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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-06

The Town OF FREKPoRT, ILLINoIs.-lt is source
of Freeport. 1t is about one year since we first
came into this place, and since that time, the town
seems to have increased nearly one half In size
and business. From the time we FIRST came here,
up IN Freeport, over one hundred buildings, many
Of which are good and substantial, giving our town
a city-like appearance. We say to those who have
capital to invest in new town, come and try your
fortunes IN Freeport sufficient capital could not
erecting an iron foundry here. The county must
now contain population of near $4,000 souls,
which is ncre asing at the rate of about 30 per cent
with like ratio in counties adjoining; Still, our
ings, &C., at Chicago, distance. of ITO miles
We have water power In any quantity, which can
be easily obtained for the above, or any other OBJ
Ject, on the best terms. The most lacking Is
capital.-Prai,7e Democrat.
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ANOTHER FACTORY SToppAaE.-The proprletors
of the large woollen factory in Ware village are
In that place few days since. They have deter
mined to shut down as soon as they have worked
up the raw material now on hand. tGive u.s."
said one of the p-opnetors, I" the tariff of 1872,
and we will start every machine again in six
weeks. "-BayTe Patriot.
We were informed on Saturday evening, by one
of the firm of jerks 81 Thomas, that their large
bale.rope and bsgeIng mandatory had been
closed owing to the dsproportion in the prices of
hemp, and the manufactured articles, which
makes the carrying on of that establishment. a
losing business. This Is the largest factory. in
the city. Last year $50 hands were employed in.
it, but this there have been only about 100,
who are now thrown out of employment.-St
Louis Union.
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clapped, some Kissed, and others groaned. Gen.
G. did not say word. Soon the cries OF - put 'em
out" came from the Cass and Butler clubs, aud
then commenced fight which spread throughout
the crowd below. Some Kissed in the gallery, but
were so near being pitched over to those below,
that they deemed IT prudent 10 stop, and with the
others, quietly view the scene below ttruiy was
sight; among all the lights at Tammany Hall, never
saw anything equal 10 1t Once or twice around
the stand the conbatants cooled and General
Cushing attempted 10 speak, but 1t was no use, 1t
only set them harder at the fray. This lasted
about halt an hour, when the Cushi ngites elected
the prominent hissers. &c,, out OF the hall The
fight ceased, all seemed tired. General Cushing
now got fair start, and with his eloquence soon
set his opponents at rest. He had but just
finished an examination OF General Taylor's po-
sition, and that of the wing party. when loud
hurrahs were heard from the erected outsiders
many Of the friends and Others rushed out to as
certain what the matter was.
The hurrahs continued, so did General c., and
his friends cheered him He finished, and Mr..
Hallett was invited to address the meeting Col.
Wright was loudly called for by the anti Cush-
ingltes, but was not present
Mr.. H continued, and wishing to know what
was dong outside, went to see. i found them
shouting and groanIng.
One would call out, 4" Three cheers for General
Taylor" y" Hurrah hurrah hurrah" Three
cheers for that man." cries anoiher; which, to
make a noise, would be given. "Three groans
for General Cushing" says one; they were gwen.
"Three cheers for the girl who broke his leg"
says another. "Hurrah hurrah hurrah I" And
so things went on Presently some one comes
round the corner, rolling an empty hOgshead,
which some one mounted, and as quickly got of.
Cup stairs with it," several cried but poor
hogshead got too harshly treated, and it collapsed.
Now came empty barrels far up the steps, but the
police had learned lesson they managed to
knock into pieces the barrels. Here the speaker
inside finished. The resolutions were put, and
carried almost unanimously three dissenting
Look out for Cushing - was the general cry
they crowded around the door, and did look cut,
until the lights were put out, and the doors
fastened, when they found &c the bird had flown.
{" Three cheers for Cass,' shouted one those Of
the meeting had dispersed to their homes, and the
response was but family given. Three cheers
for Van Buren, and Adams,'' shouted another
and they "went It with rush." So you may
guess who the anti Cushingies were-not demo.
any serious injury being done. HAROLD.
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DESPERATE RENcoNrRE-Wr copy the following
from the Pauld.ng (Af'ss.) Clarion. OF the 10Th
ult.;-Mr. IL. f.. Raney returned home from his
brngs Intelligence Of the knliLg OF his brother-in-
law and Benz Siuckey, IN recent attempt TO take
the latter individual i appears that Mr.. Raney,
the sheriff of Lauderdae, his deputy, and his bro,
ther-ln-aw, traced Stuckey to the interior OF
Texas, where himself and his son hsd quietly
settled. At the time OF their arrival In the neigh
boIhood, Daniel Stnckey was absent some sixty
miles from home; and the party at once took steps
for the arrest OF his son. This was done by
gag,pg one OF the neighbors TO decoy him from his
house, under the pretence OF taking hunt In ac-
cordance with this agreement, Raney and his party
were concealed in the house OF The neghoor allud-
ed to, when Benjamin Stuckey came up. Young
Suckey took his seat upon the step OF The gallery,
after having arrived and leaned his gun beside him
against the house. MIR. Raney, who had been
watching his movements. now cautiously ap-
preached behind HIM, and succeeded in getting
posse ssion OF the gun This drew the attention OF
Stuckey, and he al once comprehended his situa-
tion The deputy sheriff, Herbert Raney, and his
broher-in- law, were present In the gallery, with
each loaded gun presented; but Siuckey. nothing
daunted by the odds against HIM, drew bowie
knife and rushed upon his assailants. In TINS cri-
SIS, the guns in the hands of the deputy sheriff and
his companion missed fire., and the combat, tor
moment, was now hand to hand-Stnckey pressing
fiercely upon Mr.. X. tor the recovery OF his gun,
and that gentleman being unable to defend himself
from having two frelocks In his hand, was COM
PEELED 10 renqulsh one, IN order to use the other
shot from pistol in the hands of the brother-in-
law of MIR. R., at this juncture, took effect upon
Stuckey, who by this time had recovered his gun,
and imme diately returned the fire. MORALLY wound;
ing his antagonist. Stuckey now again turned
upon Sheriff Raney-but that gentleman by this
time was prepared, and as the desperate man leap
ed forward with his bowie-knife, discharged the
whole contents of his gun into his breast. This
ended the struggle. Stuckey fingered about an
hour and died, with loud lmprecations upon his
lips, and the unfortunate brother-ln- law, whose
name we could not learn, expired also in about
four hours The deputy sheriff was left TO bury
started in pursuit of Daniel Stuckey. This Is the
last account we have from him Herbert Raney,
after the burial OF his brother-n-aw and Benjamin
Stuckey, returned home and is now in Lauderda!e
He was severely wounded in the hand by the
bowie. knife Of Stuckey, during the rencontre above
related.
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ST. MARTINS AND MARTlNIouE.-The brig Sarah,
Capt. Higgins, from st Martins, 14th ult, arrived
at this port yesterday. CaptalnHiggins reports that
all was quiet when he left. The slaves, in the
Dutch part of the island, who, as before reported,
had been conditionaliy emancpated, were at work
The decision of the home government, as to their
final freedom, had not been received. Salt was
very plenty on the island but little rain having fall
en-. Captain Higgins stopped at Martinique, on
his outward passage, to sell his cargo, which he
was unable To do, in consequence of the unsettled
state of the island. The negroes had the complete
control of affairs, but had committed no new out
RACES. They worked when they pleased, which
was but very small part of the time 1t was
state for some time TO come.-Boston Nareilcr.
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TERRIBLE STORM IN MISSISSIPPI. The Natchez
Free Trader of the 22d ult. says =" This section
of the country was visited on Friday night last by
one of the most violent rain and wind storms we
have experienced for many years. The rain fell
in torrents from dark until daylight, and the wind
blew gale from southeast the whole time. The
crops of cotton have been materially damaged In
every direction. Whole fields of II have been en-
tirely Frustrated much broken and twisted off vast
quantities of bolls and forms thrashed off and all
the open cotton stained and damaged. One gen.
teman whom we met yesterday considers his loss
one-fifth his entire crop. AS far up and down the
river as we have heard, and out on Tensas, the
storm has been equally as disastrous as in our inn
mediate vicinity"
The Baton Rouge Advocate of the 23d has the
following paragraph on this storm =
ga very severe storm of wind and rain was ex-
perienced In this region, on Thursday night and
Friday morning last, dong, as we learn, consi-
derable injury to OF the cane and other crops
The quantity of rain that fell during the storm,
according TO the meteorological records at the
Barracks, reached the almost incredible and I'M
precedented measurement of five inches and a half!
We are informed by DIR. B. f. Smith, the dentist,
who arrived here on Monday, from the Plains,
that the damage done to the cotton crops in that
vicinity and near Port Hudson, will be equal to
loss of one fourth-some think two-thirds-of the
eotire crop. Thompson's Creek and the other
streams above here were two feet higher than they
have ever been known to be by the Oldest inha
bItant'o
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THREE LIVES SAvED.-On Sunday last party
OF young men, clerks in Boston post office, who
were on fishing excursion, saw sail boat cap
size IN Broad Sound. They Immediately steered
for the boat, and succeeded IN rescuing three
young men, who were hanging to Its bottom.
bausted, and could not have sustained themselves
many minutes longer. The names OF the gentle
men who thus saved the lives of three fellow be-
ipgs, are John Lewis, Henry Bolles James Mills,
Charles H. Melcher and BENJAMIN B. Hersey.-
Boston Transcript, September
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ATTACH BY AN ALLIGATOR. Mr.. s., living near
the Oolawaha, while crossing bay. gall, or saw
grass flat, IN company with his son, last Wednes-
day, was seriously injured by the attack OF an all-
deep, and when near halfway across it, Mr.. s.
being In advance Of his son, a large alligator
struck him with his TAIL the usual mode Of attack.
and knock ed him down. He fell on his back, and
his knee doubling the alligator seized him through
The thigh and leg, decorating him dreadiully. HIS
son coming to the rescue, the animal moved
slowly of, Had there been no one present, there
Is not doubt that Mr.. S. would have fallen a
victim When we last heard from hun, he could
not be; said to be recovering cata, (E. ~
ArCus. '~'tp~s'. 20 Sstf ~ 'A =
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FIRE IN THE WooDs ON LONG IsLAND-On Fri
day last, fire broke out at one of the coal pits
near Cook IS public house at IslIp, which has prov
ed very destructive. 1t has been confined to the
forest, spreading space of ten miles long and
five wide, extending In easteriy direction from
whence il commenced. An immense quantity OF
valuable wood has been destroyed, and up to last
Monday evening, when our informant left, the fire
was still raging.
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FIRE IN CORNING, NJ Y.-Between the hours of
new steam factory in this village, owned by ], M
Mallory and |. Lyon, was discovered to be on fire.
and before assistance could be rendered, it was
burned to the ground. The factory has only been
IN operation a few days, and cost about $1,000
The boiler and some portion of the engine, to-
gether with quantity of iron bolts, will be saved
leaving the actual loss about S60OO.- Corning IN.
w Journal
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THK REV. Mr.. CRUMELL.-The Rev. Alexander
Crumel, who, we understand, Is now staying on
g Witt with the Rev. Mr.. Ewbank, OF Everton is,
we believe, one Of the only four epscopally-or-
dained African clergymen in the United States of
America Mr.. Crumel has visited England for
the purpose of soliciting contributions towards
the erection Of an Episcopal church In New York,
for the negro populatio, Of that city, which
amounts to between twenty and thirty thousand
- Liropooi Journal, dug. IL
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The Posi-. MASTER AT ONTARIo.-We learn that
Elisha w. Pratt has been appointed Postmaster
for Official misconduct. Smith refused TO give up
the Office TO his successor, until a. niandamMs was
served upon him. When this process was served,
Mr. Fuller, Of Ontario, was requested to GO as
winners and upon hun, said Smith committed
been tried and fined -Rochesfer american.
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BosroN, Sept 4, 1913.
The Democratic Meeting-Speech Of Gen Cushing

BOSTON, Sept. =, 1910.
The Democratic Meefing-Speech Of Gen. Cushing
Tremendous Excitement, and Great Fun.
During the las, few days, we have been inform
. ed that meeting OF the democracy Of this city
would be held in Fsneuil Hal this evening, and
that the assembly would be addressed by General
G. Cushing. From letter in one of the morning
papers, Lfound confusion was likely to take place,
and I determined to be present, take notes. and
let the New Workers know, through the Herald,
how a disturbance in New England political
meeting was carried on Well, there was a rally !;
the old cradle A" was crowded to excess IN every
part. Hon. II. Croker was appointed President,
with number OF presidents and Secretaries.
J w James, ESQ., addressed the meeting, and
euded by reading long string OF resolutions,
which were enthusiastically received. So far. all
WEI well but here Gen. Cushing was invited br
the chairman, oId iook the stand amidst - coniu-
si.a worse couioundedj' some huIrahed and
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FIRE AT AUoUsTA.-At nine o'clock last night,
an Augusta correspondent informs us that the
warehouse of Andrews & Spears was destroyed
by fire IN that city, and six hundred bales of cot
ton burnt. The fire commenced at noon. The
loss, which falls probably on number OF persons
some planters, will probably reach $4,000, in
GLIDING the warehouse shed.-ChaIesfon Courier,
ScDf g
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REroRTEp DEFALcATIoN The committee ap.
pointed by the board OF commissioners of the dis
tpct of Moyamensing, to examine the accounts of
the late Samuel +. Reed, made report to the board
yesterday, setting forth that they had discovered
defalcstion OF $1,000, which might probably be
swelled to $1,000, and concluding with resol,i-
tion n tructng thu solicitor OF the district 10 nett
fy VIM ]. Reed, Esq, administrator of the de-
ceased, Of the fact, and TO take measures TO Sc
cure IS much Ms pc ssibe OF the amount when
resolution, after some debate, was adopted-fn"'
Mus, Sent
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Port of New York, September 8, Is4s.
Cleared.

Cleared.
Bark-Gen Taylor. RedmaD. Liverpool, John Ogden.
Brgs-FoscA Helena (Dutchl Post Amsterdam, Weisser
Crecan, Baker Cork and mkt Atkins CO.. william Mary
(Br Beemsn Barladoes &C Middleton Co. Delhi Dodge
bermuda Nesmith Walsh Mary Norris Galveston, Hussey
Murray
Richard Golden, (Br) Morrison Windsor Ms sou
Whitney Co Samuel Roberts Anderson Norfo Chareston
Williams lining ton, Sarah E. Merrill Baltimore George
Washington. Camp, Philadelphia.
sloopsRhods Island Hull Providenc Noses Eddy dGINew
York, Jones New Haven.
Arrived.
Steamship Nortbernor, Buod Charleston 5 O'clock PM So
turdsy Spoord nlcston Co. Passed. packet ship UNISON
from Charleston for New York. in Lat S m "a So Monday
O'Clock, Am.
Packet ship Independence. Badsh London, 30 days and
Portsmouth 18th july with mdse and to Crinne
20 ST. Ion 81 &c. exchanged signals with snip Margaret bound "
18TH lat 81 Ion 81 81 exchanged signals with pkt ship IT,
erlapd London lat AZ 49, Ion As poke brgaa
tine Hannah Grayson If Wonson 81 days from Liverpool
for Montreal 25th lat AZ Ion 50 30 spoke snip Strn Of
Wtcassett 6g out to Wiscaset 2Sh lat Al 49, Ion 81 30
spoke bark Lucinda Bath 90 Newport
Septl, M. of Nantucket South Shoa exchanged signals
with packet ship Sddons hence for Lverp after
pilot from tie pilot boat Commerce, MOB
Ship Cotton Planter Pratt, Boston, days to Hurlbut
Co.
Hamburg brig Frederic Ernst AmondsoD Buenos Ayrs 6S
days. with hides &C. to DeForres Co. Aug Is lat a. lon
spoke brig Lewis from rerpa buco for Phiadsphia
Schr Gen Patterson jackson. New Orleans, "a days
Schr Mary Shield. Clark Philadelphia, days.
Schr Adeine, Bonson Philadelphia, days
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Died.

On the 4th inst NARoAhEr, daughter n N -
and Elizabeth Bennett, aged year msns rs
days -
On the 18th of June. OF the Island OF SssffAa fu
from thu bark z D. on her passage from Glib ALTA to
Pah rmo ALoKzo EckFoRD DusHAsr, of Portsmo nth,
Virginia.
September &c neral HESRf SHEETz in the 85th year
of his age
On the 4th ult Mrs FRAzER actress, from sea
sc nees on board the Brunswick steamer while on
the q age from Portsmouth (E 1gland) to Exeter
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SUDDEN DEATH.-A young man. named James
G. Travers, late of New York city, died at the re-
sidence of Mr.. Brown, in this CITY, on Saturday
morning, at four o'clock. On Friday, he was
at O'clock, In his usual health. He was heard
to groan about three O'Clock, and was soon dis
covered to be rapidly bleeding the lungs. Every
medical skill could suggest, but without avail
We understand he was formerly a clerk in the
Office Of the Ne,e York Mirror, and that he has a
brother still residing in New York, and another
at Yonkers.-SW0cuse Journal.
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Awful MURpER.-The Central Georgian of
Aug. g, says that on the 18th instant negro boy
the property Of Matthew Parker, about the age Of
sixteen, entered the house of his master and as
an axe. He then struck his mistress andfractured
her skull also both were asleep at the tifie. The
only motive for the deed was that he had been
threatened with whipping. The boy was ar
Taylor lived day and night only. Mrs. P. had
been trepanned, and was alive on the 10th inst.
The villain has confessed the murder, and will,
doubtless, expate his guilt upon the gallows.
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INTELLIGENCE FROM SANTA Fan express
rived at this place on Wednesday last, direct from
Santa Fe. 1t brought by Mr.. Estes and
another individual, who were twenty-fiv days in
making the trip, having left Santa Fe on the llst
ultimO.
They bring little news; Gen. Price and his COM
maDd were but short distance below Santa Fe,
on their return from Chihuahua. Lieut.. Royal
had arrived with his command. Lieut.. Colonel
Gilpn came IN with the express, and has, we I'M
derstand, gone down the river. His battalion
remains at Fort Mann.-Weston (Mo.) Journal,
dug. 10.
gentleman who arrived in the Sacramento,
on Sunday, informs US that on his way in from
New Mexico, he met over one thousand wagons
in different trains, bound for Santa Fe, El Paso,
land Chihuahua. Nearly four hundred belonged
TO government, and were laden with supplies for
the troops IN that region the balance to traders,
and were filled wi tn merchandise for the different
points named. But few days before our In
formant left Chihuahua, train of two hundred
and fifty arrived from the States, and large
train, bound out, were not met, in consequence of
its having taken the Bent's Fort route. The past
is said to have been very profitable season. A
large amount of goods has been taken into the
country and sold at high prices, but it is thought
that the increase in number and the unusual guam
tity of merchandise now on the way thlther, will
make it, to those last in, something of hazardous
speculation.-St. Louis Republican, dug 80.
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ANOTHER DIsArrEARANcE-Capt Joel w. Glary,
a millwright by trade, left Trouttown, Wyoming
county, Illinois, on the 9th Of November last, for
Massachusetts, having with him $1,000 IN cash,
and ha not since been heard from
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APPOINTMENTS ny THE PREsDENr.-Ar ihur ohm
son ia be postmaster Ut lthlca, New York, vice
Jacob Mccormick, removed. The Hon. Isaac
Toucey, Atlorney. General, to be acting Secretary
of State, during the absence OF Mr.. Buchanan.
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ANuALr.DrssAu.-The constituent Diet has de-
creed the abolition of sll titles and privileges OF
nobility, and has prohibited the employment OF all
expressions denotIng nobility.
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NAVAL INTELLIoENcE. u. $. fngate, St.
Lawrence, Captain PauldiDg was towed down to
Hampton Roads, on the 3rd inst
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WHIRLwNp AT MAIDEN, MAss-Dur,ng the
storm yesterday forenoon, in East Maiden,
whIrlwind blew down the shop OF Mr.. Fernald,
morocco dresser, scattering the tmbers in every
dissection. Some were thrown with such force as
to penetrate through the side of a house some
forty feet distant Another house in the vicinity.
occupied by Mr.. Simmons, was moved some
nine or ten inches from the sills In the neigh
boIhood, many sheds were overturned, and trees
uprooted and thrown across the road; many win
dows were broken. One man at work at Mr.
Fernald's, had his collar bone broken The wind
was from the Sc. TO NV, and the track of the
whirlwind was apparently about forty feet wide,
and some haK mile loDg.--Bosfon Mail, Seyf. 9
CONTRACTS. ON, TIE -LoRD's DAY.-A case was
recently decided in the Supreme Court, Chief JUS
tice Shaw presiding, in which the validity OF the
statute prohibiting secular business on the Lords
Day was fully recognised An action was brought
by ]. l. Potter against q. +, Greedy, for VIOLA
ton Of bond not to run bread cart, on his own
account for any other perscn except the plaintiff,
D certain route, for a specified length of time
Greedy pleaded that though the bond was dated on
week day,n was in fact made and signed on the
Lords Day, between sunrise and sunset; and not
being work OF necessity, charity, or mercy, was
in contIsventitD Of the Lords Day act and conse-
quenily, null and void. Chief Justice Shaw de-
cded that the bond in this case was void because
made at time when such an act could not be
Legally done, and gave Judgment accordingly for
the defendant.-Bosfon 1iareiier. SEPT L.
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MARITIME INTELLI GENcE.
SHIP NEWS NOTICE.

SHIP NEWS NOTICE.
Commanders Of vessels bound to this port, Will con-
fer favor upon by having alb parcels, papers, and
reports intended the Nec Ievk Herald ready fog
immediate delivery to steamer, the News
Boy. She will board inward bound vessels in the xi
entity of Sandy Hook. Those bound TO other ports,
whether foreign domestic will confer an additional
favor by forwarding to the Herald, through the man
or otherwise ship news papers that may be deem
cd of interest to the community We will gladly re-
ciprocate the favor.
Port Of New York, September 8, Is48.
SUN RISES. 81 MOON Sets. ii ~
-. 70 HIGH WATER. ,.,.,,. I So
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Hon. John Moore has been appointed State
Treasurer OF Illinois by Gov. French