"THE CWLlffi
EHENSBURG, PA.,
Fri:hy .Morning, - - May 14, IS75.
. . . - . - - -
JIartraitfl atul St rant.
A. Terrible Ocean Disaster.
tfurnt OP THE STEAMSIIIF
OYER THRU Hl'XDHED LIVES LOST.
. Butler IJ. Strang being more than
i nn average ptuuii) frpeJtker, and John j
F llartranft not possessing much off a cable dispatch from London, on Satur
! .; r,f rw.litionl o-nb. it is nr-red by ! dav morning, brought intelligence of the
l"v ' " i ' . ".. .,. - " in.; Hkist(r t Lat lasoccur-
of fctraiiff that Jus nomina- r.,e" 'T'" " V,;i a iat, The
the friend
tioti for State Treasurer -becomes n
Republican necessity in order that
llartranft may !e pulled sr.fely Ihroujrh
the campaign. On the other hand,
HartranlVH hackers r.sscrt that his jxt-
Ac-cORtLa to the report of the Po
lice Justices of New York for the year
1371, there were 40,777 arrests for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Of those arrested, 27,203 were men and bon& strength will not only secure his
I'.iJtH were women. Arising out of own t it'iorn Imt w ill also insure a safe
the arrets were 14,1 SG convictions of ,ii-vf .rnnr.t to Stransr. It would thus
... . . . . . . . . . . "
men and 8,027 of wornxn. l ins is ini
enough in any aspect in which it can
i... :., a. l.nt !. .Irmiki-nness amoii'T
rt"w., " aiin coil.se. I ueoi. iwv - i nrorcnt nr
the ri'iiort.
rn:dt the country and man made the . i,tlf i.na ; fed ark back-around, liar- of a mile inside of Bishop's Rock
-------- m I'Ufc IV uwv
Kte.-mshir. Schiller; of the Eagh- Line, Capt.
John O. Tliomas, was wreck d at ten o-c't-ck
on Friday night off the Seiily Isianu-,
at the entiance of the British Channel, and
uf the C?3 y.crsons o; board only a small
nuinber weie known to have been saved.
The Schiller sailed from New York on
April 2Sth, for Hamburg, via Plymouth
nrwl Clip) Imnrcr. her course being up the
1,1 ,oeni that the nomination of each is j EngJMi Channel, through the fctraita of tei
i .weUarv to the ucw- of the other, ' Dover to the German .pecan It appears Kc
nectssaiy 10 un. .-uio-. tint a dense foe prevailed on Friday night, sti
'. and consequently the election of both , If " 'iufeof the Soilly lights being S Gc
Death in the Tempest.
A TORNADO SWEEPING ACROSS THE BTATE
OV GEORGIA.
Atlanta, Ga., May .6. A terribly de
structive tornado swept over this State on
Saturday last from Alabama to North Car
olina, leaving a track of death and destruc
tion from a half to three-quarters of a mile
wide. It crossed the line from Chambers
county, Ala., hito Harris and Talbot coun
ties, Ga., at about 2:"Q r. i. The tornado
looked like a funnel-shaped rloud, with
the apex on the ground, and moved with
great velocity, making a noise like the
rumblingof many railroad trains. It moved
from above Opelika to Good Water, the
terminus of the Savannah and Memphis
Railroad, and thence to West Point, de
stroying everything 'in its track.. Near
ood ater a woman was killed and her
bus baud mortally wounded. -Near Oak
,,.i tioiniM ifiin-k imuii the dau- I Jn
lIoV true it is that God f. om a Kauinai stand-point, ; cel0us Betarricre Ledges, about a third J Bowery, all of Abner Allen'p houses, except
town.
The Jackson Democratic Associa
tion of Washington City held a meet
in on the 4th instant and ndpted a
resolution recommending the nomina
tion of Senator Allen G. TLunnan. cf
Ohio, for President, and rfenntor
Thomas F. 1'ayard. of Ie!a-.are, for
Vice Pre-ident A ticket compose:;
of such men ns TliMrman r.vA r.r.yard
vronl-l b one fr which no I encnt
from Mf.in'eto Oregon need be as!iarne I
to oU. They are two of the foremost
meniVrs of t'ue Senate and er.eh en
joys a high national reputation.
c--e--?
TIox. Geop.hk W. Woor.n akt. who
h.td been making a tour through Eu
rope, died very suddenly in Home, on
ilon day hist. " He was one of the mo-t
pn.niinenl and honored citizen of
Peniisvlvunia, and was the yor.nge;t,
as he rdso onu of tiie ablest, mem
bers of the Reform Convention of
d Strang, or whoever else
There i his dwelling, were destroyed, and two ne-
is a fo-T-bell at the latter point, but there j groes killed, u. iiightowcr s houses, null,
i . c. - t.. : appears 10 nuve wcu f,, -...v-..., . ..
, n.:i e..v - ---- ' which :
.
If t!ie Radical State Convention, which
will meet at Lancaster on the 2Cth of.
this month, rcpudiales the third term !
proiect, (which is just now the devil's '
rock in the troubled sea of Radical '
j-olitics,) as it seems likely to do, !
Grant, who doc-s not tamely submit to
a s-Iielit. will resent the insult through
the horde of his grt-dy ami subservi- j
eut oiiice-h'-'ldeis. and cause tlie indig
l.iiv to m-oil on Hart ran fL's head.
Can llartranft and his associate on the
ticket p.iss throusii such a fiery ordeal
i:nsc:Uhed ? Let" Ai-ella, the Jew,,
believe it. On the contrary, should i
i.;,.t. hom i-.rnrfitofl ir liAuirr I.far.r i liorsc killed, and Senator J. T. Harris ft
- . . I i"! :I.H.HlitJii-2' " j '
will be compelled to take boul oi the -' M,at beloniiv to St. Anes-, the south- ; buildings were all destroyed. Trees two
shr-rp horns of one of two dilemmas. tl-nmost of the Scillys, picked up some of feet in diameter were torn up by the roots
t lie SlirVIVOrS, nilU wrm lllllllltl; v.ltil j v.iii-u rn n: mi iiuuuiru J iliu-, tiiiil
the tide, and, landed them at St. Mary's when the cyclone dippeddowu tothe ground
Island. The Scilly life-boat put off for the j even the grass and ihe surface of the eatth
wreck, and also a life-boat and steamer down to the clay were torn up. Buggies
from Penzance, but in the fearful sea which ! and wagons were carried away and much
raged on Saturday it was ditfici.U for small j stock killed. In East Alabama five persons
rr:ift t live. Thev succeeded, however, ! were killed and live wounded.
up to Saturday aiiht in picking up forty-
three persons, together with nineteen
corpses, some articles of ll:e cargo and
twenty-line sacks of the ship's mail. The
feurvirors were taken to Penzance and for
warded by i nil to Plymouth. The steam
shiu was at that time king broadside on
the rocks, underwater, her mainmast gone. ;
The Schiller was manned by a crew of 1
104 ofticers and men. She had 141 abiu :
passengers and 1 20 in the .steerage, includ
the convention refrain from expressing ing four in Tints, making a total of A
,i ,i ;.. l t , . i. nmioiitv of passengers were of (.crnian
nny oii:i.un on the thud tei ru ou.-nie.-!-, , A ,. r;f,. v.
, . . . . . i family, a hoe nunihtr being liom Tvew
leaving it an open question to be fie- Y.rk and many from the est. Among
1'.;t,.,7 7 After til . t he v:is l're-i-
dentJud oreof the Centre. Huntingdon,
Clearfield and (Tin ton district then
J ud are of the Supreme Court in
the Peiiioer.'.lie candid.ite lor Gover
nor i;i 1 pr.d lh i elected to Con
gress, his list j ublic service having
been in the Con-ttitution.il Convention
of 1M72--'J. The death of .Judo
Woodward at the ripe age of GT wiil
c.iiiie profound and universal regret.
Con. M'Cl.r-K in his Philadelphia
Tim-!' is making things lively for the
corrupt rinzs that have so long ruled
and plundered that city. An editor
cannot devote his energies to a nobler
task in these degenerate times than in
exposing the thieve" whom the penp'e
by their generous sur!Vaircs have en
trusted with power and ruthority.
The same cry of fraud and venality i
heard all over the country, and both
seem idike to pervade national, State
mi l city government.?. No man un
derstands the business he has token in
hand more thoroughly than Colonel
M'Clure. Lot him persevere in tho
good work until he has pin a whip in
the hand of every honest, man in Phil
adelphia, to lash her rascals naked ,
through the world.
a , 1 . 4'..,.... (lw it I T irt ii ( i .
it I milieu in iuc tutuie, nun ' E.vi ii til i i thee
will be politically gibU ted by an in
sulted people, lie will be forced to
.".occpt one of these :.iternati ves and
ennr.ot in any possible event escape
both. It is a most embarrassing posi
tion in which to be placed, but it is the
necessary result of (J rant's quiet but
will matured determination to force
himsr-lt once more on his party ns its
candidate. He will be the lion in Har
tnvnft's path. llartranft and Strang
have already been proiiouneed, e.r
cx'Lrilrn, by the rinp of the Radical
committee of this county, to lie "Me
abled and jtitrryf mfn in the State.''''
As they are thus beautiful in their po
litical iives. it will be a sad spectacle to
see these Siamese twins of Pennsylva
nia radicalism, as they sink beneath
the Ih iiK-cratic waves next November,
firmly ar.d inseperably clasped in each
other's loving embrace.
1!1 p..S5Cligei.S
were the loi.ov.ing
IVniTslvanians : Mr. Leo V. este -.saved;,
Mi. Ilcrmine Wrste. and Miss F. Mann,
of Philadflp'iii ; Dr. P. J. Keen, of She
nandoah. Amor.g the steerage )-asseegeis
were K. Mtinnheimer, wife and two chil
dren, of Philadelphia, and J. V. Dicwohl
gislature has
con M iTT KB ol the A la or. ma Le-
besn investigating the
crooUed ways by which George E.
Spencer, a carpet-bat; member of the
Sennte of the United States from that
Strife, eecured his eleetiiui. It will be
remembered that a Charles Hayes, of
that State, flooded the North, lor the
purpore of influencing the elections, '
with lying statements about the most
horrible outrage having been cominit
el on negroes and white Republicans
in vario -.is sections of the .State. Haves
lias been reminded to private life by
the people of his district, but Spencer '
ptill di'jraees the Senate. J. S. Per
rin, a Rw)ubli."ui member of the Leg
islature from Wilcox county, testified
before the committee, and his f-kato-raents
may be taken a a sample of the
entire evidence. Ilessid amongother
thir.g3 :
T:oops were retained in Alabama before
the election on a requisition of myself and
others, it having been ur.deisiMd that
Spener had arranged f r troop to be put
hi the di-posal of the reenue lilceis w here
intimidation was necessary. These troops,
accompanied by United States Maishab,
who had fictitious wai rants, with citizens'
names prominently displayed and shown Lo
jiersuns who would inform them, were
paradci! in various counties. I shot a hole
in my hat and reported that I had b.-en a'
tacked by Ivii-KJ ix, ami I nent troops to
nrrost the mythical assailants. I kept
troops as lonj; as I could use them as a po
litical machine. Our purpose was to secure
the Legislature at all hazards and elect
Spencer.
Tue editor of the Ashland (Sclmyl- !
kill count') Atlrocat", who rejoices in
the significant name of Strrl, not con-
tent with habitudly tle'iJinj editoiial
articles from the Frekman and ap-
preprinting them te his own use, en
larged his programme last week by the
commission of a ilcliberate newspaper
forgery. Jn a hoit article in our pa
per two weeks ago, we said that if the
western portitm of the State can fur--nish
the right kind of a man as the
Peraociatie candidate for Governor, it ,
will be the plain duty of the Erie con-
vention to nominate him, and concln- j
deel the article with the words, "If it
(the West) cannot, it must look for
such a man elsewhere." The AJcovale
published the entire article .? its owii, I
ind modestly added nfter the word :
'elsewhere," the following, "and it is
red; general! conrrdrd that mrh ma- j
trial can be band in 'K-huyU-ill nud
"i !he person of Jfon. .Times Ellis."'
Thi is neat, if not gaudy, and is a '
"lorse of finite a eliffercnt color from
;he one we had painted. We have so '
equently rebuke! the piratical editor t
' f the Adefcalt; for manifesting his
' true inwardness" in the reprehensible
; tanner referred to, that any further
r-Jort in that way would only be a
iste of time The most pointed re
; - oofs, which ought to fthame a man
ordinary sensibilities into the prac-
SrErnr.s Pkaiu. Andrews a vel-'
uminons and eccentric wiiter whose
boks are never read, was examined as
a witness for the plaint ill' last week in
the Tilton-Reecher case. Andrews
has sneiit much of l is time in the house .
of Victoiia C. Woodhull, and in his
testimony gave a list of prominent
person, male and female, who have
visited the residence of that notorious
woman. It would be interesting to
know what precise object these gov- :
ernors, generals, ctlitors, judges, etc., :
had in view in payingtiieir respects to
Victoria and her sbter, Tcnnie C. j
Clafiiii. Of course the female visitors :
are the leading st remg-minded Ixa'i
ii't. who want to vote, bold ofllce and I
make things livelv ami exciting gener
ally: " i
Who frcrpient d tha bonne?
Mr. Andrews I've m.ida a list (pnduc- j
ing three sepiare letter-)aper sheets.) ;
Mr. Kvaits ohjt ct-d to tho li"t. Judge
NeilsoH thought they would tuke a few, ;
and Mr. Andrews rcaj with dignity and .
prido, intermixed by othei j-eople's l.ia fil
ter, as follows : William Orton, President .
of the Western Union Telegraph Com- '
pany ; Whiteiaw Re-id, editor of the Tri-
bunt; A. F. Wilmarth, President of the
Home Pire Insurance Uompany ; c-x-Col-:
lector Sinythe, General lliilicr, (1 rant's
Chif e-f SUitT; Oi-viilo (irant. General i
(tinia's bvniijer; General i)ent. General,
.T. II. Manimotiil, Chief of Geneial Slier- i
man's Statf ; Geneial Benjamin P. Butler, '
Govfinc-r Ilahn, ex-Governor Campbell,
Jud'e II. P. Dibble. Seintor Speneot,
fiefd-ge W. Julian, T. J. S. Flint, President
of tho Continental Bank ; T. J. Durant,
Vice-President of the I niou Pacilic Itail
ifad Company; Henry Clews, banker;
Fiauk Work, George R. Grinnell, Jesso
Wlieeloek, President of the Stork Board ;
Albeit Brisbane, sociologist; I'.dvvaid M.
BavU, Josiah Warren, Josiah Cummings,
M. Dituy, Theodore Banks, liiehard B.
Tacvrlyck the last three interested in the
lalior movement; Hev. O.B. Frot hingliin
Mr. 3'varts-r-Isn't that enough.
Judge Ncilson That's enough.
Mr. Amli-ews Only a few more.
Mr. Fullorton Any ladies?
Jndqje Neilson Admit the ladies.
Mr. Bench We can't.
Jiulge Neilson Well.
Mr. Andrews Elizabeth Cmly Stanton,
Paulina Wright Davis, Sussn B. Anthony,
Isabella Beecher Hooker, Mrs. Elizabeth
Pholps, Mrs. Brisbane, Mrs. Frances Hose
Melvinley, Mrs. Laura Cuppv Smith. Mrs.
i-. stpencer, Iuuc Devereux
Theodore
Blake.
ness her
also a witness in this case; Mrs. Martha li
Wright, sister ef Lucre! ia Mott; Mrs. Ma- .
tibia JoceUn Sac, and Mrs. Belva Lock- i
woftd, a lawyer from Washington. I
Judge Ncilsoa A lawyer's wife, you '
mean. j
Mr. Andrews No! a lawyer. j
Mr. Fullerfon The lady would take an
exception to Your Honor's ruling.
Mr. Andrews Mrs. Griffith, friend of
Michael Seanlon, attache of Irih World; ,
Emily Vorday Baltey, attache of the fi'in, :
reporter of Mr. Peecher's sermons; Eleanor I
Kiik; Mrs. Ames, artist's wife; Mrs. Brick !
romcroy ; .Miss Esther B. Andrews; Mrs.
Barnard, lh raid's Washington Correspondent.
and wife, of Scranton. The principal of
ficers of I he Schiller were as follows : John
G. Thomas, captain ; II. Hirers, chief of
fice r ; E. Polemau, second c-uioer ; (J.
Freise, tliiid officer; B. Ileir.tz", fourth
officer; S. r'alnUr. chief engineer. The
captaiu and ttceiid ellicer are known to be
lost.
Tiian.T.iNo cot-:t of tiih calaiiitt.
I.onion, May 0 Evening. Forty-three
survivors of the crew and passengers of
the steamer Schiller have an ived at Pen
zance. Of these thiity-three hae gone to
Plj mouth, and. the remaining ten are too ill
to be moved. The following additional
patticidars of the disaster have been re
ceived : A heavy fog had prevented ob
servat ions on !. ai 1 th Suhillei since Thurs
day, and in consequence ef the fog the en
gines were put at half speed and sail was
rcdnceel at nine o'clock Friday night. At
ten o'clock the same night the ship struck
the lodge, and at once a great panic pre
vailed. Captain Thomas is highly praised
for his conduct during the terrible scenes
which followed. Two boats were filled with
men v.ho refused to come out
tain lired his revolver over their heads to
drive them tut, then fired at them, but
without effect. Afterwards tlie ship was
washed with her broadside to the sea, and
all on boar.1 these boats perished. The
tackle at tho stern was released too soon,
leaving tho bolts suspene'ed by the bows.
Three boats then got away. One of them,
a life-boat, was so badly iivjureel that she
sunk, and eleven ef the people on board of
her were rescued by the either boats. The
fog lifted an hour abcr the steamer struek,
anel the lights were plainly visible. Two
of the boats on tho steamer were crushed
by the falling ef the funnel.
Buckets ar.d guns were fired fremi the
steame-i until the powder became wet.
The eleck hone, ciowdt-el with people, was
swept away at 2 a. f. The captain gath
ered some of the snrvivois on the bridge,
and all were gradually swept away by the
flood tide, which took the elortor and cap
tain last. The rigging which remained
above water was crowned with passengers j
and crew all night. Tho mainmast fell at
7:00 A. M-, and. being of iion, sunk with j
all who li-.id taken refuge n it. The fore-
mast gave way soon afterward. Life-belts j
are! wreck stuff saved the lives of some !
who drif.ed miles away. One man was
rescued after being in the water ten hours, j
Two bor.ts from M. Acnes arrived a short
time after the mast fell, but were unable
to approach the Meamer on account of the i
shoals, but picked up strugglers in the
: water. The passengers say that Captain ;
i Thomas left the bridge at 3 a. m. to assist
those on deck, and whin he reached the !
deck was swept away by a heavy sea. All i
concur in saying that ho exorcised the '
greatest caie, ami was not ancu lor live
nights previous to the disaster. The sea
began to bi-eak over the vessel half an hour
after the struck, and the tide rose twenty
five feet before elay-break. Only mie wo-
' man was saved. Thesui vivors who landed
at Trescow escaped in the Schiller's own
boats.
j LATER T" A RT ICt.'LA RS.
j Loxnots, May 10. The sea is too heavy
! to-day for boats to approach tho wreck of
j the steamship Schiller. No cargo of any
; importance has yet been recovered. Fih
! ermcn report that the Schiller is firmly sct
1 tied on the rocks and will not fall o,T into
J deep water. Although it is difficult to ap
pioach the wreck now, there will bo many
elays in summer when salvago may be ef
fected. ! LIFE BHLTS.
There was a life-belt in every one of tho
1
IX HARRIS COCXTT.
The cyclone passed south of West Point
and crossed the Chattshoochie liver at
Houston's ferry. Thence it travelled in an
j easteily direction, demolishing dwellings.
I pin houses, outbnilelings. fences, and crops,
j Live stock, wagons, buggy wheels, and
timber were sent Hying through tho air
like sc many loaves in a wliii lvvic.d. Near
. West Point, Muri ah's mill was blown down,
j and a negro's throat was cut by a flying
'. plank. Mis. Winn lost "everything she
t owned, anel hersulf and daughters were
, ba lly injured. One of her daughters was
' caught up by Iho tornado and lodged in an
I a:iple tree. Senator Moss dwelling and
! fiutbuildings were demolished, but he and
his family esca peel injury by taking refuge
! in the cellar. At Muriah's mill several
lives were lost. B. B. MoUey, S. P. Grant,
! Jesse I'ooerts, Morgan Murrnh, and W
i C. Davis lost all their buildings. Ii. G.
Hood lost his gin house and blacksmith
shop, but his d welling escaped. AtM. II.
' Speucc's place the destruction was terrible.
Three negroes were killed, all the ov.tbniM-
ings elestroyed, and the buildings unroofed.
: Beech Spring Church, just opposite, was
! blown down, and several i:egics who were
i in and near it were badly injured. John
' A. Mieldleburk's gin house and other dwcll
i ings were demolished. Crops have sufTer-
ed considerably, and forests are levelleel
along the track of the tornado.
IX TALBOT COUNTY
j the tornado destroyed all the timber it
' passed over, and made a complete w reck of
buiMings and fencing. On Sim Delooch's
' plantation a white by and a negro, who
were in an epen lieid, lay flat on the ground
i to save themselves, but a sill from a house
nearby was blown upon them, killing the
negro and severely wounding the boy. M.
j V. Wilson lost all bis houses. His wife
was severely wounded, and ho su.feied
slight injuries. W. P. Crawford's place
1 was , badly damaged. All the houses on
The cap- i the place of Mr. Jas. M. Weaver were blown
to pieces, and tnc whole place was laid
waste. Mr. Weaver and his two daughters
were badly hurt. A negro em the place
was killcel, and several were badiy wounel
ed. Two churches and an academy were
blown down at Valley Grove. Dr. Owens' s
place, near by. was occupied by tho I lev. J.
J. Harris. lie and his famiiy were in the
kitchen eating dinner when the tornaelo
reached the place. The kitchen was blown
down, and a young man named Kenelrick
and a young lady named Kennedy were
killed. Pleven persons are known to have
been killed in Talbot county.
IX HOUSTON COUNTY
the damage to property was great. All the
buildings in Fort Valley were cither ele
stroyed or baelly damaged, most of the tim
bers uproeted or broken off, anel but little
fencing left standing. Crops of corn aud
cotton that were up will have to be replant
ed. A portion of the dwelling on tho Hugh
i Allen place was blown down, severely
wouneling Mrs. King, Mrs. Mceniit. and
1 Miss MeGrifT. Mrs. hting has f-ince died,
j She was the wife of Elder A. "King, kite of
) Tennessee.
; In Newton county a white man and two
; negroes are repuited b have been killed,
' anel Mr. Tread way, living in Cotton Creek,
i to have been caught up and carried away.
' and to be yet missing. Widow Hollow-ay's
' house was blevu do n, and she was terri
1 bly injured, several of her ribs being broken
' by falling limbers. The destruction of
' crops, fencing, anel buildings was great,
i Many farms were so badly damaged that it
i will be almost impessiblo for tho owners to
j make a crop this year.
i In Greensboro tho track of the tornado
j is marked by the uprooting of many of the
venerable and ancient oaks that have made
beautiful and lovely its shady cemetery, its
private residences, and its public streets.
Many buildings were wrecked, fences car
ried away, and crops destroyed,
A VILLAGE DESTROYED.
In the southern part of" Maxeys the de
struction ef life and property was terrible.
When the cyclone struck tho place a jus
tice's court was in scstion in Bi ightwell's
store, a mile and a half so'.uh of Maxey
station. The building was wrenched from
its foundation, and tho stock of goods scat
tered. The failing timbers crushed to
death Mr. G. W. Maxey, the notary pub
lic, and a negro was caught up by the tem
pest, borne fifty yards away, and his brains
dashed out against a pine stump. A num-
Few thit.gs can be considered more
sadly significant than the eifficial declara
tion of the City Council of New Orleans to
the effect that general and intense suffer
ing for want of the common necessaries of
life prevails in the Crescent City, suffering
which the municipal government is unable
from its own poverty to relieve, and the
accompanying- recommendation to the
charitable who have aught to organize for
the assistance of those who have nothing.
It would seem, at first glance, incredible,
the statement that in a great city at the
mouth of the artery of Wes'cm and South
ern commerce, the centre ef a territory
wucre Nature has lavished her treasures
upon climate anel soil, the seat of a popu
lation that for years was no less marked
by its opulence than by ita enterprise,
jeople are dying daily fer want of bread.
Nevertheless the statement is but too sadly
true. New Orleans, like other seaports
aud river cities, has a large population that
must depend upon the day's woik on the
levee or in the warehouse for the day's
bread. With the paralysis of trade aud
commerce their sole dependence has van
ished, and they have been dooraeei to idle
ness, beggary and starvation. Not alone
the lower classes have suffered, but men
and women gently born and delicately
l eared, their property first dilapidated by
war, then destioyeel by that more disas
trous cousequence of the war, the govern
ment of Grant's harpies ; w ithout any op
portunity to earn a livelihood, with noth
ing to sell for food in their extremity, or un
able to find buyers if happily aught which
was theirs has eluded the tax collector, are
dying for lack of food plainer than wo ac
cord to our paupers and prisoners. The
remarkable increase of suicide among the
peeple cf the city is another significant
proof of their desperate distress. If, as
was intimaLcd some two weeks since, a
sickly seasou is to be expecteel in the South
this .summer, the plague of pestilence will
be added to the plagues of famine and de
vastation, and its lavages ill be the great
er for the enfeebled state of the victims.
It is possible that these physical and more
apparent consequences of the usurpation
ol" Louisiana may appeal to and t-tt'ect those
who have, witnessed without remorse or
protest its political and .social elegradaiion
aud destruction, and s;o make doubly sure
the assurance of the ovei throw of Baelical
i.Mn next year. But in tho ineanw hile the
ready charity of tho Amei ican people can
do much to alleviate this physical distress,
and even those to whom the political prin
ciples of the sufferers are obnoxious may
recognize the mute appeal ef hunger te
humanity A". Y. World.
- -
A Gallant CoMMANnr.a. That was a
brave story which came acsess by cable a
night or two ago, telling how the schoemer
JtTeron- B'irdtn was saved by a heroic
captain from the control of a lot of rascally
mutineers. Novel w riter:; have often fan
cied such incidents and made them tlie
frame-work for their tales : but few men
with imagination to draw upon ever invested
their narratives with a more pronounceel
ebarnatic effect than attaches to the ac
count of tho Borihi). afiair, as iccited by
tho cable coiTesinr.ident. As the details
ran, it will be rocollccted that almeist all
the sailors excepting the olhVers were en
gaged in a conspiracy, the supposed object
of which was to seize and rob the escl.
They began by killing the second mate
while he was upon his niyht watch. Then
they called up the first mate, and him
they threw ovcrboarel. The captain was
now the only remaining oriicer to be l id of.
They summoned him out as if his dutj- re
quired him to be upon de ck ; but looking
around and perceiving that his compan
ions' bunks were vacant, he went above
with a loadeel revolver. Then we are teld
bow this stout captain, single-haneled and
alone, "surrounded,'' as it were, and bes
sieged the ruffianly mutineers for a whole
day, bulging lad in their bodies whenever
he get sight of them, and finally compel
ling them to surrender unconelii ionally.
The incident is decidedly thiilling. It
is ene of those stray circumstances that
show how far truc-heartedncss and cour
age may overmatch knaveiy, even when
merely numerical or physical odels seem in
favor of the latter. And we are sure all
who read of the valor of the gallant Caps
tain Patterson of the JijTerson Ilordon. felt
the better for it, and experienced a feeling
as near to symputhetie admiration as any
they have known since the days when the
delighted in the nursery stories ef the de
feat and overthrow of wicked giauts, bad
fuii ics and so forth. On the high seas so
much of life and property is daily depen
dent upon the skill anel resoluteness of the
commanders of vessels that such an exem
plification of beth these qualities in a rare
degree cannot be pascel without a full
measure of international approbation.
PilU-jtirg Difputch.
. Jyetif r-net rotitical Jtcmn. ' England hd Lr.r nI(Mn
I Kentucky has her C ii.e-
Father Thomas Buike is repc-i ted to , can e in a sp.-ing wig' i. f, "'
be seriously ill. to Eexiogion, ths r V
A fallen tree recently found in Victoria ington on a box car -sim, . .: ( . '
measured 4S0 feet in height. ! the passenger t:ai:isi to ( ,;,,, ,. '
A man is just now astonishing Taris to Cincinnati so.d Lb.-,.
, i .ii a; i r - r r 1 , .
bV CatChing a Heavy mil UlCU IIVUI viu- ninun 1,1 .nt-llloi.v v
uon.
Xl,e Prince Bishop of Breslau has been
deposed for violating the German ecclesi
astical law.
Miss Sarah J. Lewis lias been e-iecteo
a telegram ' itop the
Too late:
A f-pe-cial dispr'ch f.-,
Pall Mi'll f.!:z'ttf savi p. (
county sujieiinteudent of common schools present the Pope with :,
in Tioirs conntv.
It is said that the saphire ring alone,
which every Cardinal receives iroin the
Pope, costs $500.
Another Theodore Tilton has turned
tip. lie was drawn as a Common Pleas
juror in Pittsburgh a few days ago.
Colonel Isaac Rosecraus, brother of
the General, was married in Denver, res
cently, to Mis6 Jennie E. Downing.
Mr. lohn Sheridan, father of Lieut.
Gen. Sheridan, died at his residence in
Somerset, Ohio, on Thursday, of diopsy.
Mrs. Gaskins, ejf Carteret county, jN,
.: i.:
l.tm: nun ofx.ll UiC i...-
eighty-third biith.Hav v- '
terday. The address i1i( j ;
have one million signa:u.t " '
is couched in terms of tlie CteVT :
and allc.anco, 1 ' -
The New Philadelphia 0 .
says : "We are infoi ;ned tl.a? 1
sei, while d:gging for ore c.., 'C :
mile south of town, the otl.e' rV"
the bones of two or three 1,,,-.
oe of whom must have hvpti
feet high. We have not k.-u t' '
l ... r.....
nuu ifni : l . rs i:o llllliier l-"i--:r
C, "weighs CiO pounds, and one of her cernine them, having rcc
stockings holds a bushel of bhelled corn.'
The steamship Cadiz was lost near
Brest while on her trip from Lisbon to
Louelon and sixteen ierson were drowned.
Lewistow u has a hen w Lich laid a sort
of Siamese twin egg a few days since one
of nearly the usual size, w ith a smaller one
attached to it.
The Pennsylvania Central RAilroad
niatfon through an .ti.e'- t 'v--, "
Will iam II. Chad a it ir. '. ..
citizen and proprietor of "..)',
suem, Wilmington, D;l..
week mi t lift-Large of ; ,
The attending .l.ycir.!i ;. ,,,;....
was caused by pnein.;:..:.; . .
moitd later in the dnv t;:-t
wounds inflicted on L r heij
Company and its dependent lines have sub- f band while dni:-k, :j .
scribed half a milium ct collars to the Cen
tennial celebration.
coionei e invt-sogatiou
rcsL
-The New York llcrarf, of Sunday, ) One dnv last week -
printed the paiticu'ais ef the loss of the toddied away from its l ,
steamer Schiller in both German aud Eug- Iowa, on the Hubuque
l: - l. . 1, - . l.. i .1 J 3 ...
li'ii'i, .:io Ul ll-,vii L . .-,
sleep. A few moments 1 i:t
ber of others were more or less seriously
, Mrs. Middlebrook, who was a wit- ' Scliiller's leiths when the disaster occur- i iniured. Every building in tho place cx-t
lere ; Sarah F. Norton, Mrs. Palmer, ' Ien captain I nomas issueit orders that cej.t Brig
on, suoiuu oe jasreneu to every woman,
but lho women weie elrowncd by tho heavy
tea.
rrcKixo up rr.An bodies.
The boats cruising in the vicinity of the
Schiller continue to pick up the bodies of
the drowned. When the steamer left St.
Mary's island to-day, nearly fifty bodies
had been found. Seven mail bags, in addi
tion to those repotted recovered, have
been saved. They contained mostly San
Francisco and Auckland newspapers.
ONLY FIFTEEN PASSENGERS SITED.
New York. May 10. There were but
few visitors at tho office of the Eagle Lino
of steamships this morning. About a dozen
friends of lost passengers were present, but
soon left on hearing the following cable dis
patch read :
Pi.YMen Tn, May 10. Consul Kuher,
New York : Only fifteen passengers were
saved from the Schiller, lhe names of which
w ere telegraphed you yesterday from Scilly.
We aio doing everything to recover and
identify the lnvlies."
A WASHINGTON I.ADY A MONO THE T-OPT.
Washington, May 10. Miss Caroline
M. Crane, of this city, one of those lost by
the Schiller disaster, was a neice of the
wife of Senator Edmonds, of Vermont,
with whom she passed the winter in this
city. She was a highly accomplished young
lady, and Was on her wav tn r.nrnnA tn
Onx. Nicholas Sxitit, the middle-aged spend two years with the familv of Minis-
.5 . t-.. - 4.1 . . t - r . . V
! Gen. Sitertpan is to be married in Juno
to M iss Rucker, slaughter of an old army
, fiiend. She was one of the party who aci
companied him on his New Orleans trip.
She is beautiful, blight and accomplished,
; and is a blonde. Her father is an old and
i respected officer, not rich,)for riches seldom
! come to the man who devotes his time to
tho army. His social standing is of tho
1 first character. Sherdian's campaigns are
short and decisive. So with his courtship,
i Tho wedding will be of the quietest char
. ncter possible. Both Shoridau and hU ex
pectant briele are Catholics.
rhl well's dwelling, was destroyed.
Some of the fragments of the buildings
were founel strewn for miles. A mattress
wasfetnnd two miles from where it started
imbedded under the roots of a tree. But
one tree was left standing, anel twe negro
boys fouud shelter in its hollow and es
caped. Three little children of B. A. Maxey were
found hudelled together in the middle of
the floor, with all the house blown down
around them. They were unhurt. Beel
clothing, and even the clothes on the per
sons of those who were made homeless by
the tempest, were torn in shreds or blown
away, and many women and children were
left nearly naked as well as homeless.
The number of killed and wounded thus
far reported, is as follows : In East Ala
bama, 5 killed, 5 wounded ; Harris coun
ty, 5 killed, 20 wounded ; Talbot, 20 killed,
10 wonnded ; Houston, 1 killed, 4 wound
ed f Maxeys, 2killeel, 10 wounded ; Burke,
1 killeel, 5 woundeel ; Henry, 6 wounded ;
Troup, 5 killed; total, killeel 54, wouudedCO.
After leaving Georgia, the tornaelo con
tinued its work of devastation in South
Carolina and North Carolina.
Reverses His Own Onxieix. Last
month, in the case of tho Ceimmon wealth
vs. The Kittanning Coal Company, Judge
Pearson decided that the tax on the fran
chises of coal companies, levietl under the
act of April 24, 1S74, was unconstitutional,
on the grounel that the exemption from
taxation of the coal consumed by the ctal
companies in the transaction of their busi
ness, was in violation of the constitutional
restriction upon the power of the Legisla
ture to make exemptions. On further ars
gument, on exceptions filed, the juelge has
reconsidered his original opinion, and now
and now holds that as the tax levied is upon
the franchises of the corporat ions, and not
upon the coal, that the Legislature has not
exceeded its powers in the arbitrary classi
fication established by the statute. Under
this elecision, as it now stands, the "coal
tax" can be collected, which as it will
amount to over half a million ef dollars,
will be a great relief to the general revenue
fnnel. The coal companies will carry the
ease to tho supreme court, and it is under
stood that it will be argued during tho
present sitting in this city and at once dis
posed of. Harritburg Patrivl.
lisb, t-n the same slice
Hans, on trial at Erie last week far
the murder of M:s. Hainan, at his hotel
in that city, has becil found guilty of mur
eler in the ttcond degree.
A GeniK.se maichioness has recently
made the Pope a donation of ?-20,(Xi0 a
ear, to bo paid as long as tho present
troubles of the church last.
The Mik sLurg foundry, machine shops,
grist mill aid wagon shops st Milesburg,
in Centre county, Pa., were burned one
day last w eek. Loss $ t l.OoO.
Henry Fisher, of Phrrnixville, Pa.,
within Min-e months buried his father, bis
child, jiis wife, and on Wednesday last
died himself, leaving a boy of four and a
gill of eight Viiiif.
Daniel F. Dav:, of Reading, is 13
years cf agf, inches in height, weighs
-! pounds is go.-J king anel unmarried,
a:.d h;is nc ver bee n in the show business,
lie is attending a commercial college.
Mnggie Council has sued John Blue,
of Pittsburgh, for bi each of promise. Last
July he engaged himself to Maggie, and
lar-t week he manicel another maid. He
wa.-.nt a true Blue, and she wants fo,0O'J
damages.
Frank Mason anel M:-s CanJes ClifTorcI,
of Owen, Ky., eloped on horseback. Their
steeds dropped dead with fatigue before
they could reach the paison's house, and
they finished thti.- fi.;hl on lWt. But
they succeeded.
lhe Milwaukee Sin'irnl says that t'f
the eighteen men who have occupied the
Presidential thai r, twelve have been law
yers, live soldiers and one a statesman.
The honor of lieing the last-named is given
to James Madison.
A Clevi land vveiman recently man ltd
a Chinese hiuudrymau and in three flays
thereafser the unhappy celestial pieaieel
at a barber's shop ai d ordered his pigtail
cut off. saying in explanation : '-Too
muchee dam yank."
A pair of boots that ouco belonged to
George Washington are now in the pos
session of a Philadelphia gentleman. Their
size very phiinly indicates why nobody
ever ventured to give the father of his
country any sass.r'
Princess GnTtzin, cf Knssia, I. as ins
vented a new biidal veil, which fits on to
the shonldeis and looks like nintijuito
wings. Under the hallucination of love
the bridegroom is supposed to think the
wearer more angelic than ever.
This is from the jen .of the wicked
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville CovrUr
Journal : "It is saiel that Secretary Robe
son seriously thinks of burning the half a
dozen or so old tubs that are left, and ef
adopting Paul Boytou as the United States
navy."
A Reading fellow, reduced to idiocy
by the biUoon fever, annenines his inten
tion to make an ascension during the com
ing summer, and when two miles alxive
thocaith, jump from the balloon and de
lenel upon a parachute to bring him saftiy
to solid ground.
A dispatch from IToi-nellsville, N. Y.,
says that the Portage bridge, on the Erie
railroad, said to be the largest wooden
bridge in the world, anel which spanned
the Gencssc river and falls v as burned last
Thursday night. There will be no inter
ruption ef trains.
A team or horses belonging to Patrick
Kearins ran away in Manch Chunk, anel
two children in the carriage would have
been killed bad not. a young man ou the
street quickly picked up a stone ami hurled
it at the team, crushing in the skull of one
tf the horses, which fell eiead in the harness.
At Chilton, Ws., on Saturday, a one
armed soldier named George Miller shot
Jedin Nanus proprietor of the new IIelstein
Hotel, and Henry Knehls, hostler, and
then proceeeled to the cemetery and shot
himself. Of the three, only Knehls can
The cause was a quarrel about a
along and the engine. -.
; nut si.', in iime. punoa .. r r.:--..
banged the wh-.le trari . .t ; .
cherub lie fore it woke, r.: d :..
a hair of it. Had the lift.
' to rise it r.;i!j Lave he i -. L. ,
; There is a !;- in J. ,
to a sei grant of p '," : .,
. 1 am sorry to ttll v.'ii I v
i f glas in a larr.p-po-: j .,
' street, between Carr a;.d '.V,t-.. .
Sunday, April 'Z. I
and the jioliceman run
could not eaten ice. S i I :
! twenty-five cents wl'i j . f
and ! hat jou w ill f : y.: ... -.
that I woii't ply u..ll .. a
. more."
i A man has ju-t been -plisonmtut
for eight rl n r
, 1 0:1 fi.it.es, for havii'g h:-.::
linge cr-rc'imvy in the ( L
. Dame dts Victoircs. He v ,
pointed lover of the briele. .vi-i -revtnge
be bad strewn t!
church with a quantity of
; lets which expbwled at ea - li
the biidal paity and the s:
Ro tllto-I liniwa at c,i;-.a -
p.'l a suspension 'if the si?:vi
On the le-th r.f May the -
German Catholic Belief A--
United Mates will meet hi t
tion in Cincinnati, and !:: :
fuli- ft-im 'Unit. ......1. .1 ' - :
"--'' ,-.t-. i i..-. n j'l ooil I.'
Catholic lfmevolei.t orgr;;,
country. Over sixty llo.i.is'.t
s.r-ittiriil !:TI ,.1l.r. 1. '.:1
to it. and its membeis-l.ip '
7o,f 0. Its object is t.sreii.V
sitinis i;.'ira,i!i Catholics, a' i i
ing hand te needy euiig.,ii.ts ..:
live n ( iir siore.
I The Louisville r-.l-'
that on the wh"le Muiat Ilalste.
of a thiid-party niovemcnt. )
nominate Chaiies Fr-i.icis Ad.tv
. eleiit. and by getting u'mi iaih :
; to force the leguhu Repui r
, n:m jnsi as rne tcmncra.s
1 1 1 1.- f f : rrv.-l.'i- .1. u, nut w t : i--
r . - t. i .
dir.erer.t iIitical sects. It f;
, 'T?, and it will fail worse ia "7 '.. v
is much true inwardness in i:
I vvartlness i a good tLii.g.
j Patrick Slav in, the alkcfi
. of a coal mi'ier namnil I vn.'i
' Elizabeth, Allegheny county, i:
. 174. has leen discovered ia fi
Wilkesbarre, Luzerne c mt-.ty.
. Wilmot, who has been v.
. case, learned of the w heieal'":'-
murdered man at once math i '
before Alderman Buike, ch ' :
wiih murder. He will be n.-.i-i-1
: burgh for trial as soon as his u
I Wilkesbarre j.xil expires. Ik
out a setitenee for assault a::a I
i will be out in a month.
! A tornado passed over tL" '
; Green Springs. Ohio, Sundtiy
blowing dovru three houses r.' .ii
children, and demolishing ever
in the placet. Passing rorih.rr.
' houses and barns between J:c.
aim e ijue were iiiovui (town,
fences destroyed at Clyde. 1 '
IIone was paitially unroofed
' able damage done to stores ana '
letween Clyde and Bellevuc. .
line of the Lake Shore R.ti'tvnr ;
building eseafrd uninjuie.'i.
of tlie sterni was from t! c ?
north, and it3 track about f.v. :
A remaikabla child, fsjs !
town Democrat of the fill-..
Bratton township on Fi iiay !.".;
i entirely healthy, and tbiiv'.: :
having no nose. exce.fi' g i -
t lor nostrils and no eves, f, .
recover.
Miss Braddon is about to write a novel ' e loped, eyelids which c.ii
in which the hero and heroine elonc across ""?rw:se ins heail is pel.
the English channel iu Captain IJoytem's
life dresses while the enraged papa follow
ing behind with a pair of cork floats bo
comes exhaustcel, and is taken on board
by the hapjA- pair whom he then aud there
forgives and blesses,
exception of an unsightly r-
' ance uprin his forehead. .':.?
i has six toes though two ef t!:c"
together ; the other f.vt ha.
j ii ion its side another vxl ioh -:
resembles a thumb. Ah 'g-'
-A pastoral from Cardinal Manning presents an cxtraordira-.y f;-:.u
C Of the -well establlShCU flecencies w mower uo nrcenuy iiianiea jiorace ' ler uarsn, anet study art in Italy.
;t journa sm, seem only to ntensify ' Y'V" " ... ...v on ... muidlb marine disaster.
J. , ' . J i i had tho misfortune to be bom handsome, The bark Cora Lynn, fiom Darieu for
. s irupudencre aD.l open tip to him a thure be!n l(lobablv in the United States Troon, is ienn. t.i w e,-...
f . " r
j?r field for it
indulgence.
not a finer s.ecimen of real manly beauty, and five men.
Advietes from the frnit regions of New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland give a
most promising preispect for an unsurpassed
yield of peaches this season. The cons
tinnous cold weather of the "past month
has been rather favorable than otherwise
ia retarding the; growth of the bud in those
States until danger from frost is greatly
lessened. Indications, however, puint to
a later season than usual..
Geo. IT. Trice, an Express messenger,
shot and killed one of three robbers a man
named Harvey Blinkley, until recently '
employee!, as a passenger conelnctor on
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad, who effected an entrance into his
car on the above named road en Friday
last. The messenger was himself seriously
wonneled by Blinkley. The other robbers
made their eacape, but as, they are known
their capture is certain. The wife of the
dead robber, a most estimable woman, was
bereft of reason immediately'upon hearing
the manner of her husband'sdeath, and
(ho disgraceful record he left his family.
Blinckly also left a son and a daughter, the ;
latter about seventeen years old.
was read in all tho Komau Catholic
churches of England en Sunday last. It
protests against tho persecution of the
Church in Germany and Switzerland, and
accuses Prince Bismarck of seeking to
raise the animosity tif the powers against
the freeelom of the next conclave.
Mr. Carl Schurz made a happy escape,
and the country may have been spared a
A series of highly i; ir;e-' --'
ocssful experiment? v. ith a i:r."
have, it appears, been lere"-.1
Wales nearly 500 civ il ei'iiet:
ors interested in mining opera
present. Among the sjcinl "
claimed to lie possessed by
tier, as compareel w ith othns
use, anel which these evpi'i'-,T!f' '
It is row said that all tho claims under
the Alabama case for depredations will not
amount to more than six millions of dollars 1
leaving a surples of some nine millions of
the Geneva award. Common honesty j
would dictate the return of the surplus to !
a.iiiiiu, iiui, uiiiui -jUUcl.;jjr lueit? IS ueiilier
common nor uhcommon honesty in the
Radical administration.
The Schiller disaster is even worso
than first; reports made it. Only nineteen
passengers were saved, and more than
three hundred and fifty lost. And as yet
no light has been thrown upon tho affair,
which remains wrapped in as black an ob
scurity as was the rocks npou which tho
uufortunate vessel ran.
severe loss and all on account of a dinner. ' have demonstrated, are thnt r
He intended to sail fer Ilambrrg in tho j force is exceptionally g: cat :
Schiller, but the banquet tendered him by off tnly a very small quantity
the German citizens of New York detaineel ! injurious gas; and that. t-v'.
him and he took passage iu the Pomerauia, j those qnabties, it is at the s-.!
which sailed on the following elay. as safe for use as am or.iiv? ? '
The W ex'dstoek Standard says the being liable to explode by
meanest man in Vermont lives in Chester. ieratnre, exposure to the si"'1-1"
He was invited to join in singing at the or self-ignition. ,
funeral of one of his neighbors' daughters. On the night of the Cffh c
He accepted the invitation, and soon there- a very remarkable freak ef r.v
after presented to tho father of tho deceased i red in Pass a Y Outre, a' J--'.'.
a claim of fifty cents for sei vices rendered j the Mississippi river. -llt"!
on that occasion. The bill was paid. spot close to the chanuf-l, Tf ?
Tho election of several Roman Catho- I bad been an unbroken sl.M "
lie Representatives to the Legislature of j island, having an area of ab'1;
New Hampshire is to be contested on the j rose to the surface, and cert'
ground that the State Constitution has a until it reached a height ef e-.
riause requiring representatives to hn of now seems likelv to rem a1" '
the 1'rotestant religion, several atterrpts
to have this clause repealed have been
voted down by large popular majorities '
The trial of Launsbcry, indicted in the
U. S. Crimiual Ceurt, at Pittsburpb. fur
the murder of Provost, Marshal Bntler, of i
Clearfield countv. a nnmber nf ven. n- u.in, ,.r i fiver are
has been postponed until next November. I there is a probabBitv that tl -f
The counsel of the prisoner asked for a be waster!. The cfn.il 1 "-r
continuance on the ground that important 1 ns in anv event, but c'i;:
witnesses cnnot be procured in time to go this posslbilitv, to bo the s1'
to trial at th present term. - . proving coniniuuicatien w
obstruction tothepss. .nrt' .-,
is very interesting, but it is .k
I-ortant in view of the fc ' : -
ment is about to exii"
money for the const men
of.';
rh t1" .
oi i nose passes; aim i