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DEVASTATION ON THE GULF. Further Information of Ruin Caused by the Late Storm on the Gulf Coast. The Loss of Life at Sabine Tags, Johnson’s Bay on, and the Village of Radford Known To Be Not Less than Two Hundred. Touching and Pathetic Incidents Connected with the Great Inundation. The- Survivors in Urgent Need of the Comforts and Necessaries of Life —The Homes of Twelve Hundred People in Ruins. TIJE GREAT GULP STORM. The Loss of Life Now Estimated at More than Two Hundred—Assistance Needed. New. Orleans, Oct. 16.—A dispatch to the Times-Democrat, dated Johnson’s Bayou, Oct. 15, says: The village of Johnson’s Bayou is located on a high ridge on the sea coast, and tho bayou from which it takes its name runs through the inhabitable parts of that section of the settlement, i n which is also situated the postoflice of Radford. They are in Cameron parish, on the Louisiana shore, six miles east of Sabine Pass. The bayou is nineteen milts in length, and varies from one to four miles in width. The ridge faces the gulf, twelve feet above the sea level, and in the rear is a dense and impenetrable marsh. The population, last Tuesday morning, numbered twelve hundred souls. To-day eighty-five of that number are counted with the dead. Forty of their bodies have been recovered and consigned to graves in the shell reefs, while the decomposing corpses of the remaining forty-five lie festering in the marshes. Radford was very thickly settled and populous. It boasted of its cotton gin and cotton and cane plantations. It was the hoad of navigation, and the stores were many. Principal among these were those run by J. Paverto, who also operated a gin and turned out annually 800 bales of cotton ftrodneed in that section. The other stores were owned by A. B. Smith & Cos., and J. Griffith, general merchandise, and other small merchants constitute the commercial community. The handling of cotton and sugar cane produced in the district was the principal industry. These ridges Comyise some of the richest and most fertile crass ranges in the country, 10,000 hoad of cattle and horses being owned by the thriving Bommunity. Communication with the outer world was had through two steam vessels, both owned in Johnson's Bayou and Radford, while a fleet of trading vessels plied the waters of the bayou. Thus pictured is Johnson's Bayou, or rather a series of ridges over which 1,200 population were scattered on the morning of Tuesday last. Happiness and contentment was the lot of the people until 4 o'clock that evening. When the storm descended opon them, everybody took to their homes and waited, with bated breath, the fate which they foresaw. The waters began rising, the wind iwept through the lower stories of buildings, driving the affrighted people into attics and upon roofa By 10 o’clock the first ridge, which was twelve feet above the sea level, was ten feet under water. House after house fell in or was swept away, either burying the doomed people in the debri3 or hurling them into the hissing waters. Cotton and stores next succumbed, and Radford and Johnson’s Bayou were destroyed as completely as if an invading army had done the work. It was a night of terror, described by survivors as appalling. People could only cling to each other and pray for mercy and for the souls of those whose despairing shrieks rang on their ears. For twelve hours the storm raged over the devoted settlement; then there came a lull. Hope soon revived, as the waters receded and the Btorm passed away. The survivors fathered on the most elevated points, viewing the scene of desolation around them. The houses that had stood the option of storm were completely gutted. Therft was no food nor drink, salt water having invaded everything. Then the search for the dead began. Those whose bodies lay pinioned by the ruins of houses were speedily recovered. From out of the marshes more corpses were taken, and likewise buried. The deathroll was then made up, as follows: Mrs. Frank Turner and two children; Mr. Locke, wife and seven children, old Mrs. Locke, Mrs. W. Ferguson and three children, Bradford Berry and daughter, Mrs. Albert Lambert and two children, Samuel Burwick’s eight children, Mrs. Shell Waller and four children, George Stivener and four children, Mr. Franshall, wife and grandson, Mrs. Gallier and four children, Lonzo Smith and child, Mrs. Toochake’s four children. Jack Toochake and seven children, Mrs. Hawkins and three children, Dr. George Smith, wife and four children. All the above were white people. The following is a list of the colored people whose bodies have been recovered and identified: Elever Johnson and wife, Jack Lewis, wife and brother, Richard Hambrick, wife and five Children. Yesterday morning the regular packet, a sternwheel steamer called the Emily P. , arrived at Johnson’s Bayou, and brought to Orange as many as she could carry—about sixty people. Not one of them had anything but what they stood in, and many of them were minus hats, shoes, coats and dressoa Their wants were promply supplied by the good people at this place, and the refugees were made comfortable for the night This (Saturday) morniDg th* Emily P. and the steamer Lar£ wß* 7e' lU rn and from thence vj&X* ffgUmr trips until ali are brought to a place of safety. Ail the people, lave a few who have large stock interests, say they have abandoned th 6 place forever. They are descendants of a race of people who in the past made Johnson’s Bayou a vast orange grove. Frost and ruined them, and then they turned to cotton, and sugar, and Rtock raising only to meet the fate of their forefathers. Os the 8,000 head of stock which once the bayou boasted, 6.000 are drowned, while the remainder will die of thirst, as ail the water is salt. J. S. Spencer, one of the inhabitants of the place, says this is the third storm he has experienced, having been through the storm at Morganthaw, in June last, and at Indianola in August He was making a handsome living, supplying Northern and Eastern markets with bird ekins and feathers. Mr. Spencer was formerly editor of the Bloomington (111.) Pantagraph. There is no estimating the loss, as there is no way of ascertaining the valuations: hence it is sufficient to gay that the towns are destroyed and abandoned.

Pathetic Incidents of the Disasters Galveston. Oct. 16.—Further particulars of the great disaster at Sabine Pass and Johnson’s Bayou are constantly being received. The situation has not been exaggerated in the least A cpiTespondent who has just returned from Sabine Pass telegraphs from Orange that the tnrkoy-bhzsards are * soaring over Sabine for -miles around on land and water. It is one vast eharnel house. The town is swept out of exiat-

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ence. What was a prosperous village when last Tuesday dawned is now the center of wreck and desolation. There are 127 persons missing and supposed to bo dead. Only about twenty-five bodies have so far been recovered. There is not one sound house in the town of Sabine. The residences of Dr. Gilliland and editor McClanahan are the only ones that can be repaired. Every other house is an absolute wreck. This,"in brief, is the story of the storm. Innumerable touching, heartrending incidents of the storm are related by the survivors. One house, containing fourteen colored persons, was seen to eo down with a crash, and every one of them was lost. Incidents are related of husbands lashing wives and children to floating wrecks, and then seeing them killed by heavy logs being driven against them. The damage to property can only be estimated by the value of the town, for all is lost. The Sabine & East Texas railroad track is washed out for a distance of ten miles. The ties have floated off, and the rails are twisted like wires, the effect of the great hurricane. Millions of dead fish were cast up by the waves, and thousands of birds also strew the ground. A young woman in a perfectly nude state was found roaming aronnd on the prairie yesterday, five miles from Sabine. She was demented and could not tell her name. When the government tug boat Penrose reached Sabine, yesterday, Columbus Martee was found rowing arounu the deita. looking for the bodies of his family. He said: “Myself, wife and three children were clinging to a floating roof, which was gradually breaking to pieces. One of the little ones went, and then another. I was holding the youngest, and soon my wife said: 'Good-bye, husband, I am going.’ I could not reach her. The pieces of the roof supporting her broke off, and she sunk before my eyes. I held on to the youngest child, named Pearly, some time longer. The child, addressing me, said: ‘Papa, I’m tired; won’t you walk with me?’ The piece of the roof I was on was now crumbling to pieces. I told the little one to kiss me. She put both her little arms around my neck, gave me a squeeze, and just then a wave dashed us off and I saw her no more. Great God! why didn’t Igo down too?” He was pressed to go on board the Penrose, but rofused, saying: “Here among the lagoons are the bodies of my wife and children, aDd here will I stop until I can find them.” No tongue can tell how tftp people have suffered during the past few days. In many cases the dead ones are considered the lucky ones. Late reports from Johnson’s Bayou bring the terrible intelligence that eighty-five persons are now known to be lost in that settlement, and it is greatly feared that the list will be swelled to a hundred or more, thus making the total number of victims by the hurricane fully two hundred. Reliable information from Johnson’s Bayou arrives very slowly, all the roads being impassable and only two boats are running to that section. The destitution dt the survivors, of whom there are over one thousand around Johnson’s and Radford villages, is described as something awful. They lost everything and are without food, drink aud clothes. dALE ON THE ENGLISH COAST. A British Troop-Ship in Danger—Loss of the Teviotdale and Seventeen Lives. London, Oct. 16. —The troop-ship Tyne, which is thirty hours overdue at Plymouth, has been sighted off there, laboring terribly in the storm. The greatest anxiety had been entertained concerning her for tho past twenty-four hours. The British ship Teviotdale, which sailed from Cardiff, Wales, on Thursday last, was wrecked during the storm on Carmarthan bar. There were onboard at the time twenty-eight persons. A lifeboat rescued nine of them from the wreck. The nineteen others, among whom were the captain and officers, left in a boat, and but two of them succeeded in reaching the shore alive. The other seventeen perished. The greathurricane which has just passed over England and Ireland was accompanied by the heaviest rain-storms within memory. During last night there were many collisions and wrecks, and a number of channel fishing boats were stranded. The beach at Brighton presents a spectacle of destruction. A torpedo gunboat at Portsmouth dragged its anchor and drifted into the mud, bat was afterwards rescued by tugs. The glass roof of the Ilfracombe Hotel was broken and the bath-houses were washed away. The storm was very furious on the Irish coast. The streets in many of the towus were flooded; corn stacks were blown away and the corn standing in the fields was destroyed. The damage is immense*. There have been destructive floods in Wales.

TIIE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Facts and Figures from the Annual Report of the First Assistant Postmaster-General. Washington, Oct. IC.—First Assistant Post-master-general A. E. Stevenson has submitted to the Postmaster-general his annual report upon the operations of his bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30. It shows the number of postoffices established during the year to be 3,482; number discontinued, 1,120; net increase. 2,362; whole number of postoffices, 53,614; number filled by appointment of the President, 2,244; number filled by appointment of the Postmaster-gener-al, 51,349. The appointments made during the year are given as follows: On resignations and commissions expired, 9,112; increase compared with the previous year, 2,908; on removals and suspensions, 9,560; increase, compared with the previous year, 8,756; on deaths of postmasters, 587; on establishment of new postoffices, 3,482; total, 22,747. The six States having the largest number of postoffices June 30, 1886, were as follows: Pennsylvania, 4,001; New York, 3,215; Ohio, 2,763; Virginia, 2,231; Illinois, 2,229, and Missouri, 2,057. As heretofore, New York had the largest number of offices of the presidential grade, 216; following were Illinois, with 176; Pennsylvania, 159: Ohio, 133; Massachusetts, 121, and lowa, 120. The total number of money-order offices at the close of the fiscal year was 7,356, an increase of 287 over the previous year. Os the whole number of offices of this class, Illinois had the largest number, 590. Following were lowa with 522; New York, 496; Ohio, 468; Pennsylvania, 402; Michigan, 344; Kansas, 342; Indiana, 315; Missouri, 223, and Wisconsin, 271. General Stevenson renews his recommendation of last year that the government pay the office rent for postoffices of the third class. Return of the Hunting and Fishing Party. Washington, Oct. 16.—The presidential hunting and fishing party returned to Washington from Romney, W. Va., at an early hour this morning. They had a thoroughly enjoyable trip, and, taking into consideration the unfavorable state of the Weather, were f°*tTnate in the catch of fisli. The head, antlers and skin of a fine white deer, said to be a rare species, killed by one of the party, were brought in by Commissioner Miller, and lay on a window-sill in his office to-day. The animal was driven into the water by the dogs and made a gallant struggle for his life, wounding saverely two of the hounds, but was fiually killed, at rather long range, by a rifle-shot of Mr. Bivens. Barring a brief entanglement of a prominent member of the party in a barbed-wire fence,resulting in almost irreparable damage to his clothing, no mishaps attended the chase. The New Postal Cards. Washington Special. The new design for the postal card will be put to press about the Ist of December. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is now preparing the plates. The new design is very simple. There is a vignette of Thomas Jefferson in a circle without elaboration. The legend * ‘United States postal card” is along the upper edge, “one cent” under the vignette, and beneath all “nothing but the address on this side.” The objection to the present design is that it is too large for the size of the card and does not give writers sufficient space to nut the address on properly. It will possibly be the middle of December before the new cards will be ready for sale. Appointments by the President Washington, Oct. Is.—The President to day made the following appointments: Beniamin Folsom, of New York, to be consul of the United States at Sheffield, England. Mr. Folsdn is a cdusin of Mrs. Cleveland. Charlos H. Grovfer, of Leavenworth, Kan.. was appointed to be the agent for the Indians of the Pottawattomie and Great Nemaha agency, in Kansas: Frink H. Goodyear, of Buffalo, N. Y., to be commissioner to examine and report upon a section of railroad constructed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Washington Territory,

SALISBURY AND THE IRISH. His Policy in Ireland Hampering the British Empire in Other Directions. Discontent in the Green Tsle Certain to Operate as a Menace to the English Until the Government Takes Definite Action. Significant Comment of a Russian Official Journal on Bulgaria's Elections. The Capital City of Corea Likely To Be Deli populated by the Frightful Ravages of Cholera—Miscellaneous Cable News. IRISH DISCONTENT. It Will Continue a Menace to the English Until Positive Action Is Taken. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. London, Oct. 16.—Lord Salisbury came into office to prevent the dismemberment of the empire. The empire undoubtedly needs to strengthen itself as far as possible, in view of the dangers which at any time may beset it from the outside. Mr. Gladstone held that one element of such a strengthening would have been found in conciliating Irish fellow-subjects by [a reasonable concession. But Lord Salisbury does not understand nationalities, and accordingly bis policy in Ireland is making impossible that imperial policy which the times so urgently demand. A government employing methods of despotism in Ireland is morally, as well as physically, incapable of assisting the cause of freedom in Bulgaria. There is a danger that the wrong which is being done so near home may indirectly lead to serious troubles, even in the most distant portions of the empire. In spite of the assertions made in certain quarters that Lord Randolph Churchill has in preparation a bill for the government of Ireland, it is highly probable that the Tories will make no proposals upon Irish government for the next session. The discussion of the recently published measure has disclosed the fact that Ministers thoroughly understand that the present position of political parties may bo relied upon to endure so long as the Irish question can remain untouched. Among the higher lights of the Conservative party the opinion prevails that the moment they undertake, in the face of Parliament, to provide a settlement, the decline of their power will begin. To do nothing so long as possible towards the satisfaction of Irish claims must, it is felt, be the safest policy of the government. Lord Salisbury and Lord Randolph Churchill are expected to return from the continent next next week, when events may render a meeting of the Cabinet necessary. But the Prime Minister parted from his colleagues with tho understanding that tho Cabinet would not be called together, except under pressure of special circumstances, before November. Every day it is felt that affairs are growing worse in Ireland, and there is no belief that the sittings of the new Land Commission, presided over by Earl Cowper, will effect any improvement. The case of Father Fahy, which has now, like the case of Mr. Parnell’s land bill, become an affair of political strife, has tended to deepen the impression among Conservatives that the future is full of difficulties. Gladstonians believe that it is impossible to drop the Irish question, and that it will press more closely than any other measure |pr a settlement at the next session of Parliament. Until it has beon settled, Ireland will remain discontented, a constant source of trouble and anxiety, and, it must be added, in one sense, of humiliation. The feeling grows daily that should Lord Randolph Churchill introduce his Irish bill, it would result in defeat and a dissolution of Parliament. Mr. Gladstone has no doubt of tho success of the Liberal party in the event of another general election.

THE BULGARIAN ELECTIONS. A Russian Consul Questions Their Validity, and Is Referred to tire Central Government. London, Oct. 16.—The Russian consul at Rustchuk, acting under the direction of General Kaulbars, sent to the prefect of the district a protest against the declared result of the recent elections there, on the ground of their alleged illegality. Tho prefect replied that the agent must address his protest to the central government. The Journal de St. Petersburg, commenting on the Bulgarian regency’s reply to the Russian agency, says: “These arbitrary holders of power have launched Bulgaria into revolution, and shelter an illegal regime behind the constitution. There must be no arguing with the Bulgarian government, but in the interest of quietness iu the East and of general peace Bulgarian destinies must not be left to the mercy of these radical doctrinaires.” _ * FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Cholera in Corea—One Thousand Deaths Every Day at the Conntry’s Capital. San Francisco, Oct. 16.—Private advices received in this city state that cholera is still raging fiercely in Corea. No idea can be formed of the extent of the scourge. It has more than decimated the capital, where, out of a population of 200,000, the death rate rules at the frightful average of a thousand per day. About as many Coreans as there are people in the Stato of California have been swept away already, and it is hard to say where the plague will stop. Corea is described as “an appalling pest-spot,” Never was there a more frightful record of the ravages of disease on mankind. The story of the plague of London is beggared by what is now going on in Sooul. They are beginning to give over the task of burying their dead, and the city is threatened with positive extinction. France Is Not Seeking War. Paris, Oct. 16.—The Temps refutes the statement that France is seeking war. It says that the army represents the democracy, which errs rather toward peace than toward war. It regrets that the relations existing between England and France are not of the best, and counsels the press of both countries to eu deavor to fraternize instead of embarrassing their relations, both being condemned to isolation from Europe unless they go hand in hand. The Journal des Debats lectures the London press on seeking pretexts to embitter the relations between France and Germany, and ridicules tho assertion that France is desirous of provoking war with Germany. The principal German papers also deride the news of the English press, denying that there is any fear of war, and charging England with wishing to'proiit by sounding a revanche alarm. | Peasants Who Think King Louis Is Alive. Berlin, Oct. 16.—Tho authorities at Fussen, Ba varia, have issued a unique statement giving official documents to prove that King Louis is dead. Tinobject of the publication of the statement is to dispe the belief of j easants in the mountain districts that the King is stVl alive, that he has never been mad and that s imprisoned by a traitorous regency Other inoWmineers hold that Physioian Gndde; drugged tho King and throw him into Sternberg lake

while he was in a dying condition, and that Gudden escaped and is now alive in America. The agitation has threatened to end in an outbreak. The authorities warn the peasants that judicial proceedings will be taken against those who spread false reports. German Monetary Interests In Russia* Bkrt.in, Oct. 16.—Towards the close of business on tho Bourse, to-day, itwas reported that the Imperial Bank of Germany would raise its rate of discount on Monday. The rumor arose from the fact that a meeting of the bank committee has been called for Monday. An uneasy feeling prevails in financial circles over the extent of German capital risked in Russia. Leading bankers have placed a full statement of the position of German investors in the hands of Prince Bismarck and have received from him private assurance that the entente cordiale between Germany and Russia remains.undisturbed, and that a perfect understanding exists between both courts. Warfare Against Socialism. Berlin, Oct. 16. —The crusade of the police against socialism is being carried on more vigorously than ever. The authorities have succeeded in completely suppressing every labor organization in Berlin, Hamburg, Leipsie and Zurich. The Social Demokrat boasts that police persecution cannot stop the socialist propaganda, and it asserts that socialism is especially spreading in the ranks, of the army. Mother and Four Children Drowned. London, Oct. 10.—Mrs. Leader, wife of a butcher doing business in a suburb of .London, after a quarrel with her husband, left her home, taking her five little children with her. She went to the Thames river at 'Fulham, and threw herself and the five children into the water. All were drowned but one of the children. A Strong Hint to the French. St. Petersburg, # Oct. 16.— The Novoe Vremya says the time is now auspicious for France to rais A the Egyptian question, and declares that Russia will not hinder her. Death of Meyer Karl Rothschild. Frankfort, Germany, Oct. 16.—Meyer Karl Rothschild, head of the banking firm, died suddenly to-day from heart disease. Cable Notes. A Conservative Paris newspaper asserts that President Grevy has decided to annul the decree of expulsion of the Due d’Aumale. The Berlin Post says it hears, from a sure source, that the war ministry lias ordered the rapid building of 2,000 railway carriages, at Augsberg, Nurnburg and Munich. The people are asking what this means. A NOVEL SIEGE. A Brother of McKee Rankin Refuses to Permit Himself To lie Arrested. Detroit, Mich., Oct 16.—George Rankin, a brother of McKee Rankin, the actor, living at Sandwich, Ontario, across from Detroit, had a quarrel with Thomas McKee Rankin, an uncle, last Tuesday, and the two came to blows. George knocked Thomas down aud then retreating to his homo, secured an ax, aud successfully kept Thomas at bay until he could barricade the doors and windows. Thomas then swore out a warrant against George, charging him with assault, and four policemen were detailed to bring him to Windsor for trial. George refused to leave the house aud kept the officers off as ho had Thomas. He has a 6tock of provisions, and since Tuesday he has not left the house, and as a Canadian’s “house is his castle,” the officers have not ventured to break in. A reporter, waving ft flag of truce, succeeded in getting near enough to interview George last night. He declared that he would come out and pay a fine for simple assault when the officers should be withdrawn, but not before. For the last three days hundreds of inquisitive people have visited the place to see four officers marching at regular intervals around a house from which no sign of life is manifested. The novel siege bids fair to end in the starvation of Rankin or the exhaustion of the policemen. —— Resignation of Mattoon's Mayor. Special to tue fndinuapoliß Journal. Mattoqn, 111., Oct. 16.—Mayor James A. Connally has designed his position as Mayor of Charleston, HI., aiid-Dr. R. L.. Patton has .been elected his successor -Jay the Council. Mr. Oonnally has had a very extensive law practice at Springfield, 111., since his resignation as Uuited States attorney for tho Southern distrigt'of Illinois, and he has spent nearly all his time there. It i* ivjvs.,.jjrobaple thaChe s wiUtake up ha* permanent residence in Springfield, since his candidacy in opposition to Mr. .Springer for congressional honors in the Thirteenth Illinois district will require that he be a bona fide resident in case of election—and stranger things have occurred than the defeat of Mr. Springer, with his seemingly great majority. Mr. Connally is the right man to work such a campaign and succeed.

€hargel with Embezzlement. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Shelbyville, Oct. IG.—Thomas J. Emerick, of Chicago, who came to this city yesterday, on a visit, was arrested to-day by Marshal Bassett, on a telegram from the chief of police of Chicago, charging him with embezzlement. The trouble grows out of financial transactions with the firm of fruit dealers with which Mr. Emerick has been connected some time. The firm recently failed, and since the failure he has been doing some collecting of outstanding debts, part of which he used to pay his wages and those of other employes of the firm, lie has always borne an honorable character, and his friends here hope he will come out ail right. Mr. Blaine in Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Oct. IG.—An immense mass-meet-ing was hold hero by the Republicans in the Academy of Music and Horticultural TTa.ll to-night, in ratification of the Republican State ticket. Hon. James G. Blaine was the principal speaker at both halls, which were packed to their utmost capacity hours before the speaker’s arrival. The crowd grew larger and larger as the ovenine advanced, and by 8 o’clock the streets within three blocks of the two buildings, which adjoin oaeh other, were almost impassable. The speaker was escorted from and to his hotel by Republican clubs, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed along the line of the procession. In addition to the two speeches in the halls, Mr. Blaine addressed an immense throng from the balcony of the Union League Building Baby Show at Franklin. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Franklin, Ind., Oct. 16.—At a baby show, under the management of the ladies of the Baptist Church, held this afternoon, babies, graded for beauty, intellect and physical development, were awarded first prize as follows: Over eight months, Mary Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Allen; under eighteen months, Ruth Vannuys, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vannuys; twins, Odie and Orie Beard, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Beard, jr. There were twentythree entries. Suicide of an Heir to Half a Million. Hamilton, Mass., Oct. 16.-—Joseph P. Gardner, aged twenty-four, committed suicide at 8 A. M. today, by shooting himself with a shotgun. He was a grandson of John L. Gardner, of Boston, who was connected by marriage with the Peabodys, of Salem, and was soon to enter into the possession of a large estate, estimated at sr>oo,ooo. when a younger brother came of age. He was the son of the late Joseph Gardner, who shot himself at Beverly Farms ten or twelve years ago. The Fergusons Charged with Fraud. Chicago, Oct. 16. —A bill for attachment was filed to-day in the circuit court against J. C. Ferguson, E. D. Howard, E. W. Ferguson and N. M. Neeld for a debt of SIO,OOO, by the First National Bank. The defendants did business under the title of J. C. Fergu son & Cos. Affidavits of the cashier and president of the First National charge the defendants with having made a fraudulent assignment of th6ir effects so as to hinder their creditors. Vnmasonic Conduct. Akron, 0.. Oct. 16.— Among the last matters disposed of by the grand commandery of the Knights Templars was the case of Henry D. Moore, of Cincinnati. The decision of the commission which found him guilty of unmasonic conduct in writing objectionable editorials in the Masonic Review a year ago, and the action of the grand commander who-susi>ended him from Hanselmann Commandery, were sustained. Voting on a Railway Subscription. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Madison, Ind., Oct. 16.—Four townships of this county voted to-day on the subscription of 2 por cent, -tock in the Louisville, Cincinnati & Dayton railroad. Madison voted yea by over 1,000 majority; Hanover is tied; Saluda voted for, and Milton against. Schooner and Seven Lives Lost. St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 10.— On Friday night the schooner Emetine, Captain Grant, bound from St. P<erre to Bay Despair, struck on the Dragoon promontory, in Hermitage bay, west coast of Newfoundland, .nd sunk immediately. The captain and crew of six mon were lost.

THE GEE AT LEAGUE OFLABOE The Strong and Weak Points of the Organization Built Up by Powderly. Politics and Religion the Rocks Upon Which the Knights of Labor Will Be Wrecked Unless Danger Signals Are Heeded. Growth of Autocracy and Aristocracy Among Membership of the Order. Progress of the Strike of Packers— Bnsincss About Suspended at the Stockyards, Waiting the Outcome of the Struggle. THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. The Organization's Strong and Weak Points —Dangers from Politics and Religion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, Va., Odt 16.— Unless a great many destroying features are eliminated from the organization of the Knights of Labor it will not live five years. It will die of cancer. This is plain; so plain that anybody can see it who is here where a view from the original can be had. Politics is gnawing at the very vitals of the organization, while personal ambition in the direction of leadership and general selfishness, including the mercenary form of holding the offices, are creeping in. Then the religious problem is coming up for its share of contention, and if it will grow as rapidly during the next two years as within the last two months, will alone be sufficient to crush the institution. The first argument used against the re-election of General Master Workman Powderly was that he is a Roman Catholic. This was circulated vigorously till the convention met here and noses were counted. It then transpired that almost two-thirds of the Knights are members of the Catholic Chnrch. Within my own hearing a delegate catechised Mr. Powderly on thi3 subject till the General Master Workman had to explain and then apologize for a social visit to the bishop of the church in this city. To the Knights the fact tha* the highest officers encourage the intermingling of politics with the primary objects of the organization is a very serious fact. It means that the leaders are at work to distract the organization—not by design, but in fact. A New England member of the executive board, discussing this feature of the order now, observed to your correspondent: “Politics wrecked the Patrons of Husbandry, the prohibition and other temperance moves; it has ruined churches and schools, and it will ruin us. We organized for the sole purpose of presenting a solid front of labor against capital when capital was wrongly employed. There was to be nothing but charity and co-operation to secure and maintain the highest prices for labor. Church, politics, religion and nil collateral issues were to be excluded. Polities means selfishness; selfishness means the downfall of any body or corporation depending upon co-opera-tion or contact with the people for support. If other issues had entered into the determination of the North, slavery would not have been abolished, because tho North would not have stood together. Already there are bickerings in every assembly. What grows out of politics will come from any of the other subjects which, like the worm in’the vine, are sticking their horny heads up. What we must have, and in the fullest sense, is harmony—perfect unity.”

Then there is still another thing the Knights must guard against. It is autocracy—aristocracy—in their own ranks. During the past two weeks I have heard more than a hundred expressions tending to prove this. They came mostly from local Knights, men who had not the carded right, but the vested right and liberty, to associate with and to the general officers. For many years I have observed that there is an aristocracy growing up among classes that does not affect those outside of them. For instance, a lawyer, a printer, a carpenter, may refuse to affiliate with one of his own class, on the assumption that classes should not form society of its own, and because he has a dilate for his own fellows and business. There is a tendency in some of these streams to run higher than their source. A creature must not get beyond its creator, nor above it. During the parade here on Monday the general officers were conveyed in carriages to the fairgrounds. They occupied the center of the procession and drew a very marked contrast when compared with the poor fellows who plodded along the miles in the sun and dust. There wore bitter complaints. “How does it come,*’ I heard a dozen Knights say, “that these fine fellows whom we pay. and whom we have created in position, will suffer themselves to be elevated so far out of their proper places!” There is a tendency in the body of the membership to complain at all real and imaginary slights and hardships. They probably had cause to observe the exclusiveness practiced by the general master workman and to speak of it. Very soon after he came here ho not only refused to receive callers, but cards and persons who had business with him. Mr. Powderiy, the people in the order say, is not only a working man, but the servant of the laborer. The single Hebrew delegate to the convention has attracted comment, but not much attention personally. He is an Eastern manufacturer. About a dozen of the delegates smoke clay pipes on the streets. Nine-terths of the delegates wear derby hats. The others wear slouch hats, with a very few exceptions, and they are of beavers. Beaumont, of Elmira, N. Y., is one of the characters of the convention. He is about forty-eight years old. medium size, with beard on the lower part of his face. He is an orator, and works in organizing assemblies, eneineering sti’ikes, etc., among the Pennsylvania coal miners. He believes in radical measures to further the ends of the cause. Beaumont thinks the capitalists are thieves, mostly, and that they all stand together and corrupt those who are in their way. In illustrating this point, he always repeats one of Tom Marshall’s stories. “A man rushed into Marshall’s law office day,” says Beaumont, “and evinced so much excitement that he could scarcely speak. “ ‘What is the matter?” inquired Marshall. “ ‘I have stolen a hog,’ replied the man, 'and I want you to defend me.’ “ ‘Are you guilty?* asked the lawyer. ‘Yes.’ was the reply. “ ‘Well, how can I get you out of it if you are guilty?’ “ ‘Ob!’ replied the criminal, in great anguish, ‘you can hsing the tears to the eyes of the jury by one of your great speeches, and I will be acquitted. You must take the case.’ “Marshall consented, and the man was proven guilty. Witnesses testified that some of the pork was found on defendant’s person. The case was conclusive, and when the jury went out Marshall remarked that the verdict would he decisive and the sentence severe. But, to the amazement of the eminent lawyer, tho jury returned a verdict of ‘not guilty.’ “When Marshall had sufficiently recovered his breath, he took his client aside and asked how it came that a verdict of ‘not guilty’ was returned, when the evidence was complete of guilt and the court's charge was for a finding. “ ‘I will toil you,’ said the criminal, ‘just how

it was. Every man on the jury had a piece of that hog.’” Beaumont thinks that the courts are more sappi* tools of capital than ever were the laborers. The preference many workingmen have for labor organizations other than that of the Knights of Labor—for trade-onions—has been pointed as a straw showing the lack of wisdom in vesting so much power in a single officer, or the executive board. Virtually, the general master workman * controls over a million men, and may ordet them out of employment on a moment's notice, without provision or warning. Trades-unions are independent bodies. But there seoms to be no desire to depreciate the one-man power, and the chances are that instead of relieving the general master workman of influence his arms will be lengthened and strengthened. Mr. Powderly has missed a magnificont oppor tumty of solidifying himself with the newspaper representatives here. About twenty of them have been on the outside and quite as many on the inside of the convention during the past two weeks. Instead of evincing sympathy for those who were on the outside, and showing a disposition to be accommodating, there has been a lack of system, courtesy and discretion, for which the hundreds of thousands of Knights at their homes, who had not the fortune to be selected to come here as delegates, but who wanted to read the proceedings from day to day. can blame the general master workman. Ho has refused to extend the courtesies usually granted representatives of the press, and by refusing those on the outside the routine information. an<tpermitting those on the inside to make verbatim reports, has discriminated against honorable journalists and legitimate labor. The most aggravating feature of it all has been the seclusion of this officer from the press representatives and the cold shoulder extendod to them professionally as well as socially. It can only be explained by those on the ground in the statement of Mr. Powderly on a number of occasions that the press of the country is controlled by monopolists, and that their bands are against the Knights and their cause. Mr. Powderly has had a splendid opportunity to make a warm and sincere personal friend of every newspaper representative here, without injury to his organization and without inconvenience. To one who has studied the character of these delegates ard their work here for a fortnight it is clear t v ; f the organization will eliminate all collateral ._<sues, such as politics and religion, from their operations they can have an influence in time which will control almost every interest of the world. There is scarcely anything tnat cannot be af* "ed by labor. But if these things are not t .ted it is equally plain that the Knights c oor cannot survive the buffetings of many seasons. It is an awful battle labor has to make. Capital is a strong, bold and cunning combatant, aggressive and watchful. If the laborer would make all of his strength fell he will concentrate it. He will also substitute steady pressuro and firmness for intimidation, and skill and thought for force. _ P. S. Hkath. Mr. Powderly Confesses to Being a Socialist* Richmond Special in Pittsburg Despatch. While Mr. Powderly was giving out his moiety of news to the correspondents at noon to-day, someone remarked that a New York paper had spoken favorably of the general master workman in connection with his letter on negro equality. “They do that sometimes, and sometimes they do not,” said Mr. Powderly. “I have been called Anarchist, Socialist, Communist, robber and murderer, though I never preached anarchism, socialism or communism, and I never robbed oi murdered anybody.” One of those present suggested that all Anarchists were not agreed in the methods. “That is true,” said Mr. Powderly. “One of my most intimate friends is Mr. Joseph Labadie, of Detroit, who is a disciple of auarebisra, but is opposed to all violent methods.” “But Mr. Labadie has said in John Swinton’s Paper that you are a Socialist, and that you were a member of the socialist labor party in Scran .an,” remarked the correspondent. “They elected me and gave me a card of membership,” answered Mr. Powderly, “but I was never an active member.” “But is not the platform of the Knights of Labor socialistic?” continued your correspondent. “Certainly it is, in some measure.” replied the general master workman. “All progressive people nowadays are Socialists in some sense, and no one can be otherwise unless he goes like a crab, backward.” And with that the chief of the Knights wfentto his dinner. Well, that was quite enough for one occasion. , It is probably the first public admission made by the general master workman of the order that the platform of the Knights if? based on socialism. I asked an intimate friend of Mr. 'Powderly how he could harmonize this confession of that gentleman with his not infrequent references to anarchism and socialism as though they were one, and altogether oojection.able."# “Mr. Powderly refers to methods when be speaks, and not to principles. He uses the words for his condemnation because the general public have misconstrued them as terras suggestive of violence and recklessness without definite purpose. Were he to denounce socialism as a principle, he would only stultify himself, and declare his antagonism to the principles of tho order he is sworn to champion, and of which he is now the official head. lam glad he has made his .position clear in this matter, for his vague way in referring to socialism has cooled the ardor as Knights of many of the most able and earnest men in the order.”

A Distrusted Indianapolis Delegate. Richmond Special to rhicago Times. Col. Samuel Leffiingwell, of Indianapolis, one of the ablest members of the convention, left for his homo to-night in high dudgeon. Just before taking the ’bus for the train the Colonel said: “I am disgusted with the whole affair. I might add, aggravatedly disgusted. I am going to take the train this evening and go home.” The Colonel later on, in a pleasant way, said that if he was a resident of Richmond ho would apply for an in junction to have the convention dissolved. Some of Leffingweil’s friends say to-night that before going homo he will visit New York and have a talk with Henry George, tho labor candidate in that city. The disgust at the convention expressed by this delegate is felt by many others, some of them among the raoat prominent members of the assembly. The Indications are that if the convention remains here until Monday it will be without more than a bare majority, ami it is probable they will hurry away and leave all the important business unfinished. Proceedings of the General Assembly. To the Western Associated Press. Richmond, Va., Oct. 16. —When the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor resumed its session, this morning, discussion of the report on Mr. Dewey’s plan for the establishment of a labor journal as tho organ of the order was resumed. It was expected the debate on the subject, would not be permitted to con • tinue long, and that the report of the committee on law. and the committee on the revision of the constitution, action on which had been interrupted by the election of general officers, would be again taken up. It was rumored that tho committee on law had changed its renort on the revision of the constitution, as originally submitted by the special committee on the subject, so as to preserve intact district assemblies as they exist at present, and thus remove the objections raised against this clause of the revised constitution. Discussion on the newspaper project was brought to a close by the adoption of a motion to lay the matter on the t able. The committee on law again got tho floor, and that part of its report on the revision of the const itution relating to the duties of the general officers was adopted. Discussion of tho clause relating to State assemblies was in progress when tho hour for the noon recess arrived. General Treasurer Turner left here this morning tor Philadelphia, where more than $20,000 worth of money ordorfl are awaiting hw signature. lie will re* turn on Monday. . Mr. Powderiy was not feclidg well to-day, and was absent from the convention, remaining in his room the greater part of the day. In his absence General Secretary Litehrnan presided. At tho afternoon session the consideration of the report on tho revision of the constitution as it came from the hands of tho committee on law was continued. Section 1, relating to name, jurisdiction and membership was passed without action. Section 2, treating of meetings of the General Assembly and representation, was amended so as to change the basis of representation from one delegate for each thousand members to one for every 3,006. and to make an allowance for mileage, payable by the General Assembly, it was then adopted. Section 3, treating of the General Assembly, was adopted after two clauses had boon amended eo a* to read: “Any general officer, whether a representative or not, U eligible to election,” and “Any representative or past representative to this General Assembly,

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