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RAILROAD BUTCHERY.
Full Particulars Of the Disaster on the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad,
Thursday-Crlminal Me-
glect the Cause.

PHILADELPHIA, December 6.-Dis-
patches from Harrisburg state that w.
W. Dantz, who, with his wife and child,
was killed by the railroad disaster near
Mifflin, is supposed to have been re-
Gently elected a member of Congress.
The first section Of the Cincinnati ex-
press was half an hour behind time, and
tie second section, which ran into the
first, ought to have been one hour be-
hind it. The engine Of the first Cineiu-
natl express was making steam badly,
and when about q mile east Of Miffiin
the rear ear of the first train was run
into by the second section, knocking
the rear car on to the bumper and half
way through the car Immediately in
front, killing the persons already named.
1t is supposed they were killed instantly,
as their bodies were cold when extri-
Gated from the ruins. 1t is rumOred that
there is another body in the debris.
The five persons injured all continued
their journey in the same train, and
their names are unknown.
The following particulars of the rail-
road disaster have been received b re ::
When about mile and a half west of
Miffiin the engineer of the second Sec
ton, in rounding curve, discovered the
red lights of a train q short distance
ahead. He promptly applied the air
brake and arrested the motion of the
train. The sudden check, however,
parted the coupling between the express
and baggage cars. The engine and the
express car dashed ahead, controlled but
by the engine brake. The accident was
the immediate result of the coupling
breaking. When the coupling parted,
the rear of the train came easily and
gently to q standstill, bHt when the en-
gine became detached it lost control Of
the brakes, and flew with lightning-Iike
rapidity into the first train, which was
running at fully fifteen miles per hour
The result of the crash was that the two
rear Pullman cars of the first train were
violently driven into each other, with
the fatal results above stated. The rules
of the company are imperative that
where two sections of passenger trains
are run the rearsectiOn must be kept at
least fifteen minutes behind the first.
To insure this, operators at telegraph
stations are required to show a red light
for fifteen minutes after the first section
passes, and as an additional preventive
to prevent the contingency of the first
train losing any time between
stations, the rear brakeman is
provided with English fuse signals,
which will burn fifteen minutes under
the circumstances. These signals he is
required to light and throw Off at inter-
walls, when his train is found to be losing
time. The conductor is required to see
personally that this is done. The officers
of the road are not yet able to give an
opinion in regard to the responsibility
for the disaster, but have instituted a
searching investigation.
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FROM CUBA.
Another Of the MissOurPs Sufferers Dis
eOVered-WOmen Charged with
TreasOR-A Suspicious Char.
acteF.

HAVANA, December 8. - Richard
Smith, another survivor of the burned
steamer Missouri, has arrived at Nassau.
Smith was the man who abandoned
Conway's boat and swan to a capsized
boat for the purpose Of Tighting her.
Conway cut the painter connecting the
boats, and they drifted out of sight of each
other. Smith and Alfred Stewart drift
ed with the boat bottom upward for
three days at the mercy of the waves.
On the fourth day they managed to
right the boat and making sail from life
preservers, they proceeded and landed
on the most western key of AbacO. On
the seventh day after landing Stewart
died from fever produced by exhaustion.
Smith caught little rain-water on the
ninth day, and that, with prickly pears
and sOft-shell crabs, sustained him until
the seventeenth day, when be was taken
from the island and brought to Nassau.
He goes to New York on the steamer
Columbia.
The GGcettG publishes a decree to-day
summODing PlutariO Gonzales, Nestor
Ponce, the widow of Morales Temus,
and the wives of General Jordan, AL
DANA Mora, Mestre and Fesser to pre-
sent themselves at the Artillery Bar
racks in this city, and defend themselves
from charges of treason against them
before the court-martial assembled there.
About six weeks ago Thomas G. Flem-
ing, accompanied by his wife and pro-
vided with an American passport, ar
rived from New Orleans. The following
week Mrs. Fleming left for New York,
and on Monday Fleming left by the
steamer NOndalia, bound for Hamburg
MA Santiandes. Fleming's actions are
considered suspicious by New Workers in
Havana. Fleming is Thomas G. Fields's
Tammany politician. He is about fifty
years Of age, fine-lOOking, and very cor
pulent; he had heavy baggage and
abundance of bonds in his possession.
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FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Organization Of DufOre's Committee Of
Thirty-Thiers Declares his InteR-
tiOn 20 Adhere to his Policy.

PARIS, December 6.-The Committee
Of Thirty, appointed by the Assembly
yesterday, in accordance with the mo
ton Of Minister Dufore, held their first
meeting to-day. The following officers
were elected: President, Baron DeLar-
cy; Vice e-President, NJ. Audiffret Pa
guese; Secretary, NJ. NJ. Lefevre POnO-.
tailas and Houssmanville. The organ
izatiOn having been completed, the COM
mittee agreed to meet Monday, when
they will proceed to business, according
TO the motion by which it was created.
The committee is instructed to draw
up project of law defining the respon-
sibility of the Minister, and regulating
the relations Of the several powers of the
States. 1t is expected that il viii report
a bill declaring that any Minister who
shall be censured must resign, also one
excluding the President from any debate
in the Assembly, bat giving him by
way Of compensation limited veto power.
1t is aveTTed from the political compost
tion Of the committee, that any prOpo-
sitiOn for the dissolution of the Assem-
bly, will be rejected, and nothing more
than q partial renewal of the Chamber
every two years will be entertained.
The Bein publicly says the complex
ion Of the committee makes the situa-
ton all the more precariOus. While
the Executive and the Assembly are
equally averse to a coup, the country
cannot tolerate the present state Of af-
fairs. 1t intimates that the country
should spontaneously intervene, which
is Interpreted to mean that it should
continue to send in petitions ia support
Of Thiers and his government.
ThieTs has resolved that there shall be
no change in the ministry until the re-
port of the Committee of Thirty is pre-
sented, and then il herepOrt is unfavor-
able to him, he viii oppose it in the As
sembly.
An official reception was given at the
Executive residence last night, which
was numerOusly attended. Thiers freely
conversed with his friends on the politi-
cal crisis. He regretted that the partial
renewal Of the Assembly seemed impOs-
sible, and declared he was determined to
adhere to the policy announced in his
message.
At a meeting Of the Extreme Left to-
day, il was decided not to move for q
dissolution of the Assembly till the
question had been decided.
The SeicIe started this idea, and it is
rapidly gaining ground. Petitions for
dissolution are coming in from all points
Of the country to the Assembly.
The committee charged with the con-
sideration Of the electoral law have de-
cided to recommend that the franchise
be given all males over TWEEN ty-five
wears Of age in the district in which they
vote, and that the duty of voting be
made compulsory.
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, December 6.-The FL
nance Committee has been instructed by
the Senate to inquire, and report as
early as possible, what legislation is ne
cessary to relieve the stringency in the
money market, and the propriety of is
suing additional legal tenders.
Attorney General Williams has writ
ten letter to Governor Scott, of South
Carolina, regarding the kuklux prison.
ers, in which he says: " In my judg-
ment it is not only impracticable, but
improper, to grant an indiscriminate
pardon to the citizens of York and
Chester counties who have been con-
victed Of violating the enforcement
act, or to any persons who are de-
scribed only by the locality in
which they reside, or designated as a
class of offenders against the laws Of the
Uuited States. A separate application
for pardon ought to be made by, or on
behalf of, each of said persons, stating
substantially the circumstances of the
crime and conviction. When such an
application is made, it will be consid-
cred without delay, and as favOrably as
the Presidents sense Of Judgment will
permit.
The following dispatch was received
here last night
NEW ORLEANS, December }.
VIM. f. Chandler, Secretary of the National
Committee:
The Republican Electoral College have
received their certificates of election
from the Canvassing Board, and to-day
cast the vote of Louisiana for Grant and
Wilson.
[Signed j. d. PACKARD,
President state Committee.
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MONETARY ANDFIEANCIALMATTERs

NEW YORK, December 8.-MON-
EY was stringent and opening at coin
to 1-32, gradually hardening TO &c per
day with very large business at s(g4e,
the rate finally dropping with abate-
ment Of demand at 1-32 to l-l6 per day I;
the gold clique effected much Of this
with the assistance Of the Pacific Mail
party, who withdrew their money to
force lower prices in stocks. Sterling
Exchange was quiet at SIC for long and
I0c for short sight. Gold opened strong
at I12 and fuctaated as fOllOwss 1l35,
112g, 113s, 1l3, 1I35, 1138, closing at
I13hG113s. Loans, 3-l6 to fiat for bOr-
rowing, and 2,a7 for carrying, with latest
transactions at t-t6 to 1892 for use until
tomorrow. Clearings, S72000,000
Treasury disbursements, Sl4S, 600. En-
port specie, $4,000 silver bars. GOUeTH-
nleHts are IA, 8per cent. higher. u. :. cOu-
pons of 1881, 117E; 5 20s of 1852, l13s; ;
Dos of 1854, I13s; 5 20s of 1855, l13s; 2i)s
of 1865, new, Il6; ) 20s Of 1861, ll4B; 8
Dos of 1868, 1l33; new, ll9si
10-40s, 1899; currency 6s, l12B; new
IS, IL. State Bonds were dull and
Tennessees higher. Stocks advanced
during the forenoon and declined in the
evening. The most active shares
were in the Pacific Mail, Western
Union, Cincinnati and Cleveland, and
Illinois Central, and Union Pacific; the
two first named, with the exception of a
short peaiOd Of strength, were weak
throughout the day, and exerted an un-
favorable ginfluence on the list. The
Pacific declined from IS to Sls; the Tel
egraph from IA to 765, and the Rock
Island from Il54 to 1923; the rumOred
issue of new stock of the latter and lease
of the road to the Pennsylvania Cen
tral company, is denied by some Of the
directors. The Cleveland and CinCin-
natl, and Illinois Central, advanced
from 34{ to 354, but reacted to A; the
Union Pacific rose to 39f and fell to 81
in other shares; there was an advance
of / to J per cent, followed by fall of 2
Oil, the market closing weak under
free sales at lowest figures of the day.
The quotations are given as fol-
lows: Canton, SO; Western Union
Telegraph Company, 761; Quick
silver, 4SI; Adams Express Com
pany, SO; Wells q FargO's Express
Company, 81; American Merchants
Union Express Company, Il;
United States Express Company, 81
Pacific Mail, S1B; New York Central,
954; Erie, 57f; Erie, preferred, Y; Har-
lem, III; Harlem, preferred, 125; Mich
igan Central, I16; PittsbuTg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago, S75; Northwest
ern, 81; Northwestern, preferred, so;
Rock Island, 1129; New Jersey Central,
1929; st. Paul, 53t; st. Paul, preferred,
IS; Wabash, 694; Wabash, preferred,
So Fort Wayne, 923; Terre Haute, "a;
Tere Haute, preferred, So; Chicago and
Alton, 112; Chicago and Alton, pre-
ferred, 1124; Ohio and Mississippi, 46l;
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati,
80; Burlington and Quincy, 1873; Union
LONDON, December 6,p.m.-COnsOls,
money, are 9ls@914; account, 81 8
@914. United States coupons 5-20s, 1866,
9I4; 5-20s, 1867, Gag; 1O-40s, 934; New
fives, SO; Erie, A.
PARIS, December 6.-Bourse 53E.
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Old Ep. has TalEes. Possession Of ST.
Loufs ThOrOughbreds.

ST. LOUIS, December 6.-The damp
and foggy weather last night and most
Of to-day caused the horse disease to
spread rapidly, and tonight there is
scarcely a stable in the city without its
full quota of sick. One of the Fourth
street railroad lines and the Sixteenth
street line have suspended entirely, and
most of the other roads have Withdrawn
several cars. The express companies
have stopped receiving freight at their
offices for shipment, but take all offered
at the different railroad depots, and de-
liver parcels and small packages by
hand-carts. They are also using oxen to
bring freight across the river Nearly all
the transfer horses esick. and they, too,
are using oxen. Several of the Fire De-
partment's horses are sick, and Chief
Engineer Sexton will tomorrow adver-
tise for stout, able-bo men, who viii
be organized into companies and be un-
der bis direction and control. In East
ST. Louis there is scarcely a well horse,
and oxen are doing most of the business.
Some of the Police Departments horses
are also disabled, and the mounted po-
lice in the suburbs will be Withdrawn
tomorrow and the horses stabbed. The
disease, SO far, however, has been of
mild type, and yields pretty readily to
proper treatment. No virulent cases
have been developed.
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saIf T.aI.e llo.aIn-

SALT LAKE, December "a portion
Of the Wheeler expedition returned To
salt Lake to-day; the remainder VIII be
in soon.
The Mormon journals are still snarllng
at Grants recommendations in regard TO
Utah.
George @. Carver, who claims to be
delegate elect to Congress, says in mis-
paper tonight that plural marriage Is
the correct principle, always did exist
and believes always will.
Great advance in real estate, owing Ia
a measure TO the large proposed invest
ment Of Eastern and foreign capital.
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NARROW GAUGE.
Good News from Bolivar - jackson
Smashed-The NarrOW-Gauge to
Columbia Goes Through
Bolivar.
Special TO the Appeal.l

Special 20 the Appeal
BOLIVAR, December 6.-At a meeting
Of the stockholders Of the Memphis and
Knoxville Railroad Company, at the
company's office here to-day, the fol-
lowing directors were elected: General
r. P. Neeley, Hon. James Fentress,
Napoleon Hill, ]. J. Sharp, Paul T.
Jones, William Rush, NJ. &. CasOn, l..
G. Ross, Thomas Davy. General f. p.
Neeley was reelected President; w. c.
Dorion, Secretary and Treasurer, and
Thomas II. Millington, Chief Engineer.
Great enthusiasm prevailed, and it was
determined TO let out the contract for
the building of the road from this point
to Henderson Station Immediately, a
sufficient amount of stock having been
subscribed. The success of the enter
prise is assured, and the stockholders
and citizens are jubilant.
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QUEBEC, December 6.-The captain
and crew of the Ocean Gem, which was
wrecked on last Wednesday at Bic Is
land, have arrived here. The vessel is
total wreck. A part of the ships ma
terial and about one hundred barrels of
-four, in damaged condition, were
saved and landed at Bic.
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MENKEN BROTHERS,
281 and 283 Main Street. Cor. Court
NOTICE TO CITY TAXPAYERS.

ar Parties having city taxes to pay are
hereby notiaed that the Memphis GasIisht
Company Co,Hce 29I second street,, viii fur
nish, AT A DISCOUNT, orders on the city, in
sums to suit, which will be received in pay
ment for tvo-ffths of all city taxes. der
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Suit for s34,JsA Decided in Favor of a
Memphis Bank.

Suit for S34,59A Decided in Favor of a
Memphis Bank.
BOSTON, December 6.-MOses Kimball
declines the Republican nomination for
Mayor.
The case of the Merchants National
Bank, of Memphis, Tennessee, Us. Ma
tional Bank of Commerce, of Boston,
which occupied the United States Cir
cult Court several days, has resulted in
a verdict for the plaintiff for thirty-four
thousand five hundred and ninety-four
dollars. The suit was brought to re-
cover damages for negligence on the part
of the defendants in giving up to con-
signes bills of lading of lot of cotton
upon the acceptance by the consignes of
thirty days draft drawn against the
shipment, and attached to the bills of
lading and sent on the defendants bank
for collection. The plaintiffs contended
that 1t was the duty of the bank to keep
the collateral until the draft was paid,
and that by the reason of giving up the
bill of lading the plaintiffs lost their se-
curity, the consignes having failed be-
fore the expiration Of the thirty days
after acceptingit.
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

SHARPE-The friends and acquaintances
OF D. W. sharpe and family are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral OF Mrs. SARAH
SHARPE, at 2 o'clock SUNDAY afternoon,
from Calvary Church.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I. q. o. z.

FVlHE officers and members OF .sss,.
Memphis Degree Lodge, No. = 49,
L o. o. F., are requested TO meet at - -
their hall this SATURDAY. even INV
ing. at o'clock. All members ia good stand
ing aud transient brothers are invited, as
buiiness of Importance viii come before the
Lodge. -
BY order of W. II. MOYSTON, ID. NJ.
Tiaos. s. BINGHAM, Secretary. de7
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DIED.

CRISMAN-Y Yesterday, at 8 o'clock, WILLIE
BELL, infant son OF ". B. and Annie NJ.
f,Fisrnan
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The beat Home and Foreign Literature
AZ Club Prices

I't POSSESSED Of THE LIVING AGE and one or
other Of our viVaeious American monthlies,
q su Dscriber will md himself fli commend o5
The tghole situation. ~ Phila. BasIiefins
For ten dollars, THE Living AGE and either
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memphis Mechanics institute

WILL meet this (SATURDAY) evening, at
w 7o'ciock, in Board OF Education rooms,
Odd Fellows Hall. Members are respectfully
requested to attend. Special and Important
business to transact Come one and all
prOmp pity at the hour.
By order NJ. BURKE, President.
THOMAS BAcoN, Secretary, de7
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James McElhaney, Boston wife
murderer, is to be hung in that city on
the twenty-first Of February next.
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The Duke Of Argyll.
Matthew Arnold. Max
Muller. EreAuaEnn-C hat
rfan. .EhacEKerEy.C g.. Kings
lev. Arthur Ezei %. Geo.
Macdonald. GhRs. Heade.
Kari BfE86l. lIiss p ufOek.
Sir Robert EyttREs. Fritz
ReufeF, Prof Huxley.
Prime Minister GIa IL
stone. JuIfa aaTana@1,
James Anthony FEOude-
Frances Power CObbe,
Jean IngeIOW.AlfreG Ten
Browning. are some Of
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ays6n. Robert Browning. are some o.
the distinguished authors lately repre-
seuted I'm the pages OF
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BUSINESS MEN! LOOK to YOUR
INTEREST,"

HAVING disposed OF my interest IN the
II stock TRACE TO BILLY GRO " y, a Telia-
bic stock de Hler whom I recommend 70 my
old patrons. am ready 70 serve you as an
AGENT, PAETNER or SALESMAN in The
city or country. Ny long eXper1eDce-2B years
here-entitles me TO The confidence or all. 1
hattar myself that i am competent to serve
you IN ANY BUSINESS sarisfacUorv. Ny
extensive acquaintance warrants me IN say
ing none can likely do better I am ready 20
accept any proposition, OF what ever nature.
Any one desiring my services VIII call soon
No time TO dslay- I am working man
talking man-cncCurage an Old reliable clt4-
zen! Very respectfully,
". G.. CAYCE.
Loo No q nInHsen.. sA-.onf
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NIGHT School.

0O0 THIRD STREET. BE1-wERN MADl-
OOO son and McnIoe, ~. Z. MITCHELL
Pupils can commence at any time C1arpes
by the calendar month. For terms apply at
the schoOl-room, nigtt or day. neIs
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HE ABLEsT LIVING WRITER'S


in all departments Of Literature, Science, Ar
and Politics, is sufficiently indicated by ths
following
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On motion of Mr.. Frelinghuysen, the
Senate suspended the rule requiring the
election of chairmen of standing COM
mittees by ballot, and standing and Sc
Iect committees were then elected.
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We = III { =
deG No. 50 Madison street.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-06-27
The citizen and Gov. BroWn.

The Sheibyvillc Rescue, the mis-
representative paper OF Middle Ten
I.rssee,. seeks a controversy with the
CITIZEN we presume from the fact
that it missrepresents the relations
between the CITIZEN and Governor
Brown 1t says we have not hoistcd
the name OF Gov. Brown and leaves
the reader to infer, from this and
subsequent rem arks about "papers
ON the fence,7 that we do not sup
port him; when the fact is, the CIrI-
zEN was the first paper in the State
to suggest hisname for Governor at
the first election under the New
Constitution, the first to- advocate
his reelection, and the first to nom
mate hiIl for L. 5. Senator to sue
coed Mr. Brownlow. We have not
considered it necessary for Gov.
Browns reelection that our col
umns from week to week should be
buTdened with editorials in defence
of his administration, when there is
no attack upon it, or to write full
some editorials in his praise, when
his praise is in every heart and on
every lip, or tomanifest any particu-
lar enthusiasm in behalf of his cleo
ton, when there is no opposition
and no necessity for it, or to hoist
his name or any, other name at the
head of our paper to proclaim our
sclfan imitator of what we consider
a ridiculous attempt on the part Of
country papers to assume an impor-
lance and an influence which belong
only to great metropolitan journals.
The CITIZEN is for Brown, uncondi-
tlonally, first, last and FOREVER,
though il does not claim to be his
special organ, or TO reflect his senti-
mcnts at all times.
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therefore look for a slow market
during the winter. In thefollowing
spring, after the opening Of naviga-
ton, business may be more brisk,
and should the fact then be fully
established that there was a large
deficiency in the winter wheat crop,
we shall expect to see choice re-
cefpts of that article reach a pretty
high figure, for by that time the
present abundant supply of choice
family -four will be greatly reduced,
and as the mills viii not grind as
freely during the coming fall and
winter as they did last year, the
I spring trade will open with slight
stock in hand at Eastern points Ct
I consumption. The stock Of South
ern wheat viii be likewise exhaust
ed, and this, added to then estab-
/ lished fact of a general deficiency,
will, we think. occasion the strong
upward turn in prices we indicate
Faboye."