Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1879, Page 1

VOLUME: XXX1X WY, G008, Ftc FOREIGN White Goods, Embroideries, Ete., E-tc. Field, Lexter & Co. WABASH-AV., e particular attention to aclect I"Il}":u';lam opening, of their own {mportation, in French Nainsooks, Plafn and Embroldered Organdies and Swiss Mustins, Siriped and Plain Lawns, PIQUES, fo Cords, Figures, and Stripes. Choice Shadcs for Evenlng. épangled Tarlatans and Plain Tarlatans In Al Colors. EMBROIBERIES! Most complete variety of Designs n EDGINGS and INSERTIONS We have exer imporied. Colored Embroideries, in Novel Combinations, Embrofdered Antiques Chuny, and Nottingham Tidies, ANTISTIC TAILORING. " DISCOUNT - OnallGarments oylered of us during Pebrnary. Bpring Ytyles Osyued. Standard (l:e FXighoest. EDWARD LY & (0., Tailors, Wabash-av., cor, Monroe-st. HENRY J. MILLIGAN sev- ered all connection with our house Jannary 1, 1879, — MEATH & MILLIGAN, Trathe bt elghicen years connected witlh tho houss nua h & 3M0lLzan, hav severed Lts canneetfon witly .nm;fllnd kone lato business at 173 Randolph-ot,, oy P. Wil pay particular attentiun to HOUSE snd AISTING and Interlor Decorating, __suGans. ABSOLUTELY BURD SUGAR! Just rocotvod, Another shipment o Clarified Whito Now Orlosna H ezar.whtnh Wwe recommend. Price, onts. Granulated, 9 conts, HONG RONG: TEA CO. 1 .& X2 Madison-st, ¥anufaeturing and Dock Property. *yJOR EALY: Bruuch (ALt on the Nort) Brancy, snd Nort Lclhs Al 40l o tho Surtwestern and 106 C5) o o1 tavorable termy. CCAGH TANT Cospayy, Lot i Oeden Bulidy a e anil Clark: ANCIAL, RE P STON, Keay & (0., P:D‘! WASIINGTONST, fater it comtantly o Land, for sale ator $200,000 .chfi“'.l‘l;l‘_‘nl Ul':,fl"l‘!. Any part of ; ‘arrants (ocrl TR Byl e e A 4 4 }m«\w&'&MWAM ELMEN AND OTHERS | .’:‘\“&A:.m ek 84 thete b tccu for caah e 33 al, esyin, et ..:u"ét{i“‘&. X EY TRt m 05uses 't JOLS DAVIECS by WASHINGTON. Probability that the Demo- crats Will Force an Extra Session. The Means Found to Lie in Riders to Appropria- tion Bills, Fear of Death in the Slight Demo- oratio Majority the Leading Reason, The Majority of the Honse Committee Pre- sent Grave Charges Against Robeson, He Is Alleged to Have Frit- tered Away About §665,000,000. The President of the Western Union Company Writes o Letter of Explanation. Ho Urges that His Company Shonld Not Be Blamed for the Exposure of Demooratio Rascelity, AN EXTRA SESSION. MEANS OF AND REASONb FOR ONTAINING 1T, #pectal Dispateh 1o The Tribune. Wasminoton, D. C., Feb, 9.—There can bhe no Jonger auy doubt that there Is & very consid- crable following of Democrats whe are deter- mined, it possible, to forco an oxtra sessfon. If the Democracy declde that su extruseasion shall bo called, it is, of course, cutirely within thelir power to do so, It 1s evident, huwever, that the Democrats who wish an extra scsslon are anx- lous to make the Repnblicans appear to be tech- nleally responsible for i, The method choson 18 tp attach partisau political legialation to the appropriation bills, in the expectation that the Republican majority in tne Benate will reject the bill, Af neceasary, which contalns it, and thus make o calicd sesslon inevitable. T'wo propositions the Democrats have selected as the means of securing such a result. They are the Juror's test-oath and the Federal Super- vision law. It bas been posaiblo for the Demoe- racy to hring hoth theso measures before Con- gress for consideration as independent proposi- tions at any time within the last four years, when they have had a' majority in the Lower House, and have had control of the orzaniza- tion of that bady, They have not cliosen to do 50, but have left it to the last fow dags of the lust session of this Congress, THERE HEMAIN NOW ONLY BEVENTEEN DAYS QF TIIS CONGILESS, the 224 of Fobruary belng a legal holiday, and parts of at least two of tlicse days have been #ct apart for eulogies. There Is every reason to think that 1f the bill to repeal the juror's teste oath was presented to the Houso oaan induce- ment Weasure it would recelve a iare Repub- Hean vote. But there is ¢ood resson to doubt whether it wonld receive any Republican voles i presented asa strictly varty measure, und as a rider to au appropriation billy accompanicd by o threat. The Suporvision Inw is a different matter. The Republican party, which euncted the law in the days when ft cost the United 8tates so much to declare that (his country Is a natlon, will . not surrender without & atrupele almost e Jast remnant of reconstruction legislation upon the statute-books, mul the very law which enables the General Governinent to vrotect the purity of the ballot, or to ussert the doctrine of nu- tlonal suvereignty, ‘The movement on the part ot the Democrats to repeal thut law, it is well understoud, mesus that THE ATATE-RIOUTS TIEORY 15 TO PRRVALL, amd that the doctrine s agaln to beannuncluted, that the United States have no right to exercise thelr authority within the States. Some Hee publicans say that the question of the supremacy of the Nutlonul Qovernment s Involved In the Bupervision law, and that the Republicans would oppose Its repeal ut whatever hazard of an extra seasion, ‘The Republicans, warnes! by the reswit I Bouth Carollne, In defiance af the Supervision Inw, will not willingly repeal the only law by which fraud agalust the Na tionsl bulivt ean be punished. The adjourned Dotnocratie caucus, to be held to-morrow night, will doubtless deterinine the question whether the Demovracy wilt ndhicre tu this positlon, At present there seems to be Hetle doubt that at thut caticus uu extra session wili be deterinined upon. Aslde from the political uspects of the vise, there ars. MANY REASONS by which the Democrats uro [ntiucnced {n thelr dealre to secure nn extra scasion. Among them arv these: First, anxicty to obtain control of the Senate uml the three hundred oftices i its wift, Hecund, the destre of 8peakership candidutes to Liave the ouse hnmediately orguntzed, Hesldes the continguncios of delay, of death working in Ui narrow wajority, und the fact of the very considerable nnd unknown factor in the Houso represented oy the Ureenbackers, the possibil- ity of combiuations to defat the Bourbon cons trol of the uext orzanization also influence many of the lea to co-operate for an extru sessfun, Blackburn and MeMahon,—both Spcakerahip vandidates,—are aald to ugreo with Raudull fu thelr deslro to sccure this end, ‘Fhlrd, then come the jobs, which are likely to bo defeated at thia Congress, as the Republie- ans cotrol the Benate, The jobbers want a called sceslon so thut they can get thelr meas. ures through, und {n order to take advantago of subslay aud other grants durlug, the coming session. OTIUEN MEANS, It may be that the Republican Senstors will refusu to vote for the Army Appropriation bill on account of the clause which probibits army ofllcers having troops under their commana when an election Is belng beld to keep the 2] 4t the polls. Reoublivan Seuators, however, arv woll awaro that, although they may reluse to cunsent tu this leglalation now, it will fn that case be enacted by the Democratic Senate uml House when they ssaciable. It would thien be ONLY A QUESTION OF A FEW MONTIS' TINE ns. to thu aduption of such leglsla- tlon. 8everal Jeading Democratic Bena- tors are carnestly opposed to a catled session. One thing is certain, the detenmination of the President fs not to call Congress together it ho can avold {t, and, € thers must be a sesslun, he will not pe Bkely to call it for some months to come, ‘fhe ditferent devartments of the Gov- erument bave existed tive or six mnouths withs vut violating the law or without available ap- propristion, snd it may bo thought posslble to do that sguln. THE CIPIHERS, RETURN OF TUE 3UL-COMMITTER. , Speciul DispatcA 0 The Tridure Wasmxozox, D. C., Feb. 9.—The Clpter Sub- Cuminittes has returoed to Washingtow, but the fnvestigation bas oot yet ended. Enough is proven, however, 40 enuvlo thuse who have fol MONDAY lowed the testimony hero to form a very satfs- factory conclusion asto the effect of the mar- velous testimony that has been taken In New York City, Thereis but onc conclusion in Re- publican circles here, which {s that nobodv be- leves the teatimony of Tilden or of any of the coparceners who have heen so busy In swearing to each other’s Ignoraoce nnd Innocence, while Tilden's defense—that of Ignorance or mental “paralysis—Is regarded as the weakest of all. No one believes that the man who forced himeelf upon his party, who purchased public mentiment, who bought up opposition and hired aidvocacy, whose Presi- dentlal campalgn was atrictly personal, and who attended to the minutest detnils of the cam- palen, greatly to the diegust of the party man- agers, forzot all his' corruption, craft, and cun- ning on the night of Nov. 5, and retirea to hls chamber as an Innocent imbeclle, who kuew nothing of the eampaign of cash and craft that was being managzed by the inmates of his own household, who had also been his most {m- nortant sgents throughout the Presldential cam- palzn. A meettug will be held to-morrow. No witnueses have yet been summoned, but the Democrats will probably subpena ‘Fox and Wuolley, nid the Republicans Dyke, editor of the Floridian, and Harding Bolomons, who, Smith Weed teatified, was the go-between In the 8outh Carolina fnvestigation. EXPLANATION NY THE TELEORAPH COMPANY, To the Western Assoclated Press, Wasninaetoy, D. C., Feh, 8.—The Dotter Committee recelved the following letter: NEew Yonk, Feb, 8, 1870.—7he Hon. Clark- son N, Dotter, Chairman—3in: 'The testls mony recently elicited by vour Commit- tee cvoncerning this Company’s actlon {n re- rpect to the politicnl telegrams taken from us in 1870-'7 by the Sennte nndd House Committees’ suhpenas appears to have been so unifurmly wisunderstond by the press as ta make it now seen vroper Lo nm[m‘y the satne by way of wuarding agaivst a like ‘misaoprebiension on the part of the Committea ftself, und of the mem- vers of the Houae, Accordingly, I respecifully submit the following brlef ™ statement of facts, ril of which already appear woon the rec- orls of Congress, asking “thmt it be laid before your Comitteo uud spread upon its records, to thie end not only thint a correet history of these transactions may appenr, but, at the zame tine, aslmpleact of jusiiee may be dono thereby to the Gompauny which I have the honer to repre- sent In the resuiting vindication of its late nd present admintstration PROM ANY CHARGE OF POLITICAL BIAS in the condtiet of its business, The plain truth is thut the Company, recognizing a creat inoral obligation to prescrve savred from u threateneat exposure all telegrams committed to ita conl- dence wid keeplng, both befors and after the service of the subpenas, resorted to every legit- imate and proper device consisient with o aue respect for the authority of Congress to prevent such exposare, by ‘o timely trauvsfer of the mensagzes from the custody of the managers nnd oflicers llkely to bo catled upon to produce them to the excentive oflicers in New York, aidd thenee, by a resolution of the Excentive Commlttee of the Bosrd of Dircctors, from the custody of the exccu- tive officers to that of the Exgeutive Com- mittee iteelf, When, therefore, Manawer of the New Orleans ofllce, was. sub- by the Morrlson Comioittec, almost all clegrams he was called upon to produce hnd been taken from his custody, and ho had no rower to produce them. Ho, also, when the Presldent was brought to the bar of the House for coulempt, he was enabled to plead that he he had not the custudy of the messazes endled for fn his submnenn. The proceedings of the Houso of Reyrcaentatives us published In the Conyressional Jlecord show tlnt My, Orton hin- a¢ll, on this occasion, Unough the statements of hls answer ns to the attitinle taken by the Exccutive Commlttee, DISCLOSED TO THE HOUSE PULL INFORMATION a8 to how the mcasages could be reached, but, notwithstundlng this fact, 10 member of the House or of 1ts Commnittees saw fit at the i toact wpon the Information thus given. ‘lhe Sonate Cumnmittee, however, took the nitiative, und, scudlvr limmediately to New York on the next day, surved overy miember of the Compa- ny's Exceutive Commiites with n sweening sub- penn, which demanded the vroduction of all inessages to or from 1he prinelpal ofliees o5 the Compuny whers uny important potltical tele- jerusns were supposed to have been reut or re- eelved. Under thia - subpeun the Executive Committes (compused sbout equally of mem- bers of the two political parties) proceeded with the messages 10 Washington, where, soun after arrival, they were served with a Wke aweeping © subbena from the House Commitice. A meetimg of the Exceutlve Conunlitee was theseuvon held, nud, by resolutlons then passed, it was dechded to respect the service on the Company’s President and Commuttee altke, sml to surrender to the Houss Comnlittee atl the mmessazes vovered by fts subpenia to Prestilent Orton, this belng prior in time of service to the subpans from the Commitive of the Senate, mid to surrend?r to the Benato Committes all the messages covered by its subpana, this last beine prior fn thne of Its servico Lo the ke subpienn trom the Com- mittes of the House, St wus furiher resolved to comply s far as possible with THE CONFLICTING BUBPMNAS, that whichever fafted to recelve the original mesunges shonld have coples of all such orlzimals ns wero dellverad to the other Committes, or, it it should be concluded that the hinmense Inbor of copyine might bo saved, then that the Comnnfttee ~ of cliher Iouse holdine origlnal messuges should agree the cmbers of the Committes of the other [fousu which had called for them should luwa free aecess to examine such orignals, wid to make copies therefrom if de- Mirel. A copy of these resolutious, of which the furcedoinig 18 the substance, wus served upon esch Comuiittee on Jan. 1, mid, on the $ith of Junuury, Senator Bsrgent wrote Lo the Company atiug that the Committee of the Senats had conterred with the Committee of the [House, agd that the alternative or Intter feature of thy abuve-mentioned arpingenient was secepted us entirely satlaactory to both Commilitees, TIE SURKENDLI OF TIE MEASAGES was then made, but not until the Company had urgently endeavored to limpress upon the re- rfluuli\'c Commlttees the necessity of guarding thio telegzrunus from theft, sl from disclosurs to others than those who from thelr position upon the Committees were entitled to their m- spection, It will bo scen that vur course i thiess matters was strictly fute and Dinpartias We were powerless o take further precaution in the premises, aid we ars In 1o manner res sponsible for thy eubscquent joss of tho tele- cans {ntrusted to the Beaats Committes, | avo the bonor tu_remaln, very resneetfully yours, Nonvix Gresy, vresldent, ROBESON. THE WAY LI BAN THE NAVY. Wasuisgroy, D, C., Feb, 0.—Rupresentative Whigthorne hiay been authorized to preseat the roport of the mafority of the Ilouse Navai Cous- tittes In relation 1o the admimstration of the Navy Department under 8veretary Robeson, [t suys: *‘During the elght years of Itobeson's adninistration thero disappeared from the Nuvy Register the nuroes of seventy vessels, of which five wera lost at sca, und forty-slx were sold uml the procecds pald futo the Treasury, ‘Thres wero sold und thelr proceeds pald over to con- tractors, und twenty were destroyed by order of Robuson und the matertals cut up patd over or credited to contractors, I this deatroyed prop- erty, which cost the Goveeninent $100,000,000, fs credited st only £50,000,000, we havo un ex- penditure during eight ycars of over $2:42,000,- 000, The propety sold und disposed of would certainly bave yielded a revenus of 820, 000,000 to any prudent private Individual, In fact, the Goveroment recelved from it less than £2,000,000, Now, subtracting from the annual appropriations for the navy the sums applicd to its maintcuance, it is found thut over $81,000,000 were appticd to construction, equipiment, und srimament. This makes nearly §95,000,000 ap- pied to construction,—u sun which, it applicd 1o bulldiog war vesscls, WOULD HAVE GIVEN US SEVENTY NEW VESSELS Jike the Treuton, ouo of the best ln the vavy, & number sulllcient to have made the navy at vuce respectablo and useful.” laquiring next whether the Jaws coucted for the goverument of the gaval servico and the protection of the Govern- ment's nterests have been observed, the Com- witteq say they are constrained by the facts and thelr sense of duty to the House and the country to suswer Lhat thess laws have not been ob- served or obeyed, but, oo the contrary, have FEBRUARY I( heen disregarded and violated, and they further answer thint large sums of public money amd large quantities of public property have been, in the sdministration of the naval service, ille- eally disposcd of. A number of instances are declared to be violations of law, nmong which czard of the law requiring supjiles to be purchased of the lowest bidder, nind that re- quirng proposats to be accompanied hy a writ- ten guarantce and suretles, which, the report states, has been wholly funored In OvER B30 CAsEs, ‘The provisions of the law requiring that no von- tract shall be made unless authorized by law under an appropriation avequate to its falfill- meut have been violated in contracts made for the rebuilding of the Mouadnock, Miantonomah, Amphritite, aml Puritan. The daw forbidding advance payments in excess of work done or prior to delivery of materials as been disre- warded in the dellvery of inaterials to Roach and others, The law orohibiting suy department from exceedlng 1he appropriations made by law 18 declared to have been disregarded, unid the report goes on at o considerable leneth, asscrting a almilar dis- tegard of the law. The report says that, up to the cvlose of Robeson’s ndmiulstration, low prices, while having their effect on ceneral bust- ness, did not affeet the trade of the Navy Dee partment, BOILERS were contracted for with flunt, Roach, ani Garaner fn 1830 and 1877 at the prices which had [;n:vnllcd in the years before, Hunt, fudeed, el gz paid higher prices than he had previously built for, and bis explanation that the sume high prices were pald Lo other partles is no doubt correct. From 30 to $214 centa per pound for Uollers was coutracted Lo be pald these partles, when, If eompetition bad been admitied, it s the opinfon of the Committee thut the cost could have been reauced to trom 18 to 20 cents per pound. But perhaps the greatest loss i ju tho purchuse of live wuk tim- ber. It appears, from the report of Leathall and Isherwoud, and the proot of Chiel of Bureau Eashy, thatlargoquantitieaof inferfor onk have been purchased und sllowed to rot from exposure, This could not have happened if the report of contracta had been made to Con- gresk, as directed by the law, | TILE BOPT THING M’KATY GOT HOLD OF, Again, it 1s shown_ that McRay boucht at private sale the ship Delaware for 85,155, und that, after realifing over 220,000 wut of the matérlal.removed from the sblp, he sold the hutl for 85,000, ‘T'he Severn was advertised to be sofd. Anauction was hod and o bid made which the Secrctary did not conlirm. Sub- sequently sl'e was turned over to John Roach at $20,000, though other parties were anxious 10 know of the deeretary the usked, uml were willing to give more, “The Committes especially rofer to the report of Chief-Enzineer King in ‘relation to the disposition of larze quantities of matertul at several of the navy- yards, resulting in larze losses to the Govern- ment, TIE RESPONSIBILITY, The Committee tind that, for the indebtedness of the uavy at the time of the mvestization, mul for the unlawfui sals wil disposition amwounts of property belonemg to the Go ment, und for the unlawful disposttion of lary sumsa of publle moncy appropriated for the naval service, George M. Robeson, Iate Scereta. ry ol the Navy, W, W. Wood, late Cafef of the Burcau of Steam Enginegrtow, Justah Hauscomn, Chlet of the Bureau of! Construction nul Re- paur, and the Chfef of tho Buteau of Provistons und Ciothlng fron 1873 to March, 1877, are chiefly responsible. By the late Chief of Bureau of Provisfons and Clothing, Fayinaster Wat- margh, it Is watd that, befng Acting Chief alone lluru? the greater part of this time, he felt bounl, without contrary instructions from the hiead of the Departinent, or the real head of the Bureau, Paytnuster-Geuernl Bradford, to pursue the polley ot bls said Chiel, ‘This being so, would tend greatly to reljove bio, THE COMMITTER RECOMMEND that the conduct of Chlet Engineers Stewart, Fithtan, und Henderson, nnd I'aymaster Russcl be lnguired bsto. “The report concltides by de- cluring that 1t 18 the duty of the House 10 mark Jts coudemmation of the B prireticesof these former oificera of the Navy Departtnent, amd iu- vite the attention of the Exceutive Department, unut which rests the respousibllity of further uction fo the premiscs, NOTES AND NEWS, EFFECT OF RUACI'S JUNKETS, Special Dixpatch to The Trivune, Wasmisurton, D. C, el .—The following statement showa the munuer tn which Roach il his Jobby expest to secure the incorporation of the Brazilian steamship subsidy amendment I the Post-Oflice Avpropriation bill. Losch il [ifs assistants express themselvos contldent of suceess. 'Lhey clnfm that of ' the Appronria- tions Comymnlttee seven witl vote §n favor of fo- corporating the Brazilfun subsidy schicme [ the Post-Oflics Approvriation bill, und will, of course, support the ncasure. ‘Theso gentlemen will also antagonize the poiut of order thnt will be ralacd by the opponents of the subnaidy, to the cffect that, secording to the pro- viston of Rule 0, the proposition cannat prop- erly e recelved as on smienduient to s gencral appropriution” bl When the pulut of order was raised on this identleal subsuly last year, nt the thing that the attempt was made to ride it on the Poat-Oftice Appropriution dill, sl which point of order the Scunte sustained by a vote of $2to &, tive members of the Approprintions Committee voted in the minority,—~to wit: Messrs, Blalne, Datls, Dorsey, Sargent, aml Withers. Messrs. Wisdom and Beek voted in the afirmatlve, whilo Messrs, Alltson and Walleew did not vote at all, The only member of this year's Appropri- atlons Committes who will oppose the granting of the proposed donation to Joha Roach 18 Mr, Beek, of Kentucky, Mr. Window, although against cografting the measure [nto any appro- priatiun bl belfeving that such o procecding would be n violution of Ruly 24, declares thut he will vote for she subaidy s an fndependent proposition. With this powerful backing from anu of the wost nflueatlol Commit of the Benate, it would be alinost mirsculous if the antl-subshiyites conhl nrevent the project from lhtxlr‘m!mz 8 part of the Post-Oflles Appropriation il PIOSPECTIVE ACTIO! Among those whuse names stul near the bead of the st flor recozmtion by the Spealier on Mouday, and wha will move u suspension uf 1 vy are Revresentatives Paiilins, Manning, Hooker, aid Ewlig, - Me. Fhltlips will muve to tuke up the Posal Savings Bank bill, Mr. Munotine will proposs i repeat of the juror's test-oath ol dees T Ruvised Statules, whleh requires atllroul prool of fuyalty from all clminsts for war dumages, M. Houker has an omnibus s e dor the completion of publle buildiwzs North and Seuth, und Mr, Ew- bz will avk Congress to avpropriate unkimlied millions for the paytient of arrears of penslons. i QUEBEC'S FIRST RAILROAD. Apecial Dispatch ta The Tribune, Quenee, Feb. 9.—The new Nurth Store Rail- way between this eity wind Montreal Is ngw an accompllsned fact, and the feat regular tram will run to-morrow, The distauce, 180 miles, wiil be run ia a litlo wore than six huurs, thouwh by the Grand ‘Truuk ten hours, or all nlght, is taken, This 13 the frst rallway rune ning fnto ihe Clty of Queber, und isexpected to quickly double the eity's trade wnd bring bere the shipolog trade of Michigan lum- ber and Cileaeo wheat, bitherto tranship- ped elther at Montreal, Halifax, or New York. The Hoeno Me, MceGreevy, contractor, and the Hou, Mr. Joly, Premier, of Quebee Provinee, arrived from Montreal last night by the flrst through train on the line, Five thousand people witnessed tho arrival of the ‘traty, snd loudly applauded ft. Sir. Joly was cscorted 1o his resldence from the stutlun by an imumcnse torchlizht procession, On the way from Montreal Mrs. Joly, wifout the Pro- mier, drove the last guike (s shiver ouc) ou the roud with g sllver humfir, presented by the con tructor at Terre Bound. The e cost §11, OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Queexstowy, Feb. 0.—Ariived, the Britanole and Celtle, from New York, thelatter before re- ported disabled. Prymoutn, Feb, O0.—Arrved, the Gellert, from New York, for Hambury. Loxpox, Feb. 9.—Tho steamer Peace, {rom Poiladelphia, Jas, 15, for Havre, Is sunk (o wvre harbor, It {s supposed shie struck a oile. 187 FOREIGN. A Very Serious Condition of Things at Liver- pool. Proclamation of the Mayor Calling on Able-Bodied Citizens for Aid. The Russinn Peasants in tho Plague Districts Killing ‘Their Doctors. Investigators Find that the Big Gun in the Thunderer Was Doubly Loaded. The Boards of Trade of (ermany Con- demn Bismarck’s Tariff Scheme. Bismarck's Henohmen Accept a Blight Modification of the Gag Bill. GREAT BRITAIN. THE THUNDEMER. Loxnoy, Feb, §.—~The Admiralty pnblish the following statement: *‘Iho Committes appointed to investigate the disaster on Ier Majesty's iron.clad Thunderer, discover that tho gun which expluded had already been loaded with an extra charge, which missed fire, when a full charge was imnserted and fired, aud the explosion occurred.” LIVERPOOL, Livesroon, Feb, 9.—There was no dis- turbsace here to-day. An additional force of 300 infantry and cighty cavalry arrived to nesist, if necessary, in prererving order, A UVESS EXFECTED TO HIT IF IT'S A DEEL, Losvoy, Ieb. 9.—A correspondent at Liverpool estimates the number of snilors now on strike at Liverpool at from 7,000 to 15,000, Tho authorities are arranging for a speedy landing, if it i necessary, of 250 snilors and marines from a mau-of-war. SEIIOUS ASPECT. Loxnoy, Feb, ‘Tho police supprossed an attomptod riot at Liverpool Baturday by promptly altacking a band of 200 men who were matching toward Queen's Dock. Four thousaud five hundred more laborers joined in the strike in Liverpool aud Birkenhead Saturday, mnny of themn through fear, and 1,600 are expected to join to.day. 'The sailors on strike hnave been joined by foreign sailors and firemon on the ocean stenmers. The JMayor, in o proclamation, calls on all well. disposed inhabitanta to assist in the wain- tonance of the pence. STHIKE OF ENGINEERS, Loxnoy, Feb, {.—There nro now 2,500 engineers on a striko in London, TURKLEY. EXILED. CoNsTANTINOPLE, Feb, %, —Ruchdi Pasha, formerly Grand Vizier, has been exiled. THE DEFINITIVE THEATY BETWEKN RUSSIA 3 NI TURKEY_ provides that all the Sau Stefano sfipulations which wero modified by the 'Freaty of Derlin shall remnin as modified. The romaming wtipulations aro abandoned in faver of the prosent treaty, by which the war indemnity is fixed at 300,000,000 of paper roubles, and sottlement is deferred. The payment for the nuintonnnce of the Turkish prisoners will be by twenty-one instullments, but is not to begin immediately, The exnminstion of nacconnts is expected to lnst two or threo years, 'fhe Russinn evacuation of Turkish territory will be completed forty days after tha ratification of the treaty. "T'he Hecretary of Prince Labanoff, Russian Ambassador at Coustantinople, bas already started for 8t. Potersburg with the treaty of ratifieaticn, and scveral Ilussinn command. ers have boen notified of ita terms, ENGLAND, CoxsraNTINOrLE, Teb, 9.—It is sald the Porta hns received informntion that the Drit- ish Governmont will not raise in Parliament thu question of guaranteelng the loan. GREECE. Atuexns, Feb, 9.—It is rumored nufavora- blo news lins been roceived from the frontier negotiatros, GERMANY, DISMARUE'S FINANCES, Benny, Feb. h.~Tho Lower Hounxe of the Prus ian Dict read s sceoud time the budget for 1879, the ruveunty und expenditure cach Lelug ostimnted at 711,300,750 marks, The Couference of Delegates from the Chambers of Commerco iu the different parts of the German Empire bave expressed an opinion ngainat the customs progranune of is. marek, TIUE BUCK-AND-GAG, ‘The Federal Council hns adoptsd tha Par- liamentary Discipline bill as moditied by the Comunittee, HANOVER. Tho Prussian Cress Gaxctle says: “Itis stated in well-informed circles that Bismarck has dotermined to finally settle the Guelph. fund queation.” THE MONUS VIVENDUM. Loxpoy, Fob, §.—A dispatch from Rome saserts thut the statoment relative to the agreement for the reorganization of tho Ger- uian dioceses is untrue, So far, the various suggestions which have been mude by both Gurmany aud the Yutican for sottling the question of tho compromised Bishops have proven resultless, NAPOLE SEVER EXPECTED ANYRODY Tu GET AL ABOUY 5UCH A THING, Loxpoy, Feb, 9.—A dispatch from Ger- many suys the Governmeut daes not approe hond any display of irritation from Denmark in regard to the treaty with Austris, Lut vxpects rather o proposal for uu amicable settlewent of the Bchicswiyg questiou. THE PLAGUE, ¢ GREECE. Atuens, Fob, 9.—Greoce has established a rigorous (uarautine, both on land und sus, as o precautionary weasure ogainst the Plagus; 1N NUSSIAL Sr. Perenssusa, Feb. 8,—An oflicial dis. patch detod Astrachan, Feb. 8, reports that thers ore no cases of plague at Wotlianka. A doubtful case has appeared at Nicalajedoskl, in the Goverowent of Baratoff, 6,000 versts from Astrachan., Several now aud fatal casus are roported at Selitreno. Gen. Loris Meli. koff arrived st ‘Tzaritzin this morniog. ‘Iroops for the sanitary cordon, and convoys of stores, provisions, etc., aro continual’ arriving at Izaritzin. / TYPRUS, Toxnoy, Feb, 9,—Count Zichy, Austas Ambnsasdor at Constantinople, telegrapl; Vienna that the typhus fovor, not the pl_ is provalent near Xanthe, in Thessaly, MASSACH A dispatch from Derlin states that, in a village near Astrachan, the populace have minssacred ths doctors, believing that they poisoned their patients, AFGIIANISTAN, YAKOOB, Loxpoy, Feb, {,.—A dispatch from Haza pir says Wali Mahomed's presence at Jelala- bad is necessary becauso of the negotintions proceeding between the Government and Ynkoob Khan, Mahomed thinks Yakoob will continue to reaist until the Amcer is dead. PATIIOTISM * FANATICISML® At Candahar five fanatics dashed into thae Dritish comp Thursday and wounded soven meon, Throe soldiers were nlso accidentally shot, one fatally, daring a disturbance. The fanatics were killed. FRANCE, CONGRESS, Pans, Feb, 9.—The Chambers, it is said, after a few more rittings will adjourn to March, when they will discuss urgent bills, aund then adjourn till May, . OBITHARY, Panis, Fob. 9.—Nicholas Clairville, a dramatio author, ia dead. DY MAIL. A RUKOPEAN TARIFP UNION. Spectal IsputcA 0 the Landon Times. Pans, Jan. 25.—The Journal des Deta's has taken ndvantage of the present dearth of news to favor I8 readers with a pretty lttle sketchof an economic Utopla, n which the Procctionlstst of all the countries of Europe see the crror of their ways, uational rlvaleles are lala at rest, nid men throughout the Contlnent joln hands in a great und beautiful enterprise 1o be con- surumated “in the establishinent of a customa unfon of Central Europe.”” M. Molinar, the lugenfous nnd eloquent autbor of this far- reachlog scheme, does not see why an extension of the Zolivercin snould not be attemnpted,— why the States of Uentral Europe should not follow the exomple of the natill more numerous {icrman Statea In a course which has been so frwitful in good economic resuits to all parties concerned. The bulk of the revenuea derived from customs du- tles throughout the Contluent is obtatned from extrn European products, Why tax uind re-tax! Why not tax these articles once for all on the frontier of Ceutral Europs and share the prod- uce after the manner of the German {ntont What saving of labor would be thus effected; how the number of officlals would be curtulled; how wo rhould be able to traverse Centrul Europe from east to west and north to south, our hoxes never belng opened by [nquisitive Customs officers; how manufacturers would re- Jofee ut the removsi of harassing fmpedlments to the cireulation of thefr wares: bow everybody would be benetiied and the great cause of peace promoted! M, Molinari lays before hin readers # unnberof caleulutions showing how this ideal might be realized: **The establishment of a common tarlff would not to oll appearunces meet with very serious dittieuteles, Tlie different nations to which the union would at first extend—~rrance, Belelum Holland, Denwark, Germany, Austria, and Hwitzerland—have arrived at ‘about the. ssme dezree of economle development. They have in turnrenounced the prohibitive syatens, and, a though ki different deirrevs, chusen a polley of cutnuierclal liberty, The tariffs micht easily bo reduced to o mean which would not sensibly differ, except in a0 few poluts, from the speckal tanift of cach." ‘The atlutment of the revenue nmonis the asso- clated States would present, he thinks, ¢itticu tea more spparent than real. In the case of t) Zollveretn the number of the ponulution served as the buels with certam moditleations baving the object of compensating adinitted or pre- sumed differences 1 the extent of consumption i the respectiveo States, The ditllenlties fun the care of “the Zollvereln re surnlountes “ Why," asks M. Moliuarl, hould they uot he urmounted jo a cass only more extended!" I'hie only really serioun difliculty, says M. Moll- nard, would lte in the asshinliution of the excie syatems of ditfercut countries, in France the rate of escise duties Ia hizhest; It is £o high thut It tramamels both consumption und collection, 1t might be lowered, while other countrivs, es- pecally Germuny, would unly bu too glad to ralss theles, An understunding would be more diftienls tu the vase of the tobaceo monopoly, but it exists in Austria, aud it 1s well known thut Prince Bismarck would bo enchanted, to estabiish it 1n Germany, S0 all the ditliculties ure overcome. What, lowever, would eland say, sceming to be shut out trom it She need kay nothing, for the Customs Union would be Hke the Postal Unfon—opien to all who de- sred to enter, Nothing, therefore, rematns, but to hope that the Protectionist agitation throughout kurope will speedily coma to wy end; that all men will fortwith have thelr eies open to the truth of fre wrls clplest that the mitk of human Kind- ness will goon be dmstilled fnto all Lreasts; thatenmity and jealousy will dlaane pear trom sll heartsd wind that Earope, full of ove and trust, witl, with one nstinctive tm- puttse, call on M. Mulingrl to prestde at a con- of natlong, where the foundatlons of eat European unfon shull be lutd, ‘Ihe Tempa of this evening strongly advo- euter, for political us well a3 cconumic ressons, @ return to the commerclal-treaty system. Al- though the blams does ot rest with Franee, 1t comprehiends the irntatton telt in England ot the depunctation of the treaty, Beelug all the European stutes, including “the wost liberal such us France, gradually forming a Continental tarifl Mockade, the Boglish, it says, are bewtn- Dt tousk whether they arn not e dupes of thetr privciples wind whether reprisals are not Justitiable, THE GUEAT 5WIsS TUNNEL UNDER TIE ALYS. chul Tnamich s the London Times, dexeva, Jan, 25.<The complete returns of the veting bouds to complete the Gothard tun- nelshow & tuajority of 161,000 for its uceept- ance out of a totsl of 353,000, Cousldering that ininuny places voters had to walk six or seven miles throuen ratn pud snow, uid in view of the sumewhat abstruct charseter of the contest, the fuct thut 8o great o proportion us two-thirds of the voters should have cast thelr batlots on Buy- day speaks ws well for the public spirit of thy Swies peonle us thelr de- clstun s creditable to their patriotism goud sense, One of the must fmportant consequences of the vote will bu the uctive participation of the Federal Councl) In the di- rection of the rallw Germany wand laly are cquallv concerned th the undestaking, but to switzerland is assyned the position of managiug partner. ¢ fnterests of the Company st beueriurth be subordinated to thoss of the sub- sldlzing Powers, lor the present Qitleulty has atlsen solely from the faliure of the tormier to curry ol 1ts engagewmients, As theenterprise will wow certuinly Lo pushied encrecticully to completion, sume additionel particulars con- cerping It eleanea from ths twent y-thind report of the Federal Couucil iy not be unwelcome. Besides the big tunnel there sre twelve others, the shortest of which, Waren, is 1,10d yands long, while the longest, the Olberg, reachies 2,027 yards. The total length of these twelve tunnels b very nearly ten mitlea—15,58 mietres. - Then tners” are five tunncls between 220 und B30, und twenty-tive between 10 and 24 yuads, wahiog fn bl 11ty-two subsdiary Lunuels, of an sazeviate length of slxteen tiles, Betweeu Twmmenavs aud Guochene there will be thirty- thies tuvnels; between Ariofo aud Glublasco, ‘Fhe highest part of the ling utove thie g tusuel, 307 feets the bow- cat a potut betweeu Cadenazzo und Magudino, 073 fect, ‘The hoe will becarried over sixty- four bridges aud viaducts, the longest of which, thut of Cadenazzo, in Teasio, will consist of five wrclics, each having o span of 1Hly-five yusds. The total length ot the Gothard line will Ls 151 wiles, 17 per ceat of it beluy tuouels und 1 per cent bridees sud viaducts. In the tiret {nstauce thic Hue for the greater part of Jts lenith will ba nne, ~ 157 & SUCE FIVE CENTS, - ey, 3 2 maie, but the tunnels and permanent way are /.0 beso arranged that additional rafls cin be »geQ dard down 50 soon aa the financial success of the _enterprise seems to be assured, the entire length of road will order in from four to five vears. The contract for the streteh between Brunnen and Flullea hae just heen adjudged to n French Aem, Keveillac & Bardal, of Tarbes, who have { to take payinent to the extent of ¥,000 {rancs in the accond-class debentares of the Gothardh Company. . . THE NEW KING OF NOLOARIA. The correspandent of the London 7imes st ifall well, be Imnn?ng' Tirnovaannounces that the 27th inst. has been fixed for the meeting of the Bulgarian Assem- * bly. The principal business will be to chooss a Prince, and he fluds that, although Prince Don- doukofl-Korsakoft fs popular, the idea of the malority is to avold selecting a Russtan, would prefer a tierman, and the favorite candi date is Princo Louls of Battenbury, 8 acion, by a_morganatic marriage, of the ruling family of Hesse, Other accounts mention Prince Reuss, the German Ambassador at Cone stantinople, & man of energy and determins~ tlon: and’ there are at least two “off® candidates. One is Prince Charles of Roums- nit, who {s probably out of the question, and another fs the Prince of Montenegro, who would be vetoed by Austris. uniyisely,—as Bule garin would thus get the outlet to the Adriatie, which she will seck. It is believed that Southe Bulzarian delegates will bu aamitted to the sit~ tiugs, and thafy main element in the chotee will be the acceptability of the” Prince proposed to the *Roumellans.” [t 1s, of course, {otended on all hands that, when the present Engllsh Giovernment has disappeared, the Bulgarians anould be reunited, and a proposal is even men- tioned to postpone the electlon until ** East HRoumelia ' can tako an upen part in ft. ENGLISH EMIGRATION, Pall Mall Gazette Jan. 20, In the statistical abstract just published by the Roard of Trade the flzurcs are givenof the emigrants from the Dritish Istands during the lust ten years, erelt fssatisfactory to observe that, although the cmigration to the United Htates lias fallen off from 166,730 in 1873 to 54,- 54 In 1976, the emigrants to Australla and New Zealand show comparatively slight decreage, taking one pertd with another; and in 1 B3R emigrants went to thoss colonies. This change of destinatlon should - he encouraged in every naossible way. Our Australasian colonles are- ultogether our best customers In every respect, in anite of the Protectioniat tendencles of some amonyg thein. At this time of depression, theretore, the Governmment amd the Agents- General might do worso than distribute short statements of the facta n relation to these col- ontes umong the able-bodied poor. Assisted emizration is a great beneflt both to the mother country niil the colonics at such a time, and, iight Do carrled on, it scems to us, far more systematleally than at present, CASUALTIES. THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND. Woncpsren, Mass,, Feb. 0.—Saturday after- noon a wreeking train in charge of Supt. Witter colllded with an engloc und empty passengere car in charge of General Passengor-Agent Man~ ning about threo infles from this city ou the Buston, Barre & Gardoer Rallroad. The wreck- ing traln was sent out to clear the wreck of a pussenger train by which no one was injured, atl Mauniog's train was ordered out to bring in the passengers. Manning had onlers to report at the statlon, but Kept on, passed the statfon towards the wreck, and the Buperintendent's train, returning to order him forward, ran him down, By tho col« lislon, the platform of Manuing's train was torn off, und Nathan E, Stone, telezraph opera tor employed by the Company, so badly ine Jured that he died to-day., Manning was also alizhtly lojured, On Witter's train, Witter, E. W.Vall, wid two othiers were badly brutsed und up. OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE. Bpecict Diroares, (o The Tribune. Davesronr, Ia., Feb. 0—Mr. John Stra- kirsch, a (ierman farmer % vears of ago, rosids Iniz ten miles south of Washington, dicd yestor- day from an overdose of morphine. Whether the drug was taken with the {atetition of com- mitting suictde or not {s uncertafn, Mr. Strae Klrsch was u monomanioc on the subject of re- ligion, and had acquired conslderable localjnotos rlety by declaring himself Clirist, nnd prophesy- ing the carly destruction of the carth and wmost of its inhabltate durlng o perlod of forty days ol darkness. Papers had been made out to seud him to the Insane Asylum ot Mt. Pleasant, but when the SherdT arrived to servo them yesterday alternoon he found the wman dead. Btraklrach le: o wifa aind toar ehildren, who, i consequence of his cruclty when lving, will scarcely thourn his death. BURNED 10 DEATII. &pectal Dispateh to The Tribune. Drmorr, Mich., Feb, 8-~Mrs, John Winke, of Marlon strect, went over to a neighbor's this afternoon, leaving her B-year-old son ulone at home. The little tellow, while trytug to enters tatm himself, wot Lis father’s pips and went te the stove to Heht [t with 2 handful of shavings. A spark fell on his enlico walst und io an fnstant he wus ablaze, Agonizing scrcams wero heard Ly his mother, who ran home and found b mass of blistereid flesh, writhing snd shricking with sgony that could not bo slleviated. A {nin’lldnn was called, but the Hitle sufferer aled n Jess than half an hour, THE WEATHER, Orrice o ‘tug Citze SioNAL OFrICER, WasmiNaroN, 1. G, Feb, 10—1 a. m.—ladicas tons—=For ‘Teuncssce and the Oblo Valley, warmer easterly to suutherly winds, falling bae rometer, partly cloudy weathor. For the Lake reclon, falllug barometer, o Heht riso dn temuerstures, southeast winds, shifting to southerly and westerly, und partly <loudy weather, with Hight suow fn the uorthern portion, For the Upper Misslssippf nuil Lower Miscourt Valleys, southetly winds shifting to westeriy, talling followed” by ristng barometer, hicher temperature than o duaday, mind purtly clowdy weather, posaityy followed duting the dlght by light snuw {n the northern portion, Cautivnary signala continue at Milwaukee, Graud Eluven, Ludeton, sl Eastport, LOGAL UBEERVATIONR Cuicago, Fi shaki tletl, Linan Tas ci o Sarqut Metuphis.. 2L 302, 11w aue Nuausille New e ) Nurth Flatte, 2043 Ouiala 74 ITSEREEQUSESKRENSSLDY 134 Plttevury Yury Huroa. Ltocheater. Bacrameo! zalt Lak LEEE2TT Winugmuces. 2. m treat) VABKID -vore 817+ 3 B fresl .y They