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(Mailer's VBnfflr • ~ . --' -^rru-~-_—:■' :—: ■ J. <;. (iALLAIiKH, Mitor. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1874. - 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.