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11 ED AUGUST 24. 1852, WHEELING, WEST VA., WEDNESDAY MORNTHSTG, APRIL 25, 1883, VOLUME XXXI.?NUMiiElt 2G9 oiftrr?: *"-? -' Nfr**?f. Js oilier worth Mr. lleadrick, why not tfr, iu (lie language of the Superb, that the uriifw a Ioi-hI question. That is the best way to iIchIuh k great uafinnal Ipsuo. Auram & IIkwitt ia the loudest bidder /or that Democratic nomination for the IVifiileiify, aud Sew York is utrong in the ruuventioQ ami in the Klectorial College, took out lor A b?> W'k have no heart to print Odes of Sprion, ami that kind of thing while win ter, lingering, chills the beat impulses of iLciiumaii breast, and fret zea the milk of human kiudnfaa to that it haa to be ladled out with h meat ax. The simplicity ?f the dispatch fronj Udoryia, that McDaniel was elected Gov ernor of that Plate yesterday is unequaled. There is a tradition that the letter class of Democrats of that State requested that there be no unseemly ujuabble for the (lend man's shoes. But the iiesh had no sooner been covered by earth than the bickerings began. Mr. McDaniels is.a Bourbon of the most obnoxious type. His election iaa pointer for 1SS4. w, haiTw^i * Democratic news ^r, not many hours old, published ? a inufact uring community, which play jut,y i>"H a??.v tbe idea that there is any in the views and demands He (ree trade Democrat.. The Demo ,5 newspaper bo situated which lacks Ibe courage to go against the policy oUts unrtv, has a had road to travel. It can t ?* reader, to Oghting their bred ?nd' butter; and the only way it can justify its Xclcy of the principles oi the Demo cratic party is to demonstrate that the democratic party, when it comes to the, teat, mdlv bss no principles. Tut Ttilrd Uungresiionai District of Wat Virginia shows in a very marked de me the legitimate relation between bus, U and politics. Since the war there has been a great development ot the coal and lumber industries, and Republican money mid Republican enterprise are at the bot tom and the back and the front of it. Tho coal opt rators are Republican almost to a man, and the miners are mainly on that Bide. The natives see on which side of tbe political fence progress lies. Some of | thetn have coino over and more are ready to come. It ia assuming too much to take i, lor granted that the native does not k?0w what bis own interest is, and that ho ran be hoodwinked forever by glib talkers wiio practice politics under law Bigns, Hav ing no band whatever in the growth and prosperity of the district and the State. Judge Brown is a native of tbe most Intel lisent and progressive class. In this cain paiijn be beats tbe standard of the Repub lic u party. He 1,a. borne it before, and to victory. What better time than this for natives who wish their district and their Slate to break loose from the Democratic |uut, and tako their places in the line of progress ? ' Mr Snyokh is making a peculiar cam* mien. From a private letter just received from tho Third District it seems that he is making a sort of Know Nothing campaign. Oor correspondent, writing under date of tie 21st insL, says: Three d?ys ago Snyder (poke at Lo " ^ in Greenbrier. He spent his ttBsin black guarding the Itepubllcan (,oiiveotlon aioil in clacking tip his own nomination. In fanr, lie gave two blue pills to the ilose, and ended hysaylng, "Brown was not only unfairly nominated, but nominated by a foreigner, Sot only by a foreigner but by one of that race which crucified the Savior. Tho reference hero is to Dr. Mayer, of Charleston, ngentleman of intelligence and standing, certainly in no way inferior to Mr. Snyder, a physician in good practice, lor twenty years a respected resident of tbe Kanawha Valley. The Istkiuoexctb is able to say that the part which Dr. Mayer took in the nomination ot Judge Brown was entirely creditable to him as a man having at lieart tbo welfare of tho Repub lican parly. It is not tho power of the nomination which worries Mr. Snyder and his friends-it is the strength of tho nom inee and the vigor of tho canvass that dls ttirbs them. But even this does not war rant a told-biooded assault on a gentle man, and an unprovoked attack on a class of citizens than whom there are no better in this or any other community. It is to to said for those who are of the Hebrew race and faith, that th*y mind their own business, and bavo too much of it to de generate into professional politicians. TltH NlUI'l' 1*AW\ nw?noo? KM-cUM the KMoouk.epors or Columbus. Cou'uuiri, 0 , April 24.?A number of property owner? of this city have inform ed renters in the saloon business that they tuustsecnro payment of the tax imposed by j lbs Scott law, or vacate the premises. Some pre JtaS., ?nU ?1 farthS deSlamUon L-hocvor shall engage or continue in the buaiueaa aforesaid, of soiling intoxicating liuuor in or upon iand or premises wjithout 'ho written consent of the owner thereofj .ball be bold guilty of a "Werner ?nd liable to indictment, will interferei wittt heir contracts. Thin raises the qnwtfon, Jan tho Legislature amend or interfere "t^tC'red Soon, will In this city until tho lnff is tested- ,, IViMKOSKTA, April 24.?The Seott 11? ,uot law excites the most "n'avorablo Lomment among saloon men here^ssl will have the effect of closing a number ol iraall doggeries. Tbo revenue ? rived from this source will be sometbing immense in this locality, and that part ot It which goes to the Infirmary fund will be Hilllcicntto supiwrt that institution on tbe plau of a summer resort hotel. IVIt'll lie Ka?n?ajr?. l'nn.AUEl.i'itiA, April 24 -Ex-Treasurer Ejan.nf tlin Irish I.wguo says the dyna mite partv will bavo very little following in tbe convention. Referring the movement in the mother conutry. , pends in a large measure on be support ot the Irish element in America. ... no doubt that so long as the pMiJBJJ'ls affection is kept allvo hy the support o 200,000 Irish Americans, In AnierioS. au the ingenuity of tho English Government is and will bo taxed to uevlse meaiurea W oipe with die spirit extant in America, and Ireland will he correspondingly hope Jul of ultimate success. FATHER OF WATERS MR. CAMPBELL'S EXPERIENCES lad Olmrrktlora ? lonr Iba LoaUlaaa CoMt of the XU?l?ilp|)| C?iar?ra*ttfta MUh Cap lata L?atb?r* na ibr J lljf and th* UaU irt #jiUbj??T h# havar Plaatatloai. Corraptintknct of th'f Inte ligtncer. Xaw On leans, April 'JO.?My last letter left oil' with my interview with Governor McEnery, at llaton Rouge, the capital of LouisUnn, and wit'-. the. advent of the steamer Natchi z at the landing, on which 1 was to return to tliia city. The Natchez is one of the fituoufl steamers of the lower Mississippi, and is one of Ihe three that form the regular line between New Or leans and Vickabjiix?a run of four hun dred miles?the other two beinx tho J. M. White and the KJ Richardson, thu Inst commanded hy Captain Wui. Campbell, a native of Wheeliug, the Ron of a poor Irish woman who once lived in the Fourth w ?rd, who began liis career as a uabiu boy uuder Captaiu John Me Lure, but now a wfulthv and prominent cit:z a ut thin city. The NAtch< z is commanded by Captain Thomas Leathers, a #reat nix foot 250 |K>under, who has been forty-nix yearn iu thu trade,"and who has commanded neven boats of tlut name in that time. He is known in conjunction with Captain Johu Cowden m prominent oppoaer of the Kads jetty system and an au advocate of the out let system. I had brftn warned that his food"and drink?bis dreams by night Hurt his theme by day?was opposition to Kads aud hie doings at thu mouth of the Missis sippi. 1 was threfore anxious to travel on hie boat and hear him express himself on this very impoit*nt question, about which 1 was trying to gather information. Com ing upou-the cabin deck I found the great leviathan iu earnest conversation with a thin man who could stand iu his shadow aud scarcely make a disc u|>on it, and sure enough it was about E ids. ABOUT KADS AND TOT JETTIKS. After taking my state room I returned to the sceno of conversation in time to hear the Captain remark that Kads did "not know a d?n thing about the Mississippi river: no, sir; not as much as you do, (ad dressing the thin man) and if he was only sincere in his ignorance I would think more of him," said the Captain, "but it is the Government money he is after, ami that is all thera ia of the whole business." 1 waa astonished at the number, variety and vigor of the Captain's expletives. If sweariug was a finable offense under the laws of Louisiana, 1 t!< ink it would bavu taken the proiitsof this trip to have squared the Captain's account. The expletives were more remarkable than the arguments. The conversation with the three men was continued at the i -o'e. and as I sat between the two I got the full benetit of it. As opportunity offer* i i got slightly identified with it. and after d'^utr I made bold to say to the Captain th?; I wished for a short time to play the rah of Paul and tit ut tho feet of Gamaliel and learn ull about tho levees and the outlets and jetties. "Well, sir," said Leathers, lookiug grim and fierce from under his hat and his eyebrows, "1 have been a licensed pilot on this river for 43 years, and I think I ought to know something about the characteristics of it hy this time. If I don't 1 ain't tit to com mand this boat. Kads is no practical river man with all his pretentions about hy draulics. He has built a dam down yon der and you see the effects of it up here. This river is ready to burst through and destroy this country, and if we escape this year no thanks to him. He pretends to be scouring out it channel and getting deep water through the South Pass by that pro cess but it's all humbug?all damn non some and fraud, lie keeps the channel open by dredging, tor which he gets $100, 000 per year, and even with allot his dredging the City of Lincolu, an English steamer drawing about 20 leet, is hard aground aud is heing unloaded at great expense to her owners. Does that look like success? 1 gu^ss noL Well, that's all his jettits amouut to, and all they ever will amount to." "liutCapt." said I, "is it true or not, that confinement within narrower limits will producu a scouring effect upon thu bottom of the river and ultimately cut a well deliu'.d aud deeper channel, as con tended for by CapL Kads and others?" HOW TllK JKTTIKS WORK. "My observation baa taught me," said he, "that water does not scour the bottom of the river at a high stage, but exhausts its energy on the surface or in the centre, and that it is at low stage that tho channel is made temporarily deeper. The bottom of the river riees and falls?rises at a high 6tage and falls at a low stage. It is not permanently changed at one htage or the other except as bars are formed. This is a curious fact about the river that I have learned from observation. I have found the gauge marks at Vickburg in low water indicating Bay 9 feet in the channel, when in reality there was 10J or 11, and 1 am at a loss to see now darning it up at the mouth nnd raising it up here is going to alter this hydraulic principle and scour out a chan nel." "Well," said I, "Ends has certaiuly suc ceeded in letting in a larger class of vessels to New Orleans than ever before, and the people generally of that city seem to be* lieve that it is a great step forward in their commercial importance." As to that, he replied, it is a matter of imagination. All the cotton vaised on the tributaries of the Mississippi found its way to market through the parses before Kads was heard of, and jtfew Orleans has no future in the way of commercial importance except as thd" country tributary to lier is protected from overflow, and the more you confine this volume of water, the more certaiuly will it overflow the country along its banks. l,ookatthe effect of darning your Ohio river by the bridgo abutments that they nre building. Look at Cincinnati, for in stance. Didn't you notice this year, that notwithstanding they had 7 feet less of water at Pittsburgh than in tho Hood of 1832, yet they had 3 feet more than the highest water ever before known in Cincin nati? That's what come of putting in those obstructions to the free passage of the water. And that's the Eaus theory illus trated for you. I tell you, sir, the volume of water in this river is too mighty, wheu all its tributaries aro up, to be dischawd through a funnel at the South Pass. The river reports show that they have had fall ing water for weeks past up at Cairo, and even at Memphis, and inasmuch as water travels 100 mile* per day, we ought not to be having a rising river down bore all this while, and we woald not, except fjr this d n nonsense of liads, who has dammed up the natural ou'ietof the Mississippi at its mouth. He's been an expensive individ ual to the people of ibis valley, and they will find it out after a while. Tho above is Captain Leathers' conver sation and ideas ooudensed. He scouted all spologetic remarks to the effect that the jetty system waa yet in its infancv?its ex perimental stage?and that Bads holds that it will only be wheu the outlets are all vir tually closod anu the river jettlw at cer tain points, that the fruition of his ideas will oe realized. To all of which Leathers simply replies, "Eads be d?d. He knows nothing about the river." TWO AiiAJUSTTJW TIIOrSAND. Captain Leathers and Captain Cowden are two men against ten thousand in Vev Orleans on this question. And yet there is n carious mixture of opinion among them. They want the jetties?they believe in Eads?but they say we want also broader aud higher and better Iovees, which means, in many canes, that they want the government to virtually under* take tho business to levee the river, and to do it in such style as will make over flow impossible. There are, however, plenty of intelligent people who know that this would simply be impossible, and who realms that-levees however well built could not withstand the erosion of the water on the banks, in it is driven by its own velocity from one side of the river'to the other, un lesH the chaunel itself is jettied so as to con trol the current. The Mississippi unless thus controlled, will undermine and cutaway auv system of levees ever built?though thev were Chinese walls in magnitude?as is plainly been at every short distance be tween Baton Ilouge and New Orleans by the hugj* chuuks ot laud recently cut out of its banks. Experience shows that an it flows to-day. it not only fails to keep within a defined channel, but, as at Vicksburg, is prone to fill up its old channels and take new de partures, leaving places like that city almost high and dry inland. The jetty system proposes not only to jetty iu? mouth but also its principal curvatures, and thus pre vent its inroads on the shores, and induce it to rut out a permanent channel. Cap tain Leathers and Captain Cowden say that this cannot be done, and the latter advo cates an outlet into Lake Borgne, below the city. iVr contra, scientific engineers, who tia've studied the hydraulics ef the Missis sippi, Ray that the tendency of the water, owing t<> the diurnal motion of the eartb from West to East, is to throw the weight of its water to the west side, and to seek its outlets through that bide, as it is now doing through the Atchafalaya.at the moutb of lied river. THK FUTUHIC or THE KATUER OF WATKllS. The future of this great river is the question of questions down here. A recent article in the Times-Democrat, showing that theAtcbafaiaya was deepening and broad ening, and taking oil' an increasing volume of the Mississippi down through the Teche country, aud that at its rccent rate of increase would soon become the princi pal stream and leave New OrleanB on a aide stream, created a profound sensation, as well it might, for it is a fact that that river has suddenly and wonderfully in creased i.s depth in the last two years. So much so that the Texas Pacific railroad has for the present abandoned the idea of bridging it, finding tnat the soundiugs have increased from GO to 120 feet in depth at the mouth. Captaiu Eids is supposed to have innpired this articlo in the Timet Democrat, inasmuch as it coincides with the tone of his argument in favor of closiug the mouth of that rivur. lie holds that uuless this is done that the future of New Orleans U very precarious indeed. I could write a long letteron this subject if I felt assured that the subject would in terest your readers us it doea the people down here. Here it is the staple of con versation and of newspaper articles. Upon the Ohio Valley you people only tool a sec ondary interest in it, being assured that the Ohio will be all right whatever may be the future of this great stream. Not so with the vast cotton and sugar interests that de pend on the levee system, and not so with the cities aud towns that depend for their prosperity?indeed for their existence?on the question of controlling the channel of the Mississippi. Sl'GAK PLANTATIONS. If this letter was not alreadylong enough I would write you out the history of a trip tbut L took down to tbe li ida' jetties at the mouth of tho river alter coming down from liatou Kouge, a distance of 110 miles. Some Of tbe famous sugar plantations of Louis iana are down on this lower coast?nota bly that of Gov. Warmoth?and some of Z most extensive and magnificent orange kg HOen in the houth?notably th?se of BraddisU Jobnson-and although v lri? down and return was made on two everything looked very damp, indeed?yet, my trip up the coast. 1 could no Sing ol fascination as 1 surveyed these ?mmeuBe estates on which so much rnmiev had been and was being expended f?250 000 in the case of Governor \\ ar bSh'iand which, more than any country M these immense plantations, taking ai their SbTor tbo Bake of their occasional fortunate hits coupled with their Elveian sfeessssKsJfi Sorfnmes?that it seems to the traveler ou fb" water as if ho waa indeed skirting along (be very gardens of the Hesperides. Til* DARK BIDS. But if every cloud has its silver lining, a,crv tale that is told you here concerning this enchanting country has its shades. One hears of a long succession of bank rupt ownerships?of large ortune. made in trade and commerce and lost on these Clrcean shores. Indeed old cltiien. have naid to mo that you could almost count on your fingers and toes the derided bucccmw ?i^nPlong rMWentln thesa parts, said nf both au^ar and cotton?so much bo bat I ? SSt?t>y reminded of Gov M.-Fuerv's conversation at Baton w well as of that proverb of Solo mm that recites that the borrower is the vi I Snnot dosotliew observations without exoresaing my obligations to my ' compan difvovage" down the const, Mr. Frank \SX clerk of the little steamer t<ep hailing from tnai iwi ^ boal 0, rnsr-jfSi'ite, ttSf. madeFme feeiquito athomo with a blanket and a cushion in the pilot housc^ ^ Q B^'uT^Apn! "I? William T. D^r-?tedkt Franklin Junction for the mnnler of a negro, reported confers to hiring two negroes to bring hilu th. body lor direction, pretendinjt to , niivslcian. 11s carried tbe body Into the nm?r room of the hotise, occupied bv KsHSS?^a ?n cutting tbe candle so long that the house did not take Ore during the night. it boing ?i,? nurnose to burn the house and have it innitf thatbe himself had been burn?d ?ST so that the family migbt obtain the amount of the Ufa insurance polloj recently procured. WASHINGTON NEWS.' THE BUCKEYE STATE POLITICS. What Rattorirortli will Do ir Ho U Hot Horn lasted for tiovoraor?A Few Hotoi from Jobi (J. Thompiou'o Prophttlc Horn. A Cr*ak At the Mhlto JHobm. Washington, April 24.?The Critic quotes one of Major Ben Butterworth's moat inti mate friends as having stated the other day that if tho Major is not nominated for Governor of Ohio by the Republicans he will quit politics and settle down to the practice of law at Cincinnati. Mr. John G. Thompson still continues his confident air. He says he has no idea whom the Republicans of Ohio will nominate for Governor, and the chances of their carry ing the State depend, he says, very much upon the nominations by both parlies. As to the probable nomination for Governor on the Democratic side, Mr. Thompson esys: "I can't tell. There are throe prom inent candidates in the field, but I rather think that one of them will not go be/ore the convention when the time comes." "Who are the candidates, and which of them do you think will decline to have his name go before the convention?" "Well, the three gentlemen whom I refer to are Judge Hoadly, General Durbin Ward and Judge Geddes. I think it more than probable that the latter will not go before the convention for the reason tuat tiiev have raised the crusade cry agaiust him." "Which of the others do ynu think the strongest?" "i haidly know. Each of thorn has advantages. General Ward is the favorite of the old mossbacked Democrats. Judge Hoadly seems to be the choice of the liberal-minded element of the party and the Germans. Hoadly has another advan tage, also, and that is, he lives in Cincin nati. However, either Hoadly or Ward would be elected, yet neither ot them may be nominated." I'OUICH FOKF.VCU! Undo JoNb Arrive* from the Kentry Willi u llutlle oft'ollc Killer. "Washington, April 24.?The latest crank appeared at the White House yesterday. He had evidently heard tho alarming re ports about the President's health and drove in from the country with a rickety buggy drawn by aged horse. The visitor was an old veteran clad in a homespun suit Alighting, ho drew forth froui under a pile of straw a long-necked bottle, and inarching up to the main door, accosted the doorkeeper with: "Her the President got back yet?" "Yet; got back last night." "Keu 1 see him right away ?" "No, sir; got orders not to let any one see him; he's slightly indisposed." "Yaas," drawled the countryman, know that; but yer see it's colic what's got a hold on Jiim, an' I've cum all the way from Pohick to give him a drze of this yere, (shaking the long-necked bottle.) It's Aunt fcially Hooper's home made colic killer, an'it'll fetch him about in the jark-of a lamb's tail." "Can't help it, my friend; you cannot get in. Call again," said the doorkeeper,' with a broad griu, as he closed the door, and the grizzled sou of Pohick sadly mounted his m"ddy vehicle and drove oil', muttering that he didn't care if- the colic went to the patient's brain and produced consumption. Indian Tronbloa. Washington, April 23.?The Indian agent at Wilcox telegraphs to the Indian Office that a company of rangers are now near the San Carlos agency, evidently intending to surprise the Indians. Thoii suspicious movements are exciting the Indians, and it is thought serious results may ensue. The agent expresses the fear that the Indians cannot be influenced to act solely on the detensive, and should not be put to the test Secretary Teller to-day directed the agent at Wilcox to inform tbe rangers now in the vicinity of the reserva tion that they must not surprise the In dians. Ho nlso directed Wilcox to acquaint the officers in charge of the United States troops with the situation, in order thai precautions may be taken to prevent trouble. Only h Juke. Washington, April 24.?Officers of the Fostoffice Department say there is nc truth in the statement recently published to the effect that communications bavt been received urging the appointment o; ex-President Hay* s as postmaster at Fre mont, Ohio. Mr. Kribbs, who was appoint ed postmaster at Fremont by Mr. llayes, was recently found to be between two and three hundred dollars short in his accounts but he has made the amount good and stili holds his position. It is probable, however that a new appointment will soon be made. Cabinet Meeting. Washington, April 24.?The Cabinel meeting to-day lasted about an hour and a-half. All of the heads of Department* were present, including Mr. Gresbam, the new Postmaster General. The rules and regulations prepared by the Civil Service Commission, which were recently submit ted ty the Preeident for approval, were presented by the latter, and after a short discussion of them a copy was given to each member of the Cabinet for examina tion. TEWHSBUKV 1* VLMTIU ATI03T. Governor Butler ami Attorney Drown llnvon Legal Tilt? Boiler on Top. Boston, April 24.?The Tewksbury in vestigation was opened by Attorney Brown, who, after alluding to the remov of the trustees by the Governor, com menced' to review the latter's statements regarding the removal, made in an inter view with reportere last night; but the Governor interrupted and protested against a revival of the discussion of topics not ger mane to the investi^tion. He (the Gov ernor) was entitled to express his per sonal opinion in whatsoever manner he chose. Mr. Brown was about to talk of soinethingfor which he (the Governor) was not responsible to the committee. He was alone responsible to the people of the State. (Tremendous applause.) After con siderable bickoring it was decided that Mr. Brown should not have the privilege of making his intended remarks. Marvaret Perry, of Boston, testified that the nurses at Tewksbury were rough in their treatment of patients, striking them and holdiug pillows over the mouths of insane patients to prevent their .asking for necessaries. Witness detailed tbfa outrages inflicted upon various inmates from time to time. Mrs. Abbie E. Wheeler saw a curse nanud Dunning jump upoh the stomach of a patient with her knees six times, be cause she wonld not take medicine. Thomas Marsh. Jr., was venr familiar with the nurses. Mrs. Bridget Dolan had a daughter and grandchild at Tewksbury last February, aud made several attempts to got them out, as her daughter begged to be taken awajr. She did not succeed, and her daughter died in Tewksbury. Ths child had been treated so badly that it Ipet its speech and could not walk. While the daughter was dying of consumption she was fed upon a piece of black sour flsb, tfo water-eoaked potatoes and a bowl oi skimmed milk. This waa but four weeks ago. Word was not aeut to her until aftei the daughter's dwjth. Witness waa no! drunk at Tewkabury, but only excited. Some of her anawera were very contradic tory. Two tanners testified that ceitain human skins were brought to them to be tanned by a student, but they could not aay they were from Tewkabury. PKKNEBVIftti TMK HUI)Y OF A GIRL. The Corpue or ? Hartford I,?dy Krpl Four Honlbi llabnrlcil. New York, April 24.?A diapatch to the IIera\d aaya that a remarkable affair haa juat been difcovered in East Hartford after mouths of profound secrecy. During last December a aixteen-year-old daughter of Mr. aud Mra. Edgar Brewer died, and her parents have ever since complied with her dying wish that her remains should not be buried. The body waa embalmed and has been kept in the parlor, the undertaker making almost daily visits for the purpose of applying chemicals of a preserving char acter. The father wua devotedly attached to the daughter, and ever since her death it has been his custom to rise and drees himself at midnight and pass the remain der of the nigbt in the room with the corpse. At daylight he generally returned to his chamber. Frequent viaita to the par lor were alsu made by him during the day, and it ia feared that his mind hua become scattered, aa he invariably addresses the inanimate form as though bis daughter was still alive. Mra. Brewer and a few intimate neigbbora admitted to the secret have fear ed far his aauity aud have counseled the burial of the body, but he has been stern | in his jefuaal, and begged that tho affair might not be disclosed to the public. Now, | however, that the 'matter ii no longer a secret, he haa consented to build a vault in the yard, but stipulates that it shall be easy of entrance and that his nigbt vigils I ahull not be interrupted. AAEl'UO OF I'll K IUHNADO. Tbe I.otmof l.lft* nuU Properly In Marnier Comity, CiourglH, nud Other i'litce*. | Ameiucus, Ga., April 24.?The terrors of | the tornado here can acarcely be exagger ated. At midnight the wind came up from the southwest and rain fell heavily. The wind became a gale and at four o'clock the cyclone pasaed diagonally through Sumter county about a mile east of here, demolish ing everything in its course and doing frightful damage to life and property. Its direction was from sonthwest to uortheast. The track was from 300 to 1,000 yards wide. The rain fell in solid masses and the thun der and lightning were appalling. Houses were blown down, forests leveled and all vestiges of fences carried bodily | away. Cattle,^heep, hogs and horses were'1 killed by hundreds, farms, plantations, farm houBee, &c., in the track of the tem pest are all destroyed, and the grain crops ruined. In this county alone there were twenty-fivo persona killed outright and over two hundred injured. Many houses und mills with their contents, animala and children were blown many yards. The Woodruff family, father, mother and children were all killed, and five persous were killed in another house from which a | child escaped. How many other lives may bave been lost, of which nothing has yet been heard, is not known. The highways are in places blocked with timber so aa to be entirely impassable. The loss to prop erty in this immediate neighborhood, nar row as was the track of the storm, will not be less than $100,000. M'KIJVLCY-WALLACtS t'OSTEMT. Tenlimony In tbe C'nue Taken?Claim* of (be t'oniVKlHnu. Pirrsuuitaii, April 24.?The rebhttal of testimony in the McKinley-Wallace con test was heard in the oflice of Charles F McKenna to day. It had been previously testified that Messrs. Rankin, of this city, and Bonsall, of Salem, Ohio, had brought $500 to East Liverpool before the late election, which was to have been used in purchasing votes for Wallace. The only witness examined to day was A. G. Rankin, who stated in substance as follows: lie do mes the money was taken to Liverpool to be used in the interest of Wallace, but states that it was money borrowed by the lodge of the Knights of Labor at that place, and was to have been used in the interest of the locked-out potters. He admits that the money came from parties who were op posed to McKinlev, but states that it was for the assistance of the locked-out potters. Mi. Wallace claims that, as the result of the investigation, he is twenty-five votes aheau, while Mr. McKinley claims that he is ahead thirty vates, and is consequently the legally elected member. Meetings are being held all over the Eighteenth Con gressional district, at which testimony in the case is being taken, and if the commit tee is not doing anything else, it is making a voluminous record. FIRE ON BOARD A NUIP IN PORT. The Renene of Two Nick Woman From a Terrible Dentil. New York, April 24.?Fire broke out early this morning in the lamp room of the steamer Italy, National line, lying at the foot of Houston street. The alarm of fire jvas at once sounded, and the hatches were quickly battened down. In the steeruge hospital were two emigrant women too sick to be removed yesterday when the steamer arrived. For the safety of these great fears were entertained, the sick wards being close to where the fire broke out Several sailore volunteered to go to the rescue, and descending below decks soon brought the women on deck alive, but in a state of semiconsciousness from the effects of smoke. They were taken into the cabin where they were cared for by the surgeon. In rescuing the woman the sailors dis covered the source of the flames. A hole in the flooring over the spot was cut and water poured in, and the flames werequick ly extinguished. The damage to the ship between decks is estimated at $3,000. The damage to the cargo by water is believed to be neavy, as the ship having arrived late yesterday, none of it was renewed. The Front nmi ibe Frnlfel Cincinnati, Ohio, April 24. ?The Commercial OazeUe't specials from a number of places in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, say the frost lust night was quite severe, out the general opinion is tnat the fruit isnotseverely injured. Some points report all the early cherries killed, and peaches injured. All agree that no damage was doue to wheat The temperature is low to-night and a clear sky, which indicates another frost Tbe Georgia kleetloa. Atlanta, April 5W?The election for Governor passed off quietly. A light vote was polled and there was no opposition to Henry D. McDaniel, the Democratic nom inee, who is elected. He will probably be inaugurated on the 12lh of May. The Legislature meets on the 10th to open the* returns. . Affalnut Women NufTrage. Boston, April 24.?By a vote of 65 nays to 100 yeas the House refused to engross a resolution for amendments to the Con stitution so that womon may be ap pointed justices of the peace and notaries public. A two-thirds vote was necessary. THE BIGGEST YET. THE OWNERS OF THE BIG GAS WELL Dona at Ho?nd?Tlllt> VUltTkalr Propartj-Iajor Ljobi, of fltubargh, U?l*t?a Tkalr Ex. pericarp Thart ? A Hjw aad Fore: lira* tar Tliin VTalUbarg'a Uryier. At the Staram House Inst evening an Is telliqknckr man encountered Mayor Bob Lyons, of Pittsburgh, looking as big and as hearty as ever, lie had just returned froui Marshall county, where he had been to inspect the big gas well that was struck last Saturday, lie waa accompanied by Councilmau Free, of Pittsburgh, Gen. A. L. Pearaon, Oil Inepector Ramsey and C. L. Straub. These gentlemen are promi nent members of the company that has lecaed a tract of about 4,000 acrea, about eight miles below this city, on which they have drilled the well that ia now spouting so freely. The well was started asanoil well, but whether the strong volume of gaa will permit the drillers to continue their work until oil is reached it is hard to say. The Pittsburgh era went down yesterday morning and will return home this morning. Mr. Kamsey, who has had a large experience with wells, is of the opinion that with a little more drilling the flow of gas will be such aa will exuell any gas well in the country. Mayor Lyous in conver sation HHid: "Well, you know the drillers succeeded the latter part of last week in getting gas iu such quantities as rendered it necessary to convey it away from the work. Thia was accomplished Saturday, and the drill again started. After going through two feet of sandstone tharush waa such that the men wero driven away. The noise can be hiard for a long distance. We are going to try, however, to bore further down, and we believe we shall strike a still stronger fbw. We took down a U00 pound gauye with us yesterday, and after partially plug ging things up, put it on the end ot a two inch pipe.-^'he needle just flew around, and the pipe buret. We drove in a fifty pound plug. First thing after we quit driving, she weutofT living up through the derrick; second time put rags around the plug, and after we got it in I stood on the plug. I got lifted about twenty feet, I should think. Third time the six inch casing broke near the top. lt'a a howling big thing, I tell you. "What are you going to do with it?" "Well, we haven't decided yet, but we'll do something and make money on it, I'll bet. Ramsey there, he knows and he ia enthusiastic over it. See Pearson laugh, will you? He a?ys I lost my left leg when I got lifted. You should have seen him getting across a ten acre lot when the plug went up the lirst time; in fact we all thouxht that we'd seen the last of the Smoky City." A DKLH'AIK qUAMllOW. In nr. Klmbcrly Legally Councilman From the Fourlli WnrU. The *uestion that ia now agitating the minds of the members of the Second Branch of Council is, ia Piiilo L. Kimberly a member of that body from the Fourth ward or not ? Same months since Mr. Kimberly pur chased a large farm in Triadelphia district, this county, situated near ML de Uhantal, underlying which is a large amount ol coal. Mr. Kimberly proposes to work this coal and also become a horny handed granger. Accordingly, he a few weeks uince moved his family out to the farm and rented his residence in Manchester. At the last Municipal election Mr. Kimberly was elected to the Second Branch from the Fourth ward by a rousing majority. At the session of the Legislature in 1S82 an act re lating to the charter of the city ol Wheeling was amended so as to make it obligatory on the part of a member of Council to re side in the ward from which he was elected. Mr. Kimberly was always a persistent, regular attendant on Council, but at the flrat meetiug, after he had removed to the country, which was four weeks ago, his place was vacant. But in bis place was a communication from him addressed to the Branch, in which he stated that lie had moved his family to the country,' but that he owned large estates in the Fourth ward, and that he should be there most of his time; that be had not as yet decided whether his family would permauently reside in the country; that there was a doubt in his mind as to whether he was entitled to his seat, and he asked the Branch to decide the matter for him. The talk over the paper that night was some thing awful?the howling of the winds wasn't a circumstance?and it was finally sent to the Committee on Elections. That was a wrong step to take. The committee is a joint one, composed of members from each Branch, and those from the First, according to usage and precedent in nu merous legislative bodies, havo no business to deal with the qualifications of a member of the Second. That committee endeavored to meet yes* terday afternoon for the purpose of deal ing with the case, but it was found impos sible to get a quorum together. Last even ing, just after the Branch had been called to order by President Hildretb, the mem bers were surprised to see the familiar form of Mr. Kimberly edging through the big lobby that tilled the place behind the bar. He entered the Council space and took his old seat, looking "as large as life and twice as natural." The minutes were being read. Several reached out and shook the Great Commoner's big right hand. The minutoa out of the way, Mr. Healy moved to suspend rules and take up license applications. At this point Mr. Kimberly made a break. He rose and asked the indulgence of tho Branch. He said that he was in a delicate portion, and that probably to many bis eligibility was a delicate matter. He did not want to be understood as seek ing or lobbying for the position of Coun cilman from the Fourth ward, but it was something the Branch owed his constitu ents, to decide whether they had proper representation; if not, to declare the office he was elected to, vacant, aud proceed to eloct. He appeared be cause he understood that the committee to which his case was referred had not acted. * On motion of Mr. Rosonburg, the action bv which Mr. Kimberly's case was referred to the Committee on Elections was recon sidered after considerable pow-wow as to whether such action was in order. Dr. Jepson said that he was of the same opinion now that he was when the matter was flrit brought up. that the solicitor should give his opinion on the matter. The councilmen were not lawyers, and there were grave points of law about the case that should be looked into. Mr. Uarrell thought that so long as Mr. Kimberly had been a good member and owned property in the city, he should be allowed to remain. He could see no rea son in referring the matter to the solicitor. Was he to be "a judge and jury?" A general conversation now took place, while Mr. Kimberly wrote the following and presented it to Mr. Healy, who of fered it! AV?W, Tbiit P. L. Kimbfrly be and bo is hereby decided to bo fully qualified to serve as a member of Council from the Fourth ward, hia partial removal to the country notwithstanding. Mr, Kimberly did not exactly favor re ferring t? the Solicitor, "llow is he to judge where I reside? I am thp one lor that. 1 waut this fl*ed aq that there will I be no question of doubt. My vote might decide an important measure, and became of the doubt as to whether 1 wnsameml>er, {he city might be enjoined from doing what was being done on account of the action that my vote caused to bo taken. Then would follow big expense; that I wish to avoid. It may be next week that circum stances will be such that I shall consider myself/ permaneut resident of Triadelphia and then my resignation will bo forthcom ing." Dr. Jenson paid ho should regret to seo Mr. Kimberly leave, but regrets were one thing and the law another. However, if Mr. Kimberly would goon record in reply to the question "Where are you a resident of" bv saying 'The Fourth ward," he would vote for the resolution. The Ohair?1"I've a right to ask that qUv'Stinn?are you a resident of the Fourth ward ?" Mr. Kimberly?"l'mas much a resident there as iu Triadelphia." The question was asked several times and in different ways, but the annwer wan always the same. M??dr& Habertield and Peterson both raised the point that if Mr. Kimberly was from the Fourth ward no action was necessary. Dr. Jepsou moved to strike out of the resolution the words "his partial removal to the country notwithstanding," which was done. Before a vote could be had on the resolution, Dr. Jepson moved that the entire matter be laid on the table, which was doue. Mr. Kiiuberly remained and took part in the busiuetu that was trans acted. What the outcome will be is doubtful. The contingency spoken of by Mr. Kim berly. the enjoining of the city, had already occurred to several gentlemen. In thr present unsealed condition of the ease great inconvenience and possibly harm might happen to the city iu a case where a l*vy or railroad was concerned, and Mr. Kimberiy's vote had decided one way or another. The City Solicitor haa not as yet delivered an opinion. ?0J1,*10.\ ClXJAt'lL. Itr>t;iilnr ftcml-tlouitily hntHlon-4 Lor g fte?Nloiinull bol Llllieliuuc. An important matter, the election of city weighers, should have been attended to by Council last evening, but the Second Branch wasted so much time in talking over the Kimberly matter, which is refer red to in another report, that the First Branch grew tired uud adjourned. The present weighers will hold over until their successors are elected. Feverul applications for license were approved and the sureties sworn, in both branches. The second Branch was called to order about 7:45 o'clock by President Hildreth, and by the time tbo minutes had been read and approved, all the members were present except Met-srs. Jafgt-r, Milligan, Dickinan, Koth and l'orter tiinith. Liquoit LICENSES. There wm an enormous pile of applica tiooB for coffee House licenses for the en BuinK year lying on tbe clerk a desk, and on motion oi Mr. H?Uy the rules were suspended and several of the papers taken up out of their regular grder. M A. Chandler, receiver, M. L. lira backer aud llelmbright & Homes were cranted license to conduct billiard rooms. p A Pitman, W. II. Haller,J. 0. Hervey and ltd. Cbristman were granted license* to act as auctioneers. Tbe following liquor licenses were grant ftd without any opposition: M. KeiliJi S. Horkbeimer & Son, Horkheimer ^r0?*i wholesalers. M. A. Chandler, receiver, Win. Meyer, John Beidenbach, W m. Vaae, Went Virginia Suite Fair and Exposition Association and Aug. lieuter^ coffee houses. When Henry 0. Bauer s license * a. taken up, Mr. Clator objected, and voted uo. Said he, "Tbe man is about dead now, and I don't think it's right for this Council to authorize tbe man to drink himself to death." . . .... Mr Healy offered a resolution providing that when the Council adjourn itbetonexi Monday evening, at.whietj time a I liquor licenHea will be conBidercd, and that a lut oi applicants be published in tbe daily pa pers. This was adopted. C" MM ITT RE RETORTS. The Committee ou Accounts reported that they bad examined the reports ot the City Water Board and the Board ot Public Works aud that the same were cnrrect it also offered bills amounting to $'.'8S 08 for payment, which were ordered paid. The Committee on Claims recommended tbatJobn Harris be paid $100 and costs, being a judgment obtained agaiUBt the city tor Ssinagw received at the corner ot Twenty-fourth aud WoodsBtreets by falling into an opeu culvert, That Mrs. M. Koebler be paid $133 tor the lossot ahorse by falling into a defective sewer. The recoramcndations were adopted. Tbe Committee on Petitions and Re monstrances reported having organised by electing J. W. Boring chairinitu, and re Mmmendrd that W. U. Zimmerman be retunded $'J5 on a cofiee house license issued in 1870. he having bad the same annulled April 1, ISSO.and the coffee houBe occupied by another'license. The same was not granted, the vote being a tie. The report ot the Committee on Con tracts was approved. It stated that Kasley & Brooks' bid tor coal at 0k per bushel tor the City Building, Prlwn, Central Station md Kire Department had been accepted. Various petitions were referred, aud at 10 v m the Second Branch adjourned to meet Monday evening next. KlCST BBAKC1I. In the First Branoh tho members con ?nrred with ton action of the Second in all the committee reporls and applica ions for license that were received, and idjourned at U i*. OF ClOOD FAMILIES. Xnarrcl of Ba.lnn.* l^rlnem BefialU In MenthofOneiuid ArrMt ol lb? Olbtr. Wiu.iamstow.n, Ky., April 24.?Ibe full lartlcuiars in the Franks-Clark murder ase are: ThiB morning about 0:30 Clark raa engaged in opening their store when 'ranks came in and remarked, "Jim, do ou say I stole tho money?" Clark replied, I did and do not retract until you pro luce the funds." ' Franks then called him liar when Clark slapped him in the face rith'a piece ot kindling, when Franks rew bis pistol and fired five shots Into ilm, one in each Bhoulder, one in tho neck, lasslng from tront to back, one faking offtbe aft thumb,and one through the heart Clark ivedonlvafewininutes. Franksiminediate v skippe'd, but was captuied late tills even L at an old out-house, under an old pile I puncheons. Ho gave himself lip without nv fight, and in company with Asa, his ounger brother, who is charged with com dicity, was brought to this place to night. Thev are both young men ot good fami ies. Clark was married, but a few days in? There is much excitement and oine talk of lynching, but we think the ooler beads will prevent anything ot tho ?and. The trial will take place lit 0a.m. o-morrow. The funeral of Clark will be .reached at the Court-house to morrow I itternoon. A strong effort will be made 0 Bhow complicity on tbe part ot Asa, the rouogest brother. A Brokcii Heart. KS0XV1I.LI, Turn., April 24.?W. B. Jtaley, ?on of Judge Staley, committed lulcide at the residence of a young lady ?ho refused to marry him. It was the hird attempt to take his own lite lor the lame canse. Btaley waaffl years ot age and 1 lawyer. | THE MINERS' MEETING AT PITTSBURGH'YESTERDAY. They r noire to Strike Ua May lit?Th? .Namber or i'JU UeprtitaUd lu the < uav+otloa?lha Nauber of Mlaer* wko will b/> Tbroira Oat of Work If a Krike Oerar*. Pittsburgh, April 24.?The convention of railroad coal miners of this district to day, to consider the advisability of striking againAt tho proposed reduction iu the mining rate from three and a-halt to three cents per bushel, unanimously decided to strike on May first, and refuse to work until three and one-half cents is paid in every mine. About two-thirds of tie pits wero represented iu the convention, aud comiuittecs were appointed to visit the mines where the men are working for three cents and endeavor to have them come out and join the strike. I f they succeed in getting tnem out, work will be suspended in seventy pits, and between 7,000 aud 8,000 then will be thrown out of employment. The convention also decided that each tip ple must have a check weigh man. Dele gates heartily endorse the plnu of the pro* posed federation of miners of the United States, and instructed the general oMeera to notify each pit to have a representative at the intMt State convention, to be held in this city May 15. THE COAl< OF I'KNNnYI.V.lNIA. rbcNfiJlent J'oluin or ilic Mine lo*f>e? I* or*' Kujiurl. Pitthijurgii, April 24.?The reports of the mine inspectors of the bitumiuous coal tield of this Suite will be ready in a few days, and contain much valuable informa tion collected from every available source. A, few salient features of the leport are enumerated below: Tnecoal field is divided in four district* ?tlie first being that part of Allegheny county lying south of the O:iio and Mo uougahela rivers, together with the counties of Bedford, Fayette, Greene, .Somerset and Washington. During 1882 there was mined in this district 121 minus 0,554,080 tons of coal. There are 189 mines, and the esti mated production for the whole district is 10,237,458 tons. The estimated total num ber of pers ms employed inside and out-ido ihe mines is 15,075. The number of lives lost during the year was 31. The Second district comprises that por tion of Allegheny county, north of the Ohio uud Monongahela. rivers, and the counties of Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, In diana and Westmoreland. In this district there are ISO mines, employing 13,050 persons. The number of tons of coal mined during the year was 7,307,580; the average output per mine beiug 00,51)0 t?np, show ing an increase over 18SI of 824,380 tons. There were thirty-four fatal accidents dur ing the year, of these sixteen were caused by the fall of slate and roof; three by the fall of coal; oue by the explosion of gas; ten by cars and machinery, and four by miscellaneous causes. The Third district includflsthe countiesof Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefierson, Lawrence, McKeau, Mercer, Venango and Warren. The report from ibis district is from eighty mines, nud the amount of coal mined dur ing 1S82 was 3,070;24fl tons, 0,050 persons and 538 mules and horses employed. The average price fer mining a tou of coal was 01 cents. There are also 247 coke ovens in this district. There were 01 accidents, the fatal ones numbering 17. Six mines wero exhausted during the year. The fourth district, which takes in Blair, Bradford" Cambria, Center, Clinton, Hunt ingdon, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan and liago, reports that there are U0 mines em ploying 7,157 persons, and the fatal acci dents during the past year only numbered 12, and non-fatal 32. The production of coal amounted to 3,500,000 tons. The total tonnage mined in the four dis tricts duriug the past year was 21,040,005, ??nd t?*e total number of persons employed 42,128. CHKINT1AN UAION. CraNprrliVfl I ItniurH in the Pa|ior Dik> cuNneil In K?*lltciuiiN Circle*. Nkw York, April 251.?A dispatch from Boston, pblished in tho Tribune, relating to tho prospective changes in the Christian Union, causes much interest in religious circles here to-day. Tho announcement was in a measure premature, although the changes, it is said authoritaiivoly to-day, have in part already goue into effect. The project of starting a new Congregational paper took place last summer, among prominent laymen of that Church in the East, who were dissatisfied with the Con ijreijalinnalifit, the denominational organ, us not taking a stand abreast of current religi ous thought. Ex-Governor Fairbanks, of New Hampshire, offered to contribute with other Boston capitalists,the funds necessary for the now paper. The feeling was no't conlincd to the laity, but a number of clergyman were desirous of seeing the now project placed on a firm footing. The new paper was to have been started last fall, when the suggestion of incorporating the idea with the Chrulian Union arose from the effort to secure the ltev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, the editor of tho Chritlian Union, as editor of tho new journal. No advances were made, it is said, by those representing the Chritlian Union, on the part of that paper. It is in a perfectly satisfactory condition financially, aud does not desire any additional aid of that kind; but by this alliance it expects to obtain a wider moral and religious scope, and a more progressive Catholic spirit. A change will probably bo made in the size and typographical work ol the Chris tian Union in the fall. The editorial co operation of well-known clergymen of tho Congregational Church has been secured; among them tho Kev. I r. Washington Gladden, cf Columbus, 0.; tho Kev. I)r. Alexander McKenzic, Drs. Ilerrick and Duryea, of Boston; and Dr. Newman Smyth, of New Haven. The Chritlian Un ion will retain, however, an entirely unde nominational character. llriilRtt Nwept Awny. Lancaster, N. C., April 24.?The new bridge of the Catawba & Chester railroad, ! over the Catawba river, except a small por [ tion on the Cheater side, was swept away I by a freshet. 1 he bridge was used ten | days. A llnilil Wuiuna. Norfolk, Va., April 24.?Lucy Andsey, anegress, was arrested for whipping her I sister's orphan child, seven years old, to 1 death. The child was flogged with a cow hide and burned on the stove. Her hus band was arrested as an accessory. Wait for us, we are coming. Will open Monday,- April 23, Lynch'* Bargain Shoe House. Cheapest in the world. We will nave you 25c, tQc, 75c and $1 on each pair. 44 Twelfth street. ffTKAMWUT lines, hotels, Warding houses and housekeepers everywhere use Hunt's in sect I'owdcr, ihe bent and cheapest vermin destroyer known; it kills every time. Price 25 cents. By all druggie. Wait for u?, we are coining. Will open Monday, April 23. Lyncfc'H Bargain 8ho* House. Cheapest in the world. We will ?ave you 25c, 60c, 75c and *1 on esch pair. 44 Twelfth itreot. Lyxcr*? Bargain Hhoe House, 44 Twelfth street, Wheeling, will open Monday. April 2fc Walt for them, and qnve26t?nd 50 cents on every pair of boots or shoes.