Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1879, Page 1

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Andre Co,, Sepia 21s Walaa Arey Chicanos Manufacturers of Artistic Wood Mantels in special designs to order; ide Boards, Newel Posts, ap and alt Hi P } Uiclilaya, Oilcens eet FOREIGN. ° The Romanoffs Crappling with the Hydra of Nihilism. A Scheme of Repression tho + Most Colossal in History. ia Gourko, Melikoff, and Todleben Given St. Petersburg, Char- Koff, and Odessa. They May Hang, Knout, or ‘Siberiate” ‘Whomso- ever They Please. a Plenipotential Despots to Rule All the Big Cities. Astonished Comments of the English Press of Both Parties. ; A Peculiar War Now Going On - Between Servians and . Albanians. The Prisoner Blangui Elected as a Fronch Congressman from Bordeaux. i NIHILISM. THE CZAR APPOINTS 1113 MOST TROSTED AGENTS TO THB SUD-DEYPOTIIMA, 8r. Petsrsnune, April 20,—An official decree is published appointing provisionally Geu. Goucko as Governor-General of St. Peteraburz; Gen. Todleben as Governor-Gencral of Odessa, and Gen. Loris Mellkof€ as Governor-Gencral of Charkoff. Gens. Todlebeo and Mellkoff will commun the truops In thelr respective Gover- norships. It 1g nelleved that Gen. Melikoff witl also rule the adjoining Governments of Poltaya, Tebernlgof, Kurst and Orel. HORRIFIED COMMENT, Lonnor, April 20.—-The Jal! Mall Gazette, antl-Russian, commenting upon the ukaso of the Czar ordering the appofntment of Govern- ors-Gonoral for six districts in Russta, says: “That the focs of authority are a small but de- termined band of evil-docre, as described In the ukage, is incredible. Tho Russian Government. only condemns their own sweepingly oppressive measures by putting forward such o pretense. Were this truo, the ordinary powers of the Btate would have availed to root out the evil, but is , FAN DEEPER AND MORE WIDESPREAD than :this.. account admits, and-it-is because the polica themselves form: one of tho classes among which the revolutionary propaganda has been at work that the Czar’s advisers havo felt a need of secking a new, more swift, and more dendly instrument for the work of repression, TUE.POLIOR HAVING FAILED THEM, they orc about to resort to slinple dragooning. Russla ts virtually placed wnder martial law, nnd that law is to be administered iu the most thorough und merciless fasblon,—in such f{ash- fon, Indeed, a8 must, unless we are to supposs half the population are conspirators, inilict most crucl injustice upon thousands of funocent persons. Six military officials are to havo tha right of imprisoning for an indefinite time all suspicious persons, of transporting to Siberia withuut trial us many as they chooge, und of + EXECUTING, in conformity with the sentence passed, those they may happen to regard as especially guilty, Nor are these powers confined to political criin- iuais. Regular criminal’ procedure seem to bave been altogether suaponded. {Ordinary of- fenders, not cven plotting against the State, are to be inade aubject to martial law, More- over, " ‘THR UKASE 18 RETROSPECTIVE, The Governors-General are expressly ompow- ered to try the prisopers arreated before the fs- suc of the decree,—a vrovision deslzncd appar- ently to authorize the holdiug of asort of Btoody Assize upon persons variously estimated at between 5,000 amt 10,000, who havo been re- contly imprleonea fu the mutinous districts, Unless the Czar and bis Ministers are guilty of the most sweeping and reckless cruelty, they CANNOT BELIEVE THEMSELVES CONFRONTED WITH A BMALL but determined band of cyil-docra, nor oyen with a Jareo aud determiued band of evi)-doera. If their account of the enemies of Btate were in any degree Ike the truth, this suspension of all tow, this superscesion of Inw by the cut-throat agints of a Inwleas terrorism, would bo simply infamous. Of course, their account of the mat- ter ianota trueone, The measures they have resolved upon moko us aware of what, fu thelr ylow, really la the enemy they have to combat, ‘They subject the great part of their country to the dragonnade which at the samo time threat- eng all the rest; for they are convinced thut revolutionary dangers coufront them over the whole area of thelr intended operations. THE TREMENDOUS AGHNCIRS OF SUPPRESSION already fn thelr bands havo long since been kuowff to ava failed, aud to hava become, in the persons of o larce numberof the polico themaclvcs, the ogents, or well-wishers, or terrorized on-lookers, of rovolution. Nothing fo left for the Russian Government but a resort to the methods of the Asiatic despot ff they aro to face the revolution and trample it down, and that they know this wo sco when we look to THAT TERRIDLR ORDER under which thu jails oro to bo visited by the Emperor's own military terrorists, und thou- sonde of people awopt into them by panic atricker: officinidom, to be dealt with at drum- head. Tho wickeducas of this Js not less than the wickednoss of the ogsussius who haye 50 thoroughly tertorized the Imperial family and thetr officers, If this ukase is carricd ont, we shall sco POLITICAL ASSASSINATION ON ONB SIDB anawered by political assavsivation on the other; for one such crime on one side, a hundred on the other—and these last {afllcicd on men and women ingocent of all offensu whatever. Itis truly an awful stato of things, vor fa it possible to forcsee bow it may ead.’ DEPLORED, The ally News (pro-Ruassian) saya: We cannot attempt to forecast thu result of the duel between Nibillem and Milttarlsm to which. this proclamation seems to be the challenge, it is an attempt ta meet disturbors with something Miko thelr own weapons, aud to put. down lawlessness by suspension of Jaw.. ‘The Were confession that such an attempt fs neces- gary must sccm a very serous step for a Goy- ernment which for somo years hay ' AIMED AT DUING CONSIVERED A ClVILIZED ' GOVEANMENT, For the thne during which this ukaso lasts, and m the wide und foportaut district? to which it is applied, Ruasia ceases to by what sha bus re- MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1879-TWELVE PAGES. cently beem and relapses Into a condition of practical barbarism at once. And, without evena form of anything that can bo called a trial, ANY MAN'S LIFE OR WIS FORTUNA MAY BE TAKEN PROS IIS in these six grent cities and their dependencies. All the inconveniences of such a statu of things must be borne by millions, in order that a small but determined band of evil-docrs may be sup Pressed. Perhaps this cvil state of things would Dot Le too much to bear if {t were itkely to re- Neve the country of the malignant political dis- ense from which it appears to be sufferiny. But, {euch a relief were to result from suctt Measures, {t would be for the first time tn his- tory. The military tribunalaof the Six Gov- ernments may punish swiftly and savagely, but they will neither prevent nor cure.'? Tne CONSTIRAGY. BERLIN, April 20.—Indleations multiply that Yast Monday had been fixed upon for a generat etneule in St. Petersburg, The assaselnation of a General was attempted, and n potard exploded ina strect shortly after Soloviefl’s attempt on the Ife of the Czar, TIE ALBANIANS. SERVIANS AFTEI TILBM. Loxnon, April 20.—A dispatch from Belgrade snys 8,000 Servian troops, procceding by forced marches, were expected to reach Kurschumll Monday. Severe ilehting fs anticipated. The Albaninna, whose number fs estimated at up- wards of 4,000, ara divided into two columns, which have advanced one within six and the other within two and a half hours’ march of the Servian frontier, massacreing and burning os they proceed, ITALY'S EXPLANATIONS, Lonpon, April 20.—A dlanatch from Vienna says Italy has furnished Austria with satisfac- tory explnnations in reference to the move- ments of the Goribatdian agitators, hos dis- patched men-of-war to prevent any landing of Gartbaldians on the Albanian coast, and has in- structed the authorities of Ancona and Otrauto to keep a atrict watch on all departures, THE TURKISH VERSION of the Kurshumli offair says it fs mercly a con- Biet between the Mobammedan inhabitants of Kurshumll and the Servian frontier cuards, A Slay account declares that the Servians have already Jost forty killed and wounded. The Albanfans are intrenching Kurshumil, FRANCE, BLANQUI ELECTED. Panis, April 20.—Second ballots for members of the Chamber of Deputies were heid in cfsht districts to-day. Godellc, Bonapartist, was elected in the district of the Champs Elysocs. He recelyed 6,509 votcs and Clamargan, Repub- ican, 6,001. Bangui was elected in Bordeaux by 6,801, against 5,830 cast for Lavertujou, n Mod- erate Republican, In the other six districts the ballots resulted In the roturn of Republicans, a3 antlelpated. It fa expected that the Chamber will annul Blanqut’s election as ilegat. ULANQUI NOT TO DE RELRASED, Lonpon, April 20.—A Paris dispatch says; “Tt was known previous to the second ballot in Bordeaux that the Government would not in auy case release Blanqut.” TURKEY. RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA, ConsTANTINOVLE, April 20.—The Sultan bas ratified the Novi Bazar Convention with the Austriana, 5 re NEGOTIATIONS. Panis, April. 20.—The Parish journals pub- + Hah a long Coosiantivoble telegram explaining the scheme for a prolorixut{on of the Interna- tional Commisston und other measures in East- ern Roumella proposed’ by England to the Porte asa subatitute for mixed otcupation. It shows “that Ruseta bas accepted the main points of the scheme, but objects to the Turkish occupation ‘of Ichtiman, proposed by England, nnd desires that the Turkish occupation: of Bourgas he de- forred until the complotfon of the Russian cyacuation, ty GERMANY. DEAD, Beruin, April 20.—Dr. Von Strampf, First President of the Supreme Tribuual of Prussia, is dead. A CROWDED MEETING of representatives of textile industries to-day unanimously protested against the proposed protective duties, HERR BUCHER, Bceretary to Bismarck, denles that he iutends to resign. SPAIN, RLECTION, Mapnip, April 20.—£lections for, the Cortes began to-day. Full returns are not expected unttl Tuesday, The proceedings in Madrid were very tainc. Six official candidates for Madrid, including Canoyas de) Castillu, Romero y Robledo, und Ayala, und two Opposition cau- didates huye been returned. There is more ex- eltement in the provinces, The Opposition claim that eclenty-flve of their candidates aro successful, BIRIOTLY PIOKWICKIAN, Romy, April 20,—The Pope has notified Spain that his reception of Don Cartoa was without polltical significance. GREAT BRITAIN. THD WALKERS. Lonnon, April 20.—The six days’ walking match for the long-distauce champlonship of England began at Agricuttural’ Hull, Islington, atlo'clock this (Monday) morning, The con- testauts were Hazacl, “Blower” Brown, Core key (the present champfon), snd Weston, the American, AtBo'clock this morning Hazacl wasahead, Allwere running excopt Weston, Hazacl aud Brown are favorites, AFGHANISTAN, YAKOOU KWAN, Loxnon, April 20.—A dispatch from Lahore says decisive news of Yakvob Khan’s Intentions are expected on the 23d or 24th iust. He will ‘most probably consent to recclye Muj. Cay- agnarl, although those who think he will speedi- ly come to terms are in a decided minority, BURMAN, ‘THR OLD MUTCHRK GETTING SAD, Lonvow, Avril 2—A dispatch from Bombay “says that, according to intelligence reculyed thure from Mandalay, the King has declared to hie counsclors thut fear had heretofore made Am yletd to the British demands, but heuce- forth he woutd neither lsten to nor speak of Droposals for an accommodation with Englund, —— THE TURF. New Onregays, April 20.—Races; extra day; hurdiec race, mile-heats, four burdles; won by Cannon, Verdierie second, Hinton third. Time, 1;58¢ and 135934, Handleap, all-sges, mile heats; won by Vir- gitan, Blue Gown second. Time, 1:46, 17403¢, 1:43%¢. Blue Gown won the frat heat; Evalla aE ea mu woe a8) Keeno Michards, Gabriel second, ‘Apuio Wheaton third. ‘Time, 3104. ————— THE EXODUS, ; psctal Dispatch to The Tribune, Naw Oxcxans, Ta, April 20.—The bull. dozing in Tensas Pariah last fall was dono to destroy Republican majorities In order to olect J. Bloyd Kivg to Congress. His Republican’|- competitor wasa colored preacher uamed An- thony Fairfax, who was compelled to fly at the UUme, *8omo thirty negrocs wore kitted. Binca the exodus from Tensas bas commenced, the planters there have becom greatly alarmed, und wy conmuittes of leading cluzcus hus tele- graphed him to come up and use his influence with his race to prevent a further stampede of laborers. Promises uf protection and punish ment of thu rloters of Jast fall are made, and, ealisiicd, he lett for hoie last night, on the Natchez. to plead with bis parishioners to re- maln at home. FIRES. AT 8ST. LOUIS, Brectat Dispatch to The Tribune, 81. Lours, Mo., April 20.—A fire broke out in the car-barns of the Missouri Street Railroad Company at 8:40 to-night, on Oiye street and Channing avenue, Matt Malin, a conductor, had runo carinthe barn and was turning §t on the tablo when ft tilted off the track, causing the centro lump to break and explode, This quickly communfented to the car, and the conductor, fn trying to sinother the flames, was badly burned. This caueed do- Jay in turning in an alarm, and, by the time ft wna turned fu, the flames had spread all over the building, Eleven cars were destroyed, somo entirely new. The loss on the cara was $10,000, The building, partialy new, was totally destroyed, .a loss of $12,000; Insured In St. Louls companies prinel- pally for $20,000, Un-staira the car-house was occupted by ten families of conductors, who lost everything, some of them barely cecaping with thelr lives, Several did so by Jumping from the widows, Ono child jumped from the window, Eight were saved by a fireman, A man up-stairs, cut off by the flames coming down- Btaire, and, seelng his perilous condition, mado a bold leap and vassed tho fames, burning his body in a frightful mauner,, Oue wall fell, and. by a miracle three firemen escaped. Sv close was this call that tho. wall caught the nozzle of a chose, and burned it. The horses in the stable adjoining were taken out and stampeded, ‘They fled fn all directions. ‘Travel on the Hue was suspended for some time, ‘The fall of the wall was caused by the explosion ofa quantity of oll stored In the tront part of the building. . AT KALAMAZOO, MICH. Special Dispatch fo The Tribune. Kavastazoo, Mich., April, 20.—The bulldings on the farm of Hugh MoKee, a farmer living south of this place, were all burned yesterday, with the exception of the house. Grain, livo stock, and farming implements of all ginds were consumed In the flames. The loss is $4,000; Iusurance, $1,800. AT FRELIGUSBURG, QUE. Fruutonsnura, Que, April 20.—Lansberg’s gencral store, Masonte-Hall, nud adjacent build- ings burned Inst night. Loss, $30,000. THE OHIO INSANE. Voplorablo Conduct’ of tho Persons In- trusted with tho Care und Retention of Those Unfortunntes, Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Coruusus, O., Aprit 20.—The demoralizatton existing at the Athens Insane Asylum has cre- ated widespread alarm for the satety of the unfortunate inmates at the Institution, The in- vestigation of the last week by the Board of Di- rectors resulted in the most disgustiug display of whitewash over witness! in the State, while the charges of oplum-eating and drunkenness made against the ex-Confederate Suporiutend- ent were clearly established, and thatdcbauchery existed te an alarming extent, not only among the subordinates, but the ofllcials them- eclves, The Democratic Board of Trus- tees closod .thelr labs. by demand- ing the resignation. of the two Assistant Phystelaus who iad made charges against the Superintendent. Agu result, Mr. d. A. Woodard (Jayhawker™),( of the Cincinnat! Enquirer, was set upon vy uuang of hoodlums from the Asyluin, armed with revolvers, on ace count of his alleged exposure of the utter de- moralization which existed. Yesterday all the etnployes who had testified -bdversely to the Su- ermmtendent were discharged, while others, earful of another investigation, left the insti tution, leaving some of the most dangerous pa- tients in the Asylum with nomttendants or pro- tection. Tt 1s feared te fumates will make a- break for freedom, having become excited at the compictu demoralization, A del- egation of eltizens from Athens are expected here to-morrow to petition the' Legistature to at once order a srareltni Investigation, In sum- ining up ois report “Jaylawker™ save: “Com. plete and thorough reorganization {a demanded, and that speedily, Evory day's delay on tha part of the Legislature fs criminal. Every employe, subordinate, anc: official should bo made to vacate, and. a genera) fumi- gation carried out.” He bellaves that, whether ihe Superintendent be vailty or innocent, the dave of hfs uscfulnoss ore at an end, ‘there is evidence which will be forthcoming at an inveatigation which will re- flect most damagingly on the moral characters of sotne of tha ‘Trustees themselves, which ma in gincasure account for the whitewashing ad ministered to the Superintendent. Democrats gre denouncing the outcome of thelr political legislation of ouo your ago, when the ery for place reautted in the turning out of oxpertenced offlclals for the purpose of making room for political pets. : — THE WEATHER, Orricn or TWH Cuter Sionat Orricen, Wasminaton, D, C,, Aprit 21-1 a. m.—Lndicas tlons—For Tennessee, and the Oblo Valley, und Lake ‘region, rising followed by etattonary or falling burometer, slighly warm uortheast to southeast wings, clear followed by partly cloudy weather, ‘i For the Upper Mlasissippl and Lowor Mis- sourl Vallovs, falling barometer, warmer south- cast to suuthweat winds, cloudy weather, and hunicrous rains, followed tn the western por- tons by cooler weaterly winds, and posslbly ris- ing barometer, Wind. ay Was treat ey, et Sy x7 Hainy Weather, Clear, Marauesty Momphla Miiwaux tucheatur,. Sacraments OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, . New York, April 2—Arriyed, Anchorla, from Glascow, : Quesnsrown, April %.—Artived, thu Bri- tanule, from New York, : ‘ —— OBITUARY, Lousevintg, Ky. April 20.—Dr, Thomas E. Jonktus, ug of the best kuown sclentlate of this city, died to-night. WASHINGTON. Sty Old Democrats Convinced that Some One Has Bilundered, Thetr Lugubrious Fears that It Mas Been the Democratic Party. A Beliof that Senator Hereford Saw Military Interference “in His Mind.” Cotton Speculators ‘ Working Up” the Exodus of Negroes, Thurman in His Great Act as President of tho United States Do Jure, SIGNS OF WEAKENING. A PARTY IN- SEARCH OF Comrnosise. Suectal Dtapatch to The Tribune. Wasmtxaton, D.C. April 20.—It is very evident, from the contldential adinissions of Democrats tnfluential ju party councils, that the party leaders are beginning to think that they have committed an error in forcing the extra session nud in making the threats they have as to stopping the Government, and that the ene ergies of the same Ieaders are now being dl- Tected to digcuvering some solution of the ex- {ating complications. ‘This feeting has not taken possession of the majority of the party, but it certainty is tniluencing 9 large number of the most active leaders, aud fs the ouly basis for the aed peuding rumors of probable cuinpro- mise, THIS WEEK, NEW BILLS, Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasminctoy, D. C., April 20.—The Repub- Ilcans of the House having concluded to inter- pose no further obstacles to the introduction of bills, the flood of inchoate legislation will be let loosa to-morrow. Every Cotfress which bas Intely assembled lag outdone {ts predecessor in the {ntroduction of bills, and the present, if the anxiety of its members !s any indication of a ca- pacity for this sort of thing, will outdo even the last. One temptation for the {ntroduction of private bill@bas been removed by a change of the rules. !¢ has tong teen a custom of Representatives to present many pri- yate bills which they never Intended to push to a pass, but simply that they might be able to send to thoso Intercsted in such measures printed coptes of them, and thus give evidence of thelr diligence in behalf of their constituents, According to the now rule, no private bill that has been printed by order of a previous Congress will now be presented until reported upon by a committec, TRE DEWATR : on the Lecielative Anpropriation bill in the House thia week will bo very largely with the Distory of pust elections in New York City, aud with the efforts that have been made under the Election law to prevent frauds. Mr. Frye, who, as a mem- berof the Committee of the Inst Congress which vislted New York and investigated tls subject, became very famlllar. ft, bas cutn- ered a remarkable array of,,.facts, which he wil use in a epeech-; which be In- tends to make. Gen. Garfleld will ots speatc. itis reported that Senafor Conkling inteuds to moke a speech on the propoged repeat of the Election laws, et TROOPS AT THE POLLS, SENATOR HEREFORD CORRECTED. Srectat Dispatch to The Trioune. Wasitnaton, D. C., April :20.—Senator Blane, in his great speech on the Army bill, the other day, challenzed any Democratic Senator Present to state that he had ever acen Federal troops used to interfere with voters at the polls, Thereupon, Cerro Gordo Witltams, of Ken- tucks, and Hereford, of West Virgiata, rose and claimed to have been personal witnesses to such {uterference. Gen, Willlains was, however, compelled to admit that. the Interference he saw cousisted fn thé stacking of arms of soldiers ina public square at an clectlon held in the trouble. some Vorder-State of Kentucky, more than a year. before the War ended. Senator Hereford juslsted, however, that, after the War, be had. seen, in West Virwinla, Federal soldiers interfere with citizens at the polls, But now comes n West Vircinia journal. fst, editor of the Washington fepublic, Brisbin Walker, who says: “Senator Hereford made a curlous mistake in hts statement that he had seen suldicra at the polls in West Virginia, In 1370. In that year thera was but one company of suldiora in the State. They belonged to the Third Artillery, and had been pent from Fort Mellenry to assist the United States Marshal in taking possession of a large tract oof lund = =in one of = the back countics, At tho time of the election this company wus located at Charleston, and 1 recollect very well that au order was fasucd that they should not go near the polla, — Mure- over, if T recollect right, two out of three of the officers commanding the company were Detmocrata. ‘The troops were not used ‘at the polls, nur wan the idea of their being used even Ru neh as suggested, Suvutor Hereford will bayo to retract.’ IN TUG HOUSE, ABPICY SPAT. doectat Dispatch to The Tritune, Waaitinaton, D. C., April 1%2—The political speeches in the House to-day were not of spe- etal inportance, aud were made more for homo. consumption than for effect upon the House or qalleriea, Mr. Price, of fowa, in'a very careful and earnest speech upposed the political texisla- tion, and arratyned the Democratic party, He commented specially upon the speech of Black- burn, whith he characterized as manly, and aa showing the North plainly what the Southern people intend. Steele, of North Carolinu, de- fended the South from the charges of fraud and outrage, but caught s Tartar when he claimed that Frye, of Mafne, the other day had said he would exempt North Carolus from the charge that i¢had been UNJUST TO THK NEGO or had committed frauds in elections, Frye aaid uint sluca that speech hy had luoked nto the matter, aud had: satiated himself that North Carolina even should vot be excmpted, ant gave notice that he would suon give the Touse the benefit of his reavarches, Mr. Stecle, fia supplicating tone, exclaimed, auild the do- risive luughter of the House, “ Avgcls und anintsters of grace defend us.” Mr. Wackburn made himself to-day a cone Splcuous feature of the proceedinga, and was once more called upon to explain that famous sentence in the spoveh in which he announced that the Democracy would not stop untlt the last vestige of the War legislation has been torn from the atatute-books, Fryo, of Maine, read an article from tho Okoloun States COMMENDING DLACKBURN'S DECLARATION which ned been sent South by thy Associated Presa, aud was sent North and cyervwhere. ‘The States sald, “Down with the devil-born amenaments, ani these who surrounded Liucola." ‘Culs brought Blackburn. agatn from the chalr io headlong and lwpussioued buste to denounce with flery declamation the Ropubliv- aus who fusist upon claiming that he bad sath sucha thing. Uecutercd itu an elaborate o:- tempt to show thathe did wut, but Wwusas uleue- rs ‘My 5 8 mw wy ; te . <7 a my, , oS i » Bf J 4 /,,SPRICE FIVE CENTS, ‘ 5 ceasful as ho was yesterday in convince! s3o2 Republicans that any chgnges he mad? 2 gh. tended, modifled the essential meanbiy @ Fhe declaration, Iu fact, driven into a corner by McKinicy, of Ohio, whotn he arraigned .yester- day, Blackburn admitted that he CHANGED WIS BPEECH in some respects before {t appeared In the Con- gressivnal Uecord, awl that the speech was sub- sequently altered when published in pamphlet. form by the fnaertion of the Important word “alone. That change, however, Blackburn sald, was not made by his hand or knowledge. Blackburn appeared at less advautage to-day than he ever lias before, and manifestly labored. under embarrassment at the fect that he was compelled to acknowledge, which he did im a frank aud open way, that bls speech had been modificd after delivery, But, whatever the technical explanation of certain phrases or sen- tences tnay be, THE GREAT FACT STANDS., that the bulk of the Democtatle party from the South avuwedly, and excepting only the con- stitutional amendments, and such legislation as it is not practicable to repeal, anngunce it to be their purpose, so soon as they shall have the power, If they ever do iu the three Lrauches of the Guyernwent, to tear from the statutc-books every vestize of War legislation enacted by the Republicans and approved by Abraham Lincoln, which scems or tends {a any way to make re- hellion o crline, or to place any disabilities or fmpositions upon its authors, That certaioly is the key-note of the Southern Democratic posl- ion, and no orator on that side has yet sfcceed- ed in denying It, while many have been frank enough to avow it. 7 . BULSIDIARY COINS, ‘The House tn the morning hour further con- sidered the bill to provide for the exchange of subsidiary sitver coin for legal-tender moncy. No final action was taken, but leave was gtyen for amendments of all sorte to be offered and considered pending until Tuesday, when the bill will again be considered and probably passed. This opens the door for all manner of grcen- back echemes, and it fs understoud that the fo- flationists will not Iet this opportualty escape them. Anumendment proposed by Garficld to make ninor silver coins exchangeable for $50 oe miatiples instead of $10, as proposed by the + WAS REJECTED,— yeas, 63; nays, 101. An amendment to make fractional aflyerlecat- tender to the amount of 320 waa adopted by a vote of 23 yeas to 103 nays. ‘The creat xateway of legislation is to be opened on Monday, aa the opposition was un- successful in an attempt te adjourn over until ‘Tuesday, und notice was given in the House on the part of the Republlcaus, as the result of caucus action, that there would be no further Shnaltlon to the introduction of bills from that Bide. THE TREASURY. SECRETARY SHERMAN AND THE SYNDICATE. Bpectal Diipateh to The Tribune, Wasuinoton, D. C., April 10.—Sceretary Sherman Is extremely anxious that the remain- ing $45,000,000 of 4 per cents aball go Into the hands of persons of small meuns at par ond accrued Snterest. To accomplish this it has beon necessary to have some sharp coutrover- sics with the agents of the new syndicate, as the fatter insisted that by the terms of the circular they were entitled to all unsula 4 per cent bonds or refunding certifleates. Speak- Ing of this subject to-day, ne said that ho was a good deal embarrassed by the offer of the uasocigted bankers to take the whole of the refunding certificates. Ie d{d not believe they baa any rieht to demand these certfi- cates under the clreular of April ,- but they claimed =—s they shad, The bankers naturally decided to control the market, und it was strongly urged on the Secre- tary that he ought to allow the united bauks to baye ‘THR WHOLR AMOUNT, including the $10,000,000 of #10 certificates, be- cause otherwise those would be available to outside bunks and capitalists for operations which might embarrass the syndicate, He was told that the whole amount had been token in good faith, and upon the belief that the impor- tauce of the yast transaction would make him willing to agree at once, The Secretary was firm in his refusal. He pointed to bis circular on which these bids were made, and {n the first pare acraph of which he expressly reserved $14,500,- 000 of 4 per cents fur the conver- slon of the 10 refunding certificates, He remarked that the plain intentof the law authorizing these refunding certiflvates was to distribute the debt MORE LARGELY AMONG THE PEOPLE, and to cvable economical people of swalt means to put thelr amall savings iuto this absolutely safe and untuxablo form. IIe felt himself vound to carry out the clear iuteut of the law, und of Cougress which passed it, aud while he frecly acknowledged that the syndicate would naturally like to control the whole possible issuc, ho pointed to the fovt that be had fo his elrcular, clearly reserved this amount, and that the bids must bo nade iv accordance with his offer, ‘The Seeretary observed thut the mauner in which he disposes of the refunding certificates. will prevent any Inconvenience to the syndicate. ‘The certificates are sold only for cash, and only by Goyernment agents, Post- masters, and other pubhe ollicers, und not by banks or bankers, and ONLY IN 8UMS OF §100 orless, ‘They do not come futo the general market, therefore, and it ly not profitable to the banks tu deal iu them or to coltect them and send them ou for exchange for bonds, because of the clags of interest, aud the trouble and risk of the transportation. After considerable dis- cussion the Sceretury tvally avreed that be would give the general publle notice that for sixty days the refunding certiflvates would bo open to purchase, alter which timehe wouldbold hinwelfatliberty, if the popular demand does not avsurh them, to withdraw them If ho thinks it fur the public interest, und, {the chooses, turn. the remainder over to tho syndicate. ‘Thia, it {3 understood, leaves bim entirely at liberty to do what he mas find for the interest of the ‘Treasury fu the matter of the refunding, cer- tifleates at the and of sixty days, ‘The Natlonat banka have &57,000,000 of 10-40a in the ‘Lreasury for elreulating notes, which amount the syndicate can caally make it worth thelr while to EXCHANGE FOR YOUR PEI CENTS, The National banks hold alrcady about 885, 00),00u nf 4 per cents, besides a much Jess quun- tity of dyes. ° Slnce Mr, Sherman becameSecretary he has sold $550,000,000 of 4 per cents, aud with ihe proceeds redeemed the @ por cents, thus suvitue 3 per cent, cr one-third, of thu interest proviously puld by the country on that amount, When the present transaction ts completed le will have sold, by round numbers, $20,000,000 of 4 ver cents additional, for refundlug 5 per cents, sav- fut percent, besides the premium on that amount, Hesides this, bo has sold $80,000,000 4348 to redeem tis. All these transactions to- gether miata an tinjncose saying in the uattoual tutereas accoupt. is + THB AMENDED CINCULAN, The elreular fssucd yesterday by the Seerctar: of the ‘Treasury in relation to the sale of refund- {ug certiticates hus been amended as follows; Department circular, No. UO, of Rig wie 14, 1870, Awhereby rescinded, Ail 4 per’ cent bonds thereat ofered for waly having been sold, the $10 rofund- fug certitcates wil Le tesued for lawful money in sun not taexceod $100 at one timo, by the Treas Utor ond Avvletaut Treasurer uf the United Statcs, and by all pubhe officers bonded for that purpode, They wil not be fasued “hereafter upon the certiicate of uny Nathonal dank deposttory. Commission’ on such favuce heretorure or hereafter made will be allowed ut the rate of 44 of L per cont on au agurecute of 31,000, without regard to the period in which such do. ‘This circular will remain iu a ure I force for sixty days, or until tue 10-40 bouda now outetundinyg dru covered by the sales and no longer, [tia the ileaire of tue Department to give to overy citizen of the United Stutes an opportunity to tu. vewt. 19 Hunted sun, his vavings iu theeo certitl- cates ut par und accrucd inturcst, AL the cud of the sixty days, to-wit: Attheclow of business on the t7th of Jnne, the offer alreddy made for the 4 per cent bonds aufiicient to cover the 10-40 bonds then ontatanding, if any, will be accepted, ‘The Department's circular of March 12and 26, 3870, are modifed accordingly. + SILIPPED POR KUROPR, New Youk, April 19%—Ten milifon of the 4 percents were sbipped to-day for Europe, * TUR SYNDICATE, FIGHTING OVRR THH DIVISION OF THE DIG “BLOCK.” | Special Dispateh to The Tribune. New Yorx, April 19.—The inembers of the new syndicate arrived ata quast-sottlement of their differences this afternoon, after a stormy scrics of conferences, and somo of them are very much dissatisfied, notto say angry. It was discovered carly In the negotiations that {t would be impossible to reconcile all the conflicting interests amicably, Mosars, Fisk & Hatch aud the First National wero firm in their determinatlon to retain $25,000,- 000 each, Jeaving the remainder to ba apportioned among their assoctlates. The latter demanded that the entire amount be divided pro rata, and refused to make any concession. A dispatch from Secretary Sherman carly in the day determined the fact that noneof the re- funding certifleates would be ready for distribu. tlon for sixty days, This lett $71,000,000 to bo divided among the claimants for €100,000,000." Finally, unable otherwiso to solye the prob- Jem, Fisk & Hatch and the First Na- tlonal made o summary apportionment of the $71,000,000, and the soveral other mem- bers of the syndicate received formal letters au- nouncing that on amount equal to about 50 per. centof their soveral original subscriptions had been allotted them. ‘There was o deal of grumb- Ving, and several prominent heads of firms angrily denounced the whole business, allegin; that had they supposed such a miserable crum| would be thrown them, they would have sub- seribed for a much larger amount. THE WAYS AND M@BANS. FIGURING FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP, Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasaixotox, D. C., April 19.—Fernando Wood's posittun as Chairman of the Ware and. Means Committee is not assured. He holds the Chalrmanship by virtue of the Speaker's ap- folatment, untess the Committee shall fteclf elect a different Chairman. ‘This plan has not been abandoned. A Democratic authority says? Without exception the Democratic members of the Committee cxceedinglye ‘ike service under Mr. Wood, and would be very glad to elect Mr. J, Randolph Tucker, who stands sccond on tha Committee, in his place. Mr, Wood nas been pretty thoroughly frightenep, and has had con- ferences with his associates for the purpose of establishing @irmony, and of prevailing upon them not to deprive him of his Cheirmanship, Not betng on suflictently friendly terms with Mr. Morrisun to communicate with that aeotleman personally, he sent an smbsssador to him with trlendly overtures, but Mr. Morrison does not regard Mr. Wood ag a friend whose frlend- ship is worth having, and therefororcjects them, ‘The members aro deterred, however, from elect- ing thelr own Chairman uccause, were they to do so, they would be still more iampered on the floor of the House by thw hostility of the Speal- er, who would undoubtedly resent the inter- ference with his appointment. Mr. Wood can be removed at uny time, however, aud must govern himself carefully if he would retain his position, Ho intended to remove the Commit- tue clerka, but the Democratic members bold a. meeting, and fafurmed him that the clerks aust Ue retained, ‘ INFLATION, A ORAND SCHEME, Waauinatoy, D. C., Avril 19.—Representa-, tive De La Matyr filed a petition to-day em- bodying a bill to establish “greenback cur- rency,” and to relleve the dasneial distress of the country by granting afd . to certaia compa- niva incorpornted by State authority tor workse of interval improvement. It provides that the Secretary of the Treasury be required to have prepared notes and obligations of the United States to the aggregate of $1,000,000,000, to be known as “grecuback currency,” for gen- eral circulation in amounts and form ago the =D provides, which notes or obligations shall constitute ao legal- tender for all debts, and recelyablo for all United States Government dues, These obliga tlons shall be issued In notes of 85, $10, $20," $100, $500, $1,000, 35,000, antt 810,000 cach in such relative proportions. as may, be found necessary to incet the requirements of the bus!- neas wants of the country, ‘The Sceretary of the Treasury 13 authorized to loan from such “grecuback currency " to corporations, provid- ing they file thelr bonds payable Bitty years from, the dute thereof, and bearing no tuterest fortlve yeara from auld date, but at the expiration of tlye venrs the bonds shall bear Interest: at 3 pereeut per apoum legal-tender mougy, the in- terest to be pala seinf-aonually, Following are the corporations mentioned that shall have sdyautage of the Joan: James River & Canawha Caval Company, $80,000,000; Atlantic & Great Western Cat) Company, $60,000,000; Florida Cuast Canal Company, $12,000,000; Fort St. Phillip Canal Company, 810,000,000; for a rafiroad to connect the waters of the Mississippl with the Paclié (blank umount); Rock Istund & Hennepin Canal Com- pany, $13,000,000; Uswezo Canal Company, 25,000,000; Lexington. & Big Sundy Ratlroad Company, $5,000,000; and Niagara 8bip Canal Company, $14,000,000, NOTES AND NEWS. THR NEGNO EMIGRATION FEVER, Speclat Dispatch ¢o The Tribune. Wasitnaton, D.C., April 20,—Soue Southern Congressmen aro,ot opinion that cotton speeu- lntors ure endeavoring to advances the price of votton on the assumption that the colored ex- odus will naturally tend to enhanee its yalue, Other Southern Congressmen insist, however, that, #f the exodus does not extend voyond ite present proportions, ft will have no effect on thy production, except possibly in a very nor- row limit of country. Ex-Congressman Sinalls, from South Carulina, who has arrived here, says that the negroca of his State aro taking the etulgration fever, are deterwined to stampede, and will live on ten-penny nalls until they get enough money tu buy rattroud tickets, ARMY MATTEHS, Senator Burnside ls satd to have prepared an adverse report for sybmisaion to the Committee on Milltary Affulrs on the question of the read- juatment of the rank of Assistant Surgeons whose names are now before thu Scuate for con- Urmation and new commissions, CHEAP AND FRAUDULENT DIVORCES will uo longer be possible in this District. Hatt a dozen cases havo been throwu out on the ground of fraud within a short time, and the Judges have all agreed to pormit nodivorce sult. to pasa without the closest serutiuy, Hereaf- ter the atrictest evidence of legal residence tu the district und absenco of collusion will be re- quired before 9 decree can bo obtuiued, TAM NATIONAL MOARD OF URALTIE ig beact by thu represontatives and agents of vuriols patents for the purpose of obtalning a portion of the $200,000 which {¢ was suppused was appropriated for the Gamgeu refriverating , ship, There was a ciause in the bill, however, giving the National Board of Health large dis-~ crotion, and a tobby has arrlyed hera to convince tho Board that other mothods are preferable to that of Gamgee, 4 MILITARY SUBPOENA, tis expected that the Judictary Committee, tu’! - the matter of the subpaua of. its filo Cleric by * the Judge Adyocate inthe Hazen-BStanley Courts , Martial, will report that the Judgo Advocate: + has no power to lesuc aeubpena for persons ' outaide the State wherein the Court fa aittiny, but that he may lasue a requisitlon for the tak- + duy of depositions, and, under this, privilege wit bo allowed tu obtain authenticated copics of the ducuincots desired from the House uf Representatives, Its acurlous fact that the testimony iu the investigation before the Hous Sluitury Comultiee for whlch the Judge Adyo-