Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1876, Page 1

VOLUME 29, MILLINERY. ¢ dhicoyo Taily Treibmne, OURTAIN GOODS, &a MILLINERY. CURTALN MA[ BROTHERS. Our_ buyer having again returned trom New York with the latest nov- sties of the season, wo will opon to- - Dnholstery oo, A.E. LANCASTER & C0, Buccossors to Allan, Mackoy & Co 2338 State-st., Having purchased their stock at a largo discount from regular prices, isy some choice and rechercho | are offering to tho wholosalo and re- styles in trimmead BONNETS.AND ROUND HATS rEB BOULEBVARD, HELMBET, CEARRRIER, ow oll tho rage in Paris, can only | Piano Covers l!:‘ufound at ogm- ostablishment in | and Figured their original facon, Reception, Fvening, and Travol- Round Hats and Bonnots. mfim‘la Flowers and Feathors. tail tradoe Curtains and Upholstery Goods at a great sacrifice. Bargains in Terrics, Plushes, and Cashmeres. Bargains in Satoons and Cretonnes. Bargains in Swiss and Nottingham Lace Curtains, Liaco Shades, and Lambrequins, Bargains in Nottingham Lace. Bargains in A job lot of Btriped 'wills tor looso covers, for 260 per yard, worth 50c. Lam- broquins mado to order 26 per cont cheaper than over before. The attontion of country mor- French Chip, English Milan, Pedal | chants wishing to roplenish thoir and Bwiss shapes and colors. 121 & 123 State-st. GENERAL NOTIOES. PRRSONAT. JOS. M. SIMS, BROEKER, Room 14,167 and 169 Washinglon-t, Eas valuable information to impart relative to tho DISTRIBUTION OF TEIA La.S.I1.Co. hip in 500 different | stock, and all others,is oslled to our stookof Cn‘;}:eting, 0il Cloths, Bed- ding, and Wall Paper, which we of- for atunprocedented low prices. E.A.LANCASTER &CO.,,, 288 STATH-ST., Ons Block South of Palmer Houss. WEDDING PRESENTS. PR . ‘We have nowin stock, and are con- stantly receiving direct [from the Which positively takes place at | factory ot the colebrated GORHAM New Orleans on Saturday, April 29. CALLTO-DAY,FRIDAY BEFORE 6 P. M. NOTICH. The croditors of the (lsto) Cook County National Pank are hereby requestod to meet st ho Grand P- #if6 Hotel in Chicsgo on Tuesdsy, May 2, 1876, at 3 o'elock p. m., 0 conault relativa 1o tuelr Interéats 1y sonnsction with tho sffaira of that tnstitution. DrWITT COUNTY NAT. BANK, Clinton, Tl FIRST NAT. BANK, Crown Point, nd, - GEO, IAZZATD, Now Castle, Ind, QITIZENS' BTATE BANK, Now Caatle, tnd. W. 0. MURPHY, Naw Castlo, Ind, Office of the Lakeo Shore & Michigan Bouthern Railway Co. CravranD, March 25, 1876, Tho snnust meoting of the Blockholders of this Company, for tha slsetion of Directora for tho snsu- ing yoar, and for the transaction of other sppropriate Pukiheas, will bo Bela a¢ thoofiics of the Company, 1 oo Gity 'of Claveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, the' 34 orencon and 3 o'cloc! " A 0 2ay GFONGE B, ELY, TO RENT. MFG. CO., ologant new goods in Bterling 8ilver, made expressly for Wedding and Anniversary Presents, In extent and varioty our stock is unogqualed in the West, and all wares sold by us aro engraved in the most artistio manner., Qur pricos are uniformly low, N.MATSON &G0, STATE AND MONROE-STS. % FINANCIAL. MERCHANTS’, FARMERY & MECHANICS' : SAVINGS BANK, Desiranle Ofiges|zemses e cmen. TO RENT IN TELR TRIBUNE BUILBING. INQUIRE OF WILLIAM C. DOW, Room 10, Tribune Building. TO RENT. Dock Property. 2002200 fee Just sonth of tho lsteenths Strest Tt fond Bridge, with 8lip on south front, and beet rall- connections. B. 6. & W. G, McCORMIO 65 Tasaiiaxt, For Rent, Rooma singly and {n stites in Resper and McOormick Blocks, A‘l’:g ’lwrul 71 aud 73 Pl;:ubam-ll., aud second, third, and fourih floors of 34 and 3¢ Bouth Water street. Apply st Room D Beaper Block. Two Large, Well-Lighted BUSINESS ROOMS Dnthe second floor at 184 and 188 Btate-st, Rent low to good parties. FOR RENT. A large corner bsssment office: also desirable up~ Malrs offioes, in the Metropolitan Block. Apply to A, A, MUNGER, m & FOR RENT. Btore 150 South Clark-at,, from May L. P, R. KING, Inquire 307 Madison.st. FOR RENT, Dastrable ia 3 tog sty R LR OLIVE OIL AND VINEGAR. ['wo of the most difitoult things to obtain tor, the proparation of s Salad, are PURE OLIVE 0IL = ({DER VINEGAR. These aro offered, guarantosd as reproe leotad, by 0. TATUAM, 148 E. Madison.st. ; WANTED. WANTED TO RENT. Bloze and besement on Madison, between Dearborn B4 Fifl-ar, Avswor Q 80 Tribuna offics, PERFECT SECURITY and LIBERAL INTEREST. THE INVESTMENT CERTIFIOATES of thia Bank are socured on_fumproved lteal Eatate, the securition being in apecial trust, The Certificates Lear intorest payable in quatorly inatatiments, a4 the rata of 73-10 per cont por anuum. THey 8o Wore secure than a di- Toct mortgago loan. and much morn avaliable, They may be obtained porsouslly or through tho mails, fn suma of $100 and multiples theroof, at this Bank, ‘Interest at tha rate of 8 per cont per annum pald as urual on savings,—book accounta, . BYDNEY MYERS, Manages. PRESTON, KEAN & (0., BANKERS, 100 WASHINGTON-ST. 7 PER CENT. Money to Loan st SEVEN per cent on first-class brs. Inees property, Wa may BUY one or two cholce mort. g3ges st higher rates. ~ BOUDDER & MABON, 108 Dearborn-st. PIANOS. "WE HAVE ON ETAND And offer for sale s nwubsr of superb second-hand STEINWAY Bqasre Planos, some of which have had but littte use; " ars praotically 'sa good s new, and will b soid at ex- tromely ressonabis prices. Fartios in quest of the best Plana st a low price eliould szamine nstrn e LYON & HFEALY, Btate and Monroe-sta. DENTISTRY, TEETH. 20 and $30 when yon can get the best full nm‘}:"!’:’ . NEGUESJEY’S for §3, Tha flucat and most fashionable resort in the city, Corner Clark and Randolph-ats, OIL TANKS, AWiLSON & EVENDEN, i OIL TANKS Le‘l’ a0 SHIPPING CANS, 47 & 49 Weat Lake Btreot, [=r= i BN Monroe, Bisheo & Ball, ATTORNEYS, HAVE BEMOVED THEIR OFFICES TO TRooms 27, 28 and 20 Morohanta’ Bullding, 88 _XiaSallo=ss, "N, P, IGLEHART & 00, RBEAL BSTATE DEALNMRS, * UAVE REMOVED To 58 Dearbornsst, CHICAGO, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1870. WASHINGTON. The Senate Again in Session as a Court of Impeachment, Belknap’s Motion for an Ad- journment Till Decem- ber Denied. The Taking of Testimony Will Now Be Proceeded With. Poblic Printer Clapp Twirls His Digits at the House Knves~ tigators, And Declares that He Is No Officer of Theirs. Cate's Witnesses Against Bristow All Turn Out Men in Buokram, Gavenport Reads One More Lesson on Tammany Frauds. Judge Cartter Will Discharge Kilbourn from tho Custody of the House, IMPEACHMENT. ACT THR TUIRD, #vecial Dispateh to The Chicage Tridune, ‘Wasuinarox, D, C., April 27.—As tho impsach- mont farco progressed thisafterncon, the crawded and fashionable sudionco was treated o two sparkling dieplays of logal comady. udgo Blair was rather hoavy in his remarks, but Judge Black, who followed him, brought down tho houso saveral times by hia humorous invoo- tive and kaon sarcasm, quite wondorful fora man nearly 70 yoars old. Thon Carpouter eamo on the stago like a dashing dragoon, and not only assailod tho Oonfodorate House with the rudest violonce of denunciation for its action in porsecuting his cliont, who had fought so gal- lantly for tho Union, but he pitched into the investigating committoes and the Managers with a rare disdain for thelr honeyod worda. His do- scription of the scone on the ndoption of tho resolution for impeschment, whon, to use his exprossive words, the Houso **went off like a bottls of champagno,” was capital. Blackburn and Hieater Clymer, who sat togothor on a sofa, DIDN'T ENJOY IT A BIT, and the Honso maoagors, who had declined to orats, looked as mad as March baros. . Both Black and Carpenter were eapecially se- veore on Attornoy-General Pierrepont for placing detoctives on guard over Bolknap without the least ovidence that he thought of escaping Takon sltogothor, thoms speeches were the moet brilliant, scorching dlapllyl of pyrotecunlc oratory over licard or witnessed in the Henals Ohamber, but tle Benators sittiug as & High Court wore not cone vinced that the trial should be postponed until Christ- raar, Now will coma the arguments on jurisdictlon, with fntervais of two days betwoea for preparation; and moaguiule L logialative usinesa of ibe sewsion 1n do Iaye Gen, Hazon, who 13 Gen. Delknap's bitter enemy, ma prosent duriug the'trid, with ex-Benator ¥owlor and Judge Poland. 1EAE, Notwithatanding the briliant arguments on the mo- tion to postpone the impeachment procesdings uniit noxt Decober, iho voto of the Sonate in secret ses. alon was unanimous that the motion should bo denisd, Although the managers in thelr anawor deny that M. Qlymer bsd any underslanaiug with Geu. Balkuap ahout renigning, Clymer himself fnforms his driends thathe did ssy to Judge Lisir, Delxnap's counsel, thot {f the Bocratary did mob resign by 12 o'clock ha would Impeach him, PRSI I ‘06 proj lon of the managers sy, afier the Benate had decided to go on with tho case, was, in efect,to go on with the Liearing, take ail tho tostimany and ilier decide both the quostions of Juriadiction sd t at the lose, LT the dusociated Press.) MOTION FOR POSTIONRMENT. WasmTNGTON, D C.) ATl 17,—Tho Senate gallerior wero sgain crowdoa to-day, two-thirds of the andience Deing ladies, At 12:30 this legislatiya bustness was suspended, and tie impeschment trisl began, Alr, Lord submitted & motion tht tha evidence ro- Iatiug to the queation of juriediction of the Benate bo given before the argument relatiug thereto, and if such ploa t overruled, that tho defendaut be requirod to answor tho articies of impeachment withi thin iwo days, £nd thie House's reply, it they deetn it necearary, wits: in two days, and thaf th trial proceed the noxt dny after the joining of the fss 0. Mr. Carpentor, of the counsel for the sccused, ‘maved that tho trist be postponed tll the firt Monday of December next, and askod ihat the time for die- cussing this motion be fized at two hours for each slds, The msnm was granted, 48 to 13, and Mr, Dlatr sddressed the Benate In favor of the motlon, JULGE VLACK #poke an hour,snd dwelt atsomo length upon the potiti- eal excitement against tho accueed, contonding rlqvll 10 ntonss that each party waa committed to bis ruln, 1t was §mpossible for nim 0 Lisvo & fair trial, though ho might have an honost one. 1ie alao intimated that hix decenss wonld bo vo painful that uothing but fear loaa of his reputation could move him toit, Al the conclusion of Judge Black's speech Mr, Ed- munds moved that the Sonato withdraw for conmmlia- tion, The motion was agreod to—yeas, 35 ; nays, 2. QUESTION OF PARLIAMENTARY LAW. o Beforo e Scunte retirod, M, Iloar, ono o iz den- sgors, calle attention to the rule of parliamentary Iaw which rostricts he Henate in the discussion of ‘what haa taken place in tho Houss of Representatives, Mo desirod to kuow whother that was & rulo governiug o proceedinge on tho trfal 80 that tho Mansgors o thie House might govern (hemaclvea socordingly. Te was lad {0 allule o tho subject from tho fact -that one of thie loarncd counsel had oo permitted to that a aceno of disorder took place In the House cortain occasion. He did nod make any motion on the subject; but motaly doatred 1o call the attcutlon of tho Senate to it in order that the Managers might under- #tand what their rights and dutiea wors 1n the prem- tsea. 3, Carpenter aaid that, on tho part of the defend- ant, connsel wished to bo heard before that important queation was decided. DEYENDANT'S MOTION DENIED., The Benate thien a 30'cluck eetired for conaultation, and rofurued to tio Hooate Ctisiaber &t half-past 4, when the prealdiug officer snnouncad that the motion on the part of the defendant was denied, and ihat gounsel oa s part of thie reapondet woulld now ba lieard on & motlon submitted by the managers, which 18 that the evidence on the question pendiug to the les of Jucisdiction bo given Leforo argumeals relate g theroto aro hoard, and that if uch ples f8 ovor. ruled, defendaut_should bo requircd to snewer tho srticies of finpeachment in two days, snd that trial sliall proocod on the next day afier folning iasus, Bz, Blalr, counsol for Belknap, rose 1o open fhe srgument, bat, ou motion of br. Anthony,the Benate, diting s Cort of (mpeachimoat, sdjobrasd wa to-morrow a4 half-past CLAPP, H18 INVESTIGATION, Bpecial Dispateh to Ths Chicage Tridune, Wasamnaroy, D. 0., Apri 47.—A. M. Olapp, Government Printer, bas formally demurred to tho jurisdiction of the Houss Commitioo on Printiog over his ofMce for tho purpose of in- voatigation, On the 21t of April he addressed & lotter to the Chairmao of the Committos, Br. Vance, of Ohlo, of whioh the followingisa oopy ¢ As 1 have been pasured by your Committes that I may bave {he privilege of teviawing ths testiniony taken in tho printing investigation, sud of jutrodno. g Tbulting testimony, sud av'I ani not versed In tho lawe and rules of ovidence, ] desire the privilego of Deing attended by counsel, Wil you pleass suewer 1 lnllgdnlfigul be grantad, (Hlguod) A, AL Orarr, In roply to this letter, the clerk of the Com- mitteo on Printing addressod the following to Clapp oo the 24th of April : T am dirocted by the Commitles oa Printing to in- form you that they are resdy Lo bear the testimony of tuch additional witnessea 38 you may dosire to pro- auos, I am fariker Instructed to eay that the Com- mittes hiava st your request aiready examined & num- er of witnesaen from the Government office, but, do- wirol Wat wo mesnn be left nunturned to Arrive st tho truth regarding Lhe cost of publia print- tng, shall o plessod to hesr tha statemonts of othorn. 1t 1n neccssary that the invostigation bo brought to s close, snd you will thrrefars bring for. ward your witnesses during the Isiiee part of ke prem ont week, You are forther informed that yon can az- amine tho teatimony at any Hme afier Thursday morn. ing at 10 o'clock {n ths Cominitiee-room, aud the Com- mittee dasira me Lo 8dd that you areat liborty to bring tefore them any roputabla momber of the fegal pro- Tersfon aa counsel, TAR CONDITION that Clapp's conusel siould bo a * roputable™ membor of tho legal profession was pur- poscly inserted, mombors of the Com- mittea say, becauso during an inves- tigation of the Qovernment printing- oficc by the Houso Commiltes of last Congress Clapp_ introduced the notorious Dick Harrington sa_ bis ropresentative, and tho Committes wars unwilling to have anything to do with moa of hia charactor. GLAPI'S LABT. The following lottor was received by Chair- man Vance, of tho Commiites, to-day : ¢ Orrice or TnE CONGREASIONAL PRINTER, WASTIING - T, D, O, April 47, 1866.— b the Fion, J. 'L, Vance, Caairman’ of Committee on I'rinting—DEAR ‘Bt : 1 deaira to acknowledge the receipt of the note of your Clerk,nnder dato of the Jith inst, On consultation with counsel 1 amn advised that,inaamuch 8s I am an oflicor of the Henato of tho United Btates, your Comnilties hsa no Jurisdiction to = In. vosligate my conduot in office as Congrossional Priuter, and that your Committeo will not pretond to do s0, far_ss your {nquirics under the resolution of the House of Itepresentatives are concerned, I have no l{mchl interest, and, therefore, I have eoncluded thiat I Liavo no duty'to perfortn except o give you sny uformation in my power In regard to tha snbject un- der invegtigation Oy your Comimnittee, which I have slready done, (Slgued) A M, Qrare, Tho Iaw to which Clapp refers is Sce. 1,758 of tho Revised Htatutes, which provjdes that the Bon- ate aball olect o perdon who must bo a practical printer, and versed in the art of book-binding, to take Ch"iw of and manago the Government Printing-Oftice. Ilo shall bo deemod au oflicer of the Bonate, and ghall be callod the Congres- sional Irinter. Clapp'a friends are greally nur- Ki,“d at tho domuerer to tho jurisdiction of the ouss Committee, as during the wholo imvesti- gation thoy Lave bolieved that all tho allegod trrogularities and apparent extravagance in tho printing-office could bo_satisfatorily oxplained. The courss now adopted by the Congressional Printer scoms to them to be an abaudonment altogoshicr of eny attompt at defense, s et HERE AND THERE. PRENDER. Bpecial Diepateh to L'he Chicago Tribune. Wasnixeroy, D, C., April 27.—~The Commit- teo investigating the Treasury Department frauds continued the examinalion of Prender, of 8t. Louis, who made tho ridicutous state- mont that, while s clork in tho Tressury, he know that targo sume of money wero stolon, and that theDepartment statomont was fictitious, Tho Committeo has no techinical knowledge on the subject matter of the inquiry, but from tho investigation thus far thoy soom to havo very littlo confldenco fn Prondor's statements, BRISTOW AND CAULFIELD. Oaulfiold hias written a lotter to tho Bocrotary of tho Treasury trying to placo him iu tho atti- tude of refusing to produce tho records. Tho Bectelary has replled that overy yapar in the dopart- ment 18 open {0 {he Inapection of the Committeo, and » room will be placod at ita disposal, and sl the clerks and officera baving most knowledga of the documenta would be present at any time {0 assiat in s thorough examiuation of an; ject, The order agalnet zend- {ug original rocords ta the Capitol is the order of tho Presldent, and strictly in accordance with law, Cer- tified coples of any ducument wanted will be sent on demand. PROMPILY ANSWERED. Benator Bargent’s resolution seking the Treesury whethor 8pecial Agents wero not eaployed without re- gard tolaw; whethier thoy have uot rvcelved apecial rewards, and bow much hias been paid them, received aprompt answer. All agents havp been appointed atrictly tn accordanco witl law, No rewarus have Leen promised of paid sny, end the axmount paid in unearthing the Whisky frauds {n ran Francisco in about $500, e CATE'S BUAANOC T Two of Judge Cate's witnesscs sgafnet Becretary Dristow have been heard from, Ex District-Attorney 1azelton, under whom the sclzure of tha Farquu Marcy Morritt wan mude, telegraphs that he nover gavo Cato {o understand that the cara roficcted in any degrse on Dristow, and Deputy Collcctor Welrs, Who rocom. mended the selzure, s here, and will testify to-morraw that there was nothing whatever in ibe cazo that touched the Hocretary in the alightest reapoct, plcbias ks DAVENPORT. MORE OF TUE BAME BORT. Spectar 1riapateh to Tha Chicago Trivuna, Wasumxorox, D. C., April 27.—Davenport's examination was continued, Caulfiold was too nick to bo present to hear Davenport's story, but ho was well enough to be abtout tho House. ¥requont attompta wero made to provent Dason- port from tolling the story in bis own way, aa ho has beon aalied to do, but Lio was couragoous enough to persist, and did give the Commitico a very intorostiog chaptor on Tammany frauds, On ihe direct subject of the Inquiry be showed that Lo Diad youchers for every cont of his axpenditures, (70 the Arvuctated Press.) ‘Waniixortoy, D, O,, April 27.—Joln I. Davenport resumed his teallmony this morning before the Come mittes on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, Mr, Candler presiding and propounding questlons in the abacuca of Qaulield, who_fs {ll, Witueus ox- phained that fu *71, *72, *73, and T4 be recetved (n all 4,000 from the Attorney-General, for the oxyendi. diture, of which hoLiad the rteceiita, _1is exhilitad hiu plana for detecting and proventing_ fraudu at elec- tivos, aud stated that ho expended of hi own money $5,000 prior (0o Angust, 1871, for which be bad no vouchers, and that the monuys ro- ceived wero to reimbitrse him and o pay futuze ex. pensea, Tho money was to pay for work actuslly done, and not for {nformation, Whataver was pald for fuformation was pald out of witness, pockot, Witne W tho Presidunt at Loug Brancli, sod oxhib- fted his books nd_papers £0 siow tha claea of work bie was doing. The monoy waa therefore givou him, Tiocea Davenport eald tiat b nover carried a aittcn ordor from the President o Attoruey-Geticral Williaws for money, Ar, Williams Lad stated that o be tho case, but lio was mistakea, Tue only objoction Alr, Will- fama over mado to payiag fhat money waa th fund 0 Lo used fn the South, 1f Ar, Williams stated oler- wire on this potnt, s was miutaken in that alvo. At- .General Williams wrota to Whitley 1o pay wit- neas tbe money, snd then Whitley's conection’ with it conscd, All Youchors for expenses between July 13 and Bept. 6, 1873, aro in b Tressury Dopariment, excopt perhapa & fow bills. Adjourned, —_—— BLACK SHEEP OF TIIA DEMOCUATIC PESHUASION, Specral Diapateh to The Chicago 1ribune, Wammnivaton, D. Q., April 27.—Gen, Bough- ton, clerk of tho Houeo Military Committes, to- day rosignod his position. The resigustion is oonaldered by the Iopublicsu members of the Committoo as a practical confessiou that moat of the chargos against him could be proved. ‘The Commitice 1tselt adopted & resolution by which it decided to pursue the investigation no farthier on account of the expense of bringing witnesses from Texas. Tho Comumitles, however, cauld not vetain siclork i viow of the partially proved chargos, hence his realgnsifon, WLY 18 Tus TUUS? In.the Confedorato archives therv has just beon discovered a lettor from the present Chicf Clerk of one of the Comptroller's officers tn the Treasury, to & person conuected with the Coufederato Btate Govern- meot, recommending the Learcr of that lotter to offica lu the Confedoracy, Thoresult of that letter was, that the pervon who prescntod ¢ was sppointed. ‘Tue writer of thelotter Lias been for a greatmany years & rominent ofiicer in tha Treasury Departmeat,of known ernocratio atblfations. Itts loyslty was mors than onco doubted during tho War. ~His associations since have beon with many of the pronounced oppononts of Republicanism and the Union. e bisa been suapected Dby associato ofticers in tho Treasury of baving fure nished secret information to Democrstio luveatigsting commiltees fn violation of Department regulstions, und it Is noticesble that while the sataries of all of- ficera of corresponding rank bavo boen reduced from 10 40 40 per cent, his aslary has boen reduced by the Datmocrate but $100, sy CHICAGO BANKING MATTERS, TUE COOK COUNTY NATIONAL. Special Dispateh to The Chicuge Tridune, Wasimnazox, D, U., April 37.—Corydon Beck. with, H. B, Moaroe, Mr. Bpoucer, "and A. H, Burloy have srrived hero to confor with the Cowptroller of the Currency about cortaln old matters of the Uook County Nntonsl Bavk, In tho ¥ale by Sponcar to Allenof the Cook County Nstiooal Hank in May, 1573, 8poncer gusranteed the collection of 265-500 of the paper then in the bauk, and agreed to pay tbat proportion of auy losses that might be sustained i the collece Uon of tho paper. Afterwards Bpencer and Allen msdo s gottloment of that guarantes, which was published in Tne Tatnuxe in Januray, 1873, A queation having arizen Telative to the validity of the settlement, Mr, Durley, Receiver of the Cook Qounty National, agrees to anl mut it to Comptroller Knox. I1, H, Monros, aa attar- nay for the Hecetver, and Deckwith. as attorney for 8pencer, bava came here with all tha papers relattng to the matter. They havo respoctively submitted their pagers each to the other, and will submit them to tho Cotnptroller for hin deciaion, The question at imauo ta this: Certain mpecifiod paper was guaranteed in the manuner sbove mentioned, Allen gavea portlon of that paper, and took othier paper sud security withe out the kuowledgn and consent of Bpencer. Bpencer clalma that, as Allen gava up the paper or renowed it, sad they sottied aftorwards, he s discharged from lsbility, TIF. CHICAGO CITY NATIONAL Aenator Logan, Farwell, Culfisld, and Carter flar- rison hiave been in receipt of & great number of tele~ grama during the dvy, recommending various persons 10 act aa Recelver of the Gity Natinaa lank, Among the nsmes recommiended in theso telegrams sre Bogue, Parker, Otis, Caulficld, and William rl. Rice, It is by no means certain that the Cowmptroller will ape point anybody Yicelrer at preseat. " if» hiss no power da” w0, Thers in a very general miaconcention of the law relativa 9 the pawer of the Comptrotler to sppoint Recelvers, excert In_case nf yoluntary liquidation. In the present condition of the City Natloua] Iiank, Comptrotler Knox cau only appoint s Itecelver whot bie han recaived a protested note, and it {n in the power of the bank t proventa protested note by paying it when preented, This seems 1o ba tho alificial construction of th law, The luw now peuding in tho Heuate, which has passed the Honre, atid which was recommendod by the Comp- troller’ of the Currency, given to tha latter greater powers, snd enabies bim at any thine to place Hecefver in chargo of a bank whenever it may sesm to be in Ao insolvent conditon. e A DEMOCRATIC OFFICIAL. H18 ANTECEDENTA. Washington Correspondence Cinainnaf Enquirer (Democratic). If the Democratic Houso had appointed s Committos to make the worst poseible selections for ita varioun officers, mare unfortunate solec- tiona could not have beon mado in sovaral In- #tances. Among these is that gallant Confed- crato eoldier, L. I1. Fitzhugh, who nover amalled gunpowder during tuo War. DBy somo hocus- pocus ho way elected Doorkeeper of tho Ilouse, and be biss managed to surraund himsolt with a fine lot of ward bummers acd bar-flics. Fitz- hugh looka liko an augel, but bo haa a dovil's records For sevoral wooka & combination composod of correspoudonts of loading papers in tho East and West have isd s man employed in hunting up Fitzhogh's antecedonts, This man has beon very auccesaful. 1lo bas found documentary evidence tliat would convict Henry Ward Deechor of being s bad man. 1. There is a copy of an Indictment from the ree- ords of the Lincoln County (Kentucky) Court of 1571, charging Mr. Pitzhugh with arshu. ife waa charged with stocking the Crab Orchiard Hotel with furnitire, insuring §t st twice ita value, and then haviug thé property burned down. 1t 1 but justice tosny thata }&ry 9t Bluo-Grass geatlomen fonind i vot gulity ou this charge, 2, Thiera is 8 copy of an Indictment from the records of the Lincoln County (Kentucky) Conrt charging Mr. Fltzhugh and two brothers and a few negroes with frand Jarcony 1a slesling w0 bed-qullts kud. oruer tningy, which woa an offeniss against the * posce and diguity of the Commonweall 3, There §a a copy of an {ndictment from the recorda of tho Dintrict Court of Linzoln County, Kemtucky, charging Mr, Fitzhugh with perjury, 4. ‘Iuersis a deposition from an Internal Revenne ofticer of Texan, carging Mr. Fitzhugh and wife with ttempting to_lovy Llack-mail and prevent s Unfted Btates ofiicer from discharging bis duty, 5, Thero 1a evidence showing that Mr, Fitzhugh's son waa killoa £t Doniion, Tex., by o man whom Mr, Fitzfugh wae aiterapling fo * bost.” The murderer was nover brought to trial, but waa discharged on ths ground of JutiBable homicide, 7 6. Thereara lotters in Mr, Fitzhugh's handurite that rrove him to be man of unsound mind ss welt as bad morals, It strikies me that the sooner the Democratic Houss eta rid of Ar, L. H, Fitzbugh the better it will be for themselves and thoe ‘party, and the sooucr will they nip in tho bud a large amount of incipient rascality that law begun to crop out among tho tmen under Mr. Fitzhugh's employ, I write what I write with regret, but I liava come to tho conclusion that 1f the Demo- cratie House expect tn do a thorough husinoes in tho roform Lne they had -better lick thoir own platter first, Purify thoso that be of the houschold of faitl:, and then presch purity to the Geutilos. fhidhsses e ) IN THE HOUSE, TAY, LEQIALATIVE. APPROPRIATION DILL, Suecial Luvatch to The Chiweage Tridune, ‘WasmsortoN, D. O., April 27.—Tho Iouss, owing to the pendency of the impeachmont pro- ceodings, sccomplished very lttle, The day waa spent in the further consideration of theLeg- ialativo bill. Tlhe Domocrats themselves saw that thoir reduction of force in tho Post-Ofice De- partment would cripple tho sorvice, andincreased it to some extont. It was discovorod in tho couran of the debato that the Democrats fn ehiarge of the bill bad made a deliberate misropresentation as to the ecouomy pmrmcd hly it in reporting the bill, M-, Handatl had sald that it was $5,000,000 lens thau the correaponding bill of last year, but the bill of Lt year Included $2,000,000 for payiug Judgmeuts of the Court of Claims, which havo been omitted from this bill this yearand placed in nuother, Au smendment was in- Corporsted into tho bill making Bit » misdemeanor to sk or to recalve moncy from sny Goserument ofticer for political purposes. N NOTES AND NEWS. DITTINGER, +° Spectal Dirpatch to The Uhteago Tridune, ‘Wasuixaros, D, 0., April 27.—In a recont lot- tor to Tue Trinuxe from Missouri, & atatement was made that Soustor Morton bad signed a po- tition for tho pardon of Joln Bittinger, & distil- ler, convietod mpon his own plea of guilty. Benator Morton authorizes tho most emphatic denial of this statement, and savs that lLe not only has not signed a petition, but that, until tho publication of this lotter, be did not xnow who Dittinger was. An examiostion of the papers in 1ho case on fle showed that Morton's name w3 not attached to any of thewm. LANDERS CONTEST. Congreesman Landem, of Indians, jut returned, congratulatea Dlundosn Jimmip Williaas upon hin nomination, and asures hyn that ho will heartily sup- port bha for Governor, ‘This ends Landers' {ndepeu- dent campaign for the Gavernorship, and probably vottles thu doubts as $o the unity of the Democracy tu the campaign, BILVEMN. Benator Jones In his silver apeech, referred to_more than four hundred volumes In lh'% Congresslonal 1l- brary and elsowhore, and said #t wdnld take six toos avoirdupots of silver coln to redeem the $40,000,000;0f fractions} eurrency no outstanning, STEINBERGER Bas sont o apectal ensoy hero for tho prpass of securs ing the interferctico of our Governwent iu hin bebalf, 118 bas thus far nict with absolutely 10 snccesa, KILIOULS. Judgn Cartter will to-morrow reader his decision o Aia cavo of Hallot filbourn. 1t la uuderviood that the opinfun will be s very claborate reviow of tha cntire 1aw of habeas corpus, sud & definition of the preroga- tives of Congross, executive and Judlefary, with re. apect to that writ, and that Kilbouru will bo dikcharged from the custody of tbe House, anud held to ball tosn- awor s tudictmont. (19 the Assocksted Prese) A DEMOCBATIC FAMILY QUARREL. Wasmvatox, D, C., April 21— persoual sllarca- tion_oocurral yesterday, beiween Nopresentative DBlsckburn and ex-loprescntative Dan Voorlees, of Judians, both bitter Domocrats, Wlackburn ansailed Voorhecs for defending W purity of the District Ju- diciary, and 8aid §t was corrupt and used by * Job. bers.' Voorhees rovented this, and sald it did not be- come s member of the preeent House, which could Ho{bo trusied, and was composed lsrgly. of diahon- est’ men, to lalk sbout the purlty of the sourt, ‘which was Lonost, Blackburn, at this point, became greatly oxcitud, and denounced Voorhees personally, S04 o partios would have cometo blows had nop thelr frionds tuterferad, S WASHINGTON SOCIAL LIFE, UNFLFASANT DISCLOBURES —A PREDICTION VERI- VIED—SOCIETY BEBUKED—CHARITABLE ENTED. TAINMENTS—NATIONAL JOCKEY-CLUB-~TIE OBIG- INAL FEMALE INTERVIEWKB—DETEOTIVE4 AT WOLR—CENTRNNIAL PATRONAOE—NYE AND BQN —PUESIDENTIAL FUNOBS—POLLOWING THE PLAG —MASONIO-~ART AND ADRTINTE—AMUSKMENTS, A Speciat Correspondencs &f Tha Chicage Tridune, ‘Wasmnoroy, D April 25.—8pring and sus- pleion! Bunshine and scandal! Whas a plty that this delightful vernal season horo should bo embittercd by calumny and disfigured by o~ counts of wrong-doing, dragged from tho sewers and sink-lolea by the drag-nets of investigating committoes | The most oatragoous lios aro atarted over the telegraph-wires in evory direc- tion, while contradictions follow slowly by wmail. No man'a character is safs, and yet, it must bo coofessed, thoro are oocasional truths brooght to light, which show tho need of reform iu sl- moat evory department of Govornment, High officials have pocketed prosents, and clerks have willingly accopted small deceurs for extra sex- NUMBER 246. vicos, whilo hoavy foes havo boen paid to i‘? ¥ Ista of high and low dogroo, And It 18 s #nt that the conscionces of tho reciplonts, & 1080 uniawful gains have beon“blanted b ade- | manda of their familios for mosns to cr-¥ Igura {n Washington sootety, with Its fro 4 and trivolities. > 4 LESION FRON MisTORY & turned np, s day or two mince, sa 1,5 glaneing ovor the pageaof the autobtogrs ¥ of Amou Kendall. When he came hore in to hold an ofiice undor Jackson ho wrote to hi wife: ** This city {8 tho contre of extravagance. Many of theclerks and othors, with sn income suffie olont to eatiafy reagonablo mon, keop themselves poor by attompting to Apo foreign Miniaters and the high oflicora of Government in thotr ontertainmenta and partios.,” And few wocks later bo mentioned having attondod a party at Mr. Dickens', a $£2,000 clork in tho Tressury Dopartment, adding: *It 18 sald he now wanta some valuable office, and 28 a means of getling it, I supponro, ho ia wasting in oxtravagant par- tieanil hin aalary in his present office, When I get to baaclerk I shall dono such foollsh thing. Mind that, wifo 1 Kondall kopt Lis word, and lived ao frugally as sn Anditor, aud snbsequently as Postmastor-Goneral, that he accumulsted property, whicli, by later inveatments in telegraph stock, made him s millionsire when he died. o On tho othor Liand, two sged matden danghters of WR Dickens may be pecn almont evory aay at the Capitol uiging the paasage of a clalm for extra ser- vices which thelr fathor rendered, It i oniy aince the discovery of the Delknap crime thiat Waaliiugian soctety bas recetved A UBLOW BETWEEN TIE EYES which kaa made it reel snd stagger, It had been bojed that Vanity Fair would ba openrd for a time after Lent, Lut tlie aliow cannot be rovived. Tne pub- Tic day receptionn, the eveutug fanhionable mobs, snd the dinces whereof the lady correspondents wroto glowing descriptions, have not been rovived. = Yot there {8 a good deal of mocisl enjoymont liers, but it 14 more reasonsble aud less advertised than wero tho Junketings and jolifications before Mrs, Marah's Jealoualy prompted her to explodn the poat-tradership ine bencath the Delknapa Thern are pleasant din- pers, there arm enjovable erening_partice; Lady ‘Thornton reccives lier {riends every Thursday evon. iug st the uritish Logation, aud there sre quiet dsuces, Dut the electrotype giftier baw guna whera tho wood- bincclimbetl, and shoddy s ot s discount. AITALLE ENTERTAISMENTS entertain many who cannot flunrish in socioty, bul who do 8o love to ‘sce their nawes in the newspapers, fcarce a week passes that one 18 not fmportuncd to purchiase s ticket to some qulertainient “for charty's ko™ and on attending the pocket nerve is muccess- fully touchied. A great deal uf money Ia ralned in (his way {u adaition o the Uberal appropriations by Con- grees for eloemonynary purposes, and i some of the Associations there is a noblo ignoring of sect. TITE NATIONAL JOCKLY-CLUB hna been revived, with Richard Wallsch as President, and there will be three doya of runniug races under ita auspices, commencing May 16, From 1 the National Jockey Club bero fourished famoualy, and ita uational course was the acene of triumphs by such liotnes an Eclipes, Bir Charlcs, Boston, and Fasbe ion, The whols surrounding country crowded into the'clty duriug the races, and tho two Houses of Con- gress used invarfably to adjourn, that the Henstora and Reprosentatives might sttend, Iandolrh, Clay, John Quincy Adaios, and Webslor were alwnys on the ground, snd Jackson when Presidont had a” fast colt Lrought from the Hfermitags and entered in the name of 3a}. Donaldson, But (ommodors Ytocktor gericd Langford defented 1. Oov, Samucl dprigg, of faryland, was the last President of the old Jockey Club, and now ex-Gov, Oden Bywle, of the same Btato, Ja 8 Vice-President of the new dub, MItS, ANK NOYALL should bave her portrait in tho reporters’ gallery of the Scnate as the original female interviewer and writer for the press at this metropolis, She was the whlow of a Teoneerco army officer, and, coming hors 10 get & pension, took up' personst litersture for a livelihood, t first shs published an aunual yolume called The Mra:k Unos,—tben sho ot an old Ilamage press and a battered font of ong primer type, and, with the ald of tramping jour- neymen or fuuaway apprentices, published fof sev- eral years a weekly paper called 7% Iunteess, Hho was & amall, scraggy woman, with keen black eyes and & tormidatle nuee, and her covtume would havo @raced a ficld of growing eorn aa a scarecrow, Every dlstingaished pernon received 8 vimt from Lier, aud, if they sulwertbed for The Huntress, tho accouat given ot thom waa complimentary, but, if they declined, sbe thencefortt abused and denounced them with ber oc. centric pen, Bhe had an asnistsnt handmalden famed Sally Hlack, the eounterpart of her ewployer {n all except the leng!h and activity of that unruly mem) the tongue. Quce, when Alrx, oynll biad become unnlly abuaive, shie was indictsd by the Grand Jury, and trisd na * 3 common wcold,"—ominunus rixatriz, —=au offenae undar the old Colonial cods of Maryland, still 0 fores u tlis Discrict, The District Atturney labored hard to bave Le: mentenced, aftor onviction, to be ducked in s but the Court imposed s fino of $10, and to givo socurity for her good Lelavior for ove sear, Tier counsel nioved to srrest the Judgment, on the ground ibat the law for the punishinent of common scolds was obeolete in England and never was in force in this country. But Chicf-Justice Cranch decided that # the offetise s not obsolete, and caunot becomo obuolete 80 long a8 o common acnld ts a commou uuisance.” Mra. Royall died 1 Octobos, 1854, ot the advanced age of YU years, . CINTENNIAL PATHONAGE. Clamorons Congressmen, who have packed the Do- partments and the Government Printing-Omfice with their huogry retainers, who aro in return to ¢ wark next fall for the re-election of thelr patrons, have found & bonanza at Phiiadelphis, Tolicetnen, clrks, secretarios, oechanics, and watchmen bave been “placed " at the Centenntal by Congressional friend who voted for the appropristion, and sho demnands of Goshorn situations tor tlicir retaluers, The result 14 that our-lalf of the ewmployea thus seloctod are no- toriously unst Yor the positions which they draw tha pu{ of, This * patronage * ia playing the very mis- elilef with every grads of officialn, and the quicker th Cougreammen Ara deprived of tho * perjukile ™ the ter, THE NYES—FATHER AXD SON, Poor Jim Nye,” s every one used to call tho witty Renator from Novada, {s now the inmate of au sylumi, writh & woftencd hralm, and thero in no_ hopo for 11is mon Charlie, who hos been 8 mad scapo- Rrace, and who has given a world of tronble to the old humorlat's iriends, haa becn converted dnriog the ro- cent_rovival here, and is ona of the best exhorters, Ho will Lardly quote his father's lrreverent rermark when Parnon Nownian was eloquently descanting on the danger to Chriatianity from Chinces imuiigra- Well % oxclalmed Nye, *1f Joss cau get ahosd of God, L am for Joss 1 ALIPN OF THE The Presiden’s fncorrect sssertion tn hfa recent message that the original satary of the President was fized by the Constitution, recalls the phirase 1u one of Proaldsnt Taylor's messages: * We uro at peace with ali the torld, and seek 10 maintain our relstionn of smity with fhe rest of maniand,” This promptod s Deomocratic Benator 1o write : 5 Tlise,” uald the Chief 1n acconty brief, *Tiriug mo & map of sll creation, Incluting Newfoundland, And i) that part of Hindostan Belongiug 10 our nation 1 Van Buren made s bad talstake on the day of hia tn- suguration, When the diplomatic corpa bad an sud- tauce, sud the a=utor member, Do Angel_Caledron, anade bt an address of congratulation, Mr.Van Buren, i hia veply, mather astonuhed the forelgnoru by ad- drcestuy e s the denocratio corpe, The Hepresentas tves of crowned hosds stood rather unowsy under the cpithet, until 18 was suggestod that the President wesut the diplomatic corpn, THE PRERIDENTIAL CALDRON 18 botling aud_ bubbling over tires buls of ruined rop- utatons, and (hoeo who bave beon named as probablo ceudidates ars one by one rendered hore ds combat.y 1t s day bocoming tioro atd wore evident to closa obsorvers of public oviaion, that the people waut, snd will Luve, & candi- dato whio fx not ouly personally unstatucd,” but who baa no entangling alliances with the jobbers, the shiystorerv, il tho plundorers, who have eatallsd so much disgrace upon tho Republican party, 1t is equally ecrtaiu that, with such & nuniinos, ttose Re- ublicans whio went astray four yoars ago will wheul o column agatn, keepiug siep (o the musio of the Unlon, The bad foaturoof the contest now being waged among osudidates for the Cinciunatd Cous veutian, is TOE LEGION OF DETECTIVEN now at work Lore, endeavoriog to blacken the repus tation of overy prominent man pamed, Thero are kuown fustaiicos in which the Ilesslan character- asassaina hiavo takon fecy from s tuan's fricuds and enemies, furnishiog the *bane and sutidote A movewmubt 1s on fool siuong representatives of - both partics to sooure the jusertion of & clsuse on every approprtation bill, mnaking it & high crima for 1) bead of any depariment of (be (iovernment to per- it the payment of a dollar for secret scrvice, of any descriptlon, £ this can be doue it will free Washing- tou from s despicable ot of speculatons upon erim: vanity, aud buinan weaknoss, Nor havo we yub Lea o1} of 1ho scandal which tae secret service has garner- edup, YOLLOWING THR FLAG. Qur navsl ofticers, with the exception of {he Admi- raly, are uot perinitted to take their wives with them on thelr crutsvs, but some of the duvoted women will mansge Lo sc0 their husbands occasioually st distant ports, Ous of them, the wifo of Lieut, John loocker, U, 8. N, left here on Friday to vistt ber father a4 Brookline, Alass, On the latof Jun sbe will taks & steamer for Liverpool, whers will ro-embark on another atoamer for Moute Video, vis Lisbon aud Madeira, » sea-voysgo in all of 10,000 nidloa or more. It i to bo hoped 1hat whea sho geta there sho will not Aind that her husband has been ar- dered to0 the Faclfio or elsawhere, 88 has sowetimes bappoued, Fiow, of ibo Pituburg DI Repreasntative opkivs, of the rg District of Pennsylvauis, is Orand Master of the Hulghts Tom- Var of the United Staies, and about s doczen other nators aud Hepresoutstives, who sre also sir Kulghts, escorted bit to Baltimore on the evening of Faslor Monday to witness tha public lnstallation of the officcrs of Qve commanderios. The Baltmore Sie Kulghts are enthusiastic over ths proposed eacamp- wzut of tho Order 8t Bidley Park, nesr Fhiladelplis, in June, July, and August, and they conndently ext pact 10 808 Lhazo from didforent soctions of the Republle, the Thoy anticipate s glorious’ ll:lrg?dln’ Hoclwie ART AXD ARTISTS. r. and Mra, Fassolt qava thoir last art reception ot % arnaan on faturday evening, and thefr studio was crowded with ladies and genilomon of literary and artistic tantes: Miss Flora Fasmett, who bad jnst roe turned from studying st the Olevsland Conservatory of Music, contributing to the musical enjoymenta of the avening, Mies Ransom hua taken bof picture of Oen, Thomss tn Philadelphis, where it will ba az. hibited at tha Contennial, but hor chsnoes for selling It to Congross are small, Willlam A. Walker hae tried to sell Lin bistorical painting of * Wuhhl[fi,n st Valloy Forgs " 1o Congrees for $3,000, but f Great offorts wers mads. o the atten: ! were mado o secura the dsnos of distinguished peaplo at the performance of Charios Gaylor's play called “Inflation,” dramatized f1 rom o's Nanby papors, but it waa ratner a tame sfiaie, Noxt woek we are (0 lisve throo nighta of so much of Jarrett & Palmer's **Julina Cresr” as can ba gotien on to the small stsge of our theatre, followsd by three- nights of ap amateur opsra company, The Msy danoe ing-school extiibitions will moon commence, and it will not be long ere strawberry feativala will bo in season, Bo we move along. HaconTzUm, 4 — THE RECORD. BRNATE. Wasuisatos, D. C., April 27.~The Confer onca Committeo report on the Defioiency Appro priation bill wus agreed to. HOUSE. BMr. Lapham introducod an amendmont to the Coostitution, authorizing tha Proaidont to ap- prove or disapurove of the ssparats clauses oz proviaiona of a lill. Refarred. Mr. Morrison reported back tho Bonats amondmeut to tho Honsa bill defluing the tax on fermentod or malt hinuors, This amendment addea proviso that nothing {n the not ohall change tho present rules of tha law reapocting tho evidence In any prosscution or suit. The smendment was concurred in. Mr. Turney made a conferenes Feport on the bill ex- ciuaing Missourt fror provisions of the act of the 10t of May, 1672, Lo promote the developicnt of mining reso urces, The report adds this cla “ Aud all land In ratd Staten shall bo rubiect to dispoust aa sgricultural ude,” Tha report was agroed to, LEQISLATIVE DILL, Tl Houas, after deciding o print all the testimony taken bofore the Commiitee on Naval Affnirs, went into_Committee of tho Whole, with Mr, Cox in the chialr, on the Leginlative and Executive Appropristion bill, Fesuming itn consideration on_page 57, where ap- propriations are ade for the Burveyor General aud thelr clorke. All the ltems for Burveyor-Generals wors, on motion of Alr, Randall, struck out of the bili on the suggen- tion that the Commitiea on_Publia Lands was inveati- aating the subject, aud that provision could be mada for 13 n the Civil Appropristion bill, The {tems for the Post.OfMico Department broughi up the question of fast maily, &r. Fostor charging that the Committee was gulng bsc® to the old_stage- coach avstem, und Mr, Randall insisting tht the roo- ommendatious of the Commitiee wero fully abproved by the Postmsater-General, and that the taall sorvice was Dot o be in the slightest dogroe diminisied Ly the economy in expenditura provided fn tho bill, Mr. Whitehouse offered an amendment to Boc, prohibiting any employa of the Government from f@ving toor recaiving from any other peroas, dircctly ot indirectly, any mouey or thing of valus for political purposca. Adopited. Mr. Fryeoffersd an_smendment providing that na. member of Conzress aliall recommend sppointment to or continusace in ofice, or removal therofrom, of any clerk in any of the Departinents unless the hoad thers- of ahall first apply for bis advice in writing, Thio smendmout e rnjsfldod"TT lo97. o r. White moved Lo amen nserting a that o money appropristed by the a6t Should be patd to aples or informers, Rejected. o Ar. Dennlson moved to inacrt a pifivision that mon eys pald undor thia LI should bo paid in the lawful coin of the United Statos, 3Mr, Holman moved to amend the amendment by striking out *lawful coln™ aud inserting * lawfal moury. " Ar. lfolman'a amendment was adopted, and thea the whole proposttion was rejected. Mr, Hoar moved an additional msoctlon providing that wheniever, in tha judgment of the head of any depsrtment, the dutica asmigned to clerk of one class €30 bo sa well performed by a clork of lowar class, o by » femals clerk, it sball ‘b lawfal for bim to dimin. ish the number of clorks of the higher clasy, to Increase b number of clerks of the lower grade to the samg extent. Agreed to, Mr. Jenks submitted oo amendment transferring, after tho firet of July, 1877, the Fenmon Buresu from the Interior Departmont to the Was Department, Re- Jectea—SS to 95, 0.) renewed the smendment offcred by Wiie, uo moncy appropriated by this bill shall Yo pald to apies or fuformors, Refected—1T8 Ar, Glover moved to insert an sdditional section prohibiting executiva ofticcrs of the Government frory exploying any clerk, ageut, enmueer, draughtaman, moesengey, lsborer, or other omploya lu any of thy exscutive dopartments, in the Clty of Washington of whore, except those for whorm mpecific appropria tions are made in the bill, Agreed to, The Commilteo then rose and reported the bill ta the Houso, Without voting on any of the amends 1ments, the Houss adjourned. THE SILK INTEREST. Xts Conditlon nnd Prospects—Amer 1cnn Manufncturers Prospering - Foreign Workmon in New Jersoy, Etc. New Yong, April 27.—At the souunal mesting of the Bilk Amsoctation of America, #. W, Chenoy was cbosen Presidont. The reports road show that the American silk manufacturois aro prosporing, avd rapidly meeting tha dee mands of bame consumption. The total valus of Amorican silk gonds manufactured tn 1438 was £27,158,071 ; American silk ribbons manufao. ured wero valued at $4,807,485, and tha valus of imported sitk ribbons was only $2,981,271, American mannfacturors of mewing-silks and tirist are statod to be competing succossfully with the English manufacturors iu the Canadian murket. Steps were talken to ostablish a * Cone ditioning lurenn ™ in this city to determine the amount of moistures in raw uilk, which is sold by tho ponnd and is vory Asnsitive to inaisture, A enarked featura of the increuned:activity in the mlk trado at P'atarson, N, J., Iast yonr, has been the iwmipration of u number of #o-cailed maye tor silk-weavers from Fraoce aud England. Those men Individually own soveral looms, ‘which in some 1nstances thay have brought with thom, Thoy carry on weaving at their himes, one or moro roowy being fitted up for that pur- pose. CASUALTIES. DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A RAT. dpecial ihapatch to The Chicago Trbune, AxN Arvon. Mich,, April 27.—Joshua (3, Le- 1and, a prominen: roaidont of this city, died to- day from tho cffocta ot the bitoof a rat. Il attompted to kill a rat, whon it bit him on the band, Bomo time after the hand and arm com- monced awelling, sud continuod to swall till thoy reached an enormous wize. Death reanited in about a weels. Mr. Loland was 70 venrs old, came to this councy forty years ago, whea if was aimost a wilderness, 1o waa formerly a mem- bor of tha Htate Legislature, and pruminent in many thiugs. THE IOWA CITY ACCIDENT. Bvecral Disvatch te T'he Chtcago Tribune. Iowa Citv, ls., April 27.—The children of Prof. Parler, of the Btate Univorsity, drownod fu the lows Tiiver last Tuesday, have not yes beon found. Huudreds of our oitizons and students and friends of Prof. Parker from otber parts of the Btate ore in constant search, The rivor in bigh, tho current rapid, and the bodiea may have floated down toward the Misalssl %k Yot hopes aro entortsinod that thoy wil found. The students of the University have laft their classes and divide into squads snd soarch night and asy. ACGIDENT ON A VESSEL, Speciat Dispatch (o The Chicago Tribuna, Mruwaukee, Wis,, April 27.—Whilat the wrock Ing-tug Leviathan was winding a vessal {n the Menominee River to-dav, s bhandspike was caught in the tow-rope, whirled around, and smashed in pleces, striking Willism Hagedorn, opo of the hauds, crushing a log uo that ampu- tation waa nocessary. A eplinter injured Lem Fllaworth, owner of tha boat, and nscessitated hus being carriod home. RECOVERINQG, & Speelal Dispateh o The Chicage Tridune, Canpoxpare, Ill., Aprll 27.—Judgs Prickett, who was severely injured yeaterday, ia thought to be paat danger, and hopea aro sutortained for bis spoody recovery. il OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yonw, April 37.—Arrived—Bleamabip Periore, from Havze, 1 Lowpox, April 37.—Steamer Austrian,’ from Balumore, has arrived out. .