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I IttlUW. MMMtf FiWMMr. ILLINOIS. I'M WKW8 CONDENSED. ' THE EAST.' ' "fk. XKBOSEKB explosion in the Erie yard «|Jersey City caused the destruction of fire tfceStateft* ticket T.j. Kempton; Treasurer, John L. KWram; torney General, Samuel X. Fairfield; AU­ ditor, Willkn M. BKIHBIB. NMD» tions declare that ia| political party thai will not grapple srith the ram power with the honen and earnest inte&t of over­ throwing it is unworthy of confidence and support. Both of the great political par­ ties are condemned for their past course regarding the liquor question. The reso­ lutions also recommend that the act of selling or dealing in liquors should bepun-,' _ - listed by disfranchisement The Texas* PttUm&n cars, the Northern freight depot, j prohibition " ~ "" ished by disfranchisement... .The State Convention assembled at large amount of miscellaneous | Dallas and put in nomination a full State The loss will aggregate neaily J ticket, headed by T. L. Dohony for Gov- 1,000. ...The bar and muck mills of j 4 Co.'s iron works at Pittsburgh were damaged $60,000 by fire Ex-President Arthur's health is reported as very much improved. THE first of the series of international Usees for the America's cup between the Yankee sloop Mayflower and the English cntter Galatea, resulted in a victory for the former, the Galatea having been beaten in the most decisive manner. The coarse was thirty-eight miles in length, and is known as the New York Yacht Club's in­ side coarse. F. WOOD, of England, at the profes­ sional bicycle tournament at Hartford, Conn., beat the best time ever made in a . one-mile handicap. He covered the dis­ tance in 2:33... .William Stens & Co., alters at New York, have failed ,000. for > impor $100,0C THE WEST. THS hot rivalry between St. Paul and Minneapolis, commencing with the build­ ing of grand hotels, and followed by the State Fair and an Exposition, has led to file nightly illumination of the streets in both cities, as well as music and fire-works. ... .A cave-in at the Northern Pacific Tun- selunder the Cascades killed nine persons. GEN. MULES has arrived at Fort Bowie, Jlxl., -with Geronimo and several of his leaders as prisoners. A large mass-meet- tag was held at Tucson, Ari., to rejoice i"! t OTer the surrender of Geroninjp and the hostiles. Six thousand people were pres- a , ent. Resolutions were adopted congrntn- lating Gen. Miles and expressing the grati- >% • fade of the people at being relieved of the treachery of the Apaches. The Terrilo- rial Democratic Convention passed resolu- Hons thanking Gen. Miles and Capt. Law- ton for bringing the campaign against Ger- ' onimo and his band to a successful termi- nation. jjp,, IN the Kansas City Police CJourt, the p | i o t h e r m o r n i n g , a m o n g a s c o r e o r m o r e o f * dejected-looking specimens of humanity fe, -" j * stood Martin Irons, the great labor leader. \ He was arraigned for being drunk. "Mar- \ tin Irons, you are charged with being in- toxicated; guilty or not guilty?" quoth the " Judge. "I am not guilty of the charge, but \ - have not the means to contest it," and then, after a pause, "Guilty" was the answer. ^ ' • He was fined $5.50, which was paid by a friend after he had passed another night in <•* • ============== ' THE SOUTH. ^ CHABLBSTON had another slight earth- $ ' > quake shock on the morning of the 7th |c' lost. Like all previous ones, it came from Jkj'*' 4he southeast, apparently from the sea. The horrible roar was first heard, and «*>. then a slight vibration. As the disturb- jh " ance reached the city the pulsation was WT~~ heavy. Buildings were shaken for about five seconds, and then the disturbance went i northwest, the roar gradually dying out. H " Evidently the subterranean disturbances .• are working themselves out, and hour by , ' hour more thought is given to the needs of §h-. file present and the wants of the future. , , The flight from the city continues. A |f/ ,' rough estimate gives the number of women p&i Hid children who have already left at r\~ about three thousand. Most of the rail- roads are granting free passes. Four more f*l4v deaths, attributable to the earthquake, are Deported, making' forty - seven in all. ^ I' THE relief committee at Charleston has I ^ already received $110,000 in contributions. R?>; , Mayor Courtenav, in a proclamation, alludes * with deep feeling to the practical sympathy shown throughout the Lnion. A * general tu ' feeling of insecurity prevails in the city, v and the residents camp in the open lots r v and along the Battery. A foul, «, < aiokening odor arising from the ibsores in the streets and the open sewers and inlets .pervades the city, and there is a latent dread of sickness. Steps have been taken to organize a trust com- «#*/ pany, with its principal office in Charleston Jr#; ' and with branch offices in all the large cities, for the purpose of raising the necessary funds by subscription for the rebuilding of the ruined portions of fiie city. Colonel Batchelor, of the United States army, who was sent from Washington to Charleston to make an official report cm the condition of affairs there, aays the people have everything they need* and that the loss will fall* principally on owners of real estate, and not upon the people at large. The business section of the city is in ruins. There is scarcely a brick house in that portion of the city tW wiU not have to be torn down. But in the residence portion the houses are nearly all fevttof wood and remain intact. THE Mayor of Charleston estimates that, la otder to secure shelter for homeless peo­ ple before cold weather sets in, $500,000 to $700,000 will be needed... .A Charles­ ton dispatch says: "A novel and encour­ aging feature of the situation is the fact that the congregations of the African Meth­ odist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, composed exclusively of colored people, an taking up collections for the Charleston relief fund. The stoppage of the general issue of free parses bv the railroads has diminished considerably the number of refugees from the city. Since the earthquake railroads have sold about twenty-five hundred passage tickets from the city, and have given seven or eight , hundred tickets away. A soup kitchen has been opened, and provisions have been Made for feeding destitute persons. The hnik of the applicants for subsistence are •Stead people." W • ernor. One of the planks of the platform denounces the Democratic party for nom­ inating a saloon stump-speaker for Gov­ ernor of a Christian people... .Returns from Vermont show the election of six­ teen Democrats to the Legislature. Ninety of the Republican members chosen favor the re-election of Senator Edmunds.... Hon. Jehn Baker has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans in the Eighteenth Illinois (Morrison's) District. Other Congressional nominations have been made as follows: W. C. Cooper. Democrat, Ninth Ohio District; James O'Donnell, Republican, Third Michigan; J. C. Burrows, Republican. Fourth Michi­ gan; John Ringle, Democrat, Ninth Wis­ consin; W. D. Lindsay, Democrat, Fif­ teenth Illinois; F. F. Shively, Democrat, Thirteenth Indiana; Judge Cook, Demo­ crat, Third Iowa; Dr. W. C. Earl, Demo­ crat, McGregor (Iowa) district: James N. Pidcock, Democrat, Fourth New Jersey? Rev. J. S. Boyden, Prohibitionist, Fourth Michigan. UNITED STATES SENATOR P&ATT pre­ sided over the Connecticut Republican State Convention, at Hartford. Thomas C. Lowther was nominated for Governor, and Thomas Clark for Comptroller. The platform adopted favors a protective tariff, opposes the importation of cheap labor, convict labor, the granting of any more lands to railroads, and the selling of lands to syndicates or aliens; favors the es­ tablishment of a national department of in­ dustries; denounces the administration for vetoes of pension bills, and protests against the removal of worthy and disabled Union soldiers from office; favors the maintenance of gold and silver, and the appli­ cation of the treasury surplus to the redaction of the national debt..... The Arizona Democratic Convention, at Tucson, nominated Marcus A. Smith, Of Tombstone, for Delegate to Congress, and ex-Mayor Charles M. Strauss, of Tucson, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. It adopted a platform demanding the un­ limited coinage of silver and the issuance of silver certificates, and was very eulogistic of President Cleveland and Secretary La­ mar, as well as Gov. Zulic and Gen. Nel­ son A. Miles... .Congressional nom­ inations: John M. Potter, Green- backer, Fifth Michigan Dis­ trict; L. H. Ripley, Democrat, Sixth Michi­ gan; Roswell G. Horr, Republican, Eighth Michigan; David A. Ross, Prohibitionist, Tenth Michigan; J. Y. Allison, Republican, Fourth Indiana; Thomas G. Brister, Demo­ crat, Fourteenth Ohio; C. M. Bradshaw, Republican, W ashington Territory; J. Logan Chipman, Democrat, First Michigan; Will­ iam Shepherd, Republican, Thirteenth, Ohio; John R. Neal, Democrat, Third Tennessee; James G. Rose, Democrat, First Tennessee; P. T. Glass, Democrat, Ninth Tennessee. foiber- ffttiK' the &e independence, liberty, „ _ of o*r oonntry shall re- ̂ itttatf, and t&at nobody shall inter­ fere with Ua internal affairs, inform our 1« that we renounce the lag to ftrove how dear to as are the interests of Bulgaria, for which we axe trilling to sacrifice that which is more i to precious us than life." After ex­ pressing his affection for his subjects, and his heartfelt gratitude for their devotion, he said he would pray to God to shield and prosper the country. He concluded by ask­ ing the people to obey the regency and the ministry to (he end that order and peace might be preserved. The Porte asks the Powers to prevent a foreign military occu­ pation of Bulgaria. The forcing of Syrian recruits into the Turkish army has caused great excitement... .Five Benin associa­ tions of workingmen have been suppressed under the socialistic law... .General Buller reports less lawlessness in Counties Kerry and Cork, Ireland, than he expected. THE Trades-Union Congress of Great Britain adopted resolutions declaring that the reform of the British land laws mast include compulsory cultivation of waste lands, and alBO that it was unable to ap­ prove of any schemes of imigration for the relief of the poor and unemployed until land reforms with the 6ame object „ in view have first been tested and found ineffective. Awffcf Scenes of Desolation in the Path of the •;' -'fEftrthqti&ke. :W"' Miles of Bxick and Stone Struct­ ures Reduced to Shape- '*,V"A I >•. ., The Adjoining Country Covered with Fissures and Chasms--Phenoni- ena at Sea. • . . ' 1 si* » The Property LOBS Placed at $10,000, 000--Terror Among the Col- „ , 't-%«red Peoples ; EVDUSTRLAI* IVOTE8. Exchange reports the crop of the year at 6,575.000 bales, of which amoant 4,336,000 bales were exported. SON the recurrence of labor's national IT is believed that a military commission will be chosen to try Geronimo and the other hostiles recently captured... .Miss Lola Bates, of Cincinnati, made an ascen­ sion in a gas balloon from the fair grounds at Crawfordsville, Ind., and came near losing her life. When five miles out and half a mile high she attempted to doscend. The grappling-hook caught, but the an- ras bi holiday (the first Monday in September) the trade and labor unions in most of the large cities marshaled their forces and marched through the chief thorough­ fares. The parade in Chicago com­ prised about twenty thousand persons. The utmost good feeling was manifested on every side, and, save such little acci­ dents as are contingent upon every great gathering, nothing occurred to mar the far vorifble impression created by the display of organized labor. There were no red Sags and no, incendiary speeches. Every­ thing connected with the demonstration was of a conservative character. The bricklayers received the first prize, for the largest turnout, and the printers the sec­ ond prize, for neatest display. In the York, Boston, Baltimore, Milwaukee, De­ troit, Peoria and Albany there were similar imposing parades, participated in by thousands of toilers, and all of them characterized by the utmost good order. IT is stated that the Knights of Labor or­ ganization will be remodeled after the sys­ tem of the Federal Union The National Federation of Coal Miners held its annnal session at Indianapolis, John McBride, o f Ohio, being chosen President. The Secre­ tary's report opposes amalgamation, as a body, with the Knights of Labor "The New York merchants, jobbers and commis­ sion merchants are generally satisfied with the condition of trade," says a dispatch from that city. "Business is picking up and shows in most lines a very decided im­ provement. Buyers for the fall tr&de havq been and cormtme numerous. A noted feature is in the increase of the orders frcm the South and Southwest. They are order­ ing from there not only large quantities of goods but they are also demanding the finer grades. The iron market continues active, but the meagerness of profits and the difficulty of securing advanced ratea are causing some dissatisfaction." «EREBJIL. WASHINGTON. J!; $1,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds have haen received at the Treasury for redemp­ tion under the recent invitation, Treasurer Jordan finds that as much money will thereby be placed in circulation as if •7,500,000 had been called from the bank holdings. THE National Board of Health has "shut JjP shop," the last session of Congress wving refused to make an appropriation to carry on its labors. ' »V < ? ' •£>./ POLITICAL. GENERAL SHEBIDAX has given orders for the immediate removal from Arizona to Florida of the Attache and Warm Spring tribes of Indians, with the exception of Geronimo and his band of hostiles, who will probably be tried at Fort Bowie by court-martial. THE New York Supreme Court has de­ cided that a hand-sled is not a nuisance. . The Attorney General of Ohio has decided that women are in­ eligible as notaries public Tomb­ stone, Arizona, dispatch: "An Amer­ ican resident of Sonora, who has just ar­ rived here, brings news that Col. Torres, with 200 men, engaged 2,000 Yaquis and drove them back. Subsequently the Yaquis gathered re-enforcements, and 3,000 or 4,000 strong attacked Torres' command. A serious battle ensued, in which Torres lost the greater portion of his men, returning with a small remnant Professor Wig­ gins, of Ottawa, Ontario, claims that he last March predicted the earthquakes now prevailing in the Southern States, and he holds that the greatest strain will be experienced before October 15. ADDITIONAL NEWS. COMPLETE retains from the Vermont election give Ormsbee (Republican) 37,681, Shurtleff (Democrat) 17,091, Seely (Prohi­ bitionist) 1,832, Greenback and scattering 295. The Representatives elected are di­ vided politically as follows: Edmunds Re­ publicans, 156; anti-Edmunds Republicans, 6; straight Republicans, 45; Prohibition Republicans, 2; straight Democrats, 29; Ed­ munds Democrats, 4. BUSINESS failures in the United States and Canada for the week numbered 178, against 190 the previous week. Dispatches to Bradstreet's from the leading trade cen­ ters of the country indicate continual im­ provement in the state of trade. The fore­ casts of recent weeks regarding fall trade are being made good. The Western cities generally report trade brisk and in large volume. Cincinnati sends word of a general hardening of prices and increas­ ing demand since the last report. ^ marked improvement in the obbing trade" is noted at Detroit. At L.ouisville general trade shows a distinct gain over preceding weeks and a spirited ievival as compared with several preceding years. Kansas City telegraphs increasing activity, with a more liberal movement than for several weeks. At Pittsburgh and other points further east trade has been halting measurably, owing to the un­ seasonable hot weather. Dry-goods com­ mission-houses at Boston report a fair amount of business doing. Prices are firm, with occasional advances. In the East the inquiry for crude iron has been moderate. St. Louis telegraphs that an increasing volume of iron is reaching consumption According to the Septem­ ber report of the Department of Agricul­ ture, the wheat yield is over 80,000,000 bushels greater than last year It is esti­ mated that the corn yield of Indiana will be 130,000,000 bushels, or 10,000,000 more than last year The yield of wheat in Michigan will be about 26,500,000 bushels. This is nearly 3,000,000 in excess of the August estimate The National Cotton Homeless People Gazing TJpen . Wreck in Mute Agony and - :;:j .,rv . • - --: -- ' the chorage was broken by a strong current, which carrie<f her among sdme trees, where the balloon burst. The hooks gave way again, and she shot up three hundred feet, when the balloon burst from top to bottom and the basket shot downward to the ground. Presence of mind to brace her­ self against the basket alone saved her life. She was badly jarred. THE Secretary of State, notwithstanding the release of Cutting, will, according to a Washington dispatch, insist upon the abro­ gation of article 186 of the Mexican penal code, which confers upon Mexican courts jurisdiction under certain circumstances over foreigners for offenses committed out­ side of Mexican territory, or, at least, Mr. Bayard will insist upon the renunciation by Mexico of the right to subject American citizens to that code, on the ground that American courts have exclusive criminal jurisdiction over offenses oommitted within the territory of the United States by Amer­ ican citizens. THE strike of four thousand cotton oper­ atives at Atlanta so touched the sympathies of the people that an appropriation of $1,000 for the relief of the needy was made by the City Council The National Asso­ ciation of Stationary Engineers held their session at Boston last week. Frank A. Foster of New Haven, was chosen Pres­ ident, and M. M. Walbridge, of Chicago, Conductor. THE Bishop of Tonquin telegraphs that 700 Christians have been massacred and forty villages barned in the Province of Manhoa, and that 9,000 Christians are per­ ishing of hunger Two Italian officers have been arrested in Savoy charged with making sketches of French forts. Travelers' Stories of "the Awfal Bight They Spent in the IU-Fated »V.,, t? Q t t y . ' ' r :--:-- • Mentist's Investigations Into the Origin of the Earth Waves. Similar Disasters In This Country1--The Great New Madrid Shake. filled tb« air lament with themi* Jeans was tpair auoh Mnteaeea aa 'Bo, ay Ot de­ spair auoh aenteaees «a "Bit my Stester Jeaaa, have mercy on me!" "Oh, sweet #«na, aav* me, aave me I" "Let me live through tUa night, dear God, my SavJorl" "Hold me up onoe more, thou blessed Ofarlst, my Master I* and other tearfal aapplieatlona, which intensified the honor ot the situation, and went far toward demoralising the white people, who were also rushing blindly hither and thither. AB uaual, the faces of the white man and white woman in the time at danger wan a sight of sudden Joy in the gloom to many a poor wandering colorad boy or girl, who endeavored to stop their white friends as they ran by in the confusion to snpiioate that they THE MABOT8. @5.75 & 5.«0 & & .60^ & .63 £9 41 @11.75 & 5.50 & 5.00 @ 3.75 t§t 5.25 @ 4 .75 % :74O* A .25& " .23 .18 :fM: county in the State was repre­ sented at the Wisconsin Republican Con- /Vention, at Madison. J. V. Quarles, of Jacine, presided temporarily, and Hiram Smith, of Sheboygan, was made perma­ nent Chairman. Jeremiah M. Husk was Wawminated for Governor, by acclama- lfB»l "• Byland was nominated for lieutenant Governor, E. G. Timme for Sec- ]:WWXJ of State, Henry Harshaw for Treas­ urer, Charles E. Estabrook for Attorney ®<oeral, J. B. Thayer for Superintendent 5? ;^kc Instruction, Atley Peterson for B*&oad Commissioner, and Philip Cheek for Insurance Commissioner. The platform declares the labor question the most im- FOBEien. ALEXANDER of Bulgaria notified the Czar, on the 5th inst., that he had abdi­ cated. His action aroused the indignation of the Germans and Austrians, as it is said that Russia will now occupy the troubled country. It is said Russia will bestow the throne on the Duke of Oldenburg. There are many who believe the abdi­ cation will receive more than a passing no­ tice from the powers. In an address given at a reception to the officers of the army, after feelingly expressing his thanks to Popoff and Moutkoroff, and declaring his undying devotion to Bulgaria, the Prince intimated plainly that he could not remain in Bulgaria because the Czar would not permit him, and because his presence was mimical to the best interests of the coun- i try. When he announced to his friends & .77 & .40* §.2fi .52 @10.50 .60 .43 l a , 1 : ' 1 » ' importation of pauper labor from abroad, favors arbitration for the Bettle- asant of labor disputes, opposes pro. fc&iHon, and favors local option The Massachusetts Prohibition Convention ftWoiwaer, presided over by Eugene H. tiepp, of Boston, was the largest held in ously. HAVING signed the deed of abdication, Prince Alexander of Bulgaria took his de­ parture from Sofia on the 8th inst. A man­ ifesto was issued by the Prince prior Co hia departure. It says: "We, Alexander, Prince -» NEW TORE. BEKVBS 14.03 HOGS...., 4.75 WHEAT--NO. 1 WHITE 88 NO. 2 BED 80 COBN--NO. 2 .51 OATS--WHITE 85 POBK--NEW MESS 11,25 CHICAGO. BEEVES--CHOICE TO PRIME STEERS 5.00 GOOD SHIPPING 4.25 COMMON 8.00 HOAS--SHIPPING GRADES. 4.50 FLOUR--EXTRA SPRING 4.25 WHEAT--NO. % BED 77 CORN--NO. 2 89 <£ OATS--NO. 2 .23 A BUTTEB--CHOICE CREAMERY 21 & FINE DAIRY 16 & CUEF.SE--Full Cream, Cheddar.. .08 Full Cream, new .09%3 .10)6 EGGS--Fresh .13 .14 POTATOES--Early Boae, per bn.. .50 @ .55 POBK--MOBS 10.25 @10.75 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--CASH .76 COHN--NO. 2 40 OATS--NO. 2 .84 RVE--NO. 1 61 POHK--MESA IOLOO TOLEDO. WHEAT--NO. 2 .TO COBN--NO. 2 Y42 OATH--NO. 2..., ..V. >JM DETROIT. BKEFCATTU! 4.60 HOGS 8.CO SIIKEP 3.00 WHKAT--MICHIGAN BED .79 CORN--NO. 2. .43 OATS--NO. 2 WHITE. JB0 ST. LOUI& WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--Mixed OATS--Mixed POBK--NEW MESA 10.75 CINCINNATI. WHEAT--NO. 2 RED .78 I CORN--NO. 2 42 OATS--NO. 2 .27 PORK--MESS 10.50 LIVE HOAS 4.25 BUFFALO. WHKAT--NO. 1 HARD .86 COBM--NO. 2 46 CATTUC 4.25 INDIAN APOLI& BEST CATTLE. 6.50 HOGS 4.25 BHSET. FI.25 WHEAT--NO. 3 RED .75 COBN--NO. 2 38 OATB--NO. 2... .25 EA8T LIBERTY. CATTLE--BEAT 6.00 VAIR 4.25 CANAAN M0 BOURN F.76 & 5.25 m 5.00 @ 4.00 & .80 @ .44 @ .32 .76 & .77 .87 H @11.25 @ .79 @ <& .28 @11.00 & 5.00 .25 ~ i .87 .47 6.00 G ACCOBH*. A Glance at the Ruin Wrougt by the Great Upheaval. The people are gradually taking aceonnt of the details of the injury worked by the earth­ quake, and the list of damage to property is startling, says a Charleston telegram. A limit­ ed section in the south of the city is a sample of the whole. Standing at the Poatoffice and look­ ing west an almost impassable roadway of debris meets the eye. The building of the Chamber of Commerce is badly damaged, a por­ tion of the south and east walla having been thrown down by the violence of the shook, and the buildings of Walker, Evans & Bogswell have also suffered, while the heavy granite slabs which formed the parapet of the News and Courier building lie upon the sidewalk, leaving the slate roof and a portion of the attic floor exposed. Almost the entire front of the building occupied by Myer's ciear store and Smith's stencil establishment is torn out, leav­ ing the upperHoora exposed. The Pleng build­ ing, at the corner of Church street, was badly damaged. Most of the buildings on the street are more or less damaged, but the violence of the earthquake is most perceptible at the his­ toric intersection of Broad and "Meeting streets. The police station is almost a complete wreck. The upper edge of the wall has been torn down, and that of the north wall has fallen on the roof of tho porch, carrying it away and leaving only the large fluted pillars standing. Tho City Hall apparently escaped serious damage, but is badly cracked on the east wall, and the Court House building is badly damaged, the walls being cracked in several placoH, and Sortiona of the roof and gables being thrown own. The flre-Droof building seems to stand as a rock. The gables of the north and south Sorohes, however, made of solid brown stone, ave been thrown to the pavement below. This appears to be the only damage done to the building. The worst wreck in the locality, however, is St. Michael's Church,Which seems to be doomed to destruction. The steeple, the repairs on which had just been completed, seems to be in­ tact, but it is out of plumb, and is in momentary danger of falling. The massive porch has been wrenched from the body of the church, and the building has been cracked in four places. The buildings between Meeting and King streets are all more or less damaged, the effects of the earthquake being the same in nearly ev- erv instanoe. What a scene pf desolation the* fashionable boulevard of Charleston presents. Commenc­ ing at Broad street one passes through a block ot burned houses. The fire, starting at 118, the third building from the comer of Broad street, .on the east side, consumed the entire row of buildings as far north as the Quaker graveyard. The few houses left on that side of the street are more or less shattered and gutted. The lew houses on the west side of the street, north of Broad street, have not escaped the general fate, although the damage is not as great as in other portions of the street. From Queen street to Horback's alley almost every house is shat­ tered, the tops of the walls near the roof being thrown down. All over the city the injury is of the same character. Near Shell street there is a cabin, occupied by a colored man, that is completely surrounded by yawning chasms extending through the earth's surface for ten feet and over. All around this there are sinks of fresh water and masses of mud, with queer-looking soft subBtanoea that have never been seen be­ fore. It ia contended by many that the mud and other substances found around the village are volcanic matter. Just after the first great shock there was a decided and distinct smell of eacaping sul­ phuric acid gas over the entire village. The smell lasted throughout the night, ami was distinct in those localities where the cavities In the earth were most numerous. Some say that portions of the mud were thrown up by the •waterspouts are strongly impregnated with sulphur, and that snitdl portions of sulphur can be found in the mud. Not far from Charleston on the road to Sum- merville extensive mounds of clay were thrown up and hillocks of sand, in most cases in the shape of inverted cones, the hollow part of which had evidently been formed by the action of the water returning into ths depths from which it had been raised. In many cases the erupted matter had streamed away from the breaks in the surface of the earth to a distance Of from twenty to fifty feet. In other places there were fissures almost invariably extend­ ing from north to south. These cracks were not wide and extended downward, always in a i anting direction. The matter that was thrown up was of a dull, dark, slaty color, and was mixed with gravel. There was also a little ahale, and in general the mud resem­ bled that which is thrown from the bottom of the phosphate pits along the river. The water in some places had the taste of our artesian wa­ ter, but in many instances it was just as clear and limpid as from a mountain spring. These evidences of the great convulsions are not spor­ adic ; they extend far and near in every direc­ tion, from the city limits of Charleston to Sum- merville, and at the latter place it was found, from trustworthy information, that the cracks and fissures are everywhere visible for miles and miles around. Strangely enough, some of these were in active operation, and the constant shocks that were felt at Hummerville sent the water out of these fissures in jets to the height of from fifteen to twenty feet. This was evidently the result of the cracks being filled with water and then the sides open­ ing and closing by each succeeding shock. These appearances were of course, suggestive of still more violent erruptlona. and there was a constant dread everywhere that there would be a general inundation caused by some extra­ ordinary force of the earthquake. Not only was the water emitted in the low places where it might be expected to exist all the time, but on tops of the highest elevations the mud could be seen. This latter fact indicated that the force was being exerted at rather more than the depth that was at first thought to be the limit of the force. The horror of the situation in Summerville on Wednesday was much intensified by certain manifestations that were not observed in Charleston to any great extent. All during the day there was a constant series of detonations, now oast, now west, and from all possible direc­ tions. It resembled the discharge of heavy suns at intervals of about ten minutes, and was like the geimds of a bombardment at a great distaneof AH of these explosions were not ac­ companied by tremors of the earth, as it was only occasionally that the earth would quake from subterranean discharges. A remarkable fact was noted in Summerville in respect to the bulging of the water from the interior of the earth. Nearly all of the wells had been at low water. There was a sudden rise in "all of these wells, and the additional water was pure. Look­ ing down into one of these wells the observer could, on the eve of any of the loud detonations, see the rivers rise up the walls of the wells, and after the shock again subside. In St. Andrew's parish, fourteen miles on the other side of the Ashley river bridge, the country ia cat up bv small fissures and mud-boles of from an inch to two feet in diameter. These holes have emitted blue and gray sand in large quantities, and the whole surface of this area is covcred with little mounds. The people Uv­ ea vored to stop their white frit >y in the confusion would remain with them until the "judgment was done." In many an instant a trembling ?;(rl sank down on her knees and seized with rantic energy the folds of some white lady's dress, and failing to express their terror in words •With scarcely moving lips, that they wanted only the moral support of a friend iu the hour of distress and agony. Immediately after the first shock there was an exhibition of joy and the voice of congratu­ lation were heard on every side, and all mingled with words of thankgiving to the divine Provi­ dence. People clung to each < A her like brothers and sisters. There were no strangers there. They all knew each other as part and parcel of a community that had escaped a terrible fate. Some with tears of repentance and Joy in their eyes embraced/ each other. Women fell on each other's necks, and, with hearts too full to speak, rocked to and fro in the happy embrace, devoutly thanking God in silence for His bless­ ing in the dreadful hour. Not so with the trembling and demoralized colored people. After the hand of Providence had been apparently removed they began to nophesy and to recall all they knew, in a oon- used way, of Bible scenes and Bible history. 'It's the night of Sodom and Gomorrah," shouted one, in a frenzy of apparent delight. "The city of St. Michael ia down to the ground," yelled another. "I told you 30 !" cried a third. "Ilal how about my wife's dream now ?" said a fourth. "Look for the rock of Horeb to split t" said an­ other. "Pray, my white people, why don't you way?" said another. For fully five minutes in ihe fearful excitemant the colored people never ceased to utter what might be considered torrent of prophetio interpretations and unintelligible prayers. In the dismal gloom some lady cried out: "Get to the green, get to the green I" and almost in a twinkling the colored people made a rush lor that haven ot safety. It seemed as if all Charleston was already there. Women hurried along, dragging their little charges by their hands, in all kinda of night apparel. It was only, however, when the older class of the colored people arrived that a characteristic scene took place. They ran about in the crowd with cries of: "Down on your face, down on your knees, miserable sinner; pray to God, my siBter, my brother; pray, pray, pray; don't I tell you, the night is come!" Prayer meetings were organized, and the singing and screaming were kept up until daylight. .Thursday night, on Marion Square, the sights and scenes baffled description. The colored people were unrestrained and committed all manner of riotous and frenzied excesses. A re­ port of their actions as they took place would perhaps bo considered blasphemous. The first object, and one that arrested everybody's at­ tention, was an assemblage of colored boys, about a half dozen in number, who had fallen to the ground in a paroxysm of religious frenzy. They were groveling with their faces down in the grass, and were singing a hymn in a loud voice. The hymn was "The Angels A'rappin at the Door," and the refrain sung rapidly was : "Oh. tell ole Noah to bill on de ark, to bill on de irk, to bill on de ark"7 This song they repeated over and over again until they were worn out, and then ceased from utter exhaustion. REPORTS NOT EXAGGERATED. Stories Related by Eye-Witnesses of the Terrible Scene at Charleston. "I was stopping at the Charleston Hotel," said Mr. Thomas H. Tolson. of Baltimore, to an Asso­ ciated Press agent. "I was in my room, which was on the third floor. When I lit my gas I beard a noise and supposed I had broken some­ thing, but could find nothing broken. I went to place my hat on a bureau, and just then the shock came. I would have fallen if I had not thrown my hands out and clung to the win­ dow. It seemed as though the hotel was lifted up and swung backward and forward a dis­ tance of fifteen or twenty inches at each vibration. I was terrified. At the first shock the lights in the house all went out. Then the plastering began to fall. It flashed on my mind that I should endeavor to get out of the house, and I got into the corridor and groped my way, in utter darkness, amid falling plaster. Other people in the house were likewise groping their way out. The air was filled with plaster dust. All around was a ter­ rible roaring and moaning sound, and the din was heightened by the falling of timbers. I found the front door of the house closed, a for­ tunate thing for me, as it saved my life. It took me a moment to find the knob, and as I was looking for it tons of brick fell down from the upper part of the houBe, in front of the door. I ran out through the heaps of fallen brick* and fell twice in getting to the middle of the street. There I remained terror-stricken. "Two shocks came after I reached the middle of the street--a faint one seven minutes after the first, and another, more violent, nine minutes later. The three shocks occurred within sixteen minutes. I remained in front of the hotel until 1 o'clock. I did not know what to do. I was so unnerved that I could scarcely stand. As it became quieter, no more shocks occurring, I went up the street to an open space and remained there until 3 o'clock. There we had another slight shock. At 3 o'clock I went to the Battery Park and found it crowded, several thousands of terrified people having assembled there. There I remained during the remainder of the night. At 5 o'clock another faint shock was felt. At daylight I, like the others, felt more encouraged, and I moved around to see what destruction had been done. I found at the battery front some of the most costly houses in the city cracked from the ground to the top, and some portions of the buildings were destroyed completely. AH of the Charleston residences are built with porches in front, many having substantial pillars, and these poKhes were all thrown down. There was not 8t house in Charleston that had its chimneys iiandfng. "The terror night was intense. They rushed through the streets frantically calling on God to have mercy on them. People who, perhaps never prayed before, then prayed aloud. Then to this were added the shrieks of the wounded and the lam­ entations of those who had lost friends. Here and there parties with lights were looking through the ruins for missing people. The greatest terror and confusion reigned every­ where. The people, when the shock came, ran, men, women, and children, out into'the streets in their night clothing, remaining in that way during the night huddled together in the street. None would venture back into the houses." Mr. P. L. Bonnett, ot Washington, left Char­ leston on the first outward train, after the dis­ aster. There were five cars packed with refugees. For the first two miles the train moved very slowly. The rails were twisted. As the train went along the people in the car noticed another shoAt. This further twisted the rails. It was, however, possible to proceed slowly. Have the reports of the disaster been exag­ gerated ?" Not a bit of It. It would be Impossible to put into words any description of the disas­ ter and its effects. My wife and I spent two nights on the commons, as did thousands of other people. To depict the dreadful scene would be beyond any man's powers. There is not one house in ten that will not have to be rebuilt. There was a peculiar difference in the manner in which briok and frame buildings went under. The walls of the brick buildings swayod and fell over, while those built of wood simply collapsed." "Were there any peculiar conditions preced­ ing the shock?" "Yes. It became terribly hot about twenty minutes before the shock. It was a peculiar, scorching heat that I never felt before. I saw people on the streefchtaking off their coats and vests as they walked along. Then there was a rumbling noise. It was like a train of cars passing under a tunnel on the top of which one stands. The rumbling and roar were followed by the shocks and the terrible swaying move­ ments and then the falling of walls. among the people during the Th< ftnmd, •-.i. TUT-- -r ftfcS - - jfe *9 tfee (nnpiS. On man; poechinant Ah^b^3Sitroye4 -and tett fnasjb A large namber of t o ^ M m e t a n f ^ t i n -- PECULIAR PHENOMENA. it 5.25 m 6.00 & 6.76 « .70 @ .89 & STRANGE Singular Results of the Shocks la wad Around Charleston. Pedestrians in their wanderings through tho ruins discover many interesting freaks of the earthquake. Some of them were found at the residence ot Major J. H. Robinson, a well-known citizen. The building waa badly wrecked in some places, while in others it seemed to have escaped injury. In one bedroom of the house the strangest freaks imaginable took place. On one side of the chamber oil paintings were thrown from the wall with such force as to de­ stroy the canvas and crush the frames, while on the mantelpiece a few feet away in the same room stood a slender, tall vase which retained its perpendicular. On another wall in the room two or three small photographs in frames were left undisturbed, while within three feet of them the plastering was, aa It were, wrenched off and ground into dust, and the scantling upon which the lathing was nailed was torn out of its place. A lounge was hurled across the room and broken to pieces, while chairs a few feet away were not even overturned. In some places a gate-post on one side of an entrance was twisted off, while the other post, but four feet diatant, was neither lng in the parish say that the mud and water i loosened nor cracked. The old magazine in boiled up from five to ten feet in height At the , Cumberland street, a building constructed of Williams farm, soar the three-mile post, which brick, atone, and concrete, in the eighteenth la planted by Mr. John Brannon, the surface of ' century, whi h stood as a monument among the the ground waa disturbed by vent-holes, which ' landmarks of the city, having weathered three •M ' ... v ,'^i threw out during the night seven different kinds of sand, varying in color and shade. DEMORALIZED NEGROES. B0s«6 mt the Earthquake on the OrtaM People of Charleston. ? simply impoeeible to exaggerate «r to depict in suffloiantly descriptive 7^ ̂ . •dm-i-./ earthquakes and cyclones wars and the many of the country in ita time, and which carried iu its wall a shell from a British gun fired during ithe revolution--a building which the oldest in­ habitant believed oould not be destroyed by any earthquake which did not ingulf the city--is in ruins. Some curious freaks of the earthquake were ; the Earthquake Shock at Captain Toegel'a Obaervattona. The hvdrographie office in Washington has received a letter from Captain Lao Voegel, of the steamer City of Palatka, briefly describing the effects of the earthquake at sea. He had just left Charleston, and was about twelve miles off the harbor of Port Royal, in - eight" and a half fathoms, when he experienced a terrible rum­ bling. sensation which lasted one and a half minutes. There had been quite a heavy sea from the southeast, but when the rumbling began the wave motion ceased and the waters remained a perfect calm until the rumbling came to an end, when the swell waa again manifest. The wind was southeast and light; weather cloudy ; barometer, 90.01; thermometer, 80 degrees. The sensation, Capt. Voegel says, resembled that upon a ship scraping a pebbly bottom. The ship's vibrations were very great. Singular Sights Witnessed in Chesapeake Bay. The officers of the revenue cutter Swing, which was cruising in the Chesapeake Bay during the shock, had a peculiar experience. Between 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of the earthquake a strong gale came from the north, catching the Ewing in the vicinity of Smith's Point. All at once there was a strange and weird appearance about everything. Nothing looked natural. In the heavens the stars were shooting in all directions, and the breaking seas were charged with phosphorus to Buch a pro­ nounced degree that no one on board recollected ever seeing such a display. The fixed Btars seomed to move and balls of fire first appeared on one bow, then on the other, which the pilot thought were vessels' lights, and he kept an anxious watch as he progressed. It was only when they became general that the pilot found they were due to an atmospherioal disturbance. A haze peculiar to earthquake countries was visible along the horizon, and it excited the in­ terest of Lieutenant Brahn, who had had a thrilling experience under the same circum­ stances at Ariea, Peru, when, as an officer of the United States steamer Wateree, he was carried ashore on that vessel by the great tidal wave and earthquake of 1868. During' the strange proceeding the Ewing was brought to anchor in Cornfield harbor, inside the Potomac, Met a Heavy Sea Off Hatteras. The ship Agenor, of Boston( was off Cape Hat­ teras at the time of the first great qualce in Charleston, and, although the weather waB fair, she met s, heavy sea, apparently coming with­ out cause and directly in tho face of the wind. No shock was felt. The captain of the Agenor waa greatly puzzled to account for this phenomena until he arrived at Boston and read the accounts of the upheaved along the Southern coast. • ORIGIN OP THE EARTHQUAHft. Professor McGee's Investigations Charleston Was Not Obliterated by m Tidal Wave. Professor W. J. McGee, of the United States Geological Survey, who went to Charleston to investigate the origin of the earthquake, gives it as his opinion that the disturbances were the result of Bubterranean land slides; that is, that they had no connection with volcanic aotion, and extended from forty to one hundred miles under the bed of the sea. Professor McGee accounts for the absence of a tidal wave by the fact that the movement was from west to east, thus carrying its wave out to sea. Had the movement boen in the opposite direction there would have doubtless been an enormous tidal wave to land, in which event the city of Charleston would have been swept front the face of the earth and probably its entire population drowned. "Tidal waves," says the Professor, "are likely to come at any time in this region because of the settling of the earth, and there is danger of submersion. In New Jersey whole forests have been sunk beneath the water along the coast, and small trees are still growing beneath it at this time." Pro­ fessor McGee visited Summerville, around which the earthquake was particularly violent, and paid particular attention to the matter which was thrown up from the craters, which are numerous thereabout. One cavity created by the shocks was found to be sixteen feet in diameter and sixteen feet in depth. The Charleston News and Courier says there can be no doubt that the earthquake shocks had their origin in the islands of the Mediterranean and in Greece and Italy. An Elaborate Series Of Questions Prepared by Government Savants. The Geographical Survey at Washington, in pursuance of the purpose of the Direetor to make a thorough study of the phenomena of the earthquake of Aug. 31, has prepared a cir­ cular to be sent to all parts of ita affected area and the adjacent country, calling for detailed information upon the subject from whomsoever may have information, even of an apparently trivial character, to impart. The observer is requested first to state his own position, whether in doors or out, up stairs or down, whether standing, walking, or Bitting, and to describe the ground of his locality, whether rocky, earthy, or sandy. Following this it is de­ sired that a series of questions shall be an­ swered categorically. Hardly any fact, how­ ever apparently insignificant, regarding this great earthquake will not come amiss, and it is probable, fiom the mass of information to T>e gathered, data of great scientific value will be deduced. The study of phenomena of this kind is claimed to be of great value to science as a guide to knowledge of the nature of the earth's interior, and for its bearing upon almost every branch of physics and geology. THE "GREAT SHAKE." • History of the Subterranean Disturb­ ances of 1811-12. During the year 1811 occurred what is known as the "Great Shake," which destroyed New Madrid, in Missouri, and affected the whole Mississippi valley. The center of its violence was thought to be near Little Prairie, twenty- five miles below New Madrid, the vibrations from which were felt over the valley of the Ohio as high up as Pittsburgh. New Madrid, having suffered more than any other town on the Mississippi from its effects, was considered as situated near the focus from whence the un­ dulation proceeded. At this period there was danger apprehended from the Southern Indians, and for safety the persons engaged in carrying their produce in boats to New Orleans kept in com­ pany for mutual defense. In the middle of the night of tho 16th of December there was a ter­ rible shock and jarring of the boats, so that the crews were all awakened, and hurried on deck with weapons of defense in their hands, think­ ing the Indians were rushing on board. The ducks, geese and other aquatic birds on the river were thrown into the greatest tumult, and with loud screams expressed their alarm. The noise and commotion soon became hushed, and nothing could be discovered to excite ap- firehension, so that the boatmen concluded bat the shock was occasioned by the falling In of a large mass of tho bank near them. In the morning loud roaring and hissing was heard, like the esoape of steam from a boiler, and a tremendous boil­ ing up of the waters of the Mississippi in huge swells, tossing the boats about so violently that the men with difficulty kept on their feet. Tho water of the river, which the day before was tolerably clear, changed to a reddish hue and became thick with mud thrown up from the bottom, while the surface, lashed by the agita­ tion of the earth beneath, was covered with foam, which, gathering into masses the size of a barrel, floated along on tho trembling sur­ face. The earth opened in wide fissures, and closing again threw the water sand and mud in huge jets higher than the tops of the trees. The atmosphere was filled with a thick vapor or gas, to which the light imparted a pur­ ple tinge. At New Madrid several boats were carried by the reflux of the current into a small stream that puts into the river just above the town, and were left on the ground by the re­ turning water, a considerable distance from the river. Numerous boats were wrecked on the Bnags, while others were sunk or stranded on the sand-bars or islands. A man who belonged to ono of the company boats was left for several hours on the upright trunk of an old snag in the middle of the river, against which his boat had been wrecked and sunk. It stood with the root a few feet above the water, and to these he contrived to attach himself; while every fresh shock gradually settled the tree deeper in tho mud at the bottom, bringing him nearer and nearer to the water, which aeemed ' desirous of swiillowing him up. While hanging there several boats passed by without being able to relieve him. until a skiff, well manned, was rowed a short distance above him, and dropped close to the snag, from which he tum­ bled into the boat as it passed by. The scenes which occurred for several days during the re­ peated shocks were horrible. The sulpliureted gases discharged during the shocks tainted the air with their noxious effluvia, and so strongly impregnated the wafer of the river for 150 miles below that it could hardly be used for any purpose for a number of days. New Madrid, which stood on a bluff bank fifteen or twenty feet above the summer floods, sunk so low that the next rise covered it to a depth of five feet. The bottoms of several lakes iu the vicinity were elevated so as to become dry, and have since been planted with com. The walls of several buildings in Cape Girardeau were cracked, in some instances from the ground to the top, and wide fissures left. The sbock was so severe that fowls fell from the trees as if dead; crockery fell from the shelve* and was broken, and many families left their cabins from fear of being crushed beneath their ruins. Historical aad tt eOTtataed mat the eessaHon was alraultanms Republic of r In Venezuela* a wallowed up. luake was in New En- was ed i incorporated--in 1783. from the limited f colonial rardr, and the South where The gland, in l£27, when there were Potent'convul­ sions, and fissures opened in the earth at sev­ eral localities, out at which arose steam and sulphurous fumM. This was the first of a se- of earthquake shocks that were felt in that ~ at intervals until 1847. e have been frequent earthquake shooks ™ various parts of this country, east of the Rooky Mountains, during the past century, but these were the only disastrous ones until the re- cent one at Charleston, which was the most ap­ palling and destructive visitation of th»#tinA • •ver known in this portion of the world, : CHARLESTON. Something About the Beautiful City by tho Sea. . "J* ctty °f Charleston was oris* "tally settled in 1069 by a party of English cw- onlsts under Col. William Sayle, but it was not until after the Revolution that the present city '""•3. It has since extend- . .„ , boundaries of days until it embraces twelve large wa a population, according to the census of 1880, of 49,984. Two main streets--Meeting and King--penetrate the city from north to south, running almost parallel, and these are inter* sected at right angles by cross streets running from Cooper to Ashley River. All streets ari well paved and lighted by gas, and in some of them the electric light has been in­ troduced. There is but little uniformity in the style of the houses, all classes of architecture n®tng represented in one street, but among the buildings which have been shattered by the i v ® t h e e a r t h q u a k e w e r e s o m e o f t h e m o s t 6 vlvJft* structures, and some which hava been exhibited with pride as landmarks of Revolu- tionary days. The mild and equable climate of the city is conductive to the healthy growth of foliage, and nearly every house has its little flower-garden, while many are embowered ia trees, presenting pictures of beauty which are s®looni seen in the limits of a Northern city. Charleston is one of the most interesting cities in the country. It is one of the few South­ ern cities which retain all the old customa pe­ culiar to the South. It is a very moral city. Only on rare occasions is there any drunken­ ness or disorder, and it is said that there are fewer people injail there than in any of the large cities. The architecture is also pe­ culiar to the town. The houses are mostly low and broad; they have large, com­ modious piazzas extending around the en­ tire building; and, strange to say. all the en­ trances are from the side; it is very rare to find a front door. The gardens are surrounded by high walls, and completely shut out the house from the street. The colored people there far outnumber the whites, there being 80,000 or 40,000. They monopolize most of the trades--are tailors, car­ penters, blacksmiths--and leave very few open­ ings for white labor. They also are usually moral, sober, industrious, and form necessary part of the sooiety, THE EARTHQUAKE IN GEORGIA. Some Queer Effects of the Shake In th# Empire State of the South. One lady in Jackson County, Ga., threw open the front door and fired a gun, and was walking the floor with another gun in hand when her husband came home. A gentleman walked the floor with pistol in hand, looking for burglars. In Griffin, Ga.,.a leading counselor in the pro­ hibition contest rushed from his house into the middle of the road in a Bingle nether garment and yelled to his wife to come out, as the whisky men were blowing the house up with dynamite. The jury in the Gilbert Davis case, in East­ man, Ga., were in their room at the Court House unable to agree, and it is said there was no probability of their arriving at a verdict. After the earthquake was over they agreed in about three minutes, A rather strange incident occurred with a col­ ored woman in Barnesvllle, Ga. Anna Antho* ny, who is in the employ of Mr. T. C. Banks as a cook, was preparing to milk the cow. She had roped the cow, and the end of the rope which she held had an iron ring tied to it. The ring formed a loop and caught on the woman's finger as the cow, in fright, attempted to get away. The pulling by the cow caused ute thumb to be cut off, or rather so nearly off that the thumb had to be amputated. The earthquake came near breaking up an inquest on Hutchinson's Island, Ga. Captain Dixon had crossed over to the island to investi­ gate the death of Cyrus Campbell, an old negro, who was found dead in a cabin there at noon. The death was sudden, and no one was present, so the Coroner concluded to summon a jury. After swearing them they were all told to take seats in the cabin. David More, a darky, was the only witness. He began giving his evidence, and had got about down to the time when Campbell was last seen, when the cabin commenced to rattle. "There she goes again,* the witness said. His eyes grew double the or­ dinary size and he started for the door, leaving his evidence half finished. The juror nearest the door waited about half a second, and he gave a leap out. The other jurors gave one glance at the corpse and they saw it move. That was enough for them, and they went out in a bunch, leaving the Coroner and the corpse to finish the inquest. LITTLE SHOCKS. Miscellaneous Notes and News from Char­ leston. Persons who were awake when the earth- quake struck Charleston said the first premoni­ tion of the shock was a rumbling sound, similar to that oaused by a moving train in the dis­ tance. Then the gate and door bells were rung and the houses shaken from roof to cellar. The colored people of Charleston were mueh impressed with the earthquake. Some thought that the earth was twisted up below the sur­ face. Others predicted that when two more earthquakes were felt the world would oome to an end. Special Agent W. E. Speir, of the supervising architect's office at Washington, has been directed to proceed immediately to Charleston to inspect and report upon the condition of the Poatoffice and United States Custom House buildings of that city. Appeals for tents in addition to those already furnished have been received at the War De­ partment in Washington from Charleston and Summerville, S. C. In each case reply was made that every tent that could possibly be procured had been already sent. At a mass meeting of Knights of Labor at Charleston, the following rats of wages for me­ chanics and laborers was agreed to, a raise of 60 cents having been made in each case: Brick­ layers, first class, 93.50; second class, $3; car­ penters, first class, S3 ; second, $2.50; third, 12; aintera. f2,62.50, and $3 ; plasterers, §2 50 and 3 ; tinners, f'2.50 and S3; laborers, SI.50 and 92. Bishop Howe, of Charleston, furnishes the following statement of the needs of the Episco­ pal Church in that diocese : St. Philip's Cnurcli and church home, both much injured; St. Michael's Church, damaged very seriously; St Paul's Church, the largest in the- city, very badly damaged; Grace Church, badly damaged; St. Luke's, not seriously injured, but needing repair ; Calvary Church, a free church for col­ ored people, seriously hurt; St. Anthony's Church, needs rebuilding. The total deaths caused by the earthquake foot up forty-three, thirty of whom were colored and thirteen white. MALLETT'S RECORDS* 1 v. The Frequency of Earthquakes onihe West­ ern Continent. The reoords compiled by Mallett--the reoog- nized earthquake expert--show a very con­ siderable increase by centuries in the number of destructive earthquakes on this continent In Mexico and Central Amerioa there were six in the sixteenth century, seven in the seven­ teenth, twenty-four in the eighteenth, and thirty in the first half of the nineteenth. In the United States and Canada there were ten in the seventeenth century, eighty-eight in the eighteenth, and fifty-one in the first half of the nineteenth. Some allowance should un­ doubtedly be made in respect to theae figures for natural imperfection and incompleteness in the earlier record. It is far more than likely that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centu­ ries, while the country was sparsely settled and scientific observation was rare, a y.-„. J. .-JFE • ./J earthquakes passed unnoticed. in the United Earthquakes State. One ot the most remarkable earthquakes re­ corded in modern history oocurred at New Madrid, in the State of Missouri, aome miles be- earthquake were • low St. Louis, in 1811. The quaking of the ewth found and photographed at Summerville, a sub- i at and in the vicinity of the town continued at orb of Charleston. Moat of the three hundred | intervals for several months, during some of * ,.... *. •' M'-' •- THE SITUATION. People Deserting the City--Liberal Cash Contributions Pouring In. Advices from Charleston report the excite­ ment abating. Buainess has been resumed, and as a means to aid the city, the special trade of the surrounding section is invoked. It is believed that 40,00a to 60,000 persons are sheltered by tents. The assistance of a corps of -Government engineers has been requested for the purpose of making exam­ inations and dismantling ruined structures. Aid is being liberally subscribed throughout the country for the sufferers. The proceeds of * day's racing at Brighton Beach, N, Y. (81,000), were contributed. Savannah sent $5,000, Baltimore 810,000, Philadelphia $15,- 000. The New York Cot on Ex­ change has subscribed nearly $10,000, the Stock Exchange a similar amount, the Produce Ex­ change $5,000. The Kelief Committee are hard at work. Additional tents have been placed in the public squares, and for the colored people comfortable wooden shelters have been erected on Marlon Square. There is accommodation al­ ready for 1,500 colored refugees, and 625 slept in shelter last night. The Subsistence Committee will meet regularly and supply pro­ visions to all who are needy and unable to sup­ port themselves. There is still a strong disposi­ tion to remove the women and children from the city to spare them further danger and anxiety. The railroads are issuing free passes, and many are availing themselves of this ohanoe to get away from what they look upon as a doomed city. *• ' ' VP t *V