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3G *\?LV'. ? i 71 ^TABLISHED IN 18( i DESTRUCTIVE ELOODS. ?_~ ? BOATS' PADDLING THROUGH THE STREETS OF AUGUSTA, GA. The Booming Weiers of the Savannah Sub merge* F;ietoriea and Houses?Bridge? in Danger?The Waters Falling?A Narrow Escape from a Freshet. The citizens of Augusta should be very grateful that the whole city is not flooded, and we have narrowly escaped a freshet. Thirty-five feet would bring water all over the city, and to-day, at 2:30, the river registered 32 feet 6* inches, which is the highest point it has reached iii?yeare. Two and a half feet more would have brought it into the city. As it is, the whole upper portion of Reynolds street, from Kollock to HavrjkV fGulIy, is uriaer water. The Cteonfele* reporter started out on a tour of inspection, and. arriving at Kollock and Jones, lie witnessed a picturesque scene. Twenty boats plying from bouse V- to house, and taking curiosity seekers around the flooded district. A boat be ing at hand was tendered to the re porter by the courteous Superintendent of the Riverside Mills. The mills are completely hemmed in on all sides by water. The sjoods have all been moved to the second floor. The dye room is 10 feet in water. Superinteddent Ander son hnS been kept very busy, and has not been able to take off his clothes to lie down since Monday night. The bleach room is under water, and the pulsometer is kept at work pumping all the time. The loss to the Riverside Mills cacioot be less tlian one thousand dollars. In Diamoud Row, opposite the mill..the water was up to the floors of the houses. Hundreds of people all during the afternoon viewed the scenes on the Hood ed streets, nud many enjoyed the boat riding, elc. The owners of small boats ' did not fail to make use ol the oppor tunity, and had their boats couveying passengers from houses to the streets. Anxious to see the-condition of things in the flooded district, and to ascertain it there was any suffering or need, the Chronicle representative took a ride of a mile over jthe flooded territory, finding houses from two to six feet in water, but all bright and cheerful, as well as thankful, that it is no worse. A boat ride from Koilock street to Hawk's Golly, around the bridge ever to the Augusta and Knoxville trestle, the Chronicle reporter found no incident, but viewed a most magnificent picture, which can only be described with an artist's pen. The river and the streets, combined with the brood expanse of the river, made a most picturesque sceue. All the mills have been compelled to - ,^but 4ovvn._Tbc Riverside Mill will be the heaviest loser. Their damage alone will reach easily one thousand dollars. The bands will4not be;able to" go to work before Monday. The Al gernon Mill is also in water and the lower floor is entirely covered. Every mill in the city has been compelled to cease operations, and it is not probable that they will be able to resume before uext week. The water was !n Broad street, near Conway's stables, yesterday. All that portion of the city west of Kollock and . north of Jones streets was flooded yesterday and boats were used to reach the houses. Broad street above Hawk's Gully was impassaple yesterday?the water being about 3A feet deep. Greene street, near the Enterprise Factory, was covered, with the exception of a narrow space in the centre of the road way. The floor of Mr. J. J. Lee's store, on upper Greene, was covered with water two feet deep. Many people in the uppor portion of the city have mov ed out of their houses, the water in many instances covcriug the first floor. Nearly all of Hambun; is submerged. Serious apprehensions are enfertain ed in regard to the city aud South Caro lina railroad bridges. The gates of the city bridge w ere closed-the city authori ties having been notified by the S. (.'. R. R. that a fender projecting from one of the piers was loose, and if it struck the bridge might do great damage. No cars crossed the Carolina bridge for the same ieason, the tralus of the S. C. R. R. going out over the C. C & A. bridge. The houses along the line of the flood are in from 2 to 6 feet of water and a number of out houses have floated off. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the river commenced to fall, at mid night registered thirty-one feet 9 inches ~and, unless there is another ram, we are out of danger. The river was on Mon day morning ten feet high, and in twelve hours It was twenty-nine feet six inches. The danger is now over and Augusta saved from a terrible disaster.?Augusta Chronicle 2d iustant._ The Wlnoonki River. Montpklier, Vt? April 1.?Last night's heavy rain and the melting of mountain snow have raised the Whiooski river, breaking the ice aud flooding the banks. The mam street of Berlin, for nearly a mile, is filled with ice. Wil liam Lmdsey's house was swept from its foundations. The members of the fami ly were asleep at the time, but escaped. The tracks of the Montpelicr and Wells River and Central Vermont railroads are damaged. The railway bridge on the Northwestern road, at East Rich ford, was carried away last night. Six Men Killed. At 4 o'clock Ulis morning intelligence was received here of the explosion of the boiler of the steamer E. II. Bar more, plying between Morgan City aud Abbeville. The Uarmorc had entered the Teche. aud was returning laden with lumber. When about two miles below the wreck of the Mary Lewis, which was sunk yesterday, her boilers exploded, killing five or six negroes and wounding a halt" dozen others. Engineer Johnson was severely scalded. Some of the crew were drowned. THE FLOOD IN ALABAMA... Loss of Life?Providing for the Sufferers Railroads Damaged. Birmingham, April 1.?Specials to the Age from the river towns of North Alabama show that the effects of the fresiiet are worse eveu than telegraphed yesterday. Gadsden reports the Coosa river at.its highest mark and rising with alarming reports from above. All rail road bridges on the branch road, be tween Atalla and Gadsden, are swept away, and a number of washouts on the Alabama Great Southern are reported on both sides of the Atalln. The mill and lumber interests at Gadsden have" suffered immense damage. . The Tennessee is reported out ofiltf banks at several points. From Tusca loosa, on the Warrior river, advices are serious, though it is bclieve.l the worst has passed. Many houses on either side of the river have been abandoned and the water is running through the doors and windows. Some families oc cupy the upper stories of dwellings and skiffs and flat boats are used for trans portation. The village of Northport, across, the river from Tuscaloosa, is almost sub* merged now, and the iron bridge con necting the two places is uuder water at both ends, and fears are eutertained for its safety. The water is a foot deep in the Tuscaloosa Cotton Factory, and work .had to be abandoned. Just before dark the wreck of a small house passed down the river, and several persons were observed clinging to the timbers. Rescuing parties, in skiffs, skirted out in pursuit from the Tuscaloosa shore and were rapidly borne out of sight by the rapid current. Many persons living on low lands below Tuscaloosa had to be rescued fi*om their homes in a skiff. No calculation can yet be made of the amount of damage to the farming inter ests and to railroads and other high ways. Montgomery, Ala., April 2.?A special to the Advertiser states that as Warrior, Coosa and Trdlapoosa rivers fall, thousands of hcrsco, mules, cattle and hogs have been swept away. All the corn, cotton seed and provisions in reach of the flood were destroyed, and planters in the overflowed region will ;-ave great difficulty in starting anew for this year's crop. Relief boats liave brought in a large number of the people who had been in peril and without food for three days. The President of the Board of Inspectors made his way with boats to the imperilled places and got them off in safety. So far the reports of drowning in the various portions of the State foot up nine persons, all colo> ed but one. Four of these were a wo man and three. children who floated off In a cftbm dowVtbe Cahaba river. The river lias fallen about ten inches. Boats have bceu distributing food all day through the inundated parts of tiie city. Several hundred persons have been shut up for two days without food. The convicts on the Steite farm, alter a perilous time, were carried from the flooded quarters in a flat boat for a mile and a half and placed in the peniten tiary at Wetumpka. Reports from different "points near here show that five more negroes have been drowned. A ?steam ferry boat left here to-day. going up the river to pick up all persons in danger and to supply food to the water bound people. It will go to Wetumpka on the Coosa river. A special from Opclika says : John son Bridges, engineer of the construc tion train, which went down on the Tallapoosa river, died after his leg was amputated. Six hands on same train had already died or been drowned. Shot Robbing his own House, A sensational tragedy is reported in Granger county, Tennessee. .The trus tee of the county was William Julis, a man universally esteemed aud respected. He enjoyed the absolute confidence of the comunity, and held the position for a number of years. On Friday he returned from his office and deposited a money bag m his room, saying it contained $2,500, which he had collected iu county taxes. He bid his wife goodbye, saying he had buisncss in nn adjoiniug county and would return next day. During the day a cousin or the lady came to her house and was given a room for the night. About midnight he was aroused by a burglar and fired on him. The thief uttered a howl of agony and fell back dead. He proved to be the trustee, who was endeavoring to stael the pub I lie money, and then claim that ho had I been robbed. -_ A Family Assassinated. A dispatch from Panama says:4'An entire family have been murdered at Arboledas, in the State of San tender. The names of the victims are Carbelleon Marciales ; Facunda Ortega, his wife ; Camilla, a girl of 12 years; Valeria, ago 10; Ricardo, age 8; Cayetano, age 5; " Virginia, age 2, and an infant to which the mother had given birth in the excite i ment which preceded the slaughter. j The assassins are Antonio Kstcbnn and Francis Marciales, Miguel Florcs, ' Pantaleon Roscco and a deaf-and-dumb ! man. The president of the republic has i directed that the assassins be tried by a ! military court-martial." A Horse anil llidcr Swept Away. Covington, Ga., April 1.?Phillip (Parker, a horse drover, from Ilaber Isham county, to-day. while attempting [to crossthe Alcovn river near McGuirt's ; which is now entirely submerged by ' high waters, was swept from his horse ] and both horse and rider were lost in ; the stream. Newton has lost thirteen 1 i river bridges by late rain storms. j. W. i I Bosworth's store near Island Sholas ! ? was carried oil' yesterday by the South I river?with entire contents. His floor] j and grist mills arc said to have six feet ; of water on first floors. There has been ' great loss to farm lands. , Seed Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, Ap i pies and Oranges at Jas. Van Tassels. RANGrEBITRGr, S. C, TH MORE POLITICAL PEPPER. With Col. Bntler's Compliments to CoL Alken. Columbia. S. C, March 29, 188G. Editor Preis? und Banner: I have just read Colonel Aikcn's com munication In jour last issue. Permit me to say that like him I am strongly . in favor of: a, farmers' convention?not one but .imahy conventions. Public meetings- of the farmers will do more real good for their cause than aH the; buncombe speeches made in Congress , m a century .rliieartily approve Colonel Aiken's suggestions concerning the , State's tepairrroebt of agriculture. Xt \ am prepared to.sRy that any suggestions from an organization of farmers or from' ! Individuals for the improvement of tbe: department will be?- most gratefully xe*j\ ceivetL bot I trust that on investigation ; of the work .of the^partment will show' that it is already1 an honor to the State." Col. Aiken suggests that If the depart ment is "not worth the money paid for it" such alterations in its ndniinistrn tione should be made as will bring it up to this standard. I also cordially en dorse this patriotic sentiment. Col/ Aiken aeks "why should a fajmer feed , his cattle on cotton seed meal exempt! from taxation, whereas if he feeds his crop on the same article he is taxed for the privilege.*' I will tell bun. The Legislature passed an act authorizing the department of agriculture to analyze all fertilizers sold in the State. When cotton seed meal is "fed to (he crops" it becomes a fertilizer, and as such is subject to inspection, as it is liable to adulteration, and is consequently tax? able. As stock food it is not subject to inspection by this department, I fear Col. Aiken's suggestion in regard to this tax was inspired by the fact that he recently purchased a lot of meal that was not taggf d In accordance with law, through his own or the manufacturer's negligence, and he was somewhat in? convenienced thereby. It may be wise to repeal all the laws" of South Carolina passed for the protection of the farmers of the State, whore they conflict with Colonel Aiken'8 interest, but I must be pardoned for saying that I do not think so. The department of agricul ture is not only willing but anxious to be investigated by tb; farmers of the State. It was created specially to ad vance their interest and if it is not ful filling its purposes the farmers should know it. As it seems to be in order for everyboy to make suggestions to the convention which is to assemble in Columbia on the 29th of April,T will exercise the same privilege that others are taking and Buggest to the farmers that they should remember that our Congressmen are not out of reach of * representatives lie examined and let the" farmers "learn whether or not they are worth the money paid for them and if they are not. make such alterations in our Congressional delegation as will make it an honor to the State."' A. P. Butler. Appropriations. The river' and harbor appropriation bill, as completed by the house commit tee makes a total appropriation of $15, 164.200, which will become available immediately upon the passage of the bill. As there was no appropriation made for river and harbor improvements aL the last session, the present appropriation virtually covers a period of nearly two years. Among the items for the south ern States are tiie following : South Carolina: Harbors?Charleston, includ ing Sullivan's Handel, $250,000; George town, $5,000. Rivers?The Ashley. $1,000; the Edisto. $3.000; the Great Pee Dee, $20,000; the Salknhatchic, $2.000; the Santee, $25,000; the Wncca maw. $15,000; the Wappoo Cut, $5,000; the Wateree.$7,500._ Married His Sister's Daughter. Wentwortk, N. C, March 30.? Andrew Roberts, a well known young man of Rocky Springs, made a visit to his sister here, where he fell deeply in love with his pretty niece. Not regarding the law against the marriage of persons within the third degree of kindred, the couple appeared before Squire Hender son and were made one. The couple i were arrested a couple of days later for incest; the husband was placed in jail, while the wife was subsequently releas ed. She begged, however, to be allow ed to remain with him, but her entrea ties were not listened to. An Afflicted Family. A lamenLablc report comes from Pied mont to the effect that on Friday l^.st a grown member of the family of a Mr. Grogan died and was buried on Saturday and on Sunday two more grown mem bers of the family died, and were lying as "corpses side by side on Monday, making five that have died in the same family within three weeks, and no?v two children and the father of the family are confined to their bed.?Honea Path Plaindealcr._ Fatal Accident. Rev. James A. Woodard died. Sunday at his son-in-law, Mr. E. W. Hyrnc, Barnwcll, aged 73 years. The previous Thursday evening Mr. Woodward fell from the piazza and sustained a com pound fracture of the thigh. All that medical skill and lender nursing could lo was done but lever supervened and the end came speedily. His remains j were buried Monday in the family bury iiur ground near While Pond.?Barn well People. A Ghastly Find. Manxingtox. West Va., March 3d.?While carpenters were tearing down a portion of an old house in West Mnnmngtou yesterday they came upon sixteen human scalps, five of them evi dently being those of women, and all belonging to persons of the Indian race. They arc supposed to have been taken by some of the early settlers of the country a century ago." TJESDAY, APRIL S, 188 B100DY WORK IN TEXAS. BATTLE BETWEEN THE STRIKERS . '"1 AND THE SHERIFF'S POSSE. Soven Men Slain near Fort Worth?The ' -Merchants aud Citizens Arming Against the Hob?A Sheriff who would Start a Train or Die In the Attempt. Fort Worth, Texas, April 3.? What bad been predicted has come to pass. The striking Knights ot Labor and officers of the law have met in dead ly conflict. Two officers fatally wound ed and a third shot through both hips arc. the casualties on the side of the law. Of the strikers, as far as can be ascer tained, only one has been wounded. It W?s announced yesterday by the officers of'the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com pany that trains would move to-day or that there would be bloodshed. The strikers on the other hand had put it down as settled that no trains would be allowed to pass over the Missouri Pacific line until the demand of the strikers for arbitration was conceded. It will be remembered that there arc only six men :::uong the strikers here who were for inerly employed by the Missouri Pacific, tho Missouri Pacific and the Texas Paci ?jjcvfiaving pooled their Fort Worth bu^Jness, so that freight was handled and trains moved almost exclusively by the Texas Pacific employees. The places- oV these men have long been filled but they dared not make a fight on the Texas Pacific because that road i3 h> the hands of a receiver. Last night the '-sheriff and his deputies were busily engaged in serving writs of injunction against the strikers and their confeder ates, and by the time this morning dawned most of them had received an official notice to keep away from the yards of the Missouri Pacific Railway, and were warned against interfering with the servants of the company in their efforts to take out trains. The effect of the writs was to keep the yards clear, and at 9 o'clock this morning not a man save the employees could be seen in them. In the streets, however, near the yards, could be seen knots of men who had collected to see what would be done to-day. - At 10 o'clock the officers began to collect at the Union depot and numbers-, of them were stationed in the yards. At 10.15 o'clock a dozen or more of them went to the round-house, and in a few minutes Engine 54, loaded down with armed officers, pulled out and steamed up to the Missouri Pacific yards. As it rattled past the crowd, collected on either side of: the road, derisive cheers went>up from a hundred throats, but not a man attempted to interfere with ^h>??eyejnen,ts ofthc^enaincor to pre *v?aT it 'from coupling on'to the. caboose," which was standing on a side track. Having done this, the engine was run on to the main track and then backed up the road to Hodge, from which point it was to pull a freight train'lnto the city. For nearly iwo hours the crowd await ed the return of the engine with the tram from Hodge, aud as the minutes rolled by they amused themselves in various ways. The raw weather could not scatter them and the men, wrapped in heavy overcoats, were continuously stamping their feet to keep warm. At 11.30 o'clock the engine left Hodge and at 11.35 o'clock steamed into the yards. The tram consisted of a caboose aud ten car's loaded with coal. As it approach ed Sixteenth street the crowd reeled out but halted on the line of the right of way and remained there, aud not a man made a move toward the train, but at the lower cud of the yard three woman, wives of the strikers, appeared ou the track, one of them armed with a red Hag, which she waved as a signal for the engineer to stop. No attention was paid to this, and the tram passed on and by the Union depot and continued on its journey south. The suggestive silcucc that marked the passage of the freight train through the city was not without its sequel. When a train left the depot it was under the protection of a posse of twelve j officers, commanded by Jim Court-1 Wright, a special deputy United States marshal. Some of the officers were de puty* marshals and others members of the regular police force. The train pro ceeded slowly to the crossing of the Fort Worth and New Orleans Railway, about a mile aud a half south of the town, where it stopped as is customary before crossing. The switch was found open, and two men stood near the cross ing. The officers approached the switch, and as they did so they discovered five men with Winchester rifles partly con cealed in the woods a few yards distant. The entire posse advanced toward the men in ambush. They had reached the ditch alongside the track, when they ordered a throwing up of hands. The command was obeyed, but as the hands came up they brought Winchester ritlcs. The officers were armed with only re volvers. They demanded the surrender of the strikers. Roth sides then opened lire almost simultaneously, there being not more than a lapse of two seconds between the time the first and second shots were tired. As to which side fired first eye-witnesses differ. After the first fire the posse advanced and con-1 tinucd firing. The strikers retreated! behind some piles of ties. The posse, seeing that it was useless to light Win chesters , with revolvers, placed the' wounded officers aboard the train and returned to the Union depot. The strikers remained at the scene for some-! time after the train returned to the city., when they secured the Winchester of their wounded comrade and started ofl'j for the sycamore bottoms, all carrying : their rifles. As soon as the train reached the city a posse was formed, armed with Win chesters and started in pursuit of the murderers. It is estimated that there were twenty men among the strikers, but of these only five or six carried Win 16. PBIO chcsters. Tom Nacc, the wounded striker, was brought to this city in a wagon this afternoon and as soon as the officers learned of his whereabouts he was carried to jail, where he will be strongly guarded. No other arrests have as yet been made. The Knights of Labor claim that the first shot was fired by the officers, but the weight of testimony is against the proposition. Sheriff Maddox this afternoon organized two companies ot citizens, which were armed with Winchester carbines, and mnnhed to the depot?the avowed de termination being to suppress all oppo sition to law. The people are in a ter rible state of excitement and appear com pletely dumbfounded. The breach be tween the law and strikers has been widened and the bitterest expressions can be heard on every side. There are hundreds of Knights of Labor in the city who do not appear to regret the uccurrance of to-day. MUR0ER AND SUICIDE. He Splits the Sknll of His Sweetheart with au Axe ami PoI.hoim Himself. Nanugatuck, Conn.. Marli 30.? Jay Andrews, aged fifty years, and El sie Williams, aged forty, were neighbors in Oxford, four miles, west of this place. Andrews, who was a farmer and a bach elor, resided with his sister. Miss Wil liams was a dress maker audt Andrews paid attentions to her for some time, and his seutimcuts were reciprocated. Lately Charles Procter, of Woodbury visited her and she dropped Andrews. The latter pressed his suit vigorously nnd made threats against Procter. At 10.30 o'clock this morning Miss Wil liams was sewing for her sister, Mrs. Orlanda Osborn, when Andrews came in with an axe. He asked for Miss Williams, who was in the front room with Mr. Osborn. Andrews went in and snt for a moment bv the fire. Then spinging to his feet without a word of warning he swung h\a axe aloft and brought it down with terrific force on top of Miss William's head. She threw up her nrms in timo to partially ward off a second blow, which gashed the side of her bead. Mr. Osborn grappled with Andrews; who acted like a madman and tried to strike Osborn'a little son. An drews was a powerful man, six feet high and weighing i85 pounds, and the strug gle was a terrific one. When disarmed Andrews ran to his own house, eighty rods away, were he drank one-eigth of an ounce of sulphate of strychnine, pull ed otT his boots and started for the woods. The neighbors went in pursuit and found him half u mile away, with his face buried in the grass by a stream. He was dead. ? Meantime Drs. Barnes of Oxford, and PuHordofSeymonr, were called to attend Alias Williams, but could do nothing, her head being literally split open. She lived for five hours but was unconscious. Miss Williams was highly respected and worked in the first fami lies of AnsonianndSemour. She leaves a mother, Mrs. Nelson Williams, and a brother and sister. Andrews had al ways resided in Oxford, was well known and considered a good-tempered, kind hearted man. Jealousy at Procter's visits to Miss Williams is supposed to have crazed him. A Southern Mormon. A veritable Mormon has been brought to light in Crawford comity, Georgia, by the (logging of two white women, Mrs. Julia Ilutto and Mrs. Vina Ilutto. They are the wives of William Ilutto, the story of whose lores is a scandal to the comunity. Years ago he started his matrimonial ventures by selling his first wile for a fiddle, to which be had taken a fancy. He got in addition a pen of shucks. He received a barrel of syr up in pay for making himself the hus band of No. 2 That lady died before she could be traded off. The third wife he sold for a bushel of cow peas. His fourth wife was so hard to dispose of that he abandoned her in desperation and es tablished himself with his present two wives. When the maskers appeared at his house, several nights ago, Ilutto broke through the back door, ran, and escaped in the swamp. The women were taken out of bed, and under the re peated laying on of whips they were warned to leave the country. The men then disappeared, promising to call again. The women arc.uow preparing to leave. _ No End to .Sliver. There is something painfully ludicrous in the letter from assistant Secretary Fairchild, presented to the house on Friday. It recites with solemn plain* tivene&s that the law requires 27,000.000 silver dollars to he coined each year, nnd goes on to gravely state that the re maining space In the sub-treasury vaults will uot sullice to hold the coinage of the ensuing twelve months. Therefore, an appropriations for the erection of more vaults in the sub-treasuries is prayed for. Again and ngaiu, in the past few years, have these petitions been presented and granted. The vaults have been enlarged, and duplica ted, in double and quadruple and still is there not room enough for the 7'J cent tokens which must be ground out at the rate of 27,000,000 per anum. Good IfTruc. If the story of the Grant family now being told in the newspapers is found to be true, it will add much to the honor of the Grant name. The story is that the profits from Gen. Grant's book (ire being used, in accordance with his request to repay the losses of those creditors of Grant & Ward who were induced to in vest with the firm by Gen. Grant's assurances or iullucuce. Mrs. Virginia ! Corbin. a sister of Gen. Grant, who i was induced by him to invest $25.000, . all she had, with the firm, lost her in i vestment ntiJ has received a certified ' check for the sum from Mrs. Grant ' and it is said others who invested i under similar circumstances have been E $1.50 PER ANKUM. GOOD NEWS. D. T- CORBIN AND WILLIAM STONE ARE FOILED AT LAST. - The United Shite* Supreme Court Decrees that the Carpet-Dug Firm Must Surren der the Phosphate Money which they Collected and have Kept for more than Ten Years. Washington, April 5.?In the Supreme Court to-day Chief . Justice Waite rendered the decision of the Court in the case of William Stoue against the Shite of South Carolina in favor of the State. This suit was brought by the State of South Carolina !n the Court of Common Pleas of Richland County in August, 1877, agaiu8t D. T. Corbm "and William Stone, law partners, to recover a balance claimed to be due for moneys collected by Stone for the State and not paid over to the State treasury. In April, 1878, Stone presented in the Court a petition for a removal *of the suit to the United Stales Circuit Court from South Carolina, stating that he was a citizen of New York and a resident there, and that his co-defendaut was a citizen of South Carolina, and so also was plaintiff a citizen of the same State, and t .der the Statutes of the State and the United States Statutes the suit was one in which there could be no final determination reached so far as he was concerned with the presence of the co defaudant to the cause. The State Court proceeded with the suit, notwith standing Stone's petition for removal, aud after trial gave judgement against both defendants for $23,728, with interest from July, 187G. During the whole proceedings, says Chief Justice Waite, Stone denied the jurisdiction of the State Court ater the filing of Iiis petition. The Supreme Court of South Carolina affirmed the decision of the Court of Common Picas, and to reverse "that judgement of affirmance the present writ of error was brought. This Court holds, says the Chief Justice, that a State Court is not bound to surrender its jurisdiction of a suit on petition for re moval until a case has been made which on its face shows that the petitioner has a right to transfer., This Court further holds that the money sued for was re ceived by defendants as partners, and they arc liable jointly for its payment if they are liable at all. Such a case is not removable, aud, therefore, the judgment of the lower Court is affirmed. ?News and Courier. LOSS OF LIFE AT MACON. Two Persons Drowned?Houses Under mined and Swept Awny. Macon, Ga.. April 1.?Hundreds of peoplo were to bo seen on the banks of the booming Ocmulgee lo-duy, watching the mighty current as it swept past carrying death and destruction in its course. The incidents last night were fearful, and with the coining of daylight it was found that an unfbrunntc man named .Cornell Checly, a drayman, who had climbed to the top of a tree for safe ty, and whose cries lor help were heard at intervals during the night, was no where to be seen. He was one of the men who refused to leave his house yes terday morning, even after the water had reached it. At last he was forced to seek refuge in a China Irec near by. It was then too late to rescue him, although many attempts to do so were made. Efis cries for help yesterday afternoon were piteous, aud although there were hundreds of people who heard him, they were powerless to lend assistant. He continued to call until 4 o'clock this morning when his voice was no looser heard, and when dawn came he was not in the tree. It is supposed that being exhausted and benumed by cold, his strength failed and he dropped into the water and perished. Another man named Jack Reeves, who was a fireman at the compress, is also missing, and it is supposed he was drowned. A num ber of attempts were made yesterday and last night to rescue these men, but each time the boat capsized, and the rescuers were compelled to return to land. Mr. II. K. Gilmorc and Mr. Sell attempted to reach them, hut lost their boat, and sought safty upou one of the undermined houses. They were rescued by a brave colored man named Harrison Owen. Two others, whose names could not be learned, were res cued by Mr. W. G. Faireloth. Of the forty or more houses near the river, ui East Macon. about twenty-live were undermined and have toppled over aud are in all sorts of positions. Many of the occupants lost all their household I effects and arc Buffering for the ncccssi j ties of life. The river has fallen about three feet to-day and it is hoped that the I worst has passed. A Sad Accident. A sad casualty occurred near Yawhany 1 Ferry, in Georgetown county, on Satur ; day, March 27th, by which two lads, the children of Mrs. T. L. flarrelson, met i their death. These two boys, aged six j teen and thirteen years, went to the ; woods In company with their cousin, I another lad. lor the purpose of felling a j tree. While the later was engaged tn ; cutting the tree tho two brothers engag ed in a wrestling match, during which : the tree, unobserved by them, came j down with a crash, crushhi". both of them to the earth. These two lads , were the only children of a widow lady, i wlio, at the time of the accident was at i the bedside of her sick father, aud had : no intimation of the terrible tragedy uu i til the dead and mangled bodies of her sons were brought to her. 100,000 Men to Guard One Czar. St. Pktehsbuko, April 1.?The Czar and the members of his court start ed tor the Crimea to-day. The utmost . precautions have been taken for the protection of his person. The railway I route over which the party will pass j will be gaurded by 100,0*00 men.