Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1875, Page 6

to the secrot opposition of many . wembers of Ovngrees who hypo- critically pretended to faver the refurm, THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: URDAY, APRIL 24, 1876.~'I'WELVE PAGE WASHINGTON. Who Will Succeed Mr, Willlams as Attornoy-General 1 Tho President Proposes to Suit Him- gelf in the Seleotion, Secretary Delano in Receipt of Compli- mentary Testimonials. Delano, Jr., Under a Cloud of Berlous Accusations. Papal Envoys Admire the City of Mag- nifleent Distances. CABINET MATTERS, BPECUTATIONS A8 TO WILLIAMH' SUCCESSOB. Specwat Dispateh to The Chieagn Tribune,” Wastisaros, D. C., April 23.—Specuilations ag (o the probablo successor of Attornoy-Goneral Williams in tho Cabinet continuo to bo froely made to-day. It has been supposed by somo {hat tho Presidont will now give lonnsvivania n ropresentation in his Cabiuot, it order to strengthon tho party in that Biate in tha np- proaching campaign, but the President, in con- voraation to-day on this subjoct, remarked that ho entertained no such klea. o sald that ox- Benator Scott wonld make a vary accoptable Cab- inot officer, Lut, awing to tho diferent combina- tionsexisting in tho llepublican party in Poun- sylvania, it was not likcly that Jir. Seott, or any other gentlemsn afiliated with one ar the othor of theae combinations, could, aa & membor of tho Cabinet, advanco tho party uterests in that Stato either in n local or natlonal point of view, ‘I'ho President olso stated that, in tho ap- pointment of his Cabinet ofticors, is hiad not ra- gordod it as incumbent upon liim to conslder TIE POLITICAL INTLRESTS OT SLCTIONS in Btates, The imombers of tho Cabiuet being executive oflicers, and meating the I'residont in almost daily Pemunnl fatercourse, he was puided by hia own viows in their kelection, Hoinstanced tho caeo of Mr. Borlo, of I'ennsyivania, who was hia first Secrotary of tho Navy. Mr. Borio had nover mixea in politics, and had been sclocted on personul eaueiderations entiroly, s ‘Scerotary Delstow saye that the Prosident will not offer him tho Alloll\l‘f‘ Generalabip, and that o would nos acceps 1t if lie should. DELANO, There fa nothing particularly new respeeling thie rumored fuvoluutary resignatioh of Srcro- tary Delano. Geutlemen wha hve convorzol with the Vresidens to-day say that he is very carncat in his decloration that he shall not ro. quost Secrdtary Delano to ‘tostgn, and that fie knows of no reasou . why ho should doro, Necketary Dolano, on tho atlier hand, has routively stated to-day that he wili uot resign. T'l:0 pltuntion, nceordiog to tho most reliable - rmation to-mght, i3 tlug: Tho Presid.nt «: not and does not intend to ask Dolano to «u, Delano, whatever bis intentions muy -+0 beon, will not resign, aud tho asitation of .o subject In tho pros islikely to Lavatho elfoce of sirengthening Dolano a8 an old friend iu the President’s csteem, and to confirm Dolano in Tuia resalution to romalu i tho Cabloet. Mean- swhilo tho palnful stories concerning John Do- 1ano, tho Bocrotaly's kon, I[DKPM' to Lo only too tine. It ia certain that thora is ovidence in Waubington of operaticus of young Dolano which aro disgraceful 1n anybody, snd lufamous in vio ¢ of tho young maun's vecillar personal re- lations, Thero can bo no doubt but that Jobn Delano has beon engaged in jobs of all sorta ; that hio has attempted to binckmatl contracts ; that 1n many Wstauces ho hay been succossful. 'Uhat, whila himeolt- in feoblo hioalth,aud nt times apparcntly with » foot in the rave;bohasbeen engaged iy tranenctions which Envo forever disgraced him, and which bave se- riously impenled tha honor of hua father. ‘There can bo no doubt of the substantial truth of tho current statements tolative to John Dela- 1o, but there is officinl authority'for saying thac nothing has yot beon brought to'the knowledgo of thui’r:ah\ent which shows that the Scerdtary hed knowledgoe of or wag privy to his son's dis- honatable decds. 170 the Ansocinled Press.) Wasimsoron, D. C., Aptil 23.—Qen. B. K, Oowen, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, autliorizes tho statement Ehat recout publica- tions to tho offect that tho resignation of tho Becretary of the Iuterior hnd been asked by tho Premdont on account of corrupt practices, or for ey other reason, aud that the Assistant Becro- tary was cognizant of the facte, aro enbirely withont foundation, Tho statemeut that Geu, Coweu had been cunsulted in rezard o the auc- cession A, ho Bays, oqually untrue, aud fur- ther, that he knew nothing whatever of the etatements until the day aftor thoy were telegrapbed from here Ly apecial cor- respondents, aud ho 18 conlident that eaid atato- ments aro yoid of truth: All tho heads of bureaus of tho Interior Dapartment autliorizo a pumilar statoicut so far as they are concerued, * No mattors of general itorcat or importance were brought bofore the Cabibet meeting to-day, snd nothing whatever was said by auy oue In ro- gord to changes in tlhe Cabinct or the question of now appolntmonts to flll uny vacancies that may occur tharein, A DANGEROUR GOUNTER¥EIT five-dollar noto of the First Nationsl Bank of Paxton, 111, bus boen diecovered hero. —_— NOTES AND NEWS, TUE CHRONICLE RTRIKE. Boectal Dupateh to The Chicaao Zridune, WasumvotoN, D, O, April 23. —The Chronicle this morolng sppeated, notwith- standing tho striko, but oxhibited mawmfold typographical iudications of she consequent em- barrassmont. Thero was quite a dramatic, ox- hibitfon of polico power, although thero were no indications that the striking Union meun con- tomplated violenca, A force of thirty extrs patrolmen were Lkopt in walting all night at tho nearest station-houss, whilo a very considerablo foroo woa on duty ab the Clronfcle oflico, The preseman was tuken homo this morniug, escort- ed Ly polico, and the office has boon all day guarded by officors. Thus far cnly fivo uf thenon- Union meu from Chicagolinve arrived, These were jntercapted some distance out from Wushiugton by ecouts of the ‘I'ypographical Union, aud” ju- formed of tho situution, 1t appears that tho Chicaga printers did not know that they wero olng to Wwork ju @ *rat ” oitice. ‘Lhirce of them fiun already notifieil tho Unlon hero that they aro ready to retum to Uhicago o goon as tho Union praviden tho means. . TUE FAPAL ENYOTH spent the day Io thia city under the charge of Fathor White, of Usltiniore. ‘Thev called upon tho Promdent, but, oming to Lid engsgoments, only left their cards, "Ihoy visited uli the pub- lio buildings and drovo sbout the city. Thoy stated hat Washington, ln thoir opimon, is tho most besutiful oity i the world. Count Mare- foschi, ono of the euvovs, ia an emiueut archi- tect. Heis the Papal Kuporyising Architoct, The pleus of ail tho Catholic churclica in the world are forwarded to Home before tho buildings are begun, nt wubmitted $o lmm for inspectien i approval, He ia thoroughly converesnt with all AE- architevturo of Kuropo. lioto-day enhu- siastically declared thnt tho Capitol Duldiug hero i the finest public building i sho world, MEXIUAN-CLAIMN COMMISNION, 3 It 1 weated that i Edward Thornton, tue British Miulster, who Is tho umpiro of the American aud loxican Mixed-Ulaims Comntmis- slon, has upward of 100 claima bofore bum for dcecision, The teot question tu docide tho re- wponsitility for the eackiug uf Bagdad, at tho moutls of the Rio Grando, caunot be roachied for some time yet. W0 BILLED CIVIL-BELVICE TEFORM ? . It in understood hera that Mr, Dorman B. Eaton's fortuconilug esay at Detroit ou Cinl- Hervico leform will ba anattempt to explain why the expesiment falled.. Katou, It is said, atinibutes ita fatlure to the bitter, open hoatille; of Gen, Butler suda fow of his Tollows, ani It is oven said that Eaton will wmake public the nawes of tho Cougressmen who, will & doubles fuce, con;ributed most to tho dofuut of the ez pesiment, - ¢ 7HE ENPORORMENT ACTS. The atatoment that the Bupreme Court will de- clate tho Eutorcement acls unconsbitutional ia doubtless prewuature. Tho krwih lv that the case which wes recontly srgued involved uo feaiuros of \be Enforcemeut act whiich have not already beeu presented fu the Bouth Carolina Ku- Klux aud the Houtucky election cases, Upon this laster cass tho Coure hold ity coufercuce, and at thls confercnco it way digcoverad that the neany uuauimouy opinion of sbat body ls that oy Ly o 1870, 1s not constitntional, It is Conrt stamds cignt against tho conatitutionality to ona for tlia coustitutionality of this act. It I8 posaibio Lint this mav havo had n dotermining intluenco n recwng tho postponement of tuo decislen until tho October term. (len. Ruek, of Chicago, arrived this morning. Tho piirpose of tis viele in to look aitar noverat Dust-oflico matters, and to huston the approprin. tion for thio impravements on tho Upuor Missis. appl Valloy, anthorizo by the last Cougress. EX-ATTONNEV-OENERAL WILLIAMS, It Is rtated upon nuthority that ex-Attornay- Gonoral Williams will romain haro for somo monthe and dovoto himaelf to tho practico of hia proteselon beforo tho Snpreme Court. o will thoit go Lo Oregon and ontor upon tha canvasi for tho United Hiaten Senato, to auccood Koloy. UNDERDID, Cal, T\ P, Wright, of Chioago, has loat hiscon- traot for mweepiug tho strouts of this Dutrict, heving been undorbid, [Io thd Assoctated Press.) THE MALL-CONIRACT FUAUDS, Wasnsarton, D. O., Aptll The inveatign- tion of tho mall-contract frawds ia still in prog- ross by tho Pogtmastor-Gonera! aud Second An- sistant Postmaster-General Tyner,who thls morn- ing discovorod A frandulent bld nmong thoso for mail rontes in Louisiana. Abaut eix clorks inve already bean dirchargnd for complicily In tho frauds, and it is understood that at loast & dozen moro aro implicated, Judgo ‘Lynor statos that ho la detormined to mako & thirough fuvestiga- ton of {2, if 1t takes nil summor. - MARSILALLTOWN, IA. IWotclaDpening nud Spelling=Jntch— Stnte Senutor — Golden Weddimg — Lanwwanite Syeclat Dispateh to The Chicaco Tyibune, Mansnarrrows, Ia., April 22.—The Boardman Houso will open bero in o fowr daya with a giand speltivg-match for a prizo of €100 in fold, Col. Swilt. of Waterloo, I8 the new landlord. Tho Stato of Jowa Is challonged to furnish spellers for this contest. 0 Thero is & feoling liero that fot eandidatos will como up for the State Sonateln this district, composed of Marshall sud Grundy Countlos. Dr, Taylor isup for re-olection, whila tho Lis- comb Norihices! holsts tho namo of Olapin, of the Marshalltowa Times, for tho oflice, which howill refusa {n his noxe fsstio of tha Times, to $ho grast raaret of s mauv frionds, Tho golden wedding of Mr. Enos Molhllan and wifo will be colobrated Avrill 27, In this city, Thoy were married in Pennsylvania in 1825, and hato rateed sovon childian, the youngest beive 80 yonis of ago. 'Who clildron will eoma from Eurape, Ohin, Kausse; and Sherll MeMillan, ono of tho nons; lives hore. "ise Smuth va. Smith case will como un in the Distriet Court noxt wock, The plaintiM, a ludy who lives in Canton, 1il, claims to have beou tho wifo of the decessed Smitd, whose brother holds the property, RELIGIOUS. BAPTIST SABBATH:SCHOOL INSTITUTE, Snectal Correspondence of ‘The Chicage ribune. MILWAUKEE, Apnil 22,—This morniag's sossion of the Daptist State Babuath-School Instituta was the most interosting yet beld. Over 200 delogates wors presont, and tho body of the chuzch was complotely fllled by membera of the congregation aud of other churches. Dr. O. R, Dlackall, of Chicago, delivered su addrees on " Primary Classes,” with tho use of tho black- baard, for tho benofit of teaclfers, Dr. Watren Tiandoiph folloned with an ad:ress on **The Bu- porintendent’s Oftice.” 'Liio aticruoon and oven. ing wero dovoted to spoochies on n varcty of subjocts connectod with Babbath-schouls, " To- motrow.ds the last day. tho act of July, snid that tho MILW/AUKEE SUNDAY-SCHOOL MATTERS. ‘Sneciat Dispateh {o The Chicaao I'rioune, Muwwaukgee, April 23.—The Baptst School Instituwo broko up this evening with five-minuto farowell speeches by the priucipal delegates, hiaving been in 8 ssfon continuously since Mon- day evening. 1t Is pronounced to’ have beon a gratifying succesy. Y. M. C. A Moxtaoneny, Ala., April 23,—The Stato Con- vontion of Young Men's Christlan Aesociations mot tast night. The atiendauco ia larger than at nny provious meoting, sad much interost is manifested. G. A. Iall and T. K. Croe, of Wash- ington, aro present, represonttug tho Execative Committeo of the United States and Dritish America, AMUSEMENTS, MANAGER GARDINEN'S DENEFIT. Manager Gardinor's benlit at the Aeademy of Muslo to-day witl doubtless bo an sstomshing affalr, It i tho custom nowadays Lo have a doutle benefit, matinee and evening being do- voted to tho laudabla object of placing money fo tho boneficiars's purse. It is rumored thut r. Gardiner will bid farewell to the Acadomy tnls season, which gives fo his beoefit » most important i of Lbeing vai- edictory. Mr. Gardinor, i{f nny manager, lina captured stars this veason for Lho patrons of Lin theatre who would elso havo beeu obliged to mios tho city. He bas done more than any mauagor this soason o provide for tho public, and tho bl this afternovn snd eveniog i unique. 'The attoinoon will bo given tocomedy ; the ovening to tragedv, As proviously an- nounced, a musbor of Wostern wanagera have promised to piay ; how thoy have docided their special fitness for tragedy or comedy is not kifown, Thero can bo no doubt that thoy will givo thoir audionces g1l tho amusement that the ovent could posetbly Bugges THE MISSOURI RIVER. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicaao Tridune, Bioux City, Ia., April 23,—The wator in the Missourd isstill slowly rising at thia point and at Yankton, At Vermillion it has overflowed tho bauks, and the lower portion of the town 18 sub- morgod. Tue Dakota Southorn track s washod intho vielmty of Vormililon, and tining have Leen susponded for & fow days. Tho water is higher now ttian at any tumo _sivco Juue, 1805, and bigher than over kuown beforoat this sozson of tho year. Telegrams from Forts Bully and Ttands{l state that the water Is at a stand, —_— OBITUARY. Bavtione, Md., Avril 23.—Col. I. M. Yerger, of issiseippi, but for aoveral yoars a resident af ths elty, died lagt nlghit. At oue timo he was prominent beforo the publlo in councation with tho killing af Col, Crane, ot Jackson, Miss., for which eritno lie was tried by o military commnls- slon, Col. Yerger was iu apparent good hoalth up to 1 o'clock yesterdav afterooon, Yor several yoors, ainge rosiding 1n Bwtimore, Lo wus pro- prictor and editor of the Ecening Journal, e clatu sl THE INDIANS, 8pecial Dispateh lo The Chicago Tribune, Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, April 20,—Tho Osaga Indians have loft ‘the Osage Agency, and it is feured are bent ou avenglug the death of four of their companlons who wore killed fu Bouthern Kansas Inst summer by tho Biate Mliltia, The wottlers are aailbg under Col, Uoffey’s advice sud driving thoir stook to tho Btates for protection. Gieab excltoment is reporicd to exist in the Indian Terrltory, and Oapt. 3Moddeus hias been ordored to his post, g OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. PirapeLruts, April 23.—Arrived, steamer Nederland, from Autwerp. Loxvoy, April 20.—Arrived, atosmehip Btate of Louisiaua, from Now York, NEw Yous, April 23,~Arrived, steamship Cal- itoruia, from Glusgaw, w BAN Frascisco, April 23, —The United States steamer Luokawal orty-five days from Yoko- L, srrived 1 rnoon, All'woll. e g e Outrage by a Clergyman. To the Inteuso gslot af & number of persona who have relatives lylng In the'graveyard of the church at Coppenhali, & suburb of Crowe, ia Lo- glaud, It was discovored that some person had destroyed the protty wood trelliswork around & numbor of tho tombs, and toru up cight carved wood tablets, Suspicion could uot atflrst be fizad upou suy ous, but it at length was bruited sbout shiat the Nestor, the tev. AMosos Haid, Lad committed the outrage. The rumor was com- wmouly discredited, bub thero was s crowdod at- toudsnco 8t the Eastor Vestry, and aftor the bustuoss was transacted hir, Hoid was askod 31 Lia could givo any oxviunation, Amid gruatox- citewout be adwitied having scted i tuo mans ner denosibed, because tho tablets wote erected witlous his sauction, Beveral wpeakers pointod out that some of them bind baen m tho yard for years, and after an excited discussion it way car- nukdl‘nl:mt‘l.a‘::‘ifi“’nm“ Ehnau prowcut widle of opiulon o Nector descrved s C for his unchrustiun conduct, TR eteit CARRIED BY FRAUD. Adoption of the Incorporation Act of 1872, Gallant Fight of tho Citizens In the ‘Pwentieth Ward, Shomeless Illegalities Praoticed in the First and Second, The Returns, Testerday'a eloctjon resulted in the adoption of that woustrous and mischiof-making afair Lnown as tho Incorporhtion mct of 1872 This couclusion was duo fu part to the apathy of re- spectablo citizons, and pactly to tho re- peating which was so liborally practiced, Thoy ouly ward in which any resistance was'mndo to tho roughs was in tho Twentioth, In many other wards, especially the Soventh, Eloventh, TFirst, aud Second, thoy bad protiy much their own nay, the judges bemg generally with them. Inh tho I'irst Ward tho iliogal voting way shamelessly open, The Gormaus of tha North Sido gave a majority againgt thoe act, aud 80 did tho Sonth Sude Irieh, led by Sheridan, but tho vota of tho snmo nationality on tho West Bide dil tho business. Minority roptesentation was badly dofeatod, . TIE SOTTH 81T, The olection on tho South Kide was unusually quiat, not & mnglo tisturbanco occurring, at any ot tho polis, and very fow votos linbibung Ilquor to oxeess and “waking fuu® for tho Ly-stand ers, Tho crowds which usunlly indieato n vating- plnce wero absent; aud bad it not been for tio E\m,-unh of three or four policemen and the ickot-peddiors, a passer-bv would not bnvo kuown that an election was holding. Thero wore very faw organized gangs of repoaters=in fact ouly ong was noticed; bat moauy iliegal votes wote un.Joubtadly polied fu tho First aud Second Ward. In theso wards no registiy of voters was made—any otio who cama ta tho window belug aliuwed to deposit Ius ballot = with scarco a question; and cvon whey asked whorg ho_lived, the aussner was * matisfactory,” and 1o votes wero tefecled. Tha natorious Jlugh Reed was one of the Judges at the Becond Waid poll, [and of course “ruu it " Limeelf In his own g eculiar way. Ife was drunlk, and, lean- ing ont of the window with a banifal of ticzets, would kludly hand ono * For™ toa soter, nud thus succeod in makiog many voto thatway whether thoy wished to or not. Police-Commia« sioner Bneridan diove up to tho poll abont 1 o'cluck, and whilo on the sidewalk romarlked, *Tho geoplo up-town nro voting agalnst ono- man powet, and L hono thoso In this (the Bec- owl) ward have intelligenco enough to go tho samo way." 'Ulig speech wan nou rolighed by TReed, ainco lio told Mr, Sheridan that e was not A voter there—that Lo had betler **let up.,” Tho gang of repeaters reforied to conssted of abont thirty negroes, who werd led by Qearge Hanuing, tho gambler, and Dilly Groon, » fellow who has been In tho employ of Miko Me- Donald, Theso fellows were driven £.om poll to poll m tho throo' lower warda all day, aud must hiave put in ot least 300 vores * for in- corporation.” About 2 o'clock thoy marched in a body from the cotner of Lako and Doarborn street to tho First Ward poll and voted »atralght,” Copt, Buckloy was sltling in his bLuggy and eaw them polog away, nad told n ‘CrisuNe reporter that thoy bad just camo from thio Socond Ward, No nttompt, howover, had been made to 1atorfore with thom, and whou tho last in the lino had avorn In bis voto, the wholo pacty went mto on adjacent saloan to got o iink, Tho reporter foiluwed, and llstoncd to the converaation, and hoard ono say, “1 ain't gotng to vote nny wmoro ubloss 1" can got o atamp ;" aunotber, * I have voted throo times, and nave ouly had ono drink ;" and o third, who nas agsed which way tho party was voling, ro- plicd, * I've votin for do eity “ordinance.” The ast soen of the mob they wors In tho express-wagans, bonud for the Third Ward poll. “I'wo of them wero ariosted in tha after- uoon for illegal vutine, As for a8 known, the opponents of the act did not enlist any of the “Y'hoys" to repent; la truth, in tho upper waids, whora tho sentiment. was nil ono way, ao men who wero known to bo ropealers camo near the polis. Vory littlo interuse was manifested fu any of the wards, andn largo numbor of thoso whio did voto sero ot aware what was ab stake until it was explained to thiem, and even then it 18 donbtful whother they comvrohendod ft. Ono argument advanced in tho sixth Ward to & oo wiio was not inclined to vote atall, was: © Do you want to Lave n tempeganco law? If not, voio agatust the churte,” ‘L' thelr frien: tickot-puddlera would say *this ia all right,” Lauding them a ticket, aad, by this means, aote vo peddlors kot votea for or aguibst, according to tho tuterest thoy reproacnted. TUE WEST 6IDE. Iu thie Eighth and Ninth Wards the votlng was steady, nud the Bourbon ides of votlng *early und ufiou” woa riglaly adhoered to. 'Iie polis wore su:rounded tiraughoat thodny by au eavor crowd, composod larzely of po.icomen and other city officiuta, ‘Llie formor noro exorcising their intluenco agninat the now Incorporation act from anotion they had gamed that what was life to the Muyor was deatu to them, L'hey weto backed by membera of the Board of Polics Commission. erw, or cheir bired agouts, who argued with po~ cullar disintorestedness ngalnet the one-man power aud the idea of having u King in the por- son af Jolvin, Thoso who did the eoffective work for tho oduption of the ack were membors of tho City Council, the employes of tho various dopart- menis uudor ity cantrol, tho Mayor's eon, sud & lung line of ¥mall, gioveling poiiticiaus, tow of thesa inavifested n zealn tho causo bard to secount for, spbuding not only their tune, but o gucaly quantity of somobody's monoy. Thole mguments wero varied, but, whon ail elso fullod to couvort an Irishman, 1t was auggested that tho cuure fight was to “ Kill tho d—d Dutdl, beaded by tiesiug.” To convert n Uorman tho more activo aud ignoiant workers thought it ouly neceasary Lo luvert the rensoning, At the opening of the polls iu tho Eighth Waid tho tido scsaied to bo **against” reurgaa- izing under tno new act, much to tho astonish- mont of the judgesof the election, who woro algu tho tickets;cdalers, and chosen, doubtless, bocuuse of thoir wall-koown ability io producing desized results, About 1t o'clock tho reaction began to set i, which wasoxpluned by tha pros. once of a large ruinforcement of workers, iicaded by tho Mayor's son. Up to this thno the voting hisd dcen” ltberal, oud the sarmiso wae thain Inrgo majority had to bo overeume. Tha judges then contmenced taling each voter's name, sud wore curétul that the samo person did ot vote moro thau once beforo leaviag the poll, ospo- cially if it wag known that bo was adding to tho nuujority to bo overcome, Tho voling so coutiae tied until early fn tho aftornoon, when Folice- Commissioner Sheridun reached tho poils in ua tour of inepection, Ilo et in Lis carriago near the crowd, aud now aud, thon cheored on bia workors with wuch oxpresblons sa * Down wich the Klog,” ~ Belog wisiuterproted onco, he was nsked to alight and *‘esy somatbiug” to the boys, but he proved deal to such appoals, 'fi["{‘ {ug with » benlguant smile that ue would be around when he wanted sumothing. IN TUE NINTU WALD tho friends of tho now act appeared fo be in the ascendency Irom tho oponing ot th¥ polls, At lenst they wore cheortul, hopeful, and indus. trlous, They gloated no'liftlo over the pros- pect that the Germans were nok going to como out, and the popular fgnorance of the real fssuos of tho day, Unoof them, an ox-Aidermen, re- Jolced that voten wera ro ensily mado, and that ag Jouy ae tho tickets held out slere would be no trouble about the result, gon- tlemsn was doubtlots currect,” snd cor- tainly did as much a4 un{ one elie in tho Interostofthe uew sct, aud toward por- fociing tho groat furce, Tho ward was not froo from aistinguished visitors, who were drifting to aud 10 amoug tho * dear poople,” Voling was beyond restraiut, but ono batlot-box waa fosud ample to contain the ballots oifored, In the othier Wost Hido wards, with the excop- tion of theenth, Twelfth,and Thirtoentl, mattors went dn vory wuch a4 iu .o Elghth aud Ninth— farcically aud graudulontly, THE NOLTIL BIDE, ‘The doy on tho Norta fide was not partioular- 1y oventtul, aud nothivg of & very lively nuturo ovourred 1u any of tho wards, oxcopt at tha pall~ ing-piace of the U'wentietl, oppomito the County Juil, un Dourbory street, Inihis ward Lhe most noted of tug North Bide politiciaus reuide,fin. cindiug Moesrs A, O, and Wushington Hoslog, Hoerltl Aguow, Ald, Coroorau, and & whols n‘slul- mout of pmall fry, It was woll known yosterday taat,while Mrt Heslog and bis triends were etrong- 1y oppuned to tho aduption of tue chaiter, bheutl Agnow und lus crowd were s fully sud unre- servedly in favor of it. ‘Thas both parties at- tunded to their worlk in a most ludustious spint must bo admitted, A great doal of apathy was manifestod by tho faborivg massos jo goneral, aud & profound iguorauve of the question ou witich thay wera axpocted to yvoto was dienlaved Ly a aurprisingly largo number of citizous. ‘Ihis wan chilly awing to tho verv amall anionnt of spoechifying done in the campAign, 1€ the move- nient preceaing the vots on the chatter of 1872 ©can be called by that ticto. THE TWRNTIETI \WARD nall wna the grand contro toward which sl the contlictivg elementa ratliod, commoncing at oarly down, A ‘mare nromiscuoun crowd can hokdly e tmaginod, Thoro wers bummora who wore dirty, keody, and drunkon, and there woro o:har bummols who wora rosplondent in broadstoth, and gotgooua fn gold aud precions stones, Thero woro nlso somo very reepectablo citizens, who appeared to bo rathor dlegusted at fluding thom- solvos i badt company, Moat of those took an carly opportanity of lenving. Prominent among the patrons whasa connto- nances gleamod sround tho polla wero Tom MoMabon, Mike Corcoran, folin Crawfird, tho Hoxton brothiers, **Jim' Mcilale, and many more of mich the same calloro, 'Cuoy wore londed down swith _tickots which favored the pansags of tho now Ohattor.anl roon managed to Ret quito an army of the untorrilled into line, oxercising * the high-st precogatives” ote. Vot. ing was becoming ver brisk, withoul much regard to qualilication, when A BQUAD OF OENTLEMEN, whose slnu-l‘: 0 hate glittered in the morning stin, af:penrnd ls'mu thio sconc, hoaded by Alr, A, 0. Honing and tho Rov. Mr. Ohambe:lain, of the Now Engiand Gougrogational Chinrch. _Among tha rest woro Iaang N. Arnold, James Kirk, G. 11, Forgys, H, M. King, A. M, Ponte, Dr, Biako, Dr. Fiodr, of Tush Modieal Ooltegn; Gon. Liob, Ma}, Kirkland, Lnwyor lolcs, anu somo other prominont citizens. Thov iero all suppliod with opposition tickots, and chno upou tho ronnd dotormined to” fight tho charter nnd illegal votlng to tho Inst. Thoir presenceelicited somo jeoring from tho other party, whoss challongers, Jobn Crawford amd™ “Jim” Mellalo, stood upon tho platform -onponite tho polling window. ‘Chis brought Con, Liob and somo other Eeutlomet totlo front. _They approached the window, and romarked to William O'Brlon, one of tha judges, thint two clinllengers ougbt to ba luside, Yoico—Go to h—lil AMind your own busf. no%s. Mr, Ponce—~We demnnd that chiallongora bo appointed. » ?\'mcu—Who tho b—y h—Il aro you,.any- wav Mr. Ponco—I sm from the Citlzona' Associs- tlon, nnd domaud s fair canvass, according to Iy, Milie Corcoran—Stelumotz (onn of the Judges), you know what you'ra about, Go ahoad as you are, Mr., Penca—I domand that the judzes comply with the statute providing for cha'leogers, Gon, Liob road the statute, which provided for a fine of 81,000 and & year Ju jail for all violations thereof. % ‘Ihis created n tremendons nproar,’ i the mid:t of which tho accomplishod *Jim ™ Mo- linlo, o great judge of such mattors, saoutod: “This s all d—d humbug. ‘Taint no reg'iar voto, you know. ‘Tho statute docs nobboar upon it. Lot us havo peaco.” Tho gontlemen who stood aronnd tho polls inslstod that tho atatuto sbould be compliod with, and, as tho judges still appearad to ba undotermined, Mr. Panco sal they might ro- fusn at thair poril, but the Citizens’ Assouiation would proseauto them to the full extont of tho 2w, .. ‘I'iis thront had tho denired effect, and Mossrs, @. il Forgua and Georgo Dobr were duly in- stalled as challongers, Tlus laviug beon nccomplished, quiol was restored until Alr, MoHalo msistod ou KEEPISG THE PLATFORI, when Mr. Homujz alao aesumed n placo thero, Tuto polico sald there was no root thore for the votors. Mr. Heslng~—I don't want to remaifo, but I must do {t, 8o long as tLis man ia here, livoly altercation followed, shen tho polico intorforod, and the platform waa rolioved from *Jim'a” avolrdupols, Mr. Hoslug thon stopped down and out, but remained aroand the Tu]ln during tho remaindor of the dav, although ho was subjectod to plenty of “chafiing " au:d abuse, ‘Townrds avening Blieriff Agnow putinan ap. rcnmnwu and voted, but did not take any band n the disorderly proceedings of tho unwashed. Tho ey, Mr. Chamberlair stood tho busiiess about s long s be could, bug, finally, tho row- d{xum of tho mab thoroughly stckened him of oloctions, and he cloarcd out. Doforo leav- ing, Lbwever, tho gontlemon carrled & couplo of important points. Thoy cotupolled the eneiny to provide two boxes for tho yotes— ono for tlio vata on tho charter aug tho other for tho voto on minority roproseutatiuti, Thoy also succeeded in _securing » poll liat, so that tho namo and residence of overy voter was rogiator od, and thus ono of the avenues of tho repoat- cricut ol - 'Thoro was no very groat amount of disorder, although somo bats wero stove in and & fow elight slirmishes oceurred, Mt, Iosing was pro- voked movern! times, but suceceded in keoping temper and hung aroutud tho polls nntd it was too lato for tha rowdi. s to undo Lis good worl. ThE vOTE, ° ‘The vare on the two propoaltions—tho accapt- aneo or rojagtion of the chartar and 1Mnority reprosentatiod—is as followa ¢ TNCONPORATION, ||MIN'TY NEPRESEN'N, Wanp, |rme e e For,_ | dgaiat. ||~ . Againat. lfll\' 9. 1 1,673 il 10 28 DECEIVING TIUE RETURNS, The roturns wero rocoived at the Police IToad- quarters, aud a largo number of Fouplu COLgro- gated fhere to learn tho result. Among tie crowd wers bsyor Colvin, A, O, Hesing, Ald. Dixon, Warren, Quirk, Corcoran, Oampbeil, and O'Dilen. Milio Evans, Clom Poriolat, and Polico-Comnmissioner Tono, Whon n rowrn showod & mafority for the act thore wore cheere, aud, as the majarity was figurod out when only the Boventh, m;'?mu. and Nioth Wards were to'bo heard from, the voto at tho tune being 6,146 for and 8,473 agalust tho act, it was predicted that tue chartor would bo adoptod, Mike Evans, who is undersiood to hava been opposcd to it, aaid that tho Lighth Ward roturn was being kefih back o aa to bringin o majority large enough to ovorcome that which was exhibited bln tun _aggrogate voto of tho other wards. Whother he _spoke the truth {s unknown; but 3ticlael in given the credic for oescasing much polltical wirdom, aud knowing ** Lo the thing is done.” 'The ‘gradlduon was truo, ne the votoof the Iiighth Ward made thd majorit, i gor " 566, the Ninth yet to bo heard from, rumor sa to tho voteof the Iattor was that about 1,000 votes lLad been ocast, of which 800 wers agalnst the aot, and 200 for it. Thls, It truo, gave & small ma- Jority against the charter, aud sets its oppo- nents by the sara, A re;'mu was subsaquentl; atarted that the returos from she Elghth Wat were not olMicial—ihat thoe judges werg (1:30 a. m,) still counting, ‘Thissiron; ‘hmmn 0 bolio! 1n dlike Evans’ statement, and It may theteforo e enfoly stated thattho chastor of 187 Lina beon adouted(?). A WORDY ALTEROATION took place botweou Mr, Heslng and Hugh Reed, Iate in tho ovening, the former sayany that the latter paid no taxos, and that ho (f[uulng) WS not a pinp, a loafer, or & back-driver. Ieed ro- plied tust he paid more taxes than Mr. Hoslog, and that he bnd =& mind to punch nhis bead; he ‘(Rood) “was no reporte e ol couldn’t be kicked; -wad in fact itching to got even tor she Buerman House fusult, when AMr, Jeslng put bisfist iu bia (Reed's) face, and Lo sworo hLe would *‘gel even " omo time, Capt. Hickey au length in- torfored, and quieted lised, aod Mr, Hesing finally coased talking aud laft the placy Modern ftelic Ilunterse A London letter sayu: *‘Lhe rage for paying extravagaut pricos for anything oid in the wey of cultin, glass, books, mauuscripts, ongravingd, and paintiugs, which was so marke foaturo last seanon, #Llit continues, aud msuy a foriune mado by the salo of piles of Jumber, of one kiod sod anothor, huuted. out of old attios, or resoued from the dusty rooms of neglected man- sloos. The other day for 1mstance, & pa.r of old osudolabras, with Drosden cluns fgures, wore sold for $1,365, n Darr's Bevres vase for 01,460‘ an ongraving of ‘I'no Marrisgo of tho Virgin, afsor ‘Raffagile, by Loughe, for §023; au en- raving of Leouardo du Vinci's ¢ Lasc Supper,' Morghen, for $1,830; & copy af Hedxrave's +Century of tho I'sinters of the Euglish School,’ for 806U'; two small vasos of Clelsos waro for 8U05; » cn.llmlon of Epgiish chins for 92,600, aud 1o on." EMPEROR AND KING. Meeting of Francis Josoph ‘and Viotor Emmanuel, —_— The Festivities nt Venlce, Correavonden e New York ieatd, Vexter, Aptil 0.—Yosierday's feto comprised the greoting of the twwo monarchs nt the railroad depot, tho aquatio #ortero thance tu the Koyal 8, & banquet of tho tvo monarchs nnd r auites, tho iuminations, aud court Lail. Victor Emmanucl arrived in ‘tho oty ab 11 on Sunday, s did tho Itahan I'rinces aud Prin- coss Sarghenta, while Fraocis Joseph, with his_suite, arrived at tho station’ at 11 yea- torday mormng. I saw the greoting of the two monarchw, A 1w minutes bofors tho arrival of tho Imperial traln Victor Bmmanuael might havo hoon soon sianding at the edye of the platform looking cage:ly at the approasting tratin § by hifs sido stood Prince Umperto, wicn tys largo, bushy mustacho and curlous oyes, aud n littlo Lotund Prince Amadoo, looklng sad, as if Iie still pondered ovor bis renounced crown antl destroyed awmbition, aud Princo Tommaso, of Gonon, in s nayal udilorn, rosembling somewhat In featurea tho Dako of Ldinburgh, but docidodly moro tolined and dignified, Arrangod ou tho platform woro o company of camnbiniorl and n outupany of tho regular artny, with its musio cory.g, and immediately back of the King a group of fialiat aud Ana riai ollicurs sud oicials, sud » fow correspondnnts of English, Amarican, and Austrian jouruals, somo of whom had rocelyed wviintions from tho Prefect, and others bad wanngod to flud n baek toor of ingrosy. Victor Emmanuel could seavcely conceal hin nervous omotion. 1A enormons mustaohs curlod clesr up to bis oyes, aud his eyos sought o resting placo somoihera amonyg tho rafiers of the deput. With uncoverod hoad, dressed ju tho natioual uniforin, ho awsited his guest, ‘Tho train, drawu by o tastefully tlagged locomotive, catag slowly in, and IFisncis Joroph eagerly de- scended tho stepe of his earringe bofore thio cara bad stopped, and, hat in hand, bneteved, smile 1y all over hia faco, to greot hia Royal host. THE BALUTATIONA of tho monarehs wers most cordial 3 thoy kissed cnch otuer warmly on the ohook, stud stoud for a fow moments with hands claspotl, talling eager- Iv, while tho baud plasod the boautiful air of tha Austriun nationsl bying, ! Gotterhalte Franz don Kalaer, 1t was n'ploasant scono, thia cordial grecting of tho two mouarchs, futmarly usadly eucinivs, the vletor and thoduicatod of 1306, A great contrast, those two lustoriesl Bures—Frandls Josopl, bloude, slightiy buut, clad in bin gay uniform, and rejoio.ni in the sunnicat, 1iast jo; ntoutd § Victor Emmanue), snort, thick, uigainly, with I8 groa huge fon.ures, but from whieh boawed o apurit of warmth and ploasire and fanndiness that made ona forgos their vory uglness, Km- manuel thon presonied lus sons to his guest, and tho two monarohy walkod . ABAL IN AT, chatting and smiling, dowy tho long platform out on to the open space it’ front of (o dupot, wherae thoy wero rocelvenl by the cheers of thous saads of people who had gathered ou tho rver, in the gandoluy, and on the wquars and stops of tho Church of 8t. Beaizi, and, as_thoy omorged, tho sun bioko forth from tho clouds, 81 1f iio, too, had beon waiting to bring his greotings, and poured down upon the brilliaut scouo the Elnw of warmth and light, that was necded to iing out the woudsrful wealth of colors dis- played on the waters of tho cansl. P .« TIE OBAY MORNING LIGHT on Monday sav the grand caual lluttering, from tho ruilwny staslon to tho Koyul palacs, with myriads of flags and draperiea. Ivory window was hung with lively colors ; facades bristlod wich flagstaffs, and tao red, whito, and grovn.! hung over overy door. Uesubiful velver and damask curtalus were looped aloug the Gothio balconies, - hall bidiug tho rich- nous of the stone work with the gracornl folds of tho stuff, and furnighiog rich lodgoes fo tho ladies, wnosy splondid gostunca added to tho brilliancy of tho docogative atfect, Somo of tho best {nlm:nn Lroagbt ont thalr store of deop- toned ofd tapestiles, nnd coverad tho watar front with theso fadedspictures of former Vene- tiat opulence ; others draped witn buntivg nud bits of colored cloth the anglea and ,lpro]ocnnns from the roof to tho water's edgo. Tho surfaco of tho canal palpitated with fruity reflections of all theso tluctering bits of lively color, and the shinlug prow ot tho gondola seemed to cub through a . F AIVER OF LIQUID GEME. Tt was 0. mout oxquisitely beuntiful scono, and ona never to be forgotten. Every crift tlt could float scemed to oo on the canal. Tiny canocs shaped lika a fish ; long, black, low-lying sandole ; the graceful jauuty goudolus, Wil bright steol pros; ugly old scows, and tho Hsing boats from fhe Obloggus 1 hugo kalloys full of happy Venotians,— ull tlose for.o- od an irrogular, nevor-onding prozoasion that bogan to movo up tho Grand Caval long bofaro the Lmporor was expeccted to arrive. Allealoug tho rivas, clustored on tho stopa of tuo water doors, porchiod on iho moor- 1ug posts, crowding tho windo¥s, aud blackening tho docks of overy craft that was woored Lo ths bank, swarmod a paticnt, jolly orowd, ready to applaud evory novelty in” tho linoof boatoi dross, ss the muitiiude of crafts skimmed past. "T'ne c.ouds bung losw as tho disthat boom of a cannon anuonucad the arrival of tho imperial train at Mostro, aud alung tho ¢annl swept a low HUX OF EXPECTATION, Along silenco, brokea by occasional chafliog matchos with passmg boatmon, and tho onthusi- atio ftallana vroke out it o londer muunur of applauso a8 cannonanaounced tuo mostivg of tho two sovoreigns at the wiation.* 'The oxcitement bogan, Pooplo chiatrered dud gosticulatod and cow noisy a8 they do baforo tle curtain rises at ho thoatto, and thoy sacmed quite iu the mood to reseive tho visitors as thoy would a uow Bpec- tacular drama on the staye. Cradually a loud- or murmur, {ncroasing and drawing nearer, told ot tho spproach of thb cortozo, aud the clouds bogan to olear away, tho surface of tho canal ro- flocted n brizht pun, and, as the lirat Royal gon- dolas rounded the Iast bend of the canal, the splondor of Itatian snushine broke full upon them. TFour Iloyal gondolas cloared the wayj tallowing olosely acliind thom woro soon advance luff in stato tho high gilded bows of tho muniol- pal barges or bissono, which formod tho spocial cscott of bonor, Twelve of taeso long barges of duferant colors, each propelled by cight vatsmon dresscd [ costunes in Larmony with tho docora- tion, furmed s %n 2 OITCLE OF NONOR about the Royal gondola which bore the two monarcha, 'Thia group of bnrfi::u swopt awiftly post like & sbining phautom ; tite wator splashed musically, the tuiel decorations rustled in tho wind, sid, from the dazzling confusion of sparkliug ornamontation, rich drosses, clonds of baunars, sud rauks of pawuted oars risiug aud falling in quick moasure, it was difiicult to mopavate tho modest black gondola, Jhe nucleus of tho galaxy, whore tho groon plume and the wuite waved side by side, This Loat was decoratod simply, but with exquisite taste, - On vach sido on tho gun- walo woro biue volvet cushions, with edi;lnuu of rich Venotian glass ond mikon guards:held up by nilvor wen horses, ‘Tha raatand mterior, as woll a8 a Jargo cushlion behlul tho Roya!l pirdonages supportlag tuo gilded regal orown, was covored with floe blusivolvet, Eilver fignies, boaytifully modeled, aitpported the back of tho seat, and tho four varumen weis coatumed in jackeis of blue v‘:»lvuu(ud brocches of red plush. Tho decora- ous o TIN MUNICIPAL BISSONR were too varlod aud too complex to sdmlt of complato dosoription, but a saetch of & fow of the most promiuent will give an idesof the: whole. All were long, low, and narrow, with bow and stern rieing to a helght of 8 or 10 foot, A fautaalio awiing in front coverad a rich cotich, on which reposod ono of the muticipal sutlior- ties with a apeaking-trumpet on thoraiscdatern stood the stecrsman with his osr, Oneof the finost bargos was painted a dehicate blus, marked out with silver, apd the osrsmon word biue, Blastied with whito, Tho steru roseln gravsful seroll-work, and the prow boro various devices and a serratod horo, sbove which porcliod a lurge butterly, with bodv af silver aud wings of paint- od gauze, ‘Iroploal leaves, with [delicate stems sod miver fringes, formed a fino-shaped i boniud, which shaded thio oficial couah, toons of bluo stuff wero bung ng the slaes, laoped up with silvered oruawe; sud a long traits of tho same oolored cloth pkthe water behind, Anothor barge wud purple, with QUSTUMEA OF OAUSMEN | to match, and with & gildod uphiuz ou the prow. Bulll another waa green aud red, with awnlngy of gauza § another of dolicate 1ilao Lue and yellow | Kreen, wagents, and orange, combinad in various ‘ways, distipgwislied cbio rest, ‘I'ho tmust atriking of all, howover, was » long Larae, with gracoful awesp of the Jines, alisilvorad from baw tostern, and lug ou tho wator ke the shivlng leaf of wilver poplar, 'ftio bow was covered with torid decorations, all n silver, surmouutod by & great winged diagon; sud tLo storu, from which fmn a loug traiu of gauze, was o delicately urvug and gracoful irregular seroll, ‘I'uo “boatmen wure complete suits of sllver cloth with slesvos of blue velvet. Maoy Nuysl goudolay, with tbe Priuces sud Miuiators, followed in ihe train of tnis ashiug glxonut. and 10 barges of private socletios, with oaremen u medyal costume, flauked the Noyal flust. Bohiud burricd the "tiip desigoated spot, tho pool of multitnde of offieisl boat, the conmilar gdne dolas and thousands of privaza oinfe of evary dageription, forming & tinin of over amila in length, filling the Grand Canal in its ontira wudth witha ROLID, MOVING 3ASY OF TOATS, uinder a cluud of hunting. Tu this umique fleet, whara tho acow of thie common carrior Joatlod the velvat-draped pondoln of the patifefin, an eipht-onred hont from tho etoamship of the Pen- {usular avd Orior.tal Compativ, rowed by Ubivn- men, In whito uniforma and washlowl hats, wan otie of the most prominent featuros and recolved applause fiom every sido. THE CORTEGR. amopt awifily past tho Church of the Salute and the Dogann, il rowed up majestically to the stops of tho Nloyal palace, whero (ho dintin- nished visitors Iandod. Tho bissone wero rawn up on oithor pido, and in tutn tho Itogal gondolas disshargod thoir Toads amid tho ponetal onthuaiasm, For awhilo tha Ingoon.dack, be- tweon tho Dogans awd tho palaco, was black with gondolas, hoveriug about the bissone, but At Jnat thoso gay barges, with their fantasticallys dressad oatamen, toved up the Chand Canal one by one, aud the display was at au cnd, AFTER THE CORTENE. The splondid eortogo broke up and disappearad in'n few moments, liko a droam ihat vanishes and cannot Lo reeallad. Tho seeno of oxcito- niout and featinity théon bocamo rausforrad to iho Piaraa of 8t, Mark and the Pinzxetta oxtend- {ug from the sauare to bho quay, nlong which trcops biad been deawn up in double rank and whera thousanda upon thousands of persons stood wnuni( to catch n piimpso of tho monarchs. In s fow moments 8 vest slhout roso up from tho thonsandd on tha rquare, cries of **VivaItalial™ ** Viva the Umon ot Italv and Austtia I grestivg the ears ot tho two monarchs as 1hoy anpented at ono of tha windows of the palnca with rthe Italian Princen and Priccers Marghorite. In a fow inoments tho tsro imonstclis doeconded to the square to re- vinw tho troops stationed thoto and around the Plazzotin, and woro grootod with onthusinstic cheera, ‘Thon thoy retired to take dinner at a lator_hour, whilo tha poonle still lugerod in Bt.«Mark's listoniug to the musio uF tho two military bandg, and_ patiently waiting in tho hopa of seaing tnd’ monaichs or the most distin. guirhed persona of the Austrinn Emporot's swite, Cannt Andrasey, dreesed in tho gorgoous display of tho Magyar uniform, sttractod vust curiosity, :l'm na8 ovarywhere followad by crows of Vena- aug, TNE ILLUMINATIONS, At » Iater honr thio scone, though totally diffor- ent from thaton tho Qrand Canal fn the morning, wan wondei tully beau iful. Out on the bav two Iarga stemmors of tho Ponlusular and Otlental Compony had H'uminated thelr entiro lengths with long linea of globes of light 3 aud now and then Bengal fires Liglited up thieir gigautic forws m bufliant and gorgeous hues, From mast to maet bung long lues of Chinvgo lancerns, forme ‘"i wraceful festouns af siars that glowed sllent- Iy In the gloom. Farther back tho windows of tho Dogana- wero Hinminated 1v attractive do- eigns, and out an tho middlo of the bay, fram% temporary wooden platform, thousauds of tockets sliot up with tho noise of s volley of canron, thelr firen tinglng® the wators of tho Ispoous n_glowing colors, until thoe sparks descended hisalng into tho waters, 'The Riva waa crowded wich paople, and tho dark gondolag flitted tike gloomy omenn upow thio many-tuod waters, Awd Bt. dinik’s Bquata wos a sight of c?unl attraction, illuminated by thoneatds of fi obes of fire, and in tho contro a fountatn, that ad been erectoa over night, as it wero by the hands ol geni:, shooting up a slender spray that was colored by tho aid of elec(iio ighls in overy 1magiuablo he, A BCENE OF FAIRY ENCHANTMENT, Tho woudedtnl huos toflected npon the domes of 8t, Mark and the four Lorses of bronze; upon tho ancient figures of snints, and spostics, (al curtons forms that adorn the feont of that ic- murkable edifice: upon the ghlded Hov and the figure of the Virgin and child on the face of tho eluck tower, aund on the fizuro of tho two eturdy companions {n bronze, who auilio the bhours on the big boll that crowns that curlons structure mado by Pietro Lombard 400 yeats ago, Evon the pigeors that ars 50 tamo aud flutier about ac your foot Ho cunuingly during the day, ademed to becomos alsrmgd ‘with tho noiso und confusion and tho briltisht colors that ponotratod to tholr rotroats and 10 tho nooks nud crovices of paiaces and cathedral ‘about the equare, and flew torrified over our Licads till long after the lights hod tmen oxtinguished and the people bnd rotlted from tho scone of oxcitement aud brilliancy. TIE COUNF DALL. - And’still Iater, tho grand Court bafl iy tha Palace, in roomé capablo of holding 2,000 Pcr- aons, whilo twico that wamber Imy] beon fur- nished with tickets, In my oxporicico of Court and Royal balls, of cruzhes at gardorobes and in tho lindt of danco, the affair Jast aventig wiil remain uniquo. It took me just one Lour, to got up tho grond wtnircaso, another Lotr to grow weary of the crush in tho ballroom, aud another to search for mv avetcont, which 1 have uot found yet. In tho room used as tho garde- robo thero are st this moment—ou tho morzning succeoiog tho ball—0) gentiemen's. cvercoats ond ladlea’ wtappers throswn around in inexttieatle, unnumbored confusion, and when laet I looked in I saw about filty gontlemen iick- fng over tho parcels, swoaring In Lnglikh, French, German, Italian, and Ilungailan at tho poiters and at each other, I lopa to succeed in lludlnxixm( own bzlonglugs at o later hoar, when tho fight {s over. If 1donot find my own Iis- toud to tako tho best that I can find, if 1L fits. and then advertiss for the individnal who has got my own. ‘Tho 1cason for” this confiision 18 this: ~ Tho tickets . wero distributed ludiscriminately to thousands of pereons vho bad porliaLe never seon a loyal baliroom botors fu their lives, Thoy mada tlo fircnt cruéh to get in, and aftor getting in and finding the soclety nucongouinl, thoy mwads se geent i tush to got out, overwhelming tlo garde- robiats, who lost their heads aud loft the fiold and tho ovorcoath to Lo sought for by thoir re- spectivo ownara, Tlto greator part of tho guests dro shivering to-day. A chilly breoze comes from tho son; but the warm covedings are yet In the palaco, —————— STRANGE SUICIDE. A Mau Sovers Iits Jugulnr, Walks a §quare aud a8 ¥all, Enteis o Saldon and Diexe 8t. Louts Demverat, April 2. One of the strangoest aud most horrible sui- cides heard of In this city for yeats took place about 12:30 o'olock this moining. "I'mo employes of the Southorn, named Russell and Boymour,gvers cotmng down Walnit stioet on the east side, botweou Fourth and Fifth. On ane of the stone steps boneath awindow in Elni's linlr store they hoticod s man sittioe, yet bent far over, a8 it “vomiting from the effects of a drouk, Golng closer, they notlged o razorn one band, and blood strosming from his throat upon the {ron grating, whoro it lay iu a brond pool, nlthough & good deal bad” descenlled through the futerstices Into tho collar, Inetead+of mpouking to him or calling for & policomun, they went dony to tho Chestnut Htroot Police Bfation, A Democral roporter m- modiately wont up to tha Bouthern. Reachlug blopd wan found, but the wan was gone, Whoro coull nos at onco bo ascerirlned, although not more” than five minutes had olapsed, Under the fdoa that the man bad beon takon to the Clty Dispeueary tho roporter lprucuedud up Walout stroet towards the CH{ 1all. Onthe cornier of Sixth ho found a_small crowd 1n front of Bangulnetie's ealoon, Here the 1oporter en- tered, sud found on the floor, in & coruer, & mau Iy in 8 pool of blood. A fazor was lu the hinnds of & policoman, who had firet taken t¢ from the msn on the floor, Tho Istter wad still alive, bus spoechless, Dr. Youngblood was bending over bim, and, while the orowd was atill talking, announced tuat tho man was dead. ‘Two muwites before, tho mau had come lnto the saloon, by the Ifront door. Wulkiug up to the bar, Lo eaid, **I want to make a statemont,” The propriotor, who was eddreesed, said, * Gol out.”” ‘Tha man turned, and walked over to tho corner mentioned, where he sat down on the floor, In walking Lo wss naticed to bLold his Lead forward and over his suut front. 11 had not been sitting thero two minutes, whun ha turned over, Iviug dows, and then the blood was noticed stroamiug from his throat, Two or three men came up aud spoke to hlm, aad hio replied ratlonally, :’ly)ul hie cut nimself " s Yeu.! e gld ho mean to ormmi$ wuiside?" ‘. 2 o “1 shall not say." % + Where da you come from " * Qaly & stYAuReL, 4 \hat petwe 1" * Patrick Andrews,” . Aud 1hat {u ali that conld be got from or sbout bim. .. 1¢ feerna fnorodible that this should be the man who fouud on the stops of {ho Houtheru. Tho man fa the ealoon eshibited o gash, beavy aud wigo, cus dooh 1nto the * Adam'w. spple,” aud simost devering it, apl: utnudu% the loft eir in & long ugiyolit, Yet, It tho sasmo wan, he bud waliicd aliuost a blocis apd* a bLalf befure he lay dowu to die. 'Fhore was & drop or two of blood at the dqor of tho saloon, but ibat wau a'l, ‘L'liore woro 1o urops or iruces bstwoen thie iotel aud saloon that wero vimblo to the pe- dastrizn. A well-knowo pnfvminn present s:ud 1t way impossible, sud yeo thero tho minn was, Tat Andrews looked to be tindor 30, His cloth® ing :n\l pnlurlnml almll{by:n blacic cont and Jigyy pants, aud shoes without stockings, was phor and onreltod, ) 1} bot that man wan staryed,” sa] ) Carroll, ho wan prosont, and W itly dcintlll in tany ]fxixrlm‘u. ! o sy = 1ho 17 ilch waa {aken ponsen Oficer e Fariin, wan ol om0 % b7 Tho straupost part was that, Just under th sl noi7 o bloody, marke of ariother ud ey Glddar ont wera foutd, and_bolow tha g e applo,” an 1€ this wan nut Lo trat. Lo (g drows hind Attemptod to makn ey with Limag, ‘I'horo is anothor myatary connectod witl thq oy, fuir, The Democrat roportor wan sowy |y 6 ’ valaon & man who, 1t was lated, had. booy wrd tue nufeld. Just biefore, Tuis man adwitted g, ) hohad s on Androws o fow minules proyig i white Andrens wan sitting on tho steps of ;’m 2 Houtlern, o gavalua 0n nama o Jnsee'sd Caldwoll, or sometliipg like 1t, atd aiy g a-" business at 210 Oliva streot, a8 & carpot-rey, % tor. Hoeaid he tran Wikl antihor man. we told him of tho swicido aud then ran wy a2 stroot, followed by Androws, with his throst e In continming his swatement, Culdwell cnm"L dictod himpectf, and beeamo vory rauch cnnluy? whiclt may lave boen duo to the nmmlnldf whinky ho had evidantly drank, or may mu- Thero1s uo ruch person o bo fonnd fu tiyg [y roztory, Caldwell attempled fo tind tho who had run up tho eireot, avd woom lmnr: anidl wan hua friond, and aftorwardy nnnmemf Vo Andrews® frlond, but could not yolut hin nu‘; in tho crowd, AMERICAN AGRICULTURE, Tts Progresy 11 One Fundred Yeay, Horton Journal, A Becrotary Flint, of our HBtato Board of culture, han takon tha presout oppottunity tgy,., publieh fu pruphlot form an excosdingly iy and wiggontivo ossay on A Tundied Yewh Progross of Amerieat Agriculture,” which ggo stituted 5 part of i tnouty-tivst annual e During the Rovolution and for somo veyy altter, Inrm production was in a stato of estrag, dopragsion. 'Ihe first orgauized ofort tyayy Improvoment was tha formatlon of the Say Carolina Agricnltural Socioty In 1781, fyln o by tho Paildeiphin. Soclets, argatuzey 17855 tho ‘Nuw York Kocloty, n injs and ' tho Massachudotts Bocioty, in In "Thioso soclotiey were regarded with ditrf aud met with considerabio opposition, miy farmors nere atrongly tmbund with tho mpisit of conservating and oxceadingly raluctaut 1o eg braco new ideas, Tt was not until_1810 thay o agricultural oxutbition was betd, In Mayof u‘n! year the Columbiau Agricniturnl Socl 1y oxlubution at Goorgotown, D. C., with Ty memmu for tha cucourngoment of sheorrg, g, ete. In Oetobor of tho kame year, Ell Watson oxlubiteu threa morino shoep in Iy fold, Mass.—thio oxbibltion baing tho oecaiy of much ridiculs and nunlcnifit of tho fapmesy f thoday. The uext yoar, lowoser, tho Buk ehire Councy Agricultuinl Hocioty was formay and Its oxhibitions bave been Neld regilary ¢ Dittsfleld ovor pincc—bbiug tho firet county ey, ibitlons ever instituted iy this count,y, Jmprovemounts iu the plow began tosard 1y closo of tho last centiiry, .\;mm for a cut tron plow was grauted in 1897, but farmers wen vory slow to accept tho (nnuvation, many thiom chnging o their wouden plos oy’ thy ground that cast iron poisaned the ground s spotled tho erops, During tho last ball-cenjuy great improvements hove boen mudo ju’ty wavufazture of plows, ‘Thero aro somo facl nies winch mat:e from ton to twelve hundrod dif. forent patierns, suapted to overy varioty of sol and eircumstance, and thoro is otio largs [sato- vy st Pitsburg waieh, a8 onrly sy 1836, wa manuincturing o8 many ne 100 ploss o duy, 'The recent application of steam 1 tha cparation of plowing, aud tho Buccess of thy stonta plow whore it hus beon tried, point toy devolopment of the agricultnral resonrces of o West buidiy dreamed of ns yet, 1n o aros, and in tho smale: farin tools, thoro bave tetn vory preat fmprovoments, but tho most imyn taut of modern agriculuira) inventlons arots ginin-liarvestors, tito reapers, tho mowers, ity titeshors, and tho horse-rakey, ‘I'ho numberet two-horwa roaperd in oporation iu 1861 perfooy sn amount of work o:quul to abeus & millcact men ; and the rosult of the extonded usoe of fua machinery was thut our capacity for farm pa ductlon was not muterially distirbod by thefad that ono or two willion able-nodied men ¥ withdrawn from indusirial pursuits. "Thio first trial of reapers and mowers wasb at Buffalo in 1848, 'Tho machines wore imen foct, and tho results of tho trial weig nob o eidored ymportant among farmors, Lverr yeu, Lowever, addod to tho hst of kuprovoruts. & tho ary Lxpusision b 1855 threo machineswey ontored—ove Amorican, one Enghel, aod o Algerlan, ‘o fivat dick its work in tweniyam wmmnles, tha second in sixty-six, and the thi4 in soventy-two. By tha yens 18G4 thero wers 1il ostabli<hieuts tn this country dovotad tothy manutacturo uf roapors aud mowers, (o valoy of tho.r annusl proluct oxceeding $13,0:0.04 and tho number of mnchinen amonnting oo bundrod thousund. Tho borso liay-rako wean eatlior imvontion than tho mowingewscuz and s enly’ secoud to that in vale It pocforms the labor of eight or ten men, s:d from twenty to tlurty oeres s day cam H guthered by 8 atngle horso abd driver, witkcat overoxertion. ‘The teduer, corn-suelier, ks cutter, aud a multitude of leder farm imgle mouta might bo wentioued fn which marsedic- prayvomenis have Locn made. At the Paris Ex- posltion, alroady referred to, an Amercd threshing-naching carried off the prize, s xok peing found by actual experimont to b ejusl that of 10 meu. "Ll Lotal valuo of far impls mounts aud muckinery, us reported by 1La ceasst of 1870, wag §3J6,878,429, n gam of J185.2010 in tnenty yoars, As proof that the mecl saict] genlus of the country 1 still nctivoly st vark, tho fuct is cuted that oyer 1,000 patents for i provements i ngricultural wnplemoots we gronted 1 & single yoar, 1872; aud tho soucd manutacture of sgrctltural implements smusi to ovor 863,000,000 L 'I'ho gencral difTusion of intolligence; theis provements in:roduced iu implemonts and ez ods of farming; aud tho construction of il ronds to anord a markot to tho inlad farmt: Linve hind tholr natural offoct in brinuiug abouts wonderfu] dovelopaiont of agrioultare, and s tapid increase in tho volume of cropssaditt scresgo undor ouitivation, In J7i0 the toul amonut of corn oxported from all thecolid K was 578,849 busheld. In 1800 the crop smouzt g to 833,702,743 buslicls. ‘Tho produo:ion of vbel s {ucreascd trom $1,820,2/4 bu-hels in ISILP 287,745,626 bushols 1 1970, Of the m'“i graius, the ryo crop in 18i0 amounted unbax 17,000,000 busliels; barloy, S0.000.000% pucke wheat, 10,000,000; ' oats, 252,000,000, The p g ductlon of ptstocs I 1570 165,017,207bu B oln. In 1860 tne_aggrogato yield of tobaceo v 451,209,461 pounds, s “Tho cotton erop hias grown up_entlrely Wik g the laat’100 yours, Very little colion wad rf-\é' & in tho Boutliora States provious to Whiteert® g vention of tho eobton-gin fn 1703, Up 10 10 timo iv bad requirad an outire day for 8 mid " clear a pound of cotton from tha eoed. Wane {uveut{on, with otior improvemoms and uflm troduction of steam u n motivo powen €E58 ouo niau to do (b0 woikk uf 2,400 men bY 1967 mothods, ‘e quausity produced b !jfflm. s 2,070.20,800 pouuds, “of, which LTSI punods wero ‘oxported. Tho luy erop Al grown up almbat entirely in tho last IW"nm andtho yiold has Incraasad from 10,350.60 Lo 1410 to 27,810,048 tons in 1870, The B0 valug of the orop 1 not leasth-nifi.‘fl‘{.twi i which Ju to bo added an cqual awoutt k?"[“ valtlo of grass for sunmer gt 8o, MILEE aggrogate of #000,000,000 for tho grasa BSGEY orop of the countiy, This progress bas offoct an the number and quality of ouf Duiing the Jast quartor of a century e the importations of choico breeds of boon numorous. In thia Btato, fo 'l‘hore hur‘n h;a;s than !“"(ul’;nmm orseya {u 3, how th; e eral ” thoussous, “and_ tho ~same 1 L of the Ayrshires. In 18I0 gate numbor of neat-cattlo waw “1, whilo in 1670 the nnmbor was 23,6x &, sotnl valuo of Mve-stack roported \“’ o B 270,467, A to dairy produots. nccc“ I:e!n Iast census, 235,600,600 galtons of ikt L g, B while the anuual butter product i@ flg 000,000 pounds, and tho chuosy excoe 000’ pounds, ‘bhe valuo of itha at0iC product 1a over €400.000,000. b ahou i auimals sold tor slaughtor amounts (0 sae aum, or twico what it was ten ¥o° Tu ewino, wheep, and horica, WHore e, many lwprovomouty hxmeml.l -n" ot 1he creass fu numbers, Tu 1870, 24100 were_roporied, and the quantityo horscs1® 100,000,000 pouuds, ‘The "““"""f}{v ‘ot wbieh i vux‘ledun“: tho nru: Lime was 8,030,315 7,149,846 wore un furius, Fuithor mierosting faots might be £Yo0 "y B ard to the use of forulizers, the ot 1oultisrul litoratute, and tuo m“mllufl' xcienco to kgneuiture, but tho Jim prises 'l single srticlo are too ‘coutracted ml-l s anoss (ho staustics of an inditbiry whlelt £ Iy the vast icome of & us&m’-‘i ol prost given cuough (o iudicats tbo wond a:u" 0 Wwhich agricuituire hus mado during tUE1 tury, aud to phow that 16 ly secoud §0 00, in the extent and u!vhhtv of fts (T esbinr fin ’“;1 it I:l fron f'h mlmg ll:r':»l;n G (o -h;fi: : o that the next centul b changes uvou wore masyelous thed tbad ¥ just cloring. e - Youl, vid, Vil cume, Toaw T O Dusion Post, ‘ [} it [ eculls I ' i