Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1875, Page 3

pesperate Fight with Hiners Kear Wilkesbarre, Fa. Two Oficors Shot---Ono Mortally The Btrike in the Anthracita- Flelds of Pennsylvania, A History of tho Difficulty, from Its Origin to tho Present Time. Forly Trowiand Persons Out of Work--- A Yorfect Refgn of Terror, Tmmengo Poouniary Losses to Operators, Minors, Merchents, and Othera, Dotorminntion of tho Contostants---A Coal-Famino Approhonded. PENNSYLVANIA OUTLAWRY, OFFICERY RLSIOTED AKD ONE KILU Bnecial Dispateh to The Chicaan Tribune, Vruxesnanne, Pa., Apil 20.—There has boen bloody work it progrees near this ofty, a; foared tho end s not yet. mining village sbont 2 wilos away, was tho scene a fearful conflict belween posed family * and police authorities. 'Fha tronble bogan yeatorday whon Constablo Choilitt and two Deputiea, armed with tho necessary legal docnmonts, were endeavoring Lo ejoct & family from a Louso which tind beon bought at Blhierift’s sale, the oo- cupaonts rotusing to give poesession. 'Flho houso was ocoupied by Lawroncs O'Councll, one of sevon brothera hiving near by, who have NVIADLYE REVUTATION When tho Coustablo and his poese attempted to ontor the house you- torday they woro met by an infuriated mob of the 0'Conagll family, womon and childran, who Palo Hollow, & small conatabulary and o a8 deaperato ol their appearance, but the posse conctuded to withdraw from tho excited lucslity, sud return with n larzo forco, ‘Lho Cunstablo applied to Clifo? Kelly for a number of poiicemen, sod sflor n conferonca with tho raquost was ] slablo returnod ting forenoon secompaniod by five officara and several deputies, On approanting (ke ‘Thouno, ehortly Lefore noon, Peter and Jolin0'Councll ‘wero arreatod and taken lulo enstody, tuo City Council Whils' (he ar- the tlolons fomales made s 1) stones and clubs, OMeer Nol- same nucceeded én eapturing thie geny-beaded mathor, and was drageing her ot of the door, wlien o voiloy red from flio kecond story windov, & hieavy load of Luckshot faking effect In'tho officer's hiead and #ldo, Thoro s & Kignal for A GENENAL DISOIAROE OF VIREALNN, snd Constable Casey fell to the ground, shot An both Yega, The | ozss at once anught safety i rotrozt, by g off tholr waunded and tholr twa prisoners, ,0f« ficer Ricbiennor was carried to a uelghburing house, motially wouuded, whilo the pris: s and injured Doforu. thelr arrival Mayor Kearnoy Peard of tho affalr, and acoompoufed by a cqusil drave raplily ta the kcona of the distubsnon, which i tunwlt of excitenient, and, taklug in tha ltuation, boat 8 mostsuger o Wilkeabatro wih call or OKNE NUNDRED ADMED MRX, Tho mesronger seacked here abot Borsa flocked With foam and alinort cxhausted, a fow minutea elapsod befora s poaso of Aboul twenty= five men wero gatbored on tho pullia square, murlets, and revoivers, nud - Hollow, whera an_excited muititudr, mumbering threa or four thourand mon, women, and children, wora usrembled, Noeoouer bad the poeds arrived within range of tho houso whera tha 0'Con- than o valiey of eix or soven shols wus firod at them from (Lo upper win- dow, without talfug offeet, relghed among arned with yifles veyznco for Pap nella were searels Huprema confusion o sutlioritios § the Conatubla ieaitated to.5ct, rud tho Sheriff being undecided as o Lis own suthurity, 1t waa detormined to BURBOUND THE TIOUSE with armed mon o prevent au escape, The doora auid windowa wero boavily barrleaded and the desperuto their fallier, were rifles, they _threatenlng to shoot ony tuan who would enter tho premices, Tho old camo out with somo of his_sone, and offored to kol jarloy Wity tho _ Huerlr aud tuside with thelr 2 constablo then wont to ono of tho door in, a number of the force 1hitir weapans on the ouly fathier stood willi an ax and & drawn revalyer romark- Ing that howasanold maa snd would sall hia lite rotecting hilw by drawiug wo gouupants visible, A RUSH WAB THEN MADE Ly tho Deputy Constable, who keized the father beforo L coul fire, wud his gun yas wrested from bLim, T hots was kearched, and one brothor found utidar tho Lo was coverad with o dozen carbines, wmirrendered, Tho others wero miselng, but were in “an adjoluing Louss, and a rusl mado for them. They drew thelr revolyerd, but beforo Alicy could raiso them half a dozol loveled thelr carbinen at thelr e ouco surrendered, Bred tho shots this mornin All were hoavily Ironed and deterroined mon Ths Inst two were the ones who with such deadly effcct, ought ta Wiikesbarre, men_ with thelr prison- urs camo into town tiero was (e groatest oxelicinent, and eurses were heaped upon the O'Connell's, Tho sged father and Lis fivo sons Lad & and wero commitied to prison, HISTORICAL. ORIGIN AND PROURESS OF TIE DIFFICULTY. Bjiecial Correspondence of The Chicago Tribund, Hazreroy, Ponn., Avrll 27,—The miver of Ponnsylvania authracito conl s a ereaturo piven to whims, constautly out of sorty with himsclf, and otornally wrangling with bis employers, Ilo 18 indopandont,—tco indopendont for hia own good,—and rogards iho capitalist and bloated bondholdor a8 an onemy to tho human race. e is oithor an Irishman, who clinga raligious- Iy to Lis manneriem and bLis brogue; a burly Wolshman or Englishman; or a rough-nud- roady Gorman, who has lesrned to *“miuvo & breast " sinca o tumblod over the ebip's side at Castlo Garden. Among thess rock-ribbod moun-~ talns, in whose veins the pocrless authracite abounds, moro Irish and Welsh are found than any other ustionality ; and many mining sottlo~ * menta that surround the nolsy breakor or the nlopo are {nhabited wholly by thoso paanle, Tho minor is bold, aggressive, and obstinate as & mule. IIo will not bo driven, and is always willing to lend a hand to a brothor in distreas, or support him in his robollion against the wiles of the minc-owner and tho soulloes corporations Iu those reglony, strikes are ludigonous, and ‘lhero they flourish liko woods, It roquires buta slight funovation, or a roduction of but o fow cents on the basla of wagos, to start one; anda local troublo in protty cortaln to oxtond, snd sometimes tho atriking fover amonnts to an opi- demic, and spreads with tha viclenoe and fury of a prairie-fite. hearing to-nigit, that fx now belng waged botween tho collier and the mine-ownor 3 Karly in the winter, ths coals producing companies, corporations rapresenting millions upon millions of capital, and Jindividusl bperators, were hampared with accumulations of groatatoocks. The yanous sbipping poinls st the seaboard, such aa Port Richinond, Port Eliza~ beth, Port Jobnson, and thae other Lastern ports, wore clogged with goals, and anthracite was a 2rug upon tho market. Then the torrible fnan- #ial dailnoss bad stopped o much machinery, ind the woather was 8o mild, that the conanmp- bon of thie fuol fell off enormoualy over that of one. .Thoso csusos tended actively b0 3dd to the stocks and glat tho trado. Then wagea of labor iu other trades Aud occupatious Boarenscd largely, and prices of the nocossitica 3t lifo tombled slong with thom. These facts, the producing companios, through their trum- pet-blower,—Franklin B, Gowas, the high-pricet of the Puilsdolphis & Rerding Coal & Lron Come pany, the lilogitimate child of the Philadelphis & Toading Rallroaq Company,—claimed stoutly, Tasced the conclusjon that the times DEMANDED CHEAFER COALS} a8 cboaper coals were doterminsd upon, The aperatore know that thoy wors backed with im- practicslly indopandent o8 Wb ainas, shiould bs conolude to make a fuss emme atocks, and fel over the datermination {0 glve tha pnople ehenp- reoate, Accordingly, thare was a conforones of tho Sohuylldil oporators at Potisvilla, aud then the Belmylkill Conl Exchange mnt thy Mo- gralv of tho Aswocinted Coal Compantos of New Yark, and a baris of wages for 1575 was fixad. “I'ho bsis of the year provieus wam accepted Ly (o men with constdersblo grumbling ; and, whora n reduction of 20 por cent vas mado, Lho orerators knew that it was cettzin to breed brotly and contenttonn, In fact, tho upinion is wida-spread that Uhe conl-monopolisia and all tho producing compsnles break hread at the rame tabloand pullthesama wires, Thora Isa nniversnl opinion that theso opeiatura delibaratoly forced thin atriko, io order (o malo money out of ity and to toll tha trutly, dovelopments that are nn- falding ROTATER TP THIR OPINION. Anghow, tho 18t of Jammary, tho Bchugikill Coal Exzchange, after moeling a deputation from tho ranky of tho minors, and hearing ita emphatic proteat againat tho stop, mado tho rafher atart- ling auvouncemont than an ontirely now haais had Dhoen doetdod upon, and that It wan to o into sffect immediately. Tha decreass amounted all round to 20 por cent. Tho result of this getion on the part of Mr, Gowan's corporation, which i1 tho taskmastor of the Behuyl- kil basin, vory quickly sprend throughout the oenlire torritory. Thero was but ona sentimont, sud that nontiment moant n strike, Thero had been wmany stray though eignificant rmora that & reduction of wayes would be mado, and tho caroful miner winely tooka notenf it and prepared for It. Goodly stocks of flonr and pravistons wera pur« chazed aud stored in tho humble hut, whila on tho niountain plaves, and {uthe deep, barren valloys, thexo preparations for a * low sirike " wero obrorved, ‘The paid ofilcigls of tlia Minors' Nationnl Uniou srora reen to be donbly active, and at all points the work of * falling in " be- gon. Minors flockad Lo tha moating-places of tho Unton by thouesnds, and joined ils ranks, ‘Thon thosn Varions Lrunchies of tha Upion took n vota on tho vital ques.ion of the disposal of the oporators’ propouition. It mot tha fate that fad beon prodicted for it, The minern, almost to o man, BEIRATEN 1T aud then tha tinie for o compromisa was at hand. ‘Tho operators wore stubborn, and refuscd all appeals and it ovorturen. Tho mon were stub- born, and, wlien the hiour for s sompromina had prasod, threw down tho pick and abandoned the winos and tho breskeors, and sounded tho war- whoup, Mo after mino suspended, nod, in less than n week after the movement had boon in- auguratod, fully 30,000 men wara idle, During Tanuary, the Philadelphis & Readlng Rallroad Company—a_corporation that hos an outry into the Hebuylktll rogion, eontrals tho coal-trade in Philadolpins, aud transports nearly overy pouud of anthracito mined in Schnylkill Conuty—out down the wages of its employen, In fact, evory person fu the employ of the Company was re- duced, with tho sxception of Mr, Gowan, whoso satary of §80,000 & year wea not disturbod. This brewoed more tronble, and A BTRIKL WAS STARTED, Tho Corapany lauzhed at the fuss tho angored Inborers wera makiug, for thewr yards were bxim- full of coal, and none wan being mined for trans- portation. = Thesa strking employns, boing dis ractly intorosted in the conl-tratlic far their daily provondor, uatirally had fallen into tho ranks of ho Labor Uuton, Thns waa tho strike complete, &8 far as tho domalus of Mr. Gowen wora con- cornad, Tha Associated Cosl Companies of New York, who danglo thelr lega unuer tha table of tho tting, also announced tho roduction about the same time that the flat wout forth in Bobuvi- ki, and the men of the Lohigh and the Wy- oming threw down tho pick end lott tho minc: By this_ime, tho army of the satrikers num- bored fully 40,000 man and boys, and tho aus- nension was camplote ail round, The Wilkas- barro Coal & Iron Company—the hoaviest in the Wyoming Valley—protontad against ro Iatzos reduction; butthey lad but ona voice and ono vote, and #o thair moojwent out, soon after the tronble begap, all through the country fwhere tho disalcction had erept, docds of Yioleuco and acty of outlawry worg come mittod. Home of these wore infamous snd would have JIONF CAEDIT TO INCANSATE FIRNDA. Men whio refusod to euroll with tho uuion were vivited and soverly punishad, Soms woro ase sassinntod o cold blood. Mon woro driven nway from the pumps which aro employed to keop the miinea free from wasto wator, and forced to fiee for their lives, Groot damags was dons 19 valuable working colllorfos by thesa high Lauded snd Tiotous proceedings, Then the torch was sct to coal- brenkers,~butldings which cost thousauds of dolinra to ernct,—and woveral wora . destroyod, But the more riotous dewonstrations couwo under he head of raids, Hundreds of rough minera would Imeot i moma isolated mountain-psss, armod with deadly weapons, and would then mnarch’ from ous cale Hery 1o another'whore the men nersisted I working, for tho purpore of Intlmidating them and _driving them off. Tho itk d:{ of March was o great duy in Mazleton and it violnity, Petty deprodations aud acls of crime hiad Doen ocelirring with great frequoncy, aud the town wan livoly and_ripe for s senmation, Ot that day, in the morulng, 8 band of meu, numbering Tully 300, paraded (irough tho streels of thocity, They wero armed with the thoroughneas of s Mozican ranger, and over 100 carried muvkets upon their shoulders. They wore. ezcemaivoly turbulent, aud hooted _and yellod lko tigers,” Thoso smong the inhabitants of the e were woak tocked thoir places of Lusin resignedly for the nigual of {ho massa But . week before this exciling event, an engincer of © breaker was murdered at Buck Mountain, aud tho baildings nttached {0 p mine fired snd consued by an angry mob who wera out on_ the war-path in tlie raldiug - business, Alout twsuty asols of & similur character were committod, end then tho operators de termined to Liavo thuir property protected and TIIS EVIL WORK ENDRD. A direct appeal was mado to Bheriff Kirkeudall, of Luzernio; bui lio was too busy at tho counly-seat to come and tske the matter fu hand, Some people charge that hawas afraid to tackle the minors: Lut fually lo dispatchicd @ Doputy, who found b exceedingly difiicult to recruit a posse sufficlent 10 pratect andangered praperty snd pravent outbresks sgeiust tha peace, Tho violenoo increaced ; and thon, ifsguisted with thie Bteriff, tho operators of Lehigl— 1ha region whero the lawlcesness was mors tmarked— wout 1o the Governor,—the sppeal endlug in the milltia beluy catled ont {0 occupy tho country, There are two distinct Boclctios smong_ the Penneyl. yania colliers, ons of which ia national, however, and bath are powerfnl, and never Licforo a0 Gtrong as they ara to-duy, The Minera' Nutional Unfon Is strictly o Labor-Union orgauization, having & full line of salaried oflicials and an itive Committes, Thoss oflicers possoss great pawers and & wonderful jafiuence, and the rank and fila of the organization generally o tup fance sficr tiem when the leaders deem it neoes- 10 calo a fence. Tho Unjon includes miners of all* 1netals, and, when s portien of the mem. bers rogerd 14 fiting to strike, the rewainder of tho biody (s conipslied by the constitu. tion to contribute toward {lie maintenance of iho movement. Just now thiere 15 & pinching tine anong the colliers engaged in (he war with tho oporators (u thle Btate, and (ho treasury of the Unfon ia relleving dostitution wherover it cait by found, Ieavy contls Lutions are secretly coming n from the T Unlons In (he latgo Eastern cltiea ; for this strugglo {8 regarded as o vt iesue smong workiugmen alimost everywhera, During themeraorabla “ long strike " of 1, the Unlon wao compac and utvouy, and forced the ixsuie of question of wages with such eudurauce and wkill that 1ho coutest was decided by arbitration, This tune tho organization hius & lurger Lot b{ mauy thoue aauds tban during tho last genoral sirike, " Where persussion fails to rally tho bardy winer to the ranks, the Unlon does not Leaifata to . EMPLOY INTIMIDATION to seek ity ende. It was ouly the othior day, among the e of tho Witkeabares Goal sud Iron, Coupaily, tiat & ylolent demonstration (o drive colllurs who liad re- t0 hecomie anrolled, was nade in the miniug rete tlemont on_the mountaine of Luternr, There wers wary stariling indicalions that someof the sirlkors iore weakening ; 60 8 nolsy yarude was gottay up, aud morched_from fown to town aud from mins o mine, carrying bauncrs with such aiguificant fnsgrintions se iheso: 1 Unlon s Streuglh, Bugar Nolch v & Hampuon ;" ¥ Oar canso 4 Just, and we will wl “While we have a crust, wo will not give “Praftars sbouid bo brapded with the mark of Caini ? 4 Dribore anid betrs, usvless, our Unfon {4 noble and atroug} # ¢ No_surrendre till Hell frenzes over, sud then we'll oramlont under the jue,” Two Lrass ihd s druts vorps give tho dcmontration & martial beartng, whila the aticcrs wero mounted and woro the uuiform of the Hlate Militia, And then there Wersothier pecullar duvices displeyed, which spoke vary eloqueat s to how : TEREINLY IN EARNCST hinse Penusylvanls miners are, Two mwn bora & minfature Imlulfl.‘ wits an elflfi drersed in & miner's garb, ko fguro {cing sigpends Lol 1"l (hvastoning ‘uasption, A Sodol upon b the eniug duscription, ** Deieacer and mumuu.n"a Tatmer had palnled upon 1t the represantation of & man in the act of belng shiot hy au assaxsin from behind, wlile above tho pict Lure woro the words, ** A Traltor's Doom.” Tho pro- coesion did not hult until {t reached the Conrt-fivuse 1n the connty-sest of Luzerne, After & little turbu. lence, the Lady wheeled arvund sud marched out of tawn tothe wountains, This picture will serve Lo filustrats how the i in this part of the globe, fa dinpased to conduct & atrike, This display was mude 1n the open dsy At night the hellish work is done, tho breaker ‘turned, and the piatol fired, 1t would reyulre a good vy uf your cojupine to dutall minutely the varivus crluaca izt domo evil ppicily smiony Lo niuers bave commlitted In tha last three monthe, Bowe of the would serve to adoru as BENSATIONAL & DOWERY MELODEAMA as was ever Jlayed upon {ho tago of auy theatrs whilo Heade, Mre, Bouthworih, aud Wilkle Colli would Aind matorial enoush swmong them for _volumos of tha ruost vxciting aud bair-rslaug character, Now, Whilo (ho troops ars guarding Lreakers, and Xoopin the incandiary and the murdarer at bay, there are bul fow tales of violeuca to tull, The men ase doclls as far a8 Uulhvul'l b eanum«:, ‘wd sectn divposad o posce; bl vacusie the couniry, and then thare would be SEDlutious ach s Would Meked Che hoarte. Thase to be given, TUHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1875. strikers lava s gonidl many debia to pay, and tiey will Ty theimand ith terest t, iough ey sbonbl wait yeara, Tha Khetli of thin canity tuformied the carres wpondant of i TRInUNE, yeateiday, that inbabitants of this clty~tnen_of Cmlly—have cam to bi w tita [ant few ddoys and, wi lurad bim not to i1 o trosie oy u it Tian heen vedtled ane say nr sunter. Tliers in & telticd conviction Wit i the frone axs wilhdraws, 10 fucn WILL MARD RERIOT TROURLE. An it in, thero ur: A ezl tonh far yearn, sho a [ b cule conntry ot an atnde nro congenial Ani 1encefif clime, Iusimens of sil kinila (_euflering ter- vibly, and fa greatly eprosred, Tha merclauts and nlarckeejnrn ara crn) afied to give credft or navor Again oxpezt & trada il tba sultiers, Wholesalo faerchnits In Now York end Philadelulis are refusing credit. in & 004 many luatances, anid acores of slores thronghunt thiis country are displaying bare sud_cmply shelen Tanklz:g inatitaticn, sl 14 waving banks, and ssitid 3 incorpurated monutary cotcornn, are fecling sorely tha Dieavy proswiiro und drain Uit aio Lelug made po them, * Mincr, aperator, and merchant aitke, aro with- ddrawing their deponita, and n good many of tho fAinan- cial fnwtitutionm aro in o shoky and dublous situation, There will ba noue BTARTLING L.OCAL FINANCIATL CRARNEA beforn thin trouble fu cuded, uud tind only knows when and how it will e An tho readara of Tus Ternune lave Leon slteady apprised, the mew of Lockawsnus and Wynining hnve emuphatically refused 1o ol i this mavement, and aro now atb work, "1 coal that 18 1fucd I this region foes to New York ud tha Fast, end ts suthracite, About'90,0:0 men are employed n Ahess northers flelds, 7o glva the rouder o hetier understanding, §t ‘wottlil be a3 well ta staie thnt thin antheacite-protucing couutry of Tennvylvanis fa dividded Inta threa distinct reglouk, o basinez Tao Kchuglkiil T lekin aro pn thia rout, ‘whith reek it outict by the Philadeiphia & Jeadiag Taircad, aud are operated aud owned, or leancd, _uhinost sively iy this gigantle English Lohdhiolilug earpon This in- atitutlon, which b now almost ezcluwively controlled by Lugiith oopited, s engaged in cosl-productug in DIRECT OPPORITIUN TO THE LAWH of the Commonwealth, Only s few duys tqo & Come mitteo of Inveatlgation wea aprointod by the, ntale Leg'slaturo 1o axamine futo the workinga of this Coine Fap mind to discover whather oF not i in cogaged 1 & husiness shich the Connlitution vrobibis & Ciersing Company from dabhliug fn. The reals from tha Hehuylkill Lusin aro ot (hebest oz tho choloest thnt wto produced fn Poneeylvanta, sud the durky dis monus Nie very far down in the howels of the carth, “Ihie ariko in ihis region i cotaplele, Then comu tho Middle Fiekdn, with Hazleton for n moirapoiis and the Leligh Valey snd the Cantral Tafiroad of New Jurusy for vutlets, Al the coal puliicd in'thie B2myTiill Darls n-eks a acaboard ontlet at Port Elchmond, above Philadulpbla, while the coals from theae Middle Ticlds wro irausjoried o the varlous enfpping pointa sbont ew York, 1 ke rke In this latter baait e complote, and licrs secuas of violonco were etacted that caused e prescncs of * BIOULDER-BTIATS AXD ATSKETS." Tho Middls Fielis prodiico the Lest brands of cosl mined, sud some of them ato known and culebrated us Tehigh, The companien and fndividuals operating herg are Imumcusely weaithy, sud ba wado wegondowds of mouey during ik last few years, Thern sre operstors lioro who are aa Fich tiint they re erazod 88 to what to {0 with their supercLundance of carls, Many of thein aroarrogant aristocrats, and hated by the poor minar with & tiendish iate, Thien the Korthorn Figlds comalast, and ars divlded into (he Wyoming and Lackawanuns ‘ub-basins, In the former raction, the men are bearly il ougsged fn this atriko, while n'staall ehere of tho dirafleztion has erapt ito 1he Istter, The Nortkorn Fields ara aupply- ing Now York aud astern eities witli fuel, and iBeic pegqing-away {4 8 damsging Liow to the prospects for 1o atriko culininating lu s success, ABOUT EIGHT JIUSLIED BOLDIERS are now nuartered in the Middle Tiods, Thero troopa ave undor {be command of the Third Divislon Coi- mander, Gen, aborne, and are the Rame troops who Npured In tho drama of the Erieltatiway strikers at Busquebnina Depot aboul thix timo lust year, T Tirst Regiment Btate Milltla, from Phladeipbia, dolug tho only guard-duty mow Lelng pertormed, Thls organization fs the *crack" reglmert of the Btato Guard 3 and Bve of fts companfea aza distributed at Eekley, Audeuried, Duck Mountsi, and Monot Yleasant,—pointa_(hat lin from 3 to Ginjles distant grom Huzleton, Elnee Welr ocoupation of the country the reign of outlawry Lias practically ccased,—tha onty urbances of moment that have oceurred being plcket-firing st mipbts, The Kinth legimeut Hiate Allita wers ordered out ab tho begiuniig of tho miuing troubics, but enly & fragmen of thia demoralized organization 18 kiere, The fow com- onics attuched to the Ninth are quariczed st the Iaca- Course, on the oulskirts of tho vity, One company was weat homo tho other day on account of its exprersed syuyathy for e ailkers, and { Luse just lesruodfust 10 will bo' dinbanded, The guard-houns at the Ttace- Courao is full all the e, and ot thic momont sbout forty members are cheend without leave, Desertions occiir every day, whilo liere fn much dranketiness fn the rauk aid e, The Ninth has ceuved u groat deal of scandal since ft has been bers by reason of ita wholesalo importation of lowd women from Wlikess A rzeat many members of tho First Regimont jost theie situatinna in Phitadelphia in commer- clal hauses, aad tha boys are dreadfully anxious to re. turn howe, Deforo cinsing thin artlela it wonld be weil fo con {ribute a little apaco for the benefit of the man who liave got Into {he high- places of the Mincra® Labor Union, and who ara reqarded in the Hght of MINISTERS OF BTATE. Thego fndividuaie, who play with tho miners as they please, aro pald fat 'zalaries, and sro allowed Iihieral troveling oxpenses, John Bhiey, tho Orand Blogul and * chief cook and bottle-warlicr * of the Natfoual Undon, is now charged with bolng In_active collusion with Gowan, the Princa of operators} und at Girard, Babioney Plaue, aud Shenandoab, mestings hava beon held within the Jant forty.olght houra to denounce him, oretoforo his will hua Leen law, Joln Welah, tho Tresident of tho Banevolent Union, fs just out with » sacrot ciroular, counsoling the minces to ond the struggle. Iu thia document he fraukly admita that thiero was & conspiracy 1o destroy tho property of tho opotntors, Tho Miners' Journal, of Vottaville,—s newpapor which is regarded s tha exponent of tho coal-trade,—douonnces Welsh in sovore terms, and cladms that he aliould be arrestol. Thero 18 6 growiog fecllng {hat this war must end now very soon, Tlio strikers cannot deny fhat thelr funds are rupidly melting away, It was ouly yester- duy that, ot o weoting of the lieglon Board, field In this city, commlttcos ware appointed to travel lo all e Jointa af the comuaan to solct id sod caniribution ut, in the face of {his discouraging prospect ¢ ‘malcontenta are presenting a boid front, and rabidly declars that they will hold out ** UNTIL MELL FUEEZES OVER." These words soutid very positive, but I would not Le rurprieed to sce tho “bottom tumbloout ' of this movewment any day. The damage done tomines_snd property since the ateio Legan fs enormous, If brought down to a nquare eatitnate In dollars and cents, tho loss that han been sustadned would beampls ouongh ta pay for the demanids of the men for & year, and ten {inics over, Mines have beeu fooded swith water, that wil requirs aix mouthy or wore to pump dry. The minors are diectly responsible for tbls condillon of AfTaira be- causo they Lisvo deiven off the engincors and fremen froin the puznps, and allowed tho wator to accurnulate and broak tho pumping-machinery, Then, at Blocks ton, tha largest callry fu Lohigh caught on fire, sbont two weeks ago, and Las bean burning with tetrible fury ever smince, 1iad there been uo atrike, thero would Lave been no-fire, In thaevent of failure of the moasires to slrangle o flamas b are now being emploged, " thory will Do 5o ofier siternative left ut to flood the L mine, ‘To do (his, {t will require Ioke of water 10 milea lbng, 5 miles wide, and 10 feet doop, In fact, tho atrike ls comparatively insignifi- cant 1o the importance of thia contlagratiow, sinca tha collfery in whilch the fire-flend rages counecla with alx thers, whoso underground chstobers rumify miles in sl directions from HSiockion, Tha loes by thls catastrophis {n estimated st NALF A MILLION, Then bLreakers Lave oen burned down, and englne- lowses_ destroyed, Thera the meu themssivos will losa bundreda of thousands of dollars, while the oper- atora aro being chiseled out of great amounts, spart Arow the loss {neurred by the destruction of property, About two weeks wgo, your correspondent predicled that the men of e semi-bituminous reglons of the Htato would ateike, aud, within the last few days, they bave dousso, This will grontly streugthen tha inave ment {n Autbracitudon, snd this result was resched ihrough the agency of emisvaries who were sent into tbat country to *atir 'eun u‘l.' - o core dowu (0 the Tes] polnt ot fasus betweon th miners and the miuc-owners: On the part of tho men, it is & quostion of wages, emphatically and Jurely, On thejariof the oparators, it is a question of wiother they—lio ownera of thess collerics—shall operato them, aud bave a controlling volco in the nanagemont, or the collicrs, The question of wiges {a ok considered in tio wigwat of the clect, and thy operators ata the clect, Tho latter declars with grest hoat that the Latlle on thia testie would have to bo fought avouor or later, aud they deemed this as time- Iy an houe aa sy in tlia futire, The mark at whiclh they are shooting {s to break upsnd itier this Nae tional Union, and (liey wili do 14 1f 14 ¢ takes all sur- mer.” o Lolli sldes axg determined, os {¢ appears, aud the struggle fa sitaply & * DATTLE OF THR GIANTS. ¥or years, fLie Union, tirough tho recklons efrite Who heat its tatioos, Lave dous just about ss they pleared in theso wild' coal-lands, and they hava boevit severs task.-nuastors, 11 an fucowmpetent man was dls« chargod, the lite of the mine-boss who did tlo act was thio ouly thing that would stone for the fn~ digaity, and tho mine-boss would bo found murdered svine uyht, and 1o hand who did the deed discavered, 11 & ruls was adopted by the minc-ownur objectio bl irike would follow quickly upon akor would bo burnied to avenge 3010 wroug; or a citizeu who hiad encountered Lo su- Gontuu cf Wio miers would ¥ocelyo 3 uoilos, ol ad'{n Ku-Kluzsymbolism, warning him to iy from the country uuder forfeit of aveassination, Thewe miuers are terzible follows, wany of them, aldiough there nusy bo found among thom $nlelligetce, sobricty, aud S b itel ta ot Bistory of the Duckslots ug. o is not & ol e uckslots, or rather the Mallio Magulrea ; 'O T s fotbear. Tho loug suspension of work in'the mines 8 Laviug fts effoct in the startling decrease of (is stocks of coalin Luladeiphia, Thal clty s o closely Lowud 1o tho Hetuylk n thiat tho atrike i3 sorely felt, Scores of retall yarda sra baro of coal, snd many deslers will not sell mure {han half & ton to one buyer, Tho great docks of the Hesding Railroad at Port Lichmoud are far from belng & Quarter full, snd the prospects for A COAL~-PAMINE in Philadeiphis are oxcesdingly livaly, 7Tho acarcity of anturucile is serving (0 iutroduco coks sud seml-bituminous cosl %s fuel amoug tho frous Tiastors of the Btate} and, as - this com. Linatlon sdmirsbly serves tho purposs, it s bigly probable that {bo hurd anthracite” will be dis- cardod_ altogether by hiuudreds of the furusce-nien, “Ilig ecupation of the country by the wilitls will cost 1o Btate, befure thie Lusinoas {8 weltled, & round $30v, 000, The excarsion of the truope to Busquebsnua Dopot last spring mades bill of $18,000, sud the spe priation To dalray It Ik & UATEON cucapa 13 ins Piebiiature, “The operators clalui (hat, aa they pay & m o‘g [ u:'l:‘ o tou anlm.;ll ufil‘ &nltmfi‘t:by are sutie . eotion 0 ! 1y wl Alaiy proj erty la endangered by lawicss ed, vn." AFFAIRS OF STATE. Decigion of the A(!oruny.ugueml of Ilinols Begnrding Po- Heo Mnglstrates. Esposnre of Violationa of the Illinois Scliool Laws by Bupt, Etter, Proceedlugs of the Michigan State Legise Iature Yesterday, Oontest of the Eleotion of Louisiana Treasurer, ILLINOIS. TORICE MAGISTRATES, Eptetal Dispatch ta The Chlrago Trbune, HerixuirLn, 211, April 99, —Questions are arising ahioost daily #3 to tho valldity of the election of per- £0n1 to Lo Polico Maglstrates under the law parrod by the Twenty-nintl Genersl® Askembly, which wes an emergency act, Ju all, or nearly all the elections of citles el aince {in art went {nto affect, Police Mugle teaten linva been clected. ‘Lhe moat difficult queatlon weemnto ariso frem the fart that fu the jrirate cliarters for (Lo orgauization of towns it wes provided 1t the Prorident of the Town Council or the Mayor shoull Le exoficlo & Justice of the Deuce. Tho commisrtonn for these officers last frsurd by the Kectotary of Btato rani until 1477, sl thoy tre syl in the cormndratons © Polics Maginirulas.” Fora of the iavo rinca organized_ aa citles urider thio act of nd bavo now, under the act of April 10, Pollce Maglstrater, notwithitand.ng the P 1o nct prouibita them from en elcating 1 thoy uow have Iolice Magisirstes elected and scrving nnder huy other Law, The President of he Coun ta City of Marion, Williameon County, Justica’ of ta Peace, kud wox commui el s a Dolice Magialrate, Yow a Dolie Mayirtrate han heen elactod.und tho question ls,Can be L8 coicuiisninned untll (e term of the Fresident of the Council ehwlt explro 11118777 Attorziey.tiencral holils bt tho Prestdont of tho Counciliv ot # Police Slagistrate within the mieautng of the la, 1 that therefora tho commirsion. may frae to tha yersan now electod, There are many phmilar ey 1lhm deciajon s Linportaut as settling the stion, I3 rney-General alrn decides another quention him by Col. dlarlow, Secretary of Stato, as Xo election of Justices of {he Peaco cnatablee In countiss under townskip organizs- lom eoutd e el {a the epriug of 147, excepi to il varancies that iy exiat 3 but if 1hore were vacanalos, and 4 Towy Clork recesved hiv ardor for tha elsction, and the notices of such clection were fh fact given Ly add Town Clork, the voters could legaily elnct Justices sud Corttubles to OU suck vacsuelus, even If the Couniy Clerk did ot ofclally order the elertion a irovhied by law, This care came up from Whitesido Jotinty, whero ah alection war held to il & vacsncs' on nollrea isited by the Town Clerk without the order of the County Clork, ACIIOOL MONEYH, B, M. Etter lina Just pot forth declrions to the fefrect, ety thwi Township Trusteen sre not dinabled from becowiuy rarcties for achool nioncys, which may La Joancad, If they ara reliabls as contomplated by faw, Lut ke ducs ot talnk 4 well, nntwathistandiug, that they should lecomie such purelies. Ho holds thst it fza positive viotation of the law 10 allow intereat on tia #eliool fupds 1o run two or thren yrars unpaid, for the Jaw procides that tho fnterest sliall Le paid semi-uii Bualy fu sdvauce, sud that i dcfault shall be made in the payment of interest or principal, 12 per cent as. penalty shall be charged and collected, If the Trustoed do not sco that the Treasurer performs his itien cecordiug 1o tho letter of the law n this regard, siy citlzen Intereated wnay demund that they perform their dutier, and an sction way ba brought agalnst the Trezsurer for misfeasancoin ofiice, Tue Bupor- intendent addv, a8 an_edmonition, that by ueglect of duty in thin very parioular large sums of muney are annuclly lost to tho School-fund, o declio, wacond, in & ciae whers & teacher was iired 'for five months, snd the school Louse burned ot tud ond of three months, snd the Trustees failed {0 farmsh another bnilding and to provide for the achoal to procced, that the Trustecs should pay tho teacher for the whals time atthe atipulated salary, —— MICHICAN, BENATE. Apeeial Dispateh to The Chiento Tribunr, Lawarxa, Mich., April 20,—A mosssge was received in the Senato from {hie Governor that he had approved the following Lilla: For the establishment of » homeo- patbio medieal college at Ann Arbor; to amend the chiarter of Duchanan; to provids for the safe-keeping of the publio moneya; to pay the Stats militis for ser~ vitesn Montcalm and Marquctte Countich; to pay railrosd companies eertaln monnys collocted ; o amend 8¢o, 10,014 of the Corapiled Laws relativa to 1 sale of lauds for delinquent taxes s to_amend 85, 4,301 of the Compilod Law relativo to the inventory and colloction of the effosts of deceased peravna, Reaclutionn wers ndopted to give the messcnger boys 25 ceata oxtra per diens, and thia Postmast Tha following wai. pavsed, oxcept ealels therwise Indi- 3aking an appropriation for @ Loapital at the ity ; to amend the ot to authorizo proceedings riilclieer, with reference o siimunons, latt, 81019 ilo tax the'lale of liquors brauylit froti ottiok Btates, Ipst, 14 o 13,reconsidernd, and tableds to srzend. the sct um‘wrhlmvhn formation of banking compa- nics, 1314 00 the tablo; to amond tho Train law, lost} relaflvato trespass upon lands for the purposa of bunting and trapping, Iost : ta tnx tha eale of llquors Droughi from without this State, reconsidered and passed, Tho Senste concurrod in the Honse smendments to tho Henata Apportionment bill; lowe bill 384, to nrzend {lio law relative to proof of demand in suils, lout t to amend, the law. relativo to plank-roads ; 16 amend tho act relative ta & crier for the Hupreme Court ; (o puniak tha wrongful taking of shado treea; to reduce the penalty {ncurred by rafirosd companies or not paylng tax lands, reconsidercd, amended, and_paseod, * Thia bill remits ponalties’ upon the landa granted by tho Goners] Gorerument to railrasds which were mnade taxable by & law passcd at the Isst seasion, tha constitutionallty of whicli wos contested, The United States Bupremn Cowrt decided adversely 10 the claim of the raiizoads for non-taxation of their ds, hence tho prosent enactment, * 2 JOINT CONVENTION. Tue Beuato met the Housa i Joint conventlon, and the Governor made tno following uominations: Adjutaut-Gonenal, John Robertsou, of Datroit; Ine spector-General, Luther 8. Trowbridge, of Delrolt : uartennastar-Ocneral, Solomon 8, Msthews, of Tontlac ; Trustee of tho Asylum of (e Deaf, Dimb, and Dfind, at Flnt, for x yesrs, Almos B, Aldrich. The military oficers wers confirmed unan- imously, Twele votes wore cast agalast the confirins- ton of Mr, Aldrich, 3 TOUAE. In the Ifonze the followiug were passed, except as otherwine noted : Incorporating 81, Chatles: appro- PHMJII{ lands for a railroad from Alpens to Rockford, oat, ok receiving b two-thirda volu grantingald 1o [y ity rallroad from Alpena to a ;;onl:‘u o the Jackson, substituta for a bill relating to say i tlis cancurrent resolution fur an exsmination of Agri~ cultural Collego Wi indefnitely hoste ponod; concerning fhe mlaries of Hiate officers; reduciug the tax upon lfa innurance companes; apportiontug the Bla Benatorial Districta; directing the closing of certain accounts, Involving amoug others the Beard olaim, Jost; puuishiment ot collecting auents; {or repeslin the mct sutborizfug municipalities to conatruct gravel ‘walks and drives. A resolution was adopted instructing the Sccretary of Gtata to furnish to esch Supervisar aud Asscssor hroughout tha State copiea af thu two bills relating to tho quor traflic, Sust passed and approved, Tlie Uhlef Clork, Danlel 1. Croesman, was allowed $3's day aa extra compensation, aud the two Assistant Clorks and the Enrolling Clerk each §1 & day extra, liepeated attempta to includo the other oficials of the liouse were resisted aud voted dowu, ‘The Committes on Bupplies and Expenditurca sub- mitted the statement of (ke expensas for siationery for the various commitlees, ‘The bill granting aid to a railrosd from Roekford ta Alpens, noted abave, wae recoundered and again put upon it passsge and loat, uot two-thirds yorof it, The Clerk 8 'the Houss and Recretary thie Senate wol llowed $300 each for ludexing’ the ill rnsls Iz; mearrent resolution offersd by Mr, iton, of Bagluaw, ———— LOUISIANA, THE OFFICK OF STATR TREASURER, Noiw Onraxs, April 30,—The Gtate of Loulsiaus, represduted by A, P, Held, Attorney-General, upon information of John C, Moncure, hias filed & petition in {he Buperlos District Court, ropresenting that Antonine Dubuelet s now occupying and holding the office of Stalo Treasurer under an fllegal commission; that mid Moncure was electad Tressurer, and s legally entitled to sald offce; tbat satd Moncure recelyed 74,89 and Dubnclet 81,021 yote, giving to ! former & mufority of 3,57, ad that, through the sction of the Liehirnlug lloard in refustng {o couut Moncure's majurity, Le was lmpromlfl‘dwdml of ofice, le pruys thata mandusnus lewue ageinst J, Madisou Welly T, Canderaon, L, M, Keune, and 0, Casanave, meme bers of the lelurning Loard, commannivg them to canvasa the returns of Bicnille, Desoto, Urant, and Winn Parishes, and promuigate ke 'same, sud that Judguient be roudered declaring tiay said dou- curg recolved & mafority of votes at the last clection, aud Iy entitled to thu ofiloo of Blate Tresaurer ou qual- ifylug sccording to lay A Pitiable Case of Domestic SOrrows Mr. Tyler Ourtis, at ous time s very wealthy and Ymmuumt citizen of Ban*Fraucieco, Cal., died in New York City on Thursdsy from griefl aud prostration caused by the circiimstaucos at- tendivg the death of his wifo on March 17, from ths efcct of malpractico, Alr. Curtis, who had loft Lis_ busluess in Californis in ondor to go to Earope for the beuefit of his eyemght, which was failing, ro- turned to New York with his wife in 187J, avd in Decembor of that year was obliged Lo go to San Francleco on urgent business, Kuflun bis wifo in New York, together with his two daughters b{ s former warrisge. Lotters full of Ml‘l‘illgll affection passed betweon tho hfllblnru mdl m.l‘: hdufln[b o.u(’fi 't‘a‘rn:;r’l uecesparily prolonged absonce, but tho wife dur- lug the l““ptm poxtfau ot It '.n'u living in t0oin- timate relations with Bonjsmin Gregery. or- gnnist of the Church of the Atanewen:, tho having Jofned the clwir. Tho rewult wan wnch a8 to lead tn her death aunder the treatmont of kome unprincipled monical pire- titios Uo the day of hor death Mr. Curtiy recnlved a telegranhle dispatch Ban Hean- cweo Informing him of his wifc's death, and aekinge Ditn what_dispowition mhonld he mada of tho body, Jlo Ladedly telesraphed to have the lody placed fn a receiving wault until is anival, Wills packing up his et~ focin prapsratory to losving Ban Francisco hio got an everng nowepaper in which- ho road with grieved amazement the ntory of bis trifo's rhamna, Dazed snd heart-Lroken ha took the tralu for Now Yorli, whete hn arrivod on Agril 8, The sudden shock to his feelings was too vouch for him to Lear, and hie sank rapidly. — CASUALTIE: POISONED SALT New Tomk, April 29.—Tho Iirith abip Nisgara arrived at this port from Liveriool un the 4th fust, with & eargo of ¥alt, arsenir, and other merchandine, rineipaliy chemleals, The salt wia stored fu the Lold sud he srscufe i Letwren-dockn voynga oo of the [ickagen of Triken, el tho confents - dietiflnted On the i wan discharped and and the salt was sold, and most 6 clty, Bulstquoutly fosrs aroso Lhal morno of (he ar- nedtle might linte come 0 contact with tho nalt, To diacaver whether thin was the fact, several portions of tlie palt wan plsced fu tho Lisndw of ' Frof, Dureniun for analysis, Tho resnit phiowed the tmmistakallo pross enco of arsenic in thul porticn of the cargn, Accord- ingly, with_framediute “diapatcli, the poisonous salt waw ordered hack 16 the city for thorough axamins. tion and destruction {7 fonnd hecessry, £TOMM DAMAQES, Suartal Diryateh to The Chicatn Tribune, Lntr, Ta,, ARt 20,—A terrible wiud-storm has been prevailing hero this aftcrnoon and evening. Heveral buildinga were unraofed, sud rigns, lumhor-plles, cte., blown down. Tle propelier Alpens, frotn Toledo, and nlouner Gllmon, from Cleveland, got into port fost leforo tho heavs Wow - eommenced. Tue projeller Persizn, gratn-laden, from Tuiedo for tiis port, aud liarhor tug Mary A, Grecn, aro out on the lake expsed tothe fill fury of the storm. To Green lefl this morninz fur Dunkirk, and, itis fesred, hea Lecn lost, with wl un board, Urxenwati, Aprll ¥.—During the prevalrnce of the Ligh scind & portion of the wooden sivowalls was Lifted £rom §tn place, and ona lenk, hiown with great foree, striok » man hamed Williem ' Tininepan, knoeked hin {0 ko ground, \hun & wagon fau OVCT Lita sud kilied m, Cormnus, 0., ATrl 29,—An untannlly heary wind prevafled iere during this aftornoun, blowing down chimneys, fences, and sertlon of the sheet-iron roofing frum the tew Unlon deput, —————— A COUSTY-SEAT WAR, Warm Times Experted fn Lake Conn- 1y, Mich, Special Dispaie to the Chieago Tribune, Tust BLusaw, Micl., April 23,—There is 8 countys #rst war going on in Lake County, At the April eloc- tlon the propls vated to remova the emunts.veat from Chass to Baldwin by 55 msjorits, and tho Lsard of Supervitors puered © resolution fo remove o Daidwin forfuwith, sal also foitruct ©d B commoittca ¢0 hira proper bulldings in Baldwin for county purposes until such timo a4 the county could bulld n court-hovso, The removal was contested o tho grounds that llegal votes wors east, aud that the Doard of Supervivors rassed no remlne ton tonstruct s comiaittes 3 ahove elected, The Huerif snd o posss of men went from Bald- win to Chase vesterday for {ha purpose of remiovicg tho county records, Lut could get nothing but the Looks and papers Lelouging to 1ho County Treasurer and Shenff, an injunction having been granted restr=ining the rersoval of the Counts Clrk's records. A party of from reventystiveta oue hundred mes are gng from Valdwin 1o Chme In the mornlug " to the records snd ot Lring mafor peacedly If posible, Lut Ly force iF ncceseary, and bot times are expected, Tuo Clerk a3 visited (hie marning ot Beldwin, He was wiiling tho records shouid Le reutosed, bub be in rather weak on the subjeet, The Duld'vin peopl= elaim 13 1o bourly & pretest af the Cliuse peopio o kerp the county-heat 88 g 6 facaibls, and pui tho coliis Lo al! porsihio expeLse. As usual thero are two cldus 10 the question, GEIRMANY. Pending Politicnl Questions. Toxpox, April 50,—A dleraich to the Daily Teks graph from Berlin sasa the Prussian Goverument in- tends toignorn thie Jetter of eympathy nddreased by {bo Homian Catholic Bishops of Grest Drituin to thoss of Gertany )0 T¥asa’ #pecial from Terlin repcrta that the Bol gian Minister of Jusifco bas mcdo an explivit state- ment shat the Telgium courts are jncompetent to taka up procecdings agaluet Duchcene, ond that this etale- tncut has been trausmitied to the Nerlin Governaent, A commiitee of the Prussian dlet tas propared a biil declaring the old Catholica entitled toa abare of the Ttoman Caiholic cemctarics and reveuuca proportione :\te 10 tleir members aa compared with olhey Catho- oa, —_— AN OPLN LETTER. The United States ‘Fronsurer’s Pordes cutors Tho fallowing letter fiom Nellle De Loce, tho zlleged blackmailer of tho Hon. John C. New of Indiangpolis, hus been published. The newspaper article raferrod to in the loiter wus a sintoment of the seandal, fu whick the woman's wide only was give IxpiaaroLms, April 10, Ifon, John C, New, Treasurer of the United SicteamDran Bi5: I Lave uat pesueed an article in tho &1/ 7aso (11L) thuig to you, the er. Mr, Kiatler, 7 know ox well as I that it v abaolutely trae, * You roww —rou caunot but_remember—the woful history ¢t ended in my perjuring iyralf to shield you roin tke couscquences of our mutual &in, You were then to me all T hiadin the world, Tome, family, fricnds, were buried 121 8 grave so deep that T could never Loje to reach them even in Imegination, You promised 1o be all of these,—and what was ome sin more upon tie lead of a fallem women ke mo? I lad already eaten wverty snd felt the guawing tooth 10 bo the mistreas of Juhn C. T onjoyed ft, aud to retain it T would have signed auyiling ; 1 i slgu & payer axon- eratiog you frum having criminal fatimacy whh me, Had 5o aked me to commit wuleido for you then, ew, I Lellove I would gladis have made the ., No sooncr did 1 comply with your wishe than you broks your plodges,—yoiir solemn promin 7ou tung me wida Into tho gutter, like w uucle hing. You severed the guilty connection tweni us, and utood forth aa s doacon in the Obristhn ' chapel, ujon whom & poor fallen woinan dare ot ac much_se lay her fiuger, If, mad- dened by this treaimeut, T pruponed to take 8 woman's revenge, you kuew cven then how fo silence me by a threat s0 horriblo that 1 dared not even uber womr- an's feeblo complaint, Iwrite this now to bid you farowell, You are now Treasurcr of tho United States, Kistler {8 in the Penitent ud Tamewhit 1 hardly dare to think, Novertheless, I have no feeliug of re- Yyenge,—no animosity stirs my pulscs, Our jatha in future are widely divorgent, Ida not care to see (hem again run perallel, I forgive you, Jubn C, New, and may your future boas greata blessing o yousd my ty peat is & curse to your friend, Kriuz Dx Loa, A VALUABLE LIBRARY BURKED, Lovivirer, Ky., Apsl 29,—The CourierJournals Shelbyvills (Ky.) mpecisl reports the deslruc- ton by fre today of tho resdence of Mem Luey ewell, at that place in which waa the library of the great oataralist, Audubon, Mrs, Hakowell was Audubon's micter-it-law, and tle colloction consisted of about 8! volumes, and was of very great valus to selentists, Notling was eaved, TEMPERANCE. Special Dispatch ta The Chicszo Tritune, Berorr, Wis, April 20.~Speckl misalon services, undar the direction of the Rev, 1), Hennebery, of Cali- foruta, have bean in rogress at the Catholic Church Dbero {Or tew days past, A3 8 Fesult some G50 pervors contiected witli the congregation have tukeu the total abstinence pladge, ‘This afternoou they paredad ibo strests with brass band, Lauusrs, ¢t LABOR TROUBLES, D., April 2).—Numbers of tha Labor- ‘on a strike, and tho loadiug of ves- sols {s uearly st & stanid, 1t 18 feared that an sttompt will be mado by tlie members of thy saclety to provent outaldars frons working, aud s largo bady of spacial constables kave Leens wworn Lu 0 Jrescrve Lha peaco, ——————— LATE MARINE NEWS. Pont CoLnonxr, Ont,, April B.—The schrs 11, W, Hag, from Oswego, and Mismi Bell, from Pair Haven, both loaded for Toledo, Left ibis atternoon, belng o Srvt dopaturca of il yossin, In the oveuing tia wind changed and iucressed t4 & gale, driving both back damag — ——— A Sale of Paiutings. Parfe leter, Notwithstanding the luceeeant complaints sbout hard times and tlo scarcity of money, ‘works of art soll as well 13 evor, and nevor fail to commeang extisordingy prices, Bixiy-eight pictures by modorn artsts wore sold laat week at tho Hotel des Voutos, all going at bigh rates, Fugeuno Delacroix’s * (unat Upon Iake Gono- sorot" sold for 17,300 fraucs; his *' Bt, Sobas. tien " brought 17,000 friucs. Corut's “QOrplica’ sold for 12,000 francs; Lis “Printempsa” for 7.200; *Le Sormmeil do Diauo” for 11,000 fraucs, Of Millat's wosks, therowero solds “La Jeune Chovriore,” 18,05 francs; **La Mort ot lo Bacheron,” 20,000 trand. ‘Theodore Rousseau * Lo Dormoir des Gorjes d’Aprowout.” 16,100 © Bupset 1o Bologue,” 24,100: *La Metalne,” 28,1 Troyon: *A Jow Foflowed by s Log, 10,400 3 #{ue’ Baulae," 41,00, “A Pago." by Roybot, Dbrought 80,100, Tho otal brought' by the aixty= elght pictures was 451,185 fruncy, THE GOLD EXCITEMENT. Capt. Mix's 8nccossful Expedition After tho Harncy's Peak Miners, The Slories Told hy. the Mon Brought Back by the Military, They Aro Sanguino of the Exzistenoe of Gold in Paying Quantities, But the Leader of tho Parly Expects lo Make His Money by the Ealo ol Town.Lots. Rpeclal Correspontenes of ‘J'he Chieasn Tribune, Forr Lanamim, Wy, April 23,— Alix Liss accomplished the difiloult task of reach- ing the’Hlack Hilla mivers, ud landing tuem safely on this sido of the Dlatte Rivoer. Gavernment has, through him, given the first positive mignificanco of what it intonds to Once before was atlempted, & fruitlces Linnt, himnolf o cripple for life, with forty out of fifty of hia commaud frozen, Miz, with the game uhatacles Lo overcome, aimunt the samo soverily of westher to contend agalust, ud found tho minors, thoso Argonauts of '7G. That maroh, and ila inoideuts of deep Buows, icy streams, terrific winde, broken country to croas, and the faithful offarts of the soldiers, would make AN INTERFSTINO CHAPTER; would be somewhat like lifo ‘on tho plains, It would uoed no central figure with » hand toot~ ing to give it & fourish, greeable duty well dove; difleultios and dsvgers; disagreeallo, hnsing to reparato the miners from tho vear tealization of their hopes, purchased at euch risk, Capt. dlix, accompanied Ly Licute. Leonard 1Tay and Lo Polut, left this pokt with Company M, Becond Cavalry, on the 23d of last March, The command was to hisve boen guided by two Lung on longer, It wae a Liard and dien- berd, Lecause of it3 after tho sccond day's marcls, the Captain determined to truat to hin maps and & compase he the Asfest Disu. 1aarched northesiit frown here to Hawaide Buttes; thence northesst to Mot Creek; down that #tream totha Soath L'ork of the Chovenn ; theu on to Buffalo Gap,—making tou camps to 12 miies from tho stockade. Yrom Camp Buecess, Licut. Lo Point, with a pack-train of mules nud s dotachment of cavalry- men, ten or fifusen in nubar, wont to Uarnoy's Gulel, and notited the minors that Lo waa there to weels befores hug, DING THEM AWAT, nnd such of taeir provisiona end blankets aa tho Hubmitting with s good wrace, eversthing wes pecked which could Le carnted, and the {raio strung out throngh the snow for the main camp on 1rench Crac] begau the return march, srmving ot this placo mules would carey, ‘Iho various members of tho Dlack Ifille pio- neors talk freely atout their adventure, there is wo question about their roturniug to niake ood their claima. helis or0 to be had ouly for the trving, bold-looking lot of rmem, haviug a self-rciant air: ench men a8 only undertakio to can o trip liko thia has “botn. 21l parts of the Westcrn country; oniy a pottion Lizve ever mined before,—rome ten yoars ago, others but oue or two. SVECIMENS OF QUARTZ AND OOLD-DUST. Fome of tke former looke good. and rome wortuless, except, perhaps, as indicationg. It mugt Lo remembered, tuo, that it i only top raex, bloseam, and float. ‘T'hero 18 on¢ impor- taut fazt which ia of more vaine than all tho re- vorts of Ilasden, Roynolds' Indisn rtories, nnd the sccaunts said to bava beow given by De Smet; it ia thin: These salners iare qold-tust which they “washed ™ in the Jiack Hills ! Tinw is boyond n persdventare, Tho ‘| they ‘snow hLava that peculinriy brig ing that (ortuncs Thoy bring witl them ths ground three or four wonthe. Nothing will prevent the particlea, lerge or small, from becoming dnrk and tamnished. uot restora it to that certain sppearance it Las when uewly ** panned out,” H.nzo there is no salu in that much, as Lins been claimed ; thnt the dust wes brought from Sioux Culy, and o on. As (o the quautity, they apeak gunrdedly, say- iug they ouly proepected a little ; Hieirtimo wag mwily spont in housing themselves and fortify- {ne ngaet tho Indians ; tho weather wau too cold, tho creek frozan almoat solid, snd tho dirt wastied bad all to be thawed firat. bmilt siz donblo cabine, and surroacded thom with u stockade. This work occujuod most of their time in 1he good weather. Thoe party of courrs COMPLATN ¥ETT MTILALY of having to leato their prejerty, and tho fair prospect (u8 they Bay) of nint blamo the oflicers and soldiers, Lut t'30 Presl- dent. They claim that e tresty with the In- dinns stands on the eawe {ootivg as ous with & foreign power: that it 18 in the power of the Cuief Exccutive to dockre s!l treatien nuwll and void for overt acts; thet the Iudians bave over and over sgain commitied such acts; that these e mincial lands, which cauvot be rocurved ; and “Anshow, tho Back Hills helong to tho Ametican poople, aud wo ought to liave them now, aud would if thera wasu't fowne ring in Waslungton which wants to got the first *dift *." Tho locality of their stockado, 88 far as it on a abont 7 miles south by weat of Harney's Pesk, ou Freuou Creek. This ploce was wolacted after prospecting up and down tho stream several mites and finding tho color. They bad entarod thie Hills at the northesstern poin't, Acids even will but the mancy's to he made on ths outaids pf & sluleing-ditch, not in it. Imined in Cfllufidfl lone enourh to know that, Fvery *tendor-foot® coming from the Kast, he's hot for aalaimj thete'aa chanco for you to dicker. o geners nlly wanta thres or” fonr pairs of top boots; there's & chanca_todioker, Jie never Lhngs eoought grub; and thor' chanco {o dicker; Of conran lio wauts s lot fu the eity; and that {s the time to go In on your hind fost and dickor,” “Whnt do you think about tho mines? Is there any gold there or not 2" *11 belisvo there's good wages, and maybe big strikes for somn. I panned ont all the way from 510 40 conts tothepan, I did, honestly, 1 proapeclod a good deal for lodes, and thoy will un to silver moatly, ‘Tue bost ahowing, I think, is nr; ,"'f, wmm:x nllnl‘m E'Ja'lmr"m"'m"hm no one has heon yot, n| # from tho ls; it and the looks of the country.” s Capt. Rueaell b mall quantity of gold-duat and somo quartz specimons, 11a returna toSjonx. City, and will bring lus family to Cheyenne to await the action of tho Ooverament. ME. LOOAN wan pit in cherge of the miners by Capt. Bix, 1o seemed to tiave a natural leadership amongst the minara when 2. Le Point found them in their camp al ITsrnoy City! Ile fa rathior o roe gerved man, seif-containod, and apoaks with n quict cunviction which gives wefi;m to ll he ho meanaand knows what bhowtates, . Logun, 13 thero any gold {n tho Black “I'sa panned aut from 5to 15 cents to the pan in Harnes's Galeh, and T found the eolor i overy placo g it that I prospecied. Thia horo is some [uhowing about 5 dwts, of gold-dust], I washed on tho Gtk of April, Wo pave Gorden and Witcher our firet lot tn take out with them. If Gordon hiad kept faith with us, wo wero going over to tho weat side, whera I bollavo ths bost gold-belt 18, 1 didu't want to loave the camp. Our provisions wonld bave ) Bome badu't unch ; but wa'd divided up «o as ta last another month anshow, We bLad hardly a day to mine, tho weather was #o cold. All" the prospocting was done {n frozon ground, and the creck almoxt rolid, When wo wanted to prospect o paa ot dirt, it hiad to he earried to tha cabin and thawed § sud that, you know, isno fair show, I burns nome of tha quartz, and pounded it up, and panned it. and got everal colora [particies of gold], I've mined 8 pood deal, and Ihaven't ;nm.q' times seen 84 good & showing =y we've got horo. THE GOLD-DYRT 2fr. Logan shown is about 600 to 830 fine, Tt{a very much liko that found in tho Alder Gulch, near Virginfa City, Montana. ono of the richent ever strick on “this Contment. The dust ia conree and fine; shows & good dezl of abrasion, pointing to the' poseilility of fow, it eny, rien pocketa; the pay-dirt is from grass-roota to bed- rock, bt not “very rich, aw might bo expectod, when tho Iattor in roached, Others of the mineis vero intervinwed, and told wbout tha same sterv, Ar. Cordercan bos qowed in Californin ten years, aud never caw Letter indications” fn tho uartzelods, Tio ays, * Gordon travolad four we of tho fhilla, parallel to them. and didn’t know t. Tio wasn't a4 much good e n poor Texas stecr, Aw for Witcher, ha oughtn't to loave his mammy et The whole porty denounca Gordon meverely. Afer dasnout on the uif. Witeliar waakeneil, crled, nnd wantod to g0 home : 8114 i hiad nn iucurable dikaase. They carrie] him aloig cu o prisouer, for fear bo would return and toll the authorition, A QUEER INCIDEY = of tha trip, a5 told to wme, wes the burial of ond of their purty. At tho gravo o prayer was sug- pested, but 110 ono knew anything of tho kind. ‘F'ho Lord's Prayer was called for, Russoll atarte edwith: o six davs tho Lord mado the Licarens nnd tho caith.” * It didn't sound exactly right; so I quit.” 1In conclusion, I ogain nrge yoit who have nover had any exporience in mining not to go to the Dlaci 1Ply, unless you lave money to teko you thers on & plessuro-trip, having no icen other (ban goiug the ed- veuture, ead with tho full expectation of retnrn- g winus the expenscs of tho tip, It you hava oy acquaintunce who Les been tn minos, aak Lim. This udsice Iy for thoos West; it would b n uselcen wnste for a Bostonicy, especially the artillery pariv, whirh hes for its leader that lunchoneanish gontleman. who wsys he made, yowrs ago, nearly 340 6 day iu the Bixfk InLls, AYOET. —— JUDGE PEARSQH TO *LONG IOHR.” Lo the Ilivor qf the Dartile Comereial ! Daxviere, Ill, Apzil 20.—Oa wy reinrn from o short tnp mnesr St Louls, I found in your paper wlkat purports to be an extracs from au address of the 1fon. Jokn Wentworth, on the farly Settlers aud Incldouts of Clicago Early Tife,” in which ho says: 1 was hero when the fire! man was bung in Chieaga, ontlo upen praicio o shont distauo soutl of th Court-Touge, npon the Jury that convieted bim, Au cditor ahused mo whiis wpa the jury, and the Court eeatenced bim for couterpt, Storey 15 tot tha firal martyr; bis n2ma i3 Btewarr, ‘and bo now lives n Binghambon, N. ¥, ur Judge Williame fa nat the furst Judictd tyrant ;” his natme wa John Pearaon, rud ko jow lives at’ Danvilie, 1l Charley Roed s wot tho fired prosccitor of the proas; s nome 18 Huntington, and he = lives in_ Chicago now, Thus, we liavo baes vepeatiag hine tary s that fa all,” Thero'le nuthiug that you bavo now thit ‘we did nut bave yoars and years ago, excopt di- VOTOR Canes but we had but oue Judge then, znd only one ter Cf tourt in o year, and if famtiles ‘quarroled they had tmo to codl off, make peacs, snd havi aurther christentar, befora the uext torm of court, 3y old friesd Col. Wentworth did not, I pre- sume, intend to misroport tho faciy, or do me in. Justico; und Lind bo rememberad cll the facts con- nected with that case, ho certainly would not havo characterized tho Judge ns a “ judiclal ty- foot,” Ho cortainly would lnow that a porson mey, by slating ouly a port of & coso and Jeav. ingout cusentisl facts. do @ wan e much in. justice ay if ho had stated a falsehood. The Colonol hes left out the material facte iy the caso to which he refers, A most bloody aud disbolical murdor of & woman had been committed by o wretch, s convice and foliowed Cueter's trail southward to this prospect-holos were found, mada by those with the expedition of last ye: paus of diit voritied tho report of gold Leing found, and that se:tled tho question of locating themselves for tho winter. taloed from individual members, snd are best told in their own worls. CAFT, RUSBELL, who_has written several letters from the stock- sda for publication, wan one of the leaders of tho party when i: left Slonx City. tellizent men, of sbout 40 years; tall and gaunt, His quito seedy and tattered appenrauco differs somewhnt from the respectablo ntam i He Jooks very much as il & “poor but honest” Grangor, who fad slopt ont o' nights and didn't cate wmuch a low about wearng bis Sundsy clothes. claiws an oxtunsive aoquaintauce in Clicugo, of the solid kind. L'nmnpgndmt—““‘oll, Captain, stream, whero Otlor facts wero ob- soon told, so far as tho traveling goes ; it was a bard and very tiresowmo one. Wo left Bioux City last winter, a soached tha stockade in Docom routa to travel ovor,” « \\'l_\_eu you start sgaln, where will it be * Choyenne, by all meaus; it's the nearest outfitting poiut by 200 miles, Thon you can go from thero to tho Bouth Fork of (he Cheyenno ou a traveled road, Mr. Cuney here, who is au old friend of wino, says he” bas hauled 8,500 down from Geary's trading camp on the Honvor, north of the South Fork ; and from thera down the river, through the gap that Williams came through golug out from our camp near Harnoy’s Deak, it's only about two or throe duve' dri S Lere to Harney's Gulch in four days, oavy.’ + What dud you do in the Mills £ # Yousco, tho first thing after finding the rony ‘dpmuum o od ; tuo cAmp Waa nam R e ™\Va stected SI%. Mebonsid | tlo, that the Judgo was for holdiug tho partios Our Iaws are those of | 0 California and Moutans. There wera only two | 1bope, Mr. Lditor, that you, and athors who or throe of us who had mined jn Colorado, sl- though thera ain’t much diference, We give 200 foot np and down the guleh, from rim-rock 1o rim-rock, to esch ciaim, 400, Thoro's & clause that, if auyono is re- moved by Govermment, or driven off by Indi- aus, Lo is allowsd & reasonable time to repra- sout his clalm aftar the country’s oponed up. “1o_you think any of you can hold your O conree we can. 'The minors who como in won't disputo our title, aud tho *touder feet There's sometlung abont o wan sltting on bis clalm with a double-barrelod nliot- roes bils knees, which mighty few care to Wo've got & cit are our most val I don’t kuow hiow to go to work ex- Lut Il iz it somo bow. 0 ¥ larnoy, I'vo got a furm | by my frionds as ultra i defending the libarty d right wear it, aud 8 water-claim just | or tho press. Thougli Col. Weutwoith and my the ouly fall ou tho crook fit for & mill, I iutend to move my family out thero jnst as soon as 1 aw peruntied. woney ia it kure,” 1 ean nde from ler of tho district, . The discoverer gut uvoutigato too closol! aid | o ouly actud out, and our coriner- actly to got a chaster: “Fhio wawio of tho city E TOWN, all right sbout tho gold-dlggings ; tion depended on a long and closely-connected chaio of arcumetantial evidenco. 3lr. Btewart seemed to tako pides a8 au cditor with tho ac- cuned aud his counsel, Mr. Wentworth aud Btoware wore rival cditors bofora, Br. Went- worth was selected during the tnal as ono of the Jur Btewars, during tho trial, published many foolish and uuwarranted statoments of Went- worth and the trinl, and ono of these papera waa ko, or wes thrown, into the jury-room during 4bo daliberation of the jurs,” 'Tho State's At- toruey complained to tho Court In the uaual form, the facts were proved, Stowart Tiad s full bearing, snd wes couvictsd. The Court finod of | bim, not for coustructive conolewmpt, but for trying to Dblock the wheols of juse tity in ‘e very ngpravated murder case. The Jutlge then bolieved, »e he does now, Lhat un- I the laws can bo freely sud duly oxceuted the liberty onud lives of our citizons aro not safe. 1 naver heani at that time, from Col. Wentwortl: toll mo about | or a11y one else, that tho Judgo soled tho part of a tyzant ; but, oo tho otlier hand, all approved of the viow takon of this vicious attompt on tho part of au editor to moddle with thio administra- ou know, and | tiou of the luwe, Torhaps 1 should aay that, although Col. Went« worth, ss an editor and jurog, was ons of the principal persous on the jury attacked, yet ho wou not cousulted by the Court or Prosacuting Attorvoy in entering tho rule agaluet Stewart to ehow causo why tho law had not been viotated in his attack on the jury whbile they were sitting to try this important case, (ke Judge bes lioving then, and cver bos, that pri- vate griefs hava nothing to do in the due adminiatration of the jaws, Col. Wantworth is wrong iu anothor recolleviion of courts then held s Chicago. The law required two torms of coart in that county yearly, aud ofton two or three spooial terina wers compelled to be boldes, 80 groat wus the press of busineaes. No term vins fess than four or five woeks, Iow wy old frisud the Colonel could ba so af fault about tho terms, 1 cavnos devive or imagine. - He is right, Lioweyer, about divorce cases, 84 1t was under- stood, after » fow attempts to cut the marriage oL performance of the marriage cootract. may havo published Col. Wentworth's address, will do me this aimple act of justico to publish Lug alvo, Jouy Prausod, Avniz 22,—N. B, Tho sbove was written aftor once reading the article reforred to. Upon agaiu ruging it, and covsldering the sllugion to me, ain at & loss to know the motive of Col. Went- worth fu thue lugging lo wy uamo baforo the publio, and in o matter which bas sleps over twenty-flve yoars,—a trani u i sod, 80 far sa I know, without tho bar or tho press aoc- cuslug mo of boiug a * judicial tyrant" anda persecutor of the press. For if Mr, Huntmg- ton is s porsecutor of the press o am I, for o subonliuste capacity. T'o bo charged then, orat any time of my l.u.:l with being a * pereecator of the pross,” “wouk be pew to e, a# I bave always boen coosidered solf huvo radicaliy difered on some of the inie portaus questions of tha day for over twonty-tve 1'am satistiod "tharv's iom, 1 tiad aseribed too much m»mmlufl‘;{e to iz 10 think he would make such @ groun chargo oo that sccount. 1 shall still” hope Colonel will refresh hin memory, and withdraw . sLis groundless, aud cortainly ,griovous, if trae. FN