Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1878, Page 2

. banded. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 21 ' 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES German mediation on England, in haviog re- jected a proposal that the Congress should be summoned to revise the treaties of 185 and 1871, and again inststed on her original condi- tion. However this tay be, it s certain tnat uew difficulties have arisen. CONTINUING. . eullPredd 05" EatiaTactory esalis, bt the Brefal delay shows that the formerdivergence of views is again apoarent. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCES. Sr. PETERSBURG, April 20.—Several of to- day’s papers state that a prelimmary conference should be accepted as the means of ascertalning the real intentions of England. BOTH AGREED. Paris, April 20.—The papers publish a tele- gram from Berlin, stating tbat England ana Russia have agreed to the principle of the simultancous withdrawal of the British fiect and Russian troops from the neighborhood of Cop- stantinople, but the pofots to which they will withdraw are not decided upon. ENGLAND, TRANSPORT STEAMERS, * ‘LoxDox, Apnl. 20.—The (ndfan Government have chartered five stcamers for the conveyance of troops from India. Three are taken for three months, and their primary destination is Port Said. The other two are engaged for two months. These are the 8t. Asaph, the celcbrated Australian steamer of 5,500 tons burden, capa- ‘ble of transporting 5,000 mean, and the Nankin, of: 3,500 tons, capable of carrying a full regi- ment, - 'STRONG FLEET. ‘The United Service Gazette saysit has rood rea- son for stating that there will be a strong com- bined Channet and Baitie fieet formed during the next two months. INCIDENTAL. THOE GRAND DUKE. BAN STEFANO, April 20.—Nothing i3 known here of the recall of the Grand Duke Nicholas from the command of the army. RUSSIAN SAILORS. Sr. PETERSBURG, April 20.—An order is offi- cislly published that the necessary number of men be called out from the naval reserve to form three corps of sailors for service in the fleet, two of which are to be stationed at Cron- stadt, and the third at Nicolalefl. MELIEOFF. Tirris, April 20.—Gen. Melikofl will start for St. Petersburg to-morrow. - DISBANDED. The Caucassisn Army Corps is to be dis- MISCELLANEOTUS. DANQUET TO GEN. GRANT. FLORENCE, 1taly, April 20.—A banquet will ‘be given to-night to Gen. Grant by the widow of J. L. Graham, late United States Consul in this city, to which the leading ladies of Florence bave been invited. Gen. Grant to-day visited the art-galleries of the Uflizi ana Pitti palaces. He atso attended the religions ceremonies of Holy Saturday. THE POPE. ¢ RouE, April 20.—At the Easter reception of the Cardinals to-day, Pope Leo dwelt upon the strength and vitality of the Pontificate. He said: “ The war which has been declared against. the Papacy from the earliest times continues with undiminished flerceness. Trusting in God, we are ready to carry on the warfare, and to uphold the rights of the Church.” The Roman Pontiff concluded by expressing the hope that the etring children would flnally submit. FINANCIAL. ACTUAL RESUMPTION. Special Dispach to The Tribune. Mamsos, Wis., April 20.—The great question of resumption was settled here to-day by the State Treasury and the First National Bank rcsuming epecie payments. The Wisconsin State Journal paid its weekly. salaries in gold. Some $2,000 ‘Were paid out by the bank and State Treasury dur- ing the day, $200 of which found its way back 10 the bank In deposits before the close of banking doars. A grain buyerat Stonghton received a con- signment of gold from Chicago, and endeavored to poy it out to the farmers for grain, but the major part of them refused to receive it, demanding Rreerbacks instead. NasuviLLz, Teon., April 20.—The Fourth Na- tlonal Bank has announced its readiness to resumo #pecio payment. CLEVELAND. Spectal Dispach to The Tribune. CievELAND, O., April 20,—A large number of bankraptcy suits are being entered these daysin anticipation of the repeal of the law'by Congress. ‘The following are some of the important ones enter- ed here to-dsy: Tourbeek & Co., of Alliance, bank- erspdnvoluntary; lisbilities of petitioning creditors $16,000, H. K. leynolds, bardwureman, of this city, involuntary: _about $20,000 lisbilitity. Charles Miller and J. H. Hower, stockholders in the firm of J. F. Sieberting & Co., mowing ma- chine manufacturers, made a joint petition. Lia- bllities, $250,000; assets, $50,000. SPRINGFIELD. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. SeersaPiELD, Apnit20.—The early approach of the repeal of the Bankrupt law seems to have stim- ulated activity in the Bankrupt Court for this District. There wero eleven petitions in bank- Tuptey. fted in the Tnited Ststes District Clerk's ofiice. Voluntary petitions by Samuel P, Cox and Walter 1. Bell. Bloomington; Valentine Schlicher, Fred P. Rose, Hennibal F. Abell, and Joseph Crowder, and by creditors against Samuel A. Hunt Bushnell, Willism S. Huokle, and Wiiliam F. Miller, of Mattoon; George Dolby. of Mechanics- burg, Seogamon County; and Ferd F. 1de, Spring- ST. LOUIS. St. Louts, Mo., April 20.—The following volun- tary petitions in bankruptcy ‘were filed yesterday and to-day: William N. Malquien, pork-packe: liabilitics, $702, 600; assets, $950,000. The heaviest creditor ia the Connecticat Mutual Life-Insurance Company, $i8,000. Davidson & Mussengale. commiesion merchants; liabilitics, 512, 683; assets, $6.250. Fred F. Rosier, commission_merchant} Disbllivies, 833, 0003 Besets, $95,000. William G. owing, of Memphis, Scotland County, Mo, ; lia- billtlex; $4£,000; astets, 571,000, BOSTON. Bostox, April 20.—The Trustees of the Five Cent Savings Bank to-day decided 1o enforce the sixty days' notice for the withdrawal of deposits, owing to heavy calle, * The bank has 70,000 de- tors, over $10,000,000 deposits, and is smd to a surplus of 5500000 over all Slaims, FIRES. AT CASSOPOLIS, “MICH. Drrrorr, Mich., April 20.—A fire at Cassopolis, Mich., this morning destroyed a barn belonging to William Jones, together with six horses, four mules, and a Jarge quantity of hay, oats, corn,and Tye, wagons, buggics, etc. Loy, $53,000; insar- ance, unknown. lacendiary. CHICAGO. At 7:20 p. m. yesterday a still alarm of fire was gent to Engine No. 9 by the American District Telegraph Comoany. The fire occurred ut the Daint-ghop of the Illinois Central Itallroad Car- sho_xrs. foot of Twenty-scventn strcet, and was casily put ont, the damage being merely nominal, ———— FATAL FALL Lamawz Crrx, Wyo., April 20.—Col. Rud Kleeman. formerly of Chicazo, and engaged ‘here in company with some Cincinnati men in opening and operating the Suurise Mine, was 1nstantly killed st evel;:}g h{x falling down the sbaft of the mine. e was being drawn up the shaft, fell to the bottom, a distance o o Teer Tha oay was brought in here this morning, ————E Tast 26 Penngy T Moller. ust 28 Pennsylvania was z self that the sway of the m‘ifi"&:fi}fi‘a‘?& broken, comes the news that the old Order is re- orzanizing. The Legislative Committee ap. luted to investizate last summer's riots hag ust closed its work at Scranton, where 1t found }most important witness in the person of . - Scranton, Geseral Superintendent of the Lackawanna Coal ana lron Company, He e ported that the Magulres, driven out of Schuyl- ill County, were talking refuge in the mount- ains of Luzerne, and orvanizing anew in the Inining settlements between Wilkesbarre and Carbondale. The Lackawanna Company, how-~ cver, has learned wisdom by the exverience of Schnylkill, and organized and equipped a strong Joree of coal and iron police from its employes, and noder command of, one of its foremen, like that which proved su’effective in breaking up tha old Order i its former strongholds, WASHINGTON. More Developments Concerning New York Custom-House Frauds. = A Most Unanswerable Argument Against the Prescnt Officials. Prominent Features of the New. Inter- nal Revenue Law. . Latest Speculations Ro.g-nrding the Designs of the Electoral Wreckers. The President and the Republican Con- gressional Committeo in Full Acoord, .THE CONSPIRATORS. TOE BLAIR-TILDEN PLAN. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasamveros, D.C.. April 20.—Indications mal- tiply to induce the belief that the Conkling inter- view is part of the Blalr-Tilden plan to lay the basis for reopening the Presidential question. Special importunce is attached to that passage in the interview in which it fs pretended Conkling was convinced tuat there was rottenness in Louisi- ann, and that an cffort was making during the pendency of the Electoral bill to stifle ll inquiry. There undoubtedly ls & scheme whigh is-to be urg- ¢d through the House Judiciary Cowmmittee to re- open tho investigation of the Loulsiana Returning- Board. The confidence of some Tilden leaders s 50 great that euspicion has arisen that wesker mgmbers of the Returnlng-Board may have been bought with a price to testify 10 that which i3 untruc. Republicans have claimed to havo indubitable evidence that money was offer- cd on bebalf of the Democratic party to induce the Loufsiana Retarnine-Board to GIVE THE STATE TO TILDEN. In view of the attitude of certain Democratic lead- ers. the question wonld scem to be pertinent whother similar corrupt offers may not have heen made eince March 4. It is obvious that the Tilden managers are proceediny upon the assumption that some_member of the Returning-Board is will- Iz to swear (the Tilden managers say confess) that there was rottenness in the count. 31t 18 proposed that the members of th Board be summoned and compelled to anawer THESE QUESTIONS Were yon advised by any one whom yon believed to represent the Government at Washinston or the party now in power that it \was necessary for you, in the interest of the national welfare, and in dls- reeard, if need be, of lawaof the State, under which' you acted, to countout the Tilden electors and count in the llayes’ electora? . Did_you thus countont and connt In, and in violation of what you believed to be the provisions of the law under which you nold oftice? Theee questiops sound verymuch like David Dudles Fleld. Itis possible that the Judiclary Committee, without farther instructions from the Tlouse, may have power under the generalfdrag-net investigution suthority conferred upon the leading committees to send for persons and papers. Those who are very near to Tilden declare that some movement may be anticipated within two weeks. INTERNAL REVENUE BILL. . LEADING PROVISIONS. Wasamvaros, D. C., April 20.—Following are the nrincipal features of the Internal Revenue bill ordered to-day by the Committece on Ways and AMeans to be reported to the Honse: * Be it enacted, etc.. That on and after the ‘passage of this act there shall be levied and col- lected upon a1l _enuff manufactured of tobacco or any substitute for tobacco, ground, dry, damp, pickled, scented, or otherwise, of all descriptions when prepared for use, and uvon all chewing and smoking tobacco, fine cnt, cavendish, plug, or twist, cut or cranulated, of every description, or tobacco twisted by hand, or reduced intoa condi- tion 10 be consumed, or in any manner other than the ordinery mode of dryinz and curing, pre- pared for sale or consumption, even if prepured withont the use of uny muchune or {nstrament, and withont belng presséa or sweetencd, and on all fine cut, shorts, and refuse scrap clippings, cat- tings, and sweepings of wabacco, a tax of 16'cents per pound. On cigars of all descriptions, which shall be mannfactured and sold or removed for consump- tion or use of leaf tobacco or any substitute there. for, there shall be levied and collected a tax.of per 1,000. On cigarettes, weighing not more than threeand a half pounds per 1.000, $1.25 per 1,000. On cigarettes weizhing more than three and a half pounds per 1,000, $5 per thon«and. INCOME TAX. - Sec. 2. There shall be levied and collected for 1875, snd sunually thereafter, upon the gains, rofits, and income of every person residing in the nited States, and of every citizen temporarily re- eiding abroad, derived from auy source _whatever, whether within or without the United States, ex- cept a8 hereafter provided, zains, profite, and income derived within the United States by a per- son residing without and not a citizen_ thereof, or from rents of real estate within the United States owned by a resident without and not a citizen thereor,” the following tax, to-wit: Two per centum. In estimating gains, profits, and incomes, there siiall be = included all income derived from any kind of property, rents, interest received or accraed upon ali notex, bonds, and morizages, or other forms of indebtedness bearinz interest, whether paid or not, as good and collectable interest npon notes, bonds, or other securities of the United States, tae awount of all premiums on_ wold and coupons, the gains, profits, and income of ny business, pro- fewsion. trade, employment, oflice, or vocation, including any amount received as salary or pay for services inthe civil, military, naval, or other serv- ice of the Un'ted States, as Senator, Representa- tive, or Delegate in Congress, the sharcof any perdon of the gains and profits, wneth- er divided or “uot, of all companies or partnerships, but not including the amount re-. ceived from any corporations whose officers. ag authorized by law, withhold and puy as taxes 8 per centam of the dividends made and of interest or coupons paid by euch corporations, the profits above costs and expenses actually received in cash, or cash value realized within the year from sales of real estate purchased within 1wo years previous to the year for which the income is estimated; the amount of eales of live stock, sugar, wool, butter, cheese, pork, beef, mutton, or othér medts: hay and grain, raits, vegetables, or other produc- tions, belng the growth or product of the estate of such person, but not including any part thereof consumed directiv by the family, aud all other gaing, prodts, and incomes drawn’ from any source whatever, but not inclading rental, value of homestead ownea, snd used, or occupled Ly any person or by his family; provided no gift, de- vise, nor property acquired by inneritance, dis- tribution, or succession shall be accounted as gains, pronts, or income under this section. Mili- tary or naval pensions allowed 10 any pereon nnder the Jaws of the United States.and the sum of 82,000 of zains, profits, and Income of any per- €on shiall be exempt from said income tax 1 the manner hereinafter provided. Only one deduction of §2.000 shall be made from the aszgregafe income of all mem- bers of any family composed of one or both parents and _one ur more munor children, or of husband and wife; but where the wife has by law a ecparate income, 'beyond the ontrol of her husband, and {s living separata and upart from him, such deduction shull then be made from her income, gains, end profits: and guardians and trustees shall be ailowed to make deduction in favor of each ward or beneflciary, except that in case of two or more wards or heneficiaries com- prited in one family, having joint property inter- cst. only one deduction snall be made in their favor. For the purpose of allowinz said deduc- tion from the income of any religious or social commanity holding all their property and income therefrom jointly and in common, each 5 of the persuns composing such society, and any re- maining fractional nomber of €uch persons, less thon five, over euch gzroups of five, sbail be held to constitute a family, and a deduction of $2,000 shall be allowed for each of suid families. 1n addition to these exemptions, there shail be deducted from the pains, profits, and income of any persousl premimmns, or Ineurance of life or property, and all national, State, coupty, and mu- nicipal tax puid by him within the year, whether such person be owner, tenaut, or mortgagee, all bie lostes actually sustained during the year uris- ing from fires. floods, snipwrecks, or incurred in trade, and debts aecertained to e wortnless. but excluding all estimated depreciation of values, amount of interest pald during the year. and amount paid for rent or labor to caltivate land, or to condact uny other business from which income is derived, the amount paid for reat of house or premises occapied aa residence for himself or his family, and amonnt paid_out for the usual and ordinary repairs. No deduction _shall be made forany amount paid ont for new build- ings, permaneut improvements, or betrerments made 10 {ncresse the value of ‘any property or estate, The salaries of the President of the United States and of all the Judges of_the United Statce, 2ud of all oficers, executive, judicial, and legis: lative of any State of the Unfon shall'also be d docted from the gains, profits, and ncome of any Person, and be exemot from said tax, and Consuls of foreign Governments who are not citizens of the United States shall be exempt from any income {2x Imposed by this act, which may be derived {rom their oficial emoluments. and from property foreign countries. provided that - the Govern- :fig:'d‘:“::i?"mecxue n:-‘t;lxnuln may reprosent shall U%‘;’e it ption to the [Consuls of the ot the tax hereinbefore proyided shall be as- sessed upon Fains, profits, and meome for h:”a:{ toe year ending Dec. 31, 1878, and of each ding year, ond shall be assesséd and levied in S hichch sncceeding year a8 hereln vided. and shall, after wasessment, be duc and payable upon notica and demand ‘made as provided by Sec. TRevised Statntes. . a‘fis:iy person signing und moking retars, in te- rd 10 sald tax shull intentionallyBud (raudulently £ivn and make false return, he may be indicte and conyicted in any court of the United States having local jurisdiction, and shall, upon conylc- tion, be subject toa fine’ of not less than sn:ll ) nor more than $10,000. and b imprisoned not less Than ope vear nor wore than ten years, or both, a! hie uiscrétivn of the Court. CORPORATION TAX. There shall be levied and collected for and dur- ing 1878, and annually thereatter, 8 tax of 2 per centum on the omount of all interest or coupons paid on bonds or otber evidences of debt lssued 2nd purable in one or more years afterdate by any of e corporations in this scction hereluafter enumerated, and on all amonnts of all dividends of carntngs, income, or gains hereafter declured by any bank, trust company. saving institution, in- surance company, railroad company, caual com- pauy. turnpike comany, canal navigation company, 220 Slack-water company, wherever and whenever the same sliall be payabvle, and to whatsover porson the same may be due, including non-residents, \whether citizens or aliens, and all unaivided prodts of any such corporatton which have accrued and Leen earned, and added to any surplus contingeut or otlier fund, and every such corporation having Daid the tax e8 aforesaid is hercby nuthorized to deduct and withhold from any payment onaccount of tuterest. coupone, and dividends an amount cqual to 2 tax of 2 per centon the same, and puy- ment to the United Stutes, a8 _provided by law, of the awmonnt of the tax so dedncted from the inter- est, coupons, und divigends aforesuid shall dis- charge the corporstion frum any Hability for that amount of said interest, coupone, or dividends cinimed as due to nny person, except in cascs where suid corporations huve provided otherwise by express contruct; provided, that the tax upon dividends of insurance companies shall not be deemed duc until such dividends are payuble, either in money or otherwise, and that (be money retarned by mu- tual-insurance _companies to thelr °policy- holaers, und_nnnual or_semi-unnual interest al- Jowed or_paid to depositors i savings buanks or savinys. institutions, shall not be cansidered a8 dividends, and that when any aividend bs made, or interest us aforesald s vaid, which includes auy Dart of the surplus or contingent fund of any cor- poration which has been ussessed and . the tax paid thereon, or which _includes uny part of the divi- dends. interest, or coupons received from other corporations whose oflicers are authorized by luw to withhold the percentage on the same, tho amount of tax wo paid on that portion of the sur- plus or contin gent fund, and amount of tax which had been withheld and pald on dividends, interest or coupons ¥ received, may be deducted from the tax on such dividend o interest. Sec. 3. Amends Sec. 3,408 of the Rovised Statufes by adding at the end of the first clause in the cighth line the words followings ** Provided, however, no bauk or bunker shall be liable 10 snid tax upon any sum -under the name of deposits which shall appear to be deposited with any other bank or banker, and which 18 subject to tax as deposits with such last named bauk or bauker, and provided further that no funds belonging to any State which slall be on deposit in vy bank or tuiking institation shall be liable to_taxation by the Government of the United States, nor shall uny such bank or banking Institu- n holding such funds oo . deposit to the eredit of any State be required to pay a tax on the same as deposits, or in uny other manner whatever:” and strike out all in said section after both lines and insert the following: ‘*The de- posits in associations or companics kROWn as prov- ident institutiuns, saving banks, savings funds, or savings institutlons recoznized us such by the luws of their respective States. shull be exempt from taxon all deposits, and ou so much of their deposits us they have invested in the sccaritics of the United States, except thut where any deposits to the credit or in the name of any one shall ez- ceed §2,000 above that amount ehail be llable to fas.? CUSTOMS FRAUDS. MORE ROTTENNESS. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune, Wasmsatox, D. C., April 20.—The testimony of Maj. Curtis befora the Appropriations Commit- tee this forenoon fully corroborated the testimony yesterday. There 18 little doubt that these dis- closures will be used &s reasons for the appoint- ment of new Custom-House oflicials in New York. 1t is this Investigation which has given rise to the recent report of contemplated changes there. The | evtdenco tozday was cven worse for the presont mansgemen! tuan that of yesterday. It was proved that the attention of the Collector haa been called to the fact that there were suspicions of irregularities In these cases; that he had declared to the. Special Agent who made the discovery that it was A MARE'S NEST, and there was nothing in it; that the Government was wastingits time and money in investigation, and that the best thing for the Treasury to do was to immediatcly pay_these claims. It was also shown that some of the clerks who, by their own atldavits, received 14 per cent interest in the amounts realized by Douglass from these fraudu- ;&xml protests, arc still retained in the Custom- ouse. Special Agent Cartis last October catled the at- teution of Collector Arthur totho fact that some of these clerks had reccived fees on tafs ac- count, and_ yet these clerks were not removed, and two of them have recently been recommended by Collector Arthur for promotion, und one actn- afly was promoted. The Special Atent states that if any of the Collectors had called for the original papers in a single case it would'have been easy to detect these frauds. W0 the Western Associated Press. % ATTORNETS' CLAIM Wasmyaroy. D. C., April %0.—Special Agent Cartis, of the Treasury Department, to-day con- tinued his statement before the House Apuropria- tion Committee in relation to the lirge number of claims for custom drawbacks, claimed by a namuer of New York lawyers as attorneys for fmporters, 1 reviewed, ut considerable lenzth, o eroup of Ive_cases. amounting in the ngcresate to 201, designated 43 cases which bave been adjusted bot not pald, and eaid thwt there was but one case in the group that should be paid, and that was the case of 1L Pastor and others amainst Burney, amounting to S3i4. Ile gaid that the attorneys, upon obtaining access 110 the papers, altered them, and that the work was Teft mostly to Government clerke. Ile had the statement of clerks, acknowledzinz that they had performed gervices for outside attorneys, and had received compenaation therefor. Nr. Jordon, an attorcy, representing a large number of claimants, smd that the allezations of Mr. Curtis were very surprising to him, and he asked that timo b given to coneult other repre- sentatives of the ciafnants in order 10 determine whether or not they should nndertnke to rebut tne case of the Government beore the Committee, or resort to the courts. Counsel subsequently concluded to take the cases in the courts for leval determinution. SEWARD. OVERUAULING HIS RECORD. Special Dispaich to The Tribune. Wasmixaros, D. C., April 20,—Evidenge in the Seward investization continucs to be bad for the present Minister to China. A clerk In the Au- ditor's ofiice having charge of the Consular ac- counts to-day produced vonchers for iliegal fees which had been approved by Seward. J. Wiley Wells, late Consul General at Shanghal, also testi- fled. He charged that aulf of the accounts of the Consular Court of Shaughai were illegal. Improper ¢ exacted from prisoners. He cited an fn- ce where 2 man had been convicted of the em- bezzlement of $100, who was taxed with $1,000 fces, mostly illegal. and . his small property confisested to eatisfy this exaction, These court fees and otlier so-called unofliciai fecs went into the oflice expense nccount: Wells testified thet Seward told him that these funds went to his (Seward’s) own use, Seward informed Wells he had an arranzement witn the Consular Clerk to keep thie fecs, and that ‘he patd Bradford $500 aunually besides his rewalar salars. The hook- Keeping was 5o obscure as not to make the extent of tho irrezularities fully apparent. Diradford, sho has just been released from_the Consular Jail by order of some ono in the State Department, Wells chacged had Interfered with oflicial and pri- vate letters in the Consulate. NOTES AND NEWS, OBSCENE MATTER. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasmyatoy, D. C.. April 20.—Anthony Cor- stock is making an carnest fight to prevent the repeal or modification of thelaw which permits him to have sucn supervision of the maits as allows him 1o probibit the transmission of obscene matter. To-day he uppeared before the Committee on Re- vision of the Laws, and sudmittgd the vile pletures which he bas bronght here at different times for ten years, which he claims to have captured in the mails. Opposition to Comstock originates with medical publisers, who® complafn that e bus interfered with thelr rigntsas besiness-men and citizens in _the distribution of proper cducational medical works. Some lawyers regard the law under which he is operating as unconstitutional. * TIE POST-OFFICE BILL. The House spent the day upon the Post-Office Appropriation bill without passing ft. _ The Post- Oulice Committee, which bas become a 3tronz ad- vocatd of Postmaster-General Key’s admimistra- tiou. proves {tself more powerful than the Appr priation Committee. and succcedell in increasing the uppropriation forpost-route maps from 325, 000 to $45,000. The reoresentatives of Soutbern country districts _endeavored to strike out the ciause making the aggregate sales of stamps Tasis for compensation of Postmasters of the fourth clags, ‘vot they were unsuccessful. It was shown thut the Government Joses more than a million of dollurs aunaally by the present method of compensation. ‘There werc numerous unsac- cessful attempts to Increase the' kalarics of these minor post-ollices, The Southerpers cndeavored 1o sccure additional advantages in the way of fast mail service, but were raled out on the ground that their propositiuns contemplated new legisla- tion. Southerners generally indicate a desire to increase the appropriations ihenover the interests of thelr sections are concerned. THE RAILROAD SCHEMES. The attempt made in the Hoase Judiclary Com- mittee to conmect the Tom Scott Texas Pacific echeme in some way with the old Memphis and EI Paso Credit Mobilier lobby frauds appears 1o have a political as well as commercial purpoge. It came and.El P’aso Speople are m some investigations should. be inade of the action of Justice Bradley, of the Electoral Commission, who lssucd an order in chambers relative .to the matter. s . LIVE STOCK TRANSPORTATION. The House Committee on Agriculiure at a special gession to-day agreed to Teport a bill rela- tive to the transportation of animale. The bill 13 a compromise measure. _The essential feature of it is that all animals except hogs are to_be unload- cd for food and water every twenty-four hours, unless the railroad companies make arrangemncnts for feeding und watering in _the cara, and ‘provide room. for " tbe stock to_lie_down without lying upon each other. The latter featuro rifers to the so-called compsrtment or palace etock cars, but the proposed bill does not make. the use of such cars obligatory.sSome of the Stude’s Rights Democrats on the Coinmittee were not present at the meeting to-day. and the contemplated opne tion 1o the bill'on that ground was not as potic: ble 08 it had been-expected it would be. The bill acrced upon s fess stringent upon the rafirouds than Rusling, Bergh, and others desired. Calking, of Indisna, propused a substitnte which provided sovere rezulations ncainst the raflroads. and pro- nosed Commissioners to take charge of the matter, but the Comumittee refused to adopt it. He will endenvor 10 present it a3 an auendment in the Uouse. The Committee will report the bill at the carhest call in the House. Tie Implacables do not control the new Rep ub- Tican Congressional Committee, The sentiment of the majority of the Committee i§ that the duty of Kepubiicans {s to unite their strength to mect the common enemy, and that it is not time nor is there occasion for internal party quarrels, There are evidences that the Administration is as earnest in its desire for RRepublican success as the Repub- licans in Congress can be, and thut the President will do all fn hispower to aid the canse, THE INTERNAL REVENUE BILL, known as the Macninery bill, which was' reported by the Ways and Means Cominittce to the Honse, contains in substance the bill intro- duced by KHepresentative. Aldrich in Septem- l{)ur‘- to remit the tax on imsolveut anks, The essential features are llmt:m{ tax due or claimed to he due to the United States from any bunk which has become or shall become fusoly- ent shall be abated except in so far as the collec- tion thereof would operate to lessen the sum re- ceivable by the “depositors of suc bauk from the liquidation of its asscts witnout reference to the liabilities of its stockholders. TH 2 NEW ORLEANS COLLECTORSIIP, Indications are now that the President will select an entirely new mau for Collector of Customs at New Orleans. George L. Smith, former Lcpre- sentative from Loujsians _and now contestant for seal 1n the House, is mentioned as liing favorably considered. Smnith 1s a Notthern man, i3a per- maneat residedt of Louisians, sud is a gentleman of ubility and Inteltigence. I'ERSONATA Representative Carter lurrison and danghter Ieft for Chicago this woraing. Uurrison has ob- tained léave of abaence for ten days, Ltepresentative Brentano before leaving here stated that he had arranced to enterinton law tnership with Sam Ashton, and Liat, as resards renomination, he should nui seck thé oflice, but would probably accept if tendered. TREASURY STATEMENT. To the Western Assoclated Press. o D._C., April 20.—Tne Treasury 1,975,830 1n United States bouds to {onal Bank circulation, und S13,-448, 000 VASITLN now holds secure in Londs to secure public deposits; United States bonda deposited for circuluton for the week ending to-day, $552,500; bonds held for circulation withdrawn for' the weck ending to- day, $143,500; National Bank circulation out- standing, currency notes, $321, 417, 344 ; gold notes, £1, 42,1207 internal revenue, $2U6, 7225 customs, $211 815; receipts of National Bank notes for the week ending to-duy, compared_with the corres- ponding period of last year: 1877, $5,193,000; Yo7, 8, 519,000 recuipts to-day, $357,000. AT TIE TUEATRE. Mrs. Hayes and otacr members of the President's family occupied a private box at the Natioual ‘Theaire this afternoon. LARD UP. Acting-Postmaster-General Brady has addressed a letter to Senator Windom, of the Couference Committee, on the bill which coutains 2 deficiency appropriation of §35,000 for printing for the Post-Ofiice Department, calling_ attention 10 the urgent necessity for promptuction upon it. e encioses s commuunication from the Superintendent of the Postal Blanks Division, based upon a tele- gram from the Postmaster of Chicago, stating that his snquly of registered letter bills is entirely ex- hausted. * There are on file orders which the De- partment is unable to 41l for 1,500.000 printed Torms, 2,000,000 facingslips, and books of blanka. A CE. The Committee on Banking and Currency gave a heuring to-cuy to Richard B. Pullan. of Ciucin- nati, a retired werchant, and the suthor of a book recently published on the subject of ** Finances, " ilisiden 13 that the only paper money that should be utlowed to circulate’ i that issucd by the Gov- ernment, and that the Government prerogative to 1ssue money applies with much greater “force to puper money than coin. He thinks that on that subject the public mind has been misled for gen- erations. The banks, he thinks, might ratber be ailowed to isaue_coin than paper, because the in- trinsic value of coin is mear its actual value, whereas, the only value of puper mouey is that impressed upon it by the Government. OUTHAGES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Revenue-Agent Wayne telegraphs- to Commis sioner Raum, from Greenshoro, N. C., thata raid- ing party, just returned from Greenville, S. C., reports that Rufus H. Springs, o Deputy Marshal, s shot and instaiitly killed by parties in ambush. The Commissioner of Internal Kevenue referred the dispatch to the Attorney-Generul, and it is probabie that an a1ma 1 force wiil be detailed. MOUNSWINERS DAMAGED. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue to-day received the following telegram from Coliector Wade, at Savannsn, Ga. My deputies have broken ap ten illicic distilleriés in Elbert and Witkes Countics, and destroyed 1,900 gallons of beer apd mash ready for distitlation, and 165 gal- lons of low wines. ™ TOE RECORD. TOUSE. Wasurxarox. D. C., April 20.—Soon after the morming hour to-day the House went into Commit- tee of the Whole (Cox, of New York, in the chair) on the Post-Office Appropriation biil. Ou motion of Mr. Waddell, tne aporopriation for the publication of the post-route maps was in- creased from $25,000 to $40,000. Mr. Blount (Ga.). on the part of the Appropria- tion Committee, submitted nsa substitute for the section in regard to compensation for fourth-class Postmnsters an amendment providing that such compensation shull be the whole of the box-rent collected at their ofiices, a commission on unpaid postage coliected onall receipts from waste paper, etc., and post- aze-stamps and postal-cards canceled, or matter actunlly mailed at their offices, and providing further thatsuch cempensation shall not exceed $250 1m any one quarter excluzive of commissiony on money order-business. Mr. Hewite (Ala.) offered an amendment making the compensation of Postmasters of the fourth class the smne a2 now provided by law. - Mr. Cannon advocated Mr. Blount’s amendment. It'would not decrense the compensation of hone: Postmasters, but it wou d prev shonest P’ost- masters from cheating the Government vy means of selling postave-stamps in lurge amoumts, and receiving a percentage of the receipts, The Gov- ernment lost o million doliars & yeur through that dishonesty under the present law. Mr. Hewitt's amendment wns rejected. After discussion, Mr. Blount's amendment was agreed to. The provision of the bill for the appointment of special mail agents was stricken ont, and, without further action ou the bill, the Committee Tose. Mr. Tucker, from the Committes on Ways and Mecans, reported u bill reluting to the tax on tobacco, incomes, etc. He also reported a resolu- tion muking the bill the special order for May 1. Mr. Conger—Dozs this impose a tax on incomes? cker—Yea, sir. ic objected to the resolution. e did mot think the Committee could report such a resolu- tion except by nnaninious consent. The Speaker pro tem. (Blackourn) decided that the resolution could unly be entertained by unani- mous consent. Mr. White—Then I object. The resolution was n withdrawn, and the bill referred to the Commistee of tne Whole. Mr. Glover, rising to & auestion of personal pri . hat read an article in the New York Irilinne stating that Glover's Investigating Com- mittce had ~ caught . Democratic flsh, and had found out that $300 had ben Toaned out of the funds belonming to the Liouse to u member of Congress, the difliculty of getting back the money having led 10 the discov- ery. Mr. Glover tnew stated hie nd 1o knowledee of nnything of that kind, He had never heard of anythiny of the sort. Mr. Conger—Docs the gentleman undertake to deny there is a defalcation on the part of one of the Doorkeeners = Mr. Glover—This i3 tug allegation agaimst the Sergeant-at-Arme, and 1 had no knowledge of the matler in any shupe unul L was shown this puper few minutes ago. r. Conger—The article dogs not refer to the oflicer. 3ir. Glover—I understand it does refer to the Sergeat-at-Arme, . Mr. JConger—1 understand it refers to o mem- ber of Congres: 3r. Glover—,And the Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Conger—I do not scé_any reference to any- body except a member of this body. Mr. Glover—Ii refers to the officer who has charge of paying the members of Con: that officer is the Sergeant-at-Arms. Now. €0 far s my Committee s concerned, the statement is totally without foundation. Adjourned., ——— INDIAN RAIDERS. GaLvEsTON, April 20.—A News eveclal reports a large body of Indians from Mexico raiding Fort Eweil settlements. A large number of ranches have been plunderéd, and many fives lost. Soldicrs ana citizens ore in pursuit, but, judging from the direction taken by tue raiders, they will probaoly tr:fim“ the Rio Grande before they can be over- cen. 5AY Axtoxto, Tex., April 20.—Reports reach here that the Inafan ralders who crossed from Mex- ico one week ago have reacned the Fort Ewell sheep settlements, aud are sweeping flocks before thewn and several persons are alrcady reported kilied. Troops and citizens aro in parsnit, but not likely to overtake them. ‘The river ia fordable at all points near Laredo. These raids are not Lo be con- founded with those raiding o the Northwestern rontier. CRIMINAL CALENDAR ‘Detailed Account of the Bloody Work in Fountain Coun- ty, ‘Ind. & Sentiments that Animated tho Murderous Miners’ DMob. Deliberate and Cold-Blooded Triple Assassination. 2 A Most the ilinglemlers Held -to An- swer for.the Herrible Crime. Most of * Yesterday’s Record of Miscella- neous Misdeeds. BLOODY WORK. Speclal Dispatch to The Trivune. Covivaros, Fountain Co., Ind., April 20.—The terrible week of bloodshed and murder which this county has just passed through draws to a close, and now that the men who slew Philip Curzins, John Miles, and John Cooper have been rought before & court of compotent jurisdiction to unswer for that s history their crimes, it s Atting of the murdercrs and the events which preceded and fn o manmer led up to them should be wntten, and the guilt of blood placed where it beiongs. It is a lont story, but its perusal will amply repay the trouble In- volved, for the truth is that the killing of these turee colored men was DELIBERATE MURDER, the ontcome of & decp-laid plot, rivaling in its ficndishness -the worst work of the” Schuylkill Connty Mollic Maguires, and having ramifications, the end of which has not yet been and possibly never will be exposed to public vies. Nine miles from this city, in a sontherly dirce- tion, are situated the Coal Creek mines.., Snoddy’s Mill' s the name of the post-ofice, and the cual district cxtends overa space about two miles in width by two and a half in lengilr. The operatore, or owners, of the different mines are Trunkee & Pardee, W. P. Rend & Co., Dickenson, English & C the Fountain Coal Company, and the Indiana Block Coal Company. In common with other winiug districts, this field : IAS IAD ITS TROUBLES between the operators and theiremployes, and just a year ago Tue TRISUEE gave to the publica full and exclusive report of the status quo. At that time the miners were out on a strike, the osten Dble reason being the engagement by one mine of an objectional **bank boss,” and the matter wia rendered less casy of solation by a conflict In re- gard to wages which became involved with the othier fssue. At that tine there were many Union men employed in the, different sbafts, snd the. owners combined and MADE A DESPERATE EFFORT to **kill the Union.” To a certain extent they were successful, and for many months the mines stood idie. At last & coup d'etst was decided upon, and this took the form of an importation of colored men, mostly from Virginia. As the winter approuched and the strikera realized the impossi- Vility of living upon the country much longer, they weakened, and in the end the employers carrled their points, with some modifications. Asa matter of course the colonization of the sovereign State of Indiana by a lot of **niggers ™ DID NOT SUIT THE MINERS. Furthermore, It failed to give’ satisfaction to a larze number of persons at Coal Creck and thronghout tbe county who freeze to the miners' vote forall it is worth—and a little more. The ealoon-keepers of Stringtown, Rendiown, Bunker, and other collections of houses on the coul-tlelds, mostly old mincrs, supported the Union men, and when the crisis came they felt bad abont ir. Something of A compromise was ¢ ffected whercby the Unionists, with some exceptions, were given emuloyment at some of the shafts, while those of Trunkee & Pardee and the. Fountain Coal Company, of whichi Mr. S. VWV, Phelps is manager, were operated by colored men and ‘-black-Jeg" whites, who had tired of the unequal and eternal strife, and simply desired to be allowed to EARN THEIR OWN LIVING. Pending this settlement, the mines were closed, and, owing to difllcultis with the C, & E. . R. R. Comoany, one operator shut down partially. Itis necdless to recapitulaté the story: suflice 1t to say that on Mondav lust nearly all the mines were nom- inally at work, - although some of them were not making much more than balf-time. IBut right here comes in another element, and a most pawerful one. Let it be understood tnat 1here was no difficulty as to the wages, no strike or lock-oitt, and that the mines had such contracts ahead as would provide steady work at good wages for all who would condescend to accept the offer. Let it also be understuod that the mining popula- tion consisted of Irish, Englieh. Scotch, Germans, arnd negroes, that the Irish abont equaled all the others in number, and that most of the Irish and some of the Englishmen belonged or had belonged to the Union. - Supplement this with the TRADITIONAL IRISI IATRED OF THE NIGGER. and you have the materinls for a very pretty Some time lust fall a petition, properly eizned, was presenied to his Excellency by the grace of the workingman's vote, Jimmy Willisms, Gov- ernor of Indiana, praying that he, as Commander- in-Chief of the land and sea forces of the Com- monwealth, would issue to an organization dudbing itself the **Wabash Guards™ au- thority to become incorporated as a militia company under the State law. Tncle Jimmy was very busy just about that time. e didn't siop to consider that he was putting a sword in a madman’s band, and furnishing the dominant race with weapons of slaughter at the expense of the Government, and, as his fricnds allege, he did wot even know that Coal Creck was a wining district, although the mame, 1f nothing else, mizht have suggesied to any less pachyder matous animal THE TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE APPLICATION. But Uncle J. was busy, and, amid the muiti- farions concerns of ofticial hfe, he had only just time to afix his signature a8 prayed, and to order that cizhity stand of arms should be supplied to the qompany, which had enrolled about 1hat name ber of mewbers. The arms furmehed were im- proved repeating rifles of the Sprinuficld patters yarranted 1o Wil a colored maz at a quarter o mile . just what Tountain County, and Coal Creek in particular, wanted of a miiitia company has not been explained, 2t least by the members of the company. Their hearts possibly ourned with patriotic zeal,and they might have teared in- vasion from Canada or the Sundwich Islands. But the country was at peace, neither Dufferin nor Kalakana had madc any overt demonstrations, and Coul Creek had no moro need for a militia com- pany than a nd-turtle has for a watch and chain. Why, then, ralse such o company? Echo, clogely qucstioned, answers: **To pick 2 quarrel with the colored men and kil enough of them to scare the rest ‘away.” It is alleged thar the conl operators whose duty it was to protect the culored men they had imported knew nothing of the organization of Lue militia company UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE :!o stopit. At'any rate, they took no steps to 0 80, Last Tuesday the storm broke out, and that nizht the calm, stili moon looked down on the upturned faces of three men, ghot throngh heart and head, while their brethren, nnhappy in thit God had giv- en- them a biack skin iestead of 8 white one cowered in their homes, not dariny, as they valued their lives, to venture "on the strcet for the pur- pose of bringing in their dead. The writer in no way eccks to inflame the prisoners, or excite the prejudices of the people of this district or the penieral readers of Tur TRisuxe. e spent a day in ascertaiming the bottom facts connected with thisawful trazedy, and bad the advantage of ac- compunying Brig.-Gen. . Georze W. Russ, Adju- tant-General of the ' State, and - hearing the narations of white and col- ored, Unionists and mon-Unlonists, who were actually present at and during the killing. On the testimony of these witnesses and with a fuil apprecistion of the sulempity of the charze. ho vronounces-the killing of the three colored men, Curzing, Miles, and Cooper, WILLYUL, BLOODY, AND DARGAROGS MURDER, 8 stuin npon the eecatcheon of the State of Indiana which only the prompt trial and condizn punish- ment of the guilty persors can ever remove. Hear the facts and juagze, A : Last Tucsday evening a number of colored miners who had been on a serenading ‘party were given & ke of beer by some white men as a reward. This théy removed to o vacant spuce between two hotises in the maia street of what i3 known as Strinztown, ond there they had a jollification. Thetown iscarsed withabout ten saloons, —breath- ing holes of hell, where worse than Bridzencrt whiskv is retafled, and to this fact much of the luwlessness which has disgraced the Fountain County coal region 18 DIRECTLY TRACEADLE, In the saloon -of Victor Vandevoir there were gathered some say ten, some say as high ns twenty, members of tho iilitla company, - all Uionis, men. It was not drill-niznt and 'the town wa quiet, yet every man had his Springfieldrife, pro- vided by the State, loaded to its fall capacity. “The Cuptain, J. 1. Tipton, who is a farmer und somethiny of an attorucy, was not present, and, ‘had | ems impossible to e Hemmmang of, tho men. A shot was how, why, or by - whom _nobody appears to know. Old Ihilip Curzing, .8 man of 70 years, who was on Lis way home, went %0 the saloon in company with a colored lad named. Charles Jefferson, andasked v WLUAT WAS TLU:“TKOUULL T er's inquest Jellerson swore A ras aimed, and. that all had been eaceablé, He swore also tnat as a reply to Curz- e’ inquiry some person eaid **Shoot the d— nizzer,” and that another Sred 8 shot from a T Volver which struck the old man in the neck. The poor fellow started’ to run, when, azcord. ing to Jeferson’s story, ome John Murphy ehot him in the back and he fell. When after 18y- ingall night in the open strect the body was re- maved to nwait the Coroner's inquest it was found fhat there were half-a-dozen buflet wonnds fn it, any one suficient to cause death. Edward Swan, colored, swore positively that MURPHY DID THE SOOOTING: The colored men who -had been drinking the beer came up on hearing the shots, and thus the rignal for letting foose all 'the pent-u pugtdons of hatred. and revenge whic smoldered for half ' year. With~ wild cries and shouts of **Kill the d—d niggers!™ **Shoot the — of —!" **Drive them outof town!" the infurinted, drunken mob Tushed for the unarmed colored” men, who at once broke and ran in every direction. Lut two never reached thelr homes,—Joln Cooper and Joha Miles, both sincle men, aged abont 25 years. Miles was shot through the heart, snd Cooper inthe head, cach about 100 yards from the saloon of Vandevoir, in which the tronble ongnated. - ki OVER FIFTY SHOTS woro fired, windows were broken, and walls pet- Torated by the degdly bullets, and one youn col- ored man named Peter Artis ‘was shot throuzh the hand with a rifie-ball. A local Democratic weekly paper, which feported the fuquest and which has 1o a certain extent conetituted itself the apoiozist for the murderers, says: **When the firing com- menced the negroes sought safety oy flight, and offcred no resistance,” This from: o pa- per which _heads . the - story **Killed! - Three Negroes Killed®™ and spcaks of the ~mas- sncre - 88 ‘‘trouble. at the . iines. ‘The same publication has **heard it revorted ” that ‘*Curziny was 3 danzerous, quarrcliome man,” and that **before he way shot he used very insuitiug language without provocation. Wedncsday morning came, and with it the Sher- iff and the Coroner. . The former of these officrals, as the highest peace oflicer of the county, decided that matter§jooked threatening. Threc colored wnen lay dead 'in the street. The rest of the dur hued poputation, men, women, und children alike, dared not step beyond their doors, —aud THERE WAS FEAR OF TROUBLE, What more nntural thenbut that Sheriff Rice, finding the civil arm impotent, should cail upon the mililary branch of Government to assist in sustaining order and vreventing any breach of the peace? Whatat once more probable and more 1llustrative of the state of things existing " in_this rididen coruer of one of the fairest counties of » that be should by written order call upon pt. Tipton to protect the beace with his ** Wa- bash Guands"! e fssued the order and TIEKE HAS NOT BEEN ANY FURTHER TROUBLE Coruner perizuron summoned a jury us eoon as he had collected all bus corpses, and, with o manlincas not to be tuo much commended 10 view of the sur- roundiugs, he aclected six farmers of the townshio, that number being suilicient for a Coroner’s jury in this State, They listencd to the story tuld by the colored men who dodged the vullets, and RETURNED A SEALED VERDICT, which was brougbt inte_Covington and submitted to the unthorities, Thoe verdict was < wil- ful murder,” and cighteen men and one womun were Damed 0S_ prncipais aund accessories before the fact, Warraats were issued, and it only remained to find the men to serve them. On Thursday the Sheriff telegraphed Gov. Will- fams 03 to the state of affairs, and that night Adju- tant-General Rusy arrived. Yesterday morning that oflicial, accompanied oy & Deputy-Sheriff, two of the conl operators who had been depuuzed, and your reporier, took the8 a. m. train from’ this Place to Coul 'Creek. On arriving at Stringtown the party found ALL THE MINES TDLE = with one exception. as the negroes did not dare to 20 to work for fear of being cut off in detail. In front of Vandevoir's ealoon u ¢entry with bayonet fixed paced up and down, and in the saloon werc abunt thirty men, their muskets stacked beside them. Gen. Russ conferred with Capt. Tipton, who produced the written order of the Sheriff calling out Lis compury. He claimed that the ~illtia were not to blame for the murders, and said that nearly every man in town was POSIESSED OF A SPENCER RIFLE or a shot-gun, and that he thought it was nono of bis men that had done the kiilling. ~ He was ready 10 answer for order, and in reply to the Adjutunt- General he raid that any members of his company hom the Sheriff might seck toarrest would go with that oflicer without trouble. in an hour or two the Sheriff arrived with warrants for seventeen men. The bugle sounded and THE WABASIL GUARDS drew up fn line behind their stucked muskets. The Deputy called the names und_eleven m all re- sponding, one who had been overlooked reminding the Sheriff of that fact. Then four other members of the compaay shouldered their maskets and escorted their comrudes to Covington. Two freight-cars had been attached to a switch-engine, into cne of these crowded tle pris.ners and their guards, while the other was packed with newro witnessee, Half*an hour's run brought the party to this city, and Justiwce Long, before whom the warrants were made returnable, decided to hold court1n THE DISTRICT COURT-ROOM, Thiz apartinent was well tilled within a-few min- utes, and the prelimnary examination of Willlam Reynolds, Georse Meitzler, Charles Habermann, Willtam Grysdale, V. Vandevoir, M. Vandevoir, John Hassen, 5. Clark, Thomas Llewelvn. and Wilmot Clark was begun. State's-Attorney Still- well was assisted by Mr. George McWilliams for while Mr. W. A. Tipton (vrother of ia Captain) and_ex-Senator S. F. Wood appeared for the defendants. The guard, with fixed bayonets, had taken seats beside their charges, ~ but Justice Long said that for as loug buck as he could remembver there had been an objection to holding a civil court IN THE PRESENCE OF BAYONETS, and banished them from the room. Mr. McWill- iams read the Coroner's inquisition, and the de- fense objected to the form of tae warrants, but the Court decided them good. After some further 1alk, it wus agreed to postpone the hearing until & o'clock tiis morning, to zive the ettorneys a chance for consultat:on with their clients. Bail was fixed 2t §2,000 for esch defendant, and was speedily procured by ail. & The eleven militiamen appeared before Justice Long this morning, znd the warrants were amend- i chiarging all sccused as principaly in the murder of Curzius, Miles, and Cooper. The prisoners had four counsel. The whole mornins was taken up in aruing a motion for change of venue, which was granted, and the examination fixed for Wednesdny morning, Jusuce Scheerer, _of Wabash Township, will preside. The trral will'be had here. All is quiet here and at the mines. NARROW ESCAPE. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. DrrnuqQue, Ta., April 20.—Last night an unsuc- cessful attempt was made to murder a girl named Anna Rickets, at the residence of Gerhardt llan- kiny, in Castie Grove Township, six miles west of Monticello. - The fawmily and girl retired to rest at 9o'clock. About 112 man rised the window of the girl's room, and. pointing a gun at the girl's head, fired. The:shot grazed her temple, tore away part of her arm, ond passed through the headboard, making a hole three or four inches in diameter. The girl rays she was aronsed by having the .bedelothes palled from her bed. She then gaw the form of & man and then the shot was ficed. She declares the man was Gerhardt Klein, who has been goinyg with er for several months past. Early this morning a donble-barreled gun resembling the one owned by Klein was found u few feet from the honse, and had one barrzi empty, recently dis- charged, It is gencrnily belleved “that Kliein is Awarrant has been issucd for his arrest. 1's injuries are not considered fatal, but it ArTOW excape. ALLEGED MURDER. PrrLApELTHLA, April 20.—Upon the arrival, a few days ago, of the British bark Chili from Havre, it was reported by Cupt. Oliver that the First Mate, C. A. Kruise, Lad been killed by a fall on a ring-Uplt, and was buried atsea. To-day one of the scnmen made aflidavit at the Dritish Cousulate that Kruige was killed by the Captan, wha struck him on the head with an iron brace-, svon after leaving Uavre. A the vessel is Eo- glish, and tie Captain o British subject, no arrest. bas yet been made. ROBBERY TIE MOTIVE CovLunnus, Gu., April 20.—Harry Love, of Lex- ington, Ky., was murdered by Dowdell Adams and thrown from a bridge window thirty feet high into the Chattahoochee River. The body was brought by the murderer twenty-seven - mbes. ‘Adams has been arrested. Love represented the house of Hewitt & Co., Philedelphis. Hobbery was the motive to the murder, GUILTY. - Matem Cnox, Pa., Apeil 20.—Charles Sharpe, eharged with complicity in the jnurder of George K. $mith on Nov. 15, 1863, has becn found gailts. This §s the same murder for which McDonnell was convicted on tne 15th inst. 'Thomas Dakin 18 Do 10 be tried for pariicipution In the eaiae mur- cr. UNSUCCESSFGL APPLICATION. Prrrrsos, N.-J., April 20.—Application was® denied to-day to chante to confinement in the County Jall the gentence of J. ¥. Presfon: from the State Prison, for conspiracy and embezzlement of the ffinds of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Com; .« and he will be take g = Compuny, u taken to Trenton early LOCAL CRIMINAL NEWS. Minor arrests: Horace Lillie, a ySuth who got away with $20 from his father, but who' wus no soaner focked up at the Armory than he repented; Frank Igo, charzed with the burgiary of some cloth- ing fromamanaamed Kelley, residing on Stewart avenne; Frank Iall, well-know to the potice; was arrested by Ofticer Sanonsky, who foand bim in poseession of & larwe revolver evidently stolen; William Carruthers, a good-for-nothing who stolo Bame for street. 1 4t the most rapacions character Is evinced that after getting & 3150 watch for 83 himself bought the “ticket for the sage centa. ~ Carrathers is all broke up, and hay et a spree for a week past. gy Last Wednesday night the Jewe sl . Powell, at_Downer's Grj\)\'e,‘r"m;h:rdel ¥, burzlars, who left town with over ted yy all sorts of jewelry and siiverware, * Typ '}"'b‘hfl evidently done by experts from the ey, 00 ™4 there is noclew. It is thonght tha thig 005 13 oue of the same chain a3 the Farwei] ppors Lake Forest, amd the Father Domey rorls Lockport. bery John E. Lynch was before Jastice Meesy s, - day upan tvp complainis; One e hy: Kay; of South Englewood, and the othes o L33 [ Kay, of the same place. The former sper it £Y Lynch obtalaed $120 from him foro e fat i property which b never owned, ang e 0L § gwears io similac facts, the amoupt.mroreery & b $85... Upon each chario Lyach save bonas (053 5um of 3200, and he will be examined \yp 4 ,{'*1' o'clock. Dr. Harry D.- Palmer, the gay Lot B Wasd chrunga s special adyertiser whuse acrest yealerday's vaper, was before Justice Sou Joaterday afternoon, There i3 no posiyy oo at that Lé received fhio moncy from Soppps L0 von and othcze, but it 1 admitted thar i iote overtures of marrlage to the irl in goor The note made by Summerdeld on the g, to the etfect that the case was partfally b dous 1ot uppear to hase much -n it. Py 24 Cbandler were each held in 8600 bonds u:'f,‘: 8w R bylh'nl}{‘, 2. Dotectives Schanck and Whalen, of s ; Division, have a somewhat mystrus et hand. upon which they are workins AN Breirauch, of No. 130 Larrabee Stroee, s that on Friday afternoon, between tae hogry of 3 houry of 3 and3 o'clock, two men called at her pyme, wanted to buy some stove blacking, She regli that she had none to sell. During the parieith claims that ome of them knageT 8 down and held 'n hottle of to her nostrils, and tha took S$390 cash out of the pocket of her pati Her mother, it is alloged, came home foop o at 3 o'clock'and found Mrs. Brelraacn lyjag ot the floor stupified. Back of this. {here fy that Mr. Dreirauch wanted to get the mng,',‘“” her several days ago to buy some progerty 13 mhuz she Darfimplfl;lly rl-.ifumalw gweitup, Ty there i to the atfair will prubably be sifteq Slonday. Ty Justice Morrison yeaterday held the John Den. larceny of two kogs of beer fro §9 Halted strect, S300 10 the Crimm o derry Whalerf; two charzes of disurderly ang gt licious muschict, continaed to the 273 Bid oy, lihan and Frank’ Wilson, alias ** Duke,” gt change of venae to Justice Scully; and asosy usnce to Toesday; George. Glassbiook, $100 fin follovia, Thomas White and James liarar, jony u of several pieces of clot i John Lamb and Jokn 'rzn:;}m' i charge. 0 to'the 24th; Charles Thompscn, ltr. > ceny from Catherine Jefferson, of No. 199 e Madison street, $200 to the Criminal Conzty Allen, barylary of gouds fromSt. Francis Charh 1y 1a3t Deceniber, $500 to the 224, and $100 to the same dafe for the Jarcany of 8175 fmy | Brideet O'Neill, of No. 383435 Clark street. *Dang | Iatch, charzed with the violation of 4 Say statute prohibiting dealers from buying stan: botiles, tovk a change of venue to Justice Sy, and. after trial, wa<'held in 51,700 oonds fo gy & Criminal Court on charyes prefurced by ehy dr. & ferent manufacturers. ~ Justice Sammerfeld hely 7 John Herbe in $550 to the Criminal Court for tyy larceny of about $300 worth of goods from Loy Wendnacel, of 702 State street: Charlas Johmoy and Wilhe Stevens, vagrants, 350 fine each, 1 Tormer benz un old-fizie thief 74 years ofsee, who bus recently taken up kis abode at No, 13 West Thirty-ninth street, where, itis allend, b wus enzared in the manufacture of burglan' tacks Nellie Hines, drunk und disorderly, $30 foe, MARINE NEWS, ° SUNK BY COLLISION. MiLwarkeg, Wiz, Apnl 20.—About 3 o'clock Friday morning, during a dense fog, ths staame John A. Dix collided on Lake Michizan with ths scow brig Express, the steamef haviog 8 portion of her stern carriedl Bway. After ermsiag around mearly an hour withont any signs of a wreck, snd bellenng t then unknown craft had sustained bu slight injury, the Dix proceeded on her conres. It has since transpired that the Kxpressreceired severe blow on her port bosw, crushing the eatin frames und planking to o point below the waters . causing her to sink inan honr after tu collision. 'I'he Captain and crew took tfo tha boats, and, after thirty-ive miles' gull, aarivedat Amsterdam last night, whence they prucesdsd oo Chicazo, ‘The Express was owned by the Ciictn Lumbering Company. i PORT HURO: Port Hurox, Mich., April 2010 p. m.—Pased np—Props Garden City and consort, Newbars, David W. Rust, D. R. VanAllen, Napont, Cityof Fremont, Alpena and barges, Fred Kelley ud consort, E. B. Hale with A. Bradley, Janes Eir. rison, Negaunee, J. F. Card, Jay Gould, Metropo-" Jis; schra Alpena, Ganges, Izo; barge Fulion. Arrived—schrs Home. Ann, Maria. Down—Stmr Manitoba; schr J. M. Spauliing. Arntved—Edward Kelley. Wind—Southwest, zentie; weather fine. Stmr Ward reports schr Queen City szround st St. Clair. She was in_the Gladiator's tow, with the Gifford Merrill and Lacien. No othér dimsz. MARQUETTE. Fpeclal Dispatch to The Tribune MAnQuETTE, Mich., April 20.—Passed np—Prp St. Louis. ¥ iy Tl ‘Weather rainy; wind northwest. Passed down Iast mizht—Prop Atlantle, from Duluth to Erie, laden with 2,000 brls floar. 32 brls Dotash, 500 bu wheat. She reports that the progd Owen Sound and Ontario were ot Dolath the 172 inst., loaded with emigrants for the Ned Rirer country, who go there to work on the North Pacific Ttailroad. i Pussed up—Steamer Ivanhoe, from Detrolt BUFFALO. Borrato, N. Y., April 20.—Frelghts. unchanged. ; Clesred—Prop Scotis, Chicago; tug Bdwed Eddy, East Saginaw; schrs M. §. Colliny 0. tons coal, Fort Howard; St. Peter, Toledo G.d Wells, 830 tons coal; J. P. March, Chicago; E. & Yorse and Brighti=, Milwsckee: C. K Jous, Clired—From Touawan.a, scbr Boardol Tads Bay City. . 1 sad p ERIE. Special Dispatch to The Triduns. P Erts, Pa., April 20.—Arrivais—Prop R & Hackett; schr Wm. McGregor, Marquette; i Joseph Page, Buffalo. Departures—Prop Gordon Campbell, scbed. G asten, Chicago; schr G, 1. Warmisgln canaa, MICHIGAN CITY. . Special Dispatch to The Tribunss Mrenroax Crry, April 20, —Arrived—Schr Ric Simwons, lumber, duskegon; K. W. Crosf pig iron, Depere; tug A. C. Waters. from o kegon. AN INSANE ;fiE;\I‘([;"L Special Dispuich ta ri 03ramA, ‘,:pnl 20.—A stranger named Termid Gross created a scasation here by wolng indd- | Bohemian Catholic Church while eervl;u wereid rogress, and approaching the altar aa: fuu;mnnlun \fl:e‘: and then carrying off te @ munion service. Mc i3 evidently inaase. thouylt he came from Chicago, several of ¥% proatinent citizens and oficials ho secius 1o quainted with. Telegrams bave been sent 9L cago for information.” & : —————— - A Diamond Story. 5 Puris Correspondence lulttmore America A story published this weck in tne Fre! sporting journal, Le Sport, is going the ro resoecting 3 South Amerlcan gentlema i Paris, who lost the other evening, at the BOCH. of one of our countrymen, a diamond valued 12,000 frances (32,400). The next mflfl““’d groow found it in the court-yard and mkd” back to its owner. That personagc scnt for 838 - honest groom into his smoking-Too®h showed himsetf very much, pleased getting his jewel back ogalu. He 0 tenderly -in o drawer of his toile '-'\M‘x”;‘; then, putting bis band in his wcki‘;m» pulied out two cigars, which he offered ot zroom.” The honest fellow accepted Lhcfl]’v o went off somewhat discomfited- llm]:"l t story on getting home. His master heazt {0 and sent for him. * Have you smukefi l’flu‘ " cigars?” said he. * No, monsicur.” lmdgx you 500 franes for them.” *+ Will yoth el Bird!? & here is the sum. You I“I;M . honest lad, aud 1 am giad to pag @ Premivil,, baving vou jn my service. Now, g0 bd:r £y 0 gentleman Fho owns the diamonds au S Dim, * Monsisr, I told my master of !P”om.. erosity, but he is afrald you u.m{ deprivt a5 10 sclf of the pleasure of smoking W en D& make up for the two cigars you mvchzl’:‘_ . He told" me, thererore, to bring theld oy amain’ ” “May 1 mention the 50J francsh S5 *+Certainly not.” The servant bronght back to bis ms'lg oisd foHowing letter: * My dear sir, 1 w83 7€ to zet back my diamond. I bave six ! inlcndlii‘lh;u_":;.\reh!hfm sel lgl;ry\v::xoa tons. t Is why 1 was 80 o of them. As to the cigars [ . n-;fllim".“l give two to your servant, for ¢ O reerarh fugr in my séeretary. Yours, with great te X.Z7 “Fhe signer ol this precious epist! bazheior, and has an incomeof $40