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HATHRIUV, OCTOBER *. 1H76.
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An Important Law Question Settled.
There hu been attempt* by legislation
in our State to make the jury indepeivl
ent of the oourt in the construction and |
application of the law in criminal eases. ]
A difference of opinion on this subject i
has also existed among the Superior j
Judges, .some of whom have gone ho far
as to forbid oounsel to road law to the
jury upon the trial of oriminal caeca.
The question,|being involved in a recent
case before the Supreme Court of the
State, has been thus definitely settled by
that oourt, Judge Warner, Chief Justice,
delivering the opinion as follows:
“On the argument of the defendant’s
case before the jury, his counsel, when
about to read some law to them, which
had been read to the oourt, for the pur
pose of applying it to the facts, the
oourt stopped him, and held that be
must read the law to the court, and re
fused to rtlow him to road any law to the
jury, and that refusal to allow him to
read any law to the jury is assigned as
error. Whilst we fully recognize the
court as the constitutional organ to give
in charge to the jury the law in criminal
cases, and that it is the duty of the juty
to receive and accept the law as given
them in charge by the court, as the law
applicable to the case, and to apply the
law so given them in charge by the
court to the facts, and return a general
verdict of guilty or not guilty, still we
are not aware of any law or rule of prac
tice adopted by the judges in con
vention that will authorize the court to
prohibit counsel in the argument of
criminal cases from reading law to the
jury, if they shall think proper to do so.
Counsel, in their argument, may read
law to the court in the hearing of the
jury, or they may read law to the jury in
tha‘jearing of the court, subject to the'
*• correction of the court in its charge,
which is to be considered as the authori
tative exposition of the law for the con
sideration of the jury. In our judgment
the court erred in not allowing the de
fendant’s counsel to read the law in his
argument to the jury, on the statement
of facts disclosed in the record.”
The Atlanta Constitution, commenting
on the decision, says: “We think that
this decision, in its practical results,
places the law just as it should be. The
great right of jury trial is fully pre
served, and yet kept within its legitimate
bounds."
How a Snake Charmed a Hoy.
[From tho Reading Eagle.]
For the last two weeks a son of Allen
Rogers, aged eleven years, a wood-cutter
on the Blue Mountains, about three miles
from Hamburg, lias been in the habit of
leaving his father’s house every morning
about! o’clock, and not returning till
noon. The parents of the boy have ques
tioned him several times as to where he
went, and the boy would reply, to play
with a neighboring boy named Springer.
On Friday last the father watched his
son, and followed at a short distance, and
when about a half mile from the house,
the boy entered a piece of thick sprout
land, in from the road some two hundred
yards, whero he seated himself upon a large
rock, and in less than ten minutes the
father was horrified on sooing a monster
black snake crawl upon the rock and put
its head on the boy’s lap. Tho father states
that the snake was the largest he ever
saw on the hills. Ho states that it was
easily fifteen feet long, and as thick as
his arm, which is well developed. The
boy hod taken bread with him, and was
feeding tho snake, which at intervals
would stick a large tongue out as if his
sing for more to eat. Then it would coil
itself around the neck and body of the
boy, aud play with its mouth and neck
with the boy’s bands. The father Had
often hoard of snakes charming children,
and that if they wero disturbed while
they wore in tho aot, they would kill tho
child.
As the father turned to leave his boy
with his deadly companion, he turned
back, and tho snake hearing a noise, at
once uncoiled itself and raised its body
at lenst four feet from tho rook and
looked in all directions, aud then it re-.,
turned to the boy’s lap, and tno lather
returned home and awaited the boy’s re
turn, which was, as usual, at noon.
When told that he had been playing with
tho snake, tho boy said the first
morning ho mot tho snake ho liked
to play with it; then he took it food,
and he was so much pleased with
his companion that something told
him that ho must meet tho snake every
morning. One morning ho said he was
late, aud when he reached the place the
snake was standing up, and it came out
to meet him, then followed him to tho
rock. Thoro is something very strange
about a snake charming not only children,
but I have read of adults coming under
their charms. Thero is certainly some
truth in the fascinating powers of
snakes.
On Saturday morning tho father and
two of his neighbors went to tlie place
with guns, and at tho usual time the
snako made its appearance when all fired
at ono time, killing the clmrmer.
John Chinaman Gives His Views on
Politics.— Probably the most curious
pair of human beings that have yet boon
soon r at the Exposition witnessed the
on Monday night. They wore Chi
namen, clad in flowing robes and sandals,
with the inevitable pigtail done up in a
double bow not at the back of their
heads. A representative of the Trade
List, after following them around for
some time, came up to them while they
wore at a standstill on the bridge in Floral
Hall.
The following valuable and interesting
conversation took place :
Reporter—Hey John. What do you
think of the show ?
(Chinaman grins and shows his teeth.)
Reporter (in a louder voice)—l say,
John, it’s a big show, isu’t it ?
Chinaman—Chow Hi likeo Melican
man show heap big.
Reporter—Good for you, Chow Hi.
Did you ever see anything as big as this
in China ?
Chinaman—Chow Hi likee Melican
man show. Chow Hi likee Melican man
Billallen. Melican man dollee heap good
Gtynaman. Billallen brick. He makee
wore dollee.
Reporter—Well, what's this got to do
with—
Chinaman—Chow Hi not aflaid Meli-
Ssan man. Chow Hi stick up for Billal
en. Washe closee Billallen. Votee six
r inics Billallen. He heap great man.
Makee dollee plenty rice. Chow Hi likee
white man tulkee bout Billallen.
Amins Chow Hi began to unwriiig liis
pigtail at this interesting juncture and
indulge in a series of evolutions that
W6re strikingly suggestive of familiarity
with the sports of the prize ring, the re
jjorter concluded that it was wrong to
farther molest the son of Confucius,
atd accordingly departed. —Cincinnati
Trmk List.
The notorious Elias swindlers, of New
York, who for several years have either
rested on their gains or succeeded in
keeping their operations out of sight,
appear again in their old pursuits. The ir
latest scheme is called a “General Av
erage Sale,’’which is nothing but a lot
tery by which victims are invited to send
Ao the swindlers from s."> to s.'>o each, in
hope of getting a package of goods
worth many times as much as the sum
paid. In short, this is only a “sawdust"
swindle under anew and what is intended
to be a more respectable name. Thou
sands of their circulars have been dis
tributed throughout the South.
A dtbuble-lieaded child was lately born
at W'indom, Minn., death immediately
ensaiug. The dissection showed that
£he aorta, or the great artery proceeding
from the left ventrical of the heart, was
double and fully developed, and possessed
perfect symmetry in its branches, convey
ing the blood to the two heads in a.-, per
fectly a normal manner as though but
one head was supplied from its great
fountain of life. At the lower extremity
of the ribs the organs and body became
single. Had this phenomenon survived
he might have become a politician and a
compromise candidate.
A poet in Appleton'* Journal says: “I
touched the fragrance of her hand. ” This
is almost equal to the “perfumed light"
that “steals through the mist of alabaster
lamps. ” Poetic license is a big thing and
the poet takes further advantage of it to
refer to her “shy, reluctant glove.” Next
we shall hear of her coy buttoned gaiters
and her bashful bustle.
THE CLINTON MASSACRE.
An Kir-UluifM ( Ihr Blood? Cm Hict
Unrrlbni (he Terrible Scene*—Th.- Ne
roe* to Hlnme for it all.
[i orrewpondeuce of fbe Courier Journal.J
Raymond, Mins., September 10.—I pro
pose an briefly as possible to give an account
of die Clinton difficulty :
Occupying tbe position I do as one of the
Executive Committee of tbe Democratic
Conservative party of this county, through
whom the arrangements were perfected for
the joint discussion at that place, and hav
ing been present on the occasion and wit
nessed as much as any one man could see
of what transpired, and having taken the
pains and trouble of learning from o'hers
present what they saw and knew of it, and
having undertaken to get what information
I could in tbe few brief days since the oc
currence whether or not tile negroes went
there with the intention of kiiliug the
whites, I feel that with these means o in
formation at band I am prepared to give a
fnll and complete version or tbe whole mat
ter; and what I give will he facts—either
what I saw and know mvself or what I nave
ascertained and can prove to be true.
THE BEGINNING OF THE HOW.
In the early part of the week handbills
were posted up in various parts of the county
that a grand Republican barbecue would be
given on Saturday, the 4th of September,
by the “Cliutou Republican Club;” that H.
T. Fisher, A. Ames, and James Hill, Kepub
lican candidates for Congress, woul * ad
dress the meeting, and that all person* were
invited to be present. On Friday, the 31,
al/out 11 a. m., the Chairman of the Demo
cratic and Conservative Executive Commit
tee of Hinds county received a communica
tion from the Cliutou Democratic Club in
forming him that a joint discussion had
been proposed by the Radicals for the next
day, and requiring speakers to be sent. He
handed me the letter, with im-tructeus to
notify Judge Amos It. Johnson, Judge
George L. Potter, at Jacksou, and .Marve
Dabney, at Edmunds, to go to Clinton. I
wrote and telegraphed to these geu'bmen
to be sure and be present. The Demo
cratic Club at Raymond, to which both the
Chairman and myself belonged, was called
together that evening, audit was announced
that an invitation bad been received to be
present at the joint discussion at Clinton ;
and a similar having been re
ceived from Utica, there was considerable
discussion as to which invitation should he
accepted, it was finally determined to ac
cept the invitation from Clinton, with leave
to any particular in lividuals to go to Utica.
Accordingly, early Saturday morniug
quite a number of tbe members of
the Democratic Club from Raymond,
including old, young, and middle
aged men, went to Clinton to hear
the joint discussion, having no intima
tion wnatever of a difficulty, and only a very
few, say ten or twelve who were armed, and
they were men who were accustomed to carry
pistols. That morning the writer hoard of
several negroes purchasing ammunition in
Raymond, and heard of ouo who seemed a
little agitated when he asked for it ; hut as
the colorod people use a great deal of am
munition he thought nothing of it. It may
be well here to slate that Cliutou is ten
miles west of Jackson, on the Vicksburg
aud Meridian Railroad; has some two or
three hundred inhabitants; and Raymond,
the county seat of Hinds county, is eight
miles southwest of Clinton; aud Utica, a
little town, eighteen miles southwest of
Raymond.
ON THE OBOUNDS.
On arriving at Clinton the writer sought
the committee who had been appointed by
the Clinton Democratic Club to arrange the
discussion, to ascertain what arrangements
had been made. One of the committee in
formed the writer that the Republican Club
had had a meeting and rescinded the invita
tion, but that Charles Caldwell and Mr. John
Chilton, who constituted the Republican
committee to extend tbe invitation and ar
range the discussion, were not present when
the Republican Club had rescinded the in
vitation, and were mortified at their action,
and felt determined to stilt have the joint
discussion. About 11 o’clock the Republican
clubs marched through the town with music
and banners, some COO strong, but displayed
(as the writer then remarked) very little en
thusiasm, and passed out to the cast, aud
alter they had gone through, most of the
white men who were at the barbecue went
out to tlie grounds before the procession re
turned through town, and wero on the
grounds when they arrived. About 12 or 1
o’clock the committee agreed on the terms
of the discussion, which wero these : Judge
Amos R. Johnson, Democratic aud Conser
vative candidate for tho State Senate,
should open with a speech of one hour ;
Mr. 11. F. Fisher, associate editor of the
Jackson Times (Republican), should
respond with a speech of one hour aud
a quarter, and then Judgo Johnson should
respond with a fifteen-minute speech.
The place selected for the speaking was
three-quarters ol' a mile from Clinton, in a
grovo bounded on tho north by tho residence
of Charles Chilton, oil the south by Cm
Vicksburg aud Meridian Railroad, on the
east by the Brownsville aad Clinton road,
and on the west by a (h op ravine, through
L which rou a small bdfuoh led by springs,
and which afforded water for the occasion ;
tho whole grovo being in length, north and
south, some seven hundred yards, and from
three to four hundred yards wide, Tho
stand was near tho railroad on the south,
and about one hundred yards from the little
branch which bounded tho grouuds on the
west.
BAl) WHISKY EBULLITIONS.
Judgo Johnston opened the discussion
with a oue-hour speech, and, as ho is ex
tromoly conservative, made a very conserva
tive speocb, that was entirely satisfactory to
his own party and listened to with respectful
attention by the negroes. Thoro was con
siderable conversation going on, so Ikat the
Judgo could not be hoard very well except
by those very near him. Captain Fisher
commenced his address, and proceeded un
disturbed by anything until the circum
stances which led to the conflict occurred.
While Captain Fislnr was speaking I took
my position some twenty or twenty-five
steps from tho Htand anil a little way out of
the audience. While Johnston was spoak
ing I was in tho crowd, near the
stand. As 1 came oat I ob
served, about one hundred yards distaut,
a young man from Raymond who seemed to
be indicated, who was oeing taken care of
by two other young mon froth Raymond, but
they were making no noise and creating no
disturbance. 1 was between the stand and
these young men and could not hear a word
they said, and I know that they were not dis
turbing the audience, and that they could
not be heard by the audience. In a few
minutes Charles Caldwell, a negro, assum
ing tho authority to stop tho difli mlties,
went to wliero these young men were, and
one of them meeting him some ton steps
from where the other two stood, asked him
to go back, that he aud his friends could
keop tho intoxicated man quiet. While
this conversation was going on, some
four or five other young men
and Captain 11. S. Wki e, a middle-aged
man of excellent standing in the commu
nity, went to where those two young men
were. Several negroes seeing Charles Cald
well go down, and having seen the intoxi
cated man there beiore, followed on down,
and, when these started, others began to go
down and gather around them. Caldwell
asked the negroes to go back. Captain
White mounted the wagon aud insisted on
their going bach and leaving the white men,
but iu one minute there were someone hun
dred or one hundred aud fifty negro men
crowding upon the whites, with their pistols
drawn. The whites then retreated back
some ten step*, and tho negroes pressed
forward anu surrounded them.
THE EIGHT.
At this moment the drums and the bugle
gave the signal, aud the companies of
negroes rallied to the host already around
tho whites, aud with loud imprecations
cried, “Let’s whip the damn rascals, kill the
sousof b s,” “Go for them,” “Go for tho
Raymond boys,” “Kill the Democrats.”
They had already crowded so near the
whites they had uot room scarcely to use
their pistols. The drums beat but few taps
until the firing commenced. The negroes
waved their pistols, and those who had
room poured s volley iuto the ranks of the
negroes, while some struck down the
negroes with their pistols to make room to
shoot. One or two shots from the whites
drove back the solid body of negroes to
the brow of the hill, and the whites ad-
vauciug upon them, they rallied and turned
upon thorn, and again the volley from the
handful of whites drove thorn back. Bat
the trouble with the whites was their pistols
I were nearly empty, aud when emptied they
, would be at the mercy of fiends. Each man
| then began to make his way out the best he
I could, reserving h;s loads to defend against
l any personal assault. How each escaped
with some twenty to fifty negroes following
him, shooting at every turn, God only
, knows. Every man tells for himself his
! own tale. Some were saved by the assistance
1 of colored friends who lived in llaymond,
! white ethers fought it and ran all the way
out. There were someone thous ind negro
men on the ground aud Dot over one hun
dred whites, not mure ihaa twenty of whom
j had arms. There were some twenty white
| men who engaged in the fight, the rtst es
; caping as rapidiy as posuble. Such astam
j pede of horses, people and wagons in every
direction, amid screams and pistols tiring',
| made the most terrifying spec table I
j ever beheld. The negroes were cowardly,
never attempting a conflict uuless they i.um
-1 Ctu4 least two to one; and then if a
j white mad brought his pistol to bear on
j them they would run with all their might.
When some of the pwteJs of the whites had
been exhausted, the compelled
them to give them up, aud, after they had
surrendered, the negroes beat their brains
i out with pjstols, rails and clubs. Some see
i ing this, even alter their charges were ex
: hausted refused to .surrender, and fought
until they had escaped. The writer started
to his buggy, aud finding a wounded friend
! took him to the bouse of Mr. Charles Chil- j
ton. who lives north cf tine grounds, and
left him there. Mr. Chilton was standing
at his gate, aud was telling the negro women
to go into his house, where they would be
Jiroiected. I turned to go to Clinton and
eft Mr. Chilton at his gate, and am told
that he was shot in his own yard a few mo
ments afterward by some negroes, who rode
np to *be fence and fired.
A PERSONAL ENCOUNTER.
I rode rapidly south on the road which
bounded the ground on the east to where
the dirt road crosses the railroad on a little
bridge. When I eamo in sight I saw some
eight or a dozen Degrees on the bridge beat
ing Captain White. I called to them to de
sist, but they knocked him down and beat
him. he having he lore that time sur
rendered bis pistol, and to finish him while
he was down a large black negro struck him
a terrible blow on the top or the head, and
rolled him over the embankment. At this
moment I dashed up to tbe bridge, and a
negro jumped to my horse's head, seized the
lines, and began firing at me. At that same
moment the negro who had struck Captain
White on the head raised big cudgel,
jumped at me, and as he wag deal
ing a blow at my forehead, I gave him
a ball from my “navy six-shooter,” which
caused him to leave me. Stunned by the j
blow, it took me a few seconds to recover,
and when I did so I was levelling my pistoi
at the n< gro who wag h Iding my horse and
shooting at me. My pistol was’only half
cocked, and I could not bring it down ; but
the cowardly scoundrel could not stand the
looks of it, aDd fled. All the while I was
lighting these two, two others were stand
ing within a distance of twenty feet shooting
at me. Luckily I received only slight
wouDds, and my horse took me rapidly out
of danger. As my horse ran, some tiftv
negroes (as I was afterwards told) fired as
fast as they could. Some ran their horses
after me, but Captain Montgomery came up
about that time and poured the contents of
a double-barrelled shot gun into their face*,
and caused them to desist.
BLOODV EPISODES.
Martin H. Sibley, a brave, generous, bigh
toned gentleman, who fought them gal
lantly, finally, on their demand, surren
dered, and as one man reached out to re
ceive big pistoi another knocked him down.
He arose aDd endeavored to get away from
them, but they followed him and beat his
brains out, and after they had killed him,
beat and mangled his corpse ; and worse
still, they robbed him of everything he had,
even taking his shoes off his feet. A young
lawyer, G. F. F. Thompsou, was one of the
few who first were assaulted, and after he
had emptied his pistols and received a
wound in the leg he mounted a horse
aud made off; but twenty negroes fol
lowed him, and after pursuing him about
one and a half miles they overtook him aud
shot him through the head, and after ho
was down beat his head with guns aud rails
until his face was mashed to a jelly. I give
these instances to show how cowardly and
savage the scoundrels were. Capt. Mont
gomery, with a few men on horseback, scat
tered and routed the few who had not de
serted the grounds aud fie ! when they came
up, which was a quarter of an hour, per
haps, after the firing commenced. Tele
grams were sent in every direction, and
soon tho place had ample troops to hunt
down the black villains.
THE AFFAIR PREMEDITATED.
Saturday morning (the morning of the
day the fight began) the negro women in
some parts of the county became restless,
and told that the negro men had gone to
Clinton armed, to kill the whites. But the
whites of the South have heard so often ol
insurrection of negroes, aud so little ever
came of it, that they thought nothing of
what was told them. One ladv overheard a
negro man the night before say “that he
was going to Clinton the next day, "hen the
thing would commence; that they didn’t in
tend to spare any except the young women,
but they would kill every one else.” We
have abundant proof to show that it
was well understood beforehand the
negroes intended to undertake the massacre
at tho time tbe Clinton difficulty
occurred. Their cubs wore armed to
a man, and every one who was present
saw how quickly they flew together when
thes drums beat and the bugle blew.
Had they not run, but fought with the
bravery and determination which was dis
played by tbe whites, every white man would
have been killed, and then the work of ex
termination would have gone on. God only
knows where it would have stopped. But
they were too cowardly to carry out their
purposes. They were scattered to the winds,
many of the leaders taking refuge in Jack
son, where they could hide behind United
States troops, and left tho poor, ignorant
negro, whom they had. duped into taking
part in the affair, to be slaughtered by the
whites. There wore only three whites killed
and eight or ten wounded ; how mauy ne
groes will never be known. They were in
such crowds almost every ball from the pis
tols of the whites took effect. The negroes
now admit that they were the cause of the
whole affair, and .blame their leaders for it.
The reports that have gone out that tbe
young white men brought on the difficulty
are totally false. They had no whisky on
the grouuds ; did not 'send after any, and
had only taken a drink apiece, given to them
by friends in Clinton, and all were perfectly
sober except one, and he took perhaps too
much before he left home. The whites did
not draw their pistols first, and, from what
I could learn, did not fire first, but they all
say they would have beeu compelled to firo
in a moment more anyway. It has also been
reported that a fight occurred between a
negro and one of the whites at the stand,
out the report is wholly without foundation.
The truth about the matter is just this :
The negroes made up their miud ihey would
commeuce killing the whites that day, and
invited them there so as to put them off
their guard, aud the signal for beginning the
work was the drum-beat.
W. Calvin Wells.
The Galveston Disaster.
Notwithstanding the gross misrepre
sentations of the agent of the Associated
Press, the damage to Galveston Island by
the recent fearful storm is a very serious
calamity, and fully justifies the apprehen
sions expressed by the Times on Sunday.
To briefly summarise the disaster, a gale
from the south, by Wednesday at mid
day, reached such proportions that the
Captains of steamers accustomed for gen
erations to traversing this portion of the
gulf, declined to put to sea. Almost
simultaneously with this determina
tion came the report that a ship
yard at the extreme eastern end of
the island had been inundated and
the men were fleeing for their lives. A
rapidly falling barometer indicated an in
crease of the storm, and the waters of the
gulf, which is on the south side of the
island, and in rear of the city, gradually
commenced to mcroach. The gardens of
the scattered residences skirting the beach
were soon overflowed, the water during
the day reaching a depth of two feet. All
day long and during Thursday it blew a
hurricane, pushing the gulf water over the
entire island,and covering even the highest
elevations to a depth of two feet and a
half. This ridge embraces an area of
perhaps twelve blocks of buildings ex
tending from Mechanic street to Market,
the distance of two squares latitudinally,
and from Centre street to Bath avenue,
about six squares longitudinally. In the
entire rear, east and west ends of the
city, the water rose to a sufficient depth
to float large wooden edifices, many of
which are very valuable. The
residence portion of the city was
most affected. From Tremont street,
where this section begins, for a distance
of at least one mile and a half west, every
garden and every foundation is destroy
ed, domicils are scattered promiscuously
in the centres of thoroughfares, many of
them being jammed together. Further
to the west, in the neighborhood of Ole
ander Park, where there are many small
farms and a number of stylish resi
dences, the water is reported to
have reached a depth of from six
to nine feet. A similar story is told
of the eastern end of the island, which
extends from Centre street at least one
mile and a half. In the business section
of the city large stocks of goods are kept
on the ground floors, and one can esti
mate the injury which thirty inches of
sea water would involve. It is fair to
presume that the earnings of an entire
year will be exhausted in repairing dam
ages. Probably vegetation has been ut
terly destroyed, but that the island is in
volved in wholesale ruin we do not ap
prehend.—New Orleans Timet, of Mon
day.
Religious Processions in Switzer
land. —After all, it is net in Qermany
that the Church struggle presents the
grimmest features. In Switzerland, where
the contest began before the Prussian
Government freed itself from the ultra
montane connection, they are proceed
ing to much more severe decrees. In the
canton of Geneva, in which, since James
Fazy’s overthrow, there has been a very
radical change, the local Parliament has
just adopted a law op public worship,
composed of three articles to the follow
ing effect: “Every celebration of worship,
every religious procession or ceremony,
of whatever kind it may be. is forbidden
in the public streets, under a penalty of
imprisonment up to fifteen days’ dura
tion, and of a fine of ten to fifty francs.
The same penalty will be inflicted upon
the authors of and participators in any
provocation or disorder which is oc
casioned by a religious celebration that
takes place Gn private property ground.
The wearing of any clerical dress, or of
the dress of a religious association, in
the public street, is forbidden to all
persons that remain longer than a month
in the canton of Geneva.” This Republi
can decree beats the Falck laws. —
London Examines.
When Bismarck’s daughter meets her
future husband at the front door, and de
mands, with a mitrailleuse in each eye,
“You Wendizuenlarberge, whv didn’t you
bring them hairpins ?” he will reach "the
top story before she gets the name out
of her mouth.
A dog in Indianapolis is wrestling with
genuine fever and ague. He has chills
promptly at ten o’clock every morning,
and several physicians are watching the
progress of the disease upon the canine
patient. * \
THE WEATHER.
Mnothlv Review lor August.
We have received from the signal office
the monthly weather review for August,
from which the following extracts are
made as of interest:
Temperature of the Air. —The isother
mal lines for the month appear on Chart
No. 2, while in the left hand lower corner
of the same is a table giving the aven.ge
temperatures, by districts, for the month.
In all the districts, excepting New Eng
land, the weather has been cooler than
usual, especially from the Gulf coast to
the upper lake region and the north
west. The difference is greatest in the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys. It has been slightly wanner
than August, 1873, in New England and
eastern New York, but otherwise gener
ally cooler. Compared with August of
last year, the temperature averages a lit
tle higher in New England, eastern New
York, New Jersey and on tbe Pacific
coast. In the other sections it averages
lower, especially in the southwest, where
the difference is as much as 8 degrees.
The following are the minimum tem
peratures for the several districts:
Escanaba. 38 degrees: Pembina, 20 de
grees: Pike's Peak, 24 degrees; Cleve
land and Buffalo, 48 degrees; Mt. Wash
ington, 28 degrees; Burlington, Yt., 46
degrees; New York, 55 degrees; Wythe
ville, \ a., 48 degrees: Charleston, 67 de
grees: Bismarck, D. TANARUS., 39 degrees; Vir
gmia City, M. TANARUS., 33 degrees; Dubuque,
41 degrees: St. Louis, 55 degrees; Mem
phis, 63 degrees; Corsicana and Shreve
port, 64 degrees; Montgomery 65 de
grees; Key West, 73 degrees. Maximum
temperatures—Bismarck, 91 degrees; St.
Paul and Dubuque, 90 degrees; Milwau
kee, 89 degrees; Erie, 87 degrees; Mt.
Washington, 61 degrees; Burlington,Yt.,
87 degrees; Portland, Me., 90 degrees;
Wood’s Hole, Mass., and Newport, 81
degrees; New York, 90 degrees; Wil
mington, N. C., 92 degrees; Key West
and Augusta, Ga., 91 degrees; Jackson
ville, 95 degrees: Montgomery, 94 de
grees; Shreveport, 10-4 degrees; Nash
ville, 89 degrees; Louisville, 88 degrees;
Leavenworth, 90 degrees; Denver, 96 de
grees; Pike’s Peak, 55 degrees. The
greatest range of temperature (59 de
grees) was at Pembina, D. TANARUS., and the
least (18 degrees) at Key West.
Frost. —Light frosts were reported to
have occurred on the Ist in northeastern
Pennsylvania ; the 19th in lowa ; 20th in
Ohio; 23d, 24 th and 25th in New York ;
27th in New York, Pennsylvania and Wy
oming Territory ; 28th in lowa ; 29th in
Minnesota ; heavy and destructive frosts
on the 21st in Minnesota ; the 22d in Illi
nois, lowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota; the 23d in Wisconsin,
Michigan, lowa, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. Some of .the above have been
spoken of in connection with the move
ment of areas of high barometer.
Local Storms. —A cyclone struck about
two miles east of Somonauk, HI., at 7:20
p. m., on the sth inst., and passed
through Sandwich, doing considerable
damage. Thence it took a northeast
ward course, damaging corn fields, fences,
etc. On the same date, in Palmyra
township, Lee county, 111., a hurricane
demolished wind mills and prostrated
trees, fences, etc. In the adjacent
counties of Carroll and Whiteside, barns
were destroyed. North of Galesburg,
111., a disastrous tornado occurred on the
same date, demolishing twenty-five farm
houses and destroying all the crops in its
course. It passed over Wataga, where
it also did considerable damage. Its
path was from one-fourth to one-half a
mile in width. During the morning of
the 6th a severe thunder storm occurred
at McMinnville, Tenn. The wind was from
the southwest, and suddenly increased
to a gale. It shifted very quickly to
northwest, when hail commenced falling,
and again back to southwest and south,
leveling trees and fencing. After shift
ing to south, a railroad bridge, three
hundred feet in length, was raised from
its piers and thrown into the river.
Blacksburg, Va., was visited about noon
of the 10th by a heavy and terrific rain
and hail-storm, which was very destruct
ive to property. During the heavy rain
storm in New Jersey, on the 11th, a
“whirlwind” passed from south-southwest
to north-northeast in South Orange, with
a track about two hundred feet in width.
Barns were blown down and trees up
rooted and broken off. Corn-fields pre
sented the appearance of a heavy roller
having passed over them. From 9a. m.
to 2:30 p. m., 5.10 inches of rain fell,
which caused the streams to overflow and
become destructive. A violent tornado
passed about two miles south of the vil
lage of Hutchinson, Minn., on|the evening
of the 25th. Horses, &c., in its path were
destroyed. Bundles of grain were carried a
distance of nearly a mile. At Vicksburg,
Miss., a very violent thunder-storm oc
curred on the sth. The wind shifted to
north and northeast, and attained the
velocity of forty miles per hour. On
the 14th, at Corsicana, Texas, during the
heavy thunder-storm the lightning was
fearful, and 3:90 inches of water fell.
The creeks overflowed their banks and
carried away houses, &c. Spartanburg,
S. C., was visited on the same date by a
severe wind, rain and hail-storm, damag
ing buildings and crops.
United States steamer Rio Bravo en
countered a heavy southerly gale during
the night of the 13th, fifteen miles from
Sabine light, on the coast of Texas. The
vessel was badly damaged and run ashore.
A schooner was struck by lightning on
the 16th off Sandy Hook, N. J. Off
Chatham, New Brunswick, a schooner
■was damaged by a whirlwind.
FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES.
Three Young Girls Attacked by a Buck
Deer While Hovving Aeross a Pond.
[From the New York Sun.]
Yesterday afternoon three young wo
men, residing near the Big Brink pond,
in Shohola township, Pennsylvania,
started to go berrying. They were
obliged to cross the pond to reach the
woods. Before entering the boat they
saw something in the distance swimming
in the water. Thinking it was a dog,
they paid no further attention to it, but
started on their way across the pond,
which is about two miles wide. After
rowing for several hundred yards the
girl who was piloting the boat saw that
what they at first thought to be a
dog swimming in the water was a buck,
which was coming directly toward
them. Having a clumsy pair of oars, it
was some time before the boat could be
turned, and then the deer had reached
to within a few yards of them. The girls
became greatly terrified, for the deer was
fast gaining on them, and, from the way it
snorted and plunged, they were satisfied
it meant mischief. While the one rowed
with all her might the other two paddled,
thus somewhat increasing their speed;
but the deer was slowly gaining on them,
and, knowing they could not reach the
shore before being overtaken, they ceased
rowing to prepare for the inevitable battle.
When the deer, snorting and plunging, had
reached to "within a lew feet of the boat,
it stopped for a moment. Then it made
a sudden plunge, and as its head struck
the side of the boat the brave girls
brought down their raised paddles upon
it with such force as to drive it under
water. The girls again raised their only
weapons, anfl as the head rose to the
surface they again brought their paddles
to bear upon it with the same result.
When the deer again raised from the
water it seemed to realize that this was
to be the death struggle, and its eyes
gleamed like balls of fire. It made a
lunge and threw its fore-feet over tho
side of the boat, near the oar-locks.
This nearly capsized the clumsy craft,
and threw Maggie Jordan, the eldest of
the three into the water; but as she fell
she caught the edge of the boat and was
hauled in by one of her companions.
Then the heroine at the oars, as she felt
the animal’s breath in her face, raised a
paddle and struck for her life, and as the
blow fell across the deer’s head the blood
started from its nostrils, and it sank
back helpless and seemingly dead, but
really only stunned. The girls then
started for the shore, leaving the deer
struggling between life and death in the
water. Beaching the shore, one of the
girls ran to a small cabin, one-eighth of
a mile distant, in which lived a family
named Berger, and told what had oc
curred. Mr. Berger seized his rifle aud
went to the pond, where he found the
wounded deer yet struggling in the water,
a few rods from the shore. He rowed
out to it and, seizing it by its horns, cut
its throat and then towed the body to the
shore. The deer was the largest ever
killed in the neighborhood, weighing two
hundred and twenty-seven pounds.
A bull-headed newspaper irreverently
remarks that the modern dress mania
outstrips understanding. It does noth
ing of the sort. The girls pay more at
tention to their stockings than they ever
did.
Tora Scott in St Louis.
(From tlic New Orleans Times.)
We have heretofore called attention to
Mr. Tom Scott’s “Southern Pacific Rail
road. which is not a Southern road at
all. but a device to flank the whole South
with the “Atlantic aad Pacific” branch
between St. Louis and Forth Worth, and
make e Pennsylvania Pacific road of it.
He is working up the country, with his
pictures in the Graphic and by vigorous
still-hunting, to the point of forcing
Congress to endorse the interest on the
bonds of the road. He has not a ghost of
a chance to succeed, unless he can secure
the co-operation of the South. He
therefore calls the road the “Southern
Pacific” and expects to use the just
claim of the South for assistance in the
construction of a really Southern Pacific
road to get heip for his Philadelphia and
Boston feeder, and, if our people do not
speedily wake up to a fnll understand
ing of the programme, he will succeed.
He has been in St. Louis, evidently, and
a very full meeting there, reported in the
Republican of the 16th, responded exactly
to his views. The honorable Tom does
not appear in the proceedings, but we
may be very sure he is in the pie up to
his neck, as St. Louis is the base of his
operations in the West. It was by no
means a duffer meeting of enthusiasts
and engineers, but was composed of solid
and important persons with money at
their backs, and means business. The
object of the meeting was stated to be:
“To consider the necessity, feasibility
and the way and means of establishing a
second railway across the continent to
the Pacific coast, in order to give our
commerce the advantage of competition
and the cheaper rates resulting therefrom,
and to adopt measures for the holding of
a national convention on Tuesday, No
vember, 23, 1875, for the purpose of me
morializing Congress to take action look
ing to this desirable end.”
Mr. Jas. O. Broadhead in his speech
said :
“It is evident that a road should be
constructed in a lower latitude, where
there are no such periodical obstructions
as those mentioned, where the country is
not all a waste, and that this road shall
be operated as a means of redeeming us
from the oppression of that grinding
monopoly, the Union Pacific Railroad.
This should be done—not for the benefit
of St. Louis, but for New Orleans, for
Memphis, for Cincinnati, for the entire
Mississippi Valley, for the entire East,
and for the entire country. This accom
plishment, however, will be a special
benefit to St. Louis, which must be the
natural terminus of the road, and must
add millions to her already great wealth. ”
This is tremendously seductive to us.
How is a road to inure to the “benefit of
New Orleans” and the South, which runs
fy om San Diego to Fort Worth, thence to
Vinita, Indian Territory', thence to St.
Louis and so on to Philadelphia and Bos
ton ? This is the road they want. It
would leave New Orleans out sntirely,
which we hereby warn our readers is the
deliberate purpose of those people. And
pretty soon they will be missionating
down here to get us to help them cut our
innocent throats.
Ex-Governor Thomas C. Reyndds shed
more light on the subject, in words fol
lowing, to-wit:
“A Southern road, however would
skirt the rich provinces of Mexico, and
bring to St. Louis , New York an d Boston
the splendid and wealth-producing com
merce of that country.”
Of course it would, and at our expense.
This is the kernel of the scheme.
Mr. D. T. Jewett followed with a small
tub, which was deemed sufficient to sat
isfy the Southern whale. He said “that
this meeting was not held to consider
what changes had occurred ia public
opinion, but to make public opnion. He
hf'J given this subject much attention,
and he was satisfied ihat a railroid some
where between the 32d and the 35th lati
tude was as necessary to this ccuntry as
was the Mississippi river. ”
“Between the 32d and the 115th lati
tude” means between Vicksburg and
Memphis, and so across to Wiiningfon
or Charleston. But the absurdity of this
route as a road which will “skirt the rich
provinces of Mexico, and briig to St.
Louis, New York and Boston the splendid
and wealth-producing commerce of that
country” is apparent. The subsidy is
wanted for use on the road between San
Diego and St. Louis via Vinita.
The upshot of the meeting was the fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved , That a national railroad con
vention be held in St. Louis on the 23d
of November next, for the purpose indi
cated in the call for this meeting; and
that the chairman appoint an executive
committee of fifteen, which shall have
power to appoint sub-ccmjnittees to
carry out the objects of this meeting.
We think this is a clear enough expo
sition of the general object, and it be
hooves the people of the South to be on
their guard. We have a just claim on
the government for such assistance to a
Southern Pacific road, but let our repre
sentatives see to it that tlie aid, if ob
tained, is not diverted wholly from us
and used merely to further Mr. Scott’s
Pennsylvania scheme.
The Cholera a Periodical Epidemic.
—The year 1756 marks the recognition of
periodically returning twelve-yearly epi
demics, connected with the great twelve
yearly Hindoo festivals at tie great tem
ples. The great twelve-yearly epidemics
of 1756, 1768, and 1781, hate been well
described by Paisley and ofhers. Three
times twelve, or thirty-six years subse
quently, the great historical epidemic
and that of 1817. This epidemic and
that of 1871 were distinctly Juggernaut
pilgrim cholera. In 1826 the first indi
cations of another pestilence appeared
in the north of India; epidemic cholera
broke out at Hurdwar, the great place of
pilgrimage at the source of the Ganges,
where it issues from the foot of the
Himalaya mountains. A few hun
dred thousand pilgrims go to Hurd
war every year ; more every third year ;
still more every sixth and ninth years,
and fully 3,000,000 assemble every twelfth
year, and a vaster number every six
tieth year. The cholera of 1826 was car
ried all over the world. In New Orleans
alone, out of a population of 55,000, 6,000
died. The last great twelve-yearly epi
demic commenced in India in 1865, and
reached the United States in 1866. If
this periodical theory is correct, the next
cholera epidemic will be a Juggernaut
one in 1877, supplemented by a Hurdwar
cholera in 1879; although the constant
intercourse of Russia with Central Asia
may be tho means of introducing the
lesser epidemic into Europe. But in 1877
and 1879 we may expect an outburst of
the disease, such as there was in 1781 and
1783, 1817 and 1819, 1820 and 1831, 1841
and 1843, 1853 and 1855, and 1865 and
1867.— Applet n's A merican Cyclopeedia.
*
New Mexico.— ■’Washington, September
20.—The re-electivS of Delegate Elkins
from New Mexico revives a scene during
the closing hours of the last Congress,
when Colorado and New Mexico were be
fore the House for admission, with the
Senate amendments to House bill pend
ing for agreemeit. Mr. Elkins was confi
dent of securing the requisite two-thirds
(with the assiettnee of his Democratic
friends) for the suspension of the rules,
when a majority would have passed the
bill. A short time before the bill came
up for consideration the force bill was
under discussion, and Congressman Bur
rows, who had concluded an intense Radi
cal harangue, was receiving the con
gratulations of his colleagues when Mr.
Elkins entered the hall, unaware of the
reason for the demonstration. He joined
the crowd about Burrow’s desk, shook
hands with him in full view of the Demo
cratic sid i, which also shook some of the
respect the Democrats had for him, and
it was then agreed Mr. Elkins’ ambition
to become United States Senator should
be checked by voting against the suspen
sion of th? ruies, and two votes were all
that were necessary to have changed the
resuit. That is why New Mexico did not
receive the same privilege as Colorado.
She was an elderly lady, and as she
seated he~self on one of the stools in
Wallach’s store "and asked to be shown
some “ealiker,” she remarked that when
she was 3 ’’gal" she thought she was
powerful lucky if she got sixteen yards
in a dress, and she thought it a “singful”
waste of stuff to put ir more; but she
had just “heem” that Mrs. X. was agoin’
to hev forty-two yards in her new cali
ker, and she hoped that there might be a
cloud burst in seventeen minutes if that
air woman should stare round at her in
church and make remarks about her
clothes. “You kin jist cut me off forty
three yards, and Fli have it made pin
back fashion, with an overdress and a
sqzare mainsail, and a flyin’ jib and a
bank-action; then I’d jist like to see that
stuck-up Mrs, X. put on airs over me.”
Mrs. Snipe, of Texas, made her hus
band ■Bvilbeffore her. Gamey 1
CAPTURE OF MORRIS.
How and Where He vru Captured.
[Atlanta Herald.]
Ever since Governor Smith offered a
reward for the capture of General Joseph
Morris, the instigator and leader of the
negro insurrectionist in Southeastern
Georgia some weeks ago, Capt. Murphy
has had his eyes open, and has frequent
ly been on a hot trail after the General,
but it was not until last Friday that he
got the matter to where he regarded
it as an assured success. Suffice it, how
ever, his whereabouts has always been
known to the sharp detectives. Gen
eral Morris arrived in Atlanta last
Friday. The object of his daring visit is
unknown, but he secretly found his
way to the United States Court room,
where fie would remain conhned in the
offices from early until late. But judg
ing from the circumstances in the case,
it would seem that he was fully aware
that detectives were on his tracks and
watching him closely. He must have
had some idea that he would find pro
tection under the wings of the United
States officials in this city, or he would
certainly never have come here.
Yesterday Captain Ed. Murphy loitered
around the United States Court rooms,
having very positive knowledge that his
man was in there, and several times he
asked citizens to help him watch around
the doors, as there are two stairways
leading up to the offices and court room.
It was not until late in the afternoon that
Captain Murphy knew for a certainty
that General Joseph Morris was in the
building, and then he saw him with his
own eyes. The Captain quietly walked
into the office of United States District
Attorney Farrow, and seeing General
Morris standing in there, held a note
towards him, with a request that he
would carry it to someone outside for
him. But the General smelt a mouse
and asked someone standing beside
him to carry the note. Capt. Murphy
refused to give him the note and passed
it off with a laugh as a joke. Someone
spoke in a whisper to Gen. Morris, and
as Capt. Murphy says, he feels assured
that he told the General his name and
business, for very soon Gen. Morris,
silently and unobserved by any save Ed.,
slid into one of the side rooms and
locked the door. Being at his row’s end,
Capt. Murphy had no other alternative
now but to play his hand open. He told
them who the negro was, and that he
wanted him, but they did not give him
up.
Murphy sent for some citizens, also for
Captain Anderson, Chief of the Police,
and Sheriff Perkerson. He also wrote a
note to Judge Erskine, requesting per
mission to enter the court-room to catch
the General. Meantime Sheriff Perker
son and Chief of Police Captain Ander
son made their appearance on the scene.
By this time it was eight o’clock in
the night. Not wishing to break
open the door of a United States office,
they thought of taking him through the
transom. Captain Murphy climbed up
to the transom and struck a match, but
could not get a glimpse at his bird, yet
knew he had not flown. Sheriff Perker
son climbed up to the transom and went
inside. In a moment he exclaimed,
“Here he is !” He was found crouched
up under the table. Captain Murphy
climbed through the transom and placed a
pair of iron bracelets which he had upon
the wrist of the General. Thus having
him secure, they unlocked the door and
marched the General down to jail, where
he now remains in close confinement.
Mb. Jones’s Misapprehension. —lt was
only two days ago, remarks a temperance
paper, that Jones was injudiciously full.
Being painfully aware of his inebriety,
he endeavored to conceal it from the
public by buttoning his coat up very
closely, imparting an abnormal stiffness
to his knees, and tripping over his own
heels. He stalked up to a street car,
walked briskly in just as the horses start
ed forward—and instantly tumbled out
backward without unbending a muscle.
Straightway he recovered the upright,
splashed with mud, and entered the ear
and seated himself beside an acquain
tance, making no sign of his mishap.
Presently he turned to this individual
and queried:
“Klishn ?”
“No.”
He considered a moment and then
asked:
“Offetrack?”
“No.”
More reflection—sleepily; then again :
“liunoverprespice ?”
“No.”
“Splozhn ?”
“No.”
Somnolent cogitation.
“Any acc’dent ?”
“Not at all.”
He took this piece of information into
his intellectual maw, and digesting it
concluded he must be very drunk in
deed. Anxious to cover up the disgrace
ful fact and turn the matter off respecta
bly, he shortly turned again with the
bland observation:
“Well, if I’d anone that I wooden’t
got out.”
He blinked off into an unconscious
state after awhile, then “woke up” with
his eyes very wide open, to show that he
had only been thinking. He rode on
about a mile beyond his street, and was
finally taken home in a hack.
Highwaymen Baffled. Theodore
Mossman, a liquor dealer, of 506 Eighth
avenue, went to New Jersey on Friday to
collect money from several saloon keepers
in and near West Hoboken and Union
Hill. He started home in the evening
with about SSOO in his pocket. On the
Hackensack plank road, about a mile from
the Schutzen Park, a well-dressed young
man sprang from behind a dumb of
bushes, and seized the horse by the bri
dle. Two men, meanly dressed and wear
ing striped shirts and no coats, climbed
at the back of the wagon, and one of them
struck Mossman twice in quick succes
sion on the head and the back of the
neck with what seemed to boa
short bar of iron. Mossman fell back
stunned. He could make no active
defense, but had just strength and sense
enough to thrust his hands into his
pockets and hold them there. The high
waymen beat his hands and arms with
their clubs, but he kept fast hold on his
money. As Mossman’s last ray of con
sciousness was dying out, the highway
men were alarmed by the approach of a
man on the road. They then struck their
victim two parting blows, sprang from
the wagon and disappeared. The man
hastened on to the Schutzen Park, where
Mossman was well known, and gave an
alarm, but no trace of the thieves could
be found. Mossman’s head, arms and
hauds were badly cut and bruised, but no
bones were brokon.
It is thought that the deed was com
mitted by the gang who for two months
have operated near West Hoboken and
Union Hill. There have been few nights
in which there has not been an attempt
at burglary, and more than once three
houses have been robbed on the same
night. — _V. Y. Sun.
A young lady, in a note to the Jewish
Messenger , says: “I don’t argue with
Mr. Solomon that it is ‘unchaste and im
moral’ for men and women to be seated
together at worship, because there are
hundreds of church-goers against whom
the breath of scandal could not be raised;
but for us Jews, with our gossipping
ways, our good-natured women and com
plaisant men, it is better that we keep
separated in synagogue. The rabbis un
derstood human nature when they made
the law, that if promiscuous seating were
allowed, brothers would stray out of their
family pews and slyly enter others where
dark-eyed maids of Judah demurely
awaited their coming, and behind their
prayer-books they would whisper, inno
cently enough, but yet matters not con
tained in the ritual. I like the men, but
prefer them at a distance in synagogue.”
Senator Bayard, in a speech delivered
last Friday, in Baltimore, upon the
financial situation, illustrated a very pre
valent feeling by stating that a wealthy
man had declared to him that his chief
want now was a fire and burglar-proof
safe, in which his wealth could be locked
up. Clearly what the country requires
is more confidence. Whatever may be
the differences of opinion on the subject
of the currency, nothing is more certain
than that any rational expectation of im
provement must include a restoration of
confidence. To secure that we must
have an end of rings whose plunderings
involve ruinous taxation, depreciate the
value of property, destroy the public
faith in local and national government,
and fill the community with apprehension
and distrust.
CITY AFFAIRS.
THE TURK.
The Integrity of (he Trotting Course.
Savannah, September 23, 1875.
Editor Morning -A ews :
The trotting season, which has been
inaugurated at Thunderbolt Park under
the auspices of prominent gentlemen,
who are members of the Savannah
Jockey Club, promises to be one of un
usual activity, the spirited race of the
10th instant being followed bv one
(closed with six entries) for the 24th,
to-morrow. The purpose of the proprie
tor, we have been told, is a most laudable
one : the establishment of trotting turf
interests in this section upon an endur
ing basis, the eradication of all dishonor
able practices, and the exclusion, so far
as possible, of that wretched “jockeyism"
which tends to lower the reputation of
turf sports. In this connection the fol
lowing article from Wilkes' Spirit of the
Times will be appreciated by the honest
lover of the turf. * Photon.
Integrity of the Trotting Turf.—
Those who charge that the morals of the
turf are more lax than those which pre
vail in ordinary business transactions,
contend, in fact, that the leading trotting
associations of America are either lacking
in knowledge of the ways of the world,
or else are maliciously trying to under
mine and destroy the popularity of this
our great national amusement. To argue
that the honesty of the trotting turf is
undermined, that the managers of our
popular trotting courses are corrupt, and
that our drivers are nothingbetter than a
set of swindlers, banded together for the
purpose of defrauding the public, simply
because it occasionally trau spires that a
horse is pulled in a race, or that judges
have been known to wink at fraud, is
equivalent to charging that the whole
commercial world is dishonest because a
rascally dealer is occasionally detected;
that the clergy are all loose because a few
preachers have been guilty ; or that all of
our banks are unsound because there is
an occasional failure among them. As
we have before remarked in these col
umns, there are tricks, and rings, and
dishonest practices in all branches of
business, and the trotting turf has its
full proportion of these nuisances, but
that a majority of the men who control
our flourishing trotting associations, or
even any considerable portion of them
are dishonest, we deny. For strict in
tegrity, they will compare with the very
best in the communities in which they
live, as every one who has given the
matter any .attention can bear witness.
There are drivers too, and many of
them, who would scorn to do a dishon
orable act, and such men are rapidly
going to the front of the profession,
while the tricksters and scoundrels are
being weeded out and expelled by
the inflexible and high-toned moral code
that governs these organizations. There
may be a few rascally drivers and
swindling proprietors of trotting courses
that cover the trotting turf with their
baleful presence to about the same extent
that the running turf is dishonored and
disgraced by a like element; but we pre
fer rather to point out the rogues and
drive them from the turf, or, at least,
make their villainy so conspicuous that
reputable men will have nothing to do
with their swindling schemes, rather than
to denounce, in a wholesale manner, an
amusement that commands the patronage
of the greatest and best men of our laud.
Nine-tenths of all the hue-and-cry that
is raised about “put up jobs,” and “fixed
up races,” has its origin with those who
have made unfortunate investments in
the pool box, and who seek to break the
force of their own losses, or excuse their
own lack of judgment, by charging the
responsibility upon someone else. It is
easy work to charge corruption in a
general way, and sing peans of praise to
v rtue, morality and religion; but such
clap-trap, while it may serve to make a
little cheap reputation, does no good.
Everybody condemns wrong in the
abstract, but it is the true mission of
the reformer to specify- the wrongs
that he would have righted, and to
point out the transgressors, as Nathan
did to David, with a finger so
direct that no one may be mistaken
as to who and what is meant. Such a
style of preaching requires some cour
age, we will admit, but he who is lacking
in that attribute should never assume the
role of a censor of public conduct.
James Bussell Lowell very aptly ex
pressed the difference between this milk
and-water style of preaching, which of
fends nobody and accomplishes no object
but the glorification of the preacher and
that which boldly goes right at the root
of the evil, when he penned the following
lines:
I’m willin’ a man should go tol’able strong
Agin wrong in the abstract, ’cause that kind •’
wrong
Is always unpop’lar and never gits pitied,
’Cause it’s a crime no one ever committed;
But he musn’t be hard on partic’lar ship,
’Cause then he’d be kickin’ o’ somebody’s shins.
An Indian Fair—A Novel Exhibition
in the Indian Territory.
Muskogee, Indian Territory, Septem
ber 16. —The attendance to-day at the
Indian International Fair was much
larger than on yesterday, over three
thousand persons being present. The
first prize for ladies’ equestrianship was
awarded to Miss Mary Brower, a Chero
kee. There were seven entries. The
second prize was contested by a colored
delegation, thirteen entries, and was
awarded to Miss Jane Hawkins. The
race for the third prize was ridden by
three full-blooded Indian ladies—Wa
haha, a Comanche; Mineyea, a Chey
enne, and Ashaha, a Comanche. They
rode in their native costumes, with bows
and quivers, and full-feathered iron
pointed arrows slung over their shoulders.
In their gay blankets and shawls, and
riding in the mode of their male com
panions, they attracted great attention.
Indians from the Plains had been se
lected as judges, but when the riders
were brought up to the stand to receive
the award, the judges declined to act,
fearing their relationship might prejudice
their decision. Other judges were sub
stituted, but they failed to decide upon
the first trial, and the contestants were
required to exhibit for a third time,
much to the delight of the spectators.
The prize was finally awarded to Mine
yea, the Cheyenne, the young wife of
McKusker, the interpreter. The modesty
and humility that characterized the con
testants while awaiting the decision of
the judges was remarked by all.
The reading of an essay on temperance
by,Miss Sarah Duncan, one of tho pupils
of the Cherokee Orphan’s School, and the
singing of the orphans, were exception
ally pleasant features of the day. An
essay by Miss Kizzie Wiudslett, of the
Creek Tallahassie Mission, was a very fine
effort. Speeches were made by Mr.
Reynolds, of the Parsons Sun ; Ashaba,
a Comanche chief, and Pace-n, chief of
the Apaches. A number of running
races closed the day’s proceedings. In
the evening an exhibition of the children
of the Cherokee Orphan Asylum was
largely attended. There was singing by
the children and addresses by William
P. Ross, chief of the Cherokees, and
General Shanks, Special United States
Commissioner. A number of Plains
Indians were also present with their in
terpreter.
Yearly View of the Cotton Crop.—
The New York Journal of Commerce
presents its yearly review of the cotton
crop, beginning with the Ist of Septem -
ber as the commercial year. The figures
show that 3,509,691 bales have been re
ceived at the ports, 131,604 bales sent
overland, and 126,550 consumed at the
South, making a total crop up to the be
ginning of the month of 3,827,845 bales.
The exports to foreign ports have been
2,674,448 bales, against 2,840,981 last
year—a falling off of 166,533, and 5,538
less than in 1872-3. The total home
consumption of cotton this year is esti
mated at 1,200,473 bales, against 1,321,-
890 last year. In the year ending August
31, 1874, the highest price of middling
upland in the New York market was 20§
cents, and the lowest 13j. For the year
ending upon the same date of the present
season the extremes of price were 17£jrhci
14|, which showed less fluctuation id the
market. Of course the recoml of gales and
production, as here given, inohides much
of the year's crop, and cannot be taken
as an exhibit of what the present year’s
production will be. The same authority,
however, makes the estimates for the
new year range from four to four and a
half million bales, the average of ex
portation resting upon four and a quarter
millions, which will leave us on a basis of
commercial security as far as cotton can
do it.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summary of the Week’gf Dispatches.
HOMICIDE IN GAINESVILLE.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Gainesville, Fla., September 23.
Mr. T. H. Branch, our worthy and vigi
lant town marshal, was brutally shot
down in one of our principal streets this
morning by an Irishman named Shoals.
Mr. Branch died in five minutes. He
was shot u itli a double barrelled shot
gun. Both loads took e ffect, one in the
side end the other in the back.
death and desolation.
Galveston, Septem her 21. —The Morgan
steamer Harlan came into port this morn
ing with her colors at half mast. A
large crowd gathered at the wharf to
learn the fate of ludianola. The destruc
tion there was almost complete. Only
five business houses were left. These
are H. Zeligsen A Cos., H. ltunge & Cos.,
D. Sullivan & Cos., Cossimir Littlemore,
and D. H. Began. The people are suf -
fering for food and clothing.
The following note was received :
To the Editors of the News :
We are destitute, the town is gone and
one-fourth of the people are gone. Dead
bodies are strewn for twenty miles along
the bay, and nine-tenths of the houses
are destroyed. Send us help, for God's
sake. ®
(Signed) D. W. Crom,
District Attorney.
The following was received by busi
ness firms from correspondents: “On
Wednesday, the 15th, the wind was from
the eastward, veering to the north. On
Thursday morning it became more
steady, increasing to a gale. The water
was waist deep. Every man. woman and
child were seeking places of safety. It
1 lew fearfully. The situation was awful.
Screams from women and children could
be heard in every direction. The water
was six feet deep on the streets. About
two o’clock Friday morning the wind
veered to the northwest. ' The waves
then became chopped, and the houses
were washed away or tumbled to
pieces. The wind toward morning
began to lull a little, and the water
was getting lower. The wind then veer
ed to the north and then came hope.
Daylight began to break, aud then did we
behold the awful destruction around and
thanked our God that we had been saved,
and that our perilous condition was as
nothing compared with the sufferings of
our neighbors and citizens along the bay.
Broad daylight revealed a scene that was
terrible to behold. The town could not
be recognized as the ludianola of the day
previous. The rum is total. There is
ruin everywhere. People were seen
walking and jumping over one
gully and another. Neighbor met
neighbor aud told of the troubles
aud tribulations of the previous night.
Death and destruction were all around.
A number of houses was crushed to the
ground; others were swayed round and
leaning over. The wind was dying and
the water disappearing from places iu
the streets. Those that could do so ral
lied to learn the news. Bodies of men,
women and children were found in all
directions. A police and guards were or
ganized, and the search was made for
missing relations aud friends. How
many have lost their lives in this
fearful storm it is impossible
to learn up to this time. Sixty or seventy
bodies have been found and buried.
Women were found, and men also, who
had floated off on doors or anything they
could get hold of. Some beneath the
roofs were carried away long distances.
The escape of so many of our citizens is
almost miraculous. The search for bodies
is still going on, and the number of
human beings drowned will never be
known, as there were a large number of
strangers in town. We estimate the num
ber of lives lost at one hundred and
fifty. S. J. Huck lost everything
but his house. Eighteen bodies were
found yesterday and the search will be
continued until all of the dead are de
posited in their last resting place. You
cannot imagine the extent of the disas
ter. Nothing short of its full details will
give the proper knowledge. Numbers of
persons were out on rafts for hours but
in many cases were not saved. William
Taylor, in jail for the Sutton murders,
was let out of jail to prevent his
being drowned, and made bis escape. All
the churches in the town are swept
away. The court house is safe. One
hundred and fifty-five persons, including
Captain Sam Brown and two of his
family, were saved. They had
taken refuge in the lighthouse.
Brown is now the only surviving
pilot at the pass. Great destitution pre
vails. The Victoria people hearing of it,
nobly sent up assistance at once. Infor
mation from Corpus Christi reports that
town safe. They escaped the heavy gale.
The town of Saluria is entirely washed
away. The telegraph lines are prostrated
for miles.
New Orleans, September 21. —The
Bulletin extra has the following regard
ing Indianola: The first of the storm,
it seems, carried away the telegraph
lines, and the communication between
Galveston and Indianola was cut off.
Indianola is situated on Matogorda Bay,
and there is no protection in front of it.
It has about one thousand inhabitants.
The losses it seems is fully one-fifth.
Fears are entertained that Rockport,
Matagorda and Corpus Christi have suf
fered. Over two hundred lives are lost.
A Picayune extra has the following :
Sabine Pass via Orange, September
21. —This city is submerged and consid
erable damage has been done to wharves
and buildings by the terrific storm
through which we have just passed.
Much loss of stock is reported, and crops
in the surrounding country have been
considerably injured. No loss of life,
happily, has been so far reported. The
little mail steamer Pelican State was
wrecked in Sabine Lake, but the passen
gers and crew were saved. Many
small crafts have been blown
off and capsized. Captain Gibbs, of the
schooner Truman, from New York to In
dianola, with assorted cargo, arrived to
day, and reports his schooner ashore
fifteen miles west of the Pass, and a total
loss. The gale caught him off the Pass,
and there he lost his reckoning. The
crew were in the rigging for twelve hours,
but were all saved. No news has been
received from Calicasien, but the worst is
feared, as much lighter gales have in the
past swept the place, with much loss of
life.
THE LIBERALS.
Albany, September 22. —The Liberal
Republican State Convention met with
three hundred delegates. General John
Ouuhrauo vran ujoilo permanent chairman.
Resolutions were offered and referred en
dorsing Tilden’s reform measures, recom
mending the party to vote for persons
who personally and politically are in
sympathy with him and his reform meas
ures which he inaugurated, and recom
mending the Liberal Republicans to vote
the Democratic ticket.
Later. —The platform asserts that
there can be no sound currency but coin,
or paper convertible into coin on demand;
without the speedy resumption of a
specie basis a national disaster threatens;
the civil service needs reforming; depre
cates forcible interference with State
rights; condemns the administration; en
dorses Tilden’s action against the canal
ring; recommends the Liberal and Inde
pendent voters to support those candi
dates already in nomination, of whpm x
they most approve, and who ip - their
judgment will co-operate witk 6ot. Til
den in the work of administrative reform.
THE GULF. CYCLONE.
New York, September 22. —A Times
special from Gapreston of the 22d says
the Australia U£s five and a half feet out
of water. T Me body of Hill Blount, lost
with Dr. Bfjel, has been found. Six
bodies were Vound in different parts of
the bay ye| terday. The bark Mary
Green and Ahe schooners Minerva and
Amos Huston are high and dry. The
schooner Adelaide is ashore on high
ground./ The schooner Christiana will
prove a total loss.
The /steamship Harlan gave all the
provis/jns she could spare to the citizens
of Indianola. The town of Velasoo is
entira'y swept away. The storm or
cyclone appears to have taken m its
course the belt of country some forty
miles in width from the north of Gal
veston island, extending to the north of
Houston. The hurricane swept oyer- this
entire section of the coast to the west of
Indianola into the Gulf, GalYeston was
to the south of the more severe storm.
shot and chloroformed.
Newbubyport, Mass., September 23.
Dr. Norton, a dentist, was called out by
a patient and was shot, chloroformed and
robbed of a watch and $l6O. The chances
favor Norton’s recovery.
greenbacks.
New York, September 23.—A meel
ing was held in Cooper Institute until
the auspices of the Legal Tender Clul
the object of which, in the words of tjfl
call, was to demonstrate that greenback
must meet the necessities of peace 1
well as they met those of war Hoi
Bichard Schell presided. A list of Vic J
Presidents was read, among whom wel
Peter Cooper, Benjamin Minier C vJ
Poillon, Bobert McCafferty, C k ’ leon |
Tucker, Horace P. Whitney and GenerJ
Davies. Letters were read expressinl
regret at being unable to attend fro I
Wendell Phillips, of Mass., Wm E Polll
yea, oLPenn., and Thomas C. Durant I
Washington. Mr. Peter Cooper was oil
the platform. General Butler, Hon wl
D. Kelley, and other prominent gentle !
men announced to speak, were nod
present. Speeches were made by Then 1
E. Tomlinson, Edward Crane, of Boston
J. B. McGee, of Illinois, and others]
The following resolutions were adopted •
Resolved, a hat, as the contraction of
the currency heretofore made and thJ
further contractiou proposed, with
view to a forced resumption of speci i
payments, has already brought disaste
to the business of the country aud
threatens general bankruptcy, we de
maud that this policy be abandoned, am
that the volume of the currency be made
and kept equal to the wants of trad,
leaving the restoration of legal tenders to
a par with gold to be brought about by
promoting the industries of the people
and not by destroying them.
Resolved , That the policy already initi
ated of abolishing legal tenders and giv
ing National Banks power to furnish all
the currency will increase the power of
an already dangerous monopoly and the
enormous burdens now oppressing the
people, and that we oppose this policy
and demand that all the National Bank
circulation be promptly and permanently
retired and legal tenders issued in place
thereof.
Resolved, That the public interest de
mands that the government should cease
to distrust its own currency, and should
make its legal tenders receivable for all
public dues, except where respect fofl
obligations of contracts require payment
in coin, and that we favor the payment
of at least half of the customs in legal
tenders.
Resolved, That we demand the extinc
tion of the present national banks, and
the establishment instead of a system of
free banks of discount and deposit, under
such regulations ns the States may
respectively prescribe, and no paper cur
rency except such as may be issued
by and upon the faith of the General
Government.
Resolved, That we send cheer and sym
pathy to the great Democratic party of
the West, and that we hail their success
as a triumph of the people over a mo
nopoly which threatens the safety of the
country.
Resolved, That wo recommend the
electors throughout the State of New
York to assemble in their various dis
tricts and form Legal Tender Clubs m
conformity with resolutions adopted by
this meeting, to give strength to the
great Democratic party in Ohio and
Pennsylvania in the approaching can
vass.
The chairman stated that this was the
first of a series of mass meetings to be
held under the auspices of the Legal Ten
der Club. The meeting then adjourned.
An audience, mostly composed of labor
ing men, filled the hail.
THE MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS.
Worcester, Mass., September 22.
The Democrats and Liberal Republicans
of Massachusetts, assembled in conven
tion, declare and affirm as the basis of
their action:
First. We reiterate the declarations
comprehensively made by the National
Conventions at Cincinnati and Baltimore
in 1872, accepting the recent amenckueuts
to the Federal Constitution as afulg final
and permanent adjustment of the politi
cal controversies incident to the late war.
Second. Wo demand for the Union the
support in full vigor of all its constitu
tional powers as the supreme authority,
utterly repudiating all claim of right by
any State to secede from the U.non, or
to nullify its laws, and demand for each
State as equally iuviolablo the right to
govern itself at its sovereign pleasure,
subject only to the limitations and obli
gations of the Federal Constitution.
Third. In the interests of public
morals, the nation’s credit and the com
mon welfare, we oppose any further issue
by the government of a currency incon
vertible with gold—the world’s recognized
measure of value—and we favor a speody
return to specie payments as essential to
the revival of commerce, business and
crodit of the country, and to the welfaro
of the laboring masses.
Fourth. We arraign the Republican
party for its extravagant expenditure and
profligate waste of the people’s money,
for its corruption, for its peculations, for
its contempt of Constitutional obligation,
for its extortionate increase of sinecures
and of the salaries of our public officers,
for its oppressive, unjust and defective
system of taxation, finance and cur
rency, (which have degraded public and
private morality and brought upon us the
present depression in the commercial and
industrial interests of the country), for
its centralization of power and its en
couragement of monopolies and corporate
corruption, for its continuance of incom
petent and dishonest men in office, and
for its general mismanagement of both
State and Federal governments.
The platform concludes : We take an
honest pride in the cordial and enthusi
astic approval by the people of the whole
country, on the 17th of June, 187/;, of
the policy of reconciliation, peace and
fraternity advocated by the Democratic
and Liberal Republican parties in 1872,
and wo mention with special satisfaction,
the assurance that that policy will be in
augurated by the administration to be
placed in power in 1870.
the statue of stonewall.
Richmond, September 23. —Foley’s
statue of General Sionewall Jackson,
presented to Virginia by Hon. Beresford
Hope, M. P., and other Englishmen,
arrived last evening from Baltimore, and
was formally received to-day by Gove*"
nor Kemper. The people turned out en
masse to witness the reception, the
streets presenting a holiday appearance.
At 3:30 p. m. the First Regiment
of Virginia Volunteers and veterans of
the old First Virginia and Richmond
Howitzers proceeded to the wharf of
the Powhattan Steamboat Company,
where the; case containing the statue
was awaiting transportation to the
Capitol. It had been placed upon a.
wagon, and was covered with the flags of
Great Britain and Virginia. Long ropes
were attachod to the wagon, and at the
word of command the veterans of the
old Firs*-, tofjothor with large number
of citizens took hold, and with
a portion of the present First
Regiment at the head of the column took
up the line of march, the remainder of
the regiment and the Howitzers bringing
up the rear. Upon reaching the Capitol
square the wagon was drawn to the foot
of the steps of the Capitol, where
Colonel Bradley L. Johnson, Commander
of the First, formally delivered the
statue to Governor Kemper in a brief
speech, referring in feeling terms to the
time twelve years ago when he com
manded the funeral escort of the
and gallant soldier who wa a
honored by the -people of Great Britain.
Governed Kemper responded, receiving
tyK- statue in the name of the people of
v irginia, and thanking the soldiers and
citizens for the spontaneous honor which
had been done to as true a hero as ever
trod the earth. In doing this they had
done much also to testify to the gratitude
of Virginians to the noble friends on the
other side of the world who had
sent this great tribute of admiration and
sympathy from the old world to the new
from Great Britain to Virginia. Gover
nor Kemper, in the name of Virginia,
took possession of the gift, receiving it
not more as a great sculpter’s work of
art than a work of English affection fair
Y irginia and her immortal son. In reS
sponse to loud calls from the immens|i
throng present, Mayor Keily also made*
beautiful and stirring speech. The cal
was then placed in the basement of till
Capitol, where it will remain until til
pedestal now being prepared in Capitol
square is ready. The statue will be un4
veiled the latter part of October, during’
State Fair week. A
GEORGIA CROPS.
Atlanta, September 25. —The
report of the condition of the cr>fl
Georgia by the State Departim i.t ofl
riculture for the month ending dH
15th inst., gives the following genN|
average of yield for the crops named com
pared with the yield of last year : Com
85, cotton 73, sugar cane 70, sorghum
105, sweet potatoes 75, field peas 81.
ground peas 75. The area of turnips
sowed, as compared with last fall, is 102.