Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1875 — Page 1

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vr? y INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 14 1875 WHOLE NUMBER 1,821 VOL. XXV NO. 8.

N. W. C. UNIVERSITY. The twenty-first session of this institution will open in the new building, in Irvington on the 15th of September next. For completeness of outfit and perfect adaptation to the wants of a school, this building has no superior. It will ac commodate 500 students. Several very important additions have been makde to the Faculty, and the courses of study are adapted to all grades of students above the common school. For catalogues, address C. E. HOLLENEECK, Secretary, or O. A. BURGESS, President, Indianapolis, Indiana.

THE ELECTIONS. THE STATE OF OHIO IN DOUBT. THE REPUBLICANS CLAIM HER. The Majority Small, Probably Not Over 5,000. Iowa and Nebraska Carried by the Republicans with Increased Majorities. STILL ROOM FOR HOPE IN OHIO. FIRST DISPATCH-REPUBLICAN GAINS IN THE NORTH. COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 12, 8:45 P. M.-Returns from 45 precinsts, mainly from the northern portion of the state, show a republican gain of about six hundred over 1373. SECOND DISPATCH-MOTTLED RETURNS. COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 12.--Adams county, 11, townships, democratic gain of 21; Allen county precincts, including Lima City, democratic gain of 57; Ashlabula county, 3 precincts, republican gain of 20; Clarke county, Springfield, first ward, democratic gain of 169; Cuyahoga county 1 township, republican gain of 61; Drake county, 1 precinct, democratic gain of 14; Fairfield county, 2 townships and 2 wards of Lancaster, democratic gain of 24; Fayette county, 1 township, democratic gain of 4; Franklin county, 1 township and two wards in Columbus, republican gain of 250; Fulton county, 1 township, republican gain of 10; Galla county, first ward of Gallipolis, democratic gain of 38; Green county one township, demcratic gain of 41; Hardin county, two townships, republican gain of 82; Huron county, two townships, republican gain of 65; Jefferson county three townships, and three wards of Steubenville, democratic gain of 56; Logan county, two townships, republican gain of 47; Loraine county, five townships, republican gain of 89; Lucas county, one township, democratic gain of 21; Madison county two townships, republican gain of 23; Mahoning county, Youngstown, three wards, democratic gain of 256; Ottawa county, one township, democratic gain of 10; Pickaway county, two townships and fwo wards in Circleville, democratic gain of 39; Portage county, two townships, republican gain of 66; Rose county, two townships, republican gain of two; Sandusky county, two townships, republican gain of 31; Shelby county, one township, democratic gain of 11; Starke county, one township and two wards in Massillon, democratic gain of 22; Summit county, Akron, Third Ward, democratic gain of 56; Trumbull county, two townships and Warren City entire, democratic gain of 121; Tuscarawas county, one township, republican gain of 9; Wayne county, three townships and three wards, democratic gain of 101. THIRD DISPATCH-CINCINNATI. CINCINNATI, Oct. 12.-The election passed off quietly. The republicans claim the county for Hayes and the entire county ticket. It is certain that the republicans have made large gains. The result in the city will not be known until late. FOURTH DISPATCH-TOLEDO. TOLEDO, Oct. 12.-There was a quiet election today, and a fall vote, with considerable scratching on both sides. The returns from the city will be slow. Nothing is expected before midnight, and some wards will not be counted before to-morrow. FIFTH DISPATCH-AN UNCERTAIN SOUND. COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 12.-Adams county, two townships, Hayes 281, Alien 213, a democratic gain of 9; Allen county, three townships and Lima City entire, Hayes 804, Allen 1,010, a democratic gain of 150; Ashtabula county, eight townships. Hayes 1,902, Allen 561, a republican gain of 628; Butler county, one township, Hayes 56, Allen 162, a republican gain of 5; Carroll county, one township, Hayes 93, Allen 56, a democratic gain of 12; Champaign county, one township, Hayes 161, Allen 29, a republican gain of 20; Clark county, two townships and four wards in Springfield City, Hayes 2,286, Allen 1,974, a democratic gain of 155; Clinton county, one township, Hayes 177, Allen 91, a republican gain of 82; Coshocton county, one township, Hayes 93, Allen 107, republican gain of 86; Cuyahoga county, one township and five wards in Cleveland, republican gain of 1,500; Darke county, three townships, Hayes 273, Allen 399, democratic gain of 29; Delaware county, one township, Hayes 52, Allen 27, republican gain of six; Erie county, one township, Hayes 139, Allen 139, democratic gain of 19; Fairfield county, four townships and Lancaster City, republican gain of 61; Fayette county, two townships. Hayes 180, Allen 186, democratic gain of 17; Franklin county, three townships, and three wards in Columbus, Hayes 1,888, Allen 1,124, republican gain of 610; Fulton county, one township, Hayes 138, Allen 146, republican gain of 10; Gallia county, first ward of Gallipolis, Hayes 68, Allen 144, democratic gain of 38: Yeanga county, two townships, Hays 356, Allen 114, republican gain of 98; Greene county, one township, Hayes 92, Allen 144, democbatic gain of 41. SIXTH DISPATCH-RETURNS MORE MIXED THAN EVER. COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 12.-Hancock county. 1 township, gives Hayes 131, Allen 85, republican gain of 12; Hardin county, 3 townships, Hayes 252, Allen 405, republican gain of 103; Henry county, 1 township, Hayes 95, Allen 128; democratic gain of 8; Hocking county, 1 township, Hayes 72, Allen 183, no change; Huron county, 5 townships, Hayes 87 Allen, 392, republican gain of 16; Jefferson county, three townships and four wards in Steubenville, Hayes, 1,016, Allen 829, democratic gain of 228; Knox county, two townships, Hayes 185, Allen 185, republican gain of nine; Lake county, three townships, Hayes 1 125, Allen 541, republican gain of 18; Lawrence county, one township, Hayes 110, Allen 103, democratic gain of 19; Licking county, five townships, Hayes 565, Allen 683, republican gain of 68; Logan county, three townships, Hayes 471, Allen 278, repubican gain of 81; Loraine county, seven townships, Hayes 1,158, Allen 649, republican gain of 193; Lucas county, two townships, Hayes 156, Allen 153, republican gain of 48; Madison county, four townships, Hayes 404, Allen 496, republican gain of 34; Mahoning county, Youngstown City complete, Hayes 1,066, Allen 1,281, democratic gain of 311; Marion county, three townships, Hayes 228, Allen 276, democratic gain of three; Medina county, republican gain in seven townships of 153; Meigs county, Pomeroy, first ward, Hayes 87, Allen 135, democratic gain of 154; Miami county, two townships, Hayes 449, Allen 407, democratic gain of 48; Muskingum county, two townships, Hayes 296, Allen 271, democratic gain of 37; Noble county, one township, Hayes 106, Allen 97, republican gain of nine; Ottawa county, three townships, Hayes 138, Allen 556, democratic gain of 79; Paulding county, one township, Hayes 102, Allen 119, democratic gain of 5; Pickaway county four townships and two wards in Circleville, Hayes 627, Allen 894, democratic gain of 22; Portage county, ten townships Hayes 1,775, Allen 1,367, republican again of 205; Richland county, two townships and first ward of Mansfield, Hayes 710. Allen 687, republican gain of 24; Ross county, four townships and first ward of Chil ieothe, Hays 364, Allen 488, republican gain 68; Sandusky county two townships, Hayes 179, Allen 322, republican gain of 31; Shelby county, one township, Hayes 97, Allen 110, democratic gain of 1; Starke county, our townships and four wards of Masslion, Hayes, 1,384, Allen 346, democratic

gain of 35; Summit county, five townships and five wards of Akron, Hayes 2,508, Allen 1,639, republican gain of 242; Trun bull county, eight townships and wards, Hayes 3,460, Allen 1,227, republican gain of 1,206; Tuscara was county, two townships. Hayes 223, Allen 253, republican gain of 22; Union county, one township. Hayes 192, Allen 98, democratic gain of 9; Warren county, two townships. Have 704, Allen 554, democratic gain of 53; Washington county, eight townships, Hayes 1,042, Allen 964, democratic gain of 35; Wayne county, eight townships, Hayes 1,135, Allen 1,271, democratic gain of 129; Wyandotte county, one township, Hayes 51, Allen 55, republican gain of 2; SEVENTH DISPATCH-THE STATE PROBABLY REPUBLICAN. COLUMBUS, Oct. 13, MIDNIGHT-The democratic state central committee rooms are nearly deserted. The committee does not yet give up the state, but say that Hayes's majority will not exceed 2,000, or at all events about 3,000. People are still at the republican headquarters. The republican state committee claims Hayes's election by 10,000 majority. EIGHTH DISPATCH-HAMILTON COUNTY CINCINNATI, Oct. 13, 2 A. M.-Official returns from 18 wards and precints in Hamilton county give Hayes 4,834, Allen 4,845. The whole republican county ticket is probably elected. NINTH DISPATCH-WORSE AND MORE OF IT. COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 12.-Returns compiled from 476 townships, precincts and wards, comprising about one-fourth of the state, give Hayes a net gain of 7,000. The republicans claim both branches of the legislature,

THE BATTLE IN IOWA. REMARKABLE CAPTURE OF HOLLAND BY THE DUTCH-REPUBLICAN MAJORITIES EVERYWHERE. GRINNELL, IA., Oct. 12.-The republican majority in the township is 381. The total vote is 3,331. Des Moines, Oct. 12. The returns are meagre. The indications are that this township gives about 800 republican majority, and that the republicans have elected their county ticket. New Jefferson, Ia.. Oct. 12.-Thls county probably gives a republican majority of 450. SHELBY, IA., Oct. 12.-The republican candidates have small majorities in this township. IOWA CITY, IA., Oct 12.-Johnson county gives a majority of 150 against Kirkwood, and probably a small majority for all the democratic candidates. Sioux City, IA., Oct. 12.-Incomplete returns indicate a republican majority of from two to three hundred on the state ticket, and a still larger majority on the county ticket. COUNCIL BLUFF, IOWA, Oct. 12.-Fremont county gives 250 majority for the democratic state ticket. Brooks, republican, is elected to the legislature. Pottawatamie county gives a republican majority of from 100 to 200. Wright and White, republicans, are elected to the state legislature. NEVEDA, IOWA, Oct. 12.-Story county gives Klrkwood 800 majority. The couuty will go republican by a good majority. Clinton, Iowa, Oct. 12. A very heavy vote has been polled, and the republicans have been victorioous. Kirkwood's majority will be about 100. The indications are that the whole republican county ticket is elected by majorities ranging from 150 to 300. There are large republican gains here. INDIANOLA, IOWA, Oct. 12.-The estimated majority in this county for Kirkwood is 800. A republican senator will doubtless be elected. The representative vote is close. DAVENPORT, IOWA, Oct. 12.-The vote is light. This city gives about 400 democratic majority. There is nothing definite from the county. FT. MADISON, IOWA, Oct. 12-This county will give the democratic ticket a small majority, not over 200. Washington, Iowa, Oct. 12. The township gives 221 republican majority on the state ticket OTTUMWA, IOWA, Oct. 12.-It has been a close, and exciting election, and there was a very large vote. The polls were closed at 6 o'clock, though about 100 votes were uncast. The indications are that the republicans have a small majority. MT. PLEASANT, IOWA, Oct. 12.-There is a decided republican majority in all the townships heard from. WEST UNION, IOWA, Oct. 12.-Kirkwood's majority is 140. MEDIAPOLIS, Oct. 12.-The republican state ticket is almost unanimous. CORNING, IOWA, Oct. 12.-Kirkwood's majority in this county is 550. Full returns are expected at 11 or 12 o'clock to-night. DES MOINES, IOWA, Oct 12.-No constitutional amendments were submitted in this state this year. The opinion that has obtained to the contrary is erroneous. Further returns from Polk county indicates that Lowery, the democratic nominee for treasurer, is most probably elected. The result on the sheriff is very doubtful. Both republican candidates for the legislature are undoubtedly elected. The returns received at the office of the State Register up to this hour, 11:30 P. M., indicate a republican gain of about fifteen per cent over the majority of that party in 1874, when it was 28,748, and of twenty per cent over that of 1873. There are very large republican gains in some counties, and democratic gains ion one or two. The least informed republicans estimate the majority for Kirkwood, republican candidate for governor, at 35,000. The returns thus far sent in would make it larger than that, but they are mostly estimated on counties from the returns of a few townships in each county. There is every indication of a much larger republican gain on the legislature thatn on the state ticket. While a gain of 10 or 12 republican members is already heard from, the only reported democratic gains are two members in Des Moines county. Unless the specials to the State Register are greatly out of the way, the republicans will have at least 40 majority in the legislature on a joint ballot. These are the republican estimates. The democrats concede the legislature and the state by 25,000. BURLINGTON, IOWA, Oct. 12.-The third precinct of this city gives Leffler (Dem) 94 majority, The other precincts are supposed to be in proporttion. OSCEOLA, IOWA, Oct. 12.-The republican majority in Clark county is estimated at 200. DENNISON, IOWA, Oct. 12.-The indications are that Crawford county gives a fair republican majority. WINSTEAD, IA., Oct. 12.-The estimated majority for Kirkwood here is 900. TIPTON, IOWA, Oct. 12.-The democrats gained in this township over last year one hundred votes. MARSHALLTOWN, IA., Oct. 12. The returns at 11:30 indicate that the county gives 1,700 republican majority. CHICAGO, OCT, 13.-Returns from Iowa up to this hour show republican victories in nearly every county and in most cases very considerable republican gains. A large vote has been polled and the local tickets are badly scratched in most places Governor Kirkwood is elected by a large ma. jority, and the legislature will have an increased number of republican members. DES MOINES, IA., Oct. 13--1:30 A. M.-Specials received by the State Register up to this hour indicated a republican majority of 30,000 at least, and a steady republican gain in the legislature. Special dispatches sent at midnight show a republican gain of one representative in Clark county, one in Fremont, two in Wahaska, one in Poweshick and one in Berlin. NEBRASKA'S ELECTION. THE STATE HAS UNDOUBTEDLY GONE REPUBLICAN. OMAHA, NEB., Oct. 12.-In Hall county the entire state ticket is republican by an overwhelming majority. Cass on the state ticket goes republican by a good majority. The county ticket is divided. For sheriff and clerk the democrats ran ahead of their ticket. Clay county goes republican on the state county and judicial tickets by eighty-eight majority. OMAHA, NEB., Oct. 12.-Kearney county is republican. The state, judicial and county tickets are elected by a handsome majority. Douglass's vote is so near counted that it is safe to say that the republican state and Judicial tickets are carried by a handsome majority, and also the county clerk and treasurer. There is a close vote on the sheriff, with prospects of the election of the

democratic candidate. Fillmore, Adams and Nemaha give handsome republican majorities. Platte is estimated a democratic victory. The vote in Lincoln is undecided. The county will be evenly divided. The republican state ticket is elected, Dodge is heavily democratic. It is generally conceded that the new constitution has been carried by a large majority and that the capital location question has been decided. A strong effort has been made on the part of Lincoln, the present capital, to have it settled there permanently. OMAHA, NEB., Oct. 12.-Lancaster polls the heaviest vote ever polled. The. republican ticket is largely in the majority: Lincoln City gives three thousand republican majority Saline gives a handsome republican major ity. Otoe is very close. It has always been democratic, but there is no doubt that it gives a large repbulican gain. Coming is very close, Valen ine, for district judge, republican, has a majority of two hundred and fifty. Returns thus far received from the state show that it has gone republican by a majority of nine or ten thousand. A very heavy vote has been polled. There was much scratching and some independent tickets were carried in the local and county elections. Col. James W. Savage, democrat, of this city, is probably elected district judge. OHIO ELECTION STATISTICS. ALLEN AND NOYES VOTE IN 1873. Counties. Allen's Noyes' Dem. Rep. vote. vote. maj. maj. Adams 1,961 1,558 403 Allen 2,286 1,755 531 Ashland 2,253 1,670 583 Ashtabula 943 2,944 2,001 Athens 1,455 2,576 1,121 Auglaize 1,906 553 1,353 Belmont 3,394 3,614 220 Brown 2,756 Butler 4,17 2,377 l,8t'l Carroll 1.1H5 1,547 .. 361 Champaign l,7l 2,341 6i0 Clarke 1,79 2,805 1,015 Clermont 3.475 S, 03 472 Clinton 1,M2 2,2X1 911 Columbiana 2.1KS ;;,01 9.3 t)oshocton 2.J02 1.M7 055 Crawford 27'J 1,492 1.57 fuyahog.. 5.0H f.24.5 . 2,W1 Dirku 3128 2,1H L''20 liellance 1,7 1 1 719 9U2 Delaware l,9o7 2,tj Ii8 fcM- l&HS l,Mi 410 Fairfield 3.5SI ' 2,mi 1,517 Fayette 1,415 1! 474 Franklin tM'tf 4,1'ti 297 Fulton 790 1,417 7 iUliU 1,4 2,2 9 7fi4 (i;auga 4H5 ,mi 1,22! lireene 1,4! 2.W5 l.i.li iiuernsjy-... l.y V,li So7 Hamilton lii,7l 1621 7t3 Hancock.-. 2,2: 1.791 Ui Hnrdin 1.8-Vi l,9i M Harrison 1,17 l.StfW 1 Henry 1,4:52 8u0 632 High, and . ... 2,;i-'l 72 Hocking l.&5 7 ttW ....... Holmes.. . .. 2.4 1 (i 10 l,5i Huron 1,1 2.K h-4 J a-k son. I.5;W 1,W5 . t'UT letlerson 12I S.013 1,0 Knox 2.7tt! 2, U '8 i4 lAke CO 1.9-Ö l,n7 l.twrence......... 1.V20 2,7.t5 615 Lickiug 4,155 2,719 l,4t.4J l02;an 1.4.W 1,WJ 4!0 Iorain Ui 3,"si5 2,14 Lucas 3 3.M 4.2TU S50 Msdihon .. 127 l.CU ... 4 Mahoning 8,3 8,1(1) 4;7 Mariou 1,901 1.240 0J1 Medina lel 2 t;27 6.0 Meiss LH1 2,514 l,üio Mercer l.s-l 727 l,uJ7 Miami 2.250 2. 10 tiOO Monroe. ...... .3H 7.14 1,600 Montgomery... 5.W7 302 Morgan.... 1,170 1,60S ....... ,l!W Monow 1,579 1,7 28 Muskingum 4,271 41.1(48 22 Noble,- . 1,077 1 641 80 otuwa - i,4ii 772 era Paulding.- fcWi 77 87 I'erry 2,tw9 1 061 4 . Pickaway . 2,578 1.7S3 795 Pike - - 1,683 l.lrJl 4C - Portage 2,(.W 2.2S5 2. Preble . 1,818 2,154 83S Putnam 2,107 75 1,132 Richland 3,11 2,53 012 ItOfS 8.791 3,141 W7 Kanduky . 2,74 ,025 715 Hcloto... - 2,1 SI 2,3X9 20Ö Heneca 3,182 2,J 892 . Hhelby 2,022 1,373 Ü19 . Stark ... 4.X8.S 4,8 2D fnmmit ... - 2,t'14 2,4i7 44 Trumbull 1 927 3.0V8 1,771 Tuscarawas 3,518 2,G00 918 Union l,3ei l,f58 492 Van Wert 1.750 1,7.50 2iJ Vinton . 2.4i0 1,215 245 Warren l.fkli 8.200 15.iö Wash iugton :i, 3,124 120 Wayne 8,0 VI 3,434 219 Witliams 1 97 1,8 6 159 Wood 1,804 278 274 Wyandot 2.-S9 1.ECI , o;5 Totals IWfM 213,8o7 32,1-Jl A lien's majori t y, M7. HOW CLEWS GOT HIS AGENCY.' TESTIMONY OP A PARTNRÜ IN THE PROFITS INFLUENCING) MEMBERS OP CO-ORKSS JUDOB DENT GETS H1Ü SHARE OF THK TRO-

CEEDS-THE TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE THING. NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-The examination of Benj H. Cheever, as a creditor of Henry Clews was continuted yesterday before Register in Bankruptcy Ketchum. In reply to the cross questioning of the counsel Cheever testided as follows: Clews spoke to me repeatedly of establishing a bauking house in Washington. Finally he told me he was endeavoring to obtain the United States agency and wanted my aid. He promised to pay me liberally. He stated to me the value of his agency and made a proposition to give me one quarter of the entire profits, as my correspondence will show in full. Q. What inducements, if any, were offered by you to Mr. Clews for the purpose of obtaining the signature to there contracts? A. The inducement was that I thought I could aid him and that I would give him my time and my services to accomplish it. Q. Did you not offer some special inducements to Clews and say something of your relations with persons influential with the administration? A. Only in general terms. I do not remember of saying anything specifically. I knew most of the members of the administration intimately. I may have said so. I did not offer any inducements to Mr. Clews in any shape or manner. Q. Did you not mention to Mr. Clews the names of Senator Anthony and Logan? A. I probably mentioned the names of a great many senators and members of congress. I knew forty or fifty. I do not remember that I told Mr. Clews of any special influence or power which I had with the members of congress or the administration. I can not tell where James Van Buren may be found, and can not remember how his name came to be put in the agreement. Q. What was the consideration in the agreement between you and Clews? A. All lawful services that I could render in Washington or elsewhere in showing his standing as a and when obtained, in aiding him here and in London. Q. Showing to whom? A. Members of the administration, the cabinet and others. Secretary Boutwell for one. I can not remember the others at this moment. Q. Do you remember conferring with other members of the cabinet, members of congress or the Senate? A. I did with a great number. I repeatedly conferred with Senators Conkling, Anthony, Sprague, Pomeroy, Morrill, of Maine, Sumner, Vice-President Wilson, who took a great interest in Clews, Speaker Baine, Senators Logan, Banks and Butler. Butler, especially, took a great interest in Clews. I could name fifty others if I had time to examine my books and papers, Senator Sherman, of Ohio, Ramsey, of Minnesota, Windom, Chandler, of Michigan, Samuel Hooper, of Boston. Delano, of the cabinet, and others. Q. Was there ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION than that already specified? A. Yes; aid in getting as many disbursements as possible through this agency. I introduced Clews to Cushing, and an arrangement was proposed as to deposits connected with the foreign consulate Fifteen million dollars was mentioned in this connection. Q. Explain more fully the word aid. A. This agency was one of the choicest things in the gift of the government. I talked to those who had power to make these deposits and disbursements. I spoke of Clews as "such a wise, energetic and trustworthy man "and" a very liberal friend of the administration." I showed the weakness of other houses, calling attention to some errors of Baring Brothers. I urged that an American house ought to have it, and that it was not proper to give it to Morton, Bliss & Co., as one of their partners was Sir John Rose, a title gentleman in England. I

also explained Clews's credit and position. These agreements were made in 1869, and almost immediately Clews had some government business. I spoke to teh appropriation commissioners in behalf of Clews. I was thus occupied many times every week, until October, 1872, nearly two and a half years, until the appointment was made. Clews suggested that I should open an agency at Berlin or Frankfort. Q. Did any other person have any interest in your onequarter of the profits? A. Lewis Dent was to have one-eighth of the profits at one time. That was the understanding, in April or May, 1871. Judge Dent was a lawyer, related to President Gant by marriage, Q What was the consideration for Judge Dent's share? A. His services as counsel in aid of this matter, and afterwards he was to act as the counsel for the agency in Washington. Clews offered him $25,000 to come here to New York as counsel. Dent was to furnish such counsel as would advance the interests of Clews. I do not remember specifically what legal services he performed, and do not know that he eve ceased to have an interest in the business. A copy of a letter alleged to have been written by Cheever to Clews was put in evidence and he was questioned concerning it, but he did not remember writing it. The writer alluded to the payment for his service, and mentioned that he had partners to share with him. Q. Don't you recollect stating or writing that you had partners sharing one-fourth of the profits with you? A. I do. Yes, I had supposed up to a certain date that Dent was a partner. At this point several letters from B. F. Clews to B. H. Cheevers were marked for evidence. Q did you inform members of the ad-

ministration, members of congress or the Senate of this agreement? A. I did not. I did not tell them of my interest in tbe profits. Here the examination was adjourned. THE MISSISSIPPI MUSS. WARLIKE DISPATCHERS TO THE MEMPHIS PAPERS-FIGHTING REPORTED ON SEVERAL OUTPOSTS-LITTLE DEFINITE INFORMATION. MEMPHIS, Oct. 7.-An Appeal's Friar's Point special this moring says that Gen. Chalmers continuted the pursuit of the negroes under Gen. Pease, colored, on Tuesday evening to Schufordsville. Frank Scott, white, was ambushed and fatally wounded by the negroes near Surrounded Hill on Tuesday. A squad of white cavalry under Capt. Burke subsequently charged the negroes, who were in ambush, killing three and wounding one, who is doubtless dead now, and capturing Nelse Leavitt, Ben Jones and Alex. Nims, who are now in jail, Bill Henry and John Thorpe were also captured near the Tunica count line and put in jail here. Chalmers's command of 250 cavalry has not yet returned. Forty or fifty of his command remained last night at Clarksdale to watch the negroes in that section, as several places were threatened. Chalmers, with the remainder, proceeded last night to Jonestown, fourteen miles northeast of this place, where the negroes under Gen. Bell Pease were reported to be in for e, about five hundered strong. Information was received here this morning that Chalmer's pickets were within sight of their out-posts. but not fight had occurred when the courier let. Last evening negroes were also reported is force at major Alcorn's place, twelve miles from here. Fighting is reported going on there, but the report is not confirmed. There are about one hundred armed citizens here who picket the town and will remain under arms until the disturbance is ended and security to life and properly restored. The white people hardly know what to do. Their homes in the country are unprotected, should the negroes order violence. There is a fearful state of affairs in this country. The white men are dertermined to disperse all the mobs, but are prudent and act on the defensive. While the disturbance was caused by Sheriff Brown and other republicans, the whites, democrats and republicans, are as a unit on opposing the negroes. A cavalry command leaves here this morning for Jonestown. A special to-night to the Appeal states that Chalmers was driving Pease's force from Jonestown and had him nearly surrounded, and that reports had been received of the negroes trying to organize forces in other parts of the country, but there had been no further fighting. Chalmers is determined to capture Pease, if possible. This will end the disturbance, but even this will not allay the excitement, as the whites, irrespe tive of politics, fear outbreaks in other sections of the country and will remain under arms. Sheriff Brown is still at Helena and denies that he attempted to incite a riot, but on reaching Helena, telegraphed to Gov. Ames that he could and would quiet the disturbance. Senator Alcorn to day telegraphed to Attorney-General Pierrepoint, as follows: ALCORN TO PIERREPONT: Having read several incorrect and sensational dispatches touching the recent race troubles at Friar's Point, I beg to assure you that there need be no alarm for the peace of this county. Several hundred armed negroes, who had been incited by an ill-tempered sheriff, marched on our town, and were readily repulsed by the whites under the lead of the most prudent citizens, who have been following up armed bands or negroes and dispersing them with as little violence as possible, and urging them to go home. The mob has been dispersed and I think will remain quiet. There is no question of politics in this excitement. The whites are to a man for defense. Those of the negroes who have been misled are fast being reconciled. A community of planters may be relied on for kind treatment of the labor. The whites have made no demonstration of hostility to the negroes of the county, but are anxious to cultivate the most friendly relations My name has been rnost ridiculously associated in the matter. I trust you will not give credence to any share in this affair by telegrams. Respectfully, [Signed] J. L. ALCORN, United States Senator. A NEAT JOB NEATLY EXECUTED. HOW KETHCAM CAUGHT 'EM-THE ATTEMPT TO SWINDLE THE INDIANA BANKING COMPANY. The Indiana Banking Company received a dispatch on Thursday evening from the agent of the British Bank of North America, in New York, advising it that if a letter of credit, above number 151, purporting to be drawn by them, should be presented for payment to arrest and bold the party presenting it for forgery. Yesterday about noon. A rather fine looking and very genteely dressed stranger presented at the counter of the Banking Company just such a document, number 169, as the dispatch of the previous evening described-a letter of credit for $3,000, purporting on its face to be drawn by the British Bank of North America, in favor of one Henry Sanders, and addressed to the Indiana Banking Company. The stranger addressed himself to the assistant cashier, Mr. J. K Ketcham, and said he would like to draw $2,000 and leave the balance on deposit for a day or two. Mr. Ketcham politely assented and handed him a check to fill up and sign. In the meantime Mr. Darke, the paying teller, had taken the wink and QUIETLY DROPPED OUT FOR AN OFFICER. He found one without much difficulty, and returned with him before the genial stranger had begun to "smell a mice." Mr. Ketcham, having got tbe check, had been sklfully entertaining him in the meanwhile with a polite diatribe upon the cashier's negligence in mislaying certain papers and moneys. As soon as the officer entered, Mr. K. directed him to arrest the forger, which he promptly did. The whole job was put up and executed in less than five minutes. As soon as the thief was bagged, the Banking Company notified the agent of the British Bank ol North America by telegraph of his capture, and received an answer in due course to hold him and they would immediately forward an affidavit and other legal papers. Mr. Sanders took the whole matter very coolly iudeed, neither admitting nor denying anything. To one of our leading legal luminaries of the Criminal Court, who kindly proffered him the assistance of his gian intellect, he quietly said. "When I want a lawyer I will send for one." Later in the afternoon he was brought before Mayor Caven and committed to the county jail, upon the affidavit of Officer McKinney, who made the arrest, to await a hearing upon a charge of forgery. Later a writ of habeas corpus was issued by Judge Perkins, and made returnable to-day at 4 o'clock.

THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. THE SOUTH AGAIN INUNDATED. PULL PARTICULARS OP THE DAMAGE DONE BY THE STORM THAT SWEPT OVER THE SOUTH OF FRANCE IN SEPTEMBERMANY LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY DESTROYED OF THE VALUE OF SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS. The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald furnishes the following fuli particu lars of the storms that swept over the south of France in September: A terrible series of inundations have burst over France, carrying with them indescribable misery and ruin. The disaster at Toulouse arose from the sudden melting of the snow. The later floods have been brought about by some of the most tremendous and awful storms which have been beard of on the European continent within living memory. For eight nights and a day a deluge of rain poured unceasingly down upon the south of France, and it still continues, partially, in many places, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Day after day, night after night. the storm raged on with astonishing fury and seemed to lash the earth in its wrath. The rivers, swollen beyond all precedent by the tempest, overflowed their banks suddenly in all directions, and the valley of the Allier was drowned by the waters. Wherever there was a hillock or a slight descent, the mass of waters roared and surged down it with THE IMPETUOSITY OP A CATARACT. The streets of villages and small towns were filled with rapid and uncontrollable currents, dragging strong men and cattle, houses and goods away in their whirlpools and eddies. Small rivers, which might have been spanned by a stone's throw from a child, suddenly increased to a mile in width, covering the cottages and farms upon their banks with water, and sapping their foaudations and whirling them away in tragments. The destruction of property is enormous; it is estimated at 8,000,000 francs for the Valley of the Alluier alone; a 285,000,000 francs, or $5,000,000, for Herault, the Gard, and the Lozere; and the number of houses alone thrown down by tbe floods already mounts up to 400. No less than 100 lives have been lost up to the latest reports, and 74 persons were drowned at St. Chinian. The damage done to tbe magnificent Abbey ol Fontfroid will require 40,000 to repair it. Tbe flood burst suddenly upon the monks at prayer, and a scene of frightful horror ensued. Father Francois, one of the community, had his skull fractured, and was killed on tbe spot. Another monk had one of his eyes put out. The fathers might have saved themselves by taking refuge on the high altar, but they would have preferred to die rather than to commit sacrilege. A greater part of the harvest of the rich south lands has been spoiled and now lies ROTTING BENEATH THE WATERS. which are covered with tall trees, rooted up by the storm, and pieces nof furniture floated away from ruined homesteads. All tbe hamlet of St. Germain des Fosses has disappeared beneath the flood. The districts of Vesses, Scharmeil and Hoterive have shared the same fate. Between Clairmont and Brioud railway communication has been interrupted at several points, and many bridges have been carried away notably that between Lembron and breuil and that of Arassac. A spectator caught in the storm, who found refuge up in a high tree, counted the number of the wooden beams of the houses borne past him in the angry rush of the waters of tbe Allier. There were 203, and many of them struck the tree to which he clung with the force of baitering rams. During eleven long hours the poor fellow, whose name is Argeret, held fast to the branches of the tree; then it was struck by lightning, but he, fortunately, remained uninjured and contrived to float away to land on a part of tho split trunk. Near Brassac, also a peasant, named Tarbe, was saved by his cow. He mounted upon her back and she swam to land with him. For several days there has been no communication between Clairmont and Brioud, and a goods train stands in tbe middle ot the Plain of Lavaur, unable to proceed. At Issoire the market place was suddenly DROWNED BY INNUMERABLE TORRENTS descending upon it. The flood rushed down with such.violence and precipitation that it struck men suddenly down in their ordinary occupations and hurled them into eternity. Thus a graxier was counting ten notes of 1,000 francs each, which he had just received for his sheep and oxen, when the waters smote him from behind, dashed the money from his grasp, and bore him fiercely away. In the mountains of the department of Puy-de-Dome great numbers of cattle have been drowned, and the bodies of oxen and horses were dashed about like balls by the furious water. Day and night boats are out trying to save the unfortunate. The inundations have been most terrible in the very heart of the south eountry, hitherto only remarkable for its delightful climate; and the departments of the Aude and the Tarn have suffered greatly. The trim, pretty town of Montpelier, hitherto known as the healthiest place in Francem has not escaped. It was on the night of Monday last that the rain begain to fall there with such persistence that it seemed as though there was one mass of water between the sky and the earth. All the drains were burst in a few moments, and the water rushing through the pipes, sapped the foundations of houses and threw them down. But here the loss of property has been chiefly confined to the lower part of the town, and only one death is reported. Palavas, a village situated near Montpelier, on the banks of the Lez, was, for thirty-six hours, in A SITUATION OF TERRIBLE DANGER, and the villagers suddenly found themselves on an island, cut off from help or provisions, and likely to starve unless the waters had abated. At last one brave fellow contrived to reach the church steeple, and sounded the toesin so lustily that succor reached them from the neighborhood. It was not easy, however, to release them, because when the waters partially retired all the fields around had been converted into a sea of mud, which could neither be passed in safety by man or beast. At Pezenas the lightning did great mischief, and a thunderbolt struck one house where eight people were assembled praying; their lives wore all saved, but one of them has lost his reason and became a hopeless idiot. The plain of Lezignan Cebe and Castelnau, with its rich vineyards and orchards, is all under water. On the other side of the Herault, in the canton el Florensac, the case is no better. The overflow of the Orb has occasioned shocking disasters and presumably much loss of life. Not only the peasantry, who. may have been unable to find refuge have suffered, but rich men, with all the appliances of wealth at their disposition, have been caught in the storm and downed. Among them is mentioned the Baron de ing them Sego nzay, an opuient land owner, residing

near Toulouse. At Bezlers and Narbonne the lightning has also wrought fearful devasation, and a poor man named Pontlevoy was LITERALLY DROWNED IN THE RAIN. While trying to save himself by flight a tree fell upon him and broke his leg. in his agony and despair he tried to wrench him= self from the crushed limb, but probably fainted from the pain and fell with his face downward, when the waters stifled and covered him. At Saint Pons and Ade the floods have also done great damage and the valley of the Jaur, with its corn lands and vineyards, lies beneath a yard of mud, with corpses buried in it. The railway in this neighborhood has also been destroyed in several places. The pretty little town of Cezte has been almost destroyed. Its gas pipes and water-pipes were all burst by the inundation, and the convent of the Sisters of Mercy was suddenly flooded there. High waters on the shores of the Mediterranean have also added to the widely spread misery caused by the mountain torrents and the overflow of the inland rivers. There have been such tempests at sea that the Mediterranean swept over tbe streets of Palavas, and the shores have been covered with wrecks of fishermen's craft and merchant vessels. The mischief done to lands and houses will not cease with the abating of the waters. The foundations of many houses still standing have been so sapped that they will have to be pulled down and built up again. Leagues of land have been. THROWN OUT OF CULTIVATION; vineyards and orchards have become heaps of rotting sticks and timber; cattle have died in such numbers that scores of breeders have been ruined, and will have to turn to some other employment. Even graveyards and cemeteries have been so soaked and disturbed by the waters that coffins and bodies are laid bare, and the memorials which piety and affection have raised to the dead have been washed away, no one knows whither, so that what remains of the loved and the lost can not be distinguished even by those to whom they were most dear; and they will have to be buried, none knowing henceforth where their nearest kinsfolks lie. The hideous gaps in the earth which have opened these graves are being hastily filled up, and new coffins are being made for the reamins of the dead. But how ghastly is the scene may be imagined from the fact that ten dead bodies mashed together were found in one place. A STATE SECRET. THE TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE LAW THAT WAS DESIGNED TO MAKE BONDS AS GOOD AS GOLD. The Washington special of he Chicago Times sent the following sensation to yesterday's issue of that sheet: Don Piatt, in to-day's Capital, gives the following personal history of the passage of the act of cougress ordering the payment of the -20 bonds in gold: "That the passage of the resolution binding the government to a payment in gold was a premeditated Wall street design, to depreciate the currency and augment tbe value of the bonds, we have the very best evidence. We were sitting in the committee-room of the District of Columbia, penning a letter, when a gentleman well known to the world of stock gamblers came in. We had lamented, in his presence, a few days before, our ill-luck in not being able to speculate in stocks as we saw others doing, and to realize handsomely from such speculations as several of our brother pen drivers had done. Our friend now came to us to say that he had an opening, through which a good thing might be secured, and when this opening came to be explained, it appeared in a resolution, carefully prepared, that had been placed in the bands of the chairman of the committee of ways and means, to be offered on the first opportunity, that pledged the government to the PAYMENT OF THE BONDS IN GOLD. This,' he said, will send the bonds up to par, and then, if we can manage to make

the government anticipate some of its indebtedness, the bondholders will realize enorm usly. Don't you see now, sir, your chance? Come in with us? A little carried for you will make nyou independent.' But we said, 'how are you to pass it? We all know that it never was intended to make such a distinction in favor of these bonds. They were bought with greenbacks for a mere song, and for the government thus to stigmatize its own currency while indorsing these bonds is simply infamous, and will be so regarded by tbe people. We have twenty years in which to redeem this bonded debt. In that time we can fetch our currency to par, ending, thereby, all question as to the mode of payment. To make the distinction you propose is an infamy.' 'There you go!' he cried. I did not propose to discuss the morality or the justice of the move; I only wanted to show, as a friend, how you could MAKE A FORTUNE WITHOUT RISKING A CENT. You can not help it. Nearly all the congressmen down stairs, in house and Senate, have more or less of these bonds, or will have them before the vote is taken, and quite a number will come out of the transaction millionaries. Not pass it! Why, you innocent, it will be passed under a patriotic cry of no repudiation! the plighted faith of the government must be sustained! and stuff of that sort.' Then, we responded. it is considered ri?ht to repudiate the debt owing to the people in the shape of currency, and shameful not to enable a ring of speculators to grow rieh in the distress of the country, for that is what it means. The men who boast so loudly of having saved our flag in its hour of peril have used that flag to cover just such infamies as these; and now the democracy of Ohio, with vietory almost within their grasp, turned back on their time-honored principles, on all their transactions and glories, take up the role where the exposed theorists were forced to abandon it, and cry aloud for more worthless currency." The fortunes or misfortunes of a certain Kentucky family might form the plot of a French novel. Many years since, the wife of a wealthy and distinguished man, in a fit of insanity, threw her two little sons out of a lofty window of her beautiful home. One died, the other was unharmed. The mother was committed to a lunatic asylum, where she remained many years without recovering. By his wealth and political influence the husband procured an act of the legislature by which he became divorced from his unfortunate wife. In the mean while, the son whom his mother had thrown from the window had become affil nced to a lovely girl; but she jilted him, and married his father, who gave her most of his vast estate. Finally, the father died, the first wife recovered and sued the second wife for the property, assisted by her son, whose early love for his stepmother was turned to gall by her unfaithfulness, and transferred to the mother who attempted to deprive him of life.-New York Sun.