VOL. II. M~~AANNIN(G. (I"ARENDON (CONTY. S. C.., WED)NESDAY, SEPTEMBER~~ 18) O 9 A TERRIB.E EART ULIAQ DREADFUL DESTRUCT(o oF'uom01 wir AND II U3AN LIFE. Charleston VisIted by a Calamit y .rie:n ed in All Its History-Particub.Tr% oth Dreadful Occurrence. The earthquage shock experienced in different parts of the State on the ilght of Tuesday the 31st ult., was felt with dreadful effects in the city of Charlston. The loss of property was dreadful, one estimate putting it as high as five mil lions of dollars-actual and inidenta. One report states that there are only oze hundred houses left altogether uninjur ed. This is perhaps an exaggcration, but it is safe to say that the mnber of buildings injured will include the larger portion of the structures in the city. Twenty buildings, in diferent parts of the city, were destroyed by fire caused by the overturning of lamps. Below will be found an interesting account of the disaster, taken from the telegraph reports to the daily press: Canissrox, S. C., September 1. The compositors of the News and Couri er decline to work to-night, expecting fresh shocks of earthquake, and the paper cannot issue to-morrow. The fol lowing article was prepared for publica tion in the News and Courier, and is telegraphed almost in the writer's own words, necessarily the only description .that can be given of the disaster which has befallen our city. It consists in the marration of experiences and observa tions of individuals, and the subject be ing the same and the experiences of all being nearly alike, the story told by one careful observer may well stand for an hundred others, with slight variations. Probably the best idea that can be had of the character of the disturbance, therefore, may be obtained from a nar ration of the events and scenes of Tues day night as they were presented to a single person while engaged in his usual duties in the second story room of the News and Courier office. At the time of the first shock the writer's attention was vaguely attracted by a sound which seemed to come from~ the office below, and which was supposed for a moment to be caused by the rapid rolling of a lwavy body, as an iron safe or heavily iAde.' truck, ovei the floor. Accompa mying the sound there was a perceptible .tremor o the building, not more mark -ed, however, than would be caused by the passage of a street car or dray along the street. For perhaps two or three seconds the occurrence excited no sur prise or comment. Then. by swift de grees, or, perhaps, all at once, it is 'icut to say which., the sound deep ened in volume, the tremor became more decided, the ear caught the rattle of window sashes, gas fixtures, and other loose objects. The men in the office, with perhaps a simultaneous flash of the recollections of the isturbance of the Friday before, glanced hurriedly at each other, and sprang to their ieet with .startled questions and answers, !'What is that?" "Earthquake!" And then all W bewilderment and confusion. The long roll deepened and spread into an swful roar, that seemed to per wade at onee the troubled earth and still air above sud around. The tremor was now a rude, rapid quiver, that agitated the whoe lofty strong-walled building as though it were being shaken by the hand of an immeasurable power, with the in tent to tear its joints asunder and scatter its stone and bricks abroad as a tree .casts its ripened fruit before the breath of the gale. There was no intermission in thre vibration of the mighty subterranean1 engine. From first to last it was a con tinuous jar, only adding force at every moment; and as it approached an'd reached the climax of its manifestation, it seemed for a few ?errible seconds that no work of human hands could possibly survive. Floors were under foot, the surrounding walls and partitions vribly swayed to and fro, the crash of fallig masses of stone and brick and mortar was overhead and without; a terrible rcar filled the ears and seeme 1 to fill tie mirrid and heart, dazing perception, be -wik&2ing thought, and for a few pant mng breaths, or while vou held. your ibreath in dreadful anticipation of imme diate and amel death, you felt that life was already past, and waited for the end as the 'victim with bis head on the block awaits the fall of the np lifted axe. It is not given to many inen to look in th face of the Destroyer anid yet live, bnt itis little to say that the gang of strong men who shared the experience above faintly described will carry with them recollections of that supreme mo ment to their dying day. No one ex pected to escape. A sudden rush was simultaneously made to endeavor to attain the open air and flee to a place of safety, "ut before the door was reached al? r. gi together to the totteing wall andeolpped, feeling that hope was vain; tha'it was only a question of death in the building or without, to be buried by th~e sinking roof or crushed by toppling walls. The uproar slowrly died away in the seemring distanec. The earth was still, ad oh! the blessed relief of that still ness! But how rudely the silence was broken. As we dashe'd down the stair way and out into the street, already, on every side, arose shrieks, cries of pain and fear, prayers and wailings of terrified women and children, commingled with .the hoarser shouts of excited men. Out irL the street the air was tilled to the height of a house with a whiteish cloud -of dry, stifling dust, from the lime and mortar asnd sliattered masonry, which, falling *'on the pavement and stone roadway, nd been reduced to powder. Thbrough this elonal, dense as fog, the aslights flicheredl dimly,~ shedding but little light, so that you stumibled at every step over piles of brick, or beesne en tangled in the lines of telegraph wires that depended in every dlieetion from their broken supports. On every side were hnurrying forms~ of men and women, barehe::ded, partially .dressed, some almost nude, and many of whom were crazed with fear or excite inent Here a woman is supported, half iainting, in the arms of husband, who main toil tosoth hr, while he car her :no tbe ope a space t the street e';rner,. where pres;ent safety seems a" ed. There a womani lies on the paveml ent, with notu-rned face and out ,:ethed limls. and the crowd passes he, by for the time, not pausing to sC whetlier she be alive or dead. A sden light ilames through a win dow\ o'verlooking the street; it becomes momcntariiv briglhter. and the cry of from the multitude. A rush Is -.x'de towards the spot. A man is se dol.ed up and helpless, against a Wil but at this Ioment, somewhere outs overhedA, deep in the ground, l 0. again the low. ominous roll, -11el .iready too well known to be iaken. It rovs louder and nearer, like the growls of a wild beast swiftly approaching his prey, and all is forgot tea again in the frenzied rush for open space. where alone there is hope of cci urity, faint though it be. The tali buildings on either hand blot out the skies and stars, and seem to overhang every foot of ground between them; the shattered cornicesand copings, the tops of their frowning walls, seemed piled from both sides to the centre of the street. It seems that a touch would now send the shattered masses left stand ing down upon the people below, who look up to them and shrink together as the tremor of the earthquake again passed under them, and the mysterious reverberations swell and roll along like some infernal drum-beat summoning them to die. And it passed away, and again is experienced the blessed feeling of deliverance from the impending calamity, which, it may well be believed, evokes a mute but earnest offering of mingled prayer and thanksgiving from every heart in the throng. Again. far along the street, and up from alleys that lead into it from either side, is heard that chorus of wailing and lamentation, which, though it bad not closed, was scarcely noticed a moment before. It is a dreadful sound-the sound of helpless, horror-stricken human ity, old and young, strong and feeble alike, when all are so feeble, calling for helo from their fellow creatures and raising their anguished voices in petition to Heaven for mercy, where no human aid could avail. It is not a scene to be described by any mortal tongue or pen. It is not a scene to be forgotten when it has been witnessed, and when the witness has shared all its danger and felt all its agony. The first shock occurred at seven minutes of 10, as was indicated this morning by the public clock's hands, all of whici had stopped at that fateful hour, as though to make an end of the time for so many who heard the preced ing hour pealed forth by St. Michael's chimes without thought but of long and happy life. The second shock, which was but a faint and crisp echo of the first, was felt -eight minutes later, As it passed away the writer started homeward, to find the scenes enacted on Broad street around the News and Courier office repeated at every step of the way. St. Michael's steeple towered high and white above the gloom, seemingly uninjured. The station house, a. massive brick building across the street, had apparently lost its roof, which had fallen around it. A little further on, the roof of the portico of Hibernian Hall, a handsome building in the Grecian style, had crashed to the ground, carrying down part of the mas sive r'ranite pillars with it. All the way u street, (which, in respect of its genera direction and importance, may be called the Broadw- of Charles ton,) the roadway was pilf with debris from tops ofwls In passing the Charleston Hotel, which, to carry out the comparison above indicated, occupies ti~e position of Stewart's up town store in New York, the ird shock was felt, about ten minutes aftesr the second, and of course caused the greatest alarm in that neigh borhood, as elsewhere. At Marion Square, correspondmng ex actly with Union Square, New York, a great crowd had collected, as even the edges of the wide sipaces cmbraced in it could not be reached by the narest building in the event of their fall. From this crowd, composed of men, women and children of both races, arose meces sant calls and cries and lamentations, wiis over the motley, half-dressed throng was shed the lurid light of a con flagration which flad broken out just be vod the square immediatety dier the frst shock, and had now wholly bnjel oped several building's in flames. Ini three qatrs~of the town at the sme time milar large fires were b served under ill headway; and the awful significanee of the earthquake may be most fully appreciated, perhaps, when it is said that, with these tremendous fires blazing up all at once around them and threatening the city with total de station, the people whom you met on the streets .or saw gathered together in groups in openi places eymczently did not give them a thought. No one Watce the ruddy flame or pillar of cloud rising ht into the still night air. AU were too intent on listening with strained sense for the dreaded recurrence of that horrible growl or groan of the power un der the seas an~d uinder the lanu tto ove thought to the new tero, thaough it'ha threatened his own home and many homes in the doomed city. Crowds poured in from every direction to +he square just described, as though it had be.en, indeed, a charmed circle, ad life deyended on passing within its grassy bounds. Street ca~rs, carriages ad other vehicles were ranged in lires on thec streets surrounding the square, while horses stood stock still with turned Iheads, as though sniffing the ground in arous inquiry. The colored people everywhere were loud and incessant in their 'declamations of alarm, in the singing of hymns and in ervent appeals for God's mercy, in whic apea' God knows, many a proud heart who heard th'em arising in Ithe night and in the hour of His won drousnmight, devoutly and humbly and sincerely joined. Danger brings all of us to the level of the lowliest. There were no distinctions of place, or powr, or pride, or caste in the assem baga that were gathere together in Charleston az Tuesday night. It was a curious spectacle to iock back upon. It in 2good one to remember, for it and biasch alike. There were instances of unselfish devotion, of kind and loving Iregard between master~ and servant, misress and maid, in the presence of he common ill and of the threatened ruin, that showed, as nothing else could Ishow, Low strong is the tie that binds our white people and our black people togctlei; and this lesson of the dread visitation we iay hope, too, will never be forgot ten. Arrived at his home, the writer found the same scenes of destruction and wreck which marked nearly every other home in the eitv. All the houses in the neigh borhood 'had suffered se -. .sly, and streets, yards and gardens were filled with fallen chimneys :and fragments of walls, while the walls that were left starding were rent asunder. in many eases, from top to bottom, and were badlv shattered in cvery instance. WVomen and children, roused from their sleep or interrupted in their eve ning pursuits by the sound of ruin being effectcd above and around them, rushed out into the streets and huddled together awaiting the end, whatever it might be. Invalids were brought out on mattresses and deposited on the roadway. No thought was given to the treasures left behind in the effort to save the peculiar treasure of Iife itself, suddenly become so precious in the eyes of all, the invalid woman and robust man alike. Until long after midnight the streets were filled with fugitives in sight of their homes. Through the long hours that followed few were the eyes, even of childhood, that were closed in sleep. Charleston was full of those who watched for morning, and never, in any city, in any land, did the first gray shades that mark the approach of day appear so beautiful and so welcome to the eye as they appeared to the thou sands of people who hailed them this morning from the midst of the countless wrecked homes in our thrice-scourged and still patient, still brave, still hopeful and still beautiful City by the Sea. CHLnEsToN, S. C., September 2. The people are gradually taking account of the details of the injury worked by the earthquake, and the list of damages to property is startling. A limited sec tion in the south of the city is a sample of the whole. Standing at the postoffice, and looking West, an almost impassable roadway of debris meets the eye. Most of the build ings on the street are more or less dam aged, but the violence of the earthquake is most perceptible at the historic inter section of Broad and Meeting streets. The police station is almost a complete wreck. The upper edge of the wall has been torn down and that of the north wall has fallen on the roof of the porch, carrying it away and leaving only the large fluted pillart standing. The City Hall apparently escaped seri ous damage, but is badly cracked on the east wall. The Court House building is 'badly damaged, the walls being cracked in several places and portions of the roof and gables being thrown down. The Fire Proof building seems to stand as a rock. The gables of the north and south porches, however, made of solid brownstone, have been thrown to the pavement below. This appears to be the only damage done to the build ing. The worst wreck in the locality, how *ever, is St. Michael's Church, which seems to be doomed to destruction. The steeple, the repairs on which had just been completed, seems to be intact, but it is nearly out of plumb and is in mo mentary danger of falling. The massive 1 porch has been wrecked from the body of the church and the building has been cracked in four places. One crack in the north wall extends from the eaves to the lower windows; two on the west face of the church extend the entire height of the building, and one on the south wall also extends'from the eayes down almost to the foundation. These cracks are all immediately under the steeple, which it sems almost impossible will stand for any length of time. The hands on the top of the clock pointed to five minutes of 10 o'clock, which must have been the hour of the first shock on Tuesday night. What a scene of desolation the fash ionable boulevard of Charleston presents! Commencing at Broad street, one passes! through a block of burned houses. The' fire, starting at No. 118, the third build ing from the corn~er of Broad street, on the east side, consumed the entire :owI of buildings as far north as Tully's old stand, next to the Quaker graveyard. The few houses left on that side of the street are more or less shattered and' gutted. The few houses on the west side of the street north of Broad street have not escaped the general fate, .although the damage is not as great as in other por tions of the street. The immense vacaht lt on the west side of the street is occu pied by- finilies who lived in the berned houses, and who are camped out on the ward with the few household effects saved from the flames. There is a rather more cheerful feeling to-night, but no sense of security will repair the shattered houses and renew the ruined homes. Offers of assistance .re .goming from different quarters, and it is expeeted that the City Council will oganri~e a relief comimittee to-morrow. )espite the loss by the earthquake, Charlestoin is in as good position as ever for the transaction of the usual autumn '-Ga There is ample warehouse and' wafroom, ine compresses are lii " and 14ejhants and factors are ready to deal expeditiously wnh all bhasess that offers. This statement is made to correct an existing erroneous impression that the commercial facilities of the port are impaired. L'st ni; ut the old scenes of fright and Ifear wvere 'enaoted in the public squares and parks. Frail women, zomc of tbnm almost dead and infants in arms, were driven to the necessity of spending the night on the square with only such cov ering as could be improvised by the use of blankets, shawls and sheets. In many f the squares, notably at Washington Park, the fright and annoyance to these people were increased by the exciuciat ing religious performances of the colored people who crowded the parks. In Washington Park these were led by two negro men~ with stentorious voices. w-ho shouted and yelled and shirieked antil long after 1 o'clock in the morning. They were asked to desist, or at least to conuct their servics in a less boister ous manner, but refused to do so. Remonstrances on the part of some gen tiemn produced very insolent relplies on the part of a numbe~r of negro roughs w ho shared in the conduct of' the meet ing, and who loudly and boisterously protested that they would make as much noise as they pleased, and that no inter ruption would be allowed. The night wore on slcwly and painful ly. At 11.50 P. i. a heavy earthquake passed through the city. Its comeog was presaged by quite a number of ex plosions, dim and distant, which com menced to be heard fully five minutes before the vibration was felt. The wave was somewhat more pronounced than the two which had preceded-one at 8.25 a. n. and the other at 5.15 p. m.-and as it passed Lv to the northwest there followed sounds which indicated falling walls or buildings. This was the last vibration last night. Soon after it had passed a man ap peared and advised the people to go to their houses, stating that he was the only scientific man in the city and that he was authority for the statement that there would be no more shocks. This advice was unheeded, very few people leaving the ground. At daybreak there was a movement, and as the sn rose and as there had been no additional vibrations, many of the people pulled up their tents and de parted to their shattered homes, in the earnest hope that they had participated in their last picnic in the park. During the progress of the fire in King near Broad street, on Wednesday morning, a woman who occupied the second floor of one of the burning build ings, tied her infant child in a feather bed and threw it from a window to the ground. The child was unhurt. No damage of consequence is reported on the sea islands. The following is the official list of those who were killed by the earthquake or have since died from their injuries: WrmE.-Peter Powers, Mrs. C. B. Barker, Ainsley H. Robson, Robt. Alex ander, Chas. Albrecht, B. P. Meynardie, Patrick Lynch, Annie Torck, Mrs. Rachael Ahrens and Goldie Ahrens, a hild of Mrs. Barnwell. COLORED.-ThoS. Wilson, Wm. Deak, Anna Glover, Z. Sawyer, Wim. Grant, Alex Miller, Jos. Rodoff, Hannah Smalls, Marie Barnwell, Maria Barnwell, Jas. Brown, Angelie Davids, Eugenia oberts, Robert Redoff, Grace Fleming, Rosa Murray, Oliver McKelbey, John Cook, Clarissa Simmonds, Hannah Har ris, Sarah Middleton, Rebecca Ward, Tohn Cook, Sera B. Sawyer, a colored baby. Mrs. David of 68 Nassau street died in three-quarters of an hour from nervous hock. A special report from Mount Pleasant ays that a sink near the German Church 1 which on Tuesday was perfectly dry I sand, is now full of fresh water. Near 1 hell street there is a cabin occupied by i t colored man that is surrounded by awning chasms, extending through the1 arth's surface for ten feet and over. All. tround this there are sinks of fresh water and masses of mud with queer ooking soft substances that have never been seen before. It is contended by many that the mud and other substances ound around the village are volcanic t natter. Just after the first great shock on I'uesday night there was a decided and listinct smell of escaping sulphuric acid ps over the entire village. The smell asted throughout the night. Not far from Charleston, on the road :o Summerville, extensive mounds of ,1ay were thrown up, and hillocks ofl and, in most cases in the shape of in rerted cones, the hollow part of which lad evidently been formed by the action )f water returning into the depths from hich it had been raised. The evidences of a great convulsion, ire not sporadic. They extend far and 2ear, in every direction, from the city< umits of Charleston to Sunmmerville, and:t it die latter place it was found fromi :rustworthy information that cracks and ssures are everywhere visible for miles t md miles around. Strangely enough some of these were in active operation, md the constant shocks that were felt it Summerville sent the water out of :hese fissures in jets to a height of from. ifteen to twenty feet. The horror of the situation in Sum merville on Wednesday was much inten sifid by certain manifestations that were aot observed in Charleston to any great extent. All during the day there was a yostant series of detonations, now east,t aow west, and from all possible direc dons. It resembled the discharge of( Leavy guns at intervals of about tenc minutes, and was like the sounds of a ombardment at a great distance. AllI f the explosions were not accompanied by tremors of the earth, as it was only -casionally that the earth would i goed people in Charlest6n, unless rea onable measures he adopted immediately o meet their neels. It is difficult to give any estimate of the mount of damage. but. bearing in mind he loss caused by the cyclone a year ago, It s no exaggeration to say that the eartulkiie if last Tuesday night dtestroyed property o the aumunt of at least three million dot ats. A year ago a very considerable part of he loss fell upon corporations and wealthy irms who were well able to endure it. [here is now a totally different condi~itiont >f things. Every house in (Char'kstoa is njured more or less, and eve-ry householder. iowever humble his circumstances, mast hind the means of repairig his home. or nust dwell in an habitation which is unsafe: >r gives no adequate protection from wiad: .d storm. We consider it necessary that arrange r.ents 'for the relief of those w'ho are itn ted shall be made at unoe, and we .suggest~ hat the City Council, at the meeting to lay, take action upon the subject. The jity Council, actinig in conjunctlin with at :ommittee of citizens, can ::sc-ertain the vants of the public and see that they are romptly met. The city, in our opinion, should mtake ani ippropriation for the relief of the sufferers.1 n this way the burden of the charitable ork will be thrown upon the citizens in ~eneral, 'in proportion to their maeans. We myve a right also to cout upon aome .aid roam sister cities for already generous dirof that hielp which blesses thenm that dve as well as them that take have been stended to us. There is one thing to guard against. ~very- able-bodied man in Charleston. whio s willing to work, will be able t" !dad in rative etmpl i ment. These shiould not ex >ct asisaee, and (certily ought not to eceive it. We want nio loafers, no drones. [here is work for all who are able :.tnd viling to work. Patti' astsistance shd ,e contined to tlhose wthose cir-custaace >r conditioue are such that they camnnoit] tow help themselves.-2dews andi (icr. Thle Goiernniwnt to the Rescet. WASLo-rox, September ~?.-Gan. it C. )rum, the tnoting secretary of War, lit ssued a special order directng~ that avil-I ble tents be forwarded immediately to :barleston :nd vicinity for the relief of ufferers by the earthquake. Thle ac' -' secretaryV of the Ti-easary has' i'- e e mte cuitters at the dis;- 'cd of Li warde iartmtfi to .-J!n.mte the transp'ortti on of ets in the ev'em of irailroad coumtnunica-I ion being cut oti. Reiecf funds Ihave b~en trted in the Governmeniert Departmemit. nd throughout the city generally. Conm: roller Trenholm received sever-al mmoiwv :otributions this nm-ring alit p:.nnpiiiy elegraphod a S.;i 2ef-i tCharles-toin, Qlueen Chlristina and tier Ulnby. Queen Cln-istina. of Spain,lap ety levoted to the baby King, and nmay be ecn any day in thte palace gardens at la Gramja pitting uder a tree with the ,hild in her lap, wile the little pr-in esses play on the grass at her feet. ligia Spanish etiquette is completely aid aside white the court is inthe hills. md the Queen e-njoy-s taking long walks vith ht-erltildreni in the sur-roundiig rountry without any attendants. She levotes the afternsoon to state business S+the evenn o nmusic. TOLD A! A TRUE STORY. Air 1n. .4 Snahe Found in a iIi"sing ('on semiion - a !-ob--r. t prkzht Man. Ti m a. Pa , Letter to Philadelphia Times.) To the southwest of this town, perhaps five miles or more, there lies a range of hills as yet a stranger to the peaceful niew. -etwcen them some of the streams I have described play in the changng sunlight, laughing as musical IV as children laugh in tLe heyday of their happy youth. 21y purpose when I -;is ited them was to cast a fly where the overhanging bushes would not pre vent and where they would drop the old fashioned hook beneath the logs where the trout love to lie. I had been warned that the stream I meant to follow was on the sunny side of the hill, and that I would most likely encounter a few rat tlesnakes and copperheads, to say noth ing of the black "runners" and "gar ters" with which these uninhabited places abound. But I laughed at these warnings, and with a pair of high-topped boots to guard against serpent fangs, started out on my search for adventure and trout. Three beauties had found their way into my basket when my first experience began. Just across from where I stood the bushes grew in tangled confusion close to the stream's very edge, and a rustling noise ix these caused me to remember the warning I ha.1 received. At that moment I felt an energetic tug at my line, however, and immediately forgot all else in my desire to land the fish that I knew was there. In a moment or two this was accom plished, and I had time to think of the bushes again. Glancing in that direc tion I saw a sight that gave me a series of cold chills, and caused me to wonder for a moment whether it wouldn't have been money in my pocket, as Artemas Ward says, if I had never been born. What I saw appeared to be a conven tion of snakes wrangling over the tem perance plank prior to its insertion in the State platform. To the left of the blackberry bushes was a clear space of sand and pebbles, and that was evident ly the convention hall. There was not an regular order of business apparently. When a snake felt like making a motion he simply made it, and if there were any other motions in the way the strongest one was recognized. There were rattle snakes, black snakes, striped snakes and copperheads, and to this day I can't help fancyim that there were boa constrictors, too. Uhichever way I turned my head I saw them assembling, as though in answer to a roll call, hissing, wriggling, rattling and crawling in holes and out, tuader each other and over, until the whole place seemed actually alive with snakes. And I hadn't had a drink for months, either. How long they would Lave sat there I cannot tell, but an im pulse on my part to get away caused me to break a twig under my foot, and then there was a partial stampede. Have you ever seen a rattlesnake in the attitude he assumes when listening or getting ready to strike at something that has disturbed his peace? If you haven't, you've got a sight to witness that will make your blood run cold. Of those that did run at the noise I made one was an enorm ous rattler, from four to five feet in length. I could not count the rattles on Lis tail. but am prepared to swear that they numbered twenty at least. When the twig snapped I watched him, for he av where every movement could be een. Quick as lightning he raised his ead at least six inches from the ground, wayed it from side to side, while the ower portion of his body seemed to burl tself unconsciously rou-nd and round vithin itself without disturbing the head xtr~il he lay in striking attitude, his head ently swaying and his rattles making hae gentle sound which the snake m.kzes Uefore he is certain the intre;der is an nemy. The big. flat head, the thin eck, the small but glittering eyes and ho noiseless swaying of the agile lbody > a rattlesnake present the mnoet odious ~eatures of the snake tribe in their most dious form. I didn't stay at that spot long, because t wasn't comfortable. A fellow doesn't aed to be in a perpetual cold perspira ion in order to thoroughly enjoy fish ng, but somehow he can't help feeling hat way with a score of snakes near im, although a ten-foot stream doeg low between. As I moved down the ~treami, the big fellow rattled and push d out his tongue, buit he never moved n inch. The only perceptible motion ras one of the head, which enabled him o see me better f a 1 nioved away, and his he kept up until I passed out of ight. There was no regret, I may add, n either sidle as we bade each other arewell. Old 'woodsmen tell me that there is ithng unusual in such an assemblgem f snakes. Although they tgo at per >tual war with man, they somehow aaage to live en terms of general good naosi themselves. It is alleged that ,sympathetic copperhead will carry eaing hierbs to a wounded rattler, al liough the se species sometimes meet in hoc 1ereest and most deadly combat; but >of this is not in the writer's mem ry. do kow, however, that on fish 'g and hunting excursions I have re eatedly encountered two, three and en four dillerent kinds of snakes with,in. is irany rods of each other. Whether laey were unconscious of the company hey were in I cannot tell. Frequtently, men no weapon was available, I have aot paused to inquire. i'ro.gjeri:y u. 'Mennetic Ojrdern. T:e Rtomau correspondent of the (.ar 1'~ d Ietn tav th.st in spite of the ny supsie convents an~d monastic col Is. eewl- m 2 hou e constructed at he m\lPns of mnks an' d nulls from 184 a 1s:>: a cst iflbo(e l. 00.000f. The e .u~ :.- u. difrent buikiings in on:.. mong w ic the Htel Costantz. r aire 000,00 (.:a to this one nust .d n-ets thailt have bt''n building ne. 9e e~iiw of :xsyer. A single che. n~s . Ca 1imieri,'has undertaken leclee.An Irish col _.......... he(r:ero. V ia S. Vitale. .1 Amriu 1 n1i1bin erected at th r1t i .........i.ii ly the .Jes'its have e~~ach- '- C 1n-nr Pak .e. tome houJscs I isM .a'eg . n are in treaty fort h ..6 riP. a I The molnastic collegei n 1.D .bert ishun enargedt. andi be ,ad . i , is ri:-in' a new Francis 'n'oll m . th-.onvet. 'lTo'. t ,n :.:'smped Polipo with its beautifnl ron.- iad h use. hasL also been pur j / .m37-n ILm1.:liVem. PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES, Adopied by the State Wheel Convention. We, the Agricultural Wheel of the State of Arkansas in convention assem bled, Dow recognizing the fact that, as the State grows older, new issues are, born of time and progress, and old issues perish, But that the fundamental principles of" Democracy, as approved by the united. voice of the people remain, and will ever remain, as the best and only security for the continuation and maintenance of a. free government by, and for the people, we demand, in general terms, that the, rights and privileges of the laboring peo ple shall no longer be trampled upon by monopoly, but shall be respected by al classes. Second-We demand that nothing shall be done in the name of labor that will tend to destroy capital or interfere, in any way with its legitimate use or in crease. First-In specific terms, we demand that the pubhe lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for actual settlers, not another acre to railroads or specula tions, and that all lands now held for speculative purposes be taxed at their full value. Second-The abrogation of all laws that do not bear equally uon capital and labor, and the remo of unjust technicalities, delays and discriminations in the administration of justice. Third-That national banks be abol ished. Fourth-That the government issue its own money. Fifth-We demand that all money isEued by the government shall be a lega tender in payment of all debL-, both public and pnvate. Sixth-We demand that the national debt shall be paid as fast as it falls due, Seventh-We demand that the govern ment shall issue legal tender paper money in sufficient quantities to transact the business of the country, on a cash basis. Eighth-We demand that the govern ment issue no more interest bearing bonds. Ninth-We denounce the fnancial policy.of the present national adminis tration in hoarding and contracting the enrrency of the country, . and demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold of the present weights and fne ness. Tenth-We demand that the tariff laws be so amended as to remove all im port dues on articl s entering into our manufactures and that the dues be levied mainly upon articles of luxuries not above the importing point. Eleventh-We demand that aliens be prohibited from owning lands in the United States, and that after 1890 the government shall by purchase and right of eminent domain obtain possession of all lands now held by aliens. Twelfth-We demand a graduated in come tax. Thirteenth-We demand the enforce ment of the constitution of our State in regard to free passes on railroads and unjust discriminations in freight and passenger rates, the collection of back taxes due by railroads; the enforcement of the constitution in regard to fictitious. bonds issued by corporations; also the enactment of a law t will enforce by adequate fines and penalties the payment of money due for stock killed by rail roads. Fourteenth-We demand the consoli dation of the State and national elec tions. Fifteenth-We demand such amend ments to the road law as will divide the burden equally between property and abor. Sixteenth-We favor the submission to the people of this State, for their ratification or rejection, an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Seventeenth-We are unqualifiedly in Eavor of the education of the masses by a well regulated system of free schools,. Eighteenth-We demand a usury lawr that can be easily enforced and that will reach all classes, so as to prevent the usurious plundering of our people under :leeds of trust and mortgages, or other wise. Nineteenth-We demand that the revenue law be so amended as to require schedules of all nersonal property, and that debts over the amount of ten dol lars not returned in the schedule be out lawed; in case of merchandise, the total of invoice to be taken not more than thirty days before the time of assess nient; corporations to be assessed at the iost of constraction, including equip ments or at the amount, the property ybe bonded and stocked at per mile.. Twentieth-We favor a change in the. mianner of assessing property so as to re :iuire the assessments to be made by township officers. Twenty-first--We demand the repeal >f the law by which the convict farms or slave pens were created. Twenty-second-That we oppose the p~rsent system of working the convicts f the State, and are opposed to the bringingof convict labor into competi ion wit the honest or legitimate labor f the farm, shop and manufactory. THOMAs M. Own, Chairman-. Committee-A. B. Iogard, Law-. rence; J. T. Hambey, Cleburne; J. M, Mfallett, Pope; G. W. Dauson, Prairie; Xohn Russ, White; A. F. Watson, Jack son; Thos. H. Carter, Pnlaki; R. B,. Carl Lee, Prairie; Samuel Murph, Boone; S. S. Langley, Pike; W. W, Wil, Pope. Yellow Fever at Bioxi. N'dw ORLEAs. Sept. 2.-Dr. dalomoD, Secretar- .. the Board of Heal,h. returned :o-night hom Biloxi, on the (G ulf shore, and mubmitted his report. There have .been tine cases of sickness, and the diagnosis in sach case justified the experts in pronounc .ng it yellow fever. Two of the sick died n Sunday and the other eight are conva escent. A new case broke out to-day. l'he wile of Engineer Elder, of the Can :ling Company, has taken the disease. All he sick were employed by the Canning Thompanuy. As soon as the decision of the physicians was declared there was a regu Wzr exodus from the town. Hunde. btoar'ded the train for this city, some not stopping to pack their trunks, but abandon ng everythting in their flight. Good thoughts, like rose leaves, aiways ~mit a sweet and delightful fragrance, and t lingers around the vase of memory like he odor of some precious tlowers.