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T^e luelmion.rcntastropRe and its
Moral.
Our first pas 0 ° ontaius tho mournful details
of the horrid catastrophe at Richmond last
Wednesday! In the number of its victims it
S* a more frightful event than even the burning
of the Richmond Hill Theatre in 1811—a great
historical calamity which will never be forgot
ten, and never cease to thrill the mind with
commiseration and horror.
The moral of this tragic evont is too obvious
to require many words, hook well to the secu
rity of your public buildings, concert rooms,
ehnrches and theatres. Demand that they be
not only strong enough to bear with safety
any possible amount of pressure, but that
the means of egress are so numerous, ample
and easy, that the halls can be emptied of a
crowd almost instantaneously. See now, while
this horrid calamity is fresh upon the mind,
that all proper precautions are taken to avoid
snch disasters as have twice mode Richmond
groan with inexpressible agony. Are your con
cert halls, theatres and other places of public
assemblage safe ? Are they strong and securo ?
Will they bear extraordinary strain?—for if
such calamity comes, it will be in a time of nn-
anusual pressure and therefore be all the more
terrible. Are your theatres remote from great
danger of sudden, flashing fires from substances
aficy'i’r feySsJ"s<ri£at in a moment of alarm
numerous escapes may be open to a terror-
stricken audience? Now is the time to think
at and provide against such horrid catastrophes.
When they come, it is too late. It is the busi
ness of the city authorities to attend to this
matter. ^
Squabbles or the Tamfittes.—It will pain
the kind hearts of our readers to bo informed
that the tariffitea in Congress are getting out of
humor with each other. New England says
Pennsylvania is selfish and wants every thing.
Pennsylvania rejoins that New England has got
Jat, saucy and greedy on tariff plunder, and now
wants to monopolize the business, and is un
willing to give other people an equal chance.
3here is very naturally a hard and solid fight
among the “iron interest”—the scrap* against
the pigs and vice versa. The woolen men are
by no means ns soft and compliant as lamb's
wool. The manufacturers insist that the duty
on foreign wool is not protective but destructive
to them—the aforesaid manufacturers, while the
wool-growers ask defiantly whether if wool is to
bo protected at all, they who produce the wool
are not the boys to be considered, instead of the
few who spin it. In this and numerous other
fierce conflicts of interest, the protectors dodge
the vote on all possible occasions, and don't
otand up to the “American system” by any
means. The reporters say the tariff bill will
fail. *
New Took Judicial Conventions.—The De
mocratic State Judicial Convention of New York
sat in Rochester last Wednesday, and nominated
for Chief Judge, Hon. Sandford E. Church, of
Orleans; for Associate Judges, William F, Al
len, of Oswego; Rufus W. Peckham, of Albany;
Charles A. Rapallo, of New York; Martin Gro
ver, of Allegany. Resolutions were passed de
claring that the high mission of the Democratic
party has been, and is, to maintain and uphold
at fearless and incorruptible judiciary. The Re
publicans met on Thursday and mado five other
nominations which we have not yet received.
Under the new Constitution of New York the
Supreme Bench will consist of seven Judges—
five to be elected by the people and two by the
five Judges elect from amonp the number of
the defeated candidates.
The New York Democrat says that on a re
cent call of the House when the tariff bill was
ander discussion, no quorum was present. Over
one hundred Congressmen were absent, of
whom the Sergeant-at-Arms found twenty-seven
In brothels, thirteen in gambling hells, and
eleven drunk in their rooms. And these are
the chaps that roll their eyes over Ku-Kiux hor
rors, and pass laws to deprive millions of white
men of the right to govern themselves and pro-
Sect their pockets from Radical raiders and
robbers l
Hub following is a list of the living Bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in
the order of seniority, and their places of resi
dence :
Bishop J. O. Andrews, Summerfield, Ala.
Bishop Robert Paine, Aberdeen, Miss.
Bishop G. F. Pierce, Sparta, Ga.
Bishop H. H. Kavanaugh, Lexington, Ky.
Bishop W. M. Wightman, Charleston, S. C.
Bishop E. M. Marvin, St. Louis, Mo.
Bishop D. E. Doggett, Richmond, Ya.
Bishop H. N. McTyeire, Nashville, Tenn.
Magazines.
The Nineteenth Centubt, for May is a very
good number. Among its leading articles are the
2tl! owing: Intellectual Progrt ss in the South;
Reminiscences of Public Men; The Political
Crisis—the Situation and the Remedy; Char
leston, $3.50.
The New Electic Magazine, Turnbull and
Murdock, 54 Lexington street, Baltimore, has
sixteen articles in its May number, the most of
them original.
Griffin & Hoffman’s List of Socthebn News-
tapehs, is a pamphlet of sixty pages described
by its title. Griffin & Hoffman are among the
most reliable advertising agents in the country.
Office, No. 1 St. Paul street, Baltimore.
Louisville Baptist Convention.
At the request of the Walnut street Baptist
Church, Louisville, I corresponded the wi th W. &
A., M. & W., S. W. &G. Roads relativo to pass
ing delegates with their wives for one fare, to
the Louisville Southern Baptist Convention.—
The following roads have extended the courtesy
requested: viz. Georgia Railroad, Macon and
"Western—Western and Atlantic.
J. W. Fears.
Chronicle and Sentinel, Atlanta Constitution,
Augusta Constitutionalist, will please copy.
Unfair Planters.—The Eufaula News com
plains that the planters come into that city and
boy up all the eggs, chickens and batter which
the merchants have imported there from the
West and the North, and leave the citizens an
exetasive diet of old Ned, salted beef tongues,
etc. The News says that i3 not fair. The
haters should go without chickens if they will
mi raise fowls. We think so, too.
The Indian Troubles.—The politicians say
there is a strange and mysterious connection
between this terrible Indian war cloud which is
in the far West, nndthe bill to reduce the
xxmy now before Congress. The army has the
same feeling about being “rejneed” as the pot
ash men and militia officers haa in the piping
rimes of Joe Rrown’s militia.
Wheat.—O. E. Lloyd sends us a sample of
wheat five feet high, stout as a goose quill,
handsomely headed and healthy in all respects!
The grain is filling. We hope he has & hundred
Mores of just such wheat, but don’t believe it.
Mr. Lloyd’s place is ouihe Houstxnrroai just
entside of Macon.
to our list of the Bishops of the Methodist
<a*nreh, Bouth, printed yesterday, wo omitted
the name of Bishop Early, Lynchburg, Virginia,
who stands third on the list, next to Bishop
Prise.
How the Agency and Blodgett’s Rail
road are Ran—A Disgruntled Bad
Hakes a Clean Breast of It.
The Hon. McW. Hungerford who, by a com
bination of bayonets and ballot box stuffing
pleasantly called in the latter day vocabulary of
Radicalism an election, represents the Burke
Senatorial district in the Atlanta Congressional
Agency, made a decided sensation in that body
on Saturday. He got mad with somebody or
something and fairly turned himself loose to
tell all ho knew about a lot of miscellaneous
rascality. As he is of the faith we deem his
testimony good against his brethren, and here
with append certain extracts therefrom:
Mr. Brock introduced a resolution, that the
Superintendent of tho Western and Atlantic
Railroad be requested to discharge all members
of the General Assembly in the employ of the
road, and farther requested not to employ any
member in future.
Mr. Hungerford introduced a substitute that
the Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad be requested to discharge all brothers,
sons or blood relatives of any member of tho
Legislature; that the Secretary of the Senate
and Clerk of the House be requested to dis
charge and not to employ the same enumerated
class; and that the Treasurer bo requested not
to pay the accounts of the same.
He said all the accidents that had happened
on the State road, were caused by the ignorance
and carelessness of blood relatives of members
of the Legislature. These accidents had caused
tho loss of ten, twenty and thirty thousand dol
lars at a pop.
He further stated, that if the trains collided
on the road and the conductor of one was a
Georgian, and the other a scalawag, the Geor-
WBfhiTwbuYd ‘have proven ‘the "other ono as the
guilty party. A number of men, said he, who
are running the road are from the North ; they
do not live here, or expect to, but Georgians are
kicked out and these men retain their places,
not to please the superintendent but to obey the
will of the Senators.
It was as imposible as to fly for an outsider
to get a position as clerk, unless he was a son
or brother, or relative, or very particular friend.
He challenged contradiction of all to his re
marks. Everybody knew, the Senators knew,
the public knew, that they were making the
Legislative offices a family machine, the State
Government a family machine, the State Road
a family machine, every public office or gift a
family machine. An inside view of the work
ings of these machines would causo the publio
to open their eyes.
He could tell a good many things about the
State Road. He - was not General Business
Agent for nothing. Carpet-baggers fresh from
New England were preferred to native Geor
gians and responsible men, and for a purpose.
He used bis own office to leam these facts.
It is impossible to secure enough Clerks who
understand the English language. There is not
a Clerk in this Senate bnt has a father, brother,
son or blood relative in it, and the reason is
that the Secretary’s $500 pay for extra services
depends upon it. He is afraid to employ com
petent Clerks. He would make a clean sweep
if any sweeping was to be done; would compro
mise now with them, if they would expel the
carpet-baggers from the road.
Wo suppose all the loyal organs will open on
Hungerford now, and swear he has joined the
“rebel Democracy.” We hope he will continue
to shoot off his mouth in this direction.
Captain Dunlap Scott.
The friends of Capt. Scott seem to have mis
understood ns. It was no part of our intention
or desire to bring him into ridicule. He is a
yonng man of fine paits, and so is Boras. But
we think they are in error in attempting to fight
those people in debate. The more reason they
6how—the more they argue the law and the
equities of the case, the worse they are whipped.
They are in the condition of the poor fellow
who drove the swine to market:—ho made no
progress till he drove them 'tother way. So we
think that Scott, Bums, Candler and the rest of
them, waste their rhetoric, and only prolong the
session by their appeals to the law and reason
of the case. We think the more they don’t want
a thing to be done and show it, the more certain
it is to be accomplished. Therefore, we were
only assailing their tactics—not the man, Capt
Scott himself. And we only meant to express
donbt about bis practical judgment as it con
cerns the case in hand. We had no idea of being
illnatured with Captain Scott, or of calling in
question his intelligence or intellectual ability,
or his motives.
Passenger Travel Through Charleston.
The splendid steamships now in the trade be
tween Charleston and New York, are restoring
to our city the tide of travel which once center
ed here. A largo crowd went off to New York
per steamship South Carolina, Capt. Adkins,
last evening; mostly from Florida, Aiken, Au
gusta and other points where tho winter has
been spent for health and recreation by parties
from the North. The Tennessee is appointed
to sail on next Wednesday, and the elegant char
acter of tho stateroom accommodations on these
two new iron steamships—all on deck—and new
ly furnished, will crowd both steamers with
passengers, tho remainder of tho season, we
have no doubt. The South Carolina had a large
freight for this season of the year, and some
cotton for Liverpool. Arrangements have been
made for dispatch, and consignments should bo
delivered in Liverpool in seventeen or eighteen
days from Charleston.—Charleston Hews 20th,
vlt.
It is stated that in tho villages of New Eng
land, where the Maine law is enforced, the in
crease in the sale of opinm is so largo as toattract
attention. The removal of one stimulant but
makes way for another.
The records of births, deaths and marriages
in Massachusetts duriDg the past year develop
some curious facts. A comparison between the
marriages of American and foreign-bom per
sons in the State, and tho births in the families
of the same extraction, show that while there
were twice as mtray “American” as “foreign”
marriages, there were more children born of the
latter parentage than of the former. In Boston,
tho classes of marriages were about equal in
number; but the births of foreign were as 7 to
3 of American parentage.
In California, the Japanese have sot out 300,-
000 tea plants at Ctlistoga.
Fifty-three thonsand colored emigrants have
passed through Memphis in five months.
Tho Governor of New York has signed the
eight-honr labor law, and issues a proclamation
for its enforcement end observance.
The Pneumatic Railway tunnel bill has been
defeated in the New York State Senate. This
is the company that has been boring secretly
under Broadway in New York city.
The Public Debt of Georgia.
The Constitution makes np from the State
Treasurer's report of tho public debt of the State
on January 1st, 1870, the following statement
of the date of issue and the maturity of the out
standing State bonds past due and due this year.
1859 $ 6,000
18G2 15,000
1863 3,500
1864 9,600
1865 3,500
1868 20.000
Also .£15,000 sterling bonds due in England 75,000
1869 85,000
1870 1 99,000
1871 154,250
1872 '130,250
1873 137,000
1874 251,50-0
1878 100.000
1879 200,000
1880 200,000
1881 100,000
1886 8,900,000
Total amount *G,01i,5l*0
The interest on the publio debt amounts to
About $400,000 annually.
Mb. Georoe Wilkes, we see by the New
York 'papers, has just received from the Em
peror of Russia the Grand Cross of the order of
Stanislaus. It is not stated, however, whether
this mark of distinction is conferred on account
of Wilkes's profiency in newspaper biliiasgate
and blackguardism, or as a token of - the- Ozass
appreciation of the marvellous agility of hia
movements when under the discipline of La-
land's cane—which omission we regard very un
fortunate.
Tbe Georgia Press.
Strawberries sell from 50 to 75 cents, and
green peas at 35 cents a quart in Augusta. No
Irish potatoes in market yet.
The Constitutionalist says Eddie Summeron,
aged 12 years, was drown near that city,on Fri
day.
A convention of railroad officers was held in
Augusta, Friday. The Constitutionalist says
Messrs. Wadley, Johnston, of the Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, and Peake and Tyler, of the
South Carolina Railroad, were present and that
the “object of the presence of these gentlemen
was to confer upon the establishment of a still
more perfect system of connections at this point
between the several lines centering here. ’
A session of the Grand Council and Grand
Royal Arch Chapter of Georgia, was held in Au
gusta, last week. The following officers were
elected:
OFFICERS OF THE GRAND COUNCIL OF GEORGIA FOB
1870.
Robt. M. Smith, Gr. Th. HI, Gr. Master.
Thomas J. Perry, Gr. HI. H. of T.
Wm. A. Graham, Gr. IU. EL Ab.
Richard T. Turner, Gr. Capt. Guard.
Wm. J. Pollard, Gr. Treasurer.
Chas. R. Armstrong, Gr. Recorder.
John E. Navy, Gr. Sentinel.
OFFICERS OF THE GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF
GEORGIA.
M. E. M. P. Kellogg, G. H. P., Marietta, Ga.
M. E. R. L. Roddey, D. G. H. P., Forsyth,
Ga.
R. E. L. J. Glenn, G. K., Atlanta, Ga.
R. E. W. J. Johnson, G. S., Fort Gaines.
2: 2: «: AMtin. G. P' S., Fori Valley.
E. R. F. Turner, G. R. A- C., Savannah.
E. T. J. Perry, G. M. 3d Vail, Rome.
E. D. W. K. Peacock, G. M. 2d Vail, Carters-
villo.
E. W. H. Faller, G. JL 1st Vail, Atlanta.
E. W. J. Pollard, G. Treas., Augusta.
E. J. E. Blackshear, Gr. Seot’y., Macon.
E. J. E. Navy, Gr. Sent., Augusta.
Cotton is coming up finely aronnd Augusta.
The Constitutionalist reports some two inches
high.
Three negroes with through tickets from New
Orleans to New York, rode out of Augusta, Fri
day, in tho ladies car on the Sonth Carolina rail
road.
The Savannah cotton statement for the week
ending April 30th shows total receipts, 424,973
bales of upland and 13,740 bales of sea island:
total shipments, 391,149 bales of upland and
11,979 of sea island; leaving stock on hand,
33,824 bales of upland and 1,761 bales of sea
island.
Tbe Republican says wild pigeons killed at
the North, and shipped Sonth on ice, are among
the luxuries of that market now. The steamer
Montgomery recently brought 600 dozen. They
sell at $3 per dozen and are good, emphatically,
as this deponent can testify.
The Athens Banner says there is no scarlet
fever in that place, as it reported previously.
Measles, however, are on the rampage, bat with
no fatal results.
The Ladies’Memorial Association, of Athens,
will have a May Queen coronation on the 6th
insb, with imposing ceremonies—the proceeds
to go to erecting a monument to the Confeder
ate dead. We wish them the greatest success.
Messrs. James Bancroft, John G. Barnwell
A. P. Dealing, Charles Morris, A. K. Childs, J.
A. Meeker and M. J. Smead have been elected
vestrymen, and Dr. R. D. Moore and W. L.
Brown wardens of Emanuel Church, Athens.
Another collision on Blodgett’s railroad, Sat-
urday morning. Both engines were badly
smashed and several cars damaged. On Friday
there was another collision near Kingston.
The Constitution says:
We leam that the Georgia road will shortly
have one hundred and fifty new freight cars,
and four new locomotives placed on the road, in
order to meet the requirements of business.
The freight cars aru now being built. The show
ing for tho present fiscal year discloses the
earnings of the road for the past year to be
$250,000 over last year, and $350,000 over that
of 1868.
The Columbus cotton statement for the week
ending Saturday, April 30 th, shows total receipts
64,565 bales; shipped 54,582 bales; stock on
hand 9,983 bales.
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Columbus, has
elected the following officers for tho ensuing
year:
Robert Carter, Senior Warden; D. S. Porter,
Junior Warden.
Vestrymen—Charles Wise, Wm. G. Woolfolk
T. G. Pond, Wm. F. Hall, Wm. N. Hawks, N.
N. Curtis, G. S. Morton.
Routes nr which Cotton has been Received.
Tho followiBg is tho statement for the years
1868-69 and 1869-70, respectively, from Sept.
1st to the present date :
1863-69 1869-70.
Sonth Western Railroad 2,519 4,500
Mobile and Gulf Railroad 12,621 19,758
Opelika Railroad. 4,856 3,996
River. 4,907 5,751
Wagons 22,459 31,381
The Richmond Disaster. condition. We will furnish the other papers
from the Richmond *P rU . J . ^We* Jv^below^aB accurately as could be as-
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Another Stats.—The Choctaws are up for a
State government and wish to be reconstructed
as the State of Okloshumma.
Total 47,392 64,336
We get these additional items from the Sun
A gentleman reports a good spread of com
planted in Marion county. Money is scarce,
but seasons are good and people are in excel
lent spirits.
Mr. McCauley showed ns yesterday, rye which
was 7£ feet high. He has a field of five acres
which is of the same height—the tops as level
as a floor. No fertilizers employed. Cotton
was cultivated in the field last year. He ex
pects to gather 4,000 pounds to tho acre.
The warehouse of Lyman Wells & Co., Union
Springs, Alabama, was struck by lightning
Thursday afternoon, set on fire and homed to
tho ground. In it were 380 bales of cotton,
eighty of which were saved. Three hundred
barrels of fertilizers and ten hogsheads of ba
con were destroyed. Total loss set down at
S40,000 or $45,000, with an insurance in tho
Georgia Home, Columbus, of $5,000.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
We find in the West Point Shield the particu
lars of a bloody murder committed in Chambers
county, Alabama, near West Point, on Saturday
night n week ago. A white woman and a negro
man had been prosecuted for living in adultery,
convicted, and sentenced to serve a term in the
chain-gang at Atlanta. The man made his es
cape from the gang, and the woman, after serv
ing out her term,returned to tho neighborhood of
West Point and resumed her intimacy with the
man. A quarrel arose between this depraved
white woman and the negroe’s wife, and, ac
cording to the statement of the negro woman,
the white paramonr attacked her with an axe,
which the colored woman wrested from her and
with it split the white woman's head by repeat
ed blows. The woman was arrested, refused
bail, and committed to priion. Her husband
was, also, subsequently arrested and committed
as an accessory.
The Dawson Journal stye:
We have, in Dawson, fonr Albinos, ag6d re
spectively, from about four to ten years. The
parents of these children are very black, espe
cially the father—tbs mother being a little the
brightest of the two. If we have been correct
ly informed, the molher has given birth to seven
children; the three first-bom aro as black as
their parents; while the laBt four are unnatu
rally white, witk long flaxen hair as soft as
down. They dtf not converse very fluently—
seem to be somewhat absent minded, and are
ordinarily intelligent. They see better at night
than in day lime. We learn that when the first
white child was bom, the father was rather in
clined to. disown it, bnt satisfactory reasons
having Veen given by physicians, he become
reconciled, and is now very proud of all his
children, notwithstanding the contrast in their
color, aud has been offered large sums of money
for the white ones for public exhibition.
Mr. George Martin, of Madison, killed a wild
turkey gobbler on Saturday, weighing 25 pounds.
Tho Madison Farm Journal reports the pros
pects of the wheat crop from nearly every por
tion of Middle Georgia as most favorable. In
Jasper, Putnam and Morgan it is very promis
ing:
John Moss, a negro, attempted to cut his
throat while at church, in Madison, on Sunday
night. 4SS9&&5-:.
Mr. John Kendrick, and Mrs. Ann Day, both
over 70 years of age, and for more than forty
years residents of Madison; died last week.--
dertakinc of their narration. To describe it William A Charters, uniei oi ine xue
would be beyond the power of man, and with ment; James Murphy, Justice of the Peaoe;E
those who witnessed it its recollection will re- M Soliofield, City Assessor; J W D Bland, ool-
main indelibly vivid as long as life shall last.— ored, Senator from Prince Edward; DS Dag-
In sending to a spiri t-grieved people our account ger, not of the House of Delegates; John M
of this dreadful calamity we are well aware of , Turner, son of Major F P Tniner, arffi page in
our inabilitv to give them more than a narrative the House of Delegates; Lewis N Webb, for-
of the faots and casualties. The attendant scenes merly merchant in this city; DSDonnan, of
may be imagined, bnt cannot be described. We the firm of Donnan & Sons, hardware mer-
give below, as best we could obtain them, a chants; Ash Levy, a former merchant of tMa
summary of the dreadful events; city; Thomas H Quarles, son of Thomas D
J Quarles; R H Maury, Jr, land agent; Samuel
the catastrophe. : j, , f or jjr. Qahoon} Samuel Hicks,
The room of the Court of Appeals was the L , piohegrue Woolfolk, Henrioo;
scene of this horrible occurrence, and its many ■ . ®Wobson, formerly City Collector;
historic associations and reminiscences have - . „ Hutcheson, Henrico; James A Bla-
culminated in an affair which beggars desenp- 8 drncei3t: Jobn Baughan, of Chesterfield;
tion, and which will be remembered as long as p a*Coleman, Major S H Hairston, of Henry
Richmond is a city. As is well known, the . „ q q Taylor, of Richmond county; B
Mayoralty controversy was about to be deoided, F Robinson, of Cumberland; T P Foley, Depu-
andan immense Jconcourse.of anxious specta- Marshal; Colonel Thomas H Wilcox, of
tors and listeners had gathered to ascertain the char j e3 city • Charles Watson, clerk at Danville
result. Members of the Legislature, visitors to Henot • Hugh G Grady, Wm H Thompson, Wm
the city from all parts of our country, members H jj av L coa i merchant; John Newman, mer-
of tho bar, representatives of both police forces cba . Broad street; Captain James Kirby,
of the city, members of the press, and repre- fa< „ of nr f j]i eiy during tho war; Wm Dunn,
ser.tatives of all classes and conditions of life, y ena {,i e street; Anton Beine, merchant, Brook
were assembled. 1 av6 nue; W E Randolph, supposed from New
Thehells had just tolled the hour of 11, and j} en j dm in W Lynch, of Manchester;
death-like silence reigned as Mr. Starke, the Meanly; T A Brewis, commission mer-
clerk,entered and placed his books on tho table. ohetnt Alexandria; Charles Brown, colored
Judge Joyneswas in his seat. Mr. Starke, loan- waUer at Mi . 3 Spotswood’s boarding house;
ing over the railing, was talking with him,while Rgv Joim Robertson, colored; S E Burnham,
the rest of the judges were in of Ballaton Spa, Saratoga county, New York;
duty.’ B^ondpJohnD MaMi'e"'of Goo'chTand^’tJn-
Noeson and Mereaitb, had Uken their 8eataand j mowDj carri(jd to Medioa i College, and name of
to 1 :? re ®J^ t< Vr Pr £? eei \ I to b “ 1De ' n n i a „in Charles Branch found on papers in his pocket;
Wells and L. H. Chandler, E,q., wem also in Ed d Ward Treaeg ar Works; Michael Mc-
toeir places, and the reporters of the Enquirer, Q poUoQ Captain D Turgee, police; Jas
Dispatch, Whig and State Journal wore at the police; J L Ryanf police; Jas A
desks set apart for their use and accommoda- • g ' Y j/ c j Ser g ea nt James T Cox, police;
tion. The moments were spent m pleasant con- p J ce ; E P Hulse, poUce; Wm
vernation by tho spectators present Various c ol £ e _ Hisbie, police; — Schultz,
were .the speculations as to the final result— , ^
when, all at once, a panel piece of ceiling fell, . P ollce 5 John 0arr * P° Il0 °'
and then the girder, which is represented by the i ™e wounded.
line of partition between the clerk's office and 1 As a matter of course, it is almost impossible
court room, gave way with an awful crash, and to give a trne and correct report of the names
precipitated the spectators who were in the gal- 1 of all the wounded, bnt as far as we have ascer-
lery of the court room to the main floor, and tained, after careful examination, the list which
the additional weight in one single moment’s we give below is correct:
time, crushing the court room floor through, j H. K. Eliyson,Mayor, bruised and stiffened by
The moss of human beings, who wereinatten- his fall; Judge J. A. Meredith, badly injured;
dance were sent, mingled with the bricks, mor- j William Allen, policeman, braised about the
tar, splinters, beams, iron bars,desks andchaixs, ' head badly; William Green, hurt severely about
to the floor of the House of Delegates, aud in the head and arms; Joseph Allen, watch*
a second more over fifty souls were launched in- ' maker, injured about the head and body, and
to eternity! The whole atmosphere was thick supposed internally; Judge Watts, of Norfolk,
with a dense cloud of dust from the plastering, ! slightly wounded; James H. Glarke, colored,
and tho human beings sent np a groan which J barber and porter at the Senate, severely hurt
will ring forever in the ears upon which itfelL : about the head and chest: Winston Rogers, seii-
In a moment a few survivors clinging to tho ' ously wounded in the head and arm; William
windows and fragments of hanging timber, and Smith, cut and bruised about the head; Thomas
the bare aud tom walls, were all that remained M. Binford and Matthew Blair, of Richmond,
to mark the place where 'only a moment before wore also braised and cut about the head; G. J.
there was a scene of life vigor and hope. j Woodson, of Goochland, and Colonel McRae,
! out and braised slightly; Colonel Wood Bouldin,
SCENE ABOUT THE CAPITOL BUILDING. ; t ^ and f aca and bad l y s t unne d; Wil-
Tho scene about the Capitol building iust lia 5 m s . W ood, tinner, slightly wounded in the
after the sad occurrence was one of terror. The j head) L . H . Chandler, Esq., right shoulder se-
first notice that those who were in the building : Yeroly and painfully strained and bruised (Mr.
had of the impending evil was the premonitory | Chandler states that the impression of his phy-
rumbling as the floor was settling. Then there ; simian is that his shoulder is not dislocated); ex-
came a fearful crash, accompanied by_ a cry of Governor Wells, three ribs broken, and severe-
human agony and terror which smote the hearts
of all who heard it. In a moment the frightful
situation was realized. The few who had been
so fortunate as to be able to get into the win
dows shouted aloud for help for those who had
fallen, and called for ladders. In a short time
ly bruised and cut; Lindsay, slightly wound
ed; Judge John R. Strother, of Culpeper, a
member of the House of Delegates, leg frac
tured, aud at a late hour last evening was doing
well; Captain G. W. Allen, Harbor Master, cut
about the neck and bruised about the ann and
heard
the bells were tolling, and, the hook and ladder j e g. Thomas S. Baldwin, clothing merchant, se-
track being bronght upon the spot, the ladders j riously hart in the body; Hon. George William
were put np to the windows, and the work of ; c f Alexandria^ thigh broken and other-
humanity began. The blinding dust within i jnjnred; R. Dudley Beville, heavy sear on
prevented any one from- seeing anything, and ' forehead, hurt in back and bruised on left leg;
the rushing of persons within the building and ! Bohannon Duesberry, left eye nearly knock-
tho cries of tho wonnded were all that could be , ed out,and otherwise bruised in the body: Ser-
[ geant Kendall O'Dwyer, of the police, arm
broken and bruised about tho head; he was also
injured in the leg; Thomas Connors, seriously
wounded; Captain William Pemberton, severely
bruised but not seriously hurt; John Finney, leg
broken and otherwise injured; Maroney,who
resides near tho penitentiary, had his left ankle
dislocated and his right thigh fractured, also,
fracture about the shoulder; T. K. Lyon, Gov
ernor street, contusion abont the throat—spit
ting blood ; Hoo. Thomas S. Bocock, formerly
Speaker of the House of Representatives in
Congress, now of Lynchburg, left leg broken;
William Burwell, colored, badly hurt—not as
certained to what extent; William Fontaine,
colored, braised and ent about the foot, face
aud bend; F. A. Hoppe, foot dislocated; J. H.
Kelly, Esq , of tho Fredericksburg Herald, and
member of tho House of Delegates, injured se
verely; Col. Chas. Ronald, formerly of the 27th
Virginia Infantry, Old Stonewall Brigade, leg
broken and otherwise injured; J. F. Stubbs,
member from Gloucester, wounded severely
about the head; Stith Bolling, Esq., member
from Lunenburg, slightly hurt; Col. George W.
Bolling, of Petersburg, badly injured inter
nally ; John A. McCanl, member of tho House
from Roanoke, slightly braised; Fitzhugh,
of Fredericksburg, seriously injured; Wm. A.
Smith, Esq., of Gloucester, sovere cut on the
head; Lawson Normally, Esq., slightly injured;
Major John S. Calvert, left leg broken below
the knee; Dr. Campbell, of Shenandoah, slight
ly in the hand, shoulder and leg; Murphy,
No. 109 Jackson street,' severely hurt;——
Gathwright, Broad, between H and T streets,
seriously; R. B. Howison, Esq., attorney at law,
bruised about tho body slightly; Attorney Gen-
oral W. C. Taylor, slightly injured: Maj.*H. JL
Bell, of Staunton, a member of tbe House, arm
broken; Dr. Shorman, guest at Ford’s Hotel,
slightly; Henry Bell, member of the House, se
riously wounded; A. S. McKenney, of Freder
icksburg, seriously; ho is well cared for at
Ford's Hotel; H. Horace Soper, of Baltimore,
two ribs broken; George S. Green, Esq , of.
Fredoricksburg, slightly; Joseph R. Robinson,
carpenter, seriously hurt in face and body ;
William Matthews, of Loudoun, slightly injured
and braised; Dr. Burgess, member of the House
from Southampton, slightly injured, but not se-
riously; F. W. Maheod, of Giles, member of,
tho House, slightly bruised; J. O. Shelton,
member from Stafford, badly braised; W. E.
Campbell, a guest at the Exohange, from
Virginia, is slightly injured aud bruised; Mr.
Thomas R Joynes, son of Judge William T
Joynes, is slightly injured, and is at the Ex
change ; General M D Oorse is only slightly in
jured; Robert Beverly, severely, though not
dangerously; S B Jacobs, badly hurt—could not
learn the extent of his injuries; Henry A Pleas
ants, of the Dispatch, bruised, bnt not seriously
hurt; Joseph Terrell, cut in the face and seri
ously injured in the back; W C Dunham, Esq.,
agent of the New York and Virginia Steamship
Company, and also a member of the Oity Coun
cil, was very seriously injured. At one time
yesterday it was thought, he could not live
through the day; bnt at a late hour of the even,
ing, we aro glad to say, his condition was slight
ly improved, and hopes are entertained of his
recovery. P D Glenn, badly wounded; Ser
geant Hall, badly wounded; Cavanaugh,
badly wonnded; Sergeant Terry, of the police,
badly wounded; Mide Doyle, slightly injured;
John Davenport, merchant, slightly injured;
Walter Haines Henrico, only slightly injured;
Rev Geo W Nolley, of Carolina, slightly hnrt;
Rush Burgess, Collector of Internal Revenue,
badly hurt; Riehard Roane and brother, James
Roane, of Charles Oity, not very badly hurt;
Ceo L Christian, attorney-at-law, slightly in
jured; Capt W B Smith, face out, not serious;
Capt Wilkinson, of the,police, head bruised,
arm fractured, and leg injured;- P H Keenan,
slightly bruised; E Fowler, of the Bristol News,
slightly bruised; H Bowen, of Tazewell county,
scarred on forehead; W 0 Elam, newspaper cor
respondent, arm broken and otherwise injured;
W D Chest orman of the Petersburg Index, very
seriously injured, bnt to what extent we oonld
not ascertain; John Keegan, slightly wounded
in shoulder; R D McCoy, of Petersburg, pain
fully wonnded in back, and foot dislocated;
Pisagno Green, badly injured; Phillips,
slightly injured; Otis Deane, of the Gas Works,
slightly hurt in side; Judge Nowlin, of Carroll
connty, shoulder dislocated and otherwise in
jured; Dr. Thompson, member from Hanover,
cut about the head and braised badly; Aloides
Jones, Louisia county, breast and face very
much bruised; John M Murray, First National
Bank, leg broken; Daniel Strasberry, wonnded
in face and hands; Thos H Langford, badly
wounded in face and head, Charles Mosely, very
badly wounded in head, P K Jones (colored,)
considerably but not seriously hurt; Jno Wilson,
not seriously hurt; Peter W Ralston, formerly
City Auditor, badly hurt.-
We have the following names, but could not
ascertain the extent or the nature: Henry
Cannon, B B Beckman, A D Leffew, severely;
Thomas E Wilson, William Mothera, M T An
derson, Antilotti, Daniel Wren, H H Fro-
garthy; Peachy R Grattan, Esq., attorney at
law, was huyfc. but we have not ascertained the
extent; Capt Charles Epps, hurt badly in the
IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Here was a scene that fairly made one’s heart
bleed. As the dust cleared away a little a mass
of timbers and rubbish of every description
was descried, and the reflection of tho numbers
of humaD beings crushed beneath its weight,
dead and dying, was sickening. Add to this
the cries and groans of those who were there,
many in the agony of death, and there is a pic
ture to make the stoutest hearts quaiL The
entire hall was flooded with the ruins, except
the space under the gallery. Desks, chairs and
tables were crushed completely, showing the
force of tho falling wreck. Tho work of re
moving the debris was a difficult one, but was
undertaken by those present with a will, and it
was not long before the unfortunate men were
being rescued from their painful position.
• BRINGING OUT THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Tnis scene defies even an attempt at descrip
tion. The doors and windows of tho hall were
thrown open, and within were soon collected
the busy workers, who, mid their own slionts
and the agonizing groans of those they were
seeking to resoue, were removing the timbers.
As the wounded and dead were reached, they
were brought out aud placed in the Senate
Chamber or elso under the trees in the square,
where they were attended by our city physicians
and others-who were on band with such appli
ances as could be obtained. As tho men were
bronght out they were so covered with dust that
they could scarcely bo recognized, and for
awhile the anxious inquiries of the bystanders,
“Who is he ?” could not be answered. One by
one they were borne out—the dead and dying.
Hero was one mangled and silently enduring,
another cryiDg aloud with pain, while tho stilt
form of a third told too well that its spirit had
fled to another world. In one moment tho gray
hairs of age conld be descried upon tho head of
some dead one, while in the next the tail, manly
form of one who had been cat off in the full
bloom of life was being borne past It seemed
as if sickeniog horrors would never coase, and
ages seemed to pass in the performance of this
sad duty.
THE SCENE IN THE SQUARE.
The tclliDg of bells, tho rushing and shouting
of excited men, and tho news of the fearful ca
lamity, which spread like wild-fire over the city
in an incredibly short space of time, bronght an
immense crowd of all classes, ages and colors to
tho squaro.
Hundreds of wives, mothers and friends were
constantly filling the grounds, who, with wring
ing hands, sought in despair to know if any of
their loved ones had been of the number man
gled. War, with its horrors, its agonies, its
sad separations, its ghastly wounds, its horrible
deaths, pictures to the mind no snch scene as
the one which was yesterday enacted in the
square.
To contemplate upon such a shocking affair—
to seo the faces of those who expected each mo
ment to find a near and dear friend borne from
the rains to bo cared for on tho grounds by the
citizens and physicians in attendance—fills the
soul with horror and awful fear.
Hacks, ambulances and vehicles of all descrip
tions were promptly on the ground, ready to
convey the wounded away from the scene of dis
aster to their homes, where they could bo cared
for, and their wounds dressed to better advan
tage than in the dense crowd with which they
were surrounded. The dead, who had beon
bronght out, were respectfully and decently laid
aside and covered with blankets, and afterwards
borne away to their bereaved families.
Policemen wore stationed on the steps of the
building to prevent the crowd from rushing in,
and thereby hindering those who were adminis
tering to the relief of the sufferers; and at a late
hour the gates of the square were guarded by
Mayor Ellyson’s police, who kept out tho crowd
of persons who seemed bent on viewing tho
scone of the disaster.
ABOUT THE CITY.
The excitement of the moment over, the beau
tiful city of Richmond was wrapped in gloom.
The popular heart was sad, the voice of woe
and mourning resounded throughout tbe city,
and the asperities of life were softened in the
sympathy of a publio calamity, leaving oar peo
ple united in grief and in tho desire to show
their respect for the dead and feeling for the
injured. All the business houses of the oity were
closed and badges of mourning displayed, aud
save for the number of persons on them, oar
streets wore the appearance of a Sabbath.
THE PHYSICIANS.
Tho Board of Health requests that all physi-
cians and surgeons, in making out their certifi
cates of death of the victims of this calamity,
will please state that they came to their deaths
in this manner. Their object is to get an ac
curate list of the kiMed.
THE CITY SUBOEONS.
The different surgeons of the city in attend
ance on the wounded would confar a favor on
their friends throughout the country, as well as
relieve the deep anxiety which pervades all
classes of our citizens, by leaving at our office,
by six o’clock this evening, an account of their
head: Isaac H Hunter, colored, messenger for
City Council, slightly hurt; Daniel Bradford.
Jr„ concussion of brain; 'William T Richardson,
printer, wounded in head; R T Howard, wonnd
ed in neck and left leg; L M Porter, severe
bruise on the left shoulder; John T Holt, inter
nal injuries; 8 Schleisher, Broad street, injured
about the head; Thomas Collingsworth, severe
ly bruised about the body; Senator Kennnck,
right shoulder injured and rib broken; J T
Chase, slightly wounded in chest; John Hart,
of Rocketts, injured internally; Thomas Car-
roll, bruised in left side; ?V_R Tompkins, in-
lured slightly in back; W B Wheely, left shorn-
der bruised; Policeman WE Williams, seriously
hurt; Charles W Gentry, seriously hurt.
Among the wounded we regret to state that
Moses P. Handy, of the Dispatch, was painfully
hurt, though not seriously. Mr. Handy was in
jured about the throat and bruised about the
body, but his wounds will not confine him for
many days.
ATTENTION TO THE WOUNDED.
Under this head too much conld not be said in
praise of many who labored hard to relieve the
sufferers.
We cannot particlarize, as there are too many
to be mentioned separately, but we will only
say that the members of the fire_ brigade, the
police force, and many of our citizens, white
and colored, labored untiringly in their efforts
to alleviate suffering, and to render all aid
in removing the dead and wounded from tho
gronnd.
INCIDENTS.
When the accident first occurred Mr. W. H.
Grant was just entering the Cuuit-xoom. With
great presence of mind ho rushed to tho bell-
house and had the alarm rang in an incredibly
short time. , _
Mr. ThomaB Joynes fell, together with Dr. J.
B. Brock, and his month rested against the doc-
i—’n /tiucV FTA-n-JEAHurho.it was near him.
He told him his name, and he asked him in case
he survived to carry many messages of affection
to his family. With words of endearment and
love for those he left behind, he died.
Mr. Rush Burgess fell on top of a gentleman
whoso name he could not leam. He asked, “My
friend can you not move a little?” Mr. Burgess
replied, “No, I cannot stir.” “Well,” said he,
“Imust die. Good-bye.”
Daring tho time in which Hon. George Wil
liam Brent, of Alexandria, wa3 covered in the
ruins, Mr. Chandler, who was between the win
dow and Mr. Brent, was endeavoring to getaway
when Mr. Brent caught him by the arm and beg
ged him, for God’s sake, to let him get some air,
but in Mr. Chandler’s position it was impossible
for him to more until assistance was rendered.
In a short time, however, he was taken out and
his life saved.
We learn from Mr. Chandler, who was doing
well last evening, that Mr. Sam. A. Eaton was
sitting on the back of his chair when the floor
fell through. Eaton was killed and Mr. Chandler
not seriously injured—such escapes are most re
markable.
The Conservative caucus, which had met in
the hall of the House of Delegates, adjourned
shortly before the calamity. Fortunately, there
had been a dispute about-the judgeship of
Henry connty, and an adjournment was nec
essary. Had this not been the case more than
one-half of the Legislature would have been
crushed.
Dr. Thompson, member of the House of Dele-
nates from Hanover, was caught under two men
who were instantly killed by a heavy falling
beam. He himself was slightly injured.
Mr. P. H. Keenan was buried beneath the
ruins for three-quarters of an hour, and was
found nearly suffocated under the dead bodies.
Ho has almost entirely recovered.
Among the killed was a Mr. Burnham, of New
York. Mr. R. C. Burkholder, one of the mem
bers of the House from Lynchburg, hearing that
Mr. Burnham was a relative of One of his con
stituents, a well known builder of Lynchburg,
at once sought out tbe body, which had been
temporarily deposited for identification in tho
City Hall, and had it placed in a splendid me-
talic case, and made arrangements to have it de
posited in a private vault at Hollywood until
called for by friends.
TEE THEORY OF THE ACCIDENT.
From conversations with several who were in
the court-room at the time of the fall, wo leam
the following as the trne theory of the accident:
The large girder which was under the partition
between the clerk’s office and the court-room,
snapped in twain, and immediately afterwards
the floor commenced to cave. The support of the
crowded gallery having given away, the gallery
parted from the wall and fell over into the cen
tre of the court-room, crushing through the floor
aud precipitating the mass of human beings and
rubbish into the hall below. We examined the
girder aud found that it had broken off just in
the centra. I. »as hewn timber, and just where
it broke was a cut, as if the workman in hewing
had made a miss-lick and driven his adze in the
wood abont a quarter of an inch.
HORRIBLE DEATH.
The most terrible feature about this whole af-
sfair is the heartrending manner of death in the
majority of instances. Many of the dead, when
brought out, were found to be without serious
bodily injury, but had evidently died from suf
focation. The mere contemplation of such a
thing is sickening. Hard, indeed, was the fate
of those who had escaped death from the falling
timber, in the end to die from the untcld ago
nies of suffocation.
AN OLD RELIC GONE.
If we may be pardoned for any consideration
of loss other than that of hnman life, we will
mention the smash-np of an old and much hon
ored relio of bye-gone days, the Speaker’s chair
of the House of Delegates, which was formerly
used in the House of Burgesses, decorated with
tho royal arms of Great Britain. It was sub
sequently moved here from Williamsburg, and
has been used in the House of Delegates ever
since. It was buried and broken in the rains of
yesterday.
SUNDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 1.—Both Houses of
Congress will adjourn from Thursday to Mon
day for summer Capitol arrangements.
General Jordan, who enlisted, for on6 year,
is not a deserter from tho Cuban cause. He
comes here in the Cuban interest, with two
Cuban secretaries.
The Secretary of tbe Treasury has directed
tho Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell
one million of gold on each Wednesday of the
month of May, commencing May 4th; the first
and third sales on account of the sinking fund,
and the second and fourth on account of a
special fund, or four millions in all. Also to
purchase one million of bonds each on Thurs-
day. the I3th, and Thursday the 26th, for tho
sinking fund, and two millions each on Thurs
day the 5th and Thursday the 19th, on account
of a special fund, or six millions in all.
A .’dispatch rrom Far West says: A dis
patch from Sioux City to day says that the
alarm in the Indian country is general, and
well founded. It is thought that if the Indi
ans are not Sheridanized at onco they will in
augurate the most extended war the West has
ever experienced.
The Senate Committee on Claims have
passed favorably on the claims of Williams,
Crcevy, Tyler and others for $50,000 for work
on the Southwest Pass, Mississippi. The
claim has been pending since 1867.
The Senate Claims Committee will report
favorably on a resolution paying the Southern
loyalists for property taken for war purposes
by the Federal army.
GENERAL NEWS.
_ Cheyenne, May 1.—In the case of the
Davis claims against the Union Pacific Rail
road and others, after adjournment of the
Court this morning, the counsel for defendant,
in. order to avoid the appointment of a Re
ceiver, stipulated with counsel for plaintiff to
deposit in lawful money the amount claimed
by plaintiff within twenty days, as security for
any judgment plaintiff may obtain. The Court
on coming in this afternoon, was notified of
the step, and deferred giving judgment for
twenty days.
New Yoke, May 1.—Arrangements are
being perfected for a tournament this summer
at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, similar to those
in vogue in the South.
San Francisco, May l.—It is rumored
that the Central Pacific Railroad has pur
chased the California Pacific Railroad for three
million dollars.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Alexandria, Egypt, May 1—The Pasha’s
Palace is burned.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, May 2 —Arrived, Mariposa from New
Orleans. -
From the Carolina Farmer.^
Commercial Fertilizers and
Made Compost.
Messrs. Editors : I traveled last w«.v,
combe, Halifax and Wilson counties
there immense preparation made
crop. I saw dozens of plows in one tw 1
ing np the ground, and thousands of ? lc ',
compost adti all the railroad wareWc 11 1
with commercial fertilizers. It shovg tti* 1 &
wide-awake farmers have come to th
sion that we have to work our land diS 50
and make all we can in a small tract
account of our unreliable laborers,
objections to the system of farmim?Ti *
these counties. The first is that thes^
spend too muoh money for outside tZ! 1
fertilizers, and secondly, that they uW
ly too much cotton and neglect .otheT
oral produce. My first objection is
send too much money out of the coi
concentrated fertilizers, andbyusino,
ly these fertilizers, they exhaust Ja’
lands, ana that the most of these con ^
fertilizers are worth only half wha* ^
them, and a good many are entirely » ^
and that they are used in a wrong wav i
last year for the benefit of the Cape iv 1
cultural Association fifteen leading
fertilizers in different ways, on differf ?
and in different quantities, on all thai
field crops and garden vegetables, if!,',
ly four of these fifteen which I coolrt
mend.
The best of all was raw bone flow
pronounce the best commercial fer
sidering price and quality. Itsniiar,.
don’t exhaust the land, and keens lo?' 1
any other. To get the greatest benc^l 8
commercial fertilizers they ought ntv •
used pure without composting at!- 61 . 1 '
months before use with good soil oJj *
mould, vegetable muck and marl’S .*
cast and plowod ia. Thus applied ttc-T t,
prove the land instead of exhanstic'-it "
hope the day is not far distant when 0,
era of Eastern North Carolina, will
commercial fertilizers and uso the inei
material famished by nature for mahito
which will bring our land in higher cl*
and save millions of money to be ic^u
more profitable business. I wish to kt
the readers of your valuable journal Ev t
ence in making home-made manure, j?
commended for the last three or font r!’
England and Germany, where a"rici?
general is in the highest state, hardwood
and especially oak leaf ashes, as a Ten
lent fertilizer and the best composter. j
within the last three years, vesy close &
ments with it, and find an astonishicoV
result from it. These ashes can be baj^
tern North Carolina in unlimited qnastitiJ*
burnt in the last three years in theoalnJ
Kenansville, our Fair ground of aboaltr-
abont one hundred bushels oakleaf asi® ,
ally. I could use only the third pari l
leaves, for the wind blew the rest awayia-
surrounding fields.
A good deal of these ashes I used dbss
fertilizing my grape vines and peach -
which gave them a vigorous growth andj^
ed on my grape vines all the diseases, ai]
my peach trees all the borers and woro.
balance I used for making compost fren
mould. I used about ten bushels wood"i
to one bushel ashes and composted it aboai
to five months, and I fonndthe compost sb.
the same effect by applying fifty loads*:;
acre as one ton of guano to tho acre, vii'
difference that the guano hardly hoi
through the season and exhausts the land. 1
I used the compost the laud was in tut
order without manure for another crop. i>
oak leaf ashes last month, in the oaifcaj
the brothers Garret, of Rmgwood, Halifua
ty, N. O., on a large scale. I burnt there-
ten hands and a big ox-tumble cart 500 h
oak leaf ashes, in one week, in about ten
of oak forest, and I will show you tor!
rate. I dug four round holes about Sited
in diameter and two feet below the surface,
then I made an embankment around abo:
feet high, which made the holes four feel
These holes are necessary. Without then
wind blows the burning leaves away. Tie
thing I did after that was to make a goi
from limbs, stumps and small trash, and
I got a good fire and coals and the bole b
I filled the hole np with leaves and put a
some other limbs and trash to keep tbeb
from burning too quickly and from flyings!
It takes about two hours for the kiia
bum entirely down. In the meantime 1
rate in the same manner on the next tci
so on. I was astonished to find by ote
that the leaves from any flourishing ost
make more ashes than the wood of the i
tree. A bushel of leaves weigh abost
pounds and make a good quart of ashes, i
it would require two hundred pounds soY
wood to make the same quantity, and tie
leaves are estimated to be 50 per cent h
than oakwood ashes. I send you enclcsl
sample of these ashes. I wish our fc
would pay great attention to these fads,
ashes are in Europe estimated as equal lull
best commercial fertilizers. I heard thaw
day that Mr. Dibble, at Kinston, one of J
most successful cotton planters, has abaM
commercial fertilizers entirely and uses i
instead. He has given orders for 5,000 b
in the upper oak countries at 15 cents s 1
I have sent to the Agricultural Depsrtn
Washington for analyzing, and I vill lay thl
suit before the readers of your valuable J
naL
Another objection I have to the systal
farming puraned in the counties heretrfl
named, is that the farmers of these
neglect entirely to raise necessary food.fora
and beast. I consider it a wrong policy tj
our cotton and bny Northern hay, medJf
groceries and gnano. This has been a
oy in all agricultural countries.
Raise, besides your cotton, everything®
sary to feed the laborers and animals of tfcfe
then what money you realize out of yon:®?
yours. The cotton then will be higher is?
and you get your provisions lower. Ti#l
facts which have been shown in all ag
countries. The flonr and corn we rnakeii^
ter than the Northern articles, and ours
the best in the world. Hoping that the* I
servations may arouse thought and tkercbl
complish some good,
Respectfully yours,
L. FeoC
Kenansville, M. G., March 30th, 187ft
“An Amusing Oration.”
The Radical organ at Atlanta which j
such a merry tune to the music of poor * 1
Rice’s greenbacks, speaks of HungerforiJI
pose of Radical rascality on Blodgett's r^l
and in the Agency, as an “amusing orati®J
Yea verily. From what we hear, itames'*
of the elect greatly. It gave them thj
grins. We have seen a good many I
when their little games were shown np, 8S:
after this fashion.
Too wATin on Charles. —Tilton'slodep® 5 ’
prostrate in reverent admiration of the 1
tal Chawles, calls him the “New Engh®i‘.
cles, of the Senate,” whereupon the Ke*l
World who haa beenreading in Plutarch s J
for the ocoasion, quotes the following 1
Pericles: ,■
With his wife, who was a lady 01 , jJj
seems to have lived unhappily; aEi >,
parted from her by mutual consent, *
came to live with him during the rest
as closely as was allowed by law.”
A manufacturer in the city of St.
nesota, has secured a most ingenious
power for running light machinery by
an underground reservoir and tapP^S*
In the basement of his manufactory h« 1
a turbine wheel, and with forty-fi* 6 * J
head he has secured eleven horse powen
it is alleged, never fails.
The Gold Market.—The Secret* 1 ?^
Treasury, it will be seen from the
the first page, has directed four
to be sold during the current month,
we prognoe tics ted, has got back agw®.
or thereabout, and Mr. Secretary h* s 8 f
try another tustle with the bulls-
Smith, the would-be Radical
land Randolph, escaped from jail ftt
Wednesday night. A Federal ga* 1 ^
tioned within two feet of the door .
Smith’s loyalty thus saves his neck U
good hempen eareas—perhaps.
New York Burton* Court.—
eanz at their State Convention on
ins ted for Chief Jostiee, Henry B.
sooiates, Charles J. Folger, Henry
Robert H. Hale end A. G. Rio®.
FiaW*’