • ho, and killed them all. They slipped up on them while cooking, and killed all but •me the first round and finished him with a •The New Orleans Times,in an crlitoral headed, “The Jetties Certified as a .Success,” says: “ At last the official survey has been made, which declares that at least twenty ieet of water for a width of two hundred feet, throughout the entire length of the jet ties, is to be found. A certificate has been given by General Comstock, United .States engineer in charge, to Captain Eads in proof of this fact, and Captain Ends has left for Washington to claim his first installment of five hundred thousand dollars.” Lampaaas(Tex.)Dispatch : For nearly distributed. pcrlei.ee un by the notnt Tho subject of outrage on American citltetis on the Mexican border of the lUo Grande by the revolutionists Is occupying the attention of our government, ami orders will soon ho sent to our army ami naval forces in tlmt quarter with a view to their protection, ns there is now no government in Mexico to which an appeal can he made. As regards the Indian marauders who cross into Texas, the question is likely to he brought to the attention of congress, whether outrages on American cUiceua shall ho per mitted to continue, or whether this govern ment shall take into its own lianas the meas ures of redress. Capt. .1. \\\ Hall, who has just pre pared tho marine statistics of 1876 places the number of lake dUnsteis at 639; the valuation of property lost; $1,173,360; losses timber rafts on the lakes, $101,000. The greatest losses daring any month was in September, amounting to $276,000. The number of disasters this year arc 417 less than that of 1875. The total number of deaths either on hoard of ship or on shore among the seamen was 166, of which number 36 were vcmcIk musters, 14 were lost by founder- ed vessels,97 were drowned, 28 died on shore, 13 were killed accidentally, 2 were murdered, 2 committed suicide ami 1 was found dead. Tne new tonnage amounts to 7,461 this year, a falling off from 1876 of 11,617 tons. Tho lost tonnage amounts to 9,0(8) tons. Finan cially, tho season of 1876 was the worst oil CONGRESSIONAL. Inthosenate on tho 4th, Mr. Wright called up the hill recently Introduced by him to cNtiihlibh n court for the trial of eon- tested eleetlons in otllcc of president and vice-president of the United States, for the f having it referred, and spoke i fir idled to hv M Bogy. Mu f his propositioi , •ssrs. Herman, Sherman Kerriinii and Hkertnansp the question, and the hill •s referred to a special a of the bill, decliir Mr * the !lo< Mr. r, hut a ’onking der the nlssiom ish law is elated > the ivhereby they had to if $40, ad- pay fi'ies "• Judged by Henrico county court against three men employed by them to catch minnows and dace to feed chubs, which they had placed iu a pond to breed, there being noth- ing in the jtoiid for tho chubs 16 presented a petition of hiuiki and other business men of New York . .... in favor of an amicable settled cut of the presidential contest. Adjourned. In thosonutoon tho 6th, Mr. Morton culled up tho resolution submitted by the committee on privileges nnd elections, diu'sdny Inst, declaring that Win. M.Tur in ill duty hound under his oath to au- r the questions propounded to him by ulc-M ( • hnv t had i ugh I thoroughly wet the ground, or lo raise the water in the creeks and branches, or to fill up the wells. Unless we have some good rains this winter, we fear that the crops for the next year will be exceedingly short. During the last year or so, we have had occa sional, light rains, just enough to wet the surface and make it sufficiently seasonable to give us a reasonable crop. We need a gpod, old fashioned, soaking rain, one to till up the creeks, to saturate the enrtb, and to wash away the trash. The East Florida Banner gives the fol lowing results of the recent severe freeze: “ While the fruit is pretty much a total loss al] over the state, the trees, in many placer, have suffered very little damage. On Orange lake, in the groves where a few of the forest trees were left standing, io signs of the freeze is perceptible—the leaves of young trees were not curled. Where the forest tree* were entirely cut away the trees are slightly damaged. Unmatured sprouts were killed and the leaves on old trees are slightly curled. On hills and slopes the trees suf fered very little, while in the bottoms and low places they suffered very much, and many young unprotected trees were entirely killed." The Texas general land office records nf telegraph > tin isiiiIhi roHKMJN. stated that a third part of thi gh Ills oflV ksoiiYllle, Oregon, and that he can not use hiiiiM-If from answering the same by -on of his official connection with the stern Union telegraph company as iiiiuin- of their office lit Jacksonville, Oregon, .pled, yeas 33 ; nays 3. Adjourned. NKNATK. n tho houaoon tho 4th, Mr. Wells in- Juced It hill providing for the repeal of :ax*-N on enpitnl and deposits of stale and ionul Imuksand hanking Institutions, lie- ■ed. Thu senate amendments to the hill the sale of Saline lands were concurred I a hill making the fine .’Hie id Galve i, Tex Tho German goto the Impure! hank of G ile of silver for the H( as ports to which umippraUud murcliandlNe has ordered may he imported. Passed. Mr. Kidder Bjiecial from ! Is of what pa pen Mid hat P ru gives additional dc ed fat the interview he Iih and Lord Salshury • ported hack u hill giving of the whole, Mr. Harris of Vlr- • chair, on the state of the union ; first hill being one reported by Mr. Hew- •d Hint the sultan mphatic. Mid hat declm .ould uphold his rights a lod. A dispatch from Bucharest reports iiindreds of Jewish families, rceently or- lered by the mayor of Rnslin, iu Moldovia, o quit within three days. Many of the poor people driven from the town died of cold 4 hunger on the roadside. The Bucharest authorities remain impassive. The German government ha* lat.ly published the results of an Investigation by states of the empire, with regard to ph j gin itt of Alai and Black Hawk wars, i From the oore than ni ndustry, 3|,f .ml the rest tlo it that oldioi Of $M ontli to nil whe lex lean war, or served sixty day thirty days in the Florida wars) und to their surviving widows, unmar ried. Passed Adjourned. In the house on tho 6th, on motion of Mr. Atkins (Tcnncsse) senate amendments to the hill making appropriations for id other peuaioi The l the whole, Mr. Hooker in the chair, on the private cal- ndnr. When the committee rose, the ques tion of the recusant witness, Mr. Barns, the New Orleans manager of the Western Union ph company, was theu take t one-fourth hi c-balf arc employed in textile •0 in the manufacture of cigars, i various branches. The du a. so eu- I Mr* lluriis was before the h I, und and submitted, in writing, hf (1 by his counsel. The ath. The sergeant of work i froi clve ho reeled t house the on the cr lloskiu 4 the house, ElHii in custody. The and never exceeds thirteen hours. In s, the usual pay is from $1.25 to $2 per , although many skilled workwomen ve as much as $6. esident Jlerroa, of Costa Rica lias abolished the press,and placed every printing try under the control ol the authorities. India rubber cutting is again prohibited in Costa Rica. Another battle occurred in the shite of Con cos, republic of Colombia. The Liberals claims a victory, hut lost some prominent officers. The loss on each side in the previously reported bat tle of Garrpata, was, Liberals, six hundred killed and thirteen hundred wounded ; Con servatives, three hundred killed and seven hundred wounded, at least five hundred of j The* whom will die. Mr. Moaeno, the Dutch c sul, senor Augustin Velez and two other |i sons were assassinated at Carthagi assassins were arrested. T! has reduced the legation cond class. retain Mr Ba n went Into committee of tin intingcncy nnd deficiency bill, Mi (N Y.) in the chair. After abon rs Spent over the deficiency hill, the ee rose, and the hill c adjourned till to-i ORTRAITH BY TELEGRAPH. States t It has often been said that tin of telegraphy is us yet only in itninfancy. What it will Tie when it reaches the age of maturity it would Vie difficult to Bay with certainty, but Home idea may l>c formed from the extraordinary telegraphic discovery just made in Paris. It appears that Home inventor haH found out the meant) of Bending portrait# by telegraph. >duH operand! has not yet been ' disclosed, but expcrimentH have been de, and—if we arc to believe the pa- b—with complete success. The trial bilia.ii senate I waH made by the police authorities of United ar, d Lyons. The portrait of a Ly- | onx official was forwarded from Pari« by the new telegraphic apparatus, and at once recognized. In return the Lyons nimxLANEout. j police telegraph to Paris the portrait ac- The total amount of silver pavment 1 companied by the usual description, of a mad. by the government »ince April 18, de * ? ho had ju.t absconded with hi. a. foiinur : nn n * ' master s money, aod the Pans police, ] e . i nr oo-r oe.' -to thanks to the telegraphic portrait, were fractional currency redeemed, $15,207,965.72; j enabled l0 arrest fa thief on his alight- on account ol currency obligations, $9,814,-1 j n g f rom the train at the Lyons railway 599.35; total, $25,052,562.97. j station. These facts arc published on the The government directors of the Union best authority, and, incredible as they Pacific railway have made their annual re- may seem, arc no doubt authentic. Bo port, in which they complain of {he fre-1 far the ingenius discovery in only being quent conflicts relati of the road, and propose that arr.ngt.tn.lit .hnuld be mad. between tb. j t’VL'wiii'be''turned to'aceouiH by ... government and the company that will not c | e ty at large under the various trying interfere with the progress of the road, nnd ; circumstances of life, and more especially at the same time, secure the payment of all j n the cases of deserted wives and bus- the interest and reduce a large portion of bands, missing heirs, disconsolate lovers, the road’s indebtedness. } and similar interesting beings. ,1.. /.nnatmetinn ' employed for the detection of criminals, Tdefinate I but il h evidenfc that the police authori- 1 ’ j ties will not tie able to monopolize it, and THE RAILROAD BRIDGE DISASTER. .1 Nurilvor'i Mor*. Mr. ,T. E, Burchell, was Interviewed by n reporter iu relation to the Ashta bula railway disaster. 11c is one of the survivors, nnd his graphic story iH full of interest. Ills statement is us follows: I was in tho next car to tho parlor-ear, tho third sleeper from tilt? rear. There were eleven airs in the train. l.eft Buf falo at about 2 o’clock Fritlay afternoon. Started an h*Uf late. Had a very heavy .'•storm when *vo loft. They claim ono hundred and sixty-five passengers were on. 1 think there were between two hundred nnd two hundred and fifty. I do not think we ran more than fit teen miles an hour until Within, perhaps, an hour before the accident. We wore then running ten miles an hour. At tho last station before tho accident the snow was *'ery heavy,and wo all thought wo should be snowed in there.; We lost an hour and n half’s timo bolweeh Buffalo nnd this last station, before the accident. 1 then went through the ears and found the two ordinary passenger cars were crowded. Tho smoking car was full. There were two passenger coaches ahead of the smoker. Ncxt to tho smoking car the parlor-ear, about one-third full. MB. 111.188 AND FAMILY * in tlmt. I was in tho next car to that. The car In which 1 was was pretty full. Behind tho parlor ear there were - u sleepers. Those wore quite full, reached the bridge, ns well as I can pinko it out, about a quarter to 8 o’clock. 'Hie train was due there at a quarter past 6 o’clock. 1 don’t think we were going quite ten miloaun hour. One on- gino hud got over, but it was almost pulled back by the shock. The whole train was on tho bridge when THE STRUCTURE BlIRDUNLY WENT DOWN, and not a vestige remained ol her. Thero was no such thing ns running of I* tho track. The bridge broke with a terrific smash with tho woightof the wholo train upon it. Tho first sound 1 heard was a racking in (rout of the car. I heard this twice, and then hoard a similar cracking sound in tho rear. I then became (’on ions of u sudden "sinking of tlm car. The cars seemed to be sinking down into tho gulf below. There was a general rush, and I was recalled to conscious- less by the shock of landing iu the snow reek eighty feet below. The first thing heard was a wuinhn'sscream. It was, I think, Miss Bingham. Hhe cried, “Oh, help me! help mill” Borne of the pus- eengers had got out of tho window, and 1 then heard the cry of fire. Ah the lady riod I broke the window. A gentleman helped me to push this lady, u Miss Bing ham, I think, through the window. 1 then j uni ped out after her. She sank in tho snow, 1 scrambled out of tlm window then. 1 think 1 was TJ1K TDK CA It, most of them had got through the udows. The car was on fire at both ends; at ono end, I know, ami I think at both. As soon ah I got out I found the snow iu tho creek was very deep, nearly up to my waist; certainly up to my knees. I pulled Miss Bingham out o* the snow and carried her on my hack to the bank. I stumbled three times, and the third time a gentleman helped me Pi get her to the only house, u Hindi sort of engine-house, that was on the bank, I saw the lire was gain ing rapidly on the train. It burned like oil. At tho timo I didn't know them worn any lives lost. Wo saved all, or nearly all, tho people iu our car. There wore Home broken arms and some other bruises and Tho wind was blowing vory strong at the time, and there was a neavv snow storm. Tho wreck covered tho whole :o between the two piers, and TDK III'USING TRAIN the length of the bridge, Some of j cars were smashed all to pieces, ami the othcrH lay wrecked in every conceiv able shape. The lire, was very clear and hot. By the time I got out, I was com pletely exhausted, and I lay there cramped for about three-quarters of an hour. They brought about fifty-two alive into ami around tbe house, and then they transported them to the town, a very short distance, say a quarter of a mile or so. They were all badly hurt. I think two of theso died alter they were taken to tho town, nnd one man died who had his leg cutoff. Tho scene I surveyed from the engine- house on the bank was perfectly sicken ing. The whole train was a mass of fire, and the wounded were lying about the wreck and crawling away from it. The heat was so intense at that time that one could not get very near. The sight was dreadful. Heads were cut open, bodies were out, and arms and legs DUOKKN AND MANGLED. After I and others got to that engine- house no ono could return. Within fiitcen minutes after that time the heat was so intense that no one could ap proach tho train, and those who were buried under it had to crawl away as best they could. There were a great many in the airs who could not get out the cars were so jammed together. The townspeople did everything that possibly could bo done, but they could not get near the burning wreck within half ah hour after the train went down. The hotel is about a quarter of a mile from the bridge. The people crowded the bluffs on either side of the ruined bridge, but could not get down to the spot. Tne depth from the bluffs to the bed of the river is about seventy or eighty feet. Tbe wounded were carried to tbo hotel and kindly cared lor. Three or four physicians were promptly on the spot, and they went from one to the other of the sufferers, and did all that medical skill was capable of. The lady who gave birth to the child in tho night was in jured by having her foot smashed. THE SCENE WAS AN AWFUL ONE in its horrible details. One lady was stripped of all her clothing by being dragged throu :h one of tho car windows. She was badly cut, and was carried un to the hotel. The survivors were bleeding from cuts nnd mangled wounds, and many of them charred with firo and blackened with smoke. The trainmen looked very badly bruised and used up. I believe that Mr. Bliss got through a window and expected to be able to pull his wife and children through. This : only my conjecture. Their car v blocked up so completely and tbo family jammed in so that escape, except through tho windows, was impossible. Tho cars were burning at the extremities from tho sieves at each end. I believe 1ILIHS WAH lit'USED TO DBATU trying to save his wife and two little ones. A number of tho surviving passen gers hoard tho shrieks of tho women nnd children but could not get to 4hom. They wero in a perfect furnace. The HgurcH of those burned in the curs could be plainly seen. They wero burned up so badly tlmt identification in many in stances was impossible. Bomo of those who perished in the tire wero burned to ashes. Bones and ehnrrod limbs wero picked out, and of some of the lost there were but ghastly trunks. There were but fifty-two taken out of the wreck, and tb roc-quarters of that number were badly injured. I saw but ono other man who escaped with iih little injury as I did. 1 was badly bruised.” ” llow long was it before the Haines were out?” “ I should say about an hour. They had an engine tliore, but no hose, nnd they could make no impression on the fire. The train burned very quickly; it was consumed within un hour. In every car wore two stoves, one at each end, and tlm lumps wero all lighted ut tho time.” “ Did you see any persons taken from the train after the fire got full head way?” “No. All that wero saved were res cued, 1 think, at the time the people got out of our car. They could not be got out, for the firo was so rapid.” “llow many persons altogether do you think were killed, Mr. BuroUeH?” “ I should say alsmt ono hundred and fifty. The railroad officers claim that there were only one hundred and sixty- five people on the train, but that could not l>o. 1 boliovo there were fully two hundred on hoard the train, and my un derstanding of it iH that tho railroad officials admit that there are over ono hundred killed. Tho bridge was feared by railroad employes. Up at thohotol 1 heard some of the railroad men express themselves as having always been fenr- fiil of tbe bridge, and ono who hnd passed over it two houes beforo tho acci dent said it occured to him that tbo bridge was too light.”—Chicago Inter- THE BENGAL CYCLONE. The (.’alcuttn correspondent of the London Times, writing under date of November 17th, furnishes tho following particulars concerning the appalling cy- lone in Bengal. ORIGIN OF THE CYCLONE. The cyclone appears to have had its origin somewhere in tliu eastern portion of the bay of Bengal, probably a little to the north of the Anumnns. Proceed ing in a northerly direction, it struck the land at tho inland of Bundccp on the coast of Chittagong. It would then ap pear to have gone north, and, after get ting to Home distant inland, to have turned and swept down the Meglmn, car rying with it an enormous storm wave, or, I should say rather, a succession of storm waves. At any rate this descrip tion of the course of the cyclone is aj>- parcntly the only ono which will account for the difference iu tho marks loft at Dulhin, Blmliabazporo and Huttiuli from those to the east iu Kundecp and Chitta gong. In the two first-named iiIuc^h the lie of the trees and ruins would seem to indicate that they were blown down or unrooted by a storm or wave from the north, while in the other two tho des truction seems have como from a south erly quarter. APPALLING HUKNEH AND TERIllFIG LOHH UK LIFE. Bo this ns it may, there can bo no doubt of tbo fact that about midnight, and without warning of any kind, the three islands of Dakliin Bhahabazpore, Uattiah and Hundcep wero’ontircly sub merged. A number of tho inhabitants, startled from their sleep, took refuge in the trees, which most fortunately sur rounded every village, and they alone ore saved. Many, unable to reach the trees, climbed on tho roofs of their homes. There they lound only temporary safety, for the water, rushing into the houses to tho depth of twenty foot, soon burst off tho roofH, and tho recoding waves carried i out to sen, with tho unhappy wretches still clinging to them. Some few of the people of Hundcep were drifted on roofs or planks across tho ihanncl to the mainland, a distance of ten miles. Every soul who was caught by the water before he hnd made for a tree or a roof was drowned at once ; and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the early morning of the first saw all the survivors of the jwpulation of the three islands I have named, as well as of tho seaboard of the adjoining mainland, perched in the trees which alone’romainca visible above the water. It iH uifficult to say, nnd perhaps it will never bo a rately known, what was the exact loss of life on that night. The first reports w ceived in Calcutta put it at twenty thousand. Subsequently that number was said to bo forty thousand, and then ono hundred and fifty thousand,hut since the return of the lieutenant governor’s party I have learned that after a careful examination of the reports from tho sev eral police stations, tho loss of lifo cannot have been less than two hundred and fifteen thousand persons. When w member that three islands, themselves containing at least tbreo hundred and forty thousand souls, were almost in a moment submerged undor from twenty to thirty feet of water, the stoim-wave from the sea meeting the storm-wave from the Maghna, a terrific gala blowing all the time and not an inch of high ground on which to take refuge, nothing, in fact, but tho trees—when wc remem ber all this, tho only marvel is that a single person escaped to tell the tale of the awful night. It was remarked by the lieutenant governor’s party, during their tour through tho districts and islands, that in every house at which they made inquires they were told that one or more members of tho family had perished. PROBABLE OUTBREAK OF EPIDEMIC DIB- EASE. It is some satisfaction to know that this calamity is not likely to give rise to much material distress among the peo ple. if the people of Backergunge nnd Noakholly can only tide over tho next two or three weeks no apprehension need be entertained. Meanwhile relief centres have been established, and the officers of the government have been iu structcd to give assistance to all who really need It. An outbreak of epidemic diseaso is what is now most to bo feared, nnd it is said that cholera has already ntndo its appearance in Nonkholly. See ing Hint uead bodies of men and cattle, and debris of all kinds are scattered over the country, it scorns likely that the dis ease may spread to Backergunge, Chitta gong and other distr eta. Among the other inconveniences suffered by the jk?o- ple is the loss of their boats—no slight calainitv in the Unngetlo delta—where wheeled conveyances are unknown. The cattle, too, have been almost all swept away. Society was, for a time at least, utterly disorganized. The pohco were drowned, almost to a man, and most of the civil officers on tho islands perished. In former days tho peoplo of those parts Imre an evil name, and wero reputed to lrn given to robbery and theft. For a few days it nppoared ns if, among tho general confusion, tho survivors were about to fall back on tho ways of their fathers. But the energy of the district officers, hacked by a largo body of po lice from the neighboring collootorntca, soon restored order, und now everything is quiet and peaceable. THE L08T CIRCASSIAN. Tho second wreck of tho ship Circassian is tho most disastrous that inis occurred on the Long Island coast since tho wreck of the John Milton fifteen years ago. She ran nshoro in a blinding snow-storm, and all on board, thirty persons, were lost. Tho crow of tho Milton wore frozen Htltrin tho rigging, their arms standing straight out in front of them. Tho men on Imard tho Cireussion hud finished, on Friday night, all the necessary iirelimi- narics for attaching a hawser with which she was to bo drawn off. During tho early hours of the night tho wind fresh ened a littlo and tho sea began to run high until about six o’clock, when It lie- gun to break clear over her. Tbe men apprehending danger went into the fore rigging, where they wero ordered for greater safety. All on board, thirty-two souls all told, remained thus exposed un til early in tho morning, when it was doomed advisable to shift quarters as tho falling of tho top hnmjmr, caused l»y tho rolling of the vessel, made it difficult to hold on. The crew was safely transferred to tho mlzzon rigging where the signals of distress were shown. All this time tho Hlioro was tduin iu sight. Tho moon was shining brightly, and tho fires built by tho life saving stations showed plainly tho figures of the crowd *on tho bench hurrying to nnd.fro iu thc’vain endeavor to aid thu men in the rigging. It was an awful suspense for the poor fellows lashed to the masts and yards of the ship. They saw attempt after attempt made to establiHli conimunicirtion- with them fail, and each failuro scorned to measure their purchase on life. Every effort to get a boat off shore, proved Aitilo, us often as it Was at tempted tho sea drove it high and dry on tho hank. Captain Henry Jlnnling of lifo saving station No. 10, now brought u mortar into sorvice, and several balls with a ropo attached wero thrown out to the ship, but ono of the cords roaclied the ship, and iis hold was not very secure, nnd it presently fell off, and tho tender thread upon which thirty-two hu man lives depended was snapped forever. During tho early pnrt of tho night, be fore the men went into the rigging, the cables wero slacked, but tho sTdp moved only a short distance, and continued through tho night to strike tho bottom. Every time she struck tho men thought she would lose her masts, to which they had lashed themselves. While conscious of their great danger and tho utter im possibility of saving themselves if the mast should go by tho board. It being of iron, they woro unable to slacken tho lashing. Home of thorn, with more self- possession than the others, had tnkeu this contingency into their calculations, and hud not securely lauhed themselves; and among those were tho only four saved from tho wreck. At half-past four o’clock in the morning the long-dreaded crisis came, and tho mizzen-mast went by the board with a crash, carrying tho main-mast with it. A tremendous swell had struck the Circassian aft nnd raised her very high; when it receded sho thumped heavily, and tho terrific jar threw the mast over theside. The masts, being iron, went to tho bottom immedi ately, carrying with them twenty-eight souls. The customhouse officer, detailed to superintend the landing of t no cargo, in his description of the terrible scene, says the ship was lying nl>ouL six hun dred feet oft shore. Amid tho howling of the tempest and tho war of the waves there was lxirno to our ears tho voices of the poor fellows in tho rigging, singing hymns and praying to God. Tnero was hardly a dry eye on slioreamong us as we heard their thrilling and supremo appeals made to God. Among those on wreck were ten Shinnecock Indians, who, us a rule, arc very good men. During this agonizing scene, which lasted for wc heard .these men praying. The beach lined with women sobbing piteously. In the treatment of malarious diseases in India, it is fouud that quinine loses its effect after it has been administered fora short time, although it is extremely efficacious at first. Licjuor arsenicnlis in chronic ca*esof malaria, and the nitric bath for children, are tbe remedies now in favor among the physicians of upper India, although they frankly express that removal Irom the malarious district is the only safeguard. The attempt to grow India-rubber and vanilla in Bengal has thus far failed, and is probably impracticable, but there is a good prospect that the cultivation of tho ipecacuanha plant will soon Is* successfully established in several parts of India. Tho best quality of Ipecacu anha is native of Brazil, but the Just re port of tho director of the royal botanic garden at Calcutta states that tho India prodnet is now equal to ft. niirii.uu;NT. id night Hrt’i (ltllglit Ol*(9i ill IHnl, uml tunic lii M«y M*y fool from outorlim lo-diy ; From itumb mid ifihnly lm|iotriit KUml tho old Hon In Hit way. Tills Is tin* hour I waited for; Silently In ii dim iL-mwlr I cross tho eriioliiK corridor; Ami kiioiiilt tho wliidlnuR ol (be M Her ■ lumber lies In h little »i>ai:i* Beyond tlio shadowy liiniUuy i*lm»; I roach Ib-atop Irroaolutw- “MB Her II|ih my yliill nil In tmIii. hitn from head to fort, i her wliiilliitf-rdi.'fll For hrnt nor cold, for «ood nor III. Kmiuht tlmt nvnllml for mlnlrdrr Too little nr too areal could bo; To nil tlilit|(« olao ludllbir.'iit, Early and Into wero ono to am. This tn tho hour 1 wnlted fur:-- Fuwdoiiiito tmr|N)no, loro nml pain, Have *v«K(d tliolr liivltcolunl war, T Mtf{ By Live*. V ropldei* I Scientific Misccllauf. Inn rocou tly^ope nod mine near Gaines-* ville, Gn., have boon unearthed gold, Hilver, copper,Iron,zinc, titanium,nickel, tin, molybdinum. lead, stealite, kaolin, mien, rock crystal, umber, asbestos, ru bies, diamoutlH, garnets umlVormuluin. An advantage over ordinary tea, at tributed to mate ten of Paraguay, is that its excessivo use does not occasion any nervous disorder. A beverage superior to coffee as usually prepared is wild to have been introduced into Australia lately. It is mado from tbo leaf of the coflbe shrub, instead of front the berry. M. Beekerlinn.of the Vienna academy, has lately demonstrated that nitro glycerine when frozen is not ho sensitive to sltockH or blows as the same substance is when iu the ordinary liquid state. Until now the erystalizetl form has gene rally been looked upon ns far more *x- plo-ivo than tho other, when subjected any sudden impact. It is well known that linseed oil, boiled until it has lost five i*er rent.of its weight, nsHtimes the appearance or condition of inolnsscH, and when the loss is twelve per itil. it chungcH into a mass strongly ro* mbling caoutchouc. To test the dry ing properties of oils boiled for various lengths of time, M. Sane states that he [died them to a deal-board; the re- l was that tho oil which had been boiled for tho spaed of' ten minutcH be came a fine, transparent varnish in twenty-four hours, tlmt which had the consistency of molusscH was not resinfied in 11111*011 days, and tlmt boiled to the consistency of cuoutehour remained en tirely unaltered. From this it would appear that tho drying property is not iprovod by a concentration of the oil. According to Dr. Sturgcs, an English physician, whooping-cough iH not always to bo escaped by preventing contagion, for ut n certain age Jhe disposition to ward this diseaso is *so great tlmt the child will originate it. lie says: “ Whooping-cough is a nervous disease of sensibility of the bronchial mucous mem brane Although possible in a modified form at nil ages, it has its period of Himolfil liability and full development sinmltaueoiiHly with that time of lift) when the nervous system is irritable und the ineehuniHm ol respiration diaphrag matic. A child of the proper age with catarrh and cough is thus on the very brink of whooping cough. A large pro- portion of such children will develop the disease) for thonuclves upon casual provocation,ull contagion nnd all epidem ic influence apart.” Therefore he does not think contagion plays tho important part generally supposed, and the assump tion of a specific morbid poison in in his opinion entirely gratuitous. As to treatment ho says: “ The specific reme dies for whooping-cough (which have thoir season and may he said now to in clude all drugs whatever of any potency), have all of thorn a certain testimony iu thoir favor. They agree in a single point; whatever by tfiler nauseousness, the grievous method of their application, or the disturbance they bring to tbo child’s habits and surroundings, the best vauntod remedies-emetics, sponging of the lar ynx, Ill-flavored inhalation, change, of scene, beating with the rod—are all cal culated to Iraprets tho patient, and find thoir use accordingly.” A writer in tho Scion!ific Farmer esti mates the food-value of one pound of eggs ns a producer of force, i, e., the amount of work tho pound oxidized in the body Ih theoretically capnblo of pro ducing at 1,68-1 foot-tons, and tho vulue of one jMiund of lean beef, from the sami* point of view, at 1)00 foot-tons. As a flesh-producer, one pound ol eggs i« about cqunl to one pound of beef, and is shown by tho following analysis quoted by tbo author: Out Vouutlf/Ron*. !SK: i ofVr!r Will proilnof* ut tlie muxliiiiun intiucfo brflcali. One Pound of Hr* -, KlrMnu ii'iilf iiV»i»'niou'.’.i' I oi.\ \n gn. tee ' w- The author hereupon remarks as fol lows: “ A hen may be calculated to consumo one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of eggs. This is equivalent to sayiug that three and one tenth pounds of corn will pro duce, when fed to this hen, one pound of eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary, requires obout five and one-half pounds of corn for its production. When eggs are twenty-five cents per dozen, and pork is ten cents a pound, wc have the bushel of corn fed producing $2.88 wurth of eggs, and but $1.05 worth of pork. “ Judging from these facts, ogps must; he economical in their production ana their eating, and especially fitted for the laboring-man in replacing meat.” “Dab’s gwine to bo wah,” remarkrd a colored citizen, “an’ all you - * niggalm might jes’ 's well git ready for active business.” “ Which sido shall we take¥” asked one of his hearers. “ You niggalus «en take jes’ what sido yer please; 1’tM gvrine to take de Canada sido I"