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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-14
TELEGRAPHIC
WASHINGTON.
ABOUT FOREIGN RELATIONS,
Whisky Seizures in Della
ware.
Avondale's Widows and Or
phans.
Big Fire at Hunters Point. |
The Maine Election.
Great Fire at Atlanta.
WASHINGTON.

More whisky Seizures-Why Vessel.
Were Placed I'm Com mission, Etc.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-Supervisol
Fulton was in Washington to-day consult
ing Commissioner Delano concerning the
recent seizures in Wilmington, Del. Mr..
Fulton says he has strong case against
the parties. A large distillery, two rectify-
ing houses and a wholesale dealer are all
implicated. Commissioner Delano has Or
dered Mr.. Fulton to proceed against them
in the courts.
Hon. John Ross and A johnson,
British and American Commissioners for
the adjustment Of claims under the Oregan
treaty, have pronounced an award of
$650,C00, in gold to be paid, by the United
States TO the Hudson Bay and Pugets
Sound Company in extinction of their
rights in territories west of the Rocky
Mountains, irrespective of the claims of
navigation of Columbia river.
The report of Admiral Hoff, concerning
his Investigation of attending the execu.
ton of two Americans at Santiago de
Cuba, has been sent TO the Department of
State, with view to the foundation of the
claim for damages.
1t is officially stated that the desi gn in
recently placing many naval vess els in
commission was merely TO prevent them
from injury, which would result from not
keeping them in order.
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AVONDALE.
Aid for 1he BereaVed-The Theory as
TO che Cause of the Disaster.

| 10 the Cause Of the Disaster.
New YORK, Sept. 13.-The Avondsle
disaster was the subject of many of the
Sabbath discourses in the churches of the
city yesterday. and at most Of them col
lections we're taken for the families of the
sufferers.
New YORK, Sept. ia Scranton dis
patch says there is little subsidence Of
feeling among the miners concerning the
disaster, and the new theory developed by
the testimony is discussed with vehemence,
and the probability that incendiarism
will be p owed is eagerly waited for. 1t is
sincerely believed that the shaft was fred,
but no miners are SO unjust now as to
charge the crime upon any nationality, nor
Is it even supposed that the person CONS
hitting the horrible act intended to &C
complain the death of single miner, but
only 10 Brighten them out TO stop the work.
ing of the mine for an indefinite period.
A criminous feeling exists and always
has between the Welsh and other nations,
but never produced any outrage of conse-
quences upon either person or property,
and the nationality that suffered almost
exclusively by the disaster is ready to adj
NIT that it is not likely that the first out
break of veDgeful feelings would have
been of such diabolical character. That
the shaft was fired they believe, but not
with intent to take life.
When Messrs. Benjamin Hughes, Thos.
Carson and Thos. Watkins come up 10 give |
their evidence at the inquest on Tuesday |
next, flood Of light will be thrown upon
This mysterious question.
WILKEsBARRE, Sept. 1S-The Miners
Union unhesitatingly states that no one
believes the fire at Avondale mine was
he work of an incendiary. They regard
such report as subterfuge to turn the
public mind from the responsibility rest
ing on the railroad company.
PLYMOUTH, PENN, Sept 13.-The late
disaster at Avondale leaves seVenty>three
widows and one hundred and fifty-four
atherless children. The latter number
will be increased to nearly two hundred.
The cash receipts by Treasurer Ii.
GAYLORD are $l0,73l SO.
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the noise of the sloW-moviDg cortege. Gu
citizens felt and acted as if "a great man had
fallen in Israel" and that mighty stand
ard-bearer had tainted on the walls. The
demonstration of respect was a heartfelt
tribute Of the popular esteem to the memo
~ OF noble patriot-a magnificent oYa-
tion In honor of great intellect and illus.
tflous civic virtues united with pure and
stainless private character.
The gates Of Mount Olivet were reached
just as the sun declined to his setting and
mat picturesque spot was being touched
with Its parting rays. The military col
nmuWa5 opened and the::pall bearers, with
uncovered heads. bearing the casket TO the
'OmO' were saluied as they passed, while
'ne green slopes we're covered BY the i'm.
mense coucourse. The burial service Of
The Episcopal Church was then read in
deeply impressive tones by Bishop Quin-
tard, and all that was mortal of John
Bell was laid in the tomb amid the silent
sorrow Of mourning people. The
shades of evening began TO close as the
ceremonies concluded, and in a short
while, this beautiful Getty of the dead.
with Its new senant-Whilome a great one
d the earth,-was deserted by its living
hrong' A serene autumn sky was already
lt with stars before the gates were
'iosed, and the place was soon all peace.
Where the prime actors Of the last years
scene,
IneiT post so proud. their buskin and their
now many sleep. who kept the world
With lustre and with aoiseI,
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Foor ChiIsIren af a birth

The Bristol News learns that a very
poor family passed through Wytheviiie on
Tuesday evening last, and encsmpsd in an
old field near by. During the night, with
no canopy but that Of heaven to shield her
from the pelting rain, and no friend but q
.1szy husband the woman gave birth to
four childre The News says "the hus-
band was too lazy to carry straw from a
neighbOrhoOd stack-yard and make the
woman a rude bedD
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REVENUE FRAUDS.
Peculiar Practices of Chicago
GuagerS.
What the Presidents Brother
had TO do with Ii.

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l0.-Supervisor
Bloomfield, OF Illinois, who visited Chs
cago, on the first Of September, to inves~
tigate the affairs of the Gaugers in the
First District, makes a full report to
Commissioner Delano, under date Of the
9th inst. He found that gaugers were in
the habit Of carrying from two to four
cans, holding several gallons each, under
the seats Of their buggies, and when
called upon to inspect fifty to one huns
bred barrels of wines. they would draw
them off from the cistern, roll them into
the warehouse in rows, draw the bungs,
find the wine gallons of each, and then
take chief" or proof glass, taking
about pint from each package, which
they emptied into large can or bucket d.
They then would take proof of the
wine on each bucket, and mark every
package in the whole lot the same. The
wines they took they called proof"
which they emptied into their cans, car
ried in their buggies, and delivered them
to the rectifers, and when they amounted
to a barrel, they receive the money
| for it at the market price. DR.
F. NJ. Lamphen has sold to one rectfier
one hundred and sixty>iour wine gallons,
amounting to 243 proof gallons, in the
month of August. The assessors had
found out how affairs were going on, and
assessed the gaugers as liquor dealers
In some case where there was not proof
enough TO ELL the cans, gsugers had filled
a barre from the cis,erns. Distillers hat
protested against the thing, but DR.
Lamphen boosted of his relationship as
sufficient protection. Supervisor Bloom
field compelled him to resign in spite o
the urgent request Of Orville H. Gran
to have him retained; but thinks that TO
political reasons, it will not be prudent Il
prosecute the cases. The Supervisor re
ports that the Chicago Times got inform
ton Of these transactions, but that Or
4 vile Grant and friends procured then
to be suppressed by the payment OF on
hundred dollars. Commissioner Delant
has approved the course Of Supervise
Bioomlie and recommends summar
measures on all such cases in future.
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MAINE.

what the Election Returns Indicate.
PORTLAND, Sept. l3-The election was
very quiet. The vote is probably smaller
than last year, but the parties will be rela-
lively nearly the same as then. The HIGH
born ticket takes off less than ten per cent.
Of the Republican vote in places heard
from, which will not be enough TO defeat
an elec'io by the people.
PORTLAND, Sept. l3.-The following is
the vote in this city: Chamberlain, Re-
publican, l 799; Smith, Democratic, 729;
Richborn, Radical Temperance, 40
Last year the vote stood Republican 3,
3j7; Democrat, 1878
PORTLAND, Sept 13-Midnight.-One
hundred towns give Chamberlain 1882
Smith $50; Hichborn 1855. Last yeaI
these towns gave Chamberlain 87,O76
Pillsbury 26, 4O4. The Republicans las
year carried fifteen of the sixteen counties;
this year they lose one or two more They
probably elect twenty seven of the thirty
one Senators.
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Police Court.

John Carroll, John Berry, John Ed
ward, and Mike Walsh, drunkenness, So
and costs each; Charles Bateman and F N
Collet, assault and battery, S. and costs;
Sharp Gilyard, same offence, SIS and costs;
Henry Meyers, vagrancy, discharged;
Robert Kinnesr, assault and battery and
carrying a pistol, continued; w NJ Smith,
using abusive language, costs; John Rich
mond, carrying pistol, IS and costs
Grub Coleman and U d Garret, using Vul'
gar and profane language, 80 and costs
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NEW YORK.
Movements of the Presid ent-Destruc
tive Fire al Hunters Point.


tive Fire az Hunters Point.
New YORK, Sept. l3-President Grant
and wife lief this morning for Washington,
Pa. He is expected back on the 18Th.
The preliminary Investigations of the
charges sgninst Sheridan, Shock and others
does not shed any rev light Of allegations
of fraud.
The stable Of Jsles McMann at Hunts
er's Point, was burned to-day, with FIVE
valuable horses, including the famous
mare Cora, worth $4,000. McMsnn's
loss is $4,000.
The stable Of Mr.. B-own adjoining,
with three horses and two dwellings, were
also burned. The total loss is Sl50,000
Donations in New York and Brooklyn
for the Avondale sufferers, exceed $4,000.
Advices from Scranton state that the eX-
element is subsiding, and the miners are
at work except in Avondale mine, where
no labor probably will be done for year.
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Thert Of Cow.

Two negroes, named Rufus Smith and
Gran Phillips, were arrested yesterday
and taken before Squire Cassety to answer
the charge Of stealing COW, the property
of Mr.. Brother, The csss was postponed
until to-day.
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INCIDENT AND ACCIDENT.

RICHMOND, Sept I3-Chas. Whittlesey,
the defeated Wells candidate for Congress
IN Alexandria district, has been appointed
by Gen. Candy, Attorney General, vice
BoWden, resigned.
ST. PAUL, Sept l3-O1e If The Gil
liam brothers, gymnssla, connected with
Johnsoa's circus, while going through his
performance at FTeepori, Illinois, Oh Sat.
AZ, day night missed his bold and fell to
the ground, caueiog injuries which reaulie d
in his death in iew hours after. He vas
esteemed as an excellent performer.
CINCINNATI, Sept. lS-Warren Kennedy
dealer in stationery on Vine near Fourth
street. committed suicide this evening al
4 o'clock, by jumping out of a four story
window about his store. He died shortly
alter the fatal leap.
LOUISVILLE, Sept l3-Sleeping carr
will be run over the Louisville and Gin,
cinnati short line, commencing tonight
for the accommodation of passenger
from the South.
New YORK, Sept Is The Cubrn jun
Ia in appreciation Of Secretary Rawiin'
strong sympathy for the Cuban cause, hsv
presented Mrs. Rawlins with $4,000 i
bonds Of the embryo republic, and
hearty letter Of coincidence.
d.. @, 10 ne, prim errive
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kTEkNTz,
Another Destructive FsEe.

ATLANTA, Ga Sept I3.-Esrly Sunday
morning, six che story brick stores on
Marietta street, and The large building
known as Norcross, corner of Marietta
and Peach. tree streets, was destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at SlOO-
600, insured for $4,000
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Sc. LOUIS.
Grand Assembly Of Red Men.

tirAnU HsstHlDIy OF htu hbb.
ST. LOUIS, Sept lS-The great council Of
the Improved Order of Red Men will hol |
its annual session here tomorrow. Repre-.
senlatives are present from the District OF
Columbis, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Michigan,
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Missouri,
Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia,
Texas. California and Indiana.
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Giles County BIOosa-hOrse Association
This sssocistion will hold an exhibition

This association VIII hold an exhibition
at Pulaski, commencing Tuesday, October
26. to continue FIVE days. Their list Of
premiums is very liberal, and preparations
will be ample to make il an occasion Of
great interest to all who may attend
Members of the press and acting officers o.
similar associations are respectfully InvI'
ted. Giles will fully sustain her ancient
character for hospitality snd public spirit
during the fair.
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Larceny and BurgInrr

Thomas Withers and John Haskins,
were arraigned before the temporary Police
Commissioner yesterday, on the charge Of
breaking into Thos. McCarthy's shoe shop
on Church street, and stealing some boots
! and shoes. Their cases were continued.
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ReIHfRpFAnf

A couple of hackmen had little set-to
on Cherry street, below Cedar, last evening
and for few moments put in some lively
ticks, but were separated before much dam
age was DONE
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Time~I:i754; Est; Isl I.

Ia this race the favorite was the win
ner Thus ended the most successful
meeting held on this course for many
years, and no doubt is entertained tina.
it will REGAIN its former prestige.
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THE CoRoNER's INQUEST

Justice Wadhsms, of Plymouth, acting
coroner, has issued notices to the Min
er's Union and the railroad company
owning the mines that testimony as to
the calamity will be taken on Saturday,
at ten O'Clock A. NJ, at Plymouth, and re
questing both to be present with evidence
as to the cause of the disaster. 1t is in
tended to make the investigation thor
ough and searching. and put the blame
Of the disaster where it belongs. The
inquest will occupy several days, and
the testimony will touch the whole ques-
ton of mining.
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IT is nip and tuck" with the Banner,
Memphis Ledger and Avalanche in the
race to "head off" Andy johnson. Al
last accounts, however, the Press and
Times was "leetle ahead."-KRorriie
Press and Herald.
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F. Bissiek's ch. m. Maggie Hunter,............1 I
Gen. CadWallsder's c. m. Emma Maratta..-2 2
Time-5:4l54. 5:3734,
Again the knowing ones fell heavily, for
in the pooi-selling Emily was largely the
favorite. The sun and the wind of sew.
eral days had put the track in fine or
der
The second race was for the COnsolas
ton stake, for beaten horses, mile heats,
and terminated as follows:
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PREPARATIONS FOR INTERMENT.

In consequence of the slowness with
which the bodies are removed, the idea
of a great public funeral of all together
has been abandoned. The bodies are de-
livered to friends for immediate inter-
ment; most Of these, however, will occur
on the 9Th and 10th, and Mayor Hall, OF
Scranton, has requested a general sus"
pension Of business On those days. Sam
uel Sloan, president Of the company own
ing the mine, has also telegraphed orders
for general suspension of work and free
trains on these days. The flags on all
depots and buildings generally are now
displayed at half-mast.
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A sADDDER PHASE.

Later explorations of the mine have
developed sadder phase of the tragedy.
Many of the chambers have been ens
tered and miners found in them dead,
the breast of the mine showing they
had been stricken down by poisonous
gas in a moment, and without warning,
while they were at work. Roadmen,
roofmen, doormen and others were found
dead in different gangways, showing
that the destruction had been swift and
sudden.
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BITTER FEELING OF THB MINERS.

The spirit evinced by miners to-day
has been bitter in the extreme, and not
assuaged by the offers Of assistance and
sympathy flowing in from every side.
Asa Packer has telegraphed that he Of.
fers $500 to the bereayed Gov. Geary
$1,000. The railroad company make all
exe-tions possible, and the wishes of the
miners in every respect are consulted ;
but they remain obdurate. The more
reasonable are ready to listen to reason
but they are in the minority. Many are
refractory and vicious. Trouble is ap>
pretended, and has been avoided only
| by consummate tact. I
THE CROWDS OF VISITORS. e- +
During the day, the crowds that Wis
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LEXINGTON.
Close of the Fall MeeGlBg-TWO Races
Maggie Hunter and TIbbEe Dnnbar
the winners.

the winners.
Special Dispatch to the Courier Journal.
LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. lion the last
day Of a meeting there is never so much
interest felt as in the first of the week,
but fine weather and two races were at
fractions strong enough to draw out a
good attendance. The first race was for
the jockey club purse Of 5000, three mile
heats.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-04
srszx,s +. pnoros1rros.- The Leesburg

"sEsEx,s PRorosIrIoN.-The Leesburg
Washingtonian says:
aWh;ls Congress may not pay much at
tant;on 70 a constitution framed in this way,
nothing viii be lost by trying the expert
msnt II may result in having some of the
fastnras of the constitution tney may at
tsmnt to force upon US materially modified,
and thereby save US from the unbridled rule
ae the negro and Yankee combined. We
naturally shrink from anything looking to
the endorsement Of negro suffrage. 1t is so
tflagrantly in violation Of all our notions Of
civil government to have an ignorant race,
just released from slavery, forced into all
the high privileges Of citizenship that we
are disposed to consider very deliberately
any proposition looking to such result.
But it is wise, when calamities befall us, to
make the best of our situation and if
negro suffrage is to DO forced upon us con-
trary to our will, let us not throw away any
opportunity we may have Of getting suffrage
to the white race with il. We think the
suggestions made by the correspondent over
the signature of Senex,' above alluded
to, should be tried at least. Nothing
should be left undone to save US from the
horrors Of the Radical constitution. and to
end the turmoils, uncertainties, and embar
easements, of our present difficulties
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-04
DAsvrLLE ON THE NEW MOVEMENT. :
srha Donv;]ie Times Saws:

pAsviLrE ON THE NEW MOVEMENT
The Danvilie Times says:
cit was understood that there would be
an informal meeting of some of the most
distinguished citizens of Virginia in Rich
mond last Thursday, the object OF which
was to see if something could not be done
to procure q more liberal constitution than
the one which has been framed, the plan
being to yield the question Of negro sur,
frsge if thereby universal amnesty could
be procured. A petition was carried around
requesting Major VT. sutherlin; Abner
Anderson, editor Of the Danville Register,
and P. Bouldin, editor Of the Danvilie
Times; TO represent the citizens OF this
place in said meeting.
"This petition was hurriedly gotten up
but there were one hundred and ten sigma,
lures to it. Only one man that was applied
to positively refused to sign it.
From all we can gather, our people,
while they have not changed their opinion,
have come to the deliberate conclusion that
Il is perfectly useless to contend any longer
against negro suffrage. The policy now is
to do the best we can with it and under it,"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-04
TIE LYseHBURa REPUBLICANS ON TIE
Nur,Nsorr,yrr.r The ReDubl;cdn Of Satur-

TEE, LYseHBURa REPUBLICANS ON THE
NEW MOVEMENT. The Republican Of sa'uf-
/ day says:
"And We heartily approve Of the suggss.
lions which have appeared in some e, Of the
virginia papers that . large body Of the
ablest and best men IN the State should be
Immediately sentto Washington, authorized
and charged to speak and act for the people
Of Virginia, and to, employ the necessary
means for their defence. The proscriptive
clauses Of the "s Underwood Constitution y
should, be printed in conspicuous type for
distribution, and should be distributed, not
only amongst members Of Congress, but
among their constituents. Honest men
everywhere viii not fail to exert their iniu.
ence against o measure 80 destructive Oh
true republican principles; and home pres
sure is the most powerful Of all Influences
upon the minds Of representatives.
aOn this subject immediate, etlclent
action is of the first necessity. On all other
matters the people Of Virginia can, as they
have done, patiently wait and endure"