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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
A Subterranean River.

How many of the readers of the
Journal are aware that one of the Won
ders of nature may be seen four miles
west of SWANS prairie and one mile in
the Indian Territory Here you will find
cave which is a perfect wonder to the
brave adventurer who will provide HIM
self with the necessary outfit for eX-
ploring the subterranean cavern OF
darkness, inhabited by wild animals and
bats in countless thousands. The nee
essary outfit consists of good lights and
a boat in which to navigate subterra-
mean river, which, so far as we know OF,
has never been traced to its source.
The entrance to the cave is grove of
tall trees under the jutting rocks of
small mountain. Long before you enter
the wood you can hear the roaring of
the falling waters, which rush forth in
crystal pureness, far excelling the noted
springs of Neosho. A short distance
from the cave stands a single Indian
cabin, inhabited by Alexander Zane, of
the Wyandotte tribe of Indians. To the
east, south and west of his dwelling
stretches out one of those beautiful
valleys, which would be fortune to many
a man if he could have the control of it.
Here, in their original grandeur, is a
water-power sufficient to run ahouring-
mill, valley large and rich enough TO
produce the grain to keep the mill 60
ing. For a full knowledge of this re-.
gion you must see it to appreciate the
importance of this wonder of wonders.
-Neosho (Mo.) Journal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

N. Y, on the LIST, for the murder Of Stephen
Woods.
The Providence County Savings Bank,
of Pawtucket II. !. has been enjOined from
doing further business on account OF i'm
paired capital.
A violent snow-storm occurred
throughout the Middle and Eastern States on
the last day of January, seriously impeding
railroad travel on nearly all lines. Along
the coast the storm was the most severe that
has occurred for years, and caused great
distress among mariners and probably
some loss of life. On Coney Island New
York; eight persons were drowned by the
waves running so high upon the beach as to
wash away the houses. Several summer
resorts were entirely destroyed, and from
Sandy Hook to Long Branch on the Jersey
coast the shore was lined with wrecks of
summer houses and other structures.
The Commissioners Of the Freedmen's
Savings and Trust Company have declared
dividend OF 10 per cent, payments to COM
mence March 20.
The Secretary of the Treasury de-
SlTeS tIdU III uIUltS sCHU hiHi III Poy Va
the per cent. loan be drawn payable to his
order; otherwise they can not be received.
Gen. Miles is confident that Sitting
Bull is now upon United States territory,
and his command has gone from Fort Peck
to discover the whereabouts of the hostiles.
1t is reported from Fort Randall that SOO OF
Red Clouds Indians have left the agency
and gone north, it is believed with the inten-
ton of joining Sitting-Bull.
Greece has marched an army of sew
eral thousand men over the Turkish frontier
from LAMA, with the avowed intention OF
protecting Greek subjects. The Turkish
commanders have been instructed not to OBJ
struct the movement of Greek troops.
The Topeka Bank and Savings Insti-
tuition resumed business on the 4th: the de-
positors having agreed to give six months
time on all accounts over 500. An eXamin-
ation Of the banks securities shows that
they are sufficient to meet all liabilities.
John Smith, alias Lew. Mooring
(colored), was hanged at Chester, S. c., on
the 1st, for the murder of Bergin Conger in
December, 1877.
Mrs. Catherine Earle, of Terre Haute,
Ind, connected with the Golden The atrical
Troupe, died at Warrensburg, Mo-, on the
I'd, from the results Of injuries received by
being crushed between two cars while cross
ing the railroad track.
Ten persons were suffocated or tram
pied to death during a panic caused by an
alarm of fire at Calais, France, on the night
of the Sd.
Two thousand inmates of an asylum
for women and children at Tiensing, China,
lost their lives by the burning of the institu-
tinn.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
Driving in Egypt.

All the carriages and harness are of
European manufacture, while among
the horses the stately Arabians are nu-
merous. The grandest equipages have
both driver and a footman upon the
box, while in front of the horses the
nimble SETS runs to clear the way. These
runners are dressed in white, the skirt
reaching only to the knees, and the
sleeves large and flowing. An embroid-
cred Jacket, with the tarboosh, or fez,
as head covering, completes the cos
tune. The lower limbs and feet are
nude. The staff of Office of the sets is a
slender stick about one yard in length,
which he carries in perpendicular pos
ition. The grace, speed and endurance
of these runners are most remarkable
and interesting. Some carriages have
two. and those of the Khedive and his
family often appear with four, two run
ming abreast. The many equipages of
the Khedive, his sons and his wives, are
all imported, and in addition to a full
number of the servants already de-
scribed, each has two OF four cavalry
men accompanying As body-guard.-
Cor. Philadelphia BHlletiH.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

TIE peace preliminaries and armis-
tice were signed at Adrianople on the
3lst of January, although no official an
nouncement of the fact was made until
the Sd inst. The six bases of peace are
as follows:
1. The erection of Bulgaria into n prinsl-
pality.
9. A war indemnity, or territory, in COM
pensation.
3. Independence of Roumania, SerVla and
Montenegro, with an increase Of territory Tor
each.
4. Reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
s. An Interior und erstanding between the
Sultan and Car regarding the Dardanel!os.
@. The evacuation Of Danubian fortesses
and Erzcroum.
The news of the signing of the
armistice was received with great re-
joicing at St. Petersburg. The city was
decorated by day and illuminated by
night. At Constantinople the newswas
received with signs of quiet satisfaction.
1t is announced that conference
of the Powers is to be held at Vienna,
at which all the questions arising out OF
the war will be settled.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

the House Judiciary Committee on the SOth
She took the ground that every person VINO
was taxpayer was entitled to vote.
Hon. j. ". FOSTER, Minister to Mex
leo, has arrived in Washington, where he
was summoned to testify before the Con-
gressional Committee.
GEORGE CRUIKsHANK, the well known
English draughtsman and caricaturist, Is
dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Lord, whose
marriage in New York recently caused SC
great sensation, have emerged from their
retirement and begun an offensive move
ment against the young Lords VINO en-
deavOred to have the father adludged in
sane. Physicians pronounce the old gen.
tleman's brain entirely clear, and he says
the object of his late retirement was simply
to escape for time the opportunities OF his
sons, who have been conspiring against his
peace and happiness.
Miss FRANCES Il. WILLARD, of Hi
nois, Secretary of the Woman's National
Christian Temperance Union, made an able
argument before the House Judiciary Com
mittee on the 1st, to the effect that women
should be permitted the use of the ballot up
on liquor questions.
Dom PEDRO, finding upon his return
home that some of the members Of his Cab
met had been using their positions to adj
vance their personal interests, has turned
them all adrift and appointed new Min
istry.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON has con-
sented to be u candidate for Congress from
Richmond, Va, district, ex-Gov. Walker
declining a reelection.
GEN. CHARLES THOMAS, who entered
the army in 1919 and was retired in 1866,
died in Washington on the 3D..
JUSTICE BRADLEY, of the United
States Supreme Court, decided adversely
upon the application of the Louisiana Re-
turning Board, requesting that their trial
be transferred from the State to the United
States Circuit Court, claiming as reason
for the change they can not secure their
equal civil rights under the State Circuit.
Ex-Gov. j. MADISON WELLS, of the
late Louisiana Returning Board, surrender
ed himself to Sheriff Houston, on the Sd,
and gave bail for his appearance when want
ed. He had not been in Washington, as re-
ported, but remained in the vicinity of New
Orleans.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Col. JOHN II. KING, Ninth Infantry,
and Lt.-Col. VIM. III. Lewis, Nineteenth In
fantry, have been detailed, by order of the
President, to act in conjunction with one
person to be designated by the Governor Of
Texas, as board to investigate the recent
troubles in FL PaSo County, Texas.
Hon. JOHN b. KERR, formerly repre-
sentative in Congress from Maryland, and
Minister TO Central America under President
Fillmore, died in Washington on the eth.
GENERAL w. w. LoRING, who left
the United States Army to join that of the
Confederatcs, and who is at present second
in command Of the army of the khedive in
Egypt, has asked senator Lamar, through a
friend. TO introduce bill TO relieve his po-
litical disabilities.
THE trial of Gen. Anderson, of the
late Louisiana Returning Board, was begun
at New Orleans on the 10Th. The jury is
composed Of 10 white and two colored men.
Up to that date Wells had not put in his APP
pearance.
GEORGE Z. GORDON, inventor of the
well known printing-press bearing his
name, died at Norfolk, Va, on the 2Sth.
GAIT. JAMES b. EADs has been APP
pointed by the President one Of the Hon.
orary Commissioners to the Paris Expo
sition.
Mrs. ISABELLA BEEcHER HOOKER
made a woman-suffrSge argument before
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

THE Senate Finance Committee have
authorized Senator Allison to offer, with
its sanction, as an amendment to the
Silver bill, his provision for an interna-
tional money conference to fix COM
mon ratio value of gold and silver. The
determination of this ratio is not, how
ever, q condition precedent to the pro-
visions of the bill; on the contrary, the
bill, if enacted, is to 60 into effect I'M
mediately, and the conference, if agreed
to, will be held subsequently.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

THE recent conquest of Kashgar by
the Chinese is of immense Importance
and extends the Chinese border line up
to the possessions recently acquired by
Russia, and they will henceforth stand
side by side in Central Asia. China,
after all, is only getting back her own,
for she ruled this section of Turkestan
for 1OS years, until II years ago the re-
volt under the leadership of the famous
chieftain, Yakoob Beg, proved successful.
He died few months ago, and China has
now succeeded in regaining possession
of these States of Independent Tartary
formerly controlled by her. The Chi
nese, it is thought, were melted to this
military activity by the English Gov
ernment, which is, of course, DESTROYS
of placing every possible obstacle in the
path of Russia's progress towards India.
The rebellion against Kashgar, the rul-
ing State of Independent Tartary, which
succeeded the death of Iakoob Beg, af-
forded an excellent opportunity for in
vasion, and an immense Chinese army
was Immediately sent into the country.
But the Orientals would scarcely have
been equal to the occasion unless insti-
gated by their more willy and diplomatic
English advisers.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
Turkish Currency.

The Rev. Edwin M. Bliss speaks thus
of the perplexities due to the unsettled
state of Turkish currency:
We have the most astounding style Of
money values that the world ever heard
of, think. The Turkish Ira, our larg-
est gold piece in ordinary use equal to
81 40 gold), has five different values. 1t
is equal to 100 piasters gold, 105 silver,
1G9 copper, III cairne Cor paper), and
in market value goes at about 235 pias-
tiers. The smaller gold pieces are in
proportion, viz: the half and quarter
Ira. Then come the silver pieces OF
twenty, ten, five, two and one piasters,
each having a separate value in silver,
copper, cairne and market use. There
is also another kind called "metal-
lique," made up of mixture of silver
and copper, which runs at nearly the
same rate as the silver, though a little
less. Then comes the copper, one, half
and quarter plaster, but these are nearly
the same as the paper, and in small
sums are reckoned as the same, the dit
ference being manifest only in large
sums. But the strangest of all is
the cairne, or paper money, which
in market value is worth more
than its face. A 100-piaster cairne bill
is worth, in market value, $50 piasters,
and this runs through the whole range.
The 5O-piaster cairne bill is equal to %
piasters, and the one-piaster cairne, the
smallest, to one and quarter piasters.
1t is annoying that this continues with
out much, if any variation. Occasion
ally the Ira is quoted at 176 or 1'S
cairne, but it rarely varies much from
la. But there is another element to
mix the matter ineItricably, which IS
that the same rates DO not maintain in
different parts of the city. For example,
take the five-piaster silver piece. If
wish to buy fruit or any thing in the
STEAMBOAT market, it is worth ten or
eleven piasters. II L give it as toll on
the bridge or for a ticket on the steam
er, it is worth eight piasters. If 60
into a shop at Pera, it is five and Aalf or
six piasters, as the ease may be. At the
bank it is five piasers. Other pieces
are in proportion. The result Is thAi
We have to keep money with US of ever9
denomination, so as to be able to use
each to its best advantage.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

A SPECIAL from Laredo to the Gal
weston News gives intelligence of dar-
ing raid upon the towns of Candida,
Savinas and Hidalgo in the State OF
Tamaulipas, on the 22d ult., by a party
of SO Mexicans, mostly from Texas, I'M
der command of Col. Y. Salinas, an adj
herent of Lerdo. They seized the prin-
cipal men of these towns and forced
them to pay $4,000. Upon being pur-
sued they separated, portion OF the
band recrossing into Texas below Lare-
do, at which place it is said the raid was
planned,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

SOMEBODY says it takes pickpocket
to dispurse a crowd.-Boston Adverti.
ser.
RICHES will never take wings and ay
away, if you sprinkle a little economy
on its Whitehall Times.
No Congressman from Illinois has
ever been so full, but what there's one
from Indiana who's Ben Fuller.-Com.
n,ercial advertiser.
The fashionable style of sackcloch
for Lent will have three rows of gored
ruching down the front, a bias trail and
the sashes will be worn pompadour.-
Easton Free Press
BANKERS generally roll their hard
money in paper, and make it look like
so many large spools. We rolled our
hard money up the other day, and it
looked like q button.-OI CITY Call.
NEXT to committing matrimony, CON-
hitting perjury in swearing to say
ings-bank return is the most likely to
withdraw a prominent citizen from
general circulation.-NeW York Trrb.
nne.
SUNDAY-sCHoOL teacher to astonished
child" My dear, every hair of your
head is numbered" Scholar (hesitat-
ing) to astonished teacher" Pull out
No. 6 for me, then, please!"-Pont
Chester Journal. -,
GAN Old Maids Show is talked of at
Utica" That is right. Give the Old
maids show. To be sure, many Of
them had a good show when they were
younger, and refused to embrace the
opportunity, and-and-and now they
are old maids, and have no lazy hus.
band to keep.-NorristoW'a Herald.
DURING the last session of the District
Court Judge Noonan had occasion toput
the usual question to convicted colored
burglar if he knew of any reason why
sentence should not be pronounced upon
him, whereupon the prisoner said en-
phatically that he did "What is your
reasonp" asked Judge Noonan, blandly.
"De jury tuck SIGH a one-sided view OBJ
de case," was the reply.-Sas Amtons9
EgpreSs.
The other day a good-sized boy visit
ed the editorial rooms to ask how GER
tain word was spelled. He was refer
red to the dictionary, and he began at
page one and carefully studied the
book till noon. He returned at l
O'Clock, read until 4, and then closed
the book with heavy sigh. "Can't
you find the word?" was the inquiry as
he was leaving. "I suppose l could. y
he answered, " but haven't time. I've
been reading here for good half day,
and I've only got along to the head Of
Occasional Sounds of A. l guess the
whole things sham. "-Detrou Free
Press
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

ARRANGEMENT have been made by
the Secretary of the Treasury to receive in
payment of subscription TO the 4 per
cent. loan, coin or currency checks
drawn on banks or bankers in New
York. Currency checks will be con-
verted into coin at currency rates, with
out expense to the owner, and the ex-
cess over the amount due on subscrip-
ton will be returned to subscribers.
Similar arrangements for collecting
drafts will be made, if found necessary,
in other cities having sub-treasury offices.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

The United States Vice-Consul at
Shanghai telegraphs under date of Jan.
26 that an appalling famine is raging
throughout the four provinces in North
China. Nine millions of people are re-
ported as being destitute. Children are
daily sold in the markets for food. The
Foreign Relief Committee appeals to
America and England for assistance.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

The IL Western States, including
Missouri, gave 81 votes for the Matthews
Silver resolution and 4 against it. The
Is Southern States gave IS votes for the
Silver resolution and against it. The
nine Eastern States voted q for and 65
against the resolution. The three Ps-
cifc States voted for and against.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

THE steamer Metropolis, from Phila-
delphia, Jan. 80, for Para, Brazil, with
about 2i0 persons on board, encounter
ed heavy gales soon after she got to sea,
and sprang leak. Finding it impossi-
BILE to keep the vessel adoat, the captain
made for Hampton Roads. At a. m.
on the 3lst, heavy sea broke
over the ship, carrying away her smoke
stack and rendering her entirely UNI
manageable. The captain then headed
her for the shore, and at about O'Clock
she struck Currituck beach, on the
North Carolina coast. When the vessel
struck the greatest CONSERVATION ensued,
and many were washed overheard. The
vessel soon began to break up, and at b
p. M, she fell all to pieces, the surviv-
ors being thrown into the sea. During
the day a large number attempted
to gain the shore by swimming,
many of whom did so.
About $50 lives were lost in all. The
scene of the disaster is about 20 miles
north of Kitty Hawk, where the Huron
was wrecked, and as in the case of that
disaster, no assistance of any account
was rendered from the shore. The
Metropolis was laden with iron and
other supplies for the Madeira and
Mamore Railroad in Brazil, and nearly
all of those on board were laborers and
other employees who were going out to
build the road, the contractors being
Philadelphia men.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

CAPT. EADs recently delivered an adj
dress before the St. Louis Board OF
Trade, in which he claimed that the
only practical way of controlling the
volume of water comprising the Missis-
sippi River was by deepening its bed in
the shallow places. This measure, he be-
lieved, would obviate the necessity of
levees, and regulate the propensity OF the
Father of Waters to run to cut-otfs,
bayous, and shoals. The plan of Capt.
Eads contemplates permanent chan
mel depth between Cairo and New
Orleans of 20 feet in low water, sui1i-
cient to float the largest vessels navigat-
ing the river at all seasons of the year.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

REPRESENTATIVE PHILLIPS'S bill to
provide for the funding of the savings of
the people in the popular loan, and to
make it inter-convertible, provides for
receiving savings at postal savings
banks, from % cents upward, and when
the sum of so has accumulated on any
account, q postal money-order is to be
issued, which may be placed in 3.65
bond, interest payable quarterly, which
bond is, at option, recoverable into le-
gal tenders. The bond to be issued in
postal orders in denominations of $40,
800, $50 and 800, by the Treasury of
the United States.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

AN interesting decision has just been
rendered by the United States Supreme
Court relative to the rights of colored
persons to the same privileges with
whites upon public conveyances.
Josephine De CUR of New Orleans, La,
a colored woman of property, was re-
fused admission to the upper cabin on q
Mississippi River steamboat, on the
ground that it was reserved for whites.
She sued the owner of the boat in the
Louisiana courts, and was awarded
1000 damages, but the United States
Supreme Court reverses the decision.
The Court rules that the laws do not
forbid that steamers shall have separate
cabins and dining-rooms for whites and
negroes, that equality does not mean
identity, and that steamboat-owners
have right to keep apart persons who
would be disagreeable to each other.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-16

TIE public debt statement for Feb. 1
makes the following exhibit: Total
debt, $2, 1913 ,02S, oil total interest, S22,-
429, 1874; total coin bonds, 81, 726, $780,
$50; legal tenders, $349,173,921; cash
in Treasury, $171, 168,479; decrease of
debt during January, $1,G6S,O7G.