The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-29
Civil Rights in Pennsylvania.
A Break in the Cable.
Political News.

ZOfla Gateu Z1I, CONFIRM the reports nrSt re-
ceived from Matagorda. The town was
which remain standing No lives were lost.
The people were saved by clinging to the
cedar trees in the vicinity.
At the town Of Columbia twenty houses
were blown down. No lives reported lost.
One man was killed at Chenango by fall
ing tree Many plantations have been greatly
damaged, and some literally torn to pieces
Sugar-houses, gin-houses, fences, and every
thing was partly or wholly blown down.
The great losses cannot be correctly re-
ported
Later information received from Mataeorda
says, at a meeting of citizens of Matagorda
| county, held in the town of Matagorda, the
following were appointed a committe to re-
ceive and distribute contributions to the suf-
fering people:
GaIen Hodges, W. S. Stewart and r. G.
Cheesman. The committee reported as fol-
lows: We the committee report to the country
at large that the greater part of the town of
Matagorda is laid in ruins, and that not q
single citizen of the town has escaped serious
injury to his property. Many of them are
entirely houseless, and without the necessa-
ries of lite or the means to build shanty
over their heads.
Our courthouse is somewhat damaged, but
can be repaired without great expense. The
Odd Fellows's Hall is total loss, and the
Episcopal church is nearly so. The shipping
at this point has been either entirely lost or
seriously damaged. No lives lost in the town.
In Kenner's Prairie, as far as we were able
to learn, twenty-one persons were lost, and
| their property all destroyed.
On the upper peninsula, twenty -one per-
sons we're swept in the gulf and drowned; all
their property proving an entire loss. We
have as yet heard of no deaths on the lower
peninsula, but an almost entire destruction of
houses and other property.
Decrows port has not yet been heard from,
nor the town Of Palacios. We have not
heard anything definite from Tres Palacios
yet. We hear of great destruction of prop
erty on the east side of the Colorado River,
but we hear of no lives being lost.
We have not heard from Caney, above Capt.
Duncan's plantation, but are satisfied that
from there to the mouth there has been an
entire loss of crops, houses, cabins, gin and
request the Galveston Neaos. Houston, Austin
and San Antonio and other Texas
papers, also those of New York,
Boston, Chicago and st. Louis to publish
these proceedings, and such other papers
as feel an interest IN the cause of suffering
humanity. Such as may feel able and dis
posed to help our suffering people will send
forward their contributions, money or pro-
visions, to the committee above named, con-
sisting of Cheesman Stewart and Hodges.
G. Baer, John Duncan, Jr., John L. Groom,
John Mathews, Galen Hodges, J. E. Pierce,
D. u. L. Braman, r G.. Cheesman, c. Ell.
Williams, Fred G. McCamly. w. d. Barbour,
John Moore.
VIM. Fl. BUEKHARpT, Chat rman.
G. BAER, Secretary.
An interior paper, remarking on the exag-
gerated reports of the effects of the late storm
sent from the city of Houston, says: We
would caution our readers about BELIEVING any
thing concerning Galveston, which originated
in Houston. The journals of Northern and
Eastern cities are now reaching u.s. Their
columns are filed with false and sensational
Geographic reports of the storm at Galveston.
This mornings Neus publishes the follow
ing, which is applicable to many other locali-
ties: The New York Herald, of Sept. goth,
reproduces the Houston account of the storm,
and in an editorial sets down the losses at
Galveston at the round sum of five million,
dollars. 1t says that the prairies along the
coast became sea of water, and that the tide
at this city and along the neighboring coast
rose twenty feet.
The ignorance of the Herald in this instance
may be excused, perhaps, by the limited ex-
tent and unreliable nature of its information.
OF journal that claims to lead the world as
reliable and energetic newspaper to give pub
licity and unqualified Endorsement to canards
OF the kind telegraphed from Houston during
the gale OF week before last, when telegraphic
advices from Galveston were temporarily in
terrupted.
If the Herald expects to be quoted as au-
thority hereafter, it will have to explain, as
best it can, the grievous errors committed in
it's reports of the ravages Of the storm at Gal
weston.
newspaper Of the great cireula-
ton and influence Of the Herald
should have correspondents of its
own upon whose statements regarding
events OF SO much import as the storm along
the coast of Texas it could rely with perfect
confidence instead of accepting dispatches
from unknown and irresponsible sources, and
publishing and expressly ldorsing rumors
that are without the sightesa foundation.
BRAsHEAR CRY, Sept %. = The Harris,
from Brownsville, and Mary, from Rockpost
rnd Corpus, arrived this morning. No dam
age by storm on the Rio Grande or at Rock
port and Corpus.
The Brownsville Sentinel Of the 2lst saws:
Cortinas's friends are making it hot for his
opponents. list has been discovered where
10 nine citizens Of Matamoros are charged
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