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I*re*ltl‘nflnl Prognostication*.
[Fume I be Nashville Americas.]
The somewhat unexpected result of
last Tuesday's Htate elections has, to
some extent, changed the aspect of the ,
Presidential race, and prompted speou
lstion as to the probabilities and
prospects of the national contest in
the centennial year. Six months ago
it was pretty generally conceded that the
Democracy would hare a soft thing
next year. Six days ago the Bepubli
cans had become quite convinced they
would have a walk over in 1876, while
the Democrats materially modified their
sanguine expectations of victory. Now
that the exultations oh the one aide, and
the keen disappointments on the other
have given way to 000 l reflection and I
calculation—especially as the Itepubli- |
can victories were not of the magnitude
first reported—it will not be out of place |
to forecast the probabilities of next year i
in the light of recent events and the j
present condition of parties.
Let us first look at the Republican 1
gains made this fall, premising, however,
that the Democratic victories of last year
were of the tidal wave character, when
the Republican party was being kicked ;
and cuffed on all aides, on account of the
venality, corruption and swindling
brought to light by the various investi
gating committees. Last fall Massachu
setts, Now York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Ohio and Wisconsin were earned by the
Democrats. The Democratic majorities in
these Btates taken together were 1012,028
Last fall Maine, lowa, Nebra-ka and
Minnesota were carried by the Republi
cans. Their aggregate Republican ma
jorities were 62,258. It will be per
ceived that tho net Democratic major
ity last fall in tho ten States of which
we are speaking was 40,770, or say, in
round numbers, 60,000, These ten
States have held elections this autumn.
All of them have gone Republican ex
cept New York and Maryland. The
aggregate of the Republican majori
ties, as nearly as can now be ascer
tained, cast in Maine, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, lowa, Nebraska,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, is 86,500. The
aggregate of the Democratic majorities
cast in New York rnd Maryland is about
22,500. It will be seen that the net Re
publican majority this fall in these ten
Btates is 03,000, and thattberr * hange
from last fall in favor of the ] ' jeans
of 118,000. It ought to be at* iow
ever, that Mississippi, from b a Re
publican State, has now bee on. Demo
cratic, which somewhat modifies the
> .a! illations above.
.ast fall the Democrats had possession
of a considerable majority of the Btates;
tb is fall, os the result of the recent elect
ees shows, leaves them nearly equally
a i Tided, with a slight preponderance of
the electoral votes in favor of the Demo
crats. This would, as matters now stand,
nsure a dose and interesting contest next
ear. We give below the list of Demo
cratic States, with the number of Presi
dential electors to which each is entitled:
Alabama 10
Arkansas (j
California (j
Connecticut (j
Delaware a
Florida i
Georgia n
Indiana 15
Kentucky *
Louisiana ' 3
Maryland 8
Mississippi ’’’ g
Missouri ’' 15
Now York ’ 35
New Hampshire 5
Texas 3
Virginia 11
West Virginia 5
f>' raocratic electoral votes 188
l lie Republican States, with their re
spoctive electoral votes, ore as follows :
Colorado 3
llliuois 21
lowa 11
Kansas 5
Maine 7
Massachusetts 13
Michigan 11
Minnesota * 5
Nebraska 3
Nevada 3
Now Jersey U
North Carolina 10
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itbode Islan l 4
South Carolina. 7
Vermont 5
Wisconsin 10
Republican electoral votes 181
It will be Heen that Wisconsin and
North Carolina arc classed as Republican
States, when the chances really ore that
at loast the latter will oast its electoral
vote for the Democratic nominee. Ohio
is also givon to the Republicans, although
it is not so certain that the Democrats
will not carry that State iu tin) next bout.
Altogether, tho outlook is not particu
larly unfavorable for the Democracy.
The Two Hills.
Two bills were awaiting iu the hunk for
their turn to go out into the world. One
was a little bill, only one dollar; tho other
w as a big bill, a thousand dollar bill.
While lyiug thero side by side, they
fell a-talkiug about their usefulness. The
dollar bill murmured out:
“Ah! if 1 was as big as you, what
good I would do ! I could move in such
high places, and people would be so care
ful of me wherever I should go ! Every
body would admire me, and want to take
me home with them ; but, small as I am,
~whnt good can Ido ? Nobody cares imtoli
for me. I am too little to be of auy
use.”
“Ah, yes, that is so," said the thousand
dollar bill; and it gathered up its well
trimmed edge that was lying next the
little bill, in conscious superiority.
“Thut is so,” it repeated. “If you were
as great as I am, a thousand times bigger
than you. then you might hope to do
Bomo good iu the world.” And its face
smiled a wrinkle of contempt for tho
little dollar hill.
Just then the cashier comes, takes tho
little murmuring bill, and kindly gives it
to a poor widow.
“God bless you !" she cries, os with a
smiling faco she receives it. “My dear
hungry children can now have’ some
bread.”
A thrill of joy ran through the little
bill as it was folded up in the widow s
hand, and it whispered: “I may do some
good, if lam small." And when it saw
the bright faces of her fatherless children
it was very glad that it could do a little
good.
Then the little dollar bill began its
journey of usefulness. It went first to
the baker's for bread, then to the mil
ler's, theft to the farmer’s, then to the la
borer's, then to the doctor’s, then to the
minister's, and wherever it went it gave
pleasure, adding something to their
comfort and joy.
At last, after a long, long pilgrimage
of usefulness among every sort of people,
it came back to tho bank again, crum
pled, defaced, ragged, softened by its
daily use. Seeing the thousand dollar
bill lying there, with scarcely a wrinkle
or finger mark upon it, it exclaims:
“Pray, sir, and what has been your
mission of usefulness?”
The big bill replies: “I have been from
safe to safe among the rich, where few
could see, and they were afraid to let me
go out far lest I should be lost. Few in
deed are they whom I have made happier
by my mission.”
Then the little dollar bill said : “It is
better to be small and go among the
multitudes doing good, than to be so
great as to be imprisoned in the safes of
the few.” And it rested satisfied with
its lot.
The Queen and Her Gillie. —The
Queen, who, in spite of the rainy and
wintry weather, still clings to Balmoral,
has just taken another opportunity of
showing her respect for her principal
heifthman, or, as he is called in the
Court Circular , “Her Majesty's personal
attendant, Mr. John Brown.” His father,
an old man of eight-seven, died the other
day at his cottage, near Balmoral, and
the Queen, with Prinoess Beatrice, at
tended the funeral, walking on foot part
of the way behind the ooffin, but not
going to the church-yard. The Court
Circular, which is written under the im
mediate supervision of the Queen, and
parts of which are often written by her
self, says: “He was one of the oldest in
habitants of the parish, and he, as well as
his wife, who survives him, was much
respected in the country. The funeral
was attended by his live sons, four of
whom are in the Queen’s service, and by
a very large number of relatives and
neighbors."— Correspondence Neva York
Tima.
The champion small baby is in Phillips
county, Kansas. Age, twenty-one days;
ounces.
LETTER FROM THE ANCIENT Clf¥.
More Troubles la ibe Now CU-Atlaailc
t’liy of Borrloboorah flab—MUslfbt
HI. (lan Holy Temple Deaperaie
< uoflirt la Said Maartuary— Hum llaa.
"•hrteblng and Yelling—Alarm al tbo
Barrarka nnd Among the Indians at
the Fort.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
St. Augustine, Fla., Not. 5, 1875.
Ou a certain night of the past week, at
the dead hour of midnight, when owlet*
shriek, ghosts walk and witches bestride
their brooms, the whole population of the
Ancient City was aroused. The cause of
said alarm, si first, was not ascertained.
Everybody was aware that the city was filled
with screams, howls, yells and other
demoniac sound,, evincing some unusual
disturbance. Radies and gentlemen ap
peared at their chamber windows, in their
robes de nuit. Borne of the more adventur
ous of our young citizeu* ventured into the
streets, but as the wind was blowidft fitfully,
in gusts, they could not determine from
whence the alarming sounds proceeded.
They heard the war-whoops of the Indiaus,
and tho natural suspicion which arose w,s
that they bad escaped from the fort, and
that all the inhabitants were involved in an
indiscriminate slaughter. You can imagine
the scene.
“Ah, then and there was hurrying to and fro.
And gathering tears and tremblings of distress.'’
A few, however, of the more staid and
sober of the citizens, suggested that these
alarming sounds rnigh' possibly proceed from
Cuffy Town, as they rudely ana ignorantly
denominated this new city of Borrioboorali
Gah, which is hound to become as classic as
that of the Simnpre Fid Ciudad De Han
Augustin, within whose precincts it is in
closed. Acting upon this suggestion, ears
were placed in close proximity with the
ground, after the rnauner of hunters when
their dogs get away, and it was soon decided
by the initiated that these unearthly souudg
did proceed from the suspected locality.
The next questijn, in plain English, was,
“what was the matter ?”
Various were the surmises, as I hinted be
fore. The war-whoops of the Indians were
still audible, but as the wind was blowing
from north i.st, northwest, west, southwest,
and shifting every few moments, as it does
frequently at this season of the year, it was
impossible to determine whether the
Indians were murdering and scalping
the inhabitants in solid mass or
whether they had distributed thenftelves
jn squads, and wore performing their devil
ish work in different portions of the city.
Consequently, all the revolvers and other
firearms were resorted to, and tongs, shovels
and broomsticks, which had been lying in
ambuscade for burglars, wore brought
quickly into requisition. At this critical
moment the Marshal, who divined the
origin of the tumult, dispatched a deputy
to the scene of action to report proceedings.
And herol must apologize for keep ng your
readers, like our citizens, in dire suspense
until I give them
AN EXPLANATOiIY EPISODE.
Among the fanes, temples, sanctuaries,
or by whatever other names the institu
tions devoted to religious purposes are
designated iu this interesting locality, the
Church of “The Howling Wilderness” stands
conspicuous.
This is presided over by the Rev. Brother
Bauks, who firmly impresses on his flock
the doctrino that “liaptism by faith is able
to sanctify sin.” lie is a preacher after the
model of “Absolom Stormheaven,” as
dt scribed by Walter Hcott, who also
“Troves his doctrines orthodox,
By apostolic blowi and knocks.”
Consequently, he has beaten down two
pulpits, and part of a third, iu his efforts to
impress, as vulgar report says, on his fl ick
this fundamental rule of taith. He im
presses on them, moreover, the absolute
necessity of “storming the bittlernents of
hoaveu, and seizing hold of salvation” (per
haps by the throat). The Plymouth pastor
is not only his great exemplar, but his idol.
He affects his air and manner; dresses
like him, in deep black, a long tail
frock coat, white neck tie. His
hair (?), which grows in profusion,
is carefully combed back; but even uuder
the severe discipline of the wool-card, the
rebellious wool will not “down at his bid
ding,” but persists in sticking up lise that
of a wall broom. He has therefore resorted
to the ingenious expedient of fixing a narrow
black baud, the oiulb secured somehow be
hind the ears, and so artfuliy iutortwined
with the fleecy locks that it cannot be dis
cerned, except by close inspection. In this
manner, aud by wearing bis hat constantly
—some say even iu bed—he has managed to
give them the downward tendency. His
complexion may bo described, vulgarly, as
pale pumpkin; countenance sanctified; eyes
always upturned, as if, too pure for this
world, lio is gazing anxiously into another.
Face beardless, smooth aud shining.
particular in giving the
of bkothek banks
because I am convinced that he is, iu some
respects, a somewhat remarkable character,
aud bound to exercise an influence, for good
or for evil, (I fear the latter, however,) over
tho darkies of this place, and probably else
where iu the Southern States, if he should
find his sphere of action here too circum
scribed. Iu his congregation is a fair
damsel, to whom he has attached himself,
in brotherly love, after the style of bis great
exemplar. In their intercourse he has en
joyed all those "douce effusions des i'ames;”
those sweet outpourings aud intermiuglings
of souls, whiob tho Plymouth pastor lias so
touchingly depicted in his allusions to his
Briseis. This created a little scandal
among the too inquisitive of his flock
about two months since. He, how
ever, preached a sermon, in which,
by the power of his eloquence, he
not only proved his innocence of auy impro
priety, hut conclusively proved the opposite
proposition, of his meritoriousnees. Besides
rnauy scriptural examples, he adduced the
case of the Plymouth pastor, who, he
remarked, also iu his phraseology,
had not only proved his innocence against
malicious slanderers, but won a “ crown of
immortal glory, which ho would wear for
ever, in the mansions of tho jest made per
fect.” For, whereas, his salary had been
only “twenty tousaud dollers, it was raise
to ono hunderd tousand ;” and delicately in
sinuated that the congregation should do
the same iu liis case.
This was evidence so incontrovertible,
that the most prudish of his congregation
determined to dismiss this subject from dis
cussion iu,the future. Another then arose
as to tho advisability of using old livmus
and psalms in the worship. One member,
Sister Nelly Frame, contended, that as “ de
whole country was reconstruck,” no hymn
or psalm that had ever been sung
“ ondeii dk constitution ob de rebels ”
should bo allowed iu the worship. The rec
tor, on the contrary, contended that as
“ Martin Looter, de great saint and eban
gelicle sabior ob de wold, bad sacrificed his
life at do lightwood stake, to atone for de
sins ob do whole world, bis psalm ‘ob de Ole
Hundred’ ought to be accept.”
It appears, briefly, that this had been tho
topic of discussion in the church ou the oc
casion alluded to, and before the disturb
ance. The congregation, however, were di
vided in their sentiments, and on this one
occasion at least the reverend pastor failed
to overrule their objections on so important
a question. It appears, moreover, that, to
conciliate both parties, he bad given out
tho leading oouplets of the “Old Hundred”
and also those of a hymn, “Oh 1 for a man
sion in de sky, sen down salbatiou from on
High;" remarking that “de parlimentarv
rule was dat de majority always carries de
vote. The questiod was then put, on the
vote, and, as it was difficult
to determine among the cries of
“ayes” and “noes” what “de vote” really
was, the ltevereud pastor deputed a presid
ing elder—or whatver else he might have
been termed—Elder Jedro (probablv Jethro)
Shanks, to count the votes, with "his stick
or waud, after the manner observed in con
veutions and other legislative bodies gener
ally. He reported iu favor of “de Ole Hun
derd,” and the pastor declared it “a vote.”
But Sister Nelly Frame not being, as she de
clared, “onder de jurissidifieation ob de
lvcbels, dettrmineU to assert her rights
“under de loth ’Mendment and de (Jibil
Lights b 11 of Congrits.” The miuoritv sus
tained her, aud whispers were heard of “go
ahead. Up to this time—half-past eleven
o'clock—all had been comparativelv quiet
and decorous in the church. But when
the melodeon or organ struck up with the
O.d Hundred, there was a stroug miuoritv
ready to sustain Sister Nelly Frame. Sister
Nelly had moreover been ‘ reared, as she
stated, rather exultantly, iu “Ole Souse
Caliua, where ebry body was reconstruck,
and free as de frog in de mill pond.” This
was a very strong appeal in behalf of her
party, and prevailed. Consequents, she
led off the opposition with the hvinn of
“Oh! fur a mansion in de skv,” to the
tune of
“HIGH BETTY MARTIN, TIP-TOE FINE,”
which air she greatly affected, having
learned it in her girlhood, in the aforesaid
“Ole Souse Calina.” She had just reached
the part of the couplet, second line, “Sen
down sal, sen down sal,” when the aforesaid
Presiding Elder came up with his
wand, which happened to be a
huge Kaseena stick, and or
dered her to “quit dat and jine de organ cho
rus. Sister Nelly had borne and forborne
a great deal on this occasion; but when she
saw the Elder confront her with his stick, or
wand, it was too much for her endurance,
and she was impelled to jump up, shake her
fist in his face, and call him a “stinkin hei
fer."
Elder Jedro was t hrown back upon
his dignity, and could only replv bv calling
her a “stinkin huzzy.” At this juncture
Brudder Lonzo Jenks’, to whom Sister Nel
ly was lienee, came up, and told |the Elder
plainly “dat he wouldn’t low no sech epau
lettes apply to dat ooman.” Here the Elder
became irate, and the wand went up in
threatening equipoise. But ere it could de
scend on the iucsless pate of anv one, it
was seized by one of the “minority,” aleryo.
At this interesting moment also’ a punch
in the epigastrium, from Brodder Jenks,
caused Elder Jedro to lose his equilibrium,
and he fell over a bench, cansing a great
disturbance. The commotion in the church
now became general, and many ({each party
were attracted to the scene of action. Elder
Jedro and Brodder Jenks had grappled, and
were performing various feet* of shoving
backwards, back tripping, shinning, etc.,
overturning benches. The cries of the by
standers became load and frequent. “Go
it, Brodder Jenks ; stand up for ole Souse
CaJina.” “Go in. Brodder Jedro, for de Ole
Hundred and de Constertushon of| de
church.”
Here Sister Binah, the beloved spouse of
the Elder, came up eDd closed in, seizing
on “ Brodder Jenks,” and struggling to un
-I‘iose his hold of the E der. But Sister
Nelly was there, and the blood of ole Sonse
Calina had risen in her to fever heat. So
she went incontinently for Sister Binah’s
wool, and they too clinched. Here then
another couple of combatants appeared
upon the arena, and things began to wear
a lively look. The shouts and vivas of the
spectators became vociferous, and the
shrieks and screams of the female combat
ants were like those of all the
MONKEYS IN A MENAGERIE
when aronsed by a panic. At this Btage of
the performance also the Rev. pastor de
scended from his pulpit and rushed to the
scene of the disturbance. This, however,
only added anew feature to the affair; for
whereas the spectators had, up to this time,
been simply shouting and yelling, they now
conceived the idea that the pastor “was go
ing in himself.” Consequently about two
dozen coats and jackets were quickly
thrown off, and a scene engued
which baffles description. AncieDt his
torians have told ns of the exercises
of the Pancratium, on the Paloestra, in the
historic days of ancient Greece—of the lut
ings, gongingg, hair-pullings and other
feats of the performers, in their efforts to
become victorious, and receive the laurel
crowns—but, in comparison with the feats
performed on this special occasion, (accord
ing; to my reporter) they sink into merited
insignificance. In vain did the Reverend
pastor call upon all the saints in the calen
dar to come to his assistance; his voice was
like that of the “Boatswain’s whistle,
amidst the howling of the tempest.”
The aspect of affairs at this juncture be
came terrific, and, according to the same
faithful reporter, the “shrieks, howls,
yells,” and other demonstrations of the
combatants “rent the funderments ot Hea
ben.”
In the midst of all this riot aod confu
sion, an old Nestor arose—a darkey from
Ole Souse Calina. He was of great influence
m the congregation, on account of hiß wis
dom and discretion, in all subjects, civil or
religious, that tended in any manner to
the benefit of his race. After repeated
wavings of his hand—after the style, I sup
pose, of old Nestor, in the days of Troy—he
succeeded, miraculously, in bringing the
congregation somewhat to order. He re
minded them that they were in a “relijjus
sanctuwerry,” where “deir deeds would be
sot down by a recordin’ Angel,” but, if they
would only take his advice and retire to an
other battle ground—say in effect, the
streets of Borrioboorali Gab—it would be
all right. His sage counsel prevailed, and
even couples who were clinched and em
braced in each other’s arms were
induced to uncouple, and a gen
eral rush wag made for the street. It
is reported that the Rev. pastor also went
out, and that his long-tail coat and high
beaver were conspicuous, as he flew through
the ranks of the combatants, shouting
“glory for Israel! down wid de Philistines!”
It was at this period, when the battle raged
fierce and high, and the whole population of
Borrioboorali Gah, including the dogs, bad
turned out, either to join in the fray or as
suectators of the interesting scene;* when
the shouts, yells, whoops and screams of the
combatants had risen to their highest pitch,
that the trumpets at the barracks sounded
the alarm, a strong guard was turned out,
and tho whole
GARRISON PUT UNDER ARMS.
At least, go says report. It was then that
the Indians were aroused, and the citizens
generally. A list of the wounded has not
been furnished me, but I can report one
casualty at least. Tho next day Sister
Biuah appeared before the Mayor’s Court,
with an immensely swelled head, the result
of a blow with a fence-rail in the hands of
Sister Nelly.
Thus have I given you an account of this
riot among the negroes here, which I cau
assure you is substantially correct, and not
111 the least exaggerated. It may appear
ridiculous aud undignified for the columns
of your paper. But it shows what influences
can be exerted on this ignorant race, who,
if left to themselves, would become harm
less and valuable elements in developing the
g eat industrial pursuits of the South.
This preacher, whose name is not Banks,
but very near it, is supposed t > have come
from South Carolina, a paid emissary of the
Radicals, to stir up the colored population
against all who do not belong to the
“Union League” of the South. The City
Council, a few yeatsago, very imprudent
ly granted certain lands " within the
corporate limits, and to which they have not
a shadow of title themselves, to the colored
people to make a settlement, they being the
private property of parties now absent. The
re-ult has been that negroes who were em
ployed in the country around as laborers,
and well paid by the tanners in whose em
ploy they were, have been induced to quit
their occupations, and, in some instances,
to become incumbrances on the city. This
must be my apology for the nonsense which
I have written. We have two colored schools
hero iu this little city, and the toachers arc
paid the same prices as those of the Pea
body School, which is the only public school
for whites here; aud probably the negroes
receive, for their scholastic education, a
much greater proportion than the whites—
afl paid by taxes on the property of the whites,
tor the negroes positively own no taxable
property, according to the returns of carpet
bag officials. Every effort is made here to
educate, enlighten and raise them in the
scale of rational existence by the whites.
The Catholics instruct them free of charge
iu every department of education in which
tho whites are included, and even minister
to their necessities when sick and depend
ent on charity. Among
THE NORTHERN SETTLERS
among us, such is the feeling, that I havo
known poor Swedes to be employed by a
large family of eight or ten—the man as a
laborer on a farm at sls per month, required
to do his day’s labor and sit up till 11 o’clock
at night to.row members of the family in a
boat, backwards and forwards, to and from
the city. The wife at $lO per month to do
all the cooking aud washing of the family,
and at all hours when they might choose to
breakfast, dine or sup. The house girl
at $8 per month, required to at
tend to every domestic duty, from
daylight in the morning to an indefinite
hour of the night, scouring floors, windows,
etc.; not allowed to sit down in the parlor
whou the family were present; but a negro
girl minding a child allowed to sit down
alongside of members of the family, call
them by their names of Eliza or Mary, and
to look over illustrated papers, et •. Ou this
same farm idle negroes employed at $1 25
a day to come and go when they pleas
ed, and regularly paid, when the
white man was denied his wages at
the end of the month. Comment is useless.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Burglars have suddenly subsided.
The suspicious vessels wuich were to kid
nap and carry oft the Canadian defaulters
have left our harbor. Davies, the New York
detective, is still here, keepiug watch and
ward.
Our municipal election is soon to come
off, the result of which no one can divine.
Our Couucil, with a lew exceptions, has
been the best we have had for years. *
The St. Augustine Hotel looms up in
splendid style. It is, perhaps, in all its de
partments, as fine a hotel as there is in the
State.
The St. John’s Railroad is brushing up for
a wiuter and spring campaign. Report says
that they have everything fixed up in
splendid style. Otba Vez.
LETTER FROM WELBORN.
Further Particulars of the Great .Storm.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News]
Welbobn, Fla., Nov. 8, 1573.
I hurriedly wrote you an account of the
tornado (or cyclone) which passed here
last Friday, and promised to give the par
ticulars more fully.
THE DIRECTION OF THE STORM.
It-came from a southwesterly direction.
We heard of it about eight or nine miles
from here. It was seen that evening
passing through the woods. It was going
through the tops of trees, tearing them
into pieces. It then went to the ground
for an instant and swept through a cy
press swamp, a distance of about one
hundred yards, literally tearing it to
pieces. It then rose to the top of the
trees again, then descended again to the
southwest corner of this place.
When it blew the last house down it
ro-e gradually for a quarter of a mile to
the tops of the trees again, and as far as
we could hear of, (which was three or
four miles) was still among the tree-tops.
It blew down a very large gin-house
under which was tied two horses. After
the storm they were cut out uninjured.
The track of the storm was about one
hundred yards wide. When it had got
nearly half way the town it divided —one
wing went around a small dwelling
and storehouse and the other wing
on the other side, and came together
again in front of the storehouse,
leaving the dwelling and storehouse
uninjured. The distancejfrom where it di
vided to where it went together again is
about 200 feet. It is remarkable that
only one (a little babe) was killed. About
forty were hurt more or less, but only
two are supposed to be fatally injured.
When it was seen coming it looked like
a 810 BLACK SMOKE
or clond bringing with it rails, houses
tom to pieces, and making such a fuss
that you could not hear the houses fall
or a tree break. The loss is estimated to
be about five or six thousand dollars.
A Citizen.
THE FLORIDA TORNADO.
immense Loss of Propertv—People Ken.
dered Houseless and Hsmeless aad
Buried la the Kalas—Children Picked Cp
end Carried Awav—Dsmase. Nat Less
than 820,000.
[Gainesville Citizen Extra, November 6.]
About 3 o’clock on yesterday afternoon
one 6f those devastating and desolating
cyclones passed over this place, spread
ing ruin and desolation in its path —such
a one as was never known or heard of in
this section before. It came from the
southwest and passed away toward the
northeast, or nearly in that direction, like
unto
a gigantic whirlwind,
lifting everything up from the ground
and whirling it around and around in the
air. For nearly half an hour it was heard
in the distance—a most fearful, momen
tous and terrific sound, as of a volcanic
eruption ; and the people were running
to and fro, anxiously inquiring one of the
other what it could be. After a little h
was clear to be seen that it was a cyclone
or tornado in all its fury, for in the dis
tance could be seen branches of
trees, fences, shingles, boards,
window blinds, etc., floating aloft in
the heavens, and to all ap
pearances it would take the south side of
the Court House square in its immediate
path and sweep off everything in that
vicinity. People could be seen fleeing
from their houses and places of business
trying to make their escape from the ter
rible death that bid fair to overtake them.
Everybody in its probable course was en
deavoring to flee from its track —a track
in which inevitable death seemed to
await all who should be overtaken
therein.
SURVEY OF THE WRECKS.
It passed, and we went out to take a
survey as best we could, for the limited
time before dark, and the torrent of rain
that fell an hour later, we found that it
struck the town about a quarter of a mile
above the culvert just west of the depot,
demolishing the little house on Dr. Por
ter’s place, and injuring the colored wo
man aDd two little children, the occu
pants of the house, quite seriously. Then
came fences, trees, etc , until it came to
Mrs. Harper Bevill’s place, where it took
two cabins, and to Judge Cessna’s place,
where it lifted the mainjauilding from its
underpinning, throwing down the two
chimneys and setting the build
ing right down on the ground
where it stood, tearing off window blinds
and doors, and prostrating fences, out
buildings, and everything in its course,
but injuring no one on the premises.
This is indeed a heavy loss to the Judge,
as he had recently made numerous im
provements around his premises, which
it will require considerable time, labor
and money to repair. Next in its course
it demolishes the dining-room, kitchen
and other outbuildings around Oak Hall,
tearing up many of the large trees on the
premises. Mrs. Wilson was seriously, if
not fatally injured, and
A COLORED MAN KILLED
and buried in the ruins. We next come
to the new building (not quite finished)
of Major Cullen. The main building was
razed to the ground while the dining
room attached, to the east side, was left
but little injured. Next was the house
occupied by Mr. Edwin Pearce, also the
residence of Mr. J. B. Coker, both ol
which were laid in ruins. No one was
hurt at Mr. Pearce’s, the family all being
absent, but a colored woman was badly
injured at Mr. Coker’B, having had her
leg broken and being otherwise severely
wounded. At Mr. Jefford’s we find one
of the sills blown from under his
house, but no great damage done.
At Mr. Belton’s we find the dining
room and kitchen swung around and
lifted from the under-pinning and set
upon the ground. Then, going on in the
direction of Sweetwater branch and
passing the jail lot, we find the building
situated in said lot, and occupied by Sue
White, a colored woman, completely de
molished. Crossing the creek and com
ing to the residence of Rev. J. H. Tom
kies, we find his house a peifect wreck,
and the sun ounding buildings a mass of
ruins, but no one seriously injured.
The residence of Mr. W. C. Matbeson
was blown down and Mrs. Mathe
son severely wounded. Tnen we come
to Mr. Ed. Jones’s premises, and here we
find everything literally levelled to the
ground. The famiiy left the house be
fore the terrific destroyer reached it, and
thus escaped. We were unable to trace
it any further—in fact we were heart-sick
at the shocking sights presented on our
way. Young trees were taken up and
carried from three to five hundred feet.
To sum it all up we should judge the
damage to be not less than $20,000, and
the most of it falls heavily upon the suf
ferers, all of them being illy prepared to
sustain such losses. The house of Bob
Jackson, across the railroad, was taken
up, and left the floor with his wife and
children sitting thereon, as if nothing
had occurred. The house was
LITERALLY SWEPT AWAY.
and no vestige of household furniture re
mained. Some of the articles belonging
to Jackson were found and identified this
morning, About one mile and a half dis
tant from his recent, but now obliterated,
place of abode. The water tank at Mr.
Doig’s mill was also thrown down and
destroyed. George Doig, a small boy of
about five years, and a son of Mr. James
Doig, was taken up and carried about a
hundred and twenty yards by the storm,
in which he was badly injured. We give
the names of all those who are killed or
supposed to be severely or badly injured
in this terrible, unprecedented and disas
trous storm, as follows: John Davis,
colored, killed; Mrs. Wilson, proprietress
Oak Hall, seriously injured ; Mrs. W. C.
Matbeson, seriously, if not fatally wound
ed, having one arm and collar bone
broken. This was
A HEART-RENDING SIGHT
to witness; Leatha McCain, shoulder dis
located; Rufus Martin, severely wounded;
Mrs. Rufus Martin and two children, se
verely wounded; Amanda Farris, slightly
wounded; Wm. Rainey, slightly wound
ed; Maria Robinson, severely wounded;
Bob Washington, severely wounded; a
colored woman at Rev. J. H. Tompkies’,
mortally wounded; Geo. Doig, severely
wounded. On the eve of going to press
with this, our attention was called to an
other result of the tornado on the store
of I. H. Saunders & Cos. Upon examina
tion of the premises we find a very pecu
liar rent made on the roofing, a narrow
space of which is ripped up from the
eves to the top of the roof and turned
over. In all probability, we do not yet
know the extent of damage done, even in
our midst, not to speak of the damage to
life and property in our neighborhood.
Thus far we have heard of nothing seri
ous, neither from the direction of the ap
proach of the tornado nor from the course
of its departure.
Chandeliers.
Inter Ocean ■ Don’t tell us that the
President did not appoint Mr. Chandler
simply to spite Buell.
“Now,” said Secretary Chandler, going
into the Interior Department, “here is
an item charging the Fort Dick agency
with two barrels of gin and four loaves of
bread. What’s the use of four loaves of
bread?”— New York Herald.
The Springfield Republican says:
“What Messrs. Bristow, Pierrepont and
Jewell think of their new associate has
not ‘transpired.’ The more respectable
Republican organs do not display enthu
siasm over the apppintment; perhaps
their feelings are too deep for utterance.
‘Vot's dat you says, Shonny ?’ inquired
Mr. Schmidt, as he was correcting his
off-spring with a strap. ‘I says nodings,
fader.’ ‘Yah, but I knows vot you dinks;
you dinks dam.’ ”
What a jolly crowd the three will be—
the President, old Zack and the quart
bottle. — Bouton Post.
Why should not Ulysses have his Zack?
He could never be happy with a Cabinet
of Bristows and Pierreponts. He needs
a sympathetic companion who has a cast
iron stomach.— New York Sun.
What to Do in Case of Accident, —
Professor Wilder, of Cornell University,
gives these short rules for acting in case
of accident:
For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing;
dash cold water in them: remove cinders,
etc., with the round point of a lead
pencil.
Remove insects from the ear by tepid
water. Never put a hard instrument into
the ear.
If an artery is cat, compress it above
the wound; if a vein is cut, compress it
below.
If choked, go upon all fours and oough.
For slight burns, dip the part in cold
water; if the skin is destroyed, cover
with varnish.
For apoplexy, raise the head and
body; for fainting, lay the person flat.
THE CORPSES IN A CELLAR.
CrafeMUi* af tit A—ilttllaa af Four
Italians ky rketr Caaatrymea.
[From the Denver New*, Oct. 81.]
The arrival of the Italian cut-throats
from the South has been eagerly antici
pated by ail classes since the announce
ment of their capture at Trinidad
several days ago. They arrived last eve
ning. in custody of Deputy Sheriffs Frank
Smith and B. Y. Force.
Michiele Bellette and Sylvester Cam
pagne were hustled into a cell by them
selves. Leonardi Lessandri, the musi
cian, who, by his own confession, was
thrumming melody out of the harp while
throat-cutting was going on, had been
conducted into Jailer Bright’s private
office. He dropped into a chair and
drew a long sigh, as if glad to escape the
gaze of the crowd outside. He wore no
irons. A coat and a fiddle oomprised his
baggage. James Lewis, an Italian, who
speaks very good English, sat at his side
and interpreted for a Neics reporter.
Lessandri’s statement, a xambling, dis
connected, and, it is suspected, untruth
ful narrative, yet interesting and even
thrilling, was substantially as follows :
The killing commenced Friday, October
15, at half-past 1 o’clock p. m. I was
playing on a harp in tbe front room. The
old man called Joe, in English, who was
my godfather, the biggest boy, and two
or three others were playing cards. The
cards lay on a box or bench, and the play
ers were seated around in a circle, and
the old man was dealing out the cards.
Bellette, Caiupagni, and “the miner” (I
don’t know his name) were playing too.
Filomeno Goliotti, the boss tinker, was
standing up and wasn’t playing. He
reached under his coat and pulled out a
brigfit knife and took the old man by the
hair with one hand, and with the other
cut his throat clear around. The blood
flew on the cards and into the faces of the
other players. The old man fell
back, and Filomeno jobbed the
knife in here and there, and
there, (pointing to the heart, side
and abdomen.) At tbe same time the
other fellows commenced cutting the big
boy. He was sitting at my side, playing
the harp, too, and when they pitched on
to him, and he saw his father's throat
cut, he commenced to run around the
room, and trying to fight them off. He
kept throwing his hand up that way
(making a motion), and crying, and they
couldn’t kill him; but when Filomeno
got through stabbing the old man, he
rushed in on the big boy and cut his
throat, just like that (stroking his hand
across his throat). That finished him.
In the scuffle, or struggle, they all used
knives, and the tall tinker, who was
working for Filomeno for SIOO a year
and board, cut his fingers awfully, and
when the blood dried he couldn’t bend
them. His hand was cut by one of the
crowd while trying to kill the big boy.
I kept on playing the harp, continued
the boy, for I did uot dare stop. I was
scared so I trembled all over. Once I
quit a moment, and Filoueno shook me
and drew his knife across my throat, and
said he’d cut my and and head off if I
didn’t play on. So I started up again.
They didn’t move the bodies just then,
but Filomeno, or someone, threw a
blanket over both of them. In about
half an hour the other two came into the
yard carrying their harps. They had
been down town playing in the saloons.
The little one, brother of the big boy
who was dead in the front room, was
named Giovanni (!)— that was his first
name, I think —and the other one’s first
name was Domanco, or something like
that. They went around the house, and
part of the crowd inside run through the
house to the back door, and part went
out the front way and slipped around the
house after them, so as to head them off,
I suppose, if they attempted to get out at
tbe back door.
I was still playing on the harp in the
front room, when the two came in at the
back door. I didn’t see them killed, but
I heard them crying. Michiele Bellette
and “the miner” tried to kill Giovanni,
who jerked away from them and run,
bleeding and hollering, into the middle
room, where Filomeno caught him and
stabbed him, took his head under his
arm and cut his throat from ear to ear.
The miner was trying to kill the other
one (Domanco) in the kitchen, but he
couldn’t do it, and so Michiele snatched
Giuseppe’s knife And cut Domanco’s
throat.
Bellette told the following story:
When I came here some months ago
without money, Filomeno Gallotti took a
great interest in me, and asked me to
stay with him, and it shouldn’t cost me a
cent. Every time he saw me he treated
me, and never would let me pay for any
thing. He told me he was going to kill
the Italians on Lawrence street, and I re
peated it to Deodato and another man at
the lake; and one day I told them I would
try and get ten dollars and go to
Cheyenne, as I was afraid I might get
into trouble. Filomeno told us to go to
the house on Lawrence street every day,
and pretend to teach the Italians there
how to play, so that we would all be there
when he got ready to kill them. We
went there every day for three days be
fore the murder. The three tinkers used
to come every afternoon. Neither I nor
Campagne had knives when the murders
were committed, but Filomeno gave me
one he had given Campagne, and ordered
me to help kill the big boy. But I didn’t
have the heart to do it, and yet I had to
pretend to do something; so I drew the
back of the knife across his throat, but I
didn’t cut him.
When the two last ones came in the
back way, Filomeno stood behind the
door, and as the little one entered, car
rying his harp, he said to me, holding up
a fancy article he had bought, “Look
here, I’ve bought you something nice to
day.” And just then Filomeno seized
that poor boy, pulled him down to the
floor, put his knee on his head, and re
marking, in Italian, “Ah, my boy, I’ve
got you now!” thrust his knife up to the
hilt back of the ear, and gashed the throat
wide open. This sickened me. The
other one came in, and Filomeno, and
the miner, and the tall tinker, cut him
all to pieces. He held on to his harp,
and ran around the room, with his throat
cut, and the Llood flying from the wound,
and Filomeno stabbing him with his
knife. He fell down, with his harp on
top of him, and they finished him with
their knives. The old man wore a belt
filled with gold, and Filomeno took that,
and divided the gold all round. I think
there was about $1,400. He gave us
three $225; SIOO in gold, SIOO in paper,
and $25 in silver. I know it was an
awful murder, but I wasn’t to blame; I
had to help or be killed by Filomeno.
About Turtles. —The Watkins Ex
press prints the following as an “original”
composition, the production of a pupil
in one of the primary departments of the
Watkins Union School:
TURTLES.
A turtle is a reptile. It has a head
like a snake and a little sharp tail and
four claws like an alligator. The rest of
him lives inside the bones so I don’t
know what he looks like.
The bones are outside and are called
the shell.
They live a great many years. They
are very ugly and stupid and I don’t
think you could tame them if you tried
all summer.
I suppose they are good for something
but I don’t know what it is.
It is fun to catch them.
In some countries, but not in this, they
keep them round the house to kill bugs.
A turtle has no teeth, but it don’t make
any difference, for there are bones in
their mouths and they can hold on to a
stick all day if jou stay and pull.
I don’t believe they ever die hardly.
I don’t know how I should go to work
to kill a turtle unless I smashed him
with a big hammer. The shells are real
pretty when you have boiled the turtle
partly out. They live all winter like
bears without nothing to eat. I don’t
see how they do it. I think they are
awful homely. Their eyes look as if they
were set in upside down. They mostly
stay in the same place.
It takes them a long while to get any
where.
There are a great many kinds of turtles
and some are good to eat. This is all I
can think of about turtles.
An incendiary was discovered in Te
cnmseh mill. Fall River, Massachusetts,
by the watchman early one morning re
cently, but after a sharp struggle escaped
with the revolver of the watchman.
Oily waste had been scattered around
preparatory to firing the buildings. It
is believed the Massesoit mills were
burned by the same means.
Since the beginning of the struggle
between Bismarck and the Ultramon
tan es, the priests have paid sixty thou
sand francs in fines, and have undergone
fifty thousand days of imprisonment.
THE “PSYCHO” MYSTERY.
An AaiantiM that Reckon* Finn*.
Play. Whin, and Puzzle* all I^nSinT
The carious automaton “Psycho,”
which has attracted so much attention in
London, still remains a mystery. An
American gentleman named Coffin claim
ed to have discovered the secret, and
suggested that the figure was worked by
an air blast through the hollow glass pe
destal. This is now disproved by the
exhibitors, who close the aperture in the
pedestal, and satisfactorily show that the
figure is not controlled by pneumatic
agencies.
The Scientific American makes an ex
tract from a letter written by Mr. J. A.
Clarke, one of the inventors 'of Psycho,
to a gentleman in Boston. Mr. Clarke’s
account of the,, automaton is in substance
as follows:
“Several years ago Mr. Clarke con
ceived the idea which has been embodied
in Psycho, and made a rough model of
the invention. He then made the acquain
tance of Mr. J. N. Maskelyne, a mechani
cian of extraordinary ability, and Psycho
is the fruit of their joint endeavors.
In design the automaton is an isolated
figure, said to be perfectly removed from
any possible connection with anybody or
anything outside, with no communica
tion (mechanical, electrical, magnetic,
pneumatic, hydraulic, or otherwise) con
ceivable from the stage, back, sides,
roof, or elsewhere, yet controlled by the
influence of its proprietors, so that the
figure moves when and in whatever
manner desired. It is Maelzel's chess
player over again, but without the
chances for deception which that piece of
mechanism allowed.
The figure calculates numbers and plays
whist; but it is adapted for many other
feats, and it works precisely as if there
were a person inside, and yet there is
nothing beyond the mechanism. The
audaoious part of the invention is that
a maker of automata, or other person, is
allowed to see and feel all the inside of
the figure, so as to satisfy all senses
that there are no spaces concealed by
optical arrangement or otherwise. The
chief difficulty was in demonstrating to
the public that the automaton is
really insulated from all connection with
the 3iage or with the performer; and it is
sometimes exhibited in one way and
sometimes in another. It is placed upon
a hollow glass cylinder twenty-four inches
in height or upon the carpet, or upon a
loose wooden stand, with legs to keep the
automaton from the floor. Sometimes
the glass cylinder is set loose upon a
small wooden stool that is set loose upon
another wooden stand, and the legs of
the latter are set loose on glass pianoforte
insulators.
The audience are at liberty to go upon
the stage and handle and examine all the
parts as much as they please, and any
body may remain close to it while it is in
operation, and see and feel that no threads
or wires or any other things connect any
parts of the apparatus with the outside.
As at present exhibited, the perform
ance is as follows : The audience names
two numbers, and Psycho multiplies
them together and_shows the answer (one
figure at a time) by opening a
little door in a small box and
sliding the figure in front by a
movement of its left hand. The
audience give it a sum in division, and it
shows the anwer in the same manner.
Then three persons go on the stage, in
spect Psycho and the apparatus, and, sit
ting at a side table, play a game of whist.
The thirteen cards for Psycho are placed
upright and singly, in a quadrant rack
over the range of the figure’s right hand.
The arm has a radial motion horizontally
to find any card wanted, and the Psycho
lifts the card and holds it up in view of
the audience. It lifts the card up repeat
edly, or keeps it up, at command of any
person among the audience. The figure
then covers the card to be played. Mr.
Maskelyne then takes the card to the table,
and calls out the names of the cards as
the player plays them; and sometimes he
retires from the figure and card table, to
show that Psycho goes on with the game
independently of the conductor. After
the game it tells, by movements of its
arm, the state of the game and the num
ber of tricks in its favor. Psycho shakes
hands with the players, and answers ques
tions by ringing a bell. It also takes
part in some usual card tricks.
An infinite number of effects may be
produced, but the above are sufficient to
show in general what Psycho does.
“THE LAND OP THE FREE.”
Grant Exercises More Arbitrary Per.
sonal Power than any King In Europe.
[From a Paris Letter by Mr. Horace White in the
Chicago Tribune.]
I must remark to the class of persons
for whom this letter is particularly de
signed that they are mistaken in suppos
ing that America is, in any special sense,
“the land of the free and the home of
the brave.” I presume that nobody real
ly doubts the bravery of the English,
French, Germans, &c., but a great miny,
probably most of our people, are accus
tomed to think of them as living in a
state of semi-servitude to their rulers. I
have previously given the result
of my oberservations upon the Eng
lish system of government. I have
had some opportunity to notice
the systems of France,. Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and
Holland; and I am unable to see in what
way we have advantages over them in
personal freedom entitling us to call our
selves par excellence the land of liberty,
except such as have been given to us by
the breadth of ocean which enables us to
dispense with a standing army, and the
length of land which prevents us from
unduly crowding each other. No; the
time has gone by when we could claim to
be in a peculiar sense the land of free
dom. We must achieve our distinction
among nations in some other way here
after. What was true at the foundation
of our government and fifty years later is
true no longer.
A great change has come over old Eu
rope in the last half century, and espe
cially in the last quarter. The revolu
tions of 1848, though soon suppressed,
have none the less accomplished their
work. Hungary has become the chief
stone of the corner in the Austrian Em
pire with a free Parliament. Germany
and Italy have accomplished their unity,
and are governed as to nine things out of
ten by the popular will. The temporal
power of the Pope has melted away, and
Garibaldi enjoys a green old age within
sight of the hills where he made his
heroic resistance to the sol
diers of the second French Re
public. France has commenced her third
experiment with ideas so much improved
that the Republic grows stronger rather
than weaker with the lapse of time. In
the minor European States the reigning
families are little more than the leaders
of society, and not one of them except
the Sultan and the Czar can increase his
own salary to the amount of a pound
sterling without the sanction of the
legislative body. I judge that the
President of the United States exercises
more arbitrary personal power than any
sovereign in Europe, except, possibly,
the Czar of Russia would venture to as
sume.
Improved Prospects or the Third
Term.— The probabilities of Gen. Grant’s
nomination are greatly increased. He
occupies before the country the most
conspicuous position in the Republican
party. He has seventy thousand office
holders to work for him; his veto of the
inflation bill will command for him the
support of the capitalists and bondhold
ers; his Des Moines speech was an adroit
bid for the support of the clergy of all
denominations but one. The position he
has taken on the Cuban question brings
into sympathy with him the anti-slavery
sentiment of the Eastern States, and will
make him, to a certain extent, popular
with the loose and reckless spirits who
are always eager for excitement and for
fresh fields of adventure; and in addition
to these it will rally to him all the con
tractors, manufacturers and producers,
who expect to be benefited, even if war
should be averted, by the heavy sums
that would be expended in preparing for
such an emergency.— Baltimore Gazette.
The French newspaper La France re
cently printed the latest statistics of
French journalism. There exist only 796
newspapers in France outside of Paris,
and many of these have an average cir
culation of only 300 or 400 copies. In
politics, 89 journals represent the Red
Republican party, 250 Moderate Repub
lican, 150 are Imperialist organs, 15 are
Orleanists, 100 Legitimist, 90 purely
ciarirsd, and 130 Conservative. •
Within a week two incendiary fires
have taken place at Rockville Centre,
Long Island, the floors and inner and
outer walls having been elaborately
daubed with kerosene. The fire bug has
not been yet arrested,.
CITY AFFAIRS.
COTTON REPORT.
Monthly Return of the Savannah Cotton
Exchange.
The committee on information and statis
tics of the Savannah Cotton Exchange have
submitted the following report for the month
of October. The twenty-eight counties in
charge of the Augusta Cotton Exchange of
course cannot form any part of the report:
GEORGIA— ONE HUNDRED AND TEN REPLIES
FROM FIFTY-FOUR COUNTIES.
First Question—What has been the char
acter of the weather since October Ist, and
has it been more or less favorable than same
time last year for gathering the crop ? An
swer—The weather has been good, and
as favorable as last year for gathering the
crop.
Second Question—When did you have
killing frost in your section, and what dam
age, if any, has it done to the crop ? An
gwer-There has been no killing frost, ex
cept in a few localities, but a slight damage
generally, on or about October 18th, from a
light frost.
Third Question—What proportion of the
crop has been picked, and by what time do
you think picking will be finished in your
county ? Answer—About two-thirds picked
out. Picking will finish in (ieorgia from
15th November to middle of December, ac
cording to locality.
Fourth Question—How will the vield in
your county compare with last ye-:r ? state
probable increase or decrease. Answer
The reports from the different sections vary
very much. The average decrease for the
State will be over ten per cent, as compared
with last year.
Fifth Question—State any material fact
regarding the yield not covered bv the above
questions. Answer—The plant is' small, but
generally was well fruited. The top crop
only, on low lands, is represented as coming
up to expectation. The plant has never
recovered fully from the drought in July.
Sixth Question—W hat damage, if any, do
you estimate is done by rust in your sec
tion ? Answer—The clay lauds have gener
ally escaped rust, but the light sandy lauds
are reported as having been damaged there
from over ten per cenr.
FLORIDA—THIRTY-SEVEN REPLIES FROM FIF
TEEN, COUNTIES.
Quest'on No. I.—The weather has been
good, and as favorable as last year.
Question No. 2—There has been no injury
from frost.
Question No. 3—Three-fourths of the
crop has been picked. Picking will be fin
ished from middle to last of the month.
Question No. 4—The yield will be less
than last—probably fifteen per cent.
Question No. s—The dry weather in July
cut the early cotton off, and the second
growth after the rains has been injured by
caterpillar.
Question No. 6—The damage from rust on
the light sandy lands is estimated at ten per
cent. •
The Fort Moultrie Centennial.
Charleston is fully aroused in the matter
of preparing for the Fort Moultrie Centen
nial in June. The Palmetto Guards, who
have the affair in charge, propose holding
a grand Centennial fair in Charleston in
March to raise funds to aid in the erec
tion of the monument, of which a descrip
tion and account was given in the Morning
News several days since. The following is
a copy of a circular which has been sent to
various civil and military bodies:
Rooms of the Centennial Committee, I
Charleston, S. C., , 187-. j
To the Officers and Members of the :
Gentlemen— The Palmetto Guard will
celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of
the battle of Fort Moultrie on the 28th June,
187 G, and earnestly desire to make the day
doubly historic in the annals of the State
aud ot the city of Charleston by the erection
of a monument worthy of the people and
the times, and of the gallant men who
fought and died for the liberties and homes
we now enjoy.
The enclosed address will speak for itself.
We propose to hold a grand Centennial fair
in this city next March, under the auspices
of all the military clubs in the city and
State, and to invite the co-operation of the
military companies of Savannah, Augusta,
Wilmington and Raleigh—North Carolina
and Georgia having united with the defend
ers of Fort Moultrie, and fought upon other
bloody fields of the Revolution.
For this purpose we ask, and do most cor
dially invite, your co-operation in the hold
ing of such a fair, where the handiwork of
our mothers, sisters aud wives, from the
mountains to the seaboard, will be united in
one common effort to raise the funds ior the
erection of a monument worthy of the first
great victory of tbo Revolution.
We would thus give to the day a lasting
mark in history, and to Charleston her only
monument to mark her Revolutionary and
past glorious history.
We request you, therefore, to unite your
patriotic efforts with ours, either in the fair
or to assist us in the expense by such con
tribution as your in its wisdom may
deem best or proper. The work is to com
memorate the gallantry of sons dear to
us all.
The monument will be to the memory of
all the defenders of Fort Moultrie, and not
to the memory of any individual man.
Asking your earnest consideration of this
matter, and an early reply, we are, very re
spectfully, your obedient servants,
A. Armstrong,
W. H. Chapman,
A. B. Holmes,
A. R. Haig,
J. C. Tiedeman,
C. J. Colcock, Jr.,
Committee on Centennial correspondence,
Palmetto Guard.
A WALK FOR LIFE.
Nine Davs’ Tramp in the Snow Without
Food.
[From the Montana Missourian.]
During the winter of 1804 a party,
headed by Bacon, the Elk county express
man, started from Lewiston, Nez Perces
county, Indian Territory, for Elk City, a
spur of the Rocky Mountains, whose alti
tude is not less than 12,000 feet, through
dense timber.
Leaving Silverwood’s Mountain House,
no stopping place existed until twenty
six miles were made over mountains to
Newsome Creek. In the party of some
seven or eight was one Richard Wildan,
a Norwegian, well known to the writer of
this artiole. He had the ill-luck to break
a snow-shoe, and was advised to take it
back to Silverwood’s as the party could
not stop in the snow. Believing he could
go back by the plainly marked trail in the
snow and blazes on the trees for a guide,
the others pushed on and safely arrived
at Elk City, and no fears were expressed
regarding the fate of Wildan, till seven
days later anew party crossed the moun
tain, and then it was ascertained that
Wildan had not gone back.
Immediately a party was mustered, and
on snow-shoes started to find the lost
man. His trail was at last found and
followed by the hardy pioneers in search
of him. On the ninth day he was found,
still on foot, walking in a circle on the
hard-beaten trail of his own making, his
feet badly frozen, yet inclosed in the
sleeves of his coat, which he had wrapped
about them.
The thermometer showed nine degrees
below zero a great part of the time he
was struggling on Lis feet for life. The
party finding him saw that he was thor
oughly crazy. On accosting him and ask
ing if he was not hungry, he at once re
plied, “No.” He was fed on pork and
bean3 at a house not far back. Not a
trace could be found where he had sat
down, not a sign of where he could have
taken a rest—in fact, with the cold never
less than four degrees below zero, he
never had walked again had he rested.
He was brought to Newsome Creek Sta
tion on the ninth night of this wild, cold,
unfed, cheerless walk in the deep snow—
tenderly cared for by Wall & Beard, keep
ers of that station, and eventually recov
ered so as to do a good season’s work
with a pick and shovel, in a mining camp
called Ebon Water Station, sixteen miles
below Elk City camp. Mr. Wildan was
a man of about 108 pounds weight, short
and stout.
That this article is true in every respect
is easily to be proven. L. P. Brown,
Deputy United States Tax Collector, now
of Mount Idaho, or Mr. Charles Frush, a
clerk now in the land office of the Inte
rior Department, can vouch for the
general truthfulness of this slight sketch.
Here is a case where seven days of real
walking took place without any refresh
ment or selection of apparel—without
cheer of any kind, and all for life. Let
fools prance on boards, stages, etc., Dick
Wildan’s feat will overshadow anything
they ever can do. I hope some represen
tative man from Idaho will see this arti
cle, and give the particulars more fußy
than is here done, although this is a
simple account in all truth given. Wil
dan and those who found him and cared
for him should live in history, and I hope
he is still on his feet.
The Courts of the Common Council
of the city of London have taken action
to suppress all publications not necessa
rily obscene, but which are calculated to
be prejudicial to youth as incentives to
the commission of crime.
Twelve hundred dollars a ton is what
three tons of prospecting ore brought
down from Alaska by a recent arrival
panned out. Mr. Seward’s purchase is
now declared to be a “second California.”
telegraphic news.
Nummary of the Week’s Dispatches
FROM JACKSON V ILL. E.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, Fla., November 10, 1875.
THE CASE OF HARRY HA7.EK.
Some time ago, as doubtless your readers
will remember, Harry Hazen, the Collector
of the port of Fernandina, absconded from
his post. An examinatiou of his accounts
showed that he was a defaulter for a consid
erable amount. After some time ho was
arrested in New Orleans and brought back
to Fernandina, where ho w.i's placed under
bonds for trial.
AN APPEAL.
Since that time he has been in this city.
He committed suicide here to-day by taking
a dose of morphiue, thus appealing his case
to a higher Judge.
A SURVIVOR'S STORY.
San Francisco, November 9. Henry L.
Jelly, the survivor of the steamship Pacific,
floated on the pilothouse from 8:30 on
Thursday night to 10 o’clock Saturday morn
iug. His companion died from exposure,
and was cut loose bv Jellv. Several boats
were launched, but all foundered. The pas
sengers (some soveuty-five) were from Pu
get’s Sound and Victoria. Jelly is too low
to give further particulars. The' ship’s com
plement was as follows : Master, J. D. Howel;
first officer, A. N. McDonough ; second of
ficer, A. Wells; third officer, J. W. Lewis;
purser, A. Hill,'Jr.; freight clerk, S. H. Big
ley; chief engiueer, T. Houston; assis
tant engineer, D. M. Bassett; oilers,
Thos. Lestearg and J. Dugan, Jr.; carpen
ter, R. Errickson ; watchman, Henry Nor
ris ; steward, J. Martin ; second steward,
Chas. H. Jacksou; steerage steward, 8.
McMichael; first cook, J. M. Holdsworth ;
second cook, S. Milos ; third cook, C. H.
Whiting ; baker, Thos. Muller; porter,
Robert T. McNemain ; stewardess, Hannah
Muir. There were also fivo firemen, four
coal passers, ten seamen, two mess meu, two
pantry men and eight waiters.
The New Orleans Mutual Insurance Com
pany had a small risk on the Pacific.
New York, November 9.—lt is stated that
Capt. Jeff. D. Howell, of the lost steamer
Pacific, was a brother-in-law of ex-President
Jefferson Davis, and was formerly an officer
in the Confederate navy. He was a young
man, but was supposed to beau experienced
navigator.
Port Townsend, November 9.—Jelly,
supposed to be the sole survivor from the
Pacific, was brought here in the ship Mes
senger, in a wretched condition. He says
the Pacific collided with some vessel whose
lights she saw. Experienced navigators
think she struck a sunken rock. The
following is Jelly’s statement : Took pas
age on the Paeifio from Victoria, leaving
at quarter past nine o’clock Thursday, with
about two hundred aboard. She steamod
all day against an eastern gale, and the
crew were constantly pumping water into
the boats to turn the ship. The boats abaft
the paddle-boxes had no oars in them. Tbo
other boats had oars. Between nine and
ten, while in bed, he heard a crash, and felt
a shock, as if the vessel hid struck
a rock. Bells were rung to stop, back
and go ahead. He wont on deck, and
heard them say “all right, we struck a ves
sel.” He saw vessel’s lights at a distance,
They were colored. He then went to the
Pilot house, where he heard that she was
making water. The Captain came from his
room and burned five blue lights. She was
still working with no one at the wheel. He
aided a number of men to launch tho long
boat, but could not. There wero twenty
women! on board. He heard that
the boats abaft the paddlebox
got off. The steamer lasted about an hour
after she struck, but had settled so much
that the port boat was in the water. I was
in that boat, aud cut ii loose from the
davits. The boat filled and turned over. I
fot on the bottom aud helped several up.
mmediately after the ship bro ,e fore
and aft, and the smoke stack
struck our boat and the steamer
sunk. I think about all the women were in
our boat. All were di owned when the boat
upset. This was about 10 o’clock at night.
It was not dark, nor the sea very rough. I
left the bottom of the boat with another
man, and climbed to the top of tho pilot
house. Next morning I got some life pre
servers floating by, and with their
ropes lashed mysolf and companion to
the pilot house. I saw three rafts. The
first had three men, the second two men and
a woman, but could not make out the third.
My companion died. On Friday afternoon I
saw a vessel and called, and heard the peo
ple on the other raft call. Tho vessel did
not come near us. I saw two other vessels
before I was picked up. The Hurlbut &
Rockwell troupe were aboard.
STANLEY.
London, November 10.—Two letters from
Stanley, dated Ulagolla, April the 12th and
14th, have been received. They were en
trusted to Col. Delbell Ford, who left there
with some troops April 17, ho, when near
Gordon’s post, was massacred, with thirty
six of his soldiers. Five escaped aud
reached Gordon’s [station. A detachment
was sent to the scene, and Stanley’s letters
found among the slain, stained with blood.
Stanley bas thoroughly explored Lake Vic
toria, and demonstrates tbo unity of
this magnificent sheet of water. Liv
ingstone was wrong in reporting
that Victoria N’yanza consists of five
lakes. The river Shemeeyee feeds lake
Victoria N’yanza, and is the extremest
source of the Nile yet found. Stanley had
several conflicts with slavo dealers on the
lake. On one occasion be was attacked by
one hundred natives, armed with spears in
thirteen canoes. He repulsed them after a
severe fight, killing three natives. He
reached Metzas Hunting Camp April 12.
The festivities in his honor consisted in part
of a naval review on the lake of eighty-four
canoes manned by 2,500 men. Among the
spectators were three hundred wives of
King Metzas. King Metzas has 2,000,000
subjects, is intelligent, and a Mussalman,
but Stanley regards his conversion to Chris
tianity possible.
MARINE DISASTERS.
Boston, November 9.—lntelligence has
been received here of the supposed loss of
the brig J. W. Spencer, of BostoD, which
sailed from Navassa, September 11th, bound
to Charleston, S. C. Twenty-four bours
after she sailed a terrific hurricane com
menced, which did much damage, and it is
foared the brig was lost, with all on board.
Her crew consisted of Captain Joseph Tho
mas, of Ellsworth, Me.; John Aloert Dawes,
first mate, of Boston; Alfred R. Wilder,
second mate, of Pembroke, Me.: J.
Manuel Rodeiguez, steward; William
Broon, Charles Broon, Peter Peterson, Jos.
Terry and A. Adams, seamen, all of whom
shipped in New York. The Spencer was a
good vessel of 315 tons register, was owned
in Boston, and valued at $12,000, and in
sured for about one-third of her value.
When she sailed she left at the
island the brig Toronto and the schooners
Moses Potter aud Nellie Chase, all of which
put to sea during the hurricane, and none
of whiefi have ever been heard from except
the brig Toronto, which vas seen drifting
past Jamaica dismasted and abandoned.
The schooner Serene, Captain Jones, of
Baltimore, for Wilmington, North Carolina,
sailed in company with the Spencer, and as
it is now nearly two months since they
sailed, it is doubtful if either of the five ves
sels or their crews will ever be heard from.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Portsmouth, N. H., November 11.—The
elegant Oceanic House at Star Island, one
of the Isles of Shoals, was burned early
this morning, together with most of the
cottages on the island. As seen from the
Custom House here, the Atlantic House and
the ancient church were saved. The cause
of the fire is unknown, as it is impossible to
reach the island, owing to the heavy gale
and rough’ sea prevailing. The hotel was
insured for about $143,000. The chimney
is the only remnant of the Oceanic House
left standing. A tug started for the shoals,
but was obliged to put back. The fire was
distinctly seen from this city.
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SOCIETY.
New Orleans, November 11.—Jeffer-ion
Davis bas accepted tho Presidency of the
American Department of the Mississippi
Valley Society of London, tendered him by
the President of the organization. The
object of this movement is to direct atten
tion to the development of the commercial,
agricultural and mineral resources of the
valley of Mississippi. Mr. Davis will devote
his entire energies to the work in this coun
try and Europe.
STORM ON THE HUDSON.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., November 11.—A
heavy wind and rain storm passed along the
Hudson river last night. The steamer
Drew is ashore near Stockport. She lies
high and dry, with her wheels out of water,
but it is thought she is not seriously
damaged. Another steamer, with a large
number of boats in tow, is ashore.
A FAMILY POISONED.
Louisville, November 11.—The family of
Charles Massey, Br., of Fordsville, Ky.,
were taken suddenly ill, and the son,
daughter and wife died. Strychnine or
arsenic was found in the well used by the
family. The other members of the family
are recovering.
THE LOST.
Galveston, November 11.—The tng L.
McThorn has returned. Bhe saw one of the
Waco’s boats considerably burned and floated
off, and some pieces of cabin furniture.
There are no traces of the passengers or
rew.
EGYPTIAN FINANCES.
London, November 9.—A Reuter tele
gram confirms the dispatch to the Times
yesterday to the effect that the Egyptian
government has applied to England for two
experts to examine into and arrange its
finances.
THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
New York, November IL—The Stock Ex
change at the meeting to-day suspended
two members for cutting under the regular
commission rates. Another was expelled
for frauds.
' THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
Philadelphia, November 9.—Hartranft’s
official majority is 14,150
THE MEMPHIS COTTON REPORT.
Memphis November 9—The Memphis
E , x ° h t ai l? e 8 aggregate report for the
month of October is a 8 follows : 85 coire.-
pondents report favorable
more favorable than i„ 1874, 42 about the
same, 20 not so favorable, 6 heavy wind
storms. 8 report killing frosts fromthe 9th
to the 20tl. the average date being October
the 14th. The average damage is C per
cent. Forty report no damage 12 reDort
beneficial results, 11 no killing frosts and
report 47 por cent, of the crop* nicked *n.
Northern Mississippi 35 per cent. • Arkansas
42 per cent. The total averago for this and.
partment is 41 per cent. Tennessee esti
mates that the picking season
will close December 20th and
North Mississippi January 14; Arkansas
January 11. Tennessee estimates an in’
creased production over 1874 at 18 per cent *
North Mississippi at 15 per cent., Arkansas
at 34 per cent. The average increased pro
duction for the department is 23 percent
Under this head Tenuessea complains that
the crop is very late, and consequently liable
to serious damago by frost. Both in Ten
nessee and Arkansas the picking has been
seriously retarded—in Arkansas both bv
sickness and the fact that ths laborers have
waited for extortionate wages. There
has been considerable damage done bv the
boll worm. In Mississippi ;14 report dam
age by rust, 55 no damage. The
estimated damage from this source is put at
4 per cent. Forty-four report that laborers
are working well, 45 not well. Twenty-seven
in Mississippi report political excitement as
tho cause, 27 sickness, 18 depressed by low
prices, aud abandoning their own crops to
work fur wages. No tears, however, seem
to be entertained but that, with favorable
weather, thejerop will be saved. Twenty-four
answer that September’s estimate of small
grains and grasses to be sown is too large,
and 56 answer that it is not. The estimate
now given is 16 per cent, increase over last
year. The causes given for falling suort is
the time consumed iu elections and sick
uest. The aggregate for North Alabam i 8
as follows : 14 report favoraLl woathei 9
more favorable than last year, aud 5 about
the same. All report killing frosts from
the 10th to the 18th of October, 11 report
damage aud 3 uo damage. The estimate
average of damage is 11 per cent. The
crop is reported 46 por cent, picked.
It is estimated that the picking
season will close by December 17.
Fivo report increased production, 2
about tho same, aud seven a decrease—es
timated decrease one per cent. Under this
part the crop is reported to have been very
backward, very green aud growing when
overtaken by a killing frost. Three report
damago by rust, two by rot, and eleven no
damage. Tho estimated damago is two aud
a half per cent. Twelve report laborers
working well, and two not, the causes beiug
sickness and depression by low prices.
Three report the September estimates of
small grains aud grasses to be sown is too
high, aud eloveii that they are not. The
estimates now given aro twenty per cent,
over last year.
STEAMER BURNED.
Galveston, November 9 The City of
Waco, which arrived from New York yoster
day and anchored outside with a fleet of ves
sels, at one o’clock this morning was
discovered to be on fire. A strong N. E.
wind was blowing, with showers of raiu.The
passengers, officers aud crew took to the
ship’s open boats at three o’clock, aud pass
ed through tho fleet. The sea was so high
that the other boats could render them no
assistance. The last seen of the open boats
thoy were drifting in a westerly
direction down the coast. The agents
have telegraphed for a list of
her passengers. One of the Galveston
pilots, who had gone out ou her arrival, was
also ou board. Carriages have been sent
down tho beach and a steam tug dispatched
cruizing outside in search of the p ssengers
and crew. The steamer was burned to the
water’s edge, aud is now reported sinking.
It is supposed tho vessel and her cargo aro
a total loss.
New York, November 9.—The City of
Waco was valued at $150,000, and was
partially insured in New York and Europe.
She was three-quarters full of freight of gen
eral merchandize, which was valued at
SIOO,OOO. She was built in 1873, at Chester,
l’a.
New York, November 9.—The steamer
City of Waco, burned off Galvoston, was an
iron screw steamship of 1500 tons burth. u.
She was in a thoroughly good condition,
having been overhauled just bofore sailing
from this port. She left New York for Gal
veston Saturday, October 30th, commanded
by Captain Greenmail, au experienced offi
cer, who has been employed bv Mallory ,V,
Cos. for the last twenty years. I’he City of
Waco carried a valuable cargo. She
carried a crew of thirty men, in
cluding officer*, Her passenger list
numbered twenty in the cabin aud Kte* rj g
Her cabin passengers were—Miss M,.filing,
Mr. Rogers aud wife, H. Meyors, Mrs, A.
Horsley aud child, Fanny Heiier, uid I
Wedemyer. Iu the steerage there were
twelve passengers as follows: Robert Tar
keuton, Mrs. Mary Ehreuborgor, S. 8.
Duane, A. Frasier, Wm. Mackintosh, Alex.
Chisholm, M. Minesta and son, A Steiuz
meske, E. Dreisbauch, J. L. Albert, and P.
J. Martin.
Galveston, November 11 The mate of
the ship Caledonia, which was lying imme
diately astern of tho Waco, states that he
was on the deck of the Caledonia on the
lookout when ho heard an explosion and
felt the shock. Looking in the direction of
the Waco, he saw she was enveloped in
flames. About half an hour later he heard
cries for assistance, and saw five or six per
sons in the water. A few minutes later,
saw two persons afloat on a fender or piece
of wood. The mate made j reparations for
sending all the assistance possible by
getting out the life lines and lilo
bouys. The sea was running so high
at the time it was impossible to launoh a
boat. After hearing the explosion, he
watched the steamer closely', aud statesi
that after tho first few minutes the fire lost
the force and character at first notice. The
statements of tho men on the three vessels
nearest the burning steamer all agree as to
seeing five or six persons in the water;
also as to hearing frequent explosions on
the Waco, which were no doubt oases of oil.
Ail officers and experienced seamen are of
tho opinion that it was impossible for a boat
to have been safely launched from the Waco,
on account of the rapid spread of the fire
and the terrible sea that was running. There
is nothing later from the west. Capt. Saw
yer, agent of the lino, is out since yesterday
morning with a good crow. They will remain
outside as long as there is any hope of saving
any of the passengers or crew of toe Waco.
Middleroro, Mass., November 11.—Ed
ward Murphy aud his mother, both under
the influence of liquor, attempted to cross
the Taunton Railroad last night in a wagon.
Tho horse baulked and tho young man was
instantly killed by an approaching train.
Tho mother escaped.
DISRAELI ON THE SITUATION.
London, November 10 At the Lord
Mayor’s dinner the Cabinet were present.
Disraeli, answering the toast in honor of
Her Majesty’s Government, complimented
tho mode of settlement of the China diffi
culties. He continued : “I wish I could say
that foreign affairs nearer home were as
satisfactory as our relations with China. A
partial revolt in Turkey haß produced a
state of things such as often become criti
cal. The forbearance of the great powers
immediately interested produced an effect
such as some months ago gave us tho
right to believe that the dist.irbanoe would
cease immediately. Since then a financial
catastrophe has revived the struggle and
given anew aspect to all the circumstancea.
It is impossible to deny that the circum
stances are critical, but I still have great
confidence in the forbearance of the pow
ers. I have not merely a trust, but a con
viction that the means will be found to
bring about a satisfactory result
consistent with the maintenance of
the peace ©f Europe. 1 will
not contemplate any other result. The in
terests of the imperial powers in reference
to the question are more direct, but not
more considerable than those of Great
Britain. The men who have charge of
our affairs arc deeply conscious of the
magnitude of our interests, which 1
arc resolved to guard and maintai
Mr. Disraeli, after glowing referei •
to India, colonial and domestic affairs, ( ,r.
eluded with these words: “When I sp .&
here again next year I hope to be able
congratulate you upon the maintenanc
peace, aud I must also upon the succee. of
our domestic policy. So, if an exigency
should arise and the sovereign be called on
to show her power and force, she would be
able to appeal to a contented and confiding
people.”
the lost pacific.
Cincinnati, November 11.—A Memphis
special says that Captain Howell, the lost
commander of the Pacific, recently wrecked
off the Oregon coast, was the youugest
brother of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. He resided
in New Orleans several years, and served as
midshipman in the Confederate navy, and
was lately promoted to the command of tho
Pacific for gallantry in rescuing a ship
wrecked person in distress during a gale.
He was near thirty years of age.
RATHER A CANARD.
Rome, November 9.— Recently the Diario
Espanol, of Madrid, gave publication to a
statement that a note had been dispatched
irom the Vatican to Spain, insisting upon
the execution of the concordat, attributing
the civil war to religious tolerance, and
demanding that the Bishop of Urgel be
trie t by ecclesiastical iudges, etc. The
existence of this note is denied here. The
communication from Spain is still un
answered.
STANLEY.
New York, November 9.—A London dis
patch says a letter just received from Stan
ley, dated at Ulagalla, in Uganda, giving an
account of the continuation and conclu
sion of his examination of the shores of the
Victoria Nyanza. He confirms Spintes’a
view that the lake is one large body of water
and not a series of small lakes as held by
Livingstone.
THE OLD, OLD STORY.
New YoßK,!November 10.—Mingee Roane,
a very beautiful woman, of Southern birth,
aged 23, committed suicide last evening at
No. 180 Fifth avenue, where she had been
living with a wealthy young merchant
named Thomas Whitmore. She shot herself
through the heart.
SNOW.
Utica, N. Y., November 10.—A snow
storm has prevailed along the Mohawk val-i
ley since 10 a. m. to-day. There are iaj
dicatioua of rain, *