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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.-