Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1874, Page 1

VOLUME 27. The Chicogo Dui CHICAGO, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1874. | PIANOS AND ORGANS, DAMAGED PIANOS. ‘We havo just racelved a largs lavolca of STEINWAY s of four of which are | ARKANSAS, Gov. Baxter Appedls Again to the President. Ho Asks the United States Troops Not to Interfore. And Reminds the President that He Is Pledged to Dax- ter’s Support, alightly damagod by wator. {n all othor rospoots tiiey aro no?lcn sza gl‘ll,bn,llnn sold, be lnnnml\l?!lnd with onr “Theso planos will bo afloced at Iiboral disconnt from regular pricos, Partica who want {0.Rutonese a Blaloway sy au exooptionaily low prioowill | The Story of the Coup d’Etat Told by S 1 N R o, ' an Eye-Witness. FINANOCIAL. FOR SALE. $15,odo SE@E‘.D NOTES. Pubito notics Ia horeby given thiat on Baturday, Aprll 74, AL e hour of 19 o'olack noon, I will offor biddor for oanh, at the' ofioo of O. ‘0., No, 10 Portland Hcck, Ciloago, Nk, l ireo counpon nofoa of 85,000 cach, dup rospootively Oct. , 1874, Oot, 1, 1875, and Do, 1, 1676; boaring interest at por cont ot aanum, payablo somi-anuuatly, Bald notos y How Brooks Cnme Up and Baxter ‘Went Dowi. A Caso of Political See-Saw Withont Precedent. ot u’]si'o 1] GOV. BAXTER'S APPHAL. . Flold & Lirree Rook, April 10.—Col. Ross, ‘com- mander of the Unitod States troops, took pos~ sosslon of the telegraph offico this morning and oponed it to tho publie, relicving Gov. Baxter's guards, Ho has ono company stationed st the Ashley Houso, whero the telograph oflico is lo- ocatod, and has interfored to such an extent with Gov, Baxter's military proparations that he can mako no forward move on tho Btate-House. In consideration of this faot, Gov. Daxtor to-doy sont the following ) DISPATOH TO THE PRESIDENT Lrrre Roox, April 10, To {he Preatdent of the United States: ‘A fow daya since in tho absouce of my counsol and sta time wholly unoxpeeted, tho Cirenit Judge of this ‘aro axooutod by JOSEPH E., YOUNG, and the priacipal and taterost of sald notes sro gusran- tood by the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad Co,, 154 aro soctrad by trust doad on senl catata, 1n tho elty of hicago. Tho procoods of ealo thoraot to bo applicd in ymont of noto of Samuol J. Walker, for tho sum of 9,948.07 now ovorduo and unpatd. . R 3 ‘ “Attarnoy for logal holdor of note. ROBERT WINTHROP & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 18 Wallat., Now York, oxconte orders for STOOKS, LONDY, ANE GOLD, allow 4 por oont Intorost on DE- county, a court of inferior Jurisdiction, rendored HORLIE, and trsasact a gonoral Banking and Brokorsge | il 2 GV 00, ST P eiaat “ine “far tho ofice of Governor of Stato; _ and, GENERAL NOTICES. without notice to mo or my counsel I iwas at onco foreibly put out of theofiico,and that without suy protense of & writ belng served on me. Al this was done, {00, nfter tho Suprome Court of this Btoto hind twico decided that no court in the Slato had Suris- diction of the case at sll, and that tho Logisiature alono hed the jurlsdiction, BRORKIIRAGE. . To Lifc Agents nud Sollcitors Tho Homo Lifo Insurance Company of New Yark do not ‘allow ur pay brokotago in auy caso, aud novor invo. But inasmnoh as Lhiavo lntoly assumed ' the Oblcago Agonoy, | M40 T , on boing ojooted from tho office, I took stops L L ool o5 pon | to Teatoro myeolf, 10 got possosslon of the ofice, aud Ty own account & vory Lerge Erokm%a Upon All Kinda of Policles, giving tho henefit of ONL-IHIRD LOAN, and no note Foquirod, Tho Joan-plan {s a fixad policy ith tho Homo, s olicitora il now 1o advantago this atorda n got: to curry on tho Goverument, Tho peaploare_coming to my ald and aro ready {0 restoro mo st onco, In making this orgonization I am obstructed by tho in— terforonco of tho Unmiled States troops in displacing my gunrds from (g tolegraph office, and now it is approlionded that thore will bo furilior intarforonco. Buch interforonco broaks mo down and prevents any effort on my purt to restoro th Stato Govornment and 10 protect tho peaplo in thelr rights, I bogof you to modify any order to the oxtent of such intorforonco, and to leave me freo to act in this way to restoro law and peaco s the legitimato Govornor of the State. Buch intorforence doos nob leavo mo any chanco to assort m to tho offico of Govorn~ or, Tu the interestaof peace and of thoss pooplo who are fiocking hero to my support by tho hundrods, I bog of you to romovo tho United Statea troops back 1o tho arscnal, and to permit me to rostora the legitimata Governmerly by my own forcoy which 1 wil do romptly, it tho United{States will not interfora, Chiro 15 n armod insurrcotion ngalnat tho legal Stato Government hore, and I call upon you to ald in sup- prossing it 3 bub, if you will not, then leavomo freo 10 act, and order tho Unitod Statod troops, without an Bour's dolay, to return to thoir own ground, or Xeep them out of my way. Ibave beon thwarled and do- Iayed thus long, and, in faot, cfected from my office, hocauso of tho fact that I hnd heretofors disbanded tho militia of the State, I mako this carnest domand to ropress insurroction and pre- out domestic violonco under iy senso of duty to' tho Conatitution and Inws of tho United States, 18 woll as thoao of tho Slate of Arkansus, and I rely confidontly, a8 I have all tho time, upon the neaurances containe in your lotter of fiept. 15, 1873, to provont tho overthrow of my officlal authority by illegal and dis- orderly proceadings, An immediato answor {8 requested, or otherwise ‘bloodshed muy be tho result. a) Eema Baxren, Blgno <(leney Governor of Arkansas, TIIE PRESENT POSITION OF AFFAIRS, The Governor's forcos havo boon increasod. govoral hundred during tha day, and the stroots| .aro full of armed mon. Brooks haa withdrawn all his sontinels to a point insido his barricadoe at tho State-House, The troops of Gov. Baxtor are very tiug business for a company which lins boon s0 managed during tho paat fourtoon yearsas ta bo Ablo to Pay the Loan of Ono-Third by Dividonda, For pastioulare, call oraddrots, o opysonG 'l Agent, No. 4 Mothodist Uhurch Block, Special Assessment Rebates, OFFICE OF THE BOAND OF PUBLIQ wonx!,} OH10AGO, April 17, 1874, Publio notica s horeby given to all’ partios wlio have dono thelr own work on strcets whoro apacial assossinents. bavo boon made, such as building aldowalks, curb.walls, 610, to call at this oflice and got tha proper cortificates, 80 that tho amounts due them ean be credited ou tho beoks of the Gity Colloctor. - Unloss this s donc, tho property will go to sale for tho total amount of the various Ssassmonts. R. PRINDIVILLE,) Board J. K. THOMPSON,| of LOUIS WAHL, Publle Works. REAL ESTATE, FOR SALE OR FORRENT Desiring to concentrate our business at our Factory, cor. of Wost Twonty-second and Fisk-sis., whoro our Dock, Yard, D: ns, &a., are fooated, we offer tha pies 8t8,, " 0 & and. Ty Seraisth, Goversd with subatantlal. brigk butidings, fra0 and lour storios. high, with tho cxoop: tion of Thirty feet on Olark-st. by One Hun- Grouana Plity-four foeton Twelith, Homuoh I P T losires i 1© HO. e proporty. G888 PHICLIPS PG, 00, North Dearborn-st. Cholco corner, noar tha Lake Shoro Drive, for sale by 8. 8. GREELEY, Niron's Bullding. TO RENT, TO RENT. Tha elogant houto, cornor of Michigsn-av. and Six- teonth-st,, now occupiod by Geo, M. Pullman, FJA\;; Gaid Honts Lsving all modern (mprovoroats, is boatod by eteam ughout. W11 bie ronted nt low ront b{ 5.0 MATS AL Hoal Tatate Brokor, 97 Bunth Clark-at. LUMBER OR COAL DOCK TO RENT. 250 feet front on Twolith-sf LI running back to the Hmpire Hlip, with v and conflioting counsels, coupled with the inde- £a54 cohnootions, near weltthent bridgo. | 4nd conflioting counsals, coupled with tho inde- Py 163 Washington-st., Basomont. Bmam and best fighting material hayve gone TO RENT, POR L“MBER, YARD' omo with the avowed purposo of pursuing their regular avocations. Dok progorty nesr mouth of Oblosyo Tiver. Aply (0 .EAGER TO ATTACK i tho placo, and aro only prevented from doing so by the prosonce of tho United States troops. — BROOKS’ SIDE. THE SITUATION UNCHANGED. Br. Lous, April 19.—The Demoorat's epecial from Littlo Rock, to-night, enys the situation iy cesentially unchanged. * Tho presonco of the, UnitedStates troops doters any aggressive demon- atration on the part of Daxtor's forces. Crowds throng the stracts oager tolosrn of the projocted soveral of the insurgont loaders, most of whom privately oxpross thomselves as DISGUSTED WITI THE INKANE POLIOY boubdnoon f;mhql ggfim t:]vunty :rrgor‘c;d troops, disarmod ani under gul Yy L 4. CLARKE, Chiof Enginoer 1, G. It Daxtor, broke ihroughy thalr linos and Joinod : Brooks' forcos ot tho Htate Houso, FOR SALE. LERSE FOR SALE! ‘Tho most dusirable Jogation unocoupled fa thoalt oelally sdapted to a lluuyo&‘mcnry or clothing ho Bkalryes g borut B8 ol ool e s, ot 3 a0rioat.. Doty Dostbore P OLEVIELAND PABER CO. TILE CITIZENS OFFER ALD TO DROOTS, i Matorial aid from o great mass of: oitizons, both in this city and Btate, is offered Brooks in abundanco, and he is a8 Bocuro of his position a8 an unqualified support can make him., ‘The manner in which Brooks obtained posses- slon of tho executive office hing excited comment and provoked questions abroad. ” . HOW E OAME INTO OFFIOE. In justico to that gontloman, ever since 3,000,000 foet Morrls, Taskor & Co.'s for sale at lowest market prico. 7. RYLRSON, Agont, 918 to 224 South Water-at, MARBLE MANTELS, MONUME! TILING. THE GONAN B ARDEE G T Hort Olarlest. Gunther's Candies, Celobratod throughnt tho Unlon, Tixnrosaed to all g, 66 por 1. Addrons QUNTHEL Gonfastionor, oo, Baxtor has ogonly sagorted hio would neithor re- spect nor abide by any decision of the courts ad- verse to him. His July specch at Lewisbarg was {full of invectives and THREATS OF RESISTANCE, y judicial order rostraining the exercise of aaid official functions. While tho question of quo warranto was undor advisomont in the Su- preme Court, ho doposed his Ropublican militia oficers, called around bim the Southern Demo- cratio olement, recoived his militia, surrounded tho State-Houso with armod gunrds, entronched himaolf in the Exooutivo ofico, ani DARED NOT VENTURE ‘boyond tho Executivo procingts. And when it way_announced that™ the decision would be ronched, he propared & proclmation doclaring martial law, son & Major-Genaral of Militin with aproclamation/fn his “pocket to the Supromo Court-room with instructions tibat = should the declslon be adverse to him to read the proo- 1amation and nrrest the mombers of tho Court. I'hoge faots aro well known here, and other Btatos understand but little tho ciroumatances which have conspired to cause the DELLIGERENT ATTITUDE OF Til8 TWO PARTIES. Brooks has promptly acquiescod in tho order of Col. Roso directing that sll armed mon bo STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. OFFICEH OF TEBR Joliet & Northern Tndiana ATLROAD OOMPANY, Bosrow, Aprl 18, 1oy, Tho anuual meoting of tho Bockholdérs In tho Joljet {ndinna fializond Qampany for oloica ot Di tho tranaaction of tors for tho one Toh othor brsiness ing year, and for & Y5iay proporly como bofors suoh o Sisutisg will by, hold at {ho’oflon of sld Cowopauy, ot | Yopt off tho stroots, and baa withirawn bis son- Jollot, "ty on Tussday, tho i day of Mp3ct 80 | yipfola from the Stato-Houso grounds, but main- ISAAG LIVERMORE, RodY. £ ‘BUSINESS OARDS. W.G. WATTS & CO., 21 Arown’s Bullding, Liverpool, Bollolt cansignmonts of Provisions, Lard, & oute ordors lor tho purchago aud salo of ‘sam; shipment or delivory, - Advancos mado on ooy and all information affordod by our frisnds, A No. 23 Williay Now York, taing A WABLIEKE ATTITUDE within the Oapitol. A dispatoh rocelved hero from Mr. Wilshiro, of the Arkansas delegation in Conpross to Daxtor, nuldn(i Lim to bave United Btatos Distriot-Abtornoy Harrington con- tradiot the statement made in the Lowor Houso of Cangreus yesterday by Hynos concerning the selzure of tho telegraph offioo hore, and the. - HUPERVIBION OF DISPATOLES. Baxtor wrote s reply for IHarrington to sign, REMOVALS, Dt that gontleman deolinil, aud gent tho teles AP am e A NS AT Y gram Limsell, confirming Ilynes' statomont ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. lrmnl his qny nui o%\mre a{uc‘ilnls‘ nr;‘ sonal exporicnce, shout to-day fron RIEBMOWV.AX. smidst the orowds upon tho streets, that tho BA‘Dnoguhugxnz Qhuo‘ will "‘,’, lnu‘?dv%n M-;::g:: fnsurgonts were coming, producod an eleotrio et ) et o o | otk at o Btto Tlowts 0 an ataut BARRICADES were swarming with musketry, the fleld-pieces WANTED, B e s d, - the windows 1illed with do- ?::r‘::‘l‘ze;l defondors, and the entire LUMBER Y ABD arrison slert and rendy for fight. d ho alarm was & false omo, but the effect WANTLD.-A yoint to soll lumbor ina growlug town, .| Was very suggestivo, Will pay oash for s good bustness. No othen Late dispatohes from Washingion are more ey J. W, NUORK, Mo e0d an. w, g .boing all contosted) congratulating " Camp, and so the captive Govornor looks out . defaclo is cagod in tho Room of Biate, not know-: governments, Your reportor has conversed with | than favorablo e Gov. Brooks, and ssy that Baxtor, In pulting himsclf above tho law, Ling undortaken a task that must prove disastrous. —— ADVIOES FROM WASHINGTON. Bpecial Dispateh to The Ohtcago Tribune, ‘WasitivaToN, D, 0,, April10.—Reprosentative Hynos, of Arkansas, received by telograph to- day o copy of the doclslon of the Court on tho Arlansas Gubornatorial question. It is rogular in form and corroot in overy pattioular. Tho in~ dioations wero to-day that tho obstructions to telographlo communication to and from Littlo Rook have boon removed, and that affairs in that yioinity wore in & logs orltioal condition than on tho proceding days. e THB 0OUP D'ETAT. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Lrrrin Roox, Ark,, April 16, 1674, I am horo just in timo to witners A OOUP D'ETAT,— one of tho gonulne Southorn kind., In the fall of 1873, Brooks and Baxter ran for the four yoare’ torm of tho Governorship, In Janunry, 1878, Baxtor was inaugurated, and has sorved a8 Govornor until yestorday at noon. In some way, atthe ond of tho sesslon of tho Legislature, the matter was brought bofors that body, which gavo its approbation to Baxter's tenure of office. By quo warranto tho onse was also brought boforo the Bupromo Court of the Btato, which ruled o want of jurisdiotion to ro- cxamino tho count of tho - Leglslaturo. For nonrly o yoar, suit has beon pending in tho Cireuit™ TOUXE,—Juage “TWLYLOook;—Drouguy by Braoks, under o peoulisr statuto-provision, for FOREIGN. tion, and thought he had bottor stay at home and attond to his business, Ho know bettor than his congrogation what was bost for them aud him, o closed his romarks on the subjeot in theso words, whiok aro charactoristio of tho mant “'I don't noed vacation, “At any rato I don't.nood 1t now. If Ishould broak down, I would take it; until then, you have gob to ‘tako it ¥ Tho Abandoned Steamer L’Amerlque Towed Into Plymouth, Eng, L ————— THE S8OUTHWESTERN FLOOD. Groat Dovastation, JFrom the Memnhis (Tenn.) Avalanche, Anril 17, Tho stroame of Northern Missourd, Southern Tows, and thoss which flow into the Missouri from the direction of Northern Arkansas, a8 well 08 the White and Arkansas thommolyes, sro all running out flush, indicating that the recent rains havo beon ns honavy wost ns thisy have boon onst of the Mississippl ; and thoir offoot will Lo to bring down still anothor flood on top of the ono alroady horo. The outlook in fraught with oxe tromo dangor to all proporty-ownors and resi- donts of lands not above reoh of highwater, y THE BITUATION IN TENNESSER' & hoa oaused much unoasinoss to those who reside aloug tho vnllgn of crecks and rivers. Tho Cany Fork and Collins Rivors, the hoada of ¥hich are in the Cumberland Mountains, noar MeMinnvillo, have flooded tho valloys, and are highor than has beou known for ~twenty-five yoars. Thoy, with othor tributaries, have swol- lon the Cumboriand to sn almost unprocodontod dopth. Harpoth Bloals having over 40 foot of wator on thom, Nashyille and Edgovillo Snp 0 slto) uro pactially under wator,—a part of Col loge, Chorry, and Domonbroun streots, tho bot- tom betwoon Markot and Tront, Ellis' dl‘,nmonl-' e, Bouch ¥one, -BAipyar’ spang bottem, North . High stroot, ond otfhor pointa having A Plebiscite in Switzerland---The Con- stitution to Be Revised. The Bishop of Nancy Fined by o German Court, Diffioulty Between Buenos Ayres and Uruguay. THE STEAMSHIP L'AMERIQUH, - LoxpoN, April 10.—Capt, Rousseau, of the stenmehip L'Amerlque, enys, {n his offiolal report, of tho Qisastor, thot on tho 14th the danger of #inking bocame ovident; a consultation of offi- cors was hold, and it wag dooided to abandon the ship immediatoly. [erald Specta y Loxpox, April 18, —'The Britlsh steamor, 8pray, from Nowport, bound for Gibraltar, and tho steamer Barry, from DPanama, for Now- nully, LBV WITIVOQ B4 Plymouth; Bugland. - Thy: Spray Eloknd up, in lat. 47 N,, long. 6 W.; tho steamsbip Amorique, bofore reported derelict. | b invaded by water Iast Tuesdny, so that thio omoluments of tho offios and tho offo it~ | frie"Rp R SECE R0t (2 i0 "Theing thiriyests | pocny reridonts had to maors oot oad ap 15 golf.- Yostorday tho Judgo docidod tho case, | hours, and thon foll in with tho Darry, which | yostordsy iho tide wasstilladvancing. Tho total giving the offico and $2,218 of back-pay, undor a judgmont of ouster. Drookas at onco wont boforo Judge McClure, and TOOK TIE OATH OF OFFICE 88 Govornor, He then wont into tho Governor's room, snd surprised him by a notifioation ss to those proccedings, and domanded tho office. Aftor some parloy and some show of forco,— Gon, Catterson olaiming, by virtue of having boen appointod the new Adjutnnt-Goneral of the Stato, the authority to enforae tho declsion of the Court,—tho old Governor evacuated the promises, and the new one tool possesslon, with an immediate show of military protection, * Gov. " Baxter, with somo show of retreat for protection, resorted to B8t. Jonn's Collego, & military school, sustalnod by tho Masons, There ho reposcs in safoty to-doy, under tho strong arms of the boy-oadets, The wholo tling wag A THUNDERCLAP gavo aeslstance, The Amerlquo had sustainod no spparent damago, and was muking no water, oxeopt in the engine-room. 'Lho cabin was in tho greatest confusion, owing to tho hurried ‘manner of nbandoning tho stoamor. The groator pgmo; of tho baggago of tho pasgongoers waa aboard, Lownpox, April 18.—Livingstono's funeral was thio grandest over witnessed during tho present oneration. Stanloy ocoupied tho post of honor, eading tho right-hand sido of the line of pall- benrors. Prywourn, April 19.—The derelict French stoamohip L'Amorique was towed into this har- bor yesterday by the stenmers Spray, from Now- port for Gibraltar, and " T. T, Barry, from Pann~ ma. Tho Captain of tho Spray roports that he oncountored the L'Amorique on tue® 15th inat, in lat. 47 dog, 40 min., drifting in tho trough of the sos. On boing boarded sho was found 1o be abandoned, with six or oight feot of water in lher engine-room, stokeholo, and bunkers; tho other compartmonts of tho steamor wore dry. Hor spare and stooring-genr woro intaot, raiufall at Nashville sinco the flrst of tho pros- ont year has boen over 25 fuches, and sinco the 1st of April nearly 0 inchies. Tha race-course is partislly submerged, and Burion & Barry havo sont thoif stables to this city.. Boadle's stablo, on Bouth Cherry stroot, was blown down by the wind, and twonty horics procipitated into the book water during the night, somo of which were drowned, At Edgofield the wator waa over 4 foet deop on Whito's Creok pike, and & number” of familtos had to sook higher ground. All tho low lands botwoon ‘Tullahoma and Mo Minnville were inundated last Tuesday, and theso immenso wators caised the Cumberland to attain a highor Jevel than has been known for many yoars. , The rainfall here, and of course over the sur- Tounding_country likewise, sinco Bunday last, bas been 8 64-100 inchos, and during the eame timo’ the rivor hore lins rison 21 inches. It stopd at dork Inat night 16 inches below tho hl&hoah wator of tho prosent scnson, and 2 feet 9 inchos below ‘the highest fload of 1867, with tho flood going on at tho rate of 6 conta por ‘Tlio Bpray immediately took hor in tow, and was | day. At Calro the advaunce hns boon 8 feat in a0 o mon o it s a4 10 foops | Altormards sasatca by tho.atoamor T T, Darry, | novon doys, tod Jusb ovenlug tho matorlovcl and roar entrances of the Copitol, and men in | The pumps in the LiAmeriquo were ot ab | was 10 toot bolow tho highost wator of tho past.’ worlk, and when sho arrived in Plymouth Har- bor yostorday, tho wator in tho engine compart~ mont had gained only two foet. Thae pumpin is atill going on, The ship’s chronometera an baggago loft by the passongers have been saved, and it is oxpected that o large portion, if nof all, of hior cargo will bo proserved. i’mnm\rm, April 10.—The Fronch stoamer L'Amorlquo is now free of water. When she was bonrded by the ofiicors of the Spiay, hor srms woro stationed in support, and the sircot in front potrolled, Hundreds of armed mon swarmod sbout, This morniug, having aceasion to call upon some of tho officials at tho Stato-Houso, I passod o sories of sontrles up the stairs and through tho, halls, The Govern- or’s room-door being ajar, I saw it also woll supplied with the ebony dofenders, : No furthor outbronk has as yot ocenrred. * Tho poople appout to bo inkiug if quito acquicecively i To]egll;nphiu ndyicos yestorday stated tho Ten- )“ nossoo River to, bo very full and rising 3 facbes | 3 an bour, f1itontening an overflow, withStono and , Duck Rivers bighor than they have boen since 1847, and likely to excoed tho swell of that yoar. Damage has beon, "done to moveral railronds by the high wator, and trains on tho Nashvillo & Docatur Railrond are temporarily dolnyed. Thirty or forty’ business-lousos waro throatoned on - Front stmnt‘ north of Broad, cargo had ehiftod, and sho carcencd badly, but .| with an invasion of tho wafers at Nashville, :';3{‘ S‘,",,,:‘,fi“ ?h:temoaphuro, thero seams tobo & | oy ven aftorwards rightod, ¥ osterday, and tho people were moving out, n:z‘ MAY DE BNOKEN YET BY THE STORAL, Spee— tho river continued to advance at the rate ofan | Bextor at once telographed Prosidont Grani SWITZERLAND. inch an hour, FROM ARKANBAS. ? The nows cawe yestordsy that, after risingto 1814 teot, the water hed commonced declining, Tho riso would of course affeot tho situation about Chicot, when much suffering from high water has alroady boen experienced, Tho loss of atock alone about Chicot will, it is stated, ex~ coed 810,000 in valuo, and s large portion of Chicot County, as well ne the country lying tolling him tho situation nud asking the seryics o tho troopa hore in the Arsenal (now called Bar- racks) to put him back into ollico. No answer has beon made public. I guess Gou. Grant got enough of that business in Louisinna, He did not repent it in Texns, A bullotin is poated to- ‘dny 08 & tologram from Sonator Olayton and the three Arkansas mombers of tho House at Wash- (tho seats of the throo—by the way— BeRNE, April 10.—Partial returns indicate that the plebiscite takon on tho revision of the Fod- eral Goustitution, has rosulted in a majority of over 100,000 votes in favor of rovision. L e GERMANY. Benuiy, April 19.—The German Tribuoal at Savern has condemned in confuniaciam, and im- posed a heavy flue upon, the Bishop of Nancy rooky oud | Jomed s lisayy. fne upan 7 { sbovo, is undor wator, and lkely fo romain &0 tho oopls, upon their triumph. Wondor if 1 | T°F U8 chargo to tho clergy, issued Inat July. | for gomo time tocomp, waq b a1l TRUGUAY. : Th¢ same news of disaster is heard, Tho Yallabusha, Tallabotohie, and other stresms, have boen ewollon boyond their capacity, in fact @8 high ‘as was ever koown, course thoir valleys and. thoso of tho Yazoo havo eufferod, aa has all of the low- lands within roach of tho sngry water, The Husbpuckana orovaess, 140 milos below Lore, 'UNDERSTOOD AND PLANNED DEFOREIAND by Olayton & Co, | Calling upon Col. Roge, in command at the ‘Arsonal (spacious buildings, eérected in 1888, ‘upon a magnificont campus, now in the eity?, I found him fully confidont that ho could, it autho- rized, piovont any Bhuddlng of blood, and only auxious to that offact,—not caring a contnental for the parly lesuce. Ho had not yob recoived any orders from his superior officers. Ho haa a fow companios at command, enough to koop tho oaco and save bloodshed if called upon. ~Tho rooks party is armed. Tho Daxtor partyis not. Recontly tho -United States’ Government, in Lignow, April 10.—The mail steamor from Rio Janeiro hng arrived. A rupture had ocowrred between the Argentine Republic and tho Gov- ornment at Montovideo bocause Prosident Bar-| ‘micnto had arbitrarily closed the Rivor Uraguay ogainst veesels from Oriental ports, It was' hoped, however, that s settlomont of the difil- oulty would bo effected. e’ ¥ P ST GREAT BRITAIN. [1erald Cable Special.) Loxpox, April 10.—Tho procession at the funoral of Dr. Livingetono commenced to move ot 12 noon yestorday, from the Hall of tha 16 submorgo & hundred plantations of Boliver Oounty a8 far down as Carson’s Lnnd‘n% and; even farthor. Nothing definjte_has boen Leard from tho Misuigsippi levoos of Washington and Issaquona Counties, -but tho chances are that thoy will not protect tho country from the com~ ign 0 st Ar- | Goograpbi Bocioty, in_Baville row. The:| ing waters, The highest water ever known be- o B e e Aaoncl, Ta | howo. was followed by twolvo mourn.. | weon hero and Vicksburg was in 1603, and it K Oty Sowld geia an ORdor for the sur- | ing coschos; thon cumo tho Quoon snd,| stood b its high lovel 87 days.. Thofiood of 1858 lasted 05 days at this place and 120 daysat Vicksburg, ~ It is belioved that the present lood mu be fully up to that of 1863, and porhaps ovor, Prince of Wales' carriages, and numerous! others of the nobility. The pall-boarors wero honded on the right hand by Stanloy, aud on the left by \annwrl% t, Tho others wero Dr, Kirk, Horaco Waltor, Sir Thomas Scele, Col. Grant, Mr. Wobb, of Nowstond Abboy, snd Alr, B Young. - Tho chief mournors were Dr. Moffatt Dr. Livingstono's fathor-in-law, and tho dei explorer’s two sons, ‘Thomas and Oswell Living- stone. Theroe were presont the Dikoes of Sutherland and Manchostor, Lords Shaftosb ZLawrence, and Houghton, tho Bishops of lincoln and Sierra Loon, 8ir Bartle F'rere, 8ir Honry Rowl- inson, Sir \viIUum.I-‘erTmon, the Lord Mayor of London, and wenty mombers of the corporation the Rt Hon. Tuascl Gurnoy, tho diplomatio reprosenntives of Amerioa, France, Gormany, Italy, Portugal, and othors, The Lord Proyost of Edinburgl, the rendor of theso arms, thero MAY BE SOME SHART WORK, This ia o point of delicacy in the oaso. 8f. John's College stands upon the mdo of the Arscnal s . IN 10 A - the situstion I8 docidedly bad., The Bass and Lookout leveos, bolow Liake Providonce, have submerged all plantations lylng botweon that and tho Tensas, ‘Ihero is no_hope of checking. the overflow, or of stopping the breaks. 'Below thomouth of Rod River tho wator is oven with the bank-tops, and over in many places, and n“&,xxxwm“ orevasses have ocourred at various oints. 3 : v The crovasge 2 miles below Baton Rouge, on MeCullen's place, east side, aifects Ward's Groek bayou, Foutaine bottoms, and fifteen river- lantations to Bayou Manchac. 'The citizons of ;lmflominn. .on_the west side, 110 miles above Now Orleans, in & public meeting, soveral wistfully upon thoso grounds, waiting anxiously for Blugher or Gen, Grant, ~And the Governor ing what Is going to turn up. ° '511(! political riddle I am nob able to solve,. 1t seems o littlo funny to an outsider that o subordinate court can flnd jurisdiction in o caso whore the Bupreme Court found none, But thoy say this is a case under tho statuto for re- gaining the back-psy" of offico, and 8o is not analagous to that which came bofora the Bu- Pmma Court upon & quo warranto, upona mo- ion of the Attorney-Goneral. Anothor funny thing is, How can s Oircuit Judgo sonul the indorsemont of the Logislaturo upon id that Brooks did | Provost of Glasgow and Hamilton, the Mayor | daya B8O, protesting against the i‘:.‘i.?‘i‘fi:‘.iu?‘iifi.‘,’n‘!;é&i‘? and that o ‘33,,%: 1 | oaa Gorporation ot Sonthampton, the olicors. of | eutting of the ‘ivbon o mlava Do recognized, Moreover, 1t is belioved that tho | tho Mal-wa, Admirals Shorwood, Osborno, and | the main xivor, cluimed 1n 8uc! an aot would afford ‘no rolief, and the Inorville Parish people wonld therefore resist it to tho death., " Its opening would ovorflow the town of Plaquemine, and, with the existing . cravasses of Point Coupoo and other parishos, would turn the ‘Mississi) vanr down on: tho riohost portion of Louieians, and swamp the entire Grand Lake country, cause great sufforing, and .eventuate in tho death of many persons who would Lave no time to escape to the hi[il;lnmfl_. Baok water from tho Mississippi hoe backed up tho Washita to_Trinity, and also far up Red Tivor, aud Toneas Parish is, with tho exceptionty of tho parts of plautations, gonerally ovorflowod. To add to the misfortunce of thabsoction, the gnats, which are tho nsual attondants upon high water, are annoying atock, and quito a number of mules have dicd on tho Avondalo and Moun.d plantations. This will cap the climax of tlio miseries of the country. At Now Orleans tlo water is through the planking of tho steamboat leves in many places, and about the French mo.r- kot und elsewhere it hos run over, but a tempio- rary lovee oconstructed hastily along the river- frong of tho olty promlses to afford future-pro- teotion, The Bonnet Carre crevasse, above Orloans, was 160 yards wide and incroasing, ‘The Jackson Railroad had oponed fifty gates theough the rond-bed, which havo boen corofully bridged over, and allows the water to run through. Lhis having been done for a distanco of 20 miles every G0 foet, thore will be no dnungorof the traok being washed away, though it may be cov- erod with water, Tho officors of tho road be- Tieve that they will not hava to suspond travel. ] NO DELAY IN THE TRAINS, LousvitrLe, Ky., April 18,—There is no delay in tho transportation of pnssengors south from Lonisville. The traine are now run via Nush- villo and Deoatur, conncoting to Montgomery, DMomphis, Mobile, aud N ew Orloans, other explorors. ‘Iho coromony wag improssive to & high de- 60, nud thero was a full choral sorvice.. Dean tanloy, tho sub-Dean, and Canona of Wostmin- stor Cathedral officiated, .Tho Dond March from “8aul” wag performod,and the cofiin was covered with camellias and palm branchos, An immense concourso of spoctators followod t%m cg.rpn, and, along the routo, all stores wore closof Tho Observer and other 'papors pay & high tribute to American enterpriso. The Telegraph eays that Stanloy and Wain- wright, in the places of honor, algnify America and Africs 08 chief mourners, and that, without American aid, Livingstone would bave been un- heard of, and H\Ip{)ofli}d dend long fii 5 LoxpoN, Apnl 19,—The miners killed by the explosion” at Dimkjintleld were buried to-day. ‘The funeral was attonded by 10,000 porsons, ——— ” INTERESTS OF REPUDLICANISM will be bottor sorved by Brooks, and tho in- stinota of the colored poople cling to him as an old Anti-Slayery man. Both ocandidates bad mixed Ropublican and Democratio votcs. Fur- thor developments are waited for. The whole aspect to-day is comico-erions, drich, a lawyer, i8 lwre in jail for the mur- der .of - Judgo fl‘ox, o&_ noble, truo, and honost incumbont of tho Bonch in o country dstrict, He came from tho North, and had married a lady of position in this eity, The Jilling was a promeditated, cold-bloodod nffair. Political hate was mixed with it. Another Judge was murdored in another part of the Btato not long ago. His murdorer, although cscaping the veordict for that crime, has just been lung for killing other persons. Xn Toxas I picked up a country paper that reported EIGUT MURDERS as thonows of tho woek within that Btate in the Tue of this practice. To kill » man's dog or to stoal his mule {8 an mexpisble offenso. DBub the sAnotily of a,man's life is not so woll deflued. J, E. Roy, JUDOE WIHITOOK, From the LuCrosso (4a.) Jtepublican. The Cirenit Court Judgo who gave the judg- mant of ouster, and issued the writ by which Qov. Bastor, of Arkausas, who had beon acting Govornor for months, was forcibly ejected from oflice and Brooks put in his place, was Judgo Whitock. At the timo tho war broke out in 1861, lie was resding law with Cameron & Bishop. Bishop enlistod in the Becond Wisconsin Caval- 1y, and Whitook followed auit. When the War was_over both these gentlomen took up their rosdence in Little Rook. Whitook was subse- quently elected Olrenit Judge of Pulnski County, Lolds that position ye, and sscms to be playin an important part in putting in and turning oul SPAIN. i Bavonne, April 19.—The Carlist General, Sn- Dallo, aud ail Lis staff, were regently captured by the Ropublican troops, noar Vich, but Saballo, ‘with some of his officors, subsoquently escaped, and crossed the frontier into Franoo. Mapnip, April 19.—Tho army in tha North has beon heavily reinforced. It now numbers 40,000 mon and has soventy picoes of artillery. . ERdE N > QUBA. 'HaNANA, April 18,—The Diarifo recommends the farming out of- tho custom-houees to a com- pany, and bolioves the Captain-General will as- sent with the grontest plonsure. g Tho JDiarfo regrets the renting of custome houses morally, but belioves it nocossary eco- nomically. Joso Antonio Tosser, n prominent morchant, bes beon electod Prosident of the Spauish Banlk, g o i e 1 Wavarsiate ar' ey State. subjoct to tho approval of the Capiain-Genoral, - i e . CASUAL TIES, OBITUARY. BRAZIL, Lisnon, April 19,—1Tho sentenco of the Blshop of Pernambuco has boon commuted to simplo imprisonment. The roport which was ourrent 1n Paris recently. that the Bishop had been par- doned, 18 not confirmod, RELIGIOUS. Dishop Whitchouse in Rlll;:{?l‘lkun. Spectul Dispatch to I'he Chicago, une, MinwAuker, Wis, April 19,—DBishop White- houte, of Onloago, presched tho opening sor- mon at the restored Bt. James’ Episcopnl Chureh this mornfug, and afterwards hold con- ltmation sorvicas fiora and b tho Cothedral this ovenlng. The sermon was & powerful of- fort, and inuisted in tho dootrine of the Divine A Boy Accidentally Shoots a Ploy=. mate, OrxoreNaTr, O., April 10.—At the Qincinnati Union Bothol, thia_evening, two boys, William K. Fairohild and John Haunard, ench 14 yoars of ago, were togathor in tho wash-room, Hannard wad plaging with Fairohild's Ylaml, ‘when it went off, Hxa ball entoring Fairchild's stomach, in- flioting » probably wortal wound, Fairohild was waken to tho Oinclnnatl Hospital, and Hannard was arrcsted. It s thought that the shooting ‘was puroly acoidental. The Rev. Abner Juckson, D, Dy L.k, D., Prostdent of Trinity Oollege, Earttord, Conn, Hautronp, Conn,, April 10,—The Rev. Abnor Jackeon, D, D, LL.D., Prosientof Trinity Oolloge, dlod at_his residence in this oity this morning, aged 78 years, J. P. M, Stotson, New Yonx, April 18.—James P. M. Stotson, for many yoars conncoted with the Astoy House and g&h“ hotol enterpriscs, has died of paralysis, ago 50, Blow in the Muzzlo of n Gun, Spectul Dispatch to The Chicano Tridune. BIoNEY, O., April 19.—A little gir], about 7 {enm old, daughter of Nathan Stout, s farmer WEATHER REPORT, A WaAsmiNGTON, D, c.&A ril 10,~For tho Upper " o ying.7 milos north of this place, was instantly Lalo soglon, ik nl bigh northoess to sonly | pressuce Kl It g, while blowing b tho suaalo of over the northorn portion, whero thore will bo | Mlonry Ward Ideccher WAL Stay at | & gun in tho hands of a brother, supposing it not to be londod. BuOW. four years. A storm contré over Enstorn Kansas will move northeantward over the lnke roglon. Oautiona~ ryulaun}u aro ordered for Duluth, Marquetto, Lscanaba,. Milwaukeo, Obloago, Grand Ilaven, %fl:u, Detrolt, ‘Loledo,” Oloveland. Erlo, au lo. Homes The gun had not been used tor Special Digpateh to T Chicago Tribune. : New goms, April 10.—fonzy. Ward Basohor has decided 1ot to acoept tho kix monthy' loave of absonco offered him by Plymouth Oburch, At the oponing of servioss in the church this momning, he sald be did npt need & vaoa- ¥'wo Porsons Drownods - Naw Yong, April 18.—A sohooner ran ashora while making tho harbor Iastnight, and the Oap: {aln'and one of the arew wore drawned. “tlo people whathor i resa to ollow the inl, In sddition to “Wo cani honding the | use aving, oto, g Elum g to-ntorrow. i X geueral way as to tho points_establishod tisatinony, without attompting to make, in a ‘manner too personal, auy comments. &ia i pnymont to {hn Goyernmont WASHINGTON. Report of fhe Civil-Service Commis- sion to the President, : Battles, Sieges, and Fortunes of the Reform Movement, Is $25,000, All That Is Wanted to Assure Success ' The Sanborn and Distriet Investigations.|* About Concluded. : " OIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. WasmnoTon, D. 0., April 10. ~ico Commisslon have mado thelr report to the Prosldont. It enys, rogarded asa wholo, that tho situation and prospocts mny bo stated au davorablo, To arrest tho system now, when it “has encountored all possiblo obatnolos, and has wurmountod most of them, but has not had timo o dovelop the oxperionca required to oxhibit the! Bost appliCaTion OF 1ty LICLNOAH Bod full tosults of ita Influonce, would be in ovory way incon- clusive and unfortunato. Tho Ciyil-Bor- AN APPHOFRIATION OF $25,000 NEEDED. {-To carry on the reform for anothor yoar, thoro: ‘{8 nooded an appropriation of $25,000 ; it is do- #irablo that the appropriation should bo In such. “Tanguago as to no ungor leave any doubt among bo the intention of Con- now systom & full nud fair THE INOREASED PIESTIGE AND VIGOR, tod by tho peoplo : which an unmistakable indorsement by Congresn would impart to the now systom, it is plain that, in tho langunge of the President’s message of Dooomber, 1872, *'it will roquire tho direct' ‘action of Congress to ronder the onforcoment of _the syatom binding upon my [his] successors,' 'WIIAT TAS BEEN SAID ABOUT IT, . i not botter oxpress ourconvictions than' ‘b{ ado] linfilflm languago of tho highost officers eleol “ Thoro {8 a public fool~ :ing in this cauxtrg]fnundod in_ronon, best Interosts of the country, wiioh, ‘domads roform in the Civil-Service ;" and ** tha «clovatiod and puriflontion of tho Olvil-Service of “the Govornmont will be bailed with upprovul by -the whole pooplo of tho Unitod States.” 5 ——— 'THE DISTRICT INVES MIT! compre- TIGATING OOM- Special, Dispatchto The Chicago Tribune. THE INVESTIGATION TO OLOSE BOON. ‘WasiNazon, D. O., April 10.—Tho memorlal- “ista expect to close, for the time being at least, their oxamination of witnosses baforo the Dis- triot Investigating Committee byito-morrow or Tuesdny. Bignificance is given ‘to tho state- ‘ment made by Col. Nickerson, that Congress- an Parsons in describing tho ironizing procesa used by DeGolyer & McClelland, dlsplayed com- ploto ignorance of that process. Nickorson, ng tho owner and oporator of tho patent for the process, is esteomod good authority on the sub- Joct. YOW PARSONS EARNED III8 FEE. Tt is testified by Chittendeu thnt Parsons do- ~voted thirty duys to the task of informing him- self with regard to the mothod in which the ~wood is ironized, and that it was in his, Chitten- den’s, opinion mainly due to Parsons’ lucid oxplanation and cogent nrguments that the Board finslly adopted the pavement, | ment of Nickorson, the man most familiar with tho process, and undor whose suporvision it was taken in connection with Chittendon, ghows, it would seom, that the merit of the pavo- [ mont, e seb forth by Parsons, had but Tho stato- :LITTLE TQ DO WITH 1T8 ADOPTION el by the Board, as he knew nothing sbout its mer- ' | its, and the inforence is raised that it was main- so.far done littlo harm, though it threatens k 1y bocause of the “influence * that Parsons com- miandod- that- the contract was awarded, ‘understood thet Blickendorfor, the Oivil Engi- neor brought here from Ohio to measure the dono by tho Board, hng nearly com- his labors, and will bo Yond: ‘the Committee in a fow days. NOTES AND NEWS. Bveclal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘Wasusaroy, D. C., April 10.—Tt is announced . that to-morrow and Tucsdsy tho Sumnor obit-:| uaries will be pronounced in the Senato. 3 Alr. Willismson Wright, of Indiana, who is thi propriotor of & marble quarry County, Virginis, has offerod to allow the Gov-. ornmont to take from the quarry enough ma--| erinl to H in London COMPLETE THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT without remunoration, provided it is all tuken ont and tho possossion of the lands restored to . ‘him within two yoara, A board will convene at the Treasury DB[IB!‘E'- ment on the 27th inst, to examine cnndidatos {for appointment and promotion in tho Engincer Corps of the revonue marine service. THE BANDORN INVESTIGATION. ‘The mport of the Ways and Mcans Committee on tho Banborn contract investigation is rapidly approvching completion, under tho superintond- - euce of Mr, Foster, of Ohio, and it is thought that it will bo in shope to present to tho Houso The Committeo will sum n%' in o Y, tho HIGH OFFICIALS' OHARAOTERS DAMAGED. Tho facts olicited ara of suoh a dawaging char- acter to Beoratary Richardson and Assistant Sec~ rotary Bnwyer that thoy will need no comment, and will speak for thomsolves. The paseage of abill torepeal the law under which the obnox- ious contracts were oxecuted, and which will at tlio samo time provido for the collection of de- linquent taxos due in part from porsons in Eu- rope, oud 1n part from porsons and corporations fu this country, will bo recommended in this conneotivn, It is generally romarked by Con- ssmen that thore will not” probably be more an one voto against tho bill, and that one voto will bo Benjamin Butler's. * OIANDLER TO THE RESOUE. A strong offort is muking by Administration ciroles, supportors to oreato sympathy for Booretary Riouardson in Congressional is enid to havo dovoted himself with rare self- donial to this choritublo work. for Richardson and appeuls in his -bohalf are besed prinoipally on arguments whioh, when boiled down, smount to the plen that such an intonscly stupid ass ought not to be blamed s a man of fuirly good sonse would bo, they soem to be entitlod vo credit for yiolding to the impulses of & good hoart, If nothing more; but tho more theyexert themselves the worse they make it for the poor Becratury, Ohandlor As their oxouses TILE DAYFIELD 4 BT, OROIX, people have been quietly but industrionsly worlk- ther oase, aud it is possible that thoir L bo urged to-morrow in the House. ‘THY PRESIDENT WILL BION, It is almost universally concodod that tho Presldent will sign the recontly-onactod Curren- oy bill, Tho tonor of all the ambiguous romarks that he has made on the subjeot, can be torturod into any mean seems to warrant this conoluzion denoce of tho inflationists is also strongthoned by tho fact that His Lxcollonoy fs apparently iu consultation on_this subjeot” more frequently wtllllh Benators Morton and” Logan than with any othors. lm far s thoy ng whatever, 5 The confl* OLAIMS YOR COMPENSATION. The Buprome Court will, on Wednsday next, 'AY IDLE RUMOR, Reports were oiroulatod to-night thst Seeretary fonlly dosl hoar with & view to making flual docision, the no-callad 20 por cent cases, whioh involve the some 500 or 600 oivil employes of :l G:L\QIJ p]mj cnull 3d<1ltbllloun 00‘;113 lon, whicl oy claim is due them under O N fomal xasolution of ‘1807, whioh allofrod 2l por cont additional pay of the seyeral olasaes therein doi Mhose claims aro bassd upon the assumption that the words ** and other am]l)loyeu," which in therosolution followad the spac olassed of employes, comprohended “cortain por«, sona omployed at navy-yards and in other Gav- ernment oivil sorvice, to all employes italy speoitiod, ated Itis ly to report to | ,, — NUMZ BR 240, Fish had placed bia rosigi= on in the hay the Prosident.- Mr, mfi»—: x’:nuunnax;’ l‘.‘hflu‘ ‘n.l: porta untrue. i Bonator Oamoron, it L lated, is_diligontiy pulling. tho sirings to ’L"fl * biis son Don mada snccossor to RichardsonS : Beorotary of thes ‘Eroasury, §i ke . ‘The Catholics of the D1 ct aro oxporloncing an attack in o mild form | tho temporanco re« vival, and havo- recently beon- quite active In torm(ng Father Burke jomporance assoclations in various parts of tho oity. it Harlan's Ohroniolo of to-dsy ndvocates, in s leading artiolo, thio justico of the claims of Drooks that ho ls Goyornor of Arliansns, on tho grounds that a aompntent logal- tribunal has do~ cided that he waa elagted to th~¢ offico. The cditor sota forth that, while, for - politioal rossons, o has donired Boxtor's suoooss, yot, undor tia circumstancps, lhn.guntlumun onnh‘ to qulotly surrondor his offico £o Brooks, [0 the Associated Prean) R 1 TOBTAY, TREATIER, o - WismNoTon, D, 0., April 18,—DBertholdi, the Tronch Minisior, sud Posimastor-Goneral Oros- woll have agrood upon tho basis of & postal tronty botweon France and - tho United States, which will ostablish jan {nternational lotter rato of 9 conts, or 50 contimos for oach linl&-punce in this country, or ton grammos in Frauco ; onch country to rotain tho postagoe collested thorein, ond to pay for the transportation to tho othof o -tho maila. Propaymont will bo optional, but . want. of it will subjoot Jotters to n fine of b cont, ov 46 contlmes, to bo rotained by the country no\lunfln{. ‘Thore aro to bo no postal acoouuts between tho two countrios. % Tho_formal ratification of the postal trosty with Japan has boer langed, oAty Brovidol For By otaratiomal fetiorsrado. ot 1a conts poc half ounco, but il not to go lnto “offoct till aftor'slx months “from tho tima tho Govorn- mont of Japan shall notify tho United Statos of itn rendiness for tho withdramwal of our prosent postal agonts in that country. L THE TREASURY PORTFOLIO. New York. April 18.—A Philadelphia dispatel #oya = Josoph Pattorson,“tho President of the ‘Wostorn Bank of that city, has been offored the position of Bocretary of the Tressury. PERSONAL. Aloxander H, Btophons loft the’city last even- ing, for his home in Georgla. Beforo taking his departure, ho was callod upon by a° company of frieuds, and, during tho converantion, romarked that. unless his hoalth should bécome improved Uy tho trip, ho_nover ngain- axpected {o visit ‘ashington. Ho is a confirmed {nvalid, and has not beou in his seat on the flovr of tho House for.the past two months, In framo ho is'a more shadow, but his intolloct soems as bright ag ever. . : Govornmont . Dircctor of. tha 3. H, Millard Union Pacifio Railrond, was in tho lobby of tha Houso to-day, workiug, it is clarged, to sscura #uch logiulation s will effactnally” reliovo that Company of auy. responsibility to the publio or the Govornment for tho ostabilshment of & toll- ato” st the eastorn tarminus of that uatioual ghway. CRIME. Capturo of a Supposed Momber of the Gang of Wall Street Forgerss New Yorg, April 10.—A mysterious prisonof hag boen lield in tho Tombs for some doys on tho suspicion of being conneoted with the gang of railroad forgers who operated in Wall stroot Inst summor. They nogotiatod over $1,000,000 of countorfoit bonds on the Now York Contral and Buffalo & Erie Railway Companica before boing discovered. Among the vietims weromost of the prominent bankers in the viclnity of Wall streot, besides two Trust Companics. 'The New York Guaranty & Indemnit; Oam%nny and the Buffalo “& Erie Rallway Company's bonds wora 8o closoly oxocouted that tho Presi- dent_of tho latter” Company is said tohave bought $40,000 of them ou which his signaturo had boen forged, without a suspicion a8 to thewr character, ‘The prisoner s understood to bo Louis J. Kupors, 8 broker, andhe is holisved to have ‘beon one of tho mon- who disposed of 280,000 of forged Buffalo’ & Erie papor . to Saundors, Hardevbargh & Co. Detectives hiad traced him to Buffalo, Roohes- tor, Oloveland, OChicago, and other oitics, snd finolly orrested him lost Tuesday in Boston where lie was aoting as canvassor to s mhoiuph firm, ‘unde the namo of A." 0. Delancy; he"in lfneld on twenty' indictmonta: for conepiracy and orgery, : upers- makes tho tonth prisoner lodged in tho Tombg within the past four months in con- neotion with these great forgeries. ' The othor prigonors are Andrew Roberts and Edward Glengon; alleged to have concoived and furnish- ad thé ocopifal for -the forgeries; Dr. Alvah Birdeall, of Burdoti-Cunningham murder no- toriety ; Stephion Raymond, who was extradioted in London ; Johreon, a lawyer ; Brown, Yatos, and Franklls, -who ‘nggotiated tho bouds ; aud Stephen Oblmsted; who did tho printing and engraving. Tho lttor is to be usod 83 a "Thio trial of the f i¢ 1o thought, will o of the -fo s thought, Wi bogin this wook: The District Attornoysoficors say that tho: evidenco will disolosa “the most astonisbinig forgery conspirnoy -on record in thit country. ¥ Attompt to Wrook a Passenger Train. Spectal Dispatch to The. Chicago Tyibune, GREENvILLE, O., April 10.—An atitempt wat ‘made last night £o wrook the passonger train go- ing.wost st 4:30 p. m., on tho Pittsburgh, Cin: cinnati & 8t Lowis Railway, about balf a mile wost.of Greenville, 0., br putting a bar of rail- roud-iron on tho tracle.” The train was not run- ning fast, nnd .ho serions damnge was_caused. Tflz is the third attempt to wreok tho samo . Sulcide of o Murderers Special Dispatch to I'he Chicago Tridune. LocaNseont, Ind., April 19.—E. H. Burgess, who shot hig wifo yestordny, diod last night (;«I'm the effects of poison administered by him= self, ' RAILROAD NEWS, The Effect of the New Railroad La: in Wisconsin, b MILwAUEEE, Wis,, April 19.—A morning paper Rfihlisheu an interview with the Hon, Aloxandor tohell, Prosident of the Milwaukeo & 8t Paul Railrond, in which ho says, in respect to the law passed by the last Logxuian, hat tho rond caunot run under it. "Ho further saye] that the Company will firat test tho constitutionality of the actin_tho courts, snd, it beaten theve, will take oft all its trains, An Agont of Bischoffsheim & Gold« smidt in New Yorke. Special Dispatoh to The Chicago T'ridune, NEw Yonrx, April 18.—3r. Cassol, ropresonta- tivo of Bischoffshelm & Goldsmidt, Eriv’s Lon~ don baukors, is in Now York again, 'nd thero is much speoulation as to the cause of hi vieit. Whether Lo comes to take aotive part in the hostilitios in Erle which aro ponding, or whoth- er it_is to look after tho Atlantic Groat Western Railwny, aud othor railrond in- tercats of his employers, 18 88 yot unknown. The firm of Bischoffsheitn & Goldumidt becamo in- tercsted in tho New York, Bostou & Montreal Railroad, and havo oithor taken on thoix own ncoount, or negotiated the salo to othors, of §0,000,000 of the consolidatod mortgago bonds of thio Company. At tho timo they took or pold theso bonds, it was undorstood ihat $19,000,000 would flulsh tio road, and muke it ablo to'do s profitable business. Tle time hus come for the othor $6,000,000, and it Js thought not improbable thot Cassoll's misslon conoorne this enterpriso, while at the usnme timo ho wil} look to the interest of nis employers iy Erio, aud Atlantio, and Northwostern, and tho United Btatos Rolling-Stock . Company, Mr. Casscll says his employors do not intend entoring into any rallroad contosts, and olaims Lis busiess is of no public intorest. FIRLES. " At Plattoville, Wi, PrarreviLLe, Wis, April 10.—The flre at Plattovillo, Grant County, early Thuraday morn- ing, whichi broke out in'Lottman's saldon, de- utmfied oloven bulldiugs in tho business centro of the village, Lous, $30,000 ; with little {nsur- anco, At Buangor, Mos Baxaon, Moe,, April 19,—A fire Iast night do- stroyod the atore of Hodgkins & Co., Exchange stroet, tho flour a&und corn_ storehouso and griat-mill of 8, \V, Thaxter, the largo saw- factory of Kimball & Banford, and the corn and flour and grocery store-housce of T, H, Gitohill & Bon, Foster & Hubbard, Uabb & Lancastor, ‘Hopklus & Bon, and Frank Dwinal: Lo 000, mostly insurod: