The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1879, Page 7

s TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. * ENGLAND AND THE AFGHANS. Russia and Turkey Come to an Understanding. BRITISH LABOR DISSATISFIED. Preparing for the Reassembling of the French Senate To-Day. pen (py CABLE TO THE HERALD,] Lonvon, Jan. 14, 1879. A Caleutta despatch to the Times says:—The troops of the Peshawur and Kuram columns are now settled down in quarters, which, unless unforseen events occur, they are intended to occupy for the next two months. General Browne's and General Mande’s divisious are écheloncd in mutually supporting detachments, extending from Jel- alabid to Nowshcra, ‘This extension and distribution of the forces, besides affording the re- quisite protection to the entire line of the road, has the advantage of diminishing as far as possible the strain upon the Commissariat Department. Major Cavagnuri has received friendly letters from most of the Cabul aud Ghitzai chiefs. An imposing durbar was held at Jelalabad, on the 1st of January, by Gen- eral Sir Samuel Browne. Most of the local khans and influential men of the neighborhood attended. SPEECH TO THE KHANS. “Major Cayagnare, addressing them, explained the Viveroy of India’s proclamation. He commented on the recent events as manifesting the strength of the British government and the failure of, the Ameer’s resistance, and repeated the assurance that we have no quarrel with the people of Afghanistan. The principal Kahn replied, in language which may be taken for what it is worth, expressing his contentment with the change of au- thority and freely offering his services. The health of the troops at present is good, and they are settling themselves down comfortably in their different camps. With wet weather, however, there will certainly come more sickness, but not sufli- cient to make a serious inroad on the strength of the force. The most unhealthy positions are probably Alimasjid and Dakka. General Stewart's troops marched through Candabar on the 9th inst. (probably), and are encamped on the Ghuznee roud. Supplies are being plentifully offered by the people, who show a friendly spirit. Along the whole of General Stewart's line of march, in fact, the popu- lation has been quiet. There has been no molesta- tion of baggage or attempts to interfere with the progress of the column.” RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Prince Lobanoff, the Russian Ambassador at Con- stantinople, has accepted all the articles of the definitive treaty of peace as agreed to by the Porte; but clause two, relative to Russia’s supervision over the execution of the Treaty of Berlin, is only ac- cepted ad — referendum. ‘The scheme for the organization of a gendarmerie, adopted by the Eastern Roumelian Commission, provides that the commanders and instructors be Frenchmen, A Constantinople despatch says eleven battalions of ‘Turkish troops have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to occupy Adrianople as soon as the Gelinitive treaty with Russia has been signed. _ RUSSIA AND HER PEOPLE, The Russian trade route to China is more danger- ous than ever. Another Russian caravan has been robbed. : A despatch from St. Petersburg to the Berlin North- German Gazette cantradicts the report that the Czar intends to form a responsible Cabinet under Count Schonvalof, ‘The Vienna Taghlatt publishes a long petition from the Russian Provincial Chambers to the Czar for con- stitutional rights. ‘The petition states that the mem- bers of the Chambers, in their present degraded posi- tion, feel themselves entirely powerless to respond + to the government's appeal for aid against the Nihilists. FRENCH POLITICS. At a meeting of the Republican Union at Paris last evening—the Left and Extreme Left—M. Floquet urged the desirability of replacing the present Cabi- net by one of a more pronounced republican character. He was much applauded, but the Moderate Left and the Left Centre are determined to uphold the present Cabinet. The Paris Temps announces that General Borel has resigned the Ministry of War and that General Faid- herbe will succeed him, The Paris Natwnal an- nounces that M, Louis Blane and thirty-five extreme radicals baye resolved, against the advice of the lead- ers of the majority, to issue a manifesto asking for the fulfilment of the will of the country as expressed . by the recent elections, A Paris despatch to the Times confirms the report that General Bosel has resigned the Ministry of War, and adds that the resignation was accepted on Monday. This involves the retirement of Meribel, his chief of staff, who is suspected of complicity in the reactionary designs of Gencral Ducrot. The new Minister of War is General Gresley, a liberal and an orator of the Left Centre. He has formally approved the programme of the governmeat, while affirming the necessity of changes in the magistracy, TUNIS APOLOGIZES. Ben Ismail, tho Prime Minister of Tunis, repaired on Friday, in full uniform, and accompanied by a numerous suite, to the French Consulate, and, on behalf of the Bey, tendered afull apology. ‘The Consul of France received Ben Ismail surrounded by all his staff and the officers of the French fleet sia- tioned off Tunis, LABOR TROUBLES IN ENGLAND, Astrike of cotton operatives at Preston is feared on the 25d inst., when the ten per cent reduction of wages will be enforced, In consequence of the resumption of work by the railway conductors at Leeds all the striking railway employés at Brad- ford have asked and been granted rein- Statement on terms offered by the railway directors. The moulders, fitters and blacksmiths of the railway rolling stock works at Barrow have struck against the extension of the hours of labor from fifty-four to fifty-nine hoursa week, Tho foun- drymen, shipbuilders and housebuilders of Bangor and in that vicinity have struck. Six hundred weavers at Carlisle have struck. ‘This strike will affect other departments of the mills, The strike has commonced in the wire trade at Warrington and 1,500 men are idle in consequence, The strike on the Midland Railroad has virtually ended, the men at the central station at Derby, by whose action a numbe or places agreed to be governed, having unexpectedly resumed work yesterday, Nearly all the men at Stavely, Havland and Clayeross liaye followed snit, «tthe block to traftic is disappearing. It is anticipated that everything will be as usual by Tuesday, It is ex- pected that the failure of the strike amow ‘ds will prevent a strike of the signal me LAWOR IN FRANC! A Paris despatch to tho Témes says that the vely manufacturers of Saint Etionne have resolved to r duce the wages of their operatives twenty per cent, » fe the only means of facing foreign competition. CAULE NOTES, The governments of Germany, Great Britain, Franco, the United States, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal are said to have agreed to the ruies drafted at Berlin to prevent collisions at sea, Marshal Serrano has written to Sefior Sagasta de: the gi nying that he (Serrano) has seceded trom the con: | atitutionalists, and proclajmipy his respect for the present institutions, Mr, Ward, the artist, iad bist a blood vessel, and isih'n critical condition, © A despatch to. the Daily. News from Berlin says the conservative journais agree in express: ivy scruples avout the article of the Parlia- ‘NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET, mentary Discipline bill which provides for handing au offending member over to the courts, This is in- terpreted to mean thet the government will sacridce that provision because a constitutional difficulty has been discovered and not as a concession to the Reich- stag. GRANT’S TOUR TO INDIA. HIS DEPARTURE FROM MARSEILLES ON A FRENCH STEAMSHIP FIXED YOR THE 23D INsr. (BY CABLE To THE BESALD.] Panis, Jan. 13, 1879. General Grant leaves this city on Satur- day for Marseilles, to sail thence for India on the following Thursday (23d) in the regular French steamer leaving on that date. He does not wait for the United States steamship Richmond. CUBA. STATEMENT OF THE EX-CHIEF OF THE INSUR- RECTION, Havana, Jan. 13, 1879. Peralta, an ex-chief of the insurrection, has pub- lished a statement declaring to be untrue the asser- tions contained in an article in u Spanish newspaper of New York, He denies being the agent of Calixto Iniguez; deplores the evils which the insurrection hus occasioned; abjures all insurrectionary sym- pathies, and will do all in his power to maintain peuce, ‘Peralta says he is ready to account anywhere for the funds intrusted to him during the insurree- tion, THE SWINDLER. SEHON FURTHER DETAILS OF HIS CAREER OF DUPLICITY. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Nasavi.te, Teun., Jan. 13, 1879. The swindle of the Odd Fellows’ Benevolent Society of Chicago and tho Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, and the attempt to de- fraud the United Brotherhood of Lebanon, Pu, by A. O. H. P. Schon, Past Grand Master in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and D. C. Howell, his confederate, is still the subject of the most exciting interest. The slumbering his- tory has now been aired, His father was years ago the owner of Coker Creek gold mifes, on the Chil- homie Mountains. While on a tramp in the same vicinity, hunting for more gold, he was said to have been murdered. When his body was discovered it was taken to Athens, where one of the largest Masonic funerals ever held in that por- tion of the State occurred in 1876. ‘A MATTER OF BUSINESS, A. O. H. P. Sehon, then a jeweller in Murfreesboro, urchased $5,000 worth of jewel: from Hildeburn rotherx, of Philadelphi who had to sue and obtain judgment against Schon through the federal court. The United States Marshal permitted Schon to sell the goods, but placed Town Constable Joe Merton to tuke charge of the money received and the keys of the house. One morning the front door of the store was found broken in, the safe opened by a duplicate and govds stolen, Schon attempted to accuse Merton of the robbery, but subsequent deve'opments showed that Sehon was the guilty party, and he was taken into custody by United States Marshal Brown. Ho and his friends pleaded for Schon’s release, and the Philadelphia firm having been paid the $5,000 due them, dropped the prosecution. Since then Sehon has been a pious, prayin elder in the Presbyterian Church, and offere up supplications in public, So gdod a man was he that Murfreesboro people on Saturday threatened to mob those whom they supposed to be his traducers. ‘Their feathers dropped yesterday when they read a full report of Sehon’s Gishonest doings. So far seven men have been involved in the swindle, but as yet, for prudential reusons, their names have not n made known. INSTRUCTIONS TO AN ACCOMPLICE. Two more letters have been found from Sehon to a man named Wilham Fletcher, who is believed to be the fictitious John G. Morton. ''They were opened by a citizen of the same name, who exposed them, One of those letters advised Fletcher to join the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Knights of Honor and Forresters, and go. off aud die, Sehon had gone so tar as_to give Fletcher a letter of recoim- mendation, which it was thought would be a suffi- cient passport to the inner bers of these Orders Fe © medns of the fit acquisition of about MERCY FOR MOLLY MAGUIRES. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. J Harnisevna, Pa., Jan, 13, 1879. . The counsel for Charles Sharpe, a Mollie Maguire, who is to be executed with James McDonnell at Mauch Chunk to-morrow, were here to-day to re- quest the Governor to grant a respite to the condemned to enable them to make ap- plication to the Supreme Court for a special writ of error. The Governor was in Washington, and telegraphed that he would retarn during the night. Judge Ryon, of Pottsville, counsel for James McDonnell, has asked for a respite for a week tor the murderer, to give hia wife an opportunity to bid hizm farewell, the allegation being made that she had been under the impression that he would not be hanged until Saturday next. JANUARY 14—1:45 A.M. ‘The murderers’ counsel have just had an interview with the Governor and asked for reprieve of Sharpe and McDonnell until the constitutional question in the Sayre case has been decided. The Governor said he would let him know in the morning what action he would take. *LOVE AND SUICIDE. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) CHaRLozTE, N, C., Jan. 13, 1879, Yesterday morning Walter W. Pegg, telegraph operator at the depot of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway, at Greenville, 8. C., was found lying dead on the ground about a quarter of a mile from the depot and near the river, which runs through the town. The young man had had a love affair, the issue of which had been unfavorable, and of late he had become somewhat intemperate, and had several times threatened to take his life. Near the body, which lay on its face, was found a half-empty bottle of morphene, and the theory, from the locality in which the body was found, is that Peyg, after taking the morphine, had started to the river for the purpose of throwing himself into the stream, but became overpowered by the drug and sank on the way. When last seen, Saturday night, the young mau was under the influence of liquor, andthe body, when found, gave evidence of having been lifeless for six or eight hours, The suicide lett no letter of explanation, but this is tound in his previously. declared purpose, and the reason which he assigned for harboring this design. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Davenvort, Iowa, Jan. 1879, A Davenport home was the scene of a shocking though accidental tragedy last evening. Frank McManue, aged eighteen years, and his sister, Mary ‘Therese, aged sixteen years, went into the kitchen for a romp with three small children during the ab- sence of their parents at church, =. seated herself inach took a position diagonally oppo- site an feet from her, He had in his hand a small revolver. Supposing that t! ubers r, he lifted the pistol and pulled the trigger rapidiy, the muzzle porated toward his sister. He heard a report, but seoing lie sister aitting: upright he thought no harm had been done. An examination, however, proved that the ball had penetrated the skull, causing instant death, Tho brother became frantic with gricf and is now lying very ill, were emp! THE CLARK-LEE MURDER TRIAL, HOPELESS DISAGREEMENT OF THE sUny. Wasmixaron, Jan. 13, 1879, ‘The jury in the case of Samuct A, Clark, tried for the murder of John Lee on Christmas Day, 18’ have been out since Saturday night at six o'clock, and, being night. It is satd that ¢ iy at v: ‘The presiding Judge asserts that ho will kes together the entire week if before the expiration of t k's third trial. On the first he was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. An appeal to a full court procured a new trial, in which the jury dis- agreed, FRIGHTENED [DY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Nonvoux, Va, Jan, 13, 1879, ‘The day before yesterday Mrs, Mary Hyslop, the worthy wife of Robert Hyslop, @ well known farmer of Norfolk county, who resides Letweon Providence Church and Great Bridge, was frightened to death by doing chased by a horse, ‘The horse had been turned loose in a lot m the dwelling, and was amusing himself chasing a small calf, irs. Hyslop went out in the yard after the animal with a stick to drive him away from the calf, when he turned and chased her, She fled back into the house overwhelmed with fright, and fell on the floor in convulsions. A fow monte or ea she oxpired from the eflecta of the taiw! TO DEATH. UN. of SEE at THE J, Norman Lockyer Believes He Has Solved a Great Problem. eel — REVELATIONS OF THE SPECLROSCOPE, The Advance of a Quarter of a Century in Science. (BY caBLE TO THE HERALD.) Lenpos, Jan. 13, 1879. J. Norman Lockyer, the distinguished English astronomer, has just informed me that he has obtained evidence that the bright lines of the solar chromosphere are chiefly lines due to the not yet isolated bases of ourteen so-called elements, and that the solar phenomena in their totality are, in all probability, due to dissociation at the pho- tospheric level and association at higher levels. In this way vertical currents in the solar atmosphere, both ascending and de- scending, cause intense absorption in the spots; their with the fac- u!~ and the apparently continuous spec- association trum of the corona and its structure thus Mr. Lockyer thus, ap- parently, explains all difficulties met by the observers of the solar eclipse of lust year. find easy solution. ‘THE SCIENCE OF SPECTROSCOPY, The science of spectroscopy, or “spectrum analy- sis,” which has enabled Mr. J, Norman Lockyer to discover the innermost sccrets of the solar composi- tion, though one of the youngest branches of physi- cal research, already exhibits a disposition to assert itself as the equal in importance of any of its elder brethren. The spectrum, or colored image arising from the dissociation of a ray of light into its constit- uent colors, has been observed and treated as an opti- cal curiosity from the days of Newton and Huyghens. It was not, however, until 1859 that Messrs. Kit hoffand Bunsen made the brilliant discovery that the dark lines in the spectrum, of the solar light are due to the vapors of various elements in the sun’s atmosphere, and that the lines themselves cor- responded to the bright lines given by the same cle- ments when vaporized by the passage of un clectric ‘spark, _ The inference was obvious that the cause of the darkness of the solar lines is that the vapor (of iron, for instance) existing in the sun’s atmosphere absorbs more light than it cmits, and consequently the lines caused by iron vapor in the solar light ap- pear darker thun.the adjacent portions of the spec- trum, whereas the spectrum of terrestrial iron vapor, when separately examined, gives an intense bright light. ‘The identity of the dark lines of the solar spectrum: with the bright lines given by the illuminated vapors of the terrestrial elements being once established it was obvious that the foundations of a, new science of surpassing value were laid. In fact, but a few months passed*before the leading metallic constitu- ents of the solar atmosphere wero announced, includ- ing iron, sodium, borium, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, manganese, chromium, cobalt, nickel, vane, copper, titanium, as well as hydrogen, which, at that time, had not been generally recognized as @ metal. ‘he ‘noble metais’—gold, platinum, &c.— were not found, nor were the non-metals or metal- loids—such as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and phos phorus. a HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, No long time elapsed before Messrs, Bunsen and Kirchhoff announced the existence of metallic lines in the solar spectrum which did not correspond to any known terrestrial metals, and they commenced ®@ systematic search for such metals, which were naturally presumed to exist. In 1860 two new elements were discovered by these scientists in cer- tain German mineral waters, whose spectra cor- responded to the already observed solar lines. By the same method Mr. William Crockes, in 1863, dis- covered the element thallium, and more recently M. Lecog de Boisbaudran has added gallium to the list. In apportioning honor to whom honor is due it should never be forgotten that the researches of Stokes and Huggins formed an indispensable prelim- inary to the discoveries of the German chemists, and especially that to an American scientist, Dr. J. W. Draper, was due the observation, ue early as 1846, that “all solid substances, and probably all liquids, emit light or become incandescent at the same tem. perature, that temperature being 977 Fahrenheit.” We have not space to enter into details respecting the magnificent applications of spectroscopy to many departments of astronomy, including the discovery of the essential unity of all worlds by ascertaining the existence of our terrestrial elements in the remotest stars, the investigation of the nature of the nebulw of sun spots and solar protuberances, and expecially of the. solar corona. In these researches American physicists and astronomers like Young, Langley, Watson and the two Drapers (father and son) have honorably distinguished themselves. Quite recently Dr. Henry Draper proved, as he thinks, the existence of oxygen in the sun, manifesting itself, not like the metals, by dark lines, but by bright ones, aud the same process of reasoning makes it probable that nitrogen, carbon and the other metalloids are there present. It was only a few days ago that Professor Crova, of the University of Montpellier, France, announced to the French Academy of Sciences the discovery of a practical application of spectroscopy to industrial chemistry, which, in the opinion of Messrs. Dumas and Berthefot, is “the greatest discovery of modern times.” It consists of an instrument which he calls a “spectro-photometer,” by whieh he determines with great precision degrees of heat hitherto beyond the range of calculation, which until now has been limited by the point of fusion of the thermometric tube, In many manufactures an enormous degree of heat is requisite for carrying out such operations as iron casting, but the precise amount required for each metal has never before been determined, M. Crova fixes spectroseopically the fusion point of all the metals, enabling the manutacturer to regulate his fires so as to produce the precise required effect. Mr. Lockyer's grout discovery, of last November, that all tho elements are built up from a primi- tive material lighter than hydrogen, which he identifies with the clement yieiding the celebrated 1474 line in the spectrum of the solar corona, is too recent, aud the experiments tpon which it is based are too imperfectly known to allow us as yet to count its one of the aswared results of modern research, | Still, the tendency of speculative philosophy is all in the direction of Mr. Lockyev's conclusions, and if his latest results, to-day announced, should prove to be domonstrable facts, it will not be easy to exaggerate the importance of the conclusions to which we are brought by the converging researches of Lockyer, | Crova, Crookes, Huggins, Draper and Young. ONE USE OF GRERK, It remains to make an observation upon the philo- logical aspect of the subject, in reference to the employ ment of the words “chromosphere dlissoviatio and “association.” One of the most striking conse- quences of the rapid accumulation of discoveries in modern physical science is the constantly recurring nocessity of finding cquivalent words to express the cardinary ideas involved in’ cach new hypothesis, ‘The activity of our inventors and experimentalists has outrun the resources of the Kngiish language; hence the multiplication of new torms of Greek or Latin derivation, which makes modera seienve so strangely unintelligible to the ordinary reader, But though the wonderful copionsness and flexibility of the Greck language invite the scientific discoverer to avail himself of its treasures, by introducing the proper combination of roots and prefixes into our English vocabulary, it is uot every chemist, physi cist of naturalist who is a trained 6 sieal scholar, and hence the mumerous new- fungled words which are every day appear- ing im seientitic publications do not always commend themselves to the approvul of fastidious pbilologists, Still oftener the physical discoverer renounces the effort to construct a new word, and coutents himself with that existing term which best expresses the new idea with which he has enriched the scientific treasury. Both courses of action are open to objection, but one of them must perforce be adopted. ‘Che multiplication of unintelligible words is, of course, a grave evil, more especially it they are not constructed in accordance with a true linguistic insixht. But the indiscriminate use of existing words in new senses is a still greater evil, and we can think of no subject more imperatively demand- ing the intervention of our trained philologists, In cur telegraphic colunins this morning will be found an important despatch announcing the latest tri- umphs in spectroscopic research achieved by Mr. J. Norman Lockyer in unfolding the secrets of the com- position of the solar chromosphere (or rather chro- matosphere), and the two words which express the essence of the discovery are “dissociation” and ‘‘asso- ciation.” ‘The word “chromosphere” isan illustration of the first inconvenience to which we have above re- ferred, It was formed from the Greek by Mr. Lockyer himself, some ten years ago, to express the sphere of color surrounding the sun. It is readily understood but unfortunately is not correctly formed, as the leading Greck root has two additional letters which have been wrongly omitted. The word shouid be “chromatosphere.” In the words “dissociation” and which now for the first time are pre- sented to the general public with specialized signifi- cance, we have the opposite philological error of em- ploying words which have tov general a meaning for a purely technical use, True, the word “dissociation” hus already been employed in this sense for more than twenty yeers—since it was first introduced by the eminent French chemist, M. Henri St. Claire Deville— } but it has never become # part of the popular vocabu- lary, and now that the discoveries of Mr. Lockyer have brought the subject into prominence it would be well to introduce the correct terms “‘diastasis” and “synstasis” for the faulty terms “dissociation” and “association.” We have in this city an American Philological Society which, under the presidency of Dr. Weissc, the distinguished author of a recent work on “The Origin, Progress aud Destiny of the English Language,” to-morrow celebrates its ninth anniver- sary, and to that learnei body we commend the im- portant task of rescning our language from the threatened flood of philological barbarisms, PERILS OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION. LECTURE BY CAPTAIN TYSON ON HIS EXPERI- ENCES DURING THE WINTER oF 1872-3. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 1879. Captain George E. Tyson, the comrade of Captain Hall, of the Polaris, and commander of the recent Howgate expedition to the Arctic regions, lectured to-night in Lincoln Hall on his unequalled experience while lost, with eighteen others, on a floe of ice, during the winter of 1872 and 1873, Captain Tyson is a man of pleasant address, re- fined features and compact organization. He is mild in his manner and agreeable in his conversational powers, and a succinct and carefully written narrative of his dreary experience forms % most attractive and fascinating lecture. ‘This narra- tive of Captain ‘Tyson has already been published, but he has lectured only once or twice upon the sub- ject. THE LECTURE. ‘There was no lack of material for the lecture, the only trouble being to condense the marvellous ex- perience of over six months into a descrip- tion not exceeding an hour and a half in its delive: The precarious methods of ob- taining subsistence by killing seal aud. bear were graphically described, as well as the little village of snow huts which formed the shelter of the Arctic wanderers during that memorable epoch, All the in- genious resorts to sustain life in the daily experience Of the icetloe colony formed subjects for startling chapters. Arctic cookery, the careful saving of the seal blubberand the preparation of the scanty articles of food saved from the Polaris, gave the audience an idea of how little the demands of nature actually are to support life even in the most perilous situatic ‘he account of the gradual grinding and washing away of the lve from being a great field of ice to a block scarcely twenty yards in width, and, length was iost thrilling, and how iu the last moment, when it seemed as if there was a verge even to the providence of God, the whaling steamer Tigress, from St. John’s, N. F’., discovered the party, | rescued them all and’ landed Captain Tyson, the sailors and Esquimaux at St John’s, safely in the month of April, 1873. THE SENATORSHIPS. ~ [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Raxion, N. C., Jan. 13, 1879. At a joint democratic caucus of the General Assem- bly to-night, A. 8. Merrimon formally withdrew from the contest for re-election to the United States Senate, ‘This, he stated, was for the peace and harmony of the democratic party. The field is now open for Gover- nor Vance, there being no other name prominently before the ature. Ex-Senator Clingman, who has been as a “durk horse,” left the city this evening. A SUCCESSOR FOR MR. EUSTIS. New OniEaxs, Jan, 13, 1879. A legislative ballot is to be taken to-morrow for United States Senator to succced Mr, Eustis. A caucus was called for to-night, but only sixteen members attended, and nothing was done. The democratic ca.cus balloted unsuccessfull; ‘The fifth and last ballot stood:—Kenner, 25; Eustis, 23; Jonas, 18; Herron, 10; the baiance scatteriug. The caucus hus adjourned until to-morrow night. EARTHQUAKE IN FLORIDA. JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 13, 1879, A severe shock of earthquake was felt here last night about @ quarter to twe jock, which lasted about twenty seconds, and a1 st to northwest. Buillings were vio tly ckery rattled and doors were thrown open. was felt at St Gulf coast from Punta Ras over the interior porti kind was ever experi Angustine and down the Marks, as well as Nothing of the et ed here before. FUNERAL, Prinaperrata, Jan, 10, 187! Benjamin Hunter, who was hanged at Camden on was buried this morning from his late resi- MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. Wan DEPARtMKxt, Orrick oF THE Caer SioNat. Orricer, WasHINGros, Jan. 14—1 A. M. | Indications, For the Middle Atlantic States and New England, falling barometer, warmer southwest winds, cloudy weather and occasional light rain or snow, followed by colder northwest winds, with rising barometer and clearing weather, For the South Atlantic States, warmer southerly winds, falling barometer, clear or partly cloudy weather, For the Gulf Stites, warmer southerly winds shift- ing to cooler west and north, with rising barometer, partly cloudy weather. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, southwest veer- ing to cooler northwest winds, partly cloudy weather, with occasional rain or snow, followed by clear weather and rising barometer, For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys, rising barometer, colder northerly winds, clear ot partly cloudy weather. For the upper lake region, rising barometer, colder north and west winds, partly cloudy weather and oecasional snows, For the lower lake region, warmer southwest yeoring to cooler northwest winds, rising barometer, increasing cloudiness and snow or rain, followed by clearing weather, For the North and Middie Pacific regions, slightly cooler, north and west winds, occasional rains and clearing weather, Yor the South Pacific region, westerly winds, partly cloudy weather, ‘The rivers Will generally rise, passing danger line at Chattanooga, Decatur, Johnsonville, and reaching it at Nashville, ; TAR WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- rison with the corresponding date of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Henan Building, No. vay — 1878, 3 1979, 2 20 40 vant DISASTERS AT SES, | Total Loss of the American Ship Thomas M, Reed. TERRIBLE WEATHER REPORTED Ship Huguenot Ashore on the Cornwall Coast. WRECKS ON THE AMERICAN COAST. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpon, Jan. 14, 1879. The Herixy’s correspondent at Milford Haven, coast of South Wales, telegraphs that the American ship Thomas M. Reed, Captain Small, bound trom San Francisco for Liverpool, went ashore in the breakers in Freshwater Bay, near Linny Head, yesterday. The sea was running very high at the time, and, although the rocket appa- ratus was soon on the spot, great difficulty was experienced in getting a line on board. The crew were in a very dangerous position, but by means of the line twenty of the men were saved. ‘Three men had unfor- tunately been washed overboard and were drowned. A TOTAL WRECK. Lloyds’ agent proceeded to the scene of the wreck and is saving all the cargo that comes askore, This consists mainly of The sands for more than a mile are strewn with tho eargo and broken spars. salvage will be large. The ship has already become a total wreck. The yacht in the service of ‘Trinity House had been sent for and was hourly expected atthe time our despatch lett Milford. ‘he Thomas M. Reed left San Francisco on September 25, and made the voyage in safety to within | about one hundred miles of her port. She was built at Bath, Me., in 1877, where she was owned, and she registered 1,507 tons. ABANDONMENT OF THE EQUATEUR. The French bark Equateur, Captain Menard, from San Francisco August 3, for Liverpool, has been aban- doned off Pwilheli, North Wales, saved, boxes of canned meat and fish. The amount of The crew were LOSS OF LIVE STOCK, ‘The steamship Averill, from Boston, Mass., arrived at West Hartiepool (Durham) yesterday, encountered terrific gales on her passage and lost overboard most of her live stock. THE SHIP HUGUENOT, ‘The American ship Huguenot, Captain Nickerson, from Huon Island, Lacepedes, is ashore at St. Mawes, Cornwall, England. ¥ ‘TUK ORMUS LNA HURRICANE. The American bark Ormus, at Hull, from Round Pond, encountered @ hurricane on the passage and lost Gideon Smith, a seaman, from Pembroke, Me., overboard. Her forward house was also carried away and her boats damaged. GRAIN THROWN OVERBOARD. The British brig Wexford, Captain Covert, from New York, November 13, for Oporto, arrived at Vigo on the 6th iust., with her cargo damaged, She jetti- soned 200 sacks of grain, SAVED FROM TRE SEA. ‘Twelve of the crew of the British bark Gunhilda, from Baltimore for Bordeaux, before reported lost, have been saved, ‘Two are missing. TOTAL WRECK OF THE LUIGI OLIVARI. ‘The Italian bark Luigi Olivari, Captain Revello, from Philadelphia, by way of Falmouth, for Silloth, has been totally wrecked near Whitehaven. Eight of her crew have been cast up on the be Nothing is known as to the fate of the rest. j LOSS OF THE GENERAL CAULFIELD. The British bark General Caulficld, Captain Cleaf, from New York, November 24, for Dunkirk, is ashore near Kinsale and is a total wreck. Hor crew were saved. The cargo is saturated with water. LEAKY cnarz. The Danish bark Alert, Captain Erichsen, from Philadelphia, December 7, for Tuborg, Denmark, has put into Falmouth, England, leaky. ‘The British bark Tancook, Captain Hughes, from | Calais, December 25, for Hampton Roads, and the German ehip James, Captain Wilmsen, trom Ant- werp, December 16, for the United States, were in collision on the 7th inst, The Tancook lost her fore- mast and maintopgallantmast and bad her bows stove. The James lost her jibboom and foretopmast. Both vessels have been docked at Queenstown. ‘The British bark Numa, from Philadelphia for Dun- kirk, and the British bark Ramolino, from Philadel- phia, both arrived at Queenstown on the 12th, the former with loss of foremast head and maintopgal- lantmast and the latter with bulwarks carried away. RESCUE OF THE BARKENTINE ADDIE E. SLEEPER BY THE BRITISH STEAMER OCEAN KING—rwo OF THE CREW WASHED OVERBOARD. BARKENTINE TOWED BARK MARS IN A GALE, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD,] Newrorr, RB. L., Jan. 13, 1879, ‘The barkentine Addie E. Sleeper, of Rockland, Cap- tain Wiley, from Aspinwall for New York, with a “THE INTO NEWPORT —THE cargo of railroad iron, was towed into this port to-day in distress, She has had an eventful voyage, and the story of her weather-beaten crew will be found equal in interest to those that have been told in the Hrravp of late. The vessel now lies in the onter harbor, the steamer Ocean King, of Glasgow, (rom w York for London, which brought her in, being alongside, She presents a strange appearance. Her masts are all carried away, and no signs are visible of sails or spars. The wheelhouse ant ¢abin are com- pletely demolished, aud the vessel is a wreck in every sense of the worl, She left Aspinwall for New York on December WW. The first aecident hap- pened when the vessel was but two days out, c OF THE CREW DROWNED. While taking in the light sails, on the Lath inest., at midnight, Peter Oisen, of Norway, lost his balance and fell overboard. The sea was ranning too high for any endeavor to be made to save him. On the Sd of the present month in latitude 3 deg. 42 mi longitude 74 deg. 2 min, a heavy qule from the nor-hwest was encountered, At noon of that y York pilot was taken on | board. At hal P.M, the topsuil Jibs were | taken in and the sails fore and alt were double rected, | At four P. M.on the same day all the sails were | | plown away except the spanker, ‘The gale was unusu- | | ally severe all day and a heavy sea was running from | the northwe: essel soon afterward headed to | the south i o clear Fire Isiand. The gale ' continued on th id a terrible | the yioomy surr | rae | Atnoon the for | and in fallin, ASIS CARRIED AWAY, | Pyallantinust was carried away, away the topseil braces and | the fore yards vessel at this time was | | rolling and p like a toy at the mer | of the wind an waves, ‘The broken spars ’ ind to an extent that made it imp ure them, a no one could live aloft. . So had to be dev ing, and the eap- gave orders tocut away the foremast, This was done as quickly as possible by the frost: bitten crew. The hnge foremast in its fall carried away the head of the maiumast, It was also found | from the New York N madded to | 5 7 necessary to cut away the mizzenmast, and, in everything which would have a teudeney to im) the lives of those on board and prevent the vessel from sinking in the trough of the On the two following days the crew also experienced heavy weather, but it was thought that the vessel could be worked iuto port. The pilot lett on the 7th inst. and boarded the German bark Margaret Blauce. VESSELS SIGHTED AND SPOKEN. At four P.M. the same day the ship Tecumseh, of Boston, bound cast, was spoken. the sth there was afresh breeze, ‘The ship Alert, of Bergen, Nor- way, and the steamer Netherland, were also seen on that day, andon the ‘th saw the bark Vale and the schooner Eagle, bound cast. ANOTHER MAN OVERBOARD, At ten P. M. on the 10th another serious accident happened to the floating wr A heavy sea was shipped which rushed int bin with ‘great force, knocking away the bulkheads, wheel and rail, and, in tact, everything of a movable navure, fillin: the cabin witht water and broken lumber, Michael Howland, of Limerick, Ireland, nineteen years of age, who Was at the wheel, was washed overboard aud lost. ‘The chronometers, sextant, books, charts and all the clothing of the captain and the crew were in the cabin and of course were ruined, ‘The cabin, indeed, presented a sorry ap, ce, and those on board were obliged to depend altogether upon the galley for shelter. NARROW ESCAPES. When this unforseen accident happened the steward, Jumes Forbes, was gon on the cabin floor, and was hidden in the general ruin, After a while ha was hauled ouc, but he was badly bruised, and he is scarcely able to get one foot before the other. The chief mute, Alexander Morton, was sleeping in his berth and he narrowly ‘escaped with his life. James Ward, the second mate, would have been washed overboard but tor his presence of mind in seizing the main boom. Some of the crew were obliged to go barefooted, and were not able to secure sufficient clothing to keep themselves either dry or warm. The mate sang out for the captain, after the sea had done its work, but, hearing no an+ swer, he thought that he, too, had been washed overs board. ‘The captain, however, was found on the top of the house holding on to the raged stump of the mize zenmust. As soon as possible ull hands were ordere® to secure the tiller or the relieving tackles. The hatches were nailed up and the pumps sounded. ‘The trysail was hauled down and future events were awaited with painful suspense. It was impossible to do anything with the vessel. Fortunately she did not leak, and but little doubt existed that her pitiable souaition would be seen within the next twenty-four ours, SIGHTED BY THE OCEAN KING. On the following day (Saturday), at noon, she was sighted by the British steamer Ocean King, of Glas gow, from New York for London, and a thrill of jo: went through the hearts of all on boa the barkentine, for they could see that the hour of deliverance had arrived at last, when they would be provided with food and with dry se and be towed to port. Tha steamer fell in with her in latitude 39 deg. 3 min, horth, longitude 78 deg. 4 min, west. There wae some delay in making fast to the disabled vessel, but it was not long before she had her in tow. The crew of the former had now an opportunity to rest. They were kindly cared for by Captain Roper and ofti- cers, on board of the steamer, who furnished thenx with éry clothing and with provisions. At half. past two on Sunday morning, one of the steam- er’s haw: parted and it was found impos. sible. owing to the darkness, to get hold of her again until six o'clock in the morning of the same day. W the masts fell, it should be stated that two of the boats and the main booby hatch were stove in. But for the timely appearance of the steamer the vessel would have been a total loss and the crew would never huye been able to relate the story of their long-to-be-remembered voyage. Cup= tains Roper and Wiley left for New York to-night to es about the salvage and other matters connected with their respective vessels, YY THE STORM. ew Bedford from Captain of the bark Mars, of that port, dated at sea, ber 18, giving no latitude, reports that on Oce tober 12, when four days out, it began to blow a gale, and that at eleven A. M. on the 13th, while the vessel was hove to on the starboard tack, she was struck by asca which stove in the starboard waist and one of the overhead boats, filled the decks, burst open the doors and filled the cabin. The wind veered to south- southwest, when the ship was put before it and ran for three days before an observation could be taken, and when one was got it was found that they were in latitude 34 north, longitude 60 west. On the night of October 18 a gule began from south-southeast, which increased to a fearful hurricane, the waves dashing to a height of tifty fect and breaking over the vessel continually. The wind hauled tosouth southwest, and the ship was put under close reefed maintopsail and run berore it. ‘A LEAKY BARGE. ‘The barge Salameda, from Hoboken for Somersct, with 900 tons of coal, is at Fall River leaking badly, Her pumps had to be kept going ali the time to keep her atloat, NAVAL INTELLIGE THE TALLAPOOSA DETAINED BY ICE—EXPERBIe MENTS WITH A LIFE BUOY. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HEEALD.] Nonrrouk, Jan. 13, 1879. ‘The Tallapoosa continues detained at the yard by ice in the Potomac, The training ship Portsmouth, which arrived mm Hampton Roads from New York on Sunday, will come up to the yard for a few days. Captain J. H. Gillis, Lieutenant Commander Feliz McCurley and Master Frank Guertin, composing-the Board appointed for the purpose, have been to Capa Henry all day on the steamer Fortune, experimentin; with the life bnoy invented by Captain Jouett po Commander Hoff, of the navy. THE VANDALIA AT BOSTON. Boston, Mass., Jan. 13, 1879 ‘The United States sloop of war Vandalia is below, ORDERED TO EXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION. Wassrnoton, Jan, 13, 1879. Assistant Surgeon C. W. Doan has been detached 1 Hospital and ordered to examination for promotion. HOTEL ARRIVALS. General Alfred H. Terry and Major Robert P. Hughes, United States Army, are at the Sturtevant. Senator ‘Theodore M. 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