Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1877, Page 2

RS P et RS T r T i 3 2,028,013 ewt. & from France, 671,867 cwt. ; from Raypt, 2, 070 cwt. § from Tarkey, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1,441,187 cwt. ; from British North Amerlca, 2,482,050 cwt.: from Chill, 9,010 cwl, ; other conutries. 3,083,601 cwt. Tota), 52,051,348 ewt., or nearly 100,000,000 tmehels, of the valae of £98,085,007. During the sama period there wns imported 7,469, 051 ewt. of wheat flotir, of which 2,740,570 cwt. was recelved from the United Biat: <% ety A RURSIAN-AMRRICAN CONTRACT. Inthe tresty between the United Btites and TRuossin of 1874, the two partles recogniscd, e por- manent and fminutable princlpler, that froe ships make free goods; that is to say, that the effactaor goods belonging to snbjects or citizens of that Power or State at warsre freo from captare and conflscation when found on board of noutral vea- wels, with the exception of articles contraband of war, and that the property of nentrals on board an encmy’s vessol 1 not subject to conflacation, unless the same be contraband of war. Thoy engago to apply theea principlus to commerco and navigatlon of all pnch Powers and Btatos as,shall consent to adopt them, on tholr part, as _permanont and Im- mutable. Tho lsst treaty between the United Btates and the Ottoman Empire, negotiated in 1862, contains no such declared principlos. THE RUSSIAN FLRET, NEw, Yonr, April 27.—The Russlan flect has ‘been conling up to-day, and evorythlng indlcates an early departure for some other port or a crulse, GEN,’ SHERMAN'S VIEWS, Disptch 1o Cinrinzatt Engnirer, Wasmixaros, D. C,, April 20.—Gen. Sherman thinks that the Turko-Russian war will eventually t outbreak which has oce + thiat Austria will soon be in it, and that béfore Conetantinople Is taken En. * giand wileprobably intorfere, and thus become Ine volved, Ife saysthata Inrgs army of ltussians will cross the Danube sontewhere between Hust- chok and Varna, andtbat bothof theeo cltice, with Siiestris, | will the wscenen . of reat flfbunq. The Rusefans will pnsh on into Moldavia, and down to Galate, if ‘they can get there. At that place, he thinks, a terrific battle will be foughit; but In his orglnlnll the great ficld- battle of tha mmralgn will be fonght at Schumia, the immense fortified camp of the Tarks. e thinks the Russians Are moving with an army of 400,000 mon {n that direction. 1io Is of oplnlon that If tho Ru # are paylng gol uxe_fn the vinn and Wallachlan provinces, the'farmers will continue to go on and raise thelr cropa: but if they take by force, and devastate tho country, then tho farmers’ businers in that great producing country willentirely suapond. e saye the ‘Turks will make s more determined resistanco than they have cver made before, and that their navy now in the Black Bea Is for superior to the Russlan, * and that it would not murprise himif tho Turks perpetrated a bold Nank sovement and captured Odess in the Black Sea, the clifef depot for sup- lice, etc., for the marching armies of the Czar, !‘ln believes that before the war Is over the map of the Contincnt and of Eastern Europe will be very much changed, Gen, Sherman says ali oflicors of the American army who get leave of absance to ;iu ncross the rea muat do #o at half pay, and that itls decided that they cannot be on the staff of any - General of cithoralde, and that they cannot become ongaged on elthor side in any manner, ; CROSSING THE DANUBE. TNE DIPFICULTIES T/ RUSSIANS MUST OVER- COMH, Cologna (Germany) Gavette, | 1t Russta inteuds to atack Turkoy onEoropoan #oil,--which unquestionably will prove to be the care, us they could bave no other object in con- tracting eome 300,000 combatants of the Russian so-called ** Bouthorn Army "' in Dessarabla, --the first difficalty will bo that of croselng the Danube, "The Rusalan troops collccted with the headquartors ot Kischinew will soon croes tho Pruth, and march Into loumanta. DBat in order ta go from Ronmania foto Tarkey proper, and through Dobrndscha nto Dulgaris, the Danube has tobe crossed, when the great dificulties presented to the Russlanarmy will bogin. For largo armies, of at Jenst say 200,000 men, to croas the wide and ranid Danube, ~—for the Rusaians wopld not dare to march Into . Roumania witha lcss force, —with tho fmmenso quantities of amunition, provisions, and other woer materlal, they svould ' have to bulld .at least ive or oix larpo pontoons and keep thom well preserved. Whata difienlt task for the Rus- slanarmy! What difiicalilos varied will alvo pro- went themeclves to the RNussian pontooncers and . engincer oficers, Firat, thore Is the bad conditlon ©f the roads, For large armies to cross on that en- tire stretch of the Danube, from the mouth of the Bukina to Sliistris, or to operate with large bodles of troops, 1s a sheor impossibility. Whethor to the right or the left of the river, tholand is vory morshy, the ronds tniry, so that heavy bodies of troops cannot march over thom. True,near Bralla and Galatz it will not be diMcult to construct pon- ‘toonsover the Danube; bat, although troops may cross, tho fact there arc no larger military ronds wonld soon put a atop to tholr onward march. All ‘TurkishDobrudscha, a marshy country uncultivated, ‘where but half savage nomadic Tactara dwell with hielr hordes of cattlo, I8 accontingly withont ronds or setticd homesteads. Alono from the little town Isaktach, inTurkey, not far from Galatz, in Russla,n military road of some noto leads over Habadagh to tho harbor of Kostendache, connccted by a rallroad with Tschemowoda, on tho Danube. No other road " fnall Dobrudacha, npon which a battery could be conveyed, and besldes, in winter, spring, and au- tumn, the land le nothlng more or lees than a warsh, while in summer it {s a desort, without water, whero for many miles nothing but dirty little puddlcs may Lo ohacrved, whose water none canWrink but those who bhave heen used to it from chitdhood. When, In the snmmer of 1834, the French campod ot the Dofno Luke, noar Varna, funorant vf the Reographic and cliniatic condition, they suilt tho excellent corps of Gen. Eepinasso, abundunily equiped with all- kinds of munition vf war, through Dobrudecha into Hussian Buigaria bogind_tuc, Danubo, A fow woeks afiorwacd the_co hus sacrificud ged to ru- turn, "1t "Nad "50,000 of the. best troope, most of ' them from Algerla, and Isured to all osslble hardships and forced marches n o hot clime, who were usclensly awept off by the cholors and malaria, without ovenn having slghted on_ cnemy. 1 wan ab Varnat the 1o when the remnant of that . oxpeditlon return- ed, und 1 have nover beheld & moro mournful aight i1 tho olght campalgne | personaily nccompanied. Mulcs and balf-starved horeos wero led alony, on the eldes of which somo two, or three, or four Laxketn were fastened, containing untappy French soluier sfiected by chiolern og mularls, while thoy wiio had sutlictent strength 1o march slunk slowly behind, though without arms, and many without xnapsacks, to carry which they lacked the strength, Must of thu Latteries thelr cannons ang snma- ultion-wagons bebind, having hitched thedeaft 20mes o the ambulances overioadud, And yet shiat French expedition of Gon, Esplnasse was ‘n svery powsiblo way supported’ by urkoy, while teveral thonsand Tartare from Dobruascha were letaled te guido them snd drive their cattic, A, huwever, s Huwlon corps should outer hat conntry, cvidently sl thows Tarturs, fanutic Wuasuimaus as they are, wuuld try to In)nre them © the utmost. occunary,. during (ho dry sca« on they would sct flre {0 the high grassus an saludel blante of Dobrudecha, 01l uo the puddics n tho marshes (the only chance for getling o drink), and thus render the advance of the regular armics lmpossible. Tuwsla having accurate kuowl- eugo of the climaticand local condltion ot 1 brudschs, and not ready 1o actas thoughtlessly and srrocantly ng did tho French, no very large corpa of troups wit] cortainly be ment into thia in- hopitable country, Perhaps some few thousands of Dunic Cossucks, with thelr light snd hardoued Liorses, sccompauted by rowe ifght Cossack bat. teries, may sccretly crass tho Danubo between the naath of the ¥alink and Kallstria, moy make soins further excursions juto Dubrudscha to catch cattle and carry on a bitter fight with tne irregular Turk- 1sb ('Irllll{, It 1s ol that can bo done hera nnder exiuting circomatance: Without donbt, the great Russlan army will make 1ts principul passages over the Dunubo betwaen tho two Turkish forts Blkistrl nand Widdin, —more es- cclally near, Oltenitza, on the left bank of tue Panabio, near Turtukal, on the Fght bank. whors, in the lust Orfental war, a bloody battle was fought Letween the Turks and Itusslans; slvo, near Sune nitza, on the left bank, nesr Schistuws, on the right; near Ostrowenl, on the left, Itakuwa (or Or- ekawn) on the righl, ‘Thero ‘are places near chietates, got far from Widdin, most adapted for 1f there should beu war, ltuvsis will Bervia's neutrality e with shat of Rou- wmanis, and cousequently pass throuzh that coun- try futo Turkey,” 1f they wm;d find good piaces for eroasiug near Tacheral ur hlsdows, In Bervia; ur lstwi uear Negotln, in Servia obwtacles, the Qtussisns, bowuver, will hava 1o coutend with_ snother not - llehtly (o Le evtimated, The banke of the “Dan. uia in Turkey are moatly hich and mountainous, wwctluf Ligh above its flat sud luw banks in Jtou- mania, Duus well sdapted for tho placlng of heavy batterles to prevent thele cromsluy Anothes—and oue, 100, unkoown to them in {ormer wars, but whica uow the Russtaus willhave to overcome in thelr croesinz—Ils the Turkish ifotills of the Disnube, According to Iatest statlstics, the Tarks we a flotllla oo the Danube consiating of sixteen sleamers of t dray, trou-clad, care rylug twent Krupp bieech. loaders, whifo thy Russisns hove not u vevuel of cbaructer. TLosa guoloats, dealg: to uayigate th deew Danube'to the Austsla will trouble tho Russluns escee thete pontoons across the Da Not only that by means of their beavy bat. tuzles thoy way Lre the wi leogthiof the river fur u goeal distunce, and thus shatler the Jussien boutovus, they aro enabled to, by the welybt of thele bound, £ blow up tae bridyes and sluk the didereut poutoons. To yusrd sgainst theve hostilo suaoultors, the Ruselans can but eink torpedoes fu Wic river at & proper distance from where they in. tend (0 throw the brldges acruss, sud thus block up the cnanuel. But the Ruralen euginecrs will Lad it a criticul enterpriso ta sink torpedoes right uaer 1o Br0 of Turkut Lattories placed on tno Bigh cocky bauks in Houwanis, 'Thus, ere the Wuwaisus “bave touched ilussiun- soil, a Sght oy Ciugecous ue it ls ioteresting between Turklsh woullors sud Huseisn torpedoes will ensue, Europe uover witnessed bufore. 'Tbe cugites and wiarive ollicers of other srwles of Europo may @ 0 Lutico much practical axpericncs und erlcl eis sclvuillc ucquisition. 1M the Ruseisus sbowld & totally. destroyed 1 b ‘\%.w!.’ A Rrsoen i d for what they " not snceeed by means of torpedocs 10 destroy the Tarkish monitors, or render them harmiesn at Toast, their pontoans, aven though they shonld have' thrown them with snrprising rapldity, ara _In greslest danger thereafl o ba the hostile - steamers, iAn army enters Ninigarin, cat off from the mother country, from wantof munitions and provialone. it might casily he made to aaffer nncom. mon distresn, ‘I rie, tho Danube In to be anentral er - chaonol, and tha Rusuians aro. not suthorlzed to alnat the Dlock It np_ by pontoons or torpedoes However, interents of peaceablo merchantmen. they will not hesitate to doit. In case of war, {\uftrian navigation by steam o7 sail on the Lotwer Danuba will o ontirely stopped, nnd Ansiria bo mndo most_sensihly to anfler. The Kaeslan army having four hyl?del of aappers, each of them con- slating of thrae battalione of Aappurs, two of pone tooncers, and ono of rallronders, this commanuing twenty-four battalions of that class of troope, and the Southern army of Rusela to be Inéreased by 2,000 raflora of the Haltie ficet, there ara cortalnly smatarial and men ennn{(,n to throw thres or fonr Iarge pontoons over the Danabe. - ATTACK AND DEI'ENSE, TIR NAILWAY SYATEM OF TNOUMANIA—TNR JUSSIAN ADVANCE—TIIR DANUBE THR PIRST LINE OF TURKISIl DEFENSE—TUN BALKAN RANGE TIE MAIN BAMPART—TIR FORTREASe ES—A FLANK MOVEMENT IN TUE DIRECTION OF BERVIA. New Tork Tribune. At the ontbreak of hostllfties the two armies wero about 450 miles apart, The Russlan army was massed near the northeastern frontier of Rou- manla, In the vielnity of Kischenefl, a town on the rallroad between 'Odessa and Jaesy. Tho Turkish troops * were etationed at - vatlons - points -almg the lino of the Danube from Clernetz to Slifstrla, Retween the armics waa the territory of Ronmauia, with ita railvay system. ' Ronmania {s nomiually a va fal of the Porie, but In reality the tool of Russia, Late In March stores and ammunition were sent by the Russfans into Roumanla, destined for Kahnl and Dolgrod, and the Rivslan and Ronmanlan rafl- way lincs swero conuected ro that roliing-stock conld easily be concentrated at Jassy, The distance between Kischene/Tand Jasey fs about efghty miles. On Mondny asbout 17,000 Russlon troops were tronsforred by rallway to Jassy. Within twenty-four hours the Russians occupled Galate, Drallow, and Bucharest, the Capital of Tonmanis. The distanco by rallway between dasey and Galatz {s about 200 miles; thence tho rallway continues to Ducharest, 8 distance of 140 miles; and thence to Giurgevo, forty miles further, on the Danube: and thonce through Bulgaria to Vama, on the Dlsck Sea. ‘A branch rons from DBucharcst to Chernets on tho Auntrian frontler. A small force of Coseacks 18 reported to have gome In this direction to take possesslon of this bLranch. The Rassians Lave thus mado themsolves maater of the Roums nian railway syatom, and can mass thelr forces elther at Chernote or Giurgevo. The distanco be- tween Galatz and Kalarash on the Danube is about ninety miles over a good road. There is a tolerablo road botween Bucharest and Oltenitza, whero the Danube fn abont 800 yards wide. At Glurzevo the width of the river s threc-guarters of o mile. The natural crossing-places aro at Glurgevo, Olta- nitza, and Kalarash, and of the three Giurgeva Is the most importaot, Instead of storming the furtresses on tho south bonk of the: Danube, tho Ru army may make a long detoor Ly rail to Cliornets. far away tothe west, sud turn the ank of the Turkish forces, It is mors probable, how- over, that the Russiaus will remaln on the dieect toad to Constantinople. The. Danube le a wide and swift river, acrosa which it wlll not be casy to throw a bridge of boats; but fnasmuch aa the line of dofonse s so -long, tho assallants will bave -on the -whole n .great 'adymntage, The Turkish divislons will be scattered, and tha asnailing army can be massed quictly and hurled suddenly in overwhelming force against the do- fenders at a slngle polnt. It la not probable that the Danube will bo an Insaperablo barrier to tho advance of the Rassians, ‘The first line of the Tarkish defense Is, however, quito formidsble, The southern bank fa for the most part high, while the Roumanlan is low and swampy. The Turkishtowns nestle among tha biils and many of thom ars rurunedi while the Ranman. Ian ride {s desolace, The Turkish fleet {s mistress of tho waters, and tho little runboats, cach carry- inga ne-vyf wiil hava thoir own way npon .{ Damube, unless the Iu: can drive them away With torpedoes, large nnmbera of which have been stored along the Ronmanian bank. With these gun- boats and monitors on tho watch it will be digi- cuit for ‘the Husalan army to concentrate with- oot escoping -notice, and, moreuver, fthe namber Of. .crosst; places 1a limited, owlng to the fact that thero wro very few. rosds in Lulgaris over which an ariny can march. At ono of *ho three points named above (Oltleuitzn, Glurgeyu, ond Kalarash), orat Lom or Nikapolis, a crosming must be mado, hocause the only availa: bleronds” to tho south'lead from thesd town Siliwtrin; opposite Kalarash, Is strongly fortltle Lelng protected by cleven forts or roduabis, which are vithier clused or cffectually flankod by oue ane other. All those worke arg armued with hoav Kropp _guns of th pattern, Lustehul and -~ Widdin stroni — fortrewnes. If tho Itusslans effect a cross they will elther havo Lo Leslego thesa fortresses or mank them with largo budics of men and push forward the wain army, 1o that event the Turks would withdraw to thelr second line of dofonse In the Balkan range, ‘Thia Is tha tnsin defense of Central Turkey—a great smpuart which the Ruasisne will hava to scalo_ befura Lhoy can reach Adriznople and Cons ntinople, Thcae mountaing are 5,000 fest high At tho western extromity and 2,000 feet high at the @ca. The aletance from thy. Danube to the top of the paases 14 about fty or alxty miles, across & rough and broken country; and'the declivitios of the moun- talns thomuolves nro clothed with forcsts, The climate {a very cold and bleox. Thare arv eight paencs throughi tho hilly, the best ones being 1ho most easterly ono on the coast road and the Iron Qateon therond from Tibnova to Bliyno, Be- tween tho lalkan range and tho Danube “there aro twu formidable fortzesses, —Shumin and Varna, one of which cummands all tua roads from Yust- chuk and Sllistrin to Constantinople, und tho other tho coast road from Dobruda and the Luwer Danabe, Tho lusalan troops would_bo ex. 0 of the ish yunboata nnd monl aed to to Fora un hio Const fomel, il Shstada be sob ronge fortrosw in_Ceutral Turkey, Tho hills which o circle it are very steep and aro clothed with lmpen- wtrable underbrunh, and overy height {stetrength- oned by tortiicutions, It 1 the most fmportant (m\nt in ‘hu defensivo wystem of ‘Inrkey; Widdin, Silietrta, and Varna rauk nmext in strategic importance, Hoyund the Dalkan range 1 an undulating country wloping toward the Sea of Marmora. From Adrianople & railroad " to Cunstantinople, s distance of soventy milos, With- 1n 8 few nilles of the Bosphorns there s o range of hills which will form o third line of du{enm‘l the Turks aze driven from tha river and the moun- sh, the “mountal Doiphoria, . thoy over A tlio may waka & tunk ‘movemunt, crowsitg the Danubs at Chornetz, where, the rivor s uarrow, aud where the fnhabitants of tho oppusito stds are frlendly; drianpple whiere, Indead, forta bave alroady boen thrown g on both wilew Of the tivor, under the direction of Tuaetnn englocer ofiicers, to koep the Turklsh #unboats at o distance. From (his polut of cromsing tho Russians would * be through Bervia guod roads, snd 1o descend into the roud between Nish and Sofls. wllhfllllr’nlnuthru auy of the Bulkun ond ltne of the Turki at troke, Int rof 1828 tho ‘Iurks crosscd tho river st Widdin and selzed Kalafut, and they may repeat Uiis woveniony now. Kalafat is upon the dank of the Nusslau Jov of advauco to Cher netz, and {8 & polnt of great strategle lingortance, SP’AIN, TUE BUDGET. Maonip, April 27.—Tho Minwter of Finance read the budget ta-day, Ile estimatos tho revenuo and expenditure for the coming fiscal year st 7,300, 000,000 plasters. TUE DASQUE PROVINCES, Loxuox, April 27.—A dlspatch from Bllboa great excitement exists because Gen, Quesada abruptly diewolved tho Blscayan Juntas for refus Lo accupt the fueros. 4 g N e JATAN, BUMMONED HOXE. Loxpox, April 27.—A dispatch fram Berlln ssys the uncle of the Emporor of Japan, who Las beon studying In the Pravelan War Academy, Las been winoued home to take comwmand of 'the srwy inst the lusurgents, GERMANY, THR TARIFY BILL DEVRATHD, Banti, April £7,—The Parliament to-dsy re- Jocted the blll for Smposing compensatory uport. Qutfes upon lron aud iron goods. Vote, 211 sgalast ul. AUSTRALIA, VHEE TRADE. Mzreounse, April 27, ~The Parliauent bas been | disaulved. The Minlsiry anguunc diruction of free trude, ————— FINANCIAL. Hpecial Dispaich (0 Tha Triduss. - Posto¥, Aprll 27, ~May & Co,, metals and beavy hardware, Olive strect, this city, have suse peaded. with labilitics of about $000,000. This Louss la the gldest of the kiud in buston, and has alwag boea considered of the bighest standing. Thio Tallury s attributed culetly to depreclation [ of tuelargo stock of merchandlse carricd by »u the Arm, New ‘Yomk, April 27.—London dispotches ssy that 'Thowas Kitebly, S00s & Co., hop werchante, 400,000, 8¢ beported fallud, Liabilitice, policy In the - STATE AFFAIRS. Scourged with the Scorpions of Public Indignation, the As« sembly Labors. A Day’s Work Unparalleled in the IReccords of the Session. Mr. Rowett's Municipal Rofunding _Bill Passed, Approved, and Now in Force, T A Se;mte Bill Passed to lilseanrngu Rob- bery by Bankrupt Scoundrels, Passago of o Measurs Paring the Olaws ; of the Oook County Harpies, Rather Remarkable Seene Allending (he Arrival of Yesterday's Tribune, PROCEEDINGS, A DBILL TO CATCIT PRANKLIN DANRERS, ETC, ‘{ Bpecial Dispalch to The Tridune. Srrixariety, 1., April 27,—~The House this morning took up Clover's bill for thoe protection of bank depositors. ‘The bill provides, among other things, that, if any banker or broker, or his sgent or scrvant, or any officer, agent. or servant of any banking company or Incorporated bank, shall ro- celvo from any person or person, firm, company, or corporstion, or from any agent thereof, not in- dehted to said ban'or, “broker, banking company, or Incorparated bank, any money, check, draft, blll of cxchange,. stocks, honds, or other valuable thing which 1s teansferable, by delivery, whon at the time:. of rotelving auch deposit snfd banker or hroker, banking company, or Incorporatedibank, le insoivent, and In dangerof fallure, snapension, or tavoluntary liq- ulilation, whercby the depocsit so made shall be lost or hazarded to the depositor, sald banker, broker, officer, agent, or servant so recelving snch d hall be deemed quilty of embozzlement, ,'upan conviction {lhereof, shall, bo ined lna m double the amount- of ‘tho sum so embezzled and fraudulently taken, and {n addition thereto may bo P a4 IMPIIRONED IN THR BTATE PENITENTIART not leas than ono nor mora than threo years. Tho fatiuro, suspénafon, or Involuutary liquidation of the banker, broker, banking company, or incarpos rated bank within_thirty days from and after the time of recalving auch doposit shall be prima facle ovidence of an intent to defrand on the partof such banker, broker, officor, agent. or. servant of such ‘bankini company or incorporated bank. Mr, Neal oppored the bill as a roversal of the time-honored rule of justlce,- It required & man nccused to ]’Ilron!. f & bank, within thirly cays after recois! flalfe onit, suspended, that was 1o bd taken as prima faclo proof” of fraud in a crim- Inal prosecutlon agalnst the: hanker, broker, or bank oficer, agent,” or cruploye. This was not only grossly unjust, but would render the busingss of banking impossible. No bank suspended that had not within thirty days prior thereto received deposita. And to mako that the rule wouldt be to Innict punishment upon the innocent. 1o opposed any bifl that proceeded on the assamplion that the Enny accused was to be held gulity until he proved imaelf Innocent. MMr, Powell hoped the blll would pass, Tle had SEEN ENOUOI OF DANK ROTTRNNESS, and svanted something done to atop It. After wor farther discussion, the bill was 003 nays, 80,~nnd now goos to the NORMAL UNIVERSITY. The bill making approprlation for the Normsl University st Normal was reported back - trom the Committes on Apgmurlunnnn 80 amended av to tedace the appropriation from per. annum, 000 1o 318,000 This Ivavos the approprlation the o at tho last session. WORSE TITAN BANQUO, The Heney Uead clalm bill was roported back from the Committco on Appropriations, and, in the usual rush sod_confuslon amidst which Coms mittoo reports aru made, was ordered (o & third rending without any attention being given to it by tho 1fouss, and probably not one wmember In ten know what it was, 'Thie lsthe vld claim for the differonce betwoen gald, In which liead clalow he was entltled to vn{mn& for_cavaley squipments farnished during the War, and Stato Trensury war. £anta In which ho wau patd. The clalm hias’ requ- Iarly been killod and rosurfocted nt cuch session sluco about 1804, 1t has onca been kied 1n tho a{%mh esslon, Itappropristes a little over AN BASTRERN INSANE ASYLUM, The bill making appropristion for nn Eastern Tasane Asylum camo up on thied reading, and wa passed —yuas, 887 nays, 40—and sont Lo tiio Se: ate, 1t appropriatos for the purchase of tho site and farm, which shall inclods not less than 140 acteq, anit for constructing bulldings, for plamb. fieaulig, and for the ventilation of \tho snimne, to fit (he bulldinge for occupancy and uwe, T'ho bill provides that w Commisslon of neven men, no twu of whow whall trom the samo Congrasslunal ~Disteiet, and nune of - whom whall bo resident third principnl meridian, and arallcls of Intiiude, 50 and 4135, who ahall suleet he slto for tho now asylnm. Within ten daysuftor tho selection of a site, the Governar shall frpolnt thres Trusteca for nald hospltal, who shall be o Lody corpurate and polltic, and tho kame rules, regulatlons, couditions, and pu 3 01 Traatees of other Stafe charitablo instltu- lons are now pruvided by Inw, and under thelr charge and cuntrol the contracts'shall be lot aud tho building erccted. TIE REPUNDING DILL PASSED, ‘The Toueo concurred In the Sennto aswendment to Mr, Howett's Muulcipal Nefunding bill, and it naw goex to the Governor for his spproval, - Tho bill “has boen printed in Tux Tuinyxe. Tho State, " In the bill, accepts tho thankloss task of collecting certatn taxes In the debtar coune tiewand municipalitics and applying thom to the Intarvat and princlpal of consulliated bonds re- fundod from divers bonde jswued by wuld countive and mnnicipalities to various sche: for public Improvoment. ‘Thts morganatic indorsoment by the Btate, It is boped, will approctate the crodit of {he sultéring counties and municipalitios, “and lighten their heavy burdens of yearly interosf, ha bl passed with the emergency clause ate {ached, the voto belng 13+ ayes to 2noes, _Iu the Sonato {t waw paseed by 40 ayestolno, Tt wil), therefore, take oifect Immediatoly upon approval by tha Governor, COPIERAS CREEE. Mr. Hopking, from the Approvriation Commit. tee, reported baek tho bill appropristing $31,000 for'the’ construction of the Copperus Creck dam, with recommandation that it Yu-, Ar. Meeeitt moved La refar tothe Judiclary Com- mittes, He Lelloved the bill was naconetitition: Meanes. Jay and Danne opposed tha reference, and arwued that the unconstitutional objoction was unfounded, The motion to refer was loat. Mr. Merritt moved an amendment striking out tho $51,000 appropriation, and leaving ouly tho Bt nlrnl}nu'l of the canal to be sppliod for dnlshing ho work, AMr, Hopking defended the blil as ono for tha heneilt of tho commerca of the whole State, aud the appropriation as one that should ba made, e, Smith, of Tazowell, sal dam wonld iva soventy miles additional navigation on tho 11lnots River, and for that reason urged 1te p sage, r. Cronkrite offercd a substitate In substance about the same as Merritt's snendment, 3lr, Rowett urged that, in the loterestof Chicago ‘transpartation, (ho apuroptiation should be mnde. After prolanged discussion, Mr, Morritt's amend- mu‘r:l;m: ‘M‘r. ;J‘l)rinkrlu‘:ogn.bnl!lnxumwfi"luat. and 06 0 8 3U npoes, 0 Wi Ordered io third readia g " THE NXW STATE-OUS| The blll providing for condemnation of addi- tional grounds for tho new State-lousa was passed. ¥IQUH! “The LI mlklnilhl Hecretary of State ex-oficlo Commissloner of Statfstics was passed, und goes to tle Senate. _Itrequires him to collcct ine statistics concorning the ravenues of the State, valustion of property, reuland personal, the ssecssmient and coliection of tuxvs, the amount_of 6tato, county, township, sud inunicipal indcbiedness, and tho form of 'such -indebtedness, whether ‘bonded or olhorwisc, and the purposes for which It wau con- tucledy © alio e siaelics “relsting |t all epartuents of labor n this State In° its relatlons to the educational Industrial, commercisl, and sanitary condifivn snd wages of tha laborlok classus, “snd W the prosperity of the productive Industries of he ‘ommonwealth; and also to collect and classify statletics relating to the agrlcultural, manuface tndu:. ninersl, sud commercial productions of Uhis State. TUE NBW STATE-HOUSE. The biil providing for submlivaton o popular yota of an sppropristion of , 000 for cowpletion of the new State-House was ordered to a s¢cond read- g, SOOBRT-HAND, 3r, Albright's biil autbarizing each Circatt Coart to appoint an ofiiclal whort-band reporter, 6t & salary not exceeding 1,500, was brought up upon recommendation, and passcd by 70 ayes to 44 nous, JUDICIAL, Mr, Crooker's bull to vuable cltlos (n which have been establiebed City Courts fo dlscontinge the Sauie upon a two-thirds vote fu favor of discontinu- Ing, wus passed by 113 ayes to' 23 nucs, and now §oes tu the Beuste, VEBTISING. N AD! The blll of Mr, Swith, of Tazewell, the prico_of pablic advertislug, which was saved by a reconsideration, was Jd by s voloof Ok ayesto 15 noce. 1t limita fae rate o ba pald fur Slaty advertisements 0 10 ceuta s line of uunpareil fur the irat, aud sevi b aud one-half cents for each subscquent lusertion. COMMENT. The buslncss done to-day—Tfar wmors than o any other day of the sceslun—ludicates the satutary ellect upon tetbere of the eriticlsug of Kiwentase to rogulste .| the bill providing for the enl.m;em:nt of the Penl- HI: CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL 98, 1877—TWELVE PAGES. ism and donothingism that has becn made by Tun TRIKONN. ¢ €Ot DUTTON, Ta preservo Col. Datton, Clerk of the Hoase from the petty parsecution to which he is subjected to.by momber who have no record worth mention oxtept as nbecntees, yone correxpondent wonld #tate that Col. Dntton fiad nothine to do with mak- Ing up the abeentee-1iet published fn Tie Trin- UXe, An Col. Datten s been bulldozed abont this matter until he nearcs dare extend the ondinary civilitios of ofilce to yonr corraspondent, this status ment betomes necessnry, . IN THR SENATR tentiary at Tolict wan amended so as to_appropri- sm,sull]o.ow for bnllaing a cell-houre to contaln cells. Mr. McDowell offerea an_amendment providing that no portion of the appropriation should ho ex- [ended until the appainiient of tho Penitentlary "ommisaioners should be contirmed by the ennte, Thin was an atemnt to renew (ho contest over the appointment of the Penjtentiary Commisalon. érs, which contost was terminnted by Gov, Cullom's setion in withdmeing his nominations and making the appointiments absolutely, as it was discovered he had a tieht 1o do, After somao discussion a vote was taken on Mr, McDoweil's amendment, with the following re- mult—ayce, 10; noes, 19, Liont. «Clov, Shuman voted no, killing this at- tempt of the Damocrats lo arab n slire uf the Exg ceufire appointing power, and the bill was ordered to n third reading. . REGISTHYT. Me. Kehoe's blil exlcmllng the Registey nct to ali clty clectians was pansad by a votu of 47 ayen to 10 noes, And _now goes to the flonse, that no person_shall be permitted to vote at an) city clection who fsnot rugistercd as Is provade for Stato elcctihna, and “that the manner of conducting . registering and voting at city olections,, and conducting ame, ktu[xlllwufrnlldh(n and canvarsing of the vote, sball bo (he same an nearly an may bo as In the case of the election of county oflicers under the genera) lawa of this State, ‘The Judges of cloc- tion shall appomt clerks, when' necessary, 1o fill vacancies, nad the Judgesand clerks xhall tako the same oath and have ‘tho eama powers and authority as the Judges and elerka of penem] Btats elcctions, After the clusing of the polls the Dallota shiail be counted and the returns mndo out d under realof the City or Villago tho case may be, within ys after clectlon, and 'thereupon the City Council, or licard 'of Trustees, as tho case may be, whall examino and cunvass tho rana and declare the result of the election, and canve & statement thereof to be enterod upon its joure nals, o s JUDICIAL, The bill dividing the State, exelusivo of Cook auly, Into thirtoen jndichal_circuits, and pro- viding for the election of threo Judges in eac iiin- trict, was passad by a votc of 28 to 10, It contin- nes the present Clrenit Judees In ofiice nntil the expiration of their reapective terma, and provides for the election of one_additional Judyoe I euch circuil.* The bill now goes to tho Senate, TUE LAKE-FIONT. Mr. Rehoo introduced tho following: ) A DILL for an act to grant, and to cnable the City of ‘Chicarv to convey, cerialn lanus slcuated thereins fxe. 1, Be it enacted Ly tho people of th Btate of Tiinois eipresciited fn the Qeneriy rsomily, That the Clty of Chicago reby lll‘l\lll'{lml And einnowered ract of land situated n sald narth line of Monruy sl 1t vrovides to the we tiuo of th and dorat zm':fi\{lu of tho Tlirota G ¢ Il tra Company, o slderation and upon At and conditions as nay be agrecd upow between satd ¢ and the purel er or purchiasets therenf, aa upon tie execution and delivery of & dielor conveyanco thameot by saii citys the sald land and ai t, titio, and (nterest of the Kiate of 1linals therein, thersapon, hy viritis of such eanvesance and of this act, becom veated in (i3 purchusers there d saticnn, In 160 stmple, and diseliarzed ductured or Tlinited; owaver, Uit no canverance of sald premis- €s or any part ‘there e MiRii0 OF delivired by safd ¢lcy ualcss the consent of thia owners of the prop. erty abutting on said premises shail iave boen lirs 06+ taliied, or any titio urintereat they misv have thoroln ncauired extioguiilied, - 3 Alr, Whiting moved a reference to the Committes on Canals, on the gronnd that the property bo- lontzcd to the canal under the Guvernment srant. Mr. Dnsh hoved the gontleman from Burean would be content with regulating tho wheat trade and other trades of Chicago, d give tho city a chance 14 diapose of the lakealront property, ;l;:m Uil wax then reforred to the Judiciary Com- mittee, Mr, Lee, Chatrman of the Canal Committee, then snunuunced that it bad beon arranged that, when the Judlciary Committeo considored the bill, tha members of tho Canal Committeo wonld bo natited snd Invited to bo present, thatall sldes might bo 1ully adviscd of the action takem, . BARNARD & GOWAN'S GIAD. The bll} making Au)pmprlnmm for the payment of the llarnard & Uowan claim was just. * This clalm wus for damagus suffcrad by them as stono- work contracturs un the new State-tlouss by the falture of the Btate to furnish fram the Punitentlaty the cut-stono required, The cluim was for 310, 600, FRINTING, . ‘Tho bill authorlzing the State Noard of Agricnl. turo to swell thelr annual roport to a volume of 700 aAges was [)lllt!d. nnd goed 10 tho IHouse, - Bould L puss that body, 1t will make a fat job for tho Public Printer, and will materially Increaso tne supply of wasio yaper provided at publlc expense, . COOK COUNTY DOARD. ' Mr. Bash's bill relative to the suditing of claims Ly County Board was passod by n voto of 30to 1. 1t provides that umconmmonm of avery county having than 10y, inbabitaats shall ap~ porut 8 Finance Commitica otihe commencenent of each flscal yoor conslsting of ut loast one-third of the members of sald Duard, §hich Committes shall sit #s a Hoard for auditiug clalms agalnst tho cannty, and that no money shall be approprintod or pald upon any clalin until said Committce shall havo —audited same, and the County Uvard ~ shall approved the ru port of sald Commiltes by o voto of at lemsl two-thinds of the mombers clected 1o the County Bunrd, 1In case the County Doard shall n,\pmml\lw woney without first submitting the cluiin therefor to sald Finance Commitiee, or ahall ety pay. for sapplics, materialy ur labor béforo thy sume shall bave boen furnished to the county, or all cause money to bo palid out of tho Connty ‘reasury without ‘obtaining the voto of at least two-thinds of the memburs therefor, every momber votluy for such misappropristion of funds shall be Kwity of 4 misdemeanor, and,on conviction there- o, aball bo tinea not I han $200 nor more than 81,000, and be hntrllflnofl 1 the County-Jall not Rioro thal six months, TR, BOUTHENN INSANS ASYLOM AIPROPRIATION Ly was passed, and goes to the Hoane, 1t appropriates for ordinury expenses $85, 000 per annuin} 10F im- DNtavements of ground, $2,000; fintahing roud from Anna, $2.500: tonl-louso, ' §1,000; carpunter 0w, §300; frame barn, with stono bascinent, 5003 firo-pump and hoso, $1,501); Fotary avoll, 000 dry clos palea, §3,000 per dntinm. i TIE ELOIN INSANE ASYLUM APPROTRIATION DILL alo passed, and gods to tho Houxe, It ape propriates {n all for wo years ¥230,012, 1OOLSELLING, Mr. Tash's bill to punish pool-selling slso mssed, It provides that any pcrson who shalt wep any rooia or building, or any part or portion of room or bullding, for t! urpose of i) bety, or of selling pools, ARY porvon who siial| ru‘{ iter bots or syl Etml pon the result of any trlu or contest of wkill or endurasice, or upon the 1t of uny political appolntment Lelng the owner, les: or uce| 0y ?z,cw-. Improvements and ra- election, ory of any such roont, butlding, o rt or portion tliercof, shall® knowingly ~pormit " tho samo ba used or lod for any = of thess oceuplol .puirposce, or uh:lrmeuln keap, vxhibit, or em- plo; nn{ dovice or apparatus for the purpose of reglatering such bets, o the welling of such poale, orahall bscome the custodian or depowitory for hire of roward of any monoy, rmperxy. or hln* of valoo staked, wajered, or pludged a8 aforcsald upan any such result, such peraon shall bs dovmed gailty of 8 misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic. tion, bo punished by fmprisoument fu’ the County Jufor nat inors than oho Sear,”oF by Sno not ex' ceuding §2,000, or X . ‘I'he samo bII! was Introduced fu the 1Mouse by Mr. Thompaun ta-day, and passed that body, RAILROAD CROS3INGH, rmo's Kallroad bill passed, and was je. It chief provision s Lhut y rullro; PNy 0 Crows, Intersect, and unite with any other rall- WIJ beforo cunstructed atany polut on it routs and upon the grounds of such uther rullway com- pany with tho necesvary siding, switches, andother cunivoniences In furtherance of the ubjects of jts cou| connections, and every _corporation whoso ruflway 1s or shall Do hereafter intorvected oy any mew rollway eball unite with tio corporation ownlng new railway in_formiug such Intersectl and_connectious and grant tho facllities ofuresald, and It tho iwa corporalions cannot oyree upon the mwount of pensation to by made therofor, or the points ner of sach crossiuge and boundarics, the 1} be ascertained and deteruiined in the auner prescribed by law, UTDE PARK, Mr. Robluson's Hyds Fark Water and Sewer blll waa passed, and goee 1o the llouss, 1t provides that, whenaver any incorporated town or village shn)] bo adjacent snd conllguuus to any ‘otlcr fhe corvorated tows or village, th be uuthor- fzed to contract with each Otier upon euch termang lusy wmutually sgreed upon for tho exteu- alou of the systemi®uf water-works of tho wne into the territorlal Ninlts of the other, and for providing & supply of water froy the watur-works of the one for ihe useof the inbabitants of the other, t and contiguous cities, towns, sud village 1 alsu be puthurtzed Lo provide by contract with euch other, upon such terms ns uay be mutually sgreed upoa; that the use and benefits of uny sewer of dratn, or of any systews of suwer- age or drainage tofore constructed, or which way hergsfter bo coustructed by tho ons may be extonded or fornlshied to hu inbabitante of the other, and they may, Ly contracs with sach othor, provide for the foiut coustruction of any sower or draln by the munlaipalities so construct. 1ng, aud for the common uso thercof Ly the iubab- {tants of sach wunliclpalities. The contracts con- towplated by tho frat and secoud sections of {his oct siay be made b{ ordinapce or resoloflon auly enacted oF passed by th Cummon Council, Board of lrustecs, or othor proper legislative suthority of the city, Jucorporation, ortown. * Tho blll "?HT‘CUL%‘L for the o blll appropriatiug §2, cr antun for the Slate, HarthosoLriatius §2, 000 per saciom (o th e 10 the Flouse, TUE KEFUNDING DILL NOW LAW. fo The Triduse BYRINGYIELD, el 27, -Mr. . Bowett's y AL, AD Municipa: Dedt Refunding blll was this ol sigued by the Quyernor, sud ks now & la A CARD FROM MR. UEBLEON. 70 the Editor of Tha Tyibune. BrurNezizLy, L., Anrl 27. —~Tux Toteuye lsln trno0s ctrar in attributing to me opposition to Chicagn ille, " Ana miember of tho Hotse I liavo voted (or evety measnre the Chlcgo deleation anked for, with'a sinelo excontion. “That exception was tho Probate Court ll, which I bellave_ ta bo nncanstl- tutional, and thertfore apponcd. d, J. HERRON, AN AFTER-SESSION, MPADING THB TRIBUNE, Spectal Dispaich 1o The Tridune, Bratxarireo, 1l April 27.—Shortly befora b o'clack this evening In the Benate, Mr. Rabinson, of Cook, hnstily arose and moved to adjonrn, raying ho obmerved a tarnado coming. Tharo was langh- ter, nnd the motlon Lo adjourn was nogatived, and Mr. ltobinron Wwas nnanimously grantod leavo to retire, of which permission he speedily availed himsclf, A few moments lator the atorm:-burst forth fn tremendous fury, The Tlouss had Just adjonrmed, but the members had mot time to leave tho bulliing ere the bail came down In larger picces than cver notlced -horeabonts, tho largest weighing rearly fotr onnces and measuring two and throe and & balf Inches In dfameter. The crashing of glass followed ns the hailstonea stricck some of the fm- mense Froneh plate-glass windows, Thoelightning struck atn point nenr Ly, killing a horso. The shock tas felt in “E bullling as the clectrie cur« rent passed ono of Tho high girders In the lantern of thedomo, Tho membera of thd House were about wearylng of heing peaned In when A NEWSNOY RUSIED IN with forty-tivo copies of Tne Tminuxe. Theso were speedily snapped np, but tho'se members un. ablo to oblain a copy valnly endeavored to induce the nowaboy tu brave the storm after a rocond mfl' ply. When It was found that noother of the newsboys came, the storm Increasing in fury, 8 compromise was roached by the Cletk agrocing to read Tug Tninrss comments o the Leginlature from the d trhich be did, ns the'members ranged themsolves about him. So tho hour was passcd away !:J members who dldn't want to reo iz Tuinung, didn't care forit, and yet causod the adventuroun newsboy hecause ho ouldn't o out after a recond sunply of yaners, or induce other boys to follow his example In defylng the elements. PUBLIC OPINION, STIRRING U THE BTALWART STATEZSMEN, To the Kditor of The Tribune. SPRINOFIELD, Aprll 27.~1 rugeat that so much bad blood has been stirred np hera in the matier of absenteciam. Tlio roll-call'as published gives the Impreesion that the mombers \wero nbsentna_many days an they are put down s not votmg. This 18 the construction put npon 1t by country peonle, aml Iarsure you I have never acen cxanperation eo fully developed as hers now. The factis there are a dozen roll-calls daily on frivolons motions which matters not whether tiey are voted up or down, Foullsh tilibuatering nlways occnrs In which half of the mewmbers do not pnrlln‘lip e, one g, and indirectiy ct they appear os not votin 2 not oty prevent, "This 1n- Eardly fare o g members, oven to those sensiblo and good men who do' niot promote_sheb foollshness, Yet thoy appear the worst by not voling, when In fact they ars the most meritorlous, Ammin thoro fs notn member of the linuse who has not been absont on Committee s week ormore during tho sexslon, Somo have bean nick, and exciiaed, vet thoy nppear inn bad light In view of the published roft-call The acene in the Houro was thu most dlagraceful Tover witnesned, and poor Thomeon wan the_yice tim, and whilo some _of the members behnved like ruliana and blackyuards, and a majority Hko falots, 1 think it-is uniy rizht that this explanation should bo mude of the cause of o many black marke wcored againsy thow. _Glve tho d——1 his due, Fale play requires it, Yours, OusmnvArioxs: If any of tho members find them- selves placed in an unfavorablo lght before tele constituents, thoy have nobody to biame bt them- sclves, Tux TunuNs's corrcspondent did not make tho record; they made It, If thoy had adopte od Wentworth's resolution, which they suppressod, thero would have boen an ofilelal statemont of thelr ‘present " and **abscnt " at roll-calls, Wo do not belleve ‘anybody has recolved tho fmpression that tho *'absent at roll-calls** represents thd numnber of days members aro away from Bpring- fleld, becanse everybody knows that sumo daye the sull may bo called a dozen times, and on other days not once. Butifany ono is misled asto thoe extent of absenteolam by the published tabla In Tus Tain. UNE, tho Llame rests on the members themsolver, who bave refused to allow the roll to be called cach marning lest a record ehoutd bo made of those abe sent without leave. Thoy wero dotormined that it. should not he known how much they wero truant and derelict. 1t Is notorfoun that sinco the reassembling after the. Senatorlal electlon thero has mot beon @ quorum of membera present to average threo and a balf days per week, and that duting those threo and n balf doys ono-third or mors of tho members were not fn Bpringfleld at all, but ot home attend- Ing ta thoir privato and professional businoss, Mako all allowanco for sickness, for absence on Junketing excursions, or on Committes work, and thoro stlll fs niot less than Afty skulks who wero ot on leglalative duty of any sortoven during tho brief weekly aceslons of Tuosday noon to Friday noon, Abasenteclam had become 8o Incorrigibly bad that tho mémbors remaluing at thele posts folt oem- straned to send out a telegraphlc dispatch, last Monduy, toall tho daily newspapers in tho State, calling on the cltizens to Lold public imectinga to denounce the loafing dodgers o demand thelr res- Ignation suxg concluded to holp the faithful Membors to securo the presenco of sufficlent mem. bers tado busincss, and at least to pass thoapproprls atlon bille, if nothing clee. - Theatlrring up It gave tho truants hos done aheap of good, Tacre hos been more actun) logllative work performed the last three days thon during the proviony threo weeks, and (here 18 o falr prospect now that the noceasary Yyelness of the scarlon wall Lo finlshed up {n good hape, and that after il the scmslon will be a success, and the memuvers go homa with decent diplomas and rowards of merit, ® DBut thero must bo no more **old sogeriug ** aml loaing; steady work and closo attontion o bual- ness ara now $u order untll the alne die s pio- nounced, . TUOMBON DID ONLY 1S DUTT. Chicugo Erentng Fost, ‘Whatovar may bo sald of the other shartcom. Ingw of thy Legislature, tho Ilouse will dlvgrace ftaelf I it pormlta the obecens uttorancos of Kear- ney yosterday to puss withont punlshment, This vulgur fraction of n man used Liv privileks ae n member of that bady to apply cplihets to a porson not a motwsber, althongh present In tho Hoase, which would not bo toleruted In & decont bagnlo. ‘The words to which wo refor are roported In this morning's TwntNe, and, It correctly reported, tho Hpueakor and the membors deserve contempt for tolerating thelr utterance. Talk about **llalnes’ boar gardon!” It wae o Paradise in comparlson . to the Pandemonlun of. yosterday, Thomson, Tun TRISUNE reporter, §s ot 0 very sootbing porson, and not deserving of any special atteution. Hu (e in Springold doing work ho s sut to do. In the courne of business bo forwarded a list of failurcs to voto on the part of certain memberw, taken from the House journate, lo had & flfihl todo this, The members, some of them, ought to bo asbamed of thoracord. He didu't make the rocord, They didit. Ife only pled and published It." For this offcnse ho wos jected, far an Lour of so, 16 R torront of per- nal abuse, to which, of course, ho could not ro« }4\1]. “‘Tho whole aifaiz was o shame and o disgrace, Not to rectify it by some action bu regard to the more obecens and dirfy membors will bo an vutrage upon the pubilc, 1f thesn leglalative vuluariecs wieh to indulge their natural vocab do it as privale citizens, & not s tho roprescatatives of tho people, the expenne of the Btate. Why didn't Speaker Shaw uso that cuna prescuted to him tho other doy? Ife would have boen warranted in s doing, If he conld not suppruss the bar-room rufianlsm Inany otber way. CATSKINS' OBSCENITY, 7o the Edltor of Tha Tridune. Cuicaao, April 27.—1t s not possibla that fhe decent people of Hlinols will allow thelr leglslators 1o usa such lavgusga as Catskin Kearney us applied to your correspondent yestenday w! rebuke. 1 venture | sertion that the same lauguage conld not be used in the lowest brothel or doggery in Chlcago without his bolng kicked out, ‘It remaius to Le seen whelher your carr spoudent reported him correctly, an wholhur there 14 any scate of deceic; the majority of the Lower House Kearnoy will bo oxpelled. Nover before was such yulgar [anguago used in s legislative In!ll‘ Noxt. TOUISIANA, TUANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION, Nxw Oursaxs, April 27.—The following will be lssued to-morrow: Witziteas, 'The political troubles which bave weiglied upon the people uf the state of Loulsians for (ho yaut yoars barv, uudor th werciful dlspen- sutivn of the providence of God, been brousht to {uanks fur the Mnlntlrnl‘,:m‘lh. ok streogth Lo out by tulill the promises hol dawning of an suspicious future; therefors I, Fraucls I\ Niche s, Governor of the Stito of L ol oulslans, do fssue this y proclamation fxing Thureduy, the 10t day of May, we & day of tbeukagiviug snd prayer, ‘and do fuvity all good peoplu of this Blate ou aaid day Lo abetaln from thelr voverst avocs 11008, 8ud 1o resort to thelr wonted places of pubille worsblp, thery ba our up thls bearts b Ubauks- gloauz 16 that divie sud werciful Provideucs wha a4 vouchasfod to guldv them 1o 8 baven of peace sud unlon, and to ask st ills hands for ths future thio blesslugs of Il divios guldance, #0 that all Vo people of the State, furgettlug past dlsscuxivns and bitierueas, way uitite (o the' fuliiment of 8 common sud Bappy destiny. RRIOICIN Lovteviits. Kv.. dvnl 27.—The cltlzeus of Loweville to-day determined to celebraie . tha terminstion of the Loufriana tronbles nexs Tueddsy by a general jilumination. OI1110. : LEOISLATIVE. Corusnes, 0., Anrll 27.—In the Bonate, the Tlouso bl to forbld Toards of Edocation from changing toxt-hookn oftener than once In aix yeara wan dofeated, recelving only two affirmative votes, ‘The Iouse bill ta provide a method of collecting dellnquent pors:nal tazes was pansed. ‘e Senate resolution calling an the State Ttall- road Comminstoner 1o eorreapond with the anthor. itice of othee States with 8 v&w to the adoption of rume improved Myatem of keeping raliroad nce counts, and report,to the Aesembly, was ndopted, In tho ifounc the' Honso hill to provide for tho election of Prosecuting-Attorneys for three yenrs was passed. Thu tousa bIN to punish rowdylsm In strect cars wan passed. - e ' Ilaitne bills to prohibit savings banks and simllar Institntions from cliarging 8 pee cent intorcet and to regulntacharges un paluco cars woro defeated. ‘Tho [lonse biIl to provide for the tesurvev of land which {n aupposod ta over-run the original Government survey was passed, OASUALTIES. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, 81, Louis, April #7.~The Coraner's jnry In the Inquest on the vict!ma of the Sonthorn lintel closed thelr labors this afternoon and rendered o verdict, The Jury examined ninety-two witneases, and had before them afildavits of persons not per- sonally examined. From the testimony the jury reached the conclnslon that the fire originated in the basementof the hotel, in thelr opinlon in the tore-room, hut possibly in the wine-cellar, Lut In cither easo nesr the bottom of the haggnges elevator, which carried the smoke and flanics at- maont inatantly to the upper floors and lll:lldlmi. ‘Tho jury tnen reconnt when the fire waa flret_discovel Lie delay in glving an nlarm to the fire llupnrlmnni‘ the arrival of the fire department, the use of tho Iadders and tho Skin- ner fire-eacape, tho reacting of people from tho windows b¥ dremon, tho JmnYln} or falling from windown of thoso who were killod, and the sarvices of tho ,;mll:u and citizens, ail of which is familiar to thopublic. As to tho causs of the fire, tho i.‘u, Ry HMT have' no teatimony sufilcicnt to basg an opinlon upon it As to the spplisnces of at the hotel for !lllnqullhlnw fires, they mny they were m)lnrl!(a with the excoption of bipesand nozzies belng wanted on the oors abuvo tho parior floor, but from 8 Inck of eystem and want o to use the appliances, agd of - rules for thelr gullance, thoy wera® not Plll into tarvice on the night - of he fire exéept for o fow minutes in the basement, and the fire had then galned such proportions that thy sllght ellorts made thero by the engincors and firemen of the hotel yere futile, Tho fire departmant and Salvago corps did thelr duty with efiicicncy and promptnces, oe also did the polico departnient. ‘Tlhie leances of the hotel, in our oplnion, ara cene surable 1n soveral particulars: First, while pro \-ldlm‘ the necessnry materlals for Bxllm{ull’:lfll fircs, lw( hnd provided no means for thelr uno. Second, {n keoplug in the store-room and wine- cellar o large amount af fuifammable materinl withont Adm*nnln watching. Third, in romoving from thelr ofiice the cong nccessary to nlarm the Inmates of the Lotel in caso of fire, employing only ono watchman, and he a very In~ clliclont innn, and supplumenting his’ dullcs as such with otbier mattors, Fifth, in lack of rulea and Instructions to thelr ‘employes ns to thele _conduct and . duties n - caso , of fire, Sixth, {n tholr making no eMclent cfforts on tha night of the firo to awuken thelr ygucsts and employes, laying, however, no stress on the cxe rrn:lunn of ono of the. geatlemen s to tho fire having been oxtingnished, and that thers was no danger, ctc., as thereis no evldence that any of the guests wero endangernd theroby, In conclusion the Jury make sume suggestions mon 'looking to the Avoliance of such calawities In future, which may he summed up That no hotol or public bullding should be ungmt vided with means for: extinguishing frei that a sulliclent number of watch- men should bo omployed to detect firs and bo drilled fu the use of the appllances for its ex- a3 follows: ‘Ainguisments that fn ail large oicls gonis of ? clls Jarge encugh to bu heard throughont the bouso should bo rung continuously ~ til tho snfety of overy puest and omploys s as. sured; that stalrwaye and clevators should be laced far apart s 0sslbloy that elovators should ba closed automatically o otherwlse, e platform gocs unnr downj that Morcrooms,: wino-callars, carponter-shops, 'ete,, #hould be made ro-prouf, and carefully watclied day and night; that no gus-metor haf stiould be allowed inside ‘of auch that nono of tho size of tho largest ong in tl Southern should Lo permitted st all; that In oll lnrfiu citiesthe dutles of Hallding Inspectors should Incinde {nspection of all appllances for extinguishe ing fres, and sco that the nen omployed in thelr il 0z managoment ba efticlently deilled, A DAMAGE BY STORM, Hpecial Dispatch to The Trilun Searvariciy, HL, April27,—A tall-storm to- day broke about a hundrod panes of glass, soms of* thom heavy plate, and worth from $4 ta $10 each and upward, Othor large bulldings suffered largo- Iy,—th city bullding, tha ofd State-ifouso, the Leland and othor hotels, churches, the old Court- lonwe, public halls, and many prisato resldences, largs snd small, which lad a northern ox- posure, Many of the business-houses on the publlc square had thefr front show.windows broken by tho hall-stonce, Tha florist and nurscry mun sudersoverely, Thomagnificont conservatory, arbors, and preen-houses at the old Governor Siatteson pluce and otlier narsorios wora almost completely demollwhied. The business houses show windows ara belag repaired to-night, Con- slderablo damage by lightning ls reported In tho adjoining country, ~ During the storm n bich wind also provailed, “uprooting Lrves and unroofing barns. A lieovy raln is now falling. Tho domage from the hull-storm can scarcely b estimated, It &n yery general, and iust reach’ many thousands of ollare, . Special Dapatch to The Tridune, JackaoxvitLe, 1L, Apell 27.—A very great raln-atorns visited this acetlon (ils ftornuom, ac- compauled by neavy hall, Conslderably datnago was done to the young whest, Tho fruit-trees were also stripped of their bloom; aud o Tatibe, pihes, a0l poultey Killed by tho hatl, wills larior anitmala were in some cascasaverely fnfured, 11150 Taco OF the eurtiLWas Coverad with & shoot of water for an hour or two, and all the streamw are full to overdowing. DEATITIN A WELL, &pecial Dispateh to The Triduna.. LixcoLN, Nob., Al 27.~Tuesday afternoon a young man namud Willlam Aldrich went down Ina uixty-foot woll on Claudius Jones' farm, near horo, to ropalr the curbing. . A soon s he reacled tho Lottom the sideacaved in, burylag hiw to the waht. Anotherwent down to save him, when tho well caved azain, ‘completoly covering the first man and partlally the second. The latter was res- cuod. Boveral men thun sttompted to rescuo tho Grat man, Loards wore put over him in such o "5 that they kept tho sand from smotherlng hlm, an ho talked to the rescacrs up to O p. m., when bis volco ceasod, At i} o'cluck this morning ho ‘was reachad, but was dead, The mon did uoble work. bt it b supposad that his breathing liols was filled up with tholr exortions, - - BUNLNED TO DEATII, Bpecial Dispatch to The Tridune. E Saainaw, Mich., April 27.—A son of Charlea Oscar, Bherlf of Midland, 3 yoars old, was burned to death ycsterdsy afternoon, Io was found o one of the old cells In' tha Jall, In which thiere was 8 quantity of straw, and it 1% supposod tho littla foliow set tho struw on firo with a burning stick with which ho was plaving, and thus the fire was commuuicatud to hla clothlug, FLOODS APIREHENDED, - MUzwrins, April 27, —The 1alu-starm last night was unusually severe, During twenty-four hours, threo and three-quarters fnches of water fell, and tho Blgnal-Scrvico roports show that the ralnfall duriog the present month has been nearly fourteen inches, which 1s unprecodented, and excitos fears ol nserlous overiow. Owlng (o the prasont ‘mn u Halle water, tr on tho Memphis & Chatle road is Interrupted by wash-outa. ———— DROWNED, i Apecial Dieyatch 1o The Triduna. Baar Baoixaw, Mich,, April £7,—Willlam Boots, # slocle man, 23 years of age, was drowned yes- lerday afternoon while working on a jam of loge {:7 c.l" Rivor, Deceascd rusided at Cllo, Genesea County. o BOILER PLOSION, ‘TonoxTo, Can., April 27,—By tho explosion of » boiler fu the Longen Colllery, three men were killed. ‘ WRECKED, Havirax, April 27.—The schooner Lontillss was wrecked at Burnot Ialand. Fourteen of the crew were drowned. L ——— BAD FOR ANN ELIZA, SatrLakx, Utah, Apeil £7.—~The doclsion i the famous Ann Eliza caco sgainst Rrigiam Young was snuounced to-day Ly Judge Schaefer, as follows: That defendunt snd plaintif wero wmarried April 18, 1848, de facto but not de Jure; that,at the time of thu de facto marriage, plaioti was competentto enter into & valld contract of marrlsge, but the de- fendant was not, because bo hada lawful wifo then living. The person, Bidney Rigdom, who pere forned the warrlago ceremony Letween tho de- fendaut and Mary Aon_Angcll, In Klrilaud, 0., In 1631, bad mo liceusd® suthorlzing bl to pere form puch cercwony. Nupe wss.meeded to moke the martlage valll The plalun¥ and defendant cohabltod togetaer 8¢ husbang and wify for soverul years after thelr do facto wmajraga; tha defondagt deserted, Hll-treated, and puglectod the plalutil, but such de facto marrlage wud Induced sud ¢fected by undos Inducuie oud covrelon, Cous clnslon: The plainti 1a not entitled to a decreg of dlvorces that the alleged marrfaze was ang Jy polygunods, and thercfore nall and vold: thy dnrlng tho timo PainUIT veas “witly defendant 'sq hia polygmona wits ane san sorvime him g s mental acrvant, anil would beentitied to e bla compenaation for her dorsices, bt hiavi celved In this matance in tho form of al pendente litg more tian mieh mersices ar. by thte proof to ho roasonably worth lience without further compcnmation. —eat— " SPORTING. TASE-BALL, Tho Chicagos are booked to play the Indianapo. 1is Club this afternaon on the Twenty-third streey grounds, and the gamo will take place If it sy all porsiblo. Yesterdny's weather wasnot enconr. aging, but a Httle sun to-day will put the ground inxhape. Evcrsbody at a)l sequainted with fiq pamo knowa that the Inditnapolls fe an strop, An many of the Leagno Clnbe, and will give the White Rtockinza all they can'do to sin. “Having beaten 1, Youls threo times and Loufaville oncey the loosicrs arc rather anxions to et o pame ot of tho Champione, Maybe they will, Isnaxaroris, ind., April £7,—nse-ball: 1p. dianapolls, Kyracuse Stars, 0, —the sanie acore a8 yostorday, &pecial Diepatch to The Tridune. Ixpixarotte, Ind., Aprll 27, —In the game he. tiween the Byracuse and Indlanapolis, basc.baj] Cluba thia afteznoon, the latter won by a vcore of 100, The Syracure boyw mado mino errors ty ono an the nart of Indinnagiolls, (irent excitemant [revajted throhout the came, which culminateq n hot enthnsiasm. The Syracuso fellows go nwsy in good spirits, nony Fiown ho shiould gy THE TURT. Loxnox, Aprll 27.—The great S8andown hurdle race was won by Woodcock; Falm second, and Beamp third, SAN Fraxcisco, April 27,—At Los Angeles to. day, ina raco between Dodlnaand Oceldent, host threa in five, for $2,000, Bodine driven by Jobn Splaun, oeddnnu}y MeGregor, the Iatter won the fint, recond, nad fourth henfain 2:201¢. 4:20%. liodine took the third heat, Time, To.morrow Golasmitn Maid_and Tarus trot for 2,000 and an_additional $1,000 if tho Lest time n the Stato Ia beaten, LouisvirLe, April 27.—Mr. Clark, Prosident of the Jockey Clab, han perfected arrangements by Which Aristldes and Tenbroeck wiil run nt Lonis. villo May 24 for n puiese of $1,600. Distance, two and one-half milce. 3 .THE TRIGGER. Capt. Bogurdus, the great wing shot, has teen “liberally advertised to giya on cxhibition of his +akill in broaking glass bail thrown froma trapat Turner Hall this eveniog; but, baving been dinap- polntod In thearrival of the balls ax which he wonld have ahot, ho desires to_announca that the exhini. tion wiil bo postponod to s day not now named— probably about tao 7th o 8th of May. SAN FRANOISCO. The Water-Supply === Tho Importation of Small-Pox. BAx Fraxcisco, Cal,, April 27.—The Board of Bupervisora to~day ndopted a resolution directing the City and County Attomey to bring suit gafust the Spring Valloy Water Company to quit-title to Loboa Creck and Mountaln Lake nnd .adjacent Innds, and’ to take mensurea to bring befors Con- gress an application for a grant to tho city of tho rightsaf the United Statea to anv part of the prop erly in question, Menntime, tho Water Company lavo foteatailed tho action of the city by bringlng sult fn equity in tho Fifteenth Distrlct Court against tho clty, Involving titls 1o anid property, ‘An anlinted diacinsion occurred nt the mooting of the Hivard of Heaith to-day rogarding tho diu: osltion, f pawvcrigars by tho recently-aerivel ’ngific Mail rcamer Alnaka, from China and Ja. pun, with emall-pox on board. Tho quaraniing oflicer and pome of the Bonrd strangly objected to tho promptness with which the ‘cabin pussenzers wora allowed to land and_efther ke up reaidence ‘In tho clty of purae thelr -journoy cast before suflctent provention had beon taken to pravent the disorimination of dlecase, . An_ effort wil) bo mndeto obtaln from tho Government 1 auitablo hulk for quarantine purpozes, and tho establishiment of a quarantine statlon on Angol Jaland, The mon. agomient of the caxa of thio Alaskn has oceasloned niuch unfavorablo camment, public and private. e DANGEROUS SCHEMES, Tn the Editor of The Tribune, Cmoado, April 27,—1t Is quito probable thnt the lesding men—certaluly tho most conservatlse men—of both partles have glven, and wil continue to give, ‘thelr mnqualified support to Presldent Hayea in bis Southern polley, ond will lkewise support the courso of Tuk Cuircan TRIRUNE un that, polley, But that has becomo a thing of the pust, and may be regarded henceforth aw re adju- « dieata, as woll ne falt accomplt. Tieta'ato other lisues likely to present them- solven, posslbly at the cxtra wesslon, certalnly at tho regular meeling of Congress In Decembar, which the Prosldent may favor, but which It s to bo hoped the leading mon of both parties will rit down on, The foremost of theso is Tom Scolt's so-called Southern Paclfio Rallroad bill, Tho de- toils of thisschome bavo been oxplalned In Toe Tminuxz, and {tsenormlities alrcady polnted out: but vou have pot explaiued—and it 1s qalte proba- blo yon aronot fully posted as to—thu Insldions character and enormity of the plan by which the desporadogs who are run- ning (his rallroad-enterprisp cxpect to put it through. The fact is,—and the writer apeaks from punonnl knowlodgo, —almost overy proiul- nent Boutliern Congresinan of both Nouses has ‘been committed to s lllrpufl for several months; d 1t s alsw truc that a goncral promise of ity support was obtained from Preafdunt Hayes shortly afier the Novembor eloction, The facts, a large party in the Houthwost cary much more for their proposed rald an th ’l'mnlm] than for any partic- dent; and, un Me, Tilden was st prononnced nzuinet the Unvernment clving any aid to rallroads or other lmprovements, in the sbiape of MONLY OF gunrantees, it iy cavy 10 understand the apathy of largo part of the Soulh 1 to whether or not hio wav counted In, * 1t will bo romembered that the two fumlamental inte of tne old Whig party, which Sceeretary fhompeon I8 aatd to’ ho desirous to Fevive, wore protective tariit and tnternal improyements. Toth of these, 1t in sald, the Ident seema tnellned tu get through with ol af the Whiel every Methor of Congross will sk - one Is appeased, all will have to be m beforu uy billa'can poss. I muy be am--mistakens hut, If it botrue that the Presi- dent favore such outlays of inaney, —und ever thing now polnts to the direction that it docy, 1t nat time to discuss tho question? There n can bo a much more unueceusary atd foollsh cnter- priss than the bullding, for thenext ton years st icast, of this Southern Puclfic Hallroad, ‘and cw: cfally at Uovgrnment exponse. ‘Thio people of ma Northweat stiould Shfiies It to n man, and the wunpurchased part of tho East will upity aith (hem 1 such opposition. It s possible thata fow stray words from (ne Press inay so arouse the pablic that the catamity sy bo avorted: at any rato, it le worth the trial il hopo [ (% 0 have seen nothing to Justify the susnicion that tho President favors baildlng the Houther Tacifc Rallroad at tho oxpenss of the Guverniuenty O by the 1oan of Its cradit.—Em, Twinuxe. —————— OBITUARY, Hpecial Dispaich $0 The Tridune, 87, Pave, Miun., Dr, J. 8, Phlilips, State Com- nlasioner of Btat , dled this morning, after suffering from asthma and dysoepsia since Pebru- ary, tho lmmediate cause of destls bolng heart-dis- case. He was of Quaker deacent, born ucar Keu- netl Bquare, Chestor Coanty, Pa, ; graduated from the Medical Department of the Pennaylvauls Untversity, afterwards spending two years in Eaoropean travel and study at Daale, Bwitzesland, In 1854 ho was ararrcsted and imprisoned on suspleion of belsg Mazzinl, 8o affalr which way subject to consider- lomatic correspondence. _Ho camo to Min- nesota In 1857, and, cxcepl & few years' practice of medicine, which he dixliked, though lhamnglfl; rained for it, has mostly occupled "himasclf wit iterary and art matters, laving gained onmll&h by early fuvestments for ‘the support of himsall sud two sons, who survive him, o was sbrout53 yearsold, Thu funeral waits advices from broth- residing at West Grove, Fa., and near Jows 2 87, Louts, Mo, April 27.—Capt. Georg® Pegram, snold and well-known steambost mau, died this eveniog after 8 sovero and painful Hlucst of more than s wonth, GAMBLERS CAPTURED, Lata 1ast cvening, when the gambling profession least expectod it, Hickey's special atalf for tue suppression of gambling took s tour around town. Only cne bonse was found open, —ihat ls, only onewhere the officers could distinctly noar tho lng of chips. at No. 130 AMadi reot, o tho Lrown Bullding, 8 plice that uép a short tine been sitributed to Hauklus Brotbors. By a clover device, the of- ficers succeedod in entering, tured the re- ad uK ated owner, Billy Whiteiman, and five inmates [n e sct of ‘*ouckfng the tiger." @nc faru lay out was captured and forfefted by thé police. e TELEGRAPHI(;“N(’),T' ES. 8pecial Dispaich to The URE Paonta, Lk, Aprl 27,~The Anclent Order of Hibernfans, who have been holding thelr Stats Conventlon hers for tho past two dayy, will sd- ourn to-night with 3 ball. About 100 momberd ere. "Naw ¥ okss AN\ AT —W. A: Croftut, tho well- known journailat, delivered a lecturs on the East sra queation 1-ulght befuro tha Liveril Club. the eubject belug. **The War, sud What Kulightened Natlons Quzht to Lo About It.” “The wleiet bilt i the subect was shown lo the crowd d house bu the tavur with which the lecture was recehved.