Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1875, Page 5

WASHINGTON. The Chicago Postmaster Rep- rimanded for Publishing Offcial Sccrots. Facts DBrought Out by tho Mall-Con- tract Investigations How the Frauds Wore Oarried Out, and Who the Partics Are, CGovernment Dopartments Pre- pering for the Cen- tennial. Sugar Samples Alloveed to Pass Through ke Mails. Important Statistics of the Coun- try’s Imports and 1lixports. POSTAL MATTERS, SUCADR SAMPLES LEQITIMATH BIALL MATTER, Spectal Drspateh ta The Chicaqo Tribune, ‘Wasiinarox, D, 0., Aprit 16.—Tho Poat-Offica Departmont decided ta pormit samples of suger 10 bo sent through tho malis in accordanco with the following lettor : Waantsarox, D, ., April 15, 1875,—S18 : Thesam- ple package of Augar ‘submitied by you appears to bo Fecurcly done up in double bozes, tha inner ona of tin, {he outalde ono of paper, Under theso circumatences 10 Department will not obfest o giviugnach packeges a fair trial in tho mail, < You are, thercfore, au:norizod fo roquest somo of the larger oifices to admit such clages at hird-claas ratos of posloge, witl a view of feating whotber hoy ean be carried fn the mails with- out fujury to othier mall-mstter. After such test aliall have bean made, yuit willreport tho realt 1o 8 of- Vory respectful e T ¥ J, W, MARSITALL, Firat Asaistent Yostmaster-General, Tuo 10N, Gronar 8 UANGS, General Buperintendent Railrosd Mall Service, DIVULGIKG RECRETS. There have beou numerous appiications to the Post-Office Dopartment by publishors for -the retwins of the amount of postago paid by the nowapapars in the different citios, undor tiio op- crations of the new law, Tho avowed pnrpods of Lheso npplications has beon to publish tho re- torns, Tho Post-Oflco Doparimont has given no suthority for tho publication of tho woight of nowsvapers, Tho oflicors in chirze of tho ‘wolglits consfder that the information whichthoy havo obtained-is of a privats and confidential charactor. They stato that thay conaidor that thoy would violats good faith to furnish to any one nesspager tho details of the private busine:s of arival catablishment. A latter is mow being propared at tho Post-Offico Dopnrte oot to tha eloct that thess returna cannot be mado public. The general returus to tha Poste Oftico Depnrtment of tho newspaper pastago does not sustain thoe theorlos upon which tho now postago law is baged, It hao beon found that tho reduction of postago on newscapera regularly sont from the publicatlon offics, n very small proportion of tho aggregate amount of tho cir- otiation of the nowspapora n the leading cltios of tho country, is Ecut through thio malls, and the groat bulk 1a nuthber and welght of the Jeading paners is sent by oxproas and distributed by the nows compaoies, 8o that, cven if too Post-Offico Dopartment should ninke a gon- eral putlication of the raturns of the wolghts of the vcatago on newspayere, thaso returns would in no instanca bo an fodex of tho aggregata cir- cilation of any nawspapors with respoct to the number of pspers actually piuted and sold, Thezo mail rotuins havo thun far boen published only in Now York and Oblcago. Iu rosponse to, &n application of tho pioprictor of tho Dubuque Jerald, that that papor might be furnished with thie returns of the nowapnapera published in that city, tho Tiird Assistant Postmasler-Genoral to- day replted thst the roturns could not bs fur- nishod, and that postmasters would not bo per- mittod to mako kuown the weights of the nows. pora In thoir respcotive cilles, At 0 sswe fimo A loler was prepared Lo bo addrossad to the Postmaster st Chicago, Inquittng of bim whother ho had furnisbod tho list which waa published in that city. If eo, b; what sutliority, aud vieitiug him with ts repri- mand of tho Dopartmont for haring permitted such information to bo obtained at hua oftice, BICCINEN POBTANE-STANTS, An entiro sot of the spocimen postage-stampa l;:l! issued by the ‘Pom-Offico Department, ot oir faca valuo, coat about 2300, — s MORE CORRUPTION, BERIOUS CHARGES AGAINAT AN LXAMINED IN THE PATENT OFFICL. Spectal Dinpatch fo The Chicaco Trioune, Wagnixaton, D. O, Aprit 16.—The charges msde by Sawyer, the invonlor, sgalnst Wilbur, Chief Examiner in the Patent Oflice, are these: Tiret, that Wilbur procured tho nsortion on lot- tors pateut to W. I, Bawyor of thoword ** Forro- Oyonido " [nstead of * Ferrid Oyunlde,” in order that a claim by Tdison of thouso of ferrid oyan- ldaof potassium in the preparation of clicmical tolegraph recolviog papor might ba allowed. Becond, that Wiibur fs guilty of gross negli- gonce in tho mausgement of bis ofico. ‘Third, tbat Wilbur Is guilty of proatituting his ofice for Edison's boveflf, Tourth, that Wilbur ia incompetont and ignorant in thie great fiold of mngmr invention, Fifth, that owing to his importunitics and fear that ho migbt {ujure him, Bawyer gave Wilbur a cortifi- cate of stock of tho Cable Lilnting Tolegraph Compauny, the faco valuo of which ls §5,000, Bixth, that Wilbur has boou In tha habit of ' fur- nizhing outsiders with lnformation whioh should Lo of n'con8duntial character, conccrnlnf pond- ing applications. Tho joquhiy has beon fn prog- zees two days, and Is likely to consume sovers! 1more, —— THE MAIL-LETTING FRAUD, FACTS ELICITED LY TUE INVESTIGATION, - Br.ectal Distateh to The Chcago Tridunie, A ‘Wasmxerow, D, C., April 16.—Cho oxamina- tion fn tho postal-contract fraud matler wan sontinued to-day, The evidence showed that tho clork Flovd is the real peraon who hias made koown the matter to the Postmaster-Goneral. The motives of Floyd are not vory cioar, Itis certaln, Lowevor, that he oblained £2,500 from Kettles, tho Texas mall cantractor, snd deceivod Kettlon by exposing the contemplated fiaud to tlo Poatmastor-Genoral. It bas not bson known unil to-day that Floyd was the permon who wade known the exposure. Kettles tostl- flod that he know Floyd, and eslied upon bim, sud sald that he wanted o make dsrnnxailn‘::u for information about Texas hids, of ] Floyd then had 3 In Fohmt:‘y, Kettles gave Fioyd &3,500, ln‘:}:"fi:}x Lusad hu wisued Floyd fo manipulate the xas blds. Floyd said that it could not ba doae without forgery, and ihat hie could not do It Kettlos replicd that Flovd MAD NOT TUE NERYVE, sad that there wero persona enough fa the De- partmont who had. TFloyd permlitted Kottles to glve him $2.500, and then went to the Poat- maater-General and told him that thers Was & oonspiracy afloat to obtain fraudulent sirards, and that it would be advieablo to change $ha olerks at thelr desks on the day of the open« Ing of tha bids, Floyd said that he himselr wisned to bo changed, He did not, bowaves, tell Ueneral {uat he Lad received Kottles' money, Kettles callod upon Floyd aud sald that he had besn deceived, and wanted b money back, Lloyd then retuzned 81,000, and kopt the rost as 8 loan wubject 1o Ketties' demand, Kottles has Over Dise cafled for it, ‘this all aponed prior to the 95th of i‘obruary, and the contract of Hines with Kettles bears date Rt’l‘;ngubl‘llh:‘ cays that Hines wae In the'case of the O (Lt POBTAL CLERK CHaNKEL, Kettles testified that Stz tam K‘m“-‘ Le know Chaanel, Chan- bouse sud wald that he could did not thivk he Lad much 1o prove that bo lnd Intfpanre e Jo Kettlow® Louso, Chanac} Clanpel, brought tho bids theu suzgosted A COUNTERYEIT aEAL would be necessary to gscure hi, ,Ketiles gave Clisunel ¢ the counterfeit ervices. b .nll]n lhel:l went with uoy' 10U Biamped the bids, | Chanuel and Kcll‘»l;'lul-"lm3 uontly broughe the bids to' the Post-Onjeo Depastment and Eu thom with thie regulsr bidy, -Aommisaioner Ingersoll stated, in tho course After tho desks were clunged | | THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1875.—TWELV‘E PAGES, of the examination, that ba hsd evidence snough to bind tho partios over to the Grand Jary, Yt was declded that conusel might be permitted to argue law points 88 to the admissability of evi- douce for the dofenso, The Iawyors for the de- fenee clalm that thoy have sufliciont evidence to acquit thelr olionts. —_— THE CENTENNIAL, WIIAT TUE DEPANTIMENTS ARE DOING. Special Dunateh to The Chieaao Tribune. Wasuinaroy, D, C., Aprit 16.—The Govern- ment Dopartmonts are making extensive props arations for tho Centennial. Tho Centonnial Commisslon lias established & Bub-Commiselon bhero to analat the Exocutiva Departmoants in their proparations. The largeat appropristions made hy Congress wore assigned to the Intorlor, War, Navy, and Agricultural Departments, and to the Bmithsoulan Inatitution, Mr. Loypoldt, of tho Ordnauce dopartment, s tho executive offfcor of the Bub-Centenolal Commisslon, Tho ontire do- ialls for a1l the Departmonta have not yet boen fully determined, Thoy will depond upon the arrangomont that {4 made botwoon tho Contennlal Commisslon and ths Dopartmonts rejative to the construction of & bullding un tho Centounial grounds. If the Centounlal Com- migsion deeides to bulld a soparate building for tho ueo of the Govornment Departmonts, tho latter will bonlfs to sava much of their fund for thio gonoral purposos of_the exhibition, otherwise tho law makiug tho Government ap propriation providea that the building, it con- sttucted at ail, shall be pald for ous of the half million dollars already appropriated, the cost to bo taken out of the approprintion for the sevoral Dopartmonta with the oxcoption of thoso for the Troasury sod the I'ont-Oftico, TUR BITIMATED COST OF THE DUILDING in 160,000, The Centennial Commissioners will not bs able to offor any of tho Departmonta &”| roater amount of apace that 60 by 30 fost. Tho g‘v’nr Department will malte & comploto oxhibi- tion of tho entire military history of tho coun- try. Itistheiutention to” make tho ordneuce osneclally complote. There will bo exhibited models of all tito hoavy guns, o far as practica- ble, aud alt of the improved applionces of war. A contldorablo number of Governmont troops will ba placed in Fort Mifilin, not far distant from the Cenlennial protm: TIE NAVY DEFAUTMENT has not fully arranged its plans, The purpose is to present models of our naval architecturs, and prosent o perspicuous liistory of our naval oxploits, Some of our beat sliipa—ironciada— will bo ordered to Losguo Island, at which place thora will also bo atationed a conniderabla num- ber of eailars aod marines, ‘Tho soldiors and marine will Lo on duty wit their respective De- pattmonts at the Coutounial grounds, ‘The sey- eral Auditors ot TIE TREASURY DEPARTMINT ara alroady preparing no outline Listory of thelr respoctivo Buroaus. Ths monumental work of 10 Treasury Dopnrtment, it is expeotod, will be the projectad finavcial history of the Republic, One of the flnext revenus-cutters will he ata- tioned at tho pott of Philadelphia during tho Exhibitlon, OTHER DRPARTMENTS, ‘Ihe Tost-Ofico Dopartment will prosent a modol Past-Ofice, with lotter-carriera and & pos- tal car. Tho Interior Departmont will be repra- sentod by its noveral Bureaus, The Indian Bureau famuking arrangemonts to havo prosent. during the entira perlod of the Centonninl famf- lioa from each oas of tho Indian tribes, who will livo In n scation to ba allotted them, and accord- ing to tho habits of that tribe. Tho Duronu of Education wili prosont a Centonnial history of American edueation, modela of achool-houses,and of all inadern echool appliances, Tho Agrionl tural Dnfinnmuut will'mako 8 very full oxhibi- tion of the dulerent solls and products of the country, v TUE SUITHSONIAN INSTITUTE will oxhibit .complets acientitic specimons of neerly everythiug connoctad with Amorican solonco. One af tha specialtios to which Prof. Daird will dovato grent nttention witl bo & very ramatkable colloction of tho fodd flah of tho United Btates. This colleotion will bea practical illnstiation of his veceut valuable roport upon that subject. — IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. INTERESTING BTATISTICH. ‘Wasmsatox, D. C.; April 165, —Tho roport for the flacal year onding June 80, 1574, has just been published. Tt shows that during that yoar tho valuo of goods and morchandise imported into the United tates from forolgn countrioy, and upon which duty was pald, amonuted to 9415,748,693, The amount of duty paid to tho United Statos on that valuation was $160,383,+ 905, or about 30 por cent of tho entire valuation of the' goods imported. During the same pe- riod the valuo of goods and merchandise im- ported, and upon whicl, boing on “tne free ligt," no direct duty was imposed, amounted to 8180,117,061. Thosa valucs are, bawevor, anb- Jecet to what 1s known a4 ** dlreriminating duty,” and ylelded to tho United States in thoe shapo of rovonue £133,330. Discriminating duty is n duty of 10 per cent charged upon gooda Imported from countrics other than thoso in which tho goods wore grown or manufactured, and goods mported {n vessols owncd in countries which dircriminato aznlnet American vossols, The total valuo of goods {mported for tho yoar was &305,861,243, "Tho total vaite of our exparts for tho yoar, reducod to a gold value, was 8652,- 013,445, nhowing o_balance in favor of the United Btates of 207,052.197. OF specio and Lullion we importod £29,154,008 nud cxported 06,630,400, the balauco against us béing §38,- 176,489, Compared with tho yeor 1873, tho valua uf onr oxports for 1874 show an incroass of §13,008,491, and our imports a decrease of $89,707,082. VALUE OF INTOSTS FOI TR PAST EIQNT YCADS, This following tavle will ehow tue tolal valuas and duty of fatoign morchanding ontered into consuuption in tho United Btates trom 1867 to 1874 inclusivo : Year. Value, | Duty, 840,200,157 818,603,100 V33 m&"‘nxdm 87,243, 170,657,584 B13,035; 101,512,074 20,5181 402,440,013 COMMERCIAL MATTERS, A NEW FLEDER TO BALTAIORE, 8pecial Dispateh to The Chicaao Tribune, Wismxarox, D. 0., Aprll 16.—Tho capltalists of Daltimore, tho new seaport of Chlcago, aro contemplativg an additional foeder to the rapid Iy Incroasing commerce of that motropolls. This project threatoua serlously to injure the com- merss of Georgetown, Washiogton, and Alex~ audria. It conslstsin o schome for connecting the Chesapeske & OLlo Canal, whoso present termlous {8 Goorgotown, D. O, with the port of Daltimors. Buch & conncctlon wonld, doubtless, tend to rondor Georgetown, Washinatyn, and Aloxandria wayside poris on this canal, whose r0al terminus would then beoome Baltimora, ‘The 8tate of Marvland did not forget this pos- sibility of the future whon the chartor waa grant. ©d by which thia canal was authorizod to be con- structad through the Commonwealth of Mary. land, : Tho Btate of Maryland, before ratifying the sot of the Unlted Btates grauting a charter to the Cherapeako & Ohio Canal Cgmpany, made it a condltion procedant that emple provialon should be made by the Congress of tho United Btatos to socure to tho Siata the right to connect Baitimoie with this canal throngh the District, Au early as 1820 tho United States desiguated Dr, Wililam Howard, of tle corps of enginoers, to make & survey of thincrcas-cut canal to Baltie more, and an catimate of the cost of fts con- struction, which was placed aiasum within a fraciion of 84,000,0( Other ominont englncors Were employed by tae Blate to oo & stll “better ‘route for *tapping " [i canal above (eorgetown, snd there- by = effcotually and _entirely diverting sil the trade from the District, could not boe found. Tho Maryland Canal Company was or- ganizod, its ~ stock of 89,000, paid in, and active measuros takon to seoure the conatruction of ihe canal from Qumberiand 1o hat the Marylandors called ila proper eastern terminus, Baltimore, But from the fluaucial panlo of 1837, the pocaniary emborrassments of tho Btats, and other mivor causes, the projoct fell in abeyance. Now, however, It has been re- vivod. At 4he lust soagipn uf thie Marviand Leg- ialature the charter for {he Maryland Oanal was renewed, aud the Baltimoreany seem to ba got- ting ready to go to work at it w1zh their acous- tomed energlos. The purpose of the oross-cut caual s to~ lock out the boae io tho OChesapouke & Ohlo Can above Uoorgetown, Inta the Potomas Ri and by the use of & atnam-tug convey them to point on the Eastern Brauch, near Bludonsburg, whero the cross-cut caual commences; followe the ling of the Washiogton Branch of tua Daliis mora & Obio Rallroad until t strikes the Fataps. ca River near ElkridgoLouding, tocuce byuso of steama-tugs to the Cliy of Daltimoro, 1f this be done, the trade of the'caual fow st Georgotown nd Alexandria will be entirely Inst to them, an1 o to swell tho { rarperily of the ento:priste nnd egaroesivn Maryland motropol.n, : Thy route of tae prozosed crose-cib cavsl is from Biadensburg to Baltimore, ‘This caval {8 nuw & prosperous and profitalie organization, but Is of o local character, It no v tranaports to tidowater neatly & million tonn pr anpum, aud le the cluaf avetus of Lhe conctes of the District of Columbin. Iis capacitien bave never bean fully devolopod. The Baltimore merclants bolleve that imme- Qlately upon tha completion of thin work no one can donbt that tho trada of tho canul would e donblod, snd it would nske tho City of Daltimoro,” in eonncclion with the Dalii- mors & Olio Rallroad, the grand ahip- Elng point for the distrihution of somi- ituminons and gas conls of this conntry. Not only would 1t securo the coast trade, bu it would bring to Daltimoro the products of tho fortile valioy of tho Patomne, ths rich iron and othor ores, and tho fine granite, black marble, lime- stone, aand, and blue siona in tho resch of the elty b one-third loss than tho cost pald for the same material now, Two thousand canal-bosts & moanth, with an averaze number of five hauda on each, would be brought to Daltimore, for whoso augpl,v all the necessarics of lifs would bo puarchased here, and the trade for the back coun- try contleuous to tha canal wonld be brought hiera fnstend of to tus District of Columbia, —_—— NOTES AND NEWS, ATPOINTMENT. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicaos Tribune. Wasmxarox, D. €., April 106.—Nsthan T. Bundorland has Leen nppointed Postmaster at Burlington, la. COLORED PLOPLL'S CELENRATION. The oolored pooplo of this District bave gen- eraily celobrated April 16, cmancipation day, with great festivities. Tho cclebration to-day, howover, was quito naimportant. MINISTER SCHENCE, Lettors recoived hore from Lendon repreaent ihat Minister Behonck Lss beon more sinned against than slnving io tho matter of tho Emma Mine awindle, aud that he has been much embar- rassod fioauclally on sccount of assuming, 1 connection with tho affsir, obligations which proporly beloag to othein, NEW DANKING FIRX. This formal sunouncoment s made this morn- lag: ¢ 3lr. Johu Bherman, Jr., and Col, Fied Grant will commance businese undor the firm of Bherman & Grant, on tho 1at of Mlay, sud willdo a poneral bavking and brokerage buslness, The Colonel wlll rexign hia position {n tho army nost autumn, after his raturn from tho Black Mills, when ho will turn his altontion to business at the bank.” v CINOULATION OF NATIONAL DANKA, A very perceptible contraction iu the aggrogate circulasion of National Dank notes iy noticed at tho Troasury, Tho actnal ducrease, aside from the temporary withdrawals incidest to the opora- tion of the redemption agoncy, {8 astimated at £10,000,000, Tius contraction 1s attributable to fallures, to liquidations, aud to withdrawals. T llifl DBLACK HILLS, CHEYENNE QO3SIP: special [uapateh to The Chteans Tridune, Cneresyeg, W, T., April 16.—=Mr, Callins, of Omaha, was {ntorviowed at Ft. Laramis, and sayn he knows nothing of the appointmont to tako Indiana to Wasbington. o thinks it wilt take any one thirty days to take tha Indians thero, uslog all dliligence. ITo bolieves the Blaok Hills cannot be nsgotiated for and oponed ghort of two montns.’ Rix cavalry and two in- fautry companies leave Fi. Laramie soon for tho Hills, Gen. Merrill, of cavalry fame, is there, and it [s supposod will command the ox- podition. -Alr, Jannoy, minsralogist, accompa- nioa the coluln and reports on minorals. * Ho i supposed to be the same Jannoy who reported favorably on the groat diamond fraud perpetrate ed by Aruold four years ngo and exposed by Ciarenco Xing, No one who knows Jan- noy, over queatiouod iy honesty in ths mattor. 1o has npractical oxperionce 24 an old mining on- gineor in Califoraia. KANSAS CITY GETTING A MINT READY: Hveeral Dispaleh to The Chicaso Triduna, Kaxeas Ciry, Mo,, April 10.—Four wagons of parties from Littlo Rook arrivod hers this evens ing to Join Col Carpenter's expedition to the Dlack Hills, whicl atarts tho lsat of tho month, Others are dally coming fu, and the party will number over 1,600 mon. They will go to Choy- enna, cross the Black HillaResorvation, and paes up to the Liitle Missourl, whera mines of fab- ulous weslth are roported to exist. A movement is on foot in this city to hinve s United Staten ming ostablisbed horo. Moeetinga have becn held, and a snemorial will bo drawu up to prescot to Qongress, MINERS CAPTURED. Ouana, Nob., April 16,—A dispatch from Fort Lnrawmie to-day says: *Capt. Mix's company, who wero sent after the mining party at Har noy's Peak, hins sccured tho whole of them, con- alating of sixtoen mon, one woman, nnd a boy, and will arrive at Fort Laramlo on the 18th," NOATH PLATTE AS A STARTING POINT. To the Jiditor of The Chicago Trioune : NomTt PLATTE, Nob., April 18,—Sharlog with tho pooplo of the whole patfon the desirs to know positively if thore is goid in paylng quan- titles in tho Dlack Rills, the poople of thig town are alivo to the advaotages that will acorae 1o Northwostorn Nobraska it tho Hulls are full of gold. Bituated at a polnt contiguous to tho 11ills, moes advantageously put for s starting point, wo look with a groat deal of Interest to tho early arrangement by which miuers may be admitted scot-frea into the gold-region, There 18 ue doubt but a rush will bomade by thousands of mon, oven though gold in wo considerablo quantities is found there, The comoany of cavalry for thras years sta- tloned hore, onder command of COapt, Anson Mills, loaven to-morrow tor Camp Bheridan, The Captain roposea taking hinroute of last sum- mer, -ndmmnf the distance in twelve days, Camp Bhioridau Is 165 miles northwest of this town, and 05 miles from Harney's Peak, Capt. ills has beon fnstracted to nota carefully tho Iny of tho Jand, eo that Lie can toport advisadly upan tho practicabllity of making the di- roction taken by him that to bo tak- on_ by tho carders of Indian goods to Ted Cloud and Bpotted Tall Agonoiea. Dy May 10 Cupt, Mills will have his ronort in the hande of Gen. Crook, commauder of the Depart- meot of the Platto, who will dexide upon the fouta to bo taken, Juunel s now contract will bo entered into betwean tho Government and {:rluh parties for the transporiatian of eaid ndian-Agenoy goods from soma paint on tho Uulon Paciflo Railroad. Theso supplica amount in one voar to fall 12,000,000 pouusl 3 aud, now 4hat 1,00 mare eoldlern aro to ba stationed at Spotted Tail, the mmount will bo largoly in- croased, ‘There fa but one bridge crosslng the North Platte River, and that {s the ono atthis polnt. Hoon that river will bo bank-full of rapldiv- flowlng water, aud that, too, just when tho minurs will want to cross It~ Qur distance ia 225 x‘mni from Hanov's Deak, over a road well Watered aud woodo: ipt. Mills is suthority for eaying that there undancs of both wood d wator, Tho Captain reltorates the falthful elermination to obey orders in nrotect- fog tho Blsck Hils, Bhoat he will, avd sterner LUl {anot found in m Captaln of tho army than is in his make-up, Yeeling that this s the most advantagoons starting polut, our peoplo are busy making resdy for the tido when it once gets started. Wa are 85 milea noaror than any other town that claims advantages. A look at s correct map will place tbo firet joxlous paint 125 mites west of Norik Platte by rail, and only 40 mitos nesror Harnoy'a Poak, By May80s stage-lino will be In running ordor from hera to Canip Bheridan, and forty- elgut hours' ride will carry people to the mines from North Platte, A party of 200 from Daaton In expected horo st the earllest momont possibla slter tha settlomont of the treaty question, and movo diroct northwostwardly to ahuplligu UEET, gt Lawyers’ Foes in Georgin, The Atlanta (Ga.) Herald hes the following: ¢ Yesterday, in conversatiou, eome one rewsrked that Gen. Toomba naver crossos s court-house door for lees than 5,000, when Judgq Lochrune Teplied that thore was nofbing strauge about that, 11 wonldn't take any casa for » smaller feo thag 910,000 Thia caused the crowd to discuss lo- L foes, and 1t was found thi voral large fees ad boen paid Atlanta Iswyers since the war, Mr, Lill, fo the colebrated Motoalf case, roceived & 8100,000 fue. Judge Lochraus & foo of 40, in the Bruoswick snd Albany case, 3Mr. Hill rocelved a foe of 25,000 for Al maoagement of Klmball's casa. Judge Lochrane recelved 916,000 as & fos from Alrs. Kimball in tho Kimbull House case. In sddition to thess thers la & case now pending batwoen Hene 275,000, in which $he foss will be largo. that Judge Lochrane's foe as sttormoy 8 will be 825,000, FOREIGHN. The Rolations Between Belginm and CGermany Btated to Bo fiot Amicable. Dismarck Delivers Another Philipple Against tho Pape. IReligious Ievivals in Derlin and Londo Fatal Rosult of & Balloon Ascension of Soientists at Paris, BELGIUM. PACIFICATION, Bavesrea, April 16.—In the Chamber of Dep. uties thin oveniug the Minister of Foreign Af. falrs statod that the Government yesterday ro- ceived Germany's roply t0 1is lant note. The re- ply cites no fresh faotn. It descautson tha prin- ciplea of intarnational law Involved in the dis- cusslon, and expresses tho hopo that Delgium will sofze the opportunity to disaipate tha impression tbst Gorrany intonded tonttack the libor:y of the press in.Belgium, The Miolster, after inform. ing tho Hauaa of the contouts of the note, maid that, fu addition to this coirespondsi.ze. ' cour- teoun verval oxplanations had besn exchangod with the German roprenentatives, and. in cons clusion, ho assured tbo CLamber fthiat the Delgidn Government alncerely denrsd to etrongthen ita good relatinua with Garmany, pilded i) GERMANY, LISMARCK APEAXS AGALN, Benurx, April 16.—The bill abrogating thoso clauses of the Constitution which grant the Inda- pendent adminiatration of ecclesiantical offuirs, tho unimpeded intercourss of religions assoclations with their superiors, and the freodom of clerical sppointmants, passed o second reading to-dny in tbe Lower Tiouss of tho Prussian Diet. In tha coursaof de- bats Bismarck said tho Government was loth to procssd to such moasuros, but they wero ua- avoldable. Sinca the Vatican Councit no one pomseased tho influonce the Popo Lnd. With o compact party, & . well organized prese, and an army of obodiont priests, the power would ba serious even if it Lelonged to uative instend of ® foreign monarch. That monarch, if ke had the menns, would carry out his programo in Prussis, bus would lirat have to dostroy the mafority of tho Frussian paople. Tha Prince closed hiskpeech with theno words : When all the breaches in tha bulwarks of tho State, e3uzod by grauting too meny rights to unvorthy ol Jects, aro repalred, thew will ‘We bo able to conciude Peace, RELIGIOUS REVIVALS, W DERLIN. Beruiy, April 16,—~The success of the rovival micsion of Pearsall Smith in this city aud other towns in Germany s increasing. Immense crowds attend the meotings, and members of tha nobility oocupy seats on the platform. The Lmpress of Austria haa givon private audlence to Smith. MOODY'S' WORK 1X LOXDOY, Losnox, April 16.—Four crowded revival- mootings were Leld to-day, Ono espaclally do- voted to studonts for the miaistry took placa at Bpurgoeon's tabornable. Moody ;’ulinn;‘sn ad- dross on Christian werk, which was raptoronaly applauded. Thousands raso at his invitation to go into tho stroots aud worl: for Clirist. pbtik o o, FRANCE. FATAL DALLOON ASCENSION. - PAna, April 16.—A party of three porsons pa- cendod in the balloon Zenith to-day for the pur- posa of making sciontific observaticas, Tho balloon attained the extraordinasy liight of 8,000 metres (ovor 26,000 fcet). Twh of tha aeronauts wera suffocated to death, and, whon the balloon reached the ground, the third wan almost insennible, and has sinco been no i1l that bhis recovery is doubtfal. et JAPAN AND CHINA, Bax Faaxcisco, Cal,, April 10.—The Paciflc Mail Company's steamer Colorado nmrrived last vight. She laft Iong Kong March 25. - aAPAN. It is now known that Governmont clanges of considorable importance, looking to a modifica- tlon of tho presont form of adminlstration, aro oxpectéd. Great mecrocy is thus far maintained by officia's, oniug to ilis offorts of foreign Ministers to interfers in the dispasiton of Japanese internal aflairs durivg the past two weaks, Tho Mikado has been ill, but is now recor~ fog. g‘ha rule requiring & paymont of 2cents on nowspapers anlving from Ameriea has been abolishied by tho Japanese Post-Ofiles for pullic convenience. There Is considerable exoitement among Jap- nnore soldieru in consequenco af the nows that the Chineao have already provoled o conflict with the savages of Formosa. Opinions aro ox- pressed that Chiua should be required to give a guaranteo for at least the reasonable treatment of the aborigines. Cho circumatance of China baving extractod submissive acknowledgmenta from the Low Caow Islandors, which "5“ unox- plained, ndds to the fooling of indignation against thas Empire. Low Cliowans concornod bave orrived in Yodo in obedicncs to a Govorn- ment summons. The caso 15 now undorgolug in- vestigation, xniny, 874, the exportation of tice from Ja- an was probibited, owing toa possibitity of war, 'he restrictious are now removed by a Govora- ment order, Hovoral new railroada are profocted fn various parts of Japan, Telegraphlo commaunication is now estat- lished "betwocn all tho Important cities of Japan. Fnulllgenu of & proposal to roturn one-half of tho Simononki indemaity i3 enldlr recelved tu Japan, It s (ett that the money either does or doos not belong to tho United Btates, and tho_offer to rofnnd a portion would not bo cordially wolcomed, In the present stats of opinion, a partial acknowledgment would proba- bly be rofused, Taxes on 250 amail articles of trade have bocn sbolished. and transferred to tobacco and n;é(m iocs, which will now yisld about $2,- 000, CHINA, Hoxa Koxa, March 16, aund Smanamax, March 17,—Particulars bave been recvived of & flehit lu Formosa between the eavages snd _Chiness iroops, Two Chituese officers ventured, in Jan- uary Iast, to onter tho reglon of the Dolan abarigines, sad ware immedistely Litled. On Tab, 18 a body of 200 troops was sont from tho Vlliago of l!ox:F Kong to rotaiate, Thevburned one vnllfia and put the inkishitants (o death, in- cluding the old men, women, and children, On thelr rotura they wore aurrounded aud ronted, with tho loss of ninety Lilled, smong whom was the Chinesoleader. ‘Thoavorage loss is oatimat- od at 000, Much excitomont was canesd In Clins, and there were rumozs of large forces to be dispatched to the scene, Addltlona! foreign losus sre about to be nego- tiated by Chius. ) Worlt on the Fuchao telograph line continues toba Interrupted, and cousiderablo additional prngull] of the Company waa dostroyed by the mobs. ) CREAT BRITAIN. THE PREMATURE PUDLICATION, LONDON, April 10,—In the Houss of Commons fo-uight there waa an acrimonious debato on the quostion of summooing to the bar the ed- itors of the Times and Aews for » breach of privilege in.publisbing documents 1n tho hands of tho Belect Committee on Forelgn Loans. Disrasli moved a resolution that & select commities be instructad to investigato th T, aud report how the press obtained the daca- ments {o question, This tesolutlon was carried, order summoning the editors was ro- ! slen."In thin condition abe eent tha Do for an ounco of strychnine. dency. lately added to by a severo atiaak of ' hos, accurtomod to take vorbal orders, toa diugmm The drugeiet sun- pected nathing. but that the boy had mads a mintake {n the amount, aud, on the boy's repre- eonting that probably s drachm was the amonnt wanted, put it un, proporly Iabelod, upon receis- log winen Mra. Highoo took 20 graios. Anti. dotes wore promptly adminiatered whon aho con- feased her act, bub loo late. Sho died In great agony, RO ecial Piepateh to The Cieon Tribune, Laxuixo, Mich., April 16,—Mr. Gieorge Lewin, a fartaer livivg near Charleston, committed ride by cutting hia throat while at the Lara ate teuding to hiw stock, e LEGISLATURES. MICHIGAN, HOUSE, THURSDAY NIGTIT, Srecial Dispateh s The Chicago Iribune, Laxsixa, Mich, April 16.—The House Iast ovening, In Committos of the Whole, agreed to a bill taxing thoe liquor traftie, Tho taxes are as follown : In tho country for dealing in apirits,§50, and male liquors, £25. In villagea of not mora than 1,000 people, §75 on spirits and £40 on malt liquora. In citics and villagos between 1,000 and 3,000 peopls, #100 for spirits sud %76 for malt liquors. In larger citics, 8150 for wpirits, and &5) for malt liquora, Wholesslers aod msnufacturcrs of spirits are cachto pay &00 per aunum; wholesalers of malt liquors, 8100, Manuiscturera of mait liquors ara to pay according 1othe amouuts man« ufactured ; upto 1,600 bacrols, 850 per sunum ; botweon 1,600 and 5000 barrols, $1003 ovor 56,000 barrels, $200. The {axes are to ba collect- ed by the Treanurers of the mumicipalities whers the businoss s dono, and are to go into the con- tingout fund. A regulation bill was alao agreed to_ furbidding the salo of liquors to minors, Labitual drunkards, and druaken persons. Tne 1louso adjourned to-night without taking action ou tho proceodings of the Committeo, THE RENATE TO-DAY. The Benate, in Committoe of the Whole, agreed to the following bitle: ouse bill 106, amoud- fug the lswas for the refiel of school districta s ilouse il 319, authorizing municipalitios to pay their bouded indebtedness ; Loiwse bill 161, rela~ tive to akaling-rinks ; ifouss bill 938, rolativoe to banking and oxchange dealors; Seuata bill 14, 1o regulate tho salo of modiciues and poisons, which was amended ln.;el‘v. The thres firat named bills wera anbeoquentiy passed on third zeading, Tho foitrth-named was Joat, 10 to 15, ‘The following bills wero passed: House bill 153, for tho reliaf of certain mchoal districla; Touse bill 319, authorizing municipalities Lo pay indobtedness incurred in aid of railroads, imme- dinte offect ; Xouso Lill 440, ralative to a public smarliet {n Detroit; Bonate bill 121, making ap- mopriation to the Agricultural College; House bull 237, relalive to co-operativo societies ; Housa bill 217, rofativa toationation by deed, Tlhio Benate amended tho Hoass concnrrent resolation of ad- Jjournment, fixing the timo for Baturdng, April 24, nnd for fiual adjournment Wodneedsy, April 48, and 10 that shape adaopied. TIE HOUSE TO-DAT. The Committea on bills on the goneral order roporied a Jint of bills which waa %lced on third reading. 'Tho Committes on the Univorsity and Normal Bchoo! reported favorably tho bill for the establishment of s homeopathic modical branch of tho Uuniversicy,. The Com- mittoe on Harbors made s raport rela- tive to tho companies organized under the aot for tho establishment of harbor improvemont companien, end already one of the companieaorganized under it in the Lower Penin- sula 18 collecting tolls—tho Alpenn Ilarbor Company. ‘The Honse concurred fn the Senato smend- menta mado to various bills yeslerday afterngon and ovoniog, and passed the following bills: Houss bill 337, to legalize certain highwaya in Charlevoix County; IHouse bill 816, to ameud the law relative to highwaya and tho work thercon ; Sena: 68, making sn appropria- tiou for a stous cornice for the naw Capitol ; Senato bill 103, makiug an appropriation for & copper roof for the Capitol. House bill 361,t0 re- enact and amedd the act fcr tho organization of barbor improvement comranies, waa roported to tuo Committes of the Whoio a resolution that tho two Houses finiehi business on Thuraday, April 29, aud that the final adjourmment be Tuos- day, May 4, waa adoptod—43 to 10. il ity LOUISIANA, A SPEALER ELZCTED. New Onveaxs, April 16.—The House reorgane ined to-day, Dstelietto (Compromiie Conserva- tive) oa Bpeakor, Estellotto was supported by Gov, Kollogg and the solid Repablican vote, aud wan clected by 66, to 87 for Wiltz, el PENNSYLVANIA, 4 veTO. Hanrisnuro, Ps., Amil 16.—Gov. Hartranft bas vetoed the bill doclaring the Truntees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In tho United Ktatea the successors of the Truat- cos of the Presbyteriac Hoaso, CASUALTIES, STORM DAMAGE. Spectal Dispatch to T'he Chteano Tribune, LaCnrossg, Wis., April 16.—Yesterday after- noon the Chicago, Keokuk & Minnesota Iailroad tragsfer stenmer Guesie Girdon was blown on to tho rocke at Brownsvillo and suvk. The waler covers the main deck. A marine pump and wrocking stesmer has boen sent ta her aasistance. The E. &. N. Lino packet Clinton, due hers yosterday, hea not been heard from, Bbo in sup- posad to bave gone to the bank for sheiter. The tow-boat Tiber, out from LaCrosse with a raft of 700,000 foet of loga and lumhor, was caught in tho wind yestordsy, and tho raft completesy wrecked, ey SPAIN. CABLIAT OUTRAGES REFONTED, Muvem, April 10.—1t is reported that the Car- liats have soized & number of women aud chil- dron in the Province of Soria, and threatea to shoot them ualoss they aro ranson pradta g il sen st SUICIDE. Bpeclal Disvatch to The Chicage Tribuns, Br, Paor, Minn,, April 16.—Mr, Lydis Aoos, wife of Dz, 0. G, Higbes, & bomeopathlo physl- cian of this city, commitied saloids to-gsy with strychine. She has alnco girlhood been affiloted with s temale disease, producing continnal despons A PERILOUS ICE-VOYAGE. Speciat Dupaleh to The Chicaon T'nbune. Osuxosu, Wis,, April 16.—Five men, flshing with seines from the fvo on Lake Winnobsgo, wera driven by s gale out on tho lake, and wera for sevoral hours In great danger, Ths ses ran ligh, and the ioo broke up into small fragments. A tug flnally wont to thoresane, but when b mlles from the shoro the waves almost ex- tivgaished tue firos undsr the hoilers, When tho mon wors ruached thoy had to be haaled in amsd‘yl by ropes, but all wero ually rescued fna perishing condition. TREE-FELLING ACGIDENT. Specral Dupalch th The Chicado Tridbune, East Baaivaw, Mich., April 16.—At Otter Lake this afternoon a man named Kiog, while chopping, waa struck by a falling treo and badly sbattored, One of his legs was 8o badly m: gled that amputation 18 pecessary. WHAT'S IN A NAMEP Spectal Dispaleh to Tha Chicago Tridbune, Watentown, April 16.—4 businoss-msn in Watertown is named Tabos, and svery time he slips down on the ico the littlo boya begin, “Every tub muat stand on ita ——," ond thon Tubbs gets up and tho boys ran, e THE RAGING MISSOURI. immense Destruction of Valuable Lands Betwoen Atchison and Lonve enworth, , Afehison (Ran.) Champton, April 11, Fow pooplo comprehend tho destruction tho recent ries in the muddy Missouri ia working bo- tween this city and Lesvenworth. Acro upon acre of the most fortilo and woil-improved farme are wmolling away like frost under a nooonday sun, and msuy of the thrifty farmore on both sides of the stream will soon find them- solves landless and bomeless, aud the turbld, turbulent stresm swoopiog over the spot that has caused theta so much toll and trouola ta {mprove, A fow mlilcs above Iatan the picturo presented Is truly distressiog, ‘The ragiog cur- Tent strikea directlv actoss from the westorn to the eastern shore, sud for full a mile the groen whest fields Lave been eaten isto and swept away, and atill the work of do~ struction goss ou. On the western sido and but a short distanco below Atchison whola cornflelds bave been uodermined and dropped iato the dirty drink which ripples over 38 if tno fieudish old’ river really enjoyed the havoo it is cresting. Near Leaveaworth, ou tho line of the Missouri Pacitic, ono land-owner de. clares that of s flao farm of forty-five beautiful scres secded {n wheat scarcoly fifteou mow sowaln, and st even la dixappearing at an alarming rate, . Many of tho fslauds are also being licked up at & rate that throstous a total wipiug out, and in many placos the chanoel s 80 nnmger{ tuat old niver pllots are uonplussed w0 piok ont a sate course, As thin jambores of the Missouri is meroly Incidental and pre- liminary to the great Juae rise which all ola river-mon predick when the wmountain enows begin to diseolve, we hardly kuow what will be- some of the bottom lands when tho stream s at dood tide, OUR IMPORT TRADE, Curiosities of Our Trade with Foreign Countries, ‘What We Pay Them for Onr Head, Foot, and Iand Gear, Jowelry, Dine monds, and Other Person- al Adornments. WasmxaTox, April 14,—Tho annual roport of the Bureau of Statistics and Commerce containg #omo vory tntoresting information. The foliow- Ing summary relates to our imports, which, in the sggrogate, amountod to nearly £600,000,000 for thio fscal yoar 1874 WIAT WE PAY FOR PERKOXAL DNE3s, For Liata, bonnots, and Loods, and for trim. minus for these articler, wo pald in thie last fincal ynar 81,674,800, and on the ssme articles waa pald £525,696 for duties, which will swell thelr fimt cout to over €2,000,000. Dut tlat {s ot all we paid for adorning and protecting onr beads, Featiiers and arbiflcial flowars cost us £3,815,093. For buman halr and srticles mavu- fazturad from it, auch a8 wigs, curls, and ringlots wo paid 81,117,945, and for bair-pins with which to give it pose and efect & these {toms togethor, wo havo 0,633,013, which represents the' original cost of mer- chaudise purrhasod by *hp poople of the United Blates during the twolve months end- ing Juoe_ 50, 1873, for udmnln} tho bhoad slone, and in that eum is not fucladed the valua of ribboos, which form s conspleagus patt of the lhead-gear of our fastionsblo Iadics, To covar our hands sith gloves, mitts, and mittons cont us #1,972.008, and for the privilege of car. Iying fane wo pala $464.430, which does not fncludo thie refroshing paim-lest, of which wo imported_ 70,181 dozeus, at an_expenso of £4,020, For our bandxerchiels, hemmed and hematitehed, we pad #£393,07 nd for per- fumery, coumeticn, and dentrifrices, &251,132. Our combe cost ua $327,223, Tho cost of ume brelias, parasols, sud ‘munshades ran up to €267,975, and §1,613,830 was paid for our kot-knives. Many ladies mill bo surprised to learo that 165,071 dozencoreats, valuodat &1,235,~ 539, had to be im it 8y metry and grace, ‘T'he importation of a few ad- ditional dozons wonld bo equal to one cotast for overy woman in tho Btate of New York, accord- log to tho censua of 1870, It requitod arger oxpenditure of money to caver our pedat oxtromi- Lies than to cover and adorn our heads, $7,34° 347 being tho amount paid for hosiery, and th dooa not include the cost of garters. This by fory is classified as follows: Coston, 80,408, 876 ; wool, 218,924 ponnda, valued at S768,7584 ; siil, $169,687. Considering tho quantities of eoamol tobe scon on salo in our fancy stores, sdorned with labels ceriifying their foreign on- gln, wo pot that article very cheap, as * £207 was & sum guficlent” to pay for all the enamol importod in 1874, Whothier the cnamel thos returnel as importsd was {for purposcs of personal adoramont or forusa in the mechanic arta the report does not state. For the 1eady-made clothing imported we ez pouded $1,190,029, which does not, of course, ombraco the clotbing smuggled in by tourlsts returaiug home, nor does it includo that suit of clothos thie Ion, Samuel 8. Cox exhibited in tho Houso of Lepreseutatives during tho last session of Congrers to illustrate lus argumeont against a high (arifi. Our appreciation for buttons Is ilustrated by tho foct that wo oxponded for those little articles 22,811,69. Our cotton laces, trimmings, and gimps cost §3,463,305 ; thread Juces aud lusertings, £33,862; epau: lota, lacos, tassels, and’ otbor articles made of gold nad silrer, $102444; em- brolderies of cotton, wool, linen, and mik, ,837,549 ; velvets, Volveteens, and braidings, 81,7 furs, drcesed and undressed, £3,139,100. Tor Lralds, laces, fringos, and loons, made of silk, we expended §2.678, and for silk ribbous we were required to pay 86,005,318, of which sum tho United ftates re- colved for duties the sum of 2,321,015, boiug nbout 60 per cent of the importots’ valuktion of the ribbons. THE COST 0¥ DRESS GOODS. Wo paid for drees and piocs goods mads of oille, #16,494,554, which is about equal to the sum pald for {mportations of winca aad apiritsy for sllk volvata wo paid 81,705,583; silk goods and ROOK mixed with sk, poi other- wiso epecified, $10,401,078; silk and Indin- rubbor goods, €273,737. The total valne of our silk importations was 39,496,985, and that, it must o remembored, merely ropresonta tbe cont of the merchandiso deliversd on our docks, with tho froight unpaid. In picoe-goods made of wool we received 70,681,408 square rds, for which we paid, including duties, &35,- 2,764, an averago cost of 50 cents in gold por square yard. Ot piecs-goods manufactured of cotion we imported 4Y,107,07 aquare ;ml-. wonhlfi,fl.’lfl.mf. to which sdd £4,457,32) paid for dutios, and tiie cost {8 awelled to €11,897, 189, ‘[he quantity of piece-goods imported manufac. tured of wool and cotton, joined togethor, would cover o surfnce of 89 square miles. For cotton goods not othsrwise specified we paid $8,209,~ 934, and for 13,026 pounds of wool Dalmorals 216,493, MILAWLS, DIAMOXDS, AND JEWELDY. Kor 083,625 pounds of wool shawls wo paid £3,330,078, and 364 ik shawls cost us §14,9%0, or abouc €40 for oach shawl. Webbing, beiting, biuding, braids, aud buttons, manufsctured of wool, woro valued at 81,669,239, and goods man- ufactured from flax, juto, or hemp, foot up S1: 405,873, To cover our Hoors with foreign ca. pets coat #6,172,561, while our beds wero sup. plied with foreign blankets for the sam of 9,350, In the way of watchos and jewslry we encouraged the foreign maoufsctoiais to the extent of $3,833,875 ; Iinitations of jot, £879,- 041; bogus jewelry, §880,863, aud coral, 230,696, To adorn ourselvea with diamonds, camoos, mosaics, and otber precious stones, wo pald §3,837,699. All the values hore given include the amounts atd tho United States for customs dutios, nve‘l‘n.mw {untanced fn which the amount paid for duties js sovarately stated, Froight and other expeuses lucidontal to soa transportation ars not fucluded, A few other articlos may be montionod which will prove of {otercet. ~Whilo not articlos of dress or ornament, most of them aro nearly allied to such articlee. Somo of thom are for our amusewient, a fow aroarticles of uum{, and waveral ars medicines snd drugs, Begloniug with small articles, wo find that ¢o import quill toothpicks we havo to pay 18,030, and for masical instruments, $1,123.814. ‘T'he 31,291 packs of playing-cards imported wera juvolcod at 5,733, and for tho priviloge of shufiling d dealing them wo had to pay tho United Btatcs #7,389, dutica thus requiring an ante of §13,123 before wa *cut’ our cards of forelgn manufsc- ture, Tho first cost of our imported dull-babies was 8555,400, that of our Christmas toys £616,057, whilo our Bologna sausago only cost £167,673, and our saurkraut ouly #8,875, For empty , into which we sfuffed our own Bulogua before consuming it, we Lad to pay £92,709. Wo broko 7,619,803 dozon of foreign- laid " egge, for which Wa had to pay $747,50. For firoworks we oxpended &4,149, and for 155,235 Loxes of Chineso fire-crackers we pald tho heathen manufscturers $125,7: nd to the United States tha sum of #$155,8% in dutios, thus makiug the original cost of sununlly colobrating our natal day in that class of pyroteobnies foot up ©281,170, For every lw:k of fire-crackers exploded by Young Americs he Goveinment of the United Statos exacts 43¢ conts, For biadders wo paid 810,600; skelotonn and other proparations of soatomy, £9,643 ; and for sigews and no1ves, £5,8:0. 14 the Governmoent for cnatoms datiss) to 861,248 (that being tho valus of tha. me)mhlzg?.k imnorted), we havs, as the &ln‘ cost tatho trados. men of our importations, the sum of $750,333, - 682 To covor the cost of freight, insurances, aud expenae incldental to transportation, include ing profits of importors and morchante, at least 25 per cont of dhe cont of the morchandieo iy dod bofora it reachen the consumer, Add 25 per cent to tho original cost, and 1t will he neen that the Ameriean paopls pald for foreign marchandise of overy descrintion during the fls~ cal yoar euding June 80, 1874, the sum of £945,- 95,017, & sum nearly equal to ous-balf of tha entiro natlonal debt, mputing our imports for 1873 by the same aystem of caleulation, wo 2&‘;,“4%“ year for forelgn merchandise 81,000« —_— TR AT CHABRLOTTE, , G, Crantorre, N. O, April 16.—Fire, this aftor- noon, deatroyed about 8,000 bales of cotton at the depota of the North Carolina and Cuarlotte, Columbia & Anguata Raflroad Companies, and n tmmber of privato residences. Loss, $200,000 3 &l nt two-thirda insured, Y Tha firo is supposed to have originated from £parks from an engine of a cotton compross standing noar a large platform, capablo of hold- ing over 3,000 bales of cotton. It was soon boe oid cantrol, thero being a_kigh wind from the weal. Tho fire pamsod over = thinly- bullt part of tho city, & dis- tance of three-quarters of a mile, montly of cotton and rallrosd dopots, Insnred in the following companies: Home, Now York, 85,000 ; North Diritiah, €25,000; Manbattan, 'of'Now SPE 0% St o 5,000; Atua, £10,000; nuls, 6,0 N ara, 810,000; othiers, eos.»m;"u’ 90 HMEAR CEDAR RAPIDS, Brecial Dispaten © The Chicage Tribune, Crpar RArivs, Is., April16.—A fire ocourred st Contre Polut, thin county, ast night, dostroying the following business houses : C, I, Rurtz, W. J. Lonsdale, C. Hubbard, and Mossman & Tay- !or';d Mon;fl;{\:fl& I: }m;hnvld nearly all thelr oods, an 2 A ard wi 3 Elll'ad‘.' Losa about 830.‘4'130. Ry At Mount Veinon, this morning, tha dwelling of Mr. Uiltott waa destroyed by fire. Loss, €500 or 600, No insuranco, AT ZOZONIA, PA. Ieptaxa, Pa., April 1L.—Tho residonce of Mra, Jane Q. Bwieshelm, at Zozonls, 1n thls county, was consumod by fire last pight. The fire onigloated from & Iamp being accidentally thrown from a table by Mra. Swissholm. Noth- {og whatever was enved from tho flames but a few articlea of clothing, AT JOLIET. Specfal Dispateh to The Chieago Tridune, Jotter, Ik, April 16.~The residence of Jo- seph Kelly, of the firm of Kelly Brothers, was partially destroyed by fire thls afterncon. Losa on building, 8500 ; on furniturs, 500, Insured 10 Osgood & Dillmon's Agenoy. Origin of fir not koown. AT BLOOMINGTON. Speetal Dispatch to The Chicano Tyibune, Brooxisutoy, IiL, April 16.—~The Washington House, owned by & man namod Ghenkin, was dostroved by fire this morning. Insured for 21,500, Total loss, RELIGIOUS. INDIANA METHODISTS. Special Dispateh to The Chieaso Tridune, Evxntany, Ind., April 16,—Tho third day'’s ses- &lon of the Methodiat Episcopal Confersnce had 8 larger attendance than any other provious day. TRoports wero made of varions diatricts, and all were reported to bo fn & prosperous condition. Complaint wad made that tho sssessment of thix district was too large, the amonnt being nearly oqual to thoee in districts double the aizo of this, Mr. Mondonhall offored a resolution that o Committes of Apportionmont bo instructed to confer with other Boards relative to the amonnt this Conference can raise. Ho thought that the Noew Ycrk Doard ooght not @ be trusted to designate what sums should bo taiged by this Capforenco for missions, and tlis action would bo au advantage to the Couferenco and to tho Boxrd, becausa tho Con- ference is best able to judge what it can afford to do, and tho Board can kuow the amounts to dopend oo, A. Morine thought tho prescuers did not do their duty, and that Northern Indiaca ia ablo to Ely tho sum apportioned, 1Ir, Miller thought thoy wera ablo If they could bring tho peoplo up to giving, but the {wonle think they are callod upou to give too often. Oar money has beon going Eastward -until we aro poor, and the laltimore Coufcrence is able to pay two dollara to our one. A rogolution waa flusily passed fpstructing tho districts to inquire into the expodiency of in~ dicating, as & Conference, the amount they will eudoavor to raiso for misgions, charcheex- tensions, and the freedmon. The Proschera’ Aid Socioty waa organizod. An amendmont to their constitution was made, allowing any brolber to be a bensficiary who has kraveled anywhore in the Church, Adjourned to meot to-morrow at 10 o'clock. . WISCONSIN LUTHERANS, Svecfal Dupateh to The Chicagu Tridune, MrLwaUkEE, Wis, April 16.—At the Lutheran Bynod to-day it was resolved to put up additional buildings at the University to cost Letween 812,~ 000 and 816,000, Tho Bynod, after routine busi ness, adjourned until to-morrow morning. —_— THE WEATHER. ‘Wasnrvaroy, D, 0., April 16,—For the Middls States, tho Lake region, and Obio Vallor clear or clearing nud decidedly cold weather with north to west winds and rising baromator. LOCAL OBHEBVATIONS. Cinicago, April 15, Time, uar.,'m" llu.{ Ran| i eher, 0:83 8, m.:20.93 20 11:18a, m, .96 24, TMaximum thermometer, 37;_minimum, GENERAL ODSENVATIONS, Curaago, April 16, a2, 13/C Duluth,....30.0) %l{‘mgsnr'xe 0.1 ', Ga I’Junlrllrl,.. 29,83y Leaveuw'th 90, 23] Kookuk,...[30.14 Ft, Gibagn, 30, 20| Cleveland.. 29.d| Tolodo, ... [2).83 MISCELLANEOTS, Svectal Disvateh to The Chicage Tridune, Mantsoy, Wis., April 16,—This has been the coldest day for this tiwo of tho voar for soveral years, Tuo meroury was only 15 dogieos above Zzoro, aod tus ground froze hard this morning, nod this afternoon it ia 18 above zero. The motallio pend, wa received 804,394 geoss, 8106,- 971, and wood leld-[mncll. 61,456 grouy, for which wo pald $167.8! T'koro waa imported 2,739,483 pouads of Castilosoap, atan exponseof $234,194, and 200,107 pounds of g,"""“‘l toilet soap, at s cost of %10G,683, For greon frults from the tropica snd for nuts we pmd - 8060, and for olivo aud salad oils, @3, For 1,123,634 pounds of 1udigo we pald 967,054, and for 4,044 ounces of musk and civot, £33,145, For the benofit of spothocarics wo sent abioad for tha fotlowing quantitios and values of phveio: wruoufo, 1,034,830 pounds, culthlP' us 107,053 ; camplior, 759,787 pounds, valuo, 160,670 ; Jalup, 116,033 pouuds, worth $19,470; ipecac, 94,204 pounds, worth 810,516; nux vomica, 29 pounds, worth $7,052; vacclao viros, §9: Our foreign cheoss cost us §634,408; st £38,101; jeltles, $17,724, TFor leather und arti- cles manufacturod therofrom, not including Rlovos, mitts, aud mittons, wo paid 28,034,705, THlE BEAL COST OF FOLKIGN IAPURTATIONS. T3 articlos euumeraicd in this eynopas will servo to show tho charscier and extont of our aunust oxpenditurse for luxurios of forelgu growth and manufacture. Liquor and tobacco should be {ncluded in erder to give comploteness to the nm?mout.uf‘s‘lgc hnva:r;ed ‘w h:“ nug spirits wa pala $16,652,120, snd_for tobacca sue Tiutachron. ot tobacto, Sibs2l.81. Tha flgures kiven in this statoment represcnt only tho valustion placed on the goods by the jm- portors, with tho amount of customsa dutios sdded. When ¢ 18 statod tuat our imports for tho last year reaclied §600,000,000, the figures ara slmply a factor by whish we determine tho extent of that class of our commerce, aud by which we way make comp 8 with former years, The figures do no repre- eony tho valuo paid by the _consuwer for that clasa of merchandise, If wo add 100,623,285 (that being the amount oollected by wind lias been blowlug s howling gals since yes~ terday forenoon, Icolias formed some distance out on tho lakes, and if Is remalns as cold, and tha wind gocs down, they will freoze uver again. No fruit or vegotation [a far onough advanced to ust. GuaND ITavEN, Mich., April 16,—Another polar wave of oxteurivo proportions maae its appear- pnce Wedneaday evening, and has sinco con- tinued with scarco nnabated violence, ‘I'he max- imam velocity of tho wind haa boon 40 miles per bour. ‘The wind from south and southwest wae sccompauied by ran Wednesday night and Thursday morning; then backed to north at noon, with {noreased violence, accompaniod by - snow, and still prevalls, il Dupateh to Tha Chicage Tridune, SerINGFIRLD, 1IL, April 16,—~The neatbor has been very cold here to-day, at sunriue tho thore mometer standing ot 2‘1 bolug 10 balow the froozing point. ‘There havo been snow flakea dytug about all d nd two {nches of soow is reported only miles north of us, . The market-mon aud gardeners asy this cold soap is fi:ll to thelr hopes for early fruitand vegeta- . Bpaciad Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, LaCuosse, Wi., April 10.—Youterdsy and to- dav tho wind has blown s galo from the north aud uorthwest, doiog considerable damage in this city and vicinity, destroying shade-irees, blowing dowa awniugs sud chimnoys, tearing off mounf. ota, Fecial Dispaleh {o Ths CAKGd0 Tribune, Eaur B01xaw, Micll, Apnil 10,1t has soowed a1} day, aud tne weathier id cold aud boisterous, more lLike I'ZJ:“““’ than an Aprl dsy, There eter, egrees. X B eial Dishaieh 1o Tha Chiaiao Tviduns, Laxuixo, Mich., April 16,—Tho polar wave roachiod here last night, the thermometer recazds . ing to-day from 12 t0 11 above zero,