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FRANCE. —_—_---—- A Constitutional Government or a Dis- solution of the Assembly, eee Legislative Excitement and Party Calculations. Pam, July 27, 1874, At the session of the Assembiy to-day the benches of the Right were well filled, the absent members having nearly all returned, The Committee on Parlivmentary Initiative | Made its report on the resolutions for dissolution, | recommending that the Assembly proceed to con- | Btitute a government or dissolve, After a scene of intense excitement the devate | ‘Was adjourned until Wednesday, THE LEGISLATIVE RECESS, {t {@ anticipated that the consideration ot the | Budget will occupy the Assembly until August 10, | about which time the House wil! adjourn until No- | vember 16, The interval will be shorter than was | expected, because the conservatives fear that a | long recess will incline the Lett Centre to support | dissolution. The Deputies in favor of dissolution are confident Of suocess after the recess, and believe their oppo- Dente will have a bare majority on Wednesday when the resolations come to a vote. SPAIN. + The Carlists Said To Have Been Again De- feated—Republican Reprisal Against the Royalists. Mapp, July 27, 1874. Thero a roport current here that the Carlists have again been beaten by the republican troops aad have sustained very heavy losses. Two companies of Carlists, who refused to sur, -Tender, were cut to pieces. BMPUBLICAN REPRISAL AGAINST CARLISTS. Forty-one Carlists, most of them ecclesiastics or Mombera of the nobility, have been arrested at Barcelona, by way of reprisal against the imbuman | Conduct of the Carlists. ENGLAND. ASSET The Locked-Out Laborers Left to Their Own Re- sourcee—Emigration Advis:d as a Cure, LONDON, July 27, 1874, The committee of the Agricultural Laborers ‘Union have adopted a resolution declaring ‘that &3 we are not justified im appealing to the public for support for the locked-out laborers in the Kast- een counties during the harvest, therefore we | oder them the alternative of emigrating or depend- ing on their own resources,” The committee is negotiating for easier terms of | emigration to Canada. Failure of Cotton Merchants. LoNpbon, July 28, 1874, Gaskell Brothers, cotton merchaats, of Liver- pool, have failed, Their liavilties are estimated BY §480,000, IRELAND, Vohn Mitchel Expected in Dublin—A Chance for | a Seat in Parliament. Dustin, July 27, 1874, John Mitchel has arrived at Cork. He 19 ill, but | Wul come to Dublin on Wednesday. The Fenian | Amnesty Association are orgunizing @ torchlight | demonstration and banquet in his honor. 4 Mr, Martin, member of Parliament for Meath, | wiu resigao ois seat in favor of Mr. Mitchel, GERMANY. Ye ao Sle A Bishop Arrested and Condemned to Prison. Beeitn, July 27, 1874. Dr. Janizewski, the sudragau Bishop of Posen, has been arrested for violation of the Ecclesiasti- eal laws and condemned to fiteen months’ im- prisoumeut, pa ore ts BERL, July 28, 1874, Despatches from Kisstogen announce that the | heaich of Prince Bismarck is improving; but tue | wound is yet unhealed, and tue Prince cannot rite, THE WAR CONGRESS. sehen Bussian Diplomacy in the Brussels Council. Brussets, July 27, 1874, It w atated that Russia only desires the Con- press assembled here to consider certain potuts of {ts programme. She does not insist on the adop- | tion of the whole. THR RECORD OF THK PROCREDINGS. M. Borcngrave, Secretary of the Belgian Minis- tor of Foreign Affairs, nas been appointed secre- tary of tue Congress. RUSSIA AND CHINA. Berwin, July 27, 1874, Journals here say that war between ff FY end China ts inevitable in consequence of designs | of the iatter upon Kashgar. MORAVIA. Fatal Effects of the Becent Flood—A Town Overwhelmed by the Torrent, Lonpon, July 27, 1874. A special to the London Times from Vienna, #iving an account of the storm in Moravia, says the town of Azagra was overwhelmed by 4 torrent. Sixty-four houses were demolished and few of the habitants escaped with their lives, i The railways were badly damaged in every «i- rection. An Immense Destraction of Property— | Hundreds of Houses Swept Away. Lonpon, July 23—6 A. M. Aspecial despatch to the Daily News reports that the destruction of property by the foods in Moravia is immense, At least 200 houses have veen awept away INDIA. © Lonpon, July 28, 1874, The Tivnas’ despatches from india say the pros- | pects of the crops are most favorable, notwith standing the recent foods. Maay deaths from cholera are reported in Burdwan, CUBA. | the aggregate as close upon 5,000, | The Thess | across the line at 3h. 03m., two minuies ahead NEW THE SEASIDE CAPITAL. The Rash of Summer Travel—Retuen of the President—Movements of the Mili- tary—The Warm Spring Indiaas. LONG BRANCH, July 27, 1874, We have had a tremendous exodus from “the Branch" to-day. By all the trains for New York not less than 4,000 passengers have gone up since seven o'clock this morniag, and some estimuie But not more than half of them were trom “the Branch,” the other molety being drawn by the trains from Philadelphia and all the mtervening coautry to this place, The trains down from New York have also carried their thousands, so that by this | day’s last down train the preponderating weight of the seesaw will be ou this side again. From these rough estimates of the summer passenger traMc of this seashore road some idea may be | formed of the enormous summer business of New Jers lune: ny (rom the travelling public by ail her railway THR PRESIDENT and Mrs. Graat returned from Atiantic Clty this morning hear noun, anu It is expected that he will be present with the Marytand Filth regiment and the New Jersey Seventh to-morrow in their joint lestivittes at Freebold, the old revolutionary battle fleld of Monmouth. But as the President's private secretary, General Babcock, went from Atlantic City to Washington, you may be sure that his chief will soon follow him. General (rant is in excellent health, and has been evidently getting stouter since the adjournment of Vongress. While the two houses were in Session be Was 40 inces- suntly worried night and day by contractionists and iuflatiovists, by the belugereuts of Arkansas, the troubles of Louisiana, and the State gove! ment corruptions in South Carolina, by the cou- tending parties over the affairs of the: District of Columbia, by the Mormon question wad by # thou. sand other troublesome things, that when he leit the White House for the seaside he was almost as thin as we iound aim soon afier his return from bis decisive campaign of the Wilderness, THE HAPPLRSY VISLTORS at the Branch just aow are Donaid McKay and his httle detachment of Warm Spring indians, dis- tingumned as tae capturers of Captain Jack and bis terrible Modoc braves. ‘The boundless ocean and the glorious sur!, to these Warm Spring heroes and heroes, were greatly enjoyed, — ‘The trou have a fine open tepton the edge of the viulf, and in the miast of the white settlement. Betore they leave the place, tt is reported, they will visit. their ; Great Fatper at his cottage and entertain him with some of the dances o/ their tribe, vecause tie has been very good to them, ‘they, on their grand tour trom the lava eds of Captain Jack to Wash- ington and thence to the summer pleas- ures of Long ranch, have been and are gettin, the reward due them for their | vaiuable services against the ingitive Modoc and from their exhibitiens en route they have withal picked up some fractional currency, They are honored now by nundreds of visitors (rom day today, and ure, tadeed, among te hous o1 ine Branch. THE DROUGHT, New Jersey, from Sandy Hook southward, ts be- gianing to suger from drought. for a mouth and more, in this region, we lave hardly had a reap able suower; Hopes of bountiful rams have fre quently been revived by the gathering of heavy storms to the westward, but only to be disap- pointed with the departure of the cain-giving clouds northward and up tae trough of the Hud- son. Now, the old fisuermen say a storm is brew- ing which will cover a!l New Jersey, and all New Jersey respouds “Amen !)! Aid for the Floating Hospital. Lona Beancu, N, J., July 27, (874, A subscription list in aid of the Noating hospital of St, John’s Guild was opened at the West End Hotel tus mormag. George M. Van Nort ueaded the tist witu a contribution o1 $500, ‘The Fifth Maryland Regiment Reviewe LONG BRANCH, July 27, 1874 ‘The just review of the [ith Maryland regiment 1Ook place this afternoon in iront of the Ocean Hotel by Governor Parker and staf, of New Jer- sey, and Governor Groome and stad, of Maryland, Alter the review they marched up Ocean avenue to tne West Bnd Hotel, where they received a grand reception dnd veturned tocamp. in the evening a grand hop was given ab the Must End Hovel. ‘ac Fifth Regiment leave here in the morning for Freehoid, N. d., Where they will be received by the Seventh regiment of New Jersey and wilt visit the batue field Of Monmouth, Governor Parker will address them, alter, which they will partake of a dinner, tendered them by the citizens of free hold, aud recurn to Long Branch in the evening. YACHTING ON THE HUDSON. Contest for the Prize Won by Commo- dore Grinnell’s Yacht—Ao Exciting Race—The Mollie Winner. New Hamsora, July 27, 1874, ‘There was another exciting yacnt race here to-day | between Wilham K. Verplauck's catrigged yacut ‘Thetis, of Ftankill; Frederick Schuchardt’s sloop | yacht Mollte, of Hughsonville, and Joho Van Wyck’s sloop yacht Kdith, of Wappinger’s Falls, ‘Vhs was a match race, which was originated after the regatta of the Central Hudson Yacht Club last week. The prize was a service of silver, put up by Commodore Irving Grinnell. The course was the same as that of last week, eighteen miles, turuing two stakebouts twice, one off Van Rens- seluer’s Point and one off Low Point. Wiiliam Drake sailed the Mollie, Wiliam E. Verplanck the ‘Thetis, ana Join Van Wyck the Edith, The wind | blew strong irom west southwest. ‘The judges were P.M, Van Wyck and Peter Le Roy, and the starter was Commodore rag Grin- nell, of the Central Hudson Yacht Club. ul tue poats were given time allowance at the start. was givea the word first, at lih, 16m, of the steumboat dock, and sane wore away defore the spanking breeze in tine style, neading for V Rensselaer's Point, a mile | north, followed at 11h, 18m. 408, by the Molue, and next the hdith at ih. 2tm. 20s, vhere was an exciting contest between the Moilie and the Thetis, the latter of which was the favorite at the start. The Mollie won, giiding of the Theis, The Kdith was withdrawn after turning the Van Keusselaer Point buoy che secoad time. The following ts the sammary :— ‘his. Length. | Left. Time. then. iy to ALM 3h. oun Mollie. Su dun. 21s, Bait A Carefally Prepared Pian for Anothet ; Conflagration—The Supposed Criminal | in Custody, Cicago, duly 27, 1874, An incendiary plot was discovered early this morning at No. 219 North Clark street in Nicholas Stauder’s hardware store. A lighted candie was jound in the ntidat of a pie of kindling Wood, which wus saturated with kerosene, Strips clothing and rags also soaked tn kerosene were carefully laid aloug the Noor to where three kegs of powder stood, one of which was open, When discovered the fire nad made considerable prog- resa, and Would shortly have reached the powder. ‘The owner of the premises was arrested on a charge of arson, He sent his family to Michigan on Frigay and: yesterday he was out of the » and, he claims, Stayed away all night. Le i now ac- cused of having made similar attempts before. Tne place was insured considerably above its value in the North British Mercantiie Company. Bulwinkle’s fre patrol of twenty-five men was out to-night for the first time. this is the torce organized by the insurance companies, and will be augmeuted in numbers to 100. The Mayor bas written to the Common Council strougly urging the organizauion of a torce of 100 uch (0 act asa city fire patrol. SYSTEMATIO TAXATION, Labors of the Ways and Means Com- mittee—Millions of Real Estate in New York which Pays no Tribate to Gov- | ornmeat. Sanaroda, N.Y, ‘The special session of the Ways 4 mittee of the Siate Legislature con July 27, 1874, nd Means Com- tings in Saratoga to-day, to-day's session having | HAVANA, July 27, 1874, A despatch from Las Tuflas reports vuat the | Bpanish forces reconnoitring in that vicinity have | €xchanged shots with the insurgents at various times. | ‘The latter have attacked the villages of Calde> Tou aod Unas, with what result is unknown, SPOTTED FEVER IN BARBARY. | 4 Raging and Malignant Epl Progress Wasninoroy, July 27, 1874. Information has been received at the Treasury | Department that a quarantine of filteen full days | has beon ordered at Malta upon all vessels arriving there from the province of Tripoli, Barbary, owim, to the Appearance of a malignant type of wpotte Jever at Barbary. ‘The dincad ls described as very vigiont and fatal {9 (erm. nic im | heen devoted specially (o the consideration ai the taxation of savings banks. rehgious institutions and insurance companies, in the cities of New. Yo i8 not taxed atail ander @ next sexsion be feld in New York in S THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature tor the payt twenty-four hours, and Brooklyn existing faws, nmities Will probably in comparison with the corresponding day of fast | year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuis Puarmacy, Hetay Batiding: 1 » INT4, 1st. BAM 4 6AM > 1 9A. M 7” 1 | 12M. s 88 br 18% TW Average temperature yesterday. Avevage temperatare for correap UH, HOME acragee rag agvereeggers eeeeteentiee YORK AEKALD, of) | luded its sit- | #! It appears that there | are $340,000,000 worth of real estate under these | | heading: ARKANSAS. Seen A Field Day Before the Congressional Committee—Baxter and His Friends on the Stand—Prompt Denial of Alleged Frauds—A Lot of Innocents—The Con- stitutional Convention. Lrrvi.e® Rock, July 21, 1874#. To-day was a fleld day before the Congressional Committee. Senators Clayton and Dorsey were both present, a8 were both the gubernatorial con- testants, Baxter and Brooks, also the chief jus ices ou both Baxter's and Brooks’ side, with mem- bers of each Supreme Bench, and Congressmen Hynes and Hodges. Governor Baxter conducted the examination of bis witnesses personally. Sherif Gailagher was recalled, aua, being Nanded a letter by Baxter, said tt gave the substance of a letter he received from Baxter in reference to changing scrip for greenbacks, Buxter introducea evidence 'm @ legisiative enactment, by which a sherit, heing also county collector, can redeem the Treas- urer's certificates with greenbacks when he haa such in his possession, being collections ior gen- eral State purposes, and the certiticuses being in- dorsed as redeemed, and bearing uo interest after- wards. Secretary of State Johnson examined Governot Baxter und asked lim what he knew about the Clerk of Green county having received a letter from McClure in reference to mauaging the elec- tion in 187% jor the adoption of the constitutional amendment removing political disabivities. Chair- moan Ward stated (ue question was not relevant. Governor Baxter protested that an edort vad been made TO BLACKBN M18 CHARACTER and that of his irteuds, and he wanted to contro- vert this and wanted to prove that Jadge McClave baa complicity in the election (rauds. Baxter was quite violent. Cauirman Ward didn’t propose that the committee should be scolded and touna fault with. He could uot stand it and should not, Secretary Johnson was allowed to answer Baxter's question. He never knew anything about it, only heard it rumored by Baxter; he suid that a cierk had written to know if he would ve held safe ifhe kept the returns in Brooks county; had re- plied “No,” would not protect any one doing wrong; he stated, in rejereuce to the statement made the otner day, that te never but once took the abstract of returns to Kaxter's hotel; never tampered with or aitered returns in my ofice; Acting Governor Audley went vo Washington to get troops to maintain peace during the inangura- tion and instaliation of oflicers elected; the Fourth intantry came; Clayton, Hadley and McClure were the leading men of the last campatyn; they nad good opportunities of knowing if any irauds were committed; | have oo knowledge of their bemg connected With spy Irauds Whatever; there WHERE FRAUDS ON KOTH SIDES; the campaign was very bitter; statements of frauds were made then a8 now, but 1 don't velleve one tenth part of them true, By Baxter—Il (rauds were committed, accoramg to general rumor, were not Ciayion, Hauley aad McClure guilty? A, | can’t say that they were; Mar, Brooks ana friends charged them and myself 80 citen with frauds that they got at last to believe it them- xelves and got # Majority ol Lhe people of the State to believe iL; several Counties and precincts were not returned and do uot appeur on tue abstract uf vote as recurned. McAnary, Adjutant General, referred to by Hill the otuer ‘day 8S Deing Baxter's business man, testified that the oniy times be bad been ap- proached with corrupt offers was by Hill himseif wanting to be editor of a paper to be supported out of the Governor’s contingent fund; Hill was also. appilcaut for the position of State Geolo- gist; he is now Baxte! nemy; ex-Attorney Gen- eral Montgomery once made a corrupt offer to him to get Baxcer to appoint bim y Atvorney. Chef Justice Engush and Justices Compton, ap- pointed recently by Kaxter to the Supreme Bench, tested that they were Baxter’s counsel at the time the Circuit Court overruled the demurrer and decided for Brooks; that the United States Court was in session at the same time, and when the attorney bad busmess at tue United States Court; Snaier was not a militia generui at the time of the quo warranto case, and bad no roclamation of martial law tn lus pocket; that Chesney Nad published a card denying that he had acted as a go-between to vribe Baxter to approve the railroad bill. By Mr. Rick—Shafor was agent of the State gov- ernment, aud bas siuce been appointed Sherif of Howard county. Major Strong, Deputy Secretary of State, knew ot no (rauds being committed in the oMice, Baxter was very disagrecable during the day, frequently observing to Witness that he coaid give rumor as it was admitted before the Court. IN THE CONVENT the Committee on the Treasurer's and Auditor's books reported that over $2,000,000 in State scrip and $300,000 in war vonds had been issued since Baxter's installation on the 4th of January, 1873, A resolution was introduced that when the con- stitution be adopted by the people a general elec- tion shall be held irom Governor to constables. ‘There Is great dissatisfaction among Baxter's iriends at the course latterly pursued vy the Cou. vention. TS eres Revere ee THE VICKSBURG TROUBLES, Wasnineron, D. C., July 27, 1874. Adjutant General Platt, of the Department of the Soutn, ina letter to the War Depuriment, re- ters tothe ordering of troops to Vicksburg, and expresses the opinion that Acting Governor Davis, Of Mississippi, Will not be able to make out a sam: cient case (o warrant the interierence of the federal authorities. THE SABATOGA BACES. ing. SARATOGA, July 27, 1874, ‘The track wilt be heavy to-morrow. it was heavy to-day and if is raining now. The pool sales annexed will show the opinions of the | backers of the horses of their respective capabili- | }; wes in mad:— ALABAMA STAKES, Bonaventure. +$825 Belmont. Madge... 140 Moonbeam Regardless 125 Valdine. 40 HREE-QUARTER MILK. Katie Pease $555 Minme Muc. seve $30 Catesby. 105 Marmion a | Dabiin. 70 Mildew 20 | Kirst Chanc 50 Warminster Filly 0 Theodora, 40 Governess. quits. 36 STEEPLA CHASK. $199 Geo, West ENTRIES FOR THE WHITE PLAINS RAVES. POUGHREFPSIR, N. Y., July 27, 1874, The entries for the White Plams caces closed day. Altogether eighty-one horses are booked to start, and the purses amount to $31 Bullet cccceeee OBITUARY. James M. Sheehan, Counsellor-at-Law. Mr. James M, Sheehan, au eminent the New York Bar, an¢ a widely Known and muck cemed citizen, died suddenly at nis residence in East Fighty-seventh street, er of Lexington | avenue, tn this city, at an early honr yesterday morning. He was taken (rom life by the result of an attack of paralysis. Mr. Sheehan, who was forty-eight years of age, was in quite good health, | vale and hearty shortiy before eleven o'clock in | te forenoon on Sunday, the 26th mst, He was | seized soon alterwards with the attack of | iliness, to which he saccumbed at balt-past three o'clock yesterday morning. The deceased was vor in Ireland, He came to America some | twenty-five years since. Belug a man of cuiti- vated taste, of classical edacation and a nigh sense of refinement and leeling he soon became popular, not only amoug his countrymen but with aw wide and datly extending circle of new-made | (friends, His agreeable manners and good natore | cemented the bouds, so that it may be said with | | great tryth that his loss will be universally re- vethed. He was an almost greedy collector of ali | pooks and manuscripts relating to his native coun try aud Was the possessor of a library of some o' the rarest and most valuable righ’ and Angi | Irish works, Mr. Sheehan teaves a wire and three sussained by his duumely death, | Thompson D. Shaw, United States Vavy. | PaiLapRLvata, July 27, 1874. | Commodore Thompson Darragh Shaw, @ re- tired oMicer of the pavy, died yesterday at German- | town, aged seventy-five years, His Inst cruise ex- | pired in February, 1862, but during the war le was ow apeciai duty in tne city, i Anselm Roth ila, | A cable despaten from Vienna, under date of yesterday, the 27th inst., announces the death, in the Austrian capital, of Anselm ttothsehild, the emipeot Anancier and banker, fis ite oistory | was about she game as that ot the osner members of the family, He was industrious, honest aud frugai, ant hecame, ta coagequeuce, { mack oa 'Chpage, TUESDAY, Whytock said the cases would not be taken up | 5 débris for some one known to be missing, | bodies recovered are for (he most part disfigured, | | showing that the current of waters was very Vio- | member of | chifdren to mourn the great joss which they have | a oe ba JULY 28, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEKT. UE PITTSBURG DELUGE, > ,and Missing. a Upon a "6 City. a Confused Mass. - > LIST OF THE DEAD AND MISSING Frrrasura, Pa, Saly 27, 1874, Last aight one of the most (eariul rain storia ever known visited this and Allegheny City, and the devastation effected ts widespread ana shock- | ing. ‘The rain commenced to fail about eight o'clock, just when the church bells had ceased their tolling and when worshippers were engaged im religious exercises, singing hymns of praise to God. It seemed as if the gutes of Dearen had opened wide and allowed the deiuge free scope, for never betore an incessant and so heayy a ram/fall, Accurate measurement of the rains yesterday shows a tall O1 within one-twentieth of five and one-halfinches— more than twice as much as has ever been known | to fall in the same space, The thuuder and itgat- ning were terrific, and | THE DEATH CRY OP SCORKS OF VICTIMS rose upon the air trom a dozen submerged locali_ tied, ‘The exact course of shis cyclone as yet is uot precisely Known, but seems to be in a semic rele, | embracing the northern, western and south- | western parts of our city in its are, leaving the main portions unbarmed, It was hot antil the break of day that the tull horrors of the Nood were known, and then tt was discovered that the locality Known as Butcher’s Rua, in Aile- gheny City, nad suffered most seriously. populous valley, on either aide of which higit bills range that are covered with wooden houses, the homes, for most part, of work- ingmen. The valley at tts mouth is probably between $00 and 500 feet wide and at the point where the work of destruction commenced it is not more than 150 feet wide, Along this route nouses were built directly over a natural water course, culverts being made and used im part as iounda- | ttouafor dweiling houses, pH LINK OF DESTRUCTION followed the water course to the rivor and in- volved an immense number of houses that were not in a line of the culvert, When the ram com- menced falling but little apprehension was eu- vertained, but those who lived near the head of the valley Siate that suddenly it seemed as if the heavens were literally opened, and water came down in great volumes, which soon filled the lowlands to overflowing. Rapidly the stream filled and floated of trom their foundations one or more houses, which in their course impeded the free flow of water, and thus the stream: rose till there was at least a torrent twenty-five feet deep, which was as angry | as the sea, Houses were sucked off their foun- dations ke as many jackstraws aud hurled | against euch other, their occupants being crushed or drowned in their edorts to escape, THK LOSS OF LIPS {8 appalling and the scene 1s almost indescribable, An eye witness, living on 4 high portion of sprmg Garden avenue, was able to see for 4 considerabie distance around. The water below had risen to the upper stories of Une buildings, ana when the ear he at once realized their terrible situation. Presently houses began to Moat, and then it was that the air was rent with WILD, DISTRESSING CRIRS of mothers and children and tender babes. At short imtervals a flash of lightning would reveal ghastly, terror stricken (aces thrust from the win- dows of floating houses, and presently, when the water began to rise higher and nigher, and butld- ings began to crumble and fail to pieces, strug- giing forms of men, women and children could ve seen in the water batting for life. Then, after an wterval of darkness, the lightning would again reveal the place, but they had | atsappeared beneath a heavy mass of float- A Heavy Track To-Duay—The Pool Seli- | ing tmbera. Never for an tostant did the | tween Solomon and Bridgevile thirteen more | wild, despairing cries cease. No sooner would the | than anotner would burst forth, and so during the | long hours of might they could hear tuem scream | and witness their dying struggles without power to help, At times they couid see through the | windows of a floating house, where a light still | purned, mothers kneeling with young children in sae | their arms; presentiy the house would topple and | jves that are lost. | ail with a crash, bat not too loud to drown the | piercing shrieks of the poor wretches within, | THK WORK OF RECOVRRING BODIRS | commenced at daylight and continued all day long, | and even vow men with lanterns are searching the | ‘rhe | i ‘The bodies, a4 3000 as they Were recovered, were taken to the undertaking establishments, AMONG THOSE RROOGNTZKD WREAK Mr. and Mrs, Metaler, who resided on Spring Garden aveune. Conrad Gentaer and his wile Mrs, Mary Conlon, | | | | i opin, Mrs. John Winkier, residence on Butcher's run, | | Jacob Schnaffer, residence 0’ Hura street. Mrs. Henry Leopold and four children, two boys and two girls; the oldest of theye | little girl, appeared to be about ten years of age. | Arebibald Arnoid, aged twenty-elgnt years, who | yesided on Butcher's run; the deceased was un- { married. | ‘The body of a female and the bodies of seven | children, three boys and four givls, wave not y | been identified, The body of w tall, well built | man, dressed in the garb of a Arerman, was token | | out of & new building. Some persons had seen | mate: ae him enter when ‘ue food commenced, tO save A) a Bodies Recovered. Missing, | woman who had screamed for help, All the ine, | Wood's fran. pie : | Tastes were drowned and his Was the oniy body Sawmill Rua ert i 2w | recovered, At another undertaking estav- Chartier s Dre ton cotati at H Hisnment are Mrs, Joun Schaffer and | BEMigeN ie ant det ' ‘three daughters, one aged fourteen, another ye Mayors of the city of Pittsbarg and Alie- | eleven, and a baby. Henry Naihern, ts wile and two children, | August Bolster, aged tour years, sou of A! man Bolster, A young man named Rambard, who resided at No, Bz Onio street, drowned while attempiing (0 ' resene a family on Olo street, Emma Rykon, a sided on Batche’s can, A s6n of John Shearing, aged four years girl, appareatiy about dve years of age, n | uted. Mr. and Mrs, fludta street, | Henry | wht | house on Chestnut sir te, Heax, a polic who ", t, and | wiveet, A Lost woman, found & | A YOUNG MO ta evening, Was NKR. Close to her breast she ned her young babe in & | grasp #0 tight that it was several moments berore Two Hn» 1dred Persons Drowned | A Vast Volume, ‘f Water Discharged GREAT DESTRUCTION 0," PROPERTY. Dwellings, Stores and Workshops a™ingled in HOUSES TURNED UPSIDE bows. Nas any one in this neighborhood witnessea such | ‘This as a | unpretentious | cries Jor aid of (he doomed inmates broke apon tis | screams of one despairing mortal cease with death | chilaren, a | i ‘ five years, whose parents re- a iietie who resiied on O'Mara was drowned attempting to rescue some persons irom a the body of a poy nated tuber, who was visiting a family on O'Hara they had passed away without a ‘roggie, Others Were discovered in positions which told that they had not neided without a atruggie, Strong men were (ound with clothing corn irom their bodies, save a iew shreds. Women and children wore found tn all attitudes and positions, some with rue agonizing throes of deati’s struggie written piainty on their faces, some with hands cur and bleeding from having come iu contact with nails sod splinters iw their vain graspiugs ior iile. THR NEXT LOCALITY | im which death barvested well is saw Mill run, a tributary of the Omo River, on the south part of the etty, ‘The body of Mrv, Sample was ound one mile beiow her house. Mr. Sample, wile and child were in the house when tt gave way. Eis wile told him to hold on to the child, which he did, never again seeing tia wite alive. Among others MISHING AND FOUND DROWNED are, Frauk O'Neil! and daugtter, missing, doseph O'Connor and = housekeeper, drowned, George James,gon and daughter, missing. Wuliam Morsiy, wile and child, missing, Thomas Hanter, wt and jour children, missing. Child [da Hanter, found drowned. AWhomas Britton and yoo Witham Briton, found found ? oh Anwwned; wile nussing. Families Engulfed in the Palling IsMiah Koapp, aad five htidren, missing; wile found Arowned, Buildings. Frederick MeVay, wife an¥ three children, mis- sing. A wothamonnd\ap 4 little Jorwor the Ran, name got known. BODEN RECOV ERKD Witt Mrs, Dorotivg Stevens, at Mrs, Foster's, Thomas Britton and «ou, \ Wilitai Britton, a boy. Mrs, Fbropp and the girl ids Hanter,at the ‘Twenty-fith ward scoot house. foreph O'Connor and housekeeper,’ at) Tom Welsie's. | tus reported that a womam named Mratoned, living in Hartley's block, died com trigtt. Junmes Neivoa saved himeels by jumping frome tie upperstory of ts house aud swimming. asturre. Among i] BUMLDINGS TAKEN &WAT above this oo the run are Vanteker's dwelfing, 4. O'Connor's house and Wilvam Stevenson's, nowse {some* $1,950 In money was in tis house and wie hot recovered), Stephen sample's house, George Alsop’ house, Miner's fall, W. Archtbaies Lwoe | “iaughter houses, Patton’s block (four houses) ,. George Gray's two log houses, Gray & Beli lose thelr blacksmith and carpemter”| shops and some filty cara, Mr. Gray ways theirtioss in tools and muchinery will be about $10,000, ‘The Little Sawmill Run Railroad tose alt stheir trestles. They estimate their joss at $50,000, | ‘The bridge at the mouth, near Wood's miti,\ts | gone, anu jast above the tresile of the Little Suw/- | mill Run Railroad, Following up the rum, she new tron bridge, lately bailt bx the city | at a cost of $12,700, and the abutments on one side, | are ail gone. Just above tt is the gas tank of che West End Gas Company; the foundation is wasuedt out, leaving the tank in the run, The salt works, just above this, of W.,} Co & JM. Taylor, vuut on a smal isand = almost level with the stream, are nowhere to be seen, the whole works having been washed uway, together with a new building lately erected ata cost of $2,500, ‘Their loss is from $20,000 to $25,000, and is Lueir ali, except oar horses, which were carried down the stream, but recovered, The Washington Pike Bridge and smuil oridge at the head of Wainat street are both washed away, Logs probably $2,000 Just above this the store of Wilkam Zeigler, groceries and dry goods, was taken away com- pletely; loss $9,000; George K. Gamibie’s loss $1,500; the building is not only gone, but the lot washed away. Two dweiling houses here owned by Gam- bie were damaged by the wasling away of the eDetadts. of a Mi T Se ne mR et lf hart A mite and 4 half soath of Sparta’ the engine, baggage car and one of the Passenger cars of a train went through a bridge. One man was fatally and (oree seriously insured, Five miles further south five baggage cara wera ditched, Between Ciucinuati and Walton tw bridges are dowa, THX DAMAGE is principally to rolling stock. company say the trains will days, Great damage ts reported to the corm cropa by betog broken down by the Wiad in Obie, Indisom The oMcers of the rao regularly ia two and Kentucky, The Ohio River bere rose nearly five fees in 4 few hours, and is still ciaog, licking River, earty tnta morning, came dowe with the Water turee or tour feet higher (ban the suriace of the Ohio, and shot across the streams Ariving Qrutwood against the boats at the pubtie janding on this side of the river. ‘The greatest damage was trom the tearing of coal bouts frome their moortogs aad sioking them THE Loss is estimated at $109,000, with » possibility of bem much less, according to tke number of boats re- oovere About one thousaud saw logs were driven out of the Licking River. At Swiitts trom works lonrteeu empty barges were torn loose amé carried out into the Obio, together mith the new irom steamer Alexander Swift. The latter vowt was salely landed ut West Covington. Glick & Phite itps lost six barges, most of them contatuing coat. T. 4 Weilianrson’s Coat Klevator Company towa twelve barges, and a float wilh twelve cars wad washed away. A number of valuabiv rowing boate wero also carried away. INDIAN TROUBLES. Attempts to Captare Cattle’ Repatied Attack on » Hand Car. W aSHINGTON, July 27, 1814. Lieutenant Cotonel L, P. Bradley,of the Ninter infuntry, commanding a¢ Fort Fred Steete, Wyoming Territory, under date of July 16 reporte that a party of aboat twenty-tive Indiana came within a quarter of a mile of the post and drove of” the stock belonging to the emigrants camped om the Platte, At the same time they showed them- selves on three sides of the post, attempting gather ap the loose stock belonging to the citizens, Fire waa opened op them promptly and they re tured, They crossed over the Platte, about six tues below the post, aud took s porth west course, the party attacked @ hand car between the pond aod Rawlins, aud the section en working on tue romd eight or len miles west. A party of fortp- ntumeus ieft Kawling oo the 16th, lo pursuit, AN EADIAN INCENDIARY AREKSTED. The lodian office hes iniormation of the arrest oF ‘a notorious wutskey trader and horse tuief named Marten, alias “turricape Bill,” iw Kansas, and bi having been turned over to the United states Mar- atial wt Leavenworth, Marcin has veen one of the principal operators in stirring up the presept fadian croubies by kik+ (ng buffaloes and stealing borses from jue tadiaa* reservations, Depredations In Wyoming. Save LaRR Cry, July 2, 1876 A purty of six Inatans ran of a herd: of seventy. five horses from Medicine Bow, Wyoming Teert- tory, at six o'viock. last evening. Tbe hordes be jonged to # man trom Oregon who waeon his way wt. A party went out irom Carboa stwtion this evening 1G pursuit. OUTRAGE AND MUBDER ribte Cehme—Kxettem Among the People. Reveasp, ¥t., July 27, 187& A horrible case of ontrage aod murder was ro Vented in St. Albans yesterday morning. The Victim was Miss Murtetta N, Ball, a teacherda @ isirict school, three miles eust of shis village. Alter closing ner school, last Wridaw afternoon, ahe set out to: visit @ Iriend living a mle distant, hee course being over a lonely road partially througt: the woods, Sue was missed by her irienus O@ Saturday evening and search was mad Aer body was found ou Suuday morning at one o'cloca. rear part o/ the buttding aud lots: loss $2,500. Brooks, Balleatine & Co.'s oll refinery lose three | tanks, two stills, one condenser tauk, two worms | | and otuer damages: loss heavy. | | WORD FROM CHARTIBR'S CRERK reports also fearful destruction to lite and prop- | erty in that direction, At Bridgeville mach dam- | age was done; all the bridges on the tine of Chur- tuer’s aud McLanghun creeks were Washed away. WHE LOST. Joun Stratton and family were washed out of | their house, Stratton saved himsell by cateting to the limb of a tree. His wife and dve children were lost. | A ltamily by the name of McCue, consisting of a father, mother and four children, were drowned. ‘Two colored men, one aged flity years, were also lost, ON WHISKEY RON the dwelling of a gentleman named ‘Thorn was washed away, and the wie drowned. Pan Handle Bridge, over Campbell's run, was washed away; | also bridge No. 6 The Pan Handle tracks two mites east of Mansfield were washed away a distance of thirty feet. The bridges and tracks of Churtier's Vulley Railroad wereall washed away. The loss | of life at Caartier’s Creek foots up fourteen per- { | | ' sons, At Little Solomon, Washington coun: i KVERY MEMBER OF TWO FAMULLES | was lost. Between Solomon and Canonsburg | eleven dead bodies have been recovered, and be- | have,been (ound; tn all, twenty-four. ides these @ large number of persons are missing and | donbtiess have perished, Every bridge on | the pike has been swept away, as well as several railroad bridges and stone culverts at dozens of places. Nothing was left at Wooda’ Rua | but fonndations of houses. ‘The loss of property | will amount toover $50,000, to say nothing of the | | Jobn Farden, wife and jour children, were | | drowned; John Gormau and three children also drowned. Many persons were washed into the | river at this point, and of course vodies cannot be secured for some days. It ix absolutely impousibie to get figures of the | financtal losses along Butcher's Run, ax the prop erty lies in great heaps, and its owners in many | cases are cold in death, Dweiling houses are | jammed together in bewildering confusion, aad | | out of the débris arises a sieach from carcasses | of thousands of dead goats, pigs, horses and cows | that is unbearable. Acoid rain is falling at the hour of eleven o'clock. | When your correspondent left the scene at | Butcher’s Run, rightly named, the citck of the | pick was stil heard and the forms of mea were | seen fitting py like shadows. ANOTHER CORPSE | was raised and deposited in tne wagon awaiting, | ) and sull the work went on, God only knows how | nurny bodies still lie underneath those mountains | of debris, } ‘The number of houses destroyed, as jar as can be clained at this hour, 18 given a¢ 147, and tt | ase fullowing is @ re very probably, will turn be an gheney Nave cailed a mass meeting of citizens, to be held to-morrow evening, to take action In rela~ jion to this disaster, whic has failen so severely pon the community, HEAVY STORM IN THE WEST. Raltroad Bridges Washed Away—Acei- dents to Trains—Rapid Rise of tho Ohio River—Damage to the Corn Croprem v Katimated Loans. CONCINN at, dle | Phe storm last night was very sever tueky, and although heavy ram jet here [6 was not so heavy as at other points. The Marretta ard Cine Cinnati and Louisvilte Stort, time trains are the onty ones detained to-night. The oridges near Lyne. rg, on the Aiilsbore branen of be Martetts rowd, have been wasted away, The main ine ap to goon to-day Was aaobstracted, e roads west and north are aot adecied, 18th it could be anloosed from her embrace. Her tan | At Sparta, on the Louisville Short line, 9 south. | wna that of ber chitd were not maniated. It seems westward boand Mreigat trata went (hvougé & asf gal lad Qqme agg hue iW taer AlegD aud | vridee damaced out owe Ne gia wag | 68% Broadway, that some have ai | is almost im apitalation of the lives lost, This, | under esis | tu Sens | it had been.couveyed about iorty rods into tue whous, leaving traces of blood on the way. Mias Ball was a girl of wacommon muscular power, and appearances (udicace that sue made a desperate resistance. ‘Two men have been arrested on suspicion, bat the real perpetrator ts probaly gull al iarge. ta- tense excitement prevails. TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN PESNSYL- VANIA. Wiikesmarre, July 27, 1876, The (emperance mowement in this county having been dropped by the crusaders, the mem have taken up the cause. To-tay delegates from all parts of the couatry met bere in conventioa, adopted a platform of priuctples, a plan for tag campaign, aud nominated the tev. Y. C. smith, of carvondale, for Congress, and a fail legisiauve and county ticket. Five deiegutes were appoiuted to attend the State ‘Temperance Convention as Harrisburg om tne i2th August to nomlaate @ State ticket. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Abysainia will leave this port om Wednesday for Queeustown and Liverpool ‘The matis for Lurope wil close at (ue Post Ose at twerve ottock M. ‘Tar New Yore Heraun—Kditlon for Earope— will bo ready at hal(-past sevea o'clock im tae morning. Single coptes, couts, od The Effects of “Glenn's Salphar Soap’ asapreventive and remedy (or Gout and Rhoumacesam ace truly wonderial, At alY drug stores: 49 @3aiR, CSN, CRIELENTON, Proprteroe. in wrappers for mailing, six re so Disgusted the elaxte trase, ved (o Ujiil, others te Surope, HOW steerage passage is SL A.—Metal Trass Me h the universal adoption A.—Rupinre and Physical Oeformitics muccésatully treated by De, MARSH, at No. 3 Vasey alcoet. (Astor House). 1 A.—Wedding Invitations, Elegant dives, Foreigit Note Paper, Crests, Monogram. Gewo- ral engraving, Jas. BV EQU bh, Katabitvhed 164, wz Broadway Ratchelor’'s Hair Dye in Splendid.— Never inils, Katablisived "7 years. Sold and property apahed at BATCHEGOR'S Wig Factocy, 16 BomdaL, NOC Giles’ Liniment of Iodide of Ammonia jcral in its removal of pain, no matter Crown fatter prococds, Depot s5L.Sixth ay. what source U Heal by DU BARRY'S REVALE: Restored (Without Medicine, ‘A ARABIC FOOD to stomach, nerves, lungs and liver, curing dyspepsia i digestion), constipation, diarthors Ay, palpitation, sleeplessness, debility, wi sihing. levers. consumption, low spirits; which Had ca sisted ail other remedies. | Dépot in New JOHN E HENRY, © RAN & CO, Nos Sand? hace. Important Notice. Traveller should alwaya carry a bottle of RAD ACS READY RELIEK with them, A few drops iy water wilt prevent sickness of pains from RADWAT's READY RIL cure Crainps, Spasms, 5: Headache, Diarrhea, 0, Bowes and all iniernat Paro wit Ina tew moments . Mleartbara, stoke dig, Word in the Stockings, Reits, Kase inal Supporters, Suspensory Baa sand Crutwhes, at VARSH'S Tram Lady in abieadaues. 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