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Bayou Cook section of tbe odor from ! the dead bodies there. The lard is too < low for burial. Already some 126 bodies have been conveyed by boats to the highlands on the Mississippi, at Quisman Bend for burial, but many are unburied in the swamps, and are rap? idly decomposing. All the bodies are badly mutilated. Lieut. Kirkham, tbe signal officer here, ezplaios hts failure to give warn? ing of the approaching storm hy saying that there was not the faintest evi? dence of it. The storm came from the Gulf._ Terrell's Visit to South Caro? lina Has Been Fat Off. Special to tbe Atlanta Constitution. COLUMBIA. S. C., Oct. 5.-For some unannounced reason the coming of Ben Terrel for the purpose of further incul? cating populistic doctrine among the re? formers of South Carolina bas been post*' poned A recent letter from the third party leaders to one of the county news? papers stated that he would be here about the first of this mooth and that he would remain in the State for a month. Mr. Terrell has not arrived and now it is said that there is some significance in bis non-arri/al, though just what that significance is has not been defi? nitely ascertained by those not in the confidence of tbe populists. The indications, however, are that the true reason for Terrel's visit being call? ed off is that the times are not pro? pitious. This means a great deal in South Carolina, when it is remembered that there are a great many populists1 masquerading under the guise cf democ? racy, by reason of which they have a decided advantage in political mat? ters. If these persons were obliged to "no cover," which would be the case if Terrell pot in an appearance, they would lose their hold on the democracy. The very persons who are rampant for a Terrell campaign are the ones who have been protesting most vigorously that ? their democracy is twenty-four carats I fine. Terrell's coming would reveal a great many paste diamonds The statement is made by a third party leader that "there is no end of fun ahead in this state." Brandied Fruits at the Fair. j For the information of exhibitors at the State Fair, we publish the following communication between Secretary Hollo? way and Commissioner Traxler, as to exhibiting brandied fruits and wines : Under the dispensary law it seemed impossible that the women of the State could send their wine and cordial ex? hibits to the approaching State Fair. Inasmuch as there is always a large j number of such exhibits,Secretary Hollo ! way, a few days ago, wrote as follows to ! Liquor Commissioner Traxler : "Dear Sir : Heretofore the wine and cordial exhibit at our State fair has been a very creditable one, but in view of the dispensary law I write to know if such an exhibit of wines and cordials and brandied fruits will be in violation of the law. Please ?et me hear from you at once that I may advise exhibitors as to making a display of the result I of this industry. I send you a copy of our premium list and beg to refer you to 541 and 562, page 33." Mr. Trailer's reply is as follows : ..Dear Sir: Replying to yours of September 27tb, I beg to say that wines, etc., brought as personal baggage, must have a certificate placed thereon. I will cheerfully furnish certificates to parties who desire to send su<sh articles to the fair." Of?cially Endorsed. Greenville News. The wildest iuiagnation of a writer of burlesque never conceived anything funnier than these resolutions, which we find gravely set forth in the Laurens ville Herald : BRYSON ALLIANCE, } September 23. 1893 j "WHEREAS, The public prints dur? ing th-* past few days are teeming with lurid accounts of the unfortunate affair of the Hon. J. L. M Irby in Columbia; and. whereas, we can see that the anti prefls is gloating and revelling over Colonel Irby's blunder, not because of the affair itself, but because it was a reform leader who made the slip There? fore be it Resolved, That while we are deep? ly pained that Senator Irby made this Ulistake of becoming intoxicated, yet we recognize the fact that he, like all of us, is but human, and it is human to err. 2nd. That the ghoulish glee mani? fested by the radieal anti press over Colonel Irby's mistake is but a pre? text to cast odium upon the reformers and alliancemen throughout the Sute. 3d. That the attacks come from a set of men who, many of them, not only drink liquor but get drunk every day io the week-and Sunday too; and it is all right because they are autis. 4th. T?at we hereby extend our sympathy to Senator Irby and assure him of contitiued support and unalter? able confidence. M B CRISP. President." Trouble will begin to brew when the South Carolina legislators fas? ten marshal law on the cities of this State. Free people will not submit to such tyranny, such humiliation. You cannot make slaves of the peo? ple of South Carolina They are going to govern themselves, cxar or no czar, ukase or no ukase- Egdefield Monitor. Ripans Tabules cure the blues. Go Ahead. ?s ao autocrat Governor Tillman is making rapid progress. He now bas control of tbe executive branch of tbe State government and has a legislature elected to order "to suit him." He has a railroad commission "to suit him" and controls the phosphate commission .nd the liquor business of the State. lt is a foregooe conclusion that by next winter be will have a set of judges aov a supreme court arranged to suit bim. Now be proposes a new move, which we find described in ao inter? view with him printed io the Char? lotte Observer, io which he says, talk? ing of the dispensary law "I shall advise the poli Sog of Charleston, Sumter, Spartan berg, Greenville aod Colombia with metro? politan police appointed by the au? thority of the legislature. The police as at present appointed io the cities simply oppose the execution of the State laws made by the people of the whole State, while in those cities there is but a small proportion of the State's population " "Will the legislature still support the dispensary scheme ?" "I think the members will not ooly support it, but will supplement the present legislation with such other as will ensure the execution of the laws which they have enacted or may en? act." Exactly. Of course the legislature wilt supplement the present legislation, enacted by the order of Governor Till? man, with precisely the farther legis? lation be may see fit to order. That is the kind of legislature if has been aod is likely to be. -The cities of the State will, there? fore, be deprived yet farther of local self government. The regolatioo and control of the liquor business has been taken out of the bands of the cities and the experiment has not been a dazzling success. The next step is to take from the cities the selec? tion of their owo police. The legis? lature, or somebody designated by the legislature and meaning the governor, will say bow many policemen each city shall have aod shall name and coutroi the meo. The mayors aod councils will be merely figureheads, having oototng to do bot to raise money. The radical governments never went that far in destroying the democratic principle of local self government io this State and establishing a central? ized and despotic power at Colombia J It is all right, lt is the old, old fight over again. If Governor Tillman would study the history of the Bourbon kings and the Stuarts be would find his methods and the end of them. He has behind him ao enthusiastic aod de? voted, majority and ao obedient legis? lature, and equally obedient judges are to come. All these things bad King James the Second, of blessed memory, the army representing the majority aod all the tools of to-day baviog their counterparts. No king or despot has ever pre? vailed, however, against the power of united communities determined to maintain their rights and to resist tyranny. The governor will find it that way. He is forcing the fighting aod be will be met everywhere. He may guard every corner, of every town io Sooth Carolina with his metropolitan police created on pretence of enforciog th? dispensary law bot really intended to increase the number of officers at bis disposal and agents to promote his poli? tical power. He may harr v every town? ship aod quarter sectioo with ois whis? key constabulary and secret spies. He may have every judge, sheriff aod county officer the creature of bis will. The good old Saxon instinct and im? pulse will assert itself against it all. The descendants of the people who overthrew the Stuarts, who have kept Ireland's long fight alive through two centuries agaiost the world's greatest power, who met and overcame the same power tbroogh eight years of pa? tient struggle against disaster aod danger, have it in their blood not to yield like curs to punishment. The governor will find wills aa stub? born as his owo meeting him at every step He will encounter people who are not afraid of him, who have oct favors to osk of him, whose stubborn courage no threats or oppressions or confisca? tions or deprivations cao subdue. They will be with bim at the finish aod will see him suffer the fate that has sooner or later overtaken all tyrants, big aod little, and all pretenders and shams. Greenville News. Strength mad Health. If you are not feeling strong and healthy, try Electre Bitters. If "La Grippe" has left von weak and weary, us? Electric Bitters. Tbis remedy aets directly un Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, gently aiding those organs to pet form their functions. If you are afflicted with Sick Headache, you will find speedy and permanent relief by taking Klectric Bitters. One trial will convince you that this is the remedy you need. Large bottles only 50c. at J. F. \V. DeLorme's Drug Store. 6 For Over Fifty Years. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP bas been used for children teething, lt soothes th? child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cems a bettie. " Drink Glenn Springs Water .Vr headache indigestion and general debility. For kidney and liver trouble Glenn Springs water is a cure. On draught at Hugbson k Co's drug store. -^^??* mm? Par-a-sit-i-cide. Cures Itch in 30 minutes. Price 50 cents. Sold by J. F. W. De Lor me. June 28-4m FOR DYSPEPSIA, Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, UM BROWN'S IRON BITTERS. AU dealers keep it fl per bottle. Genuine baa trade-mark and crossed red lines on v rapper Highest of all in Leavening Power.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE CURED ** About seven or eight months ago I was attacked by a cough, and at once began to take a medicine mach adver? tised as an expectorant, and continued using it until I had taken about six bot? tles. Instead of giving me relief, it only made me worse. I tried several other remedies, but all in vain, and I cfon't think I had three whole nights' rest during my illness. I began to think that Consumption had laid hold of me, and my hopes of recovery were all gone. I was a mer? skeleton, bat a friend of mine, who had been some time away, called to see me. Ile recommended me totryAyer's Cherry Pectoral, and kindly sending me a bottle, I took it, but with little hopes of recovery. I am thankful,how? ever, to say that it cured me, and I am to-day enjoying the best of health." J. Wilmot Payne, Monrovia, Liberia. AVER'S Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Maag. P rom pt to act, su re to cure Ripans Tabules, are of groat value. Let J?B??ARR; n ? Contractor and Builder' Office and Mills at Junction of W. C. &. A.. and C. S. & N. R. R's. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK ! OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY- AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTER, S. C. Paid op Capital ...... $75,000 00 Surplus Fond. 11,500 00 Transacts a Genera! Ranking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of Si and upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per ! annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January?.April, July and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President, j Aug 7. - Cashier. TE BM If MIR,1 SUMTER S. CL j CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. ? Transacts a general Banking business Also bas ? Savings Bank Bepaiimeiit, Deposits of $1 00 and upwards received. ! Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. BAYNSWORTH, W. F. RHAKK, President. Cashier. H. A. HOYT, MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. 0. GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, *c. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Fe??. 1 I. WHITE & SON, Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED* I860. Represent, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL k LONDON k GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH k MJERCANTILE, HOME, of New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N: Y., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12 NOTICE. rpHE SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION J_ will be in his oifire on Salesday of each month, for the purpose of issuing certificates of Registration to all persons woo have her j come twenty-one years of age 8in<*e ?hf Inst General election. Also transfers to those who havp changed place of residence. W. S JAMES, Supervisor of Registration Dec. 7. OTTOF. WEITE RS. WHOLESALE GROCER, AND LIQUOR DEALER,; OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 183 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. ! Nov. 7-o , ?- i Cf. W. DICK, D. D. S. Office over Levi Bros.' Store, ENTRANCE ON MAIN STREET. ? SUMTER, S. C. Office Hours-9 to 1 ; 2.30 to 5.30. Liberty Street Next to P, 0. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compounding Prescriptions VALUABLE PREMIUMS -GIVEN AWAY. Ropp's * Calculator, A valuable book for a Farmer and Business Man. A BEAUTIFTL COLUMBIAN SOUVENIR - SPOON. Ie Weekly News' ai Courier. THE GREAT SOUTHERN FAMILY -N E W S P A P E R, Offers to every yearly subscriber EITHER of the above Premiums -ABSOLUTELY FREE 1 The Weekly News and Courier. 1 year (with Premium.) $1 00 The Weekly News and Courier, G months (without Premium.) 50 -SEND FOB SAMPLE COPIES AMD CIRCULARS, Address : The Weekly Ms and Courier, CHARLESTON, S, C. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES vFROiM GEO. f. STEFFENS & SON, Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. -Agents for MOTT'S CIDER, BSD SEAL CIGARS, and DOVE HAMS. LANDS FOR SALL LARGE PLANTATION of 1500 aeres, with two-story dwelling house and numerous tenant houses-7$ miles North of Sumter C. H.. and known as the "Lee Plantation. All.arable land now underlease io first-class tenants. If not sold by Novem? ber 15th will he withdrawn in order to renew leases for ensuing year. THE "PUGH PLANTATION" of 900 acres in Privateer Township. Comfort? able Dwelling house and about 200 acres arable land, now under lease; balance in choice pine timber. Will be sold at a low price and on long time. THE MIDDLETON or JnflVay land of 1700 acres, on the Wateree River ad? joining the H?isv*s?e place and others. Prin? cipally timbered land. THE RAMSEY PLANTATION nf 1700 acres in Manchester Township-partly under cultivation, balance in timber. THE WELSH or .J K. McElveen ti ?ct of 125 aeres in Shiloh Township-partly cleared and under cultivation. TI11C HA M P. VAUGHN or Moran tract of 98?f acres in Concord Township-partly i cleared and under cultivation. THE R K MU LD ROW traci of about 1 r>0 acres-adjoining bind.-' of J. K Mc Cutehen and others -mostly cleared and un? der cultivation. Parties desiring to purchase may call ott or address, .John .1 Moldrow, Esq., Wisacky, IV o.v FARM OK TWENTY ACRES, adjoin? ing lands of Geo. F. Epperson, Estate of William Lewis and others, beyond Turkey ('reek. Cleared and under cultivation 480 ACRES in Providence Township, known HS the "Corbett Place," ?bout one half in cultivation, balance in limber. 11 not sold bv November I*>? ti the same will lie with? drawn and lensc- renewed tor coining year. Apply to LEE k MOISE,' Attorneys at Law. Aug. 2-3m. PlHSTiili Jilt-VOM AT BOTTOM PRICES* WATCH M A * J Nil MU TH HMS J?R ?KUI F ?UMTER, S#C 2,000 DROWNED. TERRI BLE DEVASTATION WROUGHT ON T?IE GULF COAST. $5,000,000 DAMAGE DONE. Nothing Like This Disaster Was Ever Known on Those Shores The Louisiana Orange Crop Ruined. Special to Atlanta Constitution. New Orleans, October 4.-Nearly 2,000 killed and five million dollars* worth of property annihilated is the record of the great gulf storm io Louisi? ana. There has never beeu anything approaching it since the country was settled.' More than half the population in the region over which the hurricane swept are dead. Everything is wreck? ed One house in ten is standing, and the surviving population is left in the most destitute condition, without food or even clothing, for most of them were sleeping in their beds when their houses were crushed by the wind or the waves. More than a dozen relief expeditions went down from New Orleans today to distribute food among the survivors. Some of them had bad nothing to eat since Monday and today an appeal was made to Collector of Customs Williamson to let the revenue vessels pick up the survivors or carry aid to them. The death list is already above 1,800 and we have heard from only a portion of the devastated country. It is such a network of islands, bayous, lakes and swamps that it will be a week before the relief boats can traverse all waterways and discover the full extent of the ; damage done. Tuc worst, however, is known, for all the large settlements i have been heard from and it is only the smaller ones scattered along the bayous and interior lakes that will have to be visited TIIS WATER ROSE FIFTEEN FEET. The loss of life in the parish of Pla qnemine, lying on both sides of the Mississippi, has been heavy tn property and 123 are dead. But the great loss was on the interior settlements on the gulf coast and the bayous leading to ii. ; The country there is mainly sea marsh, almost destitute of trees. The highest point is only seven feet above the sea level and the greater portion is only three feet above. Therefore, when the storm piled the waves up fifteen feet they swept over the islands and ridges carrying everything before them. There have been several similar disast? ers on the coast-at Lost island, where 286 people lost their ii ves ; at Johns? ton's bayou, six years ago, when the I loss was 220-but Monday's disaster far surpassed these io horror. The news has come in slowly Monday it was known that the storm had been very destructive in Plaquemine parish and I the loss of life was estimated as high : thirty-five. Tuesday the news came of I the destruction of the Bayou Cook settlement and the deaths were thought to be as many as 250. . Today news came iu quick succession of the disasters at Chemeie Caminada, the largest fish? ing settlement on the coast, at Grandee isle and other points, and the mortality, is estimated at between 1,800 and 2,000. The loss of life will probably exceed the latter figure when the full record is made up. The deaths are confined to two parishes, Plaquemine and Jefferson, and are more than one fourth of the total white population The seriously wounded are few in num? ber. In fact, the severity of the storm was such that it required a man of the ?nest physique and in perfect condition to live through it The weak and injured were all killed, and in the settle? ments where the storm was worst not a single child survived and very few women. The survivors are the young men iu the vigor of manhood Not one of them bot what is badly bruised, and injured. They escaped mainly on rafts or lugs, floating for twenty to ninety hours io the water, with the wiud at 115 miles an hour howling around them. N 1,840 Dead. The deaths so far reported, and which are confirmed, as follows : Chemeie Caminada 820 fishermen from the settlement. At sea in their boats 240 Bayou Cleallon 40. Oyster bayou 28. Bayou Cook 87. Fishing settlements around Bayou Cook 43. Bird island 45. Simon island 16. Rosario island 20. Razor island 5. St Malo 25, all Malays Adams hay 200. Fishing camps around Daisy post offic?20. Grand bayou 26. Tropical Bend 10. Pass A loutre 40. Pointe a la Hatche 4. Grand Prarie 5, Barthelemy 6 Fort St Philip 6. HosDital bay 8. Shefl beach 12. Grand Bank 8. Grand isle 10. Puras 3. Point Pleasant 5. Sixty Mile Point 3. Bayou Andre 40, all Chinamen employed hy a SHH Francisco Chiuese timi in packing shrimp. Devil's Flat 1. Bolivar Point 3. Happy Jack 2. Nicoli's poatoffice 3. Fait ul i tigs 3. F. Cosses 5. Stockfictcho 1. Quarantine 2. Ead sport 1. Pearl river 1. Near Point pleasant 2. Bay St L mis 2. Baek hay I. Lost on Wehre 20. Lost in the hog or at sea 45 Bayou I* Fond 110 Bayou Dufnn 10. Calsausage 20. .. On lugger general Vixie 4. ALONG THE COAST. These towns and settlements extend along the Mississippi from Pointe a la Hache, forty-five miles below New Or? leans to the gulf on Balou Baratara and ' the oyster reefs between there and mooth of the Mississippi, and on islands stretching from the Mississipj the maia land at Chemeie Camiot Bay St. Louis and Pearl river are Mississippi. The great majority of the people whites and not over one hundred colored. At Chemeie Caminada was a ls Chinese colony engaged in prepai and exporting shrip to China. Maleo was settled by Malays Manillamen, all of whom were fiai men. A majority of the pop ti latid the fishing towns were Creoles, [tali* Spaniards and so-called Austrians Dalmatians. A large proportion them were engaged in fishing i owed boats. At the time the ste visited Chemeie Caminada, 120 fish vessels were in the gulf fishing a word has since been heard of them their occupants. Along the Mississippi the loss of lif to some extent due to falling buildio On Baratara bay it was caused whc by drowniog. The Mississippi r nine feet and poured over the leve The gulf rose fifteen feet, and betwi these two floods everything was wael away or destroyed. Chemeie Caminada, where the gre est loss of life occurred, is a fish town of 1,640 people, situated on mainland of Louisiana opposite Gram i>le. It was supposed to be the sal place on the gulf coast, but the fur) the storm raised the water in the t back of it. Early Monday morning, water had risen fifteen feet and pou over the island eight feet deep. VV a current of eight or teo miles an hoi it swept everything before it and of I 310 bouses ?ci the settlement, oi three were standing at sunrise. 1 survivors were saved by clinging trees or poles in the few houses whi escaped Most of the bodies w< carried to sea, but those that wt found in the wrecks were buried trenches, it being impossible to fi coffins. TSREOBS OF THE NIGHT. Throughout all the storm-visit section, the majority of tba people s in great destitution, many of th< being without clothing. The stoi came upon them in the night when tb were disrobed and they have been that condition ever since. It b rained all Sunday, and the wind m quite strong, but no one anticipated serious storm, it was after mtdnig when the fury of the storm broke o and it was so sudden that the peop were unable to get anything. It w impossible to see or hear distance of teo feet away ai husbands and wives stood i to their necks in the water all nigh clinging to trees only a few feet apa not knowing where each other was uni daylight. Nine feet of the flood awe over the levees. When the sea back? up fifteen feet, it rushed over into tl river and continued to do so until tl water had gone down. The tide the started out like a mill race, oarryio most of the bodies to sea. The pecuniary damage while beai is not as large as might have bee expected as the sugar plantations so the richer portions of Plaquera toe paris were oot worsted by the storm, and was the smaller farms and fishin settlements which suffered most. MILLIONS LOST. The damage is oow estimated s follows : New Orleans, $360,000. Palquemine parish, houses1 etc. $600,000. Orange crop, $280,000. Other crops, $250.000 Cattle, etc , $250,(000. Shipping-schooners luggers, etc. $250.000. Fishing settlements, $40,000. Railroads, $900,000 Miscellaneous. $350,000. Total, $3,590.000 Between here and Mobile the damagt dooe is placed at $500,000, and in ant around Mobile at 300,000 the tota total damage amounting to $4,390, ooo. The loss of the crop of Plaquemint parish is estimated at 25 per cent, tin losa in organges is 75 per cent, whiU about 20 per cent of the orange tree* were killed or blowo down The oys ter and fishing fleet is almost complete!) destroyed and the levees badly washed and will have to be rebuilt. The ship* ping suffered severely, but principally the smaller vessels. The due Webre, Aapiowall, Chauiberlaae mad two other steamers are suppose to be in the wreok. Ooe of them was blowo into a rice field. Ooe hundred and twenty schooners and barges and 265 luggers are sunk, in most oases accompanied with heavy loss of life. Some 150 small vessels are missing aud are sop posed to be lost. The entire gulf coast of Mississippi aod Lousia na west of Atcbafalaya ?s strewn with wreckage. RAILROADS WASHED OUT. Of the railroads, the Louisville and Nashville is (he heaviest sufferer and the damage inflicted will run from $500,000 to $600.000: The greater portion of the line between here and.Mobiie, 142 miles, is more or less damaged Nine thousand feet of the Bay St. Louis bridge is completely swept away, 3.000 feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone, while the Scranton ao4 Jackson bridges are all badly injured and caunot be used About fire miles of embankment and trestle work and fifteen utiles of track are washed away. The amount of work to be done belar? the road can be pot in order agaiu is to. -great that the general B ope-i u fendent i* com in? sooth to take command^ and besides all the local force from the southern divisions a large body of men are on their way here from Soansville, Ind , wish pile drivers, etc , to expedite the work The northern ano1 eastern mail, which formerly went by this road, had gone by (he New Orleans and Northeastern The Louisville and Nashville runs close ?fo the gulf between here and Mobile, and therefore, caught all (he fury of the storm. All the towns of the railroad suffered, but the loss of life was small. There is not a wharf between "here and Mobile and between sixty and eighty small vessels are wreck? ed. This is in addition to those io Louisiana. The quarantine station is badly ( aged, but Dot sufficient to inter business. At Fe rt St. Philip the ? were dismantled. Fort J .iv in ge ton Baratara, one of the most heavily s true ted forts in the south, is comp ly destroyed, nothing being but the lighthouse. Only two ho are standing at Benas settlement none at Bohemia. Of the BOO pe living in or around Bayou Cook i twenty-three are accounted for or I reported, AROUND MOBILE. Mobile, Ala., October, 4.-The of the storm bas not been half t Not only daily, but hourly reports re here of additional disaster, and witl comes the sad tidings of more 1 sacrificed upon the altar of the st king. From Baldwin county, which st the eastern shore of Mobile bay ; f Berk ely to Mullet Point a distance forty miles, and the shores of '. Seoour bay to Fort Morgan, a dists of twenty miles, come reports of g destruction to property, but hap] thus far there has been no news of ol human sacrifie from this direction. At Blakely the destruction wron among the forests and turpentine chards is reported to have been i great and many fences were swept a' and gardens damaged. All reports unanimous that forty miles along shore forests have been devastated tc extent unknown in tne history of I section. Every steamboat warf, pm wharf and boathouse along this stre of ooast, on which are numerous st mer resorts to which the citiaens Mobile flock to spend the heated tei have succumbed, partially or whoi to the devastating power of winds i thc waves. Parties who witnessed the storm fr some of the sommer resorts give grap descriptions of how the waves ripped planking from the wharves with mi more ease than a lady rips the thr from a seam, and when the waves 1 done their part in the work Of destruct the wind took up the broken debris i dashed it away as if anxious to give v to its ungovernable fury. TREES PILED ON THE ROAD. Some idea of the devastation wrouj tn the forests of Baldwin county may gleaned from the fact that there are 500 trees across the public road fr Daphne, the county seat, to the Lox logging camp, a distance of fifte miles. In a distance of two miles 2 trees were counted across the log g i road of the Lox leys, who also had th boom and warehouse at Spanish Fe swept away. At Howard's the hotel pavilion a the magnificient grove of oaks a hickory escaped injury, but the ent wharf is swept away, while the wai was six feet deep at the foot of the bia and when it subsided it was discover that a new beach had been made. SUMMER HOMES WRECKED. A quarter of a mile below Howard at Daphne, about half of the fine whs which extends from the high bluffs ful half a mile into the bay, bas been swe away. The pierhead and several spa of seaward end are gone and abo twenty-five feet or more of the sho end The wharf at Montrose forth south is also gone, as are all the fit private wharves and bathhouses, whi many of the summer homes have be( damaged and the little cottage chun that stood on the summit of the blufl 200 yards from the water, was coo pietely wrecked This is said to be the highest point c the Atlantic coast from Tampico, Mexi( to Montrose VENTED ITS FURY ON A HOTEL. Further south, at Battle's wharf, il wharf was demolished and some thirty ( forty yards of the bluffs and roadwa were washed away. A half mile to the south, Point Cleat the long branch of the south, extend westward tuto the bay. On. this poin stands Grand hotel, facing south, whil in the rear ot the hotel the north what extends into thc bay nearly half a mile The storm seems to have taken especia delight in demolishing this wharf, fo the waves even dashed away the strio? pieces and cross beams, leaving nothioi but the guast pilings to stand sentine over the ruius. Around in front o the hotel wa? the short south whar wbicb was also demolished and tb wreckage deposited on the sandy bead and grassy lawn in front of, the hotel The hotel with its broad galleries pre sented a splendid target for the deaiot of the storm aud the wonder is a pla&i of the structure stands to tell the srory As it was, the waves which usually Up the beach in quiet ripples a hucdrec yards away from the front of tb( hotel, dashed with surly roar over thc verandas and beat with defiance against the doors like a howling mob at the bar? red entry to some jail demanding the life of some prisotier within. Ever and anon huge timbers and pieces ol wreckage would bc dashed un to be used as a battering ram by the waves. The wreckage and debris are piled high in front of the hotel and the west eud of the front has been washed away. Some of the galleries of the outbuildings were swept away and according to some the dining hall has been completely turned around. The summer residences owned by prominent and wealthy Mobiliars and looated along the curve of the shore south of the hotel, are said not tn have suffered much damage fu-ther than the loss of all the Minali craft, wharves and bathhouses. Further south the wharf at Zundels was carried away. The Death Roil Twenty-Four Hundred. NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. G.-A re? lief boat returned to the city this morn? ing from Bayou Cook, Grand Isle and Cheniere. It confirms the reports of the awful los? of life iu that section. The vessel will leave to-day with a full cup ply of provisions. The list of dead is very nearly com? pleted. At Grand Lake almost all the people were drowned Including the dead at Grand Lake the total will reach nearly one thousand. When the re? ports from all the devasted sections are in the total number of dead will be over 2,400 Loud complaints ouaie from thc 7th. That the Sherman act did not drive goid out of the country. 8th. That the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act will not bring about international bi-metalliem. 9th That the amount of increased production-of ail ver over gold in late years has been greatly misrepresent? ed, and that, although the product of each metal has at different periods been greater, or less, there has for cen? turies been a wonderful equilibrium of production between them ; and that the commercial ratio between them remained practically the same during all that time, until silver was demonetized :n this country in 1873, in Germany in 1874, and recently iii India. J 10th. That if gold ia established as the only money of redemption in every country the stock on hand, with the annual additions, will not be anything like sufficient to supply the demand, and therefore there would be incalculable ruin all over the world. lltb. That the enormous growth in population and production in the United States demands an increase of the circulating medium. 12th. That the associated banks of Boston, New York and Philadephia control the currency of the country, and that the National Bank currency of the country, instead of being in? creased, as it ought to have been by a very large sum, has actually been contracted by nearly two hundred millions of dollars, (although it has been increased since the panic began) and that any proposition to legislate upon questions particularly affecting them, or even lo inquire into their violation of the law creating them, is promptly squelched by the men who j have for years been trying to establish gold monometallism in the United States. These propositions haye been established, in my judgment, both by weight of argument and evidence, and therefore it would seem that the right thing to do would be to couple with the repeal of the Sherman act, such legislation in regard to the currency as was promised in the money plank of the Chicago platform. It is a fact-a most significant fact to the people of the South-that, eighteen out of twenty-two Southern Senators, and almost the same proportion of Soulh? ern Representatives are opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act, unless so coupled with other legislation, and that the "other legislation" is more important lo their constituents than the repeal is. These constituents, of whom the great majority do not live in towns, are faithfully represented by those Senators and Representa? tives, and they regard with increas? ing anxiety-to use no stronger word -the situation in Washington, and the reports which are in circulation as to the practical repudiation of party pledges, and the use of Ex? ecutive patronage in connection with legislation. A timely compromise may save both the Democratic party and the public interests from disaster ; the failure to effect such a compromise and the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, without further currency legislation, will produce results which will be most lamen? table. At least such is my honest conviction. A. M. WAD- XL. September 18th, 1393. - ?- ? i i The Rise of a Boy. This boy goes to business ana at his business begins hy simply doing the things he is told to do and doing them in a common and ordinary way If he stops here, he remains all his lifelong a drudge But if he begins to see that business has a significance; that his life is not merely sweeping the store, not merely writiog letters, not merely selling goods ; if he begins to see the higher life involved in business ; if he begins to see that busi? ness is a greater instrument of benefi? cence than what we call beneficence ; that trade is clothing thousands of men where charity clothes ten ; that agri? cultural and milliog industries are feed? ing thousands of men where charity feeds ten ; if he begins to see how the whole history of the world is linked together, and is God's way of building up humanity, and serving humanity, as he gets this larger view and enters into it, life is enriched and becomes itself the minister whereby love is en? larged and conscience is strengthened, the school wherein he is educated out of the lower into the higher... Re has now risen, or is rising from that which is mortal into that which is immortal and eternal-Dr. Lyman Abbott. _ - M^^1 Representative Maddox, of Georgia, says: "tuc people of this coutry must have and will have in the near future, a system of finance that will render it impossible for a few individual* to wreck the country at their will We owst wrench this power from Wall street OT the existence of this Republic will be short lived." The Greenville News charges the Reform paper of the State with a want of manliness in refusing to con? demn the Cotton Plant for accusiog Judge Hudson of being mfiuenced in his decision in the Darlington Dis? pensary case by the money of the Whiskey Ring. Speaking for the Dispatch we regard Judge Hudson's reputation for uprightness, purity of purpose, integrity, and spotless char? acter sufficient refutatiou of the silly charge, and to have denied it would have been giving color to it -r-Lextog ton Despatch 7th. That the Sherman act did not drive goid out of the country. 8th. That the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act will not bring about international bi-metalliem. 9th That the amount of increased production-of ail ver over gold in late years has been greatly misrepresent? ed, and that, although the product of each metal has at different periods been greater, or less, there has for cen? turies been a wonderful equilibrium of production between them ; and that the commercial ratio between them remained practically the same during all that time, until silver was demonetized :n this country in 1873, in Germany in 1874, and recently iii India. J 10th. That if gold ia established as the only money of redemption in every country the stock on hand, with the annual additions, will not be anything like sufficient to supply the demand, and therefore there would be incalculable ruin all over the world. lltb. That the enormous growth in population and production in the United States demands an increase of the circulating medium. 12th. That the associated banks of Boston, New York and Philadephia control the currency of the country, and that the National Bank currency of the country, instead of being in? creased, as it ought to have been by a very large sum, has actually been contracted by nearly two hundred millions of dollars, (although it has been increased since the panic began) and that any proposition to legislate upon questions particularly affecting them, or even lo inquire into their violation of the law creating them, is promptly squelched by the men who j have for years been trying to establish gold monometallism in the United States. These propositions haye been established, in my judgment, both by weight of argument and evidence, and therefore it would seem that the right thing to do would be to couple with the repeal of the Sherman act, such legislation in regard to the currency as was promised in the money plank of the Chicago platform. It is a fact-a most significant fact to the people of the South-that, eighteen out of twenty-two Southern Senators, and almost the same proportion of Soulh? ern Representatives are opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act, unless so coupled with other legislation, and that the "other legislation" is more important lo their constituents than the repeal is. These constituents, of whom the great majority do not live in towns, are faithfully represented by those Senators and Representa? tives, and they regard with increas? ing anxiety-to use no stronger word -the situation in Washington, and the reports which are in circulation as to the practical repudiation of party pledges, and the use of Ex? ecutive patronage in connection with legislation. A timely compromise may save both the Democratic party and the public interests from disaster ; the failure to effect such a compromise and the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, without further currency legislation, will produce results which will be most lamen? table. At least such is my honest conviction. A. M. WAD- XL. September 18th, 1393. - ?- ? i i The Rise of a Boy. This boy goes to business ana at his business begins hy simply doing the things he is told to do and doing them in a common and ordinary way If he stops here, he remains all his lifelong a drudge But if he begins to see that business has a significance; that his life is not merely sweeping the store, not merely writiog letters, not merely selling goods ; if he begins to see the higher life involved in business ; if he begins to see that busi? ness is a greater instrument of benefi? cence than what we call beneficence ; that trade is clothing thousands of men where charity clothes ten ; that agri? cultural and milliog industries are feed? ing thousands of men where charity feeds ten ; if he begins to see how the whole history of the world is linked together, and is God's way of building up humanity, and serving humanity, as he gets this larger view and enters into it, life is enriched and becomes itself the minister whereby love is en? larged and conscience is strengthened, the school wherein he is educated out of the lower into the higher... Re has now risen, or is rising from that which is mortal into that which is immortal and eternal-Dr. Lyman Abbott. _ - M^^1 Representative Maddox, of Georgia, says: "tuc people of this coutry must have and will have in the near future, a system of finance that will render it impossible for a few individual* to wreck the country at their will We owst wrench this power from Wall street OT the existence of this Republic will be short lived." The Greenville News charges the Reform paper of the State with a want of manliness in refusing to con? demn the Cotton Plant for accusiog Judge Hudson of being mfiuenced in his decision in the Darlington Dis? pensary case by the money of the Whiskey Ring. Speaking for the Dispatch we regard Judge Hudson's reputation for uprightness, purity of purpose, integrity, and spotless char? acter sufficient refutatiou of the silly charge, and to have denied it would have been giving color to it -r-Lextog ton Despatch 7th. That the Sherman act did not drive goid out of the country. 8th. That the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act will not bring about international bi-metalliem. 9th That the amount of increased production-of ail ver over gold in late years has been greatly misrepresent? ed, and that, although the product of each metal has at different periods been greater, or less, there has for cen? turies been a wonderful equilibrium of production between them ; and that the commercial ratio between them remained practically the same during all that time, until silver was demonetized :n this country in 1873, in Germany in 1874, and recently iii India. J 10th. That if gold ia established as the only money of redemption in every country the stock on hand, with the annual additions, will not be anything like sufficient to supply the demand, and therefore there would be incalculable ruin all over the world. lltb. That the enormous growth in population and production in the United States demands an increase of the circulating medium. 12th. That the associated banks of Boston, New York and Philadephia control the currency of the country, and that the National Bank currency of the country, instead of being in? creased, as it ought to have been by a very large sum, has actually been contracted by nearly two hundred millions of dollars, (although it has been increased since the panic began) and that any proposition to legislate upon questions particularly affecting them, or even lo inquire into their violation of the law creating them, is promptly squelched by the men who j have for years been trying to establish gold monometallism in the United States. These propositions haye been established, in my judgment, both by weight of argument and evidence, and therefore it would seem that the right thing to do would be to couple with the repeal of the Sherman act, such legislation in regard to the currency as was promised in the money plank of the Chicago platform. It is a fact-a most significant fact to the people of the South-that, eighteen out of twenty-two Southern Senators, and almost the same proportion of Soulh? ern Representatives are opposed to the repeal of the Sherman act, unless so coupled with other legislation, and that the "other legislation" is more important lo their constituents than the repeal is. These constituents, of whom the great majority do not live in towns, are faithfully represented by those Senators and Representa? tives, and they regard with increas? ing anxiety-to use no stronger word -the situation in Washington, and the reports which are in circulation as to the practical repudiation of party pledges, and the use of Ex? ecutive patronage in connection with legislation. A timely compromise may save both the Democratic party and the public interests from disaster ; the failure to effect such a compromise and the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act, without further currency legislation, will produce results which will be most lamen? table. At least such is my honest conviction. A. M. WAD- XL. September 18th, 1393. - ?- ? i i The Rise of a Boy. This boy goes to business ana at his business begins hy simply doing the things he is told to do and doing them in a common and ordinary way If he stops here, he remains all his lifelong a drudge But if he begins to see that business has a significance; that his life is not merely sweeping the store, not merely writiog letters, not merely selling goods ; if he begins to see the higher life involved in business ; if he begins to see that busi? ness is a greater instrument of benefi? cence than what we call beneficence ; that trade is clothing thousands of men where charity clothes ten ; that agri? cultural and milliog industries are feed? ing thousands of men where charity feeds ten ; if he begins to see how the whole history of the world is linked together, and is God's way of building up humanity, and serving humanity, as he gets this larger view and enters into it, life is enriched and becomes itself the minister whereby love is en? larged and conscience is strengthened, the school wherein he is educated out of the lower into the higher... Re has now risen, or is rising from that which is mortal into that which is immortal and eternal-Dr. Lyman Abbott. _ - M^^1 Representative Maddox, of Georgia, says: "tuc people of this coutry must have and will have in the near future, a system of finance that will render it impossible for a few individual* to wreck the country at their will We owst wrench this power from Wall street OT the existence of this Republic will be short lived." The Greenville News charges the Reform paper of the State with a want of manliness in refusing to con? demn the Cotton Plant for accusiog Judge Hudson of being mfiuenced in his decision in the Darlington Dis? pensary case by the money of the Whiskey Ring. Speaking for the Dispatch we regard Judge Hudson's reputation for uprightness, purity of purpose, integrity, and spotless char? acter sufficient refutatiou of the silly charge, and to have denied it would have been giving color to it -r-Lextog ton Despatch