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VOL. II. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE 1 VICTIMS REPORTED. PROPERTY LOSS FEARFULLY HEAVY Belated News From tho Hurricane Swept Section Proves to Bo Of An Appalling Nature. A special from Brunswick, Ga., states that two bodies were found in the marsh near the city Thursday, one white, Captain Frank Cummings; tho other colored, name unknown. Avery, master of the tug McCauly, from Sav annah, arrived Thursday night and re ported four vessels ashore at S >pelo island, one the Norwegian hark Anges Campbell, loaded with lumber for Darien; the tug Crescent City and two schooners. From confirmatory reports now in, the loss on land and sea of life around Darien and Brunswiok is 120—nine tenths colored. These roports are secured from reliable sources, and are verified as far as possible. The losses are distributed as follows: Seven Brunswick, twenty Campbell island, five Doboy and eight on an unknown vessel wrecked off St. Andrews bar. The property loss, including Darien, Brunswick, Sapelo, St. Simons, Jekyl, Cumberland and Wolf islands, sur rounding rice fields, stock, cattle and buildings, at conserative figures, is es timated at $1,000,000. On Egg island, James Stocldey and wife climbed to their dwelling roof for safety. The water rose and drowned Mrs. Stockley. Stockley held his wife’s body until it grew stiff. A wave come and tore his wife’s body from his hands and sent Stockley into a nearby tree. His wife’s body floated by him to sea and he could not reach it. He spent a night of horror in the tree,and when the water subsided built a raft and drifted to St. Simons, being sev eral days without food. At Sapelo island the people are re ported safe, but the lighthouse is ren dered useless by the waves. One wave, thirty-five feet high, is reported by the keeper to have hit it. All of Wolf Island clubhouse build ings were washed away. The family living there have not yet been heard from and are supposed to bo drowned. Pilot Frank Fador, on St. Andrews bar, reports that his boat, Maude Helen, is on a bluff twenty feet above high water. His report also enume rates the following disasters: One un known three-masted schooner loaded with coal was dashed to pieces on tho south breakers, ten miles from St. Andrews light, and all hands, estima ted at eight, wero lost. Damage on Cumberland Island. The Hotel Cumberland property was damaged $5,000. Macon row was completely ruined. The seas washed the underpinning away and wrecked it all. The pavillion was washed up on the railroad track. Atlanta row was unroofed and undermined. The main hotel building’s cupola is gone and portions of the roof. The steamboat dock had nothing left but the piling. The main bluff at High Point, Cum berland, is washed away from one hun - dred to one hundred and fifty feet back into the mainland. Mrs. Lucy Carnegie’s steam yacht Dnngeness was washed upon the bluff and badly damaged. The Carnegie mansion at Dnngeness apparently had been under water some feet. Jekyl Island fort on the south end was washed away and the heavy can non dismounted. The housekeeper of Charles Moody, on the south end of Jekyl, is gone, and Moody has not been heard from. Jekyl dock is gone, and the water grounds ap parently had submerged the and cottages several feet. The three-masted schooner Edna and Emtna, loaded with coal and railroad iron, is up iu the marsh abreast of Jekyl clubhouse. John R. Young, of Ellis, Young & Co., Savannah and Brunswick, says: “Onr total loss will probably not all go to $5,000. We are saving nearly the naval stores that were swept away, and we expect to got back all except about 500 barrels of rosin.” SMALL POX ATTACKS SOLDIERS. Troops In the Philippines Now Wrest ling With Two Discnses. Advices received Thursday from Manila state that there have been fourteen cases of small pox and six deaths from that disease among tho American troops during the past two days. M. Powers, First The dead are H. California regiment; Henry Wheeler, Second Oregon; Henry Culver, Four teenth infantry; Joseph Datey, George Cooly and Frank Warwick, of the Thirteeth Minnesota regiment. Eight deaths from typhoid fever have also been reported. DEWEY AS VICE-ADMIRAL. The Grade To Be F.evived By Congress for His Special Benefit. The administration will recommend to congress the revival of the grade of vice-admiral, and the promotion to tha 1 rank of Rear Admiral George Dewey, now in command of the Asiatic station. Secretary Long made this positive announcement Wednesday that he intended to recommend the grade of vice-admiral be revived, and that that rank be conferred on Dewey. rn\ he Abbeville Chronic le V WERE KEA1)Y TO RESIST. A Fight Between Kay’s Troops and Spani ards Narrowly Averted. A cable dispatch from Cuba states that a fight was narrowly averted Fri day at Manzanillo between the Span ish garrison, under Colonel Parron, and the United State troops under Colonel Eay, who nrrivod from San tiago to take possession of the city. The arrival of tho Americans had taken the Spanish commander by sur prise and he had reported to Colonel Ilay that he had received word from General Blanco informing him that the date for the American occupation had been postponed to October 10th. Requested Colonel Hay to cable for additional instructions. The latter consented to do so and sent a dispatch to General Lawton, at Santiago, At 7 o’clock Friday morning Colonel Hay having not heard from General Lawton to the contrary, sent word to Colonel Parron, that in accordance with his instructions he should march his men to the city from the dock a mile away, and would take possession of thu public buildings iu tho name of the United States. At 8 o’dlock the battalion was in motion with colors flying. Colonel Kay marched toward the city, but be fore the troops reached the city gate Adjutant Collins arrived with Colonel Parron’s reply. Thb latter said he had no objection to surrendering the custom house at once, provided the American ling was not raised. Colonel Ray retorted that tho United States was not accustomed to taking posses sion without displaying the insignia of its sovereignty. The report" spread through the city that the Americans had arrived with colors flying and the streets were soon thronged as the regiment marched to ward the principal square, where it halted. At this point a Spanish bugler sounded the call to arms and tho Spanish garrison turned out to the number of 500 men. Colonel Ray visited Colonel Parron and a somewhat stormy interview took place between them with the aid of an interpreter. The Spanish commander said he had understood from Colonel Ray that matters were to remain over until October 10th and that he con sidered himself tricked. Colonel Ray explained that he never said anything of that soi;t; that his in structions were to take possession of the city on October 7; that he had cabled for further instructions, and not having received any, that he had proceeded to act upon his original orders. Thereupon Colonel Parron said the American troops must be removed at once. Colonel Ray refused. Colonel Parron declared ho would use force. Colonel Ray answered: “If you wish to precipitate further hostilities with the United States, I am unable to prevent it. But so far ns I am concerned I have certain orders, which as a soldier I am bound to carry out. T appreciate the position iu which you find yourself, but I am unable to help you. If the United States troops are fired upon I believe the men who are with me are quite able to take care of themselves even though n little outnumbered, and al though I am opposed to a useless wasto of life I shall face the issue in any way it suits you.” After considerable discussion and many requests on the part of Colonel Parron it was decided that action be delayed for a few hours iu order that Gen. Blanco could be communi cated with. In the meantime Col. Bay received ft dispatch from Gen. Wade explaining that the commander of the Spanish troops at Manzanillo had requested a delay until October 10th and the for mal evacuation was therefore post poned. The receipt of thisdispath endod tho episode. The American troops are occupying the barracks of Manzanillo by permission of Col. Parron. GEN. LEE GETS ORDERS. Will Move Command to Savannah to Em bark For Cuba. Major General Fitzhugh Lee receiv ed an order from the war department j , Friday directing him to move his command from Jacksonville, Fla., to Savannah, Ga., and get it in readiness to embark Lr Havana by the last of this month. General Lee left Washington Friday night for Savannah to make prelimi nary arrangements to carry his orders into effect. VOTES WERE BURNED. Courthouse of Georgia County Mysteri ously Destroyed by Fire. The courthouse of Coffee county, Gn., was burned Friday night. The fire is believed by the democrats to have been of incendiary origin, the crime being inspired by a desire to de stroy the votes cast in Wednesday’s state election. The populists lost the county by failing to make the proper returns from one precinct. The consolidation ; had been postponed for a week, and j the courthouse is alleged by some to | hnve been destroyed with a view to bringing on a new election. RE-ENFORCEMENTS FROM SPAIN Are Being Added to the Army of Occupa tion In Philiplne Islands. Admiral Dewey has cabled the navy department that he has been advised that a number of Spanish troops have arrived at Singapore bound for the Philippines to re-enforce the Spanish garrison at Iloilo, on the island of Pa nay. At this plase is concentrated about all that remains of the Spanish army of occupation of the Philippines' outside of the few troops on Luzon. ABBEVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1898. UPRISING ON REAR ISLAND PROVES IU nr crmaiTfi Sbiliuus. DESPERATE BATTLE IS FOUGHT. Reports From Scene of Conflict Are De layed and Ominous Forebodings Aro Entertained. An unconfirmed rumor reached St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday that tho sol diers and General Bacon have been massacred by the Indians at Leeoh Lake. A Brainerd operator says that this reported massacre is true. Earlier in the day General Bacon, commander of the department of the Dakotas, with 100 men of tho Third regular infantry, just back from San tiago, had a battle with tho Indians on Bear Island, in which fifteen soldiers were killed and wounded. The troops, after the The*Indians tattle, in trenched for the night. must have swarmed into the trenches later, and as the soldiers would have fought to the death, their entire mas sacre is probable. Later reports show that a second engagement was actually in progress. A telegram, received at midnight Wed nesday night, from Walker, Minn., says a fierce fight between the Indians and the troops is still in progress. Marshal O’Connor reports several fa talities among the soldiers, but does not give ths number. Cause of Trouble Looked Into. A special from Walker, Minn., says: The Pillager and other neighboring Indians of the White Earth reserva tions claim to have many reasons for their present outbreak, although the direct trouble with the Pillagers comes over attempts to bring in some of the Indians to the United States court at Duluth in connection with liquor sell ing oases. Their grievances go back through many years, and there have been legislative and other attempts to settle them, one of the latest being the Nelson law regarding the sale of the timber on the Indians’ 'lands. How ever, the Indians claimed that the methods of disposing of this were joth cumbersome and expensive, and that they were the sufferers. In regard to the serving as witnesses in illegal liquor selling cases, they claimed that the deputy marshals left them to find their way home from Duluth without having paid denied them the proper mileage. This is by the deputies. The leader in the troubles with the Pillagers is aa old warrior, Bog-Ah Mah-Ge-Shirk, not a chief, who re cently returned from court and was soon afterwards sought again by the deputies. He allegod ill treatment in being tarned adrift penniless in Du luth, and advised the other Indians to protest against the way he claimed to have been treated. The United States General Bacon, with his Santiago veterans from the Third infantry, left Wednesday for Bear island, deter mined to bring the recalcitrant Pilla ger Indians to terms by force if neces sary. He chartered two steamboats and a barge and had a gatling and a hotchkiss aboard, with which to clear the island of possible ambushes. News from the fort has been delayed, which is considered ominous. The most serious report is that the detachment of troops with General Bacon was massacred, the general himself being said to be among the dead. Three newspaper correspondents— Brill, of the St. Louis Pioneer Press; Beaton, of The Minneapolis Tribune, and Knappen, of The Minneapolis Times—are known to have been in tho fight, and one report is that they were killed, while another says they aro now prisoners in the hands of the In dians. A special from St. Paul, Minn., says: Orders were issued late Wednes day night for additional troops to go Leech lake, and 200 soldiers have gouo there on a special train. This is in accordance with a telegram from Adju tant General Corbin to Lieutenant Colonel Sourgis, assistant adjutant general for the department of Dakota. Official dispatches received at Wash ington Wednesday night brought to the authorities the sudden realization of an, Indian uprising of more than ordinary dimensions. ONE HUNDRED LOST. That la the Eatlmated Fatal I tie* In Re cent Coast Storm. A Brunswick, Ga., dispatch says: Martin Anderson, master of the Rteam er Hessie, from Darien, reports eighty bodies found on Butler’s island. These, with twenty previously report ed a Campbell island, runs to a total of one hundred. There will probably be other returns when the vessels be gin to get into the surrounding rice fields and island waterways, Tho property damaged at Brunswick, Da rien and surrounding country will probably go to one million. At Jekyl island the clubhouse and cottage dam age will go thirty thousand. EVANS AND PHILIPS ACCEPTS. Naval Officers Will Be Present at the Chi cago Jubilee. Secretary Dixon, of the reception committee of the Chicago peace jubi lee, has received word from Captain Robley D. Evans, of the battleship Iowa, accepting the invitation to par ticipate in the jubilee exercises. Com modore Philips, of the Texas, has nlso sent an acceptance. NAYY’S LOSS IN TV AH. Only Seventeen Sailors Wore Killed Dup ing; Conflict With 'Spain. A Washington dispatch says: Sovcn teen Bailors killed and eighty-four cas naltie*. all told, was the total loss suf fered by the United States navy dur ing the war. Tho figures have just been compiled at the navy depart ment. In Dewey's great fight in Manila bay not a man was killed and every one of the nine wounded returned to duty. In the battle of July 3rd, off Santi ago, one man was killed and there were eleven wounded, all returning to duty. In the attack upon tho forts at tho entrance to Santiago Jnno 22nd, One sailor was killed and eleven wounded, of whom seven wero able to return to duty. The heaviest loss of tho navy was at Guantanamo. There were twenty-two casualties in that 100-hour fight and of the list six marines were killed. Of tho wounded nine returned to duty In the battle with the forts and gun boats of Cienfuegos the list aggregated eleven wounded and two killed. One man is under treatment. The fierce battle between the torpedo boat. Winslow and revenue cutter Hudson with Spanish land batteries and artillery forces at Cardenas re sulted in five deaths. The wounded afterwards returned to duty. In the bombardment of San Juan the causalties numbered eight with one man killed 1 One of the wounded . men was invalided home, while six re turned to duly. There were four other eausalties oc curring in as many separate engage ments, and that completed the list of naval losses. Of the sixty-seven wounded in the war fifty-four were returned to duty, one died of wounds, six were invalided from the service and six continued under treatment. Considering results obtained this is said to he tho most remarkable in tho naval history of the world. MOVING ORDERS ISSUED. Leo’s Army Corps Instructed To Leave Jacksonville For Savannah. General orders were issued from corps headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday for the movement of the Seventh army corps from that city to Savannah, Ga. The movement is to begin as soon as the quartermaster’s department can provide transportation. The regipients will move in the follow ing order: Ninth Illinois, Second South Caro lina, Fourth Illinois, First Texas, Second Louisiana, Third Nebraska (Colonel Bryan’s regiment), One Hun dred and Sixty-first Indiana, Second Illinois, First North Carolina, Forty ninth Iowa, Fourth Virginia and Sixth Missouri. * The signal corps is to prepare itself to move at once and to report to the quartermaster the date at which it will be ready to go. The sick aro to he left at Jacksonville. The quarter master and medical departments are directed to provide each regiment with requisites for establishing regimental field hospitals. The commanders of these respective brigades will not be known till Gen eral Lee shall issue the necessary or der, and as several of the general offi cers of the Seventh corps have been announced to he mustered out. late this month and some the last of November, it is not known what officers will be in charge of the respective brigades, as they shall he sent to Cuba. It is not anticipated that the stay of the troops at Savannah will he long, only sufficient to allow transportation to Cuba to be provided and for em barking the troops. SETTLERS ARE APPREHENSIVE. They Fear That Indians are Not Rub clued anti Flee to Towns. A special to the St. Paul Pioneer Press from Ferris, Minn., a small town north of Leech Lake, says a re port reached there late Saturday even ing of the killing of a white man near Bear island during the day. Settlers living near the Indian reser vation are seeking shelter in towns along the railroad. A hand of Indians of about 150 were reported camped within two miles of Ferris. Armed citizens are guarding the town expect ing an attack. Indians professing to he friendly were at Grneland, one and a half miles west of Ferris Sunday evening trying to purchase ammunition. AMENDMENT RATIFIED. Georgians Favor Popular Election of Judges and Solicitors. Reports of consolidated returns of Georgia’s state election show the adoption of tho constitutional amend ment providing for the election of judges and solicitors by the people, This amendment was ratified by an overwhelming majority. A few coun ties voted it down, but in the greater number of counties the people voted in favor of taking a hand in these elec tions themselves. Some papers made the announce ment that the amendment had been defeated, but this was a mistake. OMDURMAN VETERANS RETURN. Flmt Battalion Roach.;. I.oinlon anil Be ceiv«s Joyous Welcome. The first battalion of the Grenadier Guards returned to London Thursday from Omdurman, where they took part in the crushing defeat inflicted upon the dervishes by General Lord Kitch ener. From Waterloo railroad station, where they left the train,to Wellington barraoks, immense crowds of people lined the streets and accorded tho he roes a warm reception. THE RESULT OF LAST YVEDNES* DAY'S STATE ELECTION. ESTIMATED MAJORITY OF 55.000. The Contest Was an Unusually Quiet One Governor-Elect Candler Gives Ills Views. Colonel Allen D. Candler’s majority for governor of Georgia will bo very close to 6(5,0.)0. The vote of Wednesday's eleotion was consolidated in the 137 counties Thursday at noon. In most counties the vote was vory light. Thousands of democrats, as well as former populists, remained ui home, tho democrats feeling that their ticket wus sure to bo elected. On the basis of the latest reports re called after the official consolidations had been male, Celouel Candler’s ma jority amounted to 60,931. The" total majority will hardly exceed 70,000, but it will not be less than flB.OOO. Below will be found tho majorities by counties: Caudler. Hogan. Appling........ 46 Baker...»...... 307 Baldwin........ 440 • Banks ......... oc Bartow......... 830 Berrien........ 150 Bibb........... 406 Brooks......... 446 Bryan.......... 518 Bulloch........ 458 Burke......... 7.84 Butts.......... 840 Calhoun....... 191 Camden........ 90 Campbell...... 348 Carroll......... 652 Catoosa........ 657 Charlton....... 309 Chatham....... 2,075 Chattahoochee . 118 Chattooga...... 1,284 Cherokee...... 409 Clarke......... 537 Clay .......... 320 Clayton........ 401 Clinoh......... 171 Cobb.......... 073 Coffee......... Columbia...... 119 Colquitt....... 101 Coweta......... 938 Crawford....... <2% Dade........... CS Dawson........ © Decatur......... De Kalb........ Of Dodge......... 887 Dooly......... 431 Dougherty...... 223 Douglas........ 108 Early........... 880 Echols......... 370 Effingham...... 237 Elbert......... 1,665 Emanuel........ 600 Fannin......... 580 Fayette......... 588 Forsyth........ 112 Franklin....... 810 Fulton......... 3,788 Gilmer......... 1,183 Glascock....... 177 Glynn......... 03 Gordon........ 3C Greene........ 00 Gwinnett...... 441 Habersham..... 438 Hall........... 924 Hancock....... 270 Harrison....... 10 Harris.......... 488 Hart............ 206 Heard.......... 507 Henry.......... 372 Houston........ 364 Irwin........... 2,560 Jackson......... 253 Jasper.......... 375 Jefferson....... 29 Johnson........ 89 Jones .......... 279 Laurens........ 519 Lee............ 153 Liberty......... 18 Lincoln......... 600 Lowndes....... 213 Lumpkin....... 90 Macon ........ 291 Madison........ 790 Marion......... 243 McDuffie....... 197 McIntosh....... 175 Meriwether..... 665 Miller.......... 218 Milton......... 261 Mitchell........ 842 Montgomery.... 526 Monroe........ 370 Morgan........ 821 Murray........ 326 Muscogee...... 851 Newton......... 72 L Oconee......... 65 Oglethorpe..... . 2,113 Paulding....... 101 Pickens........ 341 Pierce......... 122 Pike........... 445 Polk........... 666 Pulaski........ 872 Putnam........ 255 Quitman....... 269 Ilabun......... 435 Randolph...... 710 Richmond...... 942 Rockdale....... 264 Schley......... 154 Screven........ 99 Spalding....... 424 Stewart........ 483 Sumter ..: ...... 556 Talbot......... 342 Talliaforro...... 66 Tatnall......... 211 Taylor......... 70 Teifair......... 1,228 Terrell......... 362 Thomas........ 496 Towns..... ;i:io Troup..... 1,150 Twiggs .... (115 Union...... 450 Upson..... 408 Walker..... Walton..... Ware...... Warren 81 Washington 490 Wayne..... 133 Webster 445 White...... 50 Whit Held... 198 Wilcox..... Wilkes..... 550 Wilkinson .. 280 Worth..... 200 Candler’s majority. .65,021 Governor-Elect Candler’* Talk*. Governor-elect Allen D. Candler reached Atlanta Wednesday afternoon and was overwhelmed with the con grntulations of callers at tho demo cratic headquarters in the Kimball house iu the afternoon. In speaking of the result of the election he said: Of course, J am very much gran ted at the result, hut not surprised. While I made no thorough canvass of the slate, I was in a few counties in every quarter, and felt assured that the position that T had taken, not only in in this campaign, but in the prelimi nary campaign for nomination in favor of clean methods and honest politics, met the approbation of an overwhelm ing majority of the best people in tho state. “It is a source of gratification to me to he able to say sincerely that no word was uttered by me or my friends during the campaign that T would re tract, and we have done nothing that wo desire to undo. The campaign was pitched on a high plane ami fought out on a high plane without descending to the disreputable meth ods which hnve characterized our op ponents in many of the counties. "It is gratifying to know that the best elements in the populist party in Georgia have returned to tho demo cratic standard. There are in the state, as I have repeatedly said on the stump, many thousands of good men misled by aspiring leaders in tho pop ulist party, but who are at heart, and always have been democrats. To all of them the democrats of Georgia ex tend a hearty welcome back into tho fold of the democratic pnrty, and for myself, I can say that I appreciate the support they have given me. It is apparent to all readers of the news papers that some of the moHt intelli gent and patriotic leaders ot the third party movement abandoned the fight as ioogjas the effort at. fusion with the republic ) party became apparent, and these leaders have not been beard from in the campaign which has just closed. think' “I Ve+y be snfely assumed that this campaign ends the populist party in Georgia, because th'u -feanest men who have aligned themselves with this party for the last three campaigns now see, as some of them have always seen, that the democratic party is in dee.l and in truth the only people’s party that ever has or ever can exist in this republic. If the evils of which they have justly complained cannot he corrected through the democratic party, they cannot he corrected at all. “I will endeavor to show my appre ciation of these generous expressions of the people of Georgia by giving them as good nn administration as it is in my power to direct. I am over whelmed with a deep sense of appre ciation at this generous manifestation of their confidence. 1 will endeavor to show them that it is not misplaced.” A FRUITLESS MISSION. Agulnaldo’s Representative Will Now Ap peal to Peace? Commissioners at Paris. Felipe Agoncillo, the representative of Aguitialdo, the leader of the Filipi nos, sailed from New York Saturday for France, where he expects to be al lowed to present, tho appeal of the Filipinos to the American peace com missioners. "Wo had enough of Spanish mis rule,” said he, “and if the United States will not grant us independence like the Cubans, then we will have to he satisfied with annexation.” GOOD FOR SAVANNAH. One Million Dollars Will Be Spent, On New Terminal*. One million dollars is to he expend ed in building railroad terminals on Hutchinson’s island, opposite Savan nah, Ga., by the Georgia and Alabama Terminal company, which includes a utynber of northern capitalists. The capital of $300,000 lias been subscribed aud bonds to the extent of $1,000,000 are to be issued, the Georgia and Alabama leasing terminals when in i eadiness. Tho entire river trout of the island has been bought. YACHT UA(’.SIZED. Four Persons Drowned J >» Swift Current, of* If cidnon K-i ver. N. L. Weatherby, commodore of tho Troy Yacht club, and three compan ions, Stephen J. Mallory, Mrs. Wil liam Rresliu and .Miss Elizabeth Sav age, were drowned by the capsizing of a yacht in tho Hudson river, three miles north of Troy, N. Y., Wednes day. At last accounts tho bodies had not been recovered. The accident was due to the swift current in the river. GOVERNOR TAYLOR IMPROVES. Friends of Tennessee’s Chief Executive Hopeful of His Recovery. A dispatch of Friday from Nash ville, Tenn., says: The condition of Goveror Robert L. Taylor, who is is very im ill at his home in Johnson City, proved. His physicians have ordered absolute rest and quiet for him, and his friends are quite hopeful of his ul timate recovery. NO. 38. * I OK LOCATION OF THREE ARM* CORPS IN THE SOUTH. GEORGIA GETS +0,000 SOLDIERS.. Majoi* Generals Wheeler, Brcckenrldga and Graham Will Be In Command of the Troops. . A general order was issued at Washington Friday from the cffics ef Gen. Milos organizing new araagr corps and designating various poiata where the troops shall be station*#. Tho Third, Fifth and Sixth corps ara discontinued; the First, Second and Fourth corps reorganized. They ai* to be commanded respectively by KU - Generalg Breckinridge, Grata*. and Wheeler. The headquartera *f C()r P R wl “ Macon °» Beeon* - cor P s - , corps, Augusta, Ga.; Fourth eerpa, Huntsvil e, Ala. or< ^ er 18 ** 0 * lows: By direction of the secretary of war tho Third, Fifth and Sixth army corpa are discontinued; the First., Se«oni and Fourth army corps will be reor ganized and assigned to camps as be low specified: Major General First army corps, Breckinridge, U. S. V. , commanding, headquarters at Macon, Ga. First division, headquarters at Ma con, Ga. First brigade, Atlanta, Ga., Thirty first. Michigan, Fourth Tennessee and Sixth Ohio. Second brigade, Macon, Ga., Third U. S. "v. engineers, Second Ohio and Sixth Virginia. Third brigade, Macon, Ga., Tenth U. S. V. infantry and Seventh U. S. V. infantry. hoadquarterB at Second division, Columbus, Ga. First brigade, Columbus, Ga., First West Virginia, One Hundred and Six tieth Indiana and Third Kentucky. Second brigade, Amerieus, Ga., Eighth Massachusetts, Twelfth New York and Third North Carolina. Third brigade, Albany, Ga., Second Missouri, Third Mississippi and First Territorial U. S. V. infantry. Second army corps, Major General W. M. Graham, U. S. V., command ing, headquarters at Augusta, Go. First division, headquarters at An gus ta, Go. First brigade, Augusta, Ga., Tenth Ohio, First Maryland and Third Mich igan. Summerville, 8 Second brigade, . Fourteenth Pennsylvania, Third Connecticut and Ninth Ohio (battol- 10 “;J hirdbngnde, Augusta, . , „ a., * P< Ivnnia Eighth Pennsyl vania Second am. divn.. |jenth £• Minnesota, headquarter, at Greenville, 8. C. fh ■ . Gr-, First brigade, Greenville, Two Hundred and Third New York, Second West Virginia and Fourth New Jersey. Third brigade, Columbia, S. C., First Rhode Island, Second Tennessee and First Delaware. Third division, headquarters at Athens, On. First brigade, Athens, Ga., Fif teenth Pennsylvania, Third New Jer sey and Two Hundred and Second Now York. Second brigade, Athens, Ga., Third Georgia and Twenty-second New York. Second brigade, Spartanburg, 8. C., Fourth Missouri, Fifth Massachusette and Two Hundred and First New York. Fourth army corps, Major General Joseph Wheeler, U. 8. V., command ing, headquarters at Huntsville, Ala. First division, headquarters at Huntsville, Ala. First brigade, Huntsville, Ala., Six teenth United 8tates infantry and Sixty ninth New York. al Second division, headquarters Anniston, Ala. First brigade, Anniston, Ala., See oiul United States infantry, Fourth Kentucky aud Third Alabama. Sezond brigade, Anniston, Ala., Second Arkansas, Third Tennessee and Fourth Wisconsin. Cavalry brigade, Huntsville, Ala., Second United States cavalry, Sixth United States cavalry and Tenth Uni ted States cavalry. RIG STRIKE IN PARIS. Dissatisfied Laborers Block Work oil Exposition Buildings. Advices from Paris state that the strike of the laborers there has ex tended to nearly all the building trades ami it is feared the railroad men will join in tho movement. Work on the exposition buildings and underground railroad has completely ceased. About sixty thousand men have gono out on strike and the situation is causing consternation. The attitude of tho strikers is increasingly aggres sive and fights between strikers and so-called “black legs” are incessant, involving the intervention of the au thorities. LEE WILL REORGANIZE CORPS. i IIi» Army Will Consist of Two Divisions of Two Brigades Each. A Washington special say*: Gen eral Lee has been ordered to reorgan ize the Seventh army corps bow unde? his command at Jacksonville se as to make it consist of two divisions of two brigades each. General Wheeler left the capital Saturday for Huntsville, Ala., ere he assumes command of the Fourth corps.