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J. <;. (iALLAIiKH, Mitor.
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1874.
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Yothe Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic Party. *
Macon, May 18, 1874.
Desiring, above nil thing*, unity of oc
tiou by the Democrat* of Georgia in our
apprtMcfnMg] elections, sndjkiiowing the
great importance of harmony in our rank*.
I have determined, with a view to then?
desirable ends, to call together the Execu
tive .pom niittee of the party on the first
Wednesday in July in Atlanta, for oonaul
tation. Untill then it is donired that no
notion looking to nomination of candidate*
will he taken by the party. Gentlemen ot
the Convention, the interest of the people
demand your attention.
Taomah Hardeman, Jr.,
Chairman Dem. Ex. Com.
TEE FINANCIAL*QUEBTIOK
We think i* now settled, Congreaa need ;
not be further agitated on the subject. I
Tbwre is no scarcity of money as the fol
lowing fact* nnd figures will clearly show.
The New York Express of May the 12th
says:
I'he events ot tl>e week in financial cir- i
eles, were important and business lias been
Marked by frequent fluctuations. The l
Senate Finance Committee reported anew
tkirreney tail which attracted very little ■
attention in finaneial circles for the reaeon j
that the measure can not pass both Houses
i itiiout radical amendments. The pros
j*ect of further legislation on the currency
question at Washington, about which
opinions differ widely, has been treated
v itb indifference here and the situation
has turned eliirfly on local causes. The i
onrse of money was marked by increased
vise and throughout nearly the entire week
Stock Exchange Itorrowers were accommo
dated freely t 804 per cent on call; in
f cV’the supply of capitul seeking tempor
ary investment has lieeri unusually large,
aid the shrinkage in the market value of
s.urities has induced some parties to ex
change their money for the better class of
a>-purities. or for such stocks as have a
i hsi future. Loans on time have been
itgotisted at fi per cent for sixty days, 5i
jer cent, for ninety days, and 7 percent
fir balance of ttie year. In tins discount
j isrket. prime business potes have becu
h-ken at Rffc 7 per cent. The present
plethora of money and tho pravideuce of
unusually low rates of interest at this ana
sou in in rally attract attention, especially
in connection with the discussion of pros
pective financial legislation at Washing
ton. Tho reasons for the existing state of
the money market are obvious; business
i* less setiv- than last year, the Treasury
has added 826,000,000 to tho legal tender
circulation of the country, and last but not
bust there has been an enormous decline
in the value of securities on the Stock Ex
change which alone is sufficient to account
lor the ease in money to a very large ex
tent As illustrating this fact we annex n
table of the highest prices of stocks to
day compared w itli those of the corres
pondiug day of last year:
May 10, 1873-May 0, ’74
New York Central 101 J 98}
Harlem 126 120
Erie * ' 63} 36}
lerke Shore 911 76|
Wabash 60 J 40 ii
North West 80 4ilJ 1
North West preferred 87 621 i
Hook Island 110 071 |
Fort Wayne 03 031
Milwaukee a St. Paul 58 34} i
I)o. pref. 73* 65
Ohio A- Mississippi 43J VMj
Hoaton, Hartford a Erie 3 1 j
New Jersey Central 100 105 j
Union Pacific 32) 30*
G\, C. and I. 0 34J 20*
Hanuibid a St. Joseph 30j 27}
" preferred 67 31
Pittsburg 89} 80
Panama 115 108
D. L * Western 104 107*
Western Union 80| 72}
Pacific Mail 55 45j
Quicksilver 40 20 i
“ preferred 50 30
Adams Express 06 100
Wells, Fargo & Cos. 81 76
Amerio’n Merch’ts’Union 88 53
United States 74 67
Atlantic Pacific Pref. 23 14
The above list comprises all tho active
shales on the stock Exchange, and a care
ful analysis of the decline shows in round
figures a shrinkage of seven ty-flive million
dollars lit least; and if we take into consid
eration ilie decline in new railroad bonds
aud miscellaneous securities generally, the
shrinkage would represent a very much
larger sum. These facts are very inipor
taut in connection with the money mar
ket. Again, we might mention iucidcn- j
tally that we are doing very little in the j
way of building uow railroads, while in I
former rears we were constructing about
seven thousand miles per annum, and
straining the currency to perform this
large amount of work on internal improve
ments. This stoppage of railroads build
ing is of course, a great relief to the money
market, The lessons of the past are likely
to prove useful in the matter of railroads
and the country allowed a change to grow
up to existing lilies before new ones are
consrtticted. If to the decline in stocks
ana bouds wc odd the shrinkage in oom
nnslities generally and real estate, it will
be found that it takes at the present time
at least one bn ndred million dollars less t han
lust year as margins to carry securities,
produce merchandise and real estate: while
we have 826,000,000 more legal tenders
which form the basis for 8104,000,000
Iwmk lonus. AH these facts are Biiffiornt
explanation of the present ease in money
and the low rates of interest.
Wall Street, New York, May the 14th,
the money market broke down this after
noon under a large supply and limited de
mand; b rrowera on call were offered
money freely at l(nft2 per cent, but their
wants were not sufficient to absorb the
capital pressing at these low ratee.
Pv reference to the above table it will
le seen in the thirty stocks there enumer
ated that there has been an immense
shrinkage in all but four, the deprecia
tion of these stocks give seventy-five mil
lions of dollars to neck other investments
and other channels of trade. This with
the twenty-six millions of additional cur- ;
reney issued by the treasurer gives over ;
one hundred millions now seeking legiti
mate transactions; most of which have
tieen invested in fluctuating stocks at ficti
tious values. 'Dies* 1 bubbles have bunded
and hence tire grant rodirodency of money
at the great centers, and consequently tlie
cheap rate of interest. Suppose that
other stocks fall from their fictitious
height* to real values, will not the excess
over the real Values seek 'Slier investin' ut
and legitimate channels of trade aud spec
ulation ? Anticipating-the shrinkage in'
other stack* in proportion to those alxivr
enumerated, which is not only possible
but probable, there would be an addition
of one, two, or perhaps three hundred
millions of money the excess of the ficti
tious over the real values seeking other in
vestments. Now if the shrinkage in
stocks of acvcnty-ftve million* of dollars
will produce the rcmarkalde reduction of
interest on calls and permanent loans,
what effect will three hundred millions of
additional shrinkage province ? It is cer
tainiy conclusive proof that inflation is
not what the people want.
All we want to flood our country with i
money is something to exchange for it.
The reason we havn't got it now is that we
have Woght more than we have sold,
consumed more than we have produced,
and auch will be the case until wo lessen
| our expenses and increase our income,
| Step the leakage aud your vessel' will not
| sink.
Free Banking:
The Tribune notes the confusion with
regard to the meaning of the words ••free”
and '‘banking.” The latter would seem
to lie considered synonymous with the
issue of inconvertible money. Certain fair
sous subscribe 8115,000, buy #IOO,OOO in
Government bonds, and are permitted to
issue 800,000 of paper money on condi
tion that they carry on the conditions of
bunking.
Investing $115,000 in Government stock
and drawing interest thereon is not hunk
ing (s iys theedih r . P t ing on,
tliu credit of the Government is not hank
ing. Lending the 800,000 to borrowers of
of good credit many be banking, but
cannot the original #115,000 in paper
money already existing be lent to borrow
ers in the first place V Is it necessary to
go through the inflating process of first
investing in Government bonds and then
issuing fresh paper money, by which the
real hanking capital is reduced from #115,-
000 to #OO,OOO.
As regards the tulk alxiut “elasticity,” a
hunk not issuing a dollar of fresh paper
money, hut banking on a capital of $115,-
000 of such money as wo already have,
imparts, it is urged, just a* much elasticity
to the currency, and even more than n
bunk witli #115,000 invested in bonds,
and the privi.ege to inflate the currency
$90,800.
Tho four great joint-stock banks of Eng
land, which hold deposits and make loans
to several times the amount of the Hank of
England’s figures, and earn double the
dividend of that institution, and have never
issued a dollar in circulating notes, yet
they have given to tlie faiyments of Eng
land all the “elasticity” which banks are
capable of giving.
Hanking as thus defined, ran never be
free.
The trno remedy, for the evils of the
National hunk system is(the editor says)
tiie restoration of specie payments. * *
The essential condition of redemption in
specie on demand being absent, every
dollar added to the existing mass of dis
honored paper, whether bonk notesor legal
tenders, is a step in the wrong direction.
Of 933 newspapers in 9 Btntes of the
Northwest, 614 tnvor the President's veto
of the inflation bill, 408 are opposed, and
the rest are non-committal. If this is not
an answer to tho cry that tho West wants
more currency, nnd “will have it,” then
no nuswur will satisfy the demands of in
flation,
The Promise* of the Superintenpent of the
A. &G. R. R.
It appears that tbe General Superinten
dent of tho Atlantic and Gulf Railroad has
lieen making promises to MnjorEiiglehard,
of Wilmington. N. C., that ho will find it
di Hcult o, if not impossible to fulfil'.
Tho Major says thut Col. Huines “in
sured" him thut the A. A G. R. R. would
certainly be extended from Rainbridge,
“through Jackson county, Florida," ut an
early day, and intimated thut the Florida
Legislature will consent to tho arrange
ment.— MonticrUo Constitution.
We do not believe that Col. Haines ever
gave Major Engle’.aid any such assurances.
Nor do we believe thut the President and
Superintendent of the A. 4(1. R. R. ever
contemplated any such thing, but that
they do contemplate an extension of tlie
road along, or nenr the Florida line to
Pollard, Alabama, is unquestioned and wo
have no doulit they will succeed ill obtain
ing the menus to complete the work. It
is only a question of time, that road must
be built nnd Col. So.riven knows what to
do, and when to it. We think that Major
Etiglelmrd misunderstood Col. Haines,
Brook 1) on thb Wisr.— Litf’e Rock, May
19.—Brook* has evacuated the State
House, and gone, no one knows whither.
The Federal barricade was relieved, and
Baxter, with martial array, took posses
sion. They tired 101 guns.
—a
Sot'TH Cam ilina.- -Vharfattoti, Muy 20. - -
The statement that Governor Moses lust
night submitted to arrest turned out incor
rect. He hud concluded to yield, and had
sent his carriage for an ollicer empowered
to make the arrest, but at the lust moment
changed his mind and again refused to bo
arrested. This monrniug he obtained a
warrant f >r the arrest of the Orangeburg
sheriff, on a charge of attempting illegally
to arrest the Governor, but the sheriff hud
left Columbia. In Orungebnrgfthis morn
ing the State Solicitor reported the Gov
ernor’s resistance to arrest, and inquired
what steps the court would take to enforce
its authority. The court replied that for
the present it did not sae its way olear to a
successful tight with the State militia, and
father action will be held under advise
ment.
Highlanders have the habit, when talk
ing their English, such ns it is, of inter
jecting the personal pronoun “he” when
not required, such as “The King he has
come,” instead of “The King has come.”
Often, in consequence, a sentence or ex
pression is rendered sufficiently ludicrous,
us the sequel will show. A gentleman says
he had the pleasure of listening to a clever
man, the Rev. Mr. , let his locality be
a secret, and recently he began his dis
course thus: “My friends, yon will find
the subject of dis tonne this afternoon in
the first. Epistle general of the Apostle Pe
ter, clmpter 5 and verse 8, in the words,
‘The devil he goetli about like a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour.’ Now,
my friends, with your leave, we will divide
the subject of our text to-dnv into four
beads: Firstly, we shall endeavor to as
certain ‘Who tliedeTil be was ?’ Secondly,
we ahull inquire into his geographical po
sition, namely, ‘Where the devil he was ?’
and ‘Where the devil he was going ?’
Thirdly -and this of a personal character
—‘Who the devil he was seeking ?’ And,
fourthly auil lastly, we shall endeavor to
ailve a question which has never lieen
solved yet. “What the devil he was roar-
Utg about T "
kOKkltiA AKVVB.
Guatemala.
A TERRIBLE TRADE DY.
Now Yon*. May 18.—A Panama letter
of May 8, aava that the foreign resident*
on the Pacific roast are Spaniards, and
gives an account of a tragedy that baa oc
curred at Han Jose do Guatemala. It sp
licers that the oo in no andante of that port,
Col. Gorni/.les, hod a personal difficulty
with her Hrittnnio Majesty’s Vice-Cousul
John Magee in reference to a clearance for
a vessel lying in port. They bad exchanged
blows on the street. April 24. Gouazlea
summoned Magee to come to bis office.
The latter excused himself, alleging that
lameness prevented his walking.
THE VIC* CONSUL SEIZED.
A party of armed soldiers was sent to
bring him dead or alive. Magee was ar
rested, thrown into a cart and jolted over
the atones to the government lieadqnaters.
Goiiazles not daring to shootfhiii] took the
butt of his pistol and struck his prisoner
violently in the face, licapping on him in
the meuntime every obscene epithet. At
the same time the coinmnndante declared
that be should receive 400 lashes; and if
he survived this torture, he should be shot
tlie next morning. The unfortunate vice
consul vainly invoked the protection of
his flug; and the remostrance of Mr.
Jamos, disregarded by tlie commandant.
AllTtlVltl. OF THE ARIZONA.
Tlie Pacific mail steamship Arizona ar
rived at Han Jose from Han Francisco at
uoon; but its presence did not keep the
commander from his purpose He seized
tho telegraph station, planted two cannon
on the wharf that commanded the Arizona,
i as she lay at anchor, and then proceeded
to work out his own plans.
TWO HUNDRED I.ASHES ADMINISTERED.
At 4 in the aftemooh Magee was brought
out, stripped of his coat and vest, and
thrown prostrate on the stone floor- Four
soldiers sat on his hands, feet and bead,
and four others proceeded to administer
the lashes with rattan sticks. The com
mnndaute eooly kept tally of the stripes.
After two hundred blows had been in
flicted tlie victim became iunensible, and
the surgeon of the port interfered, protest
ting that the man would die if bis torture
was continued.
Thereupon the remaining two hundred
lushes were post (Mined until the next morn
ing immediately before the, hour ap
poiuted for the execution.
EXTRAORDINARY REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY.
Magee was then taken back to his cell.
With hellish refinement of cruelty, the
commands ite visited his victim neve: 1
times dining the night and placed tin
muzzle of his revolver against Magee's
temples, saying: “Why don’t I shoot
yon," and “don't you want me to put you
out your misery ?”
TROOPS BENT FROM SALVADOR.
News these proceedings had reached Halva
d< TANARUS, nd a detachment of roopa under Gen
eral Huiann was dispatched to Han Jose,
de Guatemala. These came in sight just
ns Mugeo had been placed in position to
receive tlie remaining two hundred lashes-
The comnmndante, seeing his downfall
uesr st hand, ordered his aoildera to fire
upon Magee. They refused, aud be then
fled to the Arizona.
THE COMM ANTI ANTE Kn.UCTI.
He was followed by a boat bearing an
order from Gen. Holano, on the captain
of the steamer, to secure him and return
him to the shore; but as Goimzles was
standing on the side of the steamer, lie
wus fired upon by some of the passengers,
three pistols-sbot taking effect on differ
ent parts of his hotly. He managed to
get into hia boat and was taken ashore,
but lived only u few hours. No clue to the
p.esou who fired on the commandant!
could be found. The long of the Arizona
notes thatshots were fired by un-ecti hands
among the passengers.
KHARS OK SKUIOfS OUTBREAK ‘
Great fears of a serious outbreak were
expressed, ami the steamer's guns were
loatled and trained upon the town. The
United States Minister ut Salvador (Wil
liamson) sent a dispatch ordering the de
tention of the steamer; but the captain,
considering that the order was designed
to keep the ship till the safety of the for
eign residents was assured, decided to dis
regard it, and sailed for l’anamu on the
25th of April.
Great Britain.
THE CZAR IN LONDON.
London, May 15.—The Czar and party
reached Buckingham Palace at noon from
Windsor Castle. Immense crowds lined
the route of the procession from Padding
ton station to the palace. The Czar, the
Prince of Wales, the Grand Duke Alexis,
aud the Duke Alexis, and the Duke oi
Edinburgh, occupied out) carriage, and
Prince Arthur, the Princess of Wales, and
the Duchess of Edinburgh, another.
ALEX AN DROWN A CHEERED.
The last named was oheered vehemently,
because it has been understood lately that
there was bitterness between her aud the
Princess of Wales in relation to the ques
tion of rank.
ORANP BALL TO THE CZAR.
The Duchess of Sutherland gave a grand
ball to-night in honor of the Emperor of
Kusaia. The Grand Duke Alexis and sev
eral members of the royal family of Great
Britain were present. Among the Ameri
can guests were Moran, Charge and Affaires
of the United States, aud Gun. Sickles,
late Minister to Spuin, and lady.
Russia.
AN IMPERIAL SCANDAL.
Berlin, May 15.—Additional informa
tion with regard to the arrest of a member
of the Imperial family in St. Petersburg
shows that there was an error in the first
dispatches as to the name of the person
implicated. It was not the Grande Duke
Nicholas, brother of the Czar, but Prince
Nicholas, one of the Emperor's nephews,
who was arrested. All that is known ol
the cause of the arrest is contained in the
following diapntch to the Augsburg tr’u
idle which mentions the names, and re
duces the affair to a mere private scandal:
St. Petersburg, May 14.—An exalted
personage in this city having missed her
diamonds, communicated the fact to the
poliee, who discovered that, the perpetra
tor of the theft was her own son. Intelli
gence of the affair coming to the Emperor,
he directed that legal proceedings should
bike their course, notveith: t inding per
sonal considerations. It seems that the
diamonds were given by the Prince to a
well-known French actress.
Porto Rico.
ARREST OK A MASONIC X, ADC.R.
Havana, May 14.—Advices from San
Juiui de Porto Rico state that the members
of the Masonic lodge nt Tuhuuu Grande
have been arrested by the poliee. The
Bolotin newspaper applauds the authorities
for ttUe attitude they had assumed against
Masonry. It declares that Masons in the
Antilles are thoroughly in favor of the
separation of the colonies from Spain.
GRAND PICNIC. HORTICULTURAL
AND FLORAL EXHIBITION.
kwaiHM in <-->ia i
The following is the action of tbc com-,
mittec appointed by the Houth Georgia I
Agricultural and Mechanical Association j
to perfect arrangements and carry out the ■
project iA holding the Hecond Annual
Grand Picnic, Horticultural and Floral
Exhibition ut the Fair Grounds on the 28th
iust.
The exhibition will he held on Thurs
day, the 28th day of May.
Admission to the grounds, single ticket,
25 cents.
Family tickets, admitting parents and
their own children under sixteen years of
age 50 cents.
There will be no entry fees charged, and
all persona are cordially invited to place ou
exhibition fair samples of their vegetables,
fruits and flowers.
The premiums will be paid in gold
awarded and paid on the day of exhibition.
The admission fees being designed alone
to pay the premiums and other necessary
expenses, the pupils of the schools invited,
will be ad mi ted free, with ami under the
charge of their teachers, or other pontons
placed in charge by absent teachers.
There will be no regular table spread tor
the occasion, hut visitors are left to pro
vide their picnic baskets and dine when
and where they may chose, us at the last
exhibition.
PREMIUM LIST.
. •
VbnKTAßl.il.
Bct diftplay of cibbige*, I 5 00
“ tingle rabltftffo and 00
“ dispUr of turnips, 2 00 ;
“ “ Bet*, 2 00!
’* 44 Imql 2 00
T i -li Potato* • 2 0)
'* " Cucumber* 2 u 0
“ " Green corn 2 00
M EiiKlUh pea# 2 00
“ •• Onions 2 00
•• ** Okr* 2 00
44 *• Hqimfthoft 2 00
“ “ Kggl>l*nt* 2 00
Bent collection of vegetable 19 <
.Second best 5 00
FRUITS.
I Beit diplay of utrawberrie# f 2 00
Apples 2 00
" Peaches 2 00
*• Watermelon* 2 00
“ Cru telope* 2 00
KbOWfcM.
Be*t lioqnet 25 00
Second bent do 2 00
Beat wreath 5 00
Hecond do 2
Bent bang lug banket 2 50
Second bent do 1 00
Beat dtHolay of ro*e* 2 50
' Second ot at do 1 00
Bent design in flower* fi 00
Heat boquet in wild flower* fi 00
The most beautiful fu*chia(in a boi) 2 00
“ “ double (lab ger
auiuiu Uu a box) 1 00
•• Single do, ** 1 00
** Verbena " 1 00
•• White lily " 1 00
## Colored do *' 1 00
“ Gladioli* “ 1 UO
♦* Carnation (pink “ 1 *)U
•* Heliotrope " 1 00
•* Ah ter " 1 00
44 Zina • “ 1 0u
44 JU>se 44 1 00
44 Magnolia 44 1 00
©• Election and greatest variety of
flower* from one garden, 8 00
Second beat, do, 2 50
Bent deelamalioii by a boy, the pupil
of any school, 10 00
Best composition by a girl pupil of any
school, to be read by the young lady, 10 00
Awurding committees, iu the vegeta
ble line, will consider the variety, quality,
size, proper maturity and fitness for im
mediate use.
A fine Brass Band will be employed
for the exhibition, and divers laughable
games and side-splitting amusements will
bo arranged for the day.
Arrangements will be made for accom
modation trains from Lawton, Valdosta,
Oiislev. Qaitmau, Boston, Albany, Ou
mi!la, Heiubridge, Whighum and Cairo.
B. F. Hawkins, Cbm. j
John Triplett,
■ K. T. Davis,
I j L. C. Bryan, f Com.
John Stark,
H. H. Handford.
— —— ——
A Wolf Story.
Fitch, of the Macon Morning Star, tells
the following wolf story on conductor
Geo. Dasher, of the Southwestern Rail
road. The scene of the tale is located at
Marsballville, Gu.:
It appears thut at Marsliullvillc resides a
man by the nsme of Wolf, who lias five
little tow-headed children. Now, once on
a time, conductor Dasher bad on board u
large party of Northern excursionists,both
male and female, who were returning from
a trip South, and were anxious to see all
tlie a> i sities on the route, and put the
conductor to much trouble asking ques
tion, etc., especially at AndersoneiUo,
when they wanted him to stop the train
long enough for them to visit the stockade
which he, of course, politely declined.
When nearing Marshiillville he informed
the party that there was a man there who
hud five tame wolves, and that they all had
a white spot on tbe top of th< ir heads.
The party expressed a desire to see these
strange animals, and Dasher t ild them
that ns the man lived near the road, be
would wait for them.
They all alighted; the conductor pointed
out the house w hore the wolves could lie
found, uud told them to be quick. They
invited him to go with them, but he de
clined, stating as an excuse that, although
the young wolves were perfectly harmless
yet the old she wolf hud bi en recently
captured, and was sometimes an ugly cus
tomer. This somewhat disconcerted the
party, but curiosity overcame fear, aud
the party proceeded to the house, where
they found Mrs. Wolf and her cubs dis
porting in the yard. “Mndi me, we are
informed that you have some ta-ae wolves
here, nnd wc are desirous to see them; we
will pay you liberally.” Drawing herself
up to her fullheigbt, she exclaimed: “Yes,
here are the wolves all around me, and I
nm the old she-wolf, and if you don’t get
further right away, we will tear you all to
pieces; and just tell old Dasher if I ever
catch him away from his train I'll break
his confounded old head with my battling
stick." The l’alikee party lient hasty
retreat to the train, and troubled Captain
Dasher no more.
Thr scene is laid in Ireland, and the
just judge and who figure in the true
story are of course sons of Erin: Two
men had a quarrel in a liquor saloon.
They udjourned outside to settle the dis
pute. The first uiau, being from Con
naught, immediately seized a lump of
stone and letfiv at'the headofhisopponent,
who dipped his head and missed the stone,
which went through an eipeusive plate
glass window, and did much damage.
Oik* of Mr. O’Shaugnessys* magistrates
was called upon next morning to deter
mine which of the two should pay the
cost. The evidence clearly showed that the
aim was a good one, anil that'if the second
man had not dipped liis head he would
have been struck. “Therefore,” said the
magistrate, “he must pay the damages, as
it is certain the first man didn't intend to
injure the window, and the window
would not have been injured if it had not
been for the act of the second man. ’’
4
“Sum. why am like tie fishes “I
Ain't medtUe wid de sujee’ IVmp." “Why don't
r.fjftr*. hteauu dey am *• of tkbnle.
[fViitfft&e Atlanta Herald.]
The Reservoir Horror.
Rprinofield Mass., May 17. —The
Williamsburg resivoir, which gave way
yesterday morning precipifated the
vast moss of water it contained three miles
down the steep and narrow valley into the
thriviug manufacturing village of Wil
liamsburg, aud theuce further down tbo
valley through the village* of Haydenville
Leeds, and Florence, into Northumton
meadows. The stream empties into the
Connecticut river. Tlie huge torrent
dashing into Williamsburgh with resistless
power, swept away in moment the
manufacturing eatabiisments, and a num
ber of dwellings causing enormous de
struction of property and terrible loss of
human life. The lower villages suffered
only less awfully. Tito latest figures of
the loss of life make a total of 144 divided
as follows between the three pluees: Wil
liamsburg, sixty; Leeds, forty-nine; Hay
denville, tbirtyfive.
These figures only represent persons
whose loss is positsvely known, though
bodies are constantly being fonnd, and in
some of persons who were not supposed to
be lost so that it seems perfectly safe to
say that the total loss of life will exceed
150, if, indeed it does not more nearly
approach 200. It is impossible vet to
give a detailed estimate of the losses.
Aside from the buildings destroyed and
damaged, bridges have been carried away,
roads ruined and hundreds of acres of
meadow land rendered almost valnlea*.
The total loss must far exceed a million
dollars, will probably come near two mil
lion.
It appears that serious doubt*', as to the
safety of the resivoir, have been enter
tained ever since it waa built nine years
ago, though less during the last year or
two than in ite earlier history. The
gate keeper lias several times expressed
bis fears to his employers, (-idling special
attention the point where the break occur
red, but the exaiuiuers always reported
everything safe.
Washington May 18" -The details of
the Hood are most heartrendering. It is
feared that many Canadians, who recently
arrived to work in the factories have been
lost. A watchman discovered the danger
and rode down the valey making three
miles in fifteen minutes, shouting the
nlarni Here a milkman, with a fleet horse
j dashed ahead of the flood some two min
utes. He beat it in crossing a bridge
scarcely twenty seconds, and speeding on
i screamed “Tlie reservoir is coming.'’ T 1 s
heroic milkman saved hundreds of persons
who fled their homes and breakfasts for
the slopes. Tlie flood rushed by carrying
human lieings, houses, great iron Isiilers,
huge trees, cows, horses, jxmltry, pianos
and bird cages upon its crest.
Hpkinofif.i.d, Mass., May 18.—All ae
counts attribute the disaster of the flood
to the weakness nnd insecurity of the
reservoir works. The walls were not thick
enough to resist the presure of 126 acre*
' of water averaging thirty feet in depth.
' To tin, Muv 18. —A later i pat< h says
I 129 lives were lost, and upwards of seven
i million dollars in projxrty have been
| sweept away by the flood.
LATER.
] Hi’iiinofteld, May 18.— Tlie man who
! took up the cry at Haydenville, and ear
ried it to Leeds was Marion Day. A lit
tle before 8 o’clock, while nil the people
|of this place were just going to work or
finishing breakfast, their attention was
! attracted by the appearance of Day, from
i Haydenville, on a horse, shouting wildly
' The reservoir is broken save yourselves,
j for the Hood is at hand !’ He rushed for
a bridge over a dam and got half way
across when the roar of tlie coming waters
j were heard by the inhabitants, who by
this time stood at the door step*, He
dashed toward Florence and the people
looked north toward the North Dam nnd
saw there what seemed as the crest of su
enormous moving woodpile fifty feet high.
They knew what it was aud rushed wildly
'up the slopes to safe quarters. Their
houses were left just as thoy stood, with
i the tables set for breakfast and the chil
i dren getting ready for school. In less
than three minutes the stone dam had
given way and the great column of water
laden with frame Lenses pianos, sewing
machines, boilers, iron wheels huge grist
mill machinery, cows sheep poultry, aud
human beings, from Haydenville plunged
; iuto the valey of Leeds.
Measures for immediate relief have been
instituted at Haydenville. Mr Hayden
lins sent notice to rebuild his works, and
offers to employ all who ever worked for
him nnd us many more a* are ready, in
clearing away the debris and making
pre|xirittion for work. An hundred acres
are covered with the sad remnants of the
village which once adorned a track of
country running eight miles through Haui
sbire county, but is now a barren waste of
land stones, ruins and corpsess.
THE LATEST.
Skrinofteld, May 18.—Thousands of
people have gone from this city to the
surrounding country, to Northamton and
the scene of the mill river devastation to
day. Search for dead bodies has been
going ou all day; and will Is 1 continued
under the best management for several
days, and psrhaps for weeks.
The meadows are so deeply covered
with debris resulting from the destruction
that it is feared many bodies have as yet
been undiscovered. A number have beeu
discovered to-day, and it is now thought
that yesterday's estimate of two hundred
lives lost may fall even below the actual
limit. The extent of the disaster in
creases rather than deminishes, and it is
impossible to give a full and reliable esti
mate of the loss of property and life at
Haydonville. To dnv sixty families have
applied for relief. The tempoary funds
furnished from Northamton yesterday are
now exhausted, and a mass-meetiug has
been called a Northamton this evening to
devise means for continuous and system
atic relief of the sufferers while the com
nnmity is moving in the work of relief
aud everything that can, will be done to
alleviate the loss and suffering.
Hayden, Gere A Cos., at. Haydenville, pro
prietorsof the destroyed brass works, com
menced the work of rebuilding this morn
ing, but have been obliged to desist on nc
tiount of rain. They will resume work as
main as the weather will permit, and hope
to have there building ready for occupa
tion in three montns.
Mr. H. L. James, woolen manufacturer
at Williamsburg, whoso mill was left stand
ing, although badly damaged, with per
pare for a full resumption of business ns
early as possible. Most of tie other men
affected by the disaster will probably re
sume as early as practicable; but the suffer
\ ing of the laboring classes must inevitably
| be quite severe.
A distinguished professor, residing not
| a thousand miles from Andover, was re
i cently on an excursion to Europe. Being
in Edinburgh one wet Sunday, and desir
ing to go church, he hired a cab, on reach
; ing the church-door he tendered a shilling
to cabby, the legal fare, and was some
what surprised to hear the cabman say,
“Twa shullen, sir.” The professor fixed
his eagle eyes upon the extortioner,
demnuded why he charged two siblings,
nnd the cabman dryly answered, "We
wnsh to discourage traveling on the Saw
bath as much as possible, sir.”
A Singular Scene An Incident St an Ex
ecution.
William Kelley, a ctdoYedman, wa* exe
| oute-d in the presence of ten thousand
i people at Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday.
, The American of the day following gives
! this incident of the closing scene:
“Not more than two or three minutes
after the fall of the trap a terrible commo
tion arose, caused by the plunging* of a
j frightened horse to the west of the gallows.
; Men, women and children rushed like a
’ wild wuve aguiust the rope surrounding the
j ground, and instantly the guards, bsyo
| net* and all, were overwhelmed, and even
the gallows and its horrible liurden were ,
in danger of being overthrown.
When the stampede first occurred it was
' thought the colored people were making a
' break for the purpose of rescuing Kelly,
| and hundreds ol revolvers were drawn by
: people standing outside the ropes, who
rushed to the u3sistunce of the guards
The noise and confusion weie frightful,
aud the ebeeks of brave m- n turned pale
with terror. The bayonets of the Enfield
rifle*, with which *he sheriff's posse was
armed, flashed in the sunlight as their ]
bearers vainly strove to press back the
inasa of .human beings bearing down upon
them.
Hundreds of people, principally women
and children, were crowded iuto the ditch
to tbe east of the scaffold. The ditch was
about four feet deep, with very steep sides,
and was about four feet wide. At the
Ixittom the water stood several inches deep,
and as the smuggling moss of men, worn n
and children floundered about it trying to
extrieate themselves from their dangerous
position, their clothes became covered with
yellow mud.
Children cried, women screamed, men
shouted,and during this terrible excitement
the Ixxly of Kelly swung gently to and fro
as it dangled at tlie rope, and was for the
crowd rushed pell-mell, each jx-raon seem
ing intent upon saving bis or her life.
After order was restored it was fonnd
that several had received injuries, although
fortunately not of a serious character,
with the exi option of “Squire" William
Butler (colored), who had a leg broken by
falling into the ditch.
Eaton Ei.kited.— New Haren, Conn.,
May 20.—William W. Eaton, straight
Democrat, is elected to the United States
Senate.
Arkansas Affairs.— Little Rock, May
21.—The Legislature will investigate
Federal Senator* Clayton and Dorsey
upon a charge of an attempt to overthrow
the State government. A bill for am
nesty for those engaged in the late emtute
was introduced in the House.
•—
According to the United States signal
Bureau rejsirt, the disturbances at Bald
Mountain, N. C., were of the nature of
slight concnsssions, with no traces of vol
came action.
Is it Another Ofdyke Case ?— Kan*! s
papers print tbi*: Cremation has be n
inaugurated at Leavenworth, Kan. On
Thursday of last week a son of a Mr. Ml
- died at the age of ten years. A furnace
was built, and the Ixxly reduced to a*hes
in the presence of a large number of
and physicians.
A brutal man in Orange county, Ind.,
recently scut one of his children for some
water nnd because the child did not move
fast enough to please him struck it on the
head with a piece of wood, killing it in
stantlv. lie afterward fled, and at last ac
count* had not been captured.
The classic Rhine is to l>e profaned bv a
flotilla of gunboats. It is a project of tfiat
Bismarck. He is always ki aping an eye
ou tiiat river, and when he has done with
his flotillas, his fortifications nnd his army
reorganizations France will find that the
Watch on the Rhine is too formidable to
lx- surprised or disturbed by any sudden
attack.
-. —o
Mr. Tennyson lias written a tragedy
with Mary Queen of Scots for its subject
and it is soon to he performed at Drury
Lane, in London.
_o
Hair-cutter (who has tieen eating onions)
—S’moil on you hair, sir (blowing fiereelv
liown customer’s neck)?Cnstormer —Phew!
what’s that? Hair-cutter—S’moil, sir. Cus
tomer-Then I won’t have any.
“Patrick," said the priest, “how much
did you steal?" “Well, I may as well con
fess to your riverence for the whole stack,
for I am going after the whole stack to
night.
A German Jew was eating a por'i-cl op
in ,i ummiei -storm. On hearing un uu
usually loud elap, he laid down his knife
and fork and observed.- “Veil, did any
poty efer here such a fuss apout a little
biece of bork ?”
♦ ■—
The Length ok Days. —The days of
Summer grow longer as we go Northward,
and the days of Winter shorter. At Ham
burg, the longest day has seventeen hours '
and the shortest seven. At Stockholm, I
the longest has eighteen and a half. At
St. Peters-burg, the longest has nineteen, !
and the shortest five hours. At Finland
the longest has twenty-one and one-half, ;
and the shortest two and one-half honrs. j
At. Wandorbns, in Norway, the day lasts I
from the twenty-first of May to the second ;
of July, the sun not getting below the i
horizon for the whole time, but skimming
alorg very close to it in the North. At
Spiizbergen, the longest day lasts three
mouths and a half.
“What arc wages here ?" asked a laborer of a
boy. “I don’t know." “What does your father get
on Saturday night ?” “Get," aaid the boy; “why,
he gets as tight as a brick "
Frances Bonner, who fell upon an icy sidewalk
in Boston, two-years ago, the shock causing the
premature birth of a child aud otherwise injur
ing her, has recovered $4,000 from the city.
Victor Hugo is deeply in love with the United
States, and one minute out of every hour, when
he is awake, is devoted to talking about this
country, the other fifty-nine minutes being devot
ed to talk about himself.
The Scientific American predicts that the time
will soon come when ice will be manufactured is
all our great cities at a dollar a ton. Man
ufactured ice at three dollars a ton has for some
♦ me been in the markets of New Orleans.
| Dialogue from Fnn: Fair damsel putting on
j new gloves “Too tight ?” “Oh, no, auntie: not
jai all; besides. I like them leetle tight 1" Trou
ble, some Brother—“ Feels as if somebody was
squeezing her hand; don’t ye see auntie I”
A wide-i wak - minister a ho "ound his congregi •
tion going to sleep before be had fairly commenc
ed. suddenly slopped and exclaimed, ‘Brethcren.
this isn't fair—it isn't giving a man half a chai ce.,
Wait till 1 get a long and then if I ain't worth lis>*
temng to, go to sleep, hut don’t before I com
mence; give a man a chance."
Eight years ago, a young man came to this city
: from the wilds of Massachusetts, without a cent-in
! his pocket or a friend in the world. By good luck
1 he managed to obtain a situation in a dry goods
I store at five dollars a week. From this humble
position he determined to rise, and rise he did.
It was a hard struggle, but the young man per
severed. Ho worked faithfully, was fortunate
enough to make the acquaintance of many illnstri
ous men. drank nothing but fifteen-cent whiskey,
wore standing collars and an eye glass, and to-dav
is the bsppv recipient of a note from his washer
woman. in which sbe expresses s burning desire
[ to “rise a tump on him bigger nor an apple dump
in'!." Vr.
SCRAPS.
A wag declares he saw a cßfcfeM ft? 0
shop.
What State ia round on both ends and
high in the middle 7 Ohio.
“Pat, do you understand French ?’’
"Yi**, if it’s spoke in Irish. ”
What auimal has the most brains f The
hog—he lias a hogshead full of ’em.
One thing, said aD old toper, was never
seen coming through the rye, and that's
the kind of whiskey one get* now-o-days.
A Terre Haute man, who has been
trying to make both ends meet, is living’
on bead-cheese aud ox-toil soup.
It is said of tbe temperance crusaders
thut “they drink not, neitiier do they sin:
yet Solomon, in all his glory, waa not a
raid like one of these. ”
Troubles are like babies—they grow
bigger by nursing. Don't meet troubles
half way for they are not worth tbe com
pliment.
Inscription on a Tennessee tombstone:
“Escaped the ballet of the enemy to be
assassinated by a cowardly pnp—a kind
husband, an ajffectiouate father. ”
James Davis, an insane man thirty years
old, murdered his father on Saturday at
Stetson, Maine, by cutting his bead nearly
off with an axe.
The latest zoological cnriosjty it repor
ted from Richmond, Va.—a dog with two>
tails ! One of them, however, was an of
tail, and the dog carried it in his mouth.
An Indiana paper s*ts girls should be
taught that God made them in his own
image, and no amount of tight lacing
will improve the model.
In Decatur, Illinois, when a young lady
declines an offer to convey her home, the
would-be escort asks permission to sit on
tbe fence and see her go by.
"Mono-poets” is the new name for per
sons who write but one bit of verse and
then die. This isn't the kind of poet that
sends pieces to the papers.
Happy is the country that ha* no his
tory, as the school boy said—being flog
ged the third time for not knowing tha
maiden name of George Y\ ushiugton's
wife.
Landlady (fiercely—“Y’ou musn't oa
: oupy that bed with boots on.” Boarder
| "Never mind, they are an old pair. I
guess the bed-bugs can't hurt’ em. I'il
i risk it unv how."
*
“Dick, why don't yon turn that buffalo
i robe t'other side out ? the bair side is tha
warmest.” Bah! Tom, don’t you sup
rxise the animal knew howto wear his own
hide 7”
A little boy, earning home some eggo
from the grocery, dropped them. “Li.l
you break any ?’’ asked his inotrer, when
he told hi rof it. “No,” said the littlo
fellow, “but the shells came off some of
’em.”
Twenty-one freshmen were lately sus
pended frum an English lollcge because a
professor couldn’t find out who placed a
ten-ounce tncKiu his chair. He however,
knew all about who sat down ou it.
Tlie Atlanta Herald has been informsd
by Dr. Hickman that the Lixlge of Good
Templars at Palmetto is the largest char
tered hxlge in the world, buving been or
ganized with two hundred aud sixty-seven
members.
The Pitsburg Past says: “Jayne’s worm
ifngo” is working wonders. It only took
a couple of spoons full to clear New Hamp
shire uud Ununcticut of "snuix. ’” Pity it
has no effect ou carpet-baggers in tbs'
Houth.
A farmer rending a journal to his wife
in which was the sentence: “The Presi
dent was received with three hnzzss,”
pronounced the last word hussies.” “More
shame for him,” exclaimed the indignant
and scandalized Indy.
The ruling passion strong in danger.
An alarm of fire was. the other day, given
in a New York hotel. “Landlord,” said a
guest, “is the hotel on fire ?” “Yea, sir.”
“Well give ns one more drink, if yon
please, uud we’ll get.”
A friend at our elbow says he thiuk* it
just as reprehensible for women to get
tight by lueing ns for men to get tight by
whisky. Both injure the system, Well,
it’s none of our particular business, any
way. Men generally get tight ’cause it’s
pleasant, and women get tight corset*
nice.
A Parision, who was known ss a free
thinker. met a Psrisiun fried the other
day, and, taking him by the hand, aaid,
“1 have become a Christian. ” “I am
gladtobearit.be replied; “suppose we
now have a settlement of that littlejaeconnt
lictween us. Pay mo what thou oweak”
•*N' .” said there w-born child, turning on
his heel; “religon is religon, and business
is business.”
The Internal Revenue receipts thus tar
in the fiscal year nmonnt to £86.000,000,
leaving $14,000,000 to rome in between
this and the first day of July, to meet the
estimate made by the Commissioner long
before the pnnie was invented. The re
ceipts for May already exceed 88,000,000,
and it is believed that the whole month'*
receipts will exceed 810.000,000. And yet
the Secretary of the Treasury demands ad
ditional taxation.
About 11 o’clock one night a policeman
met a negro carrying a trunk along the
street, and thinking be had discovered an
item, he collared the negro, and told him
to drop that trunk and explain. “I kin
do it sah." replied the stranger, as he put
the trunk down. “De family what was
boarding me has been axing for money,
and as dey was gwyne out to-night, I
thought I’d get into some family wbar dey
respected de panic.” He was allowed to
go on.
A ragged forlorn looking nrchin entered
a store in New Orleans the other day, and
addressing the merchant piteously asked
"a nickel to get my mother a loaf of bread,
please sir.” A jovial neighbor, also a
merchant, with a sly twinkle in his eye,
thinking to have a joke with the boy, pro
duced a nickel and said, “My son, this
nickel I worked for, now, what will tou
do for it ?" Quick as thought the Iroy
“went down into his clothes,” and produc
ing a nickle exclaimed, “I'll match you,
sir !”
A Massachusetts farmer says: “My cat
tle will follow me until I leave the lot, and
on the way np to the barnyard in the
eyeniug. stop aDd call for a lock of hay.”
Smithson says there is nothing at all re
markable about that. He went into a barn
yard in the country one day last week,
and an old bull not only followed him nn
til be left the lot but took the gate off the
hinges and laced with him to the hnuae in
the most familiar wav possible. He baa
no doubt that the old fellow wonld have
called for something if he had waited a
little while, bnt he didn’t want to keep the
folks waiting for dinner, so he linng one
tail of his coat and a piece of his pants on
the hnirs horns,, and sauntered into the
hoqtf.