Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1878, Page 2

2 TIIE RAILWAYS. Text of the Portion of Col. Scott's Report Regarding ‘' Tere minal Debentures. His Plan for Getting Out from Under $14,000,000 of Intcrest. The Proposition Regarded as a “‘Squeal” by the Railroad Folks, What Is Saved fo tho People by a Beduction of 16 Cents iIn Tates. The Tompting Bait Held Out to Man- sgera to Be More Honost, Enstward-Bound Rntes Pat Up to 30 Cents at New York Yesterday. COL. SCOTT'S SQUEAL. The particular feature of the last anoual re- port of Col. Thomas A. Beott, Presiient of the Pennsylvania Raflroad Company, and which de- serves tho fulleat constderation of all rallway managers, [s the scheme for funding outstand- 1ng oblizations In 4 per cent terminal debentures. The telegraphic account of the report received 1n this city singularly omitted to pive this por- tion of the report. To salls(y the curiosity of n number of rallroad managers who have ex- pressed an anxlety to read ¢ Col. Scott’s squcal,” as [t is termed, Tus THIDUNE hereby prints it n full: Your Board have from tima to time conaidered the rubject of & readjustment of all tha lisbllitics of the Company on A lower hasls of interest, and of duvining & plan for cffecting it In & safe and permancat form that will enable yane lincs to meet the gencral fnterests of the copniry throngh nioderate rates of transportation. Tho fact thet the rate of intercst on capital invested in new cn- torprires 18 being steadily redueed in this country, und the still broader fuct that the permanent enarges for uto of capita) in tile future will, in the judgment of your Hoard, rule much below the Tates that have provatled fn the post and that now measnre the fixed charzes of your own and most of the other lines of the country, present 1o the minds of your Dircctora strong rcasons why the progress of o gradual and steady ra- duction of these labilitica ahould now bo com- mcenced and be persevered in, 80 that your financial position will bo made very sirong and your secnri. ties be tree from tho violent fluctaations that nre cansed fromn time to tine by the vicions policy In- sugoratcd by other intoresis upon, compatitira Lurlnces, Your Company will tine be enabled to Landio ihat traflic at ruch rates s wil) always * command tor your lincs a iargo and increasing busi« nése, and make them uscful” nnd valuable in the highest degree a3 transporterd and of increasing valuc to your sharcholders, This important mate tor has récelved their carnest attention, and they are of the upinfon that thiscan be effected by the adoption uf tae following gencral plan, through which they belleve the best iatercsta of the share- )wldcfiuwll e permaneotly protected and pro- moted: “Taut there shall be appropristed from the net carlngs of the Company the sum of £100,000 ner month, commencing May 1, 1878, which sum shall Va deposited in a satlafactory truet company in tho City of P'lladelphia, if_atangoments “can s0 ba mado which will be approved by the Board, with which shall b asaciated two compotent and re. eponaible sharcholders, as Trustecs, under a rpeclal trust, having for its object the purchaea from thne 10 tinie of the bondnand shares of otueecompunies, whichinre gnaranteed by the Penusylvanis IHaitrond Company.and also tho bonded debt of the Pennsyl- vania Company, cxcepl that portlou of the Penn- eylvania Compiuny's bonded debt, the ratiroment of whicl {n alrendy provided for by the spectal trust of that Company hereinaftor stated, The purpose being 1o ultimately reduce all tho Jiubiditica abuve reterred (o, tho trust to be in auch form as your Hoai rectors, nader the advice of compélent con nay find 10 be hest adapted £0 protect and prowute the lnterests of the stock- holders. For the amount of 1, proprated from the act'caruings to tho trust, and Fach portion of theautn that may be exponded ane nually for construction and equipment purposes will complete tho amount of X per cent por_annum upon your capital stock, 10-wit, $177,404, the pliarcholders ta be cntilled to recciva snnnally werip equivalent to a dividend of 1 per share, re- aecinable at the option of the Company, bearing intorert ut 4 per cent per aunum, payatle eomls annually, and in nddition thereto the” balance of the net earninas in cash, r'he cunse uf 1ho trust to bo applicd— 1at, “To the necessary expensca of the trust, #d. To the puyrent of intercat upon tho acrip so fssued 1o the shareholders; ond Ud, To the purchaso from time to timeof the outatandingz guaranteed and other obligations as before etated. “The principal sum of tho ontire fixed obligationy of yinr Campany npus Jeased Jines and gaaranicod sccunitles, covering 3,405 willes of well-located rwlway lincs and 408 wiles of canal that are vali- &vle L0 your own works, nay be elated as folows: Ualted Now Jersey Haflroad & Cana) Co., theiugdinig ail compunies 1 which it waa cancen "8 47,200,075 000 per annum 80 Ap+ 4 0a graranior, Penueylvania itatiroad Al Iiuta cast of ¥itshurg and &1 43,430, 26 Alllincs weat uf Plitsburi aud Erio. B0, 41Ky 331 $174,010, 230 Bondrd indebtedness of the Pennsylvania COMPRIYsareroes 7,000,000 83,014 Deduct amount of bonde redeemed and in R sinking fund.... e 4,500,000 Tho balance of these txed Habilities to.,.. 81N 510, 53 ;e sunual Interest atd guarantoe 10 per centy or, In fouud To meet this oliteation the net earnings the Weatern Hincs were, .. Piftaburg and krie, 8 7,200,357 he for 1677 Trotu s From all lincs cast of ufter paying lutercst on the debt of Peunsyivania Laleond Cotnpany, i st their. " rou.al of 1ta bratich linea worked custy fur thosame purlvd.. eavihg 3 surplus, based upon tho earn. L S sq STy edllllll‘ [ 1o nicet tho lustaii geutal tabiiutenof tie, vartons companive aud cot uivtdends upou the cavltalsiuck of {he Punnsyivants Taliruad Conpany, 11 the gencral plan proposed by the Board shall Lo approved by tha stockholders It would ultimates *y reonit in the practical uwnership of all the eased Hnes, or thelr sasata aud guarantecd Habill- ties, und oa tho scrip of debenture fnvasd, Learing 4 pu'r cent interest, would ho redeeruably st the op- tion of thu Company, it would be released from the uscesmty of ratalng large ewms of monsy to weet maturing indebteduess, I the ranio plan were furtner continued, after the lisbilities o s'ated had been so reduced to s 4 per cent b the Cowpany cuuld also reauce ft uwn bonded debt to the same and i this fs done It would then be enabled, by the s less contribytion to’ the fun the scrip iudebiduess which it had creaf and tho fus) tesult would be thadall your property would be betd by You practically free from bonded dett and habifities, und would embrace 3,013 wiles of well-vquipped raliway and 43 iafies of canal, coutrolling a Iarge trattic, and upon whicl 18 ougtht ulways (a tarn for you rollable dividends, Tho Compuny would bo_ gr through e operutions of the trust, sud tho net earuivgy ovor the 2 per cent represented by the sceip could be devoled each six monthe to cauh dividends to the sharcholders. hould 1t bo deemed advinable quitny the operation of this traet, it (¥ Leljeved that the [mprosed Guancial condition of this Come wight enablo |t to place the smount of jte ut bouded debt ata grestly reduced rate of to pa ed, H £ biteren, + Totllustrate the working of the trust, an sppro. priatiun of §1,200,000 ver snnum, for 8 period of tuirty years, would enable 18 10 own fur the shara. Loldera, thedugh the purchaso of guaranteed stocks und vuuds at rutes yiewiug 7 per cent rovenuo Lo e trunt, und irough the accrotions thereon after vaying Juterest on the acrip fssued to the share- hulders out of the trust fuud, not less than $75,000,000. It the securitica relerred to could be purchascd st rates ylelding 8 per centto the truat, then 1t would ownat the ead of tho sae variud §iH, 004, 100 "I cowputation |s based uPon thedifference be- tncen L fates of luteroat pald on the money used 1u the purctase of the securitles, and the carnings W thewmseiven; bat the fund will by thu parchase of these sccuris tice beluw por, If the averags prico of purchase was 15 per cent below par, then the fund on the 7 ver cent basiv would be acreased to 854,000,000, #ud 0b the B por cent Lasiy Lo $108, 500, 000, Tl cunt of therg e 8 1o the sharcholders ‘would Lave been §30, 600,000, for which they would Buid scrip,sud pon which thiey would be patd in- tereat wvery slx moutlin At tho fatoot 4 per cent per Sriuum ouL of tha treet fund, A8 the Inet yearop tho Lrust shuws sn accuwslailon squivaleat to 8vout 4,500,000 siter the paymeut of Inivreat ou il acnip ued, it will seen that with ity continuance and its anaual accretion it will Foquiry 0 \r‘r‘y Umited term 1o accomplish the resulta stated. “Flae forw of security which it 13 proposed 10 give*. to the ahareholders 1s. very slunlat o (it whlch B bevu crested by mauy of ths English ratlwa, 2 a3 & reprenentation of capltal, and fs known a3 & terwicable debeuture, and which s consldered a satistaciory security. it wil) be 1 frin & careful exsmination of the P10 bropo: that its reaults 10 the shareholders Would by to make thels eotire property more cury under its existlug obligations, give grester se. curlty i the fuiuse for the psyment of regular divideuds, and place sb sbpreciativg value Upon the cotire cupital atock of the Company. Your Boara wuuld therefurs recounmend to the favorable sction of the sharcholdors the resalution sppeuded o tuis report. Reaslerd, Thal the creation of 8 trust, baviog for | OLJect 116 parchites 1roms (LZic Lo titbe OF (he buwce and Bhaivs Of VDA Guiipauits WLICD 629 gUaaaieed by portions net earnings would have Increased as followa: 1 Yittaturg, Fo e Flittvarg; Cincinart & ot. Daltimore & Ohi Incluade the proporttons of the respective ronte that is, the between Chicago and New York, enco fn net carnings wonld the trafic of rix weeks only. tation be mado on tho trafile of the entire active acason, stated at twenty-four wecks, the total g{)laemn:n for tho above lincs would bo £:1,600, - to form not moro than one-fourth mavement to tne seaboard from Chicago and tho Miessnippl and Ohlo Rivers. on, would thio #tockholders of nll the rallroads, on the opera- tions of five months, as the result of carrying freight at 20 cents instead of 33 cents & hundred. At “the begluniug of tho seuson, ttbreak* in prices, the rato from Chicago to Now ‘York was 40 cente, tho public eyo. only to the managera of tho raliroads Interested, 1n the hope of persuading thom to put an end 1o & sort of comuetition which s, 1 fact, bencfictal to tate would have deducted carnings, but it would still have been 260,000 anend, provided it had carrled tug lesser volume of "fl ht at 45 cents lnstead of 20 cents for the whole, would bo dlscovered were the calculation mude upon the business of either of the othor lines, In question was lssued to the Chicag ton & tract bonda of the contract had been awl the nr'reemum. was cortainly a valid one, Tho stock h made by the basis of 80 cents pur 100 pounds from Chi- cawo to New York. A mecting wus held b somo of ths gentlemen named wbove on the Oth of February fu Clucago, when a number of TIHE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 18% theTennnylvanta Raliroad Company afM ales of the an(}:’d dm o 1e harehy, Directors be, and the; Buthorized to tak sach sotion, Cine Teanayleanis Company. be. and 1 praved: and that 1he ncoming Hoant of 7, &m0 hereby, “instructcd and anrce Cae advice of Jadkment be lawedl. necesney aiich truti aod to accompilsh e LIy —— RUINOUS COMPETITION, Although the trunk-line managers of the Ex- ccutlve Committeo of Western Raflrond Man- agers are in session at New York just now try- ing to bring the present rallroad war on East- bound freight rates 1o n close, yot the compe- titlon between the varlous ronds leading from this city East continues with undiminished vigor, and the rates are still golog downward. They tumbled yesteraay from 20 to 18 cents per 100 pounds on grain from Chicago to New York, and the prospectsare that they will gosthl lower it the difMculties arc not sottled within a dayor tvo. From other Weatern points tho rates are still lower. The Buffalo Fzpress publishes tho following article in regard to the opresent freizht war, which will be of more than ordinary Infereat to ralirosd men at this point, as it contalns facts that have not been published heretofore: m}:’hnmcr the ordinary freight.rate by rail from cay to Now York ehall be 15 cents per 100 or 20 centa would scom to be a matter of ight conseguence to the public at lArge; but 1tisa question of 1ife and death with the railways. 1ta enormous importance I seen the moment ono cxamliice the traffic ataticments ol the lincs doing that business. menta from Chicago to_the East, durlng the six weeks from Jan, 12 to Feb. 16 Iast, amounted to In round numbers the tatal ship- ,000 tons, Now, anppusing ot tho five diler- nforested had ‘ali carried the same 13 centa ar they did carey at 20, 1) It shonld be borne in mind that these figures above roads and_ thelr connection Thia vast il « been derlved from Shonld_the compu- Again, tho Chleago abipments oro cstimated of the catire Bhould the calcula- heteforo, take in the wholo buriness, it ehow the enormous Joss of $14, 400,000 to before the Wa take theso inatenctive figures from an official statement made by Mr. A, Fink, Commissioner of the New York Central, Erle, Baltimore & Ohlo Iailroads, dated New York, Feb. ’.':|{ 1878, for which we are Indebted to a thuoght- ennsyivania, and We precame it was not intended for 1t bas been sent, we presuine, nono of the iines, but disastrous to all of them like, The Commis- sloner argues that meither road could Liope Lo Incrute Its proportion of the tutal trafle, under tho sharuost competition, moro than & per cent abova the amount it would be allowed under n pooling arrangement for a division giving each tho roportion upon which the above estimate of losses in net carnings was based. ‘This im no doubt true enouch, as one road no sooncr cuts under than all tha reat follow suit, and the compotition stlll romalng th form but gwich lower rates, n volume of taflc, at o paying rate, Is but the werest triflo when compared carnings cousequent upon caceying all the freleht at rates which do not atford tration, sonte Jor the six weeks montioned a upon uni- b per cunt o name, A toss of witl tho lors of net roft. As an illus. take tho trafic of the Micn), lll“l.'ullml ve, viz, ¢ 0J, 100 tons; 6 per cent lees tonnage at the paying 845,000 from its not Of conres the snmne relative differcnco THE CIIICAGO & IOWA. ‘There |a but lttle prospeet that Cot. F, B, Iiackley will enjoy very loug the frults of the victory over the Chleago, burlington & Quincy Rallroad muddle. The matter will bo brought to the attention of Judge Blodgett, of the United Staces Court, this moraing by the Bur- lington people, and the sale of the road under foreclosure, which Is st for S8aturday, may in consequence bo postponed. Mr. Ruvert Harrls, Prestaent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, stated to TRIBUNE reporter yesterdny L to the nestock , Burling- Qui; in consideration of a cou- to purchuse the _ second-mortgage Chieazo & Towa, which strictly curried out, that his rond did not owe a singlo hicago & lowa forthe stock it held. uld by the other stockholders was issucd to Mr, Hinckley fn the snme mnnuer for constructini the Chicago & lowa fromn Aurorn to Forreston. Mr. tinekiey, who wus nrlnlllnll‘f o railroad-contractor, contructed iirst to butl the Owte & Carroll County Rond from Ruchells to.Orcicon. "This road with the Chicaro & Iowa, which ran from A rors to Ruchelle, and Jater the roud was extel ed to Forteston. “The Chileago & Iowa is clzhty miles in denuth, and has beeit o operatlon fur the last six years, aud during that whole timg has not pald o dividend to the stockholders, s In arrears for Interest un second-morigage Londs to tho mmount of $100,000, The fivst- mortgoge bonds, amounting to §i held Harels Is confident that M sten hie did to revengo htmscll on the Chicago, Burlington & Qulm:ly for refusing to lend mousy with which to puy th w.s atterwanls combined d ure v Mr. Moses Taylor, of Now Yok, Mz, Hinckley took the o necrued dnterest, TUE MANAGERS, . Speciul Dispatcit to The Tribune, - New Youx, March 7.—The conventfon of rallroad menagers was held to-day at the Wind- sor to dlscuss tho matter of castward-bound freights. Tho followlog gentlemen were pres- cnt: Messrs, Ledyord ond Greer, of the Michi- ean Central; Osborn, of the Wabash; Newell, of the Lako Bliore; Sprigs, of the Great Weat- ernj Mufr and Perry, of the Canada Southern; Sargeaut, of the Grand Trunk; White, of the Detrolt & Siiwaukeo; Peck, of the Chicaze & Lake Huron; Potterand Edwards, of the Fljut & Fere Ma Ohlo; MeMullin, of the Chicagu & Alton; Simp- son, of the Vatdatiag Hurlbut, of the Cinclnnat, Columbus & Indianapolis; Rutter, of the New York Central; Blanchard, of the Erie; Cossctt, of the Peunsylvania; Bitss, of the I Altuny; Albere Fiuk, the Eastern Comnlssloneri and N. Guitford, thy W Blauchurd was Chalrmuau aud Mr. Gulltord See retary, 'f'wo svsslous wero held, both with closod doors. 1t wus resolved to apply bere- alter to cast Eznlaumunr. that is pow upplied to westward- uetto; Dol 3y 01 the Bultmore & oston & Melils, of thu Vermout Centrali vetern Counntssioner, Mr, nd-bound frefght thy satme ap- und frelghta, The apportlonment will bo s, bFiuk sud Gullford, und on ust lans were sugested to control tho ratcs on Lastern-bound Irefghit; Gually a resuiution was wdupted requeating Messrs, Fink and_Gullford to report thie proceedings of that meetiug to the trunk-line residents for further inateuctions, ITEMS, ‘The Chicago & Eastern Illinols Rallroad con- templates the formation of a new through lne from thie city to Indianapolls, via the Chicago & Eastern Nllinols, Evanaville, Terro Houte & Chicago, and Vandalia Roads. It 15 understood that the Illinols Central Railroad {3 sbout to muko an arrangument with the Chliago & Northwestern Rullruud to use the latter road as counsction with its Iowa line between this city aud Freeport, At presect the Illiois Central does 1te lowa business vver tho Chicago, Hurliugton & Quiucy wud Chicago o Jowa Railroads, connectiug with its Northeru lino at Forrestou. In reply to some of the 8t. Louls Jtepublican's braruadocio sbout the diversion of the Western business from Chivago to St. Louls, the Kansas City Times makes the followlng timely remarks: #Binca Oct. 1 Chicago bas bad wvo wuterway, and was obliged to pay rallroud 1 rates on all the grain she shipped East, while Bt, Louls bad the bouetit of the new watorway reudercd availablo by the success of tho jutues, = But it Bt. Louls counts on getting tho grain of Kausas, Ncbraska, and Jowa seat to her by rail ufier Chivago begivg to ship grain to New York for 8 or 10 cents per bushel by lake and canal, why Bt. Louls 1s badly (vu)h\{; hersell. Nothiog but & sucrcssful barge line to Kausas City will then keep the grain fiolnz in the dircction it bas tuken sluco last November.” ——— HYDE PARK. The Board of Trustevs wel ot the Village-Hall yesterday afterncon st the usual tlme. ‘Tho action of the joint Board wncctiog of the ‘Towns of Lake and Hyds Park held ‘Tucsday was confirmed, aud the Presldent suthorized to pur- cuias & boller for the water-works of Devine. “The Comptrolies reported that ho Lad recelyed on the water and license fand 81,688,130, the most of whicn hiad heen tarned over to the Treaenrer. Engine Company No, i of South Chicago report- ed that their Babeack enzine was no good, and gave the Roard notico that they must have a new machine of they wonld disband in three weeks. Ordinancea wore ordered engrossed atopping pro- ceedings for the opening of Fifty-Afth street from Hyde Park avenue to the Inke, and South Chirago avenne from Stony leland avenuo to Indlana avenne, The Citizens’ Proteciive Arrocfation of District No. 2, Tiyde Park, met laat eventnge at the ofice of H, J, (oodrich, 120 Coltage Urove avenne. About twenty pereons wors present, The meet- ing was called to order, and flve new members yoted 1n, and seven new names peoposed. On mo- tion of J. 1L Donnelly, the Chair appointed a committee, consisting of J, IT. Doonelly, UGcorgg W, Walte, 1L B, Compson, W. W, Btewart, and T. 8. Glilette, to give information to the puhlic reganding the Society, 1te enda, and motlves. The Committee are expected to act as a recrniting. Land for the Soclety. The Exceative Committea reported thronch the Chajrman In regard to the venonll-‘vrmverly tax rnld by tho saloun-keepers of tho village, whom e Soclety think are favored. The repurt showed that there ara seventy-six saloons in the village, eleven of |which pay a personal-property tax, amounting In nll to abont §70, leaviny alxty-five saloons which do not pay. L. \V. Stone stated that there would be s meet. ingof the taxpayers of the Third District at the corner of Wahash avenuo aud Vorty-frst_strect Saturday night, and that ho thougit ‘an organiza- tlon could be formed then and thore. STATE AFFAIRS WISCONSIN. Special Dlapatch tn The Tridune. Map1son, Wis, March 7.—In tho Scnate this morning bills passed relating to the publication nnd sale of roports of the Geoloxical SBurves— yens 20, nays 1; authorizing the State Board of Health to make s annual report and publish 8,000 coples thercof—yeas 24, nays 5. A large number of bllls passed in the Assem- bly. Amonz others, Scuate Dbills passed appropriating $15,000 to the Milwaukee Indus- trial School for Girls; for protecting the State Capitol aealuet fire, and to supply water for the use of tha Caplto! and park; for the removal of clvll actiuns Iu certaln easeay to amend tho Re- vised Btatutes fu relativn to county officers: to authorize the Judge of the Eleventh Judielal Clreult to appoint an additional Court Comtais- sloner; to authorize the Guvernor to exccute quit claim decds In certain _cases_ relating to certain classes of raflroad bonds theree in naned; to provide for the ©f 200 coples of \ebster's Dictlonary. Iu the Asscmbly bills passed to reduce the rico of swamp and overflowed lands {n LaCrosso County; for the protection of game in 8t. Crolx Cuum.{' to amend the luw relating to the busl- nces of brecdiing and reartng furred anlmalai to nrpruurlnle wmoney to the Northern Huspltal tor the Insane for current oxpenscs; to secure to children the beneits of an clemnentary educa- tion; authoriziug the Commissioners of purchase Sctivol and University Luands to loan a rtion of the trust funds to Chippewn Falls for sctool-butlding rurpmu: to provide for laying out, ¢stablishs ing, and bullding a Stato roud from the City of Centralla to Knowlton; to prevent the adul- teration of milk in butter and checse factories; to amend the charter of the Wiscousin River Improvemont Company, The Senate this niternoon killed bills restor- ing caoital punishment; providing for leensing engineers, and the {uspcction of bollers; amend- iz the Liquor law, maklog it eriminal to acll liquor to wlnors, VIRGINIA. Ricnstonp, Va,, March 7.—Gov. Iolliday to- day scnt o communication to the General As- scmbly {n response to a Senate resolutlon ask- ing him to communicate the condition of the Commonwealth, and recomnond such meastres 28 hie may deewn expedient. In reference to the settlement of the public debt, the Governor says he can find no excuso for tho denlal of tho debt. The obligation of the contract for this debt Is unassaled and unnssailable, The Waur and {ta fruit luve nothing to do with aud can- not affeet that obllgation. ‘Tho Guvernor opuvses the dea of o Constl- tuttonal Couyention as in no way tending to scttlo the vexed question, and snupcsts that it ‘would bu bettor to give tuthe creditors the hun- dreds of tlhiousauds of dollars the Convention would cost. We are bouud morally and legally 1o pay this debt, Thedebt {s onus; itis a plaln, practical affair, It Ia our duty to pay or ndjust t like plain, practical men fu & buslness way. ‘The Governor advisca econouiy, sretrenche ment, and self-sacrifice, nud when this fa done to the utmost, If there 1s still o deficlency to meet the obligation, then Lo favora Increased taxation,~a special stamp-tax for many sub. Jects, and the tu!nr.i even of chureh property. Ricnvosn, Va,, March 7.—Tas State Scrnato to-uight ngreed to n resolution fustructing the Finanee Committes to bring In o bill avpropri- ating $100,000 to pay Intercst on the Pecler bonds, 'flnlu amount has been saved by recent retrenchuent In the vxpenses of tho Stute Uov- crnment, 1lolders of Peeler bonds have not been pald angthing for several years, 01110, Covunus, 0., March 7.~—InthoSenate, Benate bill to so amend the free-banking law of 1851 as to strlke out the scetlovs relative to circulating uotes, and to give a legdslative construction of the word “banking," was passed, A blll was Introduced to provide that life-ln- surance yolicles which linve been fn foree threo years shall not be forfeited for non-payment of premium so long as the fnterest of the jusured will continue the premium, A resolution for o sine die adjournment April 5 was indetinitely ‘)unmmunl. In the House, bills were intzoduced to appro- priate £30,000 to put the canals_in navigable or- der; to allow uflleers of Natlonal Banks to act aa ollicers of savings banke, cxcopt as Treasurcra; to mske Feb, 23 ‘a legul loliduy; to rcxpcnl the Homcatead-Exemption Jaw 3 to ollow free tradu In motiey to provice for the reglatration and Heensing of places where ntoxicating liguors ara sold, and to repgol the vartous ilquor tuws now ou the statute-buoks, Including what 18 known as the ** Adalr law.” MINNESOTA, Speclal Dispatch to Tue Tribune, 87, Paut, Minn,, March7.—~The Sennte agreed to reassesnble the fourth Wedneslay fn May us o Court of Impeachinent for trial of Judge Tage. Tho School ‘Text-Hook bill finally pussed 1n a ahiapo sutlsfactory to the Stuto contrector, Merrlll, it allowlug him two years for the in- troduetion of bis books beforo again contesting the matter with the book ring, while the latter galn the privilege of appeal to & populur voteln 1550, A bill providing for a Comstitu- tioual Conventlon was agalu defeated in the House to-duy, but & mution for reconsideration betug made aud undeclded, iU may yet puse be fore the explration of the lass working duy of the scasion, LOUISIANA, New OntBans, March 7.~tov. Nicholls has convened the Lezislature in extra sesslou for fifteen days, specifylng matters for considern- tion, including rovenus and narropr!nluu bills, 'hls oxtrs scaslon will cost the Stato ubout 875,000 for expeuscs. s Gpectat Dt TN, i clal Dispaich fo The Tribune, Dgs Moixes, 1a,, March 7.—~The 4lonee this evening possed the bill to repeal the Raliroad ‘TarliY law and provide a Commilesloner system, by & vote of B3 to 43 It will puss the Senato, ————e———— BAD SIDEWALKS COSTLY, Sperial Diapaich to The Tridune, Garena, LI, Murch 6,—Tho sult of Joha W, Wiright vs, The Village of Warren, for injurive sustained by the breaking down of 4 sldewutk over which the plalutl was passing ut tho time, was decided lato last utrhie dn favor of Wright, who was awarded a judgmont for 32,000, ' The cuso has oxeited mors than ordinary juterest fn thls scetlon, sud upwards of fifty citlzens of Warren were suinmoned os witnesses, The uce cident occurred u year ugo, since which thue Wrlght has been Incapacituted from perforining labor of any kind, sullering from' u serious alfectivn of the spine, nllcgmrw have been pro- duced by the injuries sustafucd, ‘This after- ol 4 notion for a new trisl wus argued, and gruuted by Judge Balley, TEMPERANCE AT DWIGHT, Bucelal Mpatch (o The Trivune, Dwianrr, 10, March 7.—~The Royal-Purple- Ribbon wovement, which has been going on Liero for over a week, dused oo Mouday night, 50 fur as tho labors of Mr. Crawpton are con- ccrued, who Las successfully carried on the work. Ou souday ntizlt the Methodist Church was packed with an uudience called together for the purposs of heariug tiae gesults of the crusade. Over 1,000 persous, including chil- dren, bave signed the pledge. It secius singu- Tar that lu tho face of such an_uprieing of tue ;lxplu on the subject that tuere should be any cBbtroversy with regord to the lecuse question, But 1w (oformed that the talk bow 16 of ruu- uiug o Heenso ticket, which I think s divgrico to [UY colubiuity thut cau busst of 1,000 slrucrs ta the pledge fn ono week, This evening the temperance drama, **8aved,” wlll be performed at Kochllnger's Opcra-Honse by an amatcur company from Pantiac. The clergy and all the clurch ‘members Indorss ft. Thero {8 every prospect of an tinmenso house. VAN DEUSEN Things Going Againat Tiim s Littlo nt Kata- mnzao—His Witnesses Either Go to Fleces or Are Harred Out Altogethor—Uncasiness of 11is Friends. &pecial Dispateh fa The Tridune, KAvLAMazoo, Mich., March 7.—At the opening of court this morning, Dr. Bpinney, of Detrolt, was cross-cxamined by the defense, who vainly cndeavored to bresk the forco of his testimony given yesterday. The cvidenco adduced from this gentleman's testimony Is the strongest in favor of the plaintifl. Tho deposition of Dr, Ueorga Newcomer, the husband of vlalntiff, was next read. It stated that he had been consulted asto her insanity and removal to the Asylum, 1t admitted that be had offered to felgn insanity in order to satisfy an investigating committee of Kent County, which bad been ap- pointed to learn the condition of offalrs ot the Asylum. Icadmitted that depon- ent was to felgn Insanity and be recelved into the Asylum, and then diacover the nature of the management of sald fnstitution Ly playlng the role of a patient.. It denled that he was to do this in orler to lay a foundation for damages in n fatare swit, or to ald his wife in tke prose- cutlon of the present one. o made an offer to Superintendent Hall, of Battle Ureek, toscnd Ifin there with said purpose. This was de- clined, At this polnt the profecutlon rested, nfter stlpulating that another witness, 8 cook from the Asylum, siould be sworn as Boon as hie could be tound. Gen. Dwight May stated the case to the jury for the defenec, - Iiis specch was to tho effect that Dr. Van Deuscn, an honored and rellable ofticer of the State. was dragged Into court by o sct of lupatics to recover damages In the sum of £40,000, It was chlefly ridiculo dirceted sgainst the plalntiff, hier witnesses and attorneys. Ile claimed that they would prove Mrs. Newcomer as cruzy as o loon, and kindly and tenderly treated by the defendant, The lirst wituess called by the defense was Conductor Clements, of tho Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Raliroad, who testificd that Lo saw lier juinp backwards from a train at Jonesyille, while In motlon, and fall heavily upon her back. Dr. Btoddan, physiclan for the above named rallroad compunny, was sworn, but kils testimony In relation to Lls visits with hor was clalmed to be excluded by statuto as confldential. The claim was allowed by tho Court, and the witness stoud pslde, Mr. Bishop, of Alblon, Mich., was called, and stated that Mrs. Newcomer boardced at his house 1nn provious to her confinament ia the Asylum, 1e atated that aho looked wild, and didn't talk iu a reusonnble manner; that sho started to go to ‘Toledo while at his house, aud came back the next nleht, cr[\'lnz and badly used up; that rho complained that Mrs. Blshop was keeplug her thiere In order to steal her watch and wardrobe. ‘The testimony of this wituess was broken up effectually by the cross-examination, which re- sulted In several contradictions and ovidence of much {nterest and fecllug on the part of the witness. Mrs, Dishop was then sworn, and partially confirmed her husband’s testimony just Elveu. Bho also stated that the plainti ‘would fre- quently address her, saylng: * You won't send me away, will youl and that the plaintil look- ed wild at times, and talked tnvohicrently; that she thought Mrs. Newcomer was fusane at times, aud beliaved In o yery unnatural tman- nerj tiat slio walked fecbl y but was uotlame; that she did not kuow whether tho plainti was Crazy uow or uot. Judgo Hall, of Battle Creck, was tho last wit- ness of the day, and he sworo to the fact that Mrs, Newcomer and her husband had attempted to Induce him to sign papers {u order to contlne Dr. George Neweomer fu tho Asylum a8 a luna. tie. Ho understood the offer to bo different tuan tho deposiiion of Dr. Newconier as above given, Ilo thought thio ohject was to lay the foundation for n sult agalnst the Asylum, ‘The court adjourncd ut this polut, and the friends of the defendant aro by no means satis- tled with the outlook. The insanity of tho plaiutif s yot to be proved, and the authority for her tncarceratton, ‘The court-room to<dny has been lterally Jumuned, and the @vldence to be given to-morrow 18 Juoked upon as lmportant und decisive fn the Interests of tho defense, Public ovinton to-nizht Is rather In favor of tho plaindlll, aud nudoubted proof of insanity uyainst her, and completo authority for her con- Huement, will nlone save the defendant from o verdict of damuges. POLITICAL, Actlon of, tho Ropubllesn Mombers of tho ‘Wisconsin Legislature. Bpectul Dispateh fo The Tridune, Manson, Wis, March 7.~The Republican members of the Legislature met in caucua this eseniug to effect o more perfuet politieal orgnn- jzation, Ex-Chairman of the State Committee, E. W. Keyes, stated tho objectof the caucns fn brict and positive speech. Tho followlug resolu. tlons were passed s Wirukas, Invicw of tho tinoe-honared mazim that in union there 1s strength, and in orzeniza. tlon theru I victury; and Witeieas, The present uncertain condition of the polltics of our country, and especially of our own State, 18 such as o ruquire & more thorough and complety argunization; aud Wagneas, The elections of the prescut year, Logislutive ‘and Congressional, ure fraught with conncquences of the gravest and greateat impor- tance to our parly, tho Htate, snd the nation; therefore, be it tesoleed, the Tepublican mombers of the Senato and Assctnnly. that a epublican Loglulative Commiiten boand hurevy Is croatod, consting of the members from eaclh Congressional Distrlct, wuch Cotnnittoe toact in conjunction witls the Cen- tral Committeo n the cumpalygn of 1878, to the cud that Wisconsii i Cougress bo represented by not less than wix Kepublicans, that the next As- sembly bo reatored 10 1ts old-tlme Lepublican ma- Jority, and thue sccuring to the Itepublican party That Lo which It Is_ontitled by right, o majority on Jolnt batlut 1n the Legialature for the year 1N70, Heaobred, ‘Phut a cummiitee of fvo be appoinied by tho Chalr Lo wominate 1o this euucus purons 1o All tho cummittes created by the furegolug resolu- 1lon, and ulso thot satd comuiitics sugzest from the logialative conuittee recomtmended an Exvcu- tive Comintiteo of roven. Mussra, I, lryant, Col, Woodward, and Scott Huthaway were appolnted a comimitteo to report thy Legistative and Exceutive Commitives, ‘The Cotntuitten reported the l’ulluwlnfiz: First Cougressfoual District, Revnoids, Richardson, and "~ Bounes; Second, * Burroy Welch, and Bullovk; Third, Treaf, Carter, and L‘:uan:ll; Fourtly' Van Hehafck, Flyds, and Hamliton; Fifth, Laper, McFuttridge, and Shepard; Blxth, ‘Torrey, Urimmer, and Kelly; Buveoth, Pri Andrews, and Rugk: Efghth, Aunderson, Plerce, and Fuuk: Exccutive Committee, Burrows, Bullock, Weleh, Treut, Van Schalels, Kelly, and Auderson. — QCEAN STEAMSHIP. NEWS, Loxvoy, March 7.—The steamship Neckar, from New York to Soutbmnpten and Bremen, passcd the Lizard this alternoon with her shalt broken, P Boutgamrroy, March 7.—The stcamer Lelp- zigg, (rowm Baltinore, has urelved, Naw Yonx, Murch 7.—Arrived, steamsbips Alieris, from Liverpool; Boltvia and State of ludiaua, from Ulnszow; Alsatis, from Lundon. ——————— PEDESTRIANISH, NEw Onuzans, March 7.—In the Schmehl- Wickers contest at 9 o'clock to-night Belinell had uccomplished 154 miles aud Wickers 115, completioe bee rst 100 wiles i 89 hours, 40 miuutes, sud 80 scconds, ‘Tho attendauce i woud. Pedestrisnlsw fu ghis c¢ity promises to catublish ltself with favor. Gov, Nicholls and purty wero prescot to-day oucouraging tho walkers with weil wishes, ———————— BISMARCK, Bpectal Dispaich (o The Tridune, Biswarck; D, T., March 7.—The fve in the Missouri is rottiug, and travel Is stopped. Dalrymplo is sowlog wheat ou his blg farm st tho rate of sixty acres 8 day. Black Hille wravel i incressing. ‘There “were seventen passengers frum the East to-nlebt, A tem- pr:my balt wos made hero on account of the river. WOULD LIKE TO CARRY THE BAG, Bpectat Dispateh to Tha Tribune, Orrawa, IlL, March 7.-=Tbo Hoo. Washing- tou Bushnell, of this city, Atturncy-Generul (n 1508 and 1872, will Le a candidate for State Treasurcr beforethe Republican Conventlon, 1lts (ricnds wake thls announcewnent iu his be- balf to-day. —— THE STRAITS, Derroit, Mlch., March 7.—A tclegram re- celved from Bluckiuvaw this morvlug reposts the Straits cleur of loe, EGYPT. Not in Southern Illinois, but the 014, Original Egypt. A Chicago Man Takes a Ride Through the Suez Canal, Landing at Cairo, He Liooks About Him, His Impressions of Men, Women, nnd Things Generally, He Mests Messrs. Fiold, Loockwood, and Fisher, of Chicago. Special Correspondence of The Tribuns. Cano, Fgypt, Feb. 7,1878.~The traveler who enters Egypt vin the Red Scaand Buez certalnly recelyes a most unfavorable fmpression of the country. Aflter leaviug Aden, In Arabla, onthe trip up the Read Sea, lang ls most nlwaya in sight. On tho left, the high mountainous conat of Africs, whilcon the right ia the utter deso- Intion of the Arabian desert. As you mear Bucz the historic nssociations lend some intor- est to theecune, Far Inland, on the rizht, Mt. Binal towers abovo the sand, while the s'enmer 1s doubtlcss rushing on over the anot where tho legions of Pharoab were engulfed as they pur- sued the flecing Israclites. The same desolato coast lines provall up to the very harborof Buez, nnd the City of Bucz itsell, so famous {n connection with TIR GREAT CANAL, 18 nothing but a dirty Arab village, in the midst of the sand of the desert, with not a green thing about it. 'I'lie barbor Is very fino, and 500 slilps can lic at anchor In the spaclous bay. A ramble through tho town offers but Iittlo n- terest. Two old mosques, very dirty, and an Arab market, is tho sum total. Back of tho clty, on top uf a mound ol barren sand, stands a emall palaco (1) belonzing to the Khedive, From fts summit I obtained a fne view. In tho foreground was the harbor, tho shipping, and the mouth of the Buez Canal, which winda Itke a stiver thrend off over tho sands. To tho right n rango of mountains, with thelr black Leights homming In the Red Sca, while away to tho left were TIB ROSY PEAKS OF MT. BINAL Near Sucz are the famed wells of Moses, where the water still gushes from the rock, which tra- ditlon says ho smote with his rod. Idrankof the water, but it s brackish and very warm. Here nlso tho Arab tradition flxes the spot whero Moses, and Mirjam, and the children of Isracl sang tholr song of triumph. From S8uez the Egyptlan Rallroad loads to Cairo, taking onc day. For eighty miles the roid leads aloug tho ‘great canal, ond great ocean steamers go by, looking in tho distance as if they wero moving throngh the sands, As you near Calro the cffcets of frrizatlon aro scon, and the descrt literally blossoms like the rose. The traln thunders by QUAINT ARAD VILLAGES, and through green flelds and orange groves. On all sides oxen are at work ralsing water from the canals to tho flelds, the samo clumsy ma- chinery belngz used as was in vogue in the time of the Patrlarchs, Just ns we came In view of tho clty the sctting sun was shed- ding fta lastrays on the splres, dome, and minarets of Cairo, #o that the frst view of Egypt's Capltal was very fine. Ever since I read tho “ Arabiun Nights,” fu my boyhood, I had longed to sco this city of the old Caliph’s, aud, notwithstanding the Khedive has vpencd broad boulevards, and lald out parks and gardens, and mado fountains to play in every square, thero fs still o large Oriental city undisturbed. The narrowness of tho streets, and thelr great frregulnrity are thoroughty Eastern. It ls A CITY PULL OF ROMANOE, strange slghts, Oriental wonders, and terrible smolls, Through the narrow strects go long trains of camels laden with produce, donkeys rush hers and thore bearlng o turbaned Turk or a closoly-velled Jady, aud urged on by howling Arab hoys, who vigorously apply the cudgel, and give forth such whoops aund yells as would drive o Bloux Indian mad with envy. The bazaars aro filled with goods of tha richest description, and the old Arab and Turkish dealers sit and smoke amid their goods, with all this crowid and confusfon about them, as I they were In somo vastsolitude, In the Tunls bazanrare the richly- worked slipoers, embrotdered In gold and sct with gems, In the gold bazanr arc the Jewclers and silversmiths, whodisplay wonder{ul apecimons of workmuuship. Then thero are the buzuars of costly slike um[l' carpots, but surpasa- Ing all in rich displuy of wealth {8 the bazaar Turque, with its gems and preclous stoues. I you wander through the rose bazaar you wlil sce Jurs of the purs ottar of rose, that perfums which sells ot ten gold dollars per drow, - In theso bazaars you will spend hours watchiug the crowds pass by, Ilerc comes TILE HARESM OUT FOK A WALK, with a biack eutuch keeptog suard with o drawn sword; the ladics aro enveloped from head to fuut fn bog-like black robes, whilo white silk masks conceal all the face but the eyes, which often are of wonderful brillluncy or melting softuess as they gaze ot you with a stolen elunce on posalu@ near, while the black robe is coquettishly ralsed, revealing the wide flowing ‘Lurkish trousers uf rich silk or satin and the feet, with tho high, arched fnstep. Lewving the bazaars you will visit the mosques, Cairo has over B0X), 80 only two or thres of the best can bo de- seribed, The largeat aro 800 or 400 feot syuare, and the floors cavered with rich carpets, and at ull hours worshlpers are praylie, while poor peopls resort to them to sleep und do their sew- mg; little eblldeen run tn and out plaving and shouting, and do not In the least seen to dis- turl the worshiners, and you are free to enter, even though you are an™** infldel dog, If you only remove your shocs. 8omie of thy mosques are” richly ornsmented with different-colored marbles. ~ In the mosque within the citadel, and the tincst {n the city,is a lattico-work inclosure, entered by o shle doory, where the harein of ‘the Khedive come to pray freo from the guzs of the wmultitude, Atter tho mosques [ visited the cltadsl on tho hill, & strongly-fortitled castle, and from which the finost view of the city is ub- tafued. This [s the furtress made famous by TILH MASSACUE OF TIH MAMALUKES 1n 1814, uncof the blonlicst deeds In tuc world's history. Mohammed Al was Sultan of Egypt, und the Intricues of the Mamalukes for power izave him coustant trouble, and ho took the tust sutmiwary weans to ston it. The Mania- Juke leaders and thelr followers were invited to visit the clty and be entertained, Promptly on the day they came, elittering in thele brilffany uniforins nnd mounted o their superb Arabfun liorscs, moking the flnest body of cavalry the world ever saw. After 8 most flattering recep- tion by the Sultan Al, they were tnvited to ex- bibit ‘their warvelous borscumianship fn the courtyard of the citadel. With baouers stream- iny, the proud processlun entered, As the last rider passed tho gate It suddenly closed, and they were caught o a tran. 'They suw thele doom, but too late. A thousund miuskets biazed 8 deadly fire from bebind the ramparts, und Lorse and rider went down o ouo Sred, writhing usss” Some et death calinly, with turbaned head bowed low anil hands crossed on thelr ailed breasts {u prayer; others galloped wildly abouat the varrow court, with flashiug sclmetar, waved deflance to thelr uuscen foes. Soun tho glorfous cavalry had sank to rlas no mors exeept the proud leader, Emir Bey, He uallumtf his horse up over the mountans of bis dead and dylng com- v':xl;ml. reached the battlewents, nm{ fu'an fu. stauf smatiest of dainty LORSK AND RIDEW TOOK TIE DIZZY LEAF to the ground helaw, Tho horss was crustied, but the fearlcss rider russto bis feet unhisrmed. Btopplog but au instaut Lo press his lips to the forehiead of bis dyiog steed bo sped away to the desert, The gulde shows you the very spot ou the battlcwents from which the horsa sprang, wnd whero bo struck below. Tho dead Muma- lukes wereall buned i one grave, and their tomb {s au futercstiug spot tu vislt, but vow should never go alons there, as o fearful wob of Arabs make it their resort and demand fo the wmost emphatic way * Backshee unlz by Uisplaywics rovolves with whols clothies and skin. Next I vialted tho * Petriticd Forest,” a most curlous place (n tho descrt, cleven miles from Calro, where seciningly 8 whols grove of trees bas been turned to stune; the perfecs truuks of trecs burd as warble strew the eround fnull _dircctions, 'The fullowivg day 1 visited Hellop- olua, & suburb four wles out. Here staud yet perfeet, after tho lapse of many thousand years, the obellsk that stood Lefore thi great eple of the Buy, of which the father-tu-law of Joseph was high pricat, and on which the oyes of Moses muost havo often rested, On the way Is shown an ofd and gnaried tree, nnder which TIR HOLT FAMILY aro sald to have rested on tha fieht into Eeypt. 1In 8 ruined part of the city, called Old Cairo, curious for 1ta very narrow aud winding streets, I a Coptic cliurch, In the vault of which they ahowed me the houre atiit well preserved whera Joseph and Mary Hved during the residence in Fgypt, aud a stono bath-tub where the tnfant Chrlst was bathed, ‘The attendant pricst claimed that tradition was very clear on theso polnts, but most visitors are rather gkeptienl, From Old Calro I crossed to the Island of Rlioda, whera still stands the stono Nilometer that sloce Plharnoh’a time has- registered the rine and fAll of the Nile, and showed whether famine or plenty was to rcnin {a the land. On this fsland, and below the Nilometer, Pharaol’s daughter. fs supposed to have found the [nfant Moscs, ' It Ia now nearly covered with old pal- fives going to ruln and decay. The next day of sight-sceing I devoted to n visit to a8 nuixs i uevrms and the Pyramid of Sakkara, where are scen the huge granite sarcophaghi of the Sacred Bulls of the Egyptians, twenty-tbreo fn number, They are down in vast excavated galleries {n the sotid ruck, and so Jargoaro thoy that no pawer known to engincers of the present day could place them in position. Of course the one slght par excellence of Calro fs the great Pyramlds, dis- tant cleven miles over a splendid road built by tho present Khedive, Of the grandeur of theso great monuments I needn't write; every one knows atout them, so many travelers have described them, With the ald of four Arabs I ascended tho one of Clmugn, and fron 'ts sumnlt obtained a vlew that is beyond dencrlqtlml. Betoro ine lay the whole scene of Egypt’s glory and power, with which the world Lus rung for nires. The slivery Nile, withi ita Tertite valley, winds away in the distance. At my feet lny Calro, with its wilderness of flat roofs, cupolas, minarots, and domes, while Le- Mud stretched away tho yellow sands of tho Lyblan desert. If ono coulil onlytmnmnn once more to llfe the panoruma of* armfes and kings that havepagsed beforethis groat monument aud the ** calim, staring eyes ' of tho Sphinx that crouches at its base! “The groat cvents of the world have been enactod here, and [ might have passed many mowents in, meditation, but the never-endinig ery of ** Backshcesh ¥ Is too mod- crn to allow of wolng into dreams of the past. Such In brief Is the Cafro of niodern Egypt, with its wealth of ttractions to tho traveler. TIE KIEDIVA I3 UIAUTIFTING TIE OITY in every direction, and his numerous palaces, with thelr beautiful gardens, add much to the beauty of the vity, Duilding palaces scewns to boa mwania with Lsmall P-nhuhnud even now a new one is golng up on tho bank of the Nile. Every one I8 richly furnished, and kept up with oil the guands, and servants, and . harem, the samec ns i the Knedive reslded there, white he has not visited some of thom for three years. Through Consul-Goneral Farman I obtalned on order from the Court- Chamberlain to visit the Pulace of Gazeerah, the moat clegant of all, Here T was showi the fsmous suito” of rooms fitted up for the Empress Eugenle on her visit :.u Egypt, and since eccupled by many royal vis- tors. Returning from tho Pyramids tho other day, I saw the Khedive's harem out for a drive, and ¥ot o closo viow of the houris, First eatne a regiment of cavaley, to clear the road, then foiie cuntichs abredst on horsoback and with drawn swords, then came two barouches, each contalning four of the Indies of the harem, fol- lowed by four more cunuchs on horschack; they wera great, ugly-looking Africans, who have the power to cut'down any onc who should pre- sume to approach tho carrlages. I saw TIE GRAND CAVALCADE from n distance, ond my donkey boy hastily turned the donkey 11ode to one’ slde amongst the palin-troes, "I dismounted and stood us near the road as possible; the cavalry thun- dered by and the clegant carriages, drawn by fine English horses, driven by French or En- glish coachmen, with o cubuch on the acot beside euchi, rolled more lelsurely by, It was quito a secluded road, and tho day was warmn, so that tho Judies were velled with the thinncst of gouze, so that 1 could sce thelr features very plalnly. They were all Georginns and bloudes, witls gloriaua blua cycs and very Inir complexions. Yet they were powdered anid painted In the highest style of the art, and their luxurfant tresses dono’ In the latest French mode. They were all extremely [irel.tv woinen, slender, very regular features, snd well wun.hi of the term™** hourts,”” They wera chattingan laughing gayly, and I could hear that thelr voices were sweet and low, and their inughter clear and ringing, I noticed that oll the natives on the road turned thelr bucks as the carriages passed, for every woman goes vetled here, and it Is otiquctte to turn your faco away when you mget thom. ‘The great event of the present week in Calro has beon TN VISIT OF OKN, GRANT and family, who have just returncd from the trip up tho Nile, which they mado in s special steamer sent by the Kiiedive, Durlog his sto here the Khedive gave Gon. Grant the palace of Kuar--Nil for o resldence, the same one used by the Princoof Whales wten here. Accompany- ing the ex-Presidont s his agont s Mr. John Rusaell Young, msnager for Europo of the New York Heraid. T ealled on Mr. Young, hie belug an old aequaintance, andgfound him occupying asuito of rooms at the famo palace, thus “giv- Ing e an oruurluultv to see how clegantly tho ex-President was situsted. Yesterday evening the Khedive gave a grand State dloner In the Genoral’s honor, and it woa ona of the fiucst atlairs cyver scen (n Calrops a feast, Tho great paince of Abdin was brillantly lluminated, and over sixty guesta sat down at tho tablo, AMONO THOSE PRESENT wero all the native Princes and the nobility of Euypt. At tho head of tho tablo eat Ismalil Pastia, Khedive of Egypt; on his right uud left Gen. amnd Mrs, Grant; thencs respectively on cltier side Mr. Ferdinand Lessops, the Khe- dive's sons, Ameriean Consul-Uencra) Farmans Sherll Pasha, Mivkster of Forefign Affuirss Riaz Pasha, Minister of Azricultures Gen, éwnc‘ Chlef of Stalf; Judge Batcheller, Amorlcan Juidgo of the Iuternational Telbunes for Eq"r and the Hon. Johin L. Cadwalader, late Third Assstant Secrotary of State under Grant, and uow visitlng ln Egypl. From hero Gen, Graut goes to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and thenco to Constautinople, tuu sloop-of-war Van- dulia careying the party. The American officers In the Khedive's army have not been pald for wonths, aud_soma of them have bard work to live, Gon, Lurlnf. slnce the tallure of the Abyssinfan expedition, which he commanded, has been placed on walting orders, and dues not wear the unlform of tie army. \’crlly, servico under the Khelive nt o proiise of $6,000 per year Is not all sunshive. fvery year Culro grows moro of A MESORT FOR HEALTI-SBXKENS, and 08 a winterlic-place, The hotels are thranged with invalids from all parts of Europe, aind tourists and travelers aro numbered by the leglon, The elimate is very even and dry. “'I'ho alr of thy desort 18 dry aud braciug, and thoso with Jung troubles take loug rides over sho sand cyvery day, The thermometer stands at 70 de- grees, wid keeps in that region durlug the sum- mer montbs, I find three Chicagouus bere,— Mr. Uenry Fleld, of Fleld, Lolter & Co., J. B, Luckwoad, Esq.,and Mr, Avchier Fisher, Messrs. Field aud Lockwoud have gone up the Nile for an_elzht weeks' trlp by * dybeeah,” a sort of satl-buat, in scarch of rest and health, whils Mr, Flstier and your correspoudent prefer the quicks cranethod ot steamn to sce the cataracts and grand ruins of Thebes, ctc., that line the Upper Nile. Mr. €, W, Norris, of Milwaukeo, also ovs up tho Nile by steam, and then with us to erusslem and the lluly Lund, Cutoago. —— THE WEATHER. Orrics oy Tus Cuizy SiaNan OrricEn, Wasuingron, . C., March 8—1 & m.—Indica- tions—In ‘Tennesseq, Olilo Valley,etho Upper Lake reglon, and Uppor Mlssissippi Valloy, fall- fugz and Jower barowmcter, ristug or statlonary teperatuse, locreasiug southerly to casterly winds, and cloudy, followed by rainy and storny woather, LOCAL ODSEBRYATIONS. Cu0a0o, Mareh 7, TGar, | T fi|_d. Tin. ifeather Time, GENEUAL UBSERYATIONS, Cutoauo, March 7-Midu'ght, Wind, | Rain, Weather, ! fedivuiid T loudy. +0i Cluuar, Clear. ——————— A Parisiaa Kalckknack, Numerous have been .be ormamental “mondes’ which havo smused Purisians of late. The uewest 13 ® globe stundiug o fuur gt fect, and {a meant to_be atationary. 1tis mads of cardboard, covered with silk, and opens on 1ha eauatorial Jine, which s formed by it rim, 8o far, this' hemisphere wmny afford ne great novelty, but theso globes are rendered new by thelr artistic and appropriate decor- ation, “the slik belng admirably pafnted with subjects recalling to our memor. {es all we haye learnt abont the color of atmos. rhem, and tho changes which light undergoes rom tha moment it bursts on us, enlivening our hearta with now-born purposcs, uutil ay nizhtit leaves us to well-earned slumbcrs, Then on thesc globes wa go through the toreld and ey rou and wo find In vary halo, citlier tho admirabla Fepron: tons of ftallen citics bathed 'ty G soft yollow background, or the firuplands of Bweden, or frozen-bound Esquimaux. Leay- ing the northern pole, wo cross the merldlan, and come down to exotics, to flashing birds, and to Indian forests, which wo pass, and find our- sclves again inn mist that roveals chavs, A small aquare of mirror forins a tray underncath to which tho globes aro attached, and tho trays serve two ends; firstly, they reficct on tiie palutings, white they are usoful for many lit1le objects contalned Wwithin the bowels of this carth,~such as neadles, sclssors, a thimble, op reel of sllk. By the moans of a useful tray thg world can also ‘be carried from one place to another without exposiug it to defacement’ or stain, resulting from frequent handiing, SOUTH CAROLINA. The Pablle-Printing Stenl—Itatarns of thn Fresidential Elecllon—Wado Hampton At. tacked by Demoorats. Cinctanati Commerelal, There Is great ado made In South Carolina over the sums of money expended In publie printing. 1t was lavished apon newspapers that supported the Btate Administeation, and the spolls wers divided between the Publio Printer and some of tho members of the Legislature itacll. Nearly all the Scnators had & whack at the percentage. The joint Committee of Inves- tigation got hold of Joseph Woodruff, Clerk of the Scuate In 1870, Woodruff bad.a hand in organizing the Printing Ring. 1t included J, W. Denny, R. K. Beott, N. G, Parker, D, 1. Chamberlain, and others, Fifteen Senators nnd scven Ropresentatives stood in with them. Beveral State officlals also serc let {nto the ar- rangement. It was a neat thing for them. Ac. cording to Woodrufl, out of an appropriation of 250,000, npproved in December, 1872, he mado the following disburscments: Qov, 1' 1. Moscs, $20,000: F, L. Cardozo, 812,600; Senator B, F, Whittemorc, 83, . P, I', Owons, $3,000; Benator 00: Senator B. 'A. Swalls, 52 a Gatliard, £500; Sonator W, t. Jervoy, 8300; Senator J. L. Jamison, $200; Senator J, L, Jamison, $100; Senator E. E. Dick. son, 82007 Nenator 1, J. . Maxwell, $1.000; Sen- ator C. D. Hayne, $500: Benator W, H. J 8500: Senator J, W. White, $150; Scnatar J, Bmith,” $:100; Senator W, E. Ifalcombo, § Senator W, £, Jolinston, $300; ex-Lisut. -Gov, A, Lioui.-Guy. R. 11. Gleaves, $300; Senstor IT, U, Corwln, $300; Benator 4, ¥, Melutrre, $200; Bonntor C, Bmith, 8300; Senator Jolin Lee, $100; Senator 8, Ford, $303 Scnator J, Lee, 8100, Woodruf® had an unfortunate habtt of keep. ing o dury, ‘'I'ho Comnitteo got hold of it and reproduces some amusing memoranda. Hero arga few examples; . “ Thuraday, Jan, 10,—Cardozo cave us 8 cheek for 8100,000. 1 Fropom 1o give Cardozo $12, 000 ont of thls, That will bo a big thing for him, It wo tiad Parker wa would probably have hud to half of it and then notget it. ~Jones and solf will come out clear about $30, 000 botween us, or 815, 000, Friday, Jan, 24, 187%—Paid Cardozo $3,000 to-day. He ought to feel good. Tuesdav, Jan, 38, 1873,~8ettled bills of Mr, stanley, Fagan Diros., and others. Taylor aent ronic linuor, for which Tsapposa he must ro ay cortificaten. Am sick of this liquor buaine: Must give Cardozo 85,000 moro 83 800n as possl- ble, Ten per cent catchies him cvery tima, ‘That {8 better than toletit remain {dle In the Btate T“z’“z‘.fim Agreed with Joncs that Hurley should et 82 3 B TRursday, Jan, 30.—~Neazle has besten ue alt theough, sl T am stiilafraid of him, - Ho fe 3 per- fect ulghtmaro to us, Jonos gave Tim a check for $3,500tu-day, 1 think that s enougn for Tim. 11¢ 1w anuther sharper, Tueaduy, Fed, 4, 1873, —We will hava to stick 1y and take caro of Cartozo, and glve Tim another $2,000 Junt ax roon g3 pomalblo, for thu piublie goud, o owa 1t to him. - I wunder iaw Jonex will work anyhow, Vednesday, Feb, B, 1873.—Tho only thing 1 re- grot 1a tho payment of $10,000 to Chamborlain, Wedneaday, Jan, 19, 1873, —Cardozo vatd $16,- 000 moro on hunflnun’. Wantaus to get Mc- Kinnoy s plano vut of that, Fronoso to. draw 81,000 ant of office funds for Cardozo, Sacurday, March 23 1 Madoa trado with 1lage, @ving bim the Kepublican Erinting Compa- n{l- hllnl for $1,000 and taking $300 for it. It was ablg ng, Wednesday, April 10, 1873.~Crews called, and T had an amuelng chat with him. Ilo is a good ful- low, and ¢ all Were like him I conld get nlong with the printing. Soveral Nonators ulso callod, — Galllora, Maxwell, Joncs, Jr., Caln, and scveral othe: Can't o anything for thom. It will bo, T ry summer. _ 1a it not about time for them up? I sm. getiing tired of this continued rosvuro. Y Saturday, Dec. 0, 1873, —Everybody doubled on uld 11k to Jeave tho Cotnptroller Gencral us, 1 wol out In the cold, 'riday, Dec. 16, 1873, —Will not pay horeaflter 10 any one unless they vote and holpto pass tho uprroprlnllnn for printing, 1 thoy do that then [ will get whatever thoy eali for. Will have ta let the Senators pay thelr own bille. Was' bhear that Cardozo had gone to New York., Wo have done all wo can or ought to for Gov. Moses. New_York, March 4.~To the Edlior of the Sun; Thoarticlo publisbied In tha Sun of Satr urday, signed by ex-Gov. F. J. Moses, of South Caroling, chargiug the Board of Stato Canvusse cra of that State with falsifying the returns of the clection so as to chauge o majority for ‘Tl ;l‘mfn Flcclom to amajority for Huyes Elcctors, alsc, ‘The returns swero publicly canvassed in the presencd of & commitien of Democratio lawyers, who saw overy returit, und who themselves hud statements of the result of tho olection In vach county, obtained from Lhclr own men. Notu tigure of any return was altered, so far s [ kuow. No cliargo that returnawere alterod was over befora made to iy kuowledge, and nony couid bavo been altered without alincat instant discovery, as a duplicats statement of the re- turna allcged to have been altered were filed ju i offices of tho Clerks of the ssveral counties, und to them tho Board bad no opportunity to rofer. The wholo story Is & lie, Yours ree spoctfully, WiLLIAM STONE, Lato Attoruey-General of South Carolina. I Correspondenca Charleston News, Coruunia, 8. C., March 1.—Tho debate on the publie-debt questfon to-day was sumewhat more llvely than hitherto, but thero 1s no futl- uation yet wlicn the vote will bareachied, Tha feeling in favor ot standivg by the Consolida- tiun act and the, pledges of the Democratic party steadlly gains graund. I know of three mombers ol ‘the louse, whose views wcro herotofore clalmed s doubtful, who to-day do- clared thelr Intention of supporting the act. It is cortain that, whatever: sirength the oppo- neuts of tho cousolidation scttlement had, or may still ave, Is weakened by the eatremo position taken by the leaders on that slde, and v thelr outspoken denunclation of Gov, Hamp- ton for. being brave cuough to staud by his Eleuuul. 1 have heard oxpreaslons from metn- crs of the llouse which, 1t reported, would stiock beyond measury thu public scnse of what §8 duo 1o tho great leader fn tho campnlfi? by which Bouth Carolina s redecined, 1 have hoard men denounce GGov. Hampton us a would- Lo dictator, who, but for his untiring efforts and sucritices would not now bhe enlu)'- fug th rtzlm of freemen, much less of icgislators. But this class - of men, fortunately for the State, form but a small mioority, and tholr utterances met with as littlo synpathy from the majority as from the nass of constituents whom~they niarepresents ‘fhu denunclatlons of tho Guvernor in the How hav fur, been confined to private couyersas tiuns; but the scutiments of the loaders of tho movement are woll enough known to drive awsy from thew tany wio mlght haye supported the report of the Commission on the narrow grouti ol supposed ecuuum‘{. ‘Thelr oycs, however, have now been opeued, and they see that 1o reopenfug of the cousolldation scttlement weaus the overthrow of Haumpton and ths probable defeat of tho Democratic party i tho uext campalgn, Gen. Gary holds the us- envlable positivn of mouthpece for this faction in tho Senate, aud to-duy delivered & speech i which a foul attack was ™ made upon the Gove eruor. Ho declured, in substance, thot Hlamp- ton had violated the obilstions of’ the ofiico uf (overuor by tryiug to lobby hls measurcs througheho Legislaiure by tho'use of hia per- sunal influcace, snd thus cstabiished precedent uever befure descended ta by any Governor of Bouth Carollna, Thyverdlct of tho erateful peoplo of the State, as between (ot limmpton aud the Senator who has chosco to arrslgn i so shamcful and ungenerous 8 style, is s forgona couclusion. e ——— THE COAL MONOPOLISTS. WiLkEsBARRE, Pa.,March?.—The Lehigh Val- ley sud Fraoki{u Coal Companles will suspeod operations $o-night for the balance of this wonth. Ibis completes the gencral suspeusiou fn the rezion, as the Riverside, Delaware & Hudion, sud Lebigh & Wilkesburrs Companies are al- readyblle. Thisls owlng to the face that tbe quota sllowed this section by the combluatior las been fllled. 'The Lehizl Valiey Cowpavy baus worked but threo days this wonibs