Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1879, Page 2

THE CHICAGO RIBUNL s MO alled extrae A looks, 4. dripalng water <42 Ao, ped, lintey i Uhie floors, pleces elevatne wieels, wrenched pines, nnl hupa blocks of f¢ maie up a goud deal of What Was 1o he seen at this ele- oYaied pusition. ‘There was a decldedly un- eomfottable chiilinees o the air, and the fco on - which (the repotter’ walked bad a viclons hiabit of Impartinz its cold to bis teet. 8o, after “gazing atound for a few moments and taking in - the extent of tho unper ruins, he turned sround, - sald bis prayers, aud skated down the four of five pairs of scalrs that hrought him to the ctreels - i B RECONSTRUUTION. ~ Av stated in Tna Trisunm yesterday, tho Twalla ars iotact. Some seemed to think that {he damage as rrported bad breen overestimated. . Bat a rough uspection of the premises by those . conversant with the business induces’ a con< - clusion in this connection siimtlar to that here- "tofora expreased. ‘Tho " fact that ho morn * ddmags wad cotslled and theé walls not weak: ened was dus to the offoris,of the firomon. . The firs was- gotten uuder control before the foors were permunetitly njured or destroyed. Had this not been dont the walls would have been deprived of. any substantial support and liable . to .crumbla and, fall. As it Is, the buflding can he soon put In or. “der 'for occupation, and bo as good e, §¢ tiot better than, before the fire, " \When " the conflagration was ot (ts hight Mavahal |- Mashsm, with two squads of ploemen, secared’ a base of operations in the centie of the hall | way, and, with two streams vlaying north and nouth, succeeded in drownlbg out the flames on this floor, Marshals Shay and Petre pursued the same polfcy on 'the floors below, and by the nl:ennn thus employed gained a victory over the elements. Tum Torsuws man culled on Ilenry {sham Jast evening to mecertain, if posasible, what ac- tion the Connectlcut Mutdal would take in re- * gard to rebaflding. Mr. [sham {8 the agent. inor same preliminary conversation, lie was ssked what would be done, and replied that the bullding would be put In order at once. # l#’vu you heard from the Insurance Com- auy ¥ “'Yes; 1received a telegram to-lay.! “ Can you givo me thetenor of thedispateh? “The Company fnstruct me to oprotect tho Interests of Iessces as Iar as | am able.” ©_ *.Did the telegram {ndicate what would be * dans about rebullding?” * | am empowered to proceed at once,” * How. long befors you will begin? " ., “Notiong. "Assoon as tho losses are ad- Justed.” \Whon will that be? " 1 Liope to get to work this week. Indeed, I shall tura on the steam to-morrow and endeavor 1o get rid of the {ce In the buildine. " *Will tho ssme siyle of architceture be sdopted?” . ) ; *Ithink it will bo rebuilt on plans slmilar to ;llmw employed In tho bulldiog prior to the e, ** Mansard ruof sud all1” ‘1 suppose so. All these detalls, Lowover, will bo scttled Ly the Company.” i “Il;ow 1auch Wil jt, cost to repalr the'build- et 3 1t ts Imposilble to tell.” ** What s the loss s near as It can be approx- Smated 7t - 3 “ About, $100,000." i It might n.-:lulru this amount ta reconstruct tha edifice, and it might not. He was uncertaln ns to that. One thiug he entertained no doubt sbout though, and that was the imimedinte restoration of tho bulfding to its former condl- tlon of excellence, and as near fireproof as it can be made, - THE NEW. POST-OFFICE. ‘The employes of the Chicago Post-Oflice havo been burncd out g0’ many times that thoy have nined an expericace that is of incalenlable valug 10 the Department fn times of cmorgency, Pres " vlous conflagrations have taught them to sava those articles first that would be of most valua to them in setting up businces in & vacaut bullding, or upon a vacant lot, and eoable them to preserve the admirable system which i3 the seeret of the ' dispateh with which the mmense volume of mail matter Is distributed thronghout this great city, the third largest mail centre on this continent. i consequenco of this experlence, they knew what - they wera about when they were prescrvinig with so muchy caro and ut so ereat a risk the Duaerous tahlos and cases of pigeon-holes, tha solvation of which was looked upon with con- tempt by many spectators who had uever been Post-Ofice clovks, :and who aid not know their value, A great many of theao articles of forniture ‘wero saved while tho fire wos mging In tho bullding Saturday nlgbf? snd many tore were - izotten out aud unloaded at the Binger Bullding yesterday, DBut very Httle, it any, of the Poste Office material has boen lost, Load after foad came to the rear entrance of the basgment which turnishes tho temnamr{ quarters of the Devart- meol yeaterday, copsisting of tables, count- ers, distributiog cases, account-booke, carrlers’ pase-books, 1ink, statlonery, pens, stamped and registry envelopes, and cyerything that was needed to ¢ on operations Aliccess- fully, - Everything that'hae been exposed was conted with from ouve to two inches of feo} blanks and blsnk envelopes werg glued fast to 1bles by frost snd fee, and yet but compara- tively fuw of theso articles wera loxt, the botk of the dellcato materinl belng safely Jocked up i the eafes and vaults, whore they rematned Intact and easy of access, Tho vombinations were easily worlced, aud notaparticie of damagze was done to the sates or their contents, At the new quartera AN ANIMATED SCBNE ‘was presented yesterduy. Postmaster Palmer was down early, and remained through the cn- Airo day and evening, giving directions as to the srrangement of departinents and matters gen- crally, asisted b{ the heads of departments and thelr faithful einptoyes, many of whom had worked all nigbt, Mr.” Palwer hus recelved many yerbal propositions to furnish bulldings for the use of the Post-Oflice, but ho has bidden them fo put the proposals into witing, that nll may buve an equul chauce. e also dirccted thut the quali- featlons, accommodations, reks, - cte., of each bafloing offercd he' mentluned - the proposals. 1lo hus lkewlse received o number ratls proffers of room fur storage, wll of which e has declined, having plenty of room ju bis Fraflem new quarters. Mr. Palmer luformed a reporter yesterday tuat he might remaiu {u bis present quarters o ‘week, aud possibly Livo weeke. Fyer: ything was do completa working order fur the recelv) nd dellvery of letters and newapavers y terday, except the general box-delivery, which laa smali matter aoyway, thure el bot sbout xed und drawers ‘ol tole, Business men camo rs usual between 11 and § o'clock yesterdny to wet. thelr Sunday mall, which {8 never delivered by carrlers until Monis day, and they were oll ‘uccommodated, Tho ¢ity department was the lirst to et Into shape, the employes succeeding u getting everything in working order Baturday nhicht, 50 there was uokobstrucrion here. Kvery depariment in the Post-Oftice will be {n active operutivn this morne fug, tho'meéu having worked all day yesterday -snd laat evenine, ‘The daving Of the distribut- -ing-cuses and tables put themn ubead at least [y ‘The eotrunce to tho lcmvnmr{ oflice will, alter this mornlug, be at the Washinzton street door oo the ground floor, wheneu they will descend to the basement by tho rear stalrs on the inalde. As_yet nobody hus been author- rized to offer Mr. Palmer tho use of the entire Bloger Builalng, aud it is doubtiul whether any vropesition of this kind will be made, as the proprietors have doubtless other aud smore permsient plens in vicw, although Mr, Palmer appeared Lo think it would be a splendid bustd- ing for bis purpose, and a capital Jocation, A rope Is stretehed from the entrance of the baseineut to tho farther side, forwlmr u passage- way for outsiders who coms ufter their mails, and two or threo pubdic ufllcers stand by regdy 1o erack the biead of auy ambitious person v:hu seeka to explore beyoud the line, On the toside of the fuclosure, the diatributing casos were arranged 1o hmacivary departiments, something like a church bLazar, soucwhat cone fustog to & apectutor, but apparently plain 1o those uuployeJ there, (lp to @ ©'clock yeaterday alteruoon the employes might have been seen slttiug st ther work of dis- tribation with overcouts on and fur caps drawy duwn over thelr ears, whils ever sud anon bual- uess would be womentanly suspeuded by sume vue to blow or whip bls hands. Althouy Jarge bollers in the euyine-ruom were coi, Lo thelr tull capacity fu gescrating steam, which was dissemltuted throughout the bullding, thero were 80 many open places, aud the there mometer stood 86 low, it was found very bard 1o keep warm. Up to 3 o'clock those eugaged in the central portion of the lurge upartment were cowpelled to rely upon a tallow dip for, light, but Bugeot, who took sdvantsge of the ¥ituatiou the tirst thiog vn Bsturday pight, Ljd 8 large furce of plambers and gawliters ut, work all nlebt, and Ly wlternoon 138 the' counections all made; dxtures up, sud the roout ;. oW lighted und wirwed by hundreds of gas ets, ‘The bove who statnp the outrolng cuvelupes were poundiug awiu) ut wu canly Lour yester “morning, and the carriers were bringing fa thelr collections, One poor fellow came in with his left foot hadly frozen. TITE AURANURMANT OF TIR SGVRRAL OFPICES and departroents was completed last evening |'p, asit sto remain while in the present locatlon, The Postmaster's room will bo In the southeast cornar, and in successfon will follow funder the ‘Washington streét akylight the offices of the Accountant, Auditor, Cashier, Assistant Post- naster, and clerks In the busincss oilice, then the wholesals and retail stamp department, and the general .detivery. Next In line will como the mein lobby. Around upon the Stats street stde of the basement s the Carriers’ Depart- ment,which runs aboul seven-cighttis of the dis- tanco across {n the room proper, whila back under the sldewnik aro sixteen new and commod ions water-closets, wbich® the Ruperintendent ot the bulldior quictly had placed thero for the com- fort aud couvenlence of tho attaches. Supple- menting the Carrlers' Department comes the Bpecinl Agents' office. East of the Carriers’ Department a passaga cxtends the whole whith of the building, ot right angies with the main 1obby: still east of this fronts the Rezlstry Divia- fon, and directly behind this Is the Moncy-Order Department: then comes another broad pas- rage, anil the right angle of almost the catire cast nnd torth sides of the bascment fs given up to tho Mailing Division. The foliowing dia- mram wilt perbaps better fllustrato the plan of operations, Lhe .entrance being on Washington strect, the east sida of the bullding: * Maliing Diviston. Water-closets, Carrters’ Divlston. Lglatry Divalon. * Money-Order Diviion. Malltag Divlslon, Main Lobby., (leneral Delivery, Notz—a @, stalrway Instde, loading to Poat- Oflics from Washington street entrances 3, Asalat- ant Postmaster and clerks of businees pfice; ¢, Cashter} d, Auditor: e, Accountant; f, Post- master (all under Washington atreet sidewalk); ¢, rear atalrway from atley for employes; 4, shuto for depositing mall matter, ctc. Tast evening the scene presented was alto- rether different from thut exnibited in the early part of thu day, Al the old fixtures had beeit removed frous the uld office, lucluding the gen- cral-detivery parapliernalla, with drawurs, Loxes, vte, and the wholesnle and retail stamp arrauge- ments, su thut alfaics began to assume biibiness- like proportions. The eas conuections nad all beeu completed, the fixtures were it {n, aad the room was flooded with light, ‘The employes were all buslly engaged fu thelr seversl depart.' ments, and everything was moviog about as of. old. _ Postinaster Caliner was still at his post piving directions, and the men undér him worked falthfully. e sald that buslucss.men would "searcely finow that there had been a fire by this morning, as mu)"would uet their malls a8 recularly as usual, while letters and papers would go out on the. . Be requests the owners of drawers In the General Delivery Department to bring around thelre keys thls morolng, as tho compurtroents are filed with fee, and he cannot zet into them to clear them. ir. hian heen o matter of some Interest to real cstate men to know how Postmaster Pulimor ob- talnud possession of the Sluger Building so sud- denly, os It fs weil kuown that the owners aro at some distance from this eity, The focts are, the Superintendent of tho bullding, reallzivge that thiswas & publicexigency, gave Mr. Palmer possession of tho busement upon bis own re- spunsiulity, trosting to the coucurrence and ap proval of the proprictora when ho could com- municate with them, and that was tho way it <anie ahaet, were arrested n the Chicago Tlie men who district for violations of the Postdl laws, and are now awalting trlal, wers doubticss congrat- ulating themselves Suturday night, since it is o pretty well known faet that the esidence ngainst criminals cantured by the Speclat Agents re- wmiains in the possession of the lutter until tho cases comoup heforo a Jury, As the rooms of thuso officers were on ‘ths second flour of tho Ilonore Block, utt the men bhad to run for thele lives, It was natural to auppose that they would overlook tnelr papers, and that the ovidence wonld bo burned up or de- stroved by water. Such, lowever, ‘was notthe case. Speclal Acent Hensbaw was in the office when the alarm was given, and Lo threw everytniug except the evidence Into the vault. Thin he put under his arm, and, on making his exit, deporited In o placo of safoty, Sa it will all be fortheoming when the eriminals g}m .:rnlgned for trial Iu the United States ourt. C—— ARMY HEADQUARTERS. "The ofiicers of tho Milltary Divjaion of tbo Missourl werc on band yesterday to count up tho lusses and direct the removal of the proper- ty saved from Saturday's fire. Gen, Sherldan and nlmost ull of the stafl visited the rujus and made a survey of thelr former rooms. Gen. Sherldan's rooin was found to be but little tn- Jured, aid the injury done there, as well oz in Col. M. V. Sheridan's room, nest adioluing, was mainly duo to water. The records and vapers in the desks were intact. Tho furnitars was pretty badly frozen up, but will como our with but Httlo injurs. ‘The Adjutant-Giencral's oo and the spart- nents of the aldes-decaiun, Immediately ad. Julubngz, were ln even better condition. Al tho vavers in Gen. Whipole's rooms were jutaet, and many of them wero not even touched by tho water. Iu the ofles of Col. Khiburn, Chiet Commlssary, thera will bo considerable loss, ‘Ihis oflice 18 uear the coutrsl portlon of the bullding and s almost o tota) Joss, The saty went through to the floor below, aud the whole oflice s completely wreeked, One desk, witn ita contents, was comnletely wreeked, and the Hloor, Which 1 broken and Luened 1o several iluces, 43 covered with debrls from Lbe upper lours. It i hoped that must of tho valuable records aro sate fu the vault, Tue adjuining rosins, of the Attending Surzeou and the Chief Ondouncs Oilleer, wro but little in- Jured, and the loss there will be ltght. {n thoe ofticw of Surgeon Robort Murray, Medical Di- Tecior, howevery the voutrary 14 trie, ag luss 13 almonst total. ‘Vhiers fs nothing wiazever lefe in thy room. ‘The roof aud ceiting fen through anl demoibshed everything whivh was not burnt, A buokeage, with o wedleal liLrary, was comns Pletely consuaed. Everythung about this otliey Wt found in the greatest confuston, aud there will be hittie or no salvuge there. 'Tho roots uf tho Engioeer Corps on thio fourth floor were tound it €ovil conditdon. Very little domagr, und that whmost entirely th Walur, Wus Bl tufued fo tuls department. ‘fhe oftice of Gen, lnfull-. Chief uurtermoster, on - thy thind floor, wus in the same condition, vory little damage belng dove there, und the smie was (hio caso in the Inspector Generul's oflice. Thu property and transportstion clerks ol the Quartermuster’s Departineut were located on the lith foor, sud their oftice fs & total loss, Everything, desks, |>oulmm:|‘x snd furoiture, were L-mln."y consutued, and the room 18 & cuin- piete rufn, und alisust nothing was saved, ‘Tho same or u Worse coudition of sffalrs wus found 1u_the adjoluiug rooms on this floor. ‘Lho work of removal Was begun - yesterdoy wmoruing, the furniture being scut at Orst to the oflice oud storcroouss of. Maj. M, P, Swall, Comuissary ' of 'Subilstence, at No. Washtneton™ street, Later {n the duy Geu. Bberidan - sceured rooms for ‘Limself and staff st the Puluser Ilouse, ,The fooms obtaiued thero wre uu the Mouroe strect frout of the entresol foor, embracing the yead- iug-room on the corner, which 14 to bo Qe Slerldan's office, ‘I'he arrsuzetgents with 3 Paliner are ouly vovstlered us lewporary, but, A3 Lhe Toows arc mhmtur{. thira 15 evr, vrobabltity thut the. headyuarters wli remaln uotil the completlon of the repalrs oy the old olllces. ‘The cost of the prescut yooms f4 not any frn(cr tbun in tho forger ucation, pud are uearly if ot qulte ay couvenient, A Followlnz 1& the diregtory of thq present biead- fuarteei X - 4 Livit.~Gen, i X0, 73, T, $hecidis, Casmagding, glum.au.:urd'k,h‘.(cn.““' -"-3 "‘"' re 14 e-Uamy,” 18 Nos: N Kaf -1'#.-1?@1-.( A ‘Quirierma Genbral. itbvma Nod. 10, 1w, 20:~ 3 ol W. D, Whipple, ' Avdistaut Adjutant-Gen- eral. Rouus Nos. 28 00d 50, lusiatiOes S0k DU Sackel, fusbector-General, Hoom Lical. Col, A, aird, Asslstant Iudpector-Geu- eas), oo N, 82, eeingy Dra. Murray and Sponcer, Medical Directot and Allrmlln&!\fl’ton. toom No. 38, . m:‘lm.\. w\ . Reilly, Chief Ordasnce Officer, om No. 30, Mu.\l'hmk Bridgman, Paymaster, U, 8, A,y oom No. 40, Capt, G, J, Lydecker, Engineer Corps, Hooms Nos, Dand 7. Capt. Grepory, Room No, 30, Ti is thought by Gen. Sheridan and the oMcers of the stafl that the Department will suffer but 1ittle delay in the transaction of busineas, and that evervthing will be runuing smuothly at the Paimer House within a few daye. Gen, Whiopio made a vist to his oftice durlng the fire and placed all the valzable records in his charge in the aafe. He cxperienced rome little ditliculty while getting out, as he was nbout the last of tha staff to Jeave, but had no scrious trouble exceot from the smoke. tained yesterday, and it will be some littla time before a complete Inventory of tle things saved can bo taken, — TITE ALTON, The officlals of the Chicazo & Alton Rallroad were most agreesbly surprised wlen they wr- tived at the ruins of the Honore Building; and found that most of the proporty l6ft intha burning bullding was still fn excelient condition, and hardly damnaged ‘at. all. Tho papers were a9 dry a8 powder fin the cases In which they had been left, and the Targe amoint of tickets which had to ba left b (ieneral Ticket and Passcnger Agent J. Charl- ton were also dry and tn good comdition. Judao Beckwith's law library, which was In the build- Ing 0t the time of the fire, rcmains in as gnod vondition as ever. Hardly any damage whate ever has been dane to Judge Reckwith's roomns. ‘Treastrer 1. clock remdined on the wall, ticking as mersily as ever and Indl- caifng the correel timo of the day, Thu desks and tahlea in President Blackstone and General Munager McMullin'a office were covered with "s crust of fce, bur all they need is a thawingwut aod revarnishing mako . them as good as cver. About $200 will make good "the entire loss of the Rall- road Company. The weneral offices hivo agsin been located In lhermnplnj'nnlll headauarters, Nos. 2 and 4 West Vau Buran street, each oftlver reoccupying bis old guarters, ‘The Company futend to remain at this place until the Honore Bullding nas becn restored, the agent of the Conuecticus Mutual having vromised to have that part of the building usea by the Railroad Compimy ready for occtipancy jo less than two months, when “{ts headquarters. will again ba establlshed fn the rooma from which its oflicers were so uncereioniously driven by the five. FITTING UP TIIE GOVERNMENT BUILDING. It having been suggeated that the now Gov- erument building should bo fitted up.at onco for the accommodation of the Post-Office, n Trmusn reporter called on Supt. McDowell yesterday to ascertain It §¢ could be dune with- out difficnlty, - g “On! yes, I could give them temporary quar- tera,’ smd he, *‘but to'do sd wonld Lo a bigxor Job than oue wonld imagine.”, ** Within what timet” **Slxty days.” E 3 ** flow much moncy wonld be requiredt” About £60,000."” 3 *“What portion of the bulldlog could youlet them haval” “Iconld cht off the north end—two-thirds of the main floor—and open the Adams streot . and Clark stroet doors Lo the puhllc.” *\What condition is that part now {ni" “* Only tha brick archics have been lald, The floors could be loveled off with cement, and wooden windows and door-frames put in, vould givo them 84,000 square feet of room— shaaty quarters.” _ ** Buppose your men worked night and day, bow loug would it take Lo wmake the bulldiiz fubabitable??” Thirty days,’* t Woufd 800,000 cover the whole cost? * No. There would have to be temporary heating and lighting apparatus. That would cost 815,000 more,** wi ng ** What proportion of the $75,000 would be wasted 1" + Nearly.nil of it,” . .. M 1€ taken possession of now, would the work of complotion bo retarded? " “ Not uecessarily. Wo could shift the peo- alu lf'nm pillar to post—{ix up & room at a me, :* How loog would {t take you to finish thoe buflding If vou had the necassary monoy{ " - A St of thls pugges iat do you thin this p tion to put the Post-Ollice o temporurily 17 Y “1t wouldn't bo good for” them nor for us and 1¢ wouldn't be economlenl for the Governe ment. Bug I the work ia ordered done, L'l do it aa quickly aud as cheaply as pos {ble.)" ¥ Mus anv one spoken to you on esubject 1 ‘*No. I heard sonie people say * Put the Post- Offlee fu the new bulldiog,’ but I don't think they were scrious,” . s Nothing has come from Wasblngton 1" “Np,» In further conversation, the Superintendent sald that tho contract time for the Iron door and window frauus was five months, and, the uuter walls iaving scttled from two aud one- sixteenth to two and three-sixteonth Inches, tha fluora wercout of line, nécessitating o great deal ot work to inako thum level,—work not cal- culated on,—nnd which will delay so much longer th completion of the structure, WASIINGTON. Bveclal Dispcich to The Triune. Wasmixazox, D. Cy Jan. h.—~Clilcago people were greatly relieved this mornlig to learn that theflire as confined to the Post-Office bullding. 18 was fmposstble tolearn ony detalls, nnd tho absence of nows greatly fnereased the anxlety, Dispatches have reached hero from Chlenzo to- day, statine that Postmastor Palmer has ‘en- aged the new Singer Butlding for two years at €00,000 u year, und that it {s thought that Ly that tima the new Custom-House Building will bo completed, Acting Postmaster-General Typer stated to-night that he hud no such report trom Postuiaster f'almer, aud thas he could ot belfevo it. Tho ouly authority given Ygliner fu the matter 13 contawed in o disoateh from ‘Yyner of Isst might, directing him to sceurs such temporary quarters as he could 10 case {¢ becatno necessary to abandon the pres- out bullding, sud to report to thy Department., No roport has been rocefved, and uo cuntract for the rent of a bullding at_$60,000 o year, or oven at hall that sum, would Yo aporoved, The uopropriation for reut, lights, ond fuel is o seanty onv, ond the Department wili not be Hiely to uprmvu of uny leaso with a areater rental than that_which lius been pald for the quurters fi'the flonoge Bulldiug, Unicss some report fs recelved by to-orrow morniug, Tyoer will telegraph to Clicazo usking for mformas tion us to waut has been done, OTHER CIIHCAUGO FIRES. Coals fultlog from u grate in Roow 8), on the fourth foor of Nu. 115 Rundolph streot (Kinge- bury Bluek), caused an aluem from BoxUSat o quarter of 8 Just eventug, The spartment was vecupled by w woman who was not 't bome, ‘The curpat fzuited, and s space six feet longand threw feet wide was burned fo the tloor, entuli- fng o Juss of 325, a8 the celllg of the room beluw was torn down by the tiremea. All the furulturs was removed, though 4ome of it wus shightly dwwuged, A mean plece of business Was perpetrated {u frous of the buildiug by Nornun - Holt, Captatu of Babeock No. 1o Mo squirted the chomienl preparstion all over thy huraes aud driver of the Fire-latrol. Thu man wus niot hurt, but bis ciotbivg wus burned by tho ucid, as was the hair of the unluuls, the Jatter being very resticss from the stiuging sen- satlon, Calel Beauer ought to Jouk futo thits waster, The only posstbls reasou for Holt's conduct was jealousy arisfuig from the fact that ths Fire-Putrol beat Lim 1 guttivg to the lire, ‘The alarwm lrom Box 203 at 4:85 yesterday afternouu was caused I:[v 1 tlre fu the Gne-story framo bufldiog Nu. [ Desplalues sirect, owned aud occupied a8 a lsundry by Thomus Buwith, Damage w builliog and o vlotbiog in lauydry, $100. " Cause, sotue iucos cateuiug fre from erluz-luue. ‘The slurw from Box 425 at $:40 yesterduy afternout was caused by & firs between the cel- ing and upper Hour of u slone-frout reslucnco at No. 23 Throop street, owoed by Hale & C uyd occupled s & resldonce by Mrs, I Patier- son. Damage Lo furniture, $3; lsured tor $2,500 ju tue Pliadelpula Fire. Duntas 1o bulluing, 850 ‘The e comwmunivated with No. 24, occupied by Dr, 8. C. Pratt. Damage, 8253 curvered by & $3,000 policy fu Mliller & Drew's. Aguucy. Cause, 8 defeciive flue, AT CLEVELAND, O. Hpgctal Dispateh [0 The Tribune. . Crevrrany, O, Jun, 5.—At 4 o'clock this morulug re Lroks out fu the large wouden "block belopiging to Jobn' Rock, sithuted od tho cqrucs of Woodland avenue aud Kinsinan street, and, befuro gie damea could, be checked, Ll * bujlding was eutirely destroyed. %o firut flour wits occupled by Kock’s dry-goods store, s bard- ware store, and a werctust tatiorlug establish- meut. The second Hoor was occupied by sise families as dwelllngs, and these people lost cyerytbg, Ureat diteulty wus experieaced in No gencral estimate |. of the losato the hoadquarters conld beob- | nisking the angines work, and three In surces- #lan gave out, any others hnd to be sent for, Loas on 3nl ing, $0,000: on merchandise and houseliotd furntiire, £6,000; Insurance on balld- fng, 83,000 in Eastern cowpantes, i . To tha WWestern easociated Press. CLEVELAND, 0., JJan, f.—lock's Buflding, corner of Woodland and Wilson wvenues, caaght fire fn the basement this morning. It was & two-atory framg, mcn&flcd by stores and famillds. The ‘Builditg and fts contents wero destroyed, ~ The bullding was valued at £3,000; insurance, 84,000; loss of contents, $9,000; In- sured, 85,500, _The building was insured in the Hioeruia and Forest Cily of Cleveland cach 1.000: Western Mutual, of Urbaoa, O.,aud uckeye Mutual, of Sheily, O. cach $1,000. AT 8T, LOUIS. 87, Lovis, Jan. 5.~~Theextens!va establishment of the Bt. Lonts Beef Canning Company, corner of Fourteenth and Poplar strects, caught fire at a quarter to 11 o'clock to-pizht, and, at this writiog, all that part of the bullding faving Kourteenth strcet is nearly destroyed. “In the rear of this building {s nn allcy, on'the opposite alde of which is another larze buildi g usoll by tho Company, which the firemen are now trying to savr, with soniz sliow of succer 87. Louss, Jan, 0—1:%0 a.m.—Tha firemen succeeded in saving the roar buflding, but the front part of the cstablishment ts. entlrely de- stroyed, ‘The fire originated In the process- room, bnt how nobuxly knaws, as no work had beon dond there since 12 o'clock Snmrd&{ nimut, 8100,000 The loss is estimated at 875,000 to on stock, The bullding, dwned oy Chaties N, Peck, was worth 15, to £20,- The fnauravce on the 'stocl of tha Cauning Compasy isas fotlows: Home of New York, Phenlx of Drooklyn, North Dritish and Mercantilo of 8pringficld; Fire and Marine Commercial Unlon of TLondon, Rhade Taland Association, and the Hambarg-Madgeburg, &5,000 each; London & Liverpool & Globe, 87,6004 Uuardian of London, 8hoe and Leather of Boston, Mcchanies’ and Traders’ of New York, Conncetlcut Insurance Company, Ilam- burg-Bremen, and the 8t,Joseph Fire and Morino, $2,500 cach; on Axturcs, fools, ete., Amerfcan, of Philadelphia, and Manhattan, of New York 85,000 eachi; Contlnental, of New, York, an Ameriean, of Newark, N. J., §2,500 each. The buflding was coves by Insurance, but tho nim':e- of the ofllces are not obtalpabls to- nigt, NEW ORLEANS, Spectal Dispateh to The Tyiduns, NEw OnneaNs, Jan. 6.—*One hupdred and Torty fires, with a lots of ouly $340,000, for tha year onding Dec. 81, 1878, s the report of ‘Thomas O°Connor, the Chlef of the Fire De- partmeut, How Is this for o wooden cltyl As regards tho. opldemic, the Chiof ways: **ftts needless to describe the trylng orden! through which the Assoclation has passed during the nast year, and I projose to record only that for tho first timo in {ts history it has been com- pelled to appeal to departnicnts abroad for aid to, ensblo it. to - discharge its obligation towards its widows and orphans, The gencrous ru?omm of our brothren abroad ara reglstered, and will be preserved In_our archives while the Department cndures, Its wholo duty has been rerformed, and, but for the fnability of the city to meet its oblizations wnder the tire contract, no foreign ald would have been needed, Tho Department bas encountered all trials with lirmuces, and discharged jts duties us ono man,* ordinary or extrnordinary,- whether amony its Il‘lld"?r at the moro stirring call to the scens of re. 7 i v — . AT TLANUABTER, PA, LANOAsSTER, Pa., Jan., 8.—The building at 61 North Queen street, with ita contents, was de- stroyed by fire last night. The first floor was occuplod by Albert Ilirsch, & dealer in ready- mada clothing; the accoud by Willlam Cling, a8 a billlard-room; the third by Berner & Bros., pleture-frame manufgcturers. Weathoefle book-store, ah sdjolning bullding, was badly damuged by water, Three firemen were frozen, one, 1t {a- supposcd, futally, AT GRAND RAPIDS, MICIH. dpecial Dirated to The Tribune, + GURAND Rarms, Mich., Jan. 5.—A fire this morning fu Derens Slsters’ womon's furnishiug goods store, In Putman's stono block, destroyed the stock and damoged the bnilding. Loss, nabout $2,000, which was pratty much covered by insurance, Tho origin of tho fire Is unknown, AT FORT'WAYNE, IND, Bpectal Dipliteh to' The Tribune. Fonr Warng, -Ind., Jan, 8.—E. H, Mil & Co.’s drug-story was incedlarized to-night, the fire dofug 81,500 damage to the bullding and stocks {nsured for £1,000 in the Cammonwealth of I'niladelphia, Traders’ of Chlcago, Shawmutt of Boston, and Royat Canadiau, 5 AT MILWAUKEE. Spectat Diepaich 10 The Tridune. MiLwaukgg, Wis, Jan, G.—At lalf-past’8 o'elock to-night fire Lyoke out at thy ldence of Emil Riowert, No, 460 Marshall street, by tho fgnition of a Christmas tree, causibg dam- Bgus to tho extent of §1,200, : AT BT. ROCHE'S, QUF. Quenko, Jan, 5,—A fire to-day destroyed n large portion of Marlmean’s eaw-mill and face torv at 8t, Roche’s. “The watchinan, Francols Phitbert, sufllocated whilst cudeavoring to s cape. AT ITANKINSVILLE, TLA. JacR#0NVILLE, Fla, Jag, 5,.—A large ware- house fn which the Past-Oflco wus kept at Hankinsyille, Fln., burned, with ma!l matter, 1ncluding o number of reghstored lettors, OBITUARY. Special Correspondence of The Tribune Dwiour, 111, Jan, 4.—Robert Thonipson, ons of tho oldest and most prominent citizens of Liviogston County sud 11litols, died at his bomo Friday night. Durlug . resideucs of Lwenty- five vears in this couuty, Mr. Tlhompson was fdentifled with all our township aud county work. Few men have bad more public trusts conunitted to bis caro} and his friends and rela- tives hava tho s ackion of knowing that, fn their keeping, no stain of dishonor has ever been attached to his nsme. For forty years ne was an active Elder in the Presbyteriun Church, nud for balf of that perlod gave lis time and moncy freely to the cliurch of thay denomina- tion ticre. Beloved and reapoeted by sll who kuew Lim, his huas gove down to his grave hon- ored,-uud o bright and shiniug examply of the uoblest work of (od,—an honest 10an, Hpecial Disvisch 10 Tha Tridune, Dwians, il Jun. &—~1ko fuveral of Robert Thowpsou took place this alternoon from the Methodlvt Church, ‘The sermon wus_preached Ly the Rov, Mz, HIM, The Itev. O, N, Pollard kuve w wketch ot Mr, Thompson's work as o netghbor, & citizen, aud a Christiaa fn this com- umunity, fu which ho bud lived tor twonty-five yoars, This was the largest fuucral which ever tuok place i Al crecds snd clusies gave evtdence of thelr, appreciution of thls wan by thielr preseuce, b —— ST. PAUL,- - 8oecial Dispateh to The Tribune. 87, Paut, Jun. b.—~Ex-Uov, Marshali loft this eveniug fo search of his15-year-uld son George, who ran away froms homo Friday, The buy had & rultroad ticket for Chicego, but wus not on the train when it reachied Milwaukee Baturday, Tuo ran away i3 ouly explaluable by the lad haviug lately devoted blmsell to reading storfes of adventure l trusby papers publiabicd for 'I'hu total fncoma of tho St. Fanl Poat-Office Tast year was 308,033 net fucome over cxpenses, 848,010, 'Thu moyoy-order busiucas umounted to 81,853,619; welglit of wails origiuatiug at this utfive, 43,014 pouuds, e e — THE ELGIN ASYLUM, Bpectal Dlavatch ta The Tribune. EraiN, 1L, Jan. B.=The* regulsr ‘monthly weeting of the Trustees ol the Elgin Tneuny Ayluin wus held as that fustliution yesterduy siternoou, ‘Thiere wero present L. €. Busworth, sident, of l‘.{}ln‘ Frederick dtahl, of Galena: Hon, U, arel, of Gycumoro; R W, Padettord, Clerk; and the' flon, J. A, Curpen- ter, ‘Vrensurer, of Bigm. Kouliue business was trausacted. ———— INTERNAL REVERUE, Special Diapalch 1o The Trivune, ., . Teung liaure, Iud.,Jau. G—Col. [1. 8. Burgn, a1 asalstant of the Northern Lliuols” and Wia- conslu Reveuue District, wrrived hore tolay to tuke charce of this Unjted Stutes Rovgoue Dis- trict, wbich lucludes Indiuna aud Michigay, dur- Jug the absence of Gen. Paskurd jo Califoruia ss & Wityess o au Importavg (Goversment reveuus cast, Col. Burgh will mdke this<ity bl besd- quarters while s charge. s hesall. U MORTON M'MICHAEL, PiiLapxLriia, Jan. 5.—~The Hou. Morton MeMickael 1s dungerously il of rbewmatisi, SHINGTON. A Greonback Paper Comes Out for John Sherman as Presis dent! The Reply ot Schurz to Shertdan to Bo Ready for Publica- tion To-Day. Places Where the Lieutenant- Goneral 1s Alleged to Hav Slipped Up, . The Democrats to Repeat the Bald Beo- nomical Hypoerisy of Lnst Winter, Unolo Sam Makes Unprocedented Sales of His Various Postal Wares, Special Dispateh to The Tribune, ‘WasnixetoN, D, C., Jan, 5.—The Washington "Republie, » Qreenback organ, curlously enough Llins an srticlo this morning practically advocat- ing John Sherman, Sccrolary of tha Treasury, for President. The article, which fs hended ‘*Sherman for President,' says: “Thers fs al- ready a. wood deal of talk about the present Secretary of the Treasury for “Rapublican nom- {nce in 1830, but vory fow peonle have any (dea how really formidable & candidato he fs. The uomination may be sald (o be between Blalne, QGrent, and Sherman, It Is not improbablo that Blaine will declde to take no part fn tho next contest, but rescrve his powers for 1884 Should this happen, the fight will ho narrowed down to Graut nud Sber man. Strauge as the assertion may seem, the Becrotary's course within the next two years f¢ not unlikely to win him the esteem of the Ureenbackers. True, Bherman has pursued his favorite fdea of resumption, even though Lo has to dlmb over the vietlims of its *stow process plied mountains hizh, but that is accomplished now, It fa nolonger ‘a nightmare to Interfers with sshemes of rclief for the whole country. Bhermun is very clear-headed. He understands vrotty clearly what is nceded now to re-cstab Ush prosperity. There is no longer eny difference between greenbacks and gold to Dbuild "up a formidable opposition, It would not be surprising, therofore, to eca Beerstary Sherman vroposing financlsl meas- upes which would mect with tha heartiest nps probation from the Greenbackers. Let such como to pass. Let the Democrals nominate Bayard, and John Sherman wou!d have only to pick up. his portfollo and walk overto the White House, not to leave it agaln for four years, This may, and doubtiess docs, sound very 0dd, but it Is good, hard comwmon-scnscy for all that. If any politician has writton up a Presidentlal slate on which the name of John Bherman does not appear, he had better wipo ‘out hia ficures’ and mske some frush calcula tiops” | 1 E UNITED STATES TREASURER GILFILLAN, 1n the course of an Intorview, sald: “The Treas- ury has now about $180,000,000 In gold cofn and builion. 1t {s nearly ail in Now York. The rea- son we havo not resumed specio payments every- where is because tho.law says wo tnust resuma “in Now York, but, as it does not - provent us from resuming everywhere, wewill soon do fo, now that we see that we need not run all “the reservo around tho country on wheels," “Thera are only about $600,000 fo Washing- ton, yot tho Governinent has somgtimes pafd over $3,000,000 of gold Intcrest - over fts cash counter, and nover had $1,000,000 {n the vaults at Washington at one time, & “That," sald Glfilan, *Js. oasy. of explana. tlon. ‘Thbo reason peoplo.wanted gold was tinf they might soll it nt a premium, The banker would urlng; it back and et zold checke on'New York for it to save cepressage. The gold wna not wanted here, so we got the coin back as fast a8 wo pald it out, 1t will be tha same now, Nobody wants to pay to send gold to Now York, and the only gold we will get rid of in Washington will be the littlo amount that will R0 Into cirenlation, and tho people will get tircd of thot aftor a while, and we will get {t nearly ail back again,” : _URION PACIPIC, Beerctary Beliurz (s very much pleased with tho first report of his Boapd of Government Directors of the Unfon Pactflc Raitroad, Mo deoms many of tha criticisma in tho letter of Mr. Adoms as just, but, as the difficultics named cannot bo removed without & changa in tho law, he is personally desirous to have Mr. Adams remain, In hope” that, attootion having baen so potntedly called to the matters of whicn ho treats, Cougress may be fnclined to.afford remedy bofore anothicr annual inspection, TIHE NEW MINISTER ¥RO BFAIN to the United Btates, Senor Vigo, Is ex- peeted hera +in a few days, Ife haa ocenpled many responsible sud distinguished positions inhis own country, Iun politics ho belongs to the Alphonsists. . Ile has scrved {n tho Cortes, and, when wppolnted Minister to the United Btates, was serving in & promiuent place in the ltoyel honsehold, TIE ARMY BILT. It 18 stated very posltively in army clreles that @on, Behalleld was oo active man in drawing up tho new Army bll), and that Lo has been at work on it for soveral yeurs, it conjunction with Gen, Sherman, Uen. Schofleld and Gen. HBurnside, Chalrinan of the Committce ro- portiog the bill, ad frequont and leogthy con- ferences, both in Rhode sisewhere, during * the last and fal ‘Tha ling oflicers of the army arv less enthusl, tic uver thao LIl as thoy examine {t. At first it wan regarded by them as opening soveral ave- nucs of promotion at the expense of tue stafl, It uppears, however, that every vacaucy maodo by the bill runalvs s vacancy, At prisent a ‘yacaucy in the stalf corps is fllled from the line, Undar the biil the_abolition of ofllcors fn the atull hus the samo effect upon promotion in tho lino as §f the same number and rask of lino ollleers had boen abolishicd, The bitl worss u stwilar result for the live n tho catablishinent of a rescrved list, * "This will bocomposed large- l' of supernumerary stafl oflicors. ‘Those the President can assign where be pleases, aud the placea found for noss will, sluce the hlrc-nl by the blll froin the luk, Lo foun e, G ara re- o the BCUUKZ AND SURRIDAN, Becretary Schura expects to have his reply to 8herldan roady to-morrow. i will recalllthe poluts made {b Sheridaw’s roport and firet lut- ter, and show that Lie docs not sustain thow fn lis second. It will prosent a full statement from the ludlan Oflice Inregard to the condition ul affairs at tho varlous Avenclea nsmed by Sheridun, sud show conclusivoly that the DE- partuent has been actively engaged n fuvesti- wating, prosccuting, and puntshing theso yery . offenders, Many of the frregu- larities whlch Sheridan” poinis out occurred uuder the previous Admbuistration, while tuo presceut one has been engagred from the frst in correcting them: It 13 an awkward fact thot at least one of gho reporta upon which Bheridan relos to sustaln W3 former letter bears dutu after that of Bherldan's paper. As to Sheridan's charge that a dishonest contractor was continucd snd his contract rencwed after ho bad been ex- pused, It will be mads to appesr that hio was the very first nsn prosecuted by Becretary Schurz's direetion, and thiat be Is now fu jall, CONRLING, : A number of Hepublican Bevators hayoe platnied to endeuvor to induce Seuator Conkling ta abandon kls opposttion to the coutirmation .6t Collyctur Merntt. Oue ol the argumcuts thoy wiake s $hat it Is necesgary to huve bar- fuouy 1y the perty, and that it ls advisuble to uvold dolug waything that. could possibly lead o the calling ot un ¢xtra sosaton of the Benote, n arder to prevent the Demoorats from veor- Kaniziug that body before uext Decembor, CUAKGE, CUESTEL, CUAUGR] The managers of the Houck subsldy will oress thutr sclicme as yoon a4 pusatble s upan the so- asssmbling uf Coneress. Thoy lutio to bve o suafority 1o Loth Houses, sud luslet:that both “the Mesldent and Secrglary Evartasupuort thelr project. b e W R iy St + APPRONKIATIONS.. .0 h ‘Tho Democrags ou the Apprupriations Comuit- tecLastvowmpleted what they cull tho Logislative Aupprapriativn: il Fuoster,. Sepublleat,, wisins -bor ol tho Sutr-Comlites- baving cherguiof sho -bily, bas. bewn:-alsent dusiug.. Feceas,. bat, of icourse, the. pubu.u.nmuq.\nm,.ufm thu bl 20 tue tull; Comnibiun over Koster's nead.... It cunwiny & huebersof; secentsivities and of pro- pused revolutionury changes in the public serv. ive siwllar Lo thoso which »d grestly crippled the Governgent last year, and which the Dowo- vists thombelves, by dedclency w sporopris. tlous, have praciically been canpelisd o disap- prove, However, thie same things are to be tied ogatu, Awosy the changes proposed s ‘the sboliaimert of the oTica of Commisians of Customs, and the vunsohdation ot tha” offlee frith that of Commissioner of [ntetnal Rtevenuo. . = ) TIH TOSTAL DRFARTMDNT, ¢ Wasninarox, . C., Jan. f.—0On the 1st inat. the Poat-Oillee Departmer.t reduced the prices of stamped envelopes on an average 20 per cont throughout the entire schedule, and the result 18 seen o the largely Increased requisitions now belng recetved, Tliosc on 8aturday footed up 4,460,000 envelopes, vatued at $9,733, or more than double those of gny single day In tha history of the Departmont. The entire requisi- ne for the day for postage atamps, stmnper velopes, and poetal canls o ed to t..lfi..‘x‘iu, Ineladud fu which wore 4,785,500 postal cards, SENATOR THURMAN TO Tith TELLER COMMIT- TRE, Saturday Seuator Thurman sens the following supplementary lotter to Scnator ‘teller: = Warnixatox, D, C., Jan. 4.—The Hon, H, 3. Teller, Chairman "of the Select Committes of In- testiqution—Dgan Sin: In further compliance with the request of your Committee, communicated to e by your lotier of the 21t ult., I have the honor now tq inclose foyou instdllment XNo, 2 df facts relating to the Inte clections, amd esvecially thd misconduct of United Btates Supervisprs " and Deputy.Marahnls, to-wit.: ' letter from' James 11, Paino, Jaekeonsille, Fls, . relative o mlsconduci of Unlted States So- renlunn nnd Deputy-Marshals at the lato elections n tue Becend Congressional District in that State. 2. An afldayit of Owan J. Sommors, of. Lurall Coanty, Florids, relating to the same subjoct, . . ‘Tho statements of I, C. Kandolph, of Mont- mm"‘i Aln., showing the miscondnct of United §In:el eputy-Marehals In the Inte clection in that tate. B 1 am assured that these thred gentlemon are cit. izens of high standing and respectabliity, and 1bey leave to commend thelr atatements _to tho ournest consideration of your Committee. Iam, sir, vory roepeotiully, your obedlent servant, ‘- Paki . A G Taumias, =4 TNE APFIDAVITS, . * .4 Here followed the statements referred to in the lctter of Senator ‘Thurman, Paine's lctter refers princlpally to the employment of United Btates Supervisors of Election and Deputy Mar- shalsat the votinz-precinets throughout tha countles comprising the * black-belt™ of Flor- 1da,—Nassau, Duval, Alathus, Columbia, Suwa- nee, Marion, Madison, Jefferson, Leon,and Gad. slom—and he colicludes by saying *hot the Depe uty Marslials who were present on election day at the varlous precinets in tho *‘black belt” counties were In uo sense Deputies, but men mlelj engaged on !{mdnl service, beginning and endiug on elees tlon4lay; that thero was; no earthly ngtessity for thelr belng present at all, as the State and municipsl ofilcers present were amply able to grucrve order and conserve o falr clection, as a8 been evidenced time and again before,. Oswen J. Sommcrs, whose aflidavit is alluded to by Mr..Thurman, deposcs that the colored Deputy United States Marshals_jn Duvall Coupty, Florlda, were eugaged .at ‘the election the 5th of November in distributing Republican ballots and parsuadiog colored voters to votd the same. - t Randolph's lotter, concerning the conduct of tho election in Montgomery Cuumi;.Aln.. al4 lewes that colored men. werd-forced by Doputy United States Marahals to vote the Republican tickot, and tuat two Deputy United Btates Mar- snals, o violation of tha Siato Juws, distributed whllskyund other refreshmeots among; colored voters, ! “ CHHOTPED "' TRADE-DOLLARS, | Bome timu ago annoutncement was nade tha; large quantitics of trade-dollars were being ac- -eumulated by specalators at commarvinl contres! i China, tho purposo belng to rcturn suchi dollars to tha Unitod Btates, in l.ha-cxgccm- tlon that Congress would give them the legal-: teader quality, Roports recelved at the State Department “from Amorican Consuls show thatin many parta of Ching. tuese golns have been so mutilated as to make them usclcss as currency. The Consuls st Aoy, Foochow,, snd Ningpo report that the Ameriean trade. dollar has been so mutllated by *chopping Ly thio Chinese merchants at the places named, as to render’ them ‘undesirablo as o circulating medlum, Thit practice, which had ita url;iln fu & rule . mode by mereantlio houses i the south of China, roquiriogeach Hrm to guarantes the genuincuess of dollars paid out. by aillixing to cachcoln its **chop,” or firm name, aud which was done by stamping with o dis upon the surface of the coln, has grown Into such an abuso that curront dollars are defaced beyond all possibility of recognitlon, and not in- frequently colns arefound iz cireulation through which holes have been punched. - In some cascs. thera is reason to belfove that tho die haa been Jisplaced by a gouge, and a small portion of the motal has been taken from the cofn. This prac- tice also provails at Hong Koug, Coins thus mutilated would not, of vourse, be aceepted at thelr fuco value in the United Ntates, oven should the trade dollar be given the legal-ten- der guality, and holdersof them would be foreed 1o uispose of them as so much bullion, To the cxtent, therefore, that trade dollars have suf- fered mutlintfon by the **chops’ of Chinesa merchauts tho amount of those colns outatund- in; andall purposes of mouncy may be said to b reduced. llA’l;:HN,D All:,'l;llfl o'l:lo flrvm})lmns:ur. innatchgn St Louis epublican (Dgm.). W.\IIIINGL':RN,';,JMI. 8.—Gen. Banuing, Mcm- ber of Congress’from Clucinnati, 1s authorita- “tively nunounced as a candldato for the Demo- cratic nominstion for Governor, , Bannlog has schieved some notoricty in Congrese by’ propos- ing plans for the reorganization of the army. Ho was defeated for o renomination last fafl, aud the succussful man was defeated by a Re- publiean at tho election. Banniug’s frienas bank a great deal on the fact that he anco de- feated R. B, Hayes for Congress and that he ia popular with **tha boys.’ flo fs not n great man by any means, and inost of the Obifo poli- ticiaun hers think Gen. Rice. now In Congress, waould be o better candidato for the party tu place In tho field. THE M'GARRAHAN LAND OA 34, ‘Thero 18 a falr prospect that the famoua Me- Garrahan case moy terminato before the world ends. This clalm has been In controversy twenlydycun. and has cost milllons. Benator QGarland has prepared a LIt which refers the cutlre subjoct to the Court of Claims for flual adjudication, with the right o n“enl to tho Unlteg Btates Bupreme Court. ts thought that the lands indispute rightfully belong to the Government, a8 neither McGarruban nor the New Idria Company, whlch 1s In posscssion of the property, bina ever received n patent for the same from tuo United Statos. If Garland’s bill passes, the clalms of the Government to the property will ba urged before thu Court. e — CANADA. ‘Vnncouver's Island and the Cunada Pacifie RNallway~Ottawa Biblo Socloty—Conservas tives Ignoring the Goverdor-GeneraleFara rell, the Murderor—Tho -Toronto Muyor- alty. Apectal Dispateh to The Tridune, Otrawa, Out,, Jan. 5,—A gontleman just ar- rived from the Pucillc Province states that tug mass of the people there aro indifferont as to which route (s ndopted so loug as tho Canada Pacific Rallway s speedily commeuced at fts western torminus. ‘The manilesta threatening separation If the union bo not carrled out, has uo support from the mass of the people, aud is ounly the volea of o fuw schoming - polie ticlans, Even shounld ths people of Van- couver's Island desire to form a Cruwn Colany, annezation to the States is uot &’ possl- bility, Tho wholo mountaln reglon will be loyal to the, Dominlon. The people of the Provine aro willtng to leave the quostion of routs to bo declded on profossions! testhinony, It fo u remarkablo fact that, whilstdiohtherin of a fatal character prevails to an alarming ex- tent {u the rural districts, this city is slmost frco from it. Thers have buon hutb very few fatal cases here, ¥ ‘The Commissloner of Crown-Lands for the Province of Quebec has uotifled the several Crown-Land Ageuts that no wore phosphate- minlog lcenses will bo fssued by the .Depart- weat, * A deputation representing the Ottawa Aux- fliary Bible Bocloly presented an sidress tu the Governor-tlencrat, aud requosted hils acceptance of the position of Patrou of the Baclety. The address cxpressed sstistaction at his appolut- went ss Uovernor-General, jolned in the glsd acclai-with which' tho Princess' Loutse has been -wolcomed, lamented tho dendlse of the Urond-Duchess of Iease-Darmutadt, sud said; *Tae [natitution In_connectiun with which wy apnear pofore your Excelleucy fainclose alliance with the Britlah & Forelgn Bidle Soclety, We eadeavor,’ a8 fur ‘as n our powcer, to en- courago awd further the beuelilent cu- ‘turprisa of that great Nousty Iu circulst- lug the .Mcripturca «througtiout the world, 2418 Dow does fo 320 ditferent lancuazes aud dialects. We vioarge ourselves also with the wbeetal duty of seclig that the lospirad Volume fs auly distributed ju’ tho Ottawa Vallays Our distribution (u It last yeer umounted ta 0,604 coples.?? The uddress closdd by referring to the poiustubing. tdulity :aud warl suceves with Which Lord Lorns bau put the sacred sougs of Bcripture futo a form wore avatlable than be- fure for populur use fu Engibin-sveaking cowu- wunities. 1lis Exceliency wade a suttably re--| uly, sud acceoted thy nouor confurred upos him o electiug bl Putrou of the Boutety, Sactul Luwich 10 Ihe TVisune. MosTursn, Jou. S—Tue Poiice Departwent ing. the last yvear, ambunted to £11,840, ~Thix week wilt ne obeerved by the local Evan. geltenl Alliance as n week of praver, ‘The Paynuster of the Lachine Canal offlee by been dlscnarged by the Dominlon Government, ‘The reason s stated to be, that hu tovk an get- ive part ju tha Dominiog elections in sypport of the lato Goyerninent, | b The Uka Indian case will procced, at Bt.Schol. astique, Iu the Clvil Court, on the 20th Inat,, a; wehich time thé dilenlty wotwoen Ehe Olia T dtans and the Seminary will come ap. The tonnage at'this port the past yeae wag Only 26,000 tons ledd than in 1870, dutfog whidy year thelargest tonnage wis L Specinl Dispatch (8. TM Tribuns, Y QUEBRC, * Jan, 5.—In connection with thy Lieutenant-Governor, a startiiug faature of the memorial to the Dominion authorities asking for i3 dismissal has just como to Hght, which ludl. cales that tha Qnebée: Conservatives are de. sirous of passing over the Marunis of Lorne an entlrely fanoring bim, oxactly s thoy did Licut,. Goy. Letellfer when they were In puwer hiere, A gentlemnn who saw - the mewrorial déclares pouitively that these gentlemen, afier quotlng tho 5th section of the Britiah Nortb-Ainerican act, adefse the Privy -Councll of - Canada, for reasons alleged, £ use it4 righty and dismiss the Lieutenant-iovernor. Not a word is ssid about thic Uovernor-General. Their conception of the Crown s, that i is an ornament, and nothing more, p . Ve A piimber of citieons are uslog their, excr. tlons with, Mr. T, McUreery, M. P, to, Induze bl to proceed ta Ottawa aud piead iwith the Minister of Justice fuf & commutatiol of Far. rell's death-sentence. While commiserating tno sad position fn which Farrell’s crime has vlaced him, all lnw-nhldlnF and thoughtiul citlzens sro nlmnfily of upinfon that, it capital punightnent is to be put intd execution at all, it ‘certainly should b ‘so lv the case of Farroll, trhoso crime was attended by no extenuating circunstances, aud whose disposition scems only to hayé beap hardeucd by his escape from punlshment for the brutal murdorof o man named Mahar, some years ago, whom he literal. 1y chopped to plecea with an ax. 1t Is contend- ed here, with somas showr-of reason, that there Is danger of not knowlng where such ontside futerfcrence with thy adminlstration of jusiice may end. : " Apecial Diwpatch 1o The Tridune, Tonroxto,' Jan. 5.—A petition containing 4)165 slgnaturcs was fled with the Registrar of the County of York, for. the,repeal of thy Dunkin Temperance dct. This 18 upwards of 1,000 over the number requircd hf Iasf to com- pel the submission of a repenl by-law. * There i3 a lively scrumble nere for the Mayor- alty thia yoar, there befug ho less than soyen condidates fn the fleld, viz.: Medealf, Man- ning,’ Close, Britton, -Beatty, Turner, nad French. All aro Conservatives except Turner, who {8 a Reformer. ‘Tle votiug takes place to- .morrow. - d Speclal Ditbatch to The Tribiine. IlastiLtoN, Jan. 6.—The followlng arc the valugs of exports to the United Btates for the month of Decemiser from the Port of Hainilton, as veritied at-the United Btates Consulate: Anlmals, 85,605; barloy, £3,100% beans, $110 malty 23,637.00; scw) ulr-mnulnnné - 84.560.73 skins of antmnals, ss,mvd-w- $245.20; wool, $3.019; miscollancpus, 8%458.40; total, $34,: 15140, Tho total value of exports ta thie United SBtates from the Diatrlct of Hamilton for the :j!;snl year. ending Bopt. '30, 1878, was $i,. © " CRIME. NEDRASKA VICTIMS OF THE STAXE. - Kearney (Neb.) Press. At noon to-day the bodles, or tather what re. malos of tha bodles, of Michell and, Ketetum werc brought to Kearnoy.' ‘They were found in o shallow grave only a short distance from their funeral pyre. We havenointention of aitemnpte Ing s ‘descriptfopot these remalns. The Koo 11sh Janguage ddes not contain words, -and we the revenue for whicl ' have mot command ;of expressions, strong .enongh to paint .\lie scene which is fllustrated by those charred and mutilated bodies. Re- ports which have been recelved during the past week wero suflllent to cause B ery of inuige nation to arise from every man in the enu- munity, bui tha reports ars nothing as com- pared with the reality. The two bodies Ho up- on a table In the undertaking establishment ot B, J.Bwits. Thoy are burned, bisckoned, aud mutilated beyond recoguition, destitute of clotbing, ears ‘and srms gope, flcsh cut and @ashed, muscles contracted, and a look of hor- riblo agouy upon tho faca of each. ‘Tho marks of tho “Joose ropes ™ ara.upon thelr cooks, jhe marke of tho hot irons are upon tholr wrists, apd the marks of the torturing-knife arc upon their bodles. ‘The knite did pot cut deey kill, but only deop enougn the most excruclating tor- ture ‘to -the sbricking victlm. 1f this -nitair were without foundation in fact, and merely the creation of the most scnsationsl novel-writer of this.country, is could not be picturea #o horrible as It fs. Tho bodles were saturated with oil before the match was applied. ‘They were hung by thelr mauacled wrists just high euough to keep them from getting awey’ from their barbarous captors, and then they wera mutilated, cut, and gashed, and tortured by flumiea burniog - tho bare flmb, lrur;{ wuich the skin had been rembred, until a death, long prayed for, cama to put s limit to thelr, terrible sufferings, . Wa haye soen all the horrors of war, but havo never beforo scen any sight so well (i trating the devilish jugouulty of Infuriated wen s thls, - . » — TOUNG CUMBACK, &ipecial Diepatch ta The Triduns. » INDIARAPOLIS, Lnd., Jan, 6.~Last night James M. ‘Cumback, nephew of the Hon. Will Com- . back, und for some years publishor of the Bhel- byville Kepulitéan, became intoxlcated. While 1n that condition he was robbed of 850 and an overcoat, and then thrown helpless and wounded into an allay. When found ho was uoarly dead with cold, and bis coundition is yet criticat, - ¥ > s R YT TO MEXICO. Commanientlons lnd.lhlolntiunl of the £1+ ' * ourslon Now on Ite Way South, Camo, IIL., Jan, 5.~The following mossaze .| bas been sent to Minister Zamucona by the “American excursionists: To hjs Ercellency Senor Don Munwel de Zama- cona, Mexican Minwter, Washington: The Ameri- can Indastrisl deputation haroby tender thoir ro- spects 10 you fur your broad and Hbetal vigws 242 statesinan, and thanke for conrtesies shown to tald depdtation on behalf of your Governinent. Uu board train, Jan. 5, Jouy I sk, ve = Fresldent of the Duputation, BYRoN Asuuzws, Secrotary, . Davio Wurrixo, 4 Man axer. At ameeting of the deputation st Ceatrally, -on the Oth, Col. Whiting i the chair, tho tol- | lowing was offered by Mayor Bluck, of Miiwag- kee, and seconded Ly Me, Burke, of Cloveland, and unanimously adonted; % Wisuras, Mr. Potter Palmoe, of the Palmer Houav, Chicago, has, from the {nceution of the ndustrial deputation to Mexico, uvidenced tos warmust interest in the enterorive, und oy practicsl carnestness ayd cordial support contnbuled inrgely 1o ity suce g g 3 Lesolred, ‘Yhat wa hereby place on record our EBraterul sppreciation of his esteemed co-operation and profuse hospitality, especially 1o regard to the superu banquel wiven' to tho duputation op the eveuing of the departuze of the deputativn from Chicagy. lmfl‘:ml. ‘That the Bocrelary of the deputation forward a copy of the above 1o Mr., Falwer gad the Wedtern Asvactated Press, e THE JOLIET PENITENTIARY, - dveclal Jjapateh (o The Tridues, Jortez, 1L, Jan. 5 —The Jollet Penitentiary, which Juriog the summer: was self-sustaiviog, Is very nearly so now, natwithstauding the heavy cxtraordinary expenscs I, winter for fuel, clothes, aud blanketing. For .tho fiscal year rmllngt‘ pt, 80, 1578, the cost of walotaiu- Ing the prison'(ubfside of permanent’ linprove wents) was 8314,457.81, or $121,28 for each cou- viet, The permapent imipruyements for the past vour amuunted Lo 819,000, tociudivg $7,500 for new gas-works and $2,000 for & greou-bousy while the totdl cost’ of the prisun grounds s bulldloge, Tucludiog all’ permanent $naprove- meuts, has been $1,833,830.80. The first a0~ wropristion was made in 1857, and the st convicts were recclved {from Alton) fu 1558, Sincw ‘that thue, up o the closa of last year, 12,410 convists have beon confived withlu the prisvg, of ‘whem i diod, TT were seut to the Ivsane Hospnaly 1 ltl wyra psrdoned, aud 229 cscapedt B:vemr elz t escaped vouvicts bave beva recaptured fo the same period. These statlstics bave nevet belore beew pubill Bluce Jaa. 1, 1871, Lo buegluolug of tue Wardeaship of Elmer Wasb- burn, coly tweuty-ive meu bave uwwd.'-nd thuy sawe bumbes have been recaptured. ‘Tue old year closed with 1,523 wale and £3 female wunvlcts in the prison, “Fhe averags number v lumates during 1573 was 1L,71090 The laruest wuwnber ou uoy vne day during tbe year, and 1i¢ largest ever fu the prison, was Ouw March 1% whea the couut rau U W LK The s Ilw“ number for the yeur was 1,543, the wagregate 9% Dec. 8L 19738 tasued 8,410 licenses o carters and others dur. *