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VOL. II.
RALEIGH. N. C SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 1L. 1873.
NO. 66.
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SUNDAY ...MAY 11, 1873.
LOCAL MATTER.
12. C. WOODSON, City Editor
State of tjie Thekmometer. The
Thermometer yesterday stood as follows
at Branson's Book. Store :
At 0 a. m .... 1 . ; . . . 08
At 12 m 72
At o p. m 7o
At G p. m,"..... . 74
Local Briefs.
There are 403 convicts in the Peni
tentiary. The Neuse is still out of its banks in
this county.
Governor Caldwell will not return to
the city before Tuesday.
We were absent from the city Friday,
left Syme to do the honors of our col
umn, came back home and found him
a otcing 1stU3 over a Hennery.
We omitted to state ac the proper
time that the office of the U. S. Circuit
Court was closed on Friday in respect
to the memory of Ch:ef Justice Chase.
Seaton Gales Lodge having accepted
the invitation of Manteo Lodge to at
tend a mass- meeting on Tuesday even
ing next, the members of the former
Lodge will take notice, etc.
No Asbeville paper's yesterday, owing
to the breaks in the Western North
Carolina road, caused by the flooded
condition bt the streams over which
t&js road passes west of Morganton.
The hop at the National Hotel Fri
day evening was a very pleasant affair.
All who attended enjoyed it hugely.
The Superintendent of the hotel, Mr.
Parten, is a courteous gentleman and
makes it nleasant at all times.
The active and honorary members of
the TypDgrap'hical Union, will meet at
the Mayor's Office to-morrow evening
to perfect arrangements for the regular
Annual pic-nic and excursion on the
4th ol July. They propose to render
this a more brilliant affair than on any
previous occasion, v
Capt. W. II. Thompson, the Warden
o. the lrenitentiarr,jwill Jeave lor Juan
on, South Carolina to-night with a .re
, quisition for the notorious John A. Owe-as
arrested a s-hort time since iq that
place, and lor whose recapture the Gov
ernor has offered a reward of $400.
In alluding in our last issue to the
schools of this city, we unintentionally
neglected to mention that excellent in
stitution, the Weeleyan Academy, so
ably conducted by Rev. Mr. Trawick.
This academy is in great favor in this
city, and Mr. Trawick has the reputa
tion of being a most competent instruc
tor. Lee DusLAp'd Case. This man was
indicted for murder in the Mecklenburg
Superior Court, convicted and sentenced
to 4; harmed. The Supreme Court ot
this State, upon appeal, granted Lima
new trial, pending which he made affi
davit that be could not get justice in
the Stale Courts on account of his color,
etc. His case was transferred to'the
Circuit Court of the U. St, at Raleigh,
'when Mr. Starbuck, for the United
Slates, moved that the case li reman
ded to the State Courts. TheCourtre
fused the motion, and the United States
appealed to the Supreme Court of the
U.S. Tiiat Court has recently dis
missed the appeal on the ground that
-it was prematurely taken, appeals only
lying to that Court from final judgments
in ciiminal cases. The casewill,'we
are informed, be tried at the Juue term
of the Circuit Court.
High Waters. Our Morganton
correspondent, under date oi Sth of
May, says "that all tfie streams in Wes
tern Nrth Carolinu are reported far out
beyond iheir banks. The Catawba at
Morganton was twenty-one feet above
common water and still rising. At 8
o'clock on Thursday morning,the bridge
over the Catawba, two miles from Mor-
gantou, was swept away. West of Mor-
- an ton the damage fo the Western Rail
road is very severe, and it will probably
be two week3 betore the trains can run
over the road. I have heard nothing
from the road east of here.
There is no doubt an immense amount
of damage to the bottom lands which
have recently been plowed up,and much
teocingvill be washed away and many
mill dams destroved. -
A Destructive Tornado. On
Thursday evening a tornado passed over
the bel5t of country between Henderson
and RHgway, on the line of the .Ral
eigh and Gaston Railroad, doing con
siderable-. damage to trees generally,
Upon both sides of the road, tor a dis
tance ol some three miles, we noticed
the effects of the wind, the largest trees
being wholly uprooted, and in one field
we saw hundreds of lru:t trees level with
the ground. The . residence ot a Mr,
Youog, section master, came near being
demolished by the tailing of a heavy
tree across one end, but fortunately no
"naterinl damage was done. Vve did
not learn the distance reached by the
tornado or the lull damage done.
Arrival of Convicts. J. A. Sor
ders Sheriff of Davidson county
brought to the Penitentiary yesterday
lour prisoners convicted at the late
term of the Superior Court for that
county. Three of the prisoners were
white, one of whom is a female con
victed on the charge of "shop lifting."
- Tni Seaside Watering Places.
The Atlantic Hotel, at Beaufort, will be
opened oh the first of June by Mr. G.
V. Taylor, quite a number of improve
ments having heen made since last snm
nici. Mr. W. R. Pepper, ot this city,
will be connected with this house, and
will be pleased to see his friends there
during the summer.
Memorial Day. In every country
and in every clime, beneath the sun.
there sleep those braves who fell in free
dom's holy cause. Their graves are
consecrated ground, bedewed with tears,
hallowed with prayer, dedicatedto pe-
uliar woe, guarded by a mourning peo
ple's affection ; and he who treads such
sacred soil must ieel,
" How sleep the brave who sink to rest.
By all their country's wishes blest !
When spring, with dewey lingers cold, -,
Returns to deck their hallwed mould.
By fairy hands their knell is rung.
By forms unseen their dirge is sung:
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their cluy;
And freedom shall awhile repair ,
To dwell a weeping hermit there."
Memorial day! To what memories
does it not appeal ? It seals the quiv
ering lip; it dims the brilliant eye; it
throbs in the slow pulsing heart, and its
hours are filled with prayer and mel
ancholy meditation. But not to us alone
have such days been given. Other nations
have sorrowed too. The poet-orator of
Hungary has said, in his pathetic dream
of the regeneration of his own beautilul
and : "That in the mid-night of the
new year, while toe Deu toned in tne
citadel of Pesth, he saw the myriad
maidens of Fatherland, clad in white
robes, with faded garlands in their
lands, surround the silent tombs of
those, who, falling in their country's
cause, had lound in death a ioe more
generous than in life a friend. One by
one they laid their wreaths upon each
soldier's mouldering mounds, and as the
garlands fell, they flashed a moment in
he night like fiery circles, then expired.
But hark! beneath those mounds, he
heard once more the warrior's stifled
hout, and lo ! from each damp sepul
chre arose the phantom hand a.nd battle-
brand ot us glorious sleeper, thiice
waved and disappeared, while in the
stillness, on the morning air. a voice
sighed : . ,
Sorrow no more forever llungaria shall
be free!' "
And thus, over every fallen cause the
patriot dreams, and to the dead his
thoughts return with unutterable agony.
n vain, alas, in vain, they died. Sweet
be their. slumbers then :
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
bleep tne sleep that knows no breaking :
jjreaiu oi Daiuea neids no more,
uays oi danger, mgnt ot waking.
In our isle's enchanted hall,
lianas unseen tny couch are strewing.
Fairy streams of music fall.
i-very sense In slumber dreaming.
Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er.
Dream o naming neicls no more:
Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking."
Simultaneously with the lurid cloud
which cleared away above the ruins of
Richmond, the sorrow-stricken follow
ers or the glorious and ever loved
Southern Cross turned to the innumer
able graves of their brethren-in-arms,
resting beneath the velvet turtot Spring
upon a thousand scattered hills. The
fair and beautiful said :
'Let us bring tbem to their homes
again,
and bring them where no for
eign plowshare may disturb their
ast repose. They shall be our care,
and our children's legacy. In Spring the
red rose will tell us ?ot the blood they
pouted in our aeience: the pale, pure
ily with its fragrant breath, their
sweet and homely love of mother-land;
while now the -myrtle speaks to them
our tender woe aDd .the undying ever
green its tale of endless friendship and
affection. Bind - then the wreaths,
Garland their tombs. Tliebridau of
their (leatn mm liberty shall be remem-
bcredl1
And thus the cycles will go by in this
sunny Southern land, and each return-
season find fair hands and sweet,
sad faces, more beautiful in sorrow, as
the memories of the past are exalted
and purified, bringing fragrant tributes
to each patriot s tomb. Who can gain
say this offering of beauty to valor to
those whose deathless deeds yet remain
to point the way, whence peace, with
tiue liberty may come to crown the au
tumn of our hopes. .
Yesterday as per programme the pro
cession was iormea. ana marched in
regular order to the Oakwood Cemetery,
(As we have already published the or
der ot march, with the marshals, &e
it is unnecessary to repeat.)
I he procession was large and im
pressing, a great many ladies gracing
the occasion with their participation.
vve also observed in the procession
quite a number of the United States
troops, stationed at this post. When it
is to be remembered that the troops
now on duty here are old soldiers and
participants in the late war, it is highly
gratilying to our citizens to 'see that
they willingly join with us in commem
orating the memory of o'ur noble dead.
Arriving on the ground, the exercises
were opened by a most touching and
appropriate prayer by the Rev. Mr.
Mangum, the chaplain of the occasion,
and a hymn by the choir organized for
the especial purpose.
Mr. W. II. Bledsoe, one of -the Assis
tant Marshals, introduced the Speaker
in the tollowing well timed remarks:
" Ladies and Gentlemen: On this oc
casion, commemorative ol the noble
deeds and well won honors of our illus
trious dead, it is proper, not only that
flowers the first born of May should
grace their sacred ashes, but that the
tale of their glory should employ the
noblest powers ot the scholar and orator,
Their funeral oration will be pronounc
ed by one who shared with them the
toils and privations of the march and
the deadly perils ol the contested field,
and brother-in-arms. I have the honor
to introduce him Col. W. F. Green."
Col. Green, one of Franklin county's
most distinguished sons, came forward
on the stand and was welcomed with the
general applause of the. large audience
We would fall so far short of doing
the Speaker justice by a synopsis of
his remarks that we shall not attempt
it. Suffice it to say, that for at least
thirty nve minutes he held the large
audience almost spell bound, not. the
least lnoication of restlessness being
shown. We heard an old and prominent
member ot our city Bar. say it was
the finest address for the ccca
sion he f ever heard We heard
many others speak of it in terms
even more complimentary. After the
address, the ladies commenced, the
work of decorating the graves wjih
flowers and evergreens, which was ac
complished without any exhibition of
discrimination, except , in a few cases
where near relations pel formed the
solemn duty.
The day was pleasant and everything
passed oft well.
Halifax Superior Court The
People of Halifax County The
Town of Halifax. Halifax Court
opened on Monday last, Judge . Watts
presiding. His Honor's charge to the
Grand Jury, undoubtedly "the best he
had in his shop," partook muchly of a
copious
tears" from a number of his sable
hearers. It was intended to reach the
understanding of the blacks upon the
jury, except so much thereof as formed
his religio phrenological disquisition on
medical jurisprudence. Altogether,
Judge Watts, as a chargist,is a thorough
successist.
The dockets of Halifax Court are
always crowded, but the State Docket
this term is unusually so, there being
upon it some one.hundred and twenty
cases, two of which are for capital offen
ces. Uesides the llahtax Bar in attend
ance, we noticed from Raleigh Messrs.
Edwards. Moore. Batchelor. Devereux.
Busbee and Solicitor Cox: Gen. Ransom,
Irom Northampton ; T. B. Venable$
Esq., from Granville, and others from
adjoining counties.
We found the people of different sec
tions of the county excited almost to
madness over the proposed county ap
propriation ot one hundred thousaud
dollars to the Halifax and Scotland
Neck Railroad. The leeling had on
Tuesday waxed to white heat, when a
discussion was engaged in by advocates
upon the different sides which only
served to more thoroughly convince the
parties that they were right and that
every one who thought different was
wrong. Fortunatelv, for the general
good ot the county, the personal leeling
which had been engendered has been
to a great extent allayed, and now the
question will be fought entirely upon its
merits. The contest will be close, but
we are confident, if a majority of the
votes are cast tor the appropriation, it
will be adopted it not, there is a
strong probability of the measure being
defeated.
The attendance upon the Court wa3
quite large, and we were gratified to find
the farming public generally in good
spirits. Hahlax is one oi the largest
cotton growing counties in the State,
and her farmers, as a body, are men of
energy, intelligence and liberality, and
in many portions of it can be lound
that genuine hospitality which forcibly
reminds one that the disasters of the late
war have not entirely done away with,
all that is good and true- in .the South
ern breast. Several years : of intimate
acquaintaince with these people justify
us in saving this much ot those
whom we learned to esteem and admire.
She has within her borders some of the
best farmers in the State and meu as
true and noble as liye anywhere upon
America's soil.
The town of Halifax the oldest town
in the State has looked up considera
bly fwithin the last couple ol years, and
a good healthv business is now done
there. The greatest improvement is
the erection of the new Southern Hotel,
presided over by Mr. Hunter Harris
the culinary department by his estima
ble lady which affords a retreat to the
traveling public that has long been
wanting in this town. It is a haud-
some brick structure, containing souie
twenty-nve lodging rooms, and we
were pleased to see Mr. Harris receiving
that patronage which his efforts de
serve.
The civil docket of the Court can
not be reached before the middle of the
week, it at all, owing to the heavy
State docket,
Our Churches To Day. Divine
services wilLbe held at the following
Churches to-day, (Sunday.) Strangers
and others in the city are earnestly and
cordially invited to attend. Gentle
manly ushers will be present toconduc-
visitors to pews which are always free.
Edenton Street Methodist Church.
Edenton street. Rev. J. A. Trimmer.
officiating. Services at 11 o'clock A. m.
and 7i o'clock p. m.
Baptist Church, corner Salisbury and
Edenton streets. Rev. T. II. Pritchard,
D. D., officiating. Services at 11 o'clock
a. m. and 8 o'clock p. m.
Presbyterian Church, corner Salisbury
and Morgan streets, Rev. J. M. Atkin
son, D. D. officiating. 'Services at 11
o'clock a. m. and 71 o'clock p. m.
Christ's (Episcopal) Church, Wilming
ton street. Rev. Dr. Alfred A. Watson,
officiating, services at 11 o clock a. m
and 7 o'clock p. m.
St. John's (Catholic) Church, corner
Morgan & Wilmington streets. Rev. J.
V. McNamara, priest, officiating. High
mass at 11 o clock. Vespers at 3 o'clock
P. M,
Person street Methodist Church, Rev.
Mr. R. H. Whitaker officiating. Service
at 11 o'cloek a. m.', and 71 a. m.
St. Ausgustine (Col.,) Episcopal, cor
ner ol Lone and Dawson streets, Rev.
John Smedes, officiating servtces at 11
o'clock a. m., and 7 r. m.
Items from Davidson College. A
correspondent at Davidson College gives
U3 the following items : '
General Clingman will deliver the
next annual address to the public at
Davidson College on the 25th of June,
He was to have been the orator lor the
Dialectic Society at Chapel Hill in June,
18G1. Now he appears before us at the
request of the Philanthropic Society at
Davidson. But he will still wear the
blue.
The Rev. Dr. Irvine, the learned and
eloquent Presbyterian pastor in Augus
ta, Ga., will usher in the festivities o
the next commencement week at Da
yidson College, by preaching the Bacca
laureate Sermon on Monday, June 22d
" The Cadets of Temperance and the
Good Templars of Charlotte, the Good
Templars of Steel Creek in Mecklen
burg county, and the Good Templars o
Statesville expect, to have a grand reun
ion and jubilee at Davidson College on
the 17th of this month.
The Daily News. We do not often
reproduce compliments to the Daily
New s from our cotemporaries, but we
must be pardoned for sometimes doing
so. We take the following handsome
compliment from the State Agricultural
Journal ot yesterday:
"Bretheren of the quill have a spirit
of kindly feeling for each other, that
c-jten prompts a tribute of respect from
the warmth of the heart, more than the
conviction of the judgment.
"But we arepersuaded that the pub
lic will cordially Unite with us, in the
recognition of themerits of this orna
ment to the press ofNorth Carolina.
"Edited with' singular modesty, and
with absolute adherence to alt the
the courtesies of style, its works are
neveitheless pointed, and fearless,
and its declarations clear
sighted and just. Seldom borne on the
torrent ol excitement, and unmoved by
the voice of clamor at its side, the News
hastens to lay the tacts of daily lite be
fore the public, but is temperate as well
as decided in its comments. The har
mony of its editorials is remarkable,
and deserves especial mention. While
many others give us a daily pot-pourri,
with widely conflicting views upon so
cial, political and literary topics, our
honored neighbor is always consistent.
vve have repeatedly noticed the
clearness ot apprehension that discerned
the true relations of events occurring in
distant quarters, and have noted the
confirmation thereof, by reference to the
papers ol the locality pubhshed subse
quently.
"This is the art of the journalist to
see and interpret the ra ison d'etre in
verjthing, and we feel assured that the
News possesses it.
' Nor is it wanting in energy and
promptness. Witness the article on the
ite and services or Chief Justice Chase
a few days since, published in the very
issue that contained the telegram an
nouncing his death. Note, too, the
pains which it is ever taking to render
the large sections of our State, that are
still comparatively unknown, more fa
miliar to the public at large, thus culti
vating the feeling of State pride, and
inviting the Stranger abroad to cons
sider the wealth of our natural re
sources, the character of nnr nponle.
and the grand opportunities awaiting
those who will cast their future with
North Carolina.
The political editor of the News,
as many ofur readers are aware, is
Capt. Samuel T. Williams, of Nash
county. He was the Conservative can
didate for Congress in the Metropolitan
district in the political campaign of
868. We have already expressed our
admiration of hi9 pure and modest, but
terse and dignified style. Jordan Stone,
Esq., who does the hard work of the
managing editor, that ouly newspaper
men can fully appreciate, came to the
News with the honors of his success-
ul work on the lloanolce News, at Wel-
don. Mr. John Syme, one of the local
editors, is an old newspaper man" and
taithiul worker.
" As tor Captain E. C. Woodson, the
amous " Lokkle," as some sacrilegious
wretch termed him, like Olive Logan
who kept our friends of the law in re serve
the other night, to deal her blows
at them, we keep Woodson for the last,
to consider his ways and be cheerful.
f there is a fair, a lecture, a meeting,
social, political, commercial, and we
might say convivial, he is there ; it there
is or is not anything he knows it, and is
ust from there, or then on the way ; if
anybody gets married,or if anybody else
is hanged if Louisburg swaps horses
or Nash fights chickens stop, he might
think us enthusiastic, and we close by
simply saying that Local as applied to
him is a misnomer altogether, and we
suggest Universal.
" Leaving jest aside, we cannot re
commend to our readers abroad, who
ought to have a paper from the Capital
of the State, a more able and high
toned Journal, and we believe that it
has in store a brilliant future."
Public Improvements. John
Nichols, Esq., Principal ot the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Asylum, is grading
the ground, macadamizing the walks,
and otherwise, improving the grounds
of the Institution in the itar of the
main buildings. The grounds on the
west side are to be terraced, and when
completed will be an ornament to that
ocality. Smith, "the great North
American house-movist," is engaged in
moving back, the old shoe shop which
will hereafter serve tor wood and tuel
house. : -
Going ix Blind. We were struck
yesterday with the kindness and father
ly attention shown a blind beggar man
by two stout, able bodied colored lndi
uiduals with great care and affection
they helped the beggar cross the street,
through the mud from the Court Ilo'use
to the Tarbrough House. Un the plat
form they left him, and we in silence
admired their attention and thought
their mission ended. But not so, after
soliciting and receiving aid from the
r.ents ot the house, they again took him
in hand, and on the next corner divided
spoils. A profitable business that.
Personal. Dr. Henry Lippincott,
Surgeon of the United States Army,
who has been stationed in , this city for
some time past, and who returned a few
days ago from a leave ot absence to
Novo Scotia, has received orders to re
port for duty at Atlanta, Ga.
- Since his stay in our city, Dr. Lippin
cott has made many warm friends, who
will deeply regret his departure from
our midst.
Funeral Notice. The funeral of
Mrs. Delia Woodward will take place
from her late residence, corner of Per
son and Davie streets, at 10 o'clock this
(Sunday) morning.
More Ralf.ighites for Vienna.
John Armstrong, Esq. and Col. J. M.
nefek'Will leave in a few days for the
Vienna exhibition.
Religious. The Rev. J. A, Trimmer
will occupy the pulpit of the Edenton
street M. E. Church this morning and
evening.
TELEGItyMPHIC JTEIVS.
NOON DISPATCHES.
. Special to the Daily News.
A Damasins Freshet in the Roan.
; oke reared.
Weldon, May 10th. The Roanoke
river commenced rising Thursday night
and is now forty-one feet above the low
water mark. It is rising on an ayerage
of about six inches to the hour.
The effect bl the freshet reported in
the Dan river is now beiDg felt, and
rom present indications it is - feared
that much valuable propei ty : will ; be
damaged, as the freshet in the above
mentioned stream is the heaviest known
for ten years, and has destroyed over
$50,000 worth of property at last ac
counts.
lall Arctic Expedition Full Farti
culars by Survivors.
St. Johns, N. F., May Ollu
To the State Department
Washington, D. ft
The English sailing ship Walrti3 has
ust arrived and reports that the steam
er Tigress picked up on the ice at Grady
Harbor, Labrador, on the 30th of April
last, fifteen of the crew and five Esqui
maux of the steamer Polaris of the Arc-
tic expedition, Capt., Hall, died last
Summer. The Tigress is hourly ex
pected at St. John's. -
Signed, F. N. Mallory,
U. S. Consul.
New York, May 10th. A special
dispatch from St. Johns, New Found-
and, dated 9th, says, " The steamer
Walrus arrived from the seal fishery at
St. John's this morning, bringing the
news that the steamer Tigress had come
into Bay Roberts, 18 miles Irom here.
laving on board nineteen survivors of
Hall's Arctic Expedition." The corres
pondent immediately started to Bay
loberts to learn full particulars. The
Tigress was at anchor, and the rescued
men were assembled on the deck. They
umished the following deeply thrilling
narrative of the adventures of the ex
pedition,' the death of Capt. Hall and
the final escape of the survivors, who
were taken off Irom the iceberg bv the
Tigress ou the 30th April
last
the
in
ter
latitude. 5 J deg. 60 mm.,
having spent 196 days
the floe. The following are
names of the rescued. H. C. Tyson,
Assistant Navigator ; Fred R. Meger,1
Metrologist: John Herron, Steward :
W. C. Kniger, Seaman ; Wm. Ninde
maun, Seaman ; Fred Antonig, Seaman ;
Gustavus T. Linquist, Seaman ; Peter
Johnston, Seaman ; William Jackson,
Cook; Esquimaux Joe, Interpetrer;
Hannah and child, Esquimaux ; Hanes
Christian, of Kane's expedition ; Hanes
Chuslians, wile and four chlldien, the
youngest only eight months old. This
party which had been landed from Po-
ans were driven Irom her by a gale,
which burst her moorings on 15th ot
October, 1872, in latitude 72 deg. 35
min.. When they last saw Polaris she
was under steam and canvas making
or the harbor on the east side of Nor
thumberland Island. She had no boats
eft out of six which she brought from
New York. Two was lost in theNortturn
expedition. Two were landed on the
ice with Capt. Tyson's party. One was
Iburnt as firewood to make water for the
crew and the other is on board the
Tigress. The Polaris was in command
ot Capt. Buddington, who had 13 of
the crew along with him and a plenti-
ul stock of
provisions,
She was mak-
king a good deal of water, but as Capt.
Tyson informed the correspondent, she
was not more leaky than when he was
on board all the previous fall and win
ter. The Polaris was somewhat dam
aged and it is the opinion of the survi
vors that they will be unable to get
clear until July, and even then if the
ship is unseaworthy they should
have to make new boats to . aflect an es
cape. Un the etu o uctooer iou,
in latitude 1:38 and longitude Gl:44,
Captain Hall died of appoplexy, and
was buried on shore where they
erected a wood cross to mark his grave.
He had recently returned from the
Northern sledge expedition in which
he had attained a latitude of 31. 16m.
He seemed in his usual health and had
called the crew into the cabin to en-
rith hopes of future re
wards and stimulate them to renewed
exertions, when he was suddenly struck
down and expired, to the grief of those
around to whom he had endeared him
self by his kindness and devotion. In
September, 1871, the Polaris entered
winter quarters and lett August 12, 187.
The ice was very heavy and set m a
southern direction. She was forced
south and so continued drifting till
Capt. Tyson and party were driyea
from her. lhe sledge party crossed
Kane's polar sea which they pronounced
to be a trail about 15 miles wide.
There ,wa9 an appgaranre ot open water
Norih. , The rescued party . suffered
very much during .their dreary
drift from hunger and cold
For the last two months they ate raw
seal and polar bear as they could get it.
When met by the ligress they showed
evident signs of their great sufferings,
but during the nine days they have been
onboard they have improved vastly,
and are now in fair health. The party
is in charge of a United States consul,
and will arrive in St. Johns Monday
next. .
The following statement was fur
nished the corresponpent by Capt. Ty
son : "On August 27th, 1871, we left
Tizzinsac and went through Smith's
Sound. We succeeded in getting as far
North as latitude 32ol6m., when we re
turned and wintered, at Polaris Bay, at
latitude 8130m., longitude 6144m
We were frozen up until the 5th of Sep
tember. On the 10th of October, Capt.
Hall started on a 6ledge journey North,
and returned on the 24th. when he was
taken sick and died on the 8th of Nt;
vtmber. lit was buried on the 11th.
The attack that carried him off was said
to be appoplexy. We passed the winter
at. Polaris Bay. a On the 8th of June,
1872, we attempted to reach the North
with two boats. We hauled our other
boat on shore and returned overland on
the 8th of July. , We started for home
oa the - 12th ; of August, ind on
the 15th were beset with ice
in latitude 8002m. We drifted
from there down to latitude 77:31m.,
when we encountered a heavy south
west gale, the ship being under heavy
pressure. On'the night of the 15th, we
commenced landing provisions, fcc.,'oh
the ice, the vessel being reported leak
ing very badly at the time. We con
tinued landing provisions for two or
three hours when the pressure eeased.
I went on board the vessel, and asked
the sailing master if the vessel was mak
ing any more water than usual, he re
ported she was hot. I then went to the
pumps and ascertained she was not
making any more than she was doing
all the summer. I went on theico again
and shortly after it began to crack, and
in a few minutes afterwards broke in
many pieces. The vessel "broke from
her fastening, and was soeo lost to sight
in the darkness and storm.". Further
jlctails'tp-hight. , " ' '
j Lava Bed News; T
Lava Beds, , May 7. The Modocs
captured a quartermasters train three
wagons, eleven mules and three horses.
Three soldiers were wounded.
' Later Lava "Beds May Si Sever
al large fires have '-been seen in Capt.
Jack's cainpv evidently in celebrating
their victory. . '. . . , . -. -General
Davis and staff left under
escort - of Lieutenant'Miller and a de
tachment of the first cavalry." ; r
; ; Later. Twoequaws were sent to
reconnoitre ; they report that Capt.
Jack has left the positson from which
he made the fight on the 26th. The cav
airy and Warm Spring Indians have
been ordered to scour the lava beds to
find the Modocs. The troops are or
dered to move with five days rations.
The indications are that the Modoc3
have evacuated the lava beds. '
Washington News, v
Washington, May -10. Despatches
indicate that DevBlanche has disappear
ed from before St. Martinsville. Three
more companies of Federals are at Bra
shear city. ' . 1 ; '
Later dispatches confirm the evacua
tion of the lava beds by - the Modocs.
They have 40 horses. ' '
Later dispatches co'nfinu the death ot
Captain Hall, but discredit1 the loss of
the Polaris, As far as known no lives
are lost. '
Railroad Accident,,
Hartford, Conn., May 10th. An
accident occurred to the -freight train
near Walinbury. The Conductor and
Road-master were killed.
: .
Nickel Counterfeiters.
Little Rock, Ark., May 10. The
captured nickel counterfeiter ; has
"peached," implicating a large number
ol persons in the Southern part of the
State. ' ' - .
A Duel.
Richmond, Va., May 10. John B.
Mordecai and Page McCarthy duelled
about a lady. Both were wounded.
Mordecai is probably fatally hurt. The
seconds have been arrested.
MIDNIGHT UISPATCHES.
Washington News Additional Par
ticulars from the Polaris.
; Washington, May 10.; The Presi
dent leaves Sunday, and will not make
the appointment of, the successor of
Chief Justice Chase until next winter.
It was not the ' intention of Judge
Chase to make his circuit this Summer,
and the President desires a confirma
tion by the Senate before the new Chief,
Justice is seated. , , "
Kellogg did not make a constitu
tional application to the President for
assistance to suppress the iusurrection.
The President has no knowledge of
such application. .
War Department, -May 10, 1873. '
To Col. Emory, New Orleans :
If the U. S. Marshal finds it necessa
ry in the execution of his process to
take posesessiou ot the. boats or other
means ot transportation,' and ask assis
tance from you or directs, the .-troops
which are already ordered as a. part of-.
his posse, to assist him in such seizure
for that purpose, all necessary assis
tance will be given him in taking pos-;
seisian and holding and using the same.
Signed. Geo. M. Roberson,
Acting Set rotary of War. ,
The following are additional facts
concerning the Polaris : On the broken
ice were most of our provisions to sus
tain the party through the winter, and
seeing nothing ot the vessel,we attempt
ed to reach shore in hopes ol finding
natives to assist us in living through
the winter. Getting about half way
to the shore with our heavily laden
boats, our progress became hard by the
drilting ice, and I "-was compelled to
haui on the ice again. At this time l
succeeded in saying fourteen, cans of
Pemiean, 111 bags of bread, 10 dozen
one and two pound cans of meat and
soup, fourteen hams, one small bag oi
chocolate weighing twenty pounds,
some musk or skins, a few blankets, a.
number of rifles, and an abundant am
munition. Inthe morning, ' knowing
that I had not provisions enough, and
the articles of food, clothing, compass.
&c, on account ot the gale, i endeavor
ed to shoot as many seals as possible,
both for good light and fuel, but could
only get three, owing to the bad weath
er havicg set in, 1 supposed the wind
to be about southwest.' On; its clearing
up I found myself within about eight
miles ot what I supposed to be the east
coast, and about thirty or forty miles
beiow the ship. The ice being weak I
could not transport boats and provis
ions to land until it grew stronger.
While here I discovered my other boats,
bread, &a, and saved all. .The ice grew
firm, and I made another attempt to-,
reach Bhore, carrying everything in the
boats and dragging them on their keel.
The ice being exceeding rough we stove
in both buats, .We succeeded on the
first of November in getting about half
way to the khore, when night came m
us and very ; ( stormy ; weather in the
morning., t'he ice was broken arjd we
were dtifting southward very fast. We
saw no more land -for several days, the"
bad weather continuing all through the
month of. November, We built snow
houses and made ourselves comfortable
3 we could. We numbered ten white, r
men, two Esquimaux, two women and.
five children in all. We succeeded in
killing a few seals, which furnished' us
with light and fuel with which to warm
ourflcanty allowance of food through '
the darkness of an Arctic winter. , In 4
the latter part of February we, lived v
principally on birds, and in March we
commenced to catch seals. ' Through 4
that month we supported ourselves on
bears '. and seals' flesh, wasting neither ?
skin nor entrails. ,We collected enough )
food in this way to .' last us until, the
middle of May, had we not been driven '
to sea by a strong westerly gate. In the 5
latter part of March,; our " floe-piece".!
being then reduced from five miles in.,
circumference to about twenty yards in
diameter, we left the1 " piece M on the
first of April'and abandoned -nearly all 'I
our meat, a large amount of otfr ammu- f
nition, clothing, skins and other, &rtK?
cles, taking. a portion of the meat in"
the boat, which we were' obliged' to
throw overboard -on 'account ot boat's '
being so deeply ladened. : -.
I remained on the outer-edge, pack
of the ice on 3rd April, and succeeded'
in getting a nine iartner in on pacKS.
On the fourth a heavy northeast gale
et in, and heavy sea running under ice, :
which broke it ,in small, pieces, so we ,
had to leave on' small pahs, as we , could
not put boats out; neither could' we :
find seals, for foodj and we were reduced :
almost to. starvation On 21st; April we.
sighted a Polar Bear; jEvery person,
was ordered to" lie down and imitate the'
seal, while two ' Esquimaux ; secreted
themselves behind a fence, thus, getting
the bear near enough to us to kill him.
A lew days after we got our boatin;
the water, and worked' our "way west5
and southwest, and continued to work'
at ' every opportunity to t westward jn
hopes, of reaching the Labrador coastn
and getting temporary relief. .We were'
.picked up on the steamship Tigress' bn
the -30th April, ' in latitude- - 53
deg. 85 min ; north longitude 55
west. On near Wolf; Island , and
a boat iortyf miles tromland
Nine
rrrt
roians is tiow 'witnout Doats, navtng
lost the tug -in trying to get north in -the
Spring of 1873. : The citizens fell
in a party in a dense fog and proyiden-
tially "struck" the "very floe ' On which'
they were,- otherwise -they ' must have
perished.: They all seetn tolerably well. J
Capt. Tyson complained of swelled; jegs
but nothing was'serious the matter with
him,' When they left the Polaris all'
on board were in good health'. - In 'ref
erence to the way in which the Polaris'
got away from. the.party, which was
rescued , from off the iceberg, , Capt. c
Tyson states that he' letf a little ' anxie
ty at first,, thinking she would,- come
to their relief. I set my colors, he said,
as she stood down along th&" shore,'
but the vessel was soon lost sight in the
bend of land, and being what I took to
be Northumberland Island. The piece
I was on commenced drifting south
ward. As I hauled to .. northeast
opening a little bay to northenst of
Northumberland, I saw the vessel' in"
the harbor there. Her sails were furled.
No smoke was issued . Irom her smoke-,
stack that . I ,,. could . sec,
and then I attempted ' to bring,
my ..boats across ..the floe in,
an ' easterly . direction, ;'( hoping ; to' find,
water and reach shore. X, succeeded In,
dragging one boat across,' took water,
antl attempted to reach shore some dis-'; ,
tance below the vessel. We were then'
drifting very fast, ind the gale was
blowing fresh with great violence' from
the! northeast and snowing very fast and
drifting. I was driven back on the ice
again and compelled to pull my ? boat!
out. Nightjclosed on me and I was car
ried .up to the southwest. In the morn
ing we were about thirty miles . south-,
west of, where the. ship went in the
harbor, A heayy sea was running which
broke up my floe piece, separating, us
from six bags of bread and the boat. I
saw the vessel under steam and canvass
rounding a point to the northwest.
Thinking she woultl come to our relief,
I gave myself ho anxiety, but we .were
soon doomed to disappointment, , and
from thejn till the Tigress rescued us we
never got a glimpse of the Polaris ,.! J
w General Intelligence . .i..j
- TheiN. Y.-.Central .Railroad will, pay
$4OO,00Q to Collector Bailey . under. pro
test. -Legal proceedings will be, com
menced at once for its restoration: .
A'f tornado occurred yesterday at BeJI
Centre, Ohio,' prostrating many ! houses'
and churches. It passed over a number
of interior towp3, doing some damage.
Havana dispatches, say that, the fac
tions in Panama. are still fighting. A
fire has occurred at Port au Prince, des
troying 150 house and causing the death
of six. persons. '
Ten companies Of soldiers, about 500
in number, passed through St. Louis on
yesterday .for,, the lava beds. They were,
under the command of Col. Fink. .
London dispatches say thp weather is
favorable to crops. '
Home-dispatches say the Pope waa
too ill Friday to receive a party ot pil
grims from France.
Bayonne dispatches say the Spanish:
soldiers have not been paid , in some
time and will mutiny. Reinforcements
have been sent to the Spanish troops at
Navarrej who defeated the Carlista com
mauded by Dorregarag. Six Republi
cans were killed and , .114rwounded in
the engagement. . . ...
The Modocs Gone into the Country
A Guerilla Warfare.
Washington, May : 10. Dispatches
from the "lava beds say: The; remains
of Lieut. Cranston - and other missing
soldiers'.were found: among the rocks;
Lieut. Harris is.sinking. All available
horses will now be employed in hunting
the Modocs in the , country. A guerilla
war 'will" commence, as the Modocs are
well mounted, which may. continue all
the summer. ; .. . ....i .. ...
' : ' ' Bank Statement. ' , ,
'New YoRKMay 10 The loans show;
a decrease of millions; specie hw
crease of IV rhilliona;' legal tender ant
increase ,ofl million; deposits an in
crease of 6 millions. . Specie shipments
A-riaiT 272 noil- ' I' J ' ' '
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