Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1879, Page 2

" SUSPENDED. All ‘the'New Orleans Banks Limit Their Payment on Checks. This Partinl Suspension Belloved .to be Only Temporary, Three Millions of Cutrency En Route for tho Assistarice of tho Banks, No Otlhier Money Centre in the Neast * Affeeted by the Occnrence. An Idea ns to How Commoroial Business Is Transaoted in Now Orlonng, NEW ORLEANS. New OnLeans, March 20.—The Clearing Housa banks decided not 1o bay outb on checks more than §200 to ono depusitor on une duy. All other payents will be made by certitieation of checks, which shall bo received on deposit by the banks of the Clearing-Houss, The arrange- ment is to be temporary. Collectlons for distant customers will Lo ro- mitted, as horetoforo, In currency chocks on New York. ‘The effect of this actlon fnvolves oniy local in- tercats liere, and has chiecked the panle, tie pre- text for whiclt will be entirely retnoved in aday or two when the turrency arrlves which fs al- ready ordered frotm New York, ‘The banks held this morning about $2,200,000 legal-tenders and $3,000,000 sight oxchange on New Yurk, ex- clusivo of thelr portlolios, with which lo weet wbout §10,000,000 due dopositors, Most ol -the Lauka to-day recelved more ourrency from de- yositors than they paid outs NEW YORK, Rneclal Dispatch to Tae Tribune. Nrw Yonx, March 20.—The news of {heactfon of the New Orleans Cloaring-liouse was: early rocetved on the street, but produced noapparent cffect. Business went on as usual, and no ap- prehenslon was felt of trouble here In the futurd orlsing from the diflicultics of the New Orleans banks. Lho-.priu- cipal cause of the financlal troubles in Louisiann 8 here held to be' Democratie anls- rule, nud the probability of repudiation, which sont Loulsiana bonds from 83 to 48 within the Ppast eix weeks. Between $1,500,000 and $2,000,+ 000 loft this clty to-dny for New Orleans. Somo of the New Orleans banks made no call on tlielr correspondents, though having large bale ances oo deposit here. The New Orleans banks ore uearly all in excellent condition as regards their New York sccounts, amd bankers here generally express thelr beliet that tne poute wil subside without serlous results to the Southern banks, The ef- fect of . the withdrawal of s0 much currency Just at this time, when New York bank reserves are down to §4,335,723 nbove the lewul nst, and Govornment bond scttlements, grow- {ug out of the marketing of the 4 per cent loan and the aunual settlements of the farmers of Easternand Middle Statesareabout tuoceur, was serlously discussed 'n fuancial elrcles, 1t waa sugeested that the Secrctary of the Treasury be requested to change tlie pluce of paymeut of the called bonds to New York from Washiug- ton, to auticipate the, payment of the Apri) Jdutorest, and the payment of wl called ‘bonde maturing befors Aprll 15, maklug payment hero without robate, to agree to calt oo Natlonal banks for moncy onls after nétual payment of choecks glven for catled tonds, and to allow Natlonal bunks to satisly calls upon them for muncy by turning into the Trensury any past-duc called bomwds, they «to bo credited on nccount. These mens- ures’ will probably Lo proposed to, .the Becrotary, and vo apprehensions ore felt * that he will refuse to act upoh them, ns bankers sy he lias glven them pevsoval assurance of his intention to provent, by any legitimnte means, the possibility of a wonetary strlngency here. Lo the Wastern Assvctated I'rese, . Naw Yorx, March 20.—The followingis n st of the New Orleans banks whoaa temporary suspension {s announced to-day: Germania Na- .tlonal Bank, Hivernia National Bank, Loulsinna Natlonal Bank, Mutusl Natlonsl Bank, New Orleuns Natlonal Dauk, State Natfoual Bank, Unlon Natlonal Bank, DBank of Lufayctte, Cit- izens' Bank of Louisfuna, Cltlzens' Baviugs Bauk, Louisiann Saviugs Baunk, Metropolitan Bauk, Now Orlesus Canul & Banking Coipany, Peuple's Bank, Workingmen's Bank. Many orders for cuvrency were recetved here to-doy from New Orleans, wl large amounts slipped, The order of suspension expires an thy 20th inst,, und before that time fuuds from this city will have reached the bunke, ‘'he ue- “tlon takeu was toavert u threatened panle. ST, LOUIS, 87, Louss, Mo, March 20.—The news of the auspension of the bauks ot New Orleans had comparatively Httlo effect on 'Chauge here other than o the Southern provision Jobbing trude, which was somewhat depressed, owlig to o hellet that monetary affairs ot Ncw Orlesus and nd{u:flnt towns, which do thelr business throurh Now Oricans banks, would be at lenst temporarily disturbed. General business in this city.and bauks hero will not be affected to auy appreciably oxtent, MEMPINS, Masrstis, Tenn,, Marel 20.—The bank troub- 1es in Nuw Orleaus have had no vereeptible eifact aumong the bauks or business wmeu of this ity THE SITUATION, For kwo or threo weeks past thera bavo boen indleations of an approachiug nancinl storm In New Orleans, and the mors conservative bankers hostened to thko In sall, nd prepare for any omereency that mizht happen, . A littls over two weeks owo the Now Orleans Savings In- stitution closed. ita dvors, consequent wpon -having largoly invested In Stnte securitics, Which, during the past year or 8o, doprociated uearly 50 por cent. Tuesduy mornlng the Bouthern Bank, an institution with a capltal of 834,600, wil Jung considered opo of the stronguat banklug-houses ju the State, was com- pelled to succumb to the inevitable for a simllar reaton, Tho followivy day (Wednesday) the Mechanics & Troders' Bank, which had a cupltal of 8300,000, followed suft. 'The last-named fu- stitution had long been aflicted with the dry- Tot, und its stock was recontly olfored at §7.50 wur share, Bfforts wero made somue time sgo to reorganiza it by addlug fresh eapital, Lut those to whom the overture was miade, after thorouthly {nvestigating ts condltlon, declined tu haye auything 1o do with the scheme, A IUN WAS STARTED . on ft, the small deponit-liue remalning was . rapidly reduced, and the ofticlals, haviug reached Linrd-pan, closed forever, : L hus long been known by those who have had large dealings with the New Oricaus banks ibat they mever ran strong Iy finmediately ovallublo cash tacans, Comparatively little currency was required oven to move the cotton crop, for the resson thut tha bulk of the plunt- ery wero continually fn debt to thel factors for -supplies advanced between the planting sud the picking, When the cron beeaws ready for mar- ket, ull the planters bud to do was to load it ouu M“atern-wheeler "' bouud for New Orleans, -and ot arrival the proceeds of sale were plaved 10 the vredit of the plauter. The Now Orleaus banke—that ls, thesound ones—almost hivuriubly turned thelr currency balunuces luto foreign und Eugtern excbange drawn sgafust cotton ship. twentq to the New Knglund States and Europe, These bitls wera L SOLD IN NEW YORK, ond the procecds placed In the bunks of that city to the credit of the New Otleans fnstitu. tlous. 7 Yesterday morniug the hauks composing the - New Urleaus Clearlug-House, fearful of & run durtng e dayt coneequent upou the fullures of Ll two proyious days, buld a meeting, and re- #ulved to Ju o measury suspend currency pay- wucuts tor e thuo belug, They sgreed Lo puy . THE CHICAGO. TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. MARCH 21, i89—TWELVE PAGES. no chocke over 200, nind Yimited the eurrency dralt of each depusitor Lo that amount per day, giving eertifled cheeks for any balanves required, -—thiess to pass througls the Clearhig-House 1n THE USUAL URDRI OF KUSINE3S, This arrangement will be {n foree untll the 20th inst.. when the banks bope to recetve suffleient shipments of currency ftom New York to cua- ble them to meet nll demands in full, ‘I'ic varty dispatehes from New Orleans; via New York, reeeived on 'Change vesterday mornlng aniottnced n oeneral suspension, st under its futlience there way 8 heayy feeling in {he provision marlket, and prices ruled a trifle lower, “The b 58 WS !llhnu(}uuullv ntensl- ftedd by orders ieed from 81, Lonis provision operators to selt out their Aprit wid May pork, amd under the pressuro to’ realizo therd swas a marked sbading In valies, . LATER DISPATCHTS announced the real condition of affairs, when the market recupeeated nnd closed quito firm, Early in the arlernoon a ‘TRINUSYK reporter mnde a tour of e banke, with the hope of ob- taining somo Hght on the sltuation, but bis endeavors were fruitivas, Many ol them had not Leard of the actlon of the” New Orleans Clenrling-Houee, and, when Informed of it, conld only confecture as the reason o scarcity of ctir- rency und a dosire on the part of the solvent banks to strengtlien themsuives, ‘The bitsliess relations exwsting batween the banks of this clty and New Orleans haveho preater scono than the colleetlon of mereantite und produce bilta. Nong ol our bauks keep ony fuuds there, and nohe of the New Orledns institutions keco anything here. The cotlectious in both cities nre REMITIED TO NEW YORK, swhicli s in fact the Clearlng-House for both, Shortly after bank-vpening Cashier Ives, of the Unlon Natfonal, reecived a telearam from its New York correspondent—ihe Metropulitan Nutlounl Bauk—to sifh to the Cltizens' Bauk of Lowslang, at New Orleans, $200,000 by apecial tratn, - With u recollection of the disaster which recently luppencd to Archle Fisher, Mr. Ives sent nnicssace to thu Hlinels Central to flud out about the spectal traln, and at Lhe sume timo SENT A CIPHRE MEISAGL to the Metropulitan Banl. to. ascertaln if the telegrum was ull vieht, Blfore the menacnger roturned from the linofs Central deput he re- ceived an anawer from Now York, countermal dng the order foy the currency shiptiient. ‘The bankers were ununinotts b the expression ofopinfon Ut under no cireumstauces conld the llsruclul troubles fu New Orieans atleet the business situation in “'this city, though soma thuiieht that if the banks of that clty had ob talued uny larre Nine of rediscounts in New “York the motiey market of the latter nisht stifTen up somewhat, At this season the abip- ment o!J:ruvllionu ta the South weve not Jarge n tudividual amounts, though AGGREGATING A RESPECTAULT UM, and {n sotne quurters it was félt that for somu time to como the husiness would bo less, . Alter leaving the banks, the reporter visited some of the cumnilssion aml producs houses which have branches In Now Orlesns, wd learned from thea thut there wuunmhhuflm the situation, to excite the least alarm, ‘They did not louk for duy appreciable falllug oft In the ship- ments of provisions, for the reason thut the action ol the bauks was only tenporary, and that sfter ten days the wreek would b cleared awuy, and busloess would resume fts wonted chunnels, % TELHGRAM; ‘The following privatetelegrams werorecolved: New OnLeass, Match 20.—/irsch & Schia- bucher, Ghieagos Only suspenston of currency bl March 20, Bach deponliur can_only cheok 200 daly I currency, oulunce in certified chucks, consider everytilng right, aud no furtuer trouble 18 foured, A. Hingen, NEW Ourea: 2 hicabacher, Frow- enfeld of; Chieug e Cleacing-Honsg Ius only” wlopted_precuntionury rulos ta prevent further irouvle. Miduk bulanee of tho banks all rigut, B, F. S P, NEW Onueana, Mafch 90,—S, J7, Tiehardron & [ "CMc{luo 2 Suspension of Nuw Orleaus Sa\'lufl‘l! A o ¥ Southern 1k, and Sieclhantes Trad used b run onsume of ho other banks. o proleel the biuktuces community from tho calamity of furthor suspensions the rumsinides.of our banls, which are iy unusually guod condition, resolved List nialit not to pay on clieckd mora than $200 per day to uny one depositor. during the next fen duys, i1 onder o elve te banks thuo to bring currusicy bere, Burlness meanwlhillo will be dang chiuily on certlied checks, _No cauno whntover for alarm, Ricuanvsox & War, Luter privato dlepatehes announced that 3,000,000 fu currency loft New York yester- duy atternoon for New Orleans, wnd will reach there Sutuiday night or Sunduy morning, ——————— CANADA. Rtrilko~Tho Culonizatlon Quostion—Not nn Inch of Sand for Speculators, but Town- Allpx WIlL 50 Granted Lo Aotual Sottlors— Purliamentary Notes. Spectut Dlzsatch to The Trivune, Pour Coruonym, March 20.—The strike on the Wellaud Canal shows signs of coming to an end, To-day o number of the srikers com- menced work, o Clurlke & Cou's scetlon at the old wages und it Is expected full gangs will bo at work tomorrowe On Iunter, Murray & Cleveland's sectlon @ new eang of stone-cutlers wero put to work to-dny, puarded by the | police. The new men are closely walched by the Unfoulsts, Lut no direct Iuterference g been uttempted, and It i thought they wili gradually resumis work, ulso. #eclel Diroatck to The Tritne, ‘ToroNTo, March 20.—James Green, of this clty, wade his debut ot the Roya) Opera-louse to-niht in Shakspeare’s “ lenry Finth.? He was enthusiastically applauded, und several thmes called befors the curtuln, To-morrow nlght he plays under the special patronaga of the Lieutenant-Uovernor, Spectal Disputen fo The Tyisune, Lonnox, March 20,—The deputation which went to Ottawa lately as a deputation from the Colonizatlon Al Boclety have roturncd, and re- ported at the meotlng of the Boclety, firat, that the Hon Mr, Poge had stated that the Qovern- ment had given up the fdea of granting a town- shilp, 08 so muny lad takent up townships for specutution. ‘They would grant o townshlp, however, an candition of acttil settlement by the people from London and uear by, Becoud, the tiovernment declbied to grunt any money on the ground tint Af they alded one o this way they must atd all, ad that would take over o million dollurs. Third, the Mintster hud stoted that all entiration agents i Enghuul and Eg- rope hud been oritered to aend no mare, Special Dinutch 10 Tis Tribtine, Orrawa, March 20— 1u the House of Cammons the resolutions relathg tu cerlaln propesed re- Atricttuong Lo prevent the ntrodietion or thy n‘»mul of contnzions diseases or wfeetions diseused animnly, fntrodned by the Mintster of Agrleuiture, were pussed - Commlttee of the Whote, and referred to the Comniittee of the Whole on the byl reluting to the same sub- Jeete Durlg the diseiisston on the resolution 1L was stutedt by the Premve that o Contagious- Disease LY, relating to uman boligs, uwl proe cinely simbiar to that enforced In Groat Beitain, had been placed on the statute huoks aud could L appiied to gurrison wivns st any e, Sueciaf Diwatci {ie Tridnna. Toronto, Muareh 20-The 2reh Canadion minkes gonie serlous elieses neolnst Viee-Clinn- ctrlor Bluke, ol demads it lhw{ bas taken up in Parllument, 1t aflezes that in sults to which Rowan Cathioltes aro parties ho dis- celininutes ngalinat them. {6 alsu says (hat Catbiolle Iawyers havig cascs in Chancory ey tu bring them befors other Judges thin My, Biluke, mul {0 they fall, they: refingquish thebr briefs to their Protestant bréthren sathier than Prejudice their clicuts Special Dlspateh to The Tridune. Towoxnto, March™ 20.—The etenmer City of ‘Torantu hus veen purchused from Ui estate of the luts Capt, Milloy, by W. A, Miltoy & Co. Bhe will run to Nlagara duriing the coming sume nier dn cotmpetion with the stewmer Clieturs, the two buats hotween tiein waking three trips dully, The steamer lothesny will run ou the BUIIG TOULS 0l hur uwn Kook, it A RIPE OLD AGE, Apecial Diwateh lo The Tyibune, Woonstock, LIk, March 20.—A navegenarian noued Rutus Baldwin died here yesterday ot tho uge of U3 years, und the funeral vecurred to- day, Deceased Jeaves alurie number of de- sceuduuts unto ‘the With encration, winon; whom are ex-Uostimasater Myron B, uafdwlu, ul% this city, Jle was bors 1 Vermout, lived a number of yours in New York, und emigrated to Hlmots wbout o your since. lln way u soldier in the Awerienu nriny durlng the Warof 1812, umi ® ciaber of the Methodlst Church tor over baif a ceutuy, ——— ¥ CROPS, (fpectal Dixpalch to The Tribune, Maxnora, 1L, March 20.—It has been snow- fog here for tho laat cighteen dLours, uud, al- though not mwore than, five Iclics ou the leve) at vredcut, yet not less thau sgven or efehit inclies could huve fullen, 1t i solt, und dissolyes rug- idy, Tliis inakes over umy Inchies of snow we bove had this season, uud, if It possesses the fortiliziog provertics clalmed for it, furmcrs will reap o 7lch reward CRIMINAL NEWS. ‘An Outlaw Assaults a Prizon Offi- cer at Fayetteville, Ark. The Gunardg Fill the I*orson of tho Seoundrol with Btillets. Poté McCnrtney Revenging Himsolf upon His Wifle's Paramoun, Resnmption of tho Examluation of Bill Young, at Luray, Mo, AN ARKANSAS INCIDENT, TarTir Rook Ark., March 20,~About a weok ano, at Fayottevile, John Reed, a Union mau during the Civil War, and of a desperate char- acter, was killed fu the County Juil. A friend of his, fur infraction of the law, bad been ar- rested for somo bours. . Reed fullowed the oflicer in charge of the man about, and tinally foltowed him to the jall, nbout dark, ns ho wns comnitting the prisoner to the custody of the Jatler. Reed, although able to bail hia friend, refused to do so, He entered the full with tho oflleer and the. prisoner, and just as the door wus nbout to be locked on thelatter Reed struck Use Jatler withia beavy junk-bottle, knocking him senseless, Raed was armed. The jaller, it fall- Jug, extinguished the candle, ntd the guards, kuowing Reed's chnracter, fired upon him iu the dark, one shot penctrating hisheart. 'Fhe Coro- nei's Jury was unable to determine whose shot killed him, the guards themselyes belny; unablo to tell. The jury found a verdiet of Justifiable homiclde. : lteed's friends, fiteen or hlxteen miles dis- tun, buan to orjzanize for the avaweil ‘burpuse of seizing Deputy-Sherlit Berrelly’ whiom ' they aupposed firedd the fatal shot, and who was un- der bond to appear at {ho et term of the Cir- cuit Court, “The cltizens of Fayettevilio beeame el alarmed at this threat, and asked utd re- ceived permlsslon of the tovernor to organize o compuny of Btate Guards, which, In the emer- zeuey, was subplied with rifles from the State Universlty ot Fayettevitle, the State furnishi; the ammunition. Reed’s friendr, fn the mea time, had approdehed the town, but, inding the wmilitla fn uring, abuwdoned thielr purpuse, left thelr gaug omsluu, and, comlng nto town, or- cantzed o nleoting, ot which resolutlons wers adopted donouneing the conrse of the authori- tes. An additional resolution, not preseuted at the mectiug, was ndded, as Mr, R. A, Cald- welly who hatided them to the printer, admite in the Fayctieviile Democrat, denying the purpuse of the nsseinblngo Lo resist the elvil authorhles. No pulitiean guestion was [nyolved fn the mut- ter, thuugh ofd unilmouities of the War wero re- ""1“;" Al is now, aud whil probably remaln, quiet, PEIT M'CARUNEY’S REVENGIE. Bpectat Dispatch ta = Triune, Sraunarizip, 14, Mareh 20.—~This morning Deputy United States Marstinls 0. W. Currler nnd W. W, Lce, from Indiana, avrived, having in charpro Pete McCartney, the celebrated couy- terfolter, who I8 now serving a tern In the Mich- Igun Clty Penitentiary, 1'cto Is n wituess in the caso of Dr. Lewls Mason, whore trialon the charge of eirculating counterfett 3100 Trensury notes {s set for hearing fn the Distriet Conrt to- marrow, and, in fact, ta tho party who gave the Beeret Service the nformotion that led to the r- rest of Masow und McCartney'swile, and thelr in- dictinent by the fate Grand Juey,and thediscovery of the plate and some $20,000 ot the *coney,” for making which Petels now serving a term of twenty years. Tmmedistely on his arrival ho was taken to the oflie of . United Statos Murshal Roe, who recelpted for him, psshened him quartors in Wis privato offlce, platlng two Deputles in chargo of him, and refusing to ol Juw any one whatever to have any conversntion or communieation with blin, exeopting tho Dis- irlet-Attorney and the officers of the Court. It I8 reported Ly Sceret-Scrvico Ageut Rathbone thut Teto Is willing to, and, willy inake o clenn sintement ot all the trangactlons of the gantr of which howas the head, beiug Inspired thereto by the fact thnt Dr. Mason hos Leco instruwental o giving him away nul ubenuting the affeetions of hi3 wife, 1t is known that, fur the past twe years, Magon und MeCurtnov’s wifo have been erimstually futl- ninte, hue Magon protests that this i3 the éxtent of bis oftending, thut be has nover bad any con- neetion with A|c0urmey or any of the counter- Teltbne gang, aud thut the diseovery of the plate nud mouey on the premises wherd he wus rentl- gy with Mra, MeCartuey was as much of g sur- prise to him us to any one, Mason’s abandoned wife aud ehild, wned "his brother, n prominent attorney of Columbus, O, are here taking un netive part in his defons: ' BALDWIN'S TAKING-OFW, Cinervyary, March 20.—11e exeltoment ovor the wurder of Harry Baldwin last Baturday night still remalns unabated. The Coruner hus not you nishied his loquest, snd the eotire de- tective force of the ety have Leen at worl, aithough with scsredly o thread or evidence upon witleh to hase thelr operatlons, This afteruoon wholesale arrests wero made, and the excltoment to-night is lutense, The flrat parties taken wero two sisters, {llo unil Birdle Dalton, notorious characters, restdents of the nofghborhood where the tragedy oveurred. Anothier sister o miiss- }lm‘lmul the pollee aru Industriously searching ur hor. anrr in tho afternoan Kittle Beunett, keeper of u place on Elm street known us the ** Llttlo Club-House," with Blanchie Itawley, Marthn Buckner, aml Georgle Bhepard, fnmates of her bouse, were lncle:” up at “the Contral Statlon With the unballublu charzo of susplelon,neufnst them. In oue of the reoms of Mudume Hennott's houss o spot in e cdroet was discovered maturated with substance supuoscd Lo bo bluod, ‘This was remaved und Plnumlln the hands of the chemlst. One boy witness stated thut he used to carry notes between Baldwio ond nogie] nomed CLINle,” who wis an occupant in Bennett's house, und she has disappearsd, and Madame Beuuctt says she hos been gouw two weeks. ACTEXAS SITOOTING ATFRAY. New Oueeass, Lu, March 80,—A 2imes spe- ¢l froan Marshall, Tex., sayss * Last night, after the Warde and Darrymors Combluation hau Dislied thiele pluy, the compuny went to the Hepob to nwait (he traln, Marleo Barrymore, B. . Porter, and a funale attachee of the com- bination were in the uncli-room, when Juines Currle, o detective, ontered, und made shighting Teturhs uboub the dndy, to which cxeenplons Meru taken by Barrymoro and Porter, Alter sute words Curriy” drew a plstol und shot Porter fn tlee whdomen, kiiting hiom almost in- "“"'“f" Turning he shot Barremore through e albiow, e bull comtlog ot wider the Joft shoutder, taking & severs {F nob dangerous wound, Porter nud Bagrypiore were unarmed, Currle was jmled,” TUSSLE WITIH A BDURGLAR. Bocctal Dapatch 10 Tre Tetvune, MILWAUKRE, Wik, March 20,~A special dis- patel from Ruelne saye: A burglar entered ¥, W. Bruce's huuso lust night, and iad collected 4 large bundle of clothing, a cold wateh, aud 3120 i money, when aslleht volse avoused Mrs, Braee, who, supposing (t was the cat, wdnt to fet her ott, Soelig the burglor, she catight W by the hair wud neceamed sor holp, Mg, Druce, Who was steening {n a distant vart of the hotse, rushied to her aid, but before hu bad arrlved the Tanglar struck the lady o fearfnl blow, stunning her, “Then breakiig from hue geasp o eseaped froin the hiouae, droppligg his buoty o e way, il ot which, exeent 10, was found o the o Mre, Brave s elight; delieato woman, aud lier berolsm under the circumstunces {s wonderful," i Namkp AT Lasr, 8r. Louts, March 20.—John Lanham, alns Churles Johnson, was arrested to-nleht wud ploced in juil,* Mo 18 charged with shootlng and killing an actress on the stuge of o thieatro ju Ban Antonlu, ‘Fex., in July lasts also wounding twomenut the same tine, Laubam, who hasbeen in the city threo weeks, was recognized omong the audicnee of the Colisvut by the ex-man- auer of o 'Pexas theatre, wh 8 un eyo-witness to the shivotiug aud killing, ‘Lhe prisoter makes a8 weak denfal of bls Idenfity, but the ewalry, the pruperty of the woman be nurdesed, was found ua bis person. ‘Flie stotement of s uee cuser Jénzes no doubt thut be is gullty. ' BIGAMY, Spectal Dlsoatch Lo The Triduns, Pirrdoura, March 20.—The wife of Gen. Jumes K. Blaytou, of Qettysbury, I, late can- didata for Congress on. the National ticket, comntenced proceadings in divoreo againat him to-day in the Ailegheny Court of Uninmon Plens. They are both how In this city, Mrs, Slayton having arrived here from Clevelaml yesterday, Bho alleres, ns grounds for the sult, extrome cruelty and bigany, Slayton having another wife and several children fn Chattan- ouven, Tenn. i has for some years figured rominently in politieal " il suclal clreles in Uottyshure, — Mra, 8lay. ton No. % s titie-looking — woman, "They were tarefed fn thisclty about slx years ao, Bhe'ta n Catholte and he o Protestant, * The wuse Is llkely to provu tuteresting, BIfL YOUNG. Apsetal Diepateh to The Tridune, Krokuk, In, March 20.—After a recess of £everal days, oceasloned by the filness of the defendunt, the preliminnry examination of BNt Young for the musder of the Spencer farnily was resuned at Luray, Mo, this afternoon. The entire ting wus orcupled with the cross. examinntion of Loura Sprouse, the principal witness for the prosceution, nud rolated to the details of the trip on horseback whichi sho and Youug took Lhirough the Spencer place belore the murder, und Young'sicunfession to witneas, Intereat in the caso hna heen revived, and the excitement nt Luray to-duy wna even greater thnn Inst week when'the examination was uiex- peeted fnterrupted. It is hinted by thoso in authority that disclosurcs of n more startling nature thawany yet brought out will bo wnde in o fow days, TRAIN-WRECKERS, Cincinnaty, March 20.—~A Detphi (O.) dis- palch savs o hand-car on the Toledo, Delphos & Indiannpolla ftaitroad, carrying J. W, Hunt, ‘President, and J, 1, Clark, S8uperintendent, ran against o tle that had been placed o the track, wreeking the car, breaking Clark's leg, entting a frighttul gash i Hund's: head, and ety (e Juring-Pat Kane, Inborer. A tle had been pliced there with the evident purposo of wrecking o possengur-traiy, CLEM, 8peetal Dispateh to The Tridune, DanviLLe, 1L, March 20.—David Clem, who 13 clarged with the murder of Mito Gritton, loft lero this mornlyg, In charge of ofticers, for Watseka for trlal. ‘T'lic peopte ave represented by Connty-Actorney dones, nssisted by the [on, J. B Musitts the defensé by Gen, J, Co Black and H, 1, lllncklmrn. all of this place. Home slxty witnesses ara summoned. MAL-ATVPROPRIATION. Nuw Yoni, March 80.—Albert Xalk, General Manager wnd confidential sgent -for Willlam Biyle, importer of raw sitke, 38 Mercer street, Is in Ludlow Strect dafl charzed with _approprist- 1 fng to his oww: use silks valued at 303,000, the property ol Ryle. ¥ulk has ceturned to Ryle 824,000, 'SMATLTL ROBBINGS. Torzpo, L. March 20,—By & serles of pilfer- ings on the part of its Janitor, supposed to inve been golngr on for two months or more, the To- ledo National Bank haa neen robbed of upwards of 32,000 I subsldlary coinnge, The Junitor, who 13 u colored man, Monroo Sith by name, is under arrest, STABBED. Spectal Dispateh to The Tribune, Fort Wayne, Ind, March £0.~Lust night Patrick Gillzban stabbed Michael Ryan in n saloou during a dranken row, infllcting o dan- eevous wound, Ryan ls still allye, but it is fvared that hu caunot recoves, TIRES. + CHIGAGO. The alorm from flox 445 at 7:20 yesterdny moraing was caused by a five fn the woodshed In the rear of No, B4 Henry strect, owned by James O'Nell and ceeupled by tenants of thie house. Dutnage, 3250 Causo of fire nnknoy A stlll-alarm to Englue Company 25, at yesterday morning, was enuged by the discovery of fire fu the two-story feame bullding No. BI5 Archgr nvenue, owned by Frederlek 1asse, and occupled by David Rilev as o boardiny Cnuse, sparks frout an onen ¢liimnoy illing \éwn ubed. Damage to bullding und furniture, ! 95, . ‘The alarm {rom Box 765 at 650 Inn‘vrnnhg; was caused by a fire In the boller room of 0, 8, Rickardson's” cotton-hutthuz factory ab Nos. 13 und 4 Tlttols® street, * Cause, sparks fromn the fres beneatin the bollers fatilng through the floor. Damage nominat. AT Y] y TEN, (ArLvusTON, March 20.—A News apeeial from Tyler snys the fire this morning destroyed four- teen buslness kbuses on the west side of the Tublie Square, valued ab $40,000. lusured for $10,000. N AT MORNING BIDE, 1A, Speciat Disuttch tv The Trivune. Stoux Crrr, In,, March 20.—This mornug o honse of M. A, Ormsby, nt Morulyg Shle, buraed. Loss, $3,000; {osurance, 82,000, Al OZARK, AT, latrie Rook, Ark, March 20.—Tha Elsey Tlouse b Ozaric, just completed, burned lnst ulght. Itwas the work of an incendinry, ‘Loss, 4,500, ———— THE WEATHER, Orrror or Tir Cnee Sienin Orreicen, Wasuinatoy, D, C, March 2l—1 n, n—ltudl- catlons—For Tounessee and the Oblo Valley, partly clondy weatlier with light rain, lollowed by clearlng weather, variablo and shifting to colder northiwesterly, and nlgher pressure. For the Lower Lako reglon, cloudy weather, with Hight suow, winds mostly frum northeast to northwest, nourly stotlonary temperature, und falling followed by rlslng barometer. For the Upper Lake reglon, Upper Misstsaippi aml Lower Missoutt Valleys, partly cloudy weuther, lleht northerly winds, beconilg vari- able or shittlng to southerly, stationary or higher temperatura ond Laroineter, Cautlonary siznals continue at- Chiengo, Mil- waukee, tirsud Huven, Bee, 1, See, 8, Dotrolt, ?_Ll 4y Toledo, Bunduaky, Clovolund, Sees 5, il and Bulluto, LOOAL OUKBRYAT .11 37 L2 e i) “atations, Auah gt Pt E2EszERyE EEELFERES SEE e g Vet Wikapud Yuakle OBITUARY, Apeclat Disputeh 1o The Tribune, BraNavieLy, Ill, Morch 20,—A dispatch was reeelved licre to-day sunouncing the sudden death of Juhn L. Turnier, of Waukegan, County Judgo of Luke County, a promluent and old regldent of thut county, dpectul Dispatch {0 Tha Tribune. BroomiNeton, 1L, March 20.~>3r. Walter Rarr, of Randolph's Grove, who hos restded fu AleLuan County siuce 1334, divd this worsing ut 8 a’cluck, nged 81y He was a native of New Jeraory and “had aceumunlsted o large fortune fn lands In Meleat County. o s THE RAILROADS. YANDERBILT NOT YET SUPREME. Apeeial Diepatch to The Trisune Drrnorr, Mich,, March 20.—Application for the nopulntment of a Recelver of the Chiengo & Norlieastorn Raftrond, which hns been so ably arqued by distinguished Inwyers beforo Judoes Baxter swud Brown, in the United States Clrenlt Court, during the last three or tous duys, wus deelded to-day, The Judges agreed (hat the Chicago & Lake Ituron Rattrond Company hod a flrst Ien upon the Chicago & Northeastern for richt-of-way, labor of employes, und for noney misupproprinted by William L. Baneroft, a former Recelver of the Chivago & Lake lluron. Judze Baxier condemmed the mannee v which Baneroft abused the frust re- posed In him, owd nlluded to is misnppropria- tonaf some 2000,000 or 100,000 in terms of the severest censure, The Court further helafthat Wiltiam 1L Vanderbiit had kuowledge beforo Bis purchinse of the equities of the complatnant Burus: that the Coicngo & Northeastern had o legal corporate extstence, nud thut a large num- ber of hondhollers of tho Chivngo & Lake MHuron consented to the constructlon of tho Chieago & Northeastern with a full knowledge of the fact that the road wes bolng buiit by an Independeont corporationy also that Bancroft's associates tn the Incorporatton of the Chieago & Northeastern were aware of the fact thnt i wna using money und materials in Its con- structlon shich rightfully belonged to n_separe ato corporation, the Chicago & Luke IHuron, ‘The court ordered Vuuderbiit to file o bond within twenty ays for the - pays ment of the righiful [ndebtedness of the Chicago & Northenstertt, ucurred in its vonstruction, and alsop to deliver the road in good condition if, on first honrlur, it shall bo Tound that the title s lu the, Chicago & Laoke Turon, In defanlt, o Ttecetver s to be nppointed to take chargs of all s property and equip- ments, This inctudes refumitng of the noney wiaapproprinted {rom the Chlengo & Lako fHuron funds for the cunstruction of the Chicago & Noribeastern, ‘The Conrt also found that, two mitles of road within the uurfiurul\: Ilmits of Flint, nnd o oeeupled by the Chivago & Northieast- crity legrally botong to the Chleago & Lake Hu- ron, sud Kecelver Peck was nstructed to take then under his eharice, whilo the Fiint parties, having sdvatced meney to belpthe construction of the Chicago & Nortienstern, the Chicago & Luke Hitron Buniditoldérs aro estopped from as- sertingr thelr tights fu the road g agatust the parties lu Flint, An order will. be mado to- worrow directing the hminediato sale of the LEastern Division of the Chieagt & Luke Huron Road, extenahyg from Flint to Port Luron, —— BAST-BOUND RATES RESTORED, The Presidents of the trunk lines lave be- come disgusted with the low frelzht-rates that have provalled durlng the last few weeks, and at tast thoy have sald, **This shall no louger bo thus!" A dispateh was recelved by the Qen- eral Freight Agents of tho roads lending Tast from this clty yesterday, signed by J, 1L Rutter, Genernl Tratlle Mangger, New York Central 3 G, Blanchard, Assistant to the I'resident, Eriej John King, Jr., Vice-Prealdent, Dultiore & Ohllfoj and A, J, Cnseatt, Vice-President Penn- sylvouin Raiirond, stutlng that the Exceentive Committeo of the trunk linea in full meoting request and urge sl thele connections to catablish und nalntain rates to tnke elfect on tho 230 fnst, upon the Dusls of 20 conts on graln and 25 cents on first- clasa from Cofeazo to New York. e trank Iines would onfureo their several proportlons of the abuve rates sgalust all connections by set- tlige up any lower rates, und would decline to prorate any direct or indirect concessluns there- for subsequently du any fornn, the General Frotght Agents i this clty liave as yet taken 10 action looking townrds o restorntlon of the rtes in accordanee with the above instructlons, nud will probably not take uoy until Saturday afternoon, ns the now rates will not gointo olieet unttl Monday. In the meantime the va- rlous ronds lesting Egat will no doubt Improve thelr opportunities abd make enough contracts nt the present Jow mtes to Jost tiiem untll thy openlu of navigation, when the roads of neees- sity will be conipelled o meet the vessol rates, PENNSYLVANIA, Special Dispatch 40 The Tribuns. PutnAverini, P, March 20.—~The Com- mittee appolnted to tomfnate 4 Board of Direetors, to be voted for nt the npprosching cleetion of the Pennsylvania Raflroad Company, have flnatly concluded to report the uatnes of the old Board without change, The detorming- tlo was not reached, however, until after nine hours of discussion, during which 4 communi- catlon relating to the purchiase of the Niclolas Rtopes tract was drawn up and addressed to the Board. _Thero was n strongz movement to wnke one or two ehanges by the displacement of one or twn Directors, at Jeast one Director whoso tenure of ofllee had bren consldered slisht nt the lust unounl mecthr; but, In view of the nbsenve of Col, Scott, gud the deslre not to seem to Lo In Cthe ueeessity of n seaperont, the whole “Board wis report- ed for recleetion, Publie opinfon = lag generally auproved the deciston of the Bonrd relutive to- the charges made In ex-Dircetor Auspuel’s defense, mul no one seews to think thut there was oo currul)t collualoh of anuy of the present oflicers or Directors fn thot pur- chase, As a resilt, the old Board will umloubt. cdly bo re-clected without upposition on Tuess doy next; nor will thers be any chanwo in oflicers of the Company, as there is absolutely no pressure nertost ang of them. SOUTIIWESTERN ASSOCIATION. 81. Lours, Mo, March 20,—At ‘a meeting of the Southiweatern Ratlrond Axsoclation here to- dny of the comnittes to rearrange the pool por- centages falled to agree, and {le meeting ad- Journed to meet In Chicago Aptll 8, whero the question will be azaln disedssed, “The pofnt at 1ssu0 16 the demand on the part of the Chicago & Alton Ratiroad for an {ncrensed pereontnge, on the ground of now huviag one fndependent line to Kausag City, ‘Ihe Western ‘Frunsportation Association, cons posed of ronids in the Northwestern pool, beld wmeethy this evenlug, und, learning that the Aeustern rowds witl ol acqulosen fu the anti-pass agreement, they concluded to exelude from the areancenient all torritory cast of the east 1lues of inols nnd Indlann, The Exacul Committee of seven waa reduend {u flve, dropning from It Nowell, of the Lake Shove, Cullougl, of the Pennsylvanta, aud “Lhow: thd 0., C.,, U, & [, and substitutiog Kimball, the Northwestern, . HANSAS PACIFIC, Br. Louts, March 20.—A Kansus City dispatch sayss I, Fv Oukes, GQeneral Superlniondent of the Knusas Pacliie Road, offered his reshznation to-day, to take effect Murch 8l 8. 'L Hmith, Recelvery assuimcea the duties of General Super- intendont for the present, wnd will make no appointmont while the affuirs of the Kausus Pacifle resunlu In such an unsettied state, It fs thought probably thit o Buperntendent to op- eruto the romt under the general managoment ol Clark, General Buperictendent of the Unlfon Lucifle, witl be solected from smong the geucral oflleers of the Konsas Paclile, THE INDIANAPOLIS POOL, Apectul Dispatch o The Tyibune, INpiANAroLs, Ind,, Mirch 20.~8, F. Pierson, Munugrer of the Yool hny restened, T, C. Moore suecceding hing, Hereaftor cach of the roads will act ludepetnlently as regards rates, though the tunnage will be reported dally us loreto- foto. Mr. Plerson’s resiznation will date from April 1. ‘The puol to outelders appenrs to be Pruuy well busted, though the managces say it has ben a suceess, and Will soon be patched un, suul put i good rutning orider agatn, Plerson's’ hend went oft n] the demnd of the Heo Line ¢l lo_{s now available to jub the Chleago paol fn orde DIVIDEND, Nuw Yons, March 20.—~The Directors of the Milwuukeo & St. Paul Ralirond have declared o semt-annunl dividend of 81§ on pretorred stock, S8FEE Trrems, A spectal trafin witl leave tho Kinzle Street Depot of the Chicago & Northwestern Rallroad Baturday morning at 8445, to necommodate those who wish to attend the funeral ‘of the late Dr, Dy Kovon, at Ractuo, Returning, the tratn will leave Raclno dlter the funeral. . ‘The faru for the round trip wiit bo $2,60, e S ot Catalpaties aru sald to - be -supcHor toany other kind yet tried gu our raitronds, and o number of our Western roads beglu touse them, ‘Yhie Bupurintendeut ol the Iron Mountatu Ralle road states Lhut catalpaties placed fu the track of bls roud ten yrare ago sre perfectly sound; il therndl has worn into aoma of them one-hal( an el to an fnell aned it as been proven that ie eatalpn I far more durablo tan white-oak or other kind of timler nawt, Fhe Chilengo, Buel- fueton & Quiney Rallrond also hna at its oltice sevaral samples of eatnipa wood that has heen Iuthe ground from live to ten years, and which 18 still ne good ns when §t was'first cut, A heavy yeln of u fine quality of bituminous caul, seven feet thick, hns fust been discovered at ‘Trinkdad, Col., on the line of the Atchison, ‘Topeka & Santa Fo Raflrodd. Most of this conl Iml hins recently been nurchased by Mr, T, J, Petors, formerly “Manneer of thy Atehfson, To- peku & Banta Ke, for §2 an acre, The Chieago, Burlington & Quincy Rallrond mnpany have declded (o have & thorough [n- ory Laken of all s equipmont property, oliject of thisfe to nscertnin as closely as possible the exact. preaent value of the property, nnt whint changes, IF any, gllould be “made in the equipment aceount, The genoral offices of the Chieago & Alton Rallrond were moved back ngain yesterday af- ternoon to thelr ecpmmodions and conventent querters In the Honare Block; corner of Adnmna il Dearhorn strects, from * which they wero driven by the fire-tlend ahout twvo months ago, Ench departmisut oceuplos the samo ofilces as heretofore. Thuraday n stackholders' meeting was held at Olney for the tnr pose of electing Directors of the Urayvilto & Mnttoon Ralirond. It reautted fu the eholee of A, B, Meeker, W. L. Brown, dohn N, Jewett, Erederick Ullinan, 1t Bloom- field, It T Lowe, Willlam Newell, O, N, Fay, wil _E, B, Philllps, These gentlemen: aft wards organized by electing A, B, Meeker Presi- dent, John N, Jewett Viee-President, and John Wolf Secretary, The Kaneas City, Topeka & Western Raflrond, runnlmi from Kansus Cliy to Tapéka, has been conolldated with the Atclgon, Tobeka & Santa Fe Raitrond. = The stockholders of the former road nre greatly dlspleased with this detfon, Tley clalm tlat the rond from Kansas City to ‘Topekn has heen earning much more money In roportion than the main. line of the Atchison, Fopekn & Santa Fe, and that the consolldation waa mada Lo mako o botter showling (i the earn- Ings of the latter. This thme it fs Dotroft that fs Imwllnf nbout being diseriminated ngafnst by the ralironds, ‘The shinpers of that city clalm that the rates on all the Miehiran roads are stch ne to encournge through rht}llnl’lfls. in_congequence of which, ‘:rnlu intended for the Dotroit mnrket by the hugees i the Interlor {s being enrried through to the seaboard. ‘Fhe Chinmber of Comimerce took ofilelnl eoznizanco of this mntterinst Satur- day by nassing the following resalutions: Witkntas, 1t ling bocome known to tuo oard that dlxcrimination in rates of froleht charged by rallrouds nre made, aa against shipments of grafi to thus putt; therofore, " JReavived, That n commitiee of five membors bo appiotntod by the President to consider the matter, and to Insiituto such mudsures as will protect the interests of this clty, ] The General Tieket and Passenger Arcats in this city who have returned from the New York Conventlon, and those who have ramaineil herg, do not 100k favorably wpon the reorguniza- tlon of the General Ticket and Pasgeuger Aceots' Asgoclation 18 effuctod in New Yorl last Saturday, “Tho fact that the matter waa ushed througzh by Me W, B. Shattue, General Ticket aud Passenger Agent of the Atlantlc & Great Western, and his fricnds, I8 a canse of dis- trust, for Mr. Bhattuc hus thne far boen fo trreat measuro the cause ok cutting fn pussenger rates, haviyg fnvariably taken the Initlutive, mnd foreed the other ronds to follow sult. 1t is bee lleved that the partles who favor thie rotention of the commiaglot-system linve mninly Leen re- s]mmlhlu for the actlon taken In Now York, and that the now wreanizotion will be more undor thelr control wnd [nfluence than the old vue. —— EX-SENATOR HOWE. Tho Teople of Green lay Wolcomo Ilim Homo It u Grent Muoling of Both Parties ~The Reelplent of 5o Much Friendly At tontlon spresses kI8 Mupplness, aond MMakes & Personal Explunition, * Speclal Dispatch to The Tribune, GnEeeN Bar, Wis, March 20.—Without re- gard to sex, nationality, or previous conditlon of politics, the leading people of Green Bay turned out et mnsse thig evening lo glvo ex- Sshator lowo o cordiul weleoms home. The most spaclous Ball In tha city, profusely dec- orated with esergreents sl nnttonal colurs, wns crowded with his old delshbors and friends, Col, C. D, Hobinson, o promiuent Demsocrat,’ presided, and of the followttys 1ist of Vico-Prest- dents of the meoting nbout bulf are Democrats: The Houw, 1. R, Tludd, E, Il Ehls, A, E, El- more, A, Kimbatl, J. M, Binlth, and’ D. Hunt, Col, \Wiltam Chapwan, Dr. (freene, Meears I, B. Keltogg, J. Kalv, Witllam Hofftinaun, ¥, ‘Nuriburt, D W, King, Henry Strong, L. M. Marshall, W. 11, Norels, N. Goodell, L, Schiller, und A Du Chateaw, “he Judge,' ns hie by fa. miliarly ealled hiere, was escorted to the hall by o committee, und the concourso of people urose and cheered lustily at his appronch, thus testi- fylng a viva voce welcomo. Col, L. 1. Bale made the welcomiug spuech, referrine briefly to the eventful perlod cmbraced by Mr, ftowe's thtee ternis fn the Hemate, and of the emivent services e bad remtered, The Tom, J, C. Nuvlile fullowed, culogizitg espectalty My, Howe's position o the Btates' Itiuhts dogma, his contitnions nnd steadfast adherence to it, so much so as to sy on one veension, * I would rusher bu riiht than bo Senator.? 'l‘lmnmmlmr said: ** Althowgh differiig from you In nollrtes all my Wlo long, I would wish my rixht arm patsled if L did not puy huienge 1o such @ man,” 1IIA words ot weleome deeply moved the audience, Mr. Howe, [ response, trade very happy littlo specch, 1le Inrdly kknesw bhow to meet. an ocutsion 1iko the predent.” (lo folb HRed cor- tabn churneter of Dickens’y a3 if ho ought to ask his wife to help hitm ont. Theve was no |1Im-a Itke ‘bome, after all. Quoting from Vietor Hugo's recent anmiversaiy speeeh, he satd: % Friends, yott hotor ma nure than L should be howored, fn||t yoit love me as L would be luyed,” He fuit us If Do deserved the love of this peo- pley ail was elud to get home, 'There was no other pluce fn the world where he could flud o place bo sult bim, Hers e lad come to Bvothe reatol lils days, nad toddle and bo burted heve. flo aul Intd wside all political napirutions, Jo never was fresher In spirit,nevar sounder 1o every way, never belioved more foudly i the future, and never bad wore contldence in men and Qo thnn to-nfuht, 1t hud been sad ho lind not distin- tulshed hlmaolf, At ooy tute ho hud nat dis- weaced Dis friendw, Bt Wisconslu nd distin- gulshed bim with honors, ho fearved,-too great for bim, the metory of whicit he woulil net part it for alt {his wealth that cotihd bo piled upon the surfuce of the Siate, e dented e statemient that he, was rlely sud, for the flest time I publie, detlned © hia taking of buck pays Toe did all he could against the pas- sagee of the bill, and, for the “tukhbyr of the motey, e was witllige to he yuled ont of political clreled, hut hot ont of theclreles of honest men, Afterthe speech, wnd durig the. slinging hy g anditars of * Ault Lang 8yne,” the' dudge wd Mra, Howe went throneh thio ordeat of sbukiug Bands with everybody present. MICIIGAN LUMBER. A Crop of 2, 704,207,000 Font In Togs Gathe eredata Cost of $8,112,80 1=Valuo, $17,. BI6, 78080, Spectal Dispateh to The Tyiburie, EAst BAaiNaw, Mich, March 20.—Tozging operations In Michlgan are about susnended, uned the season lias beu onte of the most succuss- tul ever oxperfchiced. 'Ll cost of logging the pasb’ winter has been lareely reduced from that of previous years, ‘The ratd of wiges hus beon nhout the sume as Jast year, bub tho open wine ter of 1877-'78 made loeging very oxponsive, The wages pall mwen for tho woods was 816 to 820 per nouth and hoard, Five years azo tho rvate of waires pald tanged from €580 830, Thero hus also buen o large rotduc- tlon In the prico of ull kinds of lumbermen's supplics, Rovorts of the log product of i Stute aru now compiled, and” sliow as followas Flint, %),850,000; ‘Tlttabawasseo uniatributaries, 47 000,000% 'Rilo River, 85,000,000 Knwkawlin, + Had River, 20,850,000 Casw sl Pigeon V0,003 Biran Creek sund day Sliore, 20,700,007 Auzres und shore, 85,500,0003 Huron shore, ineluding Au Sable, Thuwder Bay, aud Bheboytran, 458,500,009; West. Shore, including Maulsteo ‘flnt,” Muskegon, Vere Marquette, Whito uud Grand Riyers uud tributaries, 1,500, 405,000 Tata) for the Btate, 9,704,907,000 feet, ‘The cost of putting luga Into bovai-timite avor- aued 83 por thousand feet; value of product, §0.50 per thousand feet. e —— CLEVELAND YOUNG REPUBLICANS, Sutciul Plaptieh to The Trivuns CrxveLsxD, 0., March 20,.—At the vxecutlve theethgg of the Young Republicons' Leogue, held this evenliy, fty-nue new members were admitted, ‘Thess geutlenen ropresentd tha very buat of the business ‘and professivuel citizens, ‘fhey presented o communieation signed by the whols Qitt§-ning, including such well-kyown l nawnes s Col, John Huy, Col. W, H: Harrts, Heury 8. Blierman, and Sswucl Mather, The communtention states that the undersprn ey the honor wid welfara of fhe aic be serlously threataned by the Democears. 016 it tlie cottrao of tlie ariy Inat yeqs b that, for the ske of sicees,” oL, Hons willing to endanger the vyer, “tonnieir? of “public morala and - socla] ":'l‘vlmu it ey o strivini to efTect. n conlltion LSt Norths with the Communists umd fuflatones, 12 udovtiuis the worst herealos and' sharipes thiem the spolls of victories not yep ncnf"" and that that party ns already made o fy)r 1o render to Uin sUrvlvora of tlin Cyil Wy g 'ir Bouth, Both tiess tendencles ar umagiresy 12 o nctloms of Mopreacntutives by (orcitlr Thix tenduncy 18 seet fn Uiose Stateg vrlmmnv"' party 18 In 1l power, by rapudintion 1t oy, he sea mund Alabmna, wherd eitivs hayo clittery . peiloi by the Leglalatitra Witk e purpoers & Teauding ereditors, sl by dishonoralle selg o of rendjustinent. I additlon fs »cunncum]lfi" of torrur and lawlosancas whoso sway fg uy, Ifl: nuted, o communication cites Thy pelis vl Stato_ Luglslutre s o apcclnaf may be oxpocted from tho party, 1t g W06 the voto of aknown convie {n the Levlsiag e disorgantzed wud duflod publle Tt Rath patronnge, attempted legisiation g, vio) o privala contracts, ant - onened prisony Lo turned looso critnmala lmll!r.'lllnlxmlely F theso and other rensons tie pursons thy, 17 dofeat of thie pacty in power 'vury desirup, % pubife welfnre. Intareet in the Stats cope 't uverywhore great, und feoling ts Funning high By DIAMOND-CUTTING, A New Dranch of Amerlcan ]mluur).ca,,, poting with Amsterdnm and Londonwizon to Jsuy Diamands, " Aew York Erening Foss. There aro fet subjects mare dear 1o the fem. fnine heart then those which rnln!ummpp". clous stones, and the dlamond, above a) by chinrm unfalling nnd alwaye new, 'l'ho,{m n its finlalicd state I8 o pecfect that -foy Tersony @ven thought to the processes by which fly Leautles have been revealed, A tiamong j tho rough resumbles nothlug eo much 2 nobble of rock salt. When found 1t 1§ usuily an cgg-shaped or pear-shaped stooe, lustre. less nnd white, with no more pretensong to valuo in its Jooks than thousandy of the pebbles seattered along the seashare, Ty flre and brilliancy of the zem are develone] by the lapidury ot great expenditure of time nud Tabor. Fot many years, conturies even, {hy hoadquartera of the diamond-cutiing tras by been fn Hollund, and it {8 only within this ey, tury thnt the workmen of othier cattntries hyry begun to compoto with the patient, skillful, ang careful Dutchmen. Lu 1851 the dlamond-tyiyy business in London was sufllclently ndvanced gy admit of the recuttins of the funous Kohlnogr in that clty, but even then it was consideny »necessary to send to Amsterdam for an exgert to superintend the work. It wua reduced fron 180 carata to 100 116 earats, n order to givefpy a!mui whicl would adequately sot off its preay eauty. In U3 country no establishment for culting dlumonis wus umlmen&l me lz‘u'}5 whfin A come pany _was organized by some Dutcl m\l York awd another fn Boston, bl 1t 15 a very tedioua overation to cut adfamen] and polish 1£, I the stone In the rough ls g shaped 18 to nacid splitting, the workman de. cldes whut part 18 to be removed, nnd mokes g small clett with nnother diamond, A diamon). edged tool is then used ns n cleaver, and the Tragment 1 split off. ‘Il createst caro fs nee cssary, of coura, to determine what wil] o i directlon and _exient of the clenve, wnd, as it cannot b made exeept with 1he craln, only 3 lunz-experlenced workman can tell how tomake ‘I'lic stone now passos to the cutter, who ures 0 6Lones at ance mutunily Lo it each other, elt one {8 secured at the end of a stick in 3 ment made of rerin and marble dust. Hold ing w stick tn ench hand over o box to eatch he dinnond dust, the workman steadily rubs one against the olhor until tho attrition weats dowy ono face of ceach dinmtond, Assoon 1s a clear space tind heeh cut through the rouzh outir coatitg ‘“ makling a window,” the experts call 1t), the dinmoud Is carefully examined for flaws aud its shapy dotermived. ” If n flaw lies near the outshe, it can, of course, bo easily cut away i shnging 185 but £ it §s far In the fnterior, the stone, it Inege, must be ent b Lo, taking tvo half-sized zews tnstearl of one larzo one. The shipo having been decldod, the entter eoss on o cut the stone to correspona In general form o thnt determlned upon, “There i8 littlo attempy madg to cut regalar fasces, but the position of the feollet?” and the *“tabie’ fs delined, Tie “eallee? fs the small poluted lower upes of 8 alamond cut n ¢ brilllaut? taslion, aud the *table ™ fs the flat surfoce on top, i Whon the dlamond 1s passed ovor to the pole {slier 1t 18 8ot In 6 puwter sotting held iua kind of soeket about an nch (n digmeter, Thisbass coppur rod about two Incties long and a quarter of an tnch In diamoter, oxtendhnz from the back, which {8 gradped by the faws ot the rest Inwhids the socket [s held “while the polisting fs done. ‘Therost Is heayy, 80 a3 to press the dismond down apon tlte polishing dise with saflicient foree, T disg Is a clrenlar plate wade of steel and lron ree volving Twrlzontally at a velociety of tivu thou sand rovolutions a ininute. "The facs of thediss 18 covereld with oit coutaluing diumond qust which fa retalned fn the pores of the ivon an ncts us n polishing ngent. *‘Fhe diamond 1s care fully sct in thu powter 88 nearly as possibloat the riht angle, but If o sNzht varfution el way Is neciled the copper stem whieh Lolds the diamond socket eun Ue bent sufllelently tovlre th exact ungle required. Two or even mur diamonds can be polished at the same tine va one dise, and as the prog I8 necessarily very BlUW, three oF Inore res! he watehed hy vz akilled workan, The “dop" which hotds the dtamnpnd in the solder resembles o hree aeomia #liape, the diamond belng nt the poing and te cupper wire representing the stem. The wost fahiouablo and elegant shape now cut f8 the “*brilllant," which has an upper table, gencrally octagonal in shape, thirty-ieo faced to thoe girdle, or broadest port of the stone, wnd o pyrumtd below runnlug to au apes calied the *ealtet.” The proper proportian for slhuwing the full brilllancy of 4 stone s one third above the girdle and two-thirds betow, I the upper part 13 too deep in wroportion to the lower, the stone wilt lnck sparkle ot the edges while Bf the reverse bo the caso (b will have wo brillianey at the centro. ‘Fhe beat dinmonds for color are the Trazilis and Indian; for althotzh mang flne stancs hste been found’ In the Bouth African fields, te frenter number af theso latteraro of pooreolst Thore nro threo shades In - greut demand, the pute white, the steel white, nnd the blue white “Flig pure white is untuestionehly the most beats tifuds it Is ful) of sparkle wnd white lzht fo whatover angzle it Is viewed, with absulutely no trace of culor Visible, Buch a stouc will cost o intich as 30D n carat, Tha seeel white hus no ncrc('p“llle colorbut s stocly sheen - [ts sparklo, ‘They Jook alnost tike black objeets refleeting the” it from & highly-polished surfuce, They are Last India stones, nud are very rare. They also brivg Sfamey ¥ prices, Blue whito stonos, placeq beslde an nhsol})l& Iy pure white, wilt make the lutter appear “ ol colur ™ i computlson, ‘Ihere {8 just the faint- estghade of Dlue in them, which connteracs any tinge of vellow In the 1ght passing throus! them, A pafrof earrings of this qualily, weigh iy toputiier abdub four carats, found apic clitsor recently fu Lhis city for $3,000, the buret beitg a aealer, who sald hut hio hiad o prisatd customer for them ut §4,500, 5 <o P OI-colur 1 diamonds wiil bring from 853 to 8100 u earat, but there Is Nttle dednand exeept tor u really perfeet stone, atul the pure white the bett 8hice tho distuvery of the South African dinmond flelds, shoat twelié yeara a0, 1ho prico of diamouds bas fallen to about 75 per contum of what It was lmlu(ri Cunltrary Lo general opinion New York s e ol tha bost tllamond warkets in the world, Jl»n’ over they ean bo bought hero quite as chies I._ o I Loidon or Purts. ‘The duty on unsel (T monds s only 10 pur ventum, and o used! stones thero 18 no duty at all, plotiintiund s e S Gordon and Folton, Renator Gordon, and Mr, Felton, who rar-lrt: seuts the (he Beventh Georgla District as au :: dopendent Democrat, stilt caery on thele “'u words, Llu. Felton udds to ‘the juterest ul‘ coniling to her husband's asslstance, hie ll " fur thcre has been to carnage worlh mumu. g, Bountor Qurdon some time oo "';J*u” f specch 1 which thero was an allusion to Fe 0“‘[ which L«nklml the lntter to the vurr souly which b seems LT to continye (o browd oY% (ordan suld ho lind * et Blafne, Morton, S50 Conklimz fn the Benate, the meanest wid B “::N cat Hepublicans In thut body, but Felton weaner than all," which ussertion, savs l'rllll'l':"; ho know was utterl, o JLQ7 Thus vaints the situation: {'Wh the {w;}:)l; politieul dervishes of the Seventh Congress: sber of WY District htd slundered every m o By Tumily, and when their fuul tongu per )wnm fustifilclont for the uccasion, l'l'fif;f was 1o other wun in the Stato outsldy l_lx:l“_‘. trict whosu proclivities for fulachood ‘]ll(fl::lmh" (hen s wueh old ubd comfort s did -Immrl Qurdon, Herusbed to the rescuo aml bL“m_ thu leader of thess cultinniators; and nu:‘ ¥ fled with iy efforts lst fall, from the Cofi, of the Unitud Btates ho continues nI’u b work,- Jle ‘was guilty of o buse -“15-: s wgulust my dugocent sk noble wites " 'mutv beamirclicl o briliunt war record with BU ¢lal and offielal complications uutll OCOrEiy Diueh that tlie grand old Stojo 1y "fi“;u&b‘ n m%-'hlgmuwunwllu of the Nutlun by on,