Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1870, Page 1

LS ee Y PUBLISHED DAILY, Sunday exeepted At Theo Star Bullding, §,W, Corner Pennsylvania Av, and lth St, av THE AVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. BTAK te served by carriers to their sub- surges the Olty and Distriet a: T=N Cxnts PER ‘Was or Foatt-rovR OkNTs PER MONTE. Copies he counter, Two OzNTS. : “parce yor Matine Ser Months, $1.60; Etx Months, $3.00; One Teer, ace gent? rom the office longer than paid for. THE WEEKLY STAB—published on Friday THE EVENING STAR. | | SIEGE OF PARIS. om, 86—NE. 5,478. WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1870. AMUSEMENTS. ATIONAL THEATEE. W J. FLORENCE. Sand 4, Wit besten ANDY ANDY HANDY ANDY bs T ¢ W J. FLOBBSCE eneia le wirh the Gomedietta of BISCHLEVOLS AN MRS. PLOKENCE UN SEX Ci NDIRELGA MATING We Saturdey Afternoon, m, Bcente, — vel-2t ATES SRiONABLE &*NCING &CADEM Y, PASIAN Maso TEMPER So aenien “ = Drie. 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PABLOB BEACKBTS, ae @ Fue Amortment for HOLIDAY wut a.¥. 0. SuITE. BOOKS, STATIONERY, Ete. EB *eBarise IN ALL ITS BRANCHES EXECUTED EXPEDITIOUSLY at PHILP «4 SOLOMON BOOK AND STATIONERY ESTABLISHMENT, 911 PENNSYLVANIA AVENCE. VISITING, WEDDING, RECEPTION AND BALL UAKDS Ergraved and Printed in the latest styles. MONCORAMS, INITIALS, CRESTS AND DIES Designed and Engrayed for plain or color Stamping. PHILP & SO!.C MONS, WHOLESALE AND BETAIL BOOKSELLERS ANU STATION KKB, SHILLINGTON'S | at BOOKSTORE. ‘The Three Prothers: A Novel. By Mrs. Oliphant, rice Silvia: A Novel By Julia Kavanach. Price 78c. =_—a Bdwis Drood. By Cbaries Dickens . tenial Showman. fo of Mabel ‘ice 50. By Florence Marryatt. Price 5c. John: A Love Story. Ly Mrs. Oliphant. Price ®e. im Necessity: A Novel. By F. W. Robinson. ‘True to Herself. By the author of For Her Sake. Price Se. ice We. Gwendolines Harvest: A Novel. By the anthor of ‘One of the Family. Price 3c. ‘The United States Internal Bevenne and Tariff Law, compiled by Horace &. Dresser. eo. Camor: Love Story. By Octave Ponillet. n Organ for the Most Ad- in Philo + Sciences, Bcciwlogy and Religion. Price $1 50. Everything im the STATIONEBY and BLANK BUOK line. for sale at SHILL: wis Corn ScHoot BOOKS. SCHOOL BOOKS, AND SCHOOL REQUISITES, ‘The largest assortment ever kept in Georgetown, apd sold at pal lisher's prices. at PUE & SELIGSON’S, Bew Literary and Musical Depot, aT _ _ 123 Bridge street. T= GREAT SCHOUL-EOOK DEPOT, So, 402 71u Sr hers and nts mae nee i Fagen ene - aye rely. ty talae their SCHOUL-BOORS at the lowont poser Ble price, Jesale Ret be. sCHook FURNITURE, PLACKBOARDS, CHARTS. MAPS, GLOBES, And everything requisite for the School-room, af the Beok and Stationery Store of s6-6m No. BS ¥ youn SCHOOL BOOKS “ SCHOOL BEQUIFITES Ar 0.0. PURSELL'S, op.¥ SCHOOL BOOKS. seS-eolm 4 COMPLETE AsSsURTM ERT, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BLANCHARD & NOMUR, er Corner 1ith street and Penn. eve, grax & SOBs Pianos. Qur stock of Grand, Upright. and Pian fesow complete Purchasing cxckuateh, 4 for Cash, we are enabled sell at lowest! rices for cash and » >on ac: Persons in se AND BUILDING. — ¥ (1ARPESTEZ i J. W. DEANE, CARPENTSK AND BUILDER, allwerk ip bis live. Parttea! ‘paid JOBING wd BEPALBS, which Sil bPssone pr able Shop, 609 6 street. 4 8. Ww. ‘ABLE K iD WOR ralickS Landectac ncn © some Penusylvacie sven | Cutting Off Water Supp! TWO CENTS. : of the Parisians. New Publications, From the National Publishing Company, Philadelphia, we Lave: The War Between the States. its Cansés, Character, Conduct and Results. By Hon. Alex. H. Stephens. This volame, while in the Ses mein a defence of the doctrine of States rights, | GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. at the same time maintains the thread of war — ro events until the collapse of the rebellion. With THRILLING PARTICULARS. voeney of a doctrine which has been set atrene | 1 wr Jocal columns will be found farther by the issue of that war, the reader will beapt | Particulars of the destructive freshet in the Po- to say cut leno * But the historical port tomac river which, on Saturday, caused such Mr. Stephers’ comments have undoubted heavy damage in this vicinity, destroying the nd interest, coming {rom one occupying the “ dag = , , | favorable position. for reviow held by himdat. | LOng and Chain Bridges, &c., &c., as described . in Saturday's Stan. ing (he memorable contest. ‘This portionof the work gives the points of ditference betwoen | All the lives of travel running South, except- ing by Atlantic Coast line via Itichmond, Wil- dJefterson Davis and Mr. Stephens in to the coniluet of the war by the Confederates | mington and Augusta, are impassable, in con In summing up he estimates that the entire | sequence of the recent heavy rains. The de- loss of men on borh sides in this gigantic war | struction of bri and road beds has been was more than one million of men, aud that tbe | great, partienlariy on the line of the Orange like aggregate of expenciture of money on both | and Alexandria and Virginia and Tennessee sides, including the loss and sacrifice in proper- | ratironds. Direct communication between ty, could not have been less than eight thousand | Washington and Lynchburg is entirely inter- millions of dollars—a sam fully on ty Uiree- | rupted, the telegraph wires being washed away fourths of the assessed value of the taxable | in several places on the Orange and Alewandria property of the entire country when it com- | railroad, and it will probably be some days be menced! fore theycan be repaired. The lines are ako From the publishers we have: down between Richmond and Lynchburg, and Scencs of Wonder and Cariosity in California, | oy Dasiness for the latter place is ent via Aw By J. M. Hutchings. New York and San Fran- | The accounts which continue to reach usfrom cisco: A. Roman & Co. This book, we may way | various points in Virginia are truly distressing - SPECIAL NOTICES. PURE WINES. ff the largest i T'am ouabled to sellstor a THE GREAT STORM. DISASTROUS FRESHETS IN VIRGINIA TERRIBLE SCENES AT HARPER'S ERUY. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. INTERNAL Revence—The receipts to-day from this source were 21,218, a TAS Presipent, Mre Grant and General Porter, arrived here yesterday morning. Skorrrary Roneson has returned here from New York. SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER JACOB Briout, U. 8. N., of this city, has been ordered to examination for promotion. CommrestoxeR DELANO, with his son and So- licitor Smith, will return to Ohio about the lat- ter part of this week, to take part in the politi- cal campaign in that State. FOR THIRTY YEARS 1s7e. Has that wee Keoms, sends, end popular rem- y : PAIN KILLE! by Perry Davis & Stn, Providence, Kr. tefore the public, an¢ in that time has deccine Known in all parte of the world, and been ube! by people of all natiour. It remains, to-Gay. that same good and effictent remedy. Its wonderful power ingelieving the most severe pain bas never been ow: id it has earne its world-wide popalarity by itwintrinsic curative agent has ‘THE PREstpent was in his office to-day and received a few visitors. Scoretary Fish, Assist- adt Secretary of the Interior Otto, an 1 Assistant oo General Talbot had interviews with im. company each bot Bold by all Drogcists. GETTING MARRIED. se2-eolm FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF THE GOVERN- MENT THIS MonTa.—Stcretary Boutwell has the ass! taeast re atter experience, is an indispensible to the | Mm addition t> loss of life, property to the value ESSAYS FOR YOUNG MEN, on Social Evils, aaa tga ope7 aver at New York to |} tourist on the Paritic slope. No other min is a millions of dollars is Involved in the genera and the propriety or impropriety of getting Married, | S¢!1 €1,000,000 gold on each Wednesday, and to well titted for the work ir. Hutchings, who | wreek. Advices so far received: indicate that wita sanitary help for those who feel unfitted for nS purchase €2,000,000 bonds on each Thnrsday of the present month. Also, to anticipate the pay- | ment of the five per cent. bonds, due January 1, 1871, upon an adjustment of the interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. Those bonds were isened under the act of June 22, 156), and amount to $7,022,060, as has had some twenty years experience in Cali- | fornia, a large portisnot which has been devoted to studying and sketching the most intercstis features of that State, so wonderfully rick in the clements of the picturesque and the grand. The Jast half dozen years of his life has beex spent in the sublime valley of the Yo Semite, anda gon- | mderable por.ion of this volume: is given to the | description of that chasm ot wonders. Bot from to end itaboanils in information con- cerning the points of interest on the Pacitic side, | the cost of traveling, distances, hotel efarges, Xe., &c. Its value is enhanced by @ large nam. ber of illustrations, outline route maps, &c. From the publishers, through J. Shillington, who has them for sale, we have the foltowing: age, both to life and property in the Shenandoah Valley, has been considerable. HARPER'S FERRY SUBMERGED. The lower portion of the town of Harper's Ferry. including “ Virginias Island,” was com pletely submerged. ‘The Joss of lite, as far as reported, was contimed to the latter fland where the flood almo-t equalled that of 1852 in its destruction of property, and will probably exceed in loss of life. The istand has upon ita large Hlouring will belonging to Messrs. Clilds, McCreigt & Co., and some twenty to thirty dwelling houses, principally occapied by tue ners. For two days the rains al the bank: of the Shenandoah river had been heavy, and at noon on Friday the waters began to rise. For a time no serious ions were felt as to r tft in sealed cavel- Spee. "Address: HOWAMD'A SOCIATION. Box P, Philadelphia, Pa. ‘peli udm BATCHELOG’S HAIR DYE. og FIT Nd the va od and diuive preparntions not enuine, do possess. The a th ears’ REA, HABLE BROTHERS, TaE Lawton Divorce © —The telegraph to-day brings information that the cross divorce case of Lawton rs. Lawton, tried at Indian- polis, has resulted in favor of Mrs. Lawton. Tne plaintiff Mrs. Lawton, is the daughter of ex-Postmaster General Horatio King; the de- fendant is a chier engi: i y, Be i “« Indiana,” “ Consuelo,” “The Countess of | the safety ofthe occupants, but as nightfall ap- Mrs. Lawton mee mag acne royal Rudolstadt,” and “ Jealousy of Teverizo.” By em oe ae a je stream ere po George Sand. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & | 10 rise steadily and rapidiy. apprelensions were of cruel treatment, and failure by ber husband to provide for her a support suitable to her con- dition in life. The charges seem to have been fully proved, and the decision of the gourt was in aceordance. The parties were married in 1se2, and the evidence showed that at the time Of his marriage the defendant was worth $25,000, and was receiving pay trom Government at the rate of $8,400 per ye: felt for the cafety of the Spanning the river. island, and some advised the evacuation of the which, however, unfortunately was not heeded. Some time after dark th torrent, which bad increased to a still more feartal ex- Bros. Death has swept away most of the re- FASHICNAGLE CLOTHIERS nowned English writers of fiction, and the falling off in the su, ay rom this quarter seems to have caused the leading caterers for the pub- lic in this branch of literature to turn their at- tention to the soarces of supply in other cotn- tries—to France more particularly. The novels of George Sand, old and new, are now being re- roduced by two or three American publishing ouses, and by the Petersons with more atten- on to typography, paper and binding than 1s usually given by this active concern in their ing style of getting “tirst on the street” SN. W. CORNER OF SEVENTH AND P 8TS., tent, bearing down upon its bosom timber, trunks of frees and other debris, poured in be- tween the island and the heights, making escape impessible to many. The yelocity of the stream precluded the possibility of any boat ci ossing its course. In athort space of time the tood swept over the whole island, submerging it to a depth of several feet. NUMBER 400. AYPOINTMENTS ny PReSIDENT.—The TH HARLE B B Bros, | President made the following appointmentsto- | with their renriate, TERRIELE SCHEES—HOUSE® AND THEIR OccU- BABLE Bi B BROS. | day: j The Maiden Widow. By Mrs. E. D. E. N. | A mnmber of persons were rescued while the Bi LEB CharlesS, Mattoon, of Ohio, Consul at Hono- | Southw 1 7 trestle work of the Winchester and Potomac HABLE B ABLE Pa Southworth. rhiladelphia: ‘1’. B. Peterson & ale Seek ot he Wind znd Formac HABLE BOS ABLE B .X. Young, of Kentucky, Consul at St. Jago | Bto® Mrs. Southworth, writing in her pleas- } Tlltond, on the Hats on the western side, with: HaBLF Bi ABLE B' at cottage on the other side of Rock Creek. | about midnight tome 250 yards of the trestle HSBLE BROS ABLE 8 nul at Santos, Brazil. Continues year after year to interest perhav- | work gave way. ‘The. scene of the catastrophe BABLE ROS. Clothiers, MABLE B {iarshal of the Consatar | the largest number of readers ever reached by | was up longer visible from the mainland, thongh HABLE Bavs., B in Kiang, Chin: & weiter of fiction. When the circulation of | the lights im the mill and some of the dwellings Clement Hinzh Hilt, of Massachusetts, to be | Bonner's Ledger begins to droop the sure tonic | couldstill be scet So geont aus the ne Assistant Attorney neral of the United fo bring ae ee 9 anew — bed — by the ru-hing waters that _ cries ot States. Mrs. Sou 3 and when the same stories | those whose houses, one by one, with their occu Tae sreax ex G Rift nteee dapdenpeener pelea eet were swept down the stream could not be “ %, A A OOY-OF WAR GUERRIERB, which son's ey ‘ach a sale beyou Any others upow e Cott, which are mostly one and HABLE Bros, 7 W-Commer BABLE Bros. | 1 despatched to Portsmouth to convey the | 9 long list of their publications, embracing | two-story frame buildings, loated from thes HABLY BRos , ABLE remains of the late Admiral F; ss ali the popular authors of the world. ‘Ths pree- | foundations and were dashed against each other HADLE Bi LE New York, wil cal teen earragut thence to | ent story is a sequel to “The Family Doom” in the stream. ‘The next morning (Saturday) a HABLE bro: hs under Neat Amiel Giver o: Garepeae fleet, | Married in Haste. By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. | terrible spectacle met the eye, “Only a ter ot ABLE BR two weeks, after haying repaired th ages | Philadciphia: 1. B. Peterson & Bros. lecpe erie Seeraee mill, wore iat maetane, Paes oceanoned by her having ‘grounded ou Xan- Camors. A Love Story. Translated fromthe | With the bouses many of the inmates had gone HABLB BRO: oS ie = oe ow French of Octave Feuillet. Philadelphia: T B. Peterson & Bros. novel by the author of A Poor Young Man.” Feuillet depicts French sd¥ial life with wonderful accuracy and skill and the style without being “jerky,” is charac” down the stream. In a number of the dwellings remaining there were seen mep, women and children a for assistance, that at that time conld not be given them. After daylight a few of the houses that had stood the furs of the storm were seen to yield to the violence of the York to-day. It is thought she is but little in- Jured. Joun BULL FLurnixp.—A private letter re- ceived in this city from London, dated Sept. terized by the epigrammatic crispness peculiar Merchant HABLE sa tothe French writer of wit, gems, aadculer | cUFtent. = Same Saotunces canrying the ecca- Tailors HABLE , “Apprebensive Britain is arming and increas- | vat‘on. irae gee y= HABLE ing Ler militia, rushing the construction of war From the publishers, through Blapchard & Later in the day a boat got near enough to the end HATLE shops, and holding her whole royal marine corps | stohun, we have the followin, island to stretch b rope, with a basket arranged HABLE im one body, ready for instant transmission to | Mobem, . = oo mas Gentlemens’ HABLE Antwerp. Yesterd: Sept, 5,) i ‘The Womenof Israel. By Grace Aguilar. In | to run upon it, which was fastened to a house BARES rp. sterday, (Sept, 5,) in @ short to, | containing s'xteen inmates, and all by this con- Furnishing HABLE transit of twelve miles by rail, 1 saw no less | two volumes. New York: D. Appleton & Co. trivance were gotten off in safety, one by one. Saas HALE pa ec roe yeomen militia, | In this work, which treats upon the lives of the Befcre the giving away of the tressel work a wives of the patriarchs, and upon the Exodus, the Law and the Monarchy, issue 1s taken wit the charge that the law of Moses sank the H - brew female to the lowest state of degradation, family of seven persons, a man, his wife and five children, were saved by the same process, just in time to see their dwelling pass down the THE GRAND ANNUAL COUNCIL between the government and the tribes of the Indian Terri- E Stream. An old gentleman, named Wernwag,a PERPECT SATISFACTION GUABANTEED. 1 wilt shortly be held. At this council tive | 44 denied her aii mental and spiritual enjoy- machinist and bridge-builder, seventy-six years fextte dist’ pabens will kexéaaeein ‘Gherg, | mente. Of age, who resided alone in a small house upon The Three Brothe:s. A Novel. By Mrs. Uli- phant. New York: D. Appleton & Uo. Cheap edition of a popular tale that has been ranning Noein the weekly numbers of Appleton’s Jour the island, remained in his dwelling, notwith standing the rise of the water and the advice of his friends, until the frail structure was carried away, but Siusbing upos the topof the debris he was safely floated down the stream until reaching Berlin, a point about seven or eight miles distant. when be was rescued from ‘his perilous: mm by 160] us B. Laypole, George Wr itidenbaugh and William Ray. = HORROPS OF THE NIGHT. The agovy and terror of the fearful night were too much for the wasted strength of an aged lady. mother-in-law ot Mr. Fitzpatrick, living ou the d, ang the mornmg found her acorpse. The total number of the lost is vari- ously estimated at from twenty to tifty. Several of thore believed to have been drowned were aiterwards found te have escaped. Amid the confusion attenafmg so fearful a disaster the names of the unfortunates were not ascertained, though itis kuown that an old lady, Mrs. Car. roll, was among those who perished. Several bri end a portion of the track from Harper's Ferry, for several miles beyond the island, on this road, are said to have been washed away. kees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws and Semi- noles. ‘The council is fixed by law, and was to have been held on the 26th of September, but it was found impossible to collect the head chiefs, who were out buffalo hunting, and without whose ratification treaties have no effect. It is expected that the council will bring about a thorough understanding with the Indians. — PoLiTicaL.—Mr. James Speed who was At- torney General in Mr.Lincoln’s cabinet, has been nominated for Congress by the republicans of the fifth Kentucky district. The total vote of the district in 1463 was but seventeen thousand, in which the democratic majority was over thirteen thousand. No doubt there will be a fae Increase of the republican vote under the leadership of Mr. Speed, but not enough to overcome this difference. Boyd Winchester is the present representative, whom the democrats have renominated. The recent registration of voters throughout Maryland shows that some thirty-six thoasand “IMPORTANT.” STOCK OF FANCY AND MILLINERY GOODS NOW COMPLETE AT DAVIS’, 01 Market Space, corner Sth treet. Willson’s Intermediate Fifth Reader. New York: Harper & Brothers. Designed more es- pecially with reference to Rhetorical and Elo- cutionary matruction. A Dangerous Guest. By the author of “Gil- bert Rugge.” ‘his readable atory forms 4s 345 of the “Library of Select Novels,” issued by the Harper's. Index to Harper's New Monthly Magazine. ‘This index is up to the fortieth volume inclu- sive, and is a “handy thing to have in the house” for those who re the set. From the publishers, through Wm. Ballau- tyne, we have the following: Gocthe’s Hermann and Dorothea. Translated by Ellen - Frothinghem. Boston: Roberts TRIMMING VELVETSAND VELVET RIBBONS iN ALL COLOKS, Ablowest prices. Just seceived at DAVIS’, names of d male citizens have been added | Brothers. It is with a sense of pleasure that we | The entire destruction of railroad property was confined to the Winchester and Potoma: 3 FLOWERS 1M EVERY vA- | ‘9 the voting population. The offices of re; take up a book bearing the imprint of the " FEATHERS AND mi am z tration reopeu on the fourth Monday of Octo! Rob. te Brothers. rhe fermen ana Dorothes | LraBch. | In addition to the trestle work carried for corrections. In Baltimore city, Allegal away, above mentioned, several small trestle. ary- land and Virginia. over the Potomac at Har- per’s Ferry. rT undating the lower floors of the hotel and Adams Exy@es building. but causing no sertous loss of proj erty. PORTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST. Jtissuppesed that about forty-seven persons have been lost at Harpers Ferry alone. Prob- ably thirty dwellings have been wasued away Genjamin and James Bateman and their fami lies, Mrs. Stripes and family, Mrs. Carroll, and Jersey Harris, colored, wife and two daughters are known to be drowned. Ali the buildings on the south side of Shenandoah street are injured, about nine entirely washed away. Only a few buildings remain on the island. Here was the greatest destruction of life. The water was first noticed to be dan, ~~! —_ about 5 o'clock p. me, On the Sith. ‘The river then rose so rapidly that in a few minutes it was wild, da sh- : of Goethe is presented in the usual'ciear type, | 2 j r at DAVIS’. county, and Baltimore county, the oftces will | Good paper, and. general tasterainess of ctor ag Hoth pesky omerene weeks to re, be Wares om fg bus inthe remainder of # fais that mark all the issues we have seen trom permanently the damage to the Winchester vthe labor reformers im the second Misegari | "if Publishing house. Prangh railtoad. "he water raxe to within w few Nee an sea cue aniaet mee district have nominated G. A. Fiukeloburg (the | _Peems by Dante Gabriel Itossetti. Boston | feet of the large iron bridge connecting republican nominee) for r tion to Con- gress. He was elected to the dist Congress as a republican by nearly 3,000 majorits The democrats of the ninth Missouri district have nominated Judge A. King, of St. Charies, for Congress. The district is at present repre- sented by Hon. David P. Dyer, republican, who og elected to the 41st Congress by 1,000 major- ity. ‘The only candidates for United States Senator from Nebraska are said to be Goveraor Saun- ders and 5 tor Thayer. ripe towm elections take place in Connecticut y: YELLow Fever 1x New York.—Sixty-tive yellow fever patients, mostly enlisted men, were reruoved from Governor's Island Saturday to the quarantine hospital at West Bank, and Roberts Brothers. Poet-painters we have in this country, and " good at neither,” but by quite gencral consent of the critics of the mag- azines Rossetti is @ gentus of the Crichton order who ranks high in the supreméiy dificult art o painting, and has qualities enabling to deal with the other supremely ditticult one of poztry with complete mastery. The characteristics of these ,oems are ling, an exquisite choicenessof diction and and a certain coloring. ‘of mysticism ion of the day; wi , however, lowed to cload the meaning. In so. leces there is a nburnian direct: with difficult subjects, but on a put From French, Lang the following : Life at Home. By William Atkman, D. D. at DAVIS". —— __ SASHES AND SASH RIBBONS, SCARFS AND BOWS, In all sty and colors, at DAVIS’. LADIES IN SEARCH OF NOVELTIES, Will do well to make their selections early, as we have meer ae of goods now in ne wae ‘anhet bed ated. U sy ™ $01 Market Space Ogilvie we have . rent, and night, no huma: evectbas wi edectunlly prevent the spceed ‘ot | New York: Samuel X. Wells. This excolignt | aifisald vesdermesiptint ones GROVER & BAKER'S fhedincese, ‘Tao mero ths occurred Satur- day, making twenty since August 14, when the infection first communicated to the garrieon. Additional cases of yellow fever were also received at quarantine Saturday from New Orleans steamers, and all the vessels from that port are placed under strict surveillance. Smail- pox is rapidly spreading eastern district of Brooklyn, and Suerey, ® case of yellow fever was reported in that city. mates A Mormon Karussp N. TUR A book, written with a view to exalt the family life, comes in well at a time when the sacredness of the relation is 80 much called in —. — when ~ arg the family together are—in thix count jenst— daily ‘being weakened and held in leat and less esteem. “Mauprat’ and “Antonia.” Novels by George Sand. Boston: Roberts Brothers. These form the initial volumes of a standard library edition of the novels of ‘the grand Prosateur ot the A FEARFUL SIGHT. It was a fearful sight as house after house Was swept away, and went dashing in the stream, with the wild shrieks of the orca while the sudden extinguishment of the tpidiien petnfully: the st of death. All that bravemen could accom PI ume = paged families. Mr. Ki ‘ticular- phn Mr. Ames: special mention eely risked their lives to machine shop owned by M. last building that fell. CELEBRATED ELASTIO AND LOCK-STITOH SEWING MACHINES, ‘ate DAVIS". BEICHEN BACH’S Pianc Store, F. ©. We. 423 lth Street, above Pewner Avenue, (Betas. isaxy Over 20 Y¥xa! LIZATION. A" 7 Feet ae eS cgaet in Salt Lake city last | nineteenth century” to be issued by Koberts § Uridges on the Winchester wai yan ee Seer eee Obief Justice McK Brothers. . swept away. The bent and broken iron rails From the pubhishers we-have the: « the power and force of the flood. Even the Sudge, Sanborn had her ene wit Life of rk peat By KR. Shelton store Saints ‘of the old +o nee he believed it right and according to the Mackenzie, L.L.D. Philadelphia: T.B.Peter- | have been washed away. ze flow uEW rena tel halaman: of God t marr} another hilt ron Bros. Considering the short timé’ that of Child, MeCreight Femaims on the GOLD PRICES. ; although the la @ ht Obey the laws | 6; duty to ft! DAMAGE TO THE CANAL. the laws of man. Katertain- | Vas; MILLINERY AND LADIES’ DRESS TEL ‘The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has been aCe. =n poss since the death of Dickens, the au it the ma COMCeER- jured between Weverton and the 5 ing different the laws and American = we toll egy erertal wen inter, ydphmacsceiabe _ the’ Chief Justice refused to natural- wt eter god baie? the Ani diene Shas Jae San Seana anal to call and examine our slack a Ne a1 lia, |e ‘Material for hig work, J Necks must elapse before complete navigation “ea ige rene CLEMENTS & CO. Bo. little akall. “rnis |“ Other Accounts, it wil Mr. nce pt bed ir. Dickens is by far the best that D ches from Alexandria say: ‘The bri ¥ RT — Sir. A y AT SoUSa Sits FTAA, o From J. C. Parker we have: z over the north and south ae Se Se ae TS, ae Tm Howes’s U.S. Surveying Manual. By J.H | Ser itmore apiithen has ever been keoon Howes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. | before. “Mills and houses on its banks have been Lense. A A_aseful work, supplying & complete text book | washed away, and lives have been lost. One BuY Tous of government surves ing id ao information | fam na wes were ary ‘and all but the in ews entering ands, 3. 1c . v»RY @O00DSs author was late principal clerk of surveys In the hehegheng oe ieneral Oftice. ‘from Richmond say: ‘The fi - From D, A. Brosnahan we have: Despatches 7 “y] BOGAN & WYLIE, see. A Compendium of the History of the Catholic Szmovs Cu, = q Noethen. Balti- AND BAVE MONBY! 1008 CHARGE —On Bender, Sheriff Mor- | Church. By Rey, Theodore gan received into bis cx: james Dever, on | wory: John Murphy & Co. Tais work has been ba a ggg Sy or it was only swollen by the commitment from Just Sander: of fF lia- | Overfuw. three hours the lower end of the 97ND TRIOS, ANSE REALING TO.ALLn:- | favrege Goat pater Chk ee fie tliscry ot the Batholiec Chaureh of ralzoaud | city, known as Hocketts, was under water, and se0-tr_Y 08. 1015 axd1Ogo Ten Brexet NW. | rape on a little gul named Carrie E. psen, | price te be within tue reach of the scene there beggars pe ng ‘wo or —— pine years af seen ins River Neck, in this gs a Tareocmall moves were ewes, Dy BWISERORE, ounty.— Belair ( ‘a. —- ppabeiet contents. The families who F gta v: sienna aks ee eae £7-The Winnipeg, troubles with Doping the flood would, saludo, com” —a ABMY Amp MAVE: S7-A writer in Usppinoett’s a | Dr. Schultsat the of the mal wae ‘orying from the ‘windows holes Sone nee ee 2 pre Sha establishing a Oauadlan paradise m- Papin ‘of thelr ture ‘was’ lost. 171 Be 308 Peas sree Weanawe, | badly. , peaking | ceiver: Two andied fawiligg in. that portion af THE PLEBISCITUM AT ROME, | the city are Rouseless to-night, and are camping out on the meighboring hills. A portion of Mavo's passenger bridge, rebuilt by the United States military authoritics after the evacuation, was swept off, and was soon followed by the whole stracture. The bridge was three-quarters of a mile long. The water then entered Mayo’s tobacco warebouse, thirty tive feet above low-water mark he teams in the city were impressed to save the tobacco much of which is forthe French and German governments. With the ewception of one han- —— eighty hogsheaas, the tebacco was saved. CNSMMOLS VOTE POR ITALAN PNETY, Telegrey hed Exclusively to The Bocniny Star SING IN AROUND PARIS ON, Oct. 3.—Later advices from the Pras sian headquarters around Paris show that the army ts quietly closing in around the city. The Prussigns bave made yo effort thus far to bom- bard. »vertow of STRASBURG. * General Von Terlin Las been appointed gov ernor of Strasburg. The garrison cousists of 10,000 men. that the apper portion from the the canal, down which an immense body of Water was roshing and spreading over the banks. The canal was © miles above the city, and In the lower portion of the PS are under water. The city is in darkness to-night, the gasworks be’ submerged. The loss by the merchants though not great, is greater than it would have been if the telegrams (rum Lynckbarg anno} flood bad been heeded. It is proba Persors well acquainted with the + QUEEN VIC'S MESSENGER. Captain Jobuston, the \)ueen's messenger, bas at last been perumitted to depart (rom Paris with dispatches to the English govern: Ho ‘ort * Paris on the 25th of September, but was» by the Prussians. After a long detention (aa Prussian commander suffered him to proceed, with @ warning that similar messengers would hereatter be detained. cluding losses and the loss in the State, The water is seven feet higher than ever known fore. ‘PRE FLOOD ON THE RIV. NA AND SHENANDOAR BRANCHES, ane pee ‘The tlood on the Kivauna river isthe highest! SUSSIANS SHUTTING OFF THE WATER experienced since 187. 2he families of Mr. | FROM FAKIS. Jennings and of another miller on the river, | The canal de Lourieg bas been drained by the Were washed away—in all, tive person Frussiaus in order to deprive the Parimans of Jennings is supposed to haye been drowned; | water. hie wife and two children are known to have | perished. A voung lady of the frinily clan, t a tree forty-eight hours and was washed ‘off. al tdrownes. lier death was witnessed e. co by a crowd on the other bank of the river, but | PMCETIES at Villejuit, Gennovilliem and St, there was no boat near, by which she might | (ltd to bombard the city. have been rescued. On the Manassas tailtead | A PRUSSIAN FORCE « the bridges across the North and South Sdewan- | PAKIS TO BE BOMBAKDED. Arrapgements are making for the Prussian 6 TO LrONs ue bric General Worder, who commanded the bovieg- oah rivers are gone. There is no intormation | . from esoud ‘Strasburg. Many lives (ays a | ef at Strasburg, bas divided his army. Part telegram to the Dispatch containing these par- Goes to Lyons and part goes to Waris. tieulare) are known to bave been ist. Seatte. FROM ECGENIE To X siti’ ville, in Albemarle county, has been inund: NIE TO NAPOLEON, ted and the destruction of property was very great. | Eighteen lives were lose 7 AT LYNCHBURG, va. nge and Alexandria rail- road will reach if a million, to the J: River and Kan a canal quarter of a million, and to the Southside railroad half a million, Ou ‘Thursday, while the water rising, James Kamson, daughter and servant girl, MRobert Wivney, wife and three children, and a colored woman her three children, were standing on the abutment of the canal bridge at Lynch- | burg, waiting for a boat to take them off, when a dredging machine broke above, and drifting against the abutment, carried it with all on it. All were drowned. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. THIS AFTERNOON'S DISPATCHES ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS. A messenger from Empress Engenie had a ong conference with Napoleon at Wilhelmshohe yesterday, and lett for London again in the e ning. The Times believes that the redaction of Paris will require considerabie time. ROME VOTES PUK ITALIAN UNIPY. Rome, Oct. 3.—The voting yesterday was or- Gerly throughout, unttl the polls close! at six o'clock. The result, as generally anticipated, was a nearly unanimous vote in favor of Italian unity. ‘The returns, as far as recelved, show that About 47,000 voles were cast throughout the Pa- trimony, of which ouly six were for the Pope. The result is Leraided everywhere with en- thusiasm. Rom, Vet. 3.Later returns show that over 50,000 votes were cast im favor ot Italian auity, ard lees than 50 against it. Several monks an | Priests voted “‘yes.” BISMARCK SA\ . 2 RUN BUSSELL THE GREAT FRESHET. Terrible Loss of Life and Destruction of Property. Telegraphed Exclusively o The Evening Star. WHEELING, Uct. 3.—The Jntelligenser’s corres- ndent at Harper's Ferry gives the details of ‘he great tlood in the Shenandoah valley. The je to property at Harper's Ferry is im- mense. Twenty buildings, mostly | aud brick editices, have been Ferrienrs, Oct. 3.—Bismarck has made pub- | lic the following —The report of the conver- | sation between King William and the Emperor Napoleon, given by Dr. Russell, the correspon- dent of the London Times, and since extensively published all over the world, is founded through- out on mere invention. DENOUNCING THE PRIESTS. Beuisy, ct. 3—The North German Gasetic alone lives, and as many more are in | genounces priests as sources of anti-Prassian i ghenamdeak Gr feeling in the South German States, and as in- entirely gone. but the machine shops have been washed away. Nearly all of the families on the island remain in their houses, and no rescue can reach them. Some of the houres, however, will doubtless stand; and the islanders are endeavoring to get into strong houses. Last night a family of seven pcrsons were rescaed by a rope thrown through the window. A few moments thereafter no! a vestige of the house remained. This morning @ colored woman was seen clinging toa tree in the midst of the seething water, where she had stigators of revolt, murder and hostile SATURDAY’S BATTLE, The Prussians took 5 prisoners in tront of is im the action of Saturday. General Burnside t+ in conference with Jules Favre and Minister Washburne at Paris. Later reports{rom Paris announce that the city is orderly. ‘The city of Strasburg has been required to quarter 6,000 prisoners, but bas been released Pr been all night. from the requisition for money. Bolivar fleights are crowded with spectators THE GERMANS APTEK INDEMNITY. who are compelied to witness what they canno Loxpox, Oct. 3.—The Prussians have resolved | to demand 10,00 florins indewnity from each of the departments which they now oceupy, and ‘rom which the Germans have been expelied TheWinchester railroad trestles are complete- ly gone, and the bridges destroyed as far up as ¢ Shenandoah vall + by the French. St. Louis Germans tot ismarck ‘Lacour, Prefect of Lyons, has been invested Teiegraphed Bactusively to The Rvening Stor. with plenary powers to prescree order. The popular support extended to him is enthusiastic. ——_-see- Fresca Mgy-or-Wanr ox Over Coast.—The French squadron in American waters is com- posed of six steamers, under command of Vice Admiral Letebver. The nrst-class frigate Ma- St. Lovis, Oct.2—Ata meeting of the Ger- mans of this city last night the toliowing ad- dress was adopted and telegraphed to Count Bismarck : “To the German people, brethren :—The struggle which French andacity forced upon you is closing. Marehing with your leaders under = carries the Admiral’: and leads the hol; of the Fatherland with bravery | tbe squadron. Le Destin and Le Talisman are poodincebs | an i gunboats of |, and are now m great ing the New England coast. 1e Bouvet and Le Latouche Treville are gunboats of the same class, and are about the entrance of New ¥ harbor watching for German steamers, they do not seem to have cr The corvette Le Pri is at Norfolk, i jured by recent storms, This squadron is to be increased to twelve vessels by gunboats now on their way trom France. the discipline, which can euly be obtained by a high civilization, you entered France, and your cause was victorious. We ask that you will make fortresses which have heretofore menaced you guards of your borders: that you will retain A\ and Lorraine, of which you were robbed: and demand reimburse- ment tor the expenses of the war. rman unity and a full and free Tepresentation of the in Parliament be sod ie reward of your avery. a Mass for the Boul of Gottschalk. Trlegraphed Exclusively to The Evening Star. Naw Yorke, Oct. 3.—This morning a solemn mass was celebrated at St. Stephen's Church for the soul of Gottschalk. the celebrated musician and composer, who died of yellow fever at Kio Janeiro last December. The body, enclosed in ‘& rosewood fease, was removed from the vault where it had lain for the past six days, and was placed before the alter surrounded with harps, nd other emblematic devices formed herabint’s req) ‘ger conducted the choir, which mn bered about thirty—H. B. Danferth was at organ. ‘The chureh was crowded to excess, aud most of the musical notables were seated in the . The remains were: interred im Green- wood Cemeters. The Pepu St. Lovie, Oct. 3.—-The census of this city, just completed, ranked St. Louis as the fourth city in the Union, counting Brooklyn - ~ as Ravaces ov Yettow Fever tw Sratmm.— Spain is in the atest state of alarm at the continued spread’ of yellow fever. The epi- demic is more serious than at fist supposed. The terror-stricked inhabitants of Barcelona are flying from the place. There were forty- nine deaths there Friday. About 12), persons have ieft. The alarmed other provinces ment to adopt strict sguitary fever is remarkably fatal in its attacks, but ie confined to Barcelona aud the Mediterrascean coast. A cordon has heen established, and pe ple are probibited leaving the interior towns. 290+ ASSASSINATION AND KORBERY.—Mr. Joge L. Savage was assaulted by three menon Prince street. in New Haven Conn., Saturday evening, and stabbed several times in the abdomen. neck and arms, and robbed of $1,500 and i watch and chain. He had just arrived New York in the steamer, and was on his C4 home. He drew his money from a New Yi bank on Saturday morning, and counted Y rate from New York. In 186) the popu png ag yt ge en ty Be 3 Was 160,773, In 1864 it bad decreased to 157,04. New Xork thiew, = % ak, saw him when he The pesca’ Genens hows that ig six years St. | counted his mopey.” Mr. Savage ls 45 years old, pe ion of St. Lonts. The commission appointed for the purpose of | Std married. | His death is expected every Bridge to crove the Miseiseipp at tus totat, ait jeep on enter upon that duty at ones. - ‘Tue Case oF Gax. Bowerman. ard N. otek Meta Frem Indianapolis—_Tke Lawton Di- veoree Case—Rallread Matters. POLIS, Oct. decision . | embezzling the same, also dered in the Conunee Pious One this eareR | for payment to nthe. Deport the celebrated Lawton divorce a | Sas a Ge an = tothewife. The ‘are ‘Wash- | before Commissioner Rogers one ington, D.C. The of alimony and the | Sythe eee waived ee | or: or the are reserved for future | 11.0 eccused gave bail in $25,000 yk ‘The Indianapolis, Bicomington and Western | 7. Allender. of ony one twains 0 | States District Court-—Baltimore am. -20e- Indiana Politics. a iaprarks, Kemucky, convicted 0 rracl a * Telegraphed Exclusively to The Bening Star. Tort end contenced to one ‘year's EvaRsviL_x, Ixp,, Oct. 3.—Mr. Gooding, re- | uj to yesterday ~ pubheap, and Mr. Niblack, democrat, candi- | geross the (bio. dates for Congress im this district, completed | at him by the json. ‘Was not bit, but their joint can vase Saturday night. Their audi- gave bimself up. ences have been very large. The debate was — conducted in the most courteous ae. and} ez-Vincennes, Ind., attention. the shakes. locality. Theelection will | g3-a millat New , Mam., makes (wo tons of collar paper l. ee ton namie 3.—On bight ‘According to a Wi elected me sady in that toon “appears ao and Tone yelacted to wembersuip. *” | the dew-giided sieve of afraguent dei wake ‘Aworumm Wan on Ha: . “er hice Father E. Allen loft Des Moines ak Om HAND. ov Mire. rch een my Gated Sept 20h. Just | few days since to sitend a course of lectures in sens as | Sota! fa occaee ees ew ng oy a EO Intended to pay & lkrge portion of her ules the home government before proceeding to ~ al . the capitol of Arizona, with « tremities. population of 2,200, las neither echool,” church. HOLERA.—' that a disease sim. | DOF minister. = 3 le have a comity and ie the Ite daicienciesepoten of nee P 87 Jeroboam Hezekiah Snooks has been 9, while Mr. Day Soap tS rested in for tying Se —_ Bivics Hammerly and Mrs. Jane rs have also | from Canada. A man with a neme ‘to lose a number.—Lou- | could'nt have too much Bible, but then he Sew York . : ie ana an. | acess Sostom-house officials have New Orleans, the | and millinery which arrived on Ville do brilliancy of the recent auroral lights ut | Paris, consigned to Gen. Wade and