Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MAY 1. 1877. in certain casee, be clected with reference to their STATE AFFAIR any questions hereafter arising as to the vay | @iw Tribwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID 4T THIS OFFICE. ‘Dally Edition, pos:paid; 1 yesr. £12.00 Daris of & year! per month 1w Mafled 1o any address four weeks for.. X Sunday Edition: Literary and kel e 2700 &0 .50 85k Pustage prepald. Specimen copies sent free. Torevent delsy and mistakes, he sure and pive Post- Cttce address ta tull, Including State and County. Temftiances may be made either by draft, express, Post-Oftice order, or fn registered letters, atour Hsk. JERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Telly, delivered, Suay excepted, 25 cents per week. Tatly, deiivered, Sunday fncluded, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts.. Cifeago, Ll AMUSEMENTS. Haverly’s Thenfre. Randolph street. between Clark and LaSalle. Engagement of te Richinzs-Bernard Opera Tronpe. "lf:u:mhnfi(fl.“ McVicker’s Thentre. Madison strect. ~between® Dearborn snd State. Enasement of Miss Mary Anderson. **Guy Maoner- Muscum. Monroe street. between State and Dearborn. Vaude- yilie and noveits. Engagement of Den Thompson. 4+ Joshus Whitcomb.™ Adclphi Theatre. Monroe street, corner Dearborn. **Texas Jack in the Black Il . 5 Clark street, between Lake and Handolph. Rice's t SOCIETY MEETINGS. L nder of busineas: J. 4 ke on-union respect- e COMMITTEE. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets were generally less sctive yesterday, and easier. Mess pork closed C%c per brl lower, at $15.40 seller May and §15.52%3@15.55 for June. Lard closed 25¢c per 100 Ibs lower, at $9.90 for May and $9.97% for June. Meats were easicr, at 5%c per Ib for loose ehoulders, 7Xc for do short ribs, and Sic for do short clears. Highwines were nominal, at $1.10 per gullon. Flonr was less active and firm. ‘Wheat closed 2%c lower, at $1.66X for May and $1.68% for June. Corn closed }{@3c lower, at 56%c for May and 58Xc for June. Oats closed ashade casier, at 413c for May and 48%c for Jupe. Rve was steady, at 92@92%c. Barley was stronger, at 85c for April and 75¢ for May. Hoge were quiet and nnchanged, closing steady, at §5.30 @5.70. Catile were dull and weak, at last week's prices. Sheep were unchanged. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $106.37% in greenbacks 8t the close. “Greenbacks yesterdsy closed at 93§. The New York Gold Exchange cessed to exist at the closa of the day’s session, transferring its business to the management of the New York Stock Exchange. The hope that was yesterdsy raised by a dispatch from Cleveland—that the body of & man found on the shore of Lake Erie would be identified as that of Mr. P. P. Briss—is destined to disappointment. The remains bave been defimtely ascertained not to be those of the lamented singer. The Hon. JouN D. Dernees, of Indiana, has received from President Haves the ap- pointment of Public Printer, vice Crarp, whose resignation takes effect June1l. There is room for improvement in the mansge- ment of the Printing Buresu, and every reason to expect it A curious impression is reported ta pre- vail in Russin that, in the event of that nation being attacked by England, the United States would hasten to declare war upon En- gland. It is an exaggerated form of the strong confidence in American friendship en- tertained in Russis, and is as absurd as pos- sible. = The New York Times gf yesterday is au- thority for a_ statem, that Davio DupLEy Frerp will make agdther attempt to return to Congress by, fi:iucing the resignation of one Nicrorag*MuLizg, and so giving Davio & chance to'be sent back. Keep the fellow at home, 7 The country had enough of him The financial dispatches this morning, in summarizing the condition of the stock mar- ket at New York, say that ¢ the market lacks outside support.” The}ieuphemism msy possibly be interpreted to mean thata oertain kind of fools are dying out, and that the sharks have now got to square right down to the awful carnage of natural selec- tion, trusting for ultimate existence to the survivel of the sharkiest. There has been an increase of $3,000,000 in the amount of bonds on deposit with the Comptroller of tho Currency to seccure the circulation of National Banks since Nov. 1, 1876, the date of the last report,—the amount now being $340,732,000, and the smount of National ‘Banks note thus secured, $318,- 864,667. The net increase of this class of this morning, is a most interesting present- ‘ment of the condition of municipal affairs by the Mayor, who has done so much to bring them to the present excellent basis, and who pledges himself to continue the same capa- ble and satisfactory administration during the two years for which he has been elected. It ig gratifying to know that his efforts in behalf of honest and economical government will be heartily supported by the new Coun- cil. One hundred and twenty thousand Rus- gians have crossed the Roumanian border, and are making their way slowly toward the Danube. The invaders are said to be bridging this stream at Ibrail. The river is bécoming moroc and more unsnfe for navigation by pgunboats, the Rus- sians having planted heavy artillery at points along its banks, and the liberal use of torpedoes is strongly suspected by the Turks. In consequence of these facts most of the Turkish gunboats are working their way to- ward the Black Sea, whera they will most likely be cmployed in the in- tended bombardment of certain Rus- sian ports. Brief mention is made in the dispatches of n battle before Kars, where considerable forces, both Russian and Turk- ish, have recently been concentrated. It is represented to have been a battle of consid- crable magnitude, but the particulars are wanting. A proposition for the reduction of the Sheriff’s allowance for dieting the prisoners in the County Jail, coming at a time when the Treasury is empty, many of the various funds for the entire year already exhausted in four monts, and the county financial af- fairs on the verge of a crisis, is ‘voted down by the solid Ring in the Board of Commis- sioners in order that the Sheriff may con- tinue to realize an annual profit estimated at from $30,000 to $50,000, in sddition to his salary of $6,000. Any move- ment+ looking to retrenchment ought to be regarded with favor at the present time, if ever, and it wonld be no great hardship to the Sheriff {o relinquish a small proportion of his profits on the feeding of the prisoners for the benefit of some of the charitable institutions that are in danger of being closed for lack of money to carry them forward through the season. But the friends of the sick and the insane are to the friends of the Sheriff 8s *“5" is to *‘9,” and so0 the big donation goes on as usual, and an honest effort for retrenchment and economy is once more defeated. The election of five Commissioners on's general ticket next fall would be likely to reverse the figures. The English Government has issued a proclamation of neutrality on the Eastern question, and declares that it intends for the present to stand back and let Turkey and Russia fight it out. But how long will this neutrality last ? that's the question. -Thers is extraordinary sctivity infused into the ship-yards. They are all resounding with the blows of hammers. Iron-clads are being fitted out with the utmost expedition; war- ships on the stocks near completion are be- ing rushed forward by relays of hands work- ing night and day ; great guns are going on board ; powder, shot, and shell are the order of the day; officers and seamen absent on furlough are called back to their ships. Says the London Times: The orders sent to the dock-yards arc to [press forward the necessary works on commissioned and non-commissioned ships with all speed. and to di- rect the sole attentlon to such necessary works. leaving all carving, fitting officera’ cabins, etc., for fature completion. And on the heels of all this din and haste of preparation comes this important dis- patoh: - 2 1tis officially announced at the War Ofice in London that the Government bas made prepara- tions to send 50,000 men at 8 moment's notice to Egypt. Of this force, 25,000 will go from En- gland and 25,000 from Jndis. The commissariat and medical staff are alsoready to leave. ‘This means, of course, that the British Government proposes in a.cerisin event likely to occur to take immediate posseesion of Egypt. Wehave believed for a year past that this would be the outcome of Euaglish policy and protocols. The Lion is bound to have his share of the carcass, if the Turkish Empire is going to pieces. JomN BuLn has an old and benevolent habit of looking after the interest of Number One, and of picking up any stray pieces of property found. lying around loose in the hands of an owner not able to keep possession thereof. AUSTRIA’S PROSPECTS. Blood s thicker than water, which will eufficiently account for the sudden manifes- tation of Hungarian sympathy for the Turks, s shown in guch dispatches as the following, which appeared in our last issue : Loxuvox, April 20.—Subscriptions have been opened throughout Hungary for wounded Tarks. Pearn, April 29.—A Turkigh deputation of seventeen Softas and Ulemas, who are returning the recent visit of Hungarian students to Constan- tinople, arrived at Pesth to-day. The whole town turned out to greet them. Many deputations came in from provincial towns, and telegrams were re- celved expressing sympathy for the Turkisn nation. The festivitics will last a week. ‘Che future political dissensions that may circalation for April was $124,000. There is now in the Treasury the sum of $47,000,000 in coin,—an increase over last month which is accounted for by the fact that there have been received from the sale'of bonds about £10,000,000 in excess of the amount. dis- bursed for the redemption of called five- twenties. The map which sppears this morning on the first page of this issue furnishes the ex- planation of Tre Trinune's delay in placing before its readers n map of the country in which the tremendons struggle between Russia and Turkey is to take place. Rather then print an imperfect botch'wo have de- ferred the publication until a clear, accurate, neatly-executed, and in every way artistic map could be produced,—a matter that can- not be accomplished by hacking a pine- bosrd with a meat-ax, as some of Gur con- temporarics seem to have done. Now that the map hasbeen engraved with proper care and skill, it speaks for itself. Our readers willdo well to preserve this copy of Tre Trinune for reference hereafter in tracing out the localities named in the war repors. The new Common Council béganits career lnst evening in & mannet which promises well for o continuation of the same careful and consistent regard for the best interests of the taxpayers and the city at large that characterized the proceedings of its prode- cessor, and that has rendered tho latter body one of the most notable and valusble in the history of the municipality. . The new Council insugurated its advent to power by effectuslly crushing ont . the sttempt of the mon Huorerm to force him. self into respectable company. He was refused a seat ss Alderman of the Seventh Ward by the overwhelining vote of 26 t0 5. Thereading of Mayor HeaTr's an- nusl message also occupied the attention of the Council. The message, which we print rend Austria are foreshadowed in such dis- patches as the above. Already one element, the Magyar, sympathizes with Turkey ; the sccond, the Sclave, with Russin; and the third, the German, with neitler, but anx- jously waits the action of Germany. The Magyars and Hungarians clair kindred with the Turks, and the Turks acknowledge it | with the reservation that they are *“bad brothers,” since they bave in some ages proved to-be dangerous enemics. They came from the same section of Asia into Europe, only they came earlier. They were a war- like peoplo of the Turanian race, and they had long dwelt in the Caucasian region and on the Persian borders before they crossed the Carpathian Mountains, and snatched Hungary and Transylvania from the native Sclaves and other races. CoNsTANTINE called them Turkoi. Their language is s mixture of Tartaric or Turkish with the Finnic. Balkar tribes havo been found in the Cau- casus claiming to be Magyars, and ruins of Magyars towns have been found there. The close affilistion, therefore, between the two people in origin, locality, and language, is sufficient to account for this sympathy, and sufficiently indicates where Hungarian help will go in case of a general war. There are other conflicting elements at work in the Austrian Empire. The Selave isthe old-time enemy of the Msgyar, and the dream of the Sclave has always been the foundation of a Pan-Sclavonic Empire, unit- ing the 100,000,000 Sclaves of Russia, Ans- tria, and Turkey. - Austria has a population of about 10,000,000 Germahs, 5,000,000 Mag- yars, and 8,000,000 Roumanians, north of the Carpathian Mountains and between them and Transylvania, and over 16,000,000 Sclaves. If Pan-Sclavism should get control, the Roumanians in Austrid who are of the same religion wotld count as Sclaves, so that the 10,000,000 Germans and 5,000,000 Masgyars would be confronted by about 20,000,000 Sclaves in nctive sympathy with Russin who cannot be Magyarized or Ger- manized. If to these shonld be added tho 0,000,000 Russian and 4,000,000 Turkish Sclaves, it will e scen at once that the Selavic element would have control of the East. As totheir sympathy with Russia, .llm Berlin correspondent of the London Zimes says :, Leaving the Poles in Western Galicia out of the question, the greater part of the Auatrian Sclaves openly acknowtedge the Czar as the Thead and pat- ron of their race, Even now they are accastomed 10 speak of a grand Sclavonic future in terms in- volving cither the bresking up of Austrla of her absolate subjection to Rtuesian control. Even now they regard the formation of a Balkan Confederacy under Kussian 2uspices as the beginning of 8 more comprehensive movement to extend further north and utilize the resources of the Magyar and outly- ig German provinces for Sclavonic purposes. Originally a feeble antagonism to the Germans, whose superlor culture ond might have been gain- ing apon the Sclavonlans since time immemorial, the agitation has assumed serfous proportions, in these Iatter days, and is now one of the gregt facts of the times. Thare is still another element of destrac- tion in Austria. The ten millions of Ger- mans in the Empire have long desired to re- unite with their brethren in South Germany, and Gerinany herself is anxious for it, and might naturally - expect it, should Austrin yield to the Sclavonic interest and allow it to gain the suprem- gey. The Ultramontanes in Germany desire it, and North Germany is compelled to favor it by foreseeing the tremendous dimensions and power in & union of the Sclaves, and the ultimate allience of Austria and Russis, which such a union might render necessary. Apparently, therefore, the following alterna- tive, confronts Austria, either to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina with the consent of Russia, the Iatter occupying Bulgarin, which is Sclavic, and thus take the first step towards Sclavie supremacy in the East, or to find herself disintegrated and torn to pieces in the conflicts of Sclaves, Magyars, and Gor- mans, with the possibility that Germany, seconding Russia in her designs against Con- stantinople, might step into Vienna and ex- tend her boundaries to the Adriatic and the Carpathinus. The dismemberment of Tur- key and the disintegration of 'Austria are not impossible results from a general European war. POLITICAL DISINTEGRATION AT THE SOUIH. Tre Crzcaco TRIUNE was the first jour- nal, we believe, to direct popular attention to the strong probability that n thorough pacification of the South will develop the old Whig and Conservative elements in op- position to the Democratic party, which has oll bat absorbed the entire native white ele- ment in the cotton States. The canvassing and discussion of this interesting hypothesis were obscured for a long time by public matters of more immediate concern, but the finnl abandonment of Federal intervention by the withdrawal. of the troops from South Carolina and Louisiana, and the quiescent condition of politics all over the country, have sgain given the subject the importance which it deserves. Newspapers, public men, the Cabinet officers, even the President himself, have all recognized the political significance of the discussion, and it is felt generally that there will be & very decided change in the relation of parties in the Southern States. It is proper to stato in the outset that Tre TrouNE never contemplated the formation of a new National party, nor the reorganiza- tion of the Republican party, nor the change of its name to Whig or any other designa- tion than that which it bears. The Repub- lican party enjoys an inheritance of too much glory, and hasthe prestige of too much suc- cess, to abandon its name and history. The change which we have predicted does not involve a disintegration of the Republican party, but a break in the Democratic party ; it does not affect the whole country, butonly a section of the South wheroe circumstances have consolidated for the time being all the native whites into an unnataral political union, without regard to traditional prin- ciples and prejudices, and to accomplish a certain purpose. The problems of recon- struction baving been finally worked out into Home-Rule, the only phase of the Southern question thatremains in politics isthe work of conciliating the cxtreme South with the North. There aro those in the South who have always, before the War as well as since the ‘War, been opposed to such conciliation, but there are othors who resented sectional distinctions before the' War, and have been eager since the War for a restoration of perfect harmony and good feeling. Tho formor were the old: Bourbon, fire-eating, sccession Democracy ; the latter were the Whigs, Couservatives, and DoucLas Democrats. ‘We regard it as nxiomatic that there must De a division in parties in every community under a popular or constitational form of government. The practical solidification of the South was therefore unnatural, and there is not enough cohesive power in it to resist the invasion of personal prejudices and selfish interosts the moment the raco-issue is out of the way. It is reasonable to expect, then, that the first desertion from the Demo- cratic ranks will be of those who entertain personal or hereditary antipathy to the old- time Democracy,—a party which their fath- ers antagonized and which betrayed them into a disastrous war by false promises. The natural Democrats of the Sonth are the ultra pro-slavery and secession men, who always bullied and terrorized their opponents. ‘Among those who opposed secession were the old-time Whigs, an offshoot that supported Bern and Everetr after the Whig party had long disappeared, and the Domo- crats of the Doucras school, who believed thoroughly in his doctrine of popular sov- ereignty and in his personal destiny. All these men were swept into the Rebellion by the superior force of their opponents; not one in a hundred took up arms agninstthe Government with heartiness. They did not come out of the Rebellion with any increased love for their old political opponents who had betrayed them into it. Thousands of them survey to-day desolated homies, rnined estates, broken families, and the sorrowful remnants of o former prosperity with the earnest conviction that their losses and mis. fortunes are attributable to the hot-headed Tashness and deliberate deception of their former political antagonists, They were told that the North would not fight, that the Northern Democrats would come to their help, that Great Britain would interfere, that o united South was unconquerable,—and they permitted themselves to be dragged intos pitfall. It is unreasonable to suppose that this class of people will entertain any strong political affection for the men who ‘betrayed them,—with the carpet-baggers out of the way. But there is another and stronger, because more selfish, motive for political disruption ot the South. The offices are now to be dis- posed of among Southern men and by the votes of the Southern men. Before the ‘War, the Whig and afterwards the Liberal party were hopelessly in the minority'in the . | Justice, greater part of the Southern States. In only three or four did they Achieve occasional and spasmodic succesges. For the most part they maintained their opposition to the Bourbons on principle alone, and the offices—Federal, State, and local—were almost entirely in the hands of the Democrats. But tho Lib- ersls have now a new element of political strength to draw upon. As the men most inclined to fraternize with the Republican party of the North, most disposed to wipe out the color-line, most willing to accept the result of the War, and guarantce the full constitutional civil and political rights of the negro, they may count upon the great bulk of the black vote. The former slave-owners who remain i the radical Democratic party will be able to control the political action of some of their former slaves, as they control largely their employment, but it may be safely reckonyd {hat two-thirds of the blacks will act poli ically with those men who are in most activo sympathy with the Republican party. With this greet popular strength—probably num- bering 600,000 votes—the Liberals of the South will not be likely to concede all the political honors and emoluments to the Bourbons and Fire-Eaters. That the projudice against the name Re- publican will retard this Southern Liberal movement for a time, is not to bo denied. But it must also be remembered that the odi- um which has attached to the nsme in the minds of the Southerners will largely disap- penr with the disappearance of the carpet- bag politicians who have used and abused the Republican party for their own purposes. It is not impossible that the hated term of Radical may be transferred from theRepublic- ans to the Democrats in the South. It will be gratefully remembered 'that it was a Re- publican President who renlized the South- ern hope of pacification. - The departure of a few leading men in each State will give a social sanction to the movement which the ultras cannot counteract by calling up old prejudices. A harmony of interests in mat- ters of taxation, civil service, and the ad- ministration of the Government, assisted by tangible advantages in the distribution of the offices, will serve to override mere preju- dice sgainst aname. Besides, there are four years in which to make the transition,—a sufficiently long period, it will be conceded, in view of the fact that the old Whig party vanished within two ycars after the disas- trous defeat of 1852. 'There is no dnnger to apprehend, therefore, that a re-formation of parties at the South will necessitate any change in the name, traditions, or principles of the Republican party to enable the latter to acquire the benefit of the change. The Roumanians appear to have a very generous idea of neutrality, which must be as disgusting to Turkey as it will be delight- ful to Russia. By the terms of their con- vention with the Russians, they give the army {ree passage and friendly treatment ; the use of the Roumanian roads, railroads, rivers, and telegraphs ; the resources of the country for the supply of the army; the asgistance of the Roumanians in erecting camps and forwarding baggage; the right of ‘way to Russian trains and dispatches; au- thority to complete unfinished railways ; the establishment of military stations and hos- pitals ; the provision by Roumania of mate- rial for the construction of boats, ships, and bridges ; and the admission of articles for the army froe of duty. In other words, the Roumenian neutrality consists of giving the Russians the run of the whole house and turning into the kitchen to help them. The reason assigned for not concluding a conven- tion with the Porte, because it had trans- ferred the seat of war to Roumanis, is quite as amusing as the neatrality given to Russia, the Russians having gone into Roumania before the Turks, The real meaning of the convention with Russia, of course, is an allinnce sooner or later for actual war pur- poses. In yesterday’s fssuc appeared a letter from a Northern Republican who has resided several years' in Louisiana. One paragraph is well worth repeating. He is speaking of the failure of the “bayonet policy” to afford protection tothe blacks: “The use of the troops in the South was upheld because Northern people be- licved that they afforded protection to the col- ored race, who are too timid to do anything to- wards protecting themselves.” He adds: But never was there a greater or more mischicy- ous mistake. I have been a resident of the State for several years, and yet have rarely if ever seen the troops xed for anything butclectlon purposes. During every campalzn we have scen parishes zcoured from one end to the other in search of perties who were kept under indictment until after the election, and then turned loose without even anattempt at & triol. That this carpet-bag Gov- ornment should have becn upheld for the purpose of protecting the colored man scems almost beyond the bounds of bellef, for the only clilm which it ever made -upon the. North for support was i1s own weakuews. The unly point which {ts advocates have ever attempted to prove was, that it could not etand slone. - All their arga- ments, all their addresses, and all their frntie Ap- peals, when sifted and shown in their troe light, amounted to just this: **Our laws are uselesy, for uobody obeys them: our ofticers ure worthless, for nobody respects them; our anthority is impotent, for public sentiment, the source of all authorty, is agunst us. During our whole term of oflice Wwe have teen colored citizens maltreated, maimed, and elaughtercd, und we could not protect them; but we have carcfully collected and Jabeled for clectioneering purposes all crimes of whatever character und against whomsoever committed, and we beseech of you, by all their dark shadows and bloody stories, “that you again help us into office that we muy once more stand guard over the *wards of the nation.’™ The North swallowed the logic,and the State suffered the resalts. —_—— The Springfield Journal has made a discovery that will immortalize it. It has found out that it the Republicans elect only two members of the House in a district and the Democrats one, instead of three Republicans and no Democrat, the result will be that both the Republicans and the Democrat will be “ lazy loafers " and absent themselves from the House; whereas, if all three had been Republicans or all three Demo- crats, they would have remained in thelr scats and attended to their duties! And so, if threc Democrats and no Republican had been elected in all the central and southern districts, Sanga- mon included, the whole of them would have oeen faithful and industrious members. It is giving both parties a proportional representa- tion in the House that makes the truancy! Hence, says that asinine print, “we must con- clude that ‘minority representation’ isan un- utterable failure, just as the Jowrnal always prs{fllcted.” No donkey ever uttered 2 more ridiculous or imbecile bray. —— Avexanper H. Steenes says “the old Whig party is fufletus officio.” That is to say, defunct. He also thinks © temporary issues, suchas tanff and free trade, have mo cohesive power ; they may be good appendages to a campaign, but they are not elements throngh which a party can be patlonslized. He thinks the pending i.;zue is Home-Rule.” It was gen- erally supposell this issue was pretty well out of the way. If Home-Rule” is interpreted to mean old-fashioned State's Rights, that was set-~ tled when Lee surrendered in 1865, and isa good deal more functus officio than the ‘Whig party or A. H. Stepnexs, — o The Legislature of Colorado passed a bill for an act to abolish the grand-jury system, and provide for the orzanization of juries of indictment in lfeu thereof.” Gov. RouTT has ve- toed the bill. The Governor’s reasons for dis- approving the bill are: Tke creation of juries of 1ndictment from ofi- cers elected by the people wonld, 1n sy Judement, prove injurious o the prover saministration of n view of the fact that such offcers might, id jury. The Dill is i IAX l’hl members to possible to defeat of a single action when serving also objectionable in requirin agree fo the finding, making it tho ends of justice by the corruption member of the jury. e —a——— It fs a disgrace to the State that scavengers of the English language should bLe permitted to pssist in making our laws,and that the/Legls- Iature should be the dumpfng ground fdr these filthy fellows. Still, the Spectacle of when Tie TRIBUNE'S Jcorrespondpht was as- sailed is probably theé indirect offect of this city’s rcquh:emc? 6t late tydt every man should carry away/his own garpage. That will account for Catskfn KeArNEY/S endowment. a — The suggestion in Tna'TrisoNE that * fo- telligence and property * ought to nave some- thing to say inSpublic affairs, makes those of our exchanges which have neither the one nor the other very angry.f~ They feel C re- mark was meant to be personal. Not at allj and yet, if the coat fits, put it on; it willbe the first one worn by some of our traducers that las not proved disastrous to some tailor. “Prof. TYNDALL says that in 1572 he came to America to sce the effects of the great fire fn this city, but stopped at New! York when he found that Chicago had ‘l.)f‘n]rcnfly rebuilt. ‘That is a bandsome comp) fessor need not have syffercd that disappoint- ment. It was unnecesgdry. He could have seen the effects of our grght fircif he had goneto St. Louis. It is ngttoo late even now. Trexor W. PRk is reported to have in- dulged *in's number of tears} when the ver- dict in the Emma-Mine case#'as rendered last Saturday. These tearfulficople arc becoming 80 common that cither the public will bave to carry umbrellas for pré?ecfinu agalost lachry- mose dampness or,the tear-fountains must be supplicd with flexfble water-spouts. The Hon. ALEXANDER H. Stpenexs has his second sight, and 1t is remarfably good. e says: *For the first time in-tienty years I see a hopeful future for nur}fmmon country.” e ——et— “Does Spring spring ?” asks the P.-I. man of/ the Now York Herald. Wefo not know how it cavorts along the Atlanticybut in this climate it turns a back summer-set. S Madsme Essrporr devoted tho whole of last Friday evening in New Yptk to Crrorix music, At'the same time probgly ten thousand youn, ‘women were engaged j6 chop-in’ hash. Gen. LogaN can have the mission to either Austrin or Brazil, according toa Washington dispatch. Brazil would suit his compiexion best. ——— The Turkish budzet shows n deficit.”” This shows the bag-trousers promised the L-0. for its support have been shipped. g ainl The colored man is no lopfera disturbing ele- ment in national politic: The Tildenite Dem- ocrats have taken his *The Zimes never bo:lst%"/ says the Zimes. That depends on whethe'r, riental gelf-praise can be called boasting. ““Russia will try and force the Danubeat Reni and Ismajl.” This will be a game of Water- loo tor the Turlks. —————— The Leaislature hates to adjourn. Why so, when the calls to family duty are so frequent and imperative? The Times will hayfa peach-blow potato-sort of correspondent” in Europe—a pneumatic ent; but the Pro-, No Quorum in the lllinois Legis= lature Yesterday Fore= noon. Passage by the Homse of a Bill to Home. The Gamblers Fix Up the Pool-Selling Bill to Suit Themselves. The South Officials Withdraw Pending a Legal Appeal. ILLINOIS. NO QUORUM. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. SemixariELD, 111, April 30.—There was a quo- ram in neither House this morningz, avd both were adjourned until half-past 2.p. m. By that hour the statesmen who carefully put themsclves on record ou Saturday against adjournment unuil hait- past 2 to-day had begun to arrive, and the House opened with eighty-six members n thelr seats, and the number was soon swelled to ninety, but that, though unusually large for Monday, was really fn- sutlicient for the dizpatch of husiness, the pending. order being bills on third reading, and it being In the power of any fourteen members to defent any il that might come up. MILITARY TRACT. The first bill taken was that providing for the removal of the Iand records of the military tract, which were kept in the old State Iecorder's oflice at Vandalis, to the office of the Auditor of State. Aftera deal of delay which was stretched ott by a call of the absentees, ete., 83 ayes were drummed cast, and it was passed, and now goes to the Sen- ate. STOCK-TARDS. Next, on motion of Mr. Merritt, was called up the bill for the appointinent of an ofticer at Enst St. Louis and at the Chicago Stock-¥ards to en- foree the law against crucity to auimals. Mr. Wall opposed the bill, and when Mr. Rowett supported it, wanted to know whether the latter diditto run his horse. nags. When the roll was called the bill was lost— ayes, 503 noes, 33 r. Easton voted no for the purpose of moving a reconsideration. REVENUE. "Mr. Westfall's biil providing that the taxesof cities, towns, and villages, organized under special charter, shall be collected under the General Rev? enne laws of the State, was paséed by 78 ayes to 19 noes, disclosing that 87 membera were present. BURYING-GROUKDS. ‘The bill anthoriging citiesand villazes to establish ontside of their own limits cemeteries and to ac- quire title to property therefor was passed. WITNESSES. "The bill to punish tampering with witnesses was passcd—ages, 83; noes, 7. It provides that who- ever by hiring, persnasion, or otherwise induces any witness, in any criminad cause, or any per- eon naving knowledge of any fact tending to show the guilt o fanocence of any person suspected or charged with hiving committed a crime, to leave the State or secrete hiwscif so that he canuot produced s a witness at ‘any exami- jon or trial of the person o suspected or or whoever, having knowledge of any fact 0 show the zuilt Jr innocence of any per- tending ox son suspected o charged with having committed a crime, takes any mouey, ¢f valuable consideration, or promise therefor, upon an agree- meat or understandinz, express:d or implied, not 10 testify or give evidence of such fact, or to leave the State, or to secrete himself so that he cannot be produced as a witness ot any examination or trial of the persou suspected of charged, shall be fined not exceediniz$1, 000 orconfined in the County Jail not exceeding one year, or both. The bill of tuber. Taylor, of Cook, extendinZ the Rezistry law to —————— town clections was so amender os to 2pply to Cook There will be no bald-Headed fellows in Tur- clqfinly. and was orderqu ",sn 2 third reading. key so long as they ¢ah have hair-'ems. Representative Roche to-day made an effort to How we shall not be ruled—not by the old ruling macfine-politicians. i B PERSONAL. An enthusisstic friend of Albani in Lo don heard hersing **Angels Ever Bright and Fair,”" and exclaimed, ** What egotism 1" / Seven thousand copies of Gen Pleasonton’ *¢ Blue Glass " have heen sold, and he stands up bravely under the fun that is heaped upon him. The twentieth birthday of the Princess considerable rejolcings. The church bells werd rung and salutes of twenty-one guis were fired at intervals during the day. Miss Clara N. Hammond, a daughter of Suar- geon-General Hammond, is to be married on the 10th inst. in New York to the Marquis Manfredo Lonzo di Mercato Bianco, whose blue blood, it is under- stood, is his only inheritance. Mark Twain declares the hard part of the European war Is that they go on fighting s thougl £0od mapswere to be had for the nsking. When he safd this, Mark had not seen Tie TRIRUSE'S map—which can be had for the asking on the pay- mentof five conts, The Unitarians of Boston are making m effort to reap some of the fruits of the 3oody re- vival by giving a course of Jestares in Music Hall in explanation of the principles of Unitarianism. James Freeman Clarke opened the course yester- day with the inquiry, ‘*What is a Christian?” A charming dinner-party must have been that which sat down at the table of the Hon. W, E. Gladstone and Mrs. Gladstone April 14. The guests were the Duke of Argyll, the Ion. Robert Lowe, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Schliemann, Mr. Herbert Spencer, Mr. lieywood, Mr. Forsythe, Mr. Macmillan, and Afr. and Mrs. W. H. Glad- stone. The London TYmes criticises severely the Indian policy of Lord Lytton, intimating that hels desirous of doing something. to arrest attention and to strike the common mind by creating a stir in the world, rather than to pursne a conservative and judicious course. This appears to be the ex- Pplanation of the restless policy on the northwest- ern frontier which has exeited o much anxicty among Indion administrators, = A subscriber asks to be favored with an opinion ns to the relative merits in acting In opera of Kellogg, Richings-Bernard, Cary, Mrs. Seguin, and Abbott. One man's opinion is almost as good as another's in matters of this kind; bat perhaps most people will agree that Richings-Bernard s the best actress of those mentioned, and Mrs. Seguin next toher. Mias Abbott has never been seen in opera here, and her capacity as an actress is not known. The Philadelphin papers, as well as those of Chicago, areannoyed at the manner inwhich the New York critics have **gushed™ -over John Me- Collough, who s known everywhere as a clever gentleman and an ordinary. actor. The Philadel- phia Telegraph says he is~ **possibly as hopelessly wooden and robustious an actor as ever trod the stage.” This is unfair, but is no more erroncons than the New York judgment which accords Mc- Cullough a place by the side of Forrest. Laonard Grover, author of the play called ** Ouir Boarding-Honse, " scene laid in Chicago, fs the victim of o singular persccution fn New York. «He Lins been sued there for a bill of $446.75 on the euitof Mrs. Emeline T. Hall, the keeper of n boarding-house in New York, who obtalned the claim on an assignment from a Chicago boarding- house keeper. Mr. Grover offers to explain, bat we fear he has been guilty of base ingeatitude, to eay the least, towards his Chicago lodging-house keepers, who no doubt furnished him most of the material for bie play, The correspondencerespecting the removal of Hobart Pasha from his post of Captain in the British navy and his subsequent “reinstatement thercin has just been published. He was dropped May 18, 1868, for- taking service fn the Turkish navy to direct the Cretan blockade. Seven years Iaterhe apolied for reinstatement on the retired list, admitting that he had committed a breach of discipline; but asserting 1hat he had ‘malntained the character of an English officer by his service to the Tarks. The Queen and Council agreed to the proposition, and gave him his former position, withouf back-pay, allowing hifm to rise o the post of Retired Admiral, which he now holds. The cor~ respondence closed with a letter dated Jan, 25, 1875. .The object of Hobart in askinga recon- sideration of his case was that his successes at Crete ralzed up many enemies against him. and it Wasa constant reproach against him that he had Dbeen dismissed from the British army, the cause of the dismisial being kept sacret. ' 4 Beatrice was celebrated at Windsor Avrll, 14, with ting the price of £as In Chicago Tl charzed ‘that a revent the bill owever, refased get up his bill limi T081.50 per thousand fect. combination had been_formed to bt up. The House, spend tae rales to take up bills on_sccond readinz, so_the Gas bill is left in limbo, with little chance of it: passnge, unlessu strong pressure be tten up in its behalf. POOL-SELLING. Now that it hag_gone to the Senate, it has been /| aiscavered that Mr. Thompson's pool-selling bill wasso amended and emasculated in the iHouse that it dacs not probibit pool-scliing on raccs. It i3 only the wickeg people who scll pools on some- ‘thiug,besides horse-races who are to be punishicd by the bill. 1N THE SENATE, * he Lill fixing the rate of ¥peed of railroad trains through cities and towns came up on second read- ing. As it passed the Honse it limited the rute of speed to cight miles per hour. The Senate Coin- imittee on Railzoads reported an amendment ficing the limit at twelve miles per hoar. 3lr. Bash offered a substitnte fixing the limit at 7 miles per hour, which was adopted, and the bl ordered to third reading. TUnder the present law, the speed of trains through cities and towns is limited to eix miles per hour. FINAL ADIOUBNMENT. A motion to suspend the rules in order to take up the House resolutions fixing the 15th inst. as tke date of adjournment sine die was lost. HUYDE PARK. Mr. Dement's bill providing for the division of Tyde Park was so_amended a9 to provide for n division of the debt. and was ordered to a third As amended, the bill is understood to be acceptuble to ail parties, and will doubtless pass without opposition. THE COLOKED TROUPE SINGS NOBLY. The Hyer Sisters concert troupe (colored) visited the Housc this afternoon, when, to dem- onstrate his acceptance of thc smendments, Mr, Merritt, leader of the Egyptian Democracy, moved to suspend proceedings, und invite them 1o give a gong, which wae done. They were conducted to the Speaker's stand by Representative Thomas (colored) and Doorkeeper Morse, and sang o song with good effect. 1n the Senate, snother Dem- ocrat made a similar motion, and the colored troupe sang and werc cucored. PARK PETITION. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicago, April 30.—The dispatch from Spring- field published in Sunday's TuinuNe to the effect that a petition signed by some 200 persons asking. that the South Park law be so amended a6 to re- peal the vresent mode of appointing Sonth Park Commissioners, and provide for their uppointment, by the Governor, nad been presented to the House] only shows that the parties wlho have been nrging theinvestigation and acting as prosecutors have in their anxiety forgotteri or are not scneible of the proprieties which common decency demands. The fact that the Lemslatore hys appointed a Committee to investigate the entire wnbject. and that the Committee have spent some four weeks in the dircharze of that dnty, and are now about pre- puring their report. would, 10 the mind of any thoughtful person. snggest the impropriety of at- templing to take matter ont of their hands prior to their report being snbmitted to the Legislature, The position a4 reported taken by Mr. Truesdell at the time the petition was oficred was what might have been expected from a_gentleman of learning merited. “The unseemly haste was in all prohability due to the fact that the partics had knowrl'edge of the Inrgo petition that had been wigned by prominent citizens aud taxpayers protesting against any such change in the law, which is now waiting for the report of the Committec to be made, aud isto be then pre sented in support of stich report, if the Commit- tee do not make the recommendation for chanse in the law, or as showmgina respectfnl manner the wigh of the petitioners in case sach change'is recommended. *This attempt to frustrate the Com- wittee i& «imply another instance of the utter lack of decency upon the part of thuse who. for per- sonal motivey, are endeavoriny to use the public credit in support of their desizns, and has met yith 2 just and merited rebuke at the hands of Mr. Truesdell. Faiz Pray. OHIO. LEGISLATURE. Cortynus, 0., April 30.—In the House, the Homse Dill to fix the salary of members of the General Assembly at $600 per year, and deduct S5 for each day's absence, was defeated. The Houge bill to legalize the publication of le- gal advertisements in papers using patent-outside’ was passed. SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STATE OFPICES. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasurxeros, D. C., April 30.—Information from Sonth Carolina §s that the Republican con- testants for the State offices have determined withdraw all clalms. As the question of the title to these offices fs still pending in the Supreme Court, it 19 considered advisable that the surrender take the form, not of o resignation, but of a con- sent, order, or judgment, which will probably be taken up in the Supreme Court Immediately npon itsconvening in May. The immediste effect of this courve will be to leave each uide. to meet its own expenscs incurred in the progress of the suit, 2 point the Kepublicans carnestly desire to make. The Democratic contestantsaré very willing 1o compromise upon this basis. A more lmportant consequence of a withdrawal in court, fnsteaa of by resignation, liés in"excluding the ‘posaibility of - Keep Important Witnesses at Carolina Republican State] up for the bill, aguinst ‘which but 7 votes were Rowett owns some fast the oflicial acts of the Democratic tya - formed during the progrees of the sur " "o NS — “ RAILROADS / XCITEMENT AT LAFAYETTE, ‘Spectal Dispatch $o The Tribune, Laravere, Ind., April 80.~The clizens oy city have been in a fever of excitement to.qay 1 consequence of the breakinz out afresh of the i road war on the Lafayette, Muncio & Bloomiy Railrond. This moralng, immedistely afrer e train from Muncle had passed we-t, four : belonging o tho Wabash Railwas Conpany expg down from the Junction. One, withz coach and | caboose-car, passed west of the etation on lm:' A bridge, aud was chalned fast to the track. {\others occupied a position i front of the : 4 'The other, atter having the track tomn ap, wag g off ou to the croes-ties, thas efestually block- ing the road. The morainz train fr 7 ton soon came down on to the bridge. [ mer Superintendent of the Cincinnatf, Lafayctte & Chicago Vaitroad, and more recently of the Oblo & ' Misstasippl. Heacts under aathority of Abrap Bayless, Trastee of the bordholders. The cansy of the seizare i3 claimed to be default of Payment" of interest on the bonds. The seizure was resisteq Dy theofticers of the Lafeyette, Muncie & Bloom. ington Railroad by the placing of locomotive;- In positions to prevent the engines placea by V. aldron from moving, or by takinz out rafls. “Gg application by Mr. Waldron, Judge Wand fasny an fjunction commanding the Lafayette, Mapen ' & Bloominzton Railroad officials from interfering: with the posscasion of Mr. Waldron. Mr. Hesppst President of the Lafuyette, Muncie £ Blooy Ruilroad, made strenuous efforts againat Mr. '\?.1".‘ dron takiny posssssion untfl the case is heard o5 " its merits, and this afternoon Judze Ward fsgged” an order for the Temaval of the Wabash englneg: from the Bloomington track. Later, Saperi ent Stewart, of ke Cincimiall, Lafsyette & ¢n: cazo Rallroad, obtained an order for the road th cleared %0 a3 to allow their trains to pass betwess Lafayctte and Templeton. bat all of these injune: tions effect nothing. ~The locomatives of oty * Jarties staud gs frat placed, with plenty of men o: old them. There are several trains held af difo: ferent points on the road, and no immediate pect of their beinz moved. No trains have passeq over the road between Lafayette and Templeton’ since morning. Mr. Waldron cut the telegrapy. * line that vuns over the Bloomington end of the road, aud took it fnto the office of" the Cincinnatl, Lafayette & Chi 73 cutting off communication The Lafayette, ! NMuncie & Bloomington officers, to checkmagy: this, catthe wire and putin an instrumenton the’ bridge. The wire is reported cat i several plices* between Lafayette and Templeton. Vast crowds . have been about the depot all day, and at times s eemed as if Hotous proceedings wonld break out, * the Mayor ordered the Lafayette Guards under: rus to be ready in case of cergency. but wiser” jconnsel prevailed. This eveningthe situation iy nnchanged. The enzines and cars, all manasd. tand in the same position, and seem determined’ o the fort. , < Special Dispatch to The Tribune.” = BLooMINGTON, Apri: 30.—Trains of the Lafay.’ ette, Mancie & Bloomington were abandoned to.. day and to-nivht on account of an attempt mads by the Toledo. Wabash & Western to gobble the Tilinofs end of the line. - Their attempt was mads between Ambis and the State line of llilnols, THAT FAST PASSENGER-TRAIN. Mr. A. L. Hopkins. General Manager of the abash Line and Receiver of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Rullroad, was In thecity yesterdsy. A TrusvsE reporter called upon him Tast evening to get his statement regarding the scheme of running a fast passenger train over his line via the Canads Southern and New York Central Railroads, which, has been the general theme of conversation In raii- way circles for some time past, and has engender. # ed much fll-feeling amonz competing roads. Mr." Hopkins denies cmphatically that he intends to run. . afasttrain. Ile says he has simply made a change nthe passenger-ronte of his line to the East. Herctofore the Eastern through trafic from the' Wabash line went via Indlanapolls and’ the Pan-Handle and Peonsylvania Railroads,- which gave bhis road bat half & hsak: Inorderto get the entire hanl, he hasmadear- raowerients with the Canadi Sonthern by which - throagh passengers will go over that lineand the" New York Central via Toledo. He hasnot increased the time of auy of his trains; on the contrary, the: train in question will make slower time than here- ¢ tofore. Nor does the Canada Southern Increase the speed of nny of its truns, or put on anextra, It simoly holds back the traln which nsually leaves “Toledo ut 6 o°clock p. m. unt'l 10 v'clock p. m..to muke the connection with the train of hus line. This’ train reaches Buifulo in thne to connect with the steamboat express of the New York Central, which that road runs every None of the trains on _any of roads forming the throngh line will be run faster than indicated fn the time-tables adopted at Cleveland. “All this noise about rusning s fast passenger-train in competition with the Chceen roads was raised by the Pennsylrvania R: which did not like the idea of losinr the businew from his line which it had received heretofore. The Pennsylvania people were now trying to bull- dozo him to retain that business. He wasde- termined to run his through passenger-trains vis ’l;olexlo after the 13th of May In spite of all opposi- tion. The Pennsylvania Company is determined toput. on a fust passenzer-train to the East on_the 1ith if Mr. Hopkins carrics out his project. This train will leave this city at 3:40 p. m. instead of at3p. m. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has to et in its Weatern express at 3 o'clock inatead of 4 o'clock, to connect with the fast train of te Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago. If these rosds run fast trains, the other ronds fn this ity will b’ compelled to do likewlse, 5o matter iow iauch 311] it. 5 (E ADVANCE IN FREIGHT RATES. It transpires that the advance in freignt rates de- cided upon by the managers of the Eastern rosds at the Grand Pacific Lotel last Saturday is mock more sweeping than at first reported. From ths tariff {usued yesterday it appears that an advance bas been made in nearly every article of freight ex- cept grain and flour. The latter article wonld o~ doubtedly have also been advanced had It not beea for the competition ot the lake vessels, whichare glad to get cargoesat almost any rate. Thead: . vance in fourth class freights 1s5 cents, making the rate from Chicago to New York 40 cents per. hundred pounds; to Boston, 45 cents; to Philadel- . phia, 38 cents; to Baltimore, 47 cents. - Therate on’ ‘dressed beef, which used be 65 cents from Chicago to _New been ralsed to 85 cents per hundred. therate on this article will be 90 cents; to Phils~ delphiz, 83 cents; and to Baltimore, 82 cents { The rate _on tlour and meal in sacks in_car-loads, - which used to be fourth clags, has been made cents per 100 over the rate on grain. Fertilizers in ear-loads will be the snme as grain, Grass seed and cheese will be 10 cents per 100 over fourth c1a3s, which s an advance of 3 cents per 100. ‘A NEW ROUTE TO THE SOUTH. A convention in the Interest of extending the Augusta & Knoxwille Railroad so astogivethe. lines from the West another ontlet to the Atlsatie Ocean will be held at Augusta, Ga., on the Sthol Afay, and the people of that section are very auxious that the large Western citles send reprs- septatives. P & t 4 meeting of the Eorporators of this ready’ held at Augusts, Ga., a weglgn(,’o, the following resolutions were adopted: cSeaoloed That all the countles [n Gwmmfi‘“‘“' fiteriat To The eaBIIsDEICTL Of raljnosd SoAncctlon b tween Auguita, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn. and branch ilne between Augusta via Yy ‘afton Lalind in the Savannah River and Greenwood, S. C., be requested 8 send delesates to @ Failrond convéntion to be buid i e th of L. trade In the West, feeling an f this importsat enterprise, be wrdl-nly'r e to e b T sad invited tobe present avention and to 0 112 proceed clpate fn its proceedings. Lenre August and ubility, and the rebuke he gave was muy‘l TEEsaleed. That deforrch S all tmportant potataat L., B. & M. Spectal Dispatch to The Trivune. New Youx Crry, April 30.—Last Jane Jobn Ce Martin purchased the Lafayette, Bloomingron & Mississippi Road from the bondholders, afief ‘which it was mortgagred and leased to J. W. Heath, * of Lafayette, Ind., for fifty years, who, according 10 the terms of the lease, was to keep it in 3 good running condition as the Western Diviston of the Wabash. This the owners of the road claim be has not donc, and defanited on his Iuterest, b sides. It was the intention of the ownera of 1bif road when leased to Heath thut he was to throw all its business. Lafagette, Muncle & Bfoomington, to the Wabash at Lafaycite. This was not in the lease, butit was 50 understood. Instead of carrying out thif rmummme, he has given this business to rival ines, and negotlations_are now going on here by which the Lafayette, Bloomington & !fiuhl‘l?‘ Road is to pass back into the hands of the bond- bolders, and istobe run fn the Interest of the a : QUINCY & BEARDSTOWN. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. Quixcy, Hl., April 30.—The engineers in the survey of the route of the Quincy & Beands- town Railroad have reached Mount suruns';“’l;: work s being pushed _vigorously, and with 2610 weather the Jocation of the soad o Beanisiond will be complete in May. . SOLD. £ Nzw Yonx, April 30.—The Paducah & Memphis Railroad, 708 miles long, with capital stock of $3,000.000 and a fundea debt of $1,541,000, W88 #old to-day under an agreement with the credito! to Heny W. Smithers, John T. Edmonds, 809 Charles J. Canada, Trustees, for $103,000. = MICHIGAN CENTRAL. CoxcorD, April 30.—A meeting of the stock> holders fn thie Michigan Centrat Ratlrond was beld . bere this evening. Resolutions were . together with that of the . B s TG 0