Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-10-01

Twelve States have yet To vote To com.
plete the fall elections as follows: Ohio
and Iowa in October; Virginia, Kansas,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Mississippi,
Minnesota, New York, New jersey, Penn
sylvania, Wisconsin and Texas in Novem-
Der.
Mr.. Delano, Secretary Of the Interior,
has resigned his Office, aud the President
has accepted his resignation. Who will
be Mr.. Delano's successor is not stated,
but il is said that he will come from Penn
sylvania.
The late gale on the English coast proved
very destructive, several vessels being re-
ported wrecked, and many lives lost The
damage in Liverpool is reported to be i'm
mense. At Manchester a large mill was
blown down, and the falling walls crush
ed the adjoining buildings. bat fortunate
iy no one was seriously injured.
The New York Board of Trade has re-
ceived from Senator Schurz a communiCa-
ton informing them that owing to the
pressure of business he could not address
them on the question of finance on the
18th. 18TH or 18th of next month The
& w IiiilC ANY CIV
in October for the delivery of the address.
The Spanish war seems tn he almost at
close. Don Carlos fortunes have sew
eral times been at u low ebb, but never so
low as at present. Some of his followers
have been driven over the French frontier,
and are there inturned; some were cap
tured ut SEQ d'Urgel, and those remaining
with him are cooped mp in n very circum-
scribed mountain region.
/ 4 dispatch from the Red Cloud Agency
SAYS the Black Hills Commission have de-
termined not to meet the Indians in coun-
Gil until they have determined what they
will do in the matter of the cession of the
Black Hills country. 4 majority of the
chiefs are reported to be in favor of the
sale, but much turbulence is reported a
mong the young men of several tribes.
1 Further accounts of the late cyclone in
/ Texas confirm the almost entire destruc-
ton of Matagorda, the people saving
themselves from the flood by clinging to
trees and In other ways. Odd Fellow
Hall was among the buildings destroyed.
Twenty houses were blown down at Co
lumbia, but no lives lost. On Kinney S
prairie twenty persons were lost and
their property destroyed. On the upper
peninsula, near Galveston, twenty one per-
sons were swept into the Gulf and drown
ed. Destruction of property is reported
at many points, including crops, cotton
gins, sugar houses, dwellings, &c. Relief
committees have been formed at Calves
ton and Matagorda, and appeals are made
to all parts OF the country in aid of suffer
ing humanity.
The question of civil rights has assum-
ed new phase, growing out of the retu-
sal of certain parties representing the
Mount Moriah Cemetery Association, of
Philadelphia, to grant the right of sepul-
ture to the remains of Henry Jones, a well
known coiored man of that city. Mrs.
Jones purchased lot in the Cemetery in
April last, and subsequently sister was
buried therein. On Monday, when the re-
mains of Jones were being conveyed to
the Cemetery, the funeral was met by GER
tain persons representing the Cemetery
Association, who refused to permit the re-
mains of Jones to be inferred therein, the
only objection urged being that of color.
The body was temporarily deposited in
the vault of Lebanon Cemetery, and the
counsel for the heirs have demanded of
the officials of the Mount Moriah Cemete-
ry the reception of the body of Jones for
interment