Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1876, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGLS. this is that the original grant to the e . pestriction T Aint he sale, of Jands at less than a certain price per acre, and the Vigrest deal of trouble™ referred to was in re- gard to the removal of that restriction, which was R imately accomplished to the decided advantage the Company. °"m= me;;n"ml sent & reporter to see the 1awyer, and be admitted that the conversation occurred, and, while he wonld not suthorize the use of his name at, present, he did not deny that the version as given above was mbs‘t‘anfiaug though adding that it was not m‘&.vfi-:ga he vglnnmrily said_that Mr. Ficher made snother statement to him which was etill more damaging to Mr. Blaine. BRISTOW AND REFORM. MONDAY'S MASS-MERTING. A mass-medting will be held, under the 1asplces of the Bristow Club, at McCormick Hall, Mondsy evening, June 5, at 8 o'clock, to give expression to the sentiment of the Repub- licans of Chicago favorable to the nomination of Benjamin Helm Bristow, of Keutucky, to the office of President of the United States in the Centennial Year of American Independence. ‘The following are buta few out of 1,300 pames aniting in a call for such meeting: 1. C. Lamed, George L. Otis, C. B. Lawrence, H. H. Nash, J. H. Dunham, N. K. Falrbank, T. W. Harvey, H. Turner, F. D. Gray, Samuel Blies, Tober Coliyer. A. C. McClarg, George Schneider, Jalius Rosen! Jecob Roscnberg, A T. Galt, A. M. Wright, E. G. Mason, Franklin MacVeagh, Edmund Juessen, George St F. Baumann, R §. Ta Eirk Hawes, E. G. Keitn, H. J. Willing, 3. 3. Lalor. Adolph Moses, foR o Do e, A der, Joh & Haihes, A L. Coe, 2 usgel] R E. Jenkins, C. D. Larrabee, A. L. Morrieon, Eugene A. Sittig, Horace White, Charics Degenhardt, John M. Clark, E. A. Otis, Henry Field, Jacob Beiresdort, Alonzo Huntington, L. C. Paine Freer, avid Fales, Angust Baver, N. P. Smith. John G. Shortall, Thomss S. Wallin, Godfrey Snydacker, A. M. Pesce, Edwin Lee Brown, H W, Jackso C. P. Eellogg, Jeanc X, Arnold, X. Ludington, Johu 5. Cooper, William Vocke, Otta Peltzer, ward A, Small, B. F. Mix. Frank M. Blair, S Apgietor muel Appleton, E. S. Waters, John L. Thompson, J. E. Gtls, t, Danlel Goodwin, Jr., Philip Stein, Erast Prussing, , Gwynn Garnett, James A. Kirk, *'W.'C. Reymolds, Julian S. Rumsey. uel Straus, William L. Ogden. The following citizens will address the meet~ ing: the Hon. E. C. Larned, the Rev. Robert Collyer, Judge C. B. Lawrence, A. M. Wrigl::, E£sq., the Hon. Eugene Cary, the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, George Schoeider, Esq., E. A. Small, £sq., the Hon. William Vocke, James L. High, Feq, Franklin MacVeagh, Esq., Kirk Hawes, Esq., the Hon. A. L. Morrison, the Hon. Ed- nund Joessen, E. G. Mason, Esq. ‘PRRN, OP TY EEPURLICEN PARTT. 7o the Editor of The Tribune. HICAGO, June 3.—Perilous times have come ~the great Republican party, and within the next two weeks will be decided the question whether ft shall continne great or be broken into fragments. For one I hope it will live, provided it ean be freed and purified from its present debasing elements. But perish it will and must if it still clings to these elements, which fn the foul atmosphere of Washington are so rapldly disintegrating it. Upon the cholce of this year’s candidate the fature destin: of the party, which cannot survive and flouris f it pominate at Cincinnati any professional office-seeker. Nominate either Morton, Conk- ling, or Blaine, those notorious ‘“‘askers for office,” and the y is irretrievably hurt, if not destroyed. and bargainers for of- fice will not suit the people this year. This is not the best time for smart talke shrewd £chemer ringsters to come to the front. The peoplc are bound to give the office to some one who has not bored them to death by offen- ively. nsldni!or it, and they have evidently icked out the right sort of person in Secretary ristow, who has gone right ahead in the per- formance of his llglumahe duties, neither ex- peeting nor asking {so far as we Lnow) to be tnade President. _How unlike Conkling, Blain a2d Morton, who have ransacked heaven ane earth for influence to carry them on Republican shoulders into the Presidéncy. It is about time the Republican party throw off its fatal londx.. BRISTOW AND REFORM, To the Editor of The Tribuns, Cmrcaco, June 8.—~I notice with heartfelt gratitude that the people are being aroused to the importance of acting in the coming Presi- dential elect{on outside of political eligues and all caucus manipulators. They feel the great necessity of taking this matter out of the hands of political hacks and members of political rings, and, like honest, patriotic business men, cendeavar to have our E{Mc affairs managed by true, tried, and faithful servants—by men opgoued to rings and corruption; and with this end fn view thoy are making an effort to place Gen. Bristow at the nead of our Government, and a Bristow Club been 1 hope every voter who loves his counf and desires to see & man in the Presidentlal chair who is hostile to corruption and thicves, and one who will do all 1in his power to reform theabuses which threaten 10 destroy onr institutions and disgrace us be- fore the civilized world, will join the Bristow Club, and use a1l honorable means to elect Gen. Bristow President of the United States. PATRIOT. BRISTOW. - v ke Edlior of The Tridune. CBEICAGO, June 3.—Bristow is not only the favorite candidate of Jowa Germans, but of all the Germans in the United States, I think. Put them to test. Yours, MW TOM SCOTT. S BIGGEST JOB—PROJECTS IN THE INTEREST OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RATLROAD—PUR- CHASE OF KEWSPAPERS—SCHEME TO CON- TEOL THE TWO NATIONAL CONVESTIONS. Qorrespondence New York Sun. ‘WasmvagroN, June 1.—The announcement msde by the Swn of the purchase of the World by Tom Scott, and the disguised admission of its truth by the World itsclf, have excited a good deal of feeling here on the part of Demo- crats, and elicited considerable comment. That this great railroad magnate bad previously in- vested enongh money to sccure s controlling in- terest in two other newspapers of considerable ability and influence in two Esstern cities, was very well known. It has also been asserted on good authority that the friends of Bcott, who are !Bnlgou_\y interested with him in the Texas Pa- difie road scheme, were negotisting for the Chicago Times. These facts were sufficiently welghty to make public men at the Capital pause wonder what all this meant, and whence came All the money necessary to enable the Rallroad King to venture into this new field of lon. It was the general belief that Scott’s private fortune was ceriously impaired by the panic of 1873, and the heavy foad of the protested paper of the California & Texas Coustruction Com- —the Inside Credit Mobilier of the Texas F'“ c—which he has been compelied to carry ever since. It must be remembered, however, that Scott is now President of the it Penn- sylvania Rallroad Company, and is the absolute controller of nearly 7,000 miles of railroad oper- ated by that Company. There are thousands of contractors, bankers, speculators, and business- men who look to him for opportunities to turn an honest penny in serving these great corpora- tions. It would only be necessary for Col.Scott to say to some of the wealthiest of these men: 41 want you to invest a few thousands in order to help mie control three or four great newspa- ‘pers to be used in man public senti- ment for our it Southern Paclfic Raftroad enterprise, which will make us very richif we can get the Government to suggg the credit for its bonds,” and the money would be forthcom- ing.. This doubtless is the way the money has been raised for the purchase of the ¥World and its tenders in the East,and from the same source the cash will certainly come to secure the Chicago Iiml:! if Scott wants it. Of course there are political ends to_be accomplished in this way, and there sre plenty of Democratic politicians ready, in_order to advance their own plane, to enter Into Scott’s scheme to levy on Public Treasury. thu: is g well-known fact that 2 combination of eome kind has been made between Scott and the Democratic National Executive Committee. The of New {lmk' a wntmmgg interest in which was recently purchased by tus Schell and his friends, bas beunz_enf— ously su) the Texas-Pacific job ever since Itpnsmf to the hands of its new owners. But .$300 3 mon! thisis not all. The National Executive Com- mittee has had headquarters in Washington all ‘winter,~a thing never before heard of. It main- tains this headquarters at an exgense of nearly o e qut.er art of which gocs to pay the es of two rngn, whose only busi- nesshereis to advocate on the floorof the House of Representatives the Texas-Pacific job. One of these men, Kingsbury by name, is the pet of Senator Wallace, who endeavored to secure him an appointment in the Clerk’s office of the onse of Repre- sentatives. He was, of course, wanted there for the same purpose, for_which le is now kept here by the Democratic National Exceutive Committee,~to )obb§ for Tom Scott’s job. He would bhave obtained the official position he sought had he not been so indiscrete as to offer Cl:gk Adams §250 for the appointment. This cooked his guose with Mr. Adams, who is ad ‘honest man, and_above suspiciony elther in the matter of accepting bribes or appointing lobby-. ists, if he knows them. | The ticket this combination of jobbers intend to imposeupon the Democratic party at St. Louis is Hendricks and in. The former al- ways supported, whilein the Senat®; subsidy legislation, aud the latter has alreadyhad 2 profitable connection with the Memphis-El Paso swindle—the lineal ancestry of Scott’s Texas Pacific job. The St. Lonis Convention is to be made at all hazards to indorse the Texas-Pacific scheme, and the ticket made here- is to be the standard-bearer of the army of plunderers inthe grand raid to be made on the people’s treasury. Of course Tom Scott is not staking his_all on the success of the Democratic gan y in 1876. He is no politician, but, like Jay Gould, Le is “a Democrat with Democrats, 2 Republican with Republicans, doubtful with the doubtful, and a Texas-Pacific man all the time.” He is using the same means to control the Republican Convention at Cincinnati that he is employinz to manipulate the Democratic Convention at St. Louis. His ticket to be made at Cincinnati has Blaine for the fore end, and Hayes for the rear end. All the influence which this adroit manipulator, this unscrupulous manager of 7,000 miles of raflroads, can command, is now being used to run in the interests of his jobs the two great political parties of the country. Tru- R@ufisis something to cause the believers in Republican institutions to pause and reflect, es- pecidlly in the Centennial year of the Republic. MINOR MEETINGS. THIRD WARD. ‘The Third Ward Republican Club held their regular weekly meeting last night at No. 960 ‘Wabash avenue. Mr. A, J. Galloway presided, and there was a large attendance of members. ‘There was no bnsinessof importance before, mecting. Ald. Aldrich stated what steps’the Finance Committee are taking to tide the City Administration over the present crisis, and as- sured the meeting that the working majority of the Council would labor in the cause of economy and retrenchment. Mr. John A. Clough, one of the ward delegates to Springfilld, made a re- rt of the proceedings of the State Convention. e Club then adjourned to Saturday evening, the 17th inst. SEVENTH WARD. There was to have been a meeting of Seventh Ward Democrats last evening at the corner of Twelfth and Waller streets, but there is an evi- dent split among the unterrified in that smmg hold, and all the efforts of Mike Bailey and Ald. Hildrcth combined scem powerless to effect an organization. The people of the ward are, no doubt, sick of the conduct of their Aldermanic represcntative, and have foresworn allegiance to the Democratic lesders. The workingmen in the Seventh =are numerons, and they have just begun to open their eyes and take in the sitnation. Bristow men are numerous among them, and where there are 50 many hon- est yeomen they are bound to support the rep- recentative of honesty. NO MEETING. A Bristow meeting was announced to be held 1ast evening at the corner of State and Thirty- fourth streets, but only three or four persons ‘made their :l])panmnce, and these did not know who had called the mecting, and consequently mothing could be done. ——— MISCELLANEOTUS. FLORIDA REPUBLICANS. NeWw YORK, June 3.—A dispatch from Madi. son, Fla, says: A bolt was made in the Repub leanState Convention yesterday, United States Senator Conover and Representatives Purman and Watts conducting it. The bolters secured another ball, and United States Senator Cono- ver was nominated for Governor, and Mr. Lee for Lieutenant-Governor. It was resolved not to send n delegation to Cincinnati. Gow. Stearns isthe leading spirit of the regular Con~ vention, and the qumig between himself and Conover is an old affair. ANTF-SPENCER. MOXTGOMERY, Jume 3.—Marenzo Connty, one of the larzest negro countics in the State, has repudiated the Eémncer or May 24, Conyen-~ tion, and indorscs the anti-Spenver ticket. F. E eall, a prominent colored Republican, and alternate elector for the State-at-large on the Spencer ticket, led the moyement. ———— CASUALTIES. - CARBONDALE ITEMS. Bpecial Dispaich to The Tribune, CARBOSDALE, 1I1,, June 3.—About 8 o'clock last evening rain began to descend, continuing with great force until nearly midnight. During this time about 2 inches of water fell. Old citizens state it was the heaviest in their experience. Howe's Great London Circus was, at the time it began to rain, under full exhibition. The canvas was crowded with people, mostiy from town, who, in returning home, received a thorough drench- ing. A sad accident befell the family of Will- fam Forbush, a wagon-maker of our city, while returping home. He with bis wife and two children ‘were passing over 2 high sidewalk and walked off into a deep ditch. 1 but a son 6 years of age were rescued, but the boy was car- ried by the swift current through a culvert and some 250 yards before he was found, having been drowned. STRUCK ILE. % CrxeINmATI, Juae 8.~—The Commercial's Mead- ville, Pa., special says this afternoon lightning struck an oil-tank belonging to 0. D, Harring- ton, 1 milesouth of Oil City. The tank, containing 21,000 barrels of crude ofl, immediately ex- loded and set fire to a tank owned by McGrew ros., containing 23,000 barrels of ofl. Both tanks are gaid to belong to_the Sandy Pipe Line Company. Loss estimated at $100,000. DROWNED. Spectal Dispaich to The Tribune. Foxp Du Lac, Wis., June 3—Mrs. Hansen, wife of Christ Hansen, a prominent farmer living 2 miles south of this city, was Iast even- ing drowned by felling into Loper’s mill-pond. ——— FIRES. IN CHICAGO. The alarm from Box 743 at 9:35 o'clock last evening was caused by firein the two-story frame house No. 96 Larrabee street, owned by ‘William Hessner, and occupied as a tailor shop by Joseph Cush. Damage, $25; cause and fn- surance unknown, ‘The alarm from Box 87 at 10:45 o’clock yester- day morning was caused by a fire in the drying- room of T. E. Spaid’s starch factory, on” the corner of Clark and Twelfth strects. " A sccond and third alarm was immediately sounded, as the blaze was directly above the boiler-room, making an explosion extremely probable. The flames were fortunately "easily “subdued with only a trifling loss to the building. The stock 'was considerably damaged by water. THE WEATHER. ‘WASHINGTON, June 4—i a. m.—Forthe Uppor Lakes, rising followed by falling barometer, westerly winds back to warmer southerly, part- y clondy or clear weather. LOCAL OBSERFATIOSS. Curciao, June 3. Wind. | B.|Weather Time._| Bar. | Thridfu.| 532 m. |20.78| 57 11:18a. m.|29.75 67| 00p. m.[20.77| 65, 53D, M. {29.701 65| 44 P 84} 60 10:18 p. m. 129.86/ 59| Maximum thermoameter. 68. Minimum, 57, GENEIAL OBSERVATIONS. Guicaco, June S—Midnight. Bar.| TAr.| Wind. |Rain)Weather. " i} (T 49 S, . 46 “Stations. Cheyenne.. Titsmarck. That old Norse King hit the nafl on the h who, when asked what his religion was, P ed: ' Askmy wife. Our God than we mar - ‘Women are nearer to WASHINGTO Prospect of a Compromise on the Appropriation Bills. The Senate Non-Concurs on All the House Salary ‘Reductions. An Ydea of Our Carter’s Pet Method for Civilizing the Savages. Messrs, Cox and Beelye Fail to Appreciate the Beauties of the Schems, LEGISLATIVE PROSPECT. THE APPROPRIATION BILLS. Speclal Dispatch so The Tribune. ‘Wasmygroy, D. C., June 3.—The House Committce on Appropriatious indulged to-day in some general debate on the state of the ap- propriation bills, and the members secemed to think that an adjournment by the 1st of Jaly was possible. The Committce has the Army bill ready to report, and will also report the sundry civil bills Tuesday. The Army bill amountsto §24,000,000in round numbers, which is $3,000,000 below the appropriationslast year, and $1,000,000 from the revised estimates submitted by Secretary Taft. Mr. Randall thinks that the Sundry Civil bill will be cut down $12,000,000, and, therefore, that the total ten appropriation bills as reported will be reduced from the esti- mate of $53,250,278, and = reduction of $35,250,- 120 from the AFFm riations at the last session of Congress. the Senate restores the $15,- 000,000°that the House Committee has stricken off, Mr. Randall finds that he will still have ef- fected a reduction of $20,000,000 of the annual appropriations. An ‘understand- ing has been reached by which both the Consular and Diplomatic and the Military Academy bills will be disposed of in confercnce ‘| committee next weck, and the Democrats augur that there will be no further dead-lock, and that the appropriation bills can be passcd be- fore the 1st of Ji ul{. The reports of the fnvestigating committecs, hovwever, wiil likely oceupy a 1gmud deal of time, and there islittle prospect of an adjournment - before the 15t of AugusL,Dcven if the Belknap trial is put over until December, as is now .probable. HOUSE BUSINESS. INDIAN CIVILIZATION—A NEW PLAN. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Waisomeroy, D. C., June 3.—In the House the Indian Appropriation bill was under discus- sion the entire day. Before the day was ended the old slave-holders, led by the Postmaster- General of the Confcderacy, advocated mis- cegenation, which the Southern people so long pra:ticedin their good old days. This misce- genation debate is interesting reading. Our Car- ter appearad as an advocate of mixed blood, and claimed for himself that he is part Indian. The proceedings were dry, and related to routine matters until the clause was reached relating to incidental expenses, when Mr. Seelye, of Massa- chusetts, offered an amendment that no part of the appropristion for ammunition shall be extended to white men who live with Indian women and have assumed the inter-mar- riages, which were too frequent. Reagan, of ‘Texas, hoped the amendment would not be adopted. He belicved the Indian race would be elevated }K!be admixture of the blood of the whites. e purctblood Indian could not be controlled or civilized, but the race was elevated by the inter-marriage. It would be economy and in the interest of peace to make an appro- fdntlou tosend able-bodied men among the ndians and encourage them to inter-marriage. HARRISON (OUR CARTER) also opposed the amendment. There had been bright intellects in the country who had Indian blood in their veins, and theré were men Uving today. He believed he was one of them in whose veins flowed Indian blood. He would make the declaration of & man and woman that they were wiling tolive together asmanand wife # valid marriage.” Let them come together with- out hindrance, and raise familics of children. This would have & beneficial effect. But pro- hibit those marriages and a great wrong would be fi: etrated upon the Indian race. . Seelye, of Massachusetts, said he had been surprised at a great many propositions on this floor, but none more sarprised him than the Eropusmon to abollsh schools and promote civ- ization in the way proposed. Sunset Cox scouted the idea advanced by Har- rison, whom he designated as the CHAMPION OF THE MARINE BAND, that knowledge and_ civilization was to be pro- moted by a sort of Scotch mock-marrisge, by miscegenation, by the admixture of the two races. The contact of the white with the In- dian resnited crime, and moralization, and debauchery. To out Mr. Harrison’s views would be to ad other and greater crimes to the whisky and fiambl(ug in the Indian country. The suggestion 2d been made that some of the brightestminds in the country had Indian blood in their veins. He knoew that Virfiiuin had produced some such, but she did not follow in thatline. Shefollowed in the linc of her Jeffersons and Harrisons, and Mouroes. Mr. Harrison suggested that Jefferson had In- dian blood in his veins. Mr. Cox, referring to the gentleman of the Marine Band, said he would want better historl- cal evidence of thot fact before crediting it. If it was so, he would never, no, never, no, never vote for Jefferson again. [Laughter. Mr. n argded that the admixture of races had always produced the most beneficial results with the Anglo-Saxon and with other races. Every interest demanded that these intermarriageés should be encouraged. Mr. Scelye's amendment was rejected. THE INDIAN BUREAU. ‘When the section tehfin$ to_the transfer of the Indian Bureau of the War Department was reached, Mr. McCreery, of Towa, made the point of order that it was new legislation, and did not retrench expenses, and quoted the decision made by Speaker Keir when the proposition g;.sds&ndil; on u’.e ’Legishliv(;'l mllz . Mr. Dt of Pennsylvania, oppused the point of order, and said his scction had been pre- pared insucha way a8 to meet the objections that were urged against it when it was in the legislative bill. Heread a list of offices that would be abolished by the transfer, and said the saving would be at feast 000. M. Scelye, of Massachusetts, advocated the point of order, and said Mr Randall was apsychological study, and could not see but one course to parsue. ‘Whatever he determines upon he set before him and persistently follows it, and whatever he determines to oppose hc opposes with a per- tinacity that has no reasoninit. An cnlarged suf.esmunshga should iuduce a legislator to look at all sides of a guestion, and to examine itinallits bmrlugs. he gentleman was con- tinually talking abont economy, but there were those who differcd from his Views who were running also for economy, but with.far more in- telligence. He does not see the difference be- tween a real and false economy. IN THE SENATE. THE LEGISLATIVE BILL. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasnmeroy, D. C., June 3.—The Senate made great progress with the Legislative bill to-day. The amendments of the Scnate Com- mittee, which restored the reductions made by the House, were all agreed to. It is understood that the Democrats on the Appropriation Com- mittce voted in every instance with the Repub- licans against the House reductions. The most. significant action of the Senate was the vote re- storing the President's salary to $50,000 annu- ally. The vote in detail upon this was a5 follows» de- YEAS. Allison, *Dawes. Paddock, ‘Anthony, Edmunds, Patterson, Bayard, Frelinghuysen, Ransom, ooth, Hamlin, Robertzon, Boutwell, Johuson, Sargent, ruce, McMillan, Sherman, Chrietiancy, Mitchell, Epencer, Clayton, ‘Morzill (Maiae), Windom, Cooper. Morton, ‘Withers. ragin, Norwood, Bogy, Hit n:m):‘ Aaxq ogy, chcoe ey, g:::';eu. Ig:llny. Sle\‘&{‘xson, Goldthwaite, Mc’(’:‘mer_’, THCTIAL The smendment making the internal revenue collection districts 181 instead of 105 was ag'rgcd to. Boutwell made a statement in regard to . the work of the Committees revising and cor- recting errors and omissions in the’ statistics. Their work did not affect in any important Pty L e men: use bill on the subject, whi ot placel o the ealgadares e sabiech NOTES AND NEWS. PUBLIC YTNDS. Special Dispatch o The Tribune, ‘WAsEINGTON, D. C., June 3.—The Republic- an Treasury officials state that the utmost economy will be necessary to carry the Govern- men through the fiscal year without o large de- ficit. The general prostration in business is as- signed a3 its cause. & THE INPLATIONISTS. ‘The Committce on Rules has reported a new rule authorizing the Committee on Banking'and Currency to report at any time during this ses- sion of Congress. This is a direct re- sult of the -Democratic caucus on finance recently, and shows the strongth of the inflationists. The purposc of this new rule {5 to allow the Banking and Cursency Com- mittee at any time to report s bill for the un- conditional repeal of the act for the resump- tion of specle payment.: It is sald that Cox, Chairman of that Committee, has so far yielded to Democratic inflation influence as to consent that such a bill be reported to the House from the Committee, POSTPONED: - The Committec on Expenditures in the War Department have postponed the Kerr investiga- tiou till Monday, when an effort will be made to close the Inquiry. NATAL. ‘The steamor Marfop, recently ordered to the Rio Grande for_the protection of American in- terests, was to-day ordered by telegram to sail for Europo. REPORTED SLAVE-STEAMER. This morning the Rev. Emanuel Van Orden called upon Sir Edward Thornton, and stated.| that the Nellfe Martins, of the Star-Ball Line of steamers running between New York and Rio de Janciro, and belonging to an English company, though styled United States Mail Steamship Company, ‘arrived in Rio de Janeiro on the Ist of March Jast, carrying slaves to be delivered. The British Minister promised to inquire into the matter and report to his Gov- erument, NEW YORE, June 3.—In regard to the com- plaint of the Rev. Van Orden, that stecamships glym§ - between New York sod Rio c Janeiro carry slaves from one Bra- zilian port to ~ another, the officers of the Company have cxhibited the way-bills of the steamers, and by them show that the greatest number of colored men taken at any one time from one port to another of Brazil was twenty, and these are body-servants of Cuban assengers. If a planter hired a passage for imself and one or two servants, it would be & matter of impertinence, the oflicers say, to in- uire whether or not the servants were slaves or ree. As to conveying any number of glaves as such, either with or without a cabin passenger a«mmfmy{nfi them, the story was entircly de- void of foundation. THE RECORD. SENATE. ‘WasgmngroN, D. C., June 3.—Mr, Allison called up the Senato bill providing for the agree- ment with the Sioux Nation in regard to a por- tion of thelr reservation, and for other pur- poses. Mr. Edmunds .offered a substitute author- izing the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Commiseion, to consist of five persons, to visit assoon as possible the tribes of Sloux Indians, with a view to negotiating with them a treaty or eement for the cession to the United States of the right of said lands. After the discussion, Mr. Ingalls suggested to Mr. Edmunds to amend his substitute so as 0 authorize the Commisezoners to treat with the Indians for the relinguishment of the Black Hllls. and otherwise for the - preservation of peace. Mr. Edmunds accepted the suggestion, and modi- fied his substitate accordingly. 2ir. Ingalls submitted an amendment, providin that any report made by the Commlesioners shal be tranzmitted to the President, together with any eement made with #ald [ndians, who ghsll trans- mit the eame to Congress for u{)provnl. Agreed to. ‘The question then being on the substitute of Mr. Et ds a5 amended by Ingalls, after further dis- cussion, ft was agreed to without division. ‘Tne questlon then belng on adopting the eubsti- tute as amended, instead of the biil reported by the Committee, further discussion took place, when Alr. Allison submitted an amendment authorizing the War Department to furnish transportation, enbsietence, and protection to the Commissioners during the time occapled by them in the discharge ol their duty, Agreed to, ! The bill was resd a third time and ‘passed— yeae, 30; nays, 8. The Senate then resumed congideration of unfin- ished business, bcin? the bfil making appropria- tions for the legislative, exccutive, and judiciary expenses of the Government for the yes: cading Jane 30, 1877, the pending question being an amendment of the Committec on Appropriations to restore the salary of the President to 850,000 from and_after March 4, 1877, and it was agreed to—veas, 31; nays, 11, Other amendments of the Committee, restoring the galary of the PrivateSecretary to the President, and salaries of employes in the Department of State, were agreed to. E ‘When the paragraph in regard to clerical force in the office of the Secretary of the Tressnry was reached, r. Eaton said the people of this country demanded that the expenses of the Government should be reduced. 1In his judgment, there would be a deficiency in the revenge of the Government this year of from $18,000, 000 to $20, 000,000, and mnext year the receipts would fall off etill more, and the deficiency then would be between $40, and 850,000, 000. The amendment proposed by the Committee on Apeopristions, restoring the salatles, etc., of clerks In the offlce of the Secretary of the Treusnry, was ogreed to, Other amendments of the Committee, restoring the salaries of clerks in the various bureauns of the ‘lreasury Department, ofices of the Comptroiler of the Currency and Commissioners of Internal Rev- enue, independent of the Treasurics a1 New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimorc, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans,and Charleston, were agreed to. _Also smendments abolishing the ofiice of Deputy Register of the Treasury, making :l]:{!rapflullans for designated depositories at Buf- falo and Pittsburg, and restoring the salaries of employes in the Mint Burean, as well as in the Jintat Philadelphia, and the Branch-Mints at San Francieco, Carson, Denver, and New Orleans, and assay-offices at New York, Helena, and Bolse City. All other amendments propozed by the Committee on Appropriations restoring the salaries of Territo- rial officers, members of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, and cmplgu in the War and Nory Departments and thelr various bureans, were agreed to. The Senate Committee reported in favor of strik~ ing out of the Honse bill the provision repealing Secs. 3,150 and 3,100 of the roviscd statutes, which authorize the appointment of Supervieors of Internal Revenue. On motion of Mr. Sherman, the Senate non-con- carred in this amendment, as the eections author- izing the upgnlmmenl of these oflicers are repealed. “After finishing the clause in regard to the appro- riation for the War and Navy Departments, the Senate went into exccntive scssion, and, when the doors were reopened, adjourncd. HOUSE. Mr. Cate offered a resolutfon dfrecting the Com-~ mittee on Whisky Frauds in St. Louis to investi- gate the question of fraud on the revenue in the manufacture of whisky and wines in Milwaukes, and whether nny oflicers of the United States were concerned therein, Soon afterwards the House went_into Committee of tha Whole, with Mr. Springer in the chair, on the Indian Appropriation bill. - ‘The day was consumed in the discussion of a variety of amendments, most of ther offered by Mr. Seelye, and most of them u%ccufl on vote, Among them wes one to forbid the furnish- ing of rations to white men living with Indian womer. The ameniment was oppozed by 1larricon, Wwho boasted for himself and the gentle- man from New York é““mm“d o be Cox) that they had Indian blood in their veine. When he looked at the picture in the rotunda of the Capitol representingthe ** Baptism of Pocahontas, " one of hisancestors, he feit that amalgamation with the Tn- dians should be encouraged. 1t was the true method of civilization smong Indians. Among the best citizens, sons of the Northwestern frontier, were half-breeds and threc-quarter bloods. Some of the proudest families of Chicago, and there were reat many prond people there, had Indian blood in their veins, Air. Harrison algo expressed the opinion, in ref- erence to the amendment about education, that cdncation only tended to make Indians worse than they were before. Mr. Cox expressed his diseent from the views ut forward by the representative of the Marine and, o band not yet recognized among the Indian tribes. (Laughter.] The amendment was rejected. The Committee, having reached the point of the Bill providing for the trunsfer of the Indian Burcau from the Interior to the War Department, Mr. McCrary made a point of order that it changed existing laws, and did not on its faco re- trench expendifures, After discnseion, the Committee rose with the understanding that the polnt of order wonld be de- cided when the Honse next went into Committee. Mr. Wood, from the Commitice of Ways and Means, made a report in regard to the Aluska fur- seal gshery lease, exonerating the officers of the Government and Company from all allegations of fraud. _Ordered printed. 4 Mr, Randall, from the Committee on Rules, re- orted an amendment to Rule 74, anthorizing the "’“‘3‘“"" on Banking acd Currency to report at any time. pposition to the rnie was made by Mr. Kelley and others, and withont coming toa decision the Honze adjourned. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Loxpox, Junc .8.—Steamer Presnitz, Coept. Armstrong, from New York May G for this port, mmd yesterdsy with shaft broken, arrived ay. N:ev Yorg, June 8.—Arrived, steamship Neckar, from Bremen. QUEENSTOWN, June 3.—Arrived, steamships Chelydra, from Philadelphia, and- Guillermo, from New Orleaus, have arrived out. - ————— DOM PEDRO. New YoRx, June 3.—The Emperor of Brazil, Empress, and suite arrived here. this evening from Wasnington on their way to Niagara Felis. The Imperial party visited the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. The Paris Salon---Dore’s “Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem.” Sylvestre's Locusta Trying the Effects of Poisons Before Nero.” High Value of 01d China---The Daily Life of Victor Hugo. THE PARIS SAT.ON. Henry James, Jr., writes from Paris, May 5, to the New York Tribune: ‘The Salon thls year isvory large; there are, exclusive of drawings and cartoons, and without making "mention of sculpture, 2,005 pletures. For simple brute size a colosenl canvas by Gustave Dore carries off the palm,—a canvas presenting to us M. Dore’s conception of *Christ’s Entrance into Jerusalem.” I do not sce what old memoriea of admiration for Gustave Dorp's genius in the days when he treated it with common humanity shonld avail to make an even very aminble critic hesitate to speak of this as a rather shameless performance. 1L Dore treats his genlus now as you wouldn’t treat a tough and patient old cab-horse. I know of few spectacles more painful in the annals of art. Imagine a colored print from the supple- ment of an fllustrated paper magnified a thousand-fold and made to cover almost a whole sideof a great ball, and you have M. Dore's sacred picture. A vast, garish crowd (s sprawling on its kneesovera mass of palm- boughs, in front of 2 pastebosrd colonnade, through one of thearches of which a figure which a school-boy might have daubed, advances on an ass. There is no color—or worse than none—no drawing, no expression, no feeling, no remotest hint of detail; nothing but an im- mense mechanieal facility, from which every vestige of charm and imagination has departed. But it is really vb'xl'y naif on my purt to be so explicit. There 'is an immense Jeanne d’Arc by M. Montchabron, bound- ing over agglomerated corpses, brandishing her eword and heroieally screamings I don't know what sustained the artist thmug]x the exe- cution of this very spacious work,—it was uot the force of talent. There isa great canvas refrcscuflng “ Harmony,” for & Governmental ceiling, by M. Bin, full of elegant muses and foreshortened lute-players; (M. Bin's plcture, which is meant to be above one's head, horizon- tu.fl{. i hung against the wall, and the specta- tor in consequence is made to feel as if he, tipsi- 1{, had lost his proper st\mfleuolnt,—nn imputa- tlon which Le resents by not admiring the pict- ure as much, perhaps, as he ought to do). ‘The strikjng picture of the year, and the one, probably, fo which nincteen-twentieths of the visitors to the Salon attribute most talent, is a cat subject by M. Sylvestre—* Locusta Try- {5: the Eifects of Poisons Before Nero.” As'a subject the thing is detestable, inasmuch as it allows almost no_chance for beauty; but as an.| accomplished and plcturcsque piece of paint-? ing of the younger, larger, and richer Academic sort, combining 2 good deal of reality with 2 pgood deal of arrangement, it is" & remarkable success. I suppose the icture is marked for the medal of honor,—orat east for the first medal in painting. Nerois seated, leaning forward, with his elbow on the back of his chalr and his hand over his mouth, watching the contortions of & elave who, ex- tended on the pavement, is expiriug in agony before him. Beside bim, and nearer the spectator, I8 seated the horrible Locusta, descanting upon the propertics of her dose, her foce turned toward him, and her arm, with a strangely familar gestare, lylng across his knee,—the movement of the stretched hand meunwhile point to her cxplanation. She fs a gaunt, swarthy Gypsy, half naked, and with the profile of & murdérces, Nero is both listening and watching, and the grave, intent, inquisitive de- pravity Gf s dark,’ oty youthful iace is very y cleverly rendered. The portentous familfarity, the sinister * chattiness ” of this preciouscouple, isindeedin a high degree effective. But the strong point of the picture is the flgure of the victim _ of their ~interesting experiment,— the slave who is writhing in a hor- rible spasm upon the polished marble pavement. This is strong drawing and strong painting, and it does great honor to the young artist, The man is « magnificent, fel- low, in his prime, with a fair beard and a yellow head-cloth, and he stretches ont his arms with au agonized movement which is at once very real and very noble. Into this figure, indeed, the painter has introduced a certain element of beauty,—it has great breadtir and yet rauch de- tail, “great_ solidity and.yet not a little elegance. It is, in a word, very intelli- gent.* Bup there is something yvulgar in the Count de Juigne said that there wasa great dif- ference in the value of the different articles, some having been estimated by Manhcim at one, two, three, and 25 high as six thousand francs the plate, and that there were several not worth 200 francs. It was possible to get 100,000 francs for the lot, but in order to effect & speedy sale he would take half that sum for the collection. There were other details in the Count’s letter to Mme. Lafitte, but this is the substance of it. The lady showed the letter to Col. Mountjoy- Martyn,” who sent a friend over to examine the china and to buy if he saw fit. The collection was taken, and the Count recelved 50‘1000 francs in exchange for forty-five lates. When the collection reached London, 'ol. Martyn had it examined by some experts, who were more jealous than just, perhaps, and they pretended to discredit the porcelains, Col. Martyn believed that he bad been imposed upon by the Count de Juigne, and entered 8 sult for the restitution of his money. He claimed that an:(y thirty-one of the plates were real Sevres, and that fourteen were of modern make and decoration. The Count declared that be had never pretended to the contrary, and said that these fourteen pleces of lesser value had been thrown in as accessories to the bargain. He had clearly stated that the Sevres plates were worth more thau the sum asked, and that there were others of smaller value. While this suit was in progress Col. Martyn died, and it was taken up b{ his heirs, and in the name of Mme. Charlotie Hobhouse. The case had been once decided sgainst the Colonel, but his heiress ngpcn]ed, and the case has just been finished in Paris. The Tribunal fully sus- tains the first judgment, and goes even_farther. It declares emphatically. that the Count de Juigne has offered proof of the genuine char- acter of this porcelain, and a larger value has been afilxed to it thanhedemanded. Andthereis every evidence; also, that the fourteen blue plates were never offered as Sevres, but merely fine porcelains thrown into the bargain: but on ex- amination it has been found that these fourteen plates, not guaranteed, are really; ;;rofluuuanq of the manufactory of Sevres. This is a revelation which the beirs'of Col. Martyn did not expect, and they will probably be better contented with thelr bargaln, It is not every collection of por- celain that can be thus authenticated by the law- courts, and one can_readily imegine that its grlcc lias been considerably enbanced. .If the uigne colicction could be resold iu Paris at the rcéent time it would bring ncarer 100,000 francs than 50,000. But for all this one is as- tounded at the thought that forty-five old plates should bring such 8 sum. -~ VICTOR IUGO. f _ Victor Hugo (says a French writer) lives at 31 Rue de Clichy, oceupying an apartment in the second story, above the one accupied by Mme. Charles Fingo and her children. This apart- ment is very -remarksable for its drawing-room (or salon), decorated in perfect taste, 2Jthough picturcs are banished from it. Neither is a plano to be seen—a blank in the furnishing for way the picture Is lighted, sowmething coarse in ite “mfl something in the effect it produces that falls below the talent that has been expended uponit. M. Sylvestre is not s paiuter wha sets you dreaming about his future. * The same sub- ject has been treated by another artist, M. ‘Aublet, with_inferior, although with noti SKill, M. Aublet gives us three or four poison- ed slaves, , wriggling over the pavement {n du‘le{l:n! attiltnlxdes; the ctflccz s uh’Fm- ly grotesque,—they = suggest toads lop- nggr cmtq after ~a Shower, This sim- ple jest is not heartless, inasmuch as 3. Aublet’s slaves do not produce a lively impres- sion of reality. His picture is flanked on cach side by an cqually huge and much less clever secne of torture,—one,a sv~called Diversion of a Courtesan,”~—a lady reclining ona gigantic couch and watching a_slave blced to death at her feet (I recommend the subject), the other ‘ Clytemnestra and Agamemnon,” recking with blood and mediocrity. It is u charming trio, and it is a great pity it should not be seen by those critics in Berlin who aflirm that Frencu art is chiefly remarkable for its cruelty. If M, Sylvestre’s plcturc is the most impres- sive in the sulon, I laye no doubt that the most popular will be the contribution of M. Detaille, the admirable military painter. It is indeed al- ready, of ail the pictures, the most closely sur- rounded, and ft hasa good right to its honors. Itiscalled “‘En Reconnaissance,” and repre- sents a battalion of chasscurs coming into a vil- lage strect in which a cavalry fight has just taken place and scattcred iis trophies over the ground. A squad of sharpshooters is pre- ccdqu the rest of the troop and advancing cau- tiously along the crooked, blood-stained lane. ‘They bave paused, and are scanning, the lay of the land in front of them, the leader checking them with a backward movement of his hand, while he listens to an urchin who has come “5 to speak to him—a patriot of 13 {n blouse ant muiller, doicg his boyish best to be uscful, and give damaglng tiformation. This boy, with his ight, small body, &0 well indicated beneath his thin " blouse, his cold, red face, his hand in his pocket, his scanty trousers, is the great success of the picturs; in the gesture with Which he points engerly and modestly down the street there is something singnlarly vivid and true. On the right, in the foreground, a Prus- sian lancer and his horsc have, lately tumbled head forcinost; though they are not yet cold they are pitifully and awkwardly dead. A couple of the sharpshooters are glancing down at them as they ‘::!lss with different” expressions— 1t served him right ” in one cases * It’s a bad business ak best ” in the other. These men are all admirably studied. On the left a gerdarme, badly,wounded, has collapsed agalnsta garden wx\uihruu;:h the open gate of whicha_man, peeping out, is trying to drag him in. Inthe rear, Lhroug‘.\ the gray,snowy air, the rest of the eurs are mmlng up. The picture is re- markably perfect and complete,—a page torn straight from unpublished history. —— OLD CHINA. Some {dea of how old porcelain gets its ficti- tious value van be obtained (says the dmerican Register, Paris) from a curious case just decided in one of the tribunals of. the Seine. In 1872 the Compte de Juigue, 2 membér of the French Assembly, made up his mind to sella fine col- lectfon of Sevres porcelain plates that Le pos- sessed. He stated this fact to Mme. Lafitte, an English lady by birth, and she made some in- quiries relating to the matter when in England. JMme. Lafitte was not long in finding a purchas er, and wrote to Comte de Juigne that Col. Mountjoy-Martyn would probably takeit. The proprictor of the plates then wrote to the lady, giving an account of the prop- erty. He began by saying that he was ready to sell Lis porcelains if he could geta good price for them, and believed that prices were then running high. One of his friends had sold o collection at the Hotel Drouot at insen- sate prices; and the Count had thought of try- ing the same thing, but was detained at Ver- eailles Ly his parlinmentary labors. He pre- ferred to sell at private sale. To send one plate a3 a sampie would be of no avail, for no two of the lot were alike. His grandfather was Goy- ernor of Sevres under Lounis XVI,and had given to nim the first plate of each set made for presentation to sovereigns . and Ambassadors. In congequence the collec- tion was not only "a ‘curious - one,” but bad historical value for amateurs. The which he will not quarrel with the master of the house. ! 2 He begins his day early. At 7 o'clock he rises and takes a cold bath, summer and winter. H_n.a toilet finished, he walks briskly through the dif- ferent rooms of his lodgings. This Is, in the language of hydropathists, to ““bring on the re- action.” Blu'. socmxhh \vulrhdgioms him, and he ives himself up to it until 11:30. E‘Thc grandfather then breakfasts with his ndchildren,—George at his right, Janne at is left, opposite thelr mother. His affection for these children is well known to his intimate friends; it amounts to adoration. After breakfast he works till 4, Then Victor Hugo goes out—always slone. He oftenest takes his promcnades on foot. Sometimes, however, he scales the roof of the first passing omnibus—white, grécn, or brown, hie knows not —and rolls away, |deep in ‘thought, without knowing where he goes. His friends szy that his remarkable/poetic fuspirations often come to him on this hizh place. When he Is at last obliged to descend at the end of the line—the Bastile, the Glacierd, or the Bridge of Alma—he mouuts another carriage, which takes him back to the polnt nearest his home. x They dire late at Victor Hugo's. The cuisine is exqnisite, and proves hiscook a master. There are alvays guests present, but no_one ever ban- ishes_the children ;from their place by their grandfather’s side. After dinuer, overy evening, Victor ITugo receives many visitors, not onfy family friends, but strangers and thc curious. However intercsting the day may be, the day closes with the game regularity which pervades it from the beginning, and ai 11 o'dock pre- cisely he retires. PORT HURON. Spectal Dicpatch §o The Tridune. Torr llunox, Mich., June 8 —Dowx—Props ‘Westford, Alaska, and Montana; schrs Princess, Alesandria, Maggie McRae, Elgin, Grace, and Amelia. Up—Props Blanchard, St Albans, Badger State, Portage, Huron City, N. Mill and barges; schra L. C. Woodrunff and Montpelier. Wixp—North, gentle; weather rainy. PorT Hunoys, Mich., June 3—10:30 p. m.— Dow~—Props Dean Richmond, Canisteo, Cor- morant and mnsurL‘ITmlc aud consort; schrs Montgomery, Saveland, Willlam Home, J. L. Cage, Portet, Joseph Paige, H. M. Scove, Huron. Up—Prop J. H. Fay aud consort; schrs D. E. B':xlh:_v, Rutherford, Victor, City of ’raw:s, Marco olo. ‘Wixp—Nortb, gentle; light rain. MARQUETTE. Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Mang , Mick. June 8.—ARRIvED—Prop Egyptian; schrs Pelican, John O’ Neil. Creanep~—Schr Eliza Turner. Bouxp Dowx—Prop Cuyahoga. Capt. Smith, of the prop E;,"ypti:m, reports the schrs Three Brothers and Thomas Gown, in tow with the tug Dudley, ashore in Mud Lake, on Wednesday at 6 p. m. It is not known what damage is done. ERIE. Special Dispatch to The Tribuna. ERIE, Pa., Junc3.—ArnivEp—From Chicago, prop Arizone. 5 Derartores—For Chicazo, schr Allegheny. Schrs Sam Flint, J. H. Rutter, and prop V. 1I. Ketcham came iu from Buffalo this morning, gd are loading coal for Chicago at 50 cents per . ——— THE LIGHTNING TRAIN. Kow It Sped from Omaha Westward, Special Dispatch to The Tridune. O>1aHA, Neb.,' June 8.—The train arrived at Ogden at 10:22 Ogden time, or 11:27 Omaha time, and left Ogden four and a half minutes later. Time twenty-five hours and seventeen minutes from Qmaha to Ogden. They changed englnes eight times and made twenty stops for provisions and water, on account of hot boxes, consuming two hours and two minutes, making the actual running time for 1,033 miles from Omaha to Ogden in twenty- three and one-quarter hours, and the average rate 43¢ miles an hour. The fastest time from station to station was 10 miles in nine minutes, and the maximum t{me for a sfugle mile at the rate of 72 ifles per hour. They arrived at Ogden ten hours and twenty-one minutes in aavance of echedule, the gain” on this road over guaranteed time being nine hours and fifty-onc minutes. S§Ax FrRANGIECO, Cal., Junc 3.—The fast train passed Blue Canon at 10:373¢ a. m. at the rate of 4734 miles an hour. Promoutory was passed at 10154 a. m., up grade, 32 miles an hour. Ar- rived at Kelton at 11:46. Stopped four minutes for water. The speed between Promontory and Kelton was 463¢ wiles an hour. Arrived af Ter- race at 13:31 p. m., and left at 13:87. Left Te- coma at 12:20 at the rute of 463¢ miles an hour. The average rate of speed to Tecoma from Og- den was 4414 miles per hour. The entire time from Ogden to Tecows, including stops, were & hours 35 minuics, distinco 156 710 miles. En- gine No. 149, drawing the train, has a cylinds $0x24 inclies, and Gsiver B foot. Sho e McQueen cngine, weighing 33 tons. It isthe intention torun herto Oukland Point, if she can stand the ordeal of. constant motion at such arate of speed. % Touno was reached at 2 p. m., maning at 89 miles an hour from Terrace throngh the Dbills. Relay engines were ready to respond to duty if necessary stationed at Promontory, Ter- race, Toano, Decth, Carlin, Battle Mountain, W mneml.lmli Wadsworth, Reuno, Brown's, Truckee, Colfax, Sacramento, Lathro) Eliis, Niles. A fire-train engine at Emig::mg' Gap is to follow the fast train through the snow-shed. The average speed from Ogden to Toano was 43 miles an hour. 8o far, the’ most remarkable Tun has occured on the Central Pacifie, Uj e from Ogden to Promontory, in U 54 miles were made in one hour and nine minutes. 8ax FRANCISCO, June8—6p. m.—The train passed Elko at 4:45, Carlin nlpé.SG, Palisade at 5:20, arriving at Battle Mountain at 6:49. De- tained there ten minntes with hot boxes. Ar- rived ab Winuemncees a¢ 8:20. Average running {rom Ogden, 40 miles }wr hour, st which rate will reach here nt half-past 7 Sunday morning. SaxFraxcisco, Cal., June 3—3:10 p. m.— The traln reached Mill ity ot 8:33, making the 29 wr:nu Ir:dmgvmnem:xfi& in Ethlrty—thrcn min- ul H B reana at 9:: verythine - e 8{5 ery mm? work- CREIINAL NEWS. A Young Woman Brutally . Mur. dered Near Highgate, Vt. Horribls Case of Murder and Buicids vflenr Belleville, II1 Three Persons Polsoned by a School Teacher at Easton, Pa; - - - A BRUTAL MURDER. _8pectal Dispatch to The Tribune. ST. ALBANS, Vt., June 8.—Charles Batler, g young farmer who lives about a mile and & haly north of Highgate Centre, went to the vil- lsge about 7 o’clock Iast might, leaving his wife alone in the house with a young hired m: 18 years of age, named Edward Tatro. Upon his return two hours Ister he was surprised to find no light in the house. On. ente and going to his wife’s room he stumbled over her dead body. Her skull wag smashed i, evidently with an ay, and ber head was pounded soss to be hardly recognizable. The furniture in the room was broken, and everything bore evidence that g desperate struggle had taken place between the murderer and his victim. It ecems that whilg Mr. Butler was putting up his horse before ente: the house young Tatro rushed e T ot T et of the nearest neighbor, and reported that threg men had broken into the houso and murdered Mrs. Butler. Ho then went to the house and told the same story, the number of thy murderers as two instead of three. It was evls his shirt was torn, lus neck scratched, and his erson covered with blood. He was arrested by %onsmble Sheridan. An Inquest was held last night. It is supposed that Tatro attempted to violate the person of the unfortunate woman, and failing, murdered her, hoping to avoid ex- posure. Sheriff Morrill has gone after him this morning, and will bring him to the jail here. MURDER AND SUICIDE. 81. Louis, June 3.—The dead bodies of aman, woman, and girl, the last about 3 years old, were found in a secluded part of the woods near Bellevllle, Ill., yesterday afternoon. Thewoman And child had been shot through the head and the man in the beart. The partics are unkuown. From the position of the bodies and the manner in which they were arranged it is supposcd that the man ehot his wife and child and then killed himself. Persons livitig near by heard three shots about sunset Thursday night, and now be- lieve that this frightful tragedy was enacted at that time. The Coroner’s in%m:st, to be held to-day, will probably unravel the mystery sur. rounding the case. St. Lovis, Mo., June 3.~At a Coroner’s io- uest at Belleville, IiL, to~day on the bodies ound in the woodsnear there yesterday. Tho barkeeper of the Tiemann House, in Belleville, identificd them as those of a family that stop- Ecd at that house from the 4th to the 3ist of Mey. The man rcfilslercd as- Joseph Way, of Evansyille, Ind. Helefta trunk at the Tie- maaon House, in which was found photographs of all the deceased made by George Becker, of Evansville, and a hymn-book with the name of Christian Becker mit. The supposition is that the ywoman was a sister of George Becker, The verdict of the jury wasto the effect that the man gnot the woman and child, and then killed hiznscu. It is supposed that poverty led to the act. NEW YORK ITEMS. New Yorg, June 3.—John Grsham, an Olic boy of 21 years, arrived at this port ina pilol boat, having been picked up at sca. He shipped 88 a seamzn on the bark Eliza McLanghlir, for Antwerp, Saturdsy last, and was so brutaily treated by the Captain and Mate as soon as the hip left the Narrows that he made up his mind ta leave. Accordingly, on Tuesday night Gra bam took leave of his shipmates, and, rushing on_deck, threw the forecastle steps overtoard, and leaped into the sea after them. The night was dark and cold, and the vessel fiftecn miles {rom land. Edward Smith & Co., 2n old established var nish and japan housc here, state that the G. G Reynolds, who pretends to be traveler for their house, and has collected somne money on ferged g]rdcrs from merchantsin the West, is a awin- or. Andrew Moore, aged 14, fatally stabbed Fred- crick Lawler, of the same age, yesterday, ot Hudson and Lalght streets. Lawler and twa other boys had been amusing themsalves by an- noying Moore. P HELD FOR MURDER. Special Dispazch fo The Tribune. Bast Sacivaw, Mich, Junc 8.—Mathiz Mergen and John Erd started home froma saloon last Wednesday evening pertinlly filled with beer. Both reached home in a demoralized condition. Latein the night, Mergen claimed to have been shot twice in the back of the head by en unknown masked man. Erd was unable to speek, and died this morning. A post mor- tem at the inquest showed that he dled from from the effects of wounds. The police could find no ope in the neighborhood who had heard shots fired, and think none were fired. Mergen being the last person seen with decessed befors the wounds were recrived, was arrested this evening on a charge of murder, and. will he ar- raigned on Monday. Both erg well-known and peaccable German citizens. Eexd was once ia itie Common Council aud was worth considera~ ble property. —— INCENDIARiISM, Sgeclal Dirpatch to Tie Tribune. BLooxixGTON, Ill., May 8.~Two attempls werc made to burn Roads’ elevator in Pine Hol- low last night by setting firc to a coal pile ad- Jjoining the building. Onc attempt was made at 9 p. m. and oneat +:30 this morning. Both were extinguished by the prompt action of the eiti zens and fire department. Charred coke was found wherothe fire had been set. The cause of such devilment is unknown, and a strong d_has been E}s«cd on the building. Oa ureday night Mayes & McPayne's fiour mill,” adjolning tht clevator, was damaged to the cxv tent of 28,000 by en incend fire. Onc theory 18 that™ the mischief is beirg dong by tramps, who have been seyercly treated by the city, and made to work on the smne»Filc. Another is that the geople of the vicinity of the mill and elcvator -do this to get rid of the smoke from the first and smoke and soot from the latter. —— POISONED. Eastoy, June 3.—Mozes Schag, another mem- berof the family recently pofsoned, has died. ‘The Coroner’s inquest, still in seasion, elicited the fact that areenic was the poison used, and that there was enough poison In the coffee drank by the family to have killed hundred people. The money Wwas stolen from the house, while 8 large amount of Government bonds and otber sccurities were unteuched. . In the evening the Coroner's verdict that all the victims died ministered by Allen C. Laros, whoisa echool- teacher and 3on of Martin and Mary Ann Laros, who are among thedead. He has confessed that e gave the polson to his fatherand mother aad Schag, with the sole object of obtaining theit money. jury returned 3 rom poison, ad- —— SOMETHING UNUSUAL. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. SPRINGFIELD, IIL., June 3.—The Governor rer fuses to pardon Dr. J. B. Schulenburg or’ Dr. Paul Schooppe, convicted about three years age of forging & check on the National Bank of Il inois, and sentenced in the Cogk County Crim- lnnlsbuunw three years inthe Penitontiary: - Iis term expires next October, aud earnest cfforts are being made to sccure his pardon, but thus far the Governor refuses. & CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 3.—Marshal 8. Smith aderkinthe State Treasury Depariment, ant John A. Wagoner, formerly clerk in the Andftor General’s office, were arresfed to-day on it~ formation 1aid against them by Gov. Hartranft, for conspiracy to defraud the Statc of 85,000 dus from the City of Scranton. Mplspaugh, Treas urer of Scranton City, sdmitted he had sgreed with & party to make his return $5,000 less thal it should Bave been. Defendants were beld s 000 bail each. ) ——— REPRIEVED. Lirie Rocs, Ark., June3.—Osea Banders (Who was tobe hanged at Fort Smith yesterdsy. ‘and Who was sentenced to be hanged at the time the other five were hung a short time 30, but was reprieved by the President just befort the time for the exccutlon, Was again repricved yesterday. dent, however, that he was the murderer, for .