V. i&nrarg raeritnii. H. t. NASSER, I. WILTERT. Editor. SUXBUB.Y, AUGUST 11, 1874. Republican State Convention. The Republican of Pennsylvania will hold a Ptate Convention at HarTisburg, at noon, on Wednesday, Angnst 19, 1874, for tbe purpose of nominating candidates for Lieutenant Uoveroor, Andltor General. Secretary at Internal .AfliUrs and Judge of the Supreme Court. The representation of tbe several counties in this Convention will be based on the appointment o( Senators and Representative made by the present Legislature, each Senatorial and Repre aentative district being entitled to delegate equal in number to it representation lit the Legislature nnder ald apportionment. RUSSELL ERRETT, Chairman. Joh M'Coxoi gh, Repvollcan County Convention. The Republican voter of Northumberland county are requested to meet ir each election district at such place at which delegate election have heretofore been held, on Saturday, the lih day or September next, between the hour of 1 and 7 o'clock, p. n., for the pnrposc of electing delegate to the Republican Couuty Convention, to be held at the Court House, in the borough of Snnbnry, on Tuesday, September 23, 1874, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the pnrpose of nominating a ticket to be presented to the voter or the county at the ensuing election. Each district polling two hundred Republican vote, or less, at tbe last general election for State officers, will be entitled to two delegate ; each district polling three hundred, three delegate ; and each district polling over three hundred vote shall be entitled to four delegates. By order of the committee. . EM'L WILVERT, Cliairm.m. L. M. Morto, Secretary. IT was earnestly hoped that the late Grand Jury would follow it predeeewor of tbe March term in recommending a new jail to be built in place of tbe building now used for that purpose, which has long since I teen condemned by every reasonable man, as well as by the Board of Public Charities appointed by the State Legislature to exa mine and investigate public buildings throughout the State. It Is a place scarce ly fit for occupancy by a brute and less for a human being. Strangers who view it cannot help but look upon it as a foul spot on Northumberland county, and the ques tion has frequently been asked, why don't the county build a new jail and save a large expense by keeping her prisoners here, instead of paying for their keeping in the Eastern Penitentiary, and let the crim inals earn the costs ? But it appears that we are not so fortunate as to announce such a good result The Grand Jury at March term readily recommended the erection of a new jail, but as some of the "Ring," who perhaps were somewhat interested in the building of the new Court House, could have no say in tbe matter of contracting for the building, tbey perseveringly set to work to defeat tho project with the hope of again getting possession of the Commissioners Office, that they might be come interested with the contractors to an extent of several farms. ; They succeeded through misrepresentation to the Grand Jurors, in defeating its erection, by a ma jority of one against it, and recommended tchite-vashing the old building. This was at least a little encouraging to those who may hare weak constitutions and be incar cerated, as lime is considered conducive to health. ' This laudable enterprise of a majority of the jury has already raised some discussion. As a new Jail can not be built unless recommended by two Grand Juries, it is supposed that no white washing can be done before another jury sees St to sustain the last jury in their laudable enterprise. The report does not state, however, anything about erecting a slab fenceenclosure,which shows negligence somewhere. Those who took such an ac tive interest in tbe matter no doubt rejoice and will work hard to secure another De- with the expectation of receiving crumbs from the table of the contractors. As we know something about bow the building of the Court House was managed, we are not at all surprised at members of tbe Iiing try ing to deceive the public in regard to the ad vantages in building a new jail. Tbe conn ty is much better prepared now to make ' "n- provemenla than when the Court House was built, and its also well known that the present board of officers would manage the project with economy, and that there would be no danger of extravagance, or that the tax payers would be again burdened with a heavy county debt As to white washing the old jail is really not as bad as was the white washing of the county finances by the King that managed the county affairs after tbe new Court House was built, as is shown by the county records. TnK Schuylkill County Demo cracy. The Democracy of our sister county. Schuylkill appears to be some what in the same condition as in this coun ty. A ring composed of a few men, do all the shaping for the party, and resort even to oath bound secret societies to defeat and shelve tbe honest portion of their party. This power was exercised at their late con vention, and the trick was discovered, but too late to defeat the Ring in their scheme. The result will be that for some of the of fices, other candidates will be in the field on the Democratic side, in opposition to the nominees by the Ring party. Tbe secret oath bound society organized by the Ring is called the "Emerald Beneficial Associa tion," is conducted on the style of the Knighu of the Golden Circle, which con iroled the Democracy in this county sever al years ago. As we arc in close proximity to Schuylkill, the honest Democrats, who are now offering themselves as candidates in this county may just as well prepare them selves for a similar doom, as that of the de feated candidates of Schuylkill. The Secretary of the Treasury has, it ap pears, discovered another leak which he proposes to stop. His attention has been directed to a large number of collectors and supervisors of internal revenue who, for months back, have carried their wives and daughters on their pay-rolls in a clerical capacity. An instance is cited where a collector had his wife on the roll as a clerk, drawing a salary of $100 a month, and a daughter eight years of age accredited as an assistant, and drawing a monthly salary of $75. ' No allowance for such service will hereafter be made. We learn, from a recently published commercial table, that there was exported from Philadelphia to foreign ports, chiefly Liverpool and Anthwerp, from October 28th, 1873, to July 22d, 1874, pork, C.lll bbls ; lard, 3,900,012 fts ; bacon hams and shoulders, 6,079,500 fts., which exceeds tbe exports from Portland, Montreal and New Orleans, and Is fast rising to compete with Baltimore. There are portions of our country yet unexplored, and of which little is yet known. Tbe "Black Hill country" has been one of these, but Gen. Custer at the head of the neceasary military force, is now penetrating and examining it, and it is said to be found to be one of the most delightful portions of our continent. The land is represented as extremely fertile, lying very niooJy, while portions of it promise a large yield of gld. At Vick6burg, during the eUction cam paign, which resembled a war of races, a white soldier, whose face had been "blown full of powder during the rebellion, was charged with tbe unpardonable offence of being a negro, ne could only reinstate himself in the favor of the Vicksburg Cau casians by publishing certificates from white people of undoubted character, that by na ture he was whUc.but by accident was made a colored rnamThis was considered satis factory, and he obtained the' recognition which he hafi a right 16 demand. Suppose now the soldier had been without witnesses to prove that he was born white, and that his nice had been colored by gunpowder, he would have been forced to depend upon the Civil Rights bill for the privilege of get ting meals and a bed at any country tavern. Philadelphia was visited by a heavy rain storm, resulting in a flood, on Saturday. The large gasometer at Ninth and Diamond streets was crushed in. It was empty at the time, the gas having been drawn oft The tank was of 500,000 cubit feet capaci ty. A culvert in Montgemery avenue, from Ninth street to the German town Railroad, broke, and the streets, curb to curb, caved. io,aod that portion beneath the tracks washed away. A wagon, contain ing Harry Steele, aged fourteen, and Ed ward Sherrard, aged thirty-five, while on the bridge over Wingohocken Creek, Ger mantown, with the bridge washed away. Both persons were drowned, the wagon broken and horse drowned., The bodies were recovered. Several of the German town sewers were broken in. Will the Democratic press pardon us for suggesting that its enthusiasm over the "gains" of its party in North Carolina and Tennessee may possibly turn out to be somewhat premature ? Has it never struck our jubilant contemporaries that the ruf fianly ' White League" madness now run ning rampant In the Southern States will be certain to create an unmistakable reac tion ? - The imports at the port of New York for the week ending last Saturday amounted to $7,009,040, against $0,785,841 for the corresponding week last year. The total importations since the first of January fool up 8253,393,420, against $252,539,901 for the relating period of 1873. The exports of gold and silver for the week were $2,521, 442, making, with $34,007,428 previously reported, $37,558,870 since the first of Jan uary. The public are cautioned against coun terfeit five dollar national bank notes on the Traders' National Bank of Chicago, 111. Under the letter C, in "Chicago," on the face of the note, the last sliade line runs into the top of the first letter of the word "pay," which is directly under it, while in the genuine a distinct space intervenes. In the date of the year "18C5," under the right-hand end of the words "Five dol lars," in the body of the note, the numer als 6 and 5 come closely together. In tbe the counterfeit there is a much wider space. On the reverse of the note tbe most dis tinctive point of difference between the counterfeit and the genuine appears in the lathe work enclosing the figure "5,' at the lower right and left hand corners of the note, the eccentric circles being nearly round and very distinct in the counterfeit, and much more eccentric and less clear in the genuine. The kneeling figures in the left hand of the vignette on the back of the note arc much less distinct than in the genuine, and the work generally is coarser. The paper upon which the note is printed is inferior in quality to that used by the government, being much coarser ; but the " - -- -j-jtwv cfou an ex pert at tire first glance. - - There seems to be considerable uneasi ness in Europe at the attitude of France and Germany toward each other. It is generally regarded, however, as if there was nothing in it, but there is. Even the Earl of Derby, in some remarks lately in tbe House of Lords, declared his belief that things were not as pacific as they looked, and that there was probable trouble in the near future. It now appears that Albert Reeves, the Republican candidate for Sheriff, who was shot in the riot at Somerville, Tennessee, on Friday, did not die until Sunday night. His brother Paul, who was also reported killed, was in a dying condition. Jude Reeves, the third brother, and Oscar Ben ton, who were shot at the same time, are ex pected to recover. Matters ha ve become quiet at Somerville, and the Chickasaw Guards, sent there from Memplui, have returned home. It is reported from Fort Laramie that some of the Sioux Indians have stated that the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes are prepar ing for war. Should this prove true, it is expected that many of the Sioux will join the hostile tribes. In view of a possible outbreak the military are very active, but their movements are kept as secret as possible, to prevent information being con veyed to the disaffected Indians. General King and the Ninth Infantry have left Omaha for Fort Laramie. The Lock Ilaveu Democrat vouches for this snake story : One day last week tbe daughter of M-. Joseph W. Snook, of Su gar alley, was out gathering whortleber ries with a party of girls, when a black snake ran up her clothes and coiled itself twice around her lower hotly uext to the skin. The excitement was iutense among the party, but the young girl in the em brace of the snake was the coolest of them all. She commenced to tear off her cloth ing, and by the time tbey were mostly off, the reptile had been killed and was found upon measurement to be eleven feet long. Drummers have had a hard time of it in Reading, lately. One of them was playing "Peeping Tom, of Coventry," at a hotel there, the other night, when the chair fell from under him, leaving him with his head fastened in the transom. The room into which he was spying was occuptd by a gentleman and his wife, and the former, seizing a cowhide, rushed out and gave the over inquisitive commercial traveler a fear ful whipping. The flooded district in Allegheny, our Pittsburg contemporaries say, is fast re turning to its usual condition. The wreck ed houses have been taken down, and the street blockades and vast accumulations of mud are being carted away. The cellars are generally cleaned out, and soon tbe streets will be in good order again, although it will take some time to rebuild the houses. It is reported that the relief now amounts to 40,000, all of which is deposited in the Real Estate Bank. There are frequent entertainment given in aid of the sufferers, and tbe tickets to them stll in large num bers. Judge Leddie, chairman of the Illinois Democratic State Central Committee, has issued a call for a straight Democratic State Convention, to mx-t at Springfield. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The timber dealers of Clearfield and ad joining counties are to meet in convention at Clearfield, on the 18th mst. f . ' Surveys are being made for another in ternational railroad bridge across Niagara. It is to be built at Grand Island. New York must have an enormous appe-tite.-for. watermelons..- Twenty .thousand recently came to market in a single day. One of the last of the Iroquois tribe of Indiaus was killed recently by bcim? run over while in a helpless state of intoxica tion. A Norristown baby is said to have in herited the eyes and nose of its father, but the cheek of his uncle, who is an insurance agent. ' The AHentown Iron company has reduc ed the rent of it tenants twenty-five per cenL ' A lady in narrisburg gave birth, last week, to a four-legged baby. It did not live long. Harrisburg has new and handsome city cars. All the married men are treating their wives to short trips. The newspaper reporters are delighted. The city ' lo have new public buildings. . A Hugh Byrne, of Danville, was killed by the cars while walking on the track at Catasaugua, on the 6th inst. The epirooty ba broken out anew and in severe form among the horses in differ ent parts of Lancaster county. There will probably be about forty apple jack distilleries put in operation in the upper end of Lehigh county this season. The camp meeting season has come, and the voice of the preacher is in-tently heard in the land. . All the signs indicate that human rights are again to be prominent issues, in our political campaigns. . ., , ,., At a special court held by Judge Bucher in Union county, Mrs. Kline and Edward Clark, who had been arrested and impris oned on suspicion of poisoning tbe husband of the former, were acquitted and discharg ed from custody. The evidence completely exonerated both parties. Mr. Benjamin liannan, of Pottsville, has a number of zealous friends who are urging him as a fit person for the Republicans to send to Congress. John Colihan, of Ashland, was nominat ed for the Senate by the Democrats of the Thirtieth Senatorial district, composed of one-half of Schuylkill count-. The advertising bills of the great dry' goods merchant, Stewart, generally aggre gate about $500,000 per year. This is and always has been the secret of his great success. All the year round, Sheridan's Cavalry Condition rowders Bhould be given to horses that are "kept up." To horses and cattle that graze in summer they should only be given in winter and spring. Officers aud soldiers who served in tho army, physicians, surgeons, and eminent men and women every where, join in recom muuding Johnson's Anodyne Liniment to be tbe best internal and external family medicine ever invented. That's our experi ence. The grasshoppers are reported to have devoured all the vegetation in Northern and Southwestern Kansas and Nebraska, their ravages being greater than in 1866. The coro crop throughout the region visit ed by them is said to be destroyed. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, has written a letter positively declining to be a candidate for Congress in the district now represented by Hon. Geo. F. Hoar. Tbe name Democrat expresses nothing xcept determined opposition to tbe Jiepiiblieuu party- The President or the Aijpauje congratulates President Grant -v telegraph upon the fact that both countries at,. now connected by electric wires. The residence of William M. Tweed, on Forty-second street and Fifth avenue, New York, was sold at auction for $190,000. The President has recognized Moritz Von Baumbach as vice consul of the Ger man Empire at Milwaukee. Four men were lynched in Arkansas during the last week, three for horse steal ing and one for murder. A pauper in the poor house of Lee coun ty, Iowa, is 94 years old, and has several children living, all of whom are in comfort able circumstances. One of them is a min ister. He must be rather ruBty on the ten cotnmandtneuls. On the fifty-eighth anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, which occured on June 18, there were living fifty-nine men who were commissioned officers under Welling ton in that battle. Enchanting country, that Colorado! The corn crop has wholy failed there, and that indispensable staple is now worth two and a half cents a pound in Denver and still rising. But the Territory has lots of lean quartz, dry "irrigation" ditchers, real estate speculators, mining thimble-riggers, and things. The blackberry crop, which is now in its prime, is the largest ever gathered in Peon syivania. ine nms everywhere are swartuiDg with parties of volunteer gath erers, who go armed with all the buckets they can carry, and always return well laden. The Democrats elected a jailer at Cyn tbiana, Keutucky, and the Democrat of that place exclaims : "The Democratic party still lives, aud is victorious in every conflict." Americaus arc a patriotic race. Ninety nine out o; every uunureu wm give up a situation worth 5,000 a year to take an office worth $2,000, and think they have done a big thing. It is so genteel to be a servant of the State ! Only two men were killed at the late election in Keutucky. It was a very quiet election, for that State, and foots up poorly in casualties. Brigham Young, Jr., is a candidate for the next Territorial legislature in Utah, aud the Salt Lake Tribune asserts that he will try to represent every county where he has a iolygamous wife living. Postmasters are instructed by the De partment not to deliver a letter from the Pension Office to any other than the person addressed, or to a member of his or her family, or to u legal guardian of the pen sioner. Lebanon has three steam fire engines, five hose campanies and one hook and lad der company, with a population of only 7,000. It is row definitely settled that forty-six persons perished in the Pat Rogers disas ter. There are from sixty to seventy thousand Christian ministers in our country, on whom the eyes of their countrymen are turned with unusual interest, just now. Trouble is anticipated between the Unit ed States and China growing out of the troubles in the Island of Formosa. The Pennsylvania State Prohibition nominating convention met at Harrisburg on Wednesday, and nominated candidates for tbe various State offices. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has leased the Allegheny Valley railroad. General Custer's Black nills expedition started on its return to the settlements on Tursday last . . ., . ........ Barney Aaron, - Collycr's principal se cond,, announces that himself and col leagues concede the stakes and fight to Edwards. Reports from England give favorable accounts of tbe wheat harvest. . It Is reported from Madrid that England, France and Germany have recognized the Spanish Republic. William M. Randall, of Pottsville, feel ing satisfied that the Democratic parly in Schuylkill county are opposed to the nomi nation of James B. Reilly for Congress," announces himself as an independent can didate. The county is very close, being Democratic by only about two hundred majority. Unless the tactics of last year are pursued, when there were two Demo crats, two Republicans, and a Labor Re former for the single office of State Senator, the Republicans will Btand a fair chance of sending the man to Washington. The theory that when a man who hasn't moral character enough to preach, is the proper person to edit a newspaper, may do for New York city, but not for anywhere else. The Department of Justice at Washing ton is overrun with report of Ku-Klux outrages in Texas, the banner Democratic State of the South. There are many very good peopfc in our day who begin seriously to doubt whether religion, as something distinct from nioral ity, has any existence at all. There has been no change in lie "situa tion" at the AHentown Rolling Mill. The helpcrsstill hold but against the proposed reduction of wages, and the wcrks have been idle since August 1st. Ex-Mayor Whitman, of Boston, has been arrested for debt, and is now in jiil in that city. He was one of the Hirec.rs of the Franklin Coal Company of Lyk;ns Valley, au insolvent organization. Elj Byers, of Harrisburg has recovered a judgment against the company for 814,805. Whit man denies that he was a director at the time the execution was issued, end, there fore, he is not liable. The body or Jtobert a. aiackey, a wealthy drover, was found in a creeknear Odessa, Delaware, on Saturday. He 'had evidently been robbed and murlered." A man named Joseph Taylor wai last seen with Mackey, and the police art searching for Taylor. Victoria Woodhull, Jennie C Claflin, Col. Blood, and some more of tlie family, sailed from New York for Europe, on Sar turday. If there was an assurat.ee that they would never return, there would be cause for gratitude. All tho houses in Philadelphia were searched by the police, last week, to make sure that Charlie Ross was not seceted in that city. The Democratic Convention of Cdumbia county, Pa., met at Bloomsburg, and un animously instructed their delegates for C. B. Brockway for Congress, and E. J. McIIenry and S. P. Ryan for the Assem bly. "Tax Unions" in South Carolina arc the same as "White Leagues" in other8outh ern States, and they both meaq-KuKlux. "Old foes with new laces ycfcjojr. Four national banks werargaaized last week in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Mi chigan and Wisconsin, with a total author ized capi 1 of 8700,000. In Lockport, Pa., a horse, owned by a farmer three miles out of town, trotted alone into a blacksmith shop, where he had been shod the day before. He was lame, and on filing off one of his shoes it was found that . najj na(j ijj (jj-iyen 8(J a9 iQ hurt his fool. The storm o. Saturday did great damage to property in Altnaj but no liveK were lost. Bridges, crossiv,, and 8i(ewaik8 were swept away, hunuW(8 of cellar8 flooded and other minor raisctrrdoDC Stern Reality. It may seem su.,, but it is nevertheless true, that alcohol, re gularly applied to a thrifty farmer's sto mach, will remove the boards from his fence, let cattle into his crops, kill bis fruit trees, mortgage his farm, and sow fields with wild oats and thistles. It will take the paint off his buildings, break tbe glass out of his windows, and fill them with rags. It will take the gloss from his clothes and the polish from his manners, subdue his reason, arouse his passious, briug sorrow and disgrace upon his family, and topple him into a drunkards grave. It will do this to the artisan and the capitalists, the matron and the maiden, as well as to the farmer ; for in its deadly enmity to the hu man race, alcohol is uo respector of per sons. The first nugget of Georgia gold was. found in Duke's creek, in 1821), and weighed three ounces. It is believed that the mines of Georgia yieldcdabout 818,000,000 before the establishment of the United States Mint at Dahlouega, in 1838, and the mint coined 0,000,000 before it was closed at the breaking out of the war. Since the war gold mining has been almost neglected. An Ohio man hitched his wife and step daughter to a shovel plow, and ploughed three and a half acres of corn with them. Telegraphic News. A WAIt IX ARKANSAS. SCENES OF LAWLESSNESS AT AUSTIN. Conflict Between White Jfc Black m, TEN MEN KILLED A NUMBER WOUNDED. KriufbreeuientN ofBoth FartieM. Memi'UIS, August II A special to the Apjtal from Helena, Ark., received at 3:30 this morning says : At eleven o'clock last night three ladies and two gentlemen ar rived here from Austin in a skiff, and re ported considerable fighting late yesterday evening. The commauder of the post, whose name we did uot learn, despatched a ecout of tweuty-five on the road to Coldwater Sta tion, on the Mississippi and Tennensee rail road, and captured a picket of twenty ne groes, who were stationed about two miles from the town, aud brought them in as prisoners and disarmed them. One of them, as they were being put into the covrt house yard, tried to make his es cape, when be was fired upon and killed, and in the melee which ensued another ne gro was wounded, but not fatally. Later in the evening a large body of negroes ad vanced from the south and attacked the town, driving in the white skirmishers to the court houBe, where the main body of whites were stationed. A charge was then made by the whites and the negroes were repulsed with tbe loss of Beveral killed and wounded. Fighting j was going on when our informants left, and they .were fired upon as they crossed over to Ship Island. "? 7 ASSISTANCE FOR THE WniTES. A despatch from Helena says : Major Hern Chalmers, of Hernando, has just ar rived here, for the purpose of chartering a boat to take men to the assistance of the whites in Austin. He says a courier from Mayor Woodson, of Austin, reached Her- nandoal daylight, stating that the town was surrounded by about one thousand negroes, and asking for help. About two hundred men from Hernando and vicinity will be here at two o'clock, and in company with the volunteers from this city, will start at foHr o'clock for Aus tin. CAUSE OF THE TROCLE. Dr. Smith, who is tlie unfortunate cause of the trouble there, reached here last night Some three weeks since he was attacked in the streets of Austin by a negro, and, draw ing a pistol, fired at the negro, but missed him and killed a little negro girl standing by, which exasperated tho negroes to such an extent that they collected a mob and took Smith to the woods to hang him, which they would have done but for the entreaties of Mayor AVoodson and the doctor's wife. Since that time Dr. Smith has been a vol untary immate of the jail to prevent being mobbed, until Friday, when some friends came and carried him to Hernando. On lys leaving the jail the negroes collected in large numbers, and notified the mayor that unless he was brought back and put in jail they would burn the town. ANOTHER CALL FOR HELP. A third despatch to the Appeal from Helena says telegrams are being re ceived from tho vicinity of Austin asking lor men, arms andaram utition, and stating unless the whites, who an! surrounded in the court house, are speedily relieved, they will be forced to surrender or be captured. The steamer A. J. White has been chartcr ized to leave at five o'clock, and carry a large number of men well armed. DESPERATE FIGHTING. Another despatch to the same paper says that the negroes surrounding Austin were charged on the 6outh this morning by a body mounted whites, who killed four or five, and captured twenty negroes. The blacks number about 700 and the whites have about 200. Both parties were expect ing reinforcements. At present the whites have the best of the fight. The negro hands on the plantations opposite on the Arkan sas side are arming and marching on Aus tin in large numbers. NEGROES MARCniNO ON AUSTIN. The excitement here in regard to the riot in Austin is increasing. The telegraph operator at Helena reports the negros have been leaving there, on the Mississippi side, all day, marching on Austin. The steam er White left this afternoon with three hun dred armed men and supplies, under com mand of Colonel Morgan, of Hernando, Miss., about half of whom are from Missis sippi. Among them are some twenty ne groes, who say, "they want this foolishness stopped." The remainder of the force is from this city. Large numbers of men have also started for Austin by land, and if the whites can hold the court house unlil midnight re inforcements in sufficient numbers will have arrived to relieve them. TEN MEN REPORTED KILLED. MEMpnis, August 11. A special to the Avalanche from Helena, dated at noon, says that in the fight at Austin last night eight or ten negroes were killed. Reinforce ments are coming in to the whites from the hills, and the negroes are being reinforced from the surrounding country. The whites have Austin barricaded, and will probably be able to keep the negroes off, but they need assistance in provisions and ammunition. Several officials from Tunica county have been here since yester day. They telegraphed to Governor Ames at Jackson for assistance, but up to this time they have not heard a word. This special also says the whites have taken O. K. Landing, three miles below Austin, and the ouly landing in that vicini ty at the present stage of water, and this is corrobarated by the officers of the II. V. Yeaijer, which arrived here la9t night, and who saw a body of armed colored men there as they passed. EXCITEMENT IN MEMnils. w":MP!iis, August 12. The excitement here in rc ta tlie Austin riot is becom ing more inteuse, u..;ff t unfounded ru mors of 3'oung men of this citj t..;nr killed .1.. ... i- . l. . 1 - t. r .1 1 . is posted about the city : Reliable men wanted to report on board the steamer .'(. Francis, at four o'clock this day. Arms and ammunition will be furn ished to them. Also, three hundred men, well armed and equipped, to report at the same time and place. About twenty goou artillerists wanted. General King W lute will assume command of the above forces. This poster has added to the excitement. It is thought several hundred men will go to-night on the St. Francix. Three pieces of artillery are expected from Arkansas this afternoon. MEN FOR THE SCENE OF ACTION. The A pptal's Helena special, dated twen ty minutes past eleven this morning, says : "Some thirty Mismssippians, stragglers from the force which left Memphis yester day for Austin, arrived here this morning on the steamer White, aud put up at Orta war's Hotel. The colored people, unable to understand the presence of an armed squad of men, arc much excited. "About nine o'clock that mayor obtain ed possession of the arms, and had them placed on the wharf boat for shipment by the first steamer. On the arrival of the little steamer 'Draper, the Mississipians, es corted by the mayor, the sheriff and other officials, followed by a large crowd of ne groes, were marched on board of the leader and shipped to Austin. There ha been nothing reliable from Au&tin. to-day. The negroes report a fight thaie lost night, and that six or eight white men were killed." ORDER OF GOVERNOR AMES. The following has just been received : Jackson, Miss., August 12. To Colonel Marion Campbell, Helena : You are re quested and authorized to suppress the riot at Austin, to the end that peace may be re stored and life saved. A. Ames, Governor. ARRIVAL OK MEMPIIIANS AT AUSTIN. Another special to the Appal, from Helena, says a Mr. Sebastian, just arrived from Austin, makes the following state ment : "Between 300 and 400 men from Mem phis landed at Shoo Fly, five miles below Austin this morning, and marched into the town, without opposition, at three o'clock. The citizens had abandoned the previous evening, and the negroes, after holding the place a few hours and sacking it, left for their homes. "The Memphians found about tliirty ne groes in the town, who surrendered at once, eight of whom were arrested and sent to jail. The others were non-comba tants and were unmolested. Everything up to nine A. M., when I left, was quite. "At Trotter's Landing I learned that the negroes were organizing for the purpose of retaking Austin, and their pickets were stopping everybody.' Colonel Campbell, formerly sheriff of De Soto county, Missis sippi, has crossed the river here and gone to Austin to endeavor to restore peace." REPORTED RESTORATION OF PEACE. Memphis, August 12.-The latest reports from Austin are that the State troops had disbanded and gone home, and that peace had been restored. MARSHAL. UAZA1NE. THE FRECH CONVICT COMMANDER ES CAPED FROM PRLON. Paris, August 11. There is great excitement in this city in consequence of the receipt of intelligence that Marshal Bazaine had escaped from the Island of St. Marguerite some time during Sunday night. 1 Details of the manner in which he suc ceeded in getting away are unknown, ex cept that be used a rope ladder and got on board a vessel bound for Italy. The night was dark and stormy. The journals of this city declare that the government will act promptly and ener getically in punishing all who connived at his flight. London, Aug. 11. The following interesting particulars of the escape of Marshal Bazaine from his pri son on the Isle of Ste. Marguerite have been received ; HOW HE GOT AWAY. The apartments occupied by Marshal Bazaine opened upon a terrace, which was built upon a lofty and precipilious cliff overhanging the sea. A sentry was posted on the terrace, with orders to watch the prisoner's every movement. Durini Sunday evening the' Marshal walked upon the terrace with Colonel Vill ette. his aid-de-camn. At ten o'clock he retired as usual,apparently to sleep,but be fore daybreak he had effected his escape. He must have crossed tbe terrace in the dead of night and, eluding the sentinel, reached the edge of the precipice. Thence, by means of a knotted rope, he descended to the sea. He evidently slipped during the descent and tore his hands, as the rope was found stained with blood in several places. Under the c iff", in a hired boat, were Bazaine's wife and cousin. They received him as he reached the wa ter, and Madame la Marechal, taking the oars herself, rowed directly to a strange steamer, which had been lying off the is land since the previous evening. They reached the vessel in safety, were taken on board, and the steamer then put to sea. It is thought that they have landed at Genoa, as the steamer proceeded in that direction. The first of the affair came to Grassc, the nearest place on the coast, and the magis trates of the town immediately sent officers iu every direction to search for the fugi tives There was great commotion in Marseilles when the facts became known. An in vesti ration was opened. Colonel Villette, who was walking with the Marshal on the even ing of his escape, was discovered there and imprisoned The commandant of tlie fort of Ste. Mar guerite was placed under arrest and Gen Sewal has gone to the island to investigate the affair On the 2Gth of December, 1873, President MacMahon notified Bazaine that he should serve out his term of thenty years' impri sonment, or."seclu8ion," in the island of Sainte Marguerite. This island is situated on the the Mediterranean coast of France opposite Cannes, about two and a half miles from tbe shore. It lies close on the Italian frontier. It is small in extent, covered with wood, onjny a salubrious climate, The castle has contained many famous nrisoners. amom others the Man of the Iron Mask. Bazaine enjoyed many com forts, and was permitted occasionally the society of his wife and children, one of his aons remaining constantly with him. He has himsell alleged that he would not at tempt to escape, even if it were apparently possible to do so. NEBRASKA. RAVAGES OF THE GRASSHOPPERS Omaha, August 12. Reports from the extreme souhwestern part of the State show that already there is much suffering iu that locjilitv on account of the destruction of the crops, grass and everything else by the grasshoppers. Tbe obutorf, are obliged to let their cattle and hogs starve. Movements for their re lief are being made in this city aud else' where. Correspondence. Ol lt NEW YORK LETTER. MILLINERS AND DRESS-MAKERS A LOT OF TALKTI1EREON TILTON AND BEECH ER SUMMER CHARITIES TnE FLOWER MISSION BUSINESS. New York, Auy. 11, 1874. Paris makes the fashions of the world. and New York varies them a trifle to suit the difference in climate and the peculiari ties of the people, and distributes them through the United States and Canadas. The lady of Washingtonville, in the State of Iowa, gets herself a really fashionable dress at a very moderate price, but she does not know or appreciate how much more the same dress cost her sister (by Eve) in New York when the fashion was first brought out. The fashionable milliners and dress-mak ers of this city make enormous sums of money. The simplest bonnet on their stands, without ornaments, is marked not less than ?20, and then the expense begins. The little French flower is put on at $5, and the milliner who asks it never blushes a blush, aud if that flower swells to a wreath or anything of that sort, the $5 swells to 25. Thcu the plume and the lace must be added, and you find that the cheapest bon net that any woman of pretension wears costs not a cent less than $50. Let us go a little into detail in this matter of EXTRAVAGANT PRICES. I saw a little white bat the other day at a milliner's store, in the full summer style, of course, with a ticket on it marked $230 ! Think of that ! And think, too, that this trifle, for it was as frail as spun glass, could not possibly be worn a dozen times ! That price was doubtless paid for it, it was doubtless worn and admired a dozen times, and is doubtless now in some dust-bin. What, oh wives, of hard-working farm ers and mechanics, do you think of such prices as SGOO for a not overly extravagant ball dress of 8900 for an eveniug dress, and then not considered extra vagaut at all? For be it known, on special occasions it is nothing uncommon to pay three or four times 3900 for a dress, to say nothing of the lace and jewelry necessary to set it out. A rich dress of that kind must have all the accompaniments to make it the proper thing. It is a curious thing in dress that the principal DESIGNERS OF LADIES DRESS ARE MEN. Everybody knows that Worth, the Fari-, sian man-milliner, has designed and sup erintended the making of the best dresses that France has seefor many years. All the great house? in the trade in New York keep mescaline artists to adorn feminine beauty. As women dress to attract tbe admiration of men, they have an idea, (and they are correct doubtless in this, as in everything else,) that a man can better judge of what men like than they them selves. The principal bonnet trimmer is a man six feet in height, and he handles needle and thimble with a grace and dex terity that is simply wonderful. The milliners and dress makers of New York are the recipients of as many secrets as'the physicians, though they are of an other character. Mrs. .Blank desires to outshine some other Mrs. in her set, and Madame, the modiste, is complaisant in the matter of credit in fact she urges all the rich goods possible upon the poor rich woman. But the bill is finally presented. and horror ! what a bill it is I Item after item is scanned, till finally the grand sum total is reached. It is a long way up into the thousands. Now, Mrs. Blank has no earthly way of paying this bill. She dare not ask her husband for the money, for he, poor fellow, is struggling for life, and be sides she has told him little fibs about the matter, in representing that she has been paying for all these nice things, as she got them, out of the liberal allowance for dres3 that he made her. The complaisant Ma dame suddenly becomes as rigid as an iron poker, and as cold as a stone. She must have her money. Mrs. Blank in her ter ror, does queer things, bomtirnes sne pawns her diamonds, sometimes she steals coupons from her husband's bonds and sometimes alas ! she sells her virtue to some wealthy libertine in whose pay Ma dame is, that the dread secret may be kept till economy enables her to pay. The pas sion for dress has ruined more women than all the other causes combined. TnE BEECHER BUSINESS. I have been praying for seven days that I might never be compelled to write the name of Beecher or that of Tilton again, for the subject smells to neaven. The ac cumoiauon ot nastiness tnat is niiing up about their names is terrible. Your -read ers all know the facts so far as the telegraph gives them. I can only assist them as lo the drift of opinion here. It is against Beecher and is daily growing more intense and pronouced. Now developments are coming to light daily. The fact is, it is be lieved, that Mr. Beecher has lived a life in total various with his professions ; that his amours have been fearful in number and quite as fearful in character. Instances are coming to light every day, and.whether true or fivlse they are believed. R eports are circulated concerning a lady, who for year's, was his short-hand amanuensis, ana it is stated moreover, that the officers of Ply mouth Church knew of his infatuation for her, and attempted by force to save him trom pursuing ine intrigue. Of course no one can say with any ac curacy, as to whether there is any truth in all this, but there is a growing belief that it Is true. And now Bowen, of the Inde- pemlent, is being dragged in, and who will come next no one knows. It is to be hoped, in the interest of common decency, that some definite conclusion may be arrived at, and that an end may be put to this horrible scandal. We have had enough of it. SUMMER CHARITIES. This terribly hot summer following on the privations of the last hard winter has added to the sufferings of the poor almost beyon.d endurance. Days when thermome ters marked 102 in the shade.and there have been weeks of such weather since the first nt Tima ttia'atafa rt tvinm Trt flnmm tnwfl streetiG3 baking tenement Bonwwa.' nallincr. If the Board of Health , bad not 4- o Hlii itrvf tijr tiro siroci c loaning deportment to unwonted zeal early in tbe season, New York would have been almost ucinhabita ble. As it was, the hot weather opened on a cleaner. condition of things than the nose of humanitv have been able to detect for vears. It will be understood that clean liness is spoken of only in a relative sense, When a citizen crosses either ferry without having to meditate exclusively on drainage and sewer-pipes from the dock to Broad way, he .congratulates himself on the good condition of streets. The poor whose homes are in these streets, however, might be dis posed to try conclusions with him. Many efforts are made by kind hearts to lessen the sufferings of this torrid summer. Ex cursions for the poor children, and for their parents too, are not wanting. Hospitals in the country are fitted np to receive sick children, homes are established for babies and invalid women, where they can get well in pure air among pleasant scenes, which to them are like tastes of heaven. The owner of one of the fine3t yachts in the country, is in the habit every summer of taking parties of mission schoolchildren off for a cruise, and giving them all the delights of unlimited pcttinz and indulgence. The monkeys Lake to it as kindly as if they had been used to first class yachts, and had a banker for guardian all their lives, and come home with speech and manners pol ished up to a surprising degree. Benevo lent ladies club together, to send off poor sewing women for a month in the country, and send them, too, with snug little outfits that there may be no drawbacks to the rest and nleasure of the holiday. It would be sadly against the desires of these practical, kind hearts if their names should become public, or it would be pleasant to say who have set examples of such worthy charties. Not the least among these tho FLOWER MISSION continues its work of delight, sending bou quets to hospitals and poor families, where the spice of carnation and rose, for a while, dispel the fever-breath and street ordors. with life-nivins scents. Much of the miasma of the city might be neutralized, Physicians say, if every window-sill was banked with growing and fragrant flowers, to impart ozone to the air, and in time the Mission will doubtless turn its attention to supplying plants to those who are willing to take care of them. The credit of origina ting this beautiful charity is due, I am told, to Miss Ella Russel, the daughter of a high ly esteemed New York merchant, and a member of Dr. Bellows' Church. This young lady brought the idea of the Flower Mission from Boston, where it was first at tempted, and now the loading churches have their days for distributing bouquets, and every Thursday ladies are seen on the streets with hands full of geraniums and roses, while country carriages drive iu from Long Island and Jersey with gentle-faced occupants, whose laps and hands are load ed with garden Bowers. It is a delight to receive the flowers, it is'a luxury to these owners to give. If one wants a sight ol the Saints of New York, let him happen in at tho Church of the Unity Thursday morn ings, and see the sweet, devout and thank ful faces bent over their offerings of bloom. BUSINESS Is, as I have prophesied, picking up. The cheerful face of the country merchant is once more seen on the street, and New York begins lo look busy. Thank neaven! FlETRO. Candidates- Cards. District Attorney. - I announce myself a candidate for Qia office of "District Attorney." and respectfully and earn estly solicit i nomination by the Republican par ty, ana tne support and votes or my fellow citi zens. , . , . - . .. - . . ... t JOHX KAT CLEMENT. Snnbnry, August 13, 1874. To the Republican Voters of IJor- thamberland County. Sir .I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for Legislature, subject to the deci sion of tbe Republican Connty Convention of Northumberland county. ...... JOnN I. PARKER. McEweusville, Aug. 7, 1874. Mr. Editor : Please announce tbe name of Amos Vastine.of Sbamokin township, as a candidate for County . Commissioner, through your valuable paper, subject lo the decision of the next Republican . County Convention. VOTERS OF TUKBUT Tnrbuttwp., July 30, 1874. tubftfisnifitts. Boarding. Four or Five Gentlemen can be accommodated with board and rooms on appli cation at tbe boarding house of Mrs. Mary Bry- mire, North Front Street, near Clement s steam saw miil. . Terms 25 ets. per meal. - 8unbury. August 14, 1874. . . - NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given, that application will be made to the Board of Pardons, at their oillce in Harrisburg, Pa., on the first Tuesday of September next, ror the pardon of t harlea white, convicted of robbery in March Session, 1872, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Northumber land county. w , 8. B. BUYER,. Attorney for Charles White. Snnbnry, Anp. 14, 1874. 3t. Children to Bind Oat. THE Overseers of the Poor of tbe borough of Snnbnry, have in their charge several coil dren of different ages, supported from the taxea of the borough, who under the law can be bound ont. Persons desirous of obtaining either boys or girls would do well by conferring with the un dersigned. FREDERICK MERRILL, . GEORGE HARRISON, SEB. BOUGHNEK, Overeers of the Poor. Snnbnry, Aug. 13, 1874. 3t. . Xotiee. NOTICE is hereby given, that I have pur chased the following personal property, be longing to John O. fiugan, in Upper Augnsta towusbip, Northumberland county, at knerifTs Sale, on Saturday, August 8, 1874, and that the same is in my possession, viz : One bay mare, one black . horse, one sett double harvest, one brown cow, one sleigh, one spring wgo four plows, one cultivator, one harrow, about 5 tons c f hay, one half of about 6 acres of oat 3, on half of about j acre of potatoes in the ground, one half of about 10 acres of corn in tbe ground, . one hay rake, one stove, one cupboard, one clock, one chest, one wagon with box, and bay ladders and two hogs. HENRY HAUPT. Upper Augusta twp., Ang. 14, 1374. 8t. "1 o 1- 3 2. 3 2 - J-t rp 3! p B ZD t LJOIi-rrin linn. Andrew H. Ml. Frank. 8. Msrr. T -- - --r., . . LIXX. DILL k HARK; - ATTORNEYS AT LATT, In Ilanpt's Building, Market Street, 8USBURT, . u " , aug.7,1874. Northumberland Co., Pa. Administrator's Notice-. NOTICE is hereby given, that fetters of ad ministration having been granted to tbo undersigned on the estate of Josiab. W. Borel, late of Lower Mahanby township, Northumber land county, Pa., deceased. All persons indebt ed to said estate are requested to make immedi ate payment, and these having claims will pre sent them duly authenticated for settlement. B. M. BUBB, Administrator. lwer Mahanoy twp., Ang. 7, 1 874.-6 1. " CAETIOX. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons not to harbor or trust my wife, Henrietta Bechtel, on my account, as I will not pay any debts of her contracting unless compelled to by Taw. PHILIP BECHTEL. Jackson twp., Ang. 7, 1S74.-4U Sugar, Coffee, Syrups, Soices, . Canned Goods, Queens, Willow and Cedar Ware. w a o OS u o o cc w u z, d a t w -v i r 13. - VS rVVJ zyA - V) Y I; 5 !-: M o 2 Si Kg? I SS a- a J o . M . r - r au u g ta -3 g - H a i-i 3 "S. o S 2 2 S . W E CO s a o if S J3 O U C o o o O c o J3 o Cement, Salt, Fish, Phosphate, Land Plaster, Harrisburg Cider Mills. School Teachers Wanted. FIVE SCHOOL TEACHERS, Two male teachers.one for High School, and three female teachers are wanted to teach in tbo Mt. Carmel borough school district, daring tho next school session. Application must be made to the president and secretary of tbe Board. By order ot tne noara. JOHN LAZARUS, Presidt. Thomas Scott. Secretary. . . Mt. Cirmrl boron gh, July 17, 1874.-
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