Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1873, Page 4

4 e —— —_— e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERNG OF RUDCHITTION (PATATLE b :muw::» X day.. 3 By dapnt.::S1E:8| Weokdy X T at tho samo rato, To provent dolay and mistakes, bo suro and give Tost Oce address in full, fncluding Btato and Cowaty. Temitiauicon may o mado oithor by deaft, oxpross, Offce order, or in toglstorod lottors, at our sk, Post TZAM TO OITX AUBRORINKIA. Bt dolirraty tanday gaceplon, S5 conis bor wock: rod, Sunday fcluded s 3 Alecun RIS UN Samior Madison and Denrborn-ats., Uhicago, Ml TO-DAY'S AM AM'VIORER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, botwoon Biato and Deatborn. Engagoment of Mr, Mark Smith, + 4 Qno Hundrod Yoars Old." Aftornoon and eventug, AIKEN'S THRATRE—W: avenuo, oorner of Jon. gross, Engagoment of Btuart Robuon. ** Littlo Em'ly.” Aftornoon and ovening, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph streot, be- Jwoea Olark and LaSallost, *'Tiokot-of-Leavo Man.! Aftornoon and evoning. . ACADEMY OF MUBIO— Halitod stroot, south’ ot ‘Madlson. Engagomontof Mr. F. 8. Chanfrau. *'Kit, the Arkansas Travolor.” Aftornoon and evonlng. MYERS' OPERA HOUBE—Monroo strost, botweon Rtate and Doarborn, Arlington, Cotton & Kembla's Minstrel and Burlosquo Tronpo. . *‘ Romoo and Jullet,” Aftorncon and ovontnj ———— BUSINESS NOTICES. )VERNMENT ARTIFIOIAL LIMB MANUFAQ- LOOVERRMET R, GARDNLL, eornor Sixtooutliat., and Wabasli ono 14 Oliloage suthorizod by tho Govornme: jofal imbs an ‘apparatus. AL TTAVANA_ LOTTERY, THE EXTRAOL. A S Wik inke giaco on tho 224 of Aprl 1678 0,000 ekt 0 0% Posioeitic Tiox 4,0, Naw York, * TATOELONS HAI DYE. Lalrdso is the Lost in tho worlds foctdyo. Harmloss, roliablo, and i [antaneous; nodisap- intments no ridiculous tints or unploasant odor. L oeta of bad dyos and masics, Producos ims medintely s xporb black o aturplOrein SO, Stet v o htor, ol by drsgeists, OLATLES ELOR, Tropriotor, The Chicags Teibune. Saturday Morning, April 26, 1873. ‘tho onl to furnls soldiors art! NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, The pressure upon our columna on Sunday morning 16 80 great thatwo aro compolled to roquest advertisora %0 sond in their advertisomants for that issuo ot as early an hour as possible, in ordor that they moy with cortainty secure the propor classification. THE CHICAGO "DAILY TRIBUNE Corn was In good domand, and %{c highor, clos ing at 87 @87¢¢c cash, and 88c sollor May. Oats wore quiot and a shado higher, closing at 81@81%4o onsh, and 8830 soller Juno. Ryo was quiet and unchauged at 69@004¢e. Barloy wns innotive and nominal ot 70@80c for poor to oholco No. 2. Hogs woroe quiot and oasy at 86.20 @5.50, Thoro was no quotablo chango in tho cnttlo nnd sheop markots, Tho schemao for the consolidation of the Ocean Tolegraph Companios has rocelved an unex- pocted, and what is likely to prove a fatal, blow. A clauso which bas hithorto Inin unnotlced in thochartor of the Now York, Nowfoundland & London Tolograph Company 1a found to glve tho Nowfoundland Govorn- mont the powor to buy in tho lino in 1875, whon the firat twoniv yoars of 8 franchise oxpires, paying for it only the first coat, nothing for tho good-will or prospootive profita. The Company, of course, neked foran oxtonsion of thelr chartor, but tho Goyornment has refusod it. —— MORE TAX COMPLICATIONS, Tho nows comos from Springflold that tho Auditor has fssucd instructions to tho Aesessora in all parts of tho Btato to valuo proporty horo- aftor not ns horotofore, but nt its actual cash valud. This rogulation of the Auditoris in strict complisnce with the roquiroments of tho Iaw of tho Btato, but tho samo provision hua boen in tho Iaw ovor sinco 1848, Ordinarily, tho ohango would be of no practical importanco, but at pros- ont it involves two instances of injustico to ono- Dalf tho Btate, and particularly to this county. The valuntion of property upon which the Stato tax of 1872 was lovied aggrogated as follows : Porsonal proporty. Tilirosd proparty. B senrsbsane Tan Town and city lot Total valuo of taxable 100 -.$510,880,083 Tilustrations of tho mannor in which the valu- ation i made aro found in the fact that the im- proved farm londs of the Stato have an averago value of $8.37 per acro, the lowest being 82.00 i Johuson County, and tho highest boing $27.60 in Ogle County. Theso valuations wore corrocted by tho Btato Bonrd by increasing Johnson Coun-. ty to $3.70 por acro, and reducing Oglo County Tho House bill for tho compulsory education of childron Lios passed to o third readitg. e French Canadians are omigrating this season to this country, from the Province of Quobec, in groator numbors than usnal. Gen,VanBuron's official drafts as Commissionor to Vienna will not be honored by the State De- partment until somo omigsions aro rectified in his bonds, which hiave been just found to be un- signed and unsealed. Tho Indian Burcau at Washington does mot beliovo that Cochise ia at large ngain, spotling 1ho citizens of the Southern border. Whenthey heard from him last he was dutifully keeping his resorvation. e Consolidation botween the Erio and the At- lantic & Great Westorn is to be provented, ac- cording to New York rumor, by legislation, which is now being prepared by tho Erio Investigating Committee. — The Compromiso Rnilroad bill as amended passed tho Senate by n voto of 87 to 6. The bily thon wont to tho Houee, which refused, by & largo majority, to accopt tho Bonatg amond- ments, \ A roply to Phelps, Dodgo & Co.'s raoent stato- ment is promised noxt wook Dby the Custom- House officials of New York. Thoy say it will contain the correspondenco botween the firm and tho Govornment, and will provo them tohave sworn falgoly, and to have beon guilty of fraud. (e Vienna is certainly attacked by the cholera, for 21l tho denials of the city authorities to the con- trary. There were five deaths by the dreaded disease yestordny, aud twenty sufferers were taken to tho hospital. So far, all the casos have ‘broken out in scattered placos, and thero are no symptoms of an opidemi Tho epizootic has crossed the continent, and is now working havoo with the business of San Trancisco, Strost cars have stopped, and all the voxations and losses that have marked the path of this curious diseaso through the country sre now folt in their full forcoon the Pacific const, Itisoxpocted that the progressof the disense will interfore with the transmission of nbwa by courlers from tho scat of tho Modoo war to Yroka, ] All tho United States Commissioners to Vienns, oxcept the Houorary and Sciontific Com- smicsloners, have been susponded by tho Presi- dent pending a thorough inquiry into the scandalous charges of corruption sgainst o npumber of theso misreprosontatives. A picked Commission of eight have been appointed to attend the interests of the United Btatas at the Exposition until the in- vestigation is concluded anda permanent and " truatworthy Commission obtained, Gov. Kollogg hus ordered tho luw officors of Louisiana to prosecute Gov. McEnory for usur- pation and treason. 'Tho porsons concerned in tho Graut Parigh disturbauce aro to be puniehed, . nnd largo rowards aro offered for ovidence that will lead to their conviction. The Govornor has 180 ro-catablished the overthrown Government of Tangishon Parish with thoaid of tho Btato milltla, and is making vory nctivo proparations to covor all the disafected region with a military patrol, Tho clause of the Railrond bill now pending at Springfleld reqiiring the Railrond and Ware- ‘house Commissioners to fix maximum rates of freights and fare, was .inadvertently spokon of in our columns yestordny as o * vital soction.” Tho seotion in question is not only not vital, but utterly incongruous and worthless, incapar. Dle of execution, and sure to bring on a triangu- ar contost. botween the Commissioners, the poople, and the railronds, without accomplishing any goody Ihe Honato acted wisely in striking it out. e 4 T'ho Chicrgo produco markots woro moderately activo yesterday, and grain was steadior. Mese pork was rathor active, and declined 100 por brl, cloaing at $17.76@17.80 cash, and $18.85@18.40 soller June, Lnrd was wenlk, declining 8c por 100 1bs, and closing st $9.10@0.123¢ oash, and 80.40@0,46 sellor Juno. Moats woro inaclive and unchonged, ot 6¥@63¢e for ehoulders, 0@ 930 for short xibs, 03(@D}{o for short clear, and 9)¢@120 for swoot-pickled hams, IHighwites woroe quiet and firm at 87¢ per gallon. Lake froights were dull aud unquotable. Flour was unchanged, and more active, Wheat was rathor activo and o shade bhigher, closing tame Al $1,24@1.33%5 onsh, and €125 seller - May. 89 por acro. Tho value of improved lands in Oook County is put down nt 818.25 por acro 1 0t tho aggrogato valuation, Cook County is chargod with §03,842,799, or moro than 183§ por cont of iho wholo, ‘There i no objection to tho imposition upon this county of tho full .ehare of tho tax, provided it Do fairly apportioned. The rule has been for tho Auditor, having ascortained tho valuation, to assens such ratos na wore nocossary to ‘raise the revenue roquired to mest tho appropriations by tho Logielature. For this purposo it has boon immaterial whother the tax was 4 mills on a one- fourth valuation or 1mill on & full veluation, the amount of tax was the samo. The new Con- stitution, howover, has limited tho power of counties to tax beyond T3¢ mills for current ex- pondilures upon the valuation made by tho Btato for Btate purposes. This restriction upon the oxtravaganco and recklossnoss of County Super- visors and County Commisgioners, howover bealthy and acceptablo to the genoral public, has boen mont irksomo to those enterprising officors, and, finding their rato of taxation limited, thoy havo now moved en masse to have tho nsscesment raisod from & ono-fourth to o full cash valuation. When this is done, o County Board will bo sble to levy 7% mills tax on tho cash valuo of tho property, in- stond of nt prosent on a one-fourth valuntion ; tho differonce beiug cquivalent to the power to lovy o tax of 80 mills where at prosont but T4 may bo lovied. It is not any probable incronse o Stato taxation that is tobe droaded. Itis the incroase of town and county taxos which will roach the publia. Thero is & gonoral law of tho Btato which prescribos that tho rate of tax for school ‘purposés shsll bo 2 mills, This tax bas horotoforo produced all the revenuo noodod for echool purposos, being in round numbors & million of dollars a year, This tax, when col- lected, ia distributed among the counties accord- ing to their school population. Many countios, therefore, recoive much more than they pay and others pay mora than thoy recoive, In 1871, this county paida school tax to the Btate of $169,423, and recoived back for school purposcs £78,434,—loss than holf it paid. There is o con- teut in the Loglsiatura now, in which ono sidode- mands that the amount of school tax to bo col- Jocted shall bo limited to $1,000,000, and, on the othor side, that the 2-mill tax shall be collected on tho full valuation, Tho offect of this last do- mand will be to colloct an equivalont to 8 mills tax on tho prosont valuation’; this would make tho school tax in this county about 752,000, of which about £400,000 wil? Lo distributed among othor countiesto build school-houses, pay sel- aries, ote. The noxt ombarragement that will aesail this and about balf the other counties of tho State rosults from an act passed in 1869, which directs that, In all countice, towns, cto., which have subscribed aid to railrond corporations, all taxes for Btato purposos lovied on all proporty in such towns and counties in oxcess of tho valuation of tho your 1808, instend of boing paid into tho common Troasury of tho Btato, shnil be held soparately, and applied to tho paymont of such railroad indebteduness, Tho practical result of such & proceoding moey thua be atated: Me- Lean, Ohristian, Fulton, LaSalle, Bt. Clair, and forty-seven othor countios of tho State have .an aggrogato outatanding railcond nid dobt of 913,693,058, In 1868, the assosscd ‘valuation of proporty in theso fifty-two couutioss was, sy, 200,000,000, If tho valuation for taxes in 1873 bo advancod to n cash valuation, then the valuation of taxables in thoso countlos will Lo about 980,000,000, while that of Cook County will bo advanced from 035,000,000 in 1868, to 850,000,000 in 1873, But tho BStato Treasurer, whilo placing the whole procoods of tho tax on the property in this ocounty in tho Btato Trosswry, will divide the procoods of tho tax collected from thoso fifty- {wo countioa, The proccods of tho tnx on §200,- 000,000 thoreof he will turn into tho Stato ‘Troasury, while the procoeds of the tax on tho othor §080,000,000 Lio will hold asa spooial fund to toke up and pay tho bonds of those oountios {ssuod in ald of railroads, There aro 102 countfesin tho Stato; fifty of them have out- standing railrond aid debts ; fifty of thom, includ- ing Cook County, bave no such dobte. As tho Htato ls cut off from tho collootion of any Btate tax in fitty-twooounties upon any yaluation inex- cosuof that of 1868, tho lncronso of valuationwill havo the direct effect of divorting three-fourthsof {ho Btato tax colleoted In fifty-two counties from iho Troasury into tho pockots of tho holdera of rallrond ald Dbouds, and mocossitating an in- orosgod taxation upon the propertyof tho other fifty gountios to supply the deficlonoy. ' Thio county will bave to pay nonrly one-fifth of the wholo of this deflolency, 5 It will bo soen, theroforo, that tho change of polioy in tho mode of valuation for Blato pur- posos 1a an ndmirablo schemo to, 1. Enablo Boards of Bupervisors aud County Commisslon= ora to quadruplo tho amount of town and county’ taxation. Tho nggrogato of this town and coun= ty taxation in 1871 was, according to tho Audi- tor's roport, $18,477,008, Under this ohango in thio modo of valuntion it may bo inoronsod to over 70,000,000 in 1873. This doos not Include clty toxos, 2. It will place tho county and town railroad ald bonds, which have now a very uncor tain valuo, at par; end, ns most of them boar 10 por cont intorost, tho holdors of them will havo a woll-saoured investment. 8 It will tax nbout thirty-soven countles, in addition to tho tax for thoir own sohools, lntgoly to pny for school Duildings and tho snla- rios of gchool offlcors in tho other pixty-five countlos of the Stato. Inasmuch as tho Logis- Jaturo has alrondy authorized the citios to mako thelr own valuations for munioipal tnxen, wo do 1ot think that elthor of tho thros resultaindi- catod furnishos tho elightost justification for tho proposod advance in the valuation of propor- ty for Btate taxation. For twonty-five yoars, tho Constitutionand laws havo road just as thoy read now, During that timo tho Btato waa largely in dobt, Now, tho Btato is out of dobt, noods but littlo rovenue, and thero is no reason or neeossl- ty for any sudden roverenco for a coustitutionnl provision which has boon alwaysdisrogardod. e BUFFALO AND THE ERIE CANAL. Thoro have boon govoral moetings of mer- chants in Buffalo on tho subject of tho Erie | Canal, ond tho result has boon tho passago of strong rosolutions opposing tho contemplated appropristions by tho Now York Legislaturo of cight millions of dollars to enlarge tho Cham- plain Canal, with a view to improved wator com= munication botween Now York City and the 8t. Lawrence River. Tho Buffalo meotings, whilo opposing this expenditare, as strongly urged tho onlargemont of the Eric Oannl 60 a8 to givoin- cronsed dopth and admit the passago of larger vossols, Onoof tho best signsof o healthy sontiment among the business mon of Buffalo wasa tho almost unanimons rojection of & proposi- tion to ask nid from tho National Government to onlarge tho Erio Canal. The proposition to enlarge tho Champlain Ca- nal was donounced ns & schemo to transfer the commerce of tho West to Canada ; but whilo much may be concodod to local foeling, the cn- Inrgomont of tho Champlain Caual 16 likely tobe a nocoseity in order to retain to Now York City hor trado in grain. There are twenty milliions of producors in tho West who want & road to markot, Evor sinco 1854, the Erio Cannl has Yoen fundequate to carry the Western products. TTho State of Now York has boen nsked toenlarge lior connl 80 08 to admit more aud larger-sized ‘boats. For this the peoplo of the Wost were willing to pay in th way of tolls, aud the sur- plus earnings of tho canal sinco 1854 would hiavo paid for a stenmboat-canal from Buffalo to tho Hudson R@or. Tho Stato of Now York lhas, howaever, pocketod this surplus revenue, apply- ing it to pay for latoral canals, the roceipts from which have not oqualled tho cost of keeping thom in ropair. During this twenty years, tho Wost hos gono on incrensing its products, but tho Btato of Now York hns refused or neglected to givo them o sufliclont routo across hor torri- tory. Now, the Cansdinns havo set to work to givo us uninterrupted steamboat naviga- tion from Loke Erie to Moutreal and to Lako Champlain, and aro prosocuting that work with energy. When it is completod, corn, flour, and wheat will bo worth as much at Montreal as at Now Yorlk, nnd tho cost of gotting thom thero will be much less than by rail or by the Erie Conal, There will bo no such thing as & scarcity of water, nor interruption in tho traneit. Itis for tho Btato of Now York to determino whether it will let this trado go off by the Bt: Lawronce Rivor, or whothor it will enlargo the Erie Canal, or whother it will secura & portion of it by con- noeting tho Hudson River with Lake Cham- plain, It ought to cnlarge tho Erie Canal ovon if to do so cost twonty millions of dollars, and, ae tho Canadian improvemonts aroa fixed fact, cortain to bo exccuted, it ought aleo onlargo the Champlain Canal. Inno other way can it hopo to keop the trade of tha lakes. Wo sce by the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser that the Drio Canal is rapidly losing its local trafflo, nenrly its wholo business being now through freights. If this through traflic bo diverted to tho St. Lawronco, then tho Erie Canal will be a8 profitless ns the Gonosce Canal, whoso annual rovonuo io $18,000, and cost of maintenance £225,000. The peoplo of the West want a routo to markot, snd, if Now York will not give it to them, thoy will got it from the Canadians, ——— BPAIN’S NEXT REVOLUTION. Tho condition of affairs in 8pain are not en- couraging to those who boliova that s Ropubli- can form of govornmont is the universal remody for all tho ills that Btates are heir to. While many of tho leadors, such n8 Figuoras, Oasto lar and Topoto, aromonaof groat ability and strength of character, thoy cannot control the course of their own followers, and still logs can thoy work into & homogoneous mags all of tho disturbing ocloments of Spanish politics at the prosont time, 1t is possiblo to no man nor eet of men. Bpain sooms dostinod to continual fermentation until tho old loaven of all partios is oxhausted, and o highor education takes the placo of feudal ira- dilions and religious superstitions, Barcolona hag alwayn boen tho headquartors of tho Ropublican movemont, and in the groat University of that city have somo of tho noblosk minds of Bpain recoived tholr training. Yot Barcolona is now almost cut off from tho Capital Dy so-called Carlists. ‘The lino of tholr ocoupa- tion oxtends in the arc of & circle from Roncea- valles to the River Ebro, and down nearly to the Moditorranecan. That theso insurgonts aro all Carliata or all Alplionsoists 18 improbable. They aro, in faot, Mouarchists, and dosive firat tho overthrow of tho Republio. Then, ontriea for the throno will boin order—each candidato must mako his own running. Don Carlos has boon charged with cowardice In loaving his Licutonants to do the fighting, for bim to reap the future bonofit. Whother this ba just or not, it sooms probable that ho will roap tho result of leaving his own work to othier hands, The throo principal deaders of tho insurgents aro Don Alphonso in Arragon, Gen. Elio in Navarro, and Gon, Savalls n Catalonla. The first-namod s not Prince Alphonso, son of Tenbolln, but his older cousin, o was 20 yoars of ago the 28ih of last mouth, and Lis birthday waa oolobrated in grand styla throughout all Arragon and Cataloma. While nominally fight- ing for Don Carlos, ho really standa & very ex- gellent chance of winning tho prizo himsolf, Gon. Ello, & votoran of 70 yosrs of age, who hins always beon ono of tho ‘foromost counsollors of Don Catlos, i sald to havo bocome disgusted with tho dilatory and supino character of his Mogo, and hos entored briskly into the esmpnign withan undoratanding that Don Alphonao slisll bo King in caso of succosa, Gon. Bavalls g boon the most succossful of all tho insurgent 1oadorn, having invosted and taken by assnult tho oltadel of Ripoliand dofeated tho Republican Gon, Onmpos in & pitched battlo, o attorward took Dorgs, o fortifled town of 12,000 inhabitants, snd baa capturod Inrgo supplios of arms and stores. o, alxo, is supposod to favor Don Alphonso's protonsions, and, should tho insurgonts recover .from thoir lato tomporary chooke and unito in an ndvance upon Madrid, it s likoly that tho samo Cortes which nccopted thio rosignation of Amadous will graclously consent to rocetvo Al- phoneo, on trial, in hia place. —s According to late mail advicos, tho condition of Tomo {a far from boing peacoful, and the Ohurch party hns not yet scknowledged tho power of tho Liboral movomont. Fathor Lom- bardinl bas boen thundering away at the Roligious-- Corporation bill in tho Ohurch of tho Jeuuits, and Lis oloquonco lhaa incited such opposition to thke Govorn- ment moasure as to lead to opon outbrosks in tho streat. Ono row followed a gormon, in which sovoral persons woro seriously injured, aud the arrosts made by the Governmont include mom- bora of both the Liboral and Olerical partios. A somi-official Govornment journal calls for tho supprossion of tho priests who are urging tho peoplo’ on to rosistanco. A Cloricnl journal, per contra, declares thst tho ILiberal party doro mot’ undor- tako to check tho preaching. Tho Religious Corporations bill in its present shapo is distasto- ful to both parties. The Clerical party, of courso, regard tho wholo procoeding with hatred. Tho Liberal party, on the other haud, do mot think tho bill radical onough, sinco it provides that the Governmentshall turn over to the Popo suffi- cient funds to enablo tho religious socloties to sustain thoir relations with thoir establish- ments in foroign countrios. Tho Liborals Lold that tho Popo, Lnving the discretionary uso of thoso fands, will employ them to creato sedi- tion at homo, and to promoto the opposition of tho Liborals to the Italian Government. Itis ovident that tho work of Victor Emsanuel is not yet finighed. e 8ir Bartla Frero, who bas charge of tho Eng- lish expedition for bresking up the infsmous TEast African slavo traffio, and whoso operations Bave boon temporarily hindered by the offlelous interferonce of the American Consul at Zanzibar, has oddrossod @ momorandum to Lord Gronvillo, which gives somo intorcsting details comcorning tho ono froo-labor cstato abt tho sbove place. Tho property hias boon loased to an Euglish Captain, who in ton yonrs' timo has changed a swamp into a woll- cultivated tropical estate. Tho wholo of the work on thia proporty—fiold-labor, road-making, ‘building, tho carponter’s, smith's, and ocoopor's twork, oven tho driving the stonm-onginoa and ropair of machinory, has beon done by freo ne- groos working for wagos, who have all beon glavos, ond at frst had ell tho vicos of glavery. Tho sensa of property and of froodom, however, has eclovated them from' thoir former dogradation. Tho exporiment shows tho importance of tho English oxpodition, and tho blessings which wonld follow the aboli- tion of tho horrors of the East African slaye- trade. Tho English newspnpera aro alreedy beginning to oxpross considorablo gratification that tho Russlons, in tho oxtension of their military oo~ cupation, have alroady compromised the territo- rial iutogrity of Persis. Tho accounts from Bt. Petorsburg say that the Turcomans, south of the Attreck River, who consider that Russia isat war with their tribos, having repeatodly crossed tho river snd stolen camels, a Russian guard waa appointed to watch the fords, Tho Tuesian officor in command, soeing alargo force of Turco- mans on tho Porsian sido, instantly crossed and attacked them, killing and wounding soveral, and eapturing over four hundred camels, In viow of this violation of the Porsian frontier, tho English ae now vigoronsly calling upon Porsia to maintain the noutrality of thoso who owo her allogianco, Moanwhilo the Shah is on his woy to Vienna, to tako & play-spoll. It is doubtful, therefore, whotlior any ono at Tohoran will ro- monatrato, ospocislly ss such & remonstrance would exposo Peraia to Rusaian oceupation. —re A laborer in London was recently santonced to eightcen months' hard Inbor for wound- ing onothor whom ho had assaulted. I the ponaltios for vicious ssssult In our large citios wero thus commensurato with the naturo of tho sitack, thoro i3 mo doubt that there would bo fower murders. The practico of tho minor criminal courts lere is to fix somo ineignificant fine in casos of assanlt which fall ghort of Lilling. A man who shoots at anothor and missos, usually goes scot froo, to shoot again when the epurit seizos him. A man who pounds auothor brutally, but not quite unto doath, 11 fined €25, or sont to jail for a fow days. 1t viclous nssaulta wero regularly followed with ofghtoon months In tho penitontiary, thoy would bo fowor in number, and doaths by violenco would decreaso in proportion, The Now York agont of tho Whito Star Line bas finally mado & atnumong in Qefonso of tho Company agoinst the sorious ohnrges mado with roforonco to tho Atlantio disaster. Ho claima thet with the oxcoption of salt fish the Atlantio was sufficiontly provisioned ; that if the coal had not boen of such a character that it burnod with unprecedented rapidity sho would have had coal enough; and that Capt. Willisma had proved himself compotent for his position, laving ronched it by regular promotion, Admitting all that tho sgont olaims, ho puts tho caso in » light no moro entisfactory than it was before. On the priucipal cause of tho dissstor,—tho gnoranco or recklossnoss of Capt. Willlams and othor officors,—he expressos no opinion. Tho statement, thoroforo, can only bo regarded as o vory lamo apology. The closing remark, that %40 fhio modol and construction I attributo the eaving of noarly all who ecscaped,” scoms almost like & cruel joke, when the ciroumstances of the wrock aro romembered, . Ono section of the now olty chartor of Now York will prove a blessing to tho tax-payers of that city. This seotion reduces the emolumonts of ofice-holders one-half, Under the oxlst- ing chartor, the total of salaries amounts to £430,000 por aunum; under the new charter, to 2202,000. A fow itoms will show the ratlo of reduction. Tho Mayor's ealary is reduced from &12,600 to $19,000; ° tho Comptroller's from 13,500 to $10,000; Cor- oration Counsel's from 31,500 to $15,000; aad tho Aldermen from §90,000 $o 801,000, -The SATURDAY, APRIL. 26, 1873. pay of tho Marino Court Judizes and of the Olvil and Polico Justicos aro nlso roducod $11,000:in tho nggrogato, muking tho total roduction 011,000, . It ia nlso ostimatod that, in tho do- croaso of tho goneral pny-rolly; tho saving will not fall much below £500,000, Tho chartor confers somo genoral powors on tho Mayor which o Lins nover boforo recoived, nnd ‘which can scarcely fail Lo inure to the boneflt of tho pooplo. 'Iho Mayor, with tho cousent of tho Govornor of the Blalo, may ro- move tho hoads of all tho dopart- monts for cause, Tho officlals havo tho right to o hoard, and enjoy o protection in the Govern- or's disapproval in tho abuso of tho power. The chartor nlso confors tho power of appoint- mont upon tho Mayor, with the approval of the Common Councll, of the following offlclals: Tho City Ohamborlain; tho four Commissionera of Polico ; tho threo Commisaionors of Charities and Corroction, who hold offica for six yoars; three Firo Commissionors, torm of offico the ssme; two Commissionors of Honlth, one s physiclan snd tho other not; four Commissioners of Parks, torm five yoars, without salary; ono Commissioner of Buildings at a salary of 84,000; threo Commis sloners of Txes, torm six yoars ; throo Commis- sloners of Docks and two Commissionors of Ac- counts,—mnking twonty-four prominont city of- ficlals whom the Mayor appoints. In the cnso of tho two Commirsionors of Acconnts, the approy- al of tho Bonrd of Aldermen is not oven required. The movement is in tho diroction of contralizing the rosponsibility to the poople, and thereforo contains a promigo of improvomont. e e The following is from the pen of William Cul- lon Bryant, whoso trustworthinoss as a witnoss, and whoso honesty of oxprossion, cannot woll be doubted : Inall my fntorcourso with the peoplo of tho South, aithough it baa ot beon very oxtansivo, nor of very long eontinuance, I bavo heard only o cxyrassion of » deaire {0 bo on 'rlondly forms with ua of the North- crn States. Espocially has this beon tho caso in Ohatleaton, whero I saw moro than clsowlioro of the o of 'tho placo. Ibavo mover, sinco I crossod Mason nnd Dixons lino, ioard o single expression of bitterneas or malignity toward those who live north of it, It wasbut tho othor day that tho peoplo of Clinrles~ ton sent A formal invitation to tho President of tho Unitod Statos to visit South Carolina, Ho declined tho civility, and, at the samo time, removed tho Postmus- tor of Gharleston, Mr. Trott, who was highly ostoomod, and for whoso continuanco fn ofiica the citizens, withe out distiuction of ‘pnrl , bad earnestly potitioned, In his placo hoappointed . colored man, who, whether Juntiy or not, lica under (o odium of Ling connected with” tho corrupt fellows Wlo hiavo for kovoral years beon plllaging tho Btate, This waa like answoring an invitation to dinner with a plap in tho faco, and was grosa blunder, to sy thy least. In anying this, Mr. Bryant tostifics to two im- portant ciroumstancos: 1. That the Southern paople have abandoned the rebellious spirit which onco moved them in all thoir rolations with the North, and that they earncatly dosiro to bo rostored to n condition of actual as well as nominal peaco. 2. That the policy of the Ad- ‘ministration is to rofuse to recognize the spirit of tho Southorn poople as it actually is, and to continuo to harass thom with tho ovils that wore 80 gonerally inaugurated during the earlior process of reconstruction. This much has boon eaid often before, but it is of particular import coming in so sucoinct o shape from & man whose =bility to judge and whose honoesty are unimpeachable, and after & porsonal examina- tion of tho field of which ho writes. e Araorican Consnls, it appears, are not the only onos who are addicted to * waya that avo dmile.” The Spanish Consul in Paris has just boon de- tocted in some vory eorious dofalcations, and has boon Aent to Spain for trial. 2L Calvo, the Con- sul ‘In quoetion, has been in Paris a number of years, drawing only s modorate enlary, but in somo myatorious mannor has lived in o atylo far ‘boyond his menns, and kept iu bis omploy & sor- vant who had a handsomo carringo, a box at the opern, and ovon surpagred his maator in luxuris ous living. Tho firat suspicions which were ruised ageinat him grow out of a complaint by Count Arnim, the German Ambassador, on bohalf of o Prussian merchunt, who alloged that some. jowels of considerablo value intrusted for gale to n Bpeniard, - who was doad, had passod inlo the bands of M Ow ‘0, and had not boon necounted for. ho Spanish Ambassador, M. Olozaga, theronpon commencod an fuvestign- tion, whirh resulted in tho discovery that tho Congul not only, 18 it was his duty to do, made out an inventory of the property of Spaninrds who died in Paris, but appropriated tho property to his own uge, without making any effort to die- cover tho heirs. Tho Consul's post morfem ras- cality during tho past yoar or so has realized for bim about $60,00, From the American stand- point, tho sum embozzled apposrs ridiculously small, but in Europo defalcation has not yob Doen sufficiontly popularized to secure immunity from sovoro punishment, oven for tho abstrac- tion of small amounts. —_— Tho London Daily News makes tho Atlantio disastor the occasion for pointing out the unrea- sonablo rates which nro domanded for cable dispatches. The policy of tho cablo companies has beon to mnko their monoy by high charges and & limited business, instead of increasing thelr facilitios, charging lower rates, and doing n gronter emount of work, The hard- ships of this policy which tho people feel woro {llustrated pointedly inthecass of tho Eng- lish rolatives and friends of those who wero pas- gongors on tho steamor Atlantic, The news of the disastor had come, and hundreds of poor pooplo hind gathored aroand the stonmehip ofiico awaiting dotails and names, But very fow conld afford tho luxury of s cablo dispatch on thoir own account. The tariff from England is four ghillings (mearly &1 in gold) per worty snd ovory word I tho addross and, sigoature 18 countoed. The usofulnoss of tho cablo is thoroby limited to tho fow. In answor to the ploa thet tho cablo company Liss & private business which it mey rogulato aa it ‘ploascs, tho Daily News recalls tho fact that the laying of the cablo was colebrated a8 & nationsal ovont, that It was promotod ns an enterpriso cal- culatod to unito two great nations in closer friendship, and that patriotism on both sldes the ‘Atlantio was appeated to in tho work of enlisting capital and co-operation. It is held, on this ac- count, that the cablo companios owe mora con- sideration to the publio than thoy givo. et e 1t doos not occur very frequently (hat tho strong arm of tho law Is omployed to koep poo- plo away from churoh. Buch an incident would Do a nine days’ wondor outsido of Massnchusotta; but a Ohicopeo church has beon brought to this nocossity. A man namod, Seurle was o member of the Rov. Mr. Eustis’ congrogation, and gradu- ally camo to the conclusion that his pastor's sor- mons wore too long. 'Tho layman exhorted and Inborad with the prstor to reform in this partiou- lar, a8 forvoutly ns tho pastor oxhorted and Inbored with his congrogation to roform in othor partioulars. The pastor was obdurato. It is roasousblo to suppose that Afr, Boarlo would have romained away from gormous that wero dissgrooably clongatod, but ho wont to chureh in tho spirit of n roformer, Ho would riso aud go away during the sermon st tho point at which he thought the sermon should stop, theroby disturbing the congrega- tion. From this rank heresy, Mr. Boarlo went to olbor oxtromes, sowing dissonsion in tho Blblo-olasy, sud othorwive makiug himeelf a nuisanco iu tho oyos of the Rov. Mr Eustls, It wad thon thag tho lattor catlod upon tho polico, who gathored the horotio in thoir arms, regard- loss of bis protests, and carrlod him out of tho churoh. It Iy ignificant that, at the time Amorlean olt- izons aro going into tho governiug businoss in tho West Indlos, tho Dritish Parlisment ia pre- paring tho way for tho complote abandomuont of tho famous Iast Iudia Company. By an aot of Parlinmont of 1857, the governing powera wero Virtually (taken from tho ast Indla [Com- pany, sud tho functions and powora for- morly oxerclsod by tho provriotors and Board of Diroctors have beon vestod in.the Quoon of England, who haa govorned tho torrl- tory as Empross of India, This sot, however, did not wind up the slfaira of tho Company, thongh the value of slogk matorlally deolined —_——— aftor tho loss of its politicsl powors, 1t fa now proposed in Parlisment to abolish the Company altogother, A bill has boon introduced provid- ing for tho redomption or commutation of tho dividond on the eapltal stook, for a tranafer of the socurity fund to tho Govornment, and for tho final dlssolution of tho Company. DBy this bill, thodividonds on East India stock aroto conso sftor tho 80th of April, 1674, Anothor bill au- thorizes tho Governmont to pay £200 sterling for overy £100 of stook, aftor tho samo dato, to all thoro who rofuso to asaent to the terms of com- mutation, The conviction sooms to be that tho Company will bo finally dissolved. C —— Blshop Coxe, of Wontern Now York, maken tho proposition that thoro shall bo o Constitu- tional Congross of tho Irotestant Eplscopal Ohurch in this country somo tlmo beforo the yonr 1876, with a view to sottling tho differonces that havo oropped out among its prelatos, Bishop Coxe's individual idons may bo guossed from tho oxpression that tho timo has como tq determino whother tho Episcopaoy of Americs is to bo ‘“fomsilized a8 on Anglican oxotlo" or s to onlargo ita sphoro. Aside from this thoro aro cortainly sori- ous quostions of Church practico and polioy in the Amoricon Episcopal Churely, which scom to roquiro tho intervontion of compotont u- thority, and which nothing loss than n Genoral Congross, such as Blshop Coxo suggests, will bo likely to sottle dafinitoly, It Is not improbablo that such & Congress might load to tho with- drawal of many of tho clorgy and Iaity who now worship nccording to the forms of tho Protes- tant Episcopal rites, but this may be considored proferablo to the continuanco of tho dissensions and contesta botweon the Bishops and clorgy, tho individual constructions that load to them and the other sources of disagreoment which are moro likely to incroase than to decrense from now on. ————— Tho following is tho toxt of the act increasing tho pay of mombors of Congress: 5 And the Speakerof the Houso of tatiy shall, after tho present Congress, rnulm {orv:l'l hin services, componsation at tho rate of $10,600 per annum ; and Senstors, Ropresentatives, and Dolegstea in Congross, including Bonators, Roproaontatives, and Delegatos In tho Forly.gocond Odngroas, holding guch offico at tho passago of thin act, and whoso claim to s gont has not been adversely decidod, shall receive $7,600 per sunum each, and this shall bo in lieu of all Pay and allowance except nctual individual traveling oxponeca from tholr homes {o tho keat ~of Governmont and roturn, by the most diroct routo of usual travel, onco for ecach nossion, of tho Houso to which such Bouator, mombor, or ~Dolo- o Ticlongs, to bo cortified to under Lis hand fo the isburaing officcr, and filed a8 n voucker : Provided, That n sottling tho pay and allowances of Bonntors, members, and Dolegates in the Forty-second Congress, a1t mileago sball bo deducted and no allowanco made for oxpensca of travoel. Tho Dill also contains an appropriation of 125 for nowspapors and stationery for each Sonator, Roprosontative, nud Dologato in Con- gross. Each mombor, therefore, is to recoivo a solary of §7,600 & year, payablo monthly, from the 4th of March, 1878 ; is to receive his expon- dituro for travoling oxpenses to and from hia home, and $125 for newspapers and station- ory. In point of fact, thorefors, tho law gives oach momber lus actual miloage, orcost of travel, in addition to his incrensed pay. it e e Marl Twain, who is somotimes a sage ne woll ns humorist, publishos a communication in the New York Z¥ibune, in which he approves of tho uso of life-rafts instend of bouts on ocean-steam- ors. Thero is on American Invontion of & raft consisting of three inflated hovizontal rubbor tubes, with a platform lushed on top. A raft of this doscription once crossed tho Atlantic from Now York to London, carrylng two men safoly over. Rafts of all sizes may bo coustructed on this pattorn, and Mark Twain's experience tonohes him to beliove that nine such rofta o8 tho ono which crossed the ocean, ‘onch of whick would lhave carriod 120 peoplo, and all of which could have ‘Deen adjusted to tho steamer in tho room roquir- ed for four bonts, would have saved all those on tho steamor Atlantic who succeodod ir.gottingon deck, o thinks thnt tho Amorican Government s horatoforo boon too busy with Crodit Mobi- lior trananctions, raising enlarios, and reforming tho Civil Servico, togive tho mattor tho attention which it desorves, but now demands thatit should take the subject in hand, investigato the usofulnoess of tho invontion, and, if found valu- able, #ot tho examplo of adopting it. e e It is not often thot the Roman Catholic Churoh dllows itself to bo distanced in the work of propagating tho faith or making proselytes. Tt gooms, howevor, that tho Russian Ohurch Lias tho start of itin Japan. Ever sinco religious proporty was configeatod in Japan, the Buddhist faith has been dropped ag a national institution, and it is eaid that the people have been drifting sbout in search of ;s liaven of rest for their doubts and misglvinga, Tho mossengors whom Japan hos sont abrond havo boon instructed to study not only tho political customs and finan- cial policies of the various nations they visit, but to inform thomeolves likowiso. upon the roligious practicos of tho different peo- ples. In the moantime, the Russinn Church has been tsking advantago of the situntion, nnd it is reported that & very large numbor of convorts havo boen found, It is not long sinco the Bishop of Kamtchatks visited & city of Japan, and recoived o hundrod couverts info tho Churoh at ono timo, Buddhist priosts aro coming ovor and agpuming the functions of Christian minioters according to tho righta of tho Russo-Grook Chuxch. I e R Two romarkablo cases of thoft have hoen de- velopod recontly in New Iaven and Portland, In tho former city, on unfortunute man nmmod De Wolf was actually brought bofora the Police Court for stonling an umbrella! Worse than this, ho was punisbed, thus ostablishing the dangorous pracodent that umbrellas are personal proporty, and disturbing tho timo-honored cus- tom which has ollowed tho appro- priation of tho umbrelln wherever foornd. Mr. De Wolf, boing tho firat martyr to this absurd, uotto sy monstrous, proposition, should carry the caso up to the Unitod Statos Supreme Court. Itis n quostion in which the whole peoplo are intorested, Tho™ gocond instanco of fhoft i of o graver kind, An undortaker at Portland has ndvertised for a cofiin stolen from his shop, aud offors to trim and line it for tho uso of tho thiof, and ongrave Liis namo upon o handsomo silvor plato, if Lio will only roturn it. Such acts of generosity are rare nowadays, ——— The ‘Bazaino caso, in Franco, hns bocome ourionsly complicated. 3L, Thiors, who bLas never bolioved Marelinl Bazaine to be gullty, has becoma vory auxious over tho suit, which lias been prolonged nearly o yoar in the hopo of ohunging public opinion. Recently M.Thiors tost~ od the popular pulse by pnblishing some somi- ofticial statoments in tho columns of the London T'imes,which had thooffcet to raise a storm of in- diguation in tho French republican journals, Still moro recontly, Nl.'I'ilors oxpressed himeelf in fo~ yor of discontinuing the case,but tho Marshal de- clares that his honor will not admit of such & terminntion after ten months' impriroumont, and aftor tho serious charges which have been made aguinst him, Thua tho mattor stands ot prosont, M. Thiors being unwilling to go on with a trial which he is confident will end in ncquittal and & probable after-sult for detamation of charactor, a8 in tho cuso of Gou, Trochu, und tho peoplo domnuding immodiate trinl, e Mr, Lowo, the English Ohancellor of tho Ex- chequer, has mortally offonded the Boclaty of Antiquaries, who rocontly asked him for holp in excavating tho Troad Barrows, the supposed sito of Lroy. In his roply, Mr, Lowe vory coolly writos: *'The question is, aro excavations un- dortakon for tho purposo of Illustrating the Iliad a propor objoct for the oxpeudituro of publiomonoy? I think not.” After informing thom that ho consldored this sort of digging & now head of oxpenso, and that, If any of them hiad any doubts about tha truth of Homer'a utory, thoy hind bottor put their hands luto tholr own pockets aud pey for the (igging, he. dlmisecd thom withiont furthor ado, and in & very un- coremonious mannor. Thoro appears to bo no othoralternative loft, thoroforo, for tho nntls quarien gontiomen but to dig tho Trond Bare rows thomselves and pay for it themaolvos, undor which ciroumsatancon it s highly probable that Troy, If it i undor the Barrows nt all, will ba loft to slumber on withoul intorforenco. FRUIT PROSPECTS, Indicntions of a Fair Crop of I and Good Crops of uu‘.'er';.'iflf'.'fli Profitnble Yenr Expected, Speetal Dispatch to The Chicano Tribune, 81, Joserm, Mich., April 25,~I Lnvo just eamo fn from looking over tho orchards in Bt. Josoph, and can malke, from porsonal obsorvation, o ro« MUablo report of tho prosont prospoots for fruit. ':?:ryllul“fl? iuu l:'m'y backward, and frost falla night, with snow ono ov;ry e 0, Or moro frequontly, find many peach buda alive, and sond you b; #+mall" o summplo that liss boos ottt my fice, to convinco your own eyos. Ho many buds ara alive that sanguino fruit-growers cstimato tha crop 68 high na ono-third of a full crop. If wo ocould protect all tho ponchon thab will got on our ponch-troos this yoar, from tha caroulio, In my judgment, 800,000 buakets would bo too small to market tho crop. V. D. Rana som, tho ontomologist has curculios alive whict o his kopt throo years, It fs impossiblo to pro- diot how many poachos the curculio of thros lnrlgn poach sensons will sparo for 1873, Thoro will bo poaches, .and o fair crop, if tho frost ann curculio pomu‘. Many of our old poach-troes aro dond, but tho numbor lost out of the 600,000 total in tho Bt. Josoph fruit rogion is vory small, Wo hiavo heard no report of tho frodzing of young peach or ‘applo trees in tho 8t, Jossph l'mlt-mglon eitherIn tho opon orchard or nurs sory., On tho contrary, tho troes from Archor & Qo.'s nursory are in oxcollont condition, We ara informod that the largo body of snow thorqughe ly protocted the roots, whfio tho branchds ox~ Eglscd to tho oxtrome cold are nlso uninjured. 080 peach troos frozon wore old and sickly, and nearly doad last fall from over-boaring ox otlior causcs, Apples noverdooked finer at this sosson of the I':r“(’s gglprmm oyerywhore comos tho roport of a ontrary to expactation, tho pear troos hava boon found unhurt by the winter, and the show for a very large crop wes nover botter, No ono could desiro more encouraging pros~ pocts for a gront abundanco of grapes than tho vn.!x;i n(;)w afford. rawborrics aro in as good a condition oould be desired, and wo ahfill hove s full cronf Red raspberries are uninjured, and promiso well. Roporta about the blaokberries aro conflicting, but, from those we have oxamined, wo foel au< thorized to oxpect & fair crop. Chorries aroin tip-top condition, so are pluma nnfis c:\a‘rnntn. 0 seagon progresaes, wo shall know with cortaluty whb will o, Upito tho, posont thme wo aro confidont of o bettor and moro mouey fruit ¥onr than 1872, J. B, CIAMBERLAIN, Becretary of tho 8t. Joseph TFruit-Growers Aae gociation. —_——— THE LABOR QUESTION. Meeting of the Trades? Assombly Last Evening=--To Striko or Not to Sirike ='The Problom Yet Unsolved. Tho Trados' Assombly mot at No. 35 Fifth nvenuo, last evening, - Tho attendance woa very small, showing that tho delegatos wio compose tho body are dorelict in their dut. After tho transaetion of tho rogular busing:s, the subject of atrikes was discussod at comsidorablo longtl, twoor throo favoring them sndor all circums atances, and about tho same numbor op mslns them, unless tho striking Unions embraco all the worlmon of thovraft in its particu- lor. lgeality. On motion, it was resolved that theiuztior bo brought to_the attoution gf tho diftoront Unions, Tho subject for discus- pion noxt Friday ovening will bo The Eight« Hour lnw and the omployes on tho g\\hlin works of tho City of Chicggo.” Souators McGrath and Hincholiffo and Roprosontatives Scanlon and Me- Laughlin havo been invited to addross the As~ anmgly on tho smondod LaSalle Biack liws, and hnve consonted to do so immodintely aftor the General Assombly adjourns. —_———— PERSONAL. Ool. Behuyler Crosby, of Now Yorlk, is at the Gardner Honso, P. Darling, of York, England, is at the Gardoer Houso. Dr. Dake and wife, Bt. Paul, aro at the Mattes aon Houso. Dr. J. B, Tryon, U. 8. N, is at tho Shorman Houso. H, H. Jones, Telegraph and Messenger, Mers cor, Gn., is b tho Bhorman House. 1, McCOoy and family, Baltimore, are at the Shorman Youse. Among tho arrivals at tho Gault Houso, yoie torday, woro tho following: J. M. Thompacy, Philodolphia ; Charlos T\ Miller, 8t, Paul; J. LI Fostor, Now York ; W. H. Gillatto, Milwaukeo; . D, Bllenwood, Fort Wayno; Charlos B. Fos dick, Cincinnati; A. W. Myors, Lnke Superior. Among the arrivols at the Tromont Houss, yosterday, were tho following : J. W. H. Shef~ fiold, Dubuque; B. F. Bunker, Now York; I W. Da Barno, Philadeiphin; W. T. Sands, Mile waukoo; D, O. Keys, Columbna; W. H-'Moir, London; J. P, Robingon, Now York. s Among the mrivals at tho Gardner House, yea= torday, wora the following : _ John Ii. Atkina, Boston ; J. E. Knight, Cincinnati: 0 xilmor and wifo, Now York ; (. N._ stiding, Macomb ; Honry Adams o= {vifo, Philadelphis ; W. XK. Rogs. xwuy § W. O. Miltenborgor, Allegheny ; Bog8 powles, Ohomborsburg, Pa. Among thoarivals at tho Sherman Houso, osterday, wore tho following: R. E. Hastings, Philadolphin: B. T, Strand, Boston; G. B, Toboy, New York ; Lioyd Solby, Towa ;' Charlea 0. Dé_Wenter, Bloom- fugton s P, Hollwnd, Montreal : . A. Btroot, Qouncil Bluils ; W. H. Swift, Wilmington, Del. ; E. N, Hurlout, Now York; John_A. THimbird and wifo, Mrryland ; Mr. and Mrs, Friekel, Ham- berg, Germany. —— H, Graves, Duluth ; Vacation Tour in Europe. Tho Rev. 0. W. Leflingwell, roctor of Bt, Mary’s Bchool, Knoxville, intonds making o tour of Europe with his wife during tho scason, They proposo to take a fow young ladies with tliem, the patty not to exceed fon, ko total exponso from New York and reluru, ine cluding travel, hotols, aud sight-ucoing, will he 3600 currency. Application should bo_made at once, eus ‘losing §50 to uccura pasange, M, Lelfiingwoll's stand- ing is woll known umong his brother Fresbytoriaus ia Cuicngo. Navigation Item Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Fout WAYNE, Ind., April 25.—A meeting waa held by tho Bonrd of Managors of tho Wabash & Erio Oanal at Lafayette, Ind., Jast ovening, and tho Genaral Manager's rport In reforonce tothe financial condition was rond and considored, after which {t was resolved that ea tho snid canal had no funds on hand to opon the canal, and the Company was no longor willing to incur further linbilitios for tho purpose of maintainiug such navigation, aud as otlier conntics linve fuiled to aid in making such ropairs a8 are now or may heroaftor b nocessary to open tho canal for navigation, by refusing to uct undor the law passed Dy tho Logislaturo of the Stato of Tndis ana at tho last session, authorizing aid to Le givon by counties, it was thoreforo rosolved that no ofticor linyo powor to incur any oxpenso ox cronto any obligation by. which tho linbilitica of tho Company may bo increased, and this ia virtu- ally an abandonmont of tho canal. faokiNAw, April 25.—Wind southwoest, and light; snowiny ; thermometer, 40 degreos. The propollors disapponrod yosterday aftorucon at 3 o'olocle; think thoy aro pehind Round Island, Avu Bavre, April 25.—Olemt aud vold; wind nnu‘th\wout, and vory light; hoavy ico etill re- maing. Pour Austry, April 25.—Wiud northwest, and light Inko full of ice. "ALBANY, N, Y., April 26.—The Canel Commig- sioners hinvo dosignntod the 16t of Klay as the timo whon uuvugnuen ou tho cannls willy bo ro. pumod. The Oswego Coual, which hay boen dnmagad, is oxcopted, MLwAUKEY, April 35,—The wind ohnngod to day, roleasing the ice-bound fleot, with tho ox- coption of two enil vossols, whicl will be towed out. . oda Fellows’ Colohration, Specail Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Jouter, Thio April 25— Odd Follows' celos brated_their fifty-fourth anuiversary, horo, ta= d&!. Tho lm]‘f“ of thia clty woro joiued Ly the lodgos of ndjoining towns. A provession, hoaded b{ brasu baud, Hmmded through the principal uireats, in which eloven lodgos woro reprosented, aftor which an oration, by tho Rev. J. g Donnis, of Ohicago, was dolivered at tho Court-Houso to n!n;%n nunltglblngo. Tho &olfl:fiutlnr& closed thia. evoning with a suppor au and eyorything passed off plossautlys ’ gaa