The daily gazette., 1875-07-16
A spIendid woman smugsI Ter.

dressed. She was one SOilu mass OF fur-
bellows and frills, and ever her elegant
black silk costume she wore an Indian
shawl, which completely enveloped her
person. SLe was stopped and escorted
into the searcher's room, where the fe-
male in attendance "went through her."
and was rewarded by finding on her
person more than $4,000 worth OF jewels
laces and gloves. The glover were found
sewcd up in the inside lining of her
hustle, and the lace inside braid of
false hair which she wore. Her under
garments were all made 10 contain varl-
Gus articles, even her corsets being made
to do service in cheating Uncle Sam.
The guilty woman cried bitterly. She
is lady well connected, and was allow
to go free upon payment OF the sum to-
tai due the Government.-(New York
Correspondence of theBuffalo Courier.
The FRENCH FLOODS DIsAsrER-The
Losses Of Life and PropeTty.-A Paris let
| ter, dated June 80, states that the floods
Of the previous week in the south of
France continue the leading topic of con-
versation. The weather few days be-
| fore the floods was unusually cold, and
what would have been rain in the low
lands fell us snow on the upper slopes of
| the Pyrenees. Then the swift melting of
the snow helped to swell the waters of
| the Garonne, the Adour and their afflu-
ents with astonishing rapidity. In re-
gard to the consequences the letter says
| At Toulouse the first serious alarm was
felt early on the morning of the 23d, a
week ago to-day. Twenty-four hours la
ter the populous quarter Of st. Cyprien,
on the left bank Of the Garonne, was un-
der water, hundreds of its inhabitants
were drowned or crushed in the ruins OF
their fallings houses, and nearly 10000
persons became houseless. Toulouse, be-
cause Of its accumulation of people and
buildings and wealth, was sort of capi.
tai of disaster, but tho waste and ruin
are widespread throughout the valley
Several villages are mentioned where, of
200 and 800 houses, no buildings remain
standing but the church and house or
two. Solidly constructed stone bridges
have been swept away like driftwood
roads have been quilted into impassabil.
ity; cattle and garnered harvests and
growing crops, vineyards and the arabic
soil itself have been swept off or over.
whelmed with sterile sand and gravel.
The loss Of life is greater, L think thar
in the Rhone and Loire floods of 1856
The whole extent of material destruction
is not yet ascertained. Estimates (as
yet only approximate, but that does not
seem to be extravigant) rate it at from
$4,000, 600 to S75, 100000. That it is en-
ormous, and can be only partially mad,
up to the more needy sufferers, is un-
questionable. That something can be
done for them by the more fortunate is
certain, and little questioned. Here il
the bright side to the sad story. Never
mot when the call was made for the
benefit Of the victims Of like calamity
,ANr . I &
soldier" in the Crimean campaign, anf
not when it was made for the peasant.
unhoused, or those from Alsace and Lor
raine who were exiled by the late war
have klfown i'll France any movement
for charity's sake so spontaneous, gener
Ill and largely generous as the one nov
seeping over the whole country, witt
something OF the rapidity and might O
the Hood that provokes it. All classe,
and specialties of institution and indi
viduals rush into it.
No sooner had news Of the calamit,
reached Versailles than the President O
the republic, accompanied by the minis
ter OF the interior, started for Toulouse
making hrst these two preparations fo
his travel-a Pocketful OF his own none,
for immediate use, and advice to Mad
anne McMahon to put herself at the he az
OF a central subscription committee.
is said that the President drew on hi,
! private bankers for more money the thirt
day after his arrival in the wasted VALLEY
No one does say or explain how or whei
the kind-hearted man gave his tough, 6
,ycar-old, soldier-body enough needfu
, hours for taking food and sleep. W,
know that the committee over which hi.
wife presides sent off $4,000 the day af
ter Its organization, and has as mucl
more IN hand subsequently collected.
| II ia n very rrettv etnry on1 A. M :.