Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1873, Page 2

0 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 8 1873, THE POLICE. How Iast Year’s Approprintlon for [ Police Stations aud Englne Houses ‘Was Expended. - Buperintondent Washburn Roquests the Removal of Sorgeants Douglass, Macauloy, Refim, and Boschoff. " A rogular medting of the Bonrd of Polico and Fire Commissionors was held yostorday aftor- ‘noon for police businoss, Presldent Mason in tho Olinir. Commisslonors Bheridan and Wright woro algo prosont. DISCIPLINING THE FOROE, Oficors William Rust aud Patrick Keogan were moparatoly cliargod with intoxication nud innt- tontion to dnty, XKcogan, who Lad boon boforo ,tho Board before, and fiuod ten days’ pay, man- aged to ecscape without purishment on tho strongth of & good rocommendation from his officors. Not o Rust, whoso cnso was takon un- dor advisomont. 2 Tho rosignation of Petrolman John F, Kroutz- -berg, of tho Twoelfth Btroot Station, was, on motion, accbptod. Dr, Emmons precentod a bill of 242 for ervicos of profosslonal naturo, which was allowed. CONBTRUCTION ACCOUNT. The following report and ordor waa adopted, 'to bo presented to the Common Council : To_the Mayor and Aldermen of Chieagoin Common Cotncil aascmbled : Ty Toard ¢f Polico reapectfully prescnt horawith stalement showing tho smount sppropristed by your. honorablo bady, intho last annual spproprintion, for ‘tho construction of vatious police-stations and engino and hook ami ladder housen, togother with tho cost of Location, A ppropriation, coustructing the samo, 8 followa : Coat, ' Pacifio_Avenuo Engino Tonss ond Polico Statlon. . $32, ATDOEY. .o .iiens Michigan fitroet I ‘Southiport Aventio kngino Io Daurlug Streot Engino Houso North Avenue Eogino Houso.. 22,000.00 Dearbiorn Btreat Engino Houso, 15,000,00 -Ohicago Avenuo Engino Fouso, 16,000,00 “Wost Twolfth Btreot Engino Iouso, .0 16,0000 17,760.40 otal \$141,00000 $121,016,54' T Balsuco to credt, .. . Loteeernsess SI008440 As will bo socn by Toforonco to ho foregolng, tho appropriation in s0mo cases excecds, and in somo cason Talls short, of thi nctual coat of tha workss but that, in thip aggTegsto, thora 1a o credit balanco of $19,084.46, Tho Toard tospeotfully recommend that tho oredit balance on any of tho bulldings in tho foregolng list, orso much theroof 88 moy ho nccessry, msy be; transferred snd usod to mako up any defieloncy which may oxist on any of 1o olirs; alsc tiat tho appropri: ation of $20,000 hortoforo made for tho conatruction of » polico tation on Huron siroot, and not used, bo transforredand usod in tho construction of tho pro- poacd polico station on Obdcsgo avonuo, Tho Board _present berawith an order covering tlio above, aud Fespectfully recommond its ndoption, as fullows: rdered, ‘That 40 much of tho crodlt balance on any ‘of the butlainga in tho forogoing st a8 may bo necas- Iy, bo tronagorred and Bed 10 mnke up any. defl- ‘glency which mny uintu}mn auy of the others; and furitior, (it tho appropristion of $20,000 horotoforo tmaulo for tha construction of a polico atation on Huron ; stroet, and 1ot ueed, bo transforred and used in the conutuction of the proposed polico statfon on Chicago’ avonue, ABBISTANCE WANTED, The Board received a request from tho Town _Clork of tho town of Luke, nsking for six polico- mon to mssist In prnunrvinE order during tho ! _slection thoro to-day. Tho Chiof of Polico was ! |nn|l.n‘llclsd to act as le thought the caso re-'| uired. { B oneral Oxdor No. 16 wanmodified fn sicha | mauner a8 to proscribo that roundimen roport 1o their ranking oflicors, EADS COMING OFF. ' Suporintendont Washiburn submitled the fol- lowing slartling communication : 5o, ., OERTLEMEN: I bave tho hiohor to ropresent that the | ‘@opariment_is now carrying upon its rolls four mora Jorgeants than ‘T find uecessary to tho sorvico, and would respectfully auggont that somo mensuras” bo taken 10 rollove tliem from duty, Very respectfully, i 5 ELMER WaAsInuny,' The Superintendont was instrnetéd to name ‘the four uurformtn of least efticiency in the Do- partment, e responded with the following communication ; ¥ */ GexTLEMER : Agreeablo to your 'verbal request, T suggost o naniea of four - sergonnts fa bo removed frop further sorvice in_this Department : Willlam M. -Douglass, Wiiliam B. Macauloy, :Charles Rohm, and Michael fteschoff, Iyegard them as inofficlent, and tho loost efticient ‘of all the Sergoants, And tlero are st lcast hol. many moro sergoaute than tho sorvice now roquires, Repoctfully, Exacmi WASHDURN .- On motion thie communication was reforred to the Mayor, who, by virtue of tho Mayor's bill, alono posscsses the powor of summary removal. It romains for him to decide whether tlioy be re- moved from tho position of sergeant or from tho ranks, - > 2 Commissionor Bhoridan opposed the action of thoBoard, .- ¢ . The Board adjourned. WHERE’S MR, CRAIN? ¥hat is, Mr. Goorgo I, Crain, ¢ Ralls xoad Presfdent,’’ Railrond -Supply [ Agont, otcw=About $3,000 Worth of . Creditors NMourn Xiis Disnppearances . '“Whore's Mr. Crain?” Nobody knows. The quicstion has boon asked so often by partloes in- Jorosted In- acquiring information, on that point Ihbiat the desiro to soo Crain apposrs {0 have bo- somo ‘opidemic. His full namo is Georgo H. Orain, and, up to a short time ago, his office was m Room 14, Morrison's Building. His businoss -2ard contains & # Co.," and sots forth tho busis nessof the firm to be. in *railroad iron, en- -gines, cars, .etc., railway contractors’ and ma- chinists’ supplics, tolograph wire, instruments, and material, ote., eto.” From the same card it ‘also “appoars that Goorgo H. Orain was Mformerly Assistant Suporintondent Atlantic & Paciflo Railroad.” He came to Chicago about the middlo of Inst Novembor, and formod a part- norship with Mr. Ni X, Chamberlin, of thia city, who now mourns the loss of something over 8700 in monoy, bosides considerablo annoy- ance, on Mr. Crain's account. That he has nothing more to rogrot is duo to tho faot that bo withdrow from thoe concern in timo to cscapo sny furthor loss, It Is difficult to stato the smount of bueiness dono by Mr. Crain, His purchiaten are known tohave boen numerans,— moro «o, it seoms, than his sales, unless an ao- count is tokon of the large number of people who cousidor themselvey * rold.” Theso are botel keepors, conl morchants, dealers in hats, capg, and furs, carpots, ote., job printers, jowel- ers, and 10 ono knoyis how many other brancliosof trnde. Mr. Craiu had oxcollent luck in formiug confidentinl rolutions with theso peonle, who ported with their goods in the utmost -faith of golting puid, It iu enid that o cortaini shirowd, ceroful businosy man, whoso wifo apd Mrs, Crain wero warm friouds, but who had nover soen Mr, 0., wan waited upon by that porson, who intro- duced himeelf, and coolly uflkmd tho gentloman to place lug namo on a draft for %250, —¢ just for twonty-four lours,” said Mr, Croin. He wroto his nawo, and has since paid 8260 for this ox- porimont in strangera, To gooda go, nnd tho nccommodation of “total parlies who retusod to lot tholr C * soud tha bill to my oflice,” Mr, Crain, townid tho lost, . gave ehecks on varioun bankn. Thoso cliacks nro still rotained, but nob by Bflm bauks, : ¢ = oo time aftor dissolving partnership swith Crain, Mr, Chantberlin was nptonlshed ntp holng hown n printed elrenlar dated at the * Prosi- deut's Ofitco Momph)ln (‘%I Raloigh Railrond Com- pony (narrow gaugoe), Clivago,” and con the following bLusiness like l%r;nu: opusliod fn i, DEAT 81 ¢ Tha followlng In s lint o Raad, for Which (io) wo oul Teqnest yaseen for Son .pusulug yoar: Goorpe 1, Crain, DPresident; A, I, Newkivle' Vico-Prestdent and Buporintendont’s A, A Nonlni “Frensurer; N, 15, Chamborlin, General Agent, Yours truly, Gro, H, Cukiy, Presidont, + Mr, Chamberlin s not prapared to take oath that thoro is no such roilrord company ns the “ Momphin & Taloigl," having its oflica in Chi- | ongo; andlho is bound to admit that thero muy bopuch persons as Newkirk and Noxrls in oxiu- touco ; but ho is morally cortain that ho (Cham- bnrllnSiu not now aud nover was “‘Gonoral Agent" of that road; nor did he over hoar of such a corporation, save through the cireular as abovo, Bo it is roasonablo to suppose that tho “Mom. phis & Raleigh " oxists only in the imegination of Mr, Crain, who, howover, has probably roal- led lisudsomely fu the way of annunl pusvos, Tho lagt soon of Mr, Craln was on Lho 8let of Marely, nince which timo tha ofiica of Mr. Hpof- ford, the asont of Morsicou's Building, has hoon vinitod Ly woorou of poopla with littlo L, Thoy all nules " *Whore's Mr, Crain 7" aud they dopart sorrowfully, Thoir canees of | griof, addod uy, would roach abont 83,000, Thoy would iuin boliaye, for the suko of Lhe confidence thay folt n Lim, that el boon foully doalt with, or has committed suicldo, but ara ‘obliged | to sbandon those tLoorlos, ng Rixa. Oraln, who Is utill in tho clty, lins ordorod that all Lis lotters bo dolivored to bor, aud wanifests no harrowing approhonsions nn to hin eafely. Thoso w?m woro bitten aro curionsly unanimous with. .referonce to ono of " Mr.' Orain's ohinractoristica—ohook—which lhu{{ agroo he hind In ondloss . quantitios. o could got trusted whera woll-known rosidonts woro rofused. Iow o did it'they oan't oxplain. Thoy only know ho id it;” aud-thoy stll'inquiros ~*Wlore's Mr, Crain b —— LIQUID SUPPLIES, Mow n Milwnukeo Stenmbont Coms pany Sent & Rollof? to tho Poople of Manistoe—Why So Much Flour? Tt may not be gonorally known that during the past wintor tho port of Manistoo, Mich,, was out off from all communication with cities Iying out- slde of tho Btate in which it is sltuated. Soveral attompts wero mado to run propollors Iaden with provisiens Into its harbor, but thoy woro ron- dored futile by tho 1co. Though tho rosidents of tho town were not actually sufforing from tho pangs of hungor, thoy lackod a groat many ar- ticlos nocessary for housolold comfort, which could not Do prooured out- slde of Chicngo or Milwaukeo, There Is & benevolant stonmboat company in the lattor clty, known ng tho Engloman Lino. Thero is also & bonevolont. atoambont com May in thia city, whoso namo cannot now bo called to mind, but which owns the steamor Charlos Xoitz. Theso {wo companies have bLeon violng with oach othor, over sinco Manistos harbor was frozen up, to sen which would bo the first to hflngujny,‘ flour, and othor things to tho poople of the town. Tholr boats boat about tha lake many days, walt- ing for an opportunity to slip in and drop their .cargoes, but woro at lnat compolled by stross of woather to leavo for thelr rospective ports. It would soom that the benevolont Ohicago com- K}my then forgot all about tho sufferin, anistoesns. Not go the benevolont Mil- waukeo company, howover. It kept & sharp look-out for the broaking up of tha ice, and at tho first symptoms_ dispatchod its boat to tho rosouo, Tho Lonevolont Chicago company got wind of it, and put tho Roliz to son again, with -ordors of thio mont poremptory oharaotor relativo to boating the Milwaukeoconcorn at all hnzards. But it was too lato. Tho Milwaukeo boat Ianded at Manistoo twolvo hours in ndvanco of its Ohi- cago ndvorsary, and dnmped its onrgo, consist- Ing of 800 barréls of beor and 2 barrols of flour, amidst the ncclamations of an indefinto num- ber of peoplo. The only thing that bothors the racipionts of this groat charity is the flour, It's 80 long sinco um{v used auny that they don't kuow what to do with {t. - ;' WISCONSIN, The ‘Judicinl, City, nnd Town Eloc= tions=-Iiailrond Natiors. From Qur Own Correapondent, MADISON, Wis., April 5, 1873, Returns of the olections in this Stato this wook show that party ties bound mon much less than naual. Judge Cole, Republican, was olected -to the Bupremo Bonch by an almost unanimous vote.” Circult Judges in tho Third and" Tonth Cirouits and County Judgos in most of the coun- ‘tlos of tho Btato bavo'beon olocted without ro- -gard "to - politics,—some Domocratic counties olecting Ropublican Judgos, and vice vorsn, - OCity and town olootions have in like manner, -In mony cases, been carrlod for mon of difforont politica from a majority of the voters. Ropub- ‘lioan Moyors havo beon clocted in_Tan Clalro, | Apploton, Ripon, Prairie du Chien, Fonddu Lao, :Belolt, Konosbs, Racino, LaCrosse, Janocsville, Beavor Dam, Oshkosh, Portage, sud Green Day, in somo casos . without, opposition, and with +Councils of opposite politica. - Domocratio May- lors havo boon choson in Milwaukeo, Madison, .Chippowa Falls, and Minoral Point. In Wator- town, the Issuo was on railroad bonds, and com- “promigo waa carriod aa against repudialion. Tho ano County Bupbrvisors, last year largely Re- publican, are this spring, owing to a dight vote,” almoat oqually divided. Tho averagoe of oloc- ‘tions In tho Stato indicates no partioular politi- cal chaugo, * Tho roported decision of, tho United Statos Atorney-Goneral, that the Wisconsin Contral Rallway Compsny is entitled to lands for rond constructed north of Stevon's Polnt, despito tho non‘-comflimcp with tho Btato.law disposing of the grant, that the Company shall commence building from Portage City, i yory unexpocted to most of the partics concorned, and is regard- «od as fatal to the prospects of a road from Port- ‘ago to Btoven's Yoint, aithor direcily or on tha ohiariored Iine ia Ripon, for -which ar- rangomonta were oxpected to bo made wil 2 Bhobn“nu and Migsissippl Railroad Company. the Compnn& resumos tho construption'of tho rosd boyond Stevons' Point, without building botwaen thoro and Por- iage, and applics for furthor cortificates, Gov. ‘Washburn will probably qualify them'as hereto- fore, by tho statoment that tho conditions of the grant by the Stato are not'complied with, It is rogirdod as_tho 1 cgicnl resul of tLis decision that, if tho Milwaukes & St. Paul Railrond Com- pany accopts tho Bt. Croix & Buporlor land-grant, and builds that road, and applics forlands, it can- not bo held to the conditions of tho grant by the Btate, involving the construction of other roads. —_ e THE CITY HALL PLANS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribtine : Bm: Allow mo to corroct a mistake your ro- portor inadvortently made in conunaction with his oxtended notice of sevoral of the designs and plans put in compotition for tho proposed city and county buildings now under consideration by the committeo, In yostordny's articlo the writor gave mo tho credit of having, pre- sonted’ o set of plans tho doscription of which I shonld hiaye considered very flattering had I boen tho dosigner or the owner of 8aid plans, tho motto of which-was *‘ Marmion,” The designor was Murdock, who propared them in my offico. | Of courso I bocame somewhat familiar with tho plans and desigus, and gave Mr. Murdook some_suggestions from time to timo, a8 I nlso did sonio othors smzt boing In compotition mysalf). But to Mr, Murdook belougs - tho ontiro oredit of designing all tho drawings marked ‘/ Murmion,” which, to my mind, roflects vory favorably upon his ability to ;rapnra #uch on ologant dosign. Consequently wish him to have the full boneflt of your ox- tonded, a8 beliove, moritorious notice, compared with other dosigna have " had: tho plensuro of ° meeing. It may not bo out of place for mo to say & word about tho comparative cost of the difforont deelgns preronted. I have not seen tham all, but, from what I have seen, and tho descriptions slven, and the oubleal contents statod, I have no loubt tho Committos will seo a very great dis- parity in tho costs of the . proposed buildings, covering the sama ground, and comprising alon thio sanio amount sud numbper of rooms, 1f tho buildings are orccted fire-proof, and permanent, thero cannot be'a difference - of 100. per cont in their cost. I hiave no 'doubt the Committeo will bo sharp enough to not allow low ‘estimates to Dblind their oyos In solocting the moat moritorions plan, all things considorad," War. W. DoviNaToN. and, L Cmaago, April 7, 1R7%. A LITTLE “OFF.” A Canandalgun corrosondent of tho Now York Nobody knaws, | Times writes to that papor, undor date of April 1, that he has recoived naws of the killing, near Clieago, of Lowid - Junior; a negro desporado who formerly struck terror Into the hLoarts of the peacoful people residing in' the vielnity of , Gannudaigua. It appears that Mr, Junlor wag driven away from that section last year by foroo of publio feeling ngainat him, ho having com- mitted two brutal murdors. aud attempted to polson his wifo, Ilo oscaped punishmont through logal. technichlitios, Aftor romaining awhtlo in Ponnsylvania, ho canio to Chicago an bocama s hack driver, anI{ whilo pureuing his calling, ho ploked up o (ifu loronn wiho lLind o large mmount of money In bin possession. Iio drove bim to the suburbs of the oity, & pistol to his hoad, and domanded h{fl “The fsntlumm\ Inughed, drow Lis Mr, Junior as dead as adoor nail. gaod atory, whioh rolafea to Chicago Lmn't tho eliglitost graln of truth init, It was probably an April fool joko on the corroepondent or on tha papor for which ho writos, ‘Chere nevor waan negro hackman hore, and If nuy nogro met with such an unploassnt fate anywhore sround Chicago, tha . nownpaper men lera would bo apt to hear about it bofors that Canandaigua chup. ——— THE STEAMSHIP CASTALIA, At & time whon the Iargo numbor of intouding money, plstol, and shot Thisisn protty Tlile fs tho fourth atenmor Lullt by thin onters| duct of this monater in crime, that ho dlod an prising Company within tho yonr, and tho oloventh nlnco 1870, hosiden which they hnvo four on tho ntooks naarly rnmllj for launching. | "This Company Linve thoir ownship-huilding yards, and build thal fort and snfety of thelr passongors, Tho pro- portlon of tha broadth of bflnm%o tho longth in ono-ninth, instend of ono-claventh, ns fu fha cnxo of tho Iate Atlantic, and thoy only profoss to maintaln tho high¢st amount” of ‘sped con- sistont with anfoty. # \THE MATHEWS TRAGEDY. A Statemoent of. the Frionds of tho Murdered Ludy. To the Editor of The Chfcago Tribune B1n : Tho relativen nnd frionds of Mrs., Adells M. Mathews, who was 80 brutally murdored, in Auguet lnst, by J. M. Orsbom,—togothor with' tho people of tho community in which sho lived, -—having, np to this timo, mado no statomonts throngh the public prints, asl, through tho pross, this firat and lnst Loaring upon that aub- Joct, which has only brought eorrow to our honrta. It is not our design to give proot of tho glaring falsohood of the prisonor’s wicked aud’ alnndorous statomonts, in’ which tha fair fama ond sacrod chiaractor of the Inte vietim of bratal lust nnd flondish murdor in assailed ; but wo de- 8lro, in thoso linos, to expross oursolves npon 8omo points in connootion with the caso, to cor- root errors, and to cnll Lo notico conduct for which wo are propared to give tho best of ron-, sons, This, wo fool, Is in justico duo to our- solves, and to tho memory of her whoso loss wo mourn, - o Mrs. Mathows cnme smong us about goven montha - boforo herdoath. Bho camo among ontiro strangors, kuowing.none but hor hus-' band ; and, during hor short stay, sho won the, rospect and cateom of all with whoin sho bocamo acquainted. Modost, tbuiut. and_rotiring in Lor manner, sho gavo_ovidonce of posacssing o ro- finod nature and a kind heart; alao, tho beat ov- idonco of bolng a true Christian, in hor choorful willingnoss to work for Christ, The circumstauces of hior doath filled svory ono with horror, Whon it boeame known that Johin H, Mathews, on roturning homa on‘ the night of that fatal day, found tho manglod ro- maing of his wifo, whom ho.had . loft in henlth aud bappiness in the morning, lying cold 'nm}‘ 8LIIT 1n tha collar, and tho hellish charactor o tho dood by which " ho *was robbod of tho com-: panlon of his_lifo bocamo publio, every one was roused to tho highost phch. of oxaltomont, and filled with ndesixs for yongonnco upon tho author of tho most cold-blooded and: atrocions crimo that avor stainod thoe hands of a human monster, Tho cagerness ofthe poople for the capture of the murdoror, and which 'led" ‘o his .spoedy approhenston, was manifostod in deods that did honor to tho true and noblo hoarts of tho community. It was only through the: oarnest offorta of tho Mathows family, and some. of the prominont citizons, that tho prisoner was; saved from being hung in Yates City ; for, whilo, all believed him guilty, these desired to sco the| Inw tako its courso. Whilo thoro wasn small guard for the protection of the prisonor, thoro ‘woa but ono powor - that conld eave him! from ‘the' hands of an ang and’ de- ! tormined . multitudo. ° And r{hln power ! wag - in the - husband and tho murdered woman, Had they beou_silont, ‘he novor could have loft Yates * alive. Tho peo- {flu finally submitted, at the enrnest roquest of -W. W, Mathows, who also wont to assist in lodg- 4ng him Ballflg in 4nil; and tho prisonor ndmlttefi, on his way, that ho owed his lifo that day to him, . We now turned from thoso scencs of dlstross and sorrow to watch with engor solicltudo tho progmaa of the slaw ‘Wwheels or justice, in_which wo trusted to bring tho deserved punishmont, Wa pationtly waited through ono term-of - court, -only to seo the foul wretclrhnvo - his casa contin: uod on an afildayit overy ono belioved tobe falag, and which Lias ginco disnppoared from tho rocord, | Wo now saw plainly that artful attorneya had taken tho first -of ‘tho long-kino-of dodgos by | which they sought to cloar and turn looso upon socloty one whom they knew to be guilty of tho most revolting murdor that ovor biackened tho records of -enmo. Wo -wero confimed in this | ogm(on by what - we know aud lad scen of murdorers and cut-thronta belug clonred -or hinlf punished during the past fow years, in this country, throngh tho influence "of . friends, monoy, chauges, continuances, pardons, commu- tations, millcand-water juries, and logal tochni- calities, that Liavo saved 8o many necks from tho | haltor thoy so richly doserved.” Wo bolioved it to ba tho plan of the prisoner's conneol to woary and harasn tho prosocution by falae protonacs and cunning dodgos, till, throngh the -removal, ond_perhaps death, of witnoases, conviotion would bo impossible. ' This wo clonrlg' sow to'bo our eituation at the close of the October torm of court. The community, fecling outraged at this mockery of justico,* dotorminod to reach thefr hand above that law which in roality wne moroa sorcen to the guilty than a protection to the in- nooont. And an enrnost and lonest offort was mado to do so. This: detormination was not the {;}s\flt of passionato haste, but of cool delibora- s % i e e Accordingly, & party of ‘about 200 ‘men visitod thio county Joil for. tho purpose of hanging or | uhaotinfi Osborn, Bo far-from that raid ontho Knoxville jnil being made up of a wild and ox- citod rabblo,—* the undlsciplined hord," as somo oorrespondent of Trx: OnicAgo “FRINUNE * styles the inhabitants of the et side of the connty,— it was composed of somo of tho best citizons of tho connty,—who respoct and uphold law, and aro willing to die in the dofoneo of law, when they feel tho law {8 strong enough, and its exa- cution certain nllmlgll, to punish the guilty and rotoct the innacent. = Thus, while wulflnvo ovor old tho laws of tho land in' the highost rovor- enco, wo wore forced to admit the practieal truth of tho bonsv of tho Chicago rufian; “hat hanging is fi]ayfld out in this Btate,” This much wo sy, not in dofonss of mob-law, but in justifioation of the men who tried to tako Osborn from Knoxville, andin oxplanation of tho cause which impelled them to tho attompt,—men ‘who oro glad to-day that thoy failed to got him, novw that they liave soen justice done by His Honor, Judgo Smith, and an honost and intelli~ fipnti ry. In rogard to tho formor, wo feol that is conduct, though tho triul was that of a Judgo who desired to soo impartial justice dono; and that, in his manner of meoting arguments for a novw trial, n stay of sontenco, &e., ho displayed ront fairness “and ability, 'In regard E) the nttor, the feoling of Mra., Mathews' friends; and tho wholo community, is, that thoy are men of honest and conrciontious hearts, and proved that thoy had onough moral back-bono to insist on tho ponalty that simple juatico, in the caso bo- foro them, domanded. “Wo also feol like ex- prossing our thanks to tha counsel for the Btato, —Messra. Tunnaclif and Craig,—for tho abla' manner in which lhll‘y &»jmuuuutnd the_ case, in- sisting on strict justico boing done, and mot and folled schomes to socure furthor dolay, a super~ sedons, &c. i Tho failuro to lynch Osborn at Knoxvillo was cnused by his boing removed from the jail, an hour or £wo boforo the party arrived; for, had that blood-atained villaiu beon in the jail whon soarch wag made, the county would have boon saved the enormous expenso of his rocent trinl, and tho sufforors from his flondish dood wonid hinvo boon sparod tho pain of hearing, him at- tompt, with his dying breath, to lenvo o stain’ upon the memory of her who wan uitly t00 pare to suspoct his hfilluh deslgn, The rocout trial was thoe rosult of n contract botween the Mathews family aund tho prisoner’s attorneys, in which tho lnttor pledged thomaelves to bo roady for trinl tho fivat day of court, it the family attempted no violence on the prisoner, Regarding the couusel for tho prisoner, the judgmout of this community, aud, wo beliovo, lmfiudgmune of all who hedrd tho trinl, is that they showed thomselyes to be utterly dovoid of prineiplo and common deconoy in thoir manner of couducun‘; tho easo,—making chargos of con- spiracy, and insinuations of porjury, ogainst the 4| witnessos, and showing a henrtloss mnllfl\lty iy :| ketoh of lia lifo, clappod | Lut unfortunatoly that portion of it passengors, will bo maklng mere thon usual in-. quirlos into tho oharacter of differont lines of stonmors andl thelr comparativo mafety, wo call attontion to tho description of tho now stenmer Caatalip, of tho Auchor Liue. In another column, thelr mannor of denling with and spoa tho husband of the murdered woman, “As to tho statoments and confossions of tho murdorer, tho first of these, claiming to Len writton at tirst as n donial of tho murdor, in which ho claims to Dave know- lodge of o _.oriminal correspondonca in Wwhich Mrg, Mathows was ongsgod, and to -have boon tho rociplont of acts.of altection from lior, #o far na.it rolates to the corrospondenco and Mrn. Mathow's treatmont of him, wo brand a4 an infamous lie, the vory concoption of which sliould causa o very devil to blush with #hamo H and tho only thing ‘that we would 8y further on that Fohlt iy, that the charactor and tangunge of this falso and slendorous statomont aro such as to prooludo the opinion that it was the product of the untutored mind of Osborn slona, It {his be_truo, lot community judge of tho prinoiple -and Loart that would aid Ii atfom pting to invado tho sacred proclucts.of tho lumfx, and, blacken tho charactor of hor who stood higl above ro- rrounh in ovory placo whore slio wau known, and lint, t00, after she hnd boou mado tho viotim of .the most inhuman ontrage, Anto the confossion that Osborn made the night provious to his oxeoution, we know o much of it to bo truo as {s corroborated by tho nvldmluul tho rest, much ns his deulal of Lis l;nlu'u, bolng hirad, oto., wo kuow ag well to be alno, Fivally, wo know, from tho language and con- ng of © stonmers with a Viow bo tha com- (-FPH td T lived, tho embodimont of all' that fs wioked, | sonbual, and dovilish, * . 5 And now, to thoso who may rond theso lines, WO sy, May yout hoartn bo kopt from_such sor- TOWH, nud{onr Liomoa ftom puch dogolations, by Fathor whio ln ablo to mako oven the winth of minn to praisp Him, Will tho presa plonso to asslst in the ocirouln~ tlon of thin lottor 7 V. W. Matnews, * Fnang MADDEN, * W. B, MaTirws, J, By KNADLE, Rov, J. . OanvTuns, J. W. HeNeLey, ManTI Laauent, Jacop KiouTLINGER, 8, 8 Hrong, Beny, KEnsey, IL 1, Barrrur, @. N. I'txneE, J. O, TuNEn, T. T. WESTFALL, J. M. Caor, Joun BLOAN, 0. 8. Hunten, OuAnLES STETEON, D. B. BARGENT. HELP FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Apponl from Miss Unn NMawthorne to lfior Countrymen, . . 5 5 Loxnon, Exa,, March 17, 1879, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: . Bma: Iam certain tho following appoal to my doar countrymon and countrywomen will Lo doubly sure ot a prompt and genorous responso, 88 4t i for help to those for whom evory hoart in the world muat fool sympnthy and tondernces, —iho orphan and deatituto children of the poor- ©at clase in London, whoso misory ia unoqualed by any in our happlor land ; - who too ofton can~ Dok even gain the sheltor of a work-houso, but dlo starving in tho stroots, or are spared for n Lifo of sin and wrotohodnoss that is worse then death, i i y Insk you to hearme for my father’s sako, Nathaniol Hawthrorio, whose name, I know, {8, sUlll doar to all your henrts, I ofton think how ho once took a little English pauper in his arms, rogardloss of its lonthsomo dlsenso, becatso it pulled his coat and looked up at him with tho. trustful lovo honlways inspired, shining on its wrotchod faco, And o I havo taken to my hoart! #0mo of those English childron, and X boscoch, you to glye of; your luzury and abundance, and nlso of that little which is still moro procious in: tho sight of God, that wo may work togothor to mako o homo for these littlo wandorers, whoso caneo was advocated long ngo, on'the shorcs of Ghliloc, by Ono Who had tho little children como unto Him, and thon Iald His hands upon thom ond blossed them, $ 2 - If, in thoso days of rapid, communieation, the bond of human brothorhood {s’ bocoming mora vividly' roalizod 'by ‘all'natlons, and if “Ono fouch of Naturo makos ‘the wholo world. kin," surely I may hopo to strike fuccosstully tho chord, of kindred fooling big\\ o the O England and the Now. - Nono who: know ‘them necd be told of tho storling - gonorosity and warmth . of Eng-, lish honrts. Othor countrica have ns much’ caunato feol it as their owm; aund, aftor ho OChicago fire, many o domolato hoarth wos warmed aud hungry mouths ware filled by menns of English gold. = 8o, although an ap- Eun.l Imado a fow months back, in somo of the ondon papors, met with & heagty responso, that hias ouabled us to earry on tho' work go far, ond Ewoa us Liope and courage, I am suro you wiil 0 gind to join in tho labor of lovo, and thus olp me to Bhow my gratitudo to thouo whohava paid such o warm tribute to my father's nomein their auswer to my appeal. The work was bogun by my friond, Miss Halos, sbout n yoar ngo, who, for somo time, had de votod Lioraelf to nursing in hospitals. 'Sho con- sonted to .take chorge of o luelo child, 8 yoars old, at tho carnoat roquest of its dyiug mother, who loft it utterly doutituto. A “fow other chil- dren woro soon added ta that one, and she hired ' o small lod&:lng, and worked for thom iwith hor own bunds, I joined hor™-last’ -spring, and, by dogroes, became 8o doeply- in- | torosted s~ to dovote mykelf wholly to tho work, Wa have now taken a hiouse, and ' have thirty ohildren, from tho nges of, 2 to 16, wlhom we aro tenchiuf the common 'branches of knowledge, and.training for domiestio sorvanta. Bu, in spito of. nll wo can do, and thio assistanco ‘wa have recoived, it is a great and anxious worlr, andwo foel tho time Lag .coma to strain evel nerve in n strong cry for holp, that shall ‘soun boyond the sos, and piorco its way, with the olo- quenco of earnent trutli, to the warm hoarts'that .| bent thoro. Brothers nud sisters, shall my ery ba heard in vain? - g Ko “You will not say with Cain, * Am I my brothoer's koopor ?" but rathor romomber that, whilo ong child is starying in .the world for bodily and spiritual f00d, overy human being who has powor to help has a debt to piy, and o stowardship to uccount for, which i of Divino appoiutmont; and, if fallhlully fulfllled, it wins a blessing swooter and more procious than any: other Gog bestown. And, instoad of one alone, hundreda of thoso littls onos are neoding dymu- open hands and tonder hearts ‘to befrioud thom, I am,. yours, . . -~ + UNA HAWTHORNE, Dountions, or annual-subscriptions for the Home, 12 8t :Loouard’s, Terraco; * Bloom-, fleld rond, Maida Hill, London, may.be .sont to Mins-Howthorno's_atcoubt, Baring Bros., 8 Bla- hopsgato atreot Within, Iiondon_E. O., or caro Goorge B.-Hillard, Esq., Boston, Masa. t * ‘PARDONING A REPEATER:. * Mr. Raidall Asks the Attornoy-Genes ral for Information -HKequired-hy o Hesolution of the Kougce=-It is Res fuscd--wThe President Not Responsis blo to Congress for lis Pardonsse Tho Philadelphin Ring. Washington (ipril 4) Correspondence of The New York n, un, = To-day the Hon, Samuel J. Randall, of Ponn- sylvania, called upon Attornoy-General Williams to nacorfain tho names of tho porsona who Lnd signod the potition to tho Presidont praying for, tho pardon of thoe reponter Brown, who was con- victed at the fall term of tho United Btates Dis- trict Court at Philadelphia and scntonced to the ponitontiary. Tho House of Reprosentatives, it will be ro- memboerad, passod & resolution u few days bofore tho adjourhmont directing the Attornoy-Goneral to furnish tho information to the IHouse at the oarlicat practicablo moment. Uundor thie reso- lution any membor of the Houso has the right to domand this information by calling upon the ofiicor and makiug tho request. 1t has slso boon the almost invarinble practico of gll the.de- partmonts, from tho..oarlicst Limos,.to oxhibit | any papers and furnish ' any information which might Lo domanded by & Reprosontutive of tho oople, - ¥ Bgun after the prrdoning of Brown, Mr. Ran- dall had mado o roquoest of thiskind to: the At- torney-Gonoral,end it waa refused. Ie had thereupon intraduced tho.rosolution above men- | tionod. ‘I'io substance of his intorview to-dsy with tho Attorney-Gonoral was as followas: . My, Randall, aftor tho usual civilitios of. the day hiad been oxchanged, stated the object of his visit, The Attornoy-Gonoral politely roplied thnt ho could not furnish the information, MMy, Randall asked if hohad-rocoived a copy of tho rorolution sdopted by tho liouso dirosting | thiat this information should bo promptly fur- nished, 'Tho Attornoy-Gonoral roplied” that ha had not, e know by rumor that such arosolu- | tion had boon offerad, but he hind no offleinl 'in- formation on the subjoot whatever. Ile fur- ther atatod that oven if the Houso of Ropresent- ativos had directod this to bo dong, tho Presi- dont was not obliged to respond, Tho Uonstitu- tion conforred on him the power to pardon, T'his was absoluto, and ho was responsible to nobody for the exercise of this countitutional privllogo, Mo, fimxdnl! thon #ald : Had the rosolution of tho Ifouso reachod you in weason fora ruflly theroto, your auswor would hnVe' boon to this offact. ' . Attorney-Genoral—My ndvico to the President would' havo heen-to this effeot : - I-would have, donied tho right of Cnnxi‘re.’m to intorforo fu auy way with a question of this kind, A Mr. Randall—Then Iam to undorstand that you refuse mo tho information I ask ? Attorney-Genernl—I most renpoctfully do. r. Randall—IL is o mattor in which ‘my con- stituonts foel tho deopent intorest—one in which thio Intolligont and ronpoctuble citizens of Phila- delphia, without rospect of party, and with an uuunim'lty unprecedentod, demaud tho rensons on which'this pardon was granted, Mr. Goorge Y. Ohilds but short timo since told mo that Eo had spokon to the Presidont on the subject, and inforniod him of tho feeling which existed in Philadelplun in rogard to it, ITo says that the Prosidant repliod to him that e was most anx- jous that the potition and the nomos of thoso who bind signed it praying for pardon shonld-be made ublio, in ordor that ho might bo vindicated ; Bmt he had been imposod l\yunx and led to believe that tho cnse was entirely differont from what he now know it wag, . - R e Attornoy-Gonoral—If - tho Prosidont ‘desiro that publicity Bhould be given to thoso things all ho hias to do” is to order it done, and I will most gertainly nholy. J Mr, Randa{l—I shall certainly call' upon’ him and mako the samo request L hayo made of .you, Mr. Attornoy-Goneral, ‘Ilio intoryiow throughout was, I am Informed, | of tho moat courtoous character, tho Attornoy-| Gonoral {ronting Lia visitor with distingulahad: consideration, but at_tho sama timo hoth gentlo- mon -woro' firm'in thelr positlons rerpootivaly *takon In this isauo. ] oot e M¢, Haudall 4 dotorminad that the publio aliail liavo thoinformation thoy domnnd In a'matter of 50 gravo importanco ns thin'is, andho will coi- tainly call on Uho Prosidont. 1To winhos the re- u{muwlhl]lty to bo flxod whoro it belongs, and it tho Pronidont renlly dosires to vindicato himsolf hio will give him'tho opportunity todo . -~ - It in o Uitlo pingular, if tho Prosident {s con- vinced that ho was imposed upon, that he shonld havo boon ot a still Iator day usod .y the samo Lnd men to punish tho Distriot-Attorney for no'| ather ronson in tho world thau becauso lio ox- orted himaolf to convict Brown when the Ring lot him_Itnow that they did: not deslre & gonvie- tion. Tor falling to obey tho behests of tho | Ring Mr. Aubrey Smith, the United Statos Dis- trict-Attorney, was romoyed from offico, and Me- Mjohnol, who lind formorly boon in_ the Attor- noy-Genoral's offico, was np‘polnlml, to 1l tho vacanoy: 'The ground on which Mr. Smith'a ro- moval swas urged was that ho was not competent to fill tho position, 'Mr. Bmith, having learnad this, obtained . from all the distinguished mombors ‘of * tho bar of DPhiladelphia, ac woll a5 from the Judgos, tho most {latioring lot~ tors, all of which wore Inid boforo the Prosidont, ‘Thio venorablo Horace Bussoy wroto n most com- Pllmnnhry lottor, covoring four pagos, inwhich ho spoko of Mr. Smith's nbilities s ho know them to bo.- Bub all this avalled nothing. - * Tho infamous ring that ritles Pennuylvania and Philadelphia domanded tho sncriflco of this officor, whom thoy could neither_ intimidnto nor oontral, and the Prosident oboyod ilioir bohosts. It ho was dooelved in tho one cngo, ho must havo boon In the othors, and if ho has ‘any manhood ho will exposo thoso who decelved him sud led him to pardon Brown a8 well as to remove the District Attornoy, 5 MMoro than this imposed nEon, Tob wrong he hasdono by and fenrloss oftlcor. ) - The Attorney-General vouchsafed to inform Mr. Randall toward tho closoof thoir interview that tho petition in Brown's caso was signed by the jury, and b mnu‘ylxnflpnotnblo and influential citizons of Philadolphia. * 1N SCOVEL ON HIS MUSCLE: e S = An Exciting ¢ Mill? in tho, Lobby at | Trenton--Scoyel Lays Out Colo in tho First Round, and Carso in the “Next Xound--Whnt James Thinks of tho Krinhy oud What Carso Xinows About Xime. 2 From the New York Herald, A ‘Tho scones that attended tho d it Lo wia sntisfiod that ho was him a8 far as lie can undo tho rolvstating n faithtul, able, | g ng hours of | tho rallrond Teeislnture at Treuion, yostorday, were unusually lively. ~It'{a nothing unusuhl for tho irroprossiblo James M, Beovel, of Camden, to bo on tho.warpath ; tako to punls‘lr but. that..he.should undore * porseoutors " by ‘the Man~ g of halls of €ho Loglsla- tirely unoxpoctod. Ar. A £ o' good - torms with tho representatives from Camdon—Sonator Howell oud Assomblymen . Curwo and .Colo. Carse opplied somo’ atinging opithots on the floor of tho Iouso, on Thuraday, toScovel; and Jamos way detormined to cnll him to account for it. Accordingly, yestorday morning, Scovol oncount- ered Cole in one of tlio lobbiea and donounced Carso in his presence. Cole callod Scovel a linr, at tho samoe timo striking an attitudo moroe in tho Dooney Harris style thannccording totho tnctics of Billy Edwards, ‘After a fow'sclentifie twista and foints of ‘olbow, flst, ‘and u{c,’ conjointly, Colo.Tot- fly, - but . -was handsomely. stopped by Jamos, who ‘countorad with- -torriflo. clingher that gont’ Colo. not’ to grada, buf to. the dirty, tobacco-steoped mat that covered the floor. First knock-down blow for 8covol allowod -without the formality of a claim. Colo broathed heavily as his frionds raised him, and it was foared ho would not be able to como to time, Bo terrifle wag tho blow that ono oyo was drapod, not ox- actlylin mourning, but in what Nat Langham would term_in *puco,” and kis profile undor- ‘wont n fay.slight altorations, e e s It was o thrilling momount_for the Camdon Tog- {elator.” T Diggott~appenred, nnd - nddressing himself in o scothing, . insinuating manner to Scovol, established for himsolf a claim to the ro- ward }n‘umlned inonoof tho Eight Beatitudes. The thormomeotor was falling, and to all appoar- ances tho fight was ended, as Cole’s frionds had thrown up the spongo; but Carse, having boen informed of the affair, rushed out of tho Assom-~ bly clnmber and - clinched with Scovel. Any- body who has over witucssed o prize fight can undorstand that tho “clinch " is tho sovorest coat of the human frame. Aftor a fow desporate strugglen Baovel raised his, shorter opponent on hiship and throw him over n chair, but Carse imitatod Samson, and pulled thio long, plllardovn with hims:The- mombers- of - the, Houso wore rushing out: Pu]x-mull.’ and:a large-crowd had col- lected in spito ot tho offorta of the Bpenker to provent tho membors from leaving-the chamber, Borgeant-at-Arms Jncobus soparated tho com- batants, Carse proccoding into the Assemlly Obnamber, whilo Scovel was taken into custody by tho Mayor, who happened to bo in the viein- ity. Ho was aftorwarda reloased on giving bonds to koop tho ponce, Blr. Beovel was soon aftor interviewed by tho Herald corrospondont, and Lie stated that tho dis- puto avoso from tho introduction of a bill which ,was subsoquently passod, ropoaling a spocial Inw rogarding probato wills, ‘Chis Intter spociul law of 1872 mad valid eny will which (oven if fraud- ‘ulent) had boon admitted to probate for a spaco of- seven- yonrs,.—Mr. Boovol's-interests-would suffor by tho ropoal of said bill, 28 appears from tho following facts: A fow years ago John W. Mickle, o~ Dircctor of " the Camdon & Amboy Railrond, died, and shortly afterwards sn old will wns discovered leaving his estate to children of his_nophew, Scovel's wifo, o nioco of the decoasod, being oxcluded, She contostod the will, and while so doing, the law of 1872 was possed, in_consoguence of which sho was logislated out of court. Whon a subsequont law passed repealing that of 1872, Bonator Sowoll had it reealled from the Governor's hands, to kill it. This move waa dofeated by Scovel, but | another bill, with tho samo objoct, was intro- duced and passed, to the discomiituro of Beovel. During the dobate on the billon Thureday morn- ing, Carso donouncad Scovol in languago that arousod tho memliars'of tho Hotuse, applyicg to Dim tho words, *n liar, & forgor, o porjurer, and a scoundrol.!-- Moanwhilo, beforo.tho “ropoaling Dill becairio s law, Beovel omployed Mr. Shipman 53 out, aud thug hrm\uhé tho dofondauts into court. Sowoll and Carso foll moytified a4 belng thus'chockmatdd.” Tho ostate in_quoation is valued at half o million dollara, Mr. Cargo, onboing interviewed, mado the fol- lowing statemeont : Jim Bcovel camo to me to- day and was coufronted by Colo, who ntked bim to rotract tho statomont that ho (Scovel) gma 8100 to Colo for tho Inttor's sorvicos in tho Ship Canal bill. After a war of worde thoy camo to ‘blows, aud Colo was badly laid out, Home one callod'mo out, and my Ivish blood being arousod, X wont for Jim. Wo clinched and practisod the Jim Maco {actics, falling over a chair, till tho Borgoant-nt-Arms_ soparated us. I omn noyor forgzot how Scavel tricd to porsccute me on my roturn from tho war, Ho circulated n roport that I was an unknown Irishtann, that the people of Camden slhiould boware of *those Irish,” ‘whose-hostility to our institutions, lie snid, was too well undoratood, I can grqyo_ cyg;-ytulug I suid in rogard to thom ot inio. T —— Trinl of Agriculturnl Machinery attho % Vienna Lxhiibition. b DEPARTMENT OF AURICOLTURE, } ! WasuiNGTON, D, O,,” March 21, 1673, The Commissioner of Agriculture hay recoived from Mr. Juy, Ministor of the United States at Viennn, o communication in roferonce to tho Univorsal Exhibition to bo held in that city during tho coming summer, sccompanied by & 'prour copy of tho oflicinl programme of *!Ifiold ‘rrinls of Aguicultural Mnchinery.” Tho infor- ,mation furnished by thls programmo I horowith mado publio for tho bonefit of manufacturery and others who may contomplate sending agri- ‘cultural machines to Vienna for competition at tho appronching oxhibition. 1t appenrs that tho enrlicst poriod fixed for the roduction of the hnYlenmutu and machinery on | ho grouud; is tho 10th of June, and that tho | firat trinls will take place on tho 16th of Juna’; g0 that thera is yot ample’ thne- for- tho: trans- mivgton from the United Btates of 'mnchinos in- tondod fov compolitioy.. o Mr. Jay.romurks that great.importanco -8 at- tachod theso- trinls* by tholoading firms in Euglond, Bolgiuni, and ‘Uormany, and that a Hyely intoront 18 foltin tho .reuult vt tho compo- tition by tho landed grn[)rlutom of Austrla, ITun- gory, tho Danubian Principalitios, and the Ruy- Hinit' Btoppos whoso whoat is Bhipped from Odonsn. ! ‘Wo lonrn from the programmo that the trlals of machinory will tnke place at Leopoldsdorf, and in cnso of need alio at Quttonliot, both of which aro Stato yeilywny stations, the former four and tho lattor twe Gormun milos fromn Vienun. ‘I'ho trlals will bo hold botween the 16th of Juno and tho §0th of July, according to tho state of tho crops and of the wenthor, the porlods of the difforont trirle bolug approximately fixed as fol- lows : Detweon the 18th and 224 1 implomonts for tho cultivatlon of hood Wdumfi to worlk in potato, fodder, root-orop, pulss, an maizo flolds ; root _and ohaff cuttors, mashing and_orushing mills, corn-shellors, oil-cako bronkers, dviven by hand, horse-goar, or steam- power; doop plowing n 'two-yorr olover fiolds of Juno—tor all [ gofas in abundanco for the' indolont. with stoam-plows, snd manure distribution’ fn’ “fallow-fiolds, ; Py i R 80th of Juno—nll dorts; of ronpora and mowots, bay-turnors nud hiny- { DBotween tho 26th and rokes, © ' , !, Botweon tho 14th and 18th df i u!|y,—-threlhlng machines, straw elovators, .winnowing machines and scroons, for hnnd, liordo gear, or atoam power, for r{u, whent and barloy, Botwoon tho 21st and 206th of July—stoam- plow work of -overy doeription ;- trials in com- mon plowing on Imslm‘o land and corn flelds ; working of drills, harrows, and rollers. _Machines, boaring thoe oxhibitor's namo, coun- try, and roesldenco, nro to bo directed to tho *Culot Monager of the Vionna Univorenl Txhi- ‘bition of 1873,” at the Blobsubrium Railway Bta- tion, Stastsbalin: *Exhibiiors muat oaro them- #olves for the tmul‘l_,ml‘b of thelr mochines to and from tho pince of trinl, and also progure tho Eo- tivo Powor and attondanco for ‘the maohines working in the fleld, Tho quality of tho ‘material wheraot tho ma- ohinos are mndo, {ho oxcollence of construotion, tho ppliad dratt og steam pover, the, cousumpt tlon of coal, the indlcator dingrams of thostoam- ongine, the whole produco as to. qunntity nnd quality—all thoso polnta will be jolntly sof down in o goneral tablo, to servo in tlio deliberationa of tho jury as holpa and guldoa for -awarding prizos, TnED'K WATTS, Commissloner of Agroculture. THE NEW STEAMSHIP CASTALIA, A Fino Specimen of Marino Architocs turce=ytill- Another Splondid Vessol Addod to tho, Anchor, LinceXtor Dis mensions, Accommodations, and Officers. 5 From the New York Ierald, March 29, 1879, On Wodnosday afternoon lnat, " tho now stonm- ship Cnatalin, bulongmq, to tho *Anchor ‘lino of steam clippers, Hl ing botwoon Now York and Glasgow, nrrivod at this {)ort, making a succoss~ ful and prosperous, initial voyage. Tho contin- ued and unprogodonted growth of this stonmship company during thé past throo or four yoars, haa .boon of " that nature to exolto much commont, and Yue them ju tho front rank of tho many gi- antio forelgn linea that do the carrying trado otwoon this . and # European, - ports. From nn lumble commencomont thoy now own n floot of forty larga,. yossels, thirty of which aro running to this eountr{. aud tho latost additions “theroto “are nmong- the finest spocl- mens of ‘marino: architocture aflont. - As- with thoso that . procoded ber_tho Castalin, since sl reachod hor boerth, pier' No. 20 North River, hng beon visited l:if many gontlomen of the commu- nity intoreated in maritimo affairs, all'sf whom hnvo exprossed much plonaure at.the charastor of tho vossel's construction and ploasant.ac- commodations, - Tho Cnstalin i8-300 2oet § inches in length on dock, 84 6 incliea Lroadth of boam, 21'foot doptli of hold Trénttonnage deck, 20 fool in dopth from upper declk, and her.gross tonnago, DBritish mossuroment, {s~2,250° tons,- Sho -has throo decks aud her drmriqlht of water, whon Jondod, ia 22 foot8 inohos.. Tha platos of thisvos- Bol are from 11{ inclies to }If of an inch in thiock~ noss, and are double riveted from stem to storn. Five wator-tight bulkheads aro. in position, and :mmrlo_ vorkmanship is_visible thronghout tha ¢ :lgm ‘motive power of the Onatalia {a of thomoat Improved deacription;” thie engines boing of tha pirect acting compound surface-condonsing prin- ciple; having two ™ cylindors 88 “and 08 inches in dinmetor, with & stroke .of piston of 8.foot G inches.. Btenm is supplied .by_ two large boilors, Aving four furnaces onch, and in' this depart- mont overy improved agoney that can' possibly contribute .to_ speed, strength, and safoty, has beon employed, - Auxiliary boilers, and indopon- dont atoam fire and. bilge” pumps are in position, whilo machinery to losson manual Inbor is noticed in grent’ abundanco, The ongine and boilor- Yooms aro 60 foot in length, - :The accommodations of the Castalla aro In por- foct Kooping with the character of the. ship. Tha.ealoon, 38 foot by, 80 foet,; is 'gorgeously fittad, thero boing a piano for thoso . musieally Inclined, a librayy for the studious, and ll;:ufim 8, do- ‘partmiont is finisled “in" toal; whito oak, and Entin wood, 6o arrangod as to produco-the plons- anidst 6ffcet. --Mirrors are in ovory -cornor, and in the largo and prottily-docoratod sliylight are displayed many rare exotica. which'add much to ‘tho goneral homeliks charactor which porvades tho placo. The statorooms; equal to an occu- panoy of-130 passengors, are fitted in- tho -most comfortable ‘manner, which. is usual .in the vessels of this lino.. On the saloon dock are tho ladios’ retiring-room, a lounging placo for both gentlemen: and lnd.les,f togother with bath- rooms and &ll otlior conveniences which can be found in largo hotels, Eloctric bolla connoct onch stato-room 1with the stoward's pantry. Hteorago o)&nssungnm to tho numbor of 700 can o accommodated and are exooedingly well cared for. 'The ventilation is oxcollent, and puro air is ot,all timaa socurod by improvements which have | rocelved much commondation. . 1 , .On deck—a rqomy snd delightful promenado in ‘ploasant woathor—are othor emoking and Indios’ Totiring-rooms, and , horo are,geveral - donkey on- gines for loading -and unlonding- enrgoos, hoist-; ing snils and other heavy work, ‘Tho hwl! of tho. ‘Cnatalin was built by Massrs, Charles Cornell & Co,, Glagow, and tho machino ‘tho Anolior Lino Steamship Worke. 8he'ls bark- rigged. Tho Castalin will loayoon hor rotum “trip noxt Wodnotday, and until then con be in- sficotod by the' travoling community. Tho fol- lowibg is o list of her'ofloerss * i {*Captain—Thomas Butler. . constructed by | 0Offfcers—Tirat, Daniol Murray ; Bocond, Goorgo | H. Road ; Third, Willlam Robb. “Doclor—Dannicl Forguson. . Purser—Willinm Denness. 3 7 ° TEngincers—Chiof, Hugh Roid. Assintants, Oeorge Purvis, James Blurray, snd J. J, Kill ‘mistor.. R o Steward—Willinn Allison; OCEAN=-TELEGRAPHY. Fhie New _From the Londa iantic Cable. ‘Standard, March 7. . - " Tho Groat Enstory, :lying in ‘tho Mediay, al-; most abrenst the anclent town of Queonborough, L received on bonrd the whole of the decp sen | goction of tho new Atlunticcable. Already, ns -our rendors know, thére have beon four cablos 7aid, threo of thom beiug in nuccossful oporation ot this moment. . Tho t of these thrao, Inid and broken in 1865. ploked up and comploted in 1866 ; and tho sccond, laid in 1800, from Valen- | tin, in_Kerry, to Nowfoundland, . boloug to the Atfantic Tolegraph Compnny. Tl third, Inid in 1868, from Brest: to. Now-Yorl, - belongs to tho Bociote du Cable Transgtlantique Francais, The now.cablo i tho ‘Provrc{,ot,um‘umu compauy, .and it is intended to lay it in tho last daya of May “snd the beginning of Juno, tho grost ship boing appointed to loave hor moorings on tho 20th of oy, - .0 1{\0:0 is'this pqou!lmfinhoubmn_ now eablo,— tiint,” ‘although homin the "~ property of ‘h Fronch company, in whicl, howovor, thoro is a ood dunl!ul‘Ell lish capital, tho wires will both eavo and-ontor British voil: If tho Telegraph Coustrnetion and Maintenance Cowpoany will only koop to themselves tho courso of tho ship during tho laying, and tho boarjugs of tho cable, —doteils whioh therois_not tho loast need to publist,"save'that, English-llko, wo love'to woar onr hearts upon our slooves,—this new cablo will glvé us, in caso of war, a dircct communication with Canada, Xmlolmu(ient of tho Iand lines of Now Foundland, which, in wintor, are more or lons linble to interruption, and of tho wires crousing- the wildost part of “tho woat of 1reland, whoro, at syoh 8 thmo, - tho .. disnfaoted .might take - a fancy 2 injure . thom, Tho point of departuro ' is ~ tho msmo 88 thet of the Indian cublo—n pluca callod’ Cor- moo, on the north side of Mount’y Bay, Corn- wall, .. It had boen intondod to start from Whitoe- sund Bay, on tho weatorn sldo, of .the Land's End Poninsuls, but the shore end would thers Liave boon linblo, to iujury, . s, many _consting veusols bring up in that bay during easterly wings. ‘This pnrt of Monut’s Bay is sheltored from nll the lionviost sens, aud iy, indoed, pro- _tectod from twenty-fivo points of the compasu, tho romaining soven covering an aroa.in which no great run of son_can' bo got” up, howover honvy the galo. Forty fathoms of. wator i ronchied in about four miles, aud the shoreendfor this, ulflmth tho lunding-plaoe is so protocted, ‘will bo much hoavier thun those put down at Foilhommorum Bay, whero the sen plays with ‘bouldors tho sizs of & nnttnqo, and whoro, never- tholess, tho shore and; Iald in 16805, is stillintact. Tho dascent into th thousand fathom bottonyis much loss abrupt from tho chops of the Chaunel than off tho-coast of Kerry; nud there Is no deopor water- all the way across on_this trnok than on that of tho cablos of 1865, aud 1866, Tho cablo carriod by tho Gyoat Eastern willboland- ‘od at Freshivator Jove, In' Mulifux ITarbor, on & foco of Iand i the oscupation of the Var Ofico, B wliich leavo to uke the cove has béon granted. Thoro willthou be laid’ a_branoh 'eable from Frosh Water Cove to Hog Island, near tho ontd of Long Island, and only 16 miles from Sandy ook, nor much more from Brooklyn. Thus, not only shall wo hava a cablo from Cornwall to Hulifax, and. that §s fnuch. in a military point of viow, but thore will bo obvintod tho danger of 5 ‘dolay In commboreigl "‘“"7“5‘" ovor “Now=- foundland, and ‘tho” working exponses: in connoation with.the Now York & Nowfoundland Line will bo avoided, But, s tho Fronch Com- pany Laa a working arrangemont with the Anglo- Amoriean Company, the publio are not likely to doriye any immodiate ndvantrgo from thissaving of tolla to the Company over which Mr. Oyrus Fiold prosides. The Halifax to Hog Teland Becs ‘tion and the shoro onda will bo convoyed in throo vesaola—tho Hibornin, of 2,000 ot ; tha Edinburgh, of 8,000 tona ; and_thio La Plata, of tbout 1,600 tonn'; aud, if nothing goon wrong, the fourth eablo will bo working in Now York by th'n 20th of June noxt, The now onble diffors somorwhat from sny of thono Tithorto. Inid, Sithor to Amorica or olno- ) ro aro movan No, 18 gatgo coppor wired, twlsted In & aplral; and \vclgmggugo 1o|[|‘1[1du or nuutioal milo, and-thoso ara -coversd with our coals 9! gutta porchia,'with thin -layors of Chinttorton’s compound, this amountlng “to 400 pounds por knot.. I'lio’ dinmotor of oach wiro ia ;0,048 ineh? of " thio ‘atrand, 0,140 incly nnd of tho wira and gutts poreha and compmmd, 0,404 inch, This;core is worved with homp,. and the bomp s again protocted by ton twiros drawn from homogencous iron, each wiro boing swathed In_ivo yarna of Monila hemp Inid. on apirfllthllh 6 tarry compound to proserve it, 8o far tho enblo i not disaimilar to thomo of 1803 and 1806, ond {8 nlmost tdontleal with that of tho Fronch _cablo of 18084 but. it in--sonsibly lorger, and tho difforonco s owlng to two wervinge« of juto _yarm wound on in contrary. dircotions, -and ~ covored with twa conts of Litimor "Clark’s procervative . come pound, Tho cablo woigha nearly two oswt, rur knot moro than tho provioun cables; but i 4 ovon HtmngL r in proportlon, and s eatoulatod to Taat at lonst.twico as long nunder the BAmMocon. ditions. Tho cablo ia colled down under wator in tho gamo tanks which have thrico dono dut: ncrogs tho Atlantio, and thoro s now n fourth tanle conatructed quito close to the stern, eapa- ble of taking anothor 500 milos of onblo. 'But it this was fillod tho Groat Enstorn would not bo ablo to 5‘“ ovor tho Blicornoss bar. As it is, slio will be down to hor lino as_roon aa hor conlh aro gob on board, Right well doos sho loolk; fit ot o woolt's notico for any sorvica ; as trim and noat 08 o man-of-war, Thoso who have known hor 8ince tho trip in whioh sho blaw up ler socond funnel, fourteon yonrs ngo, can s0o no doteriora- tlon in hor appearanco, and whon tho now dock ot BMilford, Iaven is_ roady to tnko her in, that sho may got scrublod down and -bave tho toua of mussols tnkon off hor bottom, rho will bo ag fmnl 08 now in overy rospoct. Hor ongines, still under tho intolligont care of Mr. Bockwith, are oqual to any sorvice, nnd overy- body bas ns much confldeiico in hor ag ovar, if, indeed, confidonce doos not grow with ovory yoyago. 4 "Thoro aro at prosont only forty deck hands on osrd, During tho collhy)g oty the ecablo, tho, clootrical tests of which havo throughout been oxcollent, thero wero moventy, besidos onginosrs and stokers. Whon sha starts in May sho will Linvo 145 hands in the sailing_dopnrimont, sud 500 bands all told, lm:ludln%l eloctriclaus, . ongl- nuor% oablo hauds, ote, ITor old chief officcr, Mr. Thompson, late in command of the National atonmwNK‘Ewb, will roturn to her for thia Yoyago. Mr, Weloh, now acting chiof, will con- tinuo second ofticor.” Mr. J, O. Lnwa will bo the olaotriclan in charge on board ; Mr. Olivor Bmith being at Yrezone in charge of the eablo; and Capt. Halpin will not m)]rcnmmlmd ond navi- gato the big ship, but will act as ongincor of tho cablo department, while ho will further bo' vir- tually Commodoro of the by no means dospieablo squedron ongagoed in the task, for which tho of- ficors commanding tho othor vessels have amplo qualifications. Oapt. Cato, of tho Hibornin, in already known in connection with tho Dritlsh Indian . oxtonsion: enblo, oro is thus every roagon o look with confldonca to the work which in to be commonced elevon woeks honco. DEATH ON THE RAIL. "Tho Disnstor on tho St. Louts & Soutls eastern Road, From the St. Loufs Times, April 6, In yosterday's Times we gave such particulnra a8 conld thon'bo obtained of the terribloe ncei- dont that occurred Thursday evening on_the-St. Louls & Bouthenstorn Rond, at Fronch Villago, some seven miles east of Enst 8t. Louis, A lrolfillxe train coming West wag_belated ot Fronch Villago. At 4:40-p. m., the Enatorn Ybound passenger train renched thla station i rom four to five minutos behind iime, As theso two trains woro mwritching off 80 as to secure for tho {msaongortmln tho right of road, a construction rain, rushing along at tho rate of from twonty to thonty-five miles per hour, plunged into tho roar of the ‘passengor train, earrying with it de- yaatation and death. Tho excitoment on the train at the time of tho clash was iutenso; over twenty of the thiri; }:nqaongors rushed to the platform and lenpo rom the cars. Boveral of them, including a £t. TLouls’ Iady '(Mrs. Louis Fusz), fell at lonst 20 foot, and landed ou tho. slimy bottom of u drainoed ditch. This Indy fell hend foromont, and would have smothered to death had it not been for tho chivalrio nowsboy on tho, train, who, rushed to her rescuo, g £ Bingular to say, not a singlo trick on either train was displnood. Hod the possongors ro- niained in thelr 'soats, no ono would bave been Linrt, save those injured by escaped stesm in tho ronr end of the ronr car. Tho monitor roofs aid the patent platforma provonted telescoping, the only imminent dangor to Lo feared, 5 ;, Hon, John Watt, of Ohester, Ill., was ong of #no'victims. - Ho lisd boon at -Bollévillo on logal Lusiness, and was roturning to his homo via St. Louls. +Last night, his mangled remains did go homo on tho Bello Momphiu—n eorry apology for tho hoarty pld man that. loft Lis wifo but a fow days ago iu full health and vigor. . Watt lost bis life by ronson.of .his excitomont, Ho walked Tightinto the faca of doath, and,in his bowllder- ment, soemed to intentionally turust bimsolf in front of the locomotive. Iioswas lioiribly man- | gled, almost boyond rocognition. Tho deconsed :| Was o prominent lawyer of Chester, about 50 years of age, childloss but wodded fo n worthy dnughtok of an Episcopalian’ rector. TIo was o 4 ?lh “landholder, worth from 850,000 to 675,000, ‘A bright Mason, o louding 0dd Fellow, ‘a pillar in the chureh; an oxomplary citizon ; his doath will bo grontly lsmontod.at Liis homo, - A lady- named Lusk was ornehed to death on tho platform, Bho had her 4-year. old. boy in her arwms and_ gacrificed her_Jife to savo that of her infant son, Hor husband, with an .iufant «child; escaped unbarmed. This family had been South “for-over o year for tho ill-fated wifo's health, aud-wero just roturning to Morgan Coun- ty, Mo, The husband is almowt crazed by this unoxpocted dispensntion, A robust, hearty old man, sgatod on his wifo's coflin, with tho tears streating down his faco, was a scone of .horror cnluulu.mfi to move tho stornest heart to pity. Inthe ‘rear car was -an - elderly lady with her threo dsughtors, nll onroute to Voplar Blufls, Mo, to visit rofatives, Thoy romsiued in tho car and would have oscaped with immatorial bruises, had it not besn for the brenk of o pipe in the locomotive of the coustruction traim, filling .the roar coach with deadly stoam. All wero injured Ly tho stoam, but littlo Julia, 13 voara old, was tornbly scalded, hor oyes boing itorally burnod. out by the stenm. Tho molhos ond her childron® wore removed to the Bistors’ Honplial, in this city, and ovory attention was paid thom by tho Bistors of Charity. Lut human ‘ald was unavhiling in Julin's caso. - . Calvin Atwood, manufecturer and’ dealer in agricnltural imploments at Lebanon, Ill., was cut on tho head, but not seriously hurt. JA_Gorman_laborer on the gonstruction train, rosiding at Belloville, Ill,- broke ono of hin legs in jumping from tho train, Ho was takon homo. e + The annt‘y-shorilr of. Whito County, IlL, was on the train in charge of a lunatic. The Sheritt ushod the lunatic -from tho train, and then umped aftor hira, Both were budly: bruised. Inall, twolvo pnssengers wero injurod, moro or Joss, but nona sorionaly. Thono badly {ajured wore taken to the Bistora” Hospital, - T o 'ho Coronor’s jury brought in thoe following vordiet: . . - *“ That Conductor Miohasl Ward and Engincor John Fauning, of the construction traln, aro grossly and nuipnhly nogligent, tho mng]'ncbor Yor starting out after tho passenger train had pagsed him ahend of time, and the engincor for running at too gr-nt spood ; also, that tho con- ductor of tho passengor {rain naglooted his duty and violated tho ruloes of tho'rond in not sonding out a flagman to warn the construetion train of impending danger ; algo, that the rallrond com- pany {8 somewhat responeible in not informing tho conductor of the froight of tho discontinu= ance of cortain trains, thoreby dotaiuing his train and ocoasioning tho accidout.” ——— —Tho latest *‘worker" Lonrd -from is from Kontucky, Tho Domocrats heving bought up ail the whialiy Iu tho county, and bmmunln“ by means of Eme advantage fo earry tho cloction of ‘s Democratio Congrosstan, Lhis'devoled pairiot oponed an illicit’ distillery for the Republican ounso. , Hia application. {8 now flled, with 870 othor applicatious for pardon, with the Depart- mont ol Justics. Ha only distifled: fittoon "gal- Jous, tut tho groat faot boaring on hia caze is, whother tho ¥ opublican was olested or mnot, It he wasu't, the Joor dovil ought to ““catels it"” for not * working " harder, —A Bt. Louia lady whose foot had heon prossod iu a styeot-car bya gontleman, thouglt sho would muko an fllflm‘iflb of- him, Bho roturned tha pressure, looked longulshing, and- all that sort of tl.\lu‘; oud, when sho alighted, tacitly invited him to follow. Axriving at hor homo, sho Invited him in, and ho, uccopting, wae brought - faco to faco with hor Thusband. Blo roquosted the luttor gontlemun to '‘wade Into " the'former, and dotailod the olroumstanu of the affair. “fhe Lusbaud politoly dismisso the gent with the pressing foot, aud then turnod ll)filllf. and beat his wifo for inviting such famili- arltion, = i