Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1878, Page 2

[2) < THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. 1852, snd in the interest of an accurate Y s abous his stayinz around his father’s house vals throughout the might. He docs not tske Joug rests like O'Leary. At 6 this morning O'Leary had walked 4635 miles, Vaughan 450, s0d Brown 423 At S o'clock the scores were, respectively, 475, 456, and 430 miles, snd at 11 o'clock, 457, 465, and 43S miles. Vaughan scems fresh and is walking in excel- lent form. O'Leary is somewhat lame, and bis ILeet sors, but he Is walking at a steady pace, cevidently reservine hisstrength. UE MAS THE RACE WELL IN HAXD, znd nothing short of an absolnte collapsc can prevent him winning. = 1 p. m.—At 12:12 o'clock O'Leary’s score was 490 miles; Vaughan's, 463; Brown's, 443; and Georgelde's, 381 m?me coitcm.ants were on the track at that hour, great distances scparating them. O'Leary seemed much distressed, but lsfl \iuzm:-i stead- "y, Vanghan appesrs freshand is running. i]"::.' o m:!iAt 1 g”:flock this afternoon, O'Leary bad walked 493 miles; Vaughan, 470; aud Brown, 447. - O'Leary’s right leg is swollen. He made his iast mile in 2 minutes and 33 secconds. Vaughan was resting at 1 o’clock. o 3:30 p. m.—At 2 o'clock O'Leary completed his 497th mile, Vaughan 473 miles, and Brown 447 miles. O'Leary’s last mile was walked in 17 mioutes and 40 scconds and Vaughan’s in 16 minutes. 4 p. m.—At 3 o’clock O’Leary had scored 501 miles; Vaughan, 478; Brown, 452. Time of the last mile—O’Leary, 15 minutes; Vaughan, 13 winutes. 5.ro 5 p. m.—The scores in the pedestrian matchat. 4 o'clock were as follows: O'Leary, 505 miles; ‘Vaughan, 483 miles; Brown, 458 miles. O'Leary walked the last mile in 14 minates and 52 seconds. At 5 o'clock O'Leary finished 505 miles; ‘Vaughan 457, and Brown 463. O'Leary’s last mile was walked wm 16 minates, 58 scconds; ‘Vaughan’s, 13 minutes, 10 seconds. 6:30 p. m.—At 6 o'clock the score in the pe- destrian match stood; O'Leary, 512 miles; Vaughan, 493; Brows, 468. O'Leary is lame and game. Ten thousand people are in Agricaltaral Had,” and the excitement is great. B DECLARED WINNER. LoxDow, March 23—8:30 p. m.~O'Leary walked until §:10 p. m., when he had completed 520 miles and two laps, Vauchan retired at ¥:30 p. m., having completed 500 miles. O’Leary was declared the winner amid boundless ex- citement and enthusiasm. & THE CLOSING MOMENTS. Nine o'clock—The international pedestrian contest came to rather a sudden close. At 7 o'dock the score showed O'Leary 516 miles; Vaughan, 467; Brown, 472 O'Leary still had ore good lez. Vaughan completed 500 miles at 7:38, and gave up the strugele. O'Leary walk- «¢d until §:10, when he had made 520 miles and two laps, #40 yards further-than the best performance on record. Brown wallked il 8:80, scoring 477 miles and two laps. Ide also walked till 8:80, scoring 405 wmiles and four laps. O’Leary was then declared the winner, amid the playing of national airs «and boundless cxcitement and enthusiasm. A MERE QUESTION OF NATIVITT. BosToy, March 23.—John Murphy and Jack Grey, notorious Dbruisers, owing to a dispute abont the nativity of O'Learv, the pedestrian, fought fifteen rounds in the Dorchester district this morping. Murphy got in a blow over Grev’s right eye, which rendered bim insensible for fifteen minutes, and stopped the fight. The purse was $25 a side. MISCELLANEOUS. DIED. * PaRs, March 23.~—The widow of Rossini, the celebrated musical composer, is dead. It is understood that she bequeathed the fortune in~ herited from Rossini to an asylum for aged and disabled singers. - THE LABOR QUESTION. Loxpox, March 23.—A mecting of cotton operatives was held in the Exchange at Black~ burn today. Two thousand were present, be- sides delegates from the manufacturing towns 9d villazes of no:_&'e_ai‘th‘l;m\&m"qmm. Resolu- -7”-»’3,.« S ToRratting ine. _ setion of the employers in proposioe 10 per cent. # / i / H i H reduction; pledging the workmen to accept a e of wages equal to that in towns where the eduction was recently accepied; declaring that il the employers persist the workmen will resist 10 the utwot any reduction except with corre- sponding reduction in working hours. The mceung adjourned till April 13, and meantime deputations will uree the masters to resort to slort time in preferencetoa reduction of wages. BAN DOMINGO, - ST. Tuoomas, March 16.—News from San Dowinzo says a provisional government exists, Gen. Cesaro Guillermo presiding. A new Presi- dent will be elected. The revolution was the cause of immense demage to property. The distress prevailing will probably be 3 safeguard aguinst fresh risings for some time. ) THR AUSTRIAN BUDGET. VIENNA, March 23.—The Lower House to- day adopted the whole budget. ERLIN, March 23.—Herr Hofmapn has de- clined the Ministry of Finance. 1t is sald Herr Hm{mm, Chief Burgomaster of Berlin, has acs ceptec. e Lower Mouse to-day began the debate upon the supplementary estimate required for the orzanic changes in the Ministry. Bismarck viznrousg supported the measure, and declared uvless a different administration of the railways Is instituted he will not remain in power. * The debate adjourncd until Wednesday. e ———— THE PITTSBURG RIOTS, PrILADELPRIA, March 23.—The Legislative Committee inquiring into the cause of the Jaly Hots continued its session to-day. Col. Scott tated that the loss of property of the Penn- bylvanis Railrood Company was $2,000,000, white the entire loss, including merchandise, ete, fs estimated at £5,000,000. He said there bad slways been trouble with the Pittsburg poople, who say. there is discrimination in freiohis amainst them in favor of through freizhts, but he explajved it to s committee of Pittsburg gentlemen, and he thought they were gatisficd. The 2im of the Company has always tomake rates uslow us possible, and it Dad frequently given drawbacks 10 thern, He denied he had made any requisition to the State authorities for troops. The trouble, he thonght, originated from discoutented men all over the ‘country, and not on the railroads alone. CHURCH TROUBLE. 5 Spectal Dispaich to The Trivune. NEW Yorg, March 8—A Times special from Trenton says therc is serious tiouble in the Clinton Avenue Methodist Church regarding s newly-appofnted pastor, the Rev. N. H. Pearce. Pearce was formerly at the State Btreet Church, 5 wealthy constegation, while the Clinton avemue vpeople are poor. They objected to Pearce as anstocratic, and wanted to retain their former pastor. The Stewards sent Pearce a resolution that they could not receive him, and be answered that Lie should come and take the pulpit to-morrow. Orders have becn issucd by the Trustecs for the S ey sl e e crvea: threaten to leave the Can(crcnce.c Recple: they STEWART'S HOME FOR WOMEN, 1\‘2!' Yorg, March 23.—A. T.Stewart’s Home for Women will be opened for the reception of boarders April . A formal opening takes vlace April 2. Board and lodging will cost $6 Per weck. A single room $1 per week extra, A large parlor room miay be had for 8 to & Per week extra. The hotel being intended for iy St St e vl conven: e occunied by 3t Teist 1o bosdens A g number of rooms will by part of ladies Visiting The city on, pacione S library contains “more than 230" vojames. og &clected works, to which the boarders bave free access with the use of writing materials at times. 4 by ANOTHER COLLEGE ROW. _ Lewistox, Me., March 23.—There was a row last evening between the Freshmen and Sopho- 1more classes of Bates College, growing out of 2 ZFreshman carrying a cane. The police arrested scveral stadents, but they were subsequently released. The faculty of the College suspend- cd the students cngaged in this affair, ———— FINANCIAL. Xrw OmLEANS, March 23.—Page & Moran, bootz and shoes, bave suspended. No state- wenf ' WASHINGTON. - A Fresh Cut into the Ever- lasting McGarrahan Incubus. Introduction of a Large Batch of the Claimant’s Old Letters, Which, Mac Claims, Have Been Doc- tored by Some Persons Unknown. The New Idria Company Enow McGarrahan as a Cor- rupt Schemer, And the Corrupt Schemer Retorts with Charges of Perjury and Bribery. dpposing Counsel Convert the Commit- tee-Boom inte a Bear- Garden. Rumors Afloat of Probable . Changes in the Cabinet, M’GARRAHAN. ;. THE OLD, OLD STORY. Speciat Dispaich to The Tribune. ‘Wasarsgroy, D. C., March 23.—For six long hours to-day, in a room demse with tobacco “smoke and foul with poisoned air, a Committec ‘of the Senate sat to listen to the romantic, ex- {travagant, sensational, yet somewhat stale aud ‘tedions - story of McGarraban. The attending .personages were nearly the same as they have been at previous hearings. The New Idria Com- pany was present in the person of its President, accompavied by skiliful attorneys. It 15 a curi- ous, possiply a significat fact, that all the coun- sel for that powerful Company, which is said to have the Bank of California behind it, ecither are or have been officeholders. There was Judge Black, stern, impassive, de- flant, who had becn Attorney-General of the Tnited States, and who soon after RECEIVED AN ADMITTED FEE of $5,000 gold from the New ldria Company. ‘There was Burdette, ox~Commissioner of the Land-Office, who in Congress voted for Me- Garrahan, who subsequently, as Commissioner of fthe Land-Office, made rulings adverse to him, ana who, some three years since, so sud- denly dissppeared from America to as suddenly reappear sgain. There was Curtis, former Chief Clerk of the Land-Office. Therc was David Wilson, of lowa, at present Judge of the Ninth Circuit, and there was the Presi- dent of the New laria Comvany himiself,—~Wes- ley Thompson.—white-haired, stern-faced, keen- cyed, baving the poiuts of his case more at commaud even than the readiest of his counsel. And OX THE OTIER SIDE sat thecelebrated claimant, Thomas AMcGarra- han, a frank, outspoken Irishman, who bas fought for a quarter of a century for what he cvidently thinks is an houest risht, and who, penniless, stands accused of fraud by a power tbat hos millions behund it. McGarraban was attended by bis counsel, Charles. P. Shaw and Ebon Ingersoll. The developments today on side of tae New Idria Company against McGarrahan were neither new nor start- ling. They consisted simply in the produc- tion of THE ORIGINALS OF LETTERS from McGarrahan to various Dersons, the publi- cation of whicl two weeks since caused such sensation. The leltess, o ceeion of them, Had ey cinxs Sem mrranged and preserved with scrupulous care. They wero submitted, filed by years, in- dexed and bound in a style which showed that they had fallen into skilled and wealthy lands. None of them were read. They were handed bastily to McGarrahan, who identified them as in his handwriting, save this: they were underlined in very many places, and decply underscored. The italics have given greater meaning to the words then the context seemed to warrant, aud there were frequent cxclamation points and marks of emphasis throughout them all. These marks were cither in pencil or in au iuk that DIFFERED FEOM TIE BODY OF THE LETTGRS, The New Idria couusel were compelled to ad- mit vhat these marks were not McGarrahan's work, but that the letters had been prepared in that shrewd, designing shape for the printer’s use in the volume to which the agents of Jere Black have so industriously given publicity. The letters for themsetves have been, in all cssential parts, already printed. Nearly all the charges {n them relating to Congressmen have been explaived, and many of the substantial inferences said to be drawn from them have been admitted to be false by the lawyers themselves. But there can be no doabt that they are BILLY M'GARRANAN'S LETTERS; that they show very many indiscretions, much reckless talk, a determined purpose to follow what may prove to have been a chi- merical scheme, much intrizuc, and lan- guage which can be iuterpreted to mean corruption; bt in themselves thosc vroduced to-day carry mo legal proof of unlawfal acts. But the letters introduced to- day, the New Idria_connsel would make it ap- pear, show that McGarrahan was A CORRUPT 3CHEAER, whose haods were full of bribes. They biave been before the country for two weeks. If the counsel for McGarrahan did not produce startling disclosures in their evidence, it was only because they were overruled by the Com- mittee, and at least one impartial observer who watched the eutire proceedings has come to the conclusion that, 5o far as the zreat aggregate of scandal goes on both sides of the case, this Committee” to-day apparently and in effect adopted this rule: That the strictest rales of the common-law evidence shall be enforced rigidly against McGarrshan o any attempt to show that the New Idria Company has been corrupt, but that the New Idria Company itseif ehall be permitted to . EXERCISE THE BROADEST PRIVILEGE which a court of equity would give in its at- tempts to slander the livioz or to defame the memory of the dead. That seemsnot too harsh a critivfsm to be applied to a Committec which permic the New tdria lawyers to scatter broadeast a black list which ‘they themselves admitted is false, which allows the books to be distributed in the Committce room, to be prac- tically reccived as cvidence, and yet declines, as It did yesterday, to permit the introduction of testimony against the New Idria Company, which to many laymen will seem uot less ir- relevant and not fess corrupt. ONE MARKED INCIDENT of the proceediogs was the cxtraordinary bit- terness which the counsel have for each otber, and the marked discourtesy of their profes- stonal conduct. This became so noticeable that toc leading counsel of both sides were finally directed by the Committee to discontinue the yrsonalitics, which had become intolerant. The efforts of McGarrahan’s counsel were first di- rected 1o further establishing the fact that an apoceal was taken from the California Southern Court, The point of this lies in the fact that Jere Black, when Attorney-General, took steps in the Supreme Court ADVERSE TO M'GARRANIAN, based upon the fact that no appeal had been taken; that mnsgzg:cntly the Supreme Court could have no jurisdiction. The fact is that the appeal scems “ai Jeast prima facie to have been proved. It remaing 1o be secn what revutting wsimony the ~ New Idria Company '(:nhxex ‘bring .ntinnA v:.’;xsflbusfi; incident i in exam - the 9 8. J. Klapver, Librarins of the Denarisace ment of Justice man and boy G i time officeholder. He ~claimed very_ inferiorbody. the meriis of the controversy, aflidavits, many of which pretended to give hearsay evidence of people who are dead. that cffort was made A special counsel Garrahan's to prove Francisco for the new ldria Company. This dispatch sppears without a date, and the committee room that the date bad ‘becn torn off in order to appear that the telegram had been sent by Black wheu he was Attorney-General. Hein- Black insisted privately in sisted that it was SENT FOUR YEARS LATER, but admitted that it must have been sent in April, 1864, ut the time 3 motion was made in the Supreme. Court to dismiss the second ap- ed with At- torney-General Bates for the Sovernment. In the arcument McGarrahan'scounsel maiutained that Black was then practically Attorney-Gen- cral, in that he represented the United States in Black insists that it was per- | feetly proper, as he represented the New Idria Combpany, for him to appear as counsel for the cause against au The At- toruey-General’s order, which was produced, showed that the appeal was dismissed and McGarraban’s counsel cn- peal, at_which time Black app that motion. the States, a8 identical. United sdverse claimant was marked ¢ done.” deavored to put in evidence proof of AN ALLEGED CONTRACT FOR FORGERY AND PER- JuRY mado by the New [dria Company to defeat Me- This contract, if it is a true one, would apnear to show great_attempted corruption on the part of the New Idria Com- Garrahan’s claim. pan fining itself to ANY STRICT LEGAL ISSUE, orto the discovery of auy specific ficts, as the investigation has taken a range wide of such specific eud. The following is a copy of tbe alleged con- tract which the Commitice refused to permit McGarraban’s counsel to putin evidence: 1is Department “was the world to him, and a Committee of Corigress a simply the custodfan of papers there, and em- cally fosisted that hé knew pothing about phaticatly iusis r oo gaclined l‘: be Interrogated except to identify documents. Tiours were spent by MeGarrshat's couvsel in trying to trace from documents and oral evi- Me- Jere Black, when Attorney-General, was cuilty of corruption. The only piece of evidenco that was adduced was a telegram which Black exam- ined and did not deny. The telegram was ad- dressed to Mr. Goold, the attorncy in:an It the imvestigation is simply a_competitive race for ecandal, there scems to be no reason why this_coutract should have been omitted, and the McGarraban letters put in evidence. 1t cannot be urg=d that the Committec s cou- indlined to give jt consideration. One added that if the President sought 2 victim in his Cabinet as o peace offering he would find THE REAL MEPHISTOPHELES % of the Administration in Evarts, and not in Carl Schurz, The latter, this_Senator said, has confined himself strictly to the duties of his owa Department, and has pot been a marplot in the councils which are leading the Republican dence, step by step, what was charged to be party to its ruin. : Saim: 3uch of the evlaence was g i to defeat the claim: Much of the cviden s of s nature which would not. be sdmitted in 3 R A':‘E;I‘E-m smf e j 3 fsted largely of ¢: ks court of justice. It consisted Iargely Pfi """ Special Dispaten to The Tribune. WasniNeroy, D. C., March 23.—The follow! ing letter has been forwarded to the Collector of Customs at Chicago, It explains ltself: Wasursatos, D. C., March 2L.—Collctor of Customs, Chicago, Zil,~Simn: Referring to 5 letter of the Department addressed to you under date of Slst of January last, in the matter of the appesl Of Messra, Kohn & Birn. from your assessment of duty of 35 per cent ad valorem on certain jute fabrics imported into your port vis New York, 28th of Scptember, 1877, 1 have to state that the samples sobmitted \with the appeal have siace been cxamined by a consfderable number of the most_experienced officers of this Department, ana the opinion given by tuem is unanimous that samples Nog, 1and 2 are, under the decision of Sept. 7, 1877, entitled to entry at the rate of 30 per cent ad valorent, while ssmple No. 3 is dutiable atthe rate of 35 per cent ad valorem. The Ap- rrafser at New York reports that the g00ds repre- seated by sample 3 have been heretofore clagsitled at that pointat 35 per cent ad valorem, while on goods represented by the other samples the duty is charged at 30 per céntaa valorem as as- similating toburlaps. The opinivn1salsoexpressed by the experts to whom the sample was submitted, that samples Nos. 1 and 2 are not starched £o as to esclude them from (he decision of Sept. 7, ¥77. Tne Department concurs in the opinion ex- pressed, that samples Nos. 1and 2are dutiable at 30 per cent ad valorem, while sample No. 3 is du- tiable at 35 ver cent ‘ad valorem, regardless width, 1f no action has been taken by you nnder the letter of Jan. 21, 1878, you are authorized to adjust the entry upon the busis of the views herein expressed, Very respectfull; Joux SurrMax, Becretary, NOTES AND NEWS. < THE PRO-RATE Bl - &peciat Dispatch to The Tribune. ‘Wasmxcroy, D. C., March 23.—Representa- tive W. W. Rice, of Massachusetts, evidently holds the balauce of power in the Pacific Rail- roads Committec on the subject of pro-rating between the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific. Rice is disposed to favor the zeneral proposition of compelling prorating, but does not like the present bill on account of some of its severe features. ANDERSON. The friends of Gien. Anderson, of New Or- leavs, are confident the President will nominate Memorandum of agreement made this 12th day | him for Collector of that port as soon as the of May, 1863, by and between Candido Gutierrez, attorney-nt-law, partyof the firstpart, and the New Idria Company, pacty of the secoud part. WizkEas., The party of the first part claims to e uble fo render services and to furnish proof, both oral and documentary, which will establish the in- validity of the fitle and claim under which Mr. Mc- Panoche Grando (uicksilver ininx Company, or either of them, claim £aid Garraban and the N New Idria quicksilyer mines: and Wiicueas, Tho said party of the eecond pert, i 10 the promisce, have agreed to com- pensate him, provided he furnishea the aforesaid promised evidence: First, S1.000in United States two promis- Sory notes of the New Idria Company, both pay- able in United States zold coin, one for 5500, pay- able in six months after date, with interest ut the rate of 2 percent permonth, the other for the sum of £3,000, payuble in_six months after date, with interest at the rate of 1 per cent per monthl, To forever and hereafler to pay yearly snd every sear the nct profits of the Wirtian Nezty Troxrso, Vice-President of the dria Comaplr;)'j cal, Dated San Franciaco, May 12, A. D. 1870. confiding 1 the representations of Gaverrez gald coin, cush in hand." Second, to enid Gutierrez5 per cent of Idria miues. Cuanvres Fonncs, Secretary. BEFORE TIHE COMMITTEL. To the Western Assooiated Press. 5.y March 23.—The Senate ublic Lands to-duy resumed the tion which has grown out of the memo- rial of McGarraban praying for the enactment of a law to supply certain omissions in the ree- ord of hisallezéd patent for the New Idria California. Ex-Congress- ‘man Eldridge, of Wisconsin. made a sworn state- nent thet, 50 far as his name is concerned, the allezed “ list of outside stockholders in Panoche, Grande County,” is_atrociously false, and he denvunced as wicked slanders any and all the imputations or fusimuations that his support of influenced by except a sense of referred the printed book of letters, -cte.. which he he Now Idria counsel Lind, Heen in- ¥ reficet upon Lim: whereupon d os¢ between counsel as to which side was responsible for the publication of the ¢ stockholders.” ‘\'Asmams; D. ittae on I quicksilver mine, in Congress was whalever, Mr. Eldridee the claims motive duty. alleged * ist of onts SHERMAN GL was called, and bis attention dirccted to a pas- sage {a bis ** Memoirs,” in_ wiich be mentions seeing Vincenti Gomez and Gomez’s sister in a private theatrical performance in California, in carly times, in the character of “ Adam and Eve,” although not appropriately costumed. [Laughter.] Gen. Shermau said that Gowez was received in 200d_society, and was clerk of Michel Torrens, the Mexican Governor of Cali~ The wituess @id not know at that time that Gomez had any claim for aland mant, fornia. SOME DOCUMEN from the Attorn .appeal had becn_taken, and added: General's cilice.” Judge Wilson wersonal feeling. “the wtroduction of documentary cvidence, extremely volwninous, was then proceeded. AFEIDAVITS, After the recess eX parte afidavits were ad- mitted subject to the future action of the Com- ‘They were to the effect that several partics had seen and identifica the signatures upon grants upon Gomez eutitling him to the mittee. Panoche Grande. McGarrahan then testified that he had R. C. Hopkins, keeper of the Spanish archives in the office of the Surveyor-General of Calitornia, cxamine the archives relative to the Panoche Grande grant, whercupon Shaw, of counsel, vidence the copy of the original ai- t by R. C. Hopkins to the cffect that the in- dex of the Spanish archives was not_trustwor- thy in showing whether the graut of Panache Grando was cver issucd. Shaw then submitted in evidence n letter from Attorney-General Black to Edmunds, Commissioner-General of the Land-Oflice, in which be stated that he was counsel for the United Siates, and desired to use letters on filerelating to the Panoche Grande read in d: Jand-grant FOR THL PURPOSE OF ARGUMENT before the Supreme Court, where the question concerning this title was then pendiug TFollowing this letter Shaw read in ovidence a Dlack to Goold, attorney for the New Idria Company, “The Gomer title is od s dead. I told you so. The Court denied the motion to dismisé. I have drawn on you for $500 in pold coin payableat sight, Which you promised to pay me in the evens of the motion 1o dismiss belng denicd. Attend to my draft telegram from Attorney-General California, as follow: 2o without delay or mistake. At this point a discussion 3rose as to the date Mane upon it. Judge Black (recently arrived in. thN‘ammmne- room) said the date ‘was torn off ani~that the story was in every particalar an infamots le. of the telegram, there being Adjourned tift Saturday next. TIE CABINET, RUMORS OF CHANGES, Avecial Dispatch to The Tribune. C., March 23.—Several United States Senators of great influence in the councils of the Republican party are discussing to-nignt a rumor of a very important character, Those who certainly ouglt to be well informed claim to have some reason to think that the President is contemplating at least tso impor- tant changes iu his Cabinet. The reasous as- signed for these changes are the fire all along the line against the Administration, which it geems must certainlv follow the speech on Louisiana affairs by Senator Howe aext Mon- dav. The general understanding among Sen- is the begin- which WasnNeToN, D. ators is that that speech ning of a publicly array themselves IN OPPOSITION TO THE EXECUTIVE. ‘To prevent this attack, and 2s a measure of con- ciliation to these party leaders, the story goes that the Presldent is thinking of requesting Secretary Schurz and Postmaster-General Key t0 retirc from his Cabinet. Carefal inquiry to- pight in the highest dircles iails to confirm the authenticity of this story. Some Senators say that they have heard such a report, and one -Genural’s office having becn identified, Mr. Shaw, of counsel for McGarra- han, said that when Attorncy-General Black made the motion for a wanudate adverse to McGarraban he based it on statements which he knerw to be false, and that he was folly aware that tho records of his own office showed an “Qur ad- versaries have had possession of the Atforne; That is what we call slang. Scoator Booth—IT these personalities do- not cease, the Committee will have to ask the partics to employ counsel between whom there is no new departure, in both tne avowed and hitherto silent opponents of the Administration, who certainly constitute the majority of the party in the Senate, will appeal for o new hearing in his case is finally determined. There is no doubt that the appeal will be favorable to him. Auderson, it is said, is not very anxious to be appointed, and would be well pleased with the nomination of Pacl ard. The latter has certainly not abandoned Liope. TIE RETURNING BOARD. Private information from New Urleans says public opivion there is about universal that it is useless Lo attempt to carry prosecutions against the Board further, but the Bourbon element is very much enruzed at the decision of the court. 1t is possible the Attorucy-General of Louisiana could keep Anderson in dursuce until the Gh of April. TTAIL Gov. Emory, of Utal, thinks the Aministra- tiou will sustain him_in his course. He has ex- plained the new Election law which he sigued to the President aud Attorney-General, and be- lieves his explanation will prove satisfactory. PRECAUTIONART. The Baltimore Board of Health has taken special measures to compel all vessels from Rio Janeiro to stop at Quarantine. DEMOCRATIC ZCONOMY. The Republican members of the Appropria- tions Committee think the experiment of the Committee on the Legislative Appropriation bill will not be successful. 'The bill abaliskes a whole class of clerks, and otberwise propuscs chianges which must result in crippling the Government. Congress {n the last two years, on account of Democratic cconomies, has al- ready passed scven millions in the Deficiency THE FUNDING BILL. There are numerous rumors that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Roads are’ prepared 10 spend large sums of money to secure the defeat of the Fuuding bill. BLAIRS HOBDY, now bétug prepared by the peerday that o bilt is country whilch swill be (ntroqGetJa%yers in_ the 10 tia) question. He states that they were only waiting for further developments from Louisi- ana, and that as soon as they are ripe the bill will be introduced. The purpose of the bill is to provide machinery for the Supreme Court to regulate its proceedings, and hear the applica- tion of the State_which fecls that it has been defrauded of its Electioral right. 1t is claimed that the bill will overcome constitutional difii- cultics. A DENIAL, 70 the Testern Assnciated Press, WismNGTON, D C., March 23.—Ellls Spear, Commissioncr of Patenis, Leine questioned in relation to the rumor that the President haa requested his resignation and he bad tendercd it to take effect April 1, says there is o truth in the report, and, as far 43 be knows, he is on the best terms witli the Presideat und the Secretary of the Treasury. ‘TIIE CONSCIENCE FUND. The Secretary of the Treasury has received from Cinciunati three $1,000 coilpon bonds, ac- companicd by a_incmorandum that the amount should be credited to the_Treasury of the United States. The bonds have been so thoroughly canceled that thelr sorial numbers cannot be ascertained. The amount will be credited to the Conscience Fund. A REJECTED CLAIM. Sallie Hardeman, colored, of Richmond, by request of oficers of the Freedmen's Bureat, took care of colored people_at ber house from 1665 to 1872, sometimes baving as many as 100 a day, and &he paid large sums for physicians - zad medicines for them. She asked Congress Tr 3,000 remunceation, but the Committee on Claims_decide adversely, holding that, if Con- £ress was once to open the door to such claims, there would be no end to them. TREASURY STATEMENT. The Treasury now holds $315,911,950 in United States bonds o sceure National Buok circula- tion, and $13,453,000 in_bouds to secure public deposits. Bonds deposited for circulation for the week cnding to-day, $703,000. -Bonds held for circulation withdrawn for the week ending to-day, $430500. National Bauk circulation outstanding, eurrency notes, $319,610,3%; yold notes, -$1,482120. Internal revenue receipts, 3205,004; " customs, $ISLG0S; reccipts of Na- tional Bank notes for weck ending to-day com- pared with_the correspouding_period last year, 1877, §4,547,000; 1575, $5,435,000. Tcceipts for to-day, $101,000. WORKING HOURS IN THE NAVY. A Navy Department circular announces that the working hours In the uavy-vards and shore stations witl be, from March 21 to Sept. 21, from 7 a.m.to6 p.m., from Sept. 22 o Mareh 20, from 740 t04:30 'D. m., with the usual mtor: wission of oue hour for dinner. The Depart- ment will contract for the labor of mechanics, foremen, leading men, and laborers on the basia of cight 'hoursa day. Workmen laborine ten hours will receive a” proportionate increase of Wages. ROBBED. The room in the Washington House of John D. Bewmo, an Indian Azent from the Indiun Territory, was robbed of §1,500 in gold and sil- ver which Bemo had in truse. PUBLIC LAND SURVETS. g ag . Commissioner Williamson, of the Land Office, v | before the House Committee on Public Lands l\lo—dny seave bis views on the proposed abolition of Surveyors General. He said uoder the present system the expense of superintending “the expenditure of money for public survey was 60 per cent of the amount ufpnropriamd. He Jijow cases where contractors for larze amounts hatl made fictitious _lines sitting in their tents. “Thay then came to Washington to show maps with. loes lail down, swear the surveys have been'.made, and get the money for their con- tracts.. Commissioner Willismson has prepared abill to.remedy the evil. It provides for the anolition, of the contract system and for having the work dune by surveyors appointed by the office witli a Commissioner-General in Wash- ington. TIIE ARMY REORGANIZATION. The_comimittee of thirteen appointed by the last Democratic House caucus to revise the Army Reorganization bill have completed their work, and will report next week. The bill is es- sentially the sago as that herctofore proposed by Representative Banning, and which he pro- poses to make a' party measure, Gl Sl TELEGRAPHICINOTES. New York, Mareh 23.—The cxports of do- mestic produce this week are the largest in value of the scason. From New York and cotton ports alone they simount to §15,000,000, and {rom San Francisco,, Boston, Philadeiphia, and Battimore not less than $5,000,000 additional. PHILADELPHIA, Mairch ~The remains of Senator David A. Nagle were deposited to-day in ‘the family vauit:in St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Gov. Hariranft, Lieut.-Goy. Latta," y proposing to reopen_the ‘FREGHAL-| and some sixty members of the Legislature were among the mourners. : Quixcy, I1l., Maret 23.—A private dispatch recaived Here from the Rev, Dr. Burzess, of Sprinafield, Mass., announces bis acceptance of the Bishopric of this diocese. NEw Yonr, March 23.—At the conclusion of the argument, on motion ot James McHenry to Intervene as defendant, he being the general ereditor, having a lien -on the property of the Erie Railway to prevent the sale of the road on Monday, Judge Lawrence said he would not be able to give his decision immediately on account of the great mass of papers to be exawmined, but 1t was understood between the counsel that in casc hie should not reach & conclusion Monday a stay of the sale should be granted. New HaveN, March 23.—The Yale University Boat-Club to-night voted not tosend a four- oared crew to Sencea Lake to compete for the Awmerican college representation at Henley, En- wland. Kennedy will therefore be Yale's only Tepresentative CASUALTIES. STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. PovGUREEDSIE, N. Y., March 23,—The stcam- er Magenta blew up opposite Scarborough this morning. Alfred Reynolds, Richard Lane, and two uwknown men were killed, Five others were badly scalded. New Yorg, March 23.—The steamer Magen- ta, on board of which was a fatal explosion this morning, left Naverstraw at twenty minutes to 7 landed at Sioz Sing, took aboard a large number of passengers, and started on der way to New York at ten minutes past 7. She bad steamed out in the stream a distance of two miles, when the pas- sengers were startled Dby a terrible explosion. A scenc of the wildest terror fol- lowed, and when the steam cleared away there were seen lying in the forward cabin, near the stove, directly in front of the engine-room, the bodies of a dozen men. The steum on the foor still created a light vapor, and the surrounding woolwork was dripping from its nearness to the exploded pipe. Two were dead, and eight were badly (two fatally) sealded. The Alexis was 1y t Rockland Lake, and, seeing the Magenta cuveloped in smoke, started off at once, and in a short time bad come up to ber. The wounded were at once travsferred to her, and the dead to the Thomas P. Wray,which had’ just come up, aud by the latter were con- veyed to Sine Sing. [ Exactly how the aceident occurred is not yet known. “The spot where it happened was be- tween the main and upper deek, well forward. The steam chimney which was the cause of the aceident was forward of the enzine, and meas- ured about twelve fect in circumference. It is surmised that the bolt started and was blown out. It fs also said the Magenta was running at great speed across the flats to get ahead of the opposition boat. £ Albert Ruhuels and Mr, Wrizht, of Sing Sing, were Lilled ouright; Mr. Low, of Sing Sing, is not expected to recover; William ‘Taylor, ‘watctiman, is severely scalded. A party of “five {rom Pleasantville were all scalded more or less, and one boy of 12 is snupposed to have Ueen blown overboard. IIEAD WINDS. Speciat Dispatch to The Tribune. Eunrk, Pa., March 23.—The schooner Emma C. Hutchinson, Capt. John W. Mullen, left Buflalo for Cleveland last Thursday night. To- day about filteen miles below Eric the Hutch- inson, which had been battling with persistent liead winds, lost two jibs, and split her fore- mast in a storm, and came to anchor off this port for repairs. The Hutchinson receives 70 cents ver ton. and is the tirst vessel to leave for the Upper Lakes this season.. During the winter nearly 83,000 were- expended ou repairs on the vessel. RUN OVER AND KILLED: Torepo, 0., March 23.—A man about 25 years of years of age, name_ unknown, wis ran over and killed by a passenger train on the Lake Shore Railroad near this city to-day. Among the articles found on his person was a card of L. C. & W. L. Coon & Co., furniture dealers, Piaua, O., on which was written the words, . Howe, Forest, Hardin County, by Mr. Wagner.” STAGE ACCIDENT. ParLapeELpri, March 23.—While Mrs. Wal- cot and Mr. Shewell were cazaged in a seenc in the “Exiles,” at the Walnut Strect Theatre, Siiewell tripped and fell against the lady, who was seriously stabbed by a poignard she held in s b oo e b2l hamarrhagre. WRECKED. HArreax, March 23.—The schooner D. M. Smith, from St. Johu for Weymouth, has been wrecked, and Capt. Savory and two seamen drowned. ———— THIE WEATHZ! OfFICE O0F TRAE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICTR, WASTINGTON, . C., March 241 a. m.—Indi- cations—For the Upper Lake Region, Upper Misslasippl, and Lower Missouri Valleys, clear or partly clondy tweather, colder northerly winds and rising baroweter, followed at North and West stations Ly falling barometer and winds shifting te warmer southerly. LOCAL OBSERVATI Cuj AGo. March 23, Vearner CANADIAN ITEMS, Special Dispatch to Tie TORONTO, Ont., March 23.—The Rev, John Marples, formerly Presbyterinn minister, but latterly a convert to Spiritualism, comimitted suieide With strychnine here last nizht. He lived six hours after taking the poison, and suf- fered oreat agony. Iis last pubtic act as a min- ister was to oppose B. F. Underwood, the Bos- ton Atheist, in a three days’ debate on the su- premacy of God. = Special Dispatch to The Tribune. MoXTREAL, March 23. he River 8t. Law- rence s ow clear of ice in front of this city, and all the way to Quebee. vization is ox- vected to be opened at an early day., The general clections for the Province of Quebee taken placc on the 1st of May. The writs were issued to-day. The contest between the Southern and the Tassumpsic Railway Companies continucs. A dis- patch from Richfurd, Vt., says the railroad war 18 causing great injury in_that scetion, and it is now stated that unless the Passumpsic comes to_ terms the Southeastern Railway Company will build a new portion of the road between the Abercorn line and East Richford, six miles, and connect with the Central Vermont at Mis- sisiguoi Depot, on the other side of the river. MoNTREAL, March 23.—Willlam Henderson, L"a‘-",‘}@é merchant, has failed. Liabilitics, $25,000. ——— THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY. Special Dispatch fo The Tribune. New York, March 23.—The World says: “The French astronomer, M. Andre, appointed with his colleazue, M. Angot, by the Minister ot Public Instruction in France to observe in this country the tramsit of Mercury on May 6 mext, left today for Og- den, Utab, which the National Observatory and the Superintendent of the Coast Survey have recommended a5 a suitable place for accu- rate observation of the traumsit. This French cxpedition is of upusnal intcrest. MM. Andre and Angot observed the transit of Venus in 1875, and were surprised at the moment of contact at haviog the accuracy of their observations interfered with by the appearance. of a dark lizument conuccting the two bodies and obscuring the circular lines of the twodiscs. They have theoretically examived this phenomenow, aud by using electrical lights to make an artidcial traosit, bave arrived at an explapation thereof which they will endeavor to_verify by their ob- servation of the transit of Mercury. It is jm- portant to have the phenomeuon explained so that it may be allowed for, should it be repeated at the - transit of Venus in caleulation of the earth’s solar distance, 85 well 15 of increased knowledze of the atmospherical canditions of the plauetsaud thesun. Ogden, by its pare air, i particularly fitted for such an ob- servatfon, and the observers will haye immediate telegraphic counnection with the National Ob- servatory.” OBITUARY. THOE IION. JOIN ALLISON. Wasuixgrox, D. C., March 23.—The Ion. Johu Allison, Register of the Treasury, died this morning of apoplexy. Yesterday he was in his usnal good heslth and spirits. 'l_'hB morning between 6 and 7 o'clock, on awakening, he drank a glass of water, saying that he would liein bed until breakfast was ready. His wife soon noticed that his face was strangely pale, and au examination showed that be was dead. The officers of the Treasury Department met this afternoon and adopted befitting resolutions. The pall-bearers sclected are Henry F. French, Assistant Seerctars; 8. J. W. Tabor, Fourth Auditor; Ezra B. French, Sccond Auditor; John Jay Knox, Comptroller; Edward Young, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics; J. M. Me- Grew, Sixth Auditor; Willlam P. Titcomb, Deputy Register; Jacob H. Eia, Fifth Auditor. Speciat Dispaick to The Trivune, PITTSBURG, Pa., March 23.—The Hon. John Allison, Register of the Treasury, who died in Washington this morning, was a native of the Town of Beaver, Beaver County, Pa., twenty- five miles from Pittsburg, where bis fataer, James Allison, Esq., was known as oue of the first and most promincnt members of the Bar in bis day. Two of the brothers of the deceased swere miven o college education at Canousburg (Tefferson College) to prepars them for their professions, but John, at the aze of 18, Was brought to this city by his father, who apprenticed him to McKee & Grabam, lat manufacturers, to learn tlhat trade. He remeined with this firm three years, and then went to Marictta, Washington County, and started in the hat business for himself, in the meantime baving married a Miss Hear y, of Beaver, soon aiter completing his apprentic ship. He was ot very successful in business, and soon returned to Beaver, where he entered the political arcna. e was elected to the Legislature, and subscquently to the Thirty - sccond and Thirty-third Congresses trom the Beaver District, and his record was that of an Abolitionist of the most radical kind. He was one of the futhers ot _tie Republican party, being a delczate to the Convention which met in this city Feb. 22, 1856. \When the War broke ont he'recerved an appointment in the Commissary Department. In 1569 he was npymed by President Grant to the oflice of Register of the Treasury, assumning tle duties of his office on the 3d day of April of that year, and con- tinuing in thut position until the time of his death. Mr. Allson’s chief traits were Bis genial d disposition, his pride ol his absolute integrity n all his dealings, both in private business and in public oflice. Notwithstandmg the im- Fonuuz trusts fmpoged upon him through his ongz official life, his honesty was never im- pugned. 1o was' cxtremely modest asa boy aud a man, aund e: d. Black, who worked with him at the hat business, in a conversation 1o-day said that he never knew that Mr. Allison Tad been appointed Register of the Treasury until he saw his name uoon the bills, notwith- standing he bad seen himn and talked with him several times after the gppointment was made. At the last election of the elder Cameron to the United States Senate, Mr. Allison was acan- didate against bim in the caucus. ‘The rewnains will be interred at Beaver, where Lis family reside. SUVAROFF. Another Practical Joke Played upon the Princess, Special Dispaich to The Trivune, New Yonrg, March 23.—The story is told of what was regarded by the Princess Suvaroff as a second attempt to swindle ber. Others look upon the affair as a joke. C. G. Bradshaw, a lawyer of Bloomington, Iil, was the chief party in the operation. He arrived at the Windsor‘tbe day ofter the Princess and Count Kaloysrat, and, being given aseat at the table with them, almost immediately ingra- tiated himself into their favor. He informed o A1k 3o ek in Tama. suham.o. youndy man, and finally acquired possession of 80,000 acres of land in Comanche County, and 34,000 head of cattle. For seven years previous to leaving here, he gaid, he had Dot seen a woman. To bear out the story he assumed the air and manzers of a green- horn, spilliny +water at the table, and carrging food to his mouth with bis fingers, or witha knife. One day, while walking out with the Princess, he spoke toa strange woman on the street. She rebmicd him, and he said he knew no better, but wanted a wife, and thought that was the way to procurc one. Then he asked the Princessif it would be necessary to buy one. The Count and Princess showed him much favor, aud hewas with them almost coustantly. Hislanguage in describing Tesan scenery was glowing, and they were led to propose a journey to his estate with o view of purchasing it, he having sigmified his desire to give it up and de- vote the rest of_his time to travel. ’ghe price of it wns set at 3100,000. . Bradshaw quit the city Teb. 6, say- inz be was goiug -to_ Washington 1o procure a commission from President Hayes as commander of a foree of 5,000 men to drive the Mexican depredators out of Texas. Growing suspicious after his departure, the ICCSS Sent a telezram and received o answer from a station _on the New York Central: “ Four- teen of my wen killed and 124 horses captured by the Mexicans, Must hurry down there. ‘Shall return to St. Louis when the troubleis over and telegraph you.” Then Jetter came to the proprictor of the Windsor purporting to have been written by Cornelius Bradshaw, a lawyer of Galesbury, TIL, inquir- ing the whereabouts of his alleged cousin, C.G. Bradshaw. This tended to complicate Jnatters, 2nd the case was hanaed over to a de- tective ageney. Telezrams were sent to Fort Wortt, Houston, Galesburg, Bloomington, and other points, inquiring about Bradshaw. = The Texans znew nothing of him. 1t was ascer- taived, however, alter incurring an expense of upwards of $40 for the dispatches that he was alawyer at Bl zton, Ill., and was_sup- bosed by his tamily aud friends to be iu Gales- burg, where he was engaged as counsel to g defeud Randc, ~ the murderer. The Chief of Police at Bloomington then wrote a long letter about bim, and inclosed a ph and Count recosniz quaintance. Knew ograph, which the Princess omized as that of their ae- With a view of showiue him they be was, the Princess sent bim z telegram: *How "did the Rande case go to-day! When do you return home ‘to Bioomington? Please ‘answer.” A reply was received, saying that his cousin, Cornelius, had received the telegram, and had delivered it to Dhim. Tt subsequently transpired that Bradshaw bad no cousin ot that name, which really be- Jongs to bimselt. He said nothing about Bloomington, but promised to be in St. Lows \ithin a short time to preparc for the trip to Texas. There the case dropped. The detectives bel Bradshaw, poted at bome for bis cccentricities, came to this city to louk atter law business, and when be arrived, the notion of perpetrating a joke occurred to him. They do mnot blelieve that he intended to Swindle the Princess, from the fact that she aumitted having shown him hier diamonds and other valuables which he could casily have stolen. On the other hand the hotel people say they suspected him from the first, and that his movements in the ¢ty were snadowed by a detectie. ‘Liicy gave bim credit for suflicient shrewdnoss to perceive ho was wazened, aud that any at- tempt would be detected. They believe that he abandoned his purpoge to sell the Princess property with a bogus title ooly when he re- alized that it was impracticable. ——— SUICIDE. Spectal Dizpatch €0 The Tribune. Dixoy, IlL., March 23.—Port Butt, & laboring man at Nachusa Station, 1., committed suicide this afternoon by cutting his throat. He has Leeu regarded for some time pust as partially deranged, and been watehed by his friends. To- day he went into the wagon-shop of Mr. E; hoitz, and, seizine a knife oat fro Dalte, an, 2 2 knife, cut bis' throat from Speclal tch to The Graxp RAPID%(:IL, SHaren S special 10 the Grand Rapids Times from Charlotte says that Johinson Merrimon, of Kalumo Township, Eaton County, a young man, committed suicige last nieht. #c had a serious quarrel with bis stcpmotner, the went to the barn, shot him. self with a rifle, returned to the house, said to Dus stepmother, **See what you have done,” H and expired almost immediately, He h: been able to get work, and t.jiae q\:an-:‘ll v!;g: and not paying his way. Su. Lot 222 Dissich lo The :h‘lune. ’ 7. Louls, March 23.—Ellen Conners, wife of Jerry Conners, of 1330 North. Eleventh street. committed suicide last night by drowning herselt in a cistern. The husband missed her lasg nicht, but had no_suspicion that anything serious had happened, a5 she was in the- habiy of wisitiug friends without previously un... nouncing her iutention. At an early hour this morning Mr. Conners went to the cistern to zet a bucket of water, and, to bis surprise, he tound a dead weight on the bucket. He worked bard and suceceded in raising the load, which, on nearing the surface, disclosed tbe form and featurcs of his wife. Alarmed at the sight, he let go of the windlass and rushed off to in. form his friends, who, In a few minutes, drew the lady from thewell. Mrs. Conners nadouby. * edly committed suicide, as she had often provi- ously declared Ler intention of so doing. FIRES. & CHICAGO. 3 The West Side had a little firc to itself Tast night, and became much excited over the burn- ing-up o1 three frame buildings on West Adams street. The gre started at 8:10 0. m., and tue alarm was turned on seven minutes later by Ofticer Oleson. Campbell avenue being fn 2 state of transition, the engines had to take the railroad track, and some delay was oceasioned. Meantime a hydrant stream had been turned on, but without avail, and the entire row of buildings was burnt up before the engines gat to work. The_buildings destroyed were numbered 1045-47-49 Adams street, were situated just west of Campoell avenue, aud were onc-and-a-hiaif story frame structures. The fire broke out in No. 1047, and is said to have been caused by the overturning of a kerosene lamp. No. 1043 was was owned by Mr. Jordau, Station-Keeper at the Central _Station, and was not insured. The tenant, Mr. H. Chandler, had_bis furniture in- fured for 5300 in the Acricultural, of Water- town, N. Y., and succceded in gerting out the bulk of his Leionzmes. The next house, No. 1047, was owned by a Mrs. Moore, and was uninsured. A French family named Levine oceupied the house, and what littie fur- Diture they had was burnt_up. No. 1089 was owned and occupied by Mr, W. IL. Snyder. Tne ~house was jusured for” $1,000; 200 being in the Queen’s Insurance Company, of London, En. land, and _the remaining $300 in companies represented by Harrison Kelly & Co.. of this city. The furniture was insured for $200 in tha. Queen’s. k The_two-story and bisement. brick building immediately east of those which were burned was somewhat damaged by water. 1t was own- ed and occupied LY Dr. L. O. Gibbs, and his loss of $300 is amply covered by insurance in the Agricultural. 3Mrs. D. L. De Golyer, who occupied che basement of the building, fiad a slight loss on her furniture, which was not fo- - sured. AT MOBILE. MoBILE, Ala., March 23.—The freight depot of the Mobile & Montgomery Railway burned to-day, also ten cars and considerable freizht. Loss, $75.000, of which the ruilway company's portion 13 $25,000. AT CINCINNATI. CrxensNaTy, O., March 23.—The residence of Georze Barger at Mount Lookout, suburb of this city, burned to-day. Loss, $20,000. Par- tually insured. . AT PITTSBURG. PrTTsBURG, March 23.—The extensive tin and japanware manufactory of Fleming, Agnew & Co., on Third avenue, was burned to-night. Loss probably $75,000. Insured for §60,000. ————— THE RING. A Rattling Fight in Connecticut. Dispateh to Cincinnatt Enguirer. NEW YoRE, March 22.—In the quiet village of Greenwich, Coon., a battle was fought on Wednesday evening. between Tom Al- len and Jack Gleonan in the presemee of fifty speetators. It lasted forty-five miuutes. Thirty rounds were bad before Allen criea enough. Then Jack McAndrew and Walter Sampson stepped into the ring and fought out an old grudge in one round. The whole affair was conducted with sach secrecy that the su- thorities knew nothing of it until yesterday morning, and most of the inhabitants of the viilage have heard only rumors of it. ‘I'hie quarrel between Ailen and Glennan is of some weeks’ standing. It orizinated in Allen’s stigmatizing the zuests at a party attended by. Clannan ez a drunken crowd. On Friday even- in the two men met near the railroad station, sud from words proceeded to blows. They fought 2 few minutes, and were scparated, ag Glennan was getting the better of his autago- nist. It was then decided that they shoald mees on Wednesday evening on_the little trisogular grass-plat near the Union Burying-Ground, and close to the boundary wall of “the Tiweed place, and scttle the difliculty according to prize-ring rules, with Jonn Boles, of ‘the Linwood Housc, as referee. Both the youne meaare residents of Green~ wich. They are arc about 20 years of age and muscolar. “Allen is a_blacksmita, and tweaty pounds heavier than Glennan, who is a farmer. At 5 o’clock on Wednesday evening the priaci- pals and their backers, togetacer with a few of the iitiated, quietly congregated at the desiz- nated spot, and without any formal prelimi- Daries the men threw off hats, conts, and yusts and stepped into the rinz. Both men were in fine condition, but though Allenwas the heavier, the betting was with odds agaiust bim, Glen~ nan’s friends beinz largely in the majority. Glennaw’s brotheracted as his second, and Patsy. Doran as second for Allen. The first few rounds were a series of rongh- and-tumble clinching and wrestling, but soon they ot to work in carnest. Time and amain did_ Glennan measure his length on the grass under the knock-down blows of Jils powerful antazonist. By the twenticth round the faces of both mien were covered with dlood, their lips were swollen and gashed, aud their eyes rapid- Iy closinz. Allea Was terribly punislied about the face, while Gleanan, little less s0, also suf- fercd severely iu the upper parts of his body. In the twenty-first round a 1errible stregele at close quarters resalted fn Allew’s Zeitiag his arm over Glennaw’s neck, and planting several heavy blows in his fuce. 'The spectators rushed 1 and the two men were dragzed spart, Glen- pan falling to the ground faint and vomiting, His friends claimed’s foul, and it was thought the fizh, was over; but a liberal application of rum internally aud externatly brought Glem- nan around, and when time was called he pluck- ily toed the scratchi. The next few rounds were -bloody, though fought wanly; but the lust three were foutrht with a ferocity betore unex- celled, and the spectators encouraged their favorites with loud crics, and suddenly, in the toirtieth round, Allen doubled up and called enough, The fight was over, and Glennan was declared the victor, though Allen and his friends nrze that the last blow was struck below the belt, and that the decision is unjust. The general impression amongr the spurting men of the placeis that Allen is the better man. The faces of both men were terrivly bhattered. Neither of them quitted the house yestenday. This fight was hardly concluded ‘betore Wal- ter Sampson and Jack MeAndrew stripped off their upper garments and stepoed into the ring to ecttre an old difficulty with their fsts Sampson was apparently the better mau, an Liad breathed such terrible threats against e Aundrew that a fierce battle was expected. In the first and only round, however, McAndrew succeeded in planting sucn a stinger in Sumpson's face, that thc blood spurted from his nose, and, without waiting for any. more, he incontinently threw up the sponge by. breaking from the ring and running as thouzd for dear life. The laws of Connecticut impose 4 penalty of imprisonment for not more thas flve years upon the prineipals in uny prize izt and of not more than two vears upon any aidery abettor, or spectator thercof. The local author: ities probose to take tmmediate action in the case. S SPRINGFIELD ITEMS. Specia) Dispatch to The Tribune. SprrNrieLn i, March 23.—The total ex* penditures for the new State-Honse up to March 1, 1878, are $3,519,373, ana the total amount £ the credit of the Board in the State Treasury 08 that date was $1,901.14, of which about $1,000 will be expended tor the zradingof the grounds and the fence now in process of copstruction- In the United States Court_to-day Cuss B:‘i rows, of Cowden, was fned S300 and senten to three months in jail for violating the fevente iaw. Caleb Smith and Job Fletcher were fin $100 each on like charges. ——— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. HALIFAX, March 23.—Arrived—Stgamer Sar- dinian, from Liverpool. NEW YORE, March 23.—The White Star Line Steamship Company deny that they comem; plate boilding on the Defaware a duplicate of the Britannic. iy NEW YORK, March 23.—Arrived—Steamsaip City of Berlin, from Liverpool. The steamer OluL, hence for Havre, has returned with m chiners damazed. - Also arrived, steamer Stras bury, from Bremen.