Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 May 1873 — Page 6
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MM WS IM MJtlEf. THE EAST. Tiik great tea house of X. H. Gillette A Co., of Xew York, ha failed. Liabilities, -?150,(taaMM FitANi is Tkain has been pronounced UM tf a Xew York Jftry. Tut few remaining timber of the hulk of the Atlantic have been blown up. This action
23;h of April with the severest snow-storm vor mfmimmt la that eeeatqr. AI Maat ej fiuit were killeel, mediidim; the grapes. The regio of Santa Fa suffered from the same storm, to even a greater extent. The remark-
able nature of thin meteorological freak will bo comprehended, when it i eeaaaaei that iu that region of country miow is a rare visitant, even in miil-winter The liiion l'acitic Kai'road Company sold, iluring April, 11,471 ao-ea of lain!, at an average price of 4M Ml acre. tiik sut r ii. Miss Hisan EiiKiiHAitr, an accomplice of Spawn in the murder of hin wife, was nnng on the 2i inst.. at lYestou, a. Her last word were: "I am rea.lv and willing." 8he was
brought fourteen more bodies to view, but
ha not resulted in the recovery of anv of the ! lrfeotly unmoveil, and had uo dread of ileath.
valuable part of the cargo, which the water Brown brewer, colored, wan hung at refuse to give up... Hon. Salmon I Chase. ( ""vy. Ark., on Friday, May 2, for the murder Chief Justice of the United States Supreme I ' "l'ther negro xuuie months ago. Court, died suddenly at the residence of his ttw business portion of tho town of daughter. Mrs. William S. Hoyt. in Xew York. I Trenton. La., has been burned. Loss, .1(K.(KH).
at 10.30 o'clock on the morning of the 7th inst. He was in unusually good health and spirits up to within a few hours of his death, which was produced by an attack of aHplexy, w hich seized him ou the morning of the 0th. The Sup erne Court of New York has denied a new trial to Stokes, the slayer of James Fisk. Jr. He has still the Court of Appeals and the executive clemency of Gov. Di to go to Fowler A. Slociiiu. dry goods importers, of Xew York, have failed. Liabilities. ?500.-
Nearly 400 of the citizens of St. Marth
parish, Louisiana, have taken up arms. and. with two pieces uf artillery, have assembled to resist with bloodshed, if need be. the installation of Kellogg's appointees at St. Martins
ville. The metropolitan police, sent from New Orleans, have encamped in the town, and at last accounts skirmishing was going on between the hostile forces, arid a battle was regarded as immineut. In Xew Orleans there la
much excitement, and many of the poHot force
000... .The forty-eighth annual meeting of the 1 have declared that they will not take up aim
awnai ajbci society was held recently in New York. The receipts of the vear hna
sales were i42tf,S87. and from donations, etc..
J?ut..ti(8. The balance in tke treasury is ?21,931. The distribution of religious works amounted to 75.000.000 pages. Justice Strong, of the United States Supreme Court, waa elected President, and Bishop Johns, of Virginia. Viee-rresideut. New Youk chy is placed iu a sad predicament in regard to her financial affairs by a recent decision of the Court of Appeal, declaring unconstitutional the law of 1872. levying a tax of 3 mills on the taxable property of j the State to sttpply the deficiency in the city treasury. The treasury is thus denrived oir
bOttt 7.000.000 of revenue, and there is no constitiuional means of meetiug the current demand. . . .Judge Chase left about MOO, 000. Tanuton. Ma-s.. ha had a 100,0oo tire. . . . .Oakes Ames died at North Easton. Ma..
on tne evening of the 8th inst., of apoplexy, with which he was attacked two days before.' He was 69 years old. . . .The New York police are making vigorous war on the gamblers. . Kobert P. Blakley ha been sentenced at New York, to a life te.ji of imprisonment for the murder of his niece, Maud Merrill. .. .since Jan. 1. 30.000 German em grants have arrived at New York.
against the people
n-ASHISHTOX. A WllimuiUN dispatch says : Owing to an accident, the Morgan Envelop Company, of Springtield. Mass., was unable to supply the 5,000.000 postal cards which they promised the Postofrice Department by the 1st of Mav. They notify the Department that thev are now
at w ork, and are maki,,,- IM mm .... ..... " 1 " "
, . . TT" , r- anung oi danger, and. a tig hting in the
r.. n. i h uaviiig tow near the shore were saved : tho
I v 'uc presents to tne Mikalo. . I Wit. h 1 1 1 . hi t ,. I ........ ...... I :.. Bn i , ..
c, IIIau , rioriiia in tne wars
ceiv.-d several dmaMroiiti defeats, and it is fea lieved the backbone of the insurrection has Uen broken. . .The existence of cholera in Yielina and ('.uistautiiioplc i denied. FlUClirni. I'M. AMI TV. a hau Oven the luei Hum uivm Wav Hi Nioti ns MP tWOHM RBL8B in ro the Waieu-a Lakok n i m iu u Daovraa. Wholesale murder cau-ed by criminal carelessness, ignorance, or peiiuriousness would
seem to have reached their uiosi atiooioii climax in the frightful accident at lhxoii. III., on Sunday, the 4th inst. The patent iron bridge which spans tho Itook rnct at that lHint was crowded, shortly after the noonday hour, with lotween three and fou hundred people to witness tho solemn rite of baptism by immersion. The uiimiIwIhuIirI ilm
too feeble to bear this weight, suddenly gave way. and the wretched assemblage was prceipiiated into the deep stream. Once in the swift current thcro was but little hope for tllOSP ivhiv u-nvA ii.iuI.Ia . . ' i M ... .
I Twmm ""uic iu TTW, aim oeatii s apatite was glutted with an unknown ininil.r f men. women and children. A dispatch to the Chicago Tii, n gives the following particular of the horrible atTair : At 1:30 p. m. to-day (Mav t between thro..
and four hundred people were gathered uxn the city bridge over the Kock river, to witness the baptismal ce -onionies in progress, in the river, when there was a sudden crash, and, in an instant, the bridge gave way. carrying into the river its precious freight or human lives. The current at tho MJat IU ilwii mill urfAu..
and swollen by the recent rains to Hood
neight, in which the throng, that but an instant before wa full of life and happiness, thrown pcll-niell with carriages and teams in their midst, were literally swallowed up. Some of those near the abutment had tho presence of mind to leap from the falling bridge, at the
little fellow, alnml 13 years old. was can ;ht by both feet in the iron rigging of one of the spans, and had one of Iuh legs broker. Ho managed by shov strength to pull one f boot.-, oil', (earing the sole on" in the MQMM, and then coolly taking out his knife, rtpfttd the other boot from Ilm fool of the wounded leg. ami .ht n, crippled us he uns, mum ashore
Two Utile girls. siMcr, were sianding si le by side, and Went down locether. As thev
reached the water tfca . hlesl caught ihe othei by her dies witn one hand, Willi ihe other clung to a portion of the mmi work, and clung fast to it, up l her neck in the icy water until they were both taken otf bv a boat.
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Jacob
down with the
rest were
carried under by the wreck of tho bridge and H V I 1 1 1 nu ui- l.i I . . : fA. . ....
with the Seminole ,1 II I..- ZL ! " ' . ' '. . turrel- If
.r. I,un.l, rnuig spectacle for u fllllt till, In.lA..u 1.. A A. 1 ..
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llns course is not favored by the War Department, and Gen. Sherman thinks it would be a rather dishonorable kind of warfare even with the Modocs A Washington dispatch of the Id inst. says i Some of the Commissioners at
leuna against whom no chaws have been
spectators, who iu
moment paralysed the
a great measure, owim to
the lack of boat, etc.. were compelled to be helpless witnesses of the -loath of their wives, children, and friends. The horrors of the seene were intensified by the plunging m among the drowning human beings of the liaryriki atta LuJ a a t .
made Mm to IamIIU -Z I 1VT. . . . " ""W"a a wagon
aniUHt thiir - r- ..,r me t.rutge when ,t fell.
. , 7 appealing to mm i animal struck out wildlv
7 w"rul aueau ami oi.en the American I fortunate
THE WEST. A railroad bridge in process of erection near Sedalia. Mo., gave way the other day. precipitating twelve workmen into the stream, instantly killing three and wounding eight others, two of whom are not expected to recover... A theatrical actor named Vance recently made an attempt on the life of George C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis 0Ndfty Hirabl, firing two ineffectual shots at him. James Hay. a young man of I'lattcville. Wi.. leiiig suddenly seized with a lit of frenzy, attacked two friends in whose company he was. and. before he could bo captured, wounded
them fatally by stabbing in the breast. A I0BBDM tank iu Schoeneniau's packing honte, on Archer avenue. Chicago, exploded with frightful effect on the morning of the 6th inst. Four men were instantly killed, and three others seriously injured. .. .A private letter from Oregon states that Mr. Ca-iby is great'y prostrated by the death of her husband, aud is not expected to recover The deadl.odyof William York, brother of Senator York, who ligured so extensively in the
l omeroy bribery matter lat winter, whose mysterious disappearance some weeks a;-o caused so much excitement, has beei found buried on the claim of a man named Bender, six miles north of Cherryvale. Kan. The remains bear mark of violence. Other dead bodies were found Ute Bender s honse. ....Indianapolis has- elected a Democratic Ma vor.
.pari mem, wmoü present a most humiliating appearance. The Secretary is ranch embarrassed by the situation, but has done nothing beyond telegraphing Minister Jav to niak. II
J po-ible haste to get the Government out of
me irouuie. Twenty-seven Congressmen have returned their back pay to the United States Treasurer.
tne amount thus refunded aifin-eiratini.' in.
000. It is said John A. Bingham, of Ohio, will succeed Mr. Orr as Minisier to St. Petersburg Negotiations are in progress at Washington for turning over the land granted by the State of Texas to the Parisian who purchased the Memphis and El Paso railroad bonds... .James Lindsay. Pension Agent at St. Louis, has beeii suspended for "ir
regularities Nearly 400.00(1 dead letters were received at the Dead Letter Office during April. POMMIQX j The Turkish Government ha ordered 400.000 ritles from the United State. . . .Italv has been having a Ministerial crisis. , . .Garibaldi
i aiarmingiy ui v mutinv Uttel
among the Carlist
The affrighted
pushing several im
itate water and hterallv
ming over others. The horses all 'reached shore. Up to Monday morning forty bodies had
been recovered. In the prevailing excitement
mere is no means of ascertaining with anv-
. tiling like accuracy the number drowned. , Even the number of resident of this town j ,v,, are lo or missing cannot as yet be asceri tained. and numbers were in attendance from ; neighboring towns, and several it is reported ; from Chicag. The loss of life is varioiislv estimated at from 75 to 150. and the probabilities are that the latter iigures are nearer the fact. The north span of the bridge gave way first, pulling all tho others w ith it so quickly that no chance of escape was offered except to a few
at the extreme south end of the bridge, among whom was Edward Patrick, of this citv. who saved himself by jumping from the bridge. The bridge was an iron structure of the Tniesdale patent, and of tho same stvle as that which broke down at Elgin on a 4th at Jnlv a few years since, and was altogether too light
construction to i,e safe evon with les
STATEMENT OF AN l:VI-WITM:s Till:
t'N I Ell THE W A I lilts. '
Armstrong, a young man who went
bridge, bill escaped bv btittt
penned between (he falling lattice rods separating the roadway from the sidewalk. Urn
.i.s e a e 1 1 1 mi. i . "I wason the centei
of the span between the abutment and th .1 . , . . .
sinne wnen mo nn.ige went down. As the
wnoie tiling went under water a woman fell on
me. and some one caught hold of me. Just then tho sidewalk gave way and I slipped
uirougii. IM iron railing had gone lower
down than the wooden sidewalk, and as I fell through the sidewalk I struck the railing. There was little tpacc of three feet in size, through which I managed to crawl, and thus got beyond the iron-work. This i what saved my life, for the trellis-work or iron rod fell over and crushed many of the people, so that they could not get free. 1 bad kepi mv breath as I fell, and also I had mv eves ana
at the time. I saw H fearful sight as I was struggling. Under water there were women aud children and some men, all trivina to
clutch hold of something to save themselves. Some were held tight between the fallen iron, and could not free themselves; other had got clear and were f rant it-ally WTallllg Willi death. They looked like dark objects wrestling about. Some poor fellow caught hold of me. and would have dragged me down, nlv I
matiage.i to get free and began striking out
...... u.y rigiu nana. For mom HawIeoaM make no progress-. I swam a little way and tried to touch bottom, but could not. I got into a big hole that is just there, and sunk. At rising again I saw a woman drowning, appaiently goi&a down for the last time. 1 w.un t her and pulled her out. Aman iu a boat look her. I do not know who she wa. There
was a man named Kendville who had lost his wife, and was swimming around. Ho tried to
u.uen oottom. but was scared. 1 called tohini and MiMd pull him ashore. I was in water 'i'ute a while, and did all I could. Another man named Frank, from Dixon, went through with me. and also helped to save some other
people. The scene under the water was described a terrible, the whole mas of 150 o- 200 pcrso.is being engaged in one grand, awful trar.
t, 1 : r w. m
io- nie. it passe
horrors of that
of w hich was
gles of the ho
made a sortie from the
WW of Col. Deblanc.
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I "s.iii shell from then eaui.on, but
iney advanced about a mile ..... ........ .
n. no. Ii. a i,i in:., I.. ,. i .
afi. r a brisk sk.r.,.,.1. i. , ' . 11 rt',r''ej
Deblanc. loited Stale, roopn have been di,,,..h( . from this c.ty to St. Mio tnnivilh., , ,L- '.i 7 place ..f the Metropolitans. Ue Advi.es from St. Martinsville,,, tl "' the 7,1, report ,h.t skinnis,,,,, , . ' L'olin.' on -II ,1.- ....I h ' "'"
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w.th hi Napoleon Iwelve-pounder a,:, h1n, " MMt but after li, ,,g a few rounds he 2 cnipdled to!,eatal,a,y retreat, large 1, , Of cm. ei.s being M .ldl.H " dosing ,,, on I,,,,,. Several MtttOfoU , soiteddnri,,; ,1, day. Dwteg the sLm .' Iliv' a von,,.: ladv u ...i..i i. ..
and a citizen was shot j the anu The , irr,,,, I I ,L. , , .' r "S-
wyi """ oy nie iate M their rriettda
ox, ,eiuse to tai.o part on either. tLl I'lllltllfl - a. I A la
.s ,. '"at it is none of tLeir light. Ihe citizens arc ul to be cool btt determined. ' 1 Gen. Sherman telegraphs from tTMMMlii to (ien. Emory, at New Orleans. a WW ' If in your judgment moie troopg are m I
... iwTOini niaae your call clear and
MM we will endeuvor to supply them
ine nooj.s at JacUOa, Miss
points have been ordered to the
bsl in bunco.
A Washington dispatch of the Sth sav
consallatiou w held at the War Depana,,.
mw wuroiog NiwNa Hen. Bberman
Säai nwira of " .. .. !.. a .
Uli Atlornev .. i Williams and Senator West, of Lonisuna the subject being the condition of affa In n, Loakr lana. It wa-. decided to iiibtruci (ien. 1 , that he should call for whatever ,r,.
necessary to enforce the laws and preserve the
I'uonc i ea;-e. nut not OtlPrWtM M Mtorftn j except iu assisting the pnfhtr authoi,, ,.;ü carrying out the j. ocessei of the eoorta. 1 telegram has been received from .... logg, addressed to the Pre idem, and f, ,
ed to him. giving details of Uta itaaUao , Louisians. They do not Jffr MBUrii . from the NpoHa already published to-dav
sitviac.
and other
MMN of the
VODJSJUI A : in tk tvi: k. Tm lust immluTof Appkhmt' .',- mil litis it sliari) iTiticistn
st vh' if RjxshiteetaM : "If New York were to fall into ruins to-tlny, llMNMafagr't 'Xt-w Z.nlaii.r wouhl Bturch iu vain five hmulrvtl years honeo for any traces of its present m.ignifieeuee. There might be enough of the piers ol the Rannlrtm li.i.. i.,t.
- - V'S v i lot
asses imagination to ptcure the Mm to sit upon amid the desolation, but 4 WNM tight, the grimness it is tlouhtl'ul whether his eve would lie not les, ened bv i ,e frantic strinr- i n t -.i . lx .-.ea;tached-,o iZ I ht !'
were mwi off the twUfa to make the r wav to shore. Youii; Armstrong, rtcsed on Si. Jo r.ver. and at home i-i the w..ter. sh.idoered as
ue poK or its gha .ly horrors, never see such a sight a.4aiu ; yood was his closing rema k.
' Mry Cod!
TUE LOU I SIAS a WAR.
There are in Illinois 118 lire and marine insurance companies. They received iu cash jremiums last year 5. 704,861; their losses were rl. 477.017 : Vattx HIimh are estimated at ?1, 711.458; leaving a net profit of r2,51,-3-. . . .Chicago is making big preparations for her grand musical jubilee, which is to come off on June 5 and 6. The concert, which will be unaar the direction of Patrick S. Gilmore of Boston Jubilee fame, will take place in the grffllMl new depot of tho Michigan Southern and Rock Island railroads, w hich it i said will hold 80.000 people. The music wdl be
penoi-mea oy a magmlicent orchestra of 300 picked performers, inoludiug Gilmore s own baud, and others irom Eastern cities, as well aa the cream of Chicago's musical talent
Eioht dead bodies have been found under tho house of the Bender fair ly, in Labe:te county, Kanscs. and near which the body of Senator York's brother was found. About a dozen persons mysteriously disappeared near that place during the past year. This is the hri,t trace of any of them. Lender and fatrilv have escaped from the country, but bo great is the excitement that every effort will be made to find and bring tho raorderer to ii
The he .da of Schonchin and olhcr fallen Modocs have been forwarded to nv'itary headgarters at San Francisco. ..A little girl named Mary Fitzpatrick was gored to death it, Dulm.pie. tho other day, by au infuriated cow te,,re.e,,tatives Hawley. of Illinois, and Lusk. of Wisconsi.,, lve rett.ri.ed their back pay to the United State Treasurer Ihe Chicago and Nortl.weste.n and Ihe Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Companies have fttatad into an arrangement to pool their earning. i the proportion of 00 per tfc:,t for Miefotmer. and 40 per cent, for the latter, tins is a virtual treaty, offensive and defensive, betwee-, the two great rival corporation, winch have been nahtino
ly in the mm., Over 1.400 Apaches have surre.iile.ed to Gen. Crook, in Ari.ona... The extraordinary ewsconies from El Paso, Texas
" " seeuon. aict north fr..m there all
ue iiio uraiule. was visited on
s weicht
.... . .
y occurred "I'011 it than at the time of the disaster. Its
prisoner on one,,, the v T appearance was sulheient to ..-.. .r.n.i....
... - - - " ui" ' i - - - p " mm I Hilar atiun imJaikIh. una manv of tl u rn uiro . I ! of its fragile cl
- ' ' villi vi ' ii ft'Mdl I t "I ' 1 1-
sibiliiy must rest upon those who built such a terrible trap and upon the authorities who permitted its use. n. . .... aaMaB
wmmyu oi a utile child of John Uaos-
np
the 24th and
9 me guaru. . . .Span, is rapid! v enrolling v'olunteer for service against the insurgents, and promises soon to have an artnv of formidable stieii'th in the field. The earth at San Salvador is tfllahakifig and building which withstood the kfcoefc of the earthquake, amor t; them the Government Palace, on March 4. have fallen. Manv of the inhabitant who returned to the citv. in the belief that the worst was over, have been hurt, and some of them have gone mad.
Hon. Jam,; L. Onn. Cited Stufe Minister to St. Petersburg, died in that ci'v ou the 5th mst.. of intlammationof the lungs 4. Vienna dispatch say: Rapid progress has been made i-i the arrange,,,..,,,- f tie interior f the e:.hibitin bui'.lmg since tb opening' All the departme-it. are filled with goods except that of the United S.ates. vUdt' i U11 empty. Great indigna'io,, is felt bv ft Urin exlubitors at this state of things. .. .The Snl-1 tan of Turkey has forbid.len the exportation Of horses from certain portion of hi empire for a period of seven years. . . .Pere Hvaeiuthe
ieiioraie.1 hianu o, ......
. i j.inaie oilllUUlg 11, Geneva, the other day. in presence of a congee jation of 1.200. A decree of excorrmuiiication pronounced suteueiitv against tho. e who attended.... Ca-ada is threatening
...c cAiinrio or me Jesuit. Tuk American exhibitors at Vienna havo gone to work in an active manner to a.n ange their department and secure a proper exhibition of their goods.... The idea of a formal proclamation at an early day of a conservative
opiionc a i me irmanent form of government in France absorbs public attention, aud is gaining ground everywhere. . . .The Government of Switzerland has notified all Carlist agent to .put the country. The Duchess of
Madrid has also been ordered to leave. The Vienna correspondent of the Lonond Daily AV.r ridicules the American department of the Exhibition, and gives the following as a correct list of the articles to be seen in the section assigned to the United States: Two eases of Colt's liroaiin. three binnacles, one
"TT e"Kie' t,vo Wte dentist's chair and six Iwttlcs uf water taken from the Mississ.ppi river.... A dispatch from Pesth, in Hungary, announces a shocking railway accident near that city. Tweiity-ono persons are retried killed outright and fortvinjured, some
"' wnom.it is supposed, will die. Six . were completely demolished.
John Stuakt Km, seriously ill. . .War between ltussia and Bokhara is Mieved to bo imminent. . . .The Pope is said to be im,,,,,..;,,,,
'ii bealth.... The Carlist ill Si, !.,
.,.., lv.
worth, of this place, was almost miraculous. The little one floated down the stream almost to the railroad bridge before it was rescued. The child will, it i believed, recover, Mr. Jarnos L. Camp, and Mr. Towlor and his wife, by tremendous exertion 0 I a;,ed from the falling bridge. These were near the south end. and a young girl, daughter f If. H. Hasenepting, who was standing near them, and wan carrie 1 down bv aha fail
dragged herclf up out of the wreck to the
shore end. clinging all the while to the hand
rail. John Eutace. who wan on the bridge in hi llllL'L'V WHM HHVn,l ,.- 1. 1 .. . .
norse, willen swam
10 snore, after which .Mr. Eustace did some
good service in aiding others to escapo from waterv grave. """ ii . . ...
...... Bin 11. vvoodwaro, unaided, rescued
lour persons, two of them ladies. Dr. C. J. Reynolds, who happened to bo on the bridge at tho time, and made a narrow escape him-elf, saved at least two human beings from drowning. William Shilcock brought to the shore five people, all of whom, but for his con i- ,...
efforts, must have been lost. Henry T. Noble, whose wife sunk before he could reach her and was lost, saved the life of another lady, a Miss Smith. In addition to those recovered, five corpses were seen to float down tho stream. A number must have been c aught by the under current, and still more must be fast in the wreck of tho bridge, which carried them to tho bottom ,.r I
he river. A number owe their escape to tho
aei mat, owing to tho crowding on the bridge just before it fell, they were unable to obtain a view of tho baptismal ceremonies from that point, left the bridge for tho river bank. Horror-stricken crowds throng to the scene of the disaster and watch tho river below tho bridge, while hundred, as though laboring under a horrible fascination, gaze vacantly at the distorted corpse thus far brought ashore. Hundrods, too, are searching for wives, sisters children and friends, and tho frenzied anxiety of parents, husband and relatives of the
missing is terriblo to behold. Yet the awful work of fishing up the corpses of tka itrwil
arriagts and of hunting among the driftwood in tho
eocnes ror tho upturned face of dead mon and women, couth mos. There wore a number of remarkable escape of children, of whom there were not less than 50 on tho bridge when it wont down. oo
Itoanm at St. Mak i insvtlle Seveha Po-i. UO Killed -Attempted Assassination of Kellooo in New Obleans.
A dispatch from Now Iberia, Ln., of (he 7th inst. says i "A courier from the citizens' camp reports three Metropolitans killed and four wounded witbn, two squares of tho Conrt-Ib.use. where Co!. Badger ha concentrated his forceCtizcns ar COHactiog from eve.v portion or Attakappa. Most of the recruit are of the better cl..- and well mm.iJ ,....i ..
,....,,,. UI11 genera, iv aimed With breech-louding ahot-gWM. So far
the young men. pniicnully. have gono to the field. Married men in tho towns aro WatoM&g tho negro organizers, and aie preparing to frustrate them. Captains of steamboats have been warned not to transport Metropohtan aud consequently did not bring those at iho hay. knowing that their boats would be blow,, up. Tho entire Bayou Te. he fa under Mrvaib lance bv well oriraniyo.l l....li,. . t ..
--CP - oi . i. E:ght JMtropoUtaaa arrived at Brahea -City o.i tho 7th. unking 48 in ab. The etttftatia refused thorn all shelto-, and thev were compelled to stop iu a small i,o-ro cabin crowded
hu ucgroe. ihoy could get no transport a. Uoi, to St. Martinsville, all tho boat, being guarded by armed citizens. New Orleans dispatches of tho 7th give the follow Mf news : Tho exc.tement prevailing th-oughout the eity was increased tbis evening bv a report llml Ki.l'n,,,, I....I ...... . .. .n.
6(, ...v.. ucen snoi. mo re, ort ms
....... 1 . .
...., ie, um ii appears that a justol was tired
near mm. ana some reports say at him
nie Mipe intendent of Montan Teva ntt.
road makes the following statement : This
morning a detachment of police took.-l.ar
and picketed tho wharf of the Texas Railroad Company, interfering with business and creat
ing alarm. I rebuked Flaniean wi,n ... i-
charge of tho police, and sent wo.-.l to KaHao
expressing disapprobation of their conduct. At half-past 4 o'clock EoBoaX called aa i.
oftico. corner of Natchez a'lev and Maaaal
street, to explain the matter. Wbdo doing so his carriage, at tho door, was immediately surrounded by a largo, excited crowd, who commenced jeering and denouncing him. Just as Kllogg'sea.riage was being driven off, somo
one in tne crowd fired a pistol.
DTNomnora wall. Our mmm architecture' may nbum our xvnnts, but we uitist iicknowleilge tlmt. as compared with undent art, it is of a very perishable nature. On the AorotKdis, the Tlicsemu, on Uefa Demostlienes and Plato looked, to uow a museum of ancient sculptures; ami the Kornau I'.mthcon, Uefa Pliny naked among the WOOdeil oi the ancient world, is naed aa
Christian ofaorofa, nfter au existence of nearly nincte'en eH-nturies. Of h,t- years we have nested i lew s.ii.i buil.iii, -. Imt nearly nil ,f our itmetttMO "re shaniR. Our brown-stone fronts m only veneered, and not liing bul emtiunal cure j.rcvcnts them from resolving into tfaeir origituü efawaeate, while ur sphii.li.l lnisincss blocks nre. fer the
most part, thin hei In ,,f ir,i; r$ emee, in fact, gQed to the brim with OOmbttOtible material ren.ly f.-r the niate-h. We build merely for the present, Bad rarely for pist-rity. Shuil we ever i Iva nee mv.muI the age of stu.ro ami e'ivct our Thcseum ami our Pantheon f"
The driver
immediately idied the whip, and drove through
nmM aucy at a iiinous .ace. Tho young man who tired the shot was about three paces behind tho carriage as it turned into Natchez alley, followed by a largo and jeering crowd. It penetrated the baek of the carriage. The man wan well dressed, very quiet, and very collected. A'l the city papers condemn the action of
tho mob in IWWlMug into Iho (lovornm. nt, store last night, and.iov. McEiicry has issued an address of a similar purport. The Ptaqntaa't Ma Iberia special saya i A sharp eafeffBMM! took place to-day at Ht. Miutinsvillo. Tho police, about 2:15 p. m.
FMUUpUm To fit: A Til. That to be frozen to death must be I frightful torture many would consider
certain from their own expo; i. nce of the effeote of eoM. But mm we fall into the usual error of supposing that the BOJhtiBff will increase with the energy of tJie agent, wliicli conhl only be the case if the sensibilitv Vi ' T - 1 I 1 1. ..1 lilt
-m t a v i i if i i i ii v a i ue Name. Intense coltl brings ou speedy sleep, which fascinates the senses ami fairly beguiles men out of their lives. The most curious example of the se'duetive power of cold is to be found in the nelventures of the bontanicnl party, who, in Coek"s first voyage, were- caught in a snow-storm on Terra elel PaefO. Dr. Boleadat, by birth a Swede, and acquainted with the elestructive deceits
of a rigorous climate, admonished the
company, in elafianee of lassitude, to keep moving on. " Whoever sits down."
saiel he, "will sleep, ami wheever
sleeps will perish." The .lex-tor spake
as a sage, but felt as a man. Iu spite
of the remonstrances of those he instructed and armed, ho was the first to lie down and elie. The same warning was repeated a thousand times in the retreat from Moscow. Allison, the historian, to try the experiment, sat down in Iiis garelen nt night, when the thermometer hud fnllen four .1. faVMAfl Im In W
o - - - - zero, ami so quickly did the drowsiness come stealing on, that he wondeml how ft soul of Napedeon's unhappy band had boon able to resist the treacherous in-