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ESTABLISHED IN 186 DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. BOATS PADDLING THROUGH THE STREETS OF AUGUSTA. GA. The Booming Waters of the Savannah Sub merges Factories and Houses?Bridges 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-live 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 in years. 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 Ilawk's Gully, is under water. The Chronicle- reporter started out on a tour of inspection, and. arriving at Kollock and Jones, he witnessed a picturesque scene. Twenty boats plying from house 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 iu on all sides by water. The goods 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 oll* Iiis clothes to lie down since Monday night. The bleach room is under water, and the pulsomeler is kept at work pumping all the time. The loss to the Riverside Mills cannot be less tlian one thousand dollars. In Diainoud Row, opposite the mill.-the water was up to the floors of the houses. Hundreds of people all during the alternoon viewed the scenes on the flood ed streets, and many enjoyed the boat riding, etc. The owners of small boats did not fail to make use ol the oppor tunity, and had their boats conveying 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 "the 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 Kollock street to Hawk's Golly, around the bridge over 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 nnd the streets, combined with tire broad expanse of the river, made a most picturesque sceue. All the mills have been compelled to shut ?lown..^J?he ^B?Yfcrside Mill will 'be" the heaviesti loser. Their damage' alone will reach easily one thousand dollars. The bauds will not 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 next week. The water was In Broad street, near Conway's stables, yesterday. All 'hat portion of the city west of Kollock and north of Jones streets was uooded yesterday and boats were used to reach the houses. Broad street above Hawk's Gully was impassaplc 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. Lee's store, on upper Greene, was covered with water two feet deep. Many people in the upper portion of the city have mov ed out of their houses, the water m many instances covering the first floor. Nearly all of Hamburg is submerged. Serious apprehensions are entertain ed in regard to the city and South Caro lina raihoad bridges. The gates of the city bridge were closed?the city authori ties having been notified by the S. (.'. R. R. that a lender 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 reason, the trains 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 I numlx;r of out houses have floated oll', j At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the river commenced to lull, at und-1 jiight registered thirty-one feet 9 inches I and, unless there is another ram, we are 1 out of danger. The river was on Mon day morning ten feet high, ami in twelve hours it was tw-nty-nine feet six inches. The danger is now over and Augusta saved from a terrible disaster.?Augusta I Chronicle 2d instant. The WliKMMkl Kiver. Montfelier, Vt.. April 1.?Last I night's heavy rain and the melting of I mountain snow have raised the Whiooski river, breaking the ice and flooding the banks. The main street of Berlin, for j nearly a mile, is filled with ice. Wil liam Luidsey's house was swept from its foundations. The members of the fami-; lv were asleep at the time, but escaped. Tire tracks of the Montpelier and Wells River and Central Vermont railroads! are damaged. The railway bridge on ! the Northwestern mud. at East Rich-' ford, was carried away last night. Six Men Killed. At -1 o'elock this morning intelligence was received here of the explosion of the boiler of the steamer K. 11. liar more, plying between Morgan City and Abbeville. The Marmore hail entered the Teche. and was returning laden with lumber. When about two miles below the wreck ft' the Mary Lewis, which was sunk yesterday, her boilers exploded, killing five or six negroes and wounding a half 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 freshet are worse cveu than telegraphed yesterday. Gadsden reports the Coosa river at its highest mark and rising with alarmin;; 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 Atalla. The mill and lumber interests at Gadsden have' suffered immense damage. . The Tennessee is reported out of its banks at several points. From Tusea loosa, on the Warrior river, advices are serious, though it is believed 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 skills and fiat boats are used for trans portation. The vdlagc of Xorthport, across, the river from Tuscaloosa, is almost sub merged now, and the iron bridge con necting the two places is under water at both ends, and tears are entertained 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 clingiug to the timbers. Rescuing parties, in skids, started out in pursuit from tiie Tuscaloosa shore aud were rapidly borne out of* sight by the rapid current. Many persons living on low lands below Tuscaloosa had to be rescued from their homes in a skill'. 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 Tnllapoosa rivers fall, thousands of horses, mules, cattle and hogs havo been swept away. AH the corn, cotton seed and provisions in reach of the flood were destroyed, and planters in the overflowed region will have great difliciilty in starting anew for this year's crop. Relief boats have 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 loot up nine persons, all color ed but oue. Fourofthese were a wo man and three children who floated oil' In a c?bm dowVthe Cnhn^n TtvtarP**BU"*ii The river has fallen about ten inches. Uoats have been distributing food all day through the inundated parts of the city. Several hundred persons have been shut up for two days without food. The couvicts on the State farm, alter a perilous time, were carried from the flooded quarters in a flat boat fur a mile and a half and placed in the peniten tiary at Wetumpka. Reports from dillcrent'points near here show that live 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 tram, which went down on the T.illapoosa river, died after his leg was amputated. Six hands on same train had already died or been drowned. Shot lCohhlng his own House, A sensational tragedy is reported in Granger county, Tennessee. .The trus tee of the county was William Jutls, a man universally esteemed aud respected. He enjoved the absolute confidence of the comunity. and held the posilioufora number of years. On Friday he returned from Iiis ollicc aud deposited a money bag in his room, saying it contained ?2,500. which lie had collected iu county taxes. He bid his wife good bye, saying he had buisuess in an adjoinius 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 lired on him. The thief uttered a howl of agony and fell back dead. lie proved to be the trustee, who was endeavoring to stael the pub lic money, and then claim that ho had been robbed._ A Family Assassinated. j A dispatch from Panama says: uAni j entire family have been murdered at i Arbolcdas. in the State of* Santandcr. The names of the victims are Carbclleon Marciales; Fncunda Ortega, his wife; Camilla, a girl of 12 years; Valeria, age 10; Ricardo, age8; Cayetauo, age."); Virginia, age 2, and an infant to which the mother had given birth in the excite ment which preceded the slaughter, j The assassins are Antonio Ksteban and Francis Marciales. Miguel Flores, Pantaleon Roscco and a deaf-and-dumb man. The president of the republic has J directed that the assassins be tried by a military court-martial." A Horse and Uhler Swept Away, Covington, Oa., April 1.?Phillip Parker, a horse drover, from ITaber shain county, to-day. while attempting lo crossthe Alcova river near McGuirt's which is now entirely submerged by high waters, was swept from bis horse and both horse and rider were lost m the stream. Newton has lost thirteen river bridges by late rain storms. .1. W. Bosworth's store near Islaud Sholas was carried oil" yesterday by the South river?with entire contents. His floor and grist mills are said to have six feet of water on lirst floors. There has been great loss to farm lands. Seed Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, Ap ples and Oranges at Jus. Van Tassels. RANGEBTJKGr, S. C, TH MORE POLITICAL PEPPER. "With Col. Hntler's Compliment* to Co). Alken. Columbia. S. C, "March 29, 188C. Editor Presse and Banner: I have just read Colonel Aiken's com munication in your last issue. Permit me to say that like him I am strongly In favor of a. farmers' convention?not one but many conventions. Public meetings of the farmers will do more real good for their cause than all the buncombe speeches made in Congress . in a century.'I heartily approve Colonel Aiken's suggestions concerning the State's department of agrtcu!ture. t], nm prepared to say that any suggestions from an organisation of farmers or from individuals for the improvement of th?' department will be most gratefully re ceived, bat I trust that an investigation of the work of the-department will show that it is already' an honor to the State." Col. Aikcn suggests that if the depart ment is "not worth the money paid for it" such alterations in its administra tions should be made as will bring it up to this standard. I also cordially en dorse this patriotic sentiment. Col. Aiken asks "why should a farmer 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 him. TLa Legislature passed an act authorizing the department of agriculture to analyze all fertilizers sold in the State. When cotton seed meal is "fed to the 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 tagsed 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, where they conflict with Colonel Aiken's 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 the 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, I will exercise the same privilege that others are taking and suggest to the farmers that they should remember that our Congressmen are uot out of reach of < -wv*gtifflM*m:'j^j?*>^^t^^e??' vnrf: liw?'r*;r'ie'-' representatives lie examiucd aud 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. Appropriation*. The river and harbor appropriation I bill, as completed by the house commit tec makes a total appropriation of $15, 104.200, which will become available; immediately upon the passage of the bill, i As there was no appropriation made for J river and harbor improvements at the last session, the present appropriation virtually covers a period of nearly two years. Among the items for the south ern States arc tiic following : South Carolina: Harbors?Charleston, incliul-1 ing Sullivan's Ilandd. $250,000: George town, $5,000. Rivers?The Ashley. | $1.000; the Edisto. $3.000; the Great Pec Dee, $20,000; the Salknhntchic, $2.000; the Sautcc, $25,000; the Wacca- j maw. $15,000; the Wappoo Cut, $5,000; the Wateree.$7,500, Married His Slater's Daughter. Wentworth, 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 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 licr entrea ties were not listened to. An Afflicted Family. A lamentable report comes from Pied mont to the effect that on Friday last a grown member of the family of a Mr. Grognn 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 now two children and the father of the family arc confined to their bed.?Ilonea Path Plaindcaler. _ Fatal Accident. Rev. James A. Woodarddied, Sunday [at his son-in-law, Mr. E. W. Byrne, j Barn well, aged 73 years. The previous i Thursday evening Mr. Woodward fell I from the piazza aud sustained a com ! pound fracture of the thigh. All that j medical skill and tender nursing could : lo was done but fever supervened and I the end came speedily. His remains : were buried Monday in the family bury ! ing ground near While Pond.?Bsim i well People. A C;iia>t!y IMml. ManmnctoX. \\ kst Va.. March oil.?While carpenters were tearing 'down a portion of an old house in West Miinuiiigton yesterday they came upon sixteen human si alps, five off hem evi dently being those of women, and all belonging to persons of the Indian race. . They are supposed to have been taken ! by some of the early settlers of the I countrv a centurv ago." TJBSDAY, APRIL 8, 1S8 BIOODY WORK IN TEXAS. BATTLE BETWEEN THE STRIKERS "s AND THE SHERIFF'S POSSE. Seven Mien Slain near Fort Worth?The ; Merchants anil Citizens Aiming Against the Mob?A Sherili" who would Start a .Train or Die in the Attempt. ? Fort Wohth, 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 the casualties ou the side of the law. Or. the strikers, as far as can be ascer fained, only one has been wounded. It Was announced yesterday by the officers ofv'-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 lir. ;. until the demand of the strikers for arbitration was conceded. It will be remembered that there are only six men among the strikers here who were for merly employed by the Missouri Pacific, the Missouri Pacific and the Texas Paci fic" having pooled their Fort Worth business, so that freight was handled and trains moved almost exclusively by the Texas Pacific employees. The places- of these men have long been tilled but they dared not make a fight on the Texas Pacific because that road is ih-the hands of a receiver. Last night the sheriff and fiis 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 au 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 Jjh??wejnent8 of thceuginexMr to pre WuTilironfcoupling on to the caboose, which was standing on a side track. Having done this, the engine was run ou to the main track and then backed up the road to Hodge, from which point it was to pull a freight train into the city. For nearly two hours the crowd await ed the rcturfi of the engine with the tram from Hodge, aud as the minutes rolled by they amused themselves in yarious ways. The raw weather could noL 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 train consisted of a caboose and ten j cars loaded with coal. As it approach cd Sixteenth street the crowd reeled out \ but halted on the line of the right of j way and remained there, and not a man I made a move toward the train, but at | the lower end of the yard three woman, wives of the strikers, appeared on the track, one of them armed with a red Hag, which she waved as a signal for the engineer to stop. Xo attention was paid to Ibis, and the train passed on aud by the Union depot and continued on its journey south. The suggestive silence 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 officers, commanded by Jim Court ; wright, a special deputy United Stales 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 Xew Orleans Railway, about a mile and 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 live men with Winchester rilles 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 rilles. j The officers were armed with only re volvers. They demanded Ihe surrender I of the strikers. Both sides then opened j ! lire almost simultaneously, there being j not more than a lapse of two seconds I between the time the first and second J shots were fired. As to which side lircd first eye-witnesses differ. Alter the ; lirst fire the posse advanced and con tinued firing. The strikers retreated ! behind some piles of ties. The posse, i ; seeing that it was useless to fight Win i ehestere %with revolvers, placed the I wounded officers aboard the train and [returned to the Union depot. The , strikers remained :it the scene !'<<r some time after the train returned to the city, when tliev secured the Winchester of their wounded comrade and started off j for the sycamore bottoms, all earn ing I their rilles. ' As soon as the train reached the city In posse was formed, armed with Win chesters and started in pursuit of the Imurderers. It is estimated that there were twenty men among the strikers. J but of these only live or six carried Win 6. Pit IC. ehestere. Tom Xace. the wounded striker, was brought to this city in n wagon this afternoon and as soon as the officers learned of his whereabouts he was carried to jail, where he will he 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 j mar med to the depot?the avowed de-1 termination being to suppress all oppo-1 sition to law. The people are in a tcr 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 occurrance of to-day. MUROER AND SUICIDE. ::>? Splits the skull of His Sweetheart with mi Axe and Poisons UimnMr. Nan??at?CK, 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 and Andrews paid attentions to her for some time, and his sentiments were reciprocated. Lately Charles Procter, of Woodbury visited her and she dropped Andrews. The latter pressed his suit vigorously and 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 sat for a moment bv the fire. Then spinging to his feet without a word of warning he swung his axe aloft and brought it down with terrific force on top of Miss William's head. She threw up her arms in time to partially ward off a second blow, which gashed the side of her head. Mr. Osborn grappled with Andrews; who acted like a madman and tried to strike Osborn's little son. An drews was a powerful man, six feet high and weighing 185 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 on" his boots and started for the woods. The neighbors went in pursuit and found him half a mile away, with his face buried in the grass by a stream. He was dead. Meantime l)ra. Barnes of Oxford, and Pal ford of Seymour, were called to attend Miss Williams, but could do nothing, her bead 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 Ansuuia and Seinour. She leaves n mother. Mrs. Nelson Williams, and a brother ami 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 county, Georgia, by the Hogging of two while women, Mrs. Julia liutto and Mrs. Vina lltitto. They are the wives of William Hutlo, the story of whose lores is a scandal to the comunity. Years ago lie started his matrimonial ventures by selling his first wife for a fiddle, to which lie 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. '1 That lady died before she could be traded oil'. The third wife he sold lor 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 bis present two wives. When the maskers appeared at his house, several nights ago, liutto broke through the back door, ran, und 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 are now preparing to leave. No End to Silver. There is something painfully ludicrous in the letter from assistant Secretary Fairchild, presented to the house on Friday. It recites with solemn plain tiveness that the law requires 27.000,000 silver dollars to be coined each year, and goes on to gravely state that the re maining space In the sub-treasury vaults will not suffice to hold the coinage of the ensuing twelve mouths. Therefore, an appropriations for the erection of more vaults in the sub-treasuries is prayed for. Again and again, in the past lew 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 tor the 70 cent tokens which must be ground out at the rate of 27,000,000 pcrannm. Good IfTrtie, 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 Grind name. The story is that the profits from (Jen. Grant's book are being used, in accordance with his request to repay the losses of those creditors of (irant & Ward who were induced to in vest with the linn by t'cu. ('rant's assurances or influence. Mrs. Virginia L'orbin. a sister of Gen. Grant, who was induced by him to invest $25.000, all she had. with the linn, lo^t her in vestment an%! has received a certified cheek for the sum from Mrs. Grunt and it is said others who invested under similar circumstance? have been GOOD NEWS. [ D. T. CORBIN AND WILLIAM STONE ARE FOILED AT LAST. The United States Supreme Court Decrees that the Carpet-Hag Firm Must Surren der the Phosphate Money which they Collected and have Kept for more than Ten Yearn. Washington, April 5.?In the Supreme Court to-day Chief Justice Waite rendered the decision of the Court in the case of William Stone against the State of South Carolina in favor of the State. This suit was brought by the State of South Carolina In the Court of Common Pleas of Richland County in August, 1877, against D.T. Corbin and William Stoue, law partners, to recover a balance claimed to be due for moneys collected by Stone for tiie State and not paid over to the State treasury. In April, 1878, Stone presented in the Court a petition for a removal *tjf 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 thai his co-defendant was a citizen of South Carolina, and so also was plaintiff a citizen of the same State, and under 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 defaudflnt 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 $2:',72*, with interest from July, 1S7G. During the whole proceedings, says Chief Justice Waitc, Stone denied the jurisdiction of the State Court nlcr the filing of bis petition. The Supreme Court of South Carolina affirmed the decision of the Court of Common Pleas, aud to reverse that judgement of nlfirmance 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 lace shows that the petitioner has a right to transfer. This Court further holds that the money sued tor was re ceived by defendants as partners, and they arc liable jointly for its payment if they arc 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 Persona Drowned?'Houses Under mined and Swept Away. Macon, Ga.. April 1.?Hundreds of people were to be seen on the banks of the booming Ocmulgeo to-day, 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 unforunatc man named Cornell Checly, a drayman, who bad climbed to the top ol a tree for safe ty, and whoso cries for 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 Ircc near by. It was then too late to rescue him, although many attempts to do so were made. I IDs erics for help yesterday afternoon were piteous, and although there were hundreds of people who heard him, they were powerless to lend assistance. He continued to call until 4 o'clock this morning when his voice was no longer 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 be dropped into the water and perished. Another man i named Jack Uccvcs, 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 laud. Mr. II. K. Gilmorc aud Mr. Sell attempted to reach them, but lost their boat, and sought salty upon 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. VV. G. Fairclolli. Of the forty or more houses near the river, in East Macon. about twenty-live were uudcrmiued and have toppled over and ' are in all sorts of positions. Many of the occupants lost all their household effects and are suffering for the necessi ties of life. The river has fallen about three feet to-day and it is hoped that the worst has passed. A Snd Accident. A sad casualty occurred near Yawhany Ferry, in Georgetown county, ou Satur day. March 27th. by which two lads, the. children of Mrs. T. h. llarrelson. met their death. These two boys, nged six teen and thirteen years, went to the woods hi company with their cousin, another lad. for the purpose of felling a tree. While the later was engaged fn cutting the tree the two brothers engag ed in a wrestling match, during which the tree, unobserved by them, came down with a crash, cnishimr both of them to tlie earth. These two lads were the only children of a willow lady, who. at the time of the accident was at the bedside of her sick father, and had no intimation of the terrible tragedy un til the dead and mangled bodies oi lier sons were brought to her. loo.ooo Men In Guard One Czar. St. Pktkukhukg. April 1.?The Czar and the members of his court start ed for the Crimea to-day. The utmost precautions, have been taken for the protection of his person. The railway route over which the party will pass will be gaurded by 10Q,'.H)0 men.