Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 5, 1875, Page 1

The dhicage Dailp Teibme. VOLUME 28, TO RENT, OFFICHS ' 70 RENT IN THR TRIBUNE BULLDING. [ INQUIRE OF WILLIAM C. DOW, ROOM 10. FOR RENT. Fos. 22 and 2 f/mm-u, ;vnl be ?l;etl upflmnnli 1 rented for & torm of yearn at fair price. tenaut, B ronted g T DAL, 110 Drattmenal, ____FORSAL Chiagos and Philadefpias, . Lous and Alts. POOLsS sOLD FOLEY & RYAN'S, 148 Clark-st. POOLS. BASHE BAII. HICAGOR sa. PHILADELPHIAB. Bold at tha To- Jedo at 12 m. to-day, hv A.F. ¥OX. e e — GUN Spencer Cruns ! Aro warranted to elioot well, Eatablished 1857, No. 564 BSTATE-8T., NEAR RANDOLFH. DPENTISTRY. DR, ALLPORT Jian removeid his ofiico down-town to fabaahi-ny., ovor O'Brien's now Art Gallery, uear . Resmned practico tho kame 88 beforo the BUSINESS CARUS., __ ' We azo now offering cxtea Jnducements fo parties santiug gnod fn our line. BCUUREMAN & HAND MANTLL COMPANY, Michigan-av, cor, Van Duren-st, "UNDERWOOD & CO., GRAIN & PRUVISION BROKERS, 170 WASHINGTON-ST, SHiR®s A Good Shirt, $1.60 A Good 8hirt, §1.76 A Good Bhirt, $2.00 FROM BTOOK. SIIIRTS to order a spootalty. ", 4-Tly Linen Collars 83 per doz. <HARRIS & COBB, 171 B, Olark-st. D GLEANING., Tadiea’ sud Gentlemen's Garments dyed and olexned £ a suporior manner, at the 1OSTON ANCY BTEAM DYE TIOUSE, 290 Bouth Clark, 154 lliinofs, and 265 W, Madison-ate, _WANTED. W ANTEID. A Land-Owner on Michigan-nv., Botween Fourteonth and Thirtieth-atr, who will bulld & one-aud-o-lalf or partly two-atory bullding, ‘without hasement, for a atabls, on 34-foot [ot, or on ‘Address P11 N, care of PROPOSALS, Bealed Propossls will b roceived at the Office of the MIOUIGAN HTATE PRISON until 13 o'clock noon of JEDNLSDAY, BKFT. B, 1475, for the Labor of 100 cta, Proposals will be recelved for the Isbor of any Tumbee of the above-mentioned convicts, not leas than 23 nor more than 100, and for any larm of years, ot leas than 8 nor more than 10, Proj must stats in what branch of mechanical Iabor the convicta bid tor will Le employed, and {ho sinount of shio-room required far tho”pefformance 3 Proposals to receive attention must bo accompanied With & copy of this sdvortisement, and with the writ- &0 connont of two responsible persons ugreeing to {becama sureties for the oxocution of & contract under i bid, and for b faithtal performiaiice of the samo e made, Proposals must be addroased ta the Agent, fndors “ Propomls for Convict Labor,” Y & Hoard of In ra roserve the right to refect nitary condition of Prison er ta proeent contrac! i lory, Michiyau flato Privon, JOHIN MORRIH, Jackeon, July 24, 1878, Aaryr, PROPOSALS FORLAKE VIEW WATER BONDS, Bealed bids will b received at tho Bupervisar's office ‘wntil Eriday, Aug, 6, 1878, mt 8 p, m,, for the salo of 135 wudor bonds of Lo denominaton of $1,000 each, duo July 1, 169, and bearin, intereat at 7 per cen rynhh aemi-annually, on the first day of 5uly AL fanusry, st ihe American Exchauge Natfonal Bank of ’Nn.:ny.‘:llé :fidml‘;‘h' office, There will be aocrued n ! 3 rom the Egmanenion b o 10t of July, 1818, sad will bs recelvad for e et o, o st o, e 1t may deem noceasary, or xu‘J’m-.u bida, R‘h:y must o marked on thio envelops, Bids for Lake View Water . For the Bosrd of Trustess of e Towts ot Laes View, Stato of 1llinols Board of Commis- sioners for the Location of the Asylum for Feeble-Minded Chil- dren, Sceretary’s Oflice, Plana for bulldings for tiie Ilinois Asylum for Faeble- Sinded Children, accompanled by cerlificate of Atchi. Lect, in accordauca with su ot entitied % An act ke m‘;‘rj”"‘ riations for land and for the struction of bulidings for the 1liuols InsUtution for the Educs- tlon of Feeble-Minded Children,” approved April 2875 (so0 Beasion laws 1875, page 10), will be peceiv, 17 the Doard of Gomistadionucs will Monday, Aug, ‘They must be recelved by (he Doard on ur befors #d date, and should be directed to Dr, O. T, Wilbur, Sacrelary, Springfield, Illinois, Dy vrller of ths O. T, WILLBUL, Becrotary, RAZILIAN PEBBLE S8EEC pd hl}a.w Al “".‘{.‘.‘E l‘flmfn st hflfl S.BONI- WIND AND FLOOD. Additional Details as to the Losses of Cook County Farmers, A Big Rise Coming Out of the Tennessee and Cumber- land Rivers. The Ohio Fifty Feet Deep and Rising at Cincinnati, A Sad Sceno of Desolation in the Sciecto Valley. Several Persons Drowned While Endeavoring to Save Their Prop- erty. Many Grain-Fields Submerged in the Vicinity of Cairo, The Mississippi River Forty Miles Wide at Memphis, Tennessee Planters Gloomy Over the Situation. Much Damage to Railroads Running East and West from St. Louis. Macomb, Il11,, Visited by a Fear- {ful Tornado. Buildings Demolished and Sidewalks Flonted Off. ILLINOIS, COOK COUNTY. TRoports woro rifo early yosterdsy morming, that tho dam across tho Foeder, in the Town of Palos, which was the primo cauro of tho destruc- tion of property airendynotod In thoso columns, bad broken, and that the wators were rapldly ro- cediog. The reporta could not be traced to any reliabla source, however, Come missioner Guenthor, Jiviog in the Town of Worlh, was in tho city dming the day, nnd uaid that ho had heard tho report aftor reaching horo, but that ho know nothing of his own knowlodgo mora than that when ho loft home e water appeared s little higher than it wos the day previous. Ho did not appoar to crodit tho report, from the fact that tho draw 'was very strong, but ou the contrary was appre- hensive that the rains of the day wonld swell tho flood and increnso (he destruotion of proporty along tho ontire lino of the Feedor, ospecially through the Towus of Paloa and Worth. Ho was full of hope, however, that ho would find the dam broken oo roachiug homo last ovening, as he regardod its breaking as THE ONLY WAY in which tho flood could bo abated for rome time tocome. If it was not broken by the force of the wator, or by the strength of indignant prop. erty-holders in the vicimty, he saw no escape from the overflos, oxcept by geadual absorption, which 1u the presont condition of the ground would scarcely be mo- complished during tho summer. Every day the water remained standing, he said, added to tho dostruction of property v tho vicinity, and ho reckooed the damage as of a publio rather than individual character. It was not cho mero loss of the present crops, but the GENEUAL DEPRECIATION OF THE PROPERTY on account of jte liability to becomo inun- dated at any tme that was most dread- ed, gho efMoct of which would be foll by every tax-payerin the county. The siand- ing wator would certainly detract from tho tax- able valuation of tho property as wall as its ma- tarial value, bauce ho roseonad that tho over- fiow was a public calamity, which socmed to bim to demaund the removal of the cause—tho dam~—in advance of the offoct. A gentleman from the Town of [Palos waa also geon during tho day. Ho loft home quite ourly in thoe morning, aud had heard nothing of the reported lll(!lElng of the dam until asked in roforonce to it by a ro- porter. Ho was hopaful that the ropart was truo, but had no reason to crodit it. Iuspoaking of the strength and duiability of tho dam ha re- farred to AN ATTEMIT MADE SOME TIME AGO privately to charge it with powder and blow it up, which was for some reason unsuccossful, The attempt, hio said, was made by indignsut proporty- balders, and he regarded the fallute, from what- ever cause, a calamity cosqual with the present flood, He subatantinted the reports of tho ex-~ tent of the damsgo done by the overflow, aa al- ready published in Tuz Thinyne, and, casttog his eye toward the threatening clouds, expressad o fear that the worst bad not yet come, o was vory bittor in hua denunciation of tho dam, and, In mentloning it in rapid conversation, not iu- frequently gave vent to some hatd Euglish, OOMMISSIONER CONLY, of Palos, was slso questioncd on the subjoct diulug tho day, He had nothing new to im. part, not having been home eince last inter- viewed, le had heard of the breaking of the dam, hut accepted it simply as s rumor, and did not remomber who it was ho bad heard apesk of it. e hoped, however, that the report wonld prove true, It it did not, ho predicted asd results, even beyond what bhad already boun reached, e sgreed with Commissioner Guonther that sbaorption was the only other riddauce of the overflow, which would be s long, tedious, and destructive process. As s safe- guard, however, againat tho reourrence of such disaaters lu tho event of the dam remainlng un- aisturbed after the prescnt flood was over, he suggested the diggiug of an immense ditch on the notth side of and along the Foeder from a point east of the dam to what i known ss the old Archer road, which is just wout of the dam. ‘Thio road In quostion croeses the Feader, and on eithier xide of it are large ditches sufficient to draln tho stendivg water iuto tho Feeder if the proper cunnoctions were made. Ho beliaves the plan would be of+ footive, but has no idan that it could b> omried out without stubborn epposition from the Caual Commiksioners, Ibo plan would multiply the evil—tho washing of earth from the Foeder into the canal—which the dam was intended to romedy, and it would doubtless lead to_inflaite legal procecdings, He is of opinion, novertheloss, that uuless the dam Is removed womo such r;u will ba sought eveutually, I BAXOAMON COUNTY, Svecial Diaputch to I'h tuicuco Tridune. Bearxarien, 1L, Aug. 4,—To-night it ls re- ported that Sangamon River, which bas heeu ¢ inclea bigher thun ever kuowu boforo, Lins fallen balf an fuct. 5Ll this does uot belp 'th travul, which [s terrupted, axcept on the Toledo, Wa- bash & Western, which road traius over their bridge safely to-day. It was expooted that the Chicago & Allon would come over to-night, but, at the last moment, sn embavkmont gave way, sud the allempl was abandoned, A CHICAGO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875. & oconseqnence, & train has heen sent ont 1o mako the transfor, ‘The Gilman, Clinton & Bpringflold has besn transferring over it lridge with hiand-cars, as has also the Hpringfleld & Boutheastorn, The Springfleld & Northiwoat- orn abandoned the running of all trains to-dav, their track being complotely submergoed, The four dayn of dry woather just pansed made thn proapect Liof alm for farmors getling into their moadows, but now a Leavy rain i portanding, and, from appearances, will make & night of 18, and what further damsgo is imminent canoot be foratold, The HnnIumon River bridge on tho Chicage & Alton Railtoad was repaired to-night, and a workiog train went acroes, but the bridze sunk down and careencd partly over. Tha train from the north due hiers al 5 p. m, did not arrive tll 10, an it took all that tima to fix tho bridze so that passongers could bo afolv transforred. TOINANO AT MACOMb. Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicaqa Tridune, Macomn, Ill, Aug. 4.—About half-past § o'clock thin evening this city was viited with tho most dsmaging tornado ovor known in this county. Ileavy clouds rllhmd i the north and northwest, and at half-past & tho rain fell in such foico ns to entirely flood the atreots, tho sidowalks flonting. Such'a quantity of rain has never heen known to fall fn thia city in such & short space of timo. ‘Ihe wind, for abont five minntes, wan 2 perfect hurricano. 1t started in tho northwestorn part of tho city, blowing up the trees tn the yard of Mayor McLean, and blowing over Blhods and ont-housos. It next struck tho wost ond of the large brick Mothodist Church, blowing down the west half of tho building, unroofing t, aud carrying it away, The new steeplo was completed ono month ngo, The roof was new, and tho building was ono of the largast, oldest, and mcat subatantial in the city, The eaat end of tho building is standing, aud but littlo damaged. Tho stoeplo waa on the weat end, and the now bel), put up a faw wooks ngo, was blown down with the belfry and stecple. Tho church is located ons block north of the wquaro. Tho now brick foundry of Fisher Iros., a large substantial ono-atory brick, ono block northoast of the church and two blocka north of tho square, across the railroad track, bad the west end blown in and noarly Lialf of the roof carried to the northoast and allarge part of it carriod 50 yards to tho southesst, fall- ing upon tho track snd tho depot platform. Tbe new two-story brick block on tho southoast cornor of tho Bqnaro, 160 feet long, owned by David Heott which was just bolng finished, wan complatoly demolished, with the nxcoption of the rear half of it. 'The front part of tho block is a complete ‘maes of ruins, running back 80 or 90 feet. Trees wero uprooted and blown down in various parts of tho city. Tha chimneys oo the Opora-Houso woro carried awsy by tho storm, and windows ‘wero dashod to picces in somo of onr most sub- stantial busincss houees. ‘Tho entiro damago to Luildings lo_tho city, 8o far 88 wo ca thia time, will bs from ¥16,000 to 22 heaviest losa falls upon Mr., Scott and ¢ ist Church. DWIGHT, Spectal Dispateh to T'he Chicago ['ribine, i Dwiau, Ill., Aug, 4.—The farmors are trying by every concoivablo means to save thoir oatm, but the ground s in wuch a terriblo atate that reapors refuro to ent, and the scytho is resorted to, " Timothy for soed Is very badly damaged, and also {8 being destroved by graswhoppors, Tho pronpects to-night are that bofore morning wo shall have another storm, LEE COUNTY. Specia h ta The Clacago Tvibuns, Drxon, 11, Aug. 4.—The crops aro nearly all harvestod in this section. Wheat will be nearly oue-balf a crop. Outs about ono-fourth. Tho corn crop looks well, and the prospectsare good. If the frost koops off, tho farmers estimate 70- bushols to the acre. LASALLE COUNTY. Special Papateh to The Chicano Tridune, LABALLE, LI, Aung, 4.—It in cstimated that at least 100,000 actes of Illinows bottom corn fiolds are submorged. s THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIE OO RIVELL Spectal Dispatch i The Clucagol Tribune, Cano, Iil., Aug. 4.—The Ohio is now, at7 p. m,, at 44 foot avd & inches on the gauge, and tho nows from up tho Ohio is very discouraging. Abig rise is coming out of the Tennesseo and Comberland, alao out of the Wabash, conse- quontly at Bvansville and Paducah tho wator is coming up fast. Ourrisoin the last twonty. four hours bas been 9 inches against 11 foches tho precading day, If the Ohlo contlnues rising here at tho samo 1ato for twenty-four bours, it wil bo from 4 to 6 miles wido from Columbus, Ky, mnp towards Paducah tor a long alstanco, At 47 feet on tho gauge at Cairo, tho Mississippi will overflow tha Misecuri shore, aud the Cairo loveos will be mn davger, Itis imposeibie to estiwate tho un- oasin=ea felt and the damage already done in tho Ohto aud Mlsnisaippi Valloys, It looks now ag though we are to have a repetition of- tho dan- zerotis floods of other yesrs that destrByed tho lovees of tho Misatesippt and laid wasto millions of acres. 'T'he weathor is warw, and cloudy a littlo this evening. 'Che oldest river mou hero nover saw such floods bofore 1a July or August. “Thore is dangor all around s, ABOVE AND UELOW HT. LOUIS, Specral Dispateh to The Chicavo ‘t'ritune, 8. Louiy, Aug. 4.—Binco yosterday's roports the river ut this poiut has fullon fourtoon iuches, Roports from the West and North give & Lieavy a0 fol), which will undoubtedly keop the river atits present stage, if it does not rise, T'here is considerable uueasines nd many steambont- mon predics n heavy riso. Tho weather to-night indicates; that avother rain-storm is imminent. ‘Tho Mississippl broke through the em- bankment to-dsy st Carson, oight milen above here, on thoe 1llinois side, and tha cotntry one mlle back from tho river 1s tlooded with water. A numbor of small farms and largo tracte of uncultivated land aro com- plotely inundated. i moruiuyg the wnd washed tho waters of = slongh agamst the Tolo- do, Waoash & Wostern Railrond track, A few Liours lator the embaukmount began to slide, aud almost immediatoly thereafter it broke to such an oxteut that it was imposmble to pet the lacomotlves, suvon in number, from tho round-house. Lfforts bave beon made all day to goL the engines out, but, the track breakivg in soveral places, (b Las been impossiblo (o run thom out, Along Caliokis Oreek tho water has come up in tho houses, st Jeasta dozen fam- ilies have moved out. ree switgh-houses he- tween tho leves and Cahokia Creek, on the To- ledo, Wabash & Westorn Railroad, have bren ‘washed , tho foundstious beiug nudormived. ‘Water began craoping through tho ground atound the East 5t, Louls olilng-Mll, and, if it cantin uea, that building will be surrounded by 6or 6 feat of water. Lortions of East B, Loufs esat of Cahokla Creok are covered by 4 feet of water. Bome of thespots have not been submerged smoo 1862, The interruption to railroad travel 1 vory sorious. Hundreds of persuns who desire” to go onst are dotained hore unablo to obtain transportation, There is groat confusion amoug railroad men, and all are push- {ug ahead to ropair their roads. The laat through traiu on the Ohio & Mliusissippi Hoad came through yosterday morning. Cans ou that ruad now run as far as Vincennes. ‘I'he Lioavy three- span bridge, 175 feet to the apan, at Medors, lud., isdown, Thereis a broak at Washing- ton, Iud. The Iudisnapohs & 8t Louis Road makes two transfers betwesn hero aund Indisnapolis, ono at Paris, 10 miles trom Lerre Haute, and one st FKeru, 46 mues from Terre Haute. The Buperintendont says the damages at the latier place will bo repaired by to-morrow afternoon. On the Ilinois Cen- tral two tralus Liave boen abandoned. The rog- ular though train is monouncod to leave to- morrow nlght. The Toledo, Wabash & Western Las & bad break betweou here and Edwandsvills. ‘They seut a traln out to-vight by way of the Chlcago & Alton Junction, ‘Ihe_brosk will be repaired to-morrow, Ou tho Vaudalia route iraing are running regularly to Terre Haute. Eaut of Terre ilaute sorious broaks have boau occasloned by the overflow of tso Wabash. Sov- eial washous have ocourred on the Hockford & Rock Islaud, bus everytbing will be in runniog trim by to-morrow uight, The Chicago & Alton #16 runniug over the Jacksonville branch, hav- iog suffered serious damasgo. The Lrain is four hours late to-night. ‘The old Missourl from hore to St Joseph "has suffered terribly from washouts snd over- flows, aud it will be two days bofore tralns can be sont ovor the line, The Alssouri Pacitio bes a bad break soversl mules in length between Warrensburg aud Inobnoater. Rep: bave beon made suMicient 10 permib the passage of traiug, Tho Aulantic & Facitio is oaly runnivg traivg Plerce City, an {mportant bridge Juns ond that poiot havieg beon wash- edaway. A now hfldflo will be up in thres days. On the Iron BMouatain route several traiug hava been abandoned oo sccount of wash- outs, but to-day trains are runniog the whole longth of the fine, which, with its cannectious, reaches to the Gulf. Neportant high water from the interior of Miesouri and Kansas continuo to come fo. Tho destruction of wheat, oats, ryo, flax and barley ia foarful, and thero will bo groat dentitution among farmers. Icavy rains aro falling now at points west of horo, ABOUND CAIRO. Spectal Diapatch to Ths Chicano Tyfdune. Catro, Aug. 4.—The situation (n this region grows czitical. Tho Obio continues to march up tho levee and over into Kentucky with rapid eiridos. Two foot threo tnohea more will bodan- gorous to tho leves and seven feol mare will pmeep ovor the lavoos snd overwholm the eity. ‘Tha Ohio leveo ia connidered aafo till tha waters got 10 the top. Te Minxisnippi in a littlo rinky, nod coneiderablo alarm ia felt. Tho uews from T'aducali aud Evauaville ia far from enconrsg- ing. MEWTIIS, Bperial Duspatch ta The Chirann Trivans, Ar. Louts, Mo., Aug. 4,—Tle following private tolegram, datod Memphin, Aug, 4, 1675, waa ro- ceived this mornin *Tho Loat up Jast night reporta two feet to apare on the lovea in Bolivar County, Mies., aud they think thomselves safo, They are patroliog Iavces constantly, Tho Ar- kanana shoro is ovorflowed in piacns. Horo the water i 1 foot bolow last rpring, and 2% inches geln\v 1867, It has rison 2 inchon sinco yester- ay.” [To ths Asnoctated Preas,) Mexpirs, Tonn., Aug. 4.—The |atest renorts from tho river below hore state that Appoison's plautation of 900 ncres, at Fort 'erry, opposite Friarsport, has boon submerged. A cravasse Las been made at Do Hoto front, 27 miles below hore, on the Mississippt side, but tho planters woro endeavoring to stop it. Tho plantots a all st work strengthening the levoes. Tho water 1s pouring through the Old-Town crovasne. The stonch from the submerged coro-ficlda iu satd to be terrifle, owing to tho corn souring. Mevrnis, Tonn., Aug. 4—FEvening.—Thoriver at this polnt i rlnlmi Ateadily, having rison an Inch and Lalf since the last Teport. It 1 now within 14 inches of the dangor lino, which covers tho country weatward to Madison, Ark., a dis- tanco of 40 imles. The feoling this evening among interested partics ia more bopeful, in con- #equienco of n dechne at Ht. Louis, but reports from the Ohio cause gloamy forebudings. AT VICKADURG, Bpecial Dispalch to The Chieado Tridune, Vicrupona, Misw., Aug. 4.—While the niver ia bigh sud rising, the reanoniug in ag.inst & gen- oral overflow. ~ The tributariesof the Mississippi aro vory low, and tho swamps diy. Thoy must bo filled firat. Tho water is running through the old crevasuo at Ashton on tho Louisians aud Ar- koneas line, and iu Phillips County, Ark., op- Aite Friar's Point, whare Y00 acroa have atready eon [nundated. The Ashton crovasse docs httle damage yot, tho water passivg ovor and into Bavou Mlacon. Ehould tho approtensions be roalized, the damage to the cotton aud other crops will bo iucalculable. ——— OHIO. DYFIANCE COUNTY. Bpecial Dispaten to 1he Chicano Tridine, Hrogsvirer, 0., Aug. 4.—Within the last three weeks tho condition of the crops in this section bLag changed, and tho prosent sepect is rather gloomy for the farmars. Crope looked unusual- ly well up tothe middle of July. Dut heavy rain and wind storms have prevailed for soveral daya past, danaging all kivde of grain. In addition to thin there have jbeon an army of worms re- sembling the cut-worm, which has eaten the onts 80 88 to nearly make thom worthless, Farmers in many ivstancos are turning their stock fn to dorive what littla Lenofit they can, Tho worms are also attacking corn aud sll gar- den vegetubles.. TITE KOIOTO VALLEY. s CixcINNATL, O., Aug, 4,—A rpocial correrpond- ent of the Commercial, who is cxamining the eifecty of thoe flood in Bouthern Ohio, reporta to- nighit having traveled from Portamouth up tho Beioto Valley as fur as linton, finding a con- tinuous sccue of dovastation slong the entire ronte. The SciotoRiverin still rising. and is over tho entiro valley, the dopth of water ranging from & to 00 foot. By actual count he reports 3,000 acres of corn gone, cauning entire loss to tho ownems. The crop promised an av- erago vioid of G0 bushels to the acre. Thia lous occurs in a territory ounly 16 miles long, and Is. ing in Scioto County, ‘These figures will prob- ably bo increased by the ontiro destruction of tho wheat crop and most of the Lay., Northwest from tho Beloto 'ino tha devastation cont:nues, probably ail tho way to Columbus. Mosidents of tho valley for fifty years say that no similar destruction of crops by overflow Lias over oconrred before. The river has been Iughior, but uot at this saason of the year, Tho Jons i the Ohia Valloy alono is ostimated at over half a million dollaza, CINCINNATL. CincinNart, 0., Aug. 4.—Tho water from the niver iy invading tho cellars in Broadiway, Syca~ more, Walsut, und Vino stroots, tho dopth vary- ing from a fow {ccheato 4 or b feet. Nearly all tho cellars on the wtrests mentioned up as far as Second streot aro flocoded, tho water reach- g them through tho sowers. Tho grestcst damage is reported on Vine stroet, whero tho water wss not expected to rescb. In Mill Creck Valloy it has taken away portion tho Davton Bhore Lo a Rallroad, but trains aro runmng quhrlfi. At the lower ond of Bixth street s number of hoasea have from 2 to 4 foot of water on tho first floor. The water Isalso flowing in the bod of the old Whitowater Canal, and 1a etill risiog. It 1 thoughit that the highest point will bo reachod to-morrow, i INDIANA. THE WADASI AIVER. Bpecial Dupatch to e Chicago Tribune, Bruvrrow, Ind., Aug, 4.-~1he rumor of the breakiug of the large rosorvoir at Celina, 0., is confinned by tho Licavy rise of tho Wabaeh River, Tho rallroad bridgo ie-still standing. John Thomas, & farmer, living 2 miies cast of this place, bod 25 acren of whoat washed away, and started down tho river in a boat wich his eon to save tho pieces of feuce. Tho boat capuizod, throwing both occupsnts into the water. Mr. Thomas was drowned, but his son succosded in makiug bls way to some willows, where he hung on the llmba for three hours, when Lie wad res- cuosd. The body of Mr.'Thomas has not yet been recovercd. Danlel Hilbert sallod away up the nver in & boat last night, ‘Thiv morning the boat camo back without Milbert, who must of course have beon drowned, TILE MAUMER RIVER. Spectal Dupatch 'o The Chicar Tridune, Fonr Warxe, Ind., Aug. 4.—The tlood 18 slow- 1y abating, wod teafus on tho various ralroads are movibg with comparative regularity, ‘Lbe portbern part of tha county suffered the least bocauso of its high location. lu the soutberu part of tho county the farmers hope to save 50 per cant of tho wheat if thore ia no more raiu, Oata are » total failuro, causod partly by tho army worm sud partly by tho floods, No at- tempt will be mado o harvest them, and live etock are turned into the fields to fesd ou the stalks. Much wheat In shocks is beiug swept down Bt. Mary's River. PARTIAL BESUMPTION. Evaxsvitie, Ind, Aug. 4 —The Evsnsvills & Ciuoinuati liailrond sent 1ts firat through train since Saturdey norsh to-day. It will only reach Terre Hauta, — WISCONSIN, STORY DAMAGK AT LA CROSSX, Special Duateh to The Chicaqo Tridune, LaCrosex, Win,, Aug, 4.—A drenching storm, accompanied by wind, thunder, and lightoing, visited this violnity last night. At times the ramn fairly came down fu continuous streams. Ie- pagta recoived from farmers from various parts of this (LaCrosse) couuty iudicate that grain is badly lodged and tangled by the storm. Fota- toes and corn needed the rain, whioh will offsot the damage done to emall graina. Reports from Bouthern rllnnemh eay consid- erable damage was done there, and from \Weat- orn and Bouthern Miunesota it is learued that bailstones foll lass night the uize of heus' eggs. —_—— WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, THE BOOMING RIVERY, Special Dupatch to Ths Chicaga Tvidune, Pirvaouee, Pa., Aug. 4—The floods in this vicloity wre fast subsiding. The Monoogalels full @ feet to-day. The damage done slong the bauks {8 very great. Onthe Mount Plessant Braoch of the Pitjaburg & Coonellaville Rail- road, bridges are washed away, and trainm aro not yet ruoning aloug the Youghiogheuy River. The crops on the low lands are ali destroyed. %l l{oxnnflooll.dlmndhomhgua % t‘:ood.u 08, WS L1 8 doone 8 OX- teut of 85,000, Betwesn thero aad $Lis city & large smount of damsge was dono by tho barges jaden with coal heing cast adrift,* At Four-Mile Run, gardens were all sub- merged and s number of housea flooded. The loes hore will not bo less than $20,000. In the Fourteenth Ward in this city tho houses ail had their cellara flooded, and the peoplo were com- pelled to mave out. On the sonth side of the nvar, the railroad of Byers, McCullough & Co.'s il wan partially washed away. Along Charters Crook and mil Run, great damage waa dono to crops—not less than £10,000. The floods havo been very destructive, but the water ls now 1ast receding, FOREIGN. The Fenian Programme for the 0’Connell Cen. tennial, Extraordinary Precautions Against Distarbance in Dublin, iy IOWA, AT AND XXAR BIOUX CITY. Bpectal Inepateh to The Chicags Tribune, Brouz Ciry, Is, Aug. £—A hoavy thunder~ atorm eame up last eveniog, and laated tilt day- ligbt. Tha )ightning was inconssnt. There was not much rain, sud no hall fell bere, but a few miles weat and sonth s great amount of water foll, The hall did great damage at Sloan and in that vicinity. It demolished elghty lights of glasa In one 'building thero. sad complstely de- ntroyed the growing crops sround about. Coo- h:-‘.‘J‘M wet weather Is seriously injuring the grain, Disraeli Talks Big of His Admin- istration in an Afters Dinner Speech, Time of Meeting of the International Prison Congress Postponed. AROUND COUNCIL DLUFFS, Councr Buuers, Is., Aug, 4.—The fall of main sccompanied h‘hhm early this morning wan very esvors, The storm came from the nartheast, and passed southwost over Omsha, doing slight_injury here, The raln-storm was general st Duniap, Logan. Bioux City, Avocs, AMissouri Valloy, Glenwood, etc., but was unsc- companied by il ‘Tho width of tha hail-atorm was sbout 4 miles. Corn was cut down torrbly. MINNESOTA. TIUNDER, LIGITNING, AND RAIN, Bpecral Inapateh ta The Chicago Trivune, Br. Paur, Minn., Aug. 4.—The atorm yestor- day evaniog was much more sevore outsido than in the city. At Bass Lake and Lake Como, bail- stonos aa Iarge as ben's egga fell, doing consid- emble damage in grain-fields, Within five miuutes the thermometer foll 22 degrecs. In McLoan Township a gardener, name uuknown, took rofuge under » tree, and waa killed by lightning, Three miloa west of the river & barn was burned by lightuing, with 25 tous of Lay. At Anokns the bail was vary large, dofng great domage, At Mendota several whoat-tields ready for harvest were noarly destroved. , WIND AND RAIN RTORM. to The Chicage Tridune. WiNoxa, Mion., Aug, 4 —A very severo storm of wind and_rain pravailed hore fast night, and aloug tuo Wisona & 8t Peter Noad grain in badiy lodped. but reports from varioua points in- dicate that the damage will be light. —— MICHIGAN. AT AND AROUND GRAND TIAVEX, Special Dwpatch to Tha Chicago Tribuna, QGnaxp Havey, Mich, Aug. 4.—A very heavy smoke and haze have prevailod over this section duriog the past four days,—the wind until yee- terday boing generally strong from the east. During the past twenty-four hours it has been from the west, and m heavy haze, slmost as demso A fog, has rested over Lake Miohigsn. While other scotions of tho country aro suffering trom floods, cansed by too much rain, here there has been suffering for the want of it. Unlesas some comes soon tho crops will suffer great damsge. Already tho corn in belng parched and burned. Foara aro entertained of extensive fires brenking outin tho woods, owiog to the oxceoding drynous of tho weathor. Tho rainfsll for July waa only 2.50 inchos,—a very small amount for thiy saason. The smoky westher aud other indicatious arc fair premonitions of approaching ramn. though it is to bo hoped that it wiil not come in such quantities as havs visited otlor sections, Montenegrins in Large Num- bers Reinforce the Herzegovinians. Adjournment of the French Assembly Till Nov. 4. Death of Hans Christian Ander- sen, the Danish Poct. GREAT BRITAIN, SUPPLEMENTARY BDDOET, Lospox, Aug. 4.—In the Commonn to-day therr vay & sharp debats, in Committee, on tha sup, luentary ostimatos of £2,000,000. Dod- son and Gladstone atiacked the estimaten, Tho Istter pointed out the laxity of tho Govern- ment's estimates, and declared that such loose- neas tendod to dostroy the control of Parlinment over exponditures. Bir Htafford Northcote, Chancellor of tha Exchoquer, admitted an ap- parent deficit of £300,000, but he was confident the incroass in revonus would mors than cover tho supplementary outimates. Tho Supply bill finally passed tho Committoo, and 1t in oxpected Parliament will be prorogued by the 12t KECENT FAILURE. The lLabilitiea of Dacosta, Rostto & Co., of Leadenlll streot, whose failure was reporied July 1, aro now stated to be £8,000,000. THE SCIOLLER WRECK. New Yorg, Ang. 4.—A London dispatch states that $100,000 in specie bas beon recovered from tho wreck of the steamahip Schiller. THE 0'CONNELL OENTENNIAL, Tho Heralfs spocisl says: Yesterdsy tho Fenian Ampesty Association, of Dublin, tssued a proclamation calliug on Irishmen to assewbls by thousands to join in tho O'Connall csntenary proceesion at the end of tho lina. Thoy bave Tesotved to carry banpers inscrilied: * emom- ber the political prisoners. Uod eave Ireland.” At the close of the march thoy will assomblo nround the O'Counell monument aud_prosent Lord Hagau's addross to tho peoplo. It is be- —_— lieved that Hagan will not doliver an oration uu- NEBRASKA. less ansured of complete order. JALL-BTORM. All thoe public houses will be closed during tha dsy. Four thousand troopa are quarterod in different sections of Dublin. Cardinal Cullen has issued & pastorsl enjoining strict temper- auce by his poople, Cullon doos not fear any difticaity. Loxpox, Aup. 5.—Ten thourand strangers ar- rivea in Dublin yestosday to attend tho O'Con- uoll centeuary. GEBMAN QATHOLIC PRELATES AND O'CONNELL ORN- TENNIAL. The following is the letter of Cardinal Rausch- er, Prince Archbishop of Vienua, to tho Lord Mayor of Dablin : My LoaD Mavon: There {8 quits & pecultar blessing o0 the work of 8L, Patrick, Green Lrin disorved more Oxama, Neb,, Aug. 4.—This morning between 3 and 4 o'dlock, a moat terrible storm of ball, wiud, and rain, accompanied by remarkablo thun- der and lightuing, passed over this city, Im- ‘monse damage was dons to siroots, folisze, and crops standing. Thiousands of panes of glass wero shattered ; plate-glass five-eighths of an inch thiok was shivered to stoms. The liail was of Iarge size, weighing 3 pound and a half. The storm was confined principally to the 3Missouri River Valley from Sioux City, Is., to Browns- ville, Neb., where it passed 1n = southwesterly duection. ——— thian a thousand years ago to be calied tho Istand of MISSCURI, Hatnts, and thers was never & people who preserveid ENCOURAGING, the onorgy of its faith through tho longand heavy per- #ocutions as the Irish have done, For two conturies the rulers of Ireland put tn motlon the exeentionor aud the Iaw sgainst the Catbolic faith, aud when they Lelieved they hiad succeeded in crushiug ft down by the extremest acta of violeucs they slways found it again erect and unconquerced, it {0 1> ane ary tho Catholic Irishmou more indebted in the war for their most eacred rights than to Davicl 0'Counoll. 1t s to the powee cf Lis mind and word that ey owe the emaucipativn which from alaves in their uwn country made thom free, und thly emancipation ho procured for them by legal wayw, withiout any violenceor sinking of wocial order, It is, therefore, with full 117bt that the day on which O'Connell was bort, a hundred yeara ago, sliould be celebratod. 1 make my fullest ackilowl- edgment to this chawplon of the Cathoiic cause sud of a noble nation which underwent fong opprearion, tnd 1 would be very Lsppy to avadl myeelf of yoar Lord- sbips invitation, Lut tio wauy adairs of iy charge, snd, atill mare, my advanced age, do ot aliow mo to undertske tho journey to Dublin, However, 1 beg JOu to sccept the expression of my afucere gratitude, and rematy, with the most perfect cousideration, ‘Your Lordship's very devoled servant, Tos Uruxan, Cardinl Rauscher, Priuce Archbistop of Vienna, l’]ll‘hc following is from Prioce Edward liadzi- will: Spectal Dispateh to The Chicano Tribune, Br. Joserm, Mo., Aug. 4.—Reporta recelved here fromall parta of the Northwest show the crops to be in the most favorable coudition, The Ligaviest corn crop for yoars will bo made, ity KENTUCKY. HEAYY DAMAGK BEPORTED. Lomsvitrg, Aug. 4 —To-day is the first fair day in this vicinity for six wooks, Great dam- age han beon done to crops all through the State by continuous raius, FIRES. % AT LA CROSSE, Bpecial Dispateh to { ha Chicago Tridune, LA Cuoask, Wis., Aug. 4.—At balf-past 7 this ovouing a fire breke out in the engine room of 0. L. Colmsu'a saw mill, this city, The firo do- partment were promptly on the ground, tut not uutil tho mill buildiogs were enveloped in Ostaowo, Posen, July 8, 1875,—My Tonb: It la with flames. Tho firosoon spread to the immense |, REEROWE. fosen, & u":lfi gratitude that [ havo the piles of manufactured lumber surrounding the | homor acknowledging the reception of your letters o of the 23d Juue, sud of the card of the fesitvity of tho centenary of tho tumortad O'Coupell, 1 Buve taken care to wend tho precious documents Lo s Emfuence Cardinal Levochowski, aud ws [ Liad yesterday the sy~ piness 10 see bim in his prison 1 am abie to tell o 1nat your letter has caused bhim the greatoet sstusfac- tion, sud inspired him with the deepest gratitnde, His Eminence requesta me, my Lord, to be the interpreter of bls moat loving feelings, aud to tell you tuas, a4 circumstanoes do nct sllow i to answer mill ffor two blocks iu each direction, Fartu- nately there was no wind at this time, and the firomen wero able to check the fiamos in the first piles of lumber, and this writiug_have the fire under cantrol. The loss on the mill and lumber is variously estimated at from $30,000 to §50,000, with Do insurance. The very low water and the fact that tho supply of logs {o boom was nearly oxhausted makes the loss less sorious than = b, ‘writing be will never ceaw to jolu ki though te fire Lad oocurrod earlior in the soa- | prayers' wilh thoss of “tha motie. Trish people. son. that all the which the great champlon of the Cathioliocause bas tuaugurated in Lis country may bo dovelopod and prosper for the glory of God aud the salvation of tle souls, There remaina to me, my Lord, to ex on my own behalf my gratification 07 the 113 viiation with "which you kv Sonored e, and §t ia for mo a true happiness Lo be able tounnounce 0 you that 1 shall bave the houor to preaeat wys.it before your Lordship un thie Gth of August a: Dublin, A rather sad circumatanca bas slready pub me uuder the obligation of going 1o London. The convents be- g sunyresied in Prussis 1 was going 10 acoomypuny to England three Sistors of the Conveut of tha Visits- tion of Ostrowo when yaur bonorable invitation apen- £d bafore ma the perupectiva to go and sca tho Ialanid GF the Bainta and 10 witiess ous of (he graudest manie foatations of Catbulic life. MOUDT AND SANKEY, Liverroor, Aug, 4.—~Moody sud Bankey eailed for Awierica to-dusy. PRISON REFORM, 1t has been docided_that'nu sesaion of tho In- toruatioual Prison Cougross shall be held in 1876. Tue perwmanent Prison Commission, com- ned of Dr, E. C, Wiues, of the United Btates, aron Hotzondorfl, of Gormany, M, Stevens, of Belgium, M. l'ols, of Holland, “sod others, will meut at Frankfort to recelvo reports for tho con- sidaration of the Congross, which will Le held later, probably io Zurich. Tho annuat’banquet given by the Lord Msyor of Loudon to Hor hajesty's Ministars took placo to-night. Disraell, responding to the toast to the Government, declared tLat tho country was gm-puwuu and the psaple conteut, Aliuding to oreign affairs, he sald peace provallod, and, in Lis opinlon, it would continue to provail, if the foreign relations of Great Britain were scruti- nized, he believed it would bo found that thoy had been conducted with prudence and tirmness. The Colonial Empire would be developed aud consolidsted. Its intorests and eywpathics ougbt to .be assimilated with {those of the mother country, and ultimatoly tho colonies prove a source, not & woakness, but of atreugth aud splandor. ' Roviawiug the Work of tho prosent sossion of Parliament hosdverted at some lougth to the iucident of the Shipbiog blil. He stated that i propasivg # now moisure the Government had boen assisted, uut cosroed, by pablic opiuton, o conciusion bo repeat the opinion, which he once befure declared hore, that the people of (reat Britain were better otf than tho nobility of othier couutries. The speech was received with enthusfastio cheers, ‘The members of the Cabinet spoke in a simi- lar atrain. THE OOLLIE SWINDLE. At tho hearing La tho case of the Collis Broth- AT OCONTO, WiIS. Ocoxro, Wia., Aug. 4,—A fire broke ont in the Ricuard House barn at 3 o’clock this morning, sud burned that whols block with the exception of two small buldings, No fosurance oa the hotel. Three horaes wors burned. Most of the goods and furuitire saved. AT DETROIT. Dernors, Aug, 4.—D. E, Rico & Co.'s foundry and machine shops, on Atwater strest, were burned this morning, Loss from $10,000 to 16,000 ; ineured for 84,000 IN CHICAQO, The sigual from Btatiou 415 at 4:30 o‘clock yes- terday morning was given for s fire in s small tramo building st No. 971 West Madison streat, owned by O, Hamilton, and occupled by J. 0. Carpenter na a notion store, Loss, $450; no In- surance. Cause of fira unknown, DANIEL O)CONNELL, | The Preparations at Dubugue to Hone or ks Memory. Special Dispatoh to The Chicuce Tridune, Dunuque, Is, Aug. 4.—It reslly looks sa though the O'Connell centennial, which comes off ¥riday next, will bo the most prodigious demoustration of any of ita oature ever beld in Dubuque, Nothing ia thought or talked of but tho approachiog ceutonnial, and the indications are that 30,000 men, women, and children from abroad will pour into Dubuque on that occasion. lnvustions have bean exteuded to mavy of the 1most distinguished men {n the country, and soms of them will be present to take s hand in the procoodings, All classes of citizeos, irrespoctive of creed or uationality, are cordially invited to participato in the exerviues. —_——— DENVER ITEMS. Dexven, Col., Aug, 4.—~A sporting man, regis- tored at the Tremant Houss here as Thomas Vanclsco, Oolumbus, 0., died yesterdsy of con- sumption. No clow to the whereabouta of his relatives can be fouud. A Democratio seven-column campaign daily, the Senlinel, was started hare yosterday, 11 Light air hase wall soon cause its death, ¥ NUMBER 346, ern to-duv, Mr, Rainbow, of tho firm of Ratn. bow, Holberton & Co., tostifled that a nlntzty of cotton was bought fu 1873 by the Collies % Jolut acconnt with tha irm. In consoquence of 8 declino in valuo, thoy nover had an o portnoni- ty of eslling it at a profit. *ha Col- lies drow bills ogainst the cot ton, and Itainbow, Holberton & Co. indorsed thom. Tho Collion subsequently sold the cotton and bind tho billa ortginally drawn Aganst 1 nowed after it had passed beyond their control, | I was tho maturiog of theso, bills that eaused | tho recont diszster. In consaquence of the abe' wanco of Horgt. Dallantine, londing lawyer for the dofeune, tho further hoaring of tho caso was vostponed until Monday next. IACE POR THE DRIGITON CUP. The race for the Brighton cup was won by - :lll:::;x Stuart, Lowss Victoria mecond, Kalser' BELLIXG A BIRTHRIGNT, BUT XOT FOB A MEs8 or POTTAGE. Lowoox, Avg, 1.—The Duke of Edinburg, TTho i Loir apparent to tha throne of Naxe-Co- | burg-Glotha, in Central German ' haa sold’ the right of puccession to umlgmne of that Duchy to the Germau Governmont. Tha con- rideration paid tn tho Dy, suuity of £40,000 stmtiger® 1OF Hi8 ight lasa | ——— HERZEGOVINA, 3 MONTESEGRINS JUIN THE INSCROENTS, VIFNNA, Aug. 4.—1In spito of tho elforts of the {;l]ncu n!h Montenegro to provent {t, several dios of his subjocts have crowsad i gox\:ina [ ju{n Tourgents, o oo “m:‘ ONDOX, Aug, 5—0:30 8. m.—A mocial to ‘Tmnesl(rom l%erlin says Lusu’r:x;kn?m :D"ocl:u; in 8 Iarga forco to craal 0 instrr Herzogovina with ono blaw, SitpE —— GERMANY. . ¥ A TNOULLESONE BISHOP. DrpLIN, Aug. £.—The Bishop of Paderborn, who waa doposed from his functions by the Drussian Iaw courts, sud has sinco boen interned! in Weze), has, mithout permission, quitted thati town. On leaving, ho addrossed a letter to the Governor of the Dintrict, assigning a4 a roason for hin dopartaro impaired Lealth and his duty to his flock. —— 2 AUSTRALASIA. MINISTERIAL MESIGNATION, Mrrroceyz, July 3,—Tho Ministry of Victorla haa resigned in eonsequence of the o itie l'nrlilmfl; to the hn&‘mst. ERoHont Hyoxey, July 8.—Tho Parliament of New Bouth Wales Liss approved tho tonder for car- T¥ing the mails mado by the Pacitic Mail Stoam- p Company, —— FRANCE. CLORY OF TUF ARSEMBLY, VEnsattizs, Aug. 4.—Tho session of the As- sembly waa formally closad to-day, in accordanco with the resolution for a roccss until Nov. 4. ———— DENMARK, DEATI O¥ IANS CHRISTAN ANDERSEN, Corexoaary, Aug. 4.—Hana Christian Ander- sou, the poet and novelist, died to-day, aged 70, —_— BAVARIA, THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, London Times, Panms, July 19.—Iatelligence from. Bavaria, giving the deflnito rosult of the clections, attrib- utes 79 seata to Ultramontanes and 77 only to tho Liberal or Unionist party, This resnlt ia great deal liko tuat of tho 1869 elections, when each party numbored 70. At that tume, it will ba remembered, tho Chamber, owing to this oquality, waa eight days withous boing ablo to elect a Presidont, and, afterfs prolonged debato on tho address, the Cabinet decided on dissolv- ing tho Chamber, In this sccond election tha Cabinst loat 0 seats, aud remgned on » vote of want of confidence, What is remarkable in that thie Cabinet which foliowed it not ouly succcoded in maintaining itself, but in turning the ‘major- ity and gainiug over Bome votes originally hostila. Theso two electiona of 1863 and 1870 convey & doublo lorson. ‘Thoy prove, in tho first place, that the Bavsrian Cabinet would bo wroog in dissolving this Chamber, and thus exposing themaolven to the samo dofest as tholr prode- cessors. Tho other lesson is, that it will bo eany for thom to turn this wesk majority and goveru asintho past in a Libera! senso. Howover thun ey bo, thera is 0o room far exaggeratod ex- ultation ou eithor side, and the French Ultra- montane papers, even if thoy wishod to do so, could ot go into ecataclos over this victory, in which their relirious eympathies alone could interost thom. Moreover, the general tone of tho French prees in this matter is oqually proper and dexterous, and I believe I am justified in saying that, voluntarily or involuntarily, Princa Holieulohe, tle Germaa Ambassader in Paris, bhas rouderod on this occasion a ronl servico to France, The :Cologno Gazetle s fow days aga ruhlmhud a lottor addrossed by the Ambassader o oue of his fricods. Its origin {8 beyond donbt, and 1t contained tho following paasage : Herr von Malllnckrodt says, in s letter written tn Australia in 1873 “ The {mportant questions of tho muvement have 1ot a local character, but moro a gen- eral character, Tho linca of battle ar pmlungml ou both aldes boyond the frantier of the eountry.” sl ‘l‘zl thiuk of those worln when the French ‘ask me; * What hiavo you Leard about the Bavariun eloctionu? » Everywhoro that queation in put to me, which fact stiown the importance which ia attached in France to the Bavarfan eloctions. I do nat belieye that it is out of {nterest for the pernon of tho Minusters tuat tho French are waiting with fmpatience for the result of these elections, The reniamnbranco of what has oo- curred duriug tho last fow centurics mskes tho French often forget tht thiugw are uot now what the uwed to be, They wtill believe in tho poesibility of find- ingz allien {11 Gerinauy, 'They belfeve, at foast, in the victory of the Ultramontance of Bavaria; the trinmph of & party which fa lcos eatranged from theioselyos than {rom the Eupire of Gernany, This fact copetls tutes & certain dangor. Frunoo 14, ‘it 1 true, governed at present by men whoare Leo foud of pears, and sowed of 100 much political perapleacity, to sliow themselves to be iuduced to doclars war ou tha stronyth of the filusion of a leaguo of the Catholio nations, Hut the French nation is easily excited, sud ft would ba lamentabis that a victory of the Ultramontaues should ouse hopes which hava already once produced & dis- rous effect on. tho winds of the French peoplo fu pushing to tho background the calin and reasvnable Portion of tho nation, Naturally the French newspapers have ropro- duced thid lettor, duatited to be useful in Ger- many to the Liborals, who have tho sympathios of Princo iohoutoho. RAILROAD NEWS. THE CENTRAL PACIFIC. Horetofore the Ceutral Pacifiv has been an. thorizod to soll tickets from San Francisoo to New York for $131, both via Chicago or Bt. Louts, by limiting thom to a cortain time. Late- ly, bowever, the fit. Louis rosds have suthor- ized tho Contral Pacific to sell unlimited tickets at that rate. Corwequoutly tho Cbicago roads Liavo decidedod to llluw tickots to be sold over tholc liues at tho uamo terma, OMINGTON SCHEME, Fyeeqal Dispateh to Lle Chictgs Wribuna, Broostnaron, 1L, Aug. 4—A movement is starting in this city to induce the officers of the Havana, Rantoul & Eastern Narrow-Gauge Road, whose contemplsted ling orosses the Illinols Central at ITeywortl, 13 miles south of thialcity, to chiango tha routa 50 a8 to take in Bloomington, ‘Ihe advautages offered by tho road are maui- fest, giving this city & competing line to pointa now uudor coutrol of railroad mouopolies. THE COLUMBUS & TOLEDO., Corvucvd, O., Aug. 4.—The contract for bullding the Columbus & Toledo Itailrosd bas been awarded to Benjamin E. Buith -and Kaesordatos, from Columbus and Cinctonnti, st about $5,000 per milo, they taking about two- thirds in bonds, and the Compauy furnishing the right of way, stations, and equipoionts. A COLORED CELEBRATION. Special Disvaleh o The CAicaqo 1 ridune, Quixcy, L, Aug. 4.—Tho colored citizens of Quinoy held a colebration to-day in commemors. tiou of the British Emancipation act, and of the Ewmancipation proclamation i the United States. Invitations had boon oxtondsd to adfscent towas, and dolegatious weie preseut from Keo- kuk, Hanuibal, Louisiaus, Palmyrs, Lsgrange, Canton, Macomb, Jacksonville, Fort Madison, Alozandris, und Warsaw. About 2,000 persons took part iu the oclebration, —_— THE NAIL TRADE. Prrrepved, Pa., Aug. 4.—The Western Asso- clation of Nall Mauufasturers met in this clfy to- day, and fized the price of nails at §3, caxd,