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! who were in the habit Of sleeping near
the boilers of the mill were crushed by
| the fall, but so far as known only one
man was killed. On his person was
found letter from England, directed to
Mrs. or Miss A. NJ. Smith, OF this city,
conveying news of a marriage, and from
this 1t is surmised that he recently came
here from Jackson, Michigan, and is
named Potter.
CINCINNATI, March ia special to
the Gazette from M'Connellsville, Ohio,
says that during the storm this morning
the lightning demolished the cupOla OF
the UniveTsalist church in that place,
huIling heavy timbers distance OF two
hundred feet.
NASHVILLE, March Is. - In this
city the wind blew with great
force and did not abate its violence
until yesterday afternoon. Fences
were swept away and telegraph poles
felled, so that communication has been
interrupted. AS far as Evansville the
storm prevailed, but no definite intelli-
gence has been received from other
points. 1t is feared that much damage
has been done and many lives lost. Not
only did the wind traverse a large terri
tory but rain has also fallen throughout
the country.
The Cumberland river was ris-
ing yesterday at the rate of one foot
per- hour. Sunday the river was de-
clining, with nineteen feet on the
shoals; yesterday it was rising with the
rapidity above stated, there being twen-
ty-nine feet on the shoals. The torrents
from the hillsides and mountain streams
will doubtless cause the Cumberland to
overflow its banks. The Tennessee river
at Johnsonville, where the Northwest
ern road for Nashville crosses, was ris-
ing yesterday, and further damage is
likely to ensue from the high water in
that stream.
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IN Tie Federal senate yesterday some
discussion was had on the right of-the
sioux Jadians to the exclusive posses
sloh u the Black Hills country. The
PIT .chbsck resolution was resumed, and
F.enstOrs Ferry, Of Connecticut, and
West, addressed the senate, at the con-
c!usion OF which an executive session
was had, and Immediately after an sd-
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About ten o'clock Sunday morning,
during thunder storm, ten thousand
barrel tank of oil, at the Riverside oil
refinery, on the bank of Allegheny riv-
er, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, owned
by Evans & Flack, was struck by light
ming, and the oil burnt, together with
two cars on the Allegheny Valley rail
road, containing five hundred barrels of
benzine. Total loss about fifty thousand
dollars, nearly covered by insurance in
Wheeling Pittsburg and eastern COM
pouios
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WE publish in another column a very
full report OF the results and effect of
the storm Of Sunday last, from which
II will be seen That Rienzi, Mississippi,
has nearly bfen destroyed and many
lives lost. The people Of that place have
the sincere and heartfelt sympathies Of
the APPEAL and the citizens OF Mem
Uhip
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The master painters of New York
have resolved to increase their hours of
labor, and wages-their workmen from
eight hours and three dollars day to
ten hours and three dollars and a half
a day. The workmen went on strike
YESTERDAY
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A DELEGATION Of North Csrolinians
interviewed President GTantin Washing
ton yesterday urging the removal OF Ex-
Governor Holden as postmaster at
Raleigh.
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Two freight-trains on the Illinois Gen.
tral railroad collided near Dongola, ILL.,
nois, Saturday, demolishing the en-
gines and killing 3 fireman, John
Wisher, and injuring Henry NJ Mullen,
engineer
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ESTABLISHED 1910.

The Louisiana arbitrstors, sitting in
New York, concluded their labors yester-
dsy, the resulted which is not made
public
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Sunday evening the cornice and shed
ding Of the northeastern markethouse,
in Reading, Pennsylvania, being over
weighted with snow and ice, fell with a
terrific crash killing little boy named
Frank Apfel and seriously woundiDg
three others
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A telegram from Ottawa, Canada,
SAYS that Hon. Mr.. M'Kensie has intro
duced a bill to organize the northwest
territory outside OF Manitoba into gov
eminent.
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AT OTHER POINTS.

Special to the Appeal
JACKSON, TENN, March 15.-Rienzi,
Mississippi, was visited by a terrific
hurricane about two o'clock on the
morning of the fifteenth, the course was
from the southwest to the northeast.
Houses, fences and timber were leveled.
Several persons were killed and wound
ed. Among the killed are Hon. Porter
Wilker, of Baldwin, Mississippi; Col
onel Jordan Reese and two children,
Miss Matte Palmer, and several ne
groes; among the wounded are Mrs.
Porter Wllker, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Nor
man, T. Roonsley, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. B.
Armour and two children; some Ofthem
fatally. Among the residences blown
down are those of Judge ]. F. Arnold,
Colonel VIM. Ross, Mrs. Ross, Rev. J.
NJ. Martin, Rev. r. G. Savage, w. Glib
bons, .. A. Gordon, Captain Henderson, !,
Fl. Il. Johnsey, W. T. Nash, DR.. J. w.
Stevens; also the Presbyterian and Bap.
tist churches, and several shops. The
lossjs about two hundred thousand dol
lars; no insurance.
Associated Press Dispatches.
CoRINTH, MISS, March 15-A severe
rain aud hsil-stOrm passed over this
section last night. The town Of Rienzi
was nearly destroyed. Four persons
were killed, namely: Porter Walker,
Miss Matte Palmer, Mr.. Jordan Reese
and daughter. Several were danger
ously and many slightly wounded. The
damage to the railroad and telegraph il
inconsiderable. ALI communication viii
be resumed tomorrow.
INDIANAPOLIS, March l5-The chin
ney OF the Capital City rolling-miIl, il
this place, was blown down this morn
ing. The chimney was twelve feet 8
the base ard ninety-six feet high. /
was supposed that number Of tramp
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A telegram from Berlin says that
Herr Kosiolek, formerly editor OF the
GermdHid, has been sentenced TO two
years imprisonment. He has fed from
Germany.
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Richard w. Mullen, stated to be one
OF the original discoveries OF gold in
Australia, died in New Orleans Sunday.
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0 THE GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD

At late hour last night representa-
tive of the APPEAL called at the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad depot and
interviewed Superintendent M'Ghee
relative to the condition of the line
hence to Bristol. Dispatches were re-
eeived from various points along the
line, and we are glad to state that the
road is in good condition despite the
heavy rains. No damage was done
either by wind or water, although
the track at POcahontas and elsewhere
was flooded ly small streams.
1t was deemed best to stop the passen-
ger and freight-trains until the over
flowed creeks subsided. By two O'Clock
this morning the swollen streams had
gone down, and both the passenger and
the freight-trains will arrive this after
noon. For the benefit Of merchants we
would state that one hundred and twen-
ty-twO cars laden with freight are now
on their way and will arrive within the
next twenty-four hours. AL Of the
eastern and other frei 2hts and merchan-
disc that have been blockaded by the
recent floods in East Tennessee will be
here as above indicated. Sixty cars are
expected this afternoon.
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DIED.

WOODSON-On Monday evening. March Is,
WILL o., son Of VIII o. and Texie WoodsOn.
louisville and Cincinnati papers please
cOpy.l
Due notice of the funeral will be given.
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"FROSN."
The Cheek and Impudence of the New
Orleans Times, and lis Utter ken-
daeity Proven by Itself.
4 shameless Journal, Utterly Defiant Of
DCceBcy, OF Truth and COurage-A
Disgrace to Louisiana.
RelteratiOn Of Charges Without Any
Proof, aud Reckless Mention OGthe
Names OF Memphis Citizens.

New Orleans Times
The Times has been hOnored with the
following dispatch from Messrs. Quarles
and MGlathlin, Of the Tennessee legis-
lature:
EDITOR TIMEs-In an article in your
paper OF date, you challenge the investi-
cation of certain grave charges made by
you before repeated therein as above by
and through committee clothed with
full power to compel witnesses and to
send for persons and papers. We have
been appointed SUCH committee,
and now demand of you to make
good your charges that the Shelby
delegation ia the Tennessee leg.
isIsture were influenced by mercenary
motives in casting their votes for Hon.
Andrew johnson for senator in the con-
gress of the United States. Our legislas
ture will adjourn in ten days, and you
are hereby sdmOuished to make all pos
sible dispatch, as we must report before
adjournment. II you will give US the
names Of any witnesses for whom you
desire subpenas issued, or subp9Das
duces tecunl, we will at once issue and
have them served. We await you and
your answer at Nashville.
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The standing committee OF the South
Carolina diocese has consented to the
\ hconsecratinn OF Rev. DIR. Jaggar, but re-
fused to consent to that OF DR.. DeKOven.
The New York herald., 1875-09-15
Grants Luck.

General Grant seems to be the luckiest man
we have ever had in American politics
When his administration was running
rapidly down at the heels the republicans
passed an initiation BILL which gave him an
opportunity of vetoing it and putting him
self at the head of the hard money party, al
though at the time he hardly knew the diff
ference between hard money and soft money.
When his action on the Southern and other
questions seemed to have completely with
drawn from him the confidence of the public
the democratic party Of Pennsylvania must
permit troupe of tramps and vagabonds to
meet in convention and pass resolutions vir-
tually leading to reputation. The result of
this is to throw General Grant into gndis-
puted prominence as the leader Of the
friends of sound currency and financial
integrity. And now we have Jesuit priest,
in sermon delivered in New Jersey last
Sunday, publicly denouncing the adminis-
tration, and asking God to hasten its END.
If anything is calculated to make General
Grant the next President of the United States
it is declarations like. this and from men of
this calling. Once draw this line in politics,
once throw out the slightest intimation that
it will be for the interest of the Order of
Jesuits or of the Roman Church that General
Grant shall be defeated and we shall have
such an uprising of the Protestant sentiment
throughout the East and West as will COM
pei his reelection. 1t does seem as if
those who should feel the deepest interest in
the defeat of President Grant are by some
malign influence conspiring to make his
nomination inevitable and to give his re-eIec-
ton every prospect of certainty. There
surely never was luckier man in our Amer
can politics.
The New York herald., 1875-09-15
The Maine Election.

In 1872 Maine gave General Grant over
thirty-two thousand majority in 1874 the
republicans elected Dingley Governor by over
eleven thousand majority. On Monday the
republican majority was whitfield down to
less than five thousand according to the
reports at hand as we write; and
this in spite of the most vigorous efforts
of leading and prominent men, like
Blaine and Morton, the former speaking
in his own State, and to his own people, who
are personally attached to him.
Evidently the speeches did not hit the
mark Why? On the financial issue the
people are certainly of the same mind with
Mr. Blaine. Both parties in Maine favor specie
payments. Where they disagree with the
leader they are proud of is on the question
of the bloody shirt" Mr.. Blaine, it is
said, sent for Senator Morton to shout
Murderp' in the Maine woods but the
people were not scared even the ex-
Speaker could not frighten them. Per-
haps this will teach some of the
republican politicians elsewhere little wis
dom. The Northern people seem to have
made up their minds that the war is now
finally over that the negro has had, on the
whole, very fair chance, and must hence
forth take care of himself that he is abun-
dainty able to do so, and only needs to be
let alone to get on as well as anybody else
The Maine election, following the demo-
cratic victory in California, is disheartening
to the republicans It's effect will be felt in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and this State. The
people are tired of old cries and of appeals
to their fear of the democratic party. The
elections this fall cannot be carried by the
beating of gongs. That begins to be very
The New York herald., 1875-09-15
The Aerial ladder murder.

The story which we print this morning of
the breaking of one of the famous Uda fire
ladders and the consequent death of three of
the men who had ascended it is perhaps, the
most painful and inexcusable episode in
long series of calamities Some excuse may
be found for most of the disasters we have
recently recorded, but for this there is no
palliation.
First of all, the adoption of the ladder by
the Fire Department was the result of a no
torious job. What was begun in corruption
has ended in death, andy it is only due to
the foresight of Captain McElwaine that the
three murders which came from Yesterdays
experiment were not supplemented by many
more
In the second place the experiment ought
never to have been made, not only because it
was hazardous but because it was unneces-
sary. The corrupt bargain through which
the department was induced to purchase the
right to use the continuance ought to have
cast suspicion upon its usefulness, and at
least prevented display of any mere fool
hardness. The contrary effect seems to have
been the result In spite Of the exposure of
the false and corrupt means by which its
adoption had been secured, the Chief of the
Fire Department was determined to test it to
the utmost, and his efforts have ended in q
triple murder. What were Mr. Bates motives
we know not, and what excuse he may be
able to make to his own conscience we care
not to inquire, but all the world can see the
| II q Il.
ments he ordered. We would not condemn
him in haste, but the occasion is a bitter one,
and he must be able to make some explana-
ton more tenable than a whim of his own to
test useless contrivance. The fault may
not be his, and in that case we must know
look to the inquest to reveal the whole truth
in this matter, and shall be satisfied with
nothing short of complete history of all the
transactions which led to this direful
murder
Another fact must not be overlooked. Here
was ladder in eight sections and ninety
eight feet in height. Seven men were to
climb it ; but, after three of them had as
cended above the third section, it swayed
and broke, ana the poor fellows were dashed
to death on the hard street below. Then
came the discovery that it was made of ex-
tremely brittle material and that the
frail structure upon which these hardy
fremen were ordered to expose their
lives was only white pine. The wick
edness and avarice revealed by this fact
are inconceivable. housemaid would not
risk herselfand her pail upon structure made
of such wood, and yet Nash and his COM
panions at the word of command were ordered
to ascend hundred feet into the air upon
white pine ladder. Words can only belittle
the terrible facts of this disaster, and we must
wait for calmer moment even fitly to con-
demn the cupidity and the recklessness
which led to the catastrophe.
The New York herald., 1875-09-15

course will be the polite one. If the in
flationists should get control of the National
Convention next year they will nominate a
Western candidate. Governor Tilden's sue
cess is staked on the ascendancy of the hard
money democrats. They need an intrepid
leader He is in position to be that leader.
But unless his aggressiveness is equal to
that of the inhationists T; unless he teaches
them that in this battle ''there are blows to
take as well as blows to give : unless he as
sumes the offensive and rallies the people to
his support, as he has by his unsparing as
saults on the Canal Ring, he will be swept
down by the vigor of his opponents. He
may win the fight if he is daring
enough. If the Syracuse Convention
puts sound timber in its platform, and on
the evening after its adjournment Mr.. Til
den's friends compliment him with sere-
made, we should rejoice to print a speech
repeating in relation to initiation his recent
language at Buffalo respecting reform III
will follow where any dare lead; will lead
where any dare follow" He could make no
greater mistake than vain attempt to propi-
tlaJe the lnHhtlOnistS lie musJ succeed Dy
defying and defeating them, or he cannot
succeed at all. With truth and reason on their
side all that the hard-money democrats need
is an indomitable leader of unshrinking, ag-
gressive courage. Mr.. Tilden will have no
competitors for that position of honor and Of
danger, and nobody can step between him
and the reward if he compels the inhationists
to ''hide their diminished heads" The
his hands in such contest as Aaron held up
those of Moses during the progress of the
battle
The New York herald., 1875-09-15
The Temperance Cause.

Just now the advocates of temperance ar
suffering from one of their periodic spasms
of virtue. They have disinterred the hatchet
and taken to the warpath with the avowed
intention ofsuppressing traffic in liquor on the
Sabbath day. They have strong case, in so
far as the traffic under existing conditions of
the law is illegal. The justice and expedi-
ency of allowing persons holding a special
doctrine on temperance to compel others
who do not agree with them 10 abstain from
the use of liquor on one day in the week
may very well be questioned. 1t is a very
grave interference with the rights of indi-
viduals and opens the way to vexatious
abuses of authority. The sale of liquor on
Sunday is a matter of public convenience
and one which touches nearly the vast body
of the people. Governments have endeavored
to suppress this Sunday liquor traffic, but in
no single instance has success attended
their efforts and even could the law
be properly enforced tho advisability
of making the drinking of glass of beer on
Sunday penal offence would still be very
doubtful. Liquor used to excess is injurious;
but, after all, those who use it to excess are
but very small proportion of the popula-
ton, and it is not reasonable that the popu-
lation of a State should be debarred from the
use of refreshments because some few per-
sons here and there may drink to excess 1t
is the more absurd that no legal restrictions
will prevent the class disposed to drunken
ness from obtaining liquor, 80 that the tenn
perance advocates who wish TO prevent the
sale of liquor on Sundays do not SO much
prevent people from getting drunk as
hinder the general public from obtaining
reasonable refreshments. The only result
likely to spring. from the renewal aGtiUitH af
The New York herald., 1875-09-15
Police Pistol Practice.

The right of police officer to shoot at an
escaping prisoner or person resisting arrest
requires clear definition. Under the exist
ing system officers of the law become mur-
derers on the slightest provocation. The law
by virtue Of which policemen are armed
with deadly weapons and empowered to use
them in self-defence was not intended by it's
trainers as. a permission to policemen to pun
ish with death at their own good will every
slight infraction of the law. Two cases that
have lately occurred exenplify the evils of
the reckless use Of the pistol by policemen.
A colored man in Brooklyn, arrested for
some trivial offence, escapes from custody
and is pursued by an officer, who. failing to
come up with the fugitive, fires shot and
kills him. No right-thinking man will
attempt to justify so grievous a punish
ment for so insignificant an offence
Even had the prisoner escaped, he
could easily have been rearrested a
few hours later and no failure of justice
would have resulted. In Kentucky police
man attempted to arrest an excited man; the
latter, in his anger, slapped the officer in the
face, and without moments hesitation the
officer drew a pistol and shot him. Had a
citizen acted SO in either case he would
properly be tried and punished for murder,
and policeman charged with the protection
of life should exhibit at least as much for
bearance as is demanded by the law from the
vast body of citizens. In the two cases cited
the acts of the policemen amounted to wanton
murder. 1t cannot be pretended that either
officer was in danger of his life, and we
therefore see no reason to separate their cases
from those Of ordinary rnuFderers. Police
men must be taught that they have no special
right to assume the power of judge, jury and
executioner, and the best way to impress this
lesson would be TO send officers guilty of
using their pistols without justification to
State Prison for ten years Some check
must be put on the murderous instincts of
reckless policemen, for citizens cannot con-
sent TO hold their lives at the good pleasure
Of the men who are paid to maintain order.
The New York herald., 1875-09-15
Russia and Turkey.

1t is stated on the authority Of London
Times correspondent that Russia will en-
deavor to combine the influence of the
Powers that signed the Treaty of Paris to put
such pressure upon the government at
Constantinople as will secure the reforms
demanded by the Sclavonic subjects of Tur-
key. Russia, therefore, it will be seen,
moves cautiously but does not intend to
miss her opportunity. All the diplomatic
influence of the world brought to bear at
Constantinople in one great diplomatic bat
terry would not change the administration in
the troubled provinces; because it is not the
good will of the Sultan that is at fault, and
diplomacy which could only effect his
good will or only secure pledges on
paper would, therefore, never reach the
real source of the evil, which is the
system and the machinery of Turkish rule
as applied to non-Turkish people. 1t is the
natural barbarism of their rulers that the
people have revolted against, which is no
worse now than fifty years ago, perhaps, but
is less to be tolerated by the people, because
they in that fifty years have grown some
what. 1t is proper, however, for Russia, as
the first friend of the insurgents, to exhaust
all peaceable means that present themselves,
that the resort to arms whep it comes shall
seem to be the only measure left Hence the
proposition to exact of Turkey pledge to
govern the provinces differently. That pledge
will necessarily be violated, and that viola
ton will justify, if the papers are properly
drawn, an armed interference.