Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Page 3

SECTIONAL AGITATION.

Only Hau, Film-Eyed Republicans Talk j Bloody Shirt. The people throughout the country are ut- : teriy sick of the seetiohal Issue, and nothing \ A so cacu'ated to excite their d egust and ; aversion as the exhumation or the “ blood/ | shirr ’• and a reiteration of the cry of South- } •era outrages. * * * There is no repression j t at the National Government can exercise j upon it with a beneflcial result. There is Qorh ng that a political party in the North can co about it with benefit. Crime in Virginia and Mississippi can no more be dealt with by Congress than crime on Long Island or in New Jersey. * * * It is the worst kind of iatuity lor Republicans in Congress to spend their time in discussing Southern outrages and attempting to renew sectional antagonism. It will win no Democrats, and it will repel thousands of independent and sensible Republicans.— Sew York Timx (HepubUedn). That is Republican authority—history “as she is taught.” Northern streams as they flow South bank-full symbolize the kindly feelings of the yast majority of the "Northern people, nnd the South winds as they come Northward sing of peace and good-will. Only mean, film-eyed fanatics talk "bloody shirt.” Large-sonled Republicans abhor the whole business. They will aot train in the ranks of a party where the bloody-shirt flag floats. The New York Tribune published a reminiscence of Wendell Phillips, which Woody-rshirt fanatics would do well to read and make the guide of their lives. It seems that Mr. Phillips, after delivering his lecture on “Lost Arts” in Jersey City, was pretty sharply criticised by a bevy of young ladies in a street car. Mr. Phillips was a silent but not unobservant listener. Subsequently, his attention being called to the incident, he replied as fo&ows: “Oh! that is nothing,” he replied. “I Am used to it. I remember that after making an abolition speech in Boston, ■one evening, I took a car for home. Next to me sat "a man who asked me if I had been to hear Phillips. I told him I had. He then asked me what I thouht -of the speech. I answered that I was pretty well satisfied with it. , Slapping me on the knee, he said, excitedly; ‘That fellow can make you believe Black is white.’ This set me thinking. I knew I was capable of exerting great influence over my audiences. In those old days I often stirred them up to .such a pitch of excitement that it would only have been necessary for me to suggest that they should go out and burn a bam, mob a pro-slavery meeting •or do some other illegal act and they would have done it. But I reflected that.this was not, after all, a very desirable kind of influence. It would not be of any permanent value, for the next day they would repent them of their -folly and be anxious to mob me for leading them into it. From that time I sought to reach the reason rather than the passions of an audience, and I know that the results were better and my influence was greater and more lasting. ” The Republican party, its organs and bosses are still engaged in “firing the Northern heart.” They are as bitter toward the South as in the days when the streams ran red with Northern and Southern blood, and the smoke of battle darkened the heavens. They want their misguided readers and hearers to burn barns, and mob meetings. They continually appeal to the passions of men, not to their reason. They would iorever perpetuate the asperities and hates engendered by the war. They want bloody chasms to yawn, and bloody shirts to wave. Why ? Because they think there is partisan success in such a devilish policy. They demand political union, but they would girdle the Southern States with lines of hate as fierce and consuming as fire. They know that in many localities in the South the black race is numerically in the ascendency, and they encourage hostilities between the whites and the blacks. They would have Republican emissaries in Southern communities, where all is peace, to stir up strife and inaugurate anarchy. They would give i our Empire States of the South to negro rule, and place their destinies in negro hands. To accomplish their hellish purpose they appeal to passion rather than to reason. Wendell

Phillips found out long before he died that it was a bad policy to appeal to the passions of men, and the Republican organs and bosses will do well' to fallow his advice and example. The people everywhere are horrified at the exhibitions of satanic hate which many Republican organs and bosses manifest toward the South. The demand is for a union of hearts, now that we have a union of lands, of States. A union of the people is the demand. It oannot be secured bv appealing to men's passions, North or South. In pursuing that course the Republican organs perpetrate an atrocious outrage, and they are doomed to failure. The people will not tolerate the infamous policy. In the recent debate in the House of Representatives on the Fitz John Porter case, Mr. Oats, of Alabama, said: i Mr. Chairman, in that great war which sacrificed a in liion men, and billions ot money, heroes and statesmen were developed, but no lienodiot Arnold. It is alleged by some that good tasto suggests that none of the “rebel brigadiers’’ should pass judgment upon Porter's conduct. Why/ Are we not American citizens, with ail the right?, privileges, and immunities of any other citizen? Are we not here as representatives of the people, of sovereign States? Can we with nny sort of propr.ety abdicate our functions as R6presentatives because forsooth it accords with the idea? of taste of the gentleman from Ohio i Mr. Tay or), and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Horr) and like humiliated cowar .is stand aside and witness their judgment upon the pending measure? Suoh a course upon my part would render me •unworthy of the generous confidence imposed in me by the people who sent me here, i am not ashamed of mv record. The war was the logical consequence of a great conbiot of idea-s which could be settled by no arbiter but the sword. I, in common with my oomrades, made a hard fight, and made it honestly. The awurd was against us. We accepted it honestly, and to day I am as true a frlond and supporter or the Constitution and Government of tne United States as any gentleman on this tioor, and will cast my vote on this bill with a proud consolousness <*f my right to do so, aad as a Representative the peer Of any other in this chamber. That is frank, manly talk. Soldiers and all honorable men understand it. There was war; there was victory; there is peace. The award was against the South. Its cause was lost. Its dag went down. Its armies were shattered. Poverty said ruin overwhelmed the sunny land from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Responding to the fiat of slate, forgetting defeat, accepting the inevitable, what do we see? Mill-

ions of men resuming their allegiance tm the old flag,'and declaring: - “The award was against ns, we accept it henestly, and are true friends tojhe Constitution and the Government of the United States." With such declarations, let the bloody shirt disappear. Bloody chasms are not only bridged but obliterated, and now the supreme duty of all men is to cultivate confidence between the sections, and on all occasions appeal to the reason rather than to the passions es men.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

FITZ JOHN PORTER.

Th* Real Point in the Ca*e -The Situation as Pope Understood It, and the Situation as It Actually Existed. The one poiht upon whieh the case turns is, whether Fitz John Porter should have attacked Jackson’s flank and rear when he got Pope’s order. As Pope understood it, the situation was as follows: Jackson, 22,000 men. s \ \ Pope, 30,000 men. The real situation was as expressed in the following diagram; Jz/ Potter, 10,000 Pope, 33,000 men. men. Pope expected Porter to get the order to advance at 5 o’clock. He did not get it until after 6. It is foolish to say that no matter what the situation was, Porter should have moved at once when he got the order. The order was to attack Jackson’a flank, not to attack with Longstreet on his flank. Republicans should not do themselves the injustice of affecting to discredit the Confederate testimony as to the hours at which movements were made, and the position of troops at certain times. There is no more doubt of the position of Longstreet on the evening of Aug. 29 than there is of that of Pope himself. —Cincinnati Com-mercial-Gazette, Rep. #

Senator Hoar Goes to New Orleans.

In pursuance of Mr. Sherman’s resolution, certain election outrages which are said to have been perpetrated in Copiah County, Mississippi, are to be investigated. Mr. George Frisbie Hoar is to lead a sub-committee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the hunt for outrages in Mississippi. Next to getting a crumb of patronage, or uttering virtuous declamation in be•half of civil service reform, a Southern outrage is the most cherished treasure of Mr. G. Frisbie Hoar’s soul. With an apparently promising opportunity before him to gratify one of his dearest desires, one might think that Mr. Hoar would fly as fast as parlor-cars can go' to the wilds of Mississippi, pick up imaginative testimony and affidavits of horrors as horrible to be told as his time allows, and then hie back to Washington with his sub-committee, and compose a speech to make the haughty South tremble, and the Worcester Spy weep for pride in the pride of Worcester. Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee, however, have determined to go to the scene of the Copiah outrages by way of the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. They are afraid to go to Copiah County. The people of Copiah are excitable fellows, who might arise in wrath and make several vacancies in the United States Senate. The people of Copiah would massacre any witness who dared to give the kind of testinfony Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee are looking for. Perhaps, too, that kind of testimony couldn’t be found in sufficient quantity in Copiah County. It can be found in quantities to suit at New Orleans. No doubt Honest John Sherman has told Mr. Hoar about the advantages of New Orleans as an affidavit-producing center. Mr. Sherman was there in 1876. The cooking in Copiah is, as Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee justly urge, likely to be _ primitive, and to be rieb only in fried abominations. The cuisine at the St. Charles is much better. Anjl it costs more. The greater distance of Washington from Now Orleans than from Copiah also has a part in bringing Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee to their praiseworthy determination. The more an investigation costs the Government, the merrier for the investigators. Far be it from ns to distrust the wisdom of Mr. Hoar and his sub-commit-tee in preferring the delicacies of the New Orleans markets to the jjjistio messes of Copiah County. If Mr. Hoar’s temper is any test, his liver is disturbed. For the peace of the Senate, it is well that he should live well. We should think, however, that he would have preferred to come to one of the hotels of this city and investigate. Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee are bonnd to have a good time. There are many happinesses in a Senator’s life, and hunting outrages in a hotel which has a tine bill of fare and a well-stocked wine cellar is not the least of them. Yet there are ill-natured persons who will say that to incur unnecessary expense by holding in Louisiana an investigation of a Mississippi election is an outrage as great as any that Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee are likely to ferret out. —New York Sim. The ice-cold reception accorded the great Mahone-Sherman programme advises hypocrities and political desperadoes, who are posing as knightly defenders of the wronged, that they will not be allowed to wear the cloak of righteousness to cover sins.—Cincinnati News-Journal. The American hog, upon investigation, is likely to be completely vindicated, wbioh is more than can be said of Keifer, John Sherman, Dorsey, and some other Republican swine. —lndianapolis Sentinel.

THE OHIO FLOOD

How It Started—lts Progress Traced from the Beginning. Terrible Scenes of Destruction Wrought by the Raging Waters Along the Ohio Valley. Travelers on the mountain roads of West, era Pennsylvania halted at the first Inn on Monday evening, Feb. 4, to avoid exposure to a misty rainfall. Two days before the temperature had risen to a point among" the 50s. A soft wind came from the north and had brought lowering clouds that hung just above the taller trees on the mountains. Tiny streams crept out from under the snow and trickled over the roads, down through the guile ys, growing larger, and swifter, and fiercer as they went. The eaves of the old Inns were busied all of that night carrying away the rainfall that grew in its volume until in the morning the traveler regretted that he had Stopped. The thawing snow-water flowed across the roads In larger streams, the black earth was showing beneath the hemlock, and the paths were covered with slippery toe. It was many hours until the slightest change occurred in the situation. Then the wind veered to the east and increased the rainfall. The temperature still higher, and the snow disappeared from the ledges to join the torrent of mad waters that rolled down every mountain side into the valleys of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. At Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and all the lesser points as far south as Parkersburg, the water gauges marked a rise of K) inches an hour, and rlvermen predicted the greatest flood that had been known for years. Trafflo was soon abandoned over the McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railrpad, and the Lake Erie line reached Its Pittsburgh termination only by passing over flooded tracks. Other lines -were delayed, and the Baltimore and Ohio reported numerous washouts north of Connelisville. The low land on the south side of Pittsburgh was soon submerged, and the people, abandoning their homes, sought shelter in the churches and publio halls of* the city. The ice became* gorged at West Newton, in the Allegany River, and, after massing for four days, was broken by the baokwater. It was fmpolled with great force down the stream, and swept everything before it, leaving in its course on the banks a miscellaneous mass of dismantled houses, furniture, logs, hay, and dead animals. The gorge reformed at McKeesport and blocked the flow of water. The mountain streams grew in turgidlty, and the Monongahela was filling the banks of the Ohio when the gorge broke again, and when Wheeling awoke on the morning of Feb. 6 the water gauges indicated a level of 86 feet. One-half of the city was submerged, and thousands of people, fled from thelr r homes to the higher ground. The river* rose at the rate of a foot an hour until 6 p. m., when the gauges Indicated 41 feet 9 inohes. The rise continued until Feb. 7, when 52 feet, the highest point, was attained. In the meantime, Wheeling Island, with a population of 4,500, bad been surrendered to the waters, and the people who were rescued in boats were being fed In churches and public halls by the relief committees. Messages burdened with pitiful stories of disasters to property and life came from Bellaire, Bridgeport, West Wheeling. Martin’s Ferry, Fulton, Wellsburgh, Benwood, Moundsvilie, and many small hamlets, showing that within a radius of fifteen miles there were 20,000 homeless people, whose losses aggregate many millions of dollars. Some of the places were wholly under water, and in West. Wheeling not a bouse could be inhabited. The river bad swollen from 600 feet to a mile and a quarter and whirled violently along a mass of debris, among which the appearance of water was only Incidental. In Wheeling many streets containing the finest residences were navigable by steamboats, and through them coursed a constant flow of driftwood, at tfic rate of five miles an hour. The suffering became greater than the people could alleviate, and at a mass meeting Jn Wheeling Congress was asked to give a relief fund of $1,000,000. The people claim to have the assurance of their Congressional delegation that thoy will got $500,000. Four days after the disasters at Pittsburgh and Wheeling, the rfvor attained fifty-four feet, its highest point, at Parkervburg, but recoded before much damage had been done. In the meantime a constant rainfall was melting the snow throughout the Ohio Valley and sending torrents of water into the tributary streams, so that the river at Cincinnati bad risen on Fob. C to 61 feet and was still coming up at tho rate of 4 inches an bour. The levee was submerged, and then the water line began to crcop up the hill. Business men In the lower streots carried thoir goods to the high stories of their buildings, and the people who lived betwoen Second street and the river piled their household goods on high ground where the men took turns at standing In the rain to guard them from piracy. The families found shelter in the churches and public halls. On Feb. 7 the rain had ceased and the river was stationary, but it was flowing through that part of the city below Second stroot and at points reached Eighth street, boing within 600 feet of the Burnet House. Tho suspension bridge was reaohod by boats, the gas burned dimly in the streets, tho people wore warned to use but little water, relief committees went to work, and tho City Comptroller was authorized by tho Legislature to borrow $50,000 for the relief of tho people. On the morning of Feb. 8 tho outlook was less hopeful. At Pittsburgh the river was falling, but it was coming up from Parkersburg and below at the rate of half an inch an hour. The waterworks were flooded and stopped with a supply of five days for domostio use; Newport and Covington called for aid; tho militia was put on police duty, and relief boats plied through the flbodod parts, visiting those imprisoned in tho upper stories of their homes. On tho 10th tho flood of 1883 was surpassed, and the gas went out, leaving the city at the mercy of thieves and fire. The Bignal Service had given two warnings of the approach of a cold wave, which never came. People returned to the use of candles, and tho Bee Lino Road, one of the last to hold out, was forced to stop at the stock yards, three miles out 'of the city. On tho next day tho Bee Lino and Dayton roads were abandoned, and tho city was left to depend on tho Cincinnati Northern, whieh being a ’narrow gauge, could not grant the courtesy of its tracks to other linos. The climax was attainod Fob. 15, when the gauges indicated upward ofa72 feet of water. Ttie river then came up to Pearl street oirVine, and was running through the seoond story of all the First street bouses. The loss of property at Cincinnati, is immense* The foundations of many briok buildings were sapped by the treacherous wasers, causing them to tumblo to pieoes. In one instance a boarding house tumbled down and ten of the Inmutes were crushed to death. . A dispatch from that oity says that although the worst and most annoying features of the flood are almost over, yet the suffering of the poor and tho distressed will last for weeks. Tho people who have lost their all will not recover from their losses for a long time, and the real suffering will not begin until the waters recede and tho refugees return to their ruined homes and cheerless firesides. The damage in Mill Creek bottoms, among the manufactories and distilleries, is immense, and beyond what was expected. In Newport a frightful picture of destruction is made visible as the water recedes. So terribly Indeed, is the wreck that many who once possessed a little home turn away In despair and become almost frantic at the sight. Destruction, ruin, and debris meet the eye everywhere.” Tho river towns that are suburban to Cincinnati Suffered a great loss. Lawrenoeburg, Ind., is one of these. It stands at the base •of the hills at the junction of tho Miami and Ohio rivers. Its buildings are low and are built on ground of about one level. The lossos it experiences are greater than they would be if there was a place for relief. The water in the river roso as it did at Cincinnati. The peoplo began to move out of the houses closest to ,tho river, on Feb. 5, and a few families located In the upper stories of the Court Houso. where they found shelter

last year, and were cared for by boats which rowed to the second-story windows. On Feb. 6 the streets were afloat, and Indianapolis had been called on to keep the people from starving. The waters were higher than in the Hood of 1888. On Feb. 7 the Miami levee broke and the river surged through the oity, washing array many houses. For many days the ehanges were only for the worse. Dense fogs hovered over the little : city, and channels were cut through the streets, taking away many adjacent houses. The people moved into cabins and improvised bouses on the hill-tops. A landslide out off { the railroad approaches, and the nearest point where relief could be sent in large quantities was six miles distant. It was conveyed from there to the people by means of wagons. It is computed that the losses at Lawrenoeburg are not less than $500,000. A correspondent thus depicts the scene of desolation wrought by the relentless waters in the illfated little city: “The waters are slowly but surely receding, and the people of Lawrenceburg feel that their trials and sufferings have reached a climax, and that a brighter day is dawning, though as the muddy waves sink their monuments of wreck and ruin rise in all their terrible ghastliness, revealing a pioture of desolation and wo that brings grief to the stoutest heart and tears to eyes unused to weeping. Words fail to paint the j scene that the citizen of Lawrenoeburg beholds to-day ms he stands upon the small patoh of ground left by the falling water and looks out upon the little water-wrecked, desolate city, only a Tew days since beautiful, peaceful, and quiet, the home, the pride, and boast of her people. But now her ouce beautiful streets are muddy streams. The poor man’s little house Is gone, the vine-clad cottage, with its porch and lattice-work, la wrecked, and the more elegant and Imposing homes of brick, paint, and fences are reeking with slime and mud. In Lawrenoeburg the wheels of her manufactories are silent and the water glories in its triumph as it ebbs and flows over and through her deserted and desolate buildings. As the water gives way the extent of the damage can be more aoourately ascertained. The city will suffer muoh by reason of the obstruction of her levees and the damage to her streets and sidewalks, while the loss to individual oltizens can hardly be estimated. Probably half a million dollars would not more than replaoe Lawrenoeburg and her citizens as she was before the flood. The real work of her citizens, however, only begins as the waters leave in reclaiming their property, repairing and rebuilding; and it will be days, and perhaps weeks, before many dwellings can be occupied.” Madison, Ind., anticipated the flood by having the 'ower portion of the oity abandoned when the Wheeling disasters were reported. The city is partially built on a great hill, and it had ample accommodations for the people whose places were under water. Thp damage to property will bo great. A large number ol factories stand close by the river, and were fall of water to the second stories. A hamlet across the river in Kentucky was entirely under water, and its Inhabitants climbed the WU and went baok Into the country to disperse among the farmers. Ixiulsvllle, Ky., and Jeffersonville and New Albany, Ind., are In close proximity. On Feb. 6, after a rainfall of several hours, the river showed a remarkable tendenoy to rise, and tbe inhabitants of the low districts moved baok into the safe portions of the oltieS. On F«fo. 6 the river was nearly forty feet ovei high-water mark, and was rising at the rate of four inohes an hour. In Louisville the rivet front from Third to Fourteenth streets wai submerged and the houses were entirely hidden between tho point and Shippingsport, 400 families being driven from their homes. In the southeastern district many houses were abandoned on account of back water from Bear Grass Creek. On Feb. 7 the canal out-off gave way and the current ran across the point at a depth of twenty feet. The river continued to rise until the greatest height ever known —46 feet—had been attained. The damage in Louisville was comparatively light, as all the occupants of the lowlands moved out before the waters attacked them. In Jeffersonville and New Albany It is estimated al two cr three times greater than last year. Next to Lawrenoeburg, Ind., the town suffering the greatest damage was probably Shawneetown, 111. It is situated between a bluff and the river, and on three sides is protected by levees. When the river began tc rise the people beoame terror-stricken, and many abandoned their homes, after placing their goods in the higher stories of theii houses. On Feb. 10 the river had reached a point where It threatened to break tbe embankment and wash away the city. A fores of 300 men and two railroad locomotlvei were put to work hauling dirt from the bills to strengthen the levee, and for a time 11 seemed that their work would be successful, but the embankment gave way and In a brief time there was a depth of water from 5 to II feet all over the town. The people who gol out of their bouses moved In the country oi camped on the hillsides. Last year’s lossei were so great that many of them were too poor to get away or to supply themselvei with ordinary comforts. The suffering among them is made very intense by the present cold weather. The reports generally show that under similar circumstances tho losses this year will not be so great as last, because the people have been taught to anticipate and overcom< many features of the disasters. Perishable properly was generally transported to placet of safety in time to save it, and houses were provided to prevent muoh of the suffering that was undergone a year ago. The distress, however, is beyond the comprehension oi those who have not seen it. At a number of places relief were fired Into by tbe distressed citizens to prevent them approaching places of rescue that wero tottering. The waves made by the boats wero disastrous to undermined build lngs, and nb boat larger than a skiff was allowed to distribute the relief supplies. The figures which indicate the height ol water in tho Ohio are not a measure of its volume. At Cincinnati, for Instance, zero it located on tho surface of Four-Mile bar, north of tho city, and again at Rising Sun bar, abreast of tho Indiana State lino. It is situated on those shoal places to give river pilot! tbe advantage of a geater average dopth oi water in tho river generally. The published depth is inaccurate to tho amount of th« depth of the channel where the wnter-gaug! is fixed. At Cincinnati this depth is 15 feet, wbioh, if added to the published depth, makei tho volume 86 feet.

FLOOD NOTES.

Minor Incidents of the Great Deluge. By actual count 110 bouses floated through Moundsville, near Wheeling, In one day. A cow belonging to Mr. MacGregor, of Wheeling, when the flood came, climbed up the steps Into the second floor of his residence, and has lived ever since on the contents of a hush mattress. Sharp cow, that. A coop full of chickens which floated to Parkersburg, about four weeks ago, lodged there, and was covered by show. The other day owhen the* snow had melted off, three chickens were found in the coop alive, having lived the whole four weeks without food. A Cincinnati relief boat was bailed by a fellow in a skiff with the statement: “There’s a woman drowning up that alley.” The, relief boat was filled with women and children; but it was turned in the direction of ths alley. The lazy brute in the skiff offered ns assistance. A young woman was found struggling in the water with her rubber cloak caught on an iron rkillng. Had It not been for this she would have been drowned before the relief boat could reach her. Henry Dooley, an adventurer about the Louisville wharf, entered an abandoned house In O’Neil’s alley, and In an upper room found fully half a bushel of hungry rata piled up In a corner, and, thinking he would benefit humanity, made an onslaught, Intending to kill them; but the little beasts flew at him like wildcats, biting his face, hands, and legs so rapidly and mercilessly that he failed to mako but ono stroke and retired hastily, badly whipped, and bleeding profusely. He Is terribly swollen all over, occu pylng quarters at the hosplUf. - Thoughtful people in Cincinnati, during the reign of the watery waste helped brighten the path of tbe belated pedestrian by placing lamps in the windows of their residences. A ChioAoo builder makes buildings fireproof by covering ceilings with thin*sheetiron and filling in with ashes.

THE DEMOCRACY.

They Decide to Hold Their National Convention at Chicago July 8. The tireeabaek Convention Called to Meet at Indianapolis on the 28th of May. THE DEMOCRATS. Meeting; or the National Committee. The Democratic National Committee met at the Arlington Hotel, in Washington, on Friday, Feb. 22. The following-named gentlemen represented the different States: Alabama, H. 0. Temple; Arkansas, John J. Sumpter; California, James O. Farley; Colorado, T. M. Patterson; William H. Barnum; Delaware, Ignatius C. Grubb; Florida, Senator Call; Georgia, George T. Barnes; Illinois, William C. Goudy; Indiana, Austin H. Brown; lowa, M. M. Ham; Kansas, Charles W. Blair; Kentuoky, Henry D. MoHenry; Louisiana, Representative Blanchard; Maine, Edmund Wilson: Maryland. Onterbrldge Horsey: Massachusetts, Frederick O. Prince: Michigan, William C. Maybury; Minnesota, P. H. Kelly; Mississippi, Mj. Harris; Missouri, John G. Prather; Nebraska, J. Sterling Morton: Nevada, Senator Fair; New Hampshire, Alvord W. Sulloway;New Jersey, Orestes Cleveland; New York, Abram 8. Hewitt; North Carolina, M. W. Ransom; Ohio, William W. Armstrong; Oregon, Senator Water; Pennsylvania, V. E. Peblet; Rhode Island, Abner J. Bamaby; South Carolina, F. W. Dawson; Tennessee, Cel. Looney; Texas, Representative Reagan: Vermont. Bradley B. Smalley; Virginia, R. J. 8. Barbour; West Virginia, Alex. Campbell; Wisoonsln, William F. Vilas. When the committee had been called to order, the proposition to admit to the next convention delegates from the Territories was considered, and it was resolved that each Territory be advised to send two delegates to tbe convention, the question of admission to be determined by the convention. The question of the proper date for holding the convention was then taken up, and a wide diversity of opinion on the subject was exhibited, tbe members favoring dates from the latter part of May to Aug. 5. By a vote of 21 to 17, the committee rejected the motion to hold the convention May 21, and the proposition to select Tuesday, June 24, was agreed to—2B to 15. The ooremittee then heard speeohes in support of the claims of the various oitles as the place for holding the convention. F. X. Ward spoke for Baltimore, Judge Follow for Cincinnati, Carter Harrlsen for Chioago, A. 8. Willis for Louisville, Senator Vest for St. Louis, and Representative Adams for Saratoga. About two hours was occupied In hearing these gentlemen, and the first ballot was not taken until 4:30. It resulted as follows: Chicago 15 Louisville 3 St. Louis 14 Cincinnati 1 Saratoga 5 Louisville was withdrawn and another ballot taken, with the following result: Chioago ID | Saratoga 3 St. Louis 171 The third ballot was taken immediately, and resulted in the selection of Chioago as tbe plaoe for holding the convention, the votf , being: Chicago Ql|St Louis 17 Tbe committee then reconsidered the vote by which June 24 was fixed as the time for holding the convention, and agreed upon July 8 next Instead. The following oall was presented by the Bxeoutive Committee and agreed upon: The National Demoo ratio Committee having met In the city of Washington on the 23d of February, 1884, has appointed Tuesday, the Bth day of July next, at noon, as the time, and chosen the city of Chicago as the plaoe, for holding the National Democratic Convention. Each State la entitled to representation therein equal to double Its number of Senators and Representatives In the Congress of the United States. The Democrats of eaoh organized Territory and the District of Columbia are invited to send two delegates, subject to the deoislon of the (invention as to their admission. All democratlo-dti-zens of the United States, irrespective of their past political associations and differences, who san unite with us in an effort for pure, economical, and constitutional government, areoordlally Invited to Join In sending delegates to the (invention. The oall is signed by all the members of the N atlonal Democratlo Committee. On motion of Mr. MoHenry, of Kentuoky, It Was resolved that the next meeting of tbo committee should bo held at the Palmer House, Chip cago, on July 7 next.

THE GREENBACKERS.

C*U for a National Convention. The following oall for tbe National Qreon baek-Labor Convention has been Issued by the Executive Committee: The National Convention of the National Greenback-Labor party to nominate candidate* lor President and Vice President of tbe United States, to be voted for at the coming Presidential election, will be held In the city of Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, the 28th of May, 1884. Each State la entitled to four delegates and four alternates at large, each Congressional District to two delegates and two alternates, each Territory to two delegates and two alternates, and th e District of Columbia to two delegates and t wo alternates. Therefore, all who are In accord with the views set forth in the platform of said Party in 1880 are respectfully requested to meet n convention In their several States, Territories, and districts on or before May 1,1884, and select delegates and alternates to said convention. Jeksk Harper, Chairman. Lex Crandall, Secretary. The following are tbe names of the committee appointed to assist the Chairman and Secretary In arranging details for the National Convention: H. Z. Leonard, Chairman, Logansport, Ind; John M. Potter, Secretary, Lansing, Mich.; B. W. Eerlinde, Treasurer, Elizabeth. N. J.; Charles Jenkins, Beloit, Ohio, and W. 8. Kenworthy, Oskaloosa, lowa. Indiana State Convention. The Indiana State Convention of the Na tlonal Greenback party was held at Indian, apolls on Frida?, Feb. 22, with representatives present from all the Congressional districts. The Convention was called to order by H. Z. Leonard, Chairman of tbe State Central Committee. Hlchard Gregg, of Aurora, was made temporary Chairman, and W. H. Lee, of Bluffton, temporary Secretary. Upon report'of, the Committee on Nominations, John 8. Bender, of Marshall County, was made permanent Chairman, and T. V. Gifford, of Kokomo, Secretary. A platform of twentythree resolutions was adopted, setting forth, among other things— That many of the evils arising oat of a false financial system and from great monopolies still continue to exist, and that it is impossible to receive through either of the dominant parties the needed reform; that the power to create money belongs exclusively to the Government, and all money issued by It, whether metallic or paper, should be a full legal tender for the payment of all debts, public or private; that the national bonds are an absorbent of the products of labor, giving a class of non-j rodneers the ability to become millionaires at the expense of tbe producer, and therefore should be paid as they become due; that all rights and privileges given to national banks to issue money should be withdrawn and foil legal-tender money substituted therefor.

BRIEFS.

A car-load of Mormon converts left Chattanooga last week for Utah. Baron Nobdenskxoldls understood to be contemplating, as bis next adventure, a voyage to the south pole. Evert communion Sunday Mrs. Annie Gordon, of Blufiton, 8. C., walks four miles to churoh. She is 111. A firm of lce-maohlne makers In Fulton street, New York, exhibits large blocks of artificial lee with fish and game frozen Into them. ' - At WUkesbarre, Pa., the Grand Arm# of the Republle abandoned a corpse when refused admission to the cathedral wearing badges. Young Mr. Ryan, of Atlanta, Ga., climbed three flights of stairs to whip an editor, and was thrown out of the window, half killing him. .In California, they say, If a man buys water he can have the land thrown in

WORST ON RECORD.

The Terrible Destructiveness of the Decent Tornado in the Southern States. Six Hundred LiYes and Oter Seven Millions, Worth of Property Destroyed. Dwellings Tom to Pieces and the Oocupants Exposed to the Fury of the Tempest. Clean Swaths Cat Through Dense Forest.Shocking Wounds of the Victims. The first reports of the great Southern oyolono were not in the least exaggerated. Later and fuller details more than oonflrm the first accounts, and settle, beyond all doubt, that It is the greatest disaster that has ever happened In this country. The loss of life and destruction of property are simply appalling. In Alabama 210 people . are known to have been killed, and many wounded beyond the hope of recovery. In Georgia the fatalities are placed at 200, while many are mortally wounded. In South Carolina 103 are known to have lost their lives, and in North Carolina the killed number between 75 and 100. These figures show the loss of life to have been about 000. The loss of property is immense. Whole villages were swept entirely away and plantations and farms denuded of everything valuable. Live stock In great number was slaughtered or maimed so that It will have to be killed. Much valuable timber was also blown down and splintered to the extent that it will be worthless. In Georgia the pecuniary loss Is estimated at $2,000,000, and In one portion of Alabama It is said that $8, 000.000 will not oover the damage. In South Carolina the damage will foot up at least $1,000,000, and In North Carolina it Is estimated at $1,500,000. The storm blew straight across the State of Alabama, forty miles, sweeping every thing it encountered to destruction. Whole towns were literally obliterated, the houses being brushed away like chaff. Houses, fenoes, cattle, all were blended In an indescribable mass of objects without a moment's warning. Ten villages fell victims to the fury of the blast, and hundreds of farm houses were swept away. Horses, cows', mules, and wagons were strewn through the woods for miles. The same scenes of death and devastation followed in the wake of the tornado in its entire course through Georgia and the Carolinas. Almost incredible stories are told illustrative of Its destructive power. Thousand of sores of forests were swept away like chaff. Railroad oars loaded with freight were lifted from tbe tracks, hurled hundreds of yards, and wrecked. Many instances are reported where parents and children were lifted from their homes by the storm, carried high In the air, and landed on ground again without sustaining any Injury. A little boy In the Cahaba valley, Georgia, had his scalp blown from bis head. A lady near Cartersville, Ga,, saw the storm coming, and ran with her children Into the oellar, crouching and trembling with fear. The house was blown from its foundation and torn to atoms, leaving the mother and her little ones comparatively unharmed. Tbe mo her’s arm was broken, and one of the children bad a finger torn off. A Cave Spring (Ga.) man relates the following : I noticed the funnel-shaped cloud, black as Ink, long before It reached Cave Spring. The small end of the funnel was dancing along the earth, drawing Into its fatal vacuum everything In Its path. I saw houses lifted bodily from their foundations, carried along for yards, and then crushed like egg-shells. In a few momenta the beautiful village would have been a mass of ruins, but when a few miles away itscourse was changed and we were saved. Jarvey Henderson, of Heard Connty, Georgia, when the storm approached, took refuge m a well. While lying on his face In the bottom of the well a fence-rail was hurled Into the well with great force by the wind. Tbe rail came down endways, one end striking Henderson In the back, and going through him Impaled the victim to the earth and killed him almost instantly. In Talbot County, Georgia, a little girl named Annie Green, while drawing a pail of water from a well, was struck on the head with a large hailstone and sustained a fracture of the skulL While lying on the ground, apparently dead, the wind picked her up and after carrying her nearly fifty yards landed her helpless form In a thicket, where she remained until rescued by her parents. In Harris County, Georgia, hall fell in pieces of about five Inches In circumference In many curious shapes. In Baldwin County, hall fell as largo as goose-eggs, and in Warren County It was so heavy as to form drifts two feet deep. Hogs weighing 150 to 200 pounds were blown Into a yard from neighboring plantations. On the Georgia Pacific Railroad a fence-rail was driven squarely through a crosstie. At Davlsborough, Ga., the contents of stores were scattered In the woods for miles. At anothor place a large Iron safe was carried many yards. One man was found 200 yards from where the cyclone struck him. He was dead. At one plaoe a child was carried off by the wind, and Its body has not yet been recovered. At Leeds, Ala., John Few, a negro who was killed, was carried by the velocity of the wind 300 yards, and when picked up was In a perfectly nude state, his clothes having been torn from him by his body coming In contact with various obstacles in tbe way. Mrs. Bass, wife of a prominent Leeds merchant, while ileelng before the storm to take refuge In a house, was struck in the back by a pebble with such force that the missile passed through her clothing and Imbedded itself deeply In her fiesh. The pebble was out out by a physician, and the probabilities are that she will get well. The scene around Leeds is described as awful. Houses Just completed were blown away, and not even a brick left where the houses stood. Horses, mules, and oows were killed, and in some Instances fence-rails were driven clear through their bodies. Two horses were seen to sail away In the air, and have not since been seen. William Fitzgerald and Miss Annie Hodges, while returning home from a social call, near Ladlga, Ala., were overtaken by tbe tornado, and the horse, buggy, Fitzgerald, and the young lady blown nearly 200 yards, and when picked up were horribly mangled and disfigured. Near Greeusport, Ala., a small dwell-ing-house was blown nearly half a mile before the angry elements and twisted Into fragments. A boy who attended a water-tank near Leeds was blown 200 yards, and ever since has been a raving maniac. In Johnson County, N. C., D H. Jones' family were all injured and his bouse blown hundreds of yards. His daughter fled as the house gave way, leaving her infant asleep in a crib. All o( the house save the ground floor was wrecked. The little child was found asleep uninjured, though the railing of the crib was carried 200 yards. A wagon was blown some distance and lodged In a tree-top. In Harnett County, North Carolina, a mother and child wore blown into a swamp and killed In the same swamp a baby was found half dead with cold and it soon died. The wounds of the dead in this locality are described as most horrible. Heads were crushed flat, Immense splinters driven through bodies, others were impaled on broken trees, forced Into piles of logs.or bad their intestines torn ' out. John Dalkin, near Rockingham, N. C., was found dead with a piece of splintered timber as large as a man’s leg piercing his abdomen. McDonald's saw and grist mills were scattered like chaff, the mill-stones even being taken up and carried several yards. A carriageway or slip, composed of two large sills, 12x14 inches ana about thirty feet long, and pinned together, was taken up and carried across the pond, with a carriage which was on It. A lightwood log, 2 feet In diameter and 20 feet long, waa caught up from tbp ground and carried several feet. Birds and poultry were nripped of their feathers and killed. Cows, hogiTC&n andeven rats and mioe, were destroyed. A young lady, when the house began to rock, ran out, and was Instantly killed by being pierced through by a fence rail. The scene of the disaster about Rockingham is said by those who witnessed It to have been worse than a battlefield. After the wind had passed the rain fell In torrents; when tbe rain had nearly ceased hailstones of extraordinary size fell in great quantities. Horses, mules, and cattle were killed by scores.

SHALL TALK.

It costs $22 per hour to light lowa’s new Capitol. An Ohio editor writes: Our wood is about out, but, thank heaven, this Is a campaign year.” Cedar Ket, Fla., has a population of 3,000, and but four deaths oocured there during twelve months. Last week a gentleman in Boston correctly guessed the number of beans In a bag. An effort Is being made to Induce him to lecture. ... ~ju„ Street-car drivers hi Memphis are petition tag against Sunday travel.