Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1878, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1878, WASHINGTON. Sherman to Potter on the Sub- Ject of Louisiana In- timidation. The Privilege Demanded of Ree butting the Testimony Al- ready Taken. A Deelsion Certain to Create o DBreeze in Army Clrcles, Obliteration of the Unjnst Discrimina- tion Heretofore Ifade Against ex~Valunteer Officers, Result of Inquiries as to the Qualifications of Dupr- ling’s Successor. Becratary Shorman in Consultation with Now York Bankers on the Sub- ject of Resumption. SHERMAN TO POTTER. TIN VIOLENCDIN THE FELICIANA PANISIIRS 18 THEMR. WasmiNatoy, D. C., July 9.—Secretary Sher man has sent the followlng reply to Chalrman Potter's letter of July 1t Trizsntny DECAUTHENT, OFFICE 0F TiE SECTE. TAny, WASHINGTON, Do Cuy July 8 —~7he Hon, chackeon &, " Potler, Chairman Inrestigating Commitlee, Touse of ILiepresentutires—Sin: 1 hiava the Nonur to acknowledes the receipt of yone - lefterof tho st Inst, upon my retnrnto the city #ftcra brict abscnce. 1n respect ta tha evidence tendercd by me to prove frauds and intimidation at tho eloction, 1 have to gay tliat, since tho date of your letter, 'the_question scenin to have heen auttled by tho Commilttes In favor af taking such fostimony &9 . L. Weber, & witnees calied by tha Comultce, yas heon exuniacd a3 fo whettier Zast Feliciann, 1In hin prepared statement he wae notuniv ullowed 1o teatify (0 the oxient of vio- lenceand fraud in LEastand West Feliclana, but (o the ceuses of ~that violence, and lts etiecck upon the clection, and the next day wan exomined by membera of the Committee dis- tinctly upon the cuuses and gronnils for the throw. ingodtofl thu vate of tuese parishes, Surely, when the Committee thus secka to prove taat vio- Jence and intimidation did not provall in these parlshes, 1 cannot be denied Lie right toprave that murder, whipping, burnlng, rulding, and ail forng of futimidation did neevail in boin these parishes, and that in East Foliclana thess were suficlont to deter every Republicun voter from vollng, though there had previously beon a_recogmzed majority there of wearly 1,000 ltapublicans, Whether testimony shafl be taken anesw by your Comumitt or tiiat tuken by farmer commiitees shall be ceived, § will with entire doference await your de- Wit the view o Llentity the teatimony d by me, 1 have placed it in the hands of one + Comunlttes, I the ocder tn whick 1t is re- to W my written offer. In_ view of the fact that your Committes fa now engaged I taltiuge f thoe testitiony Intended (o shiote (hnt the decinrn- tionw set forlh In varlona proteats aro not tene, It #eems to e that I shuuid be allowed to prove Ly additionai testimony that theeo protestssre true, Laluo call your atieotion to the nature and char- acterof thy examination of £, L. Weheron the ikl af July, when 10 member of the miuority of the Coi mitite wne present to object of to crosa-examin and when by somc misnuderstanding my couneel was denicd tne priviles of cross-examination un. lesy he ¢ld #o agatust what waa clalmud to ba the orderand the wish of the wajorily of the Com- mitiec. Tho gnestions woro not only In form leading but he allowed to tesiily fo cummoun rumor, and Lo bl Inferences basod upon common Tuinor, nud thia not only as against me but agaiost sevoral memoers of the flouee of ltcpresentallvos and ather high officersof the Govarnment, ) 2lso beg lvave to correct & minpprehontlon Into which you have fallen, ssying that I lad given to the public & communication deriguad for you, ‘Fhip only communication have given to the pub- Hc Is ty formai offer of testimony of violence, and that L only gave soveral weuka nfter It was scnt ruu, aud after Mr, Morrlson's paper bad Leen pup- ished. — But 1 now respectfully ask that my teuier of feuttmony, und iy memorindum 1o tiov. Cox, ond this letter may bo prblished is the oficial record Lhovo also to atate thet I 8m now pru- vrred, at the convenlence of the Commiittce, to eabmit testhnony here In Washiugton o rng«( the ¢hargen nzainst e, and have given to Mr. Snella- barser a list f witnesses whom I awk may be aub- vauned. Very respectlully, Joux Suzaxax, THE INVESTIGATION. SCATTEKED, . Spectal Dispateh o The Tridune, Wasmsxaroy, D, C., July 0.—The Totter Comnitteo will meet to-morvow it there is a quorum. To-night Springer alone represcata “ this sugust Committee,” fle ways he thinks the Inveatigation wiil probably concludo within o week ot this end of the lne, aud that no more important witbeeses will be examined, except Kellogg. The Floridacase lato be finlshed, * and the colored men, Vance, Black, and others, who are employes in'the Departiments hero and ut the Pbiladelphia Custom-House, will be aum- moned to go over the old story of the Alschus County returns, Poll No. 2. It is doubtful even whethier flunton, wko only Hves ocross the river, and who was Ghalrman of the Fiorida Sut-Uomumnittee, can bo here, Kellouk hua ar- rived here, and expects to appear before tho Conunitice very soon, Ho ls under uo obllga- tivn, huwever, to appear, but docaso only as a atter of courtesy. [fe thinks the Committve is ot treating bim fulrly 1n wo loug postponing ks testimony. Ho says i€ be is not exumined in & day or two ho will leave town, . LOUISIANA. TUR FOTTER 8UBS MAKING LITTLE PROORESS, NEW OuLsans, La,, July 9.—The Potter Bub- Committea met, prescot Mesws, Bleuger, Llackburs, ond Cox. George L. Bmith, the Collector of Customs, fo auswer to questions by Mr. Stenger, zavo the date of Lis wupointinent and of his predecessor, also submitted a list of his regular crployes, showing all the persons employed or dlscharged sloce Judge Kiug's appofutinent; alao the hooks showing tho Jaborers employed o the warchouse aud othier depurtments af 25 couts n;nr day, ‘Thera are about forty persons so cm- o 4 Recens to B o'clock this afrernoon. [NoTk,—The object of the Committen in call- fnge tor a list of the custotns employes, proba. Liy, 14 to et the naine of Binpson's srlend why wituessed the bribery ol a member of the Ree turoiuge Bound. | ‘Il Cominittee reassembled at 3o'cloek, but, thero belug no Wituesses present, ld;onm:& Ll to-morrow. THE ARMY, AX INJUBFICR OF LONG STANDING HXMEDIED, Special Dispatch ie The Tribune, Wasmnaron, D. C., July 0.~A very lnter- estiutr controversy between tho ofiicers of the revular anny and thé volunteer officers who Juined the vegular ormy at the close of the War Lias Just been declded fn favor of the volunteors, Near the closeof the War Congress passed s law providiog that certalu volunteer officors who sLould jolu the regular army should have the rank sud comntssion date thosame as if they bad Leeu contiuuouly in the regular army from thetime of tueir eutry juto ths volunteer sery- fee. The purposo of the law wos to bLreak down the old red tape distinclion betwgen volunteer .officers sud West-Painters, to put both officers on an cyuality, and ot to send a volunteer officer to the foat of tha list stiuply because by was not «ducuted at West Polot. Bus the red-tapivia which lias wiways charucterized the Adjutant- Geretsi’s branch f the service succeeded in placing the voluntgers tu g great disadvantave, sutwithsiunding sho spesific law of Covgress. For{ustunce, volunteers on''the sy register were wot placed fa the position whbich the time ol Uwir cullstment In the yolunteer servics ro- quired, sud thelr commisslons, 80 &8 raok and wromoton goes, Were' classlfied as dating oulv from the passage of the act. Too. comsequence was that dn two or three bundred lestauces volualeers who by law m:xlvcd the ruuk of Custaln wers placod wp the it Lelow even Firat Livutevants, who wyrg reguler anwy officers. The effeet of this bus been Lthat most of the yoluvteer oificers bave becn twedly-slx placcs ou ctbu lue of protuo- tiou boluw where biy iaw thuy were eatitled to Le, aut regular wruy otticers greatly thele fo- fulor 1o raok stood cu thefist above them, Tue volunteers for many years baye probested ugwlnst this jujustice, sud fecently buye oblan- td 4 deelston of the Judge Advocats General, Whoss optviun Lud beeu coufirsed by the de- ciiva ol the Attorney-General, and rutitied b the Beurelary o Wud, ‘Lo decsion will be ot cat. 1ntereat In army circles, as it afTects the standing for promotion of nearly 300 oflicers. It puts down o ereat many regular army Licaten- ants, and puts back to theie proper piaces a cor- responding number of voluuteer Captains. M'DOWELL. WHAT MAS BEEN LEARNED CONCERNING MR. BURLING'S BUCCESSOR. Speclal Digpated 10 The Tribune. Wasntxarox, D. C, July 9.—The appolnt- ment of McDoweil to be Buperintendent of Canatruction of the Chicsgo Custom-House Ruilding was as much of a surprise to the Treasury people as it will be to most of the peo- ple of Chicago. The officials of the Bupervising Architect’s office bave not yet discovered who MecDowell fs. Tho appointment was dictated from the White-1ionse, and all the Treasury people kuow ahout it fs thst a note twas ro- veived from the White-House requosting the appointment. Five minutes before the order to make out McDowell's commissfon was received at tho oflice of the Bupcrvising Arclntect there was no informstion that any chanue was contemplated. Of course the pnss- e of Sectetsry Bhorman's [ndorsement flum Fronch report mtz,xunn that A chango tmight be made was not forgotten, but the ofll- clnis were gonerally of the oploton that the atatus guo would "be maintalned until Judge Banga snoull complete his examination of the returncd testhinony. McDowell is & civil en- elneer by profession, and was at, one time an oflicer in the regular army. llc has been here since March 4,a0d has beenan applicantbhoth for the Collectorabin of Customn and_ Coltectorship ot Internal Revenue at Chicago. 1o 1s o brotherof Gen. Irwin MeDowell. For some ttme he has been coraged st the Agricultural Burean in some statistical capacity, C. I Farwell and other prominent citizens indorse him. The ofliciala of the Architect’s ofiice ex- press some doubts aa to bisfitucss for the place, as they do not understand that le is dn erchi- tects TIIE CASH ACCOUNT. RECEIFTS AND EXFESSES OF TWO YEAUS—THE HECEINTS oF 1373 AnonT $11,00.000 1Eas TUAN THO<H OF 18i{—TOB MXPENDITURES ABOUT $3,000,000 1,288, Dispatch ta New York Times, WasnivatoN, July 4.~The tligurcs given below arc camplled from the books of the ‘Treasury Department, aud show fo detail the recetots and cxpenditures of the Government for tho fiscal year ended June 80, 1878, com- pared with the recelpts and expenditures for the preceding tiscal year, ‘The figures given lor the quarter endjug June 30 Jast nre those re- ported to the Treasury Department to July 1. Until final statements can bs recetved from fnanclal agents and disbursing officera locsted at_remoto scctlons of the cottotey, the oxact balances for the quarter cannot b atated. Tho floai reports will not materially sfTect the gen- erul resuits given In the accompanying tables: RECKIPTS, Fored quarler, 1878, Cautors... . § B7.654,728 ¢ 90,083,532 Infernal fevenuo,., 28,813,330 0, b istellaneous...... 6,742,460 o, 110, 630 $ 71,347,570 $ 30,101,915 ] $ 79,110,624 Ol aorsvenes $ 60,403,514 Third quarier, Cnatoma,.. Internal revent Bliacallaneous, § 22,001,150 23,008,274 B, 6RO, 625 ‘Total, . FourtA guarter, Castoma,... Internsl revenuo, Mlscellaneons Tatal, . $ G7, 718,470 § (K1, (K4, HUG ‘Tha following tablcs will show the Tegate receipts for the lost two fiscal yeara: .“A 1877, Customs $170.650,407 . $120, Internal 118,630,408 11 Miscolianou RIS 7., 18 Total ..., £260,000,667 $268, 001,818 RXPENDITURES. The expenditurea for the vnat Lwo years by quarterly periods wero as follows: 1877, Fleat quarter .....8 41,044,142 Becond quartor, (¥ "hird g 1Y, A Fourth quarter, 29,774,350 Total.eeesens o0 8141, 535,497 Intercut public debt U7, 1¢4,511- Aggregato......$238,000,008 $215,610,017 A comoarlson of results for the lnst two yeara shows a net loss in_revenus for the year ending June 0, 187, of 87,660,570, aud the et losa for tho last two fiscul years, 88 cowpared with the year ending Juve &l. 18:0, Is $14,104,~ B8, ‘The large falilng off in recelpts and the reductions mado in expenditures mxrlnlg the l:;’t‘ iwo tlscal years are shown In the following ot Jecalpte, Kepinser, 3404, 005, 805 8, 450, 707 .« 200, 000, Ht A, 10, 008 1674, . 238,001,818 236, U0, 617 Interost on the public dobt 18 fncluded in the above table, It will bo motived that the ex- penditures for thoe year ending Juue 80, 1870, wero nearly equal to the ageregate receipts for the Jast fiscal year, It the 810,000,000 recelved from the Ueucva award, and which were cover- ed 1uto the Treasury in 1877, be deducted from the recelpts for thal vear, the receipts for the twelye mouths ending Juue 30, 1578.wiil be very little short of thoss recelved from regular sources during 1877, NOTKS AND NEUWS, SUERMAN AND TOR DANKEDS, Bpecial Dlspaich to The Trivunc, Wasuinaron, D, C., July 9.—Sccretary Sher man went to New York to-day., It fs well knowo at tne Treasury that the purpose ot his visit is to cousult with baukera as to tha prose pects of resumotion. Notwithstandiog the re. peated semi-ufticlal statements that have bheen made that resumption 15 not contemplated bo- fore Jaa. 1, the fmpresalun fncreases that that very thing [s the deliberate plan of the Trens- ury, orovided tho law would not thereby be violated. STAMDS AND EXVELOFRS. The total lasiies of postage-stamps, stampod- envelopes, and pastalcards during tho fecal year ending Juno 50 was $29,007,184, an iu- crease over the previous Oscal year of $2,04),- 848, This 18 ou unprecedented increase, but it is dueina ‘great messure to tha extravaguut effurts of country Postiasters to disposs of stamps 1efore the change fa the method of compensation under the uew law. A compari- son between the two previous fiseal years siows 8 decrease of 1) per ceut for 1877, as comuared with 1870, A 308, It {s reported that there was soma kind of » Job in tho sule of the stereutypad plutes of the unflotsted yolumes and other property of the iunal Globe to the Govorument at the lust eesalon for $100,000. Thae suspiciun of Joubery sriscs from tho fact that it was gever- Rlly underswod thet at the lsst Congress the :Im: muny ‘was offered to the Govermnent ur THR EIGHT-HOUR LAW, Toths fWestern Auoclated fras. Wasinoron, D, C., July $.—Tha followlng 18 tne substance of tha opiulon of the Attorucy- UGencral on the Eight-lour luw: Devauruesr or dusrics, Wasiinarox, lnz 8. —%0 the Han. &, W, Thainpson, Secrolary o Aary—Bim: circular from the Deparimient under date of March 21, 1874, i 1u aa- nounced that *'the Department will contracs for the labor of mechsuics, furemen, Jeading wmee, snd laborers on s asis uf #1gnt buurs for & day's work, but thist all workmen eluctlng to labar tea hours a day will recelve a proportivsate facrease of thele ‘The mq]ull'y really suzgested by yoo {8 ther this circular accords with the meaning sod futent of Bec. h7U8, Kevised Btatutes, wbich de- clarca that ** Kight hours shall coustitute o day's work for sll laborgrs, workuien, snd waechanics who miay be employed by or o behalf of the Gove erumeni of the Loited Blawn.' In view of the duclslon of the Buprews Court, 1 sm of opinlou that the circalar of the Nuvy Departwaent of March £1, 1676, 1 fn accordauce with dec, U, 748, Koo ¥ised Statutes, wuleh ewbodies whaf s commoniy kuowa as the ** Kight-llonrlaw, " Vury respect- fully, your ubedleut servant, Cuanran Dyvase, Attoroey-Qeneral. TUS 4 PER CENTS. 3 . Bubscriptions to th 4 per cent loas, $247,250. 7 .. MADISON, WIS, Epeciul Disputch (o The Triduns Maptson, Wis, July 9.—Chicf-of-Police Blshop shot & wad dog o the strects to-dsy in frout of the Post-Office Buldiug, v A tavk in the top of thy Btats Capitol burst to-day, aud about ity barrels of water soaked through the foor into the histarical rooms, fn- Jurslug mavy bouks wad dofug wunderuble aaw- e 255 7 ‘I'ho Btate Dental oclety is baving s thin at- teudatice vu the unuuxl seasion. Notbiug has Lern dune.yel Lut preliwivary organization. Jhe gevcral feelng bore is Tt the Delavan fuveatigation was a rutter elio ulfuds, (3 ssued RAILWAY NEWS. The Vanderbilts, Satraps, Na- bobs, and Mogul in Ss- cret Counoil. A Glgantic Wracking Scheme Maskod Under a Pool- ing Guise. The Three Great Feeders of N. Y. C. Eating Each Other Up. A Colossal Skin Game to Be Played with LaRke Shore. A Budgel of News Concerning Railroads in fowa. a Tho Presont Attompt to Forecloso the Indianapolis & 8t, Louis, 1IN THE CONQUEROR'S TENT. Special Dispatch 1o TAe Iribune, Nzw Youg, July 0.—A Saratoga spectsl to the Times saya: There has been a great gathers 1ug of the Vanderbiit busincas-family here to- day, aud the reglster of tho United Btates llo- tel is filed with the names of men connected with ths futerests of the New York Central Ratlroad, The object of the gathering is n se- ries of mectings at which may be discussed the Interests of the road and its adjuncts, particu- lurly with & view to consolidating the interests and developing the busiuess of the Lnke Shore, tha Cannda Southern, and the Michizan Central Roads, all of which are under the control uf the New York Central. A secret conference was held this atternoon, merely pre- liminary to the general meeting to-morrow, which will be attended by nearly all tho princl- pat oifivars of the ronds named, To-day’s meet- ing was attended by Willlam 11, Vanderbiit, J. 1. Rutter, Ueneral Traflie Monager of the New York Central, John B. Dutcher, Gieneral Btock Agent, J, C. Noyes, Genera) Freight Agent of the Indianapoils & St. Louls Rallroad, Cornelius_ Vanderbilt, Firat Vice-President of the New York Central; Willlam K. Vanderbilt, the flon. Cbauncey M, Depew; John Newell, (eneral Manacer of tho Lake Shore; H. B, Led- yard, General Manager of the Michigan Central; J. A. Griers, ot Chicago; abd Ucorgs Darlng, of Rocheater, The orincipal subject of discuasfon was the equalization of freighison the Michigan Central, Lako Bhore, and Canada Southern Matlroads, ‘There has been conallerable disappolutment over the docreaso fn business on the Iukoe Bhore Road, A dwidend of U Per cent was oxpected, but the earnlugs foll oft (sou Central Itwiroad otilcial says) so heavily during the fust thrae months, through anfefdal cumpetition with the Michtzan Central and Cunada Squtbern Roads, that a dividend of anly 1 per cent was declared. Tho samo otllcor says these three northern roads, running ulmost skio by side, slthough sl substanttally under Me. Voaderbiit's contral, have been competing with wach other so strougly that uone of thetn have returaed such pratits as they vuglt to, The Lake Bhore is now dowg a very poor buslness, and bos been stnce the uctive competition began, and something must be dono for its protection, orthe losses will bostilt greater. Thisls the kev-note to tho Saratoga rallread mectings. ‘The New York Central Is the prime mover. Thero is the Central Road, on the north, divided in its westeru part practically- {nto thres branches, the Michigan Cuntral, Loks Snore, aud Couads Southors, nud these tirce branchies dotug thelr best to fluht each other to death; ou the south, the Erle, Penusyivania Central, and Baltimore & Ohlo doing thelr beat to takeaway the Cuntral's bustuese. 1t did not taks Mr. Vanderbilt lang to sco thal this was too Fr]:n traln on the” Ceatral—not only al thres rivals, * but tho thres cuds of his rond eating - each ather up. So ho called ' thess tnectinge to remedy the evil, it posaible. His plan 13, first, to make @ pool {n the Michigan Centrul, Conada Southern, and lake Bhore Roads to stop tho contentions in his own huusehold, then to get tne Erle, Pennsyivania, aud Baltimro & Ouio Roads Into 8 _pool wita the New York Central, and, with these foor trunk lines practically united, to tonlrol &l the through “traflic of the country und thelr own prices. Mr, Vanderbllt will have litgle dificulty in maklug a pooling arrapgement for his own braucies, At to-dsy's vouference & rough schednle was ontlined jor this pool, It s the second partof the proe gramme that will require skillful managoineat, cool heads, ana. probably mapy concessions ou both sides. To Induce thio Erle, Pennsyivanta, and_ Baitimors & Otg Rallronds to o mto fresh pool with the New York Central whl be no casy matter. The Teunsylvania Rond lms “pent A, K. Bassetr, one of Its Vice-Fresidents, to ropresent - it, The Erlo has held off stoutly, aud the Balti. more & Ohio s doubtful, Tiay the Central shuuld move to protect itsclf from loss by the strong competition betwoen tho three Southern roads s natnral, but, should the four great truok lnes unite In new pooi- ing arrangement, the ballast would throws out: of the balluon, and raf would go up out ol sight at s bound. Buch fs the cautiously-expreased uninfou ol the outside rulirosd ey, with whom your vorrespondeut hus talked. A 8. topiing, Prestdent of the “Toledo, Watinsh & Western Ratlroud, arrived at Buo'cleck, By novn to-morrow thero will bo at least forty of the raliruad leaders of the country in Baratogu, it bwu.lli hinted this evening by mnany, V"’ sous who, through their overations in Wall strect, ought to understand the subject, thay the vbject in trying to muke a pool in the Mich. igan Central, i.oke 8hore, aua Canada Southern Ratiroads {8 not to yescun Luke Shore from ita unprofitable condition, but rather to disuble temporurily for stock specillating purposes. The idea1s thls: The Cansnada Southern Road 18 Lankrupt, and tho Michizan Central dues not pav. ‘bus Lake Shore fs the only onsot the throe roade thut pays even small divideuds, Hy ui wquel footlug arranzemuut with the other roads, us proposed, the sinall profits of the Laks Bliore would bu swallowed up in the lusscs of the vther two roads. Lake Buore atock fs now at 60 and 63 1f ¢ should begln w0 luse muney l‘l\)“l{ by the poollog, as 1t undountedly would, the stock would lfu wuch lower, The present Lolders would ssll [n tlme 10 avold loss, aud, when tbe stock was dewn to the lowest polut, they would buy again, purchasing if they chose the whole issus of stuck for wuch less thaB the mere coutroll. tug luterest b uow held ar. The rosd could then be put upon an independent and paying Dasis, which woula ralse the value of tus stock probably to fts pres:nt poiut. This would make & highly protiisble speculation, snd, whether well founaed or not, It is certan that #u jutricato network of stock speculution les degper than the real futerests of the rallroads, Williaw 13, Vanderbllt, upon leaving the con- fereuce-room this afternoon with & very hapuy nod amiling face, told your correspondent thut the meeting was werelv a family gathering, an. hat uothing had beeu dune of any lutercst to the public. Bome ot the other geutlemen who attended themveting, bowever, sald the same Lhing with a nuch less conlident . Mr, Tillloghust erriv- ed this eveutug, sud ascore of other raliroad men, When asked cooceruiog the prospevts of full business oo the ruirouds, nearly every one seplled that that devended Very much upon the results of tho present confer¢ucs, Somo of tho rullroaders believe a general péol will ruin tho busineas, and ubout ss many otlicrs 8oy that & paol well aahicred b0 would'briug things up wonderfully, Few.belleve, however, cveu i o pooling arrangeuient shuuld bo juade by the trunk Hues, that it would be generully adiered to. . & , ———— Loh THE INDIANAPOLIS & 8§ JOVIS. The effort wade lut Batyrday to tlrow the Jndianopolis & St. Louis Mallroad tnto, gno baods of Receivers failed, it fs claluisd by tha Tudtauapolls Juyrua', througd bod generalibly, the bungling mauucr o which it was brouglit before- the courte exposing - the -real vbject sougbt by tbe parties who flled the petition. The partivs who asked the United Stutes Courts o appolut Recvivers for the road were ‘Fhomas A.Beotl aud H. D Hurlburi, trustess—f the third-mortgage bouds of the fudianapolis & St. Lunts Road.” The complaiut seis out that 1he Tudianapulis & St Louis Railrgud— —bas tzucl three erhes of bowd Guu, dated Juay 3, L6L9, Ueorze ¢ of 82,000, - Sasuud Stlle ™AD Wit trustess; one of 81,000,000, dated Oet, 1, 1870, Thoman A, Scolt and Gsear Townsend trustees, and one of 870,000 dated fnly 1. 1871, Sieears, " Scott and Ruriburt trastees: that in Octaber, 1847, & conteact wans made to onccate ¢ e Louls, Alton & Tereo aute Hoad from Ter Haute to St. Lonly; that by reason of the dimin tion In business over the rond 1t has been unab) to meet all the demandd npon (1. and a floating debit 01 $200,000 hias been paid up 1n the effort to keep It gaing. The Company Is insolvent, snd was unable 10 pay the Interest on the third mort. zage bonds, due July, 1874, heace the petition for the appoinimont of ‘Mecelvers. The pelltioners asked inrough thelr solicitors, Ranney, Hrooks & Rurke, of Clevciand, 0., that the Cauri would point 1, B, Hurlburt, Fresident of the Cowp and W.'C, Quincy, of Newark, 0., late with t Haltimors & Oblo ioad, &s Recelvers, Thig Judge Gresham refased fo do, but expreesed willingness to apooint a Receiverof his 0wn chaos i, If the petitiouers wero demrour that the rond shonld be pinced in the hande of the courte, This i not pleass tho petitioners, and the matter was dronped unthl the attorneys in' the case could con. #ullwith theirclients. 3t fn more than Iikely that rome arrangement will he made by which the ne. censity of apholnting s fieceiver will be nbvizted. It {e undeigtood that the resl motive which N T1e e liaitroad Compiny might make to enforce the payment of toeir clalms for rental npalnet tha Indfanapolin & S0 fatlrond “Company, and forther, 1t po to teduce’ thelr ‘rental of .. L L which 1s now $i7, 60 nionth, “ta §25,000, Phie amount the lca of the road would willingly pay. and are able ‘The former sum, with busioessin aeitled condition, they cannot, wilhout hravy Joss, pay. It is thought ihal the recent action of the trustecs will induce the 81, Louls, Alton & Terre flauta Company to accept the priposition of the Indianapolia & Bt. Louis Company, and that the line, which te & favorjte one ne b public, will move on fn ite sccu manner. The ownerahip of 4 v ine terwoyen that the matter is much of the character of w fawilv quarrel, Partles who are scquainted with the facts in the cass spexk in very compli- mentary terms of the mode Judge Gresham took to oriug the would-bo litigants to their sensc "The troubles, howerer, miay agnin come to the st face, and, elionia they, the Jadgo witl doubtioss appolat & Receiver, who will lovk aller tho prop- erty uotll the family fight ia settled, ey PHILADELPHIA NEWS, &necial Digpated to Tae Tridune, PmiLApELnuia, July 0.—Tho Empite Trans- portation Company, which recently sold its property and franchises (o the Pennsylvanis Rutlrond Company, {s+alto tho owner of all the stock of the Erls & Western Transportation Company, and, in closing up It irs, it has voted to make use of the subordinate Com- pany, which still mamtalns its.corporate cxist- ence. It bas redeemed all ite bonds {ssued cx- cept o few thousands, and has divided out to its stockhbolders §53 cash per share. Tho remalning B3gets, conslstink of choses fo action and various claitns, niust be moro slow of ssttlement, sud the atocklolders, at 8 meeting to-day, fu which they authorized the winding up of the Compa- vy, voted to sell to the Erie & Western Cow- paiy all the remalulng usaeta of the Compauy, aid take ten-year O per cent bouds therefor, the amount to Lo deterinined by appraisal. The petition fur the foreclosure ot the Recelverslilp of the Iudianapolis & St. J.ouls Rallroad 18 the natural result of 8 reiusal to pay tuo tutal guarantee of the 8t. Lonls, Alton & Terre Jiaute lease in revurn for monoys advanced by the Piusburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago and Clevelsed, Columoas, Ciuciunatt & Iudlanapo- Lis. Under tie guarauice, they huve taken the wbligations of tue Company for un amount which now reaches very elose to s milion snd s Lalf, ‘Lo protect theinselves, they ask that & Recaiver may be appolnted, since it fs ovident that the rodd can ucver meat this clum, It 8 belleved here ghat o Hecelver will bo sppoluted, and that tne 8t. Louls, Altou & ‘Jerre Huute will coneent to the Interpretation oi_the leaso claltned by the juarantors, “I'he Penuaylvania lysd is - also interested in the recent uetion of thp cliquo of stuckliolders of the Ricimond, Fréderkcksburg & P Road fa voting to renew the Patoun contection, JE the ellors should sus face of the vpposition of tho Siate of Vi it would resutt In breaking a lnk in the sylvuuw ltoad's south uuection, the Pied. mont alr-dine. IOWA RAILAOADS, Bpeeint Correspandence of The Tribune. Dzs Moixgs, Ia., Juty 8, —It was known there was a hitch somuewherd fu sceurfug the neces- enry funds to put the narrow-uugo road from 8t. Jua to thls ity uniler coutract for the tret section, It now comiea’out thut the cause was thedisposition of 8t. Jusand her bustuess men to repudiate their debtdy ‘Conitutista retused to fnvest their money winfer, suyl clrcumastancos, 1t was therefore noccasaey: L0 cliango the tactics and establlahs falth In ' the work’ by selling tha Londs ut home. Alreddy more than hatf the bomds havo buen sol. - A Cinewautl dein taka £50.000 und furnish e o Jay twenty-throe miles. With the firse'.cen unles ln operation the road will Legim toescn mouey, and thers will be Mitle or noe difffeulty In dispos- Iz of the bonds a% the road s come pleted o tenwmile gections. ‘The bridges are wll bemx suwde and tles prepared to veuch Albuny, wiiera {} j3 capected to arrlye by the lutter part of Decyinber, It s the de- teérunuution to butid only as fnet us the means are ut haud to pay as tha work foes on, Bt. Jua business men during the pust week have tukeu $35,000 3u boinls, ' The peaple of Weatend Jowa have loug been u(hm to get 4 rafirvad spnthwurd to 8t, Louls, About u year uo the 8l louls & Northwestern Railrowd " Company sas vrganized 1o bui) & road trom Chiilivothe, Mu., to Atton, Union County, lu., thenve to Starm Luke, Buena Vidta Countv, A line deawn on the map from 8t Luuis tu these pohnts will shiow thue it pags- es over u section of coudtry without eatlromds, and that 8t. Lowis witl pe u nesrcer market than Cltenuco. For uver 200 nglies 1 tis Stute there {s o croas-rund ou theroute. From Clullicoths 1o Afwun there has heea voted tax afd by tho people Lo the amount of $24000 per mle, i wotld revuire Bo argument tu convineg Clileagy that such & road was worth huving, and was wortl golog iter; and it would be sceurod were aho placed whera 8t Lodle ts, But all the pos- ative sdvantazes and thp most persiatent b, gmyg, apocars impussibla to wake 8t. Louis #o ity kid Lt she la loslug the trade of « te ritory greater thun o large Btate, which would o siaturslly aud lnevitably tnbutery to h Manitest destivy sud a rellsble directory cou pller §s what’s ine wmutter with the *“'Future ireut,”? fut she will awake from ler swuet deeans of bliss cue ol thcss days, ouly ta tlud thut Kausus Cliy and Chivago liave cut olf her stipplies and sobued her of ber trallle, 1t I3 & fact that for several yeurs the buildiug of twelve wiles of road woutd huve giveu St. Louis a direct ond unbroken lius through this entirs State north aud south, aud yet she has uot slowu cliterprise cavugh o secure it, and trafllc s 10 pass over three diferout rouds zizag, 10 et uround that twelve-mile gap, “Yis¢ Chilewgzo, Burilgtou & Quincy are ptay- luyg a Hitle gawe ot clicckmate with ‘tho Clicas Ro, Mtock Islund & Pacilie, by bulldiog s branch trom astings to Sidas Fremong County, A contract has ulready ady for its coris pletion July 1, 1870, It is understood the real ubjeetive polnt §s Nebraska City, to head oif the Cuicaga, Rock Letand & Pactle projoce fu the sawe direction. Auuthor fuwor hus it that tho voaa will bu pushied at vueo to lted Clowd, turty miles, and thut the objeetive polutis Deaver, “Phis 18 confirmed by the fact of & recent tiip uf . Vics-Prowidont Perkius over thls route, accome anied by Eusteru capitalists, aud thas Bostou muwediutely put up 5,000 1o belp the roud to Red Cluud this season. ‘Tho Directors of the road from DesMolnes to Chariton via Osccola have ordered the coutvact 1ur butlding to be let at ouce, the work to be dong this year, 1t 1a understuod the Chic Burlingon & Qulney will kot t,—ut leaat th bave put 1n low bids. As this roaa would natus rally Interseet the Indisuols branch of the Chis cugo, Rock tuland & Pacltic at ludianola, It ia hughly probable the latter wiil take g bund i, as they can ive the peopie Lhe rowt by buildimg twenty-two miles less thau cun the Chicugo, Burlington & Quincy, L. L. Morrtly, Recelver of the Central of Tows, 1s negotiating with the peupls ot Wapelio Coun- 1y to complets the Muchlchinovk bruuch ty Ottumwa, aud thus wake that cty the south- vrn tennigus of the Central, Rumors huve been rife that the little narrow- gange rowd running tweuly mbes westward from Mytirezor Wi to avandouu, sud fenced in fur & guoks pusture, Judge Whlilaws rises up tu deny the allowatlons and gcorn the slezators, Jig owos the ruad, and rUns L ta suit bloselr, 1t pays expenses, ucconnodates the people, and ku long as 1t doos that it will contipuu to run, I due tung it will be exteudod. ‘ne Burlington, Cedsr Huplds & Northern have discdvesed that it would bave beia better 10 bave reavhied St. Louls py s Hoe further west, and recently huvo beep ufzuuuun 10 sceure the builying of u road vig Juwa City. ~ 1t is rugpred tpat the Muwaukee & 8t Paul are stplng to yhicekmate thely nivat by séourloy a ond “fromd,” Cedar Ilapida Via Ottuiawa aud Sigzourpey, usiug an old road-bed prepared sey- coul yedrs @Ko, O via thiglclty souclitest vig Kausus City, It s probable sowmeibing will somy ol it | — NORTITERN PACIFIG LAND SALYS. Col. J. B. Power, Land-Commissivner of tuc Nortbern Paciie Rullroad Compauy, furulstcs ToE TRILUNE a statemeot of the lund sales by his Departinent and the United States Governe weot iu Northera Minnesota and Eastern the 8L La, Ao per « Dakots, for the month of June, and for the €It mooths from Jan. 1 toJuly 1, 1879. The rales !2- the Rallroad Company for June we $4.590.56 acres tor $413,108.50. " The totaf sale: by the Compauy for the siz monthe of 13:8 ending Juno 81, “were 320,87 acres for $1,408.- 053, ao aversye of $4,55 per acrs. Reports from the United States Land-Oflces for June ars not {El made np, but for the dve months ending May 31 they show the following enormous bust- ness: 'The Fergus Falls_office, 1,252 entrien covering 163,998 acres. _The Detroit office, 1,548 entries, covering 223,390 tcres, The Fargo, D, T.. oflice, 2,404 entries, covering 830,500 acres, Making a grand total for_the five months of 5,201 cntries, embracing 737,771 acres, The June business of the vilices will not be less than 175,000 acres, making the total for the slx months soma 912,500 acres. These lande, taken, 6 they hava to be, unls under the pre-emption and ‘homestead laws, Dy actunl settlers, repres sent soms 6,400 hoads ol fainllles, or, at least, 20,000 new settlers, ndded Lo that part of wur Northwest during_the past slx months, ex- clusive of those who have purchascd and scte tied unon raliroad lands,—~tha rosult, almost cxclumively, of tho active Immigratfon work done Ly tho Northern I'acific land department. A TIMELY REFORM. Vice-President and General Manager C. B, Terkins. of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rallroad, lias just lesued the following circular, which explatns itéell: The practice of ofiicarn and foremen, and others fn charee of men, tecefving presents fram thelr subardinntes, In very objectionable, and will ot be permiited on this road. "Too often men who cannat afford to contribute toward such prevents feel constrained to do so rather than run the risk of Incurring the diapless- ure of, or seeming unfriendly to, thoes.having charge over them. A litle redectian will convince any one of the evil of the praclice. Courlesy toward the em- ployed on the part of those in charge lv as much dus as I clioerful ubedicuca on the other side, and ;iauen?'l cali for recagultian through tae mesns of prosents, s Neither should employes be aolicited by those In ¢harge o contribute towards any object, whether ¢haritable, religious, or of any otler character. Every employa is entitled todispose o 0 ensation which o recelves from the Com; 10 inclination or neccssities may dict should not, in any mannar, tnfinenc aoing by his suporior ofilces THE COMMISSIONERS, Spectal Dispateh to The Trivune, BrasorieLy, 111, July 0.—The oo, A, W, Metealf, of Edwardsville, filed a complaint with the Roliroad and Warchouse Commisslauers of extortionate charze by the Wabash Road on the dossenger tari(l betwoen Edwardsyille and Ven- ice, Il It appears by answer of tho Company that complainant was charged 10 cents oxtra, or 20 cents In all, for {raveling on the Madison County Short Llne two miles, which fs operated by the Wabasfi, The Commissioncrs do not seem Lo regard the caso as onc catling for thelr ofticial futerfercnce. ‘Tho Commissioners concurred in the report of thelr recont inapection of the Calro & 8t, Lonts Rallrond. The roport calls attention to certnin defects in the bridges and ruadway on the tine, and requires tha Company to repalr those defects. NARROW-GAUGE CONVENTION. CiscinNaTt, 0.y July 9.~The Executive Com- mitteo having in chargo the comiug Natloval Narrow-Uauge Rallway Convention, which meots in thiscity the 17th of July, are making prepa- ratfons for & large attendance, Lettersfrom all parts of the Unitcd States and Canads are bee ing recelved, snowlng marked interest fo the ouestion of xmrmw-fi'nugn linea. As it js lmn- poasibie to reach all'it fa desired to have prese out by apectal Invitation, the Committee cor- dially juvite all persous who sre intcrested in rall facilities and clieap travsportstion, investors, manufacturers, and dealera in rafls winy suppliea to attend. Tho courtesy of the Conveution s also extended to standard and broad-gange interosta, Questlons of Interest to all :rllu be presented aud discussed at the Con- yeutlon, ' TIHE GRAND TRUNK. ‘Special Dizpateh to Tha Trivune Tonoxro, July 0.—It was catrreutly reported hero to-day that tho Genersl Managor of the Grand Trunk lins bepn suceessful in his misston to England, which was to ralse money to bulld some {ifty or sixty miles of ratiroad, which,with othier ifues, would <forur’ a Weatern vonuection whichi would replace the Michigan Coutral, now uuder the coutrol of Vanderbilt, CIHESAPEAKL & OI10. "RicmardN,' Val, July 0.~In'tho city court to- ' doy & deerca whs' entepoll distributing $159,1%2, thio proceeds of the'recent date of the Chesa- peake & Ohlo Rallroad. . Among the parties u titled to nterest on the bonded debt 1s tus V! ginfa Central italiruad, which wna a tirst llen on the property of tha Chesapeaks & Ofito Lafl- roads i MORTGAGE TRANSFERRED, New York, July 8~—Auw order of conrt tvas grunted to-ay, transterring tho $4,600,000 given to secure the bundholdera of the Missour! & Pucific Qailroad from the hauds of the Trustecs, the National Trust Cowpauy, to the Contral Trust Compuny. i 1TEMS, A meeting of the Railruad Land-Comumiaston- ers’ Assuclation of the United States will be held at the Palmer House in this city to-day, The object of the meeting I8 ‘to discuss aub- Jovta of iterest Lo land-grant ronds, When Mr. Vanderbilt was West o short tims ago he presented Conductur Dickineon und the enineer of the apecial train witeh roukht hlin and his party to this ¢ity with a complimentury 1830 for huving wmude such exeelleut Eugino No, 5 of tho Illinols Centesl Rafiroad vesterduy imorning exploded her boller, sealding tho lrumau, who was cleaning the ush-pan whea the expludlon vecurred, At the thme of the aceldent u‘m locomotlva was astanding behind i hop ut the fout of Fosrteenth wre fu the boller was 100 y While 1t usually nad been currying 120 The dawage winounts 1o about $1,000 ‘The (rand Trunk Rallway lns so changed lts tralng between Montreal and Portiand that pus- sengers leaving Chlcago at ¥ p, uh arrive at ‘Torunto the nest evesing, Montreal the follow. ing worningg, and Portland tout night at 8:3%0, A purtor car, for soats I which thers ts no ext: chisrge, runs on thy trains botwesn Montreal and Portland, A Pullman car runs to Kingston wharl for the gceuminwlation of pussengurs who desire to go by steamer winonat the ‘Thou- saud Islands aud ‘down the Rupids of the Bt Lawrence, s ——— THE WEATHER, Oryion or Tus Ciizy BiuNat Orvioxs, Wasumxoton, D. C., Juty 10--1 w. m.—ludica- tluss—For the Upper Luko regiou, Upper Afis- alssippi, and Lower Missourt Valloy, uorthwest to suuthwest winds, slightly cooler, clear or partly cloudy weathier, sud rlslog folluwed by Sulling barowwier, In “the Jower Lake reglon, Tennesseo and Ohlo ValMey, south and west winds, slight chuuge n 1emperature sud pressurc, with partly cloudy westbior, 40 The Tridure Hywcia! Dipatch La Crossg, Wis,, July 9.—Tus most sovero Tatn-storm of the yusr prevailed to-day. Two fuchies of wuter huve falleu already,—enough W rufse tbe Black River and other lumber rcuing sud Jumbormes are upelul of » god drive. Lasscuiers from tuo West to-uieht ro- vore sil small gralus badly lodeed fn Southern Miunesote Lo0AL umsEavATIONS Thna.__Dar. | The | Wind, ¢:338.m. 2007 77 | 77 B. K. i (R AR N s % ' Maztioum, 873 misifam, 74, e ORANHAR, VIERYATIONS, o SRMIAUC, Jily S laNgAS Bugitons, m.lfi??,'—h-m T HGIR Weashar, W.w7 .70 Cal ot N, 90 ) JUDGE BREESE'S SUCCESSOR. - Bpectal Dispatch to The Tribune. SrmINoriELD, 111, July f.—A commlssion was tssucd to-day to Judze David J. Baker, of Calro, tfi uccessor of Juldge Bicese on the Supreme Py CRIMINAL MATTERS. The Clamor of Two Wives Puis Mr. Slocum “on the Inside.” Exporionces ot Mrs. Elmira Slo- cum and Mrs. Hannibal Blocum, —_— A Fashionabla Young Swall of Troy Proves to Be a Highwayman, One of the St, Touls Murderers Con- demns 1ilmsell to Death, Warned of the Consequences, He Pleads Guilty of the Oapital Grima, RIGAMY. Spectal Dispate te TAE Tridune, Quiray, Iil.. July 9.~The Slocum bigamy case Is now {n 8 falr way of coming to a crisls within & day or two, and the probabitities “all point to s serics of interesting developments. Mra. 8locum No. 1, of Elmirs, passed through the city laat evening to Ilaopibal, having pur- chated s throogh ticket for that city, and prob- abiy supnosiug that the trial was to take place there instead of in this city, At the depot in Hannibal ane was wiet by Mr. Baker, brother of Mrs, Quealy (Mes. BSlocum No. 9), and taken to » hotel, he Inteuding to keep ler presence there o profound secrot from the citizens. Mrs, Elmira 8locum 12 8 lady about 83 years of lgl" wood-lovking, nad npglrunuy futelligent. 8he says sho was married to Siocum at New Buffalg, Mich,, oo tlic 28th of February, 1803, Ly tho Rev. Erastus L. Kellogg. They went to the farm in o buggy. arriving there on Friday, but 8iocum abjacte to heing married on such vy untucky day, ang the ceremony, was postponed untll 12 o'clock at night. The lmin:no asys that short- 1y sfter this marrlage, during the year 1804, they took :g thelr residence in Hannibal, and boaracd firet at the Planters’ House and subscquently at a boarding-house near the hotel. Blie was there when hier young- ot child, now a girl of 14 vears, was & habe. Mr, Blociim was at that, tino vnployed as Road- Master on the Hannibal & Bt. Joe, under the prescut Mayor iayward, of Haonlbal, After- wards they lived in various citios, finally locat- ing in Eimira, thres chlldren belng born to them, She mlys her marriage s on record in the olllce of tho ~County Clerk of Derrlen County, Mich, st Barriey Bprings, and this fact {8 confinned by the County Clerk in a dispatch to Chief-of-Po- lice MeUraw. Slocum says that he was married when he was '.’0“3'01\1'0 of ‘aze, and that hix trat wile died In 1808, Ha clalms that he becamo acqualuted with tha Elmira woman a numbef of seara ago when shie was omployed fn a hotel at Albany, N. Y., and that he hag since supported her aa his mistress. He nava he once kept hier for rlmlo a period in Clilcago, Slocum harlived In Chilcagzo, nud he savs tlat he was at one thne envaged {n business fn felevan, Wie,, in com- pany with o son of Judge Colower, of Vermont. It 18 cxpected thut the case wiil como on for trial to-morrow. JIORSE~CAR ROBIERY. Tror, N. Y., July 0.—A week ago thres men arroted Thomas Buackley fn daylight, and, while scated 1o a horse-car which contalaed fif- teen persons, robbed him of §3,000. Detectives liave just arreated four persons for complicity In the erime—two of them positivaly tdentified as men who gurroted Buckley, Thomas Monahan was taken (nto custody on sus- plelon ot belng an accomplice, but whilo (n the otlles of the Chiof of Pofive and 1n chargs of a deteetive, he spraug through a window five feet from the floor and escaped. A ureat sensation has been created by Lo dliscovery that the rob- bery was done by Witliam C, Tompkins, mem- ber of & wealtly family who moves in the first sozlely, married, and ¢ a parenor 1o the firm of Sunmons & Tompking, knit-gouds manutactur- ers. Tompkins is a youug mao of haudsomo ap- priranwy but witala tho pust fow montis bos como dissipated. It seems bo recelved $413 ua liis aliaro of the robbory. . . .. . | “vErY AsTONIRMING, Mpecial Dirpateh (o The Tribune, “ 8. Lnois, July 9.~Ilenry J. Rodemoyer, who killed wn old man naméd Frank Yuss on thy corner of Kossuth aund Bremen uveuues, oo the 10th ot June, ploaded gullty to-day tomurder in thetirstdegree, Judue Jones inquired whether bo uuderstood what the consequencos would be, telling bim thae, it he pleaded guilty to murder in the Ares degreg, he would bo hanged, wnd that thivre Was o way of cacaping It, execvt through the futercesslon of the Governor, Rudcule{cr rophied thut he understuod that thorougbly, aud added thut he bad comunitted the deed and was willlog to suffer the consoquences, Judge Joues then sentenced him to be huuged on the 23d ot August next, betw the lours ol ¥ und 9 a, ut, Both the Judze and Prosecutor were very much suroriaed at the plea, 10 he fs be hanged on the SR {t will have only boen ten weeks [rom the day b did phe kililng, - A MYSTERY. Apectal Dispaten v The Triduse, Tot.xpo, 0., July V:=A few weeks afo an old citizen of thia pluce, Bamuer Warren, disup- peared mysteriously. Al efforts to dod him woro uvavalling. To-day the ‘river was being arsgieed, In hopes of Anding his body, whes an unknown body was brought to the surface. 1t was that of 8 Germun, sppurently 50 years old, 1o tho middle coudition of lfe. No valuables wnd oniy papers with minutes of ting (1 a Lurse-race were found on hls person. There wua u bullet-twle through the head, and tha skull wus otherwise badly fractured, Jt was apuarent thut the uau had beeu shut and thrown from Cherry atreet bridge. The ailair 1o very wydterfous. NUNTER, 3 'FRENTON, N, T, July V. —Prosecutor Jenkiny, of Camden County, made spviation to the Court ot Errors aud Appeuls tis @orning for the earfug of the urguucat for a new trial in tlio case of Hunter, the Canden murdster, The Court decidod uob to take up thd cage wull next Novewber, ‘Tumnrow, N, J., July 9.—=The sentence of Hunter tor the wurder ut Jotn Arwstrong will nut be pronouneed until the pressut term of the Court of Errors uad Appeal Journs, The writ of error, which acts A stay ol execution, will not be applied for until thut tie, aud will be retursable at the Novem- ber terw. Huater will ot by buuged wutil af- tor thut meeting, CUARGED WITH MURDER, &pevial Divpateh fo The Trlbune. Fisr BaciNaw, Mich., July 9,--Lotc last night Gevrge Helbly, propsistor ol the Farin- or's RHotel, Bay Clty, was arrested by an officer of Tusola County, charged with nur- der. Last weok John Fraucis, w merchant of Perking’ Coruers, Tuscols Couuty, lelt lome with 8300 in bis pocket to gu to Hay City to pir- cluse_goods, Not returulug, hisson cawe tu Bay City, und, on tho road hither, found the wugon, loaded with $190 worth ol provisiou, arvially upturued on the Tuscola plauk-ro t‘nmlnw further un, be fouud the liorscs fu w barn In tho ey, where thicy bad bren taken by some oue who bad fouud them luoes in the astreet, o Tl last trace the son found of bis fa. ther was ut Helbiz's, oud Lo also ulleges that be found Lthe wiseing weu's cost aud vest b the samo plate, heuce Lojbik's uprest. o BASE 1T . « Atuawza, July O—Iu azame of basedall yesterday, no altervution occurred between Wilitujn Lawasbe, 2t vears old, sud Samuel Vea- sble, 35, While Lawsbe bad. Yepable .on’fhe groynd Carl Mitchell & boy 16 years oid, s fppd l:{ \I:nll:lu.::lw‘:nl up with’ .thml:‘:ld 3 iwalig two ternible Ljows on the i e A o o k2 ) " A HARVESTER WOUNDED: oo Apecial Mgt (0 The Tribunes b ~ BUWLIRGTON, Ta., July D.—=At Bhellrock, fa §his tate, & pasty of sranins Ldatded a Burllliy- tou, Cedar Bapids & Northerp, traly, but were Qu\ of. whereupoh they atlacked tho conductor, o L. Dauiels, with stouvs, .. Danlels drew a pistol aud tired, wortslly woundiug wue of tue trunpe. - : B s : AN ILLICIY BTILL. Bpecial Dispaich 1o The Triduna, AvresvitLe, Mo, July 9.—The it distil- lexy of Jobia Ballluger, of Lallinger & Co., was castured ut 2 o'vlock this worntuz by Hevenues Agent Wazanett and H, Medery, accompanied by Collector Carroll, of the Scond Distrlet of Misgourl, nnd 0. K, Wheeler, United Rintey Marspal, Balitnger and his partiner, named Rowe, wero arcested, and the still, etc., brougit away, while the mash, beer, and articles negp portabla wers destroved. ‘The party passed through here to-night withthe crooked diatillers I charge. FIRES. AT MILWAUKER. Bpeciat Dispaich t0 The Tritunt, Mitwauxes, July D.—A fire at half-past 4 o'clock this morning destrayed tha large four. story brick bullding Jocated mesr tle corner of Bast Water and Bullalo streets, occupled by B, Letdersdort & Co., tobacco manufacturers, Te loss Is estimated st $103,000,~—on tho build. Ing, $18,000; on the stock, 003; on the en. glue. boifer, ana machinery, $35,000. There 1y o total insurance of 850,300, 840,000 being hely by Messra. Leldersdort & Mcudel on tho ma- ehinery and stock, uud 810,500 by Mr. Vogel oy the buliding. The following showa the companies fnvolvel and the amouuts held by them on the stuck any machinory: The Hlafman, New York Williamaburg, Drookiyn. Queen's, London. Glen Palla, Glen Falls, N aleguard, N Y...., . Duflalo Germag..... Hlate ire Al Amerleaa. Philsi Rteading, Readin + 840,00 ding: . Totalieeruane B . NECATITULATIO! Vogel's lars on building. .. Vogel's lnsirance on bullding. Vogel's net 1o Leldersdort & Me: machinery.... Total Insurance 834, 000 o Ve . 43,600 ‘The origin ot the fire, though not definitely known, Is aipposcd to have been inthe dry. ets’ kilns on the third floor, llenrfl' Hacrter, flrst ‘{:lpsnun of steamer No. 2, was blown from a ladder to the street below, sustaining a fracture of one of his shoulders and severe fnjurfes about tho head. AT BUFKALO. Burraro, July 0.—A firo which broke ont this morning in E. & B. Holmes? bLarrel-factory, cooper-shop, and tuachine-works, eutirely de- stroved thoso bulldings. A large number of staves In the yard of . W. Sigson, aud a guan. tity of lutuber in the yurd of Taylor & Crate, were burned. | The fire burned over a track one- quarter of a mils fougth and nearly one-efzhth ol'a mile wide, sweoping away . ten tencment- honecs and stores, nnd tho old forgo workeot * Lhrullard & Haves, used for storazo purposes, The courso of the lire was chocked by lmrnln{ to the water's edze of tue Ohjo basin. Total estimated loss, $150,000; Insurance, 890,000, SBuperintendent Itogers was prostrated by s suvstroke, but will doubtless rocover. ‘Uha Insurance on the fire Sunday night (s ag folloy Fortilizer wor! ETS,LIYJ" butldings, $23,000; machinere, 842,000; atock, $14,000 The Joss from $30,00) to 810,000, CHICAGO. The alarm from Box 14 at 2:30 yeaterdayafter- noou was ealised by the burning of about 1% pounds of vollea that waa belng roasted at tho storo of E, I1. Bencdlct, Nus. 17 and 19 River atreet, the resalt of tho carclessness of an cni- ylu’n, who will have to foot the bill. No claln will be inado on the insurance company. The ularm from Box 70 at 3:40 yesterday of- ternivon was caused by a firo fn tho one-story frume vuflding, Nog. 501-3 Btate atreet, uccupiel as'a furniture store by . Goldsteln & Co. Loss 9u bullding and stock, 8125, Cuuse unkuown. “Tile "ownpr ‘ot ‘Lhe ; structure, C. A, Grezgory, fosed about $78. P AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NPV, Ban Fu. 3co, July 9.~A fire at Battlo Mountaln, Nev., Bunday morning, destroyed ffteen business bousas, Tha loss is 835,00 AMra. Ward, u domestic Ia ths Battle-Mountain Hotel, pesished fo the fames. FITZ-JOHN PORTER. Gau, Longstreet's Testimony at the Inquiry at West Point, Werr Porwr, July 9.—Gen. Longstreet wass ‘witnest 10 the case of Qen. Fitz-Jolin Purter to- day, Mo testified that Gen. Jacksow's foreo ou the 28th of August was whoat 22,000 men, nad be wus cust of Thoroughfare Gap, aud Long street wan ot Thotoughfars Gup with 25,00 men, divided Into divislons of three brigades each, There were two battalions of artiliery d several Datteries, but thiero wus no rexular artillery organization. Tho troups wero fo tine coudition. Hia troops wers warching to the subpurt ol Jackson on the afiernoon of the 23uh, Threo yricades got through Hopowell Gap toat night, sud the Fedoral Torees ou the east of tho. gup ubanauned thelr vosition, Witness _and troops then touk the direet rusd to Gaineavile, sod then strught to Jugksou's mmmlndhmun'uln sbroo witles un hour ulier artillery Helug was reuching ¢ supporting distance to Jackeou ai ¢ s Gen. Hood's troups wero depluyed st guee. Camper's three brigades werd thrown o thy directioun of tha Mauussus road, aud the other troops were in supportime distavce, There was oo cavalry with Longstreet, but ail u alry of the army was with Cacksou, Al af the witnesy’ trovpd were In positiva by 1l The troops under Audorson wera alouy tle Wurrenton plke, or 5,000 stronyg, und Jolued Lougstreet's forces ut dark. Hu kuew ot o terrifle battle ramuyz that day frum daye Ught 0l after dark, 1€ thicrs had been nuwould buva kuowa it - Ueni. Lee's ulan was for Longstreet to bring on al gagemeut, and the latter asked tims 10 uake u reconuslesance, which he div, and deem« ol the plun hazanlous trom secioe farge nune bers of Lroops lu front of Liw, which he aller- warus Teurued were thoso of Gens. Porter sud sluDowull, Hecuuse oI the woods fn front of i, he thouihs bis positiun g gued one fur de- feuss. I view of the Impvnetrsble Wouds, i would huve becn very busardous for Geu, Fore tor Lo take bis comumna wrouud the rued W Grovetou, and if he hiad stteupted 1t his” fore would ave been broken up. Uen. Porter's po- sitivu chiscked the furces of witucss til It wa oo late, 1f Gen. Porter had attucked thac dat uhy uthe after 1 o'clock the furces of wituest would bavs anuftilated bim, for the Feded lincs were then tuu wuch exteoded aud du- Jomted. . Tl battie on the B0Lh was brought about by an lnla:‘ on Jucksou. \\'lluuiu saw l:]c.ly masses of trvops Prvsslug tho latter, sud, - steud of obieyltng ah order it Ueny Loe tare inforce Juckson, wituess plaved bis bateeries position aud poured ap catlsding re sgaios tho troops, They fell back thres timos, wicd Tro flnally chatged und drsberpd thewm, followis 10 p . AL Porter bad mads an atlack vd hiw vu the 20tb be cvuld Lave beld Litas withvisd drawlug (roi the rest of the snuy, ROSE VS, DOUGLAS. Roetal Dssazch i The Triduns Axn Agsos, July 9.—The Court met hers 40 day, suy au unexpecied disposition of the 3% A| of Dougias va. the Kugeats was mude: Allef sowe dificulty; counsel of both” partics’ sgreed to tefer (he case ta thres Cowmiswouers Divisd fu Jucksgn,~Thowas J. Wilsun, George Conely, and Willism K. Gfvson. Conely telé monts would cevent bis seeptioe. two Comiulysiouers have svce| testimony, aud wake an scyuntiog. rubably 4it biere sud begin work In o day of wo. ‘They ure both men of bizh gtandbic 0 thekr o iog, nud thelr ducislon will cans sourictiog A : ‘PCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS." LoxboN, Jyly S—Steamshiva Utopls 80 Neckar, fiom New York; Atlas, from Bostosi snd Waldvusian, from Quebxc, have prite qut. ¢ ' 2o . Baursons, July S.—Asrived, steamsb? Hiberutan, trom Liverpool, b Bostos, July h—Arrived, steamshiv Viclorh from Laverpoal, Lt New Youx, Julv 9.—Arrived, steamisl Stute of ovgia wnd Bolivia, £ a8 8 Viite de Pans, row Uavie; by card,