Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1878, Page 5

i aying onc-third cash. Atthe ‘MI :r”l’lmm;'cnr {IL‘ fifltl‘cd to eive the honse ;";k if the seller would cancel the mortgage m 4 kee tno $70,000 already pald, but the sell- ok kner too much about real estate for that. o e aurse Mr. Woon's ereditor forcclosed :Ir:u mortgage and sold tho house—for about oo, T other words, In ‘two years Mr. {Vn’on pala $50,000 cash, onid incurred a debt for & mortzage deficency of $66,803, and he has no honse 10 show for hia Investment, ftis cli fucts o8 thesc which induce voters, when ;;Irmm‘nllh: ovrators talk of economy, to remark cynlcallyy " Me grandmother's ducks!" e ——— ork Herald has got hold of a new 1:;': 3:]“ p:tu over a deacription of a theatrieal g3 m‘rmnnw by colored amatcurs the headline, u‘;wnv Talwwde Whethor the youne g‘l'l,llc- min from Connemara meant 4 Thesplans,"” or wTragediane,” or what, damfweno, but **Tal- uds'" {s gooil. It will probaoly replaco ** hol- ocaust™ in the bright lexicon of tho [erald, though Wb fancy it cannot bo applicd to as fltimitable a varlely of uses. Wicked rumor has always asserted—and not without sume llmw“ul’ credibllity—that tho Herald has spoken of *A Holocaust of Crime,” and of **A Holocaust of Death,"—that was during the famous bilzzards whien hilled so many folks to death on u.'.: Plaing,—and_of bA Tempnrur! Ilolocaust. erected for the receptlon of Fanrnaaur's re- malns. 3 ony KELLY 18 1n trouble agsin, the D?;fx!-;'auc Governor of New York baving hit oneof Tammany-Ilall's pet measurcs o Jack- soulsn whack with o veto message. However, the Coxksixa Republicans have rallied bravely to the support of Tammany, ond may yei save Jhat inquitous Ring Inatitution .from destruc- tlon. 1t would be a galnto both political partles as they are &t present constituted if the Stato of New York conld be ellminated from tho map. ————— Mistah CONRLING maintains a dignified si- tence. Presidencics, and partics, and things,— theso are trifles too slight to provoke him to utterance, But if any ono wants to howl, let him lay an Uzziah band upon the New York Custon-House. —aO— e Plessed aro they that possess, for they ean- ¢ be ousted: . ——— FERSONALS. A Kato Field is working hard on behalf of a Ehakespeare memorlal at steatford-npon-Avon. Lotta cuts off the conpous fiom §200,000 {n Uovernment bonds evyry quarter-day. Bomuch for hasing & sbapely pair of intellccts snd an esthetic bunjo. ‘Pimes change, and theatres nnd audiences with them. 3ir. Studley playcd Jost Saturday at the Old Bowery, New York; on Monday ho opened a8 the Fifth Avenue. Probably an advertisement, DBandmanu {810 play st Mrs, Rousby's theatre In London Ina play of Lis ownudapting. Duringa rehearsal he endeaored to geb the bouk; she wouldn'tgive it tohim; hostruck her on the arm; ahe took outa summons for by esult—much gratultous adver tising of the mo: luablo surt. ® Dr. Martin, President of the Imperial Col- legs at Pekin, has tranalated and had printed in Chiness Wheaton's Elements of nternational Law, e Marten's Guide Diplomatique, a conslderablo portion of the French Code, Bluntschli's Volker- techt, and Woolsoy's Introduction to Internativnal Law. These text-books have the sanctlon of the Chinese Forelgn Onlce, and are widely studled, Modern caso of Roman father, eto.: Offi. ¢er Patrick Durns, of Now York. ran In his own and only son, Denals, for being drunk, saying that hewould also complain agsinst his offspring for nlealing his mother's aflver pitchor and pawning 1t soastogo on the apree, However, the patcrnal besrt relented, and the boy would have got off, but for the Justice, who hel@ him In baii and the father s8a witoess, Qerman Princes never have been very populsr of late, andif it be true, as London gossips donot besitate to declare, that the reason for not reappointing Princo Louls of Lattenberi to tha tronclad Sultan {s that he recolvad his brother, who 18 In tho Russlan service, on boand of the Bultan andallowed bim to inspect the srrangements for protecting the ship from torpedoes, they will be 1ess popular than evor, . The Englich Miniater at Rome, Str Augus- tus Paget, has scandalized the rigld Anglicana by deserting tha Euglish chapel and attending the minstrations of Dr. Nevius at the American Prot. estant Church of 5t Paul. It Is declured by the charitable, however, thot this is not due W relig- foun convictions or @ preferenco for Lr. Nevins' preaching, but that Lady Paget and tho Koglsh Ohsplalu's wife bave lind a spat. ‘The Columbia College crew will sail for England on the 23d of May. taf@ing a ccdar ehell with them, nuw belng bullt by Fearon, of Yonkers, There English quarters will be the led Lion, near the llenlsy-npon-"Tnames course, whare they will tuwduiy 4, Thecrow consisis of K, Bage, bow, B2 yeara 0ld, welght 108 pounds; C. Edson, age 20, welght, 173; . G, Rtidabock, age, 20, weignt, 184;and J, T, Goodwin, stroke sud Captain, age, 28, weight, 102, The Erjo Cana! boatmen havo o floating villaze at Californiu Daslu, Now York. where 400 Dosle lay up every winter, withabout1,2001n- mates, Nearly all tho hoats are neatly fitted up, with carpets, and ofton oryana aud planos, There i+ 8 duatiog hospltal, and the colony has its own Gorernment, a Doard of Arbitrators, and church. The commatder of the flect 1o §ta oldest Captawm, Joan Jacto, of the Ktta 8, Pike; he Is President of the community, among whose membery ora Ko monr Daley, a graduato of Weat Polnt, Blshop, once celetrated botanist, sud Menry Baity, & no- Kro-minatrel atar, King Humbert, of Ttaly, is profuss in his Blfts. Ingeneral hua present le a watch, gold or silver, according to the rauk of tho reciplent, with tne crown and atem upon the back of it, and a ctaln with a locket aitached, On the aonivereary of Lis blrihday ho called all of the corazslert who Bad asalsted in guarding tho body of Victer Em- mangol Inty the ilall of tho Swiss, and when thoy xeroranged in order the Iiitio Prince of Naples Bresenled cach aof tho thirty with & walch and ¢baln In tha namo of bie father. To thia aix chicfs 9f th0 curainiers hie srave borecs which thoy selcct- dfrom the Itoyal stublee, having previously Jooked these @it horscs csrofully in the mouath, ‘The Carlist Gen. Hoet is charged with the Leftof the Collar of the Golden Ficcco from Don ;‘\"hu. and v about to be put oo hls trial in Italy, hlkuomm ing » regiment In Cuba, whero be slleged to vavo extorted & ransom from somo In- Hitgents and \hien massncred them, he Joined Don .:rlul In 1673, and a fow days before the collapss s1he rebellion became his privato accietary, ac- ‘l;'.ébg-vnn.; the Pratender 1o Furia and tho East. u 0 Carlos was thunderatruck on Leing tald who 3 culprit was, and wanted tq hush up the sflar; rflh:lhu vrosccution had already been instituted. cuetwoorilliunts at first mlealng have Leen ro. ;“;’"‘“y the total valuo uf tho Collar beluyg £14,- Tom Placide's widow diod at Tom's River, > 9 100l woek, aged 1. Fifty-thres yesrs g0 Placide fell in love with hur, but Mary Aon Knll’l‘l» i a8 ten years hls wenior, did not ongourage fury -qu, oud marrled wnother man, In 1808 hor ‘;)‘m:;:v et her, then w widow, renowed the petne b of forty years before, and tols time was o lul, After thulr marrisge tney went to River to live, ba baving retired from the e md’l'lulr home was abeautiful place, and they Iyt 40 bave lived very huppily together, In muu‘ Placide comuitted saicide by shooting Saicg He bad suffered protracted sgony frum u bitepe s lils moutt, and, 1n s lotter wrltten just o ;lhu decd, he explained that he could endure l:nn,o"' Mrs, Placide was prostruted by his #3d ber bealtn thereattor stoadily declined, "T"fc London Worid whispers (very loud} a lnhut“ Pprotest in tho ear of Engilsh fasuion - m"l W way that Englishwomen of the world i R 1010 0t rocogulsing a geatisman by give Fad 'P':;l Bod with tue head, instead of & alight 100 Pripeono Bead aad shouldors. It appeass that I hn.zg“?‘ Whles bas lod the fair subjectsof 'llhonun“' mother igto this slovenly hasbit, of 1gug s te0diog se 10 do, by Ilitle trick she has e g oknlzing intimato frionds whot she hag & :ncnr wlce bofurs in thodsy. The prace \’ut‘k .lm S0rry Lo say, ls not unknown fn New "‘ll‘.hl:l :flmlnly 1s, 83 our Eogl; Tatoleraty, | ZA0Aish and fnelegaat,” sltogether lnwn" #ad Bot tobe endured Women who 1leade 1g L bSYS themselves sione to thank if e @ Abelr bolng nodaded at {n the samo balf- Hoent taablon. —New York World. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: IFRIDAY, MAY 3, 1878 THE RAILWAYS. An Effort Making to Shake Off the Freight-Line Pare asites, - Vanderbilt the Backbone and Vitality of the Objection= able Bystem. Convenience of the Freight-Line Man- agors in Breaking Agree- ments, Origin and Growth of This Wheel Within a Wheel. As High ns Ten Freight Lines Run. ning on One Railway. A Targe Numbor of Itoms of Goneral and Bpooific Interest, TITE TAST-FREIGHT LINES. Great cfforts are again belng made In certaln quarters to ubolish the fast-freight ling syatem, and have the through-frelght businees done directly through the freight departmenta of the various roads. The fast-frelght lines, as at present organs lzed, with the cxception of the Mcrchants' Dis- vatch, are not ns mucli of an evil ns they were for- merly, At present, with the cxception noted above, they are controlled by the raliroads direct, and recolve as romunoration threc-fourthe of a cent ner ton per mile, It Is clalned thatthls nmonnt just about coversexpenses, and If there Is msnrplus 1t is divided ngain among the various 1oads. Yet it 1a oaserted by a number of ratirosd managers that these Mnes, even In their present form, entall a large and unnceessary expense upon the rallrvads, and are rather a drawback thanan ald 1o the proper transaction of the business, inasmuch ns each line employs lndegcmlum agenta to aecure business, who comnjielo with the regular contracting agents of the rodrosd companies. This gives those roade over which s large numbor of fast- frelght lines ran an undoo advantage aver thoss which have but one lino or nono at all. Were It not for the fact that the Morchants' Dispatch, whiclh Is controlled by Vanderbiit, and i still cone ducted on the old pian, getting 15 per cent per 100 ponnds on 14 Lusiness, the fani-freizht nulsance would undoubtedly bave been abolished Jone aga. Liat Vanderbilt 1s inwliling to forego the big [rvllt and undue advaniage ho gets throngh this Com- r:my. and {s unwilling to have the sysiem abol- shied, anid his {nfluence in sullictent to keen it un, ‘The Merchianta' Dispaich {a enabled to make bhet- ter rates than tho railroads themselves, for if it chooses to tako but 10 per cent it can give the other & Eur cent to the alilupers 1u order to secure a larger share of the bueins In many instanuces 1he bicoking of rates hus_becn brought about by thin line, and tho Empire Line, which was similarly organized a8 tho Merchanta’ Dispatch, hul tos otus 1y became the property of the Peunaylvania Rail- road. But tho fust-freiwht lines which are con. trolled by the rafironds themsclves often canse s break In tho rates, owing to the rivalry nmong themnelves, lealdes, If 8 rallrond company wants to cut the rates withont running the danger of bu. Ing charged with bad falth, it can get one or more of tho fast-[reiuht lines running over jta rood ta do it. * The fast-freight itne system was orgsnized in the year 1848, In that vear, Willlam M. Kasson, an encrgetic and prominent forwarding merchant, atarted & linn between the cities of New York and Buffulo, andcalicd it ** Kaason's Dispatch, ** adver- tising to the public 1ts many advantazes over the Jocal systems then iu operution. An office was opened in tho former eity, whore the agont {ssued throuch billa of fading, at atipulated rates, to such points as freight could bé carried by rail, water, or wagon transporta- tion, The enterprise to which Mr, lasson gave lils time, talents, and energy, giew rapldly into favor, and, In a shart time, absorded a con- tlderuble partion of the traMc carrisd Dby the Amcrican “Express Company, In self-defenso, tho lattcr waa compelled to bu{ out tho line, —that 18, the name, good wlll, and sklpping mark, which, whilo they rould not be termed fixed nroncn‘. were a valusble franchise, as with it ‘went tho control of 8 larze business which had Leen pro- viausly so satlefactorily conducted 8s to bo of great value, Shoitly aftor tne sale in 1854, the nanie was changed to the Merchants' Dispatch, In the ssme year similar lues, origiuating among the forwarders by canal, were oreanized. These sim« vy doliverca thalr bt frolght to the Erfe and Hludson River Ralirouds and People's Line of steamers, s0 that eacn canal lioa had shippers who deltvered thelr dight goods to such of the foregulny transportation companics ns they might destmute. regardiess of the varlous express warke, the roads assuming and porforming all the service required for delivery st Huffalo, where ths canal-line agency took charge of the frelght snd forwarded it i the samo manner ns it hoa been performed by Mr. Kasson, Iy the time business bad been fafriy started, it developed a strony rivaley fur tho carrying of the same petween the rallways andsteamers, resniting in the forma- tian of a rebato or commieslon syatem for s cone trol, the ardinary amount paid being 10 per cent of the rate from New York lo Duffalo. And from that perlod to the present the system has gradually but surely extended Itsclf throughont the entire Wast as raliways have heen consteucted, whizh, multiplying in advanceof the wants of the countr have sbarpened competition, causing o stendy ad- vanco In the priccs of commlasions, andat the satio thine morae than » corresponding decilne in the rates of tranwportation. Shortly after the organization of the United Btates Expross Company, s freight line waa catablished by it called the tiroat Western Dis- natch, running overthe Erie lallway, Thin linehad during sume ten years » rato per car, tho difference between it and the rata per hundred whigh was collocted producing a handsome margin of” profit, There Uisvo been porinds, howevar, when the largo den reduction in rates by other ) has 1t 1 o The change frum o comulssion bl s ."‘"{"ra {Il the flullllml. :'I‘d it knaled by great activity and rapid strides, This arrangement, made in tho year 1853, was deunmied by many a conditional surrender of the Tatlways to the fast-freighit lines, with most of the sdvantages In favor of the latter, and that fu sone cises the roads have bocome alinost subservient to themn, Follawing the Gireat Western arrangement on dan. 1, 1864, one was made by the Fensyivania Railway with the Unlon Stur Line, which ‘organ- lzation waa tho first thut ever owned any tized roperty. thoy building their own cars, Eastward. £ based o und it was glven a car rate, s weight of 16,000 pounds, clasa curront rates per bundred, and w to losd from 20,000 tu 24, 000 ponnde. buund, concesslons fromn regular rate which allowed it a liberal compeneation for navin, sulicited shipments, besides u'wl\'lni( the usunl milcage paid for car survice, In 187), the Urent Western IMapatch wos reargnnized and made a {mm stock company, the stock Lelng beid by the Uniteq Slales Express Company sud by some of tho rosde over which it had been dulng business, In the same year the Mcrchants' Dispatch was similarly 1corgantzed, most of the stock being hold by the United States Express Company, but in a shurt thne It was transferred to tho cuntrol of the New York Central Jtailroad. In 1873 tho Grost Wostern Dispatch as w stock comnany was dissolved, und the cars which hnd Leen butlt by 1t were distributed among ihe various rallways uver which It rune. and turning the line into aco- operative Drrlu!“flun. & large number of which were ut this timo in operativn, Under the high ratos prevalllag duriuz the War and some years subsequently, the Penusylvanta Itatlroad tol- ‘eratea tbe Biar Line arrangements, but eventually 1t was compellcd to buy out tuls lino, 1t Lelng pure chused by the Fenusylvania Company, an organ- {zaulon coutrolled by the Penusylvanis Hattroad, which operutes s number of Jeased lines west of Pituaburg. ‘I'be furmation of the Star Unlon Live led to the organizution of other iransvartation companies, based on & mmilar reduction of reye- aue, but which, unlike it, furoished no cars, o8 the ranroads over which they operated supplied then. ‘I'ho system upon which these lovs Were bared orfjuuied in tho chanzes from waoler trana- urtatlon 3o that of rall, aud was accidenta) rather hun utherwisc, an canal «orrlurs, foreseelng tho time when 3 large portion of freight which Iht{ Y bad tranwported was destined tu be inoved by rall wiys, s0ld It to them, ‘The purchosa Vs not valuable one. 1f tho rallweys had only waited for it, they would have naturally sccurud it sta nuniinal cost, snd lmnlhl' without conelderation. 1t was in fact o forciug process, which baw not vnly been expensive, but slso demoralizing In many ways, vust sumyof moucy belug thereby lost to the stockholders or taken from the patruns of ratlways for the sole benefit of tha partive intereat. od in the management of these hnes, It has bully up & brokerago aystem for men of 1o mercantlic, financial, or mecbanical ability, euormuus salars beiug paid for rea) or supposed Infiucace, which ln mauy Instances the parties did not possess nor wver manifest. Tho only remldy attempted for thie grent evil wastho eatablishinont of thy co- ouoratlve lines, which bas proved only & modidca- tion, and not a cure. * When the ca-operative wiem was insugurated 3 manager and & I clerical forco for the scitlement of , mileago accounts etc., was all was ever coutemplated, 1 belug expectod Lo sailcit taw frolght, t syutem became eularged tho forco hus been more thau proportlonally fucreased, aud the busel- ness of soliciting freight taken frum the agout of the railroad ood placed fu the bandsof tho line sgeut employed wnl( for tue purvose of soliciting, ~tbus requiring two wsots of em- ioyes for lue saws purpose. sud result- 0g luevitably in & reduction of rates, There are railroads lu-Usy over which sre run from four o ten lines, all competing for cowmon busincas, whicn places thewa 1 8 positlon of elght merchauts Iu & community wbo have a commodity to seil and vulyone buvor. Under such a statu of aftairs os this, any oue csn woo Shat divss roaulis wmurt ensus 1o tho roilroad. Comparisous sbow great differences between business dono by & rallroad turough fts resvonsivlo euts, Whoaw compenation and ruputatiun aro st ske, and that done by fast froight lines, of wolch ftway be said that thoy ewmbrace all the i tho old commlesivn systew, intensised murn d st by tho railroads, which ebould abanden thezpat once, and do their owa work dl- reetly (hroogh thelr own agents, Untll this §s on€. no_restoration of remunceative rates can noeslbiy occar and remain perinanent, and no rall- way can have tho legitimate control of its own pruperty, AN IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT. The 1lhinoin Central Rallroad manngers have just returned from Calro, where they have been mnking arrangements fur the extenaion of the track of tho Chicago, 8t. Loots & New Orlgann taitroad from ita present northern terminna at Fillmore Landinz, Ky.y ton point jnst onposite Colro. At present, the transfer steamers which connect the Iilinols Central with the sbove named road, have to o down the river from Cairo to Filimore Landing, & dintance of threannd 8 half miles, which delays traflic conalderably, Three mlies of new road have 10 be constructed to bring the New Urieans Kosd to Uairn, ahout half of which distance ts now graaed. The whole distance will bo graged about the 1at of Jdune, mnd whi be ready for the ex« change of cara abonb the Ist of August of this gear. ‘This arrangement will enable the * transfer-steamers o do nure thau twice the amount of work than they are do- ing naw. Wihile at present they lnve to mako a riin of three and n nalf miles, alter the completion of the new exterision thay will have u run of but 43,600 to 5,000 fedl to ‘make the connec:lon, ac- cording to the hizhs of the water. 1t will pot only. greatly facilitate the freight trafiic, out the pas- renger traflic between Chicago and New Urleans witlalso be grestly improved. — Toy W. & W, Epecial Divpateh to The Tridune, Cuastrazax, 1., May 2.—On the 20th of April a bill was filed In tho Champalgn County Circult Court by John I3, Tyson, to foreclose nowne old cunsolfdated mortgage bonds Jssucd by the Toledo, Wabash & Western Raliway. The bill {s azainst the Wabash Rallway Company, which Is now In porsession of the T., W. & W., and avers that there has been o misappropriation of the revenues of the Wabash Rosd and prays for an injunctlon ngalnat the present proprietors using the revenuoes of the'rond for any other purpose except to pay the corentgexpensce: pings fur the appolut. ment of tecolver - fur the main line ond all fia branchies: for the discharpo of the trintees of the mortgaye bonds; that the revenues of the rord be devuted to the payment of tho consulidated bonde, and tn caso (liey are in- adenuute for the purpose that the roud b eold. A mm&mnry injunction wus zranted by Judge B. Smith, to sxpire un tao 21th {net., unices re wons ahall bo sbown in the meantime for ita further continuance. Uen, Bwayne, of Toledo, and Mr. Greem, of Springleld, the attorneya for the Cumpany, wero in tiis tll{ yesterday, consuiting with the Com pany’s lucal attorneyn, Messrs, Lathrop & Fusey, as 10 the futaro conduct of the case. VANDERBILL'S POLICY. Hpectal Dispatch to The Tribune. New Yonx, May 2, —President Swunuyel D, Dabe cock, of tho Chamblicr of Commerce, Wos re-olects ed fo-day at the annual meetlng, The Committee on 1taliroad Transporiation sbarply criticlred Mr. Vanderbilt's recent lctter on dlecrimiuations in freight transportation. It wae his cialm that the Nuw York Centrol had not entered snto any comuls nation to discrlininate apalust New York or its merchants on freight charges in favor of any other port, While this may be technically truc, say the Committee, it Ia novortliclens true that the New York Central Itoad s ucting in concert with other roads In enforcloe rates which do discrim- Inote agminet New York., The tenor of Mr. Vandorblit's letter st the offect that no discriniinations cxist; that the New York suipper Is upon an equal fuoting with those ol sny rhvii clty. In view of the uncontragteted o ret forth In the report sdopted by tals Chiamber on the 28th of Feuruary, It urprisinz that Mr, Vanderollt ahonld mako thess aesortiuns, and it would seein an if there wwod no other resourcs than to have a thorough mvestiimiion of the facta by tho Legrislature of tho Btate, in order to shed a full fioud of Iigit upon this lmportaut subject. JAY GOULD AND TIE KANSAS PA- CIFIC. The St. Loula Republican states that the Recely. cra nnd officers of the Kansas Pzcific ** now admit that Jay Gould is buying up Kousas Paclfic recuri- ties with a view of ultiniately getting cuntrol of it, To take tho ruad ont of the bands of the Conrt and place it upan lts fect would only require-abuat four millions, 1n conscquence of Gould's actlon Kansas Facific sccurities aro appreciatingly rapidly, in. deed they have been gain up for twelve months. 1n tne lust year the Februury and Auguat U per cunt bonds Have gone up from GO conts to pur. ‘Tnis Is n increaso in value of 81,170,000, Tho January aud Decouiber §-per-conts’ bave gone up from 40 cents to B3, This §s an increass 1 value of §2,200,000. The Denver Extonsion bouds have increased 81,000,000 In value. The income bonas, 7 per cent, biave rone from 10 cents to U2 cents, repreaenting an fncrease of value of 8420,000. Btock has gonw frow twa cents to vight cents on the doilar. ‘The tolal increass in_valuo of all Kaneas "acific securltics hus been upwards of §7, 000, 000, A cansiderabla portion of this prodt (s suld {0 huve been mude in 8t, Lo hving bought, up the securitics when they were ut thelr lowest = aud then held ou to thew. ITANNIBAL & BT, JOSEPIT, Speclal Dispatch go The Tribune, Quincy, II, May 2,—Prosldent Dowd, Viee. President Leunard, Managing-Director Bush, Gen- eral-Managor Stuvens, General-Trafilic-Agont Car- son, and other officers of the Hannibal & 8t Joseph Railroad Company, had o me nibal yestcrday, The confercnca Deoss of & decidedly interceting nature, and to have engondereil o good deal of feeling. It waa probably the purposs of the Eastern men to €ampel Mr, Stevens tu resign his oftice, and upon thin ue, 1t Is reported upon good authority, there warm contest. Mr. Rlevens, as usual, waa again partially successful, and when ho tendered his resignation, which he dld lute in the day, it was with the understanding that it #hail not take effect until the st of June, The lmrly, with the exceptlon of Mr. Stevens, cawo up o Quincy, took aupper at tho resldencegof Mr. Larson, and returned 1o {1lannibal, leaving thero this morning ot s o'clock for a tour of inspection of the road, CHICAGO & RUCK ISLAND-==AU- DUBON BIIANCIIL. Bpecial Correspondence of Tha Tribune, Dzs Moinks, Ia,, Avril 38, —Tho survey and lo- cation of the Audubun branch of the Chlcago, Rock Island & Pacific Is being pushed forward, indicating an early comoletion of the work, It will leave the main track on the west siue of Botna River, and follow that stroam northeastsrly 1o Exira, the county-seat of Audubon County, It 18 roported that not 6 sut oz il of vver three feet 18 to be found un the routo, and not & brldge witl ba required. ‘The Company have tron enough on hand to laythe track, and work will bu commenced as suon ue the right of way 8 socured, The Come &ny owus au immonso clunnll\y of land In Audu- m and the adjoining County of Sheldy, snd to securo tho soltiement and improvement of thle land 1# tLe chiof object in buliding this branch, It would have boen ballt two yes go but for the Ratlroad-Tarift law. — NEW YORK & NEW ENGLAND, Bpecial Dispaich to The Tribune. TosroN, May 2.—The Legislature to-day finally dlsposed of the prolect to loun the Now York & New England Naliraad 86, 000,000 Lo complete the 1o to tho Hudsun River,aud so make tho previous loans by the Ktate a paying Investmont. There wore throo propusitions before the louse of lten- resentatives, ‘Tho majority of the Raliroad Cume mittee reported in favor of the luan of 30,000,000, ‘The 1majurity of the Flnance Committee, to whom the bllf was subsequontly referred, roported that it ought not to pass, and a comproiise bi{l grant. 1ug aloan of 84, (00,000 was proposed by u mumber of the Finance Comuitice, After a sharp debate, Jasting two days, the lfuuse sustalied the repurt of the Floance Cummitice by tho decirive vuts of 173 to5U. ‘'l action will probably dampen the srdop of applicants for Stato aid for sums timoe to come, KANSAS PPACIFIC ELECTION, Bpectal Dispaich (o The Trivune. Lawngxcs, Kan., May 2,—Thoe stockholders of tho Kansas I'sclfic iailroad tnet in this city to-day for tha annusl election of Dircclors. The follows Ing gentlemen wero elected: Jonn 1. Perey, Rob- ert K. Carr, D. M, Edgurton, T. Fakee, Theodora Q. Muir, 8, M, Edgell, and D, Wright Trgadway, of 8t, Louls; Jay Gonld, A, P, Hulmics, and Sid- and Fred L. A r ney Dillou, of New \‘ovki Hoston. Tbe uew Board fmportant changes fu the oficers of tho ryad. Fatty of buut tweniy-vu ladice sud gentlesied, o latter nearly all intimately counzcted with the fuad, cawme from Kausas City by special train, and after tho vlectlon passud on to Usnver, ITEMS, Two car-lopds of excursionists, most of them resldents of thle city, lefs tbia city yesterday by the Pacific Express of the Chicago & Northwestern Haliroad to have 3 nice time on the Pacifio Coast, 1t Is sa1d to bo the {ntention of Vanderbilt, on oblsining control of the Michigan Ceutral next montl, 10 place this road aud the Canads Southeru under one mansgcment. Mr, Tillinghsat ls mene tioned a3 bavisg been selectod as Prosidont for poth roads, Mr. Ledyard as Geaers! Manager, Mr, Wentworth ag Goeneral Ficket aud Passenger Agent, s0d Mr, Frauk buow as Ageut at ¥ayette. It wos rumored yesterday that some of (ke roads lesaing Eaat frow tbis city bad wesly bevn cutting rates on gruin. As faraq can bo sscertained, no cut bgs been made since the mocing last Moodasy, ¢ old tarl® wus fo-established, Uralo was yesterday which had been contracted for at 20 conts per bundeed, but it is claimed that the contracis wero wsdo Lefore the ru-culablishment of the tazist, . Mr, C, O. Wheeler, for msay yea: Agent of the Michigen Central city, has been rewarded for uis efiicleat and faith. 1 ful services by the appoiutwent to the pusition of Lacs! Frelght {iroad in this . In thin eity, for Wednesday, May 15, 1o f our capitalints, * nperintendent of the Weat Divislon of this road, Chicazo to Michl City, Inclodinz the Jollet Wranch, with oftic hicaro, The nppointnient o Jo It Ward a« Arnsafant General Tiek Pareenger Agent of thin road s slso ofMeially an- nounced, The Ezcentive Committes of the Awsaclation of nd Commissloners of the Land-Grant Ratlrands tates has called a s, ite cial meeting of tne Asaociation, (o be held st the imer Honse, 187K, at 12 o'clock noos. ‘Tha object of the meeting in fo take rame nction in regarn to the propored abandon- ment of holdinz annual conventions, and 1o trans actothier Important businees. The representative of the ratirvads intereated in the land-grant burl. nesa are requeated to be prerent, Thao following Jtem from the New York Sin reema ta confinn the rumors recently mentioned n ‘Tur Trinexe that Vanderbilt has an fdea of re- Iinquishing bold upon tne Lake Bhore & Michigan Sonthern, as with tbe Michigan Central nnd Canada Southern [n his possesalon ne hay all the Western ontlota he need *Tnu gossipe on the rtre Mr. Vanderbiit, previous to his de- partare, vald some 70,000,shates of Lake Shore stock, and this prubably acconnis for the decline in Lake Shore from U7 [ast Saturday to i1 yester- day, It {3 aald (hat he bolds ot present about A0).000 mhares of Michigan Central stock, Lest week 30,000 alhiares of this stock were reglnlered In 1,000 slury lote at the wers' Losn & Trust Company In his name.* For aome time past & morning paper has been harping uven the probability thatJay Gould was abuut to obtain control of the Chicage & North- western, How correct this information is can beat be seen feom (e fact that Jay Gould victaally abtained eontrol of this rond, and ates of the Chi- cago, Rock Infand & Pacifie, "at the last annuat clectivun, and 18 now a Direclor In hoth comoa- nlea. The fact ia, Mr, Gould In working hard to msintain the hold e then securcd, whils Mr. Keene, of California, is tryine to force Xr. tould 10 relinquish the huld he has upen this property, Under a decres of the Clrcuit Court of tho Umited States for tho Western District of Michigan in favor of Albert Keev, Chester Wurner, and Jeutha 1. \ade, und avainst the Michiyun Luke Shore Railroad . Company and Continental Jnuvrovement Company, there will be o sale un the 19h of June next of the Michigan Lake Shore Hallroad eztend. ng from Allegan to Muskegos il the branches 10the shorg of the lake aL “Muskezon and (irand Hinven, including all the buildings, telegraph lines, locomutives, tendees, cars, rolling-stock, m chinery, tools, sud material for constructing, re puieng, or replacing suid ralirosd or any of fta rquipments, and including aldo its francinses, ‘Chis wala I8 made tu satisly two moripages glven 1o Keep and Warner as trustees of the bundholdere, It 18 viiderstood thnt thia sale is beinie mado In sc- cordauce with sfrangements that contemplate the #peady conipletion of the road from Aliegan cust over the Monteith cat-off to Battle Creek thin mea. eon, aud wnm-cunix with o line of steamers from Uraud laven to Milwaukee. The meeling of thu Manacers and General Frelght Atents of the rosds leading to Miseouri River pointa from Chicago and St. Louts, which will bo held at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-day, will undoubtediy be highly cxeiting, as on its action devends whiether the war in reqand to Missourl Miver rates that has beon going on for some tims between the Chicago and 8f. Louls roads shall come to an end or not, ‘fng managers of the roads froni both cities declare that they will make no concesalons, but after talkinz the matter over among thomscives they will undoubtedly feel ina wnore paclie mood, and may uitimately reach an undderstanding which will have the eifect of ro- mtozing rates. Tho Indlcationw aro that the Bt. Louls roads will be fully represented, and that tiey will muko a stubborn tight §n the matter of through rates from the East, The Fresident and Gienerul Superintendent of the St Louls, City & Norihern, and the Vice.P'resident and erat Manager of the Missourl Pacific urrived [n the city yesterday,and the other ofticlals of these roads will arrive this murning. SPORTING NEWS. PEDESTRIANISM, Special Correspondence of The Tribune, New Yonx, April 28.—Jobn Hugnes, who has teen trytng ANl the week to ‘*bet O'Layry's tuline,™ was very tndly worsted. When he tinish- ed his slxth day, at 8:25 last evening, he had cove cred within a fraction of 400 miles, which was & tliliculously poor exhibition when compared with the record of the Chicugo pedesteian. In a former letter I described Hughes, Tio Js a brawny Itish- man, witha broad brogue and no educatlon, 1le hos been o laborer all his Iife, schooled tn all kinde of phyalcal hardshiv, until his system fs enormously powerful. In bis aitemnt to outdo O'Leary, he pitted his grent strength and cndurance Against his opponeat's braina and caleniation; aud it nust b confessed thut for u mak of such narrow {nteliect and Hwited experience b has mado an excellent showing, All walkers who bave made good records havo rolied fully as much upon theirclear-headedness ns their sheer physical strength; and the history of all distance trials gocs (o shew that the fuan who starts with the rooledt dellberatlon, and walks his nmrowmnlel:mmumhmr{(np.l theonewhocones out ahicud 1n the eud, Ed Weston once aald tu e, duringa walk in this city: ** Whenever you sce me make my fAirst wile of o {ong race in less than four teen minutes, it will bo euum’{ safe for you to bet that [ won'twin, 1t 1stho drat strain on the system which decides the whole affulr, ' And both Weston and O'Leary calculate with the closcat nicety upon every step ul? take. Ilughes was oL u disadvuntage,” In ‘the frat place, he had never attenipled 8 heavy feat of endurance; his confidence in his vast physical force was impileit, and ho could ot be madé to underatand that if Lo wished to win Be m busband his strength, \When ho first started, Inst Bunday night, he **jost hia head" under toe stimulus of applause and music, and rau his fleet thirty miles in the extraor. dinary fime of 3 hours, 443 minuter, When arry il cautioned him against this sort of thing, he mphadmnna **was only kape-ing Lisaclf war- rum,'' But every pedestrian who ssw the begine ning propheelied that he would surcly loxe tne ruce, Amfl'l his been a losing race from that time on, sithough Hughen Las accomplished moro than any beginner was ever known tu do before hlw, lijs opening record indicates that Lo will, with proper curbing. naking a svlendld pedestrian; aud had he heen toned down carefully In tho raco he would undnl:lmnll'l: bave come ntarcr the record of **O'Layry, llu»,:nyc-’nu shown the ntmost Ignorance of all the rules to which successtul lung-tiwe runnors or wulkers must adhicre, Alfter bls first day's ruu, he begun to complain that Wis feet were nore, and whien they wero examined it was discovered ' that the nails ‘bod not been trimmed, and were cutilug, 1nto tho ficel. They grew worse each duy duriug the walk, until on Thuraday it was found necexs sary to remove one of the altogether, lle sutfered inteusely during tho lust four days from this source, aud fis trolners were Ignorant enough to let him' go withgut prover attention. Daring the whole race ho whs given enormous guantities of liquor and wine, which unduubzrdl{l ned his chances of success, althoogh stimulating hlm umpumrln{. 1l is wtil) confident that ho can beat O'Leary,and 15 to go Into trainiog at_once, under tho care of a rofessional trainer, larry Hill, who backed lim or this race, expresses a willinzness to pive im another chages, Heo sald 1sstnights ** My cond. dence In him Is roncwed, for he hus dono what no beginner ever did. I om goiug lo weo that e gots roper care for lile next race, and thst be fen't al- fi:wed to run sway with himeolf agsln as he has done this time. _ Bix months benco 1 wili back b for $3,000 to beat any six-dsys' recurd In the world—nnd he can do 1" Hugties' thne,an aguinat that mado by O'Leary in Londun, clused at a little after 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, At that hour he had covered aluost 0 nlles, and ho kept on at his task until the slx s woru tully fnislied unly to show that he could seutay," Thero Ltla doubt that he would have Leen able (o muka sixty or seventy milus per day for another week, I ruquired, and it was with dif- ficalty that Lo was proveoted from walking down town afer ko had futehed his task laat nignt, Lis record as comparcd with O'Leary'a I append: = ULQUBY e Wites, Feer, - plei Faith, av O1 hedn't ben so grage, 'd divil owt av O'Layry's toime,—and warsuk e wurruds, O1'1 do it yet. Musthor Hill fa goln® W b-a-ack my agn’, and OFll do some worruk nixt tolmg, Afther that raco, OI'll chen- alluoge O'Layry to walk un the samo thr-a-ack wid e, aud whin ha dous tbat, OF'Il muko him take wather, seo if Ol don't!" o Unduubtedly bls poworis more than ordinary, Ithough ho bas falled ouce, he Las won some ect [rons professional walkers hure, who sa) that bis uest elfurt will sbhow that bo hus abilily o tha Oeet order. W, E. liarding, of this city, sud John Ennls, of Chicayo, are to walk & 100-inlle race on tho Hih of Juuo for §500 and ke chawplonship of America. The won wet yesterday at tho Clipper pllico and deposited $200 cach as & gusrantes, “The raco will take place in Nuw York Clty. Ennle is the favor- {te amioug bettiug mep, who have been suld many thies by backing Hardiug. Tho lstter is une uf thase chape who alw set out L accomplisl wpurtiag phraseology, he Iruuniss, Arranta, Gs.. Il]!.—l’ml, Conslgney onlsned’ last night 1k of 500 miles In 50U consecutive bours.” Lo made tho last mile fu thirteen minules. THE TURF, The sporting fraternity of Cuok Coanty are exer- clued just nuw over @ scheme gotten du by Law- rence & Martin, It is the catablisnment of & now race-courso, bearlng southwest from Dooglas Park, comptising eighty acres, 10 be equipped at an expenscof sbout $30,000, aud Lo be superin- tended, it fs said, by Con Bullivan, of Atwood Place, nesr Hivorside, Three hundred mea will, it s undurstood, Ly put to work immediately, s0 a8 to have tho track (o fesdinces for s meeting by July 4. The ground ia located on Dm‘lghl avenue, weat of Silver Leal Urove, aud suuthwest of Douglas Park. It isspproachable through Tweaty-secoud atreat from the Bouth Slde, and Queden avenus aod Weat Twelftl stroct on the West Side. The Rives- wide bouluvard, about Bve wiles distant, sccomu- dates parties from tbat scctiun. Parties frow the Towa of Jeflersou can come up California svenue snd Park svouuve. Partes frow Austiu fud their way alopz Hluwan sveuus o the Riverside boule- av bet L vard. Partles feom the North Side come to West Washington street, go o Ogden avenae, and five minntes’ walk takes them 1o the track, Amoag the hnrara that will come in nnder the wire at the Jnly mecting are mentioned Rarus, lireat Esatern, Lucllle Gold Dust, Honefal, Hannls, tiav, Hpragne, Calmar, and Monroe Calef, In connection with the erounds 1t Ia proposed to establich A clab-hotse after the styie of the B3n; Dirtrict Park of Francisco. The bosldine will ho ahoat 200 feet in lenaih, and will he sitnated at or near the homestretch, It will have two ninzzan, the upper ona belng roserved for con. nolssenrs in burseilern who do not care to mingle in the theong in the amphitheatre, The plazza will extend nlone the weat wide of the track. Nasitviere, ‘Tenn., Say 2 —The weathee to-da; (‘;l‘l’: clear and hot, and the race-track decp with ‘The fieat race swan for the Camberiand stake for 2.year-olls, 5 to'ndd €300 to_have 100 twenty nomnations; five Thomas 1), Parmeloe wan withdrawn jaat befors the Face. Tne sam- sonry {n an follows The sccond race wae for an Associaton pures, ?21?('. mite heats, Uncle Jeff won Iy two straight 11_:'::-, Mira .\Inx‘lnly vecond, Bunnle Itaeca talrd, e, 4714, Tha third tace was for an Association pures, $100, dash three-guarters of & mle. for all ages. Won by Short Line, Brietc] second, Col, fiull thied, M)} oy foarth, Time, 117, In Uic fieat race, Jim Bell waa the favarite over the field Lefore the slart, After the first lieat :4;:;53 and Bell sold for $100 cach, the fleld bring- ng $40, incle Jeff waa the favorite in the sccond, and Bhort Line In the tnird race. THE GREAT SHARP-SIIOOTER. Spectal Dispateh (o The Tribune. Des Moixrs, 13, May 2,—Dr. Carver thisafter- noon rave an exnibition of riflo-ehooting with a ‘Winchester common rifle, Glans balls were thruwn i1 the alr and hit, without mies, with the rifle bot- tom-slde up on tue shooter's head; also with the rifle upside down, the aliooter lylng on his back; aleo wiuh his back to the Uall, taking slght from a mirrar; aleo with the rific on his Ulp, withoat alm. oaled and ehot three times at a Lall while in alr, thirty feet, bitting it with the third ball. Eight half-doilata were tussed up, seven ot which he hit: alev one nickel, Two oalin were thrown up at the same time, he loading his rifie for each shotafter the Lalls wera thrown, ile leaves bera New York to-night, whence be will rope, i far BASE-BALL, BrotNGeIELD, Mass,, Msy 2, —Base-ball: Bpring- fleld, 6: Alleghneys, Symacuar, May 2.—International champlonship game: Stars, O3 Buffalos, 1, Low May .—Dase-bsll: Lowclls, 103 Ten tuninga, 1, N 1., May 2.—DBane-ball: Man- Oakx, 1, -Base-ball: Clneinnatis, AMUSEMENTS. THE ITAYDN SOCIETY CONCERT. ‘The Haydn Soclety gave the last of fia concerta for the scason last evening at McCormick [all, under the directlon of its conductor, Mr. Creswold, and with a large sudlence in sttendance, Tho first part of the programmo was of a miscelianeous nature, inclnding the overture to Gluck's **Iphl. genla in Aulls''; the quaint little **Wedalng March™ of Socdormann's, which recelved an encore, although it was playod very much like s pealmtune, and without the spirit and dash necca- eary to bring out ite pecullar local colur; Bach's **Awakening of Sprins,'' which was rerlously marred by the falreness of the horn : and the eutire Sympliony of Mendelseolin's **Hymn of Pralse. ™ It ecems to us It would bave, been betier had . the frst part closed’ with the Bach number, su that the Symphony could have led dircctly fo the Cantata, without the long break uetween the Instrimental and vocal part, which seclously marred the unity of the work. In the performance of the Canlais, the same eritie cisin inight apply, 29 the conductor made several Tong waite, where It would have hecn more 1u o corcance with the seutiment of the work to have 1t one number lead directly up o the succeeding one, he Cantata was given by s chorus of aboat eighty volces, isted by " Mrs, Thuraton, Miss Dutton, and Me, Knore, in “the wolu parts, and witn vrchestral sccompaninient. The chiorus struge led vali Wwith 1ts work, but, aa it was badly Innced and by no means homogencous, it did not alwayn aclieve very signal succces. The tenors seeined to bo_the most cmplatic, The basses had Httie tone, ‘Tho supranos werw not prompt in ate tack. The. allus were very weak, and all were overwhcimed, ns might bave Leen expected, by the orchiestrs. ‘The chorus, in fact, appeared to bu made np of Incongruous wections which uid not fit in very well, and, ae tho parte had 1o rospunsie ble leadurs, it I8 not remarkabio that - tacy were frequently ail at s, ‘Taking everything inte comsideration, however,—the amateurish- nees of the urchestra, the want of union i tho choras, und the difliculty of tho work, cvery notoof which was annz, —tie perform. ance inay be set down as creditable. The sololsts did thelr work very fairly, Mr. luore velng en:l- tled tocarry off the ualm, waking up wiat he Iacked in power und volume With hie accurate and very exprussive singing. Thus another Soclety hus closed up Its sendon's work, sad ot 1ts conai tlon ayd progress we may have suwmetbing (o say berealter. AMUSEMENTS IN PARIS, Special Correapondence of The Tribune, Pams, France, Aptll 12.—Emile Augler 1o hin Jaurels, comedy, ‘*Les Fonrchambault," roduced at tho Francats with complete e play i» scwirably constructed, full noblesentiment, and thorougnly nterests g froul begmning te ond, Flotow's **Alma I'lu- cantatrice’ hus been ooldly recotved st the Italicns, although Albsni sang the chicf part in (& Albani horself, bowover, was very cordiutly received. Bl {e anly to slng twice more befory she leaves for Covent Garden, When she poes, M. Eveudier may an well shut up his sunbby theutre at ouce, Alex. andre Dumas’ wrelched **Joseoh Lalsame s e tng attll vlayed to fast-thinning houss Liefore long there will be nu one put tho paid claque to sy 1t or sppluud {ts stupidity, and postic Jusice will have beon done. 1t1s to be hoped the fate of thls play will stop Duzuas from writing uny more for 1 whil We bave had rather tow many of hia Jokes latel, A curious story, with which Ishall close my let- tor, nus Juet coue Lo unfram Italy, It {s rowored that Patil hua been tho heroluo of znpther scane dul. Nicoltol fa sald to have grown jealous of Mr. Btrakosch the younger, and thers has been » Syt with sticks and fsticalls, Mr. 5., we are told, was badly beatens Patit (who trled tu separato tha combstants) bud hee tinger broken inthe debt, and faitited: and the fury of the rivals was only cooled by the thnely areival of I'aitl's mald, who put an uiid to the ‘scrimmage by wquirting a boitle of Seltzer water over them bolh jmpartishly, Con it be true, or fv it ouly an elaborate joke? Time alone Will toll, as they say in (Lo scusational novels, Hanuy Sr, Micnse, ——— WASHINGTON GOSSIP, Spring Dinners—Gluttonous Esters—kyening Eatertulnments=Ntag Parties—0n the 'o. tomac=Nesudul and Slander—Closing tho lun=bunset Cox—Uurly ¥en Nutlor— spl Burrender—Charley Foster =Utho ingleton=Murtin I, Townsoide Dbr, George LoringeJdudge Duayis—Elope- mentedohinC, Fremont=Diplomatio Ducks ~Tho Chiuess Legation, Bnecial Correspondence of Tha Tribune, ‘Wasiinatoy, Apeil 80, —Savages, wu aro told, are slways socn to tho best udvantage when foast iz, In on fouer circle. sround thoe partlslly- couked game, sit tbe lords of creation; behind thowm arc thelr wives, each walting to catch with an un- erting band thn half-picked bono chucked aver tho shoulder of her lord, und overy faco beame with a glow of clthor placld vnjoyment or guntle expects sucy, Dut . A WASHINGTON BPRINO DINNER, especially thote iven by the self-constituted socl ety peopic, is & dull observance of a dlsagrecablo duty whict forms a promineut partof that curse brought upon y the fall of Adam. What can be tnoto oppressive, after o hot day, than to don full dresv and Lo sit at a table in the evoning frum 7 until 11, welghed down by 8 bankruptcy of small. 1alk snd & preseutiment of dyspepsial True, Falher Ke: 6w routy to Cuba euavles us tu have groen-turtle heru in less than forty-oight huurs alter it ia taken on the snotes of Florlda, and epl- cures rovel 1o Suuthdown laube from the valiey of Virgiuia, sbad sud base from 1o Polowac, peas and sspsragus from Norfoik, and struwberries lmsf Cuarleston. Tothesi, sbandoucd to the lan- ult ¥ Guurrony ov Tu Bos-cONsTHICTOR, tho successlve table dyusstier of woup, Han, Hesh, and fuwl are ** linked sweetness lo. rawn out. " Thu rooms are not, tho dishes bave ail the same teste of & brojliuy kitchen, and tho wailers will wop Hiole faccs with thy uspkius with, whict they wipo the dust frow cleau plutes, Such popasts a0 nob refresh, —du 1.0t exhilarate, —do not promote avciability. Equally todlous ud ntolerable aro SOCIALLE BVENING PALTIES, which tho lady-cazrespondents —~bl ing pens—go 1uto ceutasios uver, buwever, sbout the intoxicating delig vernal gatberiugs that strouxly semiuds one of the ‘wine which wus recomumended to Dick Swiveller by bls Marchioncss,—it wes & siwple compuund of three {ugredicuty, —water, orango-peel, sud make- belicve—an **tutolerable deal ™ of the lask. 1y 1s 100 warm fur daucing, smateur music is 8 vore, and recltations aru a nuisance, Such gatherings, with thele uubiealbity Lypucrisy of ploasure, sre uumiti- guted vuisances, and tho only endugable aprivg ens tertaluments are - TUE * 8TA0 PARTIES " ven by Mr. Soesker Ilsudall, Uen. Buraslde, ‘cruando Wood, of Bl Edward Thom'ou, Oud woets AL theao gatberiuge wen with woow it is & deligat to wsociate, aod whuse tulk f8 worth ls- e hos just sdded snother leaf Iils b now been their darl- & tavar, of thase tening to, Jt Is not necensary to keen ona's fingars hotly encased in the white skin of the Parisn ret, anit gome Attend I frock-coats, althoush the s3dis claw-hammer v proper ta he wom. Then we now have on the Potomac abave the city, whict 1a not distnzbed by Lne keels of navizable veswcls, many o I,;;‘in!i T BOATING l‘Al:flx!i i ot Washington fs a great place for rowing and for hoat elnbe, There la s great fascination 1“ 0. Ing. which 1 very hard work. bistering the oarse msn's hands, and enabling hins to coarm his fate friends with sn exiihition of physieal vigor in clenched teeth. starting muscles, and a heaving hreast, not concealed by s tight-fiiting silken undershirt. RCANDAL AND SLANDER, both of which begin with an » and contain soven letters. Including a's and 1's, have of Jate been hrsy abont that” mast charming anbarban resortknown as 't Edzewood, ' which was fitted up by tne late Chief-Jaatice Chare, and e now the hama of hia cldest danghter, Mry. Ratherina Chane Kpragne. 'Fhe husband, who nred o be called in the Senate '*Little Xpragner," and wha {8 now a liankrupt for miltions in Khnde Isisnd, remamns there, watching his spirdles, and Mrs, Bpragne ha« darinz the past winter recelved mach atten- tlon from Sncnhr{ Schurz, Gen, Burnside, Sen- ator Conkling, and other gentlemen, altracted by her wonderful _convereational powcrs. My Lord Itoscoe (as the New York Senator Is called) has Leen, perhaps, rather marked in his attentions, hut the pradieh dames have bezun ta talk abont It, which mough, 1f an ox:enl n egirat a hotel hreskfast-table. aniffs at it, and then puts it down with n grimace of disgust, i there any need for him to ray thatit s bad? Wil anybody try to investicate the ‘maticr? Reputations are quite as aasily blown tipon 8« eggs, and the world Janot atall more éager to find out whether they really deserve the alight put on them or not. HORRY UP TIHE CAKES inthe mot 'ordre at the Canitol, and It [n avident that each party, fearing the otner, wishes to close the sesaton at the earllest poasible day, Men who laat Uctobier hazuled aver an appropriation of §10, now vociferonaly call for the **quention, ' withouta word of debate, 0 a bill which will take hundreds of thonssnds aut of the National Tr for form'n sake, there (s a reslstance snd & committes of conlerence. but an arrance. neat Is svon artive ani legislation proceeds at 8 2:40 gait. Unless some une puls un the brakes, Congyress will have closed the present senslon by the middle of June. AUNSET COX s an nbject of humorous and plcturesque Interest tn etrangern who vaze from the palieriea of the House, The great puppet-show of our political life wonld be incomplete without his jounty and ocnate little fgire, and his witticlams enliven many an ulh!rwl:fi drenty debnts, People like him, an an sudtencdat o theatee likes tonee a pret- ty uctress 1n man's clothes, —ax aomethine at onco nice and a fittle nanglity, He s by birth, by edu- cation, and by association, conscrvative if not aristocratic, and the radical Democracy of Tam- many docs not fit hio well, nor doew he wear {L na though li» wae prond of the, uniform. The old Bonurvona evidently doubt his’ aincerity, althouzh they st times find him usefat, Like an old-fash- loned palr of parior bellows, gayly painted and with abright brass nozzie, ho In useful for viowing up the 8res of agitation, Il favorite antagonlst, bwaneu lIn: enters the arens of Congressional do- te, In TURLY BEN RUTLER, and the Massachusctta atateeman, aithough be ex- calme, **Hhoa fly, don't buther me," (s visibly annuyed by the mosquito stingines of tittle Cox. Iutler likee, however. to indulea in a row, and to deal hi« oratorical blows, and throw his verbal brickbats, undisturbed by a fear that he In bes #towing a backhande P upon bis own political friende, or that he Is overbalancing himseif by itting too hard, He is often cloquent, snd he sdroitly takes advantage of points left undelended by bis mdveteoties, lint personaiities bring ont hls pecultar abilities, and he i happy when he can iaunt an sntagonlet into 8 war of worde, Daring the pauses in which he gives his sdver- #ary and his sudlence time 1o abaord the effect of "hie lsst blow, the muscles of his fabby face paluitate like' a ses with the quiver of preparatian for the next stroke, while toe oblique glunces of his unmatched eycs are & sort of & feeler which precedes it, Jmmr‘lnu for an sppreciation of the rest shock, and ennancing the efiect by tuepir- nz a certiin dread of what Is hatching behind the scenes. s voice has Jost much of its old power, and he ranuths out his words witha sort of arti Getally welghty hesitation, like sn uyerladen ves. sel Ina head wind, _ OF lste ho began to tarn Lis back upon the Repuolican varty, snd it {s ovi- dent thut he will before very long e elected from that onanizaton, {n some unexpected part. as & neeule that has been awallowed years aga will sud- denly work vut—not withont pain and inflammia- tion=In tho fleshy part of tho arm or the g, or evan at the foul. Dutier has agea rapldly within 1he past year,—indecd, he Lian never gotten over TIE MISNISSIPP] SURRENDER, svhich wan the real inausuration of what ts now kuown as President llayes’ policy. Butler's son- in-law, Gen. Ames, wan gently hustled out of office when it was found that the Federal Govern- went would not send troups to Missisippl to kee him In power, Ames, who In au_inoffensive httla zentleman, educated st West Poiut, thought it beet to **Hive (o Spht another doy, " and tnglorious- Iy eurrendered, Busler wonld have preferred to bavo had him killed in reslsting Lamar & Co., snd he would have exhibited THE BLOODY SIIRT of hia martyrson-in-law orer the North, and have demanded ‘vengeance and votes. With Ames' pacific gsurrender, the sway of the carpet-bagger disappenred, and with him went Butler's hopes of au election ta the Prestdentinl chalr, Indecd, be wan beaten for Congress Lo Eesex District of Massachusetts, in *shich he bad squattad, and he Bad to reiurn 1o his legitimate reslicnce at Lowell, which he now represents, or Iate he has heen mpending tune and money in attempting to “wecure evidencs azainst the validity of President llayes' ‘titie, by way uf revenge for not haviuz been permitted to bave his vwn way In making Massachusotts ap- olntmente, 1114 Tendinz adversaty In the Ropube ican ranks le generslly catled CHAILLEY POSTE! and this familiar apperlation shows that the Ren- resentative of the Erle Districe of Dhlo ia 8 genin) clever 1cllow, as well ps the areh-vacuy of such wenas ilen Butler, Endowed with extraordinary ulckpees of apprebension, a retentive wewmory, u clear hesd, and & mind sdapled by life bursuita for the transaction of practical bosineas. Charley Fos- ter {n une of the ablest and inost nard-working men In the lfonsa, e 15 m member of the Comuittea lias saved many imattern aid have seen greatly i patred. Anotner uxeful member of the same Come mittee, wha is aleo Chalirm f the Commitiee on Puoblic Printinz, is that ol ch Miesieniplan, COL. OTIIO R BINGLETON, who wasan ante-bellums Federai Congressman, a8 voluntcer ala to Gen, Lee, a meber of the Con- federaty Congre and sgaln a Represontative from the same disteict sn the Capliol. llofs a martial-lookiug, gray-haired, Homan-uosed man full of courayeas of tact, duepleinz shinms, an avowed n it acaires (o see the Demucratic party in tne ascendency swaln, Quick rompered when be thinks bimeeif wronged or triflod with, he fu {ucupanle of bearing resvntment. amd his gental dispumitlon makes him ¢ favorite in tho House, Equally advauiced in years, and equally prominent amung the Representstives from the North ke Col. Hingleton i with thosy from the South, 18 that humorist, MARTIN 1. TOWNSEND, e s & clericalslauking party. versatllo snd pertl. naclous, uniting the enthusinem of an oiden: tume Abulitionist with the practical shrewducss of & man of business. Ile possossus & felicitous In- atinet which urompts bim to take up the cudgel in defensu of_po pulsr publlc opision, and he ewings 1 ubout Iike a throsher's fail with unfagwing vivacity, forcing hie opponents to smils au thuy wince bencath his nierclioss blows 1lis tack waa upun tiie elegant M; DIt UEOKAE LOMIN . who had urged an anmunnuun for rebaiiding Witllam end Mary Colfego in Virginia, Dr. Lot Ing is o tall, fine-looking 1an, well educated, a ructiced orator, 8 wan of large furiune, and I::tlllldld with the sgriculiure of his sectlon; bal, with all bis clevernuas, v one cru hiasincerity, Indeed, his political course bas beei ¥o vacillating that the lines of lusea Bigelow are olten quoted and appliad to bl ¢+ He's been on all sides whore there are places or polf, But n!nn-:eney stiil bas been part of his plan. Ue's welu trau W une patty—that parly's him- ool Dr. Loring resides on the weet side of L square, and his daughter unlfi child—hss Leea ot of the oclies of suciety, waile hls borsus are reganded as unly cclipsed by thuso of ex-Bunatur ltubertsun, of South Carolina. Luvlgflhu us eye on tho scat in the Senate nuw accupled by Dawes, and will doubtices obtala It, T'he most ponderons Congressman fv SENATOR DAVID DAVIS, who carrles Bls welghtwith the frouhue: of a lithe youth, and is shaku, belonged to th . dle tinctly take case, 804 the Iawyers soon flod out the opinion they hava form. v, But now that the Judge haa becoms » Sena- tor, It is often dificult to asccrtain which slde of a question he favors, apd when bis name is called for hla vote the Teply. ** Noi st tnventus!™ With un adroll f:{emmy of mind pecaliss to the elephantive lgflr‘u, he avoids comultting ilmself, yot ho exhibits that cheery mauuer woich 1nspires men with conddence, and Is the possible from suggeeling Jocoeit, speaks it is rounded-ofl, sonorw tence: though ne was detivering an oplnion, sud bo appeara quite astounded If Edmuude or sume otaer iawyar hastho sudacity to question sny of wiastalements, e i A MOST INDUSTHIOUS WORKEH g and adds to the yeite o Judicisl wen- ¢ Commuities buve fu tho Benate. lu the execulive scssions, when taery are nw verballm reports, ho 1 sall Lo talk s wood deat, sud o sbuw 8 destio to treat all wen fairly, withous exbibiting sny or that sus- -clun which su ofton forms te bane of pablic life. ‘e Bcoate Just now ie stirred by TUB ELOFEMENT AND MANZIACK of the pretty duuenter of Seuator Milchell, of Urogon, to ‘I liardy, who had st vne time & De- partaicat cler but whu Las beon of iate The bridu Ls scarcely 15 yeura np persuaded bes Lo accumpany , whero tuoy were marrled, they returued 10 receive, as they boped, the *lors ye, my childeen,” benediction. ~ But the terual Benator, " wlils he received sud shultored 1w daugater. gave the bridegroom to understand that, ulisss b t, be would recelvy the cuotents of a revoiver us 8 weddlng-pressot. Not fancylayg bis spherical METALLIO (i'?.llhls‘llfli. = ong Hardy left, sud ride 14 BOW mourn. {:«flfnlmyol course, & reconcilistion wlil en- sue. The fmpecunious swain will recelva s clors. wbip in some Department, snd the **ateru pariens will relent. ‘bhe raice dumestic tulerludo was performcd by old Tum Buntun's caughtors whea they anecenntvely matried. and each ocensfon the great Missonrt liemocrat ronred like a oison. Yet how proid ha was of one of thess runaway nona- in John C. Fremont, 3 THR REPUDLICAN PATHPINDER 8 heen here of Iate, trying o makea 1itle ont of his old E] Paso raflroad grant, which be was 20 cleverly awindied ont of.” 1w son i1 An ensian atth: Annapoils Naval Academy, snd {s & goud acholar, atanding well in his clave, OUR DIPLOMATIC DUCKS ste leaving for Newport and other watering- places, many of them first Iclllnf at anction thelr winter's accamnlation of wines, fiqnors, farniture, cte. Anunder their diplomatic privilezs they im< port thess ires of cusloma duties, they can esil them at prices below tho market rates, and yet make profit enough to defray tnelr expenses during the summer, Shiskin, the Ranelan Minister, has #old hin tamone Iandat and high-stepping hornes for 8800 to Wiiltam E. Cnandler, the tdisgrantled Becretary of the Natlonal Repubsican Committee, whose wife s a daugiiter of old Jack Hale, ths witty Now Hampahire Senator, But Shiskin did not ‘eell JUIS BEARDED CITASSEUR, who sat behind the carriage, wearing & eocked-hat and featber, a scmi-dems uniform, and a small sword, akin stonped at a house Lo make tood sentinal at the door, to the delight of ama) cu.flefa"onl of Ethlopians, who rnez‘nded him os **a piger snan than old Urant.'*, % s TR DIPLOMATIO SENSATION -~ Isto be the expected Chincse Legativd, with Ita red-huttoned Mandar(ns, chop-sticks, chow-chow, and_sonchong. -Tae landlord who hen the contract for boarding siume hae siready bezan in boy fat apples, 4nd Assistant-Secretary of State Seward PaLEiceady commencei takin® Tesons i Comese frum 8 Professor who has already tauzht him to oy ‘‘washee, wasneel” with tha: genuine Pekin ccent. TheJaps are preparing ta iubeide Ino & sccondary positiun, and their only hopo le that the Han Franclaco hoodluma will not permil the _Celess tialsto land. Meanwhile, Commissionst Le Dug 18 industriously caitivating tea-plants in the agri- cnltaral grounds, and Widdows has bought a dozen £ongn 10 add to his church-chime as an accompani- ment, that be may pisy the Chinese Imperial March, taconTEun. CASUALTIES. RUN OVER AND KILLED. speciat Dispateh 10 The Tridune. Gnaxo Rarins, Mich., May 2.—Thomas Gurrall, of Chippews, Mccosts County, wan run over by & traln of cars on the Detrolt & Milwankeo Rallrona, in this city, several days ngo. and so badly hors he dled this morning. A Coroper's inguest held on the budy teanlted vordict that death was caused by the carelessncan of the deccased, and exonerates: t0e Kallroad Comp % % CAISIZED. - Wixxirea, Man, May 2.—The stesmer, Gwallow, from Belkirk, was strack by & oqusll this afternoon and capsized in the Tted River. near Winnipeg. One passenger, a Norwegian, was drowned. The re. maininyg iwenty-four passengers were saved. The steanier earricd no bosta or life-prescrvers, ani, but for & flat~Lost that ahe had in tow, the loss of 1ife would have beeu great. ——— THE LATE JOHN MORRISSEY, Sanatooa, N. Y., May 2.—Morriesey's fanera) will take place at Troy, N. Y., on Saturday. Anmaxy, N, Y., May 2.—Seuator Morrissey's vacant cbalr and desk In the Senste Chamberars draped In mourning, and & basket of flowers stands on the desk, by order of the Senators. A largo floral cross, presented by personal fricods, also stands on tho desk. . New Yonk, May 2. —John Morrlesoy dled com- paratively poor. Oneof his moet intimate feiends and advisers, who has bad charge of his basiness aflairs for many years, said this morning bis entire rmpfny wonid not realize but s little aver §30,000, f that, and that the estate would not be sble to scttlo up the debts sgainat it. 2 ALnaXY, May 2.—The Senate will attend Mor- rirscy‘s fanersl in Troy. Lieot. -Gov, Dorahismer and Senatorw Hat acobs, Itobertson, St. John, Pomeroy, Hughes, Wagner, Eclesine, and Wag« stall will act as bearers. < LOGGING. Bpeciat Dispatch 10 The Tridune. Nzwronr, Minn., May2.—The lumbermen all #ay they are getting out with their logs finely,~ earlier inan ever before, ——— Passing away! passing away! Each Tooth Wash of a former day, Bozudont gives the coup de grace Goud-by to the humbuga! let them paas. BUSINESS NOTICES. The Golden Iouse of Nero.—0n that part of the ruine of Imperial Rome lying between the Palatine and the Esquiline Hillse—s spaco which was more than 8 mile 1n breadth—~Nero erected his celebrated ** polden house, ™" as he called his new puluce in which he fixed hls abode. The vastness of extent, aud the varied magnitcenco of thia In. perial residence, and Jta orpamental grounds, al- mont surpass veilef, and, in this reapect, they' are ke CansoLiNg, 8 deodorized extract of petroleum. The vastaess of the oxtent, and the beautiful and varied magnifcence of the golden tresses produced y s t surpass oullef were they mot wull suthenticated by thousauds of certificales now in ssfon of the mungfacturers, ‘The beauties wmagniticence of Nero's house are, however, not to be compared with the beauties of s luxurisnt end elegant lead of bair; it is the :mwnln‘: glory of women, and sll attempta to pre- scerve this natarsl covering 1o the head ia praire- worthy, snd in this connection we desiro to say that Carboline (s the only article that will preserve, beautify, and restore the bair, it 1a made frow the crude priroleum thuroughly deodorized and frea from acids or alkalies, and fs delightfully pere fumed; it {s an articls of genulne mierit, and will restore the hatr oo bald heads; it performs all that ia clalined for it. Suld by all draggists and dealers 1n mediciucs. —_—— Use * Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup* for children walle teothing. It cures entory and diarehoa, wind colic. and regals LAKE EXCURSIOAS. GOODRICH TRANSPORTATION €0, THE LARGE, ELEGANT, BIDE- WHEEL STEAMBOATS, HOSKEGON AND ALPENA, ‘Willduring tho Summer Months mako DALY EXCURSIONS FROM THEIR DOCKS. For particalars Ingalre at office, foot Michizan- T. G, BUTLIN, Sot. B e R will suthenticate thel 0HAB I.X’E’l.ll'l\!g Ll ,“l""‘tllll‘:lr:nl. _M, L BYKRS. Jr., Secrotary = OF¥ICE_ CIICAG), ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD €0, April 23, 1878, ‘The Annual Meotiog of the Stockholders of the Chie cago. lock Ialand & I'acifie Ratirosd Co., for the el tun of Directors pursusat 1o law, aad the transaction of such othe busiuess as may come Lefore thew, will be held nt tio oftice uf the Comvant 1 the cliy of Chi- cagu, o Wednesday, the Sth day of June pext, at 11 HUGH KIDDLE, Fresident. cretary, o'clock 8. m. ¥. Il TOWS, e e e sty DISSOLUTION. Wo, the irm of 1. 6. Dayton & Co., eommtsslon mer chants, dolug bustneas st 217 West . Chicago, 1., do hereby potify Bl anianty! 8 pubLLcbat we mutually sgree I 5B ° DISSOLUTION. Cuicaao, May 1, 1878, (Tt 8 of BAGSE & wEFHTT Tl oy e usl Conaen Above finn will contisue under style of BABSE & €0, All cialmain favor of Or agsinst theold oru: will Do asitled by BASSK & CO, BUSINESS UARDE, WAL D, KERFOOT & €O, REAL ESTATH AGENOCOY, 00 WASIIINGTONAT. Reata coliccted, tazes pald, estates w. Spactal attention given 10 Ibe luleresta of ol 1ty v ©0uLLs Pendered moaibiy. NOTICE, MR, J. FAULKNER, BANKRUPT, lod clalms ou the Lewls patent water metres e a € wli righe sald vLatenis were recorded long P el JORERH IEWAS; Paleaoc. u"l W