, 1875-09-30


trate extensive frauds. Lund Il Co.
charge the swindle to their clerk.
Fitzgerald, who on discovery of the trick
this morning. left the establishment and
has not yet been SEEN.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 23.-The Times
special says: Parties who arrived from
Indianola last night and who were there
during the terrible cyclone, fully con-
firm even the most sensational reports
of the destruction of life and property
there. Out of three hundred houses
only five are left standing. During
Thursday night when the storm was at
its height, tho water in the city rose
over six feet in two hours and the wind
blowing a gale at the rate of IS miles an
hour, driving the water and breakers
through the city at the rate of Is miles
per hour. sweeping everything in its
way and covering the plain in the rear
of the city for ten miles to the depth of
seven feet. Several small settlements.
numbering total population of $50 are
swept out of existence. making, with
the $50 lost at Indianola total of 400
lives lost. The gentlemen conveying
the information give q most narrowing
account Of the destitution of the sur
vivors. When they left Indianola on
Monday. ninety bodies had been recov-
cred. The stencil in the city from pu-
trefaction of these bodies with the stencil
from dead animals is most intoierable.
GALVESTON, Sept. 23.-The following
was received from Boston: Boston,
Sept. 22.-To acting Mayor of Calves
ton: The citizens of Boston offer their
heartfelt sympathy to the citizens of
Galveston and Indianola and towns on
the coast of Texas, which have been
ravaged by recent terrible storms. You
are hereby authorized to draw on me at
sight for $1,000 for their immediate
relief. Supplies of clothing will be for
warded as received.
(Signed,) S.. COBB.
Mayor.
Contributions have been forwarded
from San Antonio. Austin and other
cities in Texas. Passengers arriving
from Columbus and Richmond on the
Harrisburg Roads says the storm has
been destructive throughout the coun-
try. The bridge over Brazos River at
Richmond, which was damaged is being
repaired. 1t is also said that party of
Mexicans on Sunday began to rob the
dead bodies, washed to the plains four
or six miles back of the city. The
scoundrels were chopping The fingers,
hands and ears off of men and women
to obtain the jewelry. AS soon as this
was heard of in the city, party of citi-
zens went out and killed five Mexicans
whom they caught at the devilish work.
New York, Sept. 23.-A largely at
tended mass meeting was held last even
ingsin Cooper's Institute when the pur-
pose of the call was stated to be, to dem.
onstrate that greenbacks must meet the
necessities of peace as well as they met
those Of war. That Ohio and Pennsyl :
vania must be sustained in their efforts
to rescue the country from a general
bankruptcy. The square in front OF the
Institute was Illuminated with the lights
of rockets and light of bursting bombs.
When the doors of the Institute were
thrown open, large crowd poured in.
for the most part laboring men, among
them being scattered a few women.
The chief speakers were Theodore E.
Tomlinson and Edward Crane of Boston,
and J. K. MCGEE of Illinois. Resolu-
tions we're adopted demanding that tie
policy of contraction be abandoned and
the volume of currency be made and
kept equal to the wants of trade. That
the National Bank circulation be retired
and legal tenders issued in their place;
favoring payment of one-half of customs
in legal tenders; the extinction of Na-
tiopai Banks and establishment of free
banks; sending cheer and sympathy to
the great Democratic party of the West
and recommending electors throughout
the state of New York to assemble in the
various districts and form legal tender
clubs in conformity With the resolu-
tions adopted by the meeting. The
chairman stated that this was the first
Of series of mass meetings under the
auspices of the legal tender club.
Gold closed at 161a95I.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. %. An in
junction was granted to day by Chief
Justice Peyton, (Republican,) restrain
ing the Auditor from paying out money
to support the militia that Gov. Ames
proposes to call out. Petitioners claim
that the Governor is proceeding to mus
ter into active service regiment each
of whites and blacks to produce a con-
fiict. The injunction is based on the
acknowledged fact that perfect peace
and order prevails throughout the State
and that mastering militia into service
was but creating standing army of
State troops in violation of the Consti-
tu ton.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-The Sscre-
tary of the Interior has appointed Hon.
0. N. Denny custodian of the new
post Office building at Portland, Oregon
and Superintendent Higgins has been
directed to turn over the building.
LONDON. Sept. 49, Thousands of
persons visited H. 3. ". S. S. Seraphis
at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday. The
baggage of the Prince of Wales with
that Of his suite, plate, presents. etc.