The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-21

houses, fences and small boats were very
generally Demolished. A number of per
sons endeay oFing to save their boats mar
rowly escaped drowning. The storm was
at its height here at s A. N, when the
velocity of the wind was nearly sixty miles
per hour.
AUGUSTA, Ca, September 49, = Mrs.
AlonLo Harley, who lives near Si;verton,
WIS assaulted at her residence, last Friday,
by negro men. Harley was at work on MS
farm. and Mrs. Harley was alone, with her
son, agen nine years, and an infant three
weeks old. She was knocked down two or
three times. Her screams and thu Sc Of her
boy alarmed the neighbors, when the ne
grUes He'd. When the report of al assault
on Mrs.. Harley became known, the citizens
asAA4Uied ana made search for the Ee-
sgroes. enc of the negroes escaped, aud on
saturday WARRANT was placed in the
hands of a constable, Who, with the aid Of
posse of whites, attempted 90 make rhe
arrest, which was Resisted by large crowd
of negroes, said to be 200, armed with shot
guns and Winchester rifles. Sunday the
excitement continued, both the whites and
the blacks being fully armed, and watching
each others movements. There is report
Of skirmish during the day. in which two
or three persons were wounded. Toward
night compromise was agreed upon, both
parties agreeing to disband and retire to their
homes. The negroes agreed to surrender
the colored man who made an assault on
Mrs. Harley, and deliver him over to
the authorities at Aiken. With this under
standing the wines dispersed, and while
retiring to their homes it was reported that
several of the latter were ambushed and
shot by the negroes. The city is full of
runors as 10 the number killed, but moth
Ing definite later is ascertained up to this
hour.
The passenger train from Augusta for
Port Royal, which left this morning at
s O'Clock, has returned, and, proceeding to
the jackson station, found the track torn
up, ana the freight train which left here
ut O'Clock this morning was found
wrecked. The negroes had possession of
the road.
Superintendent Fleming, of the P ,rt
Royal road, has teiegraphed the state of
aft .irs to Governor Chamberlain asking him
for troops. He has also applied to Lieu.
Darnhardt, of the United States army, sta
toned at Hamburg, for assistance.
number of citizens have left for the
scene of the disturbance, which is ab,
twenty miles from Augusta on the Por
Royal road.
AUGUSTA, September 18.-The latest re
port from the scene oi the not IN SUI
Carolina is that a white man was wounded
aud SIX negroes killed. Nothing authentic
has been received. The city is full of ru-
mors.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, September 10. "A
party of Gramps called at the house of a
Mr. Hazard in Ofrc onA L.
MIR. Hazard with club and Mrs. Hazard
with al axe. Mrs. Hazard is dead. The
patient people have the tramps safely in
jxil.s ssfs srs rr- a Es
SAN FIR lNcIsco, September 19.-There
was AN explosion in the Fnz William coal
mine. Two whites and one Chinaman
were killed and three whites and three
Cinnamon fatally wounded.
CHICAGO, September 19.--Kill Eagle and
Littie Mound, with one hundred followers,
who had been in the Custer fight, surren-
dered at Standing Rock.
, . BALTIMORE September 19-Five trains
from the west, which had been detained by
a wash-out ON the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, arrived at Camden station this morn
ing. Trains are now running regularly.
NEW YORK, September 19,-The Cham
Der OF Commerce held special meeting
this evening to consider au appeal for aid
to the sufferers by yellow fever at Savannah,
aud also devise some means to be taken
for their relief. On motion, it was re-
solved to appoint committee of twenty
five with full power to adopt such meas
ures as are expedient to raise funds by vol
untary contributions for the relief of :he
suffering people IN Savannah. Over $4,000
has already been collected 49,. &
FORT BUFoRD, September Ito the
Adjutant vi the Military Division of the
Missouri, Chicago arrived here on the
seventh. On the ninth information reached
me that considerable body of hostile
Sioux had appeared at Wolf Point, abou'
IS miles above Fort Buford. 1 therefore
directed Major Reno with the Ninth Cav
airy and his own regiment and Major
Moores battalion of the Sixth Infantry to
march from his position on the Yellowstone
to that place. l go up the river to meet
him. Signed, Alfred q. Terry, Brigadier
General.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, September 10. Five
Jewish youths of this city were out in the
Alabama river in a sklff about 5 o'clock
this evening. The skitf upset, precipital-
ing the boys into the water. Four were
drowned, anG one was saved by a gentle
man who saw them and went to them in a
boat as fast as possible. Tue accident oc
Cured on the far side of the river from the
city. There was no chance of effecting a
rescue fill it was too late. To-day was a
Jewish holiday.
NEW YORK, September 10 The explo-
sion at He'll Gate has been postponed to
Sunday morning.
u FOREIGN NEWS.