Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1877, Page 2

oA Sl 623 e S, TS Y AT T S o Wk s s i s o e Sy Sy 4 T . graphed to the dlscounsolate father in . were hopes of “wells 4 {3 55 B RS R THE CHICAGO TRIBU MONDAY, JANUARY 1, fome of them got ont, but most of them were Jiiled, I wnn% to the engine-house, and_from there T conld sec the wreck. One engino was on the pler, and the otherand tnecars were piled 1 ?n ‘» heteroreneous mass, burning like 2 bonfire, and in tho flames were arms tumni wildly for some assistance. A great many ha Jumped overboard where the water was dccpcri and 1 am inclined to think that a_great many o thiem were frozen to death or drowned. ' From the time I left tne car until I saw the flames it was about ten_minutes, and any who were saved must linve been saved In that time, The cars burned for about (.wem{ minutes, when I Jeft and went up to the hotel. Before went I saw some of the rescued injured Iying around In the snow and some fa the engines house. 1 was talking with a Chicago man, whoso pame I dan’t know, about ten minutes beforo the accident, when ho said hie was tired and ordered his bed made. A few minutes after ho t to bed the fall came and ho was jammed flt. f ‘When h,e was extricated his foot had been torn from his leg. At the hotel tgcm were three physiclans ail buay. and the bullding resounded with the scrcams of the sufTercrs, ‘The people of Ashta- bula did everything in their power to relieve tho sgony, TRE MORTALITY. ] should eay at least ninely persons werc Killed outrig] tbmd about ten died afterward of thelr injurics. Our car was full, but ail escapedy but I bave not heard of any deaths besides that of the man who lost his foot, s A Iady, who was thrown pretty closc to mo 1n the falf; told me to take cara of myscll and never mind her, 1 gaw Mr. Earl {n the engine-room, wander- {ng around, a8 though out of his mind. IHe was ragged, but did not appear to b hurt st all. Ho wanted mo to lie dowii. I don't know what be- came of him.” Capt. Do Haven {s an old resldent of this city, from which he has been absent since 1572, 1e married n Miss Bigelow, whose father owned & rtfon of the block on which the new Custom- Touse stands, and when the property was cotus demned in 1873 Capt. De Hasen received on be- halfof his children—the wifa being dead—a rtion of the $1,250,000 which the Government Daia for the P “ CHICAGO. GENERAL PASSEXQER-AGENT MORSE AND SUPEN- INTEXDENT PARSONS werein thelr offices all day yesterday, gending and recelving dispatenes in regard to the killed, injured, and missing, and furnishing {ree trans- . portation to all that desired to go to the scenc ‘of the disaster for the purpose of scelng or lden- titying fricnds or relatives. A young man named Danfel 8. Roberts was farnished transportation to Cleveland, whero he Qesired tosee nfriend named C. C. Ricker, young man from Dlddeford, Me., but who had recently been engaged in the cizar trade In New ot Mr. Roberts left for Clevcland last night. upt, Parsons recelved 8 dispatch veatcnln’y morning nutln% that tho bodyof Mr. M. T Coggswell had been found, but that the body of his nleco was still mlulng&l Another telegram stated that thero was ong ly on board of No. B, which was lcft off at Toledo, but ‘whether it wna the body of o vietim of the accldent or not wus not stated. The Mrs. Bingham, of Chieago, who liad a 1e ‘roken, has beea {dentifled aa Mrs. Bingham o Fulton strect, this city. A dispatch was recelved from Mr. W. TI. Strong, the agent of tho Lake 8hore Toad at 8an Francieco, asking information in regard to Mz., Mra,, and Miss Trustworthy, who were re- Dorted kifled, In the afterncon a dlspatch was recelved from General-Superintendent aine, from Cloveland, stating that Edward Trust- worthy, J. A. Thompson, and A. Willard were the ouly persons from Callfornia of whom be i Sneds "o hind. just seen them, and found Mr. Trustworthy slting up and doing well Thompson and Willard were fn an cqually favor- able way. 0% MOFT WRLANCHOLY INTELLIOENCH of the loss of the wlfe, mother, and little boy of Mr. Marston, Genes Baggage-Master at the Michigan Southern depot, was oniy tou certatnly confirined yesterday, Mr. Marston lins gone ont to hfln? back the remains of his Joved otws. ‘Nothing further has heen heard in regard to Mr. Rogers, the conl-dealer. 1t {5 not positively known that he was on tho trajn, but ho wus expected home Friday night, and his faflure to urrive has caused 'fu“ anxicty smong the wembers of his family, Nothing furtlicr has been heard about E. A. Elmore, of Port Howard, Wis, the Agent of ho Chiinzo & Northwestern Raflrond, who was supposed to be on the train, M3, RICIHARDS, Mr, E. R, S\wnr recelved & telegram Saturday from Mes, J. M. Richards, herctofore reported Tost, ot Ashtabula, soying she had left the train lt[lluvhencr, N.'Y., sud that she {8 therefors wnfe, ANOTRER VICTIN, Frank A, Hodzkins, of Bangor, Me.,only son and enly child of J. M. Hodgking, Eeq., wis on the {li-fated train at Ashtabula, on his way to visit Iis intended bride, Miss Annle E. Kelley, No. 116 Calumet avenue. He telegruphed on tha fearful night of the 20th ut Ere, ** Meet mo at Twenty-second Btreet Depot Saturday morn- fug” 8igned Frank. On seelng the Saturday morning pavers, Mr. Willfam E. Kelley took tho train for Ashtabula immediately, and telo- Bangor and thestricken girl $n Chicago, “I have no hopes of {dentifying Frank’s remalos.” ALL RIGHT, The fears entertained yesterday that Mr. W. C. Warner, of the firm of” Woodiian & Warner, ‘was among the lost were dispelled yesterday by tho receipt of ® dispatch from his fricuds In Now York eaying he left there Friday evening for Chicago via Cleveland. Llols supposed th be snowbound east of Buffalo. The family of A. G. Leonand, of A. G, Leonard é Co., who was coming west from Bos- ton and waa thought to have been on the fll- fated train, have learned by tclegrams thut ho ‘went via Philadelphia, and {s cxpocted tn Chilca- Ko this worning. MRS, TINGIAM. Tho Jady whom Mr. Burcheli assisted up the bank, whom hio spoks of us Miss Biugham, sp- pears to have been Mrs. Minerva Binghum, wifa of Mr. Watlace W. Blngham, dellvery clerk in the Recorder's office. Mr, Blogham Tesides at No. 5% Fulton stroct, and from his doughter, Miss Jennie, n Tinunk reporter learned last night that hier father had started for Ashtabula aturdey mnorning. ‘Threo telegrams Lave been recelved from him, all o the cffect that ono of Sirs, Bingham's legs was broken: that she re- ceivod other altlt injurics, but that sho fs do- fng well o3 can o expected undet tho cireum- stances. Mrs. Bingham wus on her way from North Adams, Mass., with Miss Mabel Arnold, aged 11 F‘m"' ‘who jpurposed vlilting Chleago for medlcal treatment. A dispatch was received by Mra. I, D, N. Lob- Qell from her husband ut Ashitabula yesterdav, stating that Mr. Frank Lobdell, of the tirm of Tobdell & Croughby, was badly fiurt, it there 13 “recovery, sa e was dolug . B SWIFT, Mr. Jewett Wilcox, of the Tremont House, bhas received & sccona telegrum from F, E. 8witt, who, accompanied by his wie, was ou his way to take a position {n” tbe Tremont House ofllee The first dispatch sulil that the couple were hnrt, not badly. The dlapateh received vester- dry forenoon sald that they were hurt more t- rlously than was at tirst supposed. They will be in Chicago Wednesday. M3, BRADLET, Mr. William H. Bradiey, Clerk of the Uniteil Btates Court, who went Eaturday to the scene o tho disaster Lo care for hisdaughter-lu-law, who was injured o the sccident, has telograpbvd that tho wounded one 13 _comfortable, The full ex- tent of ber Injuries has not yet been ascertained. Mr. Bradley and his charge” are expected houte ‘ither to-day ur to-morrow, There is no truce of 3rs. Bradicy's child and its uurse, who ac comusnied tho lady on her Journcy, they buving been totally consumed. THE GULF OF DEATH, WHAT DAYLIONT DEVELOPED, Gpectat Dispaich 80 The Tribune. ASHTABULA, O., Dec, 30.—The proportlons of the Ashtabuls horror are now approximately kuown. Daylight, which gave an opportunity totind and enumerato the suved, veveals the fact that two out of every thrce passengers on the fated tralo aro lost. O the 160 passcugers whom the matmed conductor reports s having been on board, but fifty-nlue can bo found or sccounted for. The rewalulog 100, burned to ashes or shapeless lumps of charred fesb, Mo under the rulus of the bridze and trafn. The disaster was dramatically complete. No element of horror was wanting, First, the erash of the bridge, the agonlzing 1noments of sus- pense as the scven ladencars plunged down their fcarful leap to the iy river-bed; then the fire which came to devour all that bad been left alive by the crash; then the water, which gur- gled up from under the broken ice and © + OFFERED AXOTUER FORM OF DEATI} and, finally, the biting blast filled with snow, ‘which froze and benumbed those who had es- caped water and fire. It was an fdeal tragedy. Thes scens of the scident was the valloy of #be creek which, fluwing dowp past the castern sargin of Ashtabuls village, pusses under the 2allway thi w oF four buudsed yards east of tho , N | gtation. IHere for many years after the Lake Bhore road was buflt there was a long wooden trestie-work, but as tho rond was improved this was superseded about ten years ago with AN IRON TIOWB TRUSS bufit at the Cleveland shops, and resting at cither cnd upon high stonc plers, flanked by heary earthen embankments, The fron struce ture was a single span of 150 fect, crossed by & donble track seventy fect nbove the water, which at that point is now from 8 to © feet deep, and covered with cight inches of fee. The descent Into the valley on either side lapre- cf) Iltlmu, snd, a8 the bilfs and slopes are plled witl TEATY DRIFTS OF SXOW, there was no lttle difficnlty in reaching the wreck after the dlsaster became known. “The bridge has been regarded as one of the very bestof is kind In the country. It has been tested with six locomotives, and trains fre- quently crossed on both tracks sfmultaneously Withonit cousing more than o slight defiection of the structure. 1t was Intended to be ns strong as iron And imasonry conld make it, and it required almost actual sight of the wreelk Lo convince the Chiel-Engi- near of the rond that the bridee had fallea un- Jer the welght of a single train. The disaster oceurred shortly before 8 o'clock, It was TUR WILOEST WINTER NIGHT of thoyear, Three hours behind its time, the Pacific” express, which had left New York the night before, atruggled along through the drifts and the blinding storm. The eleven cars were 2 heayy burden to the two engincs, and when the leading Jocomative broke through the drifts heyondtheravine,and rolled on across thebridge, the traln was movinz at less than ten miles an hour. The head lamp threw but s sliort and dim flash of light In the front, so thick was the air with the driving snow, ‘The traincrept acrosa the bridge, the leading engine had reacl ied solld ground beyond, nnd its delver liad Just gisen 1t Kteam, whien something in the undergearing of bridge snapped. For an instant there was n CORPUSED CEACKLING OF BEAMS AND GIRDERS, ending witha tremendous crash, a8 the wholo train but the lcndm‘z engine broke through the framework, and fell fnalicap of 5nl.-hcd and splintered ruins at the bottom. Notsith- standing tho wind and etorm thocrash was heard by people within-doors half a mile away. For n moment there was sllence, 8 stunned scnsation among the survivors, who in all Stages of mutilation lay piled among tho dying and dead. Then arose the cries of malmed” nnd suffering; the few who remained unhurt hasi- cned to cseape from tho shattercd cars, Thev crawled out of windows into_freezing water Walst-deep, Men, women, and children with limbs brutecd and broken, pinched between timbers and tranafixed by jazged splinters, AEGOED WITIL THEIR LAST DREATI( FOI AID that no human power could give. Fivs minutes ofter the trafu fell the fire broke out in the cars piled agalnst the abut~ mentsat eltherend. ~ A moment later flames Broke from the smoking-car and first coach piled ncross cach other near the middle of the strenm. _In Jess than ten minutes after tho catastropho every car in_ the wreck was on flre, S the Names, fed by the dry varnished work and fanned by the fcy” gale, licked up the ruins s though they liad” been tinder. Destruction waa 0 6Wilt that MEICY WAS DAPPLED, Men who, in the bewllderment of the shock, sprang out and renched the solid fee, went back Hor wives and children and found thom euf- focating and roasting fn the flames. The ueigh- boring residents, startled by the crash, were Tizhted to the scene by the conflagration, which Tade even thefr prompt nssistanco too late. By midnight the cremation was comn lete. The storm had subsided, but the wing still blow flereely, and the cold was more Intense. When morning camne all_that remained of the Pactiic Toxpress was o winrow of ear wheels, axles, broke-irons, trick-frames, ond twisted ralls Iylng fn_n black pool at the bottom of the gorge. The wood JAD BURNED COMPLETELY AWAT, and the rulns were covered with white ashes. Here und there n mass of charred, smoldering substance sent up a little cloud of sickening vapor, which told that it was humaz flesh slowly “elding to the corrosion of the fire, On the Zrest of the western abutment, half hurled in the suow, stood the reaeued Tocamotive, sl that remalned of the fated train. As the bridee fell, its driver had given it a quick head of steam, which tore the drawhead from its tender, and the lihcrated engine shot forward and buried jtself In the s The other locomeo- tive, drawn hackwand hy the falling train, tumbled over the pler ond PELL DOTTOM UPWARD on the express car next behind. The engineer, Folsom, escaped with a broken leg. Huw he caunot tell, nor can any one else finagine. There fa ho death-list to_report. There can be nhone untdl the 1lst of the missing ones who traveled by the Lake Shore Rond on Friday Is made up. There are no remafns that vau ever be identified. The three charred, ahape- lees lumps tecovered up to moon to-day sre beyond all hopo ot recognition. Ol or young, male or female, black or white, nv maii can tell. They aro ALIKE INTIE ORUCINLE OF DEATIL For the rest, there are piles of white ushes in ‘which clisten the crumbling particles of calelu- 4 bones: in othier places masees of black, charred debris, half under water, which may contaln fragments of bodles, but wothing of buman semblance. It {8 thoucht that thers iy be 8 few corpses under the fce, as there Wero women and children who sprang into the water and sank, butuone have becn thus fur recovered. CLEVELAND TEOPLE ON THE TIRAIN There were few Clevelanders on bourd. Dr. A. M. Waskiburn, Rector of Grace Eplscopnl Church in that ¢ity, went oy board the truin at Frie, and cannot now be found. Mr. Georeze Arinstronug, late of the drm ot Aleott, Horton ArCoerant well known in New York, I8 also thoueht to be amoniz the lost. “Fhirty of the survivors, many of them wound- ed, were taken to Cleveland this morning, Thoy relate many Interesting detolla of the catastrophic. Among_the reat is Charles S, Charter, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Ile wus in the rear drawlng-room car playing cards with two others, one n Mr. Shephierd, of New York, the other o stranger. Suddenly ho beard the gluss of the car-windows begln o era and the car Plunized to the bottom of the' raviue. The stranger WAS KILLED INBTANTLY. Mr. Shepherd had a broken leg, which was au- putated this morning, und Carter, thouirh some- Nhat brulsed, wus compuratively ‘unburt, Car- ter says that the front of the ear wus muclylow- er than the rear, and that the famesin the front Degan to ont upward and spread with greas Fi- pidity, e | turned the usslstance of Mr, Shepherd, and with great diflleulty succeeded fn gettlug him out, the bro fmpeding thefe mivance. When Shepherd was fulrly out, Carter returtied to the wslatance of o woman who was calling for lielp st the front of the eas He pot herout, and, o3 sbe was quite t ave hier hils overcoat, A lur 1 men have zone down to clear awag the wreck and prepare for throwing o tem- porary bridgze acrusstbie chusm, It will be ten duys Defure the road will bu open ugaln, TIE VICTIMS, AT THE WRECK. Suectal Dispasch 1o Tha Tribune. CLEVRLAND, O,y Dev. d0.~The latest reports from the wreek show that the work of recover fug bodies has Teen more sticeeesful than was autfeipated. It wasut fhst feared that not mwore than o dozen bodies would by recovered sutlivlently preserved to be rewoved. As tho debrds s deared away down to the surface of the water a number have Leen found, thiey- four of whidh had Leen takien out at G p. . None of these, 50 far a8 reported, sre Iy a con ditfun to be fdentiled, except by means of buttous, Jewelry, other tiinkets, knowu only to thle Dr. Washe burn, Roector of Church, "8 lost, Geurge Aninstrony, thought to have heen ou the futed train, tel hie 13 eufe, having lolt New Yor. Mr. Harvey Tildun, Superiutend, ter-works on the Lake Shu Southern Rauilway, was on the traln, und every other passenzer {u the cr dn wug was burhied to death. Mit. TILDEN 13 SU\VERELT LIRUISED @ and has recelved Iutevnal fnjurics, und was brought to this vity ubout 1tuduk, *liv st thut ju his oplulon ihe bridse was w cned o Uthe coll westher, aud while the traln bad ovearly eroswl the coupling between the two eizings broke, and ti far oceasfoned by the breaking, thoush slizhit, wus the last straw o the cuocl’s Luck, aud the whole trafo. except the forward engine, PRECIFIFATED DOWN THE DANK, When the train tell, the siceping-car Palatioe, the last of the traiy, weut down hear tho cast- ern uhutinelit, striking upou the top of anuther sleeper, aud rolling over on fts side, Blewart, tho colored porter of the Palating, succeeded in ralsing & window and escaplns, f1e nmediate- Jy sct 1o work stampiug on the otber windows, thus breaking thein i so that the passcogers could get oul this weans bo rescued all the passenizel Lis cur, suwe twenty u uum- m with the cxeeption of one, who waus slek or UNADLE TO UELP NINSELP, When Stewarst discovered thls, b calied on the others to stay and belp hia gut with thy wan, aud himsell eutered the eur. Only u wowau aud ouw wan, spparcutly iUl stoyed 20 skt him, however, Stewart, with thelr ald, sue- coeded fn getting his man vut, thus rescolng every man under his charge. : Young Nussbaum, of New York, who was fne jured in the head, fs dead. No other deaths are reported among the wounded brought to Cleveland. CORHRECTED LIST OF TIIE SAVED AND WOUNDED. T the Western Astocinted Prese. CLEVELAND, U., Dev. 30.—3:40 p. m.—Tha following 18 the very latest complete and cor- rected list of the _saved and Injured at the Ash- tabula accident last uight: A, E. Hewett, Bridgeport, Conn., sll%‘ll{ fnjured. . C. Earl, Chlesgo, ditto: B, B. Lyons, New York, eafe] B, 8. McGee, residence” not given, rafe; Mra. Anna Grabam, New York. slightiy; Juhn J. White, Boston, leg broken: Mzs. “William I, Tradles, Chicazo, slizhtly ; child and nureedead ; C. D.”" Marmondvlile,” Albany, head and stomachs Mrs. M. Bingham,Chieago, leg broken? Wimn. B. Sanderson, Auburn, Mo, slightly; Tobert Monroe, Rntland, Mass, head, back, and_Jegs A. Burnham, Milwankee, sightiy} Mre. W, 11, few, Ttochedter silghtly B, Hazel: ton, Charleston, T11.; probably fatallys V. Nus- baum, dangeroisly; residenco not glven. Miss Mary Frame, Roclieater, probably fataliys C. E. Jonce, Betolt, Wis., slightly; J. ST, Marttn, Esst “Avon, ribs broken} Peter Scuvenboro, fireman, slightly: Audrew Gibson, Carey, 0., ‘slightly; Henry W, Bhiphard, Brookiyn, N. Y., leg ampu- tated; John J. Lalor, Clileago, slichtiy; F. Osborn, Michigan, head; Rictard Harold, Cin- ciunatl, slightly; Mrs, Fy A Davis, near Indian- apolls, not urt 4. A. Thompson, Catifornia, Tead; Dr. C. A. Griswold, Fulton, 111, A, Mait* Jand, Caiffornta, back and bend: D. H. Clack, Massachusctts, and F. A. Ormsby, Doston, ficad, slightly; Miss Marlan 8hepard, Wis- consn, safe; C. 1L Tyler, 8t Louls, hand broken; R. Austin, Chicay Morris, Somerville, Mass., , burned; Alex, ez broken; Walter Hinyes, Lexiugton, Ky., dangerously: J. W. Lobdell, New York; Ciinrles . Cartér, Braok- Iyn, N, slizhtlys 1L T. Tomlinson, Bridge- [mrl, Conn., arm and leg; G. M. Read, Cleve- jand, injuries notglven; C. N. Gage, Charleston, 111, hatally—died; Thomas Jackson, Waterbury, Conn., back and head; Louls Beauchate, Kent's Plalns, Cgun.; Charles C. Rlckanl,' Bldde- ford, e arin, hend, and logs P. 1. Lewel- lins, ~Tlilnols, head, neverely; AL, 1L Partloc, Wood's Museum, Chicigo, showlders J E. ' Buchell, Chieado, “alifitly; G, Do Foltom, _ engincers Mabel _Afnold, North Adame, Mass., slightly; H. L. Brewster, Mil- waukeg, slightlys Edward Truewortly, Oak- 1aad, Cal., ribs;” hils brother {8 mp[[lmml to bo Kitled; B. tiens, conductor, safo; H. D, Cham- pluin, Cleyeland, legs hurt; Berard Sawver, Chesterfleld, Essex County, N. Y., head and in- tornally: Tenry A. Whitc, Wethersfield, Conn,y back mnd heads Ueorze A. White, Portlind, Me., slightly; Alexander Ifitcheock, Fort Clin' To, On severely In bood and legns Mr.and Mra. Switt, North Adams, Mass., -hgln.liv]: M, Frank Enstman, Rochester, N. Y,, prubably fa- tally; Frank Cotter, Elmirn, N. Y., dangerously§ Thomas C. Wright, Nnshville, Tenn,, scriously {n hip, ete,; Charlea Patterson, unkiown rosl- dence, probably fatally; . W, Mowry, Hartford, Couu., rib. < WOUNDED AT CLEVELAND. CrevELAND, O,, Dec. 30.—The following are the names of those brought o thls city from Ashtabula this evening and placed in tho Cleve- fand Hospital: A, Gibson, Cairoi Charles Ricker, Biddeford, Me.; Walter Hoycs, Lexing- ton, K¥.; A. Burnhom, Milwaukee; Charles D. Patterson, Waterloo, N.¥.3 JohnJ, Lalor, Chica- £03 Robert Monrog, Rutland, Mass.i ‘W. B, anderson, Auburn, Me.; William Donor, Ni- agara Falla—gone home; F. A, Davls, Kokomo, TRd.; R Austin, Chicago; K. Harrls, Cincins nafi? C. Demontonlll, Daenport, and many others. Up to 0 o'clock thirty-four bodies had been taken from the wreek. ~ But a very fow of these wiil ever be identifle A SMALL ONE. NEAR BUFFALO. Brrravo, Dee. 31.—Tho slecper, the Iast car on the New York Express,due here at 11:15 this morning, was thrown from tho track about twenty miles from this clty, overturning the car. The occupants—s lady, gentleman, and porter—escaped injury, the couplin breaking, Canse, n hot journal: Tho car took fire, but was extinguished by people on the llne of road with snow. TIE CIRCASSIAN. ANOTNER TERRIDLE TALE, Nrw Youk, Dee. 81.—Tho sceond wreek of the ship Clreassian is the most dissstrous which has ocenrred on the Long Island voast siuce the wreck of the John Miltou, Bfteen years no. 8he ron ashore In a bliuding snow-storin, and all on Lourd—thirty persons—were lost, The erew of the Milton were frozen stif? In the rigging, thelr arms standing strafght out fn front of thoem. ‘Fhic men ou board the Circassian had finfshed on PRIDAY N1auT all necessary preliminaries for attaching bawser, with which she was to be druwn off, Durlng tho early hours of the night the wind freshened a little, and the sea begun to ruu very Righ, until at about 6 o'clock it begun to break over her. 'The men, apprehending danger, went nto the fore-rigging, where they were ordered for greater safety, All ou bourd—thirty-tvo souls, all told—remalned thus exposcd until carly in the morning, when it was deemed ad- yisable to shift quarters, ne the falling of the top-hamper, caused by the rolling of the vessel, mude 1t diicult to hold ou. The crew was safely transferred to the mizzen, where slguals of distress wero shown. All this thm: THE BUIOKE WAS PLAINLY 1§ $101T, The moon was siiving brightly, and fires built by the erew of the llfe-saving station showed plainly the figarcs of the crowd on the beach burrying to nud fro in vain endeavors to ald the men {n the rigilug. It was an mwlul suspensc for tho poor fellows lashed to the mast and yards of the ship. They saw attempt after at- tempt made to establish communieation with them fafl, and esch failure scemed to measure thelr purchose upon life. Every cffort to geta boat off shore proved futile, Asoften as it wus attempted the sea drove it high and dry on the Dbeach, Capt. Henry Hunting, of Life-Saving Statlon No. 10, now brought & mortar into ser- vice, aud BEVERAL BALLS WITIL 1IOI'ES ATTACUED were thrown out to the ship. But one of the cords reaclied the ship, Its hold wos not very secure, and it presently fell off, und the slender thread upon which thirty-two human lives de- pended was snapped forever, The statfon men, ull the winle these endeavors were being made, could sce the men in the rigeing quite plaluly, and hear thelr cries for help. Many of the her-Deaten berocs on shore, who have been wrecklug vesels and saving lves sines boyhood, were moved to tears BT TIE PITEOUS IMPORTUNITIES OF TIE WRETCH- B M off shore, The vivlenco of their efforts tu save mitlgated the suspense they would otherswlso have felt durlug the carly hours, But when the Jast charge was shot off and nothing clso possi- ble to human effort or bravery remulned to be dune, they became umnunued, and many of them wept, ‘The nervous, excltement and sud- den Inactivity utterly {ncopacitated them for any duty. TIHEY COULD NOT LEAVE TUR 8FOT, and {t only rematned for them to remaln fne active and se¢ thelr fellows perish beforo thele eyes, To leave the beach would only add to the terrors of the death that stored ita victims in the face, and to remaln inactive would probably glve cause for unjust repronch frout the poor, helpless walters on the wreck, Supt. Hunting aud s men rematned and tried to answer calls from the wreek, but nothing that was #ald vu shure was heard on the ship ou accvunt of the diretlon of the wind. IN TENIOR AND SUSUENSE mornlng wore o, the wind having veered arvund fu the meantline to west-southwest. During the carly part of tho uight, befors tho men went inte the rigging, the cables were shacked, but the ship moved only o sbort dise tance, und coutinued during the night to strike the Lottomn. Every time she struck, the men thought she would luse lier wnasts, to which they had lashed themsclves. While conscious of the great dany;s the utter fmposalbility of vaving tuemsel 1t the mast should go by the board, it being of Iron, they were upable to slacken the lasbing. Some of them, with more self-poiscasion thau others, had taken this cony tinzeney futo thelr caulations, aud had not sceurely lashed themselves, sud among those were TIE ONLY YOUR SAVED from tho wreek. At Lalf-past 4 2. 1. the long- dreaded erisis catay, aud the wmizzen-mast weut by the board with & crask, carrying the main- mast withi it. A trewendous swell hsd struck the Clreasslan aft, aud rulicd Ler very high, When it receded she thwmped. beaylly, and tho terrific jar threw the mast over the side. The masts, being fron, went to the bottom immedie ntely, carrying with them twentg-clght souls. TRE CUBTOM-HOUSE OPPICER detalled to superintend the landing of cargo, In his description of tho terrible scene, says: Tho ship was Iying within about 600 fect of shore, Amid the howling of the tempest and tbaroar of the waves therc was borne to our cors the volcea of the poor fellows In the rig- ging, singiog hymns and praying In chorus to God. Thero was hanlly a dry eyo on shore among us, as we heard these THRILLING AXD SUPREMB ATPEALS MADE TO aon, Among those on the wreck were ten Shinnecock Indians, who, 18 a rule, are very good men. During this agonizing scene, which lasted for lours, weo heard these men praying. The beach was lined with hundredsof people, many of them women, sobbing piteously. Somo of them wers tha wives of the doomed men, The wind on shore raged with terrible slolence, ariviog people hither and thither. The life-saving crews of Southampton, distant 53 miles, and Easthamp- ton, about tho same distance, arrived, bringing thelr mortnrs with them, but did not attempt to use thelr Life-liue when Hring, as NOTHING COULD HB DONB. They, however, fired o number of blank shots {; ‘:H and respimate the courage of thuse on 3 [ g — e FIGITING ENGINEERS. They Stop the Working of the Grand Trunk Tnliway, Awe the Militia, and Dismay tho Government. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridyne. BrrLLEVILLE, Ont., Dee. 81—2 p. m.—Matters have taken n very scrious turn, and the atrikers are for the tinte heing In the nscendant. Last night twenty-eight of the Forty-Ninth Battnllon were ordered out, and proceeded to the station to seccure the pnssage of the Montreal Express, which walted at Napa- nee until the nccessury preparations hind been made. The strikers had pulled the snow-plows off the track, onc at each end of the yard, and, after one had been replaced under the super- vislon of the military, they proceeded to put the other on the track, but th rioters in the meantine agaln pulled off the rails the one which had been reptaced. Under these cireum- stances the express was detolned at Shannonyille until this morning, when Mr. Davis, Mechanical Superintendent, went down with an cugine, and brought it here. The strikers gathered in force at the station, and, owing to thelr threats, it was several hours he fore nn engincer could be \wrocurcu. At length one was got, and an englne brought out and ttached " to the train, but, ns the plat- form was _crowded, the ~military ‘who were on daty all nizht were unable toprevent the tloters from severely beating the englueer, The volunteers were not ordered to load or to ure thelr bayonets, and stood os spectators of the scene. Ono of the strikers, in attempting to wrest o bayonct from n volun- teer, recelved o wound In the neck, Some other parties got slight Injurles, and seyveral Plstol-shots were fired, but nobody . recelved any dangerous hurt, though one tman wis enld to Lo wounded, After this the engl:lnc which the rloters had succeeded In partlal y‘\hnbunz, was returned to the shed, nnd the train remalus ut the station. The authorities are for the time beatet, but four companicaof the Fifteenth have been ordered out. The men secem unwlilling to turn out, only forty belng under arms 4 p. m Two companfes from the coun- try are expected. Tho clvll and military athoritles blume each other, but certainly neltber acted with the vigor which was expevt- ed. It 18 probable thata further attempt will bo ade to start n traln from here this nfter- noon, when o sutflelent military force will prob- ably have been completed. In the meantime, the men of the Forty-ninth have been returie to their quarters. strikers do not acem in- clined to' Injure the Company's property, but Tlm determined to prevent the npcmlluu of the e, Later~7 p. m.—~The Company had intended to make another attempt to move the train at 4 o'clock, but abandoned thelr fotentlon, Thirty- four men of the Fifteenth Battallon and several offleers went to the station at 4:20 v ni., nnd will remaln on duty during the niche to guard the Company's proverty. It s expeeted that more efiicient measures Wil he taken to-morrow morniug _to sccure the operation of tho line, Tt is reported that the strikers offered this afternoon to allow the mal to proceed, hut fnslsted on the parsenger-cars remalnlng here. Tho aE(‘(er was deelined, Special bu TouoxTto, Dev, SL—~The Grund Trunk start- ed o train East this morning, ched Cobourg ali ight rend i at 9 o'clock to-night, but fs belng held there owing to the blockade at Belleville. No at- lcln?l was tade to disputeh o trufn west, Ey- erything is quict hero, o budy of police Lelng on ity at the round-louse und Union Stailon usrdiug the property of the Company. Itfs understood the Ruitroad Company are nego- tlating with the Government for full protection of the Company's property, and that the Comn- pany will not attempt to revume work until the kafety of thelr property (s guoranteed, #Speciat Dispalch to The Tridune, Dernotr, Dec, 31,—The Grand Trunk bronght in o mafl-train from Ridgeway Inst nieht, and will send out another to-morrow. Tho ugent Lere states s bellef that passengger-trains will be running sguin ina couple of days, but does uot give reasons for sueh bellef, To the Western Ausaciated Irest, 87, ALBANS, Vt., Dee. 81.—Tho Grand Trunk Ralirond applied to the Central Vermont Rall- road (o rui their trufus from St. Johnsbury to Montreul, which was dono to-day. ‘Toroxto, Der. 8L,—A termination or the strike seems s distant as ever. ‘The Company are confident of thelr abllity to provide drivers for thefr passenger and miost of their frefzht tralns, and resutno business s carly s the civil and military authoritics can gusrunitee the sufe- ty of these wubstitutes and the l.‘um&mn '8 prop- erty. Thestrikers,on theother hand,have mado a dusperato resolve that tralu tratlle shall not be resutned until their demuands are sutistled. The heavy snow drifts of Friday night still cover the track over the whole line west ot Toronto, the strikers belng so numerous and the intlmidation so great that no attempt hus been made to rin an_engine, Matters ure al- must a8 bad be Toronto and Montreal. g oy LET US KNOW BEFOREHAND. To she Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, Dee, 8l.—In some of the churches In this city—for instance, In tho Flrst Cone gregational—the ubiquitous minor exhorters now frequenting theso parts arc ullowed to pro- ceed in_ & manner which, fna theatre, would, I think, beconslderated very medioers “husiuess,” ( agalust which I deslre to protest. Im- edl the lachrymal culmination of ngelist’s™ tmploration, aud during the periud of femninine ogitation, wl destrimr 1o profess religlon ure requested to urise. Then the peoplo ‘who already consclens tiously belleve the doctrines of Clristlanity aro 150 eulled up, and the few persons who rémain nted become objects either of conspicnous em- arragsment, solleitude, or reprebennlon. The reuson 1 belleve this to be wrong Hes In thy fact that on honest, unoffending man frequently be- comes,under this operution, s prey to the rudest feelings of discomfort, 1 will not argue upon what to we scems the apparent vulgarity of the thlng, 1€ L ay be allowed to suggest thut,when this “effect” 18 to be used, & plicard be sus- pended upon the outer dours presenting the Warning that, upon the expiration of the service, the Jsteoers atill remulnl nfi obdurate to the doprnuss dispensed within will Lo compelled to tacitly auvvunce the deplorable truth. J. Mcd, INDIANAPOLIS, INpIANAPOLIS, Doc. 31.—~Durlng the year 1370 there have been received aud forwarded from this clty 837,508 frelght cars, 410,751 of them belng loaded ; flour received, 1,085,150 barrels wheat, 1,073 150 bushels; corn, 15,483,104 bushels. oats, 10,822,400 bush 549,950 bushels; barléy, 31,110 bushiels : shipments—tour, 1,005, 210 bareelst wheat, 430,843 bushels; corn, 13 B22,045 bus 3 uats, l‘TIMHU bushel; 510,690 hushels; barley, 207770 bushel, N Wtock received—cattle, 165, hiogs, 52,6493 shipiueuts—cattle, 107,469: sleep, £8,237; ho; B4,50U; bogs packed, L6315 ayerage welght, 110; number packed from Nov. 1'to end of year, 204,182—a fulling of frow 1575 ;v!(gi,flt Number of deaths during the year, 034, e~ DEMOCRATS AND CHRISTIANS, To the Bditor of Ths Trivuns Nzw Youx, Dee. 27,—Who will now say that our colored citizens are fncapable of exercislng tho elective franchise, since & colored chund st thy South has excommunlcated & member for votlug the Democratic ticket All rebels are Democrats, und all Democrats are sympathisers with rebelllon sud slavery, and Viih s stoit ties of Andersouville uad Fort Pillow, How, tiien, can & Dewocratic voter be & member of & Christisa church! Qur colored brothers are suul LML - 1877—TWELVE PAGES, ~ POLITIC Everything Quiot at Now Or- leans, but Everybody Apprehensive. The President Stntes that No Troops Have Been Asked For by Kellogg. Gathering of Legislators and Office- seekers at Springfield, II. Prospects Regarding the Ne- braska Senatorship The Grover. Senator Sharon Intercepted on His Way to Washington. His Guarded Utterances Concerning the Political Situation---No Trouble Expected, What o Thinks on the Subject of the Remonetization of Silver. LOUISIANA. APPRENENSION, Special Dispatch 1o The Tribune. 'NEW ORLEANS, Dee, 31.—Considerable finxlc- ty 18 felt in relation to the organization of the Legislature here to-morrow, although as yet there {8 but lttle outward manifestation of ex- cltetnent. The State-House has been barricaded to prevent fts capture by tho White League, which is belleved to be fully organized mad tmder orders, and no one will be ade mitted to-morrow but Statc ofllcers and members of the House—forty-four Democrats and seventy-three Republicans and three vacau- cles from Enst Feliclana and Gront Parishes, which the Board excluded from their count, Thereare returned nincteen Republican and seventeen Democratic Senators, and a Republie- an presiding ofllcer, Licut.-Gov, Antotne. Un- der ordinary circumstauces this wonld be con- clusive 08 to the political complexion of the organizatlon of the two branches, but, from pust experience, 1t 19 known that fy THD DEMOCRATS WILL STOP AT NOTIING which promiscs suceess, and there are some addi- tional complieations ardslng from the contest for the Speakership of the Houge and the beardngs of that office on the two scats In the United Btates Senate. The Adminiatrationcandidate for Speaker, backed by Gov. Kellogg and Gov- crnor-clect Packard, 18 ex-Gov. Mich- nel Mohn. Is opponent {s ex-Gov. Warmoth, who s understood to have the support of Plnchback. The extent of War- moth’s backing fs not definitely known, but, i€ it amounted to fifteen, he could, with the forty- four Democrats, be elected Speaker, and Pinch- back could bo elected United States Scnator. A rumor I8 current that such o burgaln bas been made on condition the Warmoth men shall con- sent to having the vote of the State counted by the Leglslature for Nicholis. ANOTIHER RUMOR Is that Trezevant, the Demoerat who by law presides at the organization and 18 required to call the roft from the ilst of retarned members a8 furnished him by the Secrctary of Btate, will refuse to call the names of members whose seats nrc contested. Thero s mno law for such n course, but, s the scats of ahout two-thirds of the Republicans are con- tested, and of comparatively fes” Democrats, 1t would elther put the Republicans fn 6 majority or force them to remove the Clerk and organize the House without bis services. IN THR SENATR the purties stand nineteen Republicans to sev- enteen Democrats, but one of the Republicans, ALLAINE, who lied the tickets printed for Ibervilloand West Baton Rouge Parishes with but three of the Hayes Electors on them, Is regarded as shaky. If e votes with the Democrats that will make a tlo with the Licutenant-Governor to declde, Tre Democrats will, fu case no burgain has been made with Warmoth, adopt THE PLAN outlined in these dlspatehes o few days ngo, of proceeding in & body to the StateHouso with the East Feliclana and Grant Parlsh can- didate. Delng refused sdmittance, ns they surely will be, the wholo party Wil proceed to 8t. Patrick’s Iull, which las been rented for the purpose, and organize n separate Legisla- turc. In that cnse it s mnot unilkely the real Legislature will take sumary meusures with the recaleltrant members by ex- pelling them after due notica iven and order- ing u new clection to B thelr places. THE BENATORIAL CONTEST is golng to be a warm ene. The candidates are Kelloggg, West, Warmoth, Pinchiback, Antoine, Brown, Darrall, and others. Kellogg will un- doubtedly be eleeted for the long term, ALL QUIET. New Onreaxs, Dee, 81.—Thero Is little ex- citement to-nlght in regard to to-morrow. A heavy rain-storm keeps peoplo within doors. The troops are all orderod to semaln fn the bar- rucks to-morrow and the officers to o at thelr posts, but no one apprehends that any occasion will arise to call them out. Thero is good reason to butleve that the Hlouse Commlittes wilt nut conelude its laburs befurs the Senate Committes has flnlshed its work, The members of the latter can give no Llea of when that will be, owlng to tho accumulation of evidence in regard to terrorlzing and fntlnidation. CAUCUS. . Tho Republican caucus, it fs understood, nominated ex-tioy. Haln for Speaker. Only members returned by the Board will be admit- ted ju the State-1louse to-morrow, TIIE PRESIDENT, Wasinaron, D. C., Dec. 81,—The Tresident sald to-niht thut no application for the use of troops bad been mads by Gov. Kellogy. VEUSONNEL OF TIS INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE, Special Corvespondence of The Trivune. NeEw Oureaxs, Dec. 20.—The scene of the labors of the Sub-Committeo of the Committes on Privileres and Electlonsof the United States Benate is the court-room of the Unlited Statea District Court, In the Custom-louse, It is o room usbout eighty fect long by thirty wide, sud about fifty feet high, lighted by two windows on the O1d Levees strect slde. A ralling across tho centre of the room disides the Committer, the attoroeys, and prosa reporters from the space reserved for spectators; but no spec- tators aro allowed to be present. Tho mesbers of the Committee are rauged sround a long table with the witncss at the foot. The Chalrman, Senator Timothy O. Howe, of Wis- consln, sits at the bead, calm, cool, and judicial in mannee, with halr nearly white, regular, clear- cut festures, and quiet gray cyes. Iiis faco ia cleanly-shaven and bls complexion whits snd clear. Up to this time Benator 1lowe has taken 1ittle part in the examiuations in chlef; but this worulng, when Col. 1, W. Patton, President of Democratic Central Committee, was on the stand, that unfortunste geutlcman was sub- jected by him to to s most scarching and mercl- less cross-examlination. % At the right-hand side of Bepator Howe sits Benstor Bainbridge Wadicigh, of New Hamp- shire, probobly the youngeat wember of the Comuittee, and who looks like & man who bad been well used ull his life up to somewhero within the bright sidc of forty, and more likes ‘Western man than goy other o the Committee. Seustor Wadlelgh stands sbout aix feet high, is portly, and probably welghs 225 or 350 poands, His bead is Large and well-shaped, and is set off with an sbundsace of black bair, aad brown eyes, sud musiache, He' bas cunducted the na| with great tact and shillts, Next on the right sics Benator 8.1, R, MeMfl- 1an, of Minnesotn, who gives more nttention to clothing his Janguago with grace ana eare than fo the fit of his garments, which are evidently made by o Mlanesota failor. The senator is n rather angular man, Iacking about two inches of #ix feep in hefght his faco ks rathier long, fore- head high, pleasant, decp-set gray eyes, and when he examines a witness he speaks inaguick, energetic, business-like manner. 1f tho linc of Tis questions may ba taken as an indicatfon of his political bias, he {s fast getting to be a toroghgoing Tiepublican, aithough he was clected as an Independent, On the left-hand side of the table, next to tha Chalrman, aits bluff, honcst Richard J. Oglesby, who neeils no deseription to the people of 11fi- nols or the renders of Tix TRIDUNE. contrast to Sonntor ()g:ab‘y. nmflnlnr. lean, eaturnine Senator EIl Baulsbury, of Delaware, No amount of testimony as to murder, aseassination, or bulldozing has the slizhtest cffect on the thin-blomled” Senator from the rotten-borough Btate, lieing a doctor, lie withcsses the wonnds of Ben dames. Georzo Bhelton, and others with the utmost indifference, 11e smokes a cigarctte like a Creole, 1iis Demo- cratic confrere, Scnator McDonnld, of Indiana, generally acts as if he felt himself to boin rather ‘mean business when engaged In making the motives of thesa “would-ba murderers of theac men appear respectable. Benator McDonald sits between Senator auls- bury and the witness. He Is a decidedly pe- culiar but rather pleasant-looklng old gentle- nian, probably In the nelghtorhood of 04 years of age. Jlelsn littlo over six feet In helght, ercet and portly, halr turned gray and_ about hald on top, flofid countenance, and Indeed to much o ‘degrco that certaln portions ot nmarked next sits tall, the faco tako almost n purple tinge, Mo fs shorn of all capiilary adorn- ments, eave & short brist moustacho which retalns it orlginal color (black), and a lit- tle tuft of white whisker on his throat, which pecps up_from beneath his shirt-collar, The most atriking features of his face, however, arg Iis cyebrows, which are collceted [n o rostricted little patch over _each cye, and etand straight out,—black, stiff, sud um'nmrmmlnlngly—ta the'Tength of over half an inch, over a palr of bright, black cyes. The long connection of Senntor McDonald with the Democratic party does not_scem to have entircly driea up tho milk of human kindness in his” breast, ns has ovidently been the case with Senator Saulsbury, —if, fndeed, that man of medicine ever had In :;ln‘ ?nnwmy any of that description of lacteal i, ¥ To-day tho room was pretty well filled with prominent Demoerats of the State, who have become notorfous throughout the country more from forca of circumstances than from any great or remarkable thing which nwf' have dome. Among them was Col Jolin McEnery, who wii probably be elected by the Nicholls Legislature to the United Btates Senate, un grounds similar to thoso which in- fluenced the South Caroling Legislature to clect Gen. M, C. Butler; R, I, Marr, who s sald to reacinbio . M. Evarfe and 8. J. Tilden, and ,who was ano!nlml United States Senator by 6 (Gov.)! McEnery: H. N, Ogden, who claims to have been elected Attorney-General on_ the Nicholls ticket; B. F. Jouns and several others of prominence. Very few Iepub- licans_were fn the room. but among tlhem was Mr. Alfred Bourges, who testifled to the incendiary apeech of Col. McEnery at Monroc, which MceEncry denfed, and who afterwand pub- Mshed McEnery ns a lfar and coward, afrold to nssume the responsibility of bis own words. The two men bear o striking resemblance to each other, both having a nervous alfection whilen produces an Involuntary twltehiug of the muscles of the eve In a8 manner which might lead a stranger to betieve that ther are winking athim. Ilave heard an amusing storyofa disagreeable cireumstance oecurring” to Col.. McEnery fu consequencs of this fofirmity, whereln s lady belleved Terself to be Insuited by the “*war-horsa of the Ouachita,” on nccont of the persistent winking at her by the Colonel. "I'his morning the Democrats Introduced thelr first witness ¢ for the defense," a8 Senator Howe sald, In the person of Col. L. W, Patton, Prest- dent of the Democratic State Central Commit- tee. ils direct exumination did not take muro than half or three-quurters of on Lour. Judge Howe then took charge of Col. 'atton, and sub- Jectod him to the most terriblo dissecting in the way of cross-examination to which it was ever my fortune to bo a witness. This cross-cxamination extended over four hours, and was devoted to the misery of Col. Patton and the gentlemen who had assembled to wit- néss the discomiture of tho Kepublican party. The Colonel in his dircct examination weit along very smoothly, and expressed himself with great frecdom na 10 what ho belfoved the luten- Hlons of the Republican purty to be. Amone other things, he belleved that in Ouuchita and othier * bulldozed » parishes * it was tho object of the Itcpublican purty to brinz about a collislon™ " Letween the whites and colored people, but he could give no satisfactory reason why they should desire n collisfon, when they wora in o hajority. ' 116 admitted that thers had been many rders committed for_political effect; that” there had been * hundreds " of Republicans killed; that the State taxes had been reduced from 25 to 80 mills on the dollar_ to 14 mille; that the city taxes, levied by the Democratie City Coun- cff; were greater than thoso of the State. While complaining of the oppressive nsscasments of broperty, and especlally fu lils own ease, he sd- mitted ~ that his real eatate, which cost him 856,000, was naecseed for but 83,000, While charslug Gov. Kelloge with the responsibility of the Colinx massucre, he admitted that but one of the two Sherlits’ commissivns issued by the Guvernor were valld, and wnlc(‘ucmly there wus no_reasonabie excuse for the bivoushed which followed; the stspute could easily have been settled by lthation. — While complaining that certein courts in the Parlsh of Orleans were vested with Targe powers, he adwitted that the declsions of these courts —were sub- et to revislon or reverssl by the Supreme Col of the State. = Whlle t clutmityg that Nichollghad been Governor of the Statc, he admitted that under the Eleetlon law ot the State the casting of the vote was not final, thut the decisfons of tho Returning Board were final, and that the Supreme Court had deelded the Returning Board law to he con- stitutional, Indced, the testimony of Mr, Yut- ton wos considered as u whole the most dum- aging to the party which he represents than that of any witnesa who has thus far been Intro- duced betore clther Committee, L 2. 0, LETTER FROM ONE OF THE NIOUSE COMMITTER. dpecial Dispaich 1o The Tridune. LaNaiNG, Mieh., Dec, 81.—The Hon. Wilifam Crapo 18 ong of the Republican members of the Iouso Committee scut to uvestignte affaies in Lousstann, Mr. Crupo has scut the following Ietter to one of Lis ald nelghbors: New Outgaxs, Dec, 18,—Dxan Doctan: ¥ have Been bard at work upon the Cangresslonal Comsit- tee, teying to vvolve xome truth out of tho slate- wieata of both the Democrata and Hepublicans, Thers fe » misersble atatc of thinge Liere, To- night 1 go with two Democrats (McMahon, of OLlo, il Itoss, of New Jerscy) o tho celobrated bulls ozod Parlsh of Onachita, where tho Pinkston and other murders took place, Thera {8 no quaation nbout _the vivlence “aud fatimidation by the whites to deter tho negrovs. In New Orleans there fs comparative quict and order; but, onthe Msalenppl and Arkansas Dordees, the whites detormined torule, #nd yoto down the negro, If 1L {red ehot-guus. The Democrats mean to count ‘lilden fo, The Kepub- fieans believe Huyes honestly elected, and pro du- terntined not o be cheated oot of it 'Both parties are poluting to the waime gosl, and wre determined 1o reach it on the 4th of March. The cxcitement will hicressy instead of ‘Uiminish ss the day ap- Sroaches, Iregret thut 1 am in the midst of ft ut thers (¢ no eseape from I, sid I propose (o nect the enu.-qinnq ¥o far a8 1y presence sud in- flugnce can avall. WASHINGTON NOTES. COLORADO. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasnisotoy, D, C., Dee. 8L—The last card which the Democrats will play in the Presiden- tial game will bo an attempt to reject the threo Electoral votes ot Colorado, Thoe Senate, with- out a word of objection, admitted Benators Chaffee aud Teller, but when Kepresentative Bellord preseuted his credentlals in the House they were referred to the Committee on the Judiclary., Judge Lynde, of Wisconsin, has been directed by the majority of this Commit- tee to make & report in favor of Mr, Belford's admission, but the minority of the Commlttee, headed by s young lawyer named Hurd, who will - bo replaced fn the mext Congress by ex-Secretary Cux, will prescnt & report sgainst Mr. Belford’s sdmission, which has becn revised and corrected st the New York beadguarters. 1t tukes the ground that the sabling act for the admission of Coloraco was unconstitutional and is pot binding, as it delegated powers to the Executive which belong excluslvely to Congress, Many Demoerats denounce this attempt to keep Culorado out ia the cold. CONSTITUTIONAL FRECEDENTS, The few Scnators who arc Lere are closely ex- aminfog into Constitutional precedents with re- spect 10 counting the vote. Ooe Eastern Bea- St ays tonight that, tn bis opinion, the Cour- promise Comuittees will in any event come to % unanimous opluion as to & certain number of things which cabnot be done, aud that the re- port upon this subject 'fl\ made fusuch a wey that the country will mcoept it Beyond thi3 this Bevator was 1ot positive, gnt hothought it very possiblo that, for cas thiug, the Com- wittces mignt recummend s joint resolution askivg the Supreme Court forsn oplulon as o the Conatitutfonal rights of the President of the Bennte and of the two Tlouses wi ot to counting the vou:“p’. o loksEe y Whiyretpech ILLINOIS! THB LEOISLATURE, Bpecial Dipatch to The Tridune. Brrixariety, 1L, Dee. 31.—Manbers of the General Assembly continne to arrive by cvery traln, The Babbath has been very extensively fractared to-day by political figuring. Senator Logan and his fricnds from Cook Connty had scarcely arrived this morning before they were eafled upon by members-elect and politiclans generally. Tho Leland las been a sceno of busy life. Gon. Logan has malnly confined himsclt to his rooms, occasionally visiting the rotunda of the hotel. But Gove Talmer haa been holding a sort of levee hearly all day fn the lobhy, and his adherents have made themselves very busy. The Hon. J. C. Robinson has oceaslonally shown himscll. Sere ator Logan's chances are regarded as tho best,— Indeed, the Republican members are very confle dent of his nomination, One or two who were classed a8 antl-Logan have taken the palns to assuro him of their support. Bhaw, of Carroll, candidato for 8peaker, has rooms, and fs holdln)z Jeveea too. Bhuman should come, if he dou's ‘want to get left. ALL THR INTEREST, however, seems to centro in the Senatorial struggle. There's o man here from_Chicazo named Fitch—'*Fitch, of the Btate Farmers' Association,"” he styles himself, Apparently he has the solution of the Senatorial problem n ths hollow of his band. He thinks the Demo- crats should nominate Mclyille W, Fuller and they could elect him. “But, personally, ho (8 for Willlam C. Flagg. 8. M. Smith and the rest are to be hero to-morrow tohold a meeting, :a;lfltlliug dcc.l[du wh;t n.c'::on l}g “kl? on the Sen- ueation. Benators Plumb o are here, but they, as other sl aro_noncommittal. " Thiey aro. ot opposh nl, They are not opposin Logan. Gov. Palmer myuyn straight Dgr?lomnsi or astraight chllhllmn only can be clected— that tho Indcpendents cannot dictate the noinfe nces, It {8 underatood that Noonan, the Spring= ers, and other Independents will arrive in the morning, and nlso a large Chicago delegation. Tt i notlced that tho Democrats are very tirm in inalsting that they must have the Sendtor, and will not give the Independents anything unless the Intter go Into tho Demozratic caucus and be- come Democrats. e NEBRASKA. THE LE Bpecial Dispat OsA1A, Neb., Dec. 81.—The Nebraska Leglse lature convenes Tucsduy at Lincoln. The most exciting and important event will be the elees lon of a United States Scnator to succeed 8ena- tor P. W, Hitchcock. The clection takes place the 10th of Junuary. The meantime will be vo- cupled in caucusing and wire-pulling. There are uumerous candldates for the Senatorship, the most prominent ones being from Omaha, Hitcheock hins hiopes of belng his own successor. Tho other candidates from Omahn nre Chilef- Justico George B. Lake, Judge Briggs, Gen. C, ¥. Mandergon, Gen. John C. Cowin, the Hon. 4. H. Millard, and ex-Gov. Alvin Saunders, all Republicans,™ The Ion. Jorenzo Crounse, of Fort Calboun, a jpresent Congresa- man, {8 the most prominent camlidate outsido of Omahin. The Hom, Theron Nye, of Fremont, and Dr. A. D. Buckworth, of North Platte, havo also been mentfoned as candidates. Hivceheovk's torees are well organlzed, but, if ko succeeds, It wlll surprise neurly everybody. Evcr since bis election, six years ago, le hus . been CHARGED WITH DRIBERY AND CORRUPTION * fu sccuring his oflice. * Names, dates, and amounts of transactions nave been glven time and again, and he also laboss under the back- Eny grabblug charge. These charges have never een depled il last fall, and then only fn n falnt and general way, and ei- tircly unsatisfactory ~to the publle. During last fall's primaries and electlons a bitter fght wns made upon bim nnd _his a\l]lllpurl.erfl, known os_the Federal or Hitcheoek brigade. [t di- yided the Republican party in Douglaes County futo Hiteheock and antl-Hiteheock Tactlons, anil resulted in giving the county to the Democrats. It was go olso fi other portlons of theStatu. 1t is also charged that Iliteheock is A UNION PACIPIO CANDIDATE, and entirely controlled by Jay Uould. Crounse, his most promineot opponent, las mudo him- self famous by his fight for the Pro Rata bill, which the Unfon Paclle regards as Ju favor of the Burlington & Missourl, aund on- tagonlstic to its own Intercsts. IHence its support of Iitcheock and lts opposition tu Crounsse. A largo und enthusiastic mans-meet- 1ng at Lincolu, Thursday evening, passed resolu- tions indorsing Crounsc’d course on tho Pro Rata bill. There were but three dlssenting volees, The opening rounda of the Senatorfal fight will be between Hitehcock and Croun Incaso Hitcheock’s friends become convineed that they cannob succecd, they will take up Mitlard, their next best man, ‘who, if elected, would prove more satisfactory to the publie. All the anti-Witcheock candldates will do all in thelr power to eleet une of thelr own number. Tirigys stock has risen rapldly within the Just tlirce weeks. All othera are chanco candidates, There are 114 votes on joint legislative baliot, and 1t takes 58 to clect, Hitcheock clalins that he hus cnough to l‘m’?‘ htm mmug)l. white his opponents state that hie has only 25 to 80 votes sure, and that they themsclves have the requir- ©d nuinber, with the ssslstance of Democrats and Independents, most of whom, it Is sald, aro opposed to Hiteheoek, The Omuha candidates and fricnds, sud tho Douglus County members of the Legislature, and ahost of others, will Leave for Lincoln to-morrow. SENATOR SITATLON. WIAT HE THINKS OF TIE BITUATION. Yeeterday afternoon Scnator Williain S8haron passed through tho city en_route to the East. Word laving been sent Tue TrinUNE that the gentleman sud party were on their way and would arrive yesterday by the Chivago, Rock Istand & Pacifle Railroad, a special Tiin- usg Commissloner was detalied to meet hlm on the way, taking up the tratn at Jolict, There, yesterday afternoon, st 3:10 o'clock, the re- porter boarded the Pacifie Express East, to which train M. Sharon’s private car, of tho Virglua City (Nev) & Truckeo Rallroad, was attached, The reporter sent n Lis card, and aftor somo little wal 5“ waa invited {nto the cosy apartment in whic the gentieman and his party, including the two Misses Riley and Mrs, Ralston and faily, wera truveling, After the formalities of futroduction Tisd been gone through with, the serlbe Look & look around, ‘The car of Senator Sharon s divided fnto & parlor, bed-room, dining- room, und kitchen, wll —ueatly but Dlainly sud coslly furnished, “with no attempt 8 Fhu;crbrcml. ‘The Benator wears a mustaclie, stightly tinged with gray, while the fucs denotes o regulur and temperate life, Mo dresses very plalnly, and the only or- naments—If they can’be called such—upoi s person are a plaf snd massive gold watch and ;‘Imlu and pluln pearl studs upon his stirt~ ront. Having stated his nlsslon, the reporter pro- ceeded 10 rluumon ‘the gentleman somewhat up~ o political affairs, Gradually comlng down to THE VRESENT PHESIDENTIAL COMPLICATIONS, the gentleman sald: “1 whall soon be In Washington. given the grave subject us scrlous attens tion as I intend, on_ axount of the pressure of private affulre for some months past, But to mo it is not a question of arty, There ia somethlny far loltier and nobler at stake. Prejudice and feellngs must bo thrown aside. This is not a time for passionate wnen to grasp the helm of State. We inust huve cool and conservative heads to lead, whoso patriotism rises nbove mero varty.” “ And do you think such mep will grasp the affairs of tha natlon ' “ido, 1huve falth fn the good scuse of the present Coogress, which 1 do not belteve Witk Ku to the extreme.” “Then you fear no bloodshed " 4 (), na} § have too much Jajth fn tho wisdom of the Benate and Iousc of Representatives. The peoplé want no war, and the populur sentds ment wust prevall.” NON-CONMITTAL. “\What actlon do you think the Iouse sod Senato will takel” “That I sm unprepared to say.N # Do you thlok the Presids of the Senats will have the declsion ag to who 1 elected 1 “'That question 4 amn not prepared to answer." “will hu‘.ln your vplulon, have the power to decide which ure the legal votes fn Btates where they ars disputed (' it § cun unswer, perhaps. 1 do uot think that his decision will be fnal under certain cir- cutustauces which may be developed bereafter, ‘There uuist be o power to preveut wrung, and lstg does :llut solely rest with the President of the nate. + Then you think Congress cau go behind the o o Liss & right to go bebind o nk Congress has & the returus in mngr of !ruud.'Fh g 4 You bave fulth, then, i what its probabla action may bei'? “Yes. § belioyothat the conscrvative portioa I bave not