Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1878, Page 7

\ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 28, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES ~SPORTING. BASE-BALL. CHICAGO AND TOE WOITE STOCKINGS. Mo persistently bad weather of the past week s -enaered the White Stocking Park rather wet, jihis, 2dded to the unpleasantly damp, chilly hich yesterday showed up, determined 1000 W e stpone the game announced ;mapsgement o po: t B Tacséay afiornoon. This will o a fort of Jwell game, in which the patrons and friends of 13 Clod will bid it good-by and good luck on its weeks' trip. Tuesday afternoon’s game will hetween the rezalar indeld of the Chicazos, ged by three Bmateurs in the outiield, on the one ., and on the other the White Stocking outfleld, 3% their chavze piteher, MeClellan, Spalding, 54 three amateurs. The batting order and post- 1 be as follows: sons Wil Remeen, c. f. 3’:'5,,1:"». Tallinan, 1. £ f,”mm'r:, c Casedy. T. . gcn, £ B hlngximm 3b. uflllm v ¢ Ly Bostwick, 1b. Y e penerst admission to this game will bo 25 sots; grand etand. 50 cents. i b White Stockinzs leave licre Taesday evening " ypiayin Indianapolte the nest day. What they P8 the fret few games they will have to fight "ill for. Thes are badly handicayped by their Ylure to get prover and sulicient practice this 4 wcek, and will have to work harder (st acconnt. It las rained in thia for eeven days, snd practice has been amost Hiirels impossible. But this nced make no dif- rence—the boys will isve 1o pull a little harder; all. 11‘:::! espected that the question of umpire for + ret three Chicago-Indianapolis games would led by nz‘:k::xf(:rr:n;nmenl har fell !}{ronsh, and the jceco Club, 88 visitor, has snbmitted the folow- Le st from which the home club must ckoose s Hodzes, of Boston: McLean. of Philadel- Frlong, of Milwaukee: Stearng, of Wash- [iston: Daniels, of Providence. 1tis satisfactory o that there isn't a bad one u the lor. {rhe Leagne schedule pravided for games in Indi- 4oapolis and Cincinnat Weduesday, Thureday, and LSatarday of this week, In the former city a circus ieto eshibit Thureday, and. 1 order not to conilict ith i, {he game which would have been played the Chicagos and_Indianapolis Thursday “petween ) tianapol e day o petover (o Fridar. The White Stockinzs B e elorc booked for Wednesday, nd tardsy this week. S48t om tne pew Whi stowly for 2 weck, : cof&fgl " ihe weather. There bas been time. . to pat on all the backs 1o Bomeser P10 et matters otlierwise Piarted o that it needs omly 3 few aays Mt wemher to put the park In of adition to rival the a1l field of any other club e countrv. By the time of the Srst game here oy 1) it will be the prettiest and besturranzed und in the Lnited States. oy " gentiemsn asks THE TRIBUNE to **to raise its worrul voice™ azainst he present rate of ad- e eion charge to the bali-ground. This Tue e will mot do. becatise 1t i none of its Saciness. The Chicago Ball Club charzes for its Simiesions what it pleases, just us MeVicker Eharpes what he pleases for ins admissions, and just e Stocking Park h beeanse of the in Tur Tamstxe Company chures whal it Dleases for this and other issies of its Peblication. - It the _coutributor docsn’t Tt 1o poy the Bal Clube price o Nr. McVicker's prices, or Tug TRIBUNE'S prices, be needn’t, ‘Then, azain. why don't he g0 oundana sk President Hulbert fo lift up bis “gowerful voice ™ (for Mr. Hulberthae u power- 1l voiee) azeinet] Mr. McVicker or THE TRIBUNE? 3ir. Hulbert nas just a8 much right to 1ix tne vrice ol Tez Stxpay TRIBUNE 2t one cent, 2¢ the paper $as to £x the prices of admiesion to the bal ground 325cents. Asamatter of right, 50 ceuts is not 100 much for a seat at a first-class game of ball. GAMES THIS WEEK. The base-ball scason, <o far as the larger cities of the country arc concerned. will commence this week with three Leazue games Wedncsday. one Thoreday, one Friday. and three Saturday. There ill a1s0 be & larze number of International Asso- jon gamee, For convenience of reference, the following schedule for this week has been wade: Mospar—tHornel! v5. Lowell, ut Lowell: Rochester +v& Xew Ledford, at New Bedford: Star vs. Auburn, at Avburn; Cricket vs. Springfield, at Springtield. TrzspaT—Hornell ve. Live Oak, at Ly Aliegheny 2, Cticx. at Utlca: Hornell vs. Star, at Syracuse: Yoxrepay—Chilcaro vs. Indianapolie. at Indfanap- olis; Mllwaukce v, Clncinnatl at Clucinnatl; Boston . Providence. at Provigence; Cricket vs. Lowell, at Towell; Homeil vs. Live Oak, at Lynn; Rochester vs. tpringfeld, at Springfield. i waunkee vs. Cincinnati, at Clncinnati; itorncll B st Lowrliz fard, st Allegheny vs. bpringfeld; Buffalo vs. Star, at Syracuse: Cleveland . 1ecumeeh. at Cleveland. Feway—Chicago vs. Indfanapolls at Indiznapoll ¢ncket va. Manchester at Manchester: Allezhe LireOsk 51 Lynn: Bochester vs. Otica ot Utiea; falo¥3. Star at Svracuse. EutrRDAT—Chicaro ve. Indianapoltsat Indfsaspol Miiwaukee va. Cincinnatl at Cinclonatl: Providen T floston at Boston: Cricket ys. Manclicster at Man- eners Allegheny ve. Live Oak at Lynus Hornell v New Bedford av_New Bedford: Busfalo vs. Utlea at Tilea: Tochester v. Star at Syracuse: Clevelaad vs. ‘Erie at Clevelaad. RESCME OF THE WEER. TFollowing is a brief recapitulation of games plaved snce last reports: AtSpringfeld. 22d: Holyoke, 5: Sprivsficld, 3. AtAmherst, 33d: Amberst. 7: Westbero, 6 JiSpringfield. =323 Hornel] rinzieid, 2. AtPintsfield, Tid: Plusneld, A lca, 2 Ttica, 4: Syraciise Star, & AtCtica. 16tz _Utica, 73 Auburu, AtLyun, 23¢:_Live Cak, 7: Yale. At Princeton, 23 Princeto: solate, 2. fit :tlll‘u:)lr‘&:.j T, 9; Roclester, Q. i Lyna, 22 Live : Yale, 0 Gtica, 33 Horaell, 2 M Ciles, g 20th: Manchester, 3; Lt nl At Holyol :_Holyoke, 5: At Lowell, 20th: Lowell, 4 Tirookly B 3 At Binghmmpton, 21st: AtGuca, 2ih: Utlea, 42 Cricket. 0. AtHolyoke, 24th: Hornell, 7: Holyoke, 6. (AuNew Bedford. 24th: e Bedford, 14 Amherst, The Boston team met with a trip-up Wednesday farame with a picked nine. _The latter scored 2 while Harry'e champlions got only 1 in nine imnings, The base-hits were four for the picked tam and three for the champions. The bicked nize was made up of the following players, who 2re unknown 1o fame in this part of the country: Fowler, p.:Rollins, c. ; Cook, 1b.; Lynch, 2b. Flint, 3b.; Foye, e.€.: Gerrish, L f. ;Wilhar.c. f. 3 Woods, r. f. The umpiring was dose by Harry Schafer, of the Bostone. TROSPECTS. 1t has taken 2 good deal of tzllz 40 get ready for the season of 1878, which is 10 open this week, and 1 no previous year has the excitement been fpreater among the friends of the game. Besides the upited strugzle for the pennant into which &ix clubs will throw themeelves with all their enezey, thereis a good deal of feelng between particalar clubs which will perve them to their best excrnions. This is specially noticeable between Indjanapolis and Cincinnaty, and between Chicago nd Boston. ‘The feature of the campaizn of 1878 which mives itprominence, and makes it deserving of putron- 2z and encoaragement above all other years that bave rone before, is the abseuce of muny men fom the League ranks who bave been prominent retofore in the dest clubs, _Beside the expelled %gfn—l)er“n, Craver, Hall, Nichols, Beehtel, and alker—there is a noticeable and’ comwmendable Lick of inclination to take np the rounders, against .¥hem mo proof has been adduced, sud yet sainst whom there is unquestionably a public satiment which influencee the fricnds of the cluu 1is eaey to make a short list of men who site be: lg ontthan in the game: for Instauce, Meyerle, Pllln. McGeary, Trcu?', Peawce, Cuthbert, ooz, Malone, Force, aud a dozen more, With: Gt asserting that these men are anything but b €, itis unquestionably well for the game that ter are not of 1t thie year. liisevidently expected by a correspondent that umlls‘::lner will follow the zeneral custom (unques- Unably a bad one) of prophesying at the begin- “-g of the scason how the cinbs will stand at_its Yo Base-ball is 100 full of accidents for that; 2z¢ t00 many chances inzames nine innings o, I every game had twenty-fve innings u Tl-versed man could guess pretty neariy evers p:;k;«l}wn:mlmn; but it is not =0 easyin'a com- short ¢, where a bi "‘%—;;: Me‘ u!ull.m bit of Inckmay emning the result of the championship race, 'ngm bae nothing t0 3y. oo prophect 19 Ty Delieves that the White Stockings will rd. pull together, play bonestly, and win fiod many games. It has noadvice to'zive them unl‘rlhzn that the ball-lovers of this city want hatoplay es well ay they kuow evry time, to o ¢ themselves on the déld as well 25 off, and. ¢ all, 10avoid the scquaintance of suspicious gacters. " If they play their best, they will bave fhelr whole duty, Whether they win or not. ukn)rlh: champ: ip, why one club is about ey town i as another. " Harry Wright se- ’": e flagin 1877 with 2 nine 3 2o0d deal in- {eron Plasing strenzth o either of two others in cn clected Captain of the new Dav- &t feam. 3nller. O'Day. Carmichacl, and Sxllare on hand and practicing, and the re- dder of the team will arrive May 1. Mr, F.W. sy Secretary of the Club. " writes as follows faing the future: ©Gamos ure beicy ar- T8 Tast as heard from. On the 13th of My Sipour grounds with fhe Colliers, of Rapid $iIL s the nest weex will play the Burlington, ine very Tikely, and May 31and June 1 the 2 Of Chicago. An efiort is_beiug made to NPORT TEAM. Chy 9nze a State league chiampionship, and shoul i X , and_should "‘»s!f:m’ e formed it will Take the contese erestine and tnc people would become Gterested in the game and turn out in larver m'»““‘ benefiting not only the ecities and Ty 3 Jowa but ‘the bull associstions folves. "1 hould be pleased to hear any lowa club _in this matte 1o"0 3ddrees me Box 435, Any club wishs 1y, datex for cames will please address me as It is our intention o have eome of the 1208 in the country here thic kegson, as we . w3lime that will give them a good game. We s 1 all games we negotiate for On the same As we give visiting clubs. gy LONGOLLAX B thag rlghun (Nev.) Chromicle lss not forgotten froetk Twain and _his practical jokes came e Gy, It haea reporter who, fu order 10 Mark's achievements, has fginjshed the 4, BALL. azreement under Sec. 1 of Rule G, | g ball article which has the sound of the boax and the ring of the ** stiff ™ about it: 'l bage-ball mania hasat last reached Chinatown. and the. Mongullaza have a regularly cquipned nine, and they practfce ouce 3 week, Yesterday afternoon they played on o vacant space near the Ophir Mine. Theéy practiced with three wmen ot the bat and ning ficiders, cach baseman remaining ls as long os he could snd taking hieplace {v the Cuid when putont. While they adhere as possibic 1o the rulesof the Ameriean Fame, their manncr of playini: It slightly differs. They want the ball pitched scralzht overhead fnstead of to the right slde, and they strike as much as If they wero pinzz wood. After they hit they ruu the reveree he dlamond, muking for the third base first. g they are very expurt, and rarely smicsu ball that ix kuocked In the alr. In several inetasccs It was knocked from one hand to anothier, aud was caught. In battlng they aie very weak, but n throwing they average betier than tlie Caucaslan clubs of the Comstuck. The Teporler Watchea the game yes- creay for an hour, and did ot note s single ovcr: throw. Iung Lung, the Captain of the nine, Inforined fhe reporter that tlie game of base-hall las been played 1n Chlna for over 900" yrars, but that during tae past century Interest in it has In » measure died out. In Lo Luk **The Bold,” a King who died fu 0 or iereabouts, the Faine was {n the tull lory, helng encodraced by 1toyal patronage. his Majesty 3 grand eame was fete where thousands of [n- ad the evenint was devoted > of firvworis in honor of the victors, who ate at the Koyal able, while the vauquistied were placed at the Jower end of the hil and not alfowed to pariake of wine. The game cliue from the year 1422, wheiat one of the lady of the Ttoyal hougehold was Wit in aball and Killew. When Hung Lung kame was considered an Ainerican s told that instftution, holaushed loudly and intimated that it was bard to tind anyihing the Americans didn't claim. __JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE. id that the Allerheny Club has applied to ie for permission to sign the Bufialo agreement. _ The Tecumeeh Club, of Lonaon, Ont.. bas been incorporated with a capital of $3,000, divided into twenty-five shar 1t is announced that Gross, of this city, who played with the St. Panl Red Caps in 1870 and 1877, has signed to play In Cleveland this year. _Things do not seem to be specially prospering in Pitsbui ilegheny Club, which is supposed by the schedule to be in the East, can be heard from only at home as yet. The weather yesterday was rather hard on the International games. No less than three were broken up by ra Hornell vs. Mancheste: Rochester va, N Bedford, and Utiea Star. spike Brady, who bas acquired the title of Ad- vance Agenl from the facility with which he cnanges clubsand is found in different towns by fhe professionals, fs zunounced to play in Terre Hante. Mr. Chadwick having read that the Tndianapolis team defeated a picked nine by 7 to 4 therenpon announces that **the Indrnapolls nine are Joom- ing upas the strougest of the Western League nines.” After having procceded to the matter with delib- erate baste., the Judiciary Committee of the Inter- national Assuciation have decided that Craver can- not play with the ilsymukers. The latter have wuved Dinnin, of the Fecumsens, totake the vacant Place. “rhis is encouraging: A professional base-baller has just praduated trom the New York Evening Hiuli School. He possesses the advantage of ve- juzr able to abuse an wmpire i four diferent lan- gus; Exchaie. ‘The status of base-ball in Philadelphia is shown in the result of the opening game which was: Athletics, cfiance, 10, ‘The latter are u.fair Jot of amateu: about the grade of the Acmes or Dreadnauzhts of this ci The Erie (Pa.) team, which bas so often been changed by ramor, is row settled down as fol- Y ine, p.3 Baker, ¢ 3 Dehlman, 1 b, 3 -, 2 b.; Kessler, 3 b, : Plerson, s. 6.5 Mansell, Householder, c. f.; Talley, r. f. A St. Lonis paper has hopes that it can stirup a row in the Indianapolis tewn by telling the men that injustice bas been done them in having lurze photozraphs of Nolan end Flint made to send out ax advance posters, after the manner of the theat- rical people. There are_ rumors in the air_that Goodman, of the Milwaukees, would like his relcase, and that be can get it in_case the mapagement can secure Fisler to take his place. No reasons arc alleged for the change, and none are known. Maybe itis only a romor after all. Robinson, the well-known vhotographer of No. 77 Clark streer. has made excellent and life-like cabinet photozraphs of euch member of the White Stocking teans, which can be procured at 25 cents exch. lic has glso made 3 handsome eroup of the cleven, and sells it at 50 cents, The work and likenesses are worthy of prai: The Philadelohia liar says thatthe Athletics were expell 1 from the League in 1576 °*for a violation of its agrcements to pay its Lonest pla; ers.” 1t won't pay to discuss tho **honest pla ers " part of this, but the truth s that the Athletics were expelled for not carrying out their contracts for return games on the schedule. They eeem to have some trouble in Philadelphia 1n fixing the status of Jim Devlin. We have heard in rapid succession that he was to have a nine made up for him: thut ke was goingto Canada: that he was to pitch for the Deflance, and that he Dhad appearea at oue of the variety theatres. Latest of all is that he s to plav tirst-ba<e for the Key- stones 1n a game against the Athietics. " The Dreadnausht Club will contest for amateur ampionship with the followinz players: W. H. s, J. Haiey, W. Brown, C. Boleyn, O. Oleon, J. Tierney. J. F . Forrest. E. O'Brien. terfield, B. Zillinger. D. Dee, and D. Mt The new members are C. Boleyn, formert: of the Henry 1 . of the Liberties; W. Brown, of tne Fairba but Jater with ' the Drexdnangts; and J. Forrest, wio played with arshalls, of Marshalltown, Ia. tated that the Milwaukee team will begin on _with the following batting order and positions: Peters, Tlolbert, r.[.; Bennett,c.; Daltsmple, 1 . Creamer, c. f.: Redmond, . & : Foley, 3b.; Goodman. 1b.: Weaver, p. That team will win many a game that the knowing ones have made up their minds to have go the other way. Solemn Jack Chapman wili have the lot in rood shape rieht alonz, and he will just as likely as Tot present Cincinpati with a bundle of astouish- ment this week. The Globe-Democrat says “*Tom McNeary is to hold a consultation with several firet-class play- ers, concerning the reorganization of the old Red Stockings. There is not the slightest doubt but thata second &ol’cssiunnl team in the city this cezson would be o grand enccess.” This ‘‘old Tted-Stoeking™ team, concerning the reorganiza- tion of which there is to be a **consultation, ™ was in existence in 1876. Since that time, it has been used for no other purpose_than to scnd a delegate to conventions. it has done that for two years, without a player, or a doilar, or an ofticer, or an organization. A targe nnmber of the semi-professional clubs of the country sre just now in the agonics of their first reconstruction. They hired their men with- out knowing much abont them, 2nd the rude test of piay hax dispelled meny illnsivns. For instance, the Lowells didn’t waut Gooch, the New Bedfords had no use for Curtis, the Worcesters dropped Lurne. the Springfields have engaged Curren to tuki place of Hickey., anid are looking for a first man to lake Gannon's place, and a flelder in lien of Hodes, It 0 well known that the Aunburns want a_pitch two alleged pitehers 1o scll. The Liv ave secured Luft and pat O'Leary on the retired list. These chianges are only samples of those which will tear up the ase clubs within a few weeks. The state of thi; is like that where all hauds get poor cards ut pitch ané all_sing out with one accord, *+ Put "em in and desl “em over 2gan. ™ as, late Manager of the Providence it 13 announced, ovtuined Jeascs of the Hartford and New Haven grounds, and will lacate a toam in the lust-numed city. The Boston Heraid says he has the following men under contract: Arthur Cummings. p.; Larnie of Brooklyn, ci JcCave, e. &., from last year's Chelseas; Moore, 1.5 GUl, 2 b., alively man from Sun Francisco 2nd fbe Chelzoas; Ledwitd, 3 b, for (w0 geasons {vith the Tecumsehs of Londos, Ont., and a goud eatcher also; Barrett, 1. f.. very reliable; Danicls, © 1. well known a¢ dn umpire and_the captain of the Martford smateurs: loldsworth, r. L. the well known hard bitter of the Mutuais and Hart- Tords: Clinton, reserve. {from the Syracuse Stars, a hard hitter 2nd sure outliclder; and Ring, resorve, of the Celse team, bt QUESTIONS WERED. . W. H.. Lasan bere is Gould going thjs season, and in what position®” " dn- swer—lie has charge of the Cincinnati Club's frounds, and i3 not likely to vlay, except inan emergency. S, H.. MinwAukes—** What was Fisler's record as 4 batterand first baseman in 18768 Answer— ‘v a batter, he was the twentieth in the countrs, wWith a record of .26 as flrsz baseman, he was frst In the country, with a record of 978, TIIE TURF. VARIETY NEEDED. There has been o good deal of talk lately about a etallion race throngh the Eastern circuit next summer, but as yet nothing definite has been done. Jtis argued by those who favor the proposed race that it would be a novelty, and from this reason slone would attract large aundiences at the points included in the central circuit. This is un- doubtedly true, and the only wonder is tbat the mensgers of tracks have not ecen long ago that what i wanted In turf eports is variety. They arc generally sharp «h in matters pertaining to their business in- rests, butin this particular have been wofully behind tbe age. For the past decade, during swhich time the trotting interest has undergone a wonderful development and growth, the atyle of racing has not varicd in the slightest degree. The same old dosc of ‘*mile heats, three i five, to hamness, * has been administered to a long-saffer- ing and uncomplaining public scason after season, and Goally, when the attendance at some of the best known and hitherto most succesetal tracks has beun to drop off somerhat, the astute gentle- mien who condrct them cannot tell why the interest in turf matters is on the wane, and lay it all to the Dard times. It 1smo wonder that the public has Vocome tired of the evérlasting mile-heat-in-har- 1t is undonbtedly a horse’s epeed, and, to 3 certain b to pln{l ¢ best method of developin; Cxtent, is pleasioy, but even 3 pale de foigras palis often. several on the avpetite if placed on the tdble too As_lus been remaried in these columns vions occasions, the turf- of the public Wants variety, sud until it ix furnished by those who run the tracks a larger proportion will .+tay away cach season, until there will be more horses on_the track during race week than spectators in the seats. There are thonsands of cople who now attend racee in their town but one y out of the four which are usually devoted to n meeting, who would be there on the other three, werc they assured of befng able to see something novel. Doring the past few ycars, the uverage speed of the American trottinz horse has so areatl increased that, in a four days® meeting, where all the races are mile heats to harness, the spectators will sce abont 2s fast heats in the 2:34 classas they will in the 2:20, and as a matter of fact, what are technically termed the ‘*low races ™ are lia- Dble to be as fast ns any. For the past two years, the free-for-all race throngh the Eastern circuit hns been remarkaoly uninterestine. Last year there was really no contestin this race at all, Rarus swinning every ovent in which be started with the greatest ense. although on one or two ocearions Lucille Golddust forced him to give a very pretty exhibition of speed. -1f the nssoclations compos- ing the central elrcuit would inject little variety into their vrogrammes. they wonld sce the result in an increased attendance and a better showing on the balance sheet. If they can be induced to_establish a race free to all stallions, giving a $2.500 or §3,000 purse. it will be a atep in the right direction. But they should mot stop with thie. If people will turn out to witness a stallion race because of its novelty, and because there are 3 nnmber of the fasted horses in the country eligible to it, they witl also turn outto see a double-teum race, free to all, asaddle race, a two or three mile and re- peat race to harnese, or a five-year-old trot. 1t these facts can only be hammered irto the organi- zatiung of the track managers, o new cra in turf sports will have been begun, and that it would prove a benefit to a1l parties concerned there can acarcely be a doubt. 1n regard to the proposed stailion race, it may be paid that when it was first proposed there was some tatk of handicapping Hannis and Swmusgler. Why anybody ever wanted to handicap,_the Jast-named beast it is bard to understand. The blaze-faced flug-ighter Las always been Kept pretty buey to stay in a race until it was finished, and the talk about handicapping him was doubtless a delicate bit of earcasmn, which will be appreciated by horsc- men. Nor will it be found necessary to impose any weight penalty on Lannis in case the pro- posed race {s made.” There are several stallions in the country who are fast_enoagh to crowd the lit- tle chestnut son of Mambrino Pilot from wire to wire, and should Gov. Sprazuc come out in good form this season, and befplaced in the hands of a competent man, it woula be n nip-and-tack con- test between the two. Mr. Peck, of Hariford, owner of the stallion Voltaire, that has never lost 2 race, although trotting.auainet some of the best horaes in the country, Las expressed a willingness to enter his horse in a stallion race, and enough others would probably *‘be there™ to make mul- ters interesting. The ideais worthy of seriouy coneideration by the managers of the Circuit tracks, and, ms there is hardly a chance for the associations to lose monef’ by such a race, the probabilities are that it will be established. POWELS AND VOLTAIRE. There is a prospect that the two well-known trot- ters whose nanes head thisarticle will come together this scuson in & eeries of match-races, which, it they occar, will certainly;be among the mest inter- esting events of the year. These animals have alrcady fought out many a hotly contested race between themselves, and althouzh Powers has in cvery instance been defented. he hus neser fmiled to acquit himself more than creditably.- In view of the fact that both these horses came out *-green” at the beginning of last season, und before its close bad acquired record of 2:21%;, something regarding their breed- ing and perforinances will be of interest. Lt first 10 the proposed eeries of matches. Mr. Alden Goldsmith, owner of Powers, offers to match his horse uguinst Voltaire, to trot three races, the first of mile heats, three in five; the sccond, two-mile heats; and the third, torce-mile heats; a1l in har- ness, and good day and track. The frst race for £1,000 a eide, the second for 000 u sde, and the third for §3,000 a side. The first race to be trotted Saturcay, June 15; the =ccond, Saturday, June 22; the third, Saturday, June 20, andall the Taces to take place at Prospeéct Park, provided that track becomes a member of the National Associa- tion. The sum of S500 on each race to be put up when the proposition is accepted, and the whole to be made good on the day before the first race, after which all becomes pay or play. - This is certainly & very bold proposition on the art of Powers' owner, and shows plainly that he Pelieves nis horse capable of even greater things thun he has yet accomplished. 1t must be borne in mind that Powers has never won a race from Vol- taire, although they came together three times last season, and that no horse \as able to beat the Hartford stallion a race last season. although he such good ones, exclusive of Powers, as Wild Pratt, Vivandiere, Qweechy aid, Honest Harry, Alley, Planter, Tom Keeler, Big Fellow, Richard, Amy B., Blackwood, Jr., and Nil Desper- andum. With an unbroken record of victories before him. and the further fact_that the two best horses in s stable last year—Powers and Alley—were among those defeated by Voltaire, 1t is somewhat surprising that Mr. Goldsmith should fssue such & sweeping challenge. It tukes a fair amount of mnerve to offer to put up 86,000 on three faces against a horse that has never known defeat, and mname a6 his competitor in them an animai vhom be had Gefeated three times, but Mr. Goldsmith is too oldnman in the trotting business to let bis en- thusiasm run away with his judgment, and not the one to make & foolish mutch. Powers, in whose speed and endurance he piaces g0 much confidence, isa brown gelding by Volunteer, out of n mare by Harry Clay, thess ines of breeding makineg him @ brother in blood to the Chicazo Dorse Bodine, record 2:16%. e came out < green " last *enson, and trotted his first race at Rurmebeck, N. Y., May 16, where he defeatcd Newton, Jim Murray, Neilson, Charity, Lady Getouches, and Jilts’ Damsel, in ¢ 4315, and on the followinz day at th Dlace beat about the same field in 2 :43, 53, He then went to Poughkeeps on May 22, he captured a field composed of Will- fam T. Alien, Juno, Sidney Breeze. Maria Stew- art, and Ridgewood, in 2:212, 218 . The next day he defeated Phantom, Newton, ond Charity, in 2:33, 2:35, 2:95%. From Pough- Keepsie Powers traveled o Flectwood Park. where, on 29, he won a S1.000 purse fn 2:20%, 252937, 2:30, W. T. Allen taking the first heat in 2:33;." Tie then went to Boston, and, at Mystic Park, Junc 5, sustained his first defeat, meeting the redoubtable Voltaire in a race for **green * horses. Itwasa hot contest and a long one. Powers won the first heat in 2:27; Vi taire the second_and third heats in 2:2f, Powers the fourth in_2:24, and Voltaire the fifth and race in 2:25%. _ Wild Lily, Frank Saylor, John McDougall, Pratt, Visandiere: Frank A, Chestnut THill, Oshleen Belle, (ueechy Maid, Georze C. 1iall, and Chster were also in this race when it began, but the pace was too hot for them, and Pratt and Frank A were drawn before the fourtn heatn, Vivandiere and Chestnut distanced in the fourth, Oshlega Belle in the third, and Queechy Maid and Uail in the gecond. On June 12,at Bea- con Park, Powers and Voltaire again came tozeth- er, and again the representative of the Voluntcer ana Clay families was forced to lower his colors to the gon of Tattler, The time of the heats in this race was 2:24%;, 2:2513, 2:24, 2:24, 2:26, Powers winning the first and third, and Voltaire the sec- ond, fourth, and &fth. supremacy from startto inish. and,as inthe former race, five heats werc reauired to’ eettle it, all of which were trotted between 2:24, and 2:35, an unprecedented showingina *‘green' race where the heats were split up. Thelr mext tilt was at Dover, N. H., June 19, over o slow track, and for the third time Voltnire took first money, although the customary live heats were trotted, Powerswinning the firsttwoin 2 18, and Voltaire the last three in 2:28, 2:20, 2:30%. ‘After this_hot campaign with Voltaire, Powers wona couple of very, creditable races at Dover und Ponghkeepsie, and then entered the Grand Ceatral Circuit, where he acquitted himsclf with gredit. 1lis only victors fn thls series of races, however, was at Utica, where, on Auz, 14 and 15/ —the race having been carried over to the day fol- lowiog that on which it was begun,—he beat White Stockings, who won the first ana gccond heats; Tdol, who' won the fourth; Laay Snell, Mazo - Man'e, Planter, and Amy B, in_the’ order named, of the heats beins 2 Vi :213, 2,24. This race proved him to be d zume horso as wellas a speedy one, and added fiota little to the reputation he had'already o~ tained. . Voltaire's carecr, as has before been stated, has been one of uninterruptedsuccesses, 1is firstrace was at Mystic Park, Boston, June 5, where he d¢- feated Powers and cleven’ others, 'fn the second, third, and fifth heats, Powers winning the first and. fourth, Time, 2:27, 2:24, 2:24, 2:24, 23354, lle again defeated Powers' June 12, at Geacon Park, in_the sccond, fourth, and firth heats, the time'of the race being 2:213 533, 2004, 2ud, 2:95, At Dover, N. ff., June 19, ne won over about the same field, in 2:28, '2:20, 2:303, Powers wioning the first and second heats in 2:23, 2:95, At lartford, Ang. 28, Voitaire met Ifones Tlarry, Alley, Planier, Tom Keeler, Big Fellow, Richurd, and Amy B.,in a race for a $2,500 purse, e won the first heat in 2:281 ; Honest Harry the second and third in 2:2245, 2and Voltaire the fourth and fifth in 2:56, 2:27%2. At Mystic Park, Sept. 7, he trotted for a $1,000 purse aguinst ml’es-. Tom Keeler, Honest Harry, and Queechy Maid. and won 1n 2725, 2:2543, 2:23%, Le closed his career of victorics at Hartford, Sept. 20, by beating Blackwood, Jr.. and Nil Desperandum in 22134 2:23, 2:2434, Blackwood winning the first heat in 2:35. ¥ 4 These are the records of the twohorses. They are both first-class ones, and, should the animais that made them come together in a gerics of races, the record of the one that won would undoubtedly be lowered. NEW ORLEANS RACES. NEW ORLEANS. Li., April 27.—At the Lomsiana Jockey Ciub course, nfth and last day, in the first Tace, mile and an elghth, all ages, 100 pounds on cach, purse 3250, sccond horse 330, ten started. Conrad won by two lenzths, Liltle Red second, Vergilian third, beating Bluezown, iarry Lock- Iin, Redman, Creole, Dance, Verdigris, Belle Bar- clay, and Jim Hinton. Time, 1:36%. Ta'the pools o the track Conrad \vas largely the favorite. Vergilinn led at the start. At the half- ‘mile Little Reb had the lead, with Redman second. On entering the home-stretch, Conrad went to the front, and won easily. Second race—Cotirell stakes for 3-year-olds, mile and a half, €25 entrance, play or pay, $400 added, with a $600-cup by Capt. William Cottrell, six nominations, five started. Mary won easily. Pat Malloy colt second, Emily Caster third, beat- jng Lilla G. and Capt. Fred Rice. ~Time, 2:. 1n the pools on the track Cottrell's entries sold 3 1o 1 against the feld. “Third race, consolation purse for horses that have run and not won during the meeting, 1 mile. Juck Hardy won by & length, Adventure second,. Verdigris ihird, beating Belle Barclay, Blandell, Bradomante, Cannon, Henry Owens, Burgoo, Do~ cility, and Jim linton. The eecond last fell at the balf-milepost. Time, 1:44, Fonrth race, 4-mila heats, -handicap for all ages, club purse, £000; second horse, $200. Jdudge Hancock. Typhoon. s Iitizs Budder... ‘Hancock galloped over the course for the sccond It was a bitter battle for | The judges al- heat. Typhoon having gono Ja The first” heat was Towed i to_ be withdrawn. won by half alength. . : In the pools on the track Typhoon s0ld at 8400, Judge Hancock $:300, and Russ Bntler $60. Weatber clear and warm, track good, and the at- tendance larze. Tiis. ended the spring mecting, The attend- ance during the week, it is stated, has not repro- sented a finaucial success. TRACK TALK.- *+ Nosey " Brown has gone to Freeport with ha trotters. Hopeful, record 2:17%, will be driven this year by William McCarly. 3 Goldsmith Mud has apparently decroased some- what in height since her_rotirenient from the turf, and now mensures but 15.1. The Kentucky Live-Stock Record eays that Smugzler, who s now In_Kentuck. has broken down In both fore-legs. He was broken down In reputation some time ngo. King Philip, record 2:21, recently sold at anction in New York for 52,000, has_been placed in tho hands of 3. P, Gilbert. who drove him lust year, ‘und will be trotted this scuson; McGrath is still working away at_Aristides, in the hope that **the red horse™ will yet stind tratning. He was breczed o mile and & half not Tong azo in 2:47, and his owner was greatly pleased with tiie way he tovk the work. The rumor that Dan Mace would train his horses in the West this seuson does not scem to be veri- ficd. Atlastaccounts he was av Prospect Park with his stable, wiich includes White Stockings, .!o!hn Murphy, Jr., Dan Bryant, Sheridan, and others. A Lonisville paper states that Bob Woolley gal- Joped a mile the other morning at Lexinaton with henvy shoes on and a track foursecondsslow, in 1:4637, and remarks that ** the old “un hus steap m hiu yet.” Western Girl and Daisy Burns, who, several years ago, were quite prominent trotters, recently dropped fouls at the Fushion Stud Farm, Trenton, N.dJ. They were voth lillies, one by Socrates and the other by the youug stallion Gen. Washington, he by Gen. Knok outof Lady Thorne. The race-horse Leonard, by Longfellow, iwhile being cooled out_after his exercise the otner day, kefzed by a finger his rider, who was patting Lim on the nose, and lifted the boy from the ground, ‘The finger was pulled out, and the boy's band shockingly mangled. Messrs, Miller and Dawson, of this city, will soon leaye foru short Luropean tour, reaching England in thme to witness the Derby, - Mr, Sam>- ucl W, Allerion, ownerof Emeraid, Whalcbone, Surprise, und other trotiers, will also +*do ™ the continent during the coming summer. Tho extra race, one and one-half mile dash, all ages, opeued by the Kentucky Association, and to be run at the aporoaching Lexington meetimg, closed with the following nominations: Aristides, Leonard, 'Ten Broeck. Vems Cruz, King Faro, t;fz’u hipps, Eudower, Joe Rodes, Topic, and uss. Jucob Pincus, the well-knowa trainer of thor- oughbreds, who had Ciarge of Mr. August Bel- mont's stables last year, has engaged ina similar capucity with Pierre Loritlard for the present sea- son. e succeeds Willmm Brown, who will go to England 1 the fall with the colts which Mr. Loril- Jard has enxrased 1 the Derby and other three-year old events in 1579 A. JL Taylor, of Orunge County, N. Y., intcads to bring his celebrated trotting stallion Florida to tuis_aiy, for tne wonths of May aud Junc. Florida i€ one of the most_strongly ‘inbred horses in the country, and ** Il T. K.’ whose articles on **trotting 'stallions,” published in 1879, at- tracted consideruble attention and discussion, pro- nounces bim the most perfect gaited horse in the country. The non-payment of purscs by Fleetwood Park lust fall, and the subsequent diszTaceful action of the Bourd of Appeals, of which Barnard, the lessee of Fleetwoud, was a member, was fully shown np in these columns at the tume of 1ts occurrence. It is now stated that Barnard has again leused the track, and will try to revive its fortunes. But he will not succeed. When a track once obtains the reputation of being crooked, it forever loses favor intae eyes of both public and horsemen. The record of last seasou £hows that, fn a total of about 80 racing sircs represented in run- ning events, imported Leamington heads the 1is Twenty-one of his get won 47 ruces and 343,235 in money. Of these Parole wou 7 races in 11, and reaped $17,535. Australian was second in the list of eires, with 0 winners of 21 races and S30, in money. Lexington was third with 10 winners of 30 races and S31, 240 in money. Of these Tom Ochilfree won 312, ton cha Dbourn s von 14 races and $20, money, Basil wleaning Vigil, imported Phueton, imported Bonnie Scotland, Imported Glenely, War Dance and Planet are next in order. The only souvenir of the Custer massucre was Comanche, the war-horse of Cupt. Keogh, In con- gcquence of this fact. Gen. Sturzis bus issued an order stating that his kind treatwent should be th pride and golicrtude of crcr{; membver of the Sev. enth Cavalry, to the end that lus life may be pro- longed to the utmost limit. The commandiny ofti- cer of Compuny I i3 directed by the order to sce that a special and comfortable stall is fitted up for Ium, and he will not oe ridden by any person what- ever, under any circumstances, nor will he be put touny kind of work. Hereafter upon all occasions of ceremony (of mounted regimental formation) Comanche, saddled, brndied, draped in_mourning, and Ied by's mounted trooper of Company 1, will ‘e paraded with the regiwment. PEDESTRIANISM. & HUGHES’ FEAT. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. New Your, April —Joln Hughes finished bis walk of 144 hours at 8:23 to-night at Central Park Garden. He did not beat O'Leary. e traveled bnt 389 miles and 3,48 feet in the same time that O'Leary walked 530 miles and 1,320 fect. This leaves Hughes noont 130 miles bebind O'Leary’s record, but Tlaghes hias done, |more than any unpracticed man has before done in coverlng within a frac- tion of 409 miles In six daye He started without training. For five dage he walked with a toe blistered and inflamed, and the toe-nail being removed by Dr. Pray on Friday, he coutinued on the track and ran and walked eighty-nine miles after the operation had been performed. His abilites os o Jong-distance runmer are of the bighsst order, and allowing him to change his gait from running to walking, and vice versa, he is expected to prove o dangerous rivat to O'Leary, as bis powers of en- Qurance are great. Tie ran the last two miles of the match, walking tho 408th mile in eizht minutes and 45 scconde, aud the nest m nine minutes and two seconds. = His Inst duy's walk beean abont 8:20 this morn- Ing, when he had completed 375 miles. Ife walk- cd slowly all duy, as it was deemed uscless in the poor conditiou of his foot to make him run. His time against O'Leary closed at 3:28 in the afternoon, and he continued to walk to show he hea *-staying powers.” A larze crowd of spec- tators enthered in the garden and applauded and oncouraged him at intervals, - *The Big Your,” & quartelle of singers from Tarr Hil's, and a song-ard-dsnce man enlivene the monotony of the promenade. Hughes occu- pied fourteen minutes in walking his 401st mile. 407th and 18 minutes 8 seconds in the mile. The noise and excitement in_ the hall were tremendous at this time, und the crowd called on him to run. On the . eccond lap of the 405th mile- he asked for his jacket, und us soon as he had putit on he foll Into his pecalior Connunght bog trot. On the fourteenth lap he dropped back into a walk, and finishéd the mile in 8 minutes 47 seconds. : At the beginning of the nest mile he again ran, and contintied it until the close of his time, amid wild cheering and cries of ** Go on, Hughey' Huving completed his time and journeying, the crowd gave him a parting cheer, and he was taken into the Turkish bath and warmed and rubbea down, and an honr later came down town. Hughes will shortly zo into professional train- ing, and mske o sccond effort to beat O'Leary's time, and, If he succeeds, will challenge O'Leary 1o walk og the same track with him. e i b hd VASSAR. To the Editor of The Tribune. SwissvALE. Pa., April 25.—A newspaper-cxtract which troubles my friends quotes me us saying that ** Vassar is a college with about 500 pupils, principaliy fools.” Those who think well of me caunot believe I did really say anything so wicked; but I did, and unhesitatingly repeat it. Any wom- an who injures her health ana ehortens her life by wearing clothes which compress the walls of her chest and cramp her vital organs, is a fool; for a fool, according to Webster, 15 **a person Wwho is somewhat deficient in_intellect; but not an idiot; or a person who acts absurdly. or who does not ex- creise s reason; one who pursnesa course con- trary to the dictates of wisdom. " A'woman who sacrifices health ta costume is a fool of fools,—a fool par excellence; and, as I hiave every reason to believe that 1 vast majority of the Vassar pupils do this, I am in duty bound to say they are fools, according to the common det tions of the term. Moreover, their folly s especially criminal, since their brain have had special culture, and one has a right to demand of them **the exercise of reason, " whercas they set an_example of atrocious folly to the milliona of other fools who have had less opportunity of learn- ing to be wise. JANE GREY SWISSHELX. e THE BETHEL HOME. T the Editor of The Tribune. Cmicaco, April 27.—In the Inter-Ocean of to- day appesred the report of Mrs. Carse, of the W. C.T. U., in relation to the temperance work in the Bethel Home. In this ghe places the sallors stopping in the Home in a very unfavorable light before the public, thereby doing them a great in- justice. ‘The lady has visited this place often cnough to know that tho place she refers to is entirely separate and distinct from where the sailors stop_at Nos. 28 and 30 North Desplaines street. ‘There they have o fine dining-room and restaurant, and the manager, Mr. Franklund, has done, and docs, everything in his power to make the place attractive 2nd comforta- ble. ,Such a thing a3 & drunkard has not been ecen in this department for years. You will confera favor upon the tollers of the sea by publishing this. Respectfally yours, Sawons or ToE BEToEL HoXE, | THE CUSTOM-HOUSE. Those Contracts, and What They .Cost the Government, ‘Ways of Killing Time---Pozsibility ofa Grand Jury. The labors of the Commission which for the past wo weels or thereabonts has had 1n, charge the investigation of the manner in which the new Custom-Houec has_been erccted have not been withont fruft. The dafly progress of the inguisition and its resnlts have been duly commented on at length in the columns of Tus TruuNE, and the conclusion which must be arrivea at by all who- have given the subjectany thonght whatever is that the coutracts under which Mueller furnished the stone were conceived In inlquty and brought forth in frand. In the most systematic and plausible manner was the Government deliberately robbed of bundreds of thousauds of dollurs, At the time that the first proposals for furnishing the stone were made, A. B. Mulett, the profane Mullett, who swore worse than the army in Flandere,—and who, by the way, is **no sucker,” in the street parlance of the day,—was the Supervising Architect of the Freasury Department. 1In advertising for bids he stipulated that the dimenelon-stone was to be fur- nished according to specifled net sizcs, and it was with this understanding that the owners and man- agers of certain quarrics throughout the country made proposals, Mueller was the lucky mun, He controlled a ledge of Buena Vista sandstone some twenty or thirty miles from Cincinnati. His bid was accepted, and in the lght of what has been discovered during the past week the internal evidences point damagingly to the suppozition that he arranged things to have the contract awarded to himself. At the time the made there was in the office of the Su- pervising Architect, occupying a very responsible position, one A. G. MILLS. To him was intrusted the work of dsawing up the contract. It was for the simension-stone, and cleverly Tio did excente it 50 as to give Mueller the benefit of the measurement. In blace of specify- + that the stone wonld be paid for on the basisof net eizes, it wae stipulated that ane-half inch each way should be added, on the plea that such margin was required for dressing. And it was on the basis of this gift tiat the Government was compelled 10 pay - for the stone. As Tiue Trinuss femarked some days igo, this was_equivalent to paying the lun- bermau for the slabs on uu_ order for a cargo of ~*ball stutl.” Shortly after this contract was en- tered into—it Lears dute Sept. 2, 1872—work was begun on cxeavating for the foundations, and J. C. Rankin, a sbrewd and_canny Scot. who wus thoroughly alive to_Rankin‘s intercsts, was ap- pointed Superintending Architect, and it was au- der his management that the subsequent supple- mentary contracts were made. In December of the sauie year Mueller was awarded the job of fur- nishin the stone for the area walls. This being perfectly plain work, and the _stones cing of _ lafge eize, no opportunity for a swindle iurked therein. Mueller, however, had tasted blood, and yearned for more. By a sharp trick, which was counived at in the oflice of the Supervising Architect, he haa been given the benefitof a slight extra measurement “over und above the net sizes, but with this he was not satis- fied. There was in it un illezitimate profit of a few thoteand dollars, but that wasn't enough. Wheth- crhe had been obliged to ‘*come down™ to s greater extent than he snticipated, sud therefore determined to get even, or whether actusted by an unholy desire to Increase bLis worldly posscssions at the expense of 4 nation already up to its livs in debt, does mot appear om record, but the circumstantial evidence goes lurgely to prove that both incentives were mot wantiug, and that a ring was deliberately formed betwee: him uand Mullett, Mills, and Rankin for their mu- tual benefit. In July, 1873, the Government was betrayed by these 'last named into catering P ontiuct. with ueller, whereby he should Teceive a cowmission of 15 per cent for euperin- tending the_cutting of the &tone to be-used in the structure. Not quite a month later A SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMEN was made whereby ne was to receive 35 cents per cubic foot for eawing whatever stope the Superin- tending Architect hould determine to have dressed in thut manner. After several hun- dred stones had becn delivered at the *ite of the baflding, it was apparently discoveged one fine morniug that there was not suflicient rodm whercon to dress it _as required, and another con- tract wss entered into, whereby Mueller was to dump the stone at_any point within twelve blocks of the burlding, and that he should receive 15 cents er cubic foot for handling and the same for hauling L 10 the site. After all these corrupt agreements— though innocent enouzb looking on their face—had been duly ratificd. Muelles commenced his work in carnest. The Twelfth street yards were sccured, and machinery was at ouce set up for handling the ashlars, Some 300 or 400 stone-cutters weresetat work, and the most system- atic scheine ever fneubated for getting ‘the money of the public was set Inmotion. TaE ThinusE has already described how an overcharge of from 20,000 to 25,000 days’ time was perpetrated, on furnishing (he stone for the attic story and the chimneys. 1t bas already detailed at length how the stone-catters were set at work cutting uleeve- buttons, baper-weights, ornnmenta] lamus, etc., when there was a_scarcity ot stone, and for this Tncle Sam was dily charzea at the rate of $3 to §1.73 perday. And eome of the sleeve-buitons Tepresent three days' labor, —at least that 18 what \was charged up for them. It was minutely related how the etone-cutters and others employed at the Tywelfth street yards were assessed from $3to 35 each, and with the proceeds a couple of sloop- yuchts were purchased; and how on pleasant af- ternoons chiscls and mallets were dropped, and all hands, or as many aa the craft would hold. went saling down fo Hyde Parkand South Chicago. When the perch refised to bite, owing to off-shore winds, the stone-cutting land-lnbbers would occa- sionally indulge in yacht-racing for the drinks. the latter to be paid when the contestants came__ on shore. And o thif amusement our National Uncle contributed $3 or there- abouts per man per day. It was Turther related how the stone-cutters put in their time by attending basc-ball games when work was slack, 50 that Mueller could charge up his com- mission on the days' wages paid by the Govern- ment for labor that had not been performed. Al these eccentricties were described at length, and it 18 unnecessary to go into details now. ONE OF THE WAYS in which the deliverate shiftlessnesa was carried on was yesterday graphically described by one of the workmen to 8 TRIBUNE reporter. **\ay," said he, **when Iwent to work in the morning I was iven a ticket to £o to work ona certaln stone. 'he foreman pointed it. out to me. It was not on the *banker.' and of course I could do nothing at it untll It was placed in position. T est around and waited for the an to ect it up. They would turn up early in the afternoon and place the stone in position. Then I would go to work to lay it out in uccordance with the plans. But I found that it was not ect up properly. This completed the day. Next morning I came around on time, but conld not do_anythine, because the gang had not appeared to ix the stone for me. They would turn up about noon, and put it in position. So ou sce a duy and ome-half was consumed fetore 1 could give a single stroke of the chisel. 1 picked away all the time allowed for dreseing onc wide, and then the stone would have to be turned over. The gans to whom was intrusted this job turned up in abont the same manner o3 nefore, and the same process was gone through with." In this way the noble artof ** not how to do it™ was constantly prac- ticed, all for the glory and profitof Mueller aud the Ring. 3 During the continuance of this work Mueller hired the stone-cutters and foremen. The Govern- meut provided the time-keepers and stone-inspect- ore. Cutterswhom the Lime-keepers did notlike on the ground that they were not _sufficiently ex- pert were rednced to the second-rate clas: winch received a lower rate of = pay. Very few of these were kept on “the work, asthoe lower wages failed to broduce for Mueller 8 large o percentage as the firat-class operatives. _ H¢ actually hud no responsibility whatever. He provided & paymaster and clerk. The latter he would have to employ anyhow. For practically doing nothing he received a douceur 0f $160, 600, in the shaps of a 15 por cent com- mission, and the only expense entailed was the sulary of a paymaster, say S1,500 per year. THE SAWING CONTRACT was a brilliant scheme to get something for noth- ing. The most of It was dome ar the quatry, for the reason that Mueller found it the most _cconomical way of getting out the stone. It entailed less waste thun by “4vedging,” and was 1n itself a source of profit to amoderate extent. The stone had to becuttoa stipulated size, and. if Mueller could save money by sawing instead of we it was to his inter- csttodoso. But why he should chacge the Gov- emment for sawing, nnless fora steal, is onc of those things no fellow can find out. This job wis charged up at S130,000. The Commission for two or threc days past hias been endeavoring to ind out come of the stones which were =awn to size, front face, for use in'the building. but failed. And, what is more to the poirt, they have been unable 10 obtain any order given at any time for sawed B e ave boen furnisbied with the books showing that sawing was done; whatever amount of it was performed was evidently done at random by Muellcr for his_own glorification and_ profit. Whatever sawing was done has been burled by the mortar botween the joists or at the back, or else Chiseled away, 8o a8 to incresse the cuiting ac- O Commiesion hope to finish_thelr work about the middleof nextweek. Assistant District Attorney on will then make up a syllabus of the re- 'l;;ih]:!n.“nnfl transmit it to the Secretary of the T Grand Jury investigation, and. If it shonld D6 done, it Is more than probable that at least half 3 dogen Indictments will be found. for conspiracy fo efrand the Government, ‘‘against its peace and dignity. ™ THAT POST-OFFICE. To the Editor oy The Tribune. Hoxmorpr Pars, Cook Co., Iik, april 27.—1 sce by your last Sunday paper that there isa saloon in the rear of the Humboldt Park Post- oOffice. 1am sorry to say that you have been mis- informed; there 18 no saloon, nor has there been any beer gold, You farther £3y that the galoon 7 1t is not improbable that the latter will ; was {n full blast Sunda, Dusiness is said to have been w, 1 must inform you that the party yu: ... your information of told 'you a_ falsehood. Furtlir, you eay that there isa parition dividing the office into two scctions, and that there is only a space of elght fect forthe transaction of the office business. I know it to be 15x16 feet, which is large cnongh at present, and the rear rooms I wish to use myself (oot for a saloon). Yours respectfully, B G. A, MueLEn, P. ). CRIME. COAL CREEK. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune. CovingTox, Ind., Aprll 27.—At the trial of the Coal Creck Mollie Maguires, Charles Har- berman, defendant, testitied that he was sitting in front of Vanderveer’s. Saw Cozzens come across the strects to Vanacerveer's, drank. Said, *What's the row” Saw himn go into the house. Afterwards heard a shot from the inside, and saw Cozzens reeling out bleeding at the neck. Heard two more shots close to him, but did not see who tired them. Could not identify any of the prisoners as having fired ‘The other witnesses testified almost the same, Hurberman denying the participation and previous kuowledge of any - difliculty, each one swearing an alibi for the other. The main object of the defense to-lay seems to have been to break the weizhit of Mrs. Parks? testimony, and they are using their utmost eo- deavors to show her up as a perjurer. It is, however, plain to be seen that the witnesses for the defense, with one or two exceptions, be- cume embarrassed and frequently contradict themselves under the rigid cross-examiuation of the State, aud untess there Is stronger evidence produced the defense have a poor chance of eseaping belng recognized 3to the next term of Court. ‘I'here is. a‘:cmion being circulation through the City of Covington und the countryin tue vicinity of Stringtown, asking the Governor to withdraw the arms now in the hands of the Wabash Guards, und 1t is sizued by the best citizens. =3 g % F 5 2 ABSCONDED. INDIANAPOLIS, lud., April 27.—A special to the Sentinet this morning from Salew, 1nd., says James Balne, Cashier of the Salem National Bauk, is missi) The following note to his father-in-law found at the bank: Mn. Lyoxs: 1am financially disgraced and ruin- cd. walistreetdid it. I kuow not, and no one carcs, whither 1 go. God save my wife and child, : Janrs BAINE. He bad a fortune of his own, and fs supposed to have been speculating in Wall street. ‘1’: Te- mains to be ascertaiued if the bank’s money has been used. On_opewing the sale yesterday morning sowe ‘$200,000” in mouey and bonds were found. INpIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 27.—We learn from Salem, Tud., thnt the absconding cashter, Baine, abandoned his horse, turning him loose about ten miles west, and afterwards obtained a seat In a passing wagon. When lust heard from he was at Prospect, some thirty miles west of and fifteen to twenty miles away from railrond or telesraph. William C. Winstandley, Presi- dent of the Bedford Baok, is conducting an _examination of the Salem Bank’s condition. They are unwilling to give information until the examination is com- pleted. A stockholder gives the information that a deficiency of $30,000 is already discover- cd, and that a reward is to be offered for Baine’s capture. ‘The impression prevails on the strect that Baine’s bond witl probubly cover his de- flciency. ANOTHER BLACK SHEEP. Speciat Dispatch to The Tribune. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 27.—A man giviog his name as Dr. Boothe, of London, England, arrived in this city about two weeks ago, bring- ing letters of introduction from well-known partics in Indianapolis, where he had been for several weeks, having left England but about three months ago. He claimed to be a minister of tife Congregational denomination, was about 3 years of age, well dressed, of fine personal apoearance, and a very fluent conversationalist. He created avery favorable impression, preached from the pulpit” of Plymouth Chavel last Sab- bath, and was announced to preach at the Con- erewatioual Church to-morroy, their pulpit being vacaut, and he was an appticant for the position of pastor there. On Friday afternoon he was covered in a house of ill-fame in a state that admitted no doubt of the reason of his visit there. On being charged with his criminal con- duct by the hotel proprictor, headmitted it, and fled from the city last night for parts unknown. The subject created much exeitement among citizens here when the facts were learned this morniug, as much interest was felt about his fo- tended appearance to-morrow, the conaregation beime one of the lurgest and most respectablein this city. ADRIAN. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. ADRIAN, Mich., Aprit 27.—H. C. Cooper, station agent for the Lake Sherc at Blissfield, was arrested to-day. He is indicted by the Grand Jury for stealing grain from the Com- pauy. Frank A. Wiliiams, a prominent mer- chant of the same place, was arrested, the latter under an indictment for aiding Cooper in his crookeduess, and secreting the stolen grain. COARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT. POTISVILLE, Pa., April 27.—A dispatch from Mahanoy City says that Charles E. Suburg, Re- ceiving Teller of the First National Bank for seven years, and who resigned in February, was arrested on two charges, brought by President Silliman, of embezzlement, alterins, and mutil- :uiué; and falsifyiny the books aud papers of the bank. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Port Jervis, N. Y., April 27.—August and Hannah Grisler, an agzed couple who lived near Younesville, bave been found horribly mutilat- ed and dead in the house of the latter, They had been separated sume time, and it is thought August killed his wife aud then himselt. A MURDEROUS CONFESSION. New York, April 27.—A dispatch from Nor- folk, Va., says: J. B. Weeks, the keeper of a drinking-saloon here, just before his death a few days ago, confessed to the murder and rob- bery of five persons. = kit A DEADWOOD FLOOD. Deapwoop, D. T., April 27.—On Thursday night the raft tbat is used for trausferring pas- sengers aud mail across the Cheyenne River on the Siduey route capsized when in the middle of the stream. All the mall and baggage was lost, and the passcugers nurrowly escaped drowning. Warm weather the past few days has caused the raptd melting of snow fn the mountains, which bas swollen the already dangerously-high creeks that run through Deadwood. This even- ing a rain-storm set in, and great fear is enter- tained that a portion of the business-centre of this city will _be seriously damaged by a fluod. The District Court was adjourncd to-day on ac- count of the water flowing into the court-room. All the deeds and papers are being rcmoved from the Recorder's office, which lies in the path ot the ragivg_ waters, to a pluce of safety. A large gang of men 18 at work tearing down the bridges and small buildings that obstruct free passage of the water. e THE NEWELL SCANDAL. Special Dispatch to The Tridune. New Yok, April 2n.—The Newells are still hosband and wife. The jury in the case, after deliberating all night, came into court “this ‘morniog at 11 o'clock, and announced that they had not_succeeded in arriving at an agreement. Newell attended early with his counsel, but Mrs. Newell was not present. Miss Olney ap- peared prior to the entranco of the jury, but left shortly. The jury balloted seven times during the night. “The result of each ballot was 10 to 2 in favor of the charge that Newell had been guilty of adultery with Miss Oloes, The entire jury informally acrced that Mrs. Newell was guilty of_adultery with William H. Boardman, the late Boston millionaire. None of the ballots taken, however, referred to the charges agalnst the plantiff, notwitbstanding they were fully discussed during the night. This leaves all partics in an uppleasant light and an unhappy position. - « ————— * Prince Mewratt.” Phttadelphia Bulletin. A great many people of middle age, or per- haps we should say of old age, who are liviog In Burlington and Mercer Counties, in New Jersey, may have been interested {n the cable dispatch printed in this paper, anoouncing the death of Prince Lucicn Charles Joseph Francois Napoleon Murat. He isremembered by them as “ Prince Mewratt,” a follower of Joseph Bonapartc, ex- King of Spain, who, under tte name of the Comte de Survilliers, established a home just outside the villsge of Bordentown, long years ago, and who i8 well remembered by the survivors, oow very few in number, of a génera- tion of Pniladelphians, each tndividual ot which weare apt to Gistinguish as “a gentleman of the old school.” Lucien Murat was a_hand- some, jolly, fat, Falstaffian, gossipy Prince, who, when he was a voung mav, had established himself at Bordeatown so as to be near his uncle, Joseph Bonaparte, and to be ready to'go with the family when its old reliable Destiny should call it to France. But destiny called his uncle Joseph away from America, and then to anmother iworld, over forty years awo, and left the jovial Lucien to take care of him- self at Bordeotown. e had mo visible means of support, and probably mnever earned an Lhonest penny 1 his life. But he bad a lovely, brave-hearted American wife, who opencd a school for girls in the village, by which to sup- port a family of pretty girls and boys, and wno used to play the organ inthe little Episcopal church of the village, for she came ol a good old Protestant family of Scotch descent livingin Charleston, 8. C., and has never abandoned her ald faith, even when recoznized in the Court of the Second Empire of France asher Hichnesa the Princess Murat. While the goodzlady was thus struggling to nmiu‘t‘n!u her family, the Prince, hier husband, ‘was “ having & good time ”’ at Bordentown, or Trenton, or Mt. Holly, or Burlingtou. or some- where on the road, and pot unfrequently in Philadelphia. He wasan early example of the Micawber and Kelley school of financiers. He believed fn debts, aud in paylug an accouut with a due-hill, a due-bill with 2 note of band, the note of hand with a check on a bank that had no funds, or with anything else, conver- tible, or inconvertible or interconvertible, that dia not involve cash, and allowed interest to be compounded until the accumulations grew to proportious of such stupendous dignity. 45 10 put payment out of the question. Aunti-~ gumncs and autograph-hunters can do doubt iud many souveniss of this jolly son of the ex- King of Naples in old ledzers and old files of outlawed paper that still exist In old inns, liv- ery-stables, or stores in the parts of New Jersey that used to be Lonored by his festal visits. But Destiay served * Prince Mewratt” a good turn at last, for when Louis Napoleon got France into his hands, all his relations flocked thither, his cousin, Lucicn Murat, goine to him with all his family, which was not a smail one. He was made a Scnator of the Empire, and ke and all of them became Altesses Imperiales, with not only precedence of all the old-fashioned nobility, but with nagnificent allowances from the Treasury of France. His sons and daugh- ters made splendid marriages, and all went well with the Prince till the Bonaparte Destiny— which is a fickle kind of Fate—knocked over the Second Empire as it had the First, and sent the Murats adrift again, but with their pockets well filled from the stealings of the Imperial regime. ADAH ISAACS MENKEN. Last Days of the Erratic and Brilllant Actress—The Singularity of Her Death— A Magnificent Being Sach as Swinburne Loves to Portray~A Story Never Before Related. 8t. Louts Post. In one of our up-town pictare galleries s a bean- tiful portzait which is attracting considerable at- tention. It is Menken, the Amazonian actress. Looking at It the other day, it recalled an incldent: in her Iife that has never been toldy and Is worth relating. One of the strangest characters the world hasever secn wns Adah lsaacs Menken, a queer mixtare of sensuality and mentality. She ledzlifo the peculiarities of which seem impossible to fathom. Her ontward Jife is a matter of history, and it would be nseless enumerating its checkered events. Her inuer lifo she gave the world a glimpse of in the small volume of poems she pub~ lished shortly before her death, some of them con- taining the most profound thonght woven into the most poetic language. Living o life that was an open defiance of all moral law, sensnal to the ex- treme in all of her passions, she had 3 mind the most _delicate and sensitive I ever met with; a strange being, she met with A STRANGE FATE. ‘When she first went to England she sct London ablaze with excitement. Thousands thronged Astley's every night tosce her in **Mazeppi,™ and as many watched her aay after day driving up the **Mall™ with her team of ponies. Duchesses assed by unnoticed, even if they were young and antifal, if la belie Menken was in siznt. Ap- parently impogeive, casting glances at no one, with no companion except her **tiger™ behind her, she swept over the Mall the observed of all observers. 1 had frequently watched her there, little tawking that I should soon know no more of this strangely fascinatine woman. 1 was then a student at Guy's Hospital. and_one evening the house-survou, a gentleman who has since become famous in als Emluuion, eaid: ‘“‘Let us2oand see this Men- ken, the People are goinz crazy over. Have you rr except in the park, where I bave seen her Rather a queer character, I hear. But we'il go and stady the lady snatomically, as she gives us plenty of opportunity for it.™ Ina few moments we were rolling throngh the borough 1n a Hansom czb to Astley’s, which 13 sit- uated at the southern end of Westminster bridge. Purchasing two stall tickets, we entered. In ull of the Europeun theatres there are three or four rows of seats nest to the orchestrs, ruiled o3 these are called orchestra stalls, ana are consid- ered the best seats 1 the house. The place was jammed high and low, and it will hold a small city. The play commenced. There was but littic excitement until Menken came on, when deafening applause rolled through the house. She was not \'&;ry beautiful in face, but her figure was a model o SYMMETRICAL BEAUTY. We have all raved abont that marvelous marble at Florence tnat the sculpior secms to have imbued with life. but one glance at Adah Isaacs Menken, 83 she stood that night in her royal beauty, and yon would say with Byron: 1've seca lovelier women ripe and real ‘Thaa all the nonsense of their stone fdeal. The play proceeded. It is neediess to say how It was putou. 1t was perhaps one of the greatest theatrical spectacles ever scen., witha stage as large us the whole of one of our theatres. The stced fairly gullopea over the mountains of Tartary, ap- pearing and resppearing 1 the distance undil the horse and the living form boond on his back ap- peared amall in the perspective. Suudenly a sliznt noise and a faint scream were heard. There wasa buzz through the house, the curiain was runz down. Then the Manager stepped to the front an stated that Miss Menken had met with a slight ac- cident (accidents are always elizht upder such cir- cumstances). 1f there was a doctor in the house would he come around. We were sitting close to the front. My chief gaid, **Follow me," and be- fore you could say Jack Robinson he had scrambled throigh the orchestra and over the footlights to the stage. The Manager led us to the green-room. There apon the foor lay the beaatifal Menken, ther stk tights s STAINED WITH CRIMSON BLOOD. “*fdon’tthiuk 1 am hurt mach, Doctor,™ she said, **1 am ouly frichtened.” In turning a corner the Borse had gone 100 near one of the flats and had grazed ber limbs, tearing the desh all down. Ex- vedition was required. The room was cleared and we were soon 8t work. The wound, which was not damgerous, but must have bech extremely 2inful, was s00n dreesed and the pstient taken to er home at Brompton.. The performance of **Mazeppa" was not coucluded that nizbt; the andience dl!Fer!ed after having been informed of the nature of the injuries the lady had received. Itwas my duty day after day to visit her; the wound soon hesled, bat the mental shock remained. **I have been,” she ssid, ‘‘ror years in constant dread of mome mccident of this kind, and the fright more than the hurt has prostrated me; I shall never recover.” We Iaughed at what we thought her idie fears, but they proved to be true. 'This girl, in the vigor of her womanhood, FULL OF PASSIONATE LIFE, with every sense strnng to its hizhest tension—a magoificent animal, such_as Du Marier loses to druw and Lawrence or Swinburne describe—began slowly but almost imperceptibly to fade away. For months she was carefully watched, then travel was prescribed, and she went on the Contipent. A few mouths later I reccived a tele- gram_ dated from Paris: ¢‘Come and see me before [ die.” I lost but little time in resching the gay capital. but it was too late. They say she died of consamption; she died from the nervons shock caused by the accldent I have related. In ber later days the power of bee mind developed itself ns her physical powers weak- ened. In her healthand strength her mentality scomed 1o be overshadowed by her anlmallsm. Tiut as the body decayed, the mind sserted itself, and she wrote those poema, souic of which are 43 beautiful as anything in the English language. She was buried in Fere la Chaise, in a secluded corner of that heautiful city of the dead. near to the well- known monument of Abelard and Helolse, in an unpretending marble tomb, with her name, aze, and date of death npon i, and her epitaph. writ- ten by herself, in two words—**Thou Knowest.” A CORK CARPETING. Linoleum {s neat, carpet-like in appearance, ana of extraordinary durability. It is pecutiar- 1y soft and elastic to the tread, handsome in ap- pearance, and never cold like ordinary oil-cloth. Kept by all first-classcarpet dealers. DYE WORKS. TEIE HAVE OPENED A STORE. WESTERNNo. 31 e, DYE b WORKS, SEAeg .DYBING and 413417 Filthar, 30 8B2R2 08 s - CLEANING of every Spocialty. ¢ P LINSENBARTE, description dons in MRS, JACOB_ENDERS Proprietar. ders receive J:romyc attention, and satis- faction guaranteed. superior mannor. Or- and E. DESTE,