Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1875, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: AFFAIRS OF STATE. 1 Debate in he Ellinols louse on Stato Militia Bill, The Rights of Alien Corporations algo Disoussed at Length. The Expenses of tha State Board of Charities for Four Years. Secining, Except for Whalces, to Be Restricted by Law, Proceedings of tha Logislative Assomblages of Other Commonwealthe, ILLINOIS, HOUSE. LIFE INKURANCE. Breefal Dispateh to The Chicage Tribune, Bentxariesy, March 1,.—Tho Ifouso met thia morning with exactly s quorum and not a week to sparo, and passed the morning acssion in con- stderation of bills by sectlous. Tho bill suthorizing ife insnrance companies organized under ourlaws or doing busitoss in this Btato to purchaso on foreclosuro 8alo any real es- tate mortgagod to any such company to socurs oaus, was taken up on consideration by sections ; soamended ns to apply only to mortgages exe- cutod hereafter, and with tho proviso that tho property sa purchascd should not bo held by any such company for more than five yoars, the Lill was ordered to & thinl reading. THE WILLIAMEON COUNTY OUTLAWS. Tho bill approprinting £10,000 for tho arrest and prosecution of tho Williamson County out- laws camo up again this morning; this timo on constdoration by wcctions, us heretofuro, whenover that Lill hns Lean taken up, o werong spposition was mawmteated to tho blil. This ls not that ouybody I8 desirous of hinving the Will- {ameon County murderera go unpunished, but & great maty mombors, it would soem, would let auy number of murderets go unpunishod rather than spend auy®nonoy to securo tho arrest aud convletion of the murderera. After tho nanal mations to amend, efc.. tho bill wan roferrod back to the Appropristion Commitleo, where probably it will be killed. SUSTICLS OF TIE PEACE. Conkrite's Lull, providiug that, in suita bofora Juaticos, it the pIsintiff in any wuit upon a cons tract, oxprossed or implied, for the poymontof ruoncy, ehall fito an aflidavit showing tho naturo of his dowand sud the amouut duo Lim from tho defendant after altowing to the defendant all his $ust credits, deductions, and sot-offs, if any, ho shall bo entitled to_ judgment 89 incase of de- fuult, unless tho defendant, or bis ngent, or his ottorney, sball file an adidavit stating thut ho verily bolioves ho bas o good defenso to sald suit upon the merite to the wholo or & portion of tho pflmm'u deninnd, specifying tho amount ne-.| cording {0 the boxt of hix hudrmont and belief, was ordered to o third readi COUNTY JUDULES, McCoy's bill_to confor upon County Judges Jurisdiction as Justices of tho Peacs, aud to lo- galizo acta done by them as much, provoked s sharp dobato botneen Bradwoll and McCoy as to tho constitutionality of tho bill. Gradwell ar- gued that the ex parte facto conforring of juria- diction was unconutitutionsl. McCoy argued tho passago of the bLill on tho ground that a numbor of County Judges, in ignorance of tho law, had asaumed and exercisod jurisdiction ny Justices, and that the bil was not oxparte do facto within the nienning of tho Constitution, The roiroac- tive clausg was, altor furtor dobate, strickon out, and tho Lill ordered to third readiug. OTHER BILIS. Dradwell's bill providing that the llen of judg- monts (alter tho lupsa of oue yoar without ex- ocution issued) shall only attach, when fovy is mado, from tho time a certiticate of tho levy ia tiled in tho Itecorder’s oflico, was ordered to third rending. If passed, tho bill would protect purchasers ngainat lons by lovy which thoro ta uo means of ascortaining, Hopkirs' Lill to prohibit sning-flabing for sal- mon, bLrook-trout, wall-oyed pike, pickerel, or Luss, wau taken up, amouded 50 an to prohilit uving o scino in tho montlis of Mareli, April, May, and Juue with meshos less than 4 inches square, and ordered to n third roading, After it uasues, Judgmng from tho proacribed wizo of the seino-moshes, 1t witl only ho lawful during tho spawning months to seiue for whales, ERADWELL'S INTH: LILL, Tho voto ordering Uradweil's Intereat bitl fo s third reading was reconsidered, THE IO QUANDS, The Mllitia bill waa takon up and amended so a4 to provido for enrollment trienuiatly instead of nnnally, uud striking out tho section allowing ¥1 perday to privates and son-comniissioned oflicors for servico at regular parndos, iuspection, and encampmenta; alyo roducing the lovy for mum-‘pmpuueu from one-tenth to one-tiwentioth of a mill, Rtotan moved its reforenco to the Committen 'ou Appropriations, Ifaues taok the floor and favored the bitt, Ir %o had to resort to military forco, ho preforred n Btato militia to the humiliatlon of calling upon tho armod forees of the Genoral Govornmont, The Tlouso had, threo youra ago, oxpressed ity orhl- fon of the sending of United Btates troopd {nto hin Htate, DBradwell, in roply, eald the troops sent to Chis cago then wore neut thero when tho pooplo had Tost all by tho fira, and their coming wau not (o sot up o military despotism, but to protect sur- ferlug citlzons, Furthor, ho was in favor of ore dering the Lill tonthird reading, that it bo pansed spoedily. We neededj militin. The day wad not far distant wlen we might need them o it dawn another reboilion, Haiucy said he Ladu't referred tn the Clileago firo, and Loped Bradwoll would take back what Lo hiad ald fn that rogard, Dradwelt—I can't, for it's true. Haincs continuod tiat, if we had to call ont tho military every timo thers was n fimnt fira, ho ;fln!ud it"to be stato instead of United Biates orees, Altar farther dobnte, tho bill was roferred to 1o Appropriation Committoo, FOREION CORFORATIONS, The bill to eusble foreign corporations which tay have loaned money fu this Stuto, when salo i3 mado under jndgment or docreo rendered for such money, or under trust deed, to purchase tho proporty lu its corporate namo, provided no #ucli corporation shall Lold proporty so acquired for more than fiva yoars, Cummings offored nn amendment proviaing that money loaued by foroigu corporations Iu tlis Btate sliouid bo taxed Lere, ainos asked who would Lave to pay such tax, Would it ot full upon the borrower? Lorsiju corporations wouldn't scnd moncy hore to bo tazed 8 Bar cent unloss the borrower patd at. Connolly said the mouey of torelgn corpora- tions wag.taxed whora corporationd had their rincipal ofloos. The Hartford companies woro axed in Conneotleut. aines, in » satirio speech, favored Ita rofor- ence toihe Committeo on Itevenuo, to sae if tlat Committee could ind out how o make the Em‘g& companios instead of the borrower pay 0 tax, Cummings satd this was tho flrst timo ho had beard Ihnkslm osition squarely atvauced that forolgn capltal sont here shonld uot bo taxed, He wantod uow a test vote on that question, 1f, the gentlomsn from Colos (Counolly) had #8d, bo tax forelgn eapital would drive it ont of 1ho Stato, he (Oummings) wanted it driven out. 1t they enjoyed the powers conforrod on thom by tho bill, thoy should be mads to pay fac 1t by contriboiln, & gy g 40 the support of the Blato Govorn. .o 2MBe8 moved that the refaronce bo with In- b W:;flflr;gpu sn_smendwant smbodying ple, and o framod that the tax ::.9“4 ":: ?galfo !:'on'ow-r, but by the corpora- OAD. ‘fnge e said money ioaned here went Into bulld- e a‘,"““:élalinv;menu. d waa thas, every Date ths it :aau to taxation. Pending de- Srae oo The report of ¥, te Balrrld of Oharif 0ARD OF CHARITIES. . Winog, Becretary of the ties, submitted in respouun uz of inquiry, sbiows tho the Hol tse of (gt B’ ———— SENATE, NO QUORUM, Svectal Dispatch to The Cliicaso Trif Bracxarises, I, March 1.—The Neuate mat without w quorumn, and, after firut reading of & aumber of bills, adjourned. OCasey latroduced & bull Autboriziog couaties, #itles, aud towns which bave voted to ald any | rasirond compeny to tranafar the name, by vote, *law should bo left untoucned. -the Benate, their appropriation 0 somo other rafhray company, COMMITTRE, WOIlK. The Commiites on 3unicipalities to-night agroed to a report recommonding the passage of thio bill amendatory of 1ill 100 last sent hern by tha Citizenn’ Asaociation, and draftod by 8. 8. Hayes, horotofors publishied in Tue Tuinuxe, Tuo Committea will report Ilayes' biil rolative to illogal tax pales, herotofora putlulied fn Tuw Tripunr, with the enacting clauas stricken out, The Committas will report favorably on tho bili antboriziug the Common Counell of any clty to adopt Art. 5 of tho General Incorporation act, gt OTHER STATES. WISCONSIN, BESSION OF TII: LUWEW NOTSE, Swectal isvateh to The Chicago Tribune, Manisod, Wis,, March 1.—~Tho Assombly had a neavion this morniog, and concurred in tho resolution for tho appointment of a committeo to decide a8 to tho foasibility' of removing tho Btate I'rison from Waupnn to Milwaukes, The minority of the Lumbar Committco Land- ed {n & roport againat the adoption of tho Dolls bills passed amending tho chartor of Groon Day, and relating to the Municipal Court of Fond du Laoj to authorizo Milwaukeo to rofund a cer- tain aasessmont; to amond the lawa of 1870 amonding tho Jaws of 185t incorporating tho Germantown IKarmers' Mutunl Insur- ance Company; to ameund the Hovised Stal~ 1tos of countics and county oflicors§ to provide against oxtraordinary conflagrations, and for the creation of Aafety funds by firo imurance com- anies ; toamend tho lawsof 1874 to author- za tho formation of town {nsurance companies, Biils were concurred fn to provent hunting deor with dogs in Kewauneo ; to amond tho nct to in- corporato Jarlington; to smond tho Rovisod Statutes of taxes and asscasments ; rolating to ceinotories and cemotery nsnoclations ; Lo author- izo mmuelfml corporations to aid inthn construe- tlon of railronds ; for the preservation of fish in Wolf Creok and Gratiot mill-pond in Lafay. otte County: to authorize J. M, Itounds & Co, to mnintain p dam on' Littlo Wolf Ttiver, in ‘Waupaca County ; to repeal the lnws of 1870 to ouabls tho Board of Buporvisors of LaCrosse County to an‘rnmle\(u monoy for tho ropalr of raadn and bridges iu unid county; to provide for thio complotion of the wing of the Northoru ITos- pital for Insano, 893,700—avew, 74: navs, 10 to provide for a Board of State_Centonulal Muna gera; to oppropriato to 1L, L. Palinor £861.54 for sorvicca 88 attornoy n cases of tho State va, tho West Wiscongin Railrond Com- pany; to appropriato to L. 8. Dizon £520,61 for servicos ns attornoy in above case,—ayon, 82; nays, 7; to provido cotapansation for trangerib- ingz tho Journaly of the Sennta and Assembly : to antliorizo Comminsionors of School and Uni- vorsity Tands to loan 50,000 to the eity aud town of Minorel Point: to provido for the pur- chano of Enghial roporta for tho Stato Library, Tho bill to exompt the Wisconsin Cantral Roid and all othor incomplate roads from tho opera- tion of the 4 por cont State tax was ordorod o & third reading. In the Banate, this aftornaon, A=sembly bills to enconrage narrow-gaugo railroads ; to amend the Greon Bay City charler; to suthorize Apple- ton to issne wator-works bonds; and many looal Lills, passed. "Tho Benate bill to provide s Bonrd of Couten- ninl Managots waa passod, Tn tho Senato, at tho evening seseion, tho Quimby bill cano up on it pssage, and Alr. Baker moved to rofor it to o Salect Comumitieo. Benator Polter mada a apecch, declaring that his Henntor Baker ably showo1 the incqualitiss and oppressions of tho lolter law, Honator Darron argued thiat thero * wna no {esuo horo botween the rallroads avd farmers; that tho principla of 8tato control s admitled, and logislation on tho subject iu only & matter of dotail. Ho argued in favor of right and justice. I.E. Davis opposed tho nmendment of tho Potter Iaw. Tho motion to refer was so amondod ns to include the Comrmissioners’ bill, and adopted, 1In tho Assembly this evening tho Houats Lill relating to fnsurenco companics was amended to apply only to fire companies, and pasuedl. L bill to lucorporata the Milwaikes Uermania passod. A LHL to amond the Pottor Inw o that the rogulations for Clasa O roads shall apply to Cluss 13, and exompting comploto land-grant roads from Stalo tax for fivo yoars, pagsed ; also bills to amend the charter of tho Clippesws Falla; for tho roliof of 8, B, Carponter, I'ho il to repeal the chartor of tho Greon Ray & Misalasippl Canal Company was killed. Tho Quimby smendment to the Potter law camo np as a special order. Mr, Huad moved to omond by declaring the ratlroad tariff of June, 187J, maximunn ratos, in placa of those In tho bill,” Tiost—nves, 445 nocs, 49, Mr. Hudd then movod to amond by inserting ratos I placo of tho Potter law, 50 na to bring thie anmio to ths provious tariff of the companion, Loat—10 to 47. On motion of M. Loes, tho LUl was referrod to a soloct comittoo. . ot hins boon no nttempt yet to extond the £ersion, which, undor the resolution, will elosa for buginesa at 9 p. m. to-morrow. ‘W'l evident intention of tho Potter-law men {n the Senato is to defeat an oxtonsinn of tho session, and all feginlation for tho raliof of tha railvoads, by re- fusing to oxtend tho time, and insistiug ou ad- journinent. —_—— MINNESOTA, TESTERDAY'S YUOCEEDINGS, Nrecial Duspateh to The Chicans Tyioune. 87, Pav, Minn, March 1.—In the Sonato, 8 bill was introduced, shich will e pressod by tha Grangor clement, againet the Morse bill, which eimply rodnces tho Rallroad Commission to one person, and withdrawes the poswer to tix maximnm rates, Otherwiso, it leaves tho law of last yoar undisturbed. Tho Ilouse Womens' Bnffrage bl was iu- dofinitoly postponed—13 to 24, The Normal Schools had a narrow oscapo in bill being dofeated, Lut roconsiderad, and finally carried, on o plea of lack of time to reduce their number, The Gavernor npnointed and the Sonato con- firmed 1L It Brill to ba Judgoe of the Common T'loas Court of Ramsoy County, vice Iiall, do- ceawoll. 1o wiil liold till May, 1870, An oloc. Iilml to il {he vacanoy occurred i Mareh pro- vious, In tho Ionse, Bonato billa passod confirming tho Winona & 8t. P'ator Rallroad grant; creating the ‘I'wolfth Judicial District; confirming the Lake Buperior & Mississippi land-grauts; and pmvidmrh!ur tho reorganization of the Lauo Su- perior & Mississippl Compavny with all the fran- chinen, ote., borototore [ntonded to bo givon to tuat Cowpany. g INDIANA, A viro, @peciat Dispateh to T'he Chicags Tridune, Inpranarovts, Iud., March 1.— ratlior surprived tho Legialaturo by Lis veto of tho bill suthorizing tho incorporatian of camp- moeting assoclations, Tho bill waa lutendod for tho Lofayatte Mothodist Conforouco, aud granted tho corporation in perpstuity powors to hold ands, to clect its ofvers, and mako laws and coutrol its grouuds, 'and granting such oflicers the power of city officors o enfures rugula. tions. ‘This latter provision is the most serioun objeotion the Governor urges, carrvinz with it powers minlstorial, exocutiva, and judicial,which whould not bas vested iu auy roligious corpora- tion, The creation of roligions Bfll;j:nullnuu is not in harmony with the spint of tho Guvern. meut, Tho emorgency clauto is also objected to, Emorgenoy should not bu declarod ina law ex- cupt for spmo very prossing roason, which cor- tainly doos not exigt 1o this caze, 'Phe attontion of tho Logislature la called tatho provivions ot the act, which the Covernor thinks would nover hlvr boeu pagsed bad proper stteution Leou paid to themi, 'I'ho Bonate passed bills providing for the or. ganization of loan associatluud i for n Bu. reau of I'ubllo Printing, composed of tha Goy- «ruor, Auditor, and Secretaty of Stale, with an expert as Buperintendent ; cutting down $15,000 the annaal appropriation 1o tho Biato University, The ITouso passed its own Feoand Halary byl reducing h,l of county officers from 20 to 4 por cent. I'he Senate paysed a Feo bill differsnt rom this, and there is littlo probability of an sgreoment, “Tho 1lousa alao passed a bill glving the peopla of anywchool aistrict the right Lo docide tho Leanclios to bo taught at schgols. A number of privato bills passed, — KANSAS, MISCKLLANEOUS PLUCKEDINGS, Bpeciat Dispateh to T'he Chicaqo Y'riound, Toruka, Kan., March 1,.—A resolutlon was passod this morniog by both brauckes of iLe Logislaturo fixing 10 o'clock a. m. of Priday naxt a8 the bour for adjourumeut wine die, and pro- viding that no moro billy shall bo introduced af tor nvon of Thuruday. Alargs number of bills, some of "thom Im- rtant, will necessarily fuil, as focal bills are bo- d upon alnost *exclusivoly, ‘There are W {wo aporoprintion bills yet ou tha Ilouse eslcadar, a0d most of tho biltsToduciug feos sud balaries ara vat to bs acted npon by the Soua! ‘Tho proceedings to-dav were without spreial importance. ‘Fho Henate pasmed & few local monsures, and the Ioune recommitted a bill to provide mafes and police forca for tho Btate Treasuror's ofiice. ——— PENNSYLVANIA. INVESTIGATION ORDERKD, HaAnntsnuna, Pa,, sfarch 1.—The Democratle majority of the [lonse to-night, by o vote of 83 to GG, passed & resolution authorizing a Bpeelnl Committeo to make an {nvestigation Into tho Affalrs of tho Btate Troasuror,—McQrath, Kim- ball, Irwin, and Mackey. ‘I'he Ttopnblican mi. narity leeulod sgainat the rl'iht of tho Houne, swithout tho concurranco of the Hensto, to ota- powor any committes of investigation, Pt S ARKANSAS, CLOAING U DUSINEIS, Tarren Nock, Ark., March 1.—~A largs num- Der of bills passed the Logislaturo to-day, that Lody having dotermined to adjourn ou Friday to tho firat Monday in Novembor, in order to ar- rango tho outstanding indebtoduess of tha Bmf’ which cannot be done at tho present sossion, CRIML. A DOUBLE EXECUTION, Bacnanexto, Cal,, Fou, 19, —Iistrada and Colts slopt well last night. Al day tho relatives of the unfortunata men wore with them, and the scene of tho parting sas very painful and touch- ing. About half-past 10 o'clock a broakfast wag sproad in tho jai), and tlio tvo mon, with theirrol- ativos and friends, eat down to it, In reaponse lo an invitation from Cotta, Estrada madon fow remarks. stating that thiy was the Jast meal thoy would oat on eatth, but hoped to meot them in Heaven, Duriug this morniug saveral mala rel- atives of Cotta oxamined tho scaffold, viowed it erftically and pnused Lhoir opinlons on it coully, At haif-past 1 tho prisoners callod District At- tornoy Jones it and thauked him for his kind. ness, assuring him that thoy had no hiard focl. ings againgt him, At 2 o'clock about 250 per~ roua woro admittod, and shortly afterward the pritonors, suppartod by tho ofticers, and pro- codod by two priests, mouuted tho seaffold. Cotta'tooked pale, but not s muscle quiverad. Tlo looseuod tho hold of one of tho supporters aud mounted tho slairs, and took lhia placo utidor tho left-band novse. Eatrada way weak, thougn firm, Both mon took off tholr own coats without assistanco, and Coitn rofused ~tho oasiste ance of tho oflicer, untiod bhis own nocktio, and then removed lis paper cole lar. 'Thoy spoke no words, but, after nhnklug handa with each other aud sayivg * Good-bye,” aubmitted to have their loga pinloned, They wero then robed in whito gowns, and, after o prayer by the priests, the black cap was drawn ovor thoir lieads and the ropes adjusted. Colta stood perfoctly calm, and, whan all was ready, tho drop foll, and Domingo Fstrada and Philo- mona Cotla wero faunched {nto ancthor world, Estradn ulr\lggled violently for soma timo, aud Cotta strugeled some. Cotta died In seventeon minutes and Fatrads in ton minutes. It {a the opinion of tho physi- cians that their nocks wera not broken, butan examination will be had, Cotta's brother from Snn Fraucirco was prasont, lso a nopliow and Aovoral frionds, Eatrada’s mothor id and has been for two days kept nuder the mnfluence of narcotics, and” bor lifo is despaired of, aa also that of ono of his mistera, who iy prostrated snd 41l by this terrible aflair, Cotta’s mother took leave of him carly this morning. Ono of his vistors Is alao dangerously eick. lherifts McCormiclt, of Placer, Batuey, of Yolo, Rogers, of Staulstuus, Adams, of Santa Clar, and Cunningliatn, of San Joaquin, aided Bhorifl Laune, Chief-of-Polica Myars, of Stocl- ton, was alwo present. Iistrada_feaves n book which ia to bo published in Bau Francisco, Lin confession contradicts that of Cotta, but bsfora Jeaving tha jail it is nndorstood thoy nyrocd ay to the faols of the killing, SANGAMON COUNTY CRIMINAL ITEMS. Speetal Diapateh to The Chicagn T'ribune, Spnnariieo, I, Mareh 1.—Most of tho gang of horao-thioves arrested at Illiopolis, this county, n few wooks ngo, and roported at tho timo in thoro dispatches, pleadod puilty to sev- oral chargon to-day In the Bangamon Circult Court. They bavo not yet boen sentonced. Those ploading goilty aro Capt. M. Groon, lead- or of the gang; John Pontrio, BBon Crane, Iob ort Lato, and Taylor, aud Bamuol Dickinson, Thero aro four of thom who will stand trial. William Taylor and Jamas Gralam. the partios who garrated Mr. Jumes Iudwom, of thiy city, lust ~wook, outerod n plen ot ;;m]t(y to lighwny robbory, nnd wero sontenced to the Denitontiary respoctively “I'nylor thres, and Qrahom ivo “yoars, At lagt tho cnses of John . Harper aud “Albort_Smitin woro calied to-day in tho United States District Court. John T, IInrper did not appear by him- Bolf or attoruoy, and a dofault was {aken on lis rocognizance for §5,000. 'Tho Court, on mation of the District-Attorney, Mr. Yan Doraton, or- dered a capias to lssud, returnable to tho noxt tenin of tho Uourt, at which time tho Marshal is irectod to have tho dofondant in court, Col, Harper's frionds cannot acconnt for his failuro to appear. Ho i3 known to hava beon ready snd snxious for trial, and it is oxpected that his ab- wanca will be satiafactorily sccounted far, in which case, donbtloss, tho default will bo sat nsfdo. Tho threo cases ngninst Smith wera con- tinued, on motion of his attorucy, and by con- nont of tha Diatrict Attornoy, on the gronud that dafondant wes sick and could not ot hore, Tho United States Court will adjourn this weok until Juno. A HOTORIOUS EXPRESS-ROAREN CAPTURED. Mesteus, March 1.—Last Baturday uight, at Capa Girarden, Mo., Detoclive William A, DPinkorton succoeded in arreuting Ed Johnston, alina Pyocter, aliss Y'arker, tho lendor of the party who robbsd Drady, tho Sonthorn Fxpresa mesgengor, on Madlson etrect, in thia aity, four weakn siuce. Pinkerton arrived hioro with his prisonor. this aftornoon, and Johnston han al- ready beon indicted by tho Grand Jary. The offvuae is punishable with dun{g. The robabilitica “aro Lo will liang, Pinkorton _ flrst struck hls track at Metropolis, INN., whore ho had purclinsed s wagon and toam in order to travel overland, and after following bim 200 milos sooured him, Johnston robbed tho United Btates Express Company in 8t, Loula some twelvo vonrs sinco, and for which he sorved six years n tho Missouri Ponitoutiary, after which ha boaamo a pirate on tho Mistesip- pl, aud has committed many daring robborles, John Woods and Lill Johnson (colorad), his cone federates, aro {u jall awaiting trial, SHOT HIS WIFE, Spectal Disateh to Tha Chicaga Tritune, Agnod, 0., March 1.—At the Middlebury coal shaft, 2 milos southoast of Akron, on Baturday might, a woman uamed Louisn Hagerty waa shot by er husband, Hagerty had boon awsy from Lomo all day, and roturnod at night in bad tom- por, To found lis wifo standing by tho slde of tho bed on which lay their infaut child, and ho sccused hor of tolling the mneighbors thwt slo intouded to shoot him. Bhe doujod i, whon Lo drew a pistol and shot liar, the ball pasaing just botow tho heart, The woman wad alivo at Jaut accounts, but It scema impouulble for bier to survive. Ilagerty at firat denled, but alterwsrds confosaed, the act, aud gava himsol! up to the Constablo. Thoy wora young couplo, .only married a littlo over a yoar, sad bad, itis 8ald, nover lived poacotul, THE OTTAWA DOOK-STEALING CASE, Spectal Dienateh to T'he Chitcago Tribune, O17awa, Iil., Mareh 1,—~Tho ovidenco In the Dickford law-book larceny case closed to-day, and the vrosecator, Heury Mayo, oponed the ar- Rument for thie people, —_———e OCASBUALTIES, FROZEN TO DEATH ON THE TRACK. Oxana, March 1,—The train that arrived yos- torday over tha Chiosgo & Northweutern, when withim 5 miles of Duulap, Is., ran over soms ob- Structlon half-buried in the snow on tho track, Upon'arriving at Dunlap & man's log was fonnd hanging to ouo of the cars. Thio man must have boon frozon to death on the track, aa there wers 10 traces of bloud on {ha cars, Who he way baa ok a8 yei boon ascertainod. ' LOGGING ACGIDENT, 8pectal Diavatch to The Chieazo Trivune. Easr Baowiaw, March 1.—A fatal accldent ocoursedat Jamos Groon & Co.'s camp, 7 mitles weat of arrisvillo, Baturday moruing, Alox- suder Cameron was struck on tho hoad whilo ekidding togy, aud diod in five mioutes, Ile Was 20 yoars of sge. SHIPWREGKED SEAMEN RESCUED, Loxpox, March 1.—A dispatch from Aden an- nouuces that the missing Loat's orew of cighleon persons from the stemmer Iong Uong which fouadored. {n the Iudiau Ocean, bave arrived thore. Blx more Lives are kaown to have boeus lost by tho disauter, TUESDAY, MARCIT 9 1875. THE FRESHETS. Desastatfon and Stoppage of Mils on the Schuylkiil-«=Six Thousand iil- Hands Suspended, Overflow of the Housatonio River—Barns ond Houses Wrecked and Oattle Drowned, FRESHET IN THE SCHUYLKILL, MANATUNK, TIE MAMCPACTORING RUBURN OF PRIL ADLLPHIA, EXTLNAIVELY KULMERGED—DIEAD~ FUL EFTECTS OF TIIE STOR. Dirpateh to tha New York lera'd, PILADELPIIIA, Fob. 20.—The mild atmospheric conditions and the seomivgly interminable raing whicl bave provailed here during the entire weok weto sufliciant to loosen tho mass of ice on thoSehuytkillandLringabout thoLieaviest fronhet this clty has over known. At no other point han tho rush of water and the towermg pyramids of ico caused grester diatress and damagoe than at Mauayunk, which s the groat mauufacturing euburb of I'hiladelphis, and within ity aren is comprised & lmiger number of mills than in any othor territory in a similar com- pass in tho world. No mooner lad {he peoplo rosiding along the river amtivipated the frealiot than thoy took extraordinary pro~ cautions to provent ita diro consequences. Yes- torday attornoon tho river wae bridged with {co in many places, but the Iatter was cracked aud much reduced in thickuess and solidity, The ice- heaps formod slong the shioro, aud in soma parts of tho stroam, during tho bLrief thaw of last month, which brought tho fee down from above, ‘wora alao considerably diminished. CONDITION OF WIBMAMICKON CLTEER, The fce in Wissahickon Croek brolie up during the dav and was dischinrged into tho river. This caused » sort of & gorgo about tho mouth of tho creok, and ou_tho onst bank of the river Lelow Wissahickou Station tho rond was flonded for some distance, but not to o sufliclont exteut to intorforo with travol or tho ruuning of the pas- songer railway cars. Intonso cxcitement pre- vailed at Manayonk. Tho town lies low, and all the teuomant-houses aro Jocated nlong the rivor bawk, The river, within twonty-four hours, has rison 23 fost, y TABT NIOUT'S KTORS. Tast night, when tho storm was most violent aud tho fog tho most donao, tho water, rising toa suproms holght, deluged tho houees along tho Lank aod gproad torror and conaternation among all tho occupants, dlon, womon, and chindren, suddenly awakoning from their slumbers by the crics of fear aud agony, wero forced to ieave their homes and stood in shiveriug gronns alang the river uldo, hesitating what to do, Thero was not o houso along tho entire stream that was not submerged, and ice, nero after acro, flonted down the sullon Schuylkill. The water tillod Lho collars, flooded the “floors, and, at midnight, drove all partics out of thelr louses, Evory- thing of & movablo character wan takon out of the way of tho flood, a1l rondaring willing aid_to those in distroas, Your correspondent arnved ut tho econe of tho freshot at 5 o'clock {his morn- ing. It was atthis hour that the water was ot fita grosteet lieight. Tho Manayunk Gan Worka wero ontirely floodod at this mo- ment, and all the employea attached to the ranio, to savo themselvos from drowning, wero obligod to sook refugeon tho hills. Lamp-poste wero carried away, tolograph-poles wora up- rooted, whilo » grent many of the honscs wero sabmetped or entiraly minod. 'Thora is not ona mill in Manaynuk that is not filled with wator, nud not one that biae not boen foreed to suspond operations and discharga for the timo being ity cmployes, On tho weat bank of the Sehugikill, ot tho foot ot Woust Lanrol Hill Cemetery, ara sovoral rows of tenomont-houses, All “their collara aro filled with water. Two or three frame idingw appearod to bo in_imminent davger of g wwops away shonld tho frosie: prove so- vere. 6,000 PENSONS UNEMFLOYT.D. Tha {ce is hlocked up divectly ngnivat thedoors of lteso dwollings, so that tha river Lins the ap- pearanco of being considorably wider than it ia Dy the tooding of the mills. Ahout 6,000 meu and women are thrown out of employment, and largo crowds of thom visited tho river this morn- ing to view tho gorge, The damage tn the wmill. ownors eannot yet bo estimatod, but 1t is thought it will bo very conaidernblo. BUSPENDED MILLS. Tha following firmd wora compolled to sna- pend operations: 8. 8. Schofleld, employing K00 hsnds; 2. Camplett & Co., employimg S00 Lends; Iarding's papor mill, employing 50 hands ; Patterson’s mill (lats Rupla's), employ- ing about 500 bands; Preaton & Ervien, employ- ing goverat handred pooplo. Another mill be- longing to E, Camplall & Co., employing nbout 250 hinnda; James Winpenny's mill; omploying from 250 to 800 people: Laum's mill, employing nabout 230 porsous ; Marteanft's grivt mill, ome plosing about 100 mon ; Whittaker's ofd mll, employiug 100 mon, Another mill, run by I'res- irvien, adjoiniug Whittaker's mill, em- nloying 300 hands; Nixouw's paper mill, at Flat Rock, employing about 300 handa; Jossup & Moore's pulp works, emoloying about 400 hunda, Tise mills owned by Fil:qairluk & Iolt, of Con- necticut, and Nagle and David Wallace, at the foot of Behurz lano, will probably bo tho most damnged. CAUSY. OF THE DISARTER. A promiucnt mill-owner stnted, in conversa- tion with your correspondent this morning, that within his oxpericuca of thirty yearn he has novar witnessod auch a gorgo and froshot ay this one at Manayunk., In his opinion it has reaulted from the regulations of the Park Com- mnssion in regerd to tho cutting of ico above tho dam, for in formor yoars tho river was re- sorved by tho ice companfen who eut the ico, ‘The mill-ownor thinks that s channol should ba cutin tho river, whioh would wesken the ica aud eaugo it to molt without much diftleuley. TIE NIORSL-CALS BTOPILD. The horso-cara on tho Manavunk branch of the Ridgs aveune rond have cossed ruumng, owlng to tho track being submergod. FAIRMODNT PARK, The icaa broken and jammed from Columbla Dridgo to Fiat Rock, and has become goriod ut tho Jatter point. No damnge I8 roported from places furthor up thorivor. Below the dam at l-‘ulrmonnt tho lco is brokeu and tho stream com- arativoly clear, Tho ico avoragos about 41 foor rn Abickncss, and apuoara to ba solid from Fiat Tlock noarly to the dam. Al the boautiful walks and drives recently comploted in Falrmouut Parls, along the onat and west banks of tha Hehuylkill Ttiver, aro now under wator, and, of courso, on- tiroly ruined. ‘Thousands upon thousands of veople have visited the scana to-day. 'I'he gas works are still flooded, and Manayunk bas no gaslight. S FLOOD IN CONNECTICUT. 108 PILED U0 PERT MIGH IN TIIE UOUSATONIC MIVER—FAMILIES IN DANGEN—CONSIDENABLE DAMAGE TO PRGPERTY, Inspatch ta the New Fork Heral Braxauai, Conn., Fob. aud fog which have beon with us since Tuosday Int, and tho bioavy raing of yestordny aud last night, have had the offect to diusolve suow and make Inroads upon the ico In the river, causing » groat flow of wator. Lato last night the Hou- watouic Rivor was transformed into A NOARINO TORRENT. whiol, 8a it came down smong the mountaine and hills, threatened to sweep everyting before it. 4o what {8 known sa tho Houeatonic Dam the ico romained comparatively firm, it having ate taluod a thickneas of fully 50 inchos. Tho lor- reut rushing over this surfavo carried with it im- monso cakos of los, which, after a time, bocame clogged, forming a dam of groat holght across tho river, At Zoar Bridge there was u dangerons ico-gorge and 8o great was tho quautity of ice that camo rushing down that it suon packed to- etlicr, fonnlug a mighty dam. Water aceumu- ated rapudly, and, settling back upou the banks of the river, fivo familios Lad barely timo to exscapa from thoir dwellluge, A houso iu which was & family of six porsons was surronnded and LIPTED PROM TUE YOUNDATIONS before tho inmptes woro aware of their dangor, ‘Ihey were only saved from drownlng by retreats ing lo the ugper storiea of the builling, Bevoral louses snd barns were cartfud by tho tlood from tholr altas, owing to THE LEATING OF THE ICE, and s number of ‘cattle have Leen drownad, Zoar Bridiie hias boen carried away, interrupting travel amr comnunication with tit locality for te prosont. Hix miles above this placo, at ook, tho torrout was fearful, damming up (Lo ica from 84 to 40 foot high, and forming s barrier to.the progrow of tho water, raming tho water's surfuce 10 feet huglior than way ovor kuown bo- fore, ‘The roads in tho vicinity of tho river uto conipletely loat, undor from 10 to 16 feet of water aud ico, and are rendorod impasyablo untit tho water subides, ‘The valley frow hill to hill is 1ifled with ico aud wator, in "decidod contrast with last woek's frozen conditions, and traveling baa za bo accomplishiod in 8 dangorous masuor over Wlls sud turough swollon brooks, tho town of Jtiversido, n tho valloy, wust be grew, but caunot now po ascortriued, ar an known no lives have hean | should the WATER COSTINUS TO nis:, and tha ies gorges remaln firo, 1t will badifisnly to estimate the injury to property, Water i the Naugatuck River {s vory high, and {La people living alung itn banks wero all night enpaged, with lautorns, saving or tiyivg to nave all that tiad hoeu displacod by the ey current. A snddon changa of woather ia all that saved the com)iatn devaktation of the valley., Tho early Lrain thiy morning on the Naugatuck road wam dolayed several hourn, owing to an accumnlation of jce on the track ahove Hegmour, and the engine's pilot bors evidenco of hiaving beon engaged in conflict with the clements. On the Derby Rul- road, betweon this place and Derby, the water has risen to s lovel with the tracks, and trains appoar liko stesmbosts moving through tho sator. Tho “*Causeway" road, hence to Derby, i impnarablo to pedestriana by resson of tho rigo, All tha low lands nbova it are eovered, and tho Naugatuck Biver, ln somo places, is fivo timea ity usual width, * The ico {s Lrokan up, but in the Housatonic Itiver 1t in firm, beiug held by two stauch bridges noar 1ta mouth, —_— SOUTHERN FLOODS. OREAT DESTRUCTION IN TIIE TENNESSEE VALLEY, CixciNNaTI, Mareh 1.—The Commercial's Bridgeport, Als., apecial says the greatest flood that haa visitod that rozion since Noah's, with one excoption, {a now sweoping down the Tone neeaee Valloy, All tho low ground about Chat- tanooga ta submorged, and Lhere in groat loss of property. Every raliroad leading into thoe city is badiy washed, and whole mections submerged, The Tast Tennessco Ioad is cut in twenly places. Tho Atlantio Itoad Las lcat mauy Lridges, Tho Memphis & Charleston Road is under water for milea, aud has lost hoavily in bridges. The Nauhville Boad in nlko n great suffecer. The preat bridgo scross the Tennensoo at Dridgeport ia In danger, but an it {a heavily weighed down with loaded cars, it {s thought that it may be saved. 'Tho river in atill rinlug slowly, Tho destruction iu fonces, stock and houses for 300 miles up and down s very great, the greateat evor known, with tho possi. blo exception of tho flood aight years ajo. . Hpecral Inapatrh to The Chicag) T'ritune, NasnviLug, darch l.—Evers rallroad cutering Chattanoogn s soctions submerged and badly washed, The Metnthis & Charloston. between Nashville and Chattanoogs, is inundated for milea, 'The pgreat Lridge over tho Teuncssco Ttivor at Bridgoport, Ala.. ia in danger of boing swopt away, but is heavily woightod down, Tho deatruction of fences, stock, aud honses. for 300 miles up aud down tho river, {4 the proatest ever known. _Tho losaes go up icto tho millions. It is feared that tho water will riso and overflow the raflroad Lridge over the Tonucsses at Deo- catur, Ala, A floating liouso struck tho railroad- dizo over the Touncsaco River at Jackonville to-duy, knocking it out of line, Great sulloring is reported in the flooded districts. aud tho rail- road busivess hias been at a dead lock for a wegis pant. CHATTANOOOA, Mareh L.—The river has been 6t o staud siuco 8 s m., covering Markot strect from the river to Nimh etrcet, mubmerg- ingz the Union depot, CommereialV,an 1lorn, sud Rend Hotels, very nearly all the business-honses on Market and Nimth streets of South Chatta- nooga completely, and a great muny Louses 2L ; bot in tho main part of the city, One man, who was imtoxicated, was ‘drowned on Buturday, and two last might, ono of whom wad celored ; tho other was chiel en- gineer of the Chottonooga Iron Company's works, named Jones, This comptises all the futalitios known. 'The railroadd are cat fu every direction, conncquently there bave beeu no maily toor from tho cuK for goveral days past until uow, A stesmer has gous down the mver with mailsand passengers to Dridgeport. whera it will meot tho train for Nashville. Only oro tolegranh \[rira dfl!mlflfll up, aud its loss is nomentarily cared. MINNESOTA. Prospecting for Copper—ifenvy Or- dern tor Whent—tansced-0tl-Stecto County Stutistics—Two Men Erozen 10 peath. Srecial Corresyonaence of The Chicans Tribune, 81, Pavr, Minun, Fob. 28,—Prospscting for coppor in tho trap-rock formations near Taylor's Falls s being carried on, through this winter, by astock company composed of woalthy and sanguino men, Their lotest report iu, that the ‘*vein-matter " contiuucs Lo improve aa their, slinfts progross. Tho farmers of Chisazo Lako Township, in Chisago County, of whom thote are less than fifty, all told, have sent 500 bushels of seed- wheat to tho reliof of the farmors of tho grass- Loppor-region. Tae usustly quiet villago of Owatonna is ox- cited just now over a rocent discovery of a min- eral spring, tho water of which is ofensivo cuough to warrant tho beliof that it is medicin- ally valuablo. Grain-denlors ot Montreal have ordered 1,000,000 bushels of Miunesotn bard wheat, to ‘o sbipped from Duluth tho coming season, Ttio Mankuto Linsvod-Oil Works wera closod last weelt, on account of having used all their stoek, which will compel the susponsion of work tobe maiutained untll after next barveat, The ownors isvo arranged with farmers to supply seed for 16,000 neres the coming season, from which they expect to ruceive 160,000 bushels of soed for tholr mill. Above | tho damagy | the noxt mecting, March 6, are : A, M. Garlaud, Mary Josophine May was the namo glven by & harmless inaaue womau whobe fricnde aud Lome are unkuown, who bad bocn fur wowe weeks a wanderer in the westorn towus of Dakota Conu- ty, and has now been sout to the State Insaus Asylum at 8t. Poter, where, it is thonght, sho will ultimatoly recover. Yur-trappers in tho weatorn and northorn part of tho State arc said to be having unnsual suo- caas this winter, a Tho ronds having been much improved by the rocont enow-fulls, whoat 18 comfur iu frealy at ofl the whipping-stations, Htatistics of Kteelo County, believed to bo ro- liablo, sliow tlat, lust sonaun, 4,232 acres plantod in corn returned an average yield of 83,39 bush- els per acro; aud 411 lives of boos produced 11, 715 Foumla of honey. 'Thosame county produce ed, lags year, 11,080 pounds of hops, 202 pounds of tobaceo, 455 pounds of timothy-sced, and 13, 208 pounds of wool, Ita principal products are whoat, oats, aud hay, Duriug tho severo cold storms of tho past month, two mon wore frozon to death in tho Lako Bonton neighborhood of Lincoln County, noar tho southwestern border of the State, One was Willlam Taylor, who frozo to desth in trving toroturn to his homo from tho Post-Oftice, & distance of 1 mile, on the id of Iobruary, aud whoso body was discovered moxt duy, The sams B3fr. Taylor lost & son in thu ternble January etorin of 1874, whoso bones were fouud ou an utraveled prairio last epring, whera §1,600 in greoubacks the young man had with him wore found uniojured. “Tho vlder Tay- lor loavos & largo family, “Lho other victim wus & man namod Kidwell, living about 10 milos from tho Taylor pluce, who was frozen to death Fob, 14, 1ioleavos s wifo and two cluldren., Tha severlty of tho wiuter, and the inconveni« cnoes redulting thorefrom to the dwellers o tho ‘* balloon-framed ™ houkes of tho frontior mettle- wonts, ara illustrated by tho following bit of ex- travagance, copied from the Jiecord, published at Datroit, in Luekor Connty, on the Northeru Pu- citlo Raltroad; **A numbor of aceidents have ro- contly ocoursod 1u this viclnity, from carolese- uess fu squash-blasting, It is sll vory well for poor poople, who caunot alford tho luxurics of & Pllo-drivor or quartz-mill, to drill u Lole iu thoir #quash or pumpkin, aud reduca it, with powdor or nitro-glycerine, to tho proper pruportions for culivary purposcs; but thoy should always ba fnmml to got Lolund tho door bolore touching ‘er off, B i — BERKSHIRE SWINE. * A mooting of breedors of erkahiro awine was latoly hold at Spriogfield, I1).,—the Hon, A. M, Uarlaud oceupying the chair,—at which the fol- lowing proamble awd resolutiona wore adopted ‘The undersiguol, Lrvodors of Berkshire swiuo, rosoguiziug the Luportauce of a trustworthy recos tlat ahiall Lo accepted ou a fua) authority i ull cises of pedigrece snd descrving to ba recetved aa autlionty 1u all questions of podigrov, aud desiriug W scure the {utluence und co-operatlon of thoso whio feel u general intorest i zealoualy guarding the purity of tleir stock,—do beroby unito i fuunding au sasockation for the publication of 8 Berkehire Bwluo Jtecord, Theree sc, La bt Jtesolced, That thls organization be atylod tho Amori- can erkaliro Swiue-roedore! Assockallon ; am thia thie abject bo (ho publicativu of su_sutburlzed Livrk~ abiro Hajua Recurd,as et furth 10 the fureguing pro- cordlal and hrarty fovitation ba ex. 8§ Ale sud (orlgy countrion to co- oprs ‘llu i wuking » thorough wud otiicial podigreo. record. ‘Tlie ofticers for the yoar 1875 ares T. Al Culd- well, Willlnwmsvillo, President ; A, A, darlund, Hpriuglleld, Becrotary ; PLI . Sprivgoer, Urous. urer, ‘Tho Exccutlva Committes,to draft & Constitus tion and by-lows for the Assoclation, Lo ropoit at VLl W, Bprivger, ayd Chales ¥, Milly, of caryo, can compate Witl tho ainble, uuing saimal power, snd carrylng uuu :‘mh aad thiat the opinion of our Stata Eugiueer and urs 1n wystein, tho welght It would hisve If 1 bad duced. Bat, should portauce (0 We Northwest, and FOREIGN. M., Buffet Re-cleeted President of the F'rench Assembly. Legislation Concsrning Ireland in the British Parliament. FRANCE, M. DCFFRT'S POPULARITY, Panta, March 1.—Tho Arpambly to-day ro- elected M, Buffet ita Preatdout, by a voto of 479 1063. This majority, Iarger than the Assombly ;I\'u’: gu\"n“bul'nru for o President, ahown that M. Buffet sill command n strong majori Housa If b anconods in fortaseg & st strs, o M. L. Martil d’Andifrot Pauquier Kordrol ani Picard wera elected Vice Frosidenty, TOOCBLE IN FURMISG A MISISTRY, Pants, March 1,—>ous. Dutiat, President of tho Ausowbly, will endeavor to form o Minlstrs. — GREAT BRITAIN, LEGISLATION FOR IRELAND. Loxpox, March 1.—In the Ilouse of Commons this svening, Sir L. Beach, Secretary for Ire. land, Introduced a bill lessening tho peoaltics for unlawful poesession of arma in Ircland, ve- poalng tho law which suthorizes tho closing of pobllo houses and the e rest of powons found out doors at right in proclsimed districts, and romoving the reatrictions on newapapers, The chief Secrota- ry stated that tho Government intended to ro-onact the law sgainst Hibbouism ju Westinenth, a8 it “had Leen assurcd that tho Tiblon conspiracy oxisted as BLron| a8 evor i . Ha pointed B to the fact that John AMitchal was elocted to Parlinmont becauro hie had doclared that be would never conwent to bont peace with En. glaud, lle allused to tho return of uumerous omigranty from America, wuo enid they hatl acquired Weatern vicon and forgotten their Irinh virtues. ‘IThewo were tho reasons for nos wholls removing the rostrictions ou the pos- ueanion of firearme w Jreland, The Marquis of Hartington, the new Liberal e for, supported the bill, which parsed fta tivei teading. e SPAIN, TAKES THFE REPONNIDILITY, Mann, March 1.—The Minister of Foreign Affairs having, without consulting his colleagnes in tho Ministry, sent a circular noto to the pow- era conteating the juetico of somo of the do- mands of Germany tn rogard fo tue Gustav af- fair, and havi 150 takon othar stops upon his own responwibility, o Cabinet couucil to take theso acta into conalderation imponda. ——— POLAR EXPLORATION. A NEW OERMAN LXPEDITION FOIt BESEARCH IN TRE ARCTIC REGION, Correspondenas of the New York Herald, Brneiy, Jan. 16.—~The Germaus_aro abont to Fend out a uow expadition to the Polar regious almort simuitancousiy with the English expedi- tion. which etarts an the 1st of Juno next. T'his ducision was arrived at on the 27t of December, 8t the kession ol tho Bremen Socioty for Polar Exploration, an interesting report of whick 1a publiehod, Thero wana lenitiy discusslon on the question of German I'olir oiploration. and o lotter waa read from Dr. Veiers hich has beon vublished in the prove, port for furthor voynges. Prof. Bastoan, of Lerli yota of the Geograpliical Society, wulel declares its williceness w support o nea Oerman Polar oxpodition, 1lo spoko of tho African nxporhi- t1on which had been sont out under tho auspices of tho Barhin Geographical Hogiety. and oxprons- ed tho beliof that interest 1n geographical re- wearch {s very vita) In Gormany, and that the rman people aud nation will ‘not hemtato to give hearty support to the new expedition. Af- ter the matter hiad been thoroughly discussed by the Bociety, and a comprehonsive plan worked out, it was decided to lay the project hefore the Dremen Senate, with tho request ‘that this bods, through ita plenipotentiary, should bring s mo- tion before the German Bundasrath requesting s iwmperial grant for the oxpedicion, Tho plan is a1 followa: If the requlsito mon- ey ba fuinialied,the oxpedition willetart in June, 1875 (if pot, then 1876). Tho goal thoreo! will be first tho east const of Greonland, whero the Gerinans have already secared in previous expo- ditions n good scicatific bauls of operations, ‘The expedition will consist of two stoawmers of nbout 500 tous, each manned by a crow of from twenty-1ivo to thirty pernons, and a full acien- title oquipmeut. Uno of those ships will bo speclally intrusted with tho miswion of exploring tho iuterior of Greenland, ita fjords and mounu- tainn, o8 far north and west a4 possible. The other stesmor is to proccod along the cast Girovnland coast as far as tho ico pormits, and tuen o eledgo journey, with reindoor or dogs, ia to be tuade polawanl. Tho expedition will bo away two years, Pro- visions will ba takeu for threo, Lowever. Sinca thero aro no ships fu tho imperial marine suita- blo for tha purpaees of the expedition, either uew stonmors must be built or two meivantilo vessols adaptod. This will involve o coet of £150,00, and, with tho estimata for scientific sppaatun, salarios, ete.,—nlsa $150,000,—tho total cost of the oxpe- dition will be avout $300.000, ‘The Gormans will strain overy nervo to get the expedition started noxt Juno.” Tlho Bronen Socioty oxpects impor- taut scientific results from tho wearly simni- tancous departura of their own nod the English oxpedition. Tho latter will procoed along tho wost coast of Greonlaud. through Smith's Sound, whilo tha formor will uail along the eaatarn conat, and physical nud_motoorological obfarvations will bo made rimultancously ou either coast, AUSTRIAN EXPLORERS' OIINIONS OF THE PASSAGE TO TUR NOUTU TOLE. A spocial telogrum to tho London Times from Parin, undor dato of Jan. 21, uaya: ** The two chiofs of tho Austrian Polar sxpedi- tion have written to & German publication to correet numerous minconceptions which have arigon 04 to tho results of their voyage, Liout. Wayprcoht #ays that to concludo in the existenco of an entirely opon #en noar the Polo is as un- warrantable as to concludo in the absaluto im- possibility of crossing the fco which etretches Lularn tho newly discoverod laud., 1t is also falsa to infor tho” oxistonce of tho Quif Ktroam in thoso waters from the drifting of tho ship, The passngs to tho cnst, taking the Biboran coast a4 n Lanis, Las not boen_negatived by this last expedition, nud Liout. Weyprecht iu still reany 1o sttempt to effoct it, * [lerr Payer unya thore axists no Polar Sea. Whon open or completely closed vessols have ouly s certain change, which cuanges overy year, and this [s not substantial euough to give nay hope of reaching the Polo or solving the north- east pansago, The Anglo-Amorican routo to the Talo offors the bout chinuces, and will atlowv tho bighest Iatitudos to ba roached, capocially if ulmlf,'u oxpeditionn aro made during the winter, an sledges offer the best chuuce of ponctrating into tho olar rogions,” CANAL-NAVIGATION. ‘Fho Ilelzian Systom of Towiug v the Maxtor M T 1he Editor of The Chics1o Tribuns: 40 Broapway, NEw Yonk, Feb, 25.—1 luvs read ¢ editorlal on ¥ BteatnTusier on the Cauale,” in {saus of Feb, 21, tho principal owner in a warking th 3 system of towing, by f submerged chuits of Cables, o tho trie sh to aubmitw fow statements, with a yiew -oMBctly {uforining you as (o actusl progross made in futroduclug_stoats ah a subatitite for aulusl power 1ipon tho Erlo Canal. 1 send you herewitha chrcular of tho Now York Htcan Cable Towlug Gompauy, an extract froin tho Atbany Ecening Jourmat of Fob, ‘33, and x copy of nfuntea of tho regular montlly meeting of tho Chieap Trausportation Axsoclation of this city, A perusal of theso papers will givo you sn idea of the present poultion of thils subject, “which, though it in opposed to that {0 your editorial, 18 & usarer btatoment o i facta ne they are, and will sCrvo ta ba of Lerares beuent to tha Noribweat, in the e(forts thera o accor- plish thisgroat reeult, than can possibly coms from any introduction of sleam by fla application toa cunal Doat carrylng ite own cargo, av on ths laster pian, The followlny facts can be sulatantiated as to the Bsxe ter hoat ¢ First——1t waa not swarded & prize under the prizo- Iaw, o8 1t s LOL & Buccess, écond—Two boata ouly Lave run tho whale season 10 1k tripa (i a baak drawa by suial : efult, lio machinery of & Taztor boat eaunot ba i spplled ta & canal-buat, except at & codb equal 10 that of & uew canal-boat, Faurth—A Baxter boat has not made s profit equal 10 that wade wuutally by s caualeboat Using animal power. Fyth—Tho Tuxter bost s not & practical success, And I8 no better than other steam canul-boats which been abaudoucd ou account of failure, {h—~That no steam csnal-boat, carrylug 2X0 tons presit cauakbos 40 tous of caryo, 1 cuuld wake wany other stulemeuts adverss L the systom, Lul suflice it to aay that the poultion of jod miiccess clalmed for {t canuot be substan- or, Bweet, 14 ovideutty blised toward: bl who are ‘promotiug the succers of e Laster Lcing » stranger (o you, what T Bave written Lias not Levts properly futro- Jou desira o kbow wione of what baul, 1 will Brat o establish 1y pouttion toat sbiall vomuaud reupectful atteution, Tho tho Bolgian wysteur bs of tho greateat jue 1t will eventually be found not only operating the new canals, by . tating the oid, 'Wlfli.ll rallway joterests hn’v’a :\:‘fi:\':l’y oblitorated, With much reapect, ~EMEnsoN Foogn. The Delgian uyatem of towing, to which Ar. Foote refers, s tiaed extenstroly in Bolginm and Franco, 1t connlats in & sabmorged chala or * cablo, ranning the ontire length of tho esnsl, fantened nt hoth ends. Tho ateam tosw-hoat has au additiona] engine, to which is attached & clip- drum or grooved driving-whoel, with suitable guiding and tightoning pullays. The process,of towing {8 porfurmed by the drum ovor which the cablo is placed. As It rovolvea, it grapples the eablo, which passcs back into tho water at the stern of the boat. It thus hocomes a flexible rail, whose priuciple does not materially differ from that of the tailroad. Tha advantage claim. od Is, that the purchaso obtained upon the cable in #o much grealer thau propaller or paddie- wheel can got upon the water, that an equal apced and ‘towing powet can bo obtalned at a wraatly roduced cost for fuel, aud that s cahs steamor can tow u brain of ton boata from Buffa- 1o to West Troy for tho sama cost as lioraneposw- er, and in half the time. The system has bean in operntion four yoars on #0mo parts of the Erio Canal, and {s regardod with favor by the ;}a&ml“ Commissionors nud other competent udyes, GOVERNMENTAL STATISTICS; Assaults upon the Statistieal and Edu- cational Bureaus, A Suggestlon {hat They Be Consolidated with the Census-OMee, Ta the Editor of The Chicann Tribnne » 1t in underatood that. during the diseussion of the Appropriation billk, thd Domocrats propose to assail with uousaal virulenco the minor do. parthents of tha National Goverament,—~the Bureau of Statistics aud tha Bureau of Eduea. tion,—tho first au sppendage of the Troasury, tho second belonging to the Department of the Interior. It is allegod that & aulicient number of Ilopablicata will b found to reinforce tae seeailauts for a substautial attack, and the pose rible resulls may not only mortify aud huwmiliate the country, but prova disastrous toa most . portant division of ite interonts, Tho chargos lodged againat TIE BUREAU OF EDUCATION are: (1) usclossnosa; (2) extravagance. Ob. viously, it the first can bo esiablishud, tho sos- ond {8 proven. A dollarof public money &pent uaclessly is worao than mere extravagance,—it is criminal waata, Dut is the Dareau of Education usoloss ? It in true that its functions are rigidly limited, It Is neither logialativo, oxcentive, nor Judicial. It {a mmply a Federal focas toward which tha scliool ayatoms of tho States converge. Ita primacy purpose was to collato fignres and facts ropresenting tho actual condition of educa- tlon in tho Btates aud Territories. It sbould have no funotion beyond this, Education is not o Natiounl, but » Btate, prorogative. Each State wmauagor its own kchool system: and Congreas Lias no rolation—skould have nono—to theso re~ #pectivo aystoms. The Burcan of Education was designed a8 & moana of {mproving thess by ox- hibiting to all tho States the progress of each, and tho progress of education abroad. Whon- evor the Commlsaloner of Education has under- taken moro than this, ho has CLEANLY XXCEEDED W14 DUTILS, The various pamphlota which have baen issued from the Bureau—that on Kindergarton, for ine stanco—-wero covered, I presumo, by the appro- priation for tho Bureau; and whatover smount bas boon expended in Bnch genoral thooretical instruction in pedagogy should be deductod from the appropriation. Fublications of thia kind by tha National Government are supsrorogatory. It might an woll publinl ireatisen on telloring of blackewithing, or the making of best-sugar, There is 10 yrofession more alert and progress- fvo thau thut of public education. Freo trade in one of its cardinal maxims, Wherover an im- proved methiod of instruction is to be had,—in Norway, i Londen, or in Berlin,—~Amarican ad- ucators import it witbont leave or duty, and give in exchango their unpatented machinery—tho best in tho world—for wovernmont in schools. Tho samo criticiem applies to THOSE SUNENFLUOUS PORTIONS of tho Commissinner's annual roport which deal with abatract r,nv.‘atlonu of moral and political economy, not directly relatad to facts, and have iug no clear relevauco to established principles of cducation, 1f, theruforo, the aseailants of tho Buresu had roversod their premises, placing the charge of extravagancoe me thorr logia would bo_ worth consideration. It fa difeuit, too, to understand why tho Commissioner shoutd priut in his report the names of all tho obacurs individuala brietly ocenpying official schiool rela- tions to countied and towne. Buch liats hava no value, except for book-agents: and tho country can afford to lot thom find thetr own informse tion, 1bellove that the Dureau of Educstion shiould bo maintained, but that {he form of its administration should ve modified, s I shall slortly suggest. It iv incxplicabls why the Domocrats should attack TIE NUREAU OF BTATIATICN ; nnd it {8 gratifying to Lolisvo that very fow, it any, Republicans will bo evgagod with them ju an onterpriso porely stupd and partisan. Thero is not a Government on tho fsco of the globe which does not provide the moans for collocting aud dipesting it own statistics. Many Govern- menta, even among tho inalgnifieant politically, but of the induatrially strong, far cxceed, in this necossary ondesvor the utmost hmits reached by ours, which 18 not only palitically in the first clags, but which is destingd to bo first industrinie Iy, unless Noturo itsolf oxpires, Every ar- gumont which {s valld’ agalust the Bu- roau of &tatistics {s forcible mgainst tho Ceusus-Report. No objection which may uot ba raised againet the conmin can bo made againat the Iurcau of Statistics. The ono roprosenta tho totals and the pheses of population; tha other oxhibits the axpects of commerce and ine dustry.§The neceesity for the maintensnce of the Bureau of Statistics is EVEN GREATER than thal of the Uensus-Ofice: for, whilo every Htato provides for tho taking of ita census, no Stato ks wade auy statistieal provision for its commierco ; and weogranhical causes will fore over provent the tates from making a uniform provision which would Lo of goneral valuo, Tormally to sbolish tha Buresu of Statistics wonld Lo a political rotrogreesion which oven re- pudiating Bpaln might woll langh at ; for oven sho coilects with oxtrome caro the rosults of her trado, and furnislhies thom to contemporary Gov ernmonts; but practically to abolish m: Bureau of Btatiuties in fmposaible. The Treasury would bLave to resign inexperienced subonlinates to the wamo work now poiformod by oxperts, aud addi- tional thousauds would have to ba inoiuded in the Doupartmont appropriation to mest tho out. Iay. Tiven it no other class of citizenw, at homs or abroad, wero concernod, THE AMERICAN IMPORTERS would fusist on tho figures which the Bureas now furuishes, aud tho L'teasury could not re fuso tho demand. Tho Durean might, jndeed, bo crippled, Lut it could hot bo sunibilated withe aut inflicting on our liomo and foroign trade, au Incounvenience to which American businesa- men will never subwit, But bero, atso, I would anggest & modification which will give enlarged usofultess and decressed oxpendo,—ilio sonyolidution of all tha statigtical divisions of the .Goverument futo ous,—the union of the Buroau of Lducation, tho Buresq of Btatistics, aud the Census-Ofiice, inio A SINGLE BUREAU OF BTATISTICH, under tho diroction of the Treasury Doparimant, Tha thras ofticos bolong naturally to each other, aud thelr eNlclenoy would bo strengthoued by their combination. Tho Burean of Ed. ucation should bo only statlstical, aud its fizurcs can be mora eatisfactorily obtalned in the future than they liave boon fu the rul tlrough the oouwui-tuachivers, 'Tho aduoat onat roturna from sovoral of the Htates, na thoy ap- pearin tho Commissioner's roports, mie often meagre, froquently overloaded and profitless, aud sometinies good for nothing ; while some of the Torritorips Luve not beou resched st all, Tho Census-loports, on the contrary, are al- most unexceptiouablo, and tho skill, sctivity, aud discrotion oxhibited in their srrangoment sud classifleation, point to the Consus-oftico as THE UHOPEL AGENT | for the collection of cducational returns, In fact, the work of tha Duresu of Lducation s a1 gusoutial part of tho Cenaus-Oflice, aud cane not be divorced from it, escopt in the Interest of exponso aud iuoficiency, The same is truo of tuo Cousus-Buseau and tho Buresn of Statis- tiea ; thoy deal with distiuct classes of figures, but both are purely statistical, aud all tha atatis- tical Lusiness of tho Uovernment should be grouped in one offico, under one head. Export olerks will thou supply the place of wo uoulkv Comuisslovers, —Balariea “will saved, and the 1osults almed at will be more thoroughly secomplished, Poatacg,