The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-20

above the IVMsrTsNeSM usually
|passed; by "a 4Hed SpISeH about ten, or
hfssn fSt Id Width. Here the waters
ssasss @ sssa sSs sSs 4. I;sIshs.
constructed Of pebbles. So firm YVES
the embankment Of sand above the
cuivert that It stood apparently in
tact for the spASe sof N hour. and
then it cayed IN, and was swept away.
When the road bed sank a freight train
was, within fifteen feet of the .place.
though. not In motion. A. great volume
oflwater, had already passed the railroad,
and hurried on to the achievement of
of it's greatest, feat. forty rods below Mt
the third cotton ,mIll. The mill was
originally three-story wooden build
Ing. but lately was enlarged by the atldi-
ton of wing on each end. The bridge
over the country road suocumbed.. und
chen the water obtaining firm hold of
the mninl building, lifted it and sent it
crashing to the meadows below. So
thorough was the work of demolition
that the cupola alone of what O few mi
nutes before was valuable mill re-
manned standing upon the plain. The
machinery and water wheel went with
structures which housed them. The
wings were left standing, but were 80
badly wrenched and undermined that
they are probably ruined and will have
to come down. About q half mile further
down the stream wns another country
road bridge, near Kingebury Pond. This
was snapped from its oundAtions almost
at the approach of the waters and car
rled away. On the level space between
the road and river the waters spread out
and ceased their work of destruction.
The last bridge was swept away about 7
o'clock in the evening. One body was
swept down in the food, but 1t was sup
posed to be that of a man. for some
months missing. AS far as known no
lives were lost, but the damage to pro-
perty is very large; no houses were
swept away, AZ their location on the
banks wns such that the water did not
reach thcm. The following nre the
losses as far as ascertained: Whitnv's
Dam, $4,000; Elliot Mills, $4,000: the
town Sof Norfolk, 5000; the New York
and New England Railroad, $4,000:
City Mills, $50, 900 to S75 600, A large
number of persons are thrown out of
employment by the fall of tue City Mills.
BRowNsvILLE, TEXAS. April 18. The
following is the report of the committee
appointed by mass meeting of the citi-
zens of Brownsville. The membcrs of
the committee were all Union men, three
Of whom are Federal officials Colonel
Hayns, Collector of the Port; Colonel G.
G. Davis, Deputy Collector, and Edward
Downey, Postmaster:
To THE Hon. J. L. HAYNs CHAInMAx,
AND WIN. KELLY, SAcRKrARY OF THE Mass
MEETING: Your committee, to whom WINS
referred the subject matter of the alleged
statements of Senior Mariscal, the Mexi-
can Minister at Washington, in regard
TO the border troubles on the Rio Grande.
viz: That they are as much the work of
Americans as of Mexicans: TINT American
scitizens, disguised as Indians and Mexi-
cans, frequently raid upon the settlers,
and the more daring of the parties en-
gagged in the frequent raids are ex-Con-
fedefate soldiers, who, ruined by war
and deprived of the support Of slave
labor, prefer the life they are leading to
searning an. honest livelihood; say they
,nre satisfied that Senior Mariscai has been
va nisinfof7ned. and grossly deceived M to
she true ncgp dition of q affairs on this
frontier, and that he has thus uninten-
fionally probably done the American
scitlzens Of. this frontier great wrong and
injustice, as can be easily proved by the
most undoubted testimony. The time
given your committee is too short to pre-
pare a full refutation of unjust as persions
containea in the correspondence of
Senor Mariscal, and your committee
would Recommend the appointment of a
comm 1ssion to collect facts, and submit
chem to, the consideration of the Hon.
Secretary of State to refute the charges
-of the Mexican Minister, In the mean
time, your committee submit the follow,
ing brief resume Of facts which nro sus-
ceptible Of tho dearest proof. First,
THAT for ut least ton years since the close
of our civil war there has not been q
single act of. hostility, invasion or plum
derlng, or hhbustering against the Re-
public of Mexico from the State of
Texas, nor any act of single person
passing from this to tho other side Of ftha
Rio Grande, with any such intent, ia.
we challenge any sciniilla of proof to the
contrary, Second, that for the lust ten
years raids Of volunteer parties from
Mexico to this side of the Rio Grande
have been continuous ond persistent.
and these plundering parties have drawn
from our stock ranches hundreds of thou
sands of stock. They have committed rob
berry and arson, and to the repeated COM
plnipts made to the Mexican authorities
for their rendition to the hands of ius-
toe q deaf ear has been turned. Wecite
the following recent and notorious cases: {:
The robbery of n store mt Penesca md
the murder of the Morton brothers: the
murder OF Il. =. Ashbury ut Losangos;
the murder Of MIR. Fuller, postmaster at
Loo l. T.. = = rT.