Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1878, Page 5

TIHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL J, 1878 — e 6 s at his disposition, Mr. GotLp "m‘(l!flc{::?; well—=very w:fi Indeed ; and when Ey::m.Lwhnewsp-ncucnnnsnlunnwlnunm ofl f the bt bridge witn a copy of the Republican :ud to his heels, they display s sigual lack of Justice and gencrosity. — A New York. fre-angine company has hitched gp fn about two and three-fourth seconds more yme (nine scconda) than our boys take io Chi- aago, and an enthualastle paper devotes an edi- torial to the subject, saylng: A fire In the ¢ty now means business.” Fact: it does. They Dad & fire up In ‘twenty-third street in February st fnvoleed a loss of $700,000, and anotber on Canal street In March that footed up $415,000, 11 these conflagrations had occurred In Chicago, what 8 bow! there would be about the nccosslty for Easters companies to withdraw thelr agen- cle or ralss thelr rates! ———e Jtts s notable colncidence that the American pobility has always run to Counts, In support of this a ertion It Is only nccessary to refer Lo Count McKaY, the Count Joanwes, and the Electoral Count. Golng back {n history, nnoth- ¢rremarkable instance is found In Count Rus- yoan, Who, a8 plain Beysanmin Troursox, taught & disteict schoul in New England. Later [alife be was made 8 Major-General fo the Ba- o Army, member of the Council of State, Minister of War, o was the first Amerl- wntorecclve 2 tltlc from a European Govern- ment. Arcckless editor fn tho Far West has en- geasored to nbuse public confidence by stating that tho dirt washed outol the shirtaand jump- ers worn by the workmen {n the Bonanza mines srerages {n Weight 1ty pounda a dag, and bas been found to asaay $259.10 a ton, Tho public will searcely be decelved Ly the wily trick of placing the valas of tho dirt In odd Sgures; (( the editor bad honestiy come out and declarcd that the ** wishiozs" were worth $260, hewould atleast bave saved himself from the scoru, 14 ot the fndignation, of an outraged community. —eeip—— Another carlous 1ibel suit has been tried fo Eoglind, Tho defendant, Capt. NORMAN, was s correspondent of the London Zimes during the Jate campalgn In Armenie. The plaintifl wason English surgeon with the Turkish troops. In one of his letters the defendant took occasion fo charge that the plainti had shandoned his siek charges nt Kars {o order to foin the army eratlog ogafust Erzeroum. The case was cipromised by Nomaran's elimivating the ob- jectiunable paragraph from his forthcomling book gade up from lis correapondence. e— The Washington Post figures out that there wiil be at least twenty Democratic mpjority in the next Ifouse, and,perhape forty. Judging from the precedeuts {n the Colorado, Californis, and Massachusetts vases, if the Democrats have amejority of .one they will have no difficulty in {sfating 1t to twenty or furty, or even to 203, espectally If that majority of one is composed of Epeaker RANDALL. e ———— Analarming statement 18 made by the Eco d'Mtalia, of New York, from which it nopears that, under the Italian law, a native of Italy vhoobtains adiverce under the lawsof the United Btates bas committed thoe crime of big- amy, This is, fudecd, bard. Suppuse that alter obtalning bis divorce the Juckiess Itallan should tharry again, what, then, would be his cime? Polygainyl Boss I{ELLY bas recolved o certificate of gond character from the ‘promiucnt merchants of New 'York, Buss CoxsoLLY, when he was Comptroller and a Jeader of Tummany, whoop- od bimself up just such o certificate precisely eight yeara agy, and before the -summer rose batsgaln bloomed and faded, that Doss, O, where was bol —— Thero is & rumor In New York that the World bas pussed from the hands of its recent propric- tor, Col. Toxt 8corT, {uto the posseasion of G. W, Cusns and A, J. Dnexet, of Philadelphia. Perhaps this may accouut for the suddenlv- aoquired prociivity of the World for droppiug Into poetry, that branch of literature, as ts well koown, belng Mr, CniLpa favorite pursuit. The new worklngwoman's hotel at New York promlscs to be a great convenience to women whoBaven’t ot to Wworks: —— New reading of an old prover, inspired by England’s belligerent aspect—**A crushed llon will turn." } 1t would hava been motigy in the Republican party’s pocket if Ban BuTLxn had been chasged ! nurss. —— PERSONALS. 4 Bonator Morton left nn estato of some $20,000, and is to have a $100,000 monament. Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker, of Washington, baa defended a murderer and secured hisncquittal, The Czar drinks vast quantities of hot brandy-punch, very swect, aud the brandy lan't fod brandy elthor. Charloy Rosa' fathor has proved 'n poor faccess 0s a locturer; wheroln ho resombles that krown-up Clarloy Ross, Mr. A, Oakey Hall, Anthony Trollope, thongh hLo writes so many novels, books, and other slush, reads Groek threebouren dsy. Mo should read moro Greok. Gen, SBhorman and Lottn ocoupled tho Mae box at tne winstrel porformance at Washings fon last week, Reduce the army to 10,000 mon! John T, Raymond safls for Loudon this week, thero to introduce Col, Sellers, 1lis divorced wire, Ada Weruell, hay married o Philae 2elphls physician, Georgo Clarke, the actor, {a famillarly known aa tho Great American Shirtcufllar, ecauso Of bl frroprasaitlo hublt of divplaylng by an upe rdthrust of tho sz hid apoticss linen and natty o¥o-buttons, Privato William, Ilinos, ¢t Company F, Elgbteentt United Btates Infantry, Is futorested In 2bill introduced by Couressman McCook, of Now York, forbis rellef. 1o lost his blenketand bis tronsery ata dre ot Atken, 8, O, Melvor, o Montreal amatonr padestrian Thacleaned out all tho cracks thero and at New Yorz, has gonu to Bauzland 10 enguge in spriut u'wu witu profesaional **pods.," and, though very benally treated by the handicappors, has been Whipped out of sigut. Queun Marguerite, of Italy, has atamped Ber disapproval of ex-Mintster Crispl's abandou- :ltllllll bis Srut wifu after living with hor vomo Wenty years, taking advantago of & clurleal irrogu- Iarity In tho record of thuir unlon, by Riving the Cast oft g " i Tourt poude & nupugn of warked warmuth ot 3 **Littlo Johnny” Davenport, Clerk of tho ‘nited Btates Courts at Now York, occuplos olovan ;Wnu 1 tho Post-Ofico Bujlding M his capacity of Da\m’vhvr of Electious,—which lake place every m“:l November, Becretary Sherman fu teylug to - Bl in favor of 1ho Collector of Internal Rave %, —thinks, 84 1t wore, that his roous aru bete s then by company, ° 5 Ex-Gov, Vance, of Nortli Caroling, when “I:unu wa burst up and au spxious de- rl:m;:,: the other local financial fnstitution brrochd 17 b thoughe the latter would have any m“,'n "tbfllld tust Lo kpew It would bave Wopsle. *“Juit my luck," sald ho depositor. 1 wncur Pota cent fn a bank In oy lifo vut what _"l: awindled.” +41lold," sald the Uovernor; ‘h“:.lhllud- 10 12 this: they Lave ny notein i 2k for $2,600, and they'll bave & damed '8h8 of tzoubly @elting tho money." John Morrissey sayssthat when, noar Iweaty years agoute wes atscked by whas o ters calle b :::: oto 0 whether that would not - Off the complaint, ** 1twas harder tralulng," says, ** than fors ght, and I could ot driuk fhau tas, coffes, or water. Whon I went into the Uotman Uouse rretaaract 1 felt like catiog up e Ything, vlates aod all; but I bad self-coutrol Taough tu keep on sa I Lad Legun, sud 1 cured ml.;:ll.‘ The cuze crestod much discussion 1o the 5 ‘“1 Pavers, sud was rogarded as 80 phehom- *nal that Lo apoleon's physiclan came on an pisslun 10 4ce how T had clected the b lil.h;;g:ll 1 ‘h'h:l ‘nh‘z:l"“pdlg; it “Wfldlfll 8 d X the sasie o anid, o cau't do i1 Tticre 14 ooly one aclure, and o ity fi'l:_v'l;l who could epdure the Anti-Administration Senators . ‘What Is Believed to Have Been The Senatorial Adherents of A Less Rancorous but More Another Council of tho Confident The Resignation of Collector A Proposition to Eliminate All Belief that Adams, Fink, and Wash- of sbandoning opposition and practices of the Adininistration, while it is sald to have been noticeable that those Scnators ON. "WASHI Gathering Strength and Courage. Done at 8aturday’s Caucus, the President Grows- ‘ing Lukowarm, Formidable Opposition S8et Up. Oligarchs to Be Called , Boon. Smith Now Held by the President. Scandal from the McGar- rahan Inquiry. burhe Will Tackie Jay Gould. TOE CAUCUS. WIIAT TOE SENATONS ARE DELIRVED TO ITAVE AUREED UPON, Spectal Dispateh to The Tribune. Wasuinatos, D. C., March 31.—~The sccrots of the Republiean Benatorial caucus yesterday bave been unusually well zuarded. The pur- posc of it was to sccure, if possible, o better fecllug between the Administration and the Benate. expire next Marcli eome time aince held an fn- formal confercnce to consider the best meuns of securing thelr own re-clection, or, at loaat, the electlon of Rapubliean sncecssors, conference it was adjudgud wise to aubmit thoe whole question tn o caucus of all the Republi- can Senators, A number of Senators whose terins At tlls For this purpose the caucus of yesterdny was called. From this caucus it oppears that Benators opposed to the Admiuistration bave no intentlon to the methoda who Lave bitherto been called Adminlstration Bcnators are more disposcd thon they have been to ully themaclves with thefr Republican asso- clates. CHRISTIARCT AND STANLEY MATTIEWS, even, it 13 reported, expressed opinfona that tuere had been enough concillation, und that the time had como for the President to give more vonsidetation to the interestsof the Re- publican varty, aud less attentivn to the pacif- cation of the Democrats, Benator Dawes, too, is said to linvetaken an attitude much less friondly to the Aduinistration than he hithertohas held, Benator Hoar was not present at the caucus, having been called home by tho serious fllucus of his sister. Various methods wore proposed of bringing sbont @ better understanding be- tween the Exceutive and the Benntors. Sownc suggested that the Scoators shiould call upon bim more (requently, nud individually represent tho situation; others that they should go fna group; but theonly formal proposition was a yesolutjon agpointing a committoy to call upon the Presidént i “exprévs caucus, TIIS SCUEME WAS DEPRATED by the Benators who had been members of the Committee appointed by the former caucus to callupon tho President and to express shmilar views, . Edmunds, the mouthpiece of that caucus Committee, very plainly stated that he sawno oblect of appoluting any such com- that the experience of the last Com- mitteo showed that very Jitlo consideration wns paid tu their suggestions, and that the ap- polntment of o comtnittco would bo without result, THT CENERAL RESULT undoubtedly will be to make the Republlcan denators 8 moro compnct budy than they bave been, nud It is Mkely that, as to confinnations boreafter, the numuer of Kepublicans voting with the Dewmocrats will bo very small, Indeed, fulias long been a subject of regret among the Republican Scnators that they no longer bave sny power fn the Benate, becauso they are dis- united, while the Demaocrats, by voting as a uunit, ucarly always corry thewr polats. Conlk- Mog, Howe, Juncs, Mitehell, Patterson, and Conover wero ulso absent. Nearly all of those present bad something to ssy. Edmunds, Blalne, Hamlly, sud others oppose any furtber nuem‘:v. to recunclle Republicans {n the Senato with tho Preaident. EDNUXDS \ thought hls expericnice wus enouzh to show that all such effurts would bo unavalling, 1le stuted tbut the Prosident was very agreeablo, and gayve thoso who called upon bim to under- staad that ho should bein full harmony with tho party fu the Beuate, but it was maintained that, sinee that time, le has 1ot doue ono oct in harmony with the party, nud that it {3 use- less to attempt to make biin reallze the tmpor- tanco of duluyg anvtbini to strenethon and per- petuato tho party, Vhe President was chiarged with_coucell, ludircetion, aud ueccrllon. and oue Senator fa repurted as wuyluig that it wus uscless to attempt to fnllueuce dim—the only poticy was for Repuulicun Senators to stand l\n"uthkr and fores the Presidunt to apootut only Hepublicaus to office. Several sald they would not humiliate thewmselves by WAITING ABOUT THB WILTE-1IQUS! begging for favors which they knew would not ve granted. Cumceron, of Wiscoualn, {3 s2id to Yave been much less concilistory than belore, owing to an atlezed want ol frankuess (o cer- taw metmbers of the Whiconsin delevation {u the matter ot the recommendation of ex-Ropre- sentative Cobb to be Rewlitor of tho Treasury, Benator Bpencer declaros that it i3 uscless to spend uny more tine iu endeavorivg to keep tflu Prealdent futhe Republican party,—that the President hus DONE ALL 38 CAN TO DESTROY THR PARTY IN TUB SOUTL, and has suceceded wdmirsbly, und that thero i nu lunger wny use of cauvassing or of passiug resolutions, Bpencer bs represented to have asked how wmuny Senators had beeu cousulted by tho Preatdout, or any member of his Cubinet, with respect to wiatters in theivown States, aud }u: th:nlwnl. tnasmuch as the President lisd mau- feate AN INTENTION 7O GET ALONG WITHOUT THE SENATOLS, 1t would te presumption lur the Borators to per- sist {n futerfering with the White<House, ‘Thelr ling of duty @i Hepublican Bepators was plain, sud, for Lis part, bo lotended to foilow ft. It fs expected that another caucus will bo licld some time this week, when a strong offort will be made to seeury fuil attendance of tho oppouonts of the Pr {deut’s policy, aud endeavor to fores thy Repub. ltcan Senators to take o united pusition uguiust the Adwlulstration. 1% is niwodt cortuin thut ANY $UCH EFFOUT WILL FAIL, as thory ure certutn Scunators, lucluding &wbn. Lly Buruside, Camcrou of Wiscousln, Curlstiau- cy, Dawes, Hoar, snd Matthews, who, while thiy may GUTer with the Preableut d to detalis, wiif not cousent to uuy alicuation from him. The caucus, cltogether, was s wall of tho contents, NOT QUITE B0 SOUR. Totha Welern dwsocialed Pros. Wasminorox, . C., March 8L.—Tue caucus of the Republicau Benators veaterday resulted {n uo forwal action. 1t appears, from thy views exoreaaed by Beuntons, that, whlle they concede that the spéech of Benator Howe, délivered o week ago, L matuly Just in Its strictures on the courso of the Adinlnijtration, they can sy uo propricty o recalliug vast events . Loulsisua ¢ 'views ‘ot ‘the” —— and clsewhere, and making a direct {ssue Fith the Prestdent, and they are also agreed that the su-called Clvil-dervice [teform 13 a deception and afaljure. They, therefore, think that the Re- ypublicans should strive to strengthen their par- ty, irrespective of what the President may say or do, and they polnt to the late election in New Hampahire to sliow that it resulted o fa- vor of the Republicans apart from any consid eration connected with tho National “Adminis- tration. They are of opinfon that it would be DETTER TO AFPROVE of such mensurcs as they can in the future, rather than oppose the President in bis Bouth- ern conclilation pollcy and other measures which du not meet with Republican approval. DBo- sides, to make an open {ssuc with the President would beneilt the Detnocratle party to the n- Jury of the Republican party, They say they can do nothiug, no matter ‘what Independent course the President inay think proper to pur- suc, At the same time, um{' do _uot impute dishoneaty of purposc to the President, and see some things tn hts Administration to approve; but they uoubt tho wisdom of much of his so-called policy. As & committce of Senators nnnulmod, by a caucus herctofore called on the President with regard to appointments, cte., and failed to come to an understanding, it s considered uacless agaln to spproach him in o glinilar way, as TILZ FIRSIDENT ACTS INDETENDENTLY of Senatorial advice or conlercnce, Itis known that the President, on that occasion, regarded the call a8 o mere personal matter, and as of no public intereat, and. therefore, ha was not dis- turbed, Underall the clrcuwstances, the le- publlcan 8cnators do not think It wise to take rn sctive part ngainst tho President, but to do the most they can for the intcrests of their lmny, remembering that tho Dresident has lirco more years to serve. THE UNION P’ACIFIC. MR RICE'S PLAN. Bpecial Dispatch t> Tia Fridunes WasninaTos, March 31.—Mr. Rice's il for scttliog the pro-rata question and other ques- tions that havo arlsen und 1nay arise in connec- tlon with the management of the Unlon Pacifle Ratlroud and its connecting lines was formally adopted by the House Committee Baturday by avoteol Y to 4. Bume chmuges for the perfec- tion of the measuro nro now under considera- tlon, It has heen dectded to make the term of all the Commissioners three years Instead of utie, twvo, and three years, as at first proposed. One of the thinga in contemulation is TO NAMB TIR COMMISSIONENS in the biil, jvatead of leaving them to be ase- lected by the President and the Senate. Bhould this course be determined upon, it is as good as certain that two of them will be Charles Francs Adams, Jr., of Massachusetts, and Mr. Fink, of Kentucky. ‘The third member of the Board has not been so definitely decided upon, but there 1s u probability that it will bo ELINU B. WASHUURNE, of Tllinote. It 18 bellceved that o Board composed of such men would command the confidence of the rall- road fntcresta of tho country, so far as their almsaro just, und that lta “judgment would have great outhority, The salary now numed 1o tho bill 1s $10,000 "cach a year, which is bo- lioved to be no more thau rcasonable, (n consld- cration of the importunt {nterests with which they will bave to deal, und the grcal rosponsi bilittes they will have to undertake. THE LAKE-FRONT. REPORT OF TII8 CONUREISIONAL COMMITTER 0N THAT QUESTION, pectal Disvutch to The Tritune. ‘WasmxgToy, D. C., March 8L.—~The follow- Ing s the text of the report which accompaules the bl to confiem to the City of Chicago tho titletothe Loke-Front. It was reported by Mr. Ligon, from tho Committce an Public Bulldings and Urounds: ‘Thoe Comimnittes on Public Bn“l.llnFlnndGmnndm to whopy was referred the bill (11, K. G600) en- titled ** A bill to confirm to the City of Chlcago, It., the titie to certain public grounds," have had the same under cunslderstion, and bave directod me to make the following report: 1t appears that in 1821 Whv General maudo the fiest ofticial survey of Township S0 North, Iango 4 East, and by this' survey tho fraciional quarter of Sec. 10 was shown 1o con- 1ain &' acres, the cnst boundary of the same belng_the line fixed ns the **meandor line" of Lake Mlichigan, In October, 1824, this Fractional Hec 10 was resorved by the Commissiouer of tho General Lang+Office, at sho fustunce of the Secretary of War, as the military reservation of Fort Dearborn, 1t soeins thag, sume yesrsafter tals, the Regivter and Recelvor at Chicaco pormitied this fractional wectlon to be suld, and in July, 135, thoe Com- missionor of the General Lund-Uflce sent in- structions to hiny, stating that action was un- suthorlzed {n oilowing auy sale of thls tract of Jand, ft baving been reserved for milltary pur- oies In 1824 und the sald Iteceiver was ordered refund the purchusc-tnoney pald thereon to one L B, Beaubien. 1n the year 1836, upon tho application of one G. C, Walka, who. cishined B bra-emptjon. righty the Sugveyor-Ueneral at St Loonls authorized one Ld- sward [, Tulcutt to survoy whut was then described by the spplicant as a *‘mand-bar or leland'' in LaLo Michigan, The survey was executed in Fab- ruary, 186, and toe plat of said sorvey returncd totis Land-Onico, whowing the promiscs to be o sand-bar nd!olnlnz fractional Becs. 10 and 15, nnd contaluing in tho aggrocate 47,78 acres, This survoy, belng unwarganted by the susveying laws, was disapproved by the Commissioner {n i letter ;u ||'1;.- Surveyor-Ueneral of Muy 5, 1837, hore sct orth MAY 5. 1837.=51n1 1 hayetoacknowledgo the receint of your eommunicatian of the 10t wiL., tranemitting Cosaur's lnsiructiuiis tu M, 3 Fesupey of pordion of 8 wirgéted (o withhold your approv WE Tateors unthh further Bivioa 1 ‘tho meantime you wilt examine whd seltly hiw sccount for thy same, when presented, i proserve the orlgiial eid-notes, plata, ete, Vou are wivlacd thut thts lot 0L L be construed na authoFIEINK Lhe BUPYeYurd 0 direct slinilur surveys without instructions from thisofice. 1 mui, ote. Jan, WiniTeoun, Commiatoner, TiANtzL DUsELIN, Ksq., Burveyor-ueoeral, St Luuls, Mo, Thusthis rescrvation continued without change until 1830, when, undor the act of 181, the Hec- retary of War sppointed Matthew Dirchard, the Sadicitor of tho Land-Ofiice, as agent of the War Depariment, to cavse the sald rescrvation to be wurveyed and plattod, and o sell the same; it was subdivided into strects, Jots, and blocks, and suld: and such subdivision was platicd aud record. ed undtr the pame aud style of ** Fort Desrburn e Aaditlon to Clicago,” Ut tbls plat a small picee ‘of ground wus dudicated as ** puslic grounds, to remain forovor free of bulluings.” That, in the year 1832, under on ordinance of sho City of Ullcnxo, the lilnots Central Riaitroud Company lald ita track on piles drivea luto the Led of tue lake, running parallel with Michiean avonuo, distant about 310 feet. That, muce that time, the City of Chicago, ut o vust ox. penng, has filed up and reclalmed from the wators of the lake the whole voacu between the shore-liu of theso public grounds and wald rallroad-i and added it to tho said pabdlie groands desiy oneaid plst. And aC this time tho sald public wrounds sa deeliznated on !lltl'l)llt, ond said addis fious thereto, uro sll Impraved, uscd, aud appro. pristed as an'open public park or ground. Thut the fote and blucks i said Fort Dearborn Addition o Clilcago, since sald platiing, have all ovn noid, aud the Goverumuot haw recelved more taau 28U, V00 from the pruceuda of sald wale, “Taw open ground hotween Jtandolpk und Madison strects, nbutting upon Lako AMichigan, and destge natad upon the platof swid Fort Dearborn Addi- tlon to Chicage aa ** pubtic grounds, to remsin for- ovur (reo of bulldings, " are in the very heart of um ({'l.y of Chicazo, now a place of 500, 000 fuliab- ants Theso grounds bave remalued « open public grounds from the thine of making tho survey uud of satd addition; und havu been so treated and «ded by the city ond people as dudicatod to the use of the public. Thal, wince moking the survey and plat of said addition, ths Citv of Chis caro haw expended Jurge sums ¢f woney {n dlling up, Improving, and besutifying thvas. grounds fur the uses intended. ‘Pue paruosa of the Clty of Clicago to uccept, appropriite, aad improve tlivso roundys for the vurposce for which they worodes- ated and dadicatud, 18 not questioned, Yhe statute tuw of lllinuls requirea that o sub- should bo made by metes aud bounds: thot oucs and utakes by seti Width of sircets and alteys, tho sizo of lots and blocks, should Lo uoted ou the plat; and that thu durveyor's certld. cuta (0 thy sawo sbotla bu ju o preecribed furu, That, all these requircments being stricily con- forned to. the fro of tbustreets, ullcys, aud pub. e grounds fu the subxivisiun passcs 10 tho cliy or wwu wlera such subdivislon Nov. 1t appears from a receut duclslon of Justice Drumiond l"-' diasetl, 174 Pa.) 1t was held that the aubdiviafon, platting, and secorging of Fort Dearboru Addition to Chilcago, uut having been in atrict conformity with tbo statate law of ltuuls, made tho dedication of the public grounds therutn ong at cumimon law, and oot a wtatutory dedicas lt!lun.-lhun-l:y leuning tue naked fvo1n the United 1 ‘{10 purpoae of thu War Depariment, at tho timo of the survey aud piat of the udditlun, to dedicaw tothe publfc use thess grounds, and th slunding of the ity suthoritics and puupls of Cago that It was so dony, 14 beyoud question. ur niore thun forty years no Departwent of the Government has ever called 1u question the valid- fty of the acdication of sald pubhic grounds, bor hids any benefcinl inturest beed clajuied &4 remubu- fugs in tue Luited £t cepting, perbaps, tho tecent actfon of the Commissioner of the Uenvrul Land-utice 1o bolding that thexe public xrounds, und the made additious iherelo, as subject 10 be taxuu ana wporopriated by what s called Valeutio ;eflg, fseucd under su act of Cungress pussed 14 §72. Yoyr Committee think that good faith to the ublic snd the City of Chicado requires that the "nitea States should relvaes and grang unto said city th fee- Lo thesy Jands, 0w supbosed (0 vest in the United Stales, subject to the uacs 1o which they were dedicated ss siuresnid; and thus set st nll‘,"n fur as way be, suy coutruvorsy Ja & 10 the charscier of thess public grounds aud urca. "I tio bill proposed doed not fnterfure with private Hghitas simply requires the Goverument 1o divest ftsulf of the lezul title, wficr baving paried, fue o valnable consideration, with all beneficial interest 1n eaid property., - for the bill, and recommend 1ta passage. Ing of the Ilouse Public Lands Committes yes- terday, the varlous systems of surveying lands were discussed. Burvey, Lieut. Wheeler, of the Corps of En- gineers, Maj. Powell, of the Land-Office, and Prof. 1ayden, In charge of the geological sur- veys, presented thelr views regarding a bill offered by Wrignt, ot Pennsylvania, to create the offfee of Burveyor-General at Waabington, which designs the abolition of ail the offices of Burveyors-Genéral thronghout the United States and Territorles, and the adoption of the triane guiation system, Ma). Fowell advocated this system. grounds of fmmense cost and inexplicable confuston. the proposition, Western States and Territorles agalnst ft. In the course of this ingniry somne exceedingly In- teresting statistics were read by Prof. Hayden In regard to the extraordinary fertliity and pro- ductiveness of the States and Territories west of the Mississiopl. Colorado, he said, contained onlv about 7 per cent of arca that could nut be utilized, for some practical purpose, notwith- standing the fact thot its average height was about 7,000 feet abuve the ocean, the removal of records from the States and Ter~ ritories; also the breaking up of the present system of rectangular surveys, though carnust- Government Your Commiitee, theretore, submit a sabetitots . NOTES AND NEWS. LARD BURVEYS. Fpecial DispateA to Tha Tyibune. Wasntxaron, D. C., March 81.—At the meet- Prof. Hulgard, of the Coast The rest opposed it on the The Committes docs not favor Many protests have come from Me opposed in favor of any Improvement tha vised, ECONOMY, The excrutive oflicers of the Government find that the new Legisiative bill vroposed by the House Aopropriation Committee will serfously cripple every branch of thoe public service. In somu of the departments a reduction of b per cent of the clerfcal forco without discrimination is proposcd. The Interlor Department is the most scriously affected, Thero fs not even {force cnou W' and to guard agalust fircs, although one recoutly nearly de- stroyed the Patent Office. It 18 proposed to cripplo the Patent Office v important particu- lars, The salarics of tho Examiners, who ara professiona) experts and act as judicial oflicers, are reduced below a lving polnt, SZNATOR BLAINE to-morrow is aunounced to speakk on the Matthews Pacific Rallroad LI, which {8 sup- Imr(cd by Jay Gould. Benator Beck will fol- ow Blaluo in support of tho Thurman bill. MAIL TIANBPONRTATION, 3 Gardner Hubbard, Chairman of tho Com- miasion appointed Lo consider tho best metliod of ndjustiny the cotapensation of raflroads for tho transportation- of malls. will present his ro- rt to-tnorrow morning. fo will recommend hat the basis of compeusation should be the could be spacs used, and that the compensatfon for cach Ilincar foot of car used sball increased with the speed. TIE COLORED CONGRESSMEN, The next objective point of the Democrats Is to oust the threo colored members, Raincs, Cuio, and 8malls, and to replace them with whito ten, Conteats have been made againat all threo of these colored imen, and 1t is probable that they will bo ousted. X, il WASIDURNE. A Western gentleman who hins recently had o converaation with Ellnu B, Washburne éald to« dav that the latter assured him In the most pos- ftivo terms thut hie docs not tutend nor dusire o become o candidate for the United States Henatu to succeed Scnator Oglesby, — Nelther does he wish to be agaln roturned to the Lower tlouse. The gentleman fuslsted, however, that Washburne would not decline the nomination for Governor of Iilinols. VANCE, OF omio, reported to have disappeared, us is now known hiero by his friunds, went from Clucinnatl to 8t. Louls, sod from there to Kouosas City. His Western fricnds were not uble to overtake him ot the latter point, _THR AUGUSTA RLXCTION, A gontleman of promiuence, just from Maine, eays the sigulficance of the late clection lo Au- gusta, the hume of Mr. Blaine, 18 not fully une derstood here, Wiile the Democrats elected thelr wholo ticket, excopt Mayor, o thing they had not doue for aby years, the Republican Mayor was clected by 243 mujority, and tbs special fact about his cundfdoey was that Le was one of the most pronounced aud enthuslastic Iayes men in the Stato of Maine, aud tius carried hitm through where all lukewarn Republicaus were defeated. TUIE RLSIGNATION OF WILLIAM NENRY SMITH a8 Collectur of thoe Port of Chicazo is in tho Liands of the Prealdent. Theresignation will be peeepted. Becretary Sherman yesterday eveo- foi, ‘upou bolu(guppmuched as” to the’ rumor thut Willimn Heory Smith bad resigned, stated that, up to tho hour of closing the Departmient, he knew nothlug of it. To- night he i3 not communicative upou the subject, ‘The President statca to a gentleman this evenlug that there might be some infortnal fetter of the kiud at the De partment, but that it wasall news to hims: that nothlug of that sort was at the White House. Nuvertheless 1t s certatn that Willlam Henry Smith's reslignation is here. TIE M'OARRAIAN CASH ' {8 likkely to take a new turn. A proposition has come to MeGarrahan's counsel, emanating, it Is suid,drom the Democratic members of the Co ittee, propustng that the investization shall be restricted entirely to ovidence tending to the validity or invalidity of the Mexivan grant of Gomez, the grantor, to Metarrahan, and to the question whether, under the treaty with Mexico, the United States s bound to pro- tect the Uomex title, This climinates from the uestion the proceedings of the courts gud Jongress, the scandul of the McGarraban letters, the charges of curruption agolnst Judge Bluck, and mutusl recrlinlnations of all ports, ‘The fact that this proposition pro- ceeds from a Demoiratie sourco 8 regarded 8 very sleniticant by those who think thero are still fu reserve fucts of a damaging churacter to the opponents of McGorruhan, 1f this vroposition is accepted, the Bevaty Committee will sit pructically as a Conunission to pass upon the validity of thy Gomez title, and, by consent of both parties, the dreadful scandaiy which bhave alrcady been disclused, and the o7¢n more damaging oucs hinted 8ty will be eluninated from thy controversv, TR BIOUX WAL To the Western Amoclated Press. WasminaTon, 1), C., Mureh Bl.—The total ex- penses of the Slous war buve beon 82,312,630, INTERNAL REVENUE HECBIPTS for Marcth show a falling-off trom the corrs. sponding mouth of over 81,200,000, The re- celpts of the past clght months shiow a reduc- tlon ot $5,500,000, SILVER DOLLARS. To tho ¢lose of March 1,000,000 sitver dollars had becn coined, Arrangements have been completed under which, dunng April, tho Fhil- adelphla Miut will turn out 31,750,000, THY MEXIUAN RECOUNITION QUESTIONS aro Jikety to cume befuse both Houses of Con- gress in'the course of o few duys. TUE AILVER-OWNEDS' BXPLANATION. HAN Firancisco, Cul,, Murch dl.—Regarding Bocretary Bhermun's stuteens that toe silver- wwhers of tho Paitle Coast have wade u corner In that commodity, and put up the peiee of bulliow to & dgurc bighier than that ut which they were previously willing to sell for shipy went to Asle, oven with frelzht excluded, the Nevada Baok outhoritis way such s nota !nrupnr atement of the casv, Thoy hold that biey arc, us mattcr of busiucss, “entitled to quite . ucarneas Lo thy murket o offering silver tor colvuge ut the Sau Francisco Mint. ‘Iney eatl- mate what it will cost the Govermnent o buv stiver i Loudou and Jaud (L bero, and regulate thelr prices aecondlugly. . BALLS OF DONDY, Subscrivtions to tho United States 4 per cent Joun at tho olice of the Sub-Treasurer in Sin Frunei during the past mouth aggreguted ouly 21,250, ——— CROP PROSPECTS, Special Dispatch 10 The Tribune. Woonuaw, Jelerson Ca., fil, March 20.— Winter wheat bas grown verv fast, and there wis never o bettee prospect for o good crop, Peach trevs are bizayy loaded with bloom, not killed yet. Special Dispatch §o The Tyibune. New CoLvasia, Massas Co., {11, March 20,— Prospects for winter wheat excels all, Early sown and favorable places gre nearly ready to Lead out. Bpectal Dispatch to The Tridune. Bunxt Prammig, Whito Co, 111, March £0.— Such a growth uf winter whest was nover beforo seen e, All the stock Is on ft. Home ot &t three fees high. Bpecial Dispaich (o The Tribune. HiLiasono, Montgumery Co., March 20.— Winter whoat prospects oro soleadid, It was never in better conuition at this time of the year, Harvest will come early. If vot dam- aged by storins, will be the greatust crop that bas been rulsed for msny years. Swecial Ditaich 19 The Tridune. TuacoLa, LIk, March 80.—A very heavy frost fell bero on Friday wmoruivg, By dligeus fo- quiry, § fud that imwenss damage was doue whatever vrofit would fall to thew by thelr. 10 early fruit In Central 1llinols. Last night a heavy rain fell, making the roads in the same terrible condition they were all winter. ——— TIIE RAILROADS. IOWA RAILROAD ASSESSMENT. Spectal Correrpondence of The Tribune. Dzs Moings, Ia., March 23,—The Stats Ex- ecutive Council Jaet evening concluded the as- sessment per mile of ralirond property In this Btate for the purposc of taxation. some change on some of the roads, and consid- erable more ought tobe made, but the law gives the Council little or no dlscretion fn the prem- facs. It must fix the vawation according to gross earnings, without regard to expenditures, 80 that the fact exists that a large number of roads with falr gross earnings are compelled to pay tho taxes of Class A rowals, while thelr ex- penditures exceeded their receipts. lnsuchcases the_stockbolders have to zo down futo their pockets tax-gatherer there remains any property with which to pay Bim. 1t {s very evidentthe law in this respect shoulil be changed, and discretionary power Riven the Exccutive Council or Hallroad Com- isstoners to adjust 088C85MENLS ALCO) 10 u road earns nothing, and pays n2 interest on Its Investment, It has no value, ssnn invest. ment. 11 it were possivle under the law, sev- cral rafiroads {n this Htate would cre this been closed and the ralls. taken up, law forbids, hence, It the atockholders are wm‘wnedw invest tbeir mouey at a loss, it would assessment of the property should be estimated There is and pay must the (axes, be pala so for long the as in_an cquitable the ing to the net earning; for But this the secem only just ‘and equitable that the at its productive value. With all other prop- erty, If 1t prove unprofitable, the owner may dispose of it or remove it out of the Btats, 80 with rallrvad property. The varlous rosds arc ussessed as follows: Not 177, 1678, Dnnlufmn. Cedar Ttapids 8 4.000 § 4,200 liwaukes Division. B30 BOW Muscating Diviston. asn gm0 Paciie Diylaon.. 53w 3300 Barlingtou & SrtiwEdisa {aaifi Turilugio & Drkots Divislon babuls & Ackly Divisiol tleago & Norihwentern.. Cuteatok Littiand Divisio 3anis ftiver Diviston aven N 25 Sigines & Ft.. Dodge. 3Moloes & Minneapolls (nsrrow KAURE). .. Dubugue &3 Chifcago, Lribunue & 31 ubuaue Bouthwestern. luots Cent edar ¥ lowa Esstern (nafrow gauge) fowa. dlinnesots & North fucliiéiiiiss ows liallway Cotl & Manufacturing KeUkuis Dex siojues: Nissouri, lowa & Nebra. Bt. Lould, Keokuk & Northwestern, 85 Lottt Diumy s Cedsr Kapids, act Bloux Cliy & 1 8, Sluux Gty & Pembini e Bloux Cley & 3t. I i oo Tolouo & Northwes P LHE BASTERN COMBINATIONB. The New York Trilune has the following re- gardiog the arrangement made by the managers nt their meeting fu thls city last week: Thnere wos o difference of opinlun yesterday among rallroad men lu this cu{ regardiniz the ac- tion of the Luke Shore and Baltimore & Ulilo Rail. roads followtng the allotment of cast-bound froight from Chlcazo, made by Comumisloner Fink, s stated In yesterday's Tribune, By sume it was understood ‘that Mr. Newell, of tho Lake Bhore, declined to uccept 8o small o percentage of »im coming oustward from Chicago 8% 27 per cent, W. 11, Vanderblit eald last evening that he hiad not received any definite information from Mr, Nowell on tho subject, but from the telegraina from Mr. Newoll und from the instructions that had Doon given him, Mr. Vanderolit thought the de- cision of AMr. Fink bad been acceoted by al) the roads directly interested. The aportioninent of east-bonnd frefght was only sn exveniment for threo months, and for toat short timy any of the lines coala afford to make concesalong for the sake of harmony, Bome of the Western roads could ot remain under thefr corporate managoment if the extremely low rates of the paat wero 1o con- tinue, snd whille the Luko Shore did not belong to thls clang, 1t was not desirable, oven to its tivals, that auy raliroad should gu into the bands of s lte celver. 3r, Newell, therefore, hiad been inatruct. cd to accept Mr. Fink's allotment unicas there shiould b wome cxtraordlnary resson for refecting The order of Commissloner Fink. that all west bound frelght from Philadelptiinand Boston should be diverted from the Wabash and other Western roads recently mentioned in the Z'ridune a8 baving offendud by obtaining more than their allotied per- centages of frelubt, was accepted by the managern of the trunk lincs, but it now nEpull that sume of the agenta faflod to carry out thoe order, and, con- lcnuonll{. 1t 4s o dead Jetter. No attention 1a be- ing paid to the matter in Pluladelphia, and itis not known that the order had been obeerved in Bos- ton, 'The same paper, in speaking of tho diversion of business to routes not dosired by the sbip- ers, safs: ‘The annoyanco and delay of this diversion of the frefght frooi the routes Ermned Ly the shippers has become sn great thut the mercbants have de- cided 1o take some action in the matter, An Infore mal meeting of Western shippers waatield yeuterdu afternoon ot the ottice of 11. I, Ciaflin & Cou., whicl was attonded by most of the representatives of the Jeading Western honscs who are now in this city. A resolution was unanimously sdopted that *°m genoral mee’ing of Western siippers nterested in the dversion of froights from runtes of thuirown solection shonld be liold at the counting-roum of H. L. Clafiln & Co.™ A Committve has also been appointed to Lake counsel for the purpose of pros- ecutiug clatue for damages canved by the diverslon of fretght frum the ronte designated by the sbip- pors. TITE MISSOURT RAILROAD LAW, The Haunlbsl Courler aunouuces that the managers of tbe Hannibal & Bt Jossph Rail- roal have determined not to comply with the new Btate law regulating freight and pascenger tarilfs, which zoes into cffect April 1.~ Col. R 8, Btevens, General Superfutendent of thu Road, belve fnterviewed tu regurd to this mat- te, suld that be liad concluded that bis Compa- uy were not answerablo to thu new Taw, and that no stteution whatever would by pald to its provisions, but thut a new schedule of tarifla would be uuuiu ovut at very low and equitably rates, but not at the rates prescribed new law, g Col, Btovens sald that he was scting under tho best tegal adylce, und cxhibited u lengthy opinlon given by the Hon. George W, Easley, cnersl attorney for the rond, which opluon fiml Influcueed INm 1o fgnore the requircments of the law. Mr. Eunaley holds thit the fannital & 8t. Juseph Road 18 exompt [row the vpera- tlous of thu uew law, and that jt can only spply to such ronds as have defaulted {o the puyment of priucipal uad futerest thercon, and that when thu State suld fts claln Lo such roads 1t pro- vided by legislation that, after ten ¥ from the taking effect of the act Ym\'ldhu for the sale of such ruads, they shoula b subjectad to the provisions of the geueral faws then tu force, or thereafter enacted, clussifylug and regulatiug passenger sud frelght rates, That as the Hanoibal & 8t. Joc Raitroad has never defaulted ouly ou payment of princioul or fnterest on ts State atd bonds, it will noy atfected by the apeclal lectstation In regard to such roads, The charter of thia road provides that the Company luay charizg and roceive such tolls wud bouetlts for tho transportatlon of pur- suns, convicts, or carrlages on sald roud or any purt thereol, or uny bridve connceted therewitt, as shall bo o the Interest of the wawe. Buch tolls shall be eatabliahied by the Direetora, and ey be chawged from thetm; that bis cliarter has never been surrendered or repealed, and that the ouly possible contrul which the Btate can exerehiy over the tarlils of the rosds bs to fnstitute suite In the courts, and if the rates are declared to bo exorbitant or unreasonable, after u fair trigd, then the Compauy cuuld be forced to reduce them, ‘Fhe opluton §s very lengthy, and pumerous authoritics are cited, ‘Tl new 1arifl sh aud will be promul y the 8 are now being arrauged, iated Lo u few days. AN INDIANA ADVENTURE, Spectal Dispatch Lo The Tribune. IspiaNaroLts, lnd.,, March 8l,—Jason "N, Conley, Willlams Mason, Aden U, Caveus, of Bloomtield, Green Couuty, wnd Edward J. Me- Kenus, of Tudianspolis, buve dled o petition fu baukruptey. They ask that A, J. Wadaworth, ot Mictlgsn, be fucluded as ona of the irm of Couley, Mason & Co, This flrm begau to build arailroad through the couuties of Lawreuce, Sullivan, Qreco, and Owen, to bo knuwn as the Bloowiield, Bodford, Springield & Uweusbury Railroad, ‘The road was built from Bloowteld to Swiss City, six miles, and o debt of about £300,000 erected to wive thy euterprise tho nec tons and Lody. The Iudisnapohs Holttng Y ot %" Wb’ priucipal debtor, fts clalm being §2 15,4124, sceured & everything the Company possesses und $140 of subsidics voted by suvdry townsbips. ‘The ubsecured clalus aisount €0 ¥,000, divided among ahont 200 farmers of (reen and Sullivan Counties, and merchants of Bloomfield. Con- loy’s Individual debts will reach §14,000: assets f'land £16,000. Mason's lebts foot np $7,600; aacets, land valued at £42,000, covered by a £350,000 morizaga to the Roliing Miil Company. Cavens’ unsrcured Jlabilities are $10,000; asscts, $20,000. McKenna’s liabilities will not exceed $3,000; assets nominal. THE MORGAN STRIPS, Bpectal Dirpalch to The Trisune, Dwienr, 111, March 81.—The dispatch to Tna Cnicaco TRipUNE of Friday with regard to the “ Morean-strip suits” has caused constderable talk liere, The Dewight Star says: “As the matter now stands, the rafirond company nor any one else has any right to occupy the strips, except Ly rluht of posseasion. It will probably be some time before the strips are vacated hy those now in possession, and until that timo things will remain as they are. This weare informed from the best authority Is not _the case, On the other and, the Chieago & Alton Rallroad Company will, 25 goun as they recefve the mandato of the Sa- preme Court of the United States aflirming thelr title, proceed at once to take posseasion nf this properts. While they are not disposed in any way Lo put partics to any trouble, they will insist upon this property belng vacated with as littie delay as possible, ~ The decree of the Cir- cuit Court of the United States, heid at Chi- cag, declared the title to be In the railroad company, and_this decree has been afirmed by the Bupreme Court at Washington. THE FAR NORTII. B7. PAur, Minn,, March 8L.—J. J. 0ill and Edinund Rice, representing the new owners of the 8L Puul & Pacific Raitroad, have returned from the East, and report the trausfer of the bondholdiug interest from the Datch holders to Conads and BMinnesota parties. The new proprictors have obtsined s majority of the bonds on very favorable terms, which will vlace them {n posscssion of the road within six months after the foreclosure, which will take place o June. Work on the 8t. Vincent & Melrose cxtensions will be commenced ot once, and the jormer will be completed to the bound- ary here by Oct. 1. ‘The Canadfan Uovernment bave arranged 1or & slimultancous completion of tbhe British linc, o that cars will be running from 8t. Paul to Winnlpey, In Mauitobs, by Novewber. AMUSEMENTS. TITE DE MURSKA CONCERT. The newly-formed De Vivo troupe gave fts first concert lost evening, at [ooles’s Thentre. ‘There was a fair housc under thecircumstances; and the audience was decldedly enthusiastic, almost cvery song recciving am encore. some uncxplained reason, the performance did not commence till hall-pnst 8 o'clock, and the waits: between the pleces were unuecessarily long; so that, notwithstanding the programme embraced but twelve numbers, its cluse was not reached till quite a late hour. Ra's s0los comprised Benedict's Varlations on * The Carnival of Venice,” * Una Voce,” and Her volce re- *The Last Rose of Sunmimer.” tains its phenomenal brilllancy,—its wonderful flexibllity evoking reminlscences of Carlotta Pattl, It 1s much better sulted to bravura music thau to bolled, and was shown to its hest advantage Inthe runs and trills of the Carnlyal soug, the theme of which bas been made so familfar to all by its frequent interpre- tation on the violin by Ole Bull. The plaintive Irieh melody which Flotow employed so effect- Ivcly in his * Martha ¥ was rendered o n mon. uer sonewhat lacking In feeling, but with such vocallstie pyrotechufcism as to call out a storm of pinudits,” Brignoll sang his favorite ** Wup- part,” Sullivan's * Love Unce Agaln,” * Good- bye, Sweetheart,” and, on a double recall, “ [ Love but Thee.! Those tenor tones which were 80 delizhtful away back in the carly '00's, arc still dellghtful; not o note {s blurred, and Lo still | possesses that come pination of sweotness ond force to which few of our tenors have ever exhibited an ap- progtmation. The veteran basso profundo, Su- sini, returns to us with his voice Improved from the condition In which it was several years azo, It manifests an occasional Luskiness; but it is stiil a noble orzan, aud spparently atils of dolng agood deal of good work yet. Mr. C. Mukin, a baritone (or, rather, a basso cantaute), is a news coxner hiere, and achieved @ falr measuro of suc- ceks Iu acouple of descriptive Lallada, Mr. John Hill (husband of Do Murska) Is the accomn- panist of the troupe, and gave two pluuo solos, which were characterized by more grace than force. A duo from *The Elixtr of Love " was nypmfinuely presented by De Murska and Bust- ni,—tho latter acting with as much vizorous Lu. mor a8 {f e were en costume os Dr, Dulcamara, The verformance closed with a trio from “Beiisario," by De Muraka, Brignoll, and Susinl. Altogetlicr, the troupe (s n vc?' fine one, and, 1f its wierits are properly rewarded, will meot with great succeas I its projectod tour, — LOCAL NOTES. Mr, John McCullough was {n the city yester day on his way to 8t. Louls. Mr. Sothern aod his party left town Inst oven- ing for Cincinnatl, where * The Crushed " will begin au cuyagement to-nizht. McVicker, has underlined the Boston editlon of “The Exiles,’ and uicans to bring it out simultancously with Georeo Fawcett Rowe's verslon which is to be produced at Hooley's. Of courie, Mr. Hooley will regurd this us o cut- throat operation un the part of a brother mauager, yet it may be well to rowember that Mr, Rowe was the flrst to provoke this kind of retaliation .lls) endeayoring to steal the thunder of Messrs, Tomkins & Hul, who ot considerable risk wado the play a vuccess. ——————— A Change of Dodies, A French gentleman lately journeyed to Mar- sciiles, taking with him the body of lits mother- Iu-law, who had oxpressed u wish to bo buried in the family vault fn that city. When hie reached Marseilles aud wont with the Commts- sloner of Pohice to secelve the Lody [som the rallway ufticlals, he notlced thug the cotliu was not thut which he had delivered to them, The oftictals had sent to Toulon the cotlin contalgiug Lis wother-In-law's body, beloving that i beld the remutng of 8 decewsed Admnral, which wers 10 be embarked for Interment in Alyeris, while the cotlin awalting dellvery was the one which should b seut ou. ‘The geutloman haviog ro- quested the ofllelals to conununicate ut oned with Toulun by telegraph, proceeded thither bimeelf with -the cofln of the Admiral. Ic uscertalued when he got there that the flrst cofiln had been duly recesved, tuken ou boord, 1d the thunder of furt and of Hoet, the Btate vessel which was waiting for it, and dispatetied 10 Algeria, He at once called” upon the Marl- time Prefect of Toulon and exvlained the cire cumstuces of tho cuse, but thouch o dispateh boat was sunt fu pursull, the other vessel was uot overtuken, How uow at Toulon awaiting ber return, and declines to give up the cotiln contaiufing the decensed Admiral until ho ro- gulis pusscasion of s wother-ln-law's re- walus. ——— Thoe Bankor's Clock. A Parls banker, a self-madv mun who had known the struegies of poverty In his youuu days, hod an old thue-pleve over is bed when b breathed his last o few woeks agu. When he was 8 boy he used to say to him ** Whon you are rich you will buy s plcture-clock, repre- senting a hainlet with iis church aud tn the stecplu u clock; and ab the foos of the village a raflroml, with a tratu fo foll motion, and on ouo sida the sea, with ships eailing pr.? All these thipgs were inaule to work by machinery I the cluck which tne rlchbanker bought. Thy tratn whistled und ran rlong the line, sud the sbins were tossed la the sea; aud the key which set thew In motion was carrled (i the old geu- tlewan's proket. The clock bad the Lvlu'n of honor fu Ids drawini-root, surrounded jvalnt- {ags which cost thelr welght in gold, und there {s rematned for yeurs. iy wife and children did not ke it. “Tucy laughed at it. ‘They could uot understand bis whi, They did pot kuow of all the old dreams which that plcture awak- ened fu hin. 114 fricnds laugbed ot bim tor fettinz it rewaly fu the draw.ng-room. 8o by took it futo his own room. Whenover bie want. ed to reuew bis youth hiv would wind up the vid clock, sud then tho steeplo wuuld cifme, tho sen roaz, tho ships tois backwurds and forwards, sud he would feel as huppy as in tue old days zfimn bo used to dream ut the wouderful Casure,. An Autldote for Sirychulue, An fostanco ot the prowpt snd successful use of an antidote in u cass of strychbiue-poloning is circamstautially uvarrated o NVature A fa- vorits Skye wrr{-:r bad accldentally obtained sud eatcn” the polson, which was luteuded for mice, ‘The smouut ul:u Ly the doui was prob- ably sbout » sixth of a gratu, When found, the anfwal wus rigd aud apparently lifcless, except baving an occaslonsl spustn, “The owuer cous sulted suthuritios and found that & dose of cbloral bydrato wds the autidots preseribed fu puch vases. To kill @ rubbit, tweaty-ove gratus of the chiloral 1s suflicicnts tho dog was twice th welght of a rubbit, und the owner of the terrder, therefore, Euu}mj to fnject forty-tive geatus of chlorul (I solution) ynder- ity skiu, About fiteen wlittes witervard, supposing the For Mile. Do Murs- dog was dead, the owner _applied his boot o it, probably feeling a litjle disgusted with the ro- sult of his experiment. To his great surprisc, the terrier struirrled to jts feet, Bhortly after~ ward jt took some miflk, and subsequently, though not for a while very lively, it secmes none the worse for ita experience. The essen- tial point in this treatment s that the dose of chloral shonld be strong enough to kill; other- wisc {t may not be sutlicient to overcome the effects of the strychnine. ‘Two Amerfean Misses. Mies Tasippt and Miss Onrd, are dia-gured 8 good deal by lnflnnu in thelr months, unrdo: that ali other Misses may avold the like blemishes, the are advlacd to oas b famous Sorodont: which will prevent and obvinte all such difficalties. ; ——— For weakness of the stomach and bowels, San- ford's Jomaica Ginge Iy Baw BUSINESS NOTICES. A tWonderfal Discovery—An Article that W)l Mako the Bald and the Gtay-Headed Rejoice, —Of 8l the componnds which the chomis bave given to the world for hundreds of ¥ for the purposa of restoring the hair o its natural growth and color, not ona has been porfect. Many of the hatr-dtessings of the day are excellent, but *he great mass of the atafts sold for promoting the grovth snd Bringing ‘beck the original colot mere humbugs, while not a faw are niclous In thelr etfects upon the atruotare of the hair. All hair-dyes to chemists an more or lens pofsono! chango In color fs artidc not dep tipou & restoration of the functions of the scalp theit natural health snd vigor, 0 T'he falling ont of the halr, the sccnmuistions of dandrufl, and the gmnnmm change In color are sll evidences of & {seased condition of the scalp and the glands which nourish tho halr. t these cats the article used must pos ge must begin under the acalp to be of permanent and lasting benefit. Such an article has been discovered, And ike many other wonderfal discoveries it ia found to cons st of clements ahnost in their natural atate. Pelroleum otl is the articls which fa mada to work such extraordinary resuits; but it s afiee the best refined aricle han boen chemically treated and completely deadorized that Jt r In proper con. dition for tna tollct. It was In fac-off Mussia that the effects of petroioum npon the lair were frat observed; 8 Government officer having noticed that a partially baldlieaded sprvant of bis, when trimming the [amps, had d hubit of wiping 4is otl- beymeared bands in his scanty locks, and the ree Fuit war, o n few months, & tuch finer head of vlack, glossy bair than be' ever had heforo. Tho off wan tried on horses nnd cattie that bad Tost their hair from the cattle plague, and the results were n rapid ae they wers marvelone. Tlc manes and even thie tafls of horses, which had fallen oat, were completely restored In o few weeks. Thess experiments were heralded to the world, bt the knowledge was practically uscless to the prema- turely bald and gray, 88 1o one In the civilized s0- clety conld tolerute tho use of refned petroleum s 4 dressing for the hnir. But the skill of one of oar chemista has overcomo (he difiiculty, and by & process known ovly to Limsell he has, after very claborato and coslly experiments, muce cecded in deodorizing refined votroleam, which renders it susceptible of bLeing hane dicd an dalnilly as the 1amous eau de cologae. ‘Tno experiments with the deodorized liguid, on the haman balr, wero nttended with the most aston- isbing results, A few applicatiune, whers the haie waa thin_aud falllng, guve remarkablo tone and vigor to the scalpund thie bhair, and tho natury color beyat to appenr olmost from the Arst applie cation. ~Every particlo of dandrufl disappears on the et or nccond dressing, and ths hquid, so searching In ita_ nature, seema to penetraio to the roota st once, and setup a radical change fromn the start. (¢ iswall knowa that the most beautiful colors are made from vetroleuw, and by some mys- terious operution of nature the use of this article gradually tmparts a beautitul Jight brown color te the halr, which, by continucd use, deepens to o black. Tha color remaius permanent for an in- detinite lengih of time. und toe chunge is 20 grud- ual tnut the nost intiniate friendn can scarcely dos tect Its_progress. In a word, 1t §n tho most won- derfal discovery of he age, and well calcolated to mako the prematurely bald una gray rejuice. Tha name Carvoline, deodurized extract of petroloum, hns beeu piven tothy article, audls putupin & neat und attractlve manner and sold by all deslers in druys and mediclucs, Price 31 a hoitlu, Kennedy & Co,, Pittabueg, Pe., General Agents for the United States aud Canadas, g We ndvise our readers to give it a trial, feclin; satisfied that one application wlil convincoe thew o its wonderful effecta, - —— “The Eleetrle Chalr,” juventod by Dr. Clesson Pratt, of 202 State ktrect. A\ more {nzenl- ous device difected to tho relief of nuinan feuilers g bas never cowo to. our knowledge, Hoars 2 MEDICAL. CATARRHAL ‘heard of B SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE. After some exerclse one warm summer’s day I passed RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRIL Ilow 1 bave suf- fered wiien a1 publie meetings, or at church, trylng to avold the cough which constautly clung to me! after night have 1 atn nwal relier, thiat Linfgnt sleop and forget my suflering. 1860 | took anothor suvero cold, with more catarrhal troubles, and aitil tn March, 3577, 1 took another that hadall the eymptoms of & fatal aflectivn. The dis- charge from my nos and Woutl was siich &s alt cone sumptives have. Tho Inrusds 1t wado on my health wero frizht I thuught unless I got rollef at onco that 1 must die. At this Umo [hiesrd of BANFORD'S IRADICAL CUNE and fmmedlately besau & falthful urt of it. coughlns, What au escuuragenicst 1o ong who bad suffered e L had! What 8 good beglaniug! Lcantinoed new mian—uob a youn inaa, for | aw {o my Afty-alnth year, §ticod nut vay suything in prajse of the RADI- CAL CURF, beyoud what 1 hsve sald. [t has dune tor me what I never thouzhit 18 wonld~glven e tmmedis ate relief from thirty yeats of sufferfuz uaderaytus rality of diseascs, 1t 13 2 blessing to be rid of threw tore tal disensea—a blessing 1 never expected to vnjoy, bush s bosn mmy experionce witli the Itadical Cure, JAMES MuUULDRICK, Boston, Oct. u, 1877, 10 Plyoiptun-court. The maguitndo of th 1y cauved by Ctarrh, dy for Ita cure and uxicrmiuatiun secun for Consuuptions fur 3ike tho lsttor {¢ ulucs and bur- rows lu the system uail §t breaks down every vital forcu opposcd W lia tearful raveges. ufteriag, tho bilght, the misa- ‘04 tho questias of thu Teme- SANFOILD'S RADICAL CURK s & Local aad Cone stitutional Keinody, 1 is lubuled, thus actlug dircely upou tho nasal cuvitlos. Itis taken luteroally, thus neutralizing sud purifylug the acidided blovd, A new ana wouderful remedy, dostroying the germ of the dise easo, Price, with Improved lubialer aud Trestise, 81, Botd by all druzzists throughout the United states aud Caundas, snd by WEEKS & POTTEL, Wholesalo Drug- plsts, Boston, Mass. COLLINS VOLTAIC PLARSTER. Electricity acd lcaliog Balsams unlted to form tha moet wonderful liesiloy, soothing, sad Btrenginculog Plaswer ever diacovered (o tle history of mediclue, INSTANT RELIEF Fur Rheumattsm, Neuralgla, Weak Hack, Weakness, Paralysls, Weak Spine, Norvous V'slas, Stralns, 8praing, aud Boreness. WEAK BACK, Pan and Weakness acros tha Kidneya, Shooting Pelos through e Lolus, Lack of btrcugth aad Acuriiy, curd 88 by wagte. DYSPEPSIA, Weakness of the Stomach sud Bowels, Indigestion, Craumps 3ad Palua, relieved and cured withous laternal medicluce, Dyspeptica, 1ry one. PRIGE 25 CENTS. Be careful ta obtaln Culiins' Voltalc Plaster, & com- binstion of Electris sad Voltale Plates, with & biguly Modicated Plaster, sascen 1o the above cut. Bold by sll Wholesale sud Rotsil Druggiate througbout the Unls ted Stalus and Csuadas, sud by WEEKS & POTTER, Propriewrs, Boston. Mass. AUCTION SALES, AUCTION SALE TO OLOSH A PARTNERSHIE, Wachintry Used in Copsiruction of Fullerton-g. Condnt s Frogerty of the Lats Fum of Futzstmons & Conpell A lot of Engines, Bollers, Pulloys, &c., 8% foos of 1« Muola-st., Chicago. Bale to take place on the ground, April 3, 1674, at 10 v'clock & @, snd will be o the hlgbest bldder for cash ta baad. CLINTON DBRIGAS, Epeclal Cumulsgloncr, CONSUMPTION. . 1 thought unless I got' rellef at once I must die, ‘At this time I through marshy ground, got wet, took cold, snd have never ot the better of eatarrhal disease thers ca- tracted untlf I beeame scquatnted with BANFORD'S Niunt praying for sume slight in The Grat reflef wus 8 Kool nIGhE's roet from i until | 4iad used twelve bosttes. 1 tlien found wysell & ‘ nly 1o that