The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-08-30

Clerk In the Sixth Auditor 3 Ofice of the
Postofice Department, committed sui,
eide in Washington a few days since, by
shooting himself through the head with a
pistol. He leaves wife and children. }'
q An Omaha dispatch says that letter
from Camp Brown, situated about forty
miles from Camp Stambough, Wyoming,
says band of hostile Indians appeared in
the vicinity of old Camp Brown on the
Goth of July, and attacked the house,
killed two women, hut attempted to COM
nit no other depredations. A body of
armed men had gone in pursuit.
BY an explosion at the Diamond Coal
Mine, Wilkesbarre, Pa, a few days ago,
two men were instantly killed. tts5 -
Three men engaged in boring an oil
well, at Butler, near Pittsburg, Pa, re-
Gently, were burned 10 death by the oil
taking fire.
Governor Dix, of New York, has COM
muted the punishmento of David Murphy,
who was sentenced to be hung for the
murder of David Barry, to Imprisonment
for life. ,.,
A great oil fire occurred at Hunters
Point, J.. l., August S. The fire origi-
mated on a barge, near Rockfeller's Long
Island City Oil Works, and was caused by
Captain Myers striking match to light
his pipe. The moment he did so terrific
explosion occurred, and the barge was one
sheet of flame. Captain Myers was
thrown up in the air and fell on
the barge where he was burned to
death. 1t is not known whether
any more were killed. Several escaped
by jumping overheard. The barge was
lying close to the wharf, on which were
nearly 10000 barrels Of oil. In few min
utes the oil on the wharf began to burn,
and the fire spread to five more barges
that were loaded with oil, and they were
all consumed. The heat was SO great that
the firemen couldn't get within several
hundred feet of the fire. Steam fire en-
gines arrived from Brooklyn early, and
two tugs hauled out the burning barges
and saved Pratt's Astral Oil Works. The
smoke from the fire was very dense, and
hung over New Y ork city the entire day.
1t was. thought likely that the fire would
burn several days. Twenty-Five thousand
barrels of oil were destroyed. The loss
is variously estimated at from $500, 600 to
$3.50. .OOO-said to be fully insured.
Il Domestic Intelligence.
Gold closed. in New York, on August
5, at 115s.
1t is denied by the proper authorities
that up to the present time any petition
has been presented to the Governor Of
New York for the pardon Of Frank Wal
worth.
A st. Joseph, Mo-, dispatch, July 81,
states that the Texas cattle disease was
spreading in Nodaway county, the losses
of cattle being already heavy. Cattle
from Kansas were not allowed to be land
ed from the cars. The disease also pre-
vailed in DeKalb, Caldwell, Davies, and
some other counties in North Missouri.
| A successful wheat corner in Chicago,
on July 81. succeeded in forcing up the
price Of No. to LAG, being an advance
for the day of twenty-one cents per BUSH
el. tits said that one of the operators re-
allied $2O0, 600 by the corner ~. ~ g
An Evansville dispatch, July 81, states
that the cholera had broken out with
great severity at Carmi, ILL.,. eight deaths
having occurred in the preceding twenty
four hours.
In response to communication fr0m.a
number of citizens of South Carolina, urg-
ing the pardon of the Ku-Klux prisoners
now in confinement, Attorney-General
Williams has published reply, in which
he states that the President has signified
his wish that the prisoners accused and
convicted of offenses under the enforce
ment acts should be treated with as much
lenity as possible, without prejudice to
the ends for which they were passed. He
adds: g 1t must, however, be strictly
understood that this action by the Gov
ernnent is not prompted by any doubt as
to the necessity or validity of said acts,
or of the justice of the convictions al
ready had under them, to prevent and
punish high crimes, but by the be-
lief thst the Ku-Klux Klans have
through said convictions been almost u
not altogether broken up, and that those
who were concerned in or sympathized
with them have come to see the folly,
wickedness and danger of such organiza-
tions. You have been pleased to say to
me, and similar assurances have been
given others seeking the same object: that
executive clemency at this time in the Ku-
Klux cases would tend to remove many
causes of uneasiness and irritation now
existing, and conduce generally to public
peace and tranquility, and proposed action
is taken with reference to such cases with
the full expectation that these assurances
will be verified. You are informed thai
! the prosecutions now pending il