Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1878, Page 3

fy . Hte the dis ' THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 28, I878-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE SOCIALISTS. Meeting of the Agitation Com= mittee-=-Challenge to a Debate. PSS complaints of the Press---That Twelfth Street Meet- ing. Walk Among the Workers | in Wood-—-Low Wages How Paid. 4 Story as_to Iow This Excitement as Gotten Up-—Issuing More Donds. The Scandinavians and the Socialists— Lehr und Webr Verein. THE AGITATORS. DISCUSSING THE SITCATION. Ju s lttle back room on the first floor of No. 7 Clark strect. moderately farnished with a round S3bie, eevera] chaire, snd some pinc benches, there matlact evening abont twenty men, —membere O o+ Agitation Committee of the Socialistic Labor party, assembled inrezular weekly session. There Pt stacks of fire-arms, 10 powder-kegs, no bepd-grenades Iying around loose, —in short, noth- gof the dangerons type which the public might ‘expect 1o find after resding certain papers of the sepsationsl build. *Me mecting was called to order abont 5:30 oclock by Mr. Brelefeldt, Secretary. It is the cue- fom of the Committee to elect a different Chairman for every meeting. The choice last might Gwolved mupon M. T. G. Morgan. The inates of the last meeting, as resd by the Secretary, certainly stiowed that nothing bad been caidabont arming, drilling, getting hand-grenades,” pitro-giycerine, Enfield rifles, or anythine of the bloody £ort. but that, on the contrary, the meeting “ag 8 very peaceable sort of o gathering, at whick Snancial reports were received and acted npon, and other routine business dispatched. ~Avout as rev- alatiopary thipg as the last meeting appeared to ‘Dsve done was 10 urder the expenditure of $2 for a copy of the Revised Statates of Tlinols. ME. A, R. PARSONS, * Jate candidste for Algerman in the Fiftcenth Ward, seported fn regard to the progress made in nis con- fest. At the Fifth Precinct, where only five Social- {stic votes appeared by the returns to have been cast, they bad discovered that nine votes were scioally csst. Some of these nine voters, how- ever, were unwilling to make afiidavits and enter the contest beczuse it would prejudice them with thelr employers. He lad scen the Committec's attorneys, who said that, for every fact proveu, the other e1destood ready to counteract it witha roll of reenbacks. % N Sthilling thouzht it unwise 10 back down in 1his way. Itwonldsei s bud precedent for the fature. Mr. Porconsreplied that the workingmen were very indirnant, and had declared that, if they were Jo¢ given judges and challenzers at futuré elec- Hons they’d be d—d 1f there should be any jons. - But money was necessary to carry on contest. and without 1t nothing couid be done. \ir. EBrelefeldt thought the matter had drugeed along unul the Com:nitice had better Jet it drop. He made & motion [o that eifect. MR, STAML epake of the neceseity fora better organization if anythin@was to be accomplished at the polls. The Jarty was in favor of an honest election, but it was Trexpericnced m the matter of securinz the proper ‘machinery of judges, clerks, and challengers. In one precinct of the Exghtn Ward, furty-cight voies were crowded Into the box in favor of Frank Lswler in order to count him in. Outrageous fmuds were carried on at similar precinets, but the Socialists had no judees, challenzers, or clerks, and conldn’t get any within the polls. Air. Brelefeldt's motion prevailed. A communication was received from the Six- teenth Ward Section giving the detai f the very thorongh plan of organization adopted by that section for carrving on-campsigns and looking Ater the interests of the party on election-day. WHAT WE WANT. Mr. Schilling submittea tae following communi- cation from Messrs. McAuliffe and Goldwaters Asthere scems to be & deatre upon the part of those whouprose thie socialistic Labor party’s princioles to Toow just what we do want, we profler 10 all purtis interexted the following challenge: The Socialisia w {il furmith three mea. to debale thew principlcs. {he opposition 10 furnish a8 many debaters as thiey Fibose. eiect & Cisirman to presice, and appoiut e acd pisce for a public deliate. the ojposition to furnish The fail.as we haveno funds thatcan be uscd for that Purpose, fiftoen minutes time to be aliowed for us 10 ate our proposition, the remaining time to be equaily diviced a8 may be agTeed upen by the debaters, We sug- gest the Tabernacle, and That ad smoking be prohfyit- B tont seats 10 e reserved tor ladles and their es- corts. All answers can be addressed to the Agitation Commiitee S. L. P., No. 7 South Clark street. The matter was latd over tewporarily as new business. THE PAPER: Mr. Brelefeldt said be had written a letter to the Timer, fnviting it to gond 2 reporter around 1o the meetmg. When he wrote the fetter. he thousht The paper was honestly secking truih, but when the letrer appeared tacre was a lonz screed pre- cedicg it which took it for granted that all the ru- Tmors - abont arming, drilling, and resorting 10 violeace were true. He desired to bave his action in inviting reporters approved. bt he sugrested ibatthe Committce pass & censure on the papers for their unfair representations of the party. e wonid have this distributed aronnd town io hand- bills, that the public might see what they thought of the elanderous capitahstic press. Mr. Sclling didn’t £ec any use in cenearing the papers, It wouldn't do any good. The papers Srere ran by the capitalists to make money. —They were 1nthe capitalists’ intercets, and necessanly waged war sgwinet the workingmen. When they £topped that business they zught as well shut up ELop, for their occapation would be gone, along rith their power to make money. [Lauzliter. | Mr. Brelefeldt's action in inviting the presence of reporters was approved, but the censuring busi- ness was dropped. The following gentlemen were elected the new oficersof the Amution Committee: Organizer, Morgan; Recording Secretary, Brelefeldt; Financial Secietary, Schilling; Treasurer. John Pauisou. On motion of Mr. Schilling the challenge for a ‘public discussion of the Socialistic guestion receiv: cd the indorsement of the Agitation Committee, ond the reporters were requested to be sure o get it in this morning's pavers. \ The Chairman moved, considering the prescnt state of the poblic mind on the suvject of Social- ism, that the Committee iesne 5 000 posters call: ing attention to the perty's pamphlets, 1ts national paper, eic. Mr. Scoilling favored the idea of placing the party’spublications on the newsdealers' stands. He therefore moved that the Secretary instruct the St. Louis publisher of ** The Coming Revolution™ 10 scnd on 1,000 copies of that phampblet to be pleced among the news-stands. The motion pre- - vailed. Mr. Stabl moved the appointment of & commit- tee of two to DRAFT A CIRCULAR; ectting forth the objects of the party and correct- ing the false- impression which hud lately gone abroad, throngh the instromentality of the press, that the party was preparing for riot and bloodshea. The motion brevaied, anq Messrs, Morgan and Schilling appointed 85 the Committee. The Secretary was instructed to write to the De- troit eection and ask them if they would consent 1o moring their paper here. consolidating 1t with the Chicago paper, and allowing Mr. Kurth, the Detroit editol, 1o come here and run the consoli- ted paper. Mr. Smith acked what truth there was in the ra- Imors about ARMING, DRILLING, ETC. Mr. Stabl explaned. that 1t all came from the fact thot the sixiy men belonzinz to the Lebr und Wehr Veérein. which had been or- fanized for years, weat out onthe prairie st Sunday mormng and had 2 drill. Tue talk Cripinated in 1be brains of some newspaper idiote, 2nd was probably designec to aid the police in get- ting their pay. Mr. Smith £aid be had eecn © good deal in the papere, and didu't know what it "all mesat He lonced to the Socislistic party, knew it had no such intentlous, but thonght perbaps there might be some other association” here with such ploody ‘Ppurpoees. g Schilling commented on the fact that the br nnd Welir Verein was rot a secret organiza- “0\11, ibat it had arilled for years, and tbat its @rille nad been advertived, If Col. Hickey bad Juet found out thatthere was such a societr, it was Eomething of a commentary o hiz value as an officer. A member of the Lebrund Webr Verein €aid the association wes feeling pretty well over the free advertising it bad gotten of late. [Lauzhter.] The Chalrman wanted the meeting to déclare that the only weapons that it intended to use were the mouth, the pen, and the party’s principles, and thatthe present cxcitement was created for the Durmose of providing the bummers 3 method of Fetting their pay. Mr.“Schilling was opposed to such action, be- Heving the Committee sa0ald go on in it own way ;nn?unm attempt to contradict the elanders of the THE CAUSE OF THE RECENT EXCITEMENT Iy in the fact that_apotber election wos 1ot far when Heath and Hickey hoped to be elected, and an increase of the police force wonid give them more bummers to uee, and their chances for Te-electicn would be increased correspondingly. Mr. Ryan uxr;xmcd that ickey wanted to refn- ccharged policemen, who would no doubt be willing to pay tomething 1o get back, and that the scare wae originated for that purpose. ) Mr. Smitn moved that the party ehould not go into the press to_contradict any of these silly Tumore. ‘T'his motion prevailed- Mr. Paolson asked Mr. Parsons if one Scally—a foliician dwelling somewnere in the Fiftetnth ‘ard—had turned over his subscription Hsts. M, Parsons said he did not believe ke had. If what he had heard sbout Scully was true, he thongzht he shonld be siven the bonnce. He had been told by a man tn the warad that Scally enlisted in Waldo's service on condition that the Iatter was to reward his help in the late canvass Uy voting in favor of aflowing an old claim of Scully againet the city for §1,300. Parsons added that *‘the man* eaw a written agreement between Scully and \\::)1:0 to that effect, ana would so state if called upon. - On motion of Mr. Panlson, the Secretary was in- structed to notify Scun?' 10 be present at the next meeting for purposes of discipline. Afterarrangiog for anagitation meeting Tuce- day night at_the corner of Twelfth and Waller streets, and for one in the Fifth Ward Satardey evening, the Commttee adjourned. _ TUAT MEETING. The Soclalistic acconnt of the meeting at West Side Turner Hall, which was broken up last sum- mer dunng the riots, is 1o the cffect thatit was 2. very quiet, orderly affair, and that the outside mob throngidg’ about the door, gave the. gath- ering a_ bad mame by their violent words and actions, and thux brought the police down upon the meeting itself. This uccount is told with 81l minuteness by Mr. Stahl, ex-Aldermanic can- didate from the Eighth Ward, who was present at the meeting—one of the Cabinetmakers' Union— and who was one of thedirst to be clubbed on the head by the oncoming blue-coats. According to Mr. Stabl, the cabinctmakers had aereed 10 de- mand increased wages before the general strike commenced, and this was onc of their meetings in a1d of that movement. They a:d not mtend vio- lence, and did not usc apy. - After thelr meeting was over, the Jeaders went up to the platform for private business. In the gear of the hall were some people of other trades out on a strike. As Mr. Stahl was going down-stairs to go bome, he heard noises at the outer door, and soon found everything in confu- eion. All this was caused by the outside mod, — the feilows who brandished sticks und rhied stones in those days. Then the police came up, one of them felled him with a billy, and the squad paesed on up-stairs, thinking the nco{n!c there were of the same sort. and firing uponanddispereing them. The Socialists say they have Lud no fntimations, outside the talk in rome of the papers, that an attempt would be made this summer to break up their meetiags. What they huve =eea in such pa- vers, - howe: has been the means of putting them on their guard, aud preparing them 1o resist All attempts to interfere with them in their lawful right to peaceably assemble. SUPT. BICKET. i The New York World of the 2Gth has the folloy- ng: The following_dispacch, recelved by the orld as! e Capte ML . Tiickey: Ghlef of Palice tu) Clifcago. puts the Communistic ramors from that cliyl fa a0 Gnders. andable light. and showe very clearly that! there fs no ground for auticipating aoy serious out~ break: *“Cuicaco, April : There are certainly many’| Comimunfsts fn thls city, but oaiy a few of fheu are srmed or drilling. According to thelr usual custom, they talk very loud. but there {3 no cause foralarm. The repurts seat {rum here are preatly exaggerated. 31 ©Y, Superinteadent of Pollce.” /] PURCHASING ARMS. £ New Yorr, Apri reporter of the Sunday Mercnry had an interview to-day with one Rene, e Citizen Lafon, who claims to he Eust from Chicago, authorized to purchase arms for the Commruniets in dillerent parts of the country. Tio enys the purchase and shipment of arms will De an open matter now, similar to that of the Feniune, DENTAL. CixciNyaTy 0., April tive Committee of the **Socialistic Labor party ™' are ont in a card, denying that any brauch or Section of that party is supplied with arme, or un- Gereoing military drill in Chicazo or clsewbere, as Charzed: in dispatchies from Chicazo 8 few days ao.” They claim their organization to be purcly political. WORKERS IN WOOD. WHAT THEY WANT. For the last few days there has been an uneasy feeling in the minds of the furniture manufactur- ere of Chiczgo in regard to the possible or pros- pective action of their employes, who were eup- posed to be atlicted with Socialistic iaeas. It wus alleged that a strike was contemplated, and that this would forma nucleus for all tlie disaffected to raliy around. In order to get at the actnal facts a reporter of Tak TRIBUNE yesterday made a round of the different manufactories on the West and North Sides and Interviewed indiscriminately boss- ¢z, foremen, mechanics, and iaborer: It appears that the wood-workers are at once united and disunited. Thecarvers havea Union, formed only 8 feiw months 2330, and its object s stated to be, primarity, the cultivation of art as ap- plied to wood-carv ‘Then the furniture-work- ers have an_orgavization, and_they arc also amal- gamated with the horse-ehoers and one or two other Societies. So far 1t would appear that the Carvers' Union has takenno steps in relation to the wages guestion, but the furni- ture-makers bave held meetings and are perfecting a plan of ormnization, the ultimate aimof which noman professes to know. The persons interviewed yesterday, W th oneor two esceptions, declined to talk unles given 1 cuarantee that their names would not he fixed. The substance of the converaations had is toerefore given. On Fulton etreet, near Deepleines, the reporter thatof X. Jacovson & Co., in This found a factory, which about a dozen men were employed. firm, like all those visited, is enzaged in the man- ufactare of furniture, which 1s gold to the finishers od upholsterers. Here 2 wood-carver was inter- Viewca, o man of about 32 years of age, of Ameri- jeam birth, and decidedly intelligent. A€ to {he prospect for o stnke, ' he dida‘t know. Skilled workmen were carning from S1 to $1.50 a day when they worked full time, and ho Woald like to know_if that was enough to live pon. Luborers got 1 per day, and mary of them had familics to support on thix miserable pittance. For nimeelf. hie,althongh a skilled mecnanic, could only get work about half of the time, ana did not average 6 per week. ‘The reporter asked what TUE CAUSE OF THE TROUDBLE was, and what the remedy proposed. 11is inform- ant appeared to hold rudical views on the Iabor question. e ‘Lum'.fl the San Francisco scare, and volunteere the statement that Dennis Kearney had_ been bouzht up by the capitalists. Except for that Kearney would never heve mmde the attack “on the Catholic Church which has recentiy been recorded. Tils utterances alienated from tne ranks of the trades orzanization tens of thousands of Irishmen {o whom the Church was even more than the Union, and conld only have been inspired by a detcrmina- tion to carn the fec or uribe offered by the capital- Lste, vtho are bound 1o break up the Labor part In conclusion. Le aid thal just xo long as the na tional und religious cuestions were atlowed to i terfere, justihat long wouid the workingmen be disorranized ard incapable of action. Ile” dia not believe 1n the prospect of a strike. Mr. Gamer, of ihe firm of Koenig. Ueminz & Gamer, proprietors of a large establichment on the corner of Green and Pratt etreets, 100k u somes (hat different view of the circnmsjancce. He hnd tome feurs as to the ouilook. bavd mostly on the diszraceful occurrences of last July, when a mob of bogs paralyzed business and prosirated industry on the West Side, aud_the real workinzmen fled before the irruption of loafers, pimps, and thicves ich took. possession of the strects. 1lis men tormed from §1 to S$2.25 per day, und Were | pail Dy the piece. For this Teson ©mccurate figurce could ~ mot be bad, a8 goud workmen woull do weil. while poor oneg could not 1 Tiving wages. **Those labor- era in the yard. sald Mr. Gamer, **make $1.25 2 Gay. Nearly all of them have been with us a long time, and, ulthough we could et men to do the swork for B0 cents or §1a day. we prefer to retain our old hanids who understand the work, The sea- <on is almost at an cnd, and there really does not appear to be ony sense'in striking mow. But we cannot tell what is_before us, and 1 know no more than what Tug TRIMUNE has niready publizhied. Tne majority of ourmen arc foreigners, —Scandina- sermans, and Bobemians, ™ at class of ¢00ds G0 you how i3 it that prices are solow? “'\ve make both best and common goods, but there ie no sale for anvthing but the cheap goods, on which there ix little or no profit. "' foreman of the . T. Hambrook Manufac- ruring Company £nid that there was no_trouble in their factory. They -manufactured rchool-furni- furo mostly, and trade was fair. _So far as he et their men were better satisfied than wers those engaged in the manufacture of oflice and housebold furniture, the market for which wus overstocked. Therewere few. if any, Unonmenin he factory, and be knew nothing of auy contemn- plated strike, and did not believe in its likelihoud, "\t Ilall & Frost's. Sixtecnth and Dearborn streets, the reporter found 'THE SECRETARY OF THE CARVERS' CNION. Jle disclauned any knowledge of astrike and opined that 1t would be uselcss, But he kuew Jittle about the furniture-manufacturers proper and advized inquiry among them. The reposier then turned westward and brousght up ut a factory on Canal street where. nearly 300 menare employ- ed. There he founda gentleman who has been Over thirly years in ihe business. and who seemed to have very clear ideasas to the sltuation. As to the strike he had no informaiion, but as the season endsabont the middicof May if such 2 thing was con- templated it would have to be inaugurated af once. From January to May, and August to Novembér, or up to Christmas, the factorics wero busy, but dnrine the summer months_ they had hard work to keep their men going. As far as his firm was con- cerned, they would justas £00D shut up as not. They had §200,000 iuvested, made no_proit. und would be giad to get out of the business, but could not doit. “*\Chat wages do you pay, upon what they veti ™ Well. you can draw your own inferences. In Cincinnati they pay about per cent more than they do in Chicazo. Here everything is scraped down to the iast cent. All the furmture trade used to be done in the East, but Chicago has run Bostcu _entirely out of the market, and has taken ali the Southern trade away from Cincinuati. Jt took_competition to do it. and that means low wages. How low they are you can judge. when I tell'you that 1 have been thirty-Gve years 1n the business and never knew wages to be so small.™” “*\What, noL before the Wars" +4No, sir; Dot cven before the War, when bosrd and clothes and everything was cheap. The foreman o1 another large West Side factory came next, ana last. He was questioncd s to the average wazes pafd, snd replied: **You will &carcely be able to ind out. The men are ashamed foleryon kuow that ithey zet ko little, and the Dbosses would be equally ashamed to have it known how little they pay. ™ +4\What about the alleged strike ++1 don't believe there will be any strike.. What pood conld it accomplish? There are threc men nanufacture, and 2ud can the men live after every vacant job, and the season is almost over. Besides the men are not orzanized. There are a good many of them who think and read, and they won't do anything rdiculons, They will hold thelr meetings, and this time they will not be in- terfered witn, Why, the ptice tried to a8t Jlll‘y break np u peaceable mecting of Ihc Coopers’ Union nnd the men tookup their batche.s and threatened them. They then withdrew, and you il flud that they will asserc their right to micet the same as the temperance 2acietics or the Odd Follows. There isa Union of wood-workers, but it is almost a new one and is not fully organized. Sofaras L know there i 10 present idea of & srike, ™ A STORY WITI SOME TRUTH AND SOME FICTION. t+Thefact is,” eaid a gentleman to a reporter Festerday, *‘that this whole Communistic scaro i1 gotton up by some city ofticers for the purpoic of increasing the police force and of providing for the pay of those who are already in tho city's em- ploy. What with these decisions of the Supreme Court, and what has been lost through these tax- Gehting fellows, we have come into a position where the city has mo monmey, and doesu't seem to have any way of getting along. There is some dissatisfaction among the policemen, and some among the firemen. The head of each of these departments has a natural desire to have his force tull, in good condition, and well paid. The only thing that they can get thelr pay in fs this city scrip, and the only way iu which they can 1make that scrip immediately worth anything is to induce the merchants and other prominent men to take hold of it and carry it; to buy it atpar, or so mear par a5 to enable the city cmployes talive. Now, while the men are patriotic enough on the start, they don't keep it up for any length of time unlcss they are under a scare; and the only Way that you can influence capital is'to tell it that it is in danger of destruction. ~ 1 understand that persons from the PoliceDepartment have been 1o Domcof the leading merchants alonz on State streot, and have said to them: *Our Departuent is crippled. It was cut down oy the Council, and _mow we can'i pay the men. We laven't enough mee, and thase we have are dis- gatisfied. You eaw iwhat sort of a time wehad last July. Now it is more than likely that there Wl be just such auother time this year. The nolice did well then. We had more of them, and They ot their money. Yet they had a hard izht belt fhen. You can judge for yourscives what the prospect will be if there is n row this Year, "The police force wou't be able to pro- fect.' you ‘This tals, 1 wunderstand, —has bad #ts’inflnence.. 1 know of one merchant, and he is not very far from the corner of State and Madison, who has become 50_alarmed over these stories that he has cut off all outward signa of Wealth. He walks instead of rides; he bas dropped Mis Jewelry, and all otner personal adornment, and 1s* tryinz 'to look as poor ns Le can, K0 that, when the mob comes down and beging Jto' fuskc of sacking stores and plundering people, he will not be apt to be one of those selocted. 1 understand that a subscription paper is now pass- taz around anong the merchants for the purpose of ratsing money o be used inincreasing the police the force und putting back ome of men Who were discnurged, or of employing othere to take their places, Five or eix Thousand dollars have already been put up, and more is to_follow. The merchants, too, arc 10 be induced in the satee way to take this scrip. You see this pressure everjwhere, in . THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ae well as1n the Police Department. Last epring \when the Appropriation bill was under considera- tion, and they were talking of retrenching the Fire Department, Marshal Benner stated that, if it was for him _to cat down the sum _of salaries, he was goinz to ‘do it, Dby not Breducing the ~ pay of each man, but by dropping out two or three com- panics, which meant laxing up twoor three cn- gines, and, naid he, - Those engines will come out of the centre of the city. The water supply,’ eaid e, *4s zood, and we can pat ont the fires with the enwines which we have left, but it will need more Shter fo do it with.' The throwing more \nter on & fire means simply the dam- aeing of more properiy. ‘The hint was sinces men, and you will notice artment was not cut down except al of some supernumeraries who ought never to hxve been in the gervice. 1seein the .Journal to-day a statement by Marshul Ben- nor that, in case these warrants cannot be disposed of except at a heavy shave. he will meet the emerzency by dropping off enough men and dropping out enough engines to enable the :men wiio are left to get heavy enongh pay to stand the shave. This is an intimation to ihe merchants in the centre of the city to see that the Department {3 not reduced. I am acquainted with a large number of representatives of the for- cien element in this city, and, from all I cun learn from them, 1 dom't think there is to be any danger apprehended from the Communists unless the same condition of affairs should arise as did Jast summer. 1f there is to be a zeneral strike extending all over the country, aswwas the case with the railroad strike, I supposc it i3 not unlike- 1y that the eame thing won!d hanpen this year that did Jast. 1f it hadn't been for that gen- eral strike, and, above all, If it hado't been for the cxaczerated accounts of what Neppencd at Pittsourg, there would = lave been httle or no troule in this city, and_po difli- calty at all in putting a stop to what trouble there waa, DBut those Pittsburg tories made everybody nervous, intinudated thé anthorities. and pre- vented a promut enopression of what was in the beginning a very insignificant nifair. 1 think that some way ouzht to be found for payinethe men, and for prescrving the eflicie f the Police ana Fire Departments, but 1don't think the proper way to do it is by Gisseminating these reports abont Com- munistic drills and Communistic outvreaks, which are scattered all over the county, and hurt.our credit. 'The first resnlt i¢ to make capital timid at homie, and the second result is to diminish the price of our securities ubroad. You will gee Chi- camo and Cook County bonds go lower and lower if this sort of thing is not stopped. BONDS. #¢1 understand that the city anthorties have another scheme on foot fur tiding over the emer- pency: that is to secure a full assessment, just about as full a one 13 was made in 1873, when they attempted all throngh the State to carry out tho Rtailroad Aid act of 1869. They want the assess- ment put np 80 as to enahle them to run the debt to the amount of §22,000,000. T'hia would enable the Council to i 500_on more bonds than there are now outstanding. The proposition is, a3 T un- derstand it, 1o use & portion of this money for the purpose of tunding the ontstanding indebtednes hen to take enouxl more 10 cover the expense buildinz the City-llall withont resorting to taxa- tion; and then to usc the remainder os- tensibly ns o working capital, —a surplus with which to tide ~over the interval taken by the D that the Fire T Dy the disim between the levy and the collection of the taxes. | But you will find, if there are $3,000,000 in the Treasury unsppropriated. that it will be used straightway for the buildinz of school-kouses, for increasing the police force to 1,200 men, for the purchase of a dozen more stcamers, and the eni- ployment of men to man them, and for the build- ing - of about $1,000,000 worth a Eew- ers, This idea, as I am given to understood, occurred to the city ofticers last June. Along about that time they were informed what the decision of the Supreme Court would be in the Sprinzfieid case. They had hoped it wonld be the other way, and the knowledge came ot too late a period for them to do anything that year in the way of increasingz the_asscssment. It had already been made, and nothing could be done withit. Now, and after the aecision in the case of Law mnafled and fixed that in the Svringield case, they bave set theireyes on this as the oniy way in which they can get out of the present-financial difiicaltics. CORRESPONDENCE. TIE SCANDINAVIANS. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, April 27.—In nearly every report con- cerning the Communistic movement in this city iv is made apparent that the Scandinavians are the Jeading clement. That no one has taken up the pen to rectify this error is probably because the Scandinavians themselves arc aware of the insig- nificant part their Communistic countrymen are playing in reality, and for this reason the articles have been considered too ridiculous for attention, however ageravatiug. Nevertheless this silence on their part way resultin the idea gaining ground that the Scandinavians as a class are Communis and to be ranked among the scum of society. is therefore for the interest of the Scandinavian majority, and for the suke of justice, to make Knawn to the American people how few=—Low very ndinavians are In sympatby with the Com- movement. The history of Commanism in Scandinavia is neither long nor written with blood. The sceds \Vere kown in Denmark eome ten or twelve years g0 by Dunish journcymen, who brough ‘their jiveral deas with them from Germany, where Communistic trouble had been brewing since 1848 Of the sister countries, Sweden has remained ai Inost passive, and it iy but lately that the N wegians have shown any sympathies. cecded in starting sn organ calied the Social witn Lonis Pio, 4 young man of little appearance, <ome ability, and_considerable audacity, a3 Its editor. This gentleman, who had formerly made a failure of making & living by advocating Catholi- ciem, discovered at u glance that his bravado might be made prafitable i this new ling, and mado use of it accordingly and copiously. Itlovkedattimes an if the Socialist and its editor wonld gan no headway, and were ready to sk into ovlivion: but rescue was near when the great mason and carpenter strikes etarted at Copenhagen. Louls Pio grasped this upportunity with cager hands, and, in connection with Puul Géleff, a mun of ordinary abilities and education, then 4 fanatic for the Socialistic cause, but—Dbe it aid to his credit— honest in his intentiong, agitated and brought on Toot an open-sir_mceting, consisting of etrikers, idlers, and. curiosity-seekers, on the ‘‘Norre falled,” a lurge field in the vicinity of Copenhay This meeting caused considerable excitement, but would have been without uny serious results’ had not the Danish Government, who saw smoke Where tnere was no dre, shown a great deal of in- discrimination in quelling the disturbance. Not only the leaders, but mapy who had come there «+for the fun of the thing,” were arrested and fined. L. Pio had, however, thus far gained a point,—the subscription list of his paper had swelled; he himself stood as the leader of the journeymen; yea, he was their bero, and it i3 dis- tressing to s6¢ the number of *‘songs ' made for the purpose of being chanted to bis honor. Every tinker and tailor baving a spark of *‘rhymin; talent " mede use of this for the glorification o Louis Piv, Foratime L. Pio and Paul Gelef, With another motorious leader, Harold Driggs, v sign_of Communistic The Commanists in Denmark suc- feasted on the tribnte paid them by their iznorant admtrers, until they went too. fir in_their ex- ressions and behavior, and finally L. P. aud b, G. were imprisoned for three years. This treatment, uncxpected and unjust as jt may boein, was mevertheless beneficial to all par- ties ' concerned. The Socialists dwindled in numbers, and when the Jeaders sgsin saw The brisht light of liberty ™ it was with legs of {ho *‘reckloss spirit” in them, and none to lead. A'Socialism, which did never meet with any suc- chss outside the Capital, had become a thing of the past in Copenhagen, and Communism had no “~millions in it™ any more, Pio plotted a plan of jnducing men of means to emigrate to Kaneas. Paul Geled was sent over {0 inspect the country \while Pio gathered in the pounds, und at the ro- turn of the former both leaders left. 1t appears that the two Jeaders on arriving in this country had a quarrel relating to the dividing of the money. Geleff has published 2 pamphlet telling the trath, 2 ho claime, according to which Louis Plo is the Ditidozing warty. 3The former hus given up Social- fam nsa bad job, and is ut present publishing a German paper calied the Du Page County Zeduna. T P70 has auccecded in starting a weekly **Social Grzan, " seemingly for the chief purpuse of in- enlting o Scandinavian brother jonrnalist with whom he has_had some difficuities at home. The paper started on n monthly coatribution of 50 cents by fifty Socialistic wembers—probably the Fame. partics causing 50 much alirm— “but according to rumor, fome of them arenow getting tired of the little game, and the new time will soon leave its editor, to seck for” pastures ne! Harold Driggs, the tnird leader, is Fow imprisoned at Copeuhasen for blackmailing. Thus it will be observed that, as far as the Scandinavian Communists are chncerned, no citi- zen, Amerjcan or foreign born, has anytning to fenr from them, and it & unjust and injurious to Tha Scandinaviaus, 88 8 cliss, when the papers make it appear that they areallvagabonds and rowdies. Tu justice to Paul Gelefl, be it eaid that the stat ment in Friday’s TRIGUNE concerning mis abili- ties is cxnggerated. In common with afl educated Danes he has some knoweledsze of the German language—and that s all. >11¢ 38 not dangerous nor reckless, and bas_little_if “any influence over his Countrymen., **The Government institution in_ Denmirk he occupled for several years™ was, s previously stated, the jail. He is considered a fair and squarc ™" man. L THE LEOR USD WENR VEREIN. 70 the Editorof the Stagis-Zeftung Crcaco, April 27.—In Jast Friday's number of the Stuals-Zeitung, Mr. Naster publishes an ex- ceptionally reasonable article, in which he ex- presses his amusement at the terror of the English prees regarding the Lehr und Wehr Verein. Ile ways with great trath of the Soclalists who com- pose the Lehr und Webr Verein ** they know very \well that the time for an uprising has not come vet, since nothing would be mned by it escent {he pereonal revenge of a few, eince the great ebof the American people is far from being ripe Tor the new evangel.” We can assure Mr, Kaster that the Lehr and Webr Verein has no idea of an '+ outbreak " so long as the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, especially that of free union and free mectig, are not attacked by the bour- fooise. The preparations of the workinznen, Rhich are not, as Mr. Raster erroncously assumed Timited to the German-speaking element, are #i ply o necessity in order to protect themsel arainst future murderous attacks like the one Which was made_by the police last year aiminst peaceably asscinbled workingmen. Carl Heinzen Yrote in Boston long ago: **The Americans will Some day #ooner shoot down and Tiani by the luw the Communists than allow them to force their way into the Legislature. The Chicazo Tumes 13 preaching from day to day the murder of the Communists. —Tue TRIBUNE is doing the same thing, and on the Board of Trade monev is collected o buy weapons. It appears that the bonrgeolse nre occunied in opposing the Jegitimate demands of the wage-workers, —such, for instance. as the introduction of a fuir working dny. the regulution of labor i manufactories by women and children, the prohibition of Peniten- tlary labor for the bemefit of private contractors, and the orgunization of statietical bureans. —by bayoncts and canons. and by looking forward, mn- der certain circumstances, to n general slun of Socinlistic workingmen. But ‘the working; \While they eubmit themselves to the existing kaws of the ~country, and arc using thew whole bower for their proper development, ulso have 2 right to work for the improvement of the laws as well na for the advancement of o healthy sockal and political_condition. And. therefore, in v of the causcless preparations of the Lourgeoise, they have to organize themselves in order to make impossible ench shameful attacks as occurred i Chicago Inst July. The Socialiety want peace, and {hey dre, therefore, arming themselves in order to stifie in their germ theevil weed planted by the pourgcoise. Mr. Rastersays: *‘Communisin or Socintiem ib a religion, and there is no joking with religions, One cannot expect anything from re- Iiirions. fanaticiem, since reason hus 1o power over it. But the leaders of these faatica are unrensonable in a lesser degree.™ This js true. There is no josting with religivns. Let the capitalistic press abandon its attacks on the Communists and abandon 1ts prenching of gen- el murder. - Let the matadores of the Buard of Trade, instend of subscribing thousznds of dol- Jars for Winchester riiies, pay up their td¥es punctualiy, and let the authorities make them- selves acquainted with the lubor auestion and the demands of the Communiste, ‘vhich are capable of Cexecution nnger present’ Circamstincis, und then the ¢onditions of 1 peaceable developuent are ut hand. Any one who wishes peace in_the present condition of society must prepure for war, and the Communists arc doing that, after they have seen how the raling class breaks up peaceable meetings und murders peaceabic workinamen like Carl Tesa- maun. HEn CniLz, Secretary Lear und Wehr Verein. THE PROTECTION. A Fuller Bill of Particulurs Wanted—Tho Motion to Quash. Judge Moore's attention was largely occupicd yesterday in hearlng a motion for a further bill of purticulars in the case of Col. Kellozt, mdicted \with Maj. Wouds and the Protection Life oflicers: and o motion to quash the indictment against the Jatter. The matter came up in the morning, after the Court had disposed of the usual run of Satur- day morning criminal cases, State's-Attorney Milis asking Mr. 1igh if he was ready to arguc the motien to quash. ir. 1ixh said he bad no_motion to qnash. Mr. TRied was looking after that for his clients, and Would be present to argue it during the mornins. What Mr. 1 did have to ask was a bill of pa ticulars for nis client, Col. Kellogz. : The Court remarked that he supposed the bill furmshed during tho week applicd to all thesc cases. MR HIGH - said he didn't think it was a bill of particulars, and he wanted something more pecific, ile then Tend the afidavit of Col. Kelloge, to the effect that the so-called bill of particulars was =0 vague and uncertain that it was 1mpossible for the defendant to ascertain the nature und particulars of the offense charged. After reading the afidavit, Mr. Hligh went over the varions specifications contained in the bill, clanming that his client had a nght to know which of the many reporis made to the Au- ditor it was proposed to prove {raudulent, how muchof it was fraudulent, and how much was to be Churged, in a particular report. agninst him. The only glimmer of light he could zet from the tifth apecification was thit the assety did not exceed the Tiabilities of the Comuany, as reported by W oods and Kelloge to the Auditor, by 8115.470.74, tut, onthe contrary. that the liabilities exceeded the ts by $300,000. This might be sufliciently ex- it. but in the mafu body of the specification it s charged that many of the details in the mun- azement of the Company, from the date of organ- fzation down to the time of the examination, were not examined. The defendant was entitled to know what detail or details he was charged with _having emitted, and wht items of assets and 1fabilitics were omitted in the report. There was @ generul statement that all the facts and res of the re- port were fraudulent, If it wus intended to o over the whole sround, embracingz ull the catculi- tions zoing to make up the report und the examina- tion, be wanted to kuow it, und If the examination \wasto be confined to any particalar points con- tained in the report, he wunted 1o Know what those pointa were, that he might prepare his proof ac- cordinzly. The nill of particulars was sach only inname. The band which wrote it was the hand of the State’s Attorney, but the voice,wasthe voice of o Washington strect attorney, whose office was Dot very far from his own. U,uughlur.‘ Mr. Mills_stated that he drew the bill himself, without assistance from apy Washington atreet at- torney. Mr. iligh remarked that the difference between the bill of partrcuiars and the indictment reminded him of what lerbert Spencer said of the doctrine of evolution,—that it was o change from an in- definite. incoherent state of homoweneity 1o a definite, coherent state of heterogencity, throuzh successive differentiations and integrations. The indictment, said Mr, High, in carrying out mr.; e of illustration, was the indefinite, incolierent st homogeneity, and the bill of particulars tl inite, cohierent state of heterogencity. ter.] le knew notning more about the re: 1 char; than before. In fact, the bill of particulars was simply a repetition of the indictment. MR. MILLS £aid he did not understand that ftwas the object of a bill of particulars to netify u defendant of ail the evidence to be nsed against hiw on trial. The genticmen seemed to want a full statement of just Sxactly what it was proposed to prove. DButthe defendants understood this bill ‘of particulurs. They knew if meant, in elfeet, that they, Kellogz and Woods, were charged with conspiracy with the officers of the Company to deceive und defraud the people by a certein method, which was deseribed Ds being the making and publishing false stafe- ments. - This uill of particulars was full enough, and he did not think the prosecution should "Le put 1o the hardship of iving their case away by making it any more particular. Mr. flighand Mr. Rtiddle denied that they. wanted to get the evidence in advance. Whatthes did want was the exact ground upon which the prosecutor would proceed. without rezard to the proof. 3 THE COURT took the indictment and the bill of particulars® and Jooked them over long and carefally. e was not sure that the prosecation, was required to furnish anything more particalar, but he would like fo sce the nuthorlties whick both sides might present. Iie preferred to dispose of the motion fora bill of particalars at the eame time he disposed of the motion to quash. It was therefore nyreed tha counsel shonld present their authonties luter inthe day, and, s Mr. Reed was ready to argue the mo- tion to quash the indictments against Hilitard, Edwards, and Ryan, that matter was then taken up. i3 MR. REED, in his argument, supporting the motion to quash, proceeded to say that the Constitution provided for the statement of the natare of the charge against a defendant. The indictment in this case ought to state the names of the persons injured, so that the defendants might know whom _they were charged with conepiring to clieat and defraud. Asa matier of fact, the indictment simply charged a conspir- acy to obtain money by false pretenscs of the peo- ple of the State of IlHnols, and to defranddivers of them, without mentionine any names whatever. Nernther did the indictment properly descrioe the Ymberly of which it was alleged the people were o be cheatad and defrauded. The word used wag money, " which might te horses, cows, lunds, real estate, or what-not. Further on in the indict- ment, viz. : in the stutement that Edwards, Hill- 1ard. 20d Ryan made false statements, it did not appear from the language in that particular connt that these men were then ond there, when the alleged false statements werc made, officers of the Company. From all that the indictment dis- Closed, these men were mere private citizens at the time of thc allesred offense, and could not, there- fore, be held under the charge, In general, the iudictment was meuflicient, and ought to be quashed. . MR. WEDBER, Assintant State’s Attorney, replied. The indict- nent, said hie, contained four counts, each one chareing the defendants with a conspizacy to do- fraud the public generally by falsc — pretenses. There could be no question as to the validity of thie first, inasmuch as it charged the offeuse in the Iauznage of the statate, which, under the de- cislons of the 1llinois Supreme Court, were suf- ficiont. ‘The only question that conld arise was the question_whether a conspiracy to defraud the citizens of the State, generally averred in that language, was suflicient. That it wus suflicient under ” the suthonties which he proceeded to cite he -had no doubt. The only objection 1o the second count was that, in averring the time, it read *‘Afterwards, to-wit; on. theeuid 1st day of Junasry, A. D. 1876.” Thig, it was claimed, vi iated ihe count by reason of the repugnancy of the time as laid in the drét count. Mr. Webber contended that tne count was valid, and that the objection should not vrevail for the reason: thiat the time of tho commission of the offense did not cnter into the nature of the offense, 2ud might be laid on any day previous to the findinz of the bill during the period 1n which it might be prosecnted; and, sec- ond, that this count, in the wa. Wwas a substantive fndictment, or, rather, was a distinct substantive charge, and the fact that each count churyed a dis- tincl felony of the same degree, committed au dif- ferent times, atrorded no ground for abjection. Repugnance could only obtain where one matetial averment was contradictory lo another material averment in the ssme count. It was a general rule of law that e fact or circumstance lnid 1oan indictment, whicl was nota neceessry ingredient of the ofTense, miht be rejected a5 surplusage, and, by striking oul the words quuted, the words would be good under the authoritics mentioned. It was the duty of the Court, ho contenied. to reject thiese words as surplusage. An indictment was fuu(l, morcover, if the uay and year conld be col- ceted from the whole statement, even 1f they were not expressly nverred. As to the objectiun to the third_count, that theee men were not showu to De officers of the Compzny at the time of the al- leged false statements, he contended that this shonld cut no flzure at all. The conspiracy could e had among the partics even if they were not oflicials of the Company. If these defendants had, for the purpose of eficcting the object of thieir conspirucy, published falsc statewents, they were guilty of conspiracy, whether they ucted as private individuals oras ofliciale, Aguin, as the acts of the conspiracy were divected against the entire public, the entire public had a rish to bring the indictment oy such, and it was not necessary o describe porticwlasly the persons in- jured. If the indictment had alleg- ot 'a conspiracy 1o injure one mun, when it was really a conspirucy Lo defrund_and cheat the entire pablic, the defendants might come fnand show that they had not conspired against the particular party, and_they would thus be ac- quitted. Mr. Webber offered, a8 sustaining his Dosition, numerous citations from the authorities. Mr. Reed replicd that, if the defendants were not charged in the indictment with conspiracy 5ainst o particular person, it was the very best Teason in the world why the' indictment ehould be quushed. The indictment was too zeneral alto- gether, 1f there had_been a conspiracy to chieat the public, it should be very easy to produce one of the puvlic,and let him say he had been defrand- ed, and these aefendants were entitled to such a specillc charze. Insteud of policyholders having msde the complunt, the charges were made by Shufeldt & Westover, attorneys for rival insurance Companics, whose bill of particulars in a lawsuit agaimst a certain comvany for fees disclosed the fact that those fees were for services in breaking upthe company's rivals, one of which was the Protection. ‘At the conclusion of the arzumente, the Conrt asked counsel to provide him with copics of their briefs and references to the authorities cited, and promised to render u decision by Monday after- noon, if possibl e —————— THE RAILROADS. TIIE SALE OF THE ERIE. The Erie Railway, as slready announced by dis- patch, was finally sold under foreclosure of a mortzage last Wednesday. There has been &0 much litigation in the case, so many delays in the proceedings, and so many days appointed for the salo, it was nol generally expected that the sale would be made at this tune. The tactics of the parties opposing the reconstraction scheme have been to bring new snits just bejore the day ap- pointed for the fale, which could not possibly be heard fully before the time appointed for the saje. Tn the last case the suit was pending on the morning of Wednesday, while the sale was ap- pointed” for noon. But the Court decided that \whatever there mignt be in the case. the complan- ants' rights wonld not necessarily suffer by the xale; that is, that they could prosccute taeir claims and fecure whatever they mizht be entitled to, even if the road should be sold. e therefore re- fused to postpone the aale, and about 1 o'clock the Lrie Railway and all the property avpertaining to it was sold to the highest vidder, ex-Goy. Edwin 1. Morgan, of New York. The terms of the sale were as follows: L. The purchaser to pay 12 per cent in cash or certi- fled ehecks at the thne of rale, 11, ‘rhe residue of the.purchusc money to bo pald at the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company on the 1st of June atnoon, 2 TiL. 'The Referee to recelve as cash bonds and cou; ns of the mortgase mada by the Erfe to the Farmers® 0an & Trust Company Feb, 4, 1874, ut such rate per centum ns il bu vayable to e Tolders of such Bonds afzer the distribution of the procecds of the sale, 1%. ‘Should the purchaser fall to fulfill the conditions of thie sale, he is to be charged interest on the whole amount bid from June 1, V. ""The Lieferee to pny outstandiog taxes and assess- ments., V1. The purchaser to pay the suctioneer's fee of ) ii. The bulldings tobe kept open atter the sale and tie propotty agaia put up should the purchaser fail o atply with the terms, In thls event, he is to be ekl “Tesponstite for the difteraice. fCuny. Detween bis bid and that obtained at the resale. "The whole property was pat up in one lot, thas described: All and_singular the raflwar of the Erfe Rallway Company from and Including Plermont on the Hudson FIVCE: 1o snd Including ihe Hnal terintous of satd ral- <way on Lake Erfe, and the raflway Enown as the New. o sranch, from Newbureh to the main line, and e that "part of the railway deslgmated as the Hafrato Brancli of the Erle Railway, extending trom Hornellsville to Attica, o the State of New York. and also all other ratlways belonzing to the Erle Rallway Eompans I the Staes of New Yorky Penneylvinis, SRR sersey. or any of them. togetber with all the lands. tracks, lines, Falls, bridges, wuys boildings, Jiers, wharves, structures. ercctions, fences, walle Ntures. tranchises, privileges, and rizhts of the sald Camipany: and ale wl the locomotives. engines, ten- ders, cars, carriaes, tools, machinery, manufacturcd oruhmanufactured materials, coal, wood, and subplies of every kind belonzing or ‘appertataing to tie sald Company. and all the tolls, income, issucs, and profits SrivIng Ot of the sd property, ani all riEhs to e~ ve or recover (he sames: also all the estate, right, Intorest. terms nnd remainder of terms, frin- Ty leies, nod rights of action of whatever name S atire In law or In equity conveyed or asslzned unto e “Vew York & Erle_Lialirgad Compuny, or unto the Erle failway Company, by the Ualon Hillroad Com Tty by the Bulfalo, New York & Erie Bairoad Com. pany, by the Buffalo, Bradford & Pittshurg Raflrond Dmpans. by the ltochester & Geneeee Vallcy Raliroad Gompanv, and by the Long Dock Company; embracing and Inciuding all and the singular ‘the chioses in action, ke bonds, bouk sccounts, bills reccivable, sad Sy avidences of inebtedness, leasehold estates, con- Lrhcts. and other property, mentioned and described In raciies and schedules to be exhiblt ed st _the sale, and contalned and described [n the Recelver's inventory of he real and _personal Fru{mrly of the Eric Lailway Company, a1so to be exhil d At tne sale, not consum- e or disposed of by the Leceiver fn the discharge of Tuty prior to the sale, and including proverts of cery kind and descrip:ion aequired by the Recelver Wiring his Keceivership, with the procceds of the ents.. orofts, aud Issues of the mortgaxed premises Haca'the ‘making of the fald foventory nnd not et Hraced thercin. and excenting there{ron such portions thereof as will_ be declared excepted at the time and place of the sale. The incumbrances were set down at §32,384, 745 in mortgages, besides a large xam for unpald in- torost, and the parchaser was required to assume the exnenses of the Receivership and the respoasi- Ditity of ull lawful contracts made under it. The following is a tabular statement of the money ted 1n the property: When Valueof tssued. _ shares. _Amount. common e 8100 §78,000,000 Prererred stock umulative). 100 8536910 1867 1,000 2,453,000 2d( i to 197 1,000 2,174.000 extended (0 1879). X 2,174 20 mortgage T gme murigage, convertibie, 1857 Inortgage, convertible, 1838 sp0cte i 1861 Buffalo Branch bond: 100 ete Loag Duck Cu. Imorigas 18" 1,000 ing honds, convertib .00, 1865 £200 onsoll " “m,rl. .000,000)..... 1670 1,000 usolldated mortgagd, v oty .. 1874 1,000 Few bonds (debentures) ‘convertible till 1333, 1373 1.000 10,000,000 “The flest bid was five millions, and was made by o otran. A Mr. Platt bid five millions and a ¥, which was raised by Gov. Morgan 0 #ix mill- fons, ot which amount the property was finally inocked down to him. e Governor_uctea with Messre. David A. Wells and J. Lowber Welsh as Trustees for the Renonstruction Committee. The news that a post- Danement of the sale waa refused had a favorable Pgheton Erle stock, an advance of 2 per ceat for ot day being recorded. The sale wis regarded ns Ihsaring a complete reorganization of the Toad, the fundinz of past-due coupons, an assessment of o tock, and a cancellation of certain noprofita- ble leases. i e claimed that the salc of the Erie was a com- lete checkmate to the Mcfenrs faction. 3lc- lency nd his sdherents had inatituted no less han ihirty suits azainst Receiver Jewett, evident- 1y to force the latter to compromise withhim. Mr. T wets says dellenry owes the Eric Railsay 25.000, 000, and his désire was to harrass the man- f ement until they would release him from the i 2btedness to get rid of him, The reorganizstion wipes out no class of claims, bondholders haviog been invited to join the scheme without pavment. Those who neglected to come in before the sale will be allowed to do §0 mow. The plan of the Committee is to reduce the gauge of the rosd. but to avoid the preat expense of cotting dows he rolling-stock a third rail will be lad, and_new locomotives and cars purchased for through traflic. Then, as the old broad-gauge stock gives ont it can be replaced by narrow-gauge, sothat ina few yeara the outer rails can be dis- ensed with altofether. The cost of laying a third rack and purchasing the requisitc narrow-gauge rolling-stock is estimated at about $3,000,000, somewhat less than the assessments expected. ‘That there may be no confnsion as to old debts the name of the road will be changed. It is the inten- tion to call it the New York, Lake Eris & Western Kailroad. Tt is reported that bonds sufficient to meet the balance of the purchase woney have been deposited with the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com- pany, and that the new Eric Company will be pre- sided over by Mr, 1. J. Jewett, the Receiver of the old company. The scheme of reorganization which is to be car- ricd out was adopted in 1876. It provides that the rate of interest on the first consolidated bonds is not to be reduced, and that their coupons are to be E:u'lly funded and partly paid iu cash; that coupon onds are to be issued In exchange for the fanded conpons of the first consolidated mortgave bonds; that the holders of second consoliduted and gold coupon bonds are to fand their coupons, the foriner forfive years and the latter for four and a half; the sccond consolidated and gold convertivle ‘bonds to be replaced by new consulidated bonds, 6 er cent, maturing Dec. 1, 19695 that.one-half of he shares of the new company be issued in the names of one or more sets of Trustees. who shall Bold the same for the pipose of excrcising the voting power thereon until the dividend Las been paid on the preference shures for three consecutive years, ceruficates being lesued for the eame, which shall entitle the holders to receive from the ‘Trastces all dividends de- clarcd in respect of the shares held in truet;_ that the sbarehiolders of the present Com- pany be readmittcd to shares of equal amounts, preference for vreference, and ordinary for ordi- nary, but represented as (o one-half by certificat under the fast clause; and that the costs of fore- closure and reconstraction, and any othef smounts necessary for the carrymg of the schemc into effect, be paid out of the wmoneys to be raised under this scheme or otherwise, & the Trustees may determine. 1t remains for the Court to confirm the sale, and the probabilities ate that there will be opposition to such confirmation, as there has been tu every step in the fureclosure procecding, but it is not probable that it will be of auy avail. THE COLORADO WAR. Torexa, Kan., April 27.—The Commonwealih has the following special from Canon City to- night: The ltcst aspect of the contlict between the Sonta Fe Railroad and the Denver & Rio Grande at this point fs that the Santa Fe still holas the fort. They bave maintained and defended their rignts, and hold all points along the proposed Jine from this city to Leadyille, the teading centre of the Californis gulch-mining district. Late on Thursday might the Denver & Rio Gurande officials procured un injunction from Judge Henry, of the TUnited States District Conrt at Pueblo, restraining the Santa Fe from faterfering with the Denver & Rio Grande engincers or luborers, and writs were issued for the srrest of the ofticials of the Sauta Fe who were resent on the worke, and Mr. Robinson, Chief Enoincer, and Mr. Morely, one of his nesistants, were served with the order of the Court, &nd under directions of General Manager Strong, they obeyed its man- dates, and for s while the Denver & Kio Grande people were in the ascendency, but at 11 o'clock Jast night Maj. Anderson, of the Sunta Fe, came in with an order of Judge IHenry, which had been granted at5o'clock. This order put the matter back to the nosition occupicd on Thursday, aud strongly_con- firmed the injunction of Judge Baine of the Lower Court, by which the D. & R. G. were restrained from 'all work on the iinc of the Santa Fe, and by virtue of which the engingers and Taborers of the Denver & Rio Grande had been ar- rested for contempt of court. To-day the urrests have been prosecuted with valor, and the Denver & Rio Grande force, if working at all, are in con- stant fears of arrest for contempt of court. The vigorous movements of = the Sacta Fe 1 procuring £o prompt & dissolution of the injunc- tion has greatly elated and gratified the people ot this place. and more g0 a¥ there is_a strong feeling {hat tho actual terminus of o broad-gauge Tine will ‘e at this point, thé Santa Fe, under _the charter of the P. & A. V. Railroad, having already sbout four miles - of track west GF Poeblo, and aore golug ahcad rapidly towara this point. The sympathy of the people for the **Banana® line was shownon the aerival bere of telezraphic intelligence of the dissolving of the injunction. An ovation was offerci the of- ficiale, 0 salute fired, cheers given with & will, aud compliments for the able ‘management of Ar. Stronz and staff were on everybody's lips. ‘There i every reason to believe that the Santa Fe will be put through to Leadville with dis- patch. The road when completed "will pass Through the Grand Canon of Arkansas. Where the main walls arc upwards of £.000 fect sheer per- pendicular Light. REORGANIZED ERIE. ALBANY, April 27.—The certificate of incorpor- ation of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railrond Company (being the reorzanization of the Erie Company), filed 1n the Secretary of State's of- fice to-day, shows that the incorporators are: Hugh J. Jewett, Henry G. Stebbins, R. Suydam Grant, Soiomon A. Guthric, John Taslor Johns- ton. Charles Dana, Cortlandt Parker, Ilomer TRamedell, Samuel Sloan, George F. Tallmun, Thoron X. Butter, J. Fred Picrson, James J. Goodwin, and William Walter Phelps. The benefits of _the organization are open to all parties interested in the property who choose to fnite in it, and nearly all the bondholders huve already united, as well as the majority of the stock- holders. The stockholders have yet gix months to come in. the terms being thc paymentof 4 per cont in money on preferred stock and 6 per cent on common. graded ITEMS. The Grand Trunk Railway people talk of ex- tending their road to Toledo in order to secure a connection with the Wabash for Sonth western aud Western points. A detachment of seventy-sesen recraits arrived here yesterdny morning hy the Baltimore & Olio Kailroad, and_ another one of 125 by the Lake Shore & Michigan Sonthern. Both detachments Jeft for Omahy last evening by the Chicugo & Northwestern Railroad, where they will join the Fourth United States Infuntry. Capt. Stephen Hoyt, for a number of years Parchusing Agent of the Tllinois Central Ratlroad, and 8 resident of this city, died at Salem, Mass., s mative town, last Thursday. At obe tme Capt. Hoyt was Comptroller of St. Louis, and auring the Iate Rebelllon he fought gallantly in the Union army. _lie held the position of Mayor of New Orleans under Gen. Banke. At the close of the War he entered the sorvice of the Illinos Cen- tral Railroad Company, with which he remained up to a short time ago. Iiis_honesty and geniality ‘oon eained bim hosts of fricuds, who will deeply mourn his loss. AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, QUINLIN & HOOLEY Pvrqprlcum and Managers THIS SUNDAY EVENING, BY SPECIAL REQUEST, . TRVING_BISHOR THE RENOWNED ANTI-SPIRITIST .ARD MiND-READER, Wil give ope off is wonderful entertalnments, du- plicating snd expocio all the tests and manifestations of the most celebrate SPIRIT MEDIUMS. B500 For Any Spirit Manifestation. Medium who will come on my platform ooy Splrtt Mellgm R0 e iatuon which | canniug Ao ilvate or explain upon purely mundane principles. T il oy 1o Uiat same Mo L O ars Gulaia Zlflgkle)',.m‘ £is3 W. IRVING BISHOP. Prices of Admission, 75¢, 50¢, and 23c. Performance will commence at § p. M. PCORMICK HALL. MURD CH‘ THURSDAY, MAY 9. Reserved Seats, aes TESTIMONIAL Tendcred by leading cltizens to PROF. J. E. MURDOCH, The Greatest Living Reader. Sale seats begina Koot T e oah MONDA Y Morning. May 6, By order S tslamitiee, GEO. B, CARPENTEILL Manage GRAND EXCURSIOR. CINCINNATI "™ onctati s veters EEGTIVAL. Those desiring to visit Cincinnatl during Festival.can qare henenit reduced R 1t.and Hotel rates by applyin; et GEO. B, CARPENTER, Ry FOLLY THEATRE. WANTED. F)Hki Young Ladles with good fgures and volces. Ap- P NINON DUCLOS. DANCING. SFALL'S HALL. cor. Halsted and Adams.sts. Grand Soirce every Satirdsy evealng, commencing May 4. S ate. 5o, Music by Wedgwood's Bagd. N. B.— Gentlemen will please bring thelr company. Ferorder Comu, of ATT. = AMUSEMENTS. McVICKER’S THEATRE. THE LAST NEW YURK COMEDY SUCCESS, OUR ALDERMEN A satire, deallng with ““BOSSES LOCAL POLITICS, and “RINGS, Polnting out & wholesome moral {a a mirthful way. +To hold, as "twere, the mirror up to mature.”— Shakspeare. *+0, would some power the giftie gle na, TO see ourselves as others see us."—Burns. What the New Tork papers sayof OUR ALDERMEN: **The audlence recelved the play [n the most hearty g00d humor.*~X. V. San. “:" The pun of situations and love storles.”—N. V. Her~ ald, " “The olay was recelved with abundsnt applase.” N, ¥, Times. ““Stuch triculent satire on politics, abuses, and capi= ta equivoke fn the dialogud.”—Y. Y. Tribung ‘Hyoked loud and coniluuous merrtment.”—Post. tuations would galvaulze a mummy into -Express. dance of comical situations and local wit- —World. n pertand eatertaints telsms: “*Pictortal satire, dashes of character, burlesque slt- ‘—Grudhlc. uatfons. aud upplicabie ullusl Telegram. **An Instantaneous success. After si: wxsf‘r:’fi;ceb of good drama we give FUN THIS 1 Seustule J Evers Night, Wednesday and Saturday Matinees. v . 50, 75 20d S, Matinees, 25 and S°CFTER DARK our next producilon. lHVERLi’S THEATRE. MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1876. Every Evening and Matinees, Mr. Josh_Hari's Yonderful Creation and Realistic Sensatfon Drawa, Panorama, and Diorama, entitied Before, During, and After the Fire. The Grand Panorama is 1,600 feet Lofig! ‘NOTICE—Ten months after the great Chicago dis- aster this Drama and Panorama was produced at the Academs of Music in tuls city fo a succcasion of crowded houses. and pronounced by the ecntire press of this city at that time a3 perfect and correct » Tedre- sentation of Chicagu before, durlug, sad atter the tre 231t was possible for painton canvas to make s, The startling fire scedes and effects are produced b steam and mechanicul conurivances which preclude the pos- siblilty of danger. No aleghol, cotton. or other cotd- bust{ble maierials are used [ miaking the STARTLING FIRE SCENES. The_favorite Comedian and Banjo Performer. 3r. SAM DEVEKE, in Ll original character of Skyolae. The unequalsd Germaa vialect Comedian, Mr. LA RY TOOLEY. lu bis orlizinal German character, Patrick. Mr.D. A. KELLY, Mr. D. COLLYER. Miss HANNAH BIRCH, 1o her origlual character of Bridget McNamara. supported by an. Excellent Dramatic {ompany. HOOLEY’S THEATRE. QUINLIN & HOOLEY ..Proprietors snd Manager* MODIESKA LAST WEEK! The Great Success of the Present Season! MOSDAY, April 29, and Until Purter Homce, MADAME HELENA MODJESKA (Countess Bozenta), Of the Tmpertal Theatre, Warsaw, will, in_compliance with geoeral desire, reépeat ler uuapproachable fm personation of CAMILLE! Supported by W. F. BURROTGHS and Full Dramatic Company. Matinees Wednesdays & Saturdays 2 p. m. ., May 6, the Favori'e Emerson's 3lnstrels. NEW CHICAGO THEATRE. the jastly celebrated Mme, TZ'S Monday Eventne. April FEMALE MINSTRELS. A bristfant array of crace and heauty, presenting the finest Minstrel’ Scene ever witnessed. The dushlua MABEL SANTLEY'S only orlgiaal LONDOY BURLESQUE TROUPE, In the Great Senzatlon entitled FEMALE FORTY THIEVES. Aummented by a Superfor Corps of_Specialty Artlsta~ Dest o the world. Grand Matinges Wednesdsy and Sat- urday. Popular Prices—25, 35, 50, and 75¢. COLISEUM NOVELTY THEATRE. This Sunday Afterncon and Evening. THESE RATLROAD MEN. Grand Ollo, Blanche Selwsn. Ben Gilfoll, Maura & . Lcon, The O'Donohine, Grace Garland. Honday Eveatag. Aprll 2 an entire change of pro- ramme, GEO. W. THOMTSON i his great Sensation, Y ACUPI Capt. A. 11 Bogardusand Son, champlon wing shot; Relly & Nears. Irlsh comedians: Tamilton Saters, son and dance; The Lanes, trapeze; Nlles & Evans, Et opian comedians. Matinees Tuesday and Fricay. Pooular Prices of Admission. NORTH SIBE TTRN-HALLE. GRANDCONCERT THIS AFTERNOON, AT 3 0°CLOCK, BY THE CHICAGO ORCHESTRA (40 Picces), GEORGE LOESCII, Director. BEETHOVEN, SAINT.SAENS, MOZART, MEYERBEER, ‘WEBER, STRAUSS. The hest of music at the lowest of prices. Aduwlsslon, 15 cents. HAVERLY’S THUEATRE. (Late Adelphl. 3. B, DAVERLY... e A0 Proprictor and Manager TRIS SUSDAY LAST NIGHT OF MISS EATE CLAXTON, and the Kate Claxton Combination, In the unswerving aftraction, assbe prestnis it THE TWO ORFPEANS, With all new scenery. and every character filled by an avtist. Loatsc, the Biind Girl, Kate Claxton: Chevalier Sfaurice de Vaudry, Plerre the Cripple, Mr. C. A. Ste- Matinces \Tt:lnrsdx; and Saturday, icago Fire. venson. Monday—>r. Josh Hart's C HERSHEY MUSIC HALL, THIRTEENTH POPULAR CONOERT. Last sppearance in Chicsgo of the World-Renowsed Harplit APTOMMAS. Assisted by n number of Chicago's best Artists. Admisston, 25 cents: with reserved seats, 50 cents. “Tickets fof sl at the hall. Ses programmes at music-stores. ANNIVERSARY. LITERARY AND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT AND HOP given by the Young Men’s Uebrew As- kociation at_Brand's Hall, corner Clark and Erie- sts. Admission, 50 cents, Buses in attendance. McCORMICK HALL. RESERVED SEATS for the Maydn_Society's Third Concert at MeCormick's - Hall on Tharsda; Mny 2, can be obtained at Root& Suns on Wednes- day Morning, May 1. WALTER €. LYMAY, ELOCUTIONIST 866 1-2 WABASH-AV. BlcCORMICK HALL. Say 14. TReserved Seats to WENDLING'S Great Lectare ara now selling ut Lyon & Healy's, 162 Stat-at. Those who have not beard him should fose go time in securini seats, as the hall will be crowded. Over 3,000 hear hisg &t the Tabernacle. WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A number of yonng ladies competent todo Songand Dance busines, for summer engagements in the Northwest. Apply to CAMBRIDGE &CO., Dramat- ic Agents, Rooms 2, 580d6, over New Chicazo The: tre. PROF~RUSSELL'S MAY. PARTY Wil occur st the Academies, corner ‘Wood aad LaZe- sts., Wednesday evenfoR. May 1, 1878 Tillotson's Hall, Englemood, Monday evening, May 6, 1673. HOUSEHOLD ART-ROOMS, Gardner House Corner. elections from the Japanese Collection. Clals i Lt B e elc., ot ow priceR, -\ X