Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1879, Page 7

ACROSS THE OC ‘German Geographical Expe- = dition to Central Africa. w Taxes ATO Collected In Rus. slaee-The English Royal Family. Poderground Tolographa in Germany--- Farming by Lightning--Austro- Italian Rolations, in Afghanistan Jost Begun---Renan and » ee Brother- ‘Immortals "---Cracl- ties of Russian Despotism. Ho oMAN TXPEDTLION TO cuN? GERMAN AT, APRICA. torrexponitence New York Heratit, qresnaes, April 2.—Thero has just started anew and important geographical expedition for Central Afrlea, an avout of which may bo intere#ty all the more os the new undertaking ‘ artly cequeded a9 9 coutinuatlon of the ox- Psion of Btaniey, and has certafoly been B ied forth by hls achlevemeats, ‘The new ex- seditlon hasbeen organized by the African So- dety of Germany, fn Berlin, who have placed Gerhard Rohifs, ono of the most celebrated of the mang well-known German explorers of Af. rea, at {ta head It ia sent out by the Gorman Aefean Soclety at Bertin, whieh, In connection with the Drussels International African Assocl- ation, pursuca tho following objects: 1, Tho sctentifie exploration of the stil un- arts of Africa, gli opening up for. elvilization, trade, and comnierco, and, a8 aconsequenco of these, the peaceable abolition of the slave-trade. The foelety voted un appropriation of $7,500 for the expedition, and the German Government has. contributed the samo amount out ofa fund of 493,000 placed at tin dl¢posal by Parliaments for {rian explorations.” ae wine object of this expedition will bo the further exploration of tho great bond which onzo-Livingstone River mnkes north of the Ce the Equator, ne fret minds koowe to tin, arid rStaniey, Mowever, fustead of following the ees. feotatone from the east coast, Rohlfs ijl again start from iripolt, on the Mediterran- ean, where ho is already well known, ad will pave no diticulty in formliig his expedition, Ha will from thera go southenst to Sokna, which Hes ity ples sistent at the t of the Binek Mountains, and then across the desert to) the larga onsia of Kuforat, and 0 follow the caravan road duo south, vin Wajanga to Abeshe, the Capital of Wadal. "This te ‘ie negro Muhammedan Kingdom In Sudan, exst of dake Tan aril weat of iiss fayptlan wince of Darfur, whose savaue inhabitants sorter the we Gorinan Hayolers. Ail ate inpted to cross frontiera,—Vogel, bn 1857 td Beurmamn, five years later, while Naehtigal, tho present President of the Berlin corranhical Society, succeeded in traversing the entire coun- try {rom west to cast in 1875, und was even woll recelvedl by Alf, eft Bing: of Watalis re pres- nt, however, 's brother, Yuésuf, hus suc- fede to tho throne, and tt remalua doubtful how he will receive the oxpedition. Should he prove hostile, #oblfs wilt keep more to the xeatvard, and goto Kuka, the Capital of Bernu, whose Bing tremed Halts co wel Sane ii Either from here or from Wadat tho oxpedi- tion will proceed furthersouth, und, after Teach: ing the Kiver Shari, the feeder of Lake Tsad, Rohtfs Sut “attempt to oterm|ncs the fre tourccs of this stream, and hereby decido the question whether the Wello River of Schiven- halk tits Upper Shay ns slalored by this bene tler, or the Armof{m{, a8 suppose: tantey, the dearer of {We Inttor ret . using tae May at Wadal Dr, Nachtigal was informed that te mallee traders sotnetinnes Rass the moulers roatler of that country, which oxtends to the erin segrte ot north tatttudo, by Saoites fifty miles,and there teach a great river flow! nye from east to west, covered by islands and nu- nerous large cunocs of the natives. It will vo Holi elect to eeide Srhother, tts ts the elle, Starl, Arinoiml, or perhaps the Cougo, The expedition will then Dish on to the bend of ie stato, pert by followty iq sais heArmoimi te its confluence with Stanley's great river, Where ho had the terrible naval: en- Ragement With the fleet of fifty-four canoes, and tuen follow the Congo down to the ovean, Roblfs will thus travel in Stnoley’s track, completing and filing in our knowledge of the Techn nar any Lani by Branloy's fascinat- ng narrative ie Deine, avoiding the many dausere ot anvmaes aul cataracts which so often nearly proved. Talt lathe Anglo-American expedition, If possible is still Bnsalvea! Question. pee Oraraeh ures May also receive the Expudition's atten- tn, tt will nue Be gee Hiab the scope ot nubuI's researches 15 tt tl v ambitious, and if he accomplisten bur ava ‘ot His programme he will pave done 4 great peo- ftaphleal service, The duration of the expedi- in. a aigaiated to be fly years, at au annual Of 84,000, Rohlts is no new hand: at African trayel, but wy even be steal ®& profeasional African ex- Lec tuat trier ang Etta ott ent, and the present ox- Tso: Ishis elghth one there, He was Bors cincil, v7 yt Ie ue took "part fn the Beuluswle: Holstein wat eG mie ie Bpbolnted: an ollicer u je of Idatet, ter studying inca- ‘due at several German universities he went ta t glere, Where he joined the forelza legion and ought uraiuat the Araba during the conquest otRabstia. In 1861 he went inte Moracco as ree fo tis Bil tin nu ie Hane position bo- al acnuainted with the Arabic jan- Fiage and Orlental customs thut ho began hfs nitareat expedition in the folowing year by Mavereing the Desert of Morocco from west to tub by Way of the Oasis of ‘Talllet, disguised as 3 lohummnedun, & {vat never before attempted ed "by ea aud left for dea Ml the “desert,” with a shattered urn, me being found ‘by soino pllerims, he suecceded tte poll Nothin danater he agaln nérted, 4, from ‘Tunuicr, crossed the snow- totered Atlas’ range, aud suceceded in pene- teed a Jan fouth aa ths Oxats of Tuas which ¢ frat European to reach and describe, mee isi os occasion only lis disguise hers peta nomleliea of Moliumedan man- Taintteat him from death at the bunds of the a fal natives, He found it impossible, how ana fo vontinug his march toward Timbuctoo, ‘ ene We a Be hints Obaisaies fo. Teta, : ack to Germany fur 8 shor Un, 14 2885 ho Ugan tie thied grunt ope: the Chota ne nee i Aluasio te huis, Sav pita no in ce Tehadl, anc ita foulheast to the Binne and along’ this ah ee voudnetree vr The Niger shen up 1 ayand through the virain (testa ut Yoruba to 4h coast of Lajos, thi ediuerngice ire eatatinent {rou the . 4“ the ul a uliuca, [i he returned to Englund, but in the fol- rd year he was in Africa, and, ike agulasy je eeomnnanied the British expedition In ig) Rens Theodore of Abyssinia to Masala, feet took the Ring of Prussta's presents deliy, eet of Kornoo to Tripoll, where he tu delivering iy 20) Dr, Nachtinel, who Succutled, * I um eo Pushed on throug: hat Lo Eypt. Ituhlis meanwhile went on to erp naa on the Mediterranean coast, anid 4 Tenian tvteation ioe Sept tea zation. He theo crossed the homes the celebrated Ousts of Jupiter Am» te Meee then continued lis journey eastward bis bona ee afilter several ears ot roat at f Mute the hears Couringia, during whitch the, he ges hestontes of bis etx African expedl- Guin 1 in 1673 set ont on the seventh ona frum Exit faving been appointed by the Khedive of eyutpped c command of a ‘large and tell Notation of they aul fate tia ati Toe the ¢ ¥ Lybian Deasrt und Its oui wen true to Bayne (n Murch, 1874, and luce take at ted fo Welmar, til’ called upon to Wlilely Fear of the present expedition, Relous of regents mmsreh to the Unknow TAXES AND TORTURE IN RUSSTA. Otten when wf! Melt @astite, » en When we read of the “banifruptey ” of toyuy ecuatry that asks nothing bettor than irbout oo, Contonu itedebt, and can do that. ocala rowing snother, peuny—we thiuk of lie and the solemn clty persons who talk of wih ¢ Veitment securities of that Btate, utters boo? be saved from putting up its fomedien ¥ wore and inore borrowing, und thyt ny of rt And when we bear of the poy. fats is Tellaheen, and the heartless way in sain ante Hogged to pay excessive linposts, theta uk of Russta, and reflect upon the ie Ne sume poverty, the samo extortion, tines ns tnilexible processes of getter the toe en youll Go on there without borrify- toa ‘ybody, Indeed, whenever wo men- Cxiatcuco of ‘tbls hopeless threat- “Prince, und took a dislike to the young’ In} | poverty, and the grinding fmpor even tho whip is failing. to ox- tort, we ure no more credited’ thin wo Wero none years ago when we told the world What ta exoect from Ruswiau revolutionaries. AI WSE he Keown fa tine, however, tnelnding the vast Gapostures of Rusdlan inunce. Mean: white, we take the following eliapter on the Practies of “Eaforelng Taxes by ‘Torture’? which ts supplied from st. Petersburg by writer on “Contemporary Life and Thought in Russia.” It ts tu be found in the new number of the Contemporary Aeview, aud ta written by a manifertiy friendly lund: “Auotiier custons caso has thle week been tronebt before the Court of Riazan. A com- tlssary of rural police, named Popof, was charged with abuse of his power, nid with fn- Meting torture on the peasants for arrears in the payment of taxes, ‘The factof alther a chief or onagent uf the Govertiment betty Drought to acedtot for his behavior towards those betow him ovcurs ao rarely in Rusgin that {Lcunnot puss unnotived. Ttinarks ay impor. tunt step in the ndyuuce of justice and elviizatton among tts, and fa the best guarantee for the future, The abuse . of which Mopof was found guilty is one very com: ton fn our villiges, though it docs not often take the extretne character of torture, When corporal punishment was abolished throughout the Emutre, belay, tt was supposed, erased from the peual code, the legislators could not per- aunds themscives. to stamp it completely out, but relezated {t ton corner, where it continied to exist. ‘This corner was furnished by the rural self-governinont conferred on the peasants after their emanelpation, ‘The opinion tut ignorant peels possess an Intuitive knowledge of jis- Ace, bubter than that of the upper classea who. are spolled by clvilization, is stlll prevalent tn some circles, ‘The Hberated nensunts wero aup- posed to know how best. to distribute the Lind, and apportion the taxes between the members of the community, amt also how cenerally to do Sustice. ‘They had thelr special executtye ad- ministrators and thelr own courts, witeh were chosen by themselves, These Judges aro not obliged to possess any education, not cven the ‘iret olements of spelling, much less acquaint- ance with the common ‘law; their con. science and common senav aro thelr only enides. It was thought nevessftry to leave to these courts the privileze of corporal punishment, os being the ponalty moat furntitarto the vtnss, ant the casfeat for the officials tu apply. True, the power was not conferred without some restric- tions belng added. ‘fle number of blows to be given, as well a8 the Imltutions bearing on the age wid sex of the culprit, were tixed by law; old men and women nut being Hable to thls punisiimont. But everybuity knows that such qualifying provisions ara a dead Icttor, unless there bo some ano expressly appointed to watch tho enforcing of them. ‘The Judyes und the Bailiffe went on flagging whoover they tiked, and giving as many blows as they thought tt, without being supjected to any interference in the matter, Though thla corporal punishment, was intended exclusively for breaches of the penal code, it was soon applied in cases of arreara in the payment of taxes und dues, ‘The village Is collectively responsible for the total of the taxes impoged on ft, and the Ballitfs found that flogelng was the best means for collecting the required sums, ‘The Comimieeurics of Police in theirturn, not haying the right of inflicting this penalty, referred cases to the rural Judges, ask- Ing thein to order tt, and st scems they hardly ever met with arefusal, Thus, while real crim- tuals were exempted from this most degratiny punishment, poor peasants were subjected to it at the arbitrary will of the police snd the rural Judues, for vob baying the amount of ready money asked from them. The evidenco went to show that the necused, pans boing gifted by nature with a pecutfar ferocity, took Hvely pleasure in such scenes, He passe the aen- tenco on inulviduals who were clearly exempted by law in consideration of thelr age or iliness, and in the carrylng out of the sentences he transformed the clinstiacncnt {nto n real tor- ture, Somo of the details were nearly incred- ible. By his orders the rods werd heated in an oven to mako thei moro flexible, and were sprinkled with salt, or else rubbed with a wet rag dipped in salt water. The blows, instead of following quickly, ono after another, wore given with long intervals between (for instance, it wos said, a quarter of an hour), besides being intlicted with such violence that the suilerer often lost his senses, During the whole time of the punishment the unhappy prisoner, having on only o shirt, was lying on the floor, fa an unheated room with several degrees of frost in the ofr, whils the Commissary was Jeisurely. walking to and fro wrapped In furs, nud intu- manly rejoicing at his victin’s sufferings. The enjoyment Popot derived from indulging inthis cruelty was ao great thuthe never accepted any palitations or excuecs on bdebalf of those who were condemned to undergo the punishment, Evon when the Cominune, pitying some old or sick man, deposited for him, the sum he was owing, the Commisary took the monoy, but de- clared that the man would be punished all the same for not having pnid It carlior, All these allegations were proyed by cye-witnesses, Tho verdict was against the accused, mul he was condemned to three months’ imprisonment ina fortress. This peunlty may justly bo cousidercd very lenient for auch a crime; but the trint Itselt js a novelty, and will be o warning to other functlonaries)? ENGLAND'S ROYAL FAMILY, Lucy Moover's London Letter tn Paitadelphia Teles raph. Of course one hears o good deal about tho Rogal family in London, for, loyal as the En- EUsh peoplo undoubtedly are, they sre not at all nvarse to telling scandalous storics about thelr Princes and Princesses. An English lady of rank recently told mo that much of the pop- ularity enjoyed by the Princess of Wales was owlug to hor beauty and the charm of her manner, Sheianison kind friend and a most devydted mother. But she possesses neither depth of intellect nor force of character sutfl- elent to cause her to make her mark in the hich station to which Providence has catled hor, On the other’ band, the Duchess of Ed{n- burg owes much of her unpopulurity to her Jack of positive beauty, ‘Iho people, feeustomed to the gracious loveliness of the Princess of Wales, had tooked to seo ber churma repeated anew in the bride of the younger Russian in consequence of their disappointment, But sho ia o spinited.nnd intelligent lady, highly ac- complished, speaking several languages fluently, and a practiced amateur ortlst and musician as well. Ble, too, {8 a most devoted mother to the four little ones that hays blest her five years of tnatrlinonjal Mfe. Lt was after. the birtli of her first child \int she so offended the Queen by re- using te come ta London for the season, “God has given mea child,” sald the girl-mother, ber- self Nttle more than a child, ‘and way should Licave itt attendants and servants to fuldlll my so-callod duties at Courtt There is no pros- pect of my children cvor succeeding to tha throne, 601 do not mean to sacrifico them to Court ceremonial, 1 shall atny at home and take care of my baby.” And stay she did at the Duke's country seut all ukrough the sum- ticr nnd autumy, © She looks like a roman with awill of herown, und ft {gs suld that ber lus- band {gs devoted to her, and that she rules wim completely. It is to be hoped that ahe has cured him of tha unprincely habit of drinking too freely, which used to bu a cliaracteriatle o: his conduct in bis bachelor days, As to the Prince of Wales, lila latest escapade, or at least the last one that has been much talked about, is hie buying tuken the Princess, when she was just iu Parts, to the house of a ludy whom, sho should never have vistted, for wore reasons than ous, Reatly, Albert Edivard ts incorrigivie 60 turns the soir sex fs concerned. Thave just been called upon to part with come ot my ideas as to the awful state and formality that are gencrally supposed to surround royalty, in England. Yesterday | stopped with a frioti atthe French confectionery store of Messrs, Bolasior & Cu.,0n New Lond street, toget a cup of coffee, While wo were there, a lady and genticoman came iu—a ptatnly-dressed patr, wilh out cyen a servant In attendance, aud without avy assuinption of state whatever. Thu lady Gave her orders {oa loud but uot unmusical voice, epeaking altogether in French, selected a number of April gifts (** April flah,"! aa they aro. called here) for: her children, und iuspected all the April novelties, inlugliy freely and ostentatious! vith Ube other purchasers, In fact, the shopwouwan who waited upon Mie couple did vot know who they wero A thu gentleman gave his name, It was ils Duke and Wuchess of Edinburg, ‘Tha pictures of the latter are far from doing her jue- Uce, Sha hus become much thinner, and her face has Ju consequenca lost phe heavy louk that was ite cbicf defect. She has a lovely blooming complexion, and but for a chin of undue short ness Would bes yory pretty womiou, Sue fe tatl and graceful, aud hor figure wae displayed to advantage in the yery simple jacket of “block. brufded cloth that sho wore ‘over a black sill aélet. The Duke fa thin-faced nnd inaignidcant- Jouking, und cannot compare either in feature orphystque with the Princo of: Wales, ‘The shop-zirf told my fread that the Duchess often atopved there to take ncup of*tbocalate in a similarly informa) aud upostentatious way, Why, efen Mine, de MacMahou put ou more airs than that, und as to the Oricens Princes und Princesses, they would a3 soon think of jumping fps the Seluo us of so mingling with the vulgar er UNDERGROUND ‘TELEGRAPHS IN GERMANY, Eerlin Currescondence London Temes. ‘The Neichatag has voted thd'sum of 1,830,000 marks for the further construction of subter- ranean telegraph wires. Germany wil! soon bo THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Intersected with acomplete network of ttls {1 visible nud fnaccessitle intanapf communica: (lon, which no thunder-storm con destroy and ne roving enemy can readily cut, In “157% tt waa tirst. proposed to connect. by underground cables all the eblef centres of commeren and in- duattyty the Emytre. alt the fortresses and laces of aring, the cont balig recto: $11,000,000 marks (21,700,000), ‘The L expurl- ment of the kind waa mate by the sinking Of a Wiro between Berlin nnd Galle, which has been Subjected to the ateletest scientile testa, wd yielded highly ratisfactory results, not a alogle Interraption bolug revorited, When the whole work Is ender, the German Empire will bo ecrorsed by two creat main enblea, stretehtiue from Konigsherg in the north ta) Btrase burg tn the south, aad from lembare in the northwest ta Untisbon in thi southenat, {ntersectiny at Merlin, Strashure will also be connucted tith Metz. In addition, an- other sunken wire will curve sway up from Strasburg through Cologne to Hamburg, while Hatiabon wud Keentesberg will altntlariy be cou. Weeted, An underground wire will tay bind tu- autler Berlin, Dromten, Stuttgart and Munich, communicuting with a Mth main cable pusalt (rough South Germany. Ju thre years, it.fa auld, the whole network thus planied by Dr. Stephan, the Postmaster-Gvueral, will be con- pleted. ‘The half fs already finished. An une erground cable new connects Berlin, Halle, Leipsic, Cagael, Frankfort, Mayence, Maunheln, Curlerahe, Rastadt, aid Strasburg; suother ine rune from Berlin through Magdeburg, Brans- wick, Hanover, Mucuster, Duesseldorf ond Barmen-Elberfeld to Cologne, while Berlin and Uninburg are niso connected, throwlig out Urouch Ines to Kiel and Cuxhayon, to Hremen and Einden, thus jofulne the North Sea cable ebm untcat aig Atty England and America, A sun of 18,000, murks (£000,000) has nlready been spent on this subtorrancan enterprise, anit the money now voted will be employed In con- necting thy towns and harbors aloo the Baltic shore for the turtherauce of commerce und const dofense,—a work, gatd the Postmaster-General, which snould be proceeded with ag speadily ag possible. LIGUINING FARMING. Richmond Reyister, The Inteat scientific intetiigence from France brings accounts of sume extraordinary experi- ments now under consideration of tho Froncl savants, M. Grandcau, of the School of Forestry, Paris, reports the following among numerous equally astonishing results: In April last ho took two tobacco plants, cach welghing about fifty grains, and haying four leaves, They were both plauted in boxes containing mold of {dentical quality, aud placed side by side Ino position favorable to their growth. They were permitted free circulation of air, light, and water, One was supplied witn a “lightning. rod,” or electric conductor, and the other loft free to the influence of atmos- pherlc clectricity. The plants wero left to themeclves until the middle of August, That under the influence of electricity attalned a helght of three fect five fuches, und weluled about 44,000 grains; the other measurcd two fect four inthes, and welghed about 23, grains, about one-half, This ts only one of the many results obtained. If electricity {6 to bo- vome a factor in farming, as it is already one in mechanics, we may expect to seo Bue Wwonder- {al and substantial revelutions, perhaps ex- ceeding the telepbuno and {ts alNed wonders, Inatead of carefully conducting lghtulny into the ground, we may have, by an ingenious sys- tem of network distributors, whole farins fertil- ized by Hghtuing ina shocking manner. Prof. ‘Tobin thinks the echeme altogether practicable, and says thatin a few years every farmer will bo using these Nghtning fertillzers.—£zchanye, NOVARA, Austréan Correspondence Lontton Ginbe, ‘Thirty yenrs ago was fourht the battle of Novara, when the Austrian troops, under Kadetzky, boat the threo tics more numerous army of Carlo Alborto, who thut day lost his crown. Ho was the crandfather of the present ruler of united Italy. Most of the Austrian pa- pers recall the oyont only to express. the hopo that Italy and Austria will In future lve as fast. friends. The Extra Blatt takes the opportunity to rcad united Italy a lecture upon the danger of ereed and covatousness in tho matter of her nelhbore’ territory, aud, again, pretty clearly hints that Russian ‘agents fu Italy aru work- ing to keop the “Italia Irredenta” ogi. tatlon alive, The disaator of March 23, 1540, ehould be o lesson to Italy not to break her vromise, Tho article concludes as follows: “May the people and ruler of Italy tay his great trots to heart on the, anniversary of Novara; may the monument which the nation has erected on tho battle-feld and which tu-day is unyelled in the presence of the representative of a former enemy who now honestly desires peace, be a lasting warnlng that perjury never goes unpunished’! A disturbance tock placa fn Milan on this day. The military deatroyed several revolutionary banners, and stopped the crowd from mecting in the “Campo Santo.” Many neople were wounded and several arrest- ed. Greut entisfaction 1s felt at the success of the Austrian party" in the Tricste olectione, waich have juat taken place. The “Natlonal- itat” cundidates wore nowhere. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, Tho Calcutta Englishman, referring to the po- sition of affairs in Afghoolstan, says: “So far from {ts being likely that wo have nearly seen the ond, there is ood reason for thiuiing that wo hayo hardly yet seon the begipniny, of the war with Cabul, {nd our successes in tho autumn been followed up by an immediate ad- yanco on the Capital, {t {s not improbable that a final settlement would before this havo been effected, Bur the long halt at delalabad has re- sulted, as wo all ntony predicted it would re- sult, 1 a rovival of Shera Ali’s couse and of the cournge, if notof the strength, of the encniy. Yakoob has not only recovered from the state of daze in which he emereed from prison, but has reunined much of hislost influence, ‘Inks with ainplo qualification the news thut fs pour- fog iu from all sidea, itis avident thut ho is neting with eytraordioary energy, and organiz- ing a resistance hich chonek at will certainly prove fneifectual, ts likely to try our strength {no way in which It was not tried inthe autumn campaign, ‘Thera is yood reason, however, to belleva thnt everything is ready for an advance the moment the snow fs off the pasacs, ani the morements of the Commander-in-Chivf would. seein to indicate a conviction on hla part that the second act in the war fa likely to be more funportant than the frat has been,!? THR FRENCH ACADEMY. M. Renan was received formally tuto the Frencts Acadamy April 3. Of the academicians M. Mignet atands ret on the Mat, not only by seniority of election, but by age. He was born in 1790, and was elected {n 1836. The other names are placed in.the order of their election into tho Academy, | Victor Hugo, the Duke de Noallles, Desire Nisard, Ernest Lecouye, Count 6 Falloux, Julos Sandeau, Victor de Eaprado, Emlte Augier, Octave Feuilict, the Duke do Broglie, Jules ‘Dufaure born in 1703; Camilla Doucet, August Cuyillter Fleury, Jules Fayre, Count d'tlaussonville, Auguste Barbler, Count de Champagny, Prosper Duvergier de Hauranng, born fo 1. 08; tavier Marmicr, Emile Olivier, Emile Littre, Camillo Rousset, Baron do Vict Caatel, the Duke d'Aumale, Alexander Dumas, Edmo Caro, Alfred Mezieres, Jean Baptiste Duras, Jules Simon, John Lemolnne, Gaston Boissier, Charles Blane, Victorien Sardou, Ernest Kenan, tinpotyte Adolphe ‘Taine, Hens! Martin, and the Duke dAudiffret-Pasquier, Two names aro wanting to cumplute the traditional number of forty members, ‘These vacaucies ure ace counted for by the recent deaths of M. de Sacy and M. Saint Rene Taillunder, whose places havo not yet beer filled up. RUSSIAN DISPOTISM, London ulobe, * {t appears from the Russian press that the apcclal reason for Gen, Drentelen’s assassination was that ho had himself discovered the printing: olllco of tho socfal-revolutionary Sem’ja-l- Wolja, or “Land and Freedom." An exposo by the Charkow Diozaan Nachrichten of the treatment of the tomates of the central prison for political offenders reveals tho cruclty etiil vracticed in lussla. Of the 500 people wiiv bays been forked up during the Jast four monthe 200 have already dicd of scurvy, A aniall piece of biscuit once in the twenty-four hours is all they get, except a liberal allowance of the whip. No fewer thau forty-two have gono mad during these four months. Stx “political prisons?’ ure to be bullt. in different parts of Russla, each to boli 6,000 prlvoners..A pice lookout for the aspirants after Hverty--30,000 political prisoners. It is useless to record oll the assassiuations and emeutes which dafly take placo ju Russis—sufice it to say that things are undoubtedly getting: much worse, that Nihiligm con number among its members employes in the bighest place, and that the worst meuns are bein taken to combat the enuiny—viz., indiscriminate orrests and ar- ditrary banishments. .A crisis will soon occur which will attract the attention of all Europe, ITEMS. It appears from o report of tho Ruaslan Army Medical Department thut of the 1,400,000 boys registered ag having been born Jn 1855, there ‘Wer Mylug fa 1876—that fs, at tho ago of 31— onty 610,000, or ag percent. in other words, out of sevon hoys born searcely more than three lived to be of age. The Trocadero Palace 8.18 much of a white elephant as tha building at Pallsdelphia. ‘The City of Paris refuges lo give thie 8,000,000 francs the Btate aska for the building, "The [stand of Matacong, which, tt la sald, Is to be ceded to France, ia altunted one mile from the main land of Slerre Leone, In 8 degrees 10 minutes north laiitude, Its three miles In clr- cumference, atid has a port nid warehouses. "The population consists of Wfree negrocs anit one European, A police-ordor recently issued in Berlin dl- recta nyery traveler orriving thers fn the com. pany of a lady: to furnish satisfactory evidetica dbial the Jady belongs tu bia family, or that hie refations with her are of a legal i, or that they are otherwise. The order lias caused areat trouble among foreigners reaching Berlin, She Idea of the reparation of Alsace ane Lor- rain is gaining round. Prince Bismarck pers senally conferred on the occaston of the Emper- ons fete with) several Gerinan Princes who tail gone to Berlin, tneluding the Kime of Saxony and the Grand Dukes of Baden, Meckienburg, and Welmar, and they ara all sald to view the pian witha favorable eye. A poor woman, who wag for nine months an in-patient In St. John's Hospital for Disensus of the Skin, jn Loudon, sufferings from leprosy in its most horribly form. died Marc 29, ‘This case, the hospital nuthorities state, shows that leprosy fs by no means extinct in Europe, and tt forelbly {nstrates the necesulty for the establishment of leper wards. Dr. Phillips, a London physician who was in lucrative practice in the West End, has Just re- covered a verdict of $85,000 ncainst the South- wealern Ratlwas Company for lajurles to his apine received oo colllslon in December, 1877, Uo will never Le ablu to resuine hls practlee, ns partial paralysis is comfuz on, For three years proviows to dhe nceident his professivnal jucome averaged $39,500 a yenr, ‘The cattlo plneuo ts hecomngy more and more formidable tn Bohemia, Several hundred places Haye been attacked by the disease, ‘They are surrounded by a military cordon, und as far os possible provented from currying on {ntercourse beyond its boundaries, ‘The toss to the in- habitants of the district fa yery considerable, util js not totally represcnted by thatof the cattle slaughtered. Apriculture is fn mauy pinces at a atanidstill, tho enttle which serve as beasts of burdun being flocked up wherever the disease appears. ‘The plarue {s belleved to Lave been introduced by several head of Hussinu cat- tle Imported by a Galician dealer. "Fhe Duchess of Westminster has been sucd by her maid, ‘The action 1s turecover damages, the Duchves, in reply toan inquiry respecting the maid's character, hayisig written that the maid was “abusive and anvoyins.” uml on tio oc- casions was quite autof her mind.” Jane Jones is the maid’a name. The case te stillon, ‘The ‘Duchess testilled thaton the night of the Oth of February, 1872, she thourht that the mald was quite out of ber oilud, and had told the Dike and the makts brother the saino thing She had seen letters written by the mald whic! were {ull of abuso of her, at) she therefore had forbidden the maid to coms to the house, a\propos of the hidden treasures hereafter to be fished out of the Tiber, Ridolpho Lanciatl, ancminent Roman archieolotat, writes to the London Aidenrum: © T have often thought and written that the existonce of objects of Value in the bed of the river was not probable, because either they must have sunk to sn enormous depth through the ght mud of the bottom, or heen carried away by the violence of the stream. fam glad to confess my mistake; und state that the bed of the Tiber contains immense quantt- ties of things of value, especially coins in ree- ular stratn, which beain from Plus 1X.’s age and end with the flint Instruments of pre-bistorie times.” At one point drefgers, operating over osmall arca and at a depth of only twelve fect under the surface of the water, aye recently brought to ght an sameuse stock of coius and. other curiosities, The programme of the Russian expedition to Central Aso, which ts propozed for the approach- ing sumrner, lias been just fasucd from the ollica of the Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinoviten. ‘The route to be followed fs from the Ural to the aAmu-Darya by way of Kuratuga, up the Byr- Darya, and thence to the Caspian Sea. ‘The inisston of the party will he to collect informa- {ion as to the resources available for the con- struction of ao raflivay; to uscertain the swift uess, depth, nud fall of the Amu, and obtain In- forination respecting the country, aud the towns and ruins on its banks; to survey the dry couracs of the river in the oasis ot Khiva and of the ‘furcoman steppes, aud to examine the bare and rapids of the Uzbol nmi the rulns and traces of Irrigation canals slong its bauks; and, final- ly, to make baronietrical; thermometrical, and astrononiical observations, and zoological, miu- eralogival, and botunical celtections. THE ANDRE MEMORIAL, What Cyrus W. Field Snys About ils Purchase and Inscription, New York sun, Cyrus W. Field smiled cood naturedly last evening when asked whuther the inscription which he proposed to place on thestone to murlk: the spot where Maj. Andre was hanged had been correctly published. ‘Certainty,” heenld, “the inscription ts ready, and bere Jt is"; and Mr, Field showed the following: Here dled, Oct. 2, 1760, Major JOUN ANDRE, of the Diltish Army, who, enterinz the American Ines ‘on A secret mission to Ienedict Arnold, for the sutrenccr of Weat Point, wan taken prisoner, tricd, und condemned as aspy, iy Mls death, though according to the stern code of war, moved oven his eneinies to pity, aud Doth arnies mourned tha fate of one #0 young and 80 brave. In 1821 bis remains are Ranored. to Westminster bbey, A hundred yenra aficr ble execution a citizen of the States against which ho fought Placed this stone above tho snot where ho lay; not tv perpetuate the record of strife, butin token of those better senttinunts which have since united two nation, one in race, in language, and in Fotiglons with the carnest hope that this friendly union hur Penrhyn Stenteg, ea of Westmt —Arthu mrhyn Str he ant Ve a Arthur in Stuley. Lean af Westintnater, Suns Jacryma rerun et mentum mortatia tangun’ om wu neds er nae er {On the left sides} _ 10 apy of je neutral gronn who dled nu bo had ved devoted to the service of his country, -—Fentmnre Cooper, To was moro unfortunate than criminal; An accomplished man aud a gattant olticer, George Washington, Tie died universally wrlcorcad and universally ro- i etted. —Alexander Hamttton, “Now let me recall to you the way it all came about.” Mr, Fleld continued: ‘ When Deau Btantey was atopping at my house we took wride with a view to dnd the sput where Maj, Audre wasexccuted. It took us avout three hours to find the place. At last we came across aman 01 years old, who sald ho knew the place, because he remembered when tha remains wera taken up and removed to Westminster Abbey, Me said ulso that his mother saw the execution. Both the Dean and myself were certain that we had found ttc spot, uid we both agreed that the location of such an interestlig historical event ought not to bo left tu oblivion. So I said [ would buy tho land {f be would write the ine scription, Now, thero is his inscription, and if any one chuoses to quarrel with him ubout itl have no objection, ‘There ts n quotation from Virgil also, anu one from Fenimore Cooper, and one from George Washington, If any one chooses to quarrel with George Washingtou [ don't care. ‘Theres ts what bo said about the spy, and there fa what Aloxander Hamittun anid. = People =o may quarrel with Alexander Hamilton about it if they Ilke, Pye houcht the land, and I'vo got the deed in any pocket, and I'm going to have a stone placed there with that inscription. 1 bousbt the whole farm of sixacres, That ts more than J wanted, but L hat to buy it to get the other; and [ thought the historical {oterest imado it worth it.’ “ WIIL thera be a monument placed theret”" “Ono; only o granite slab ofter some de- sien which Lam to select. It with be raised a Iitrle from the ground to keep off the wator aad debris, There ie a wan who owne a granite quarry up uear there, and J told him to cet me out a desiyn for the stav. Ilo gave me one, but. Idld not like it, As soon as I decide upon that the stone will be fuscribed and placed in position?” “You were not deterred by the many com- munications on the subject In the newspapers}! “No; we had some fin over {t, and no hsrin wasdone, It is only # historical matter, you see, ‘That's the whole of it,—only a bistorical matter. Why, my friend, if they will show mo. the spot where Butan was executed t would put astoue there to mark it, because that would bo a historical thing. ———————— DECORATION. Epéolat Dispatch to The Tribune, Sprinovizep, IL, Adri) 21—The Grand Army of the Republic, of this city, have already commenced to make preparations for the proper obseryauco of Decoration Day. ‘the Rey, Col. Edwant Anderaov, of Quincy, bas consented to deliver the addres * Hair Revivom" = halrto its origs inal color tur 50 con oy pea TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 187 9---'TWELVE PAGES, MARINE NEWS. How the Sailors and the Vessel-Owners Opened the Wages Battle Yesterday, Both Sides Tell Conflicting Yarus and Claim Victory. Tho Union Seamen Act Orderly and Per- suasively, and Coax Several Orews OF Vossels, Other Matters of Intorest About Lake Navigation. THE FIGHT GOES BRAVELY ON, ‘The battle between the lumber-vessel-uwners and the Union seamen continues with varybug and undecisive results, aud in instances where crews have been «hipped both aldcs assert with equal positivevess that they have gained their point. ‘The bright, sunny morning ofsesterday was auspiciows for the coutest, and the combat- unte bestirred themsctyos betiaes, and dispused. thelr forces, nnd threw out akirmish- ers to fecl cach other's strength. The snilors assembled at an carly hour at thelr headquarters in the Central Block, corner of Market and Washington atrects, and Richard Powers, President of the Unton, was on hand to attend to any business that might require his attention, The Committes of Twenty-five that had been appointed at the Bobowlan-Hall meeting Sun- day was divided into four sub-cummittecs, and us many districts along the main river and branches apportioned off to them, and which they) were to patrol nnd take note of the vessels that engaged crews und aecertuln from the masters or men sthe rate of wayes the craft pald and ree port back to the Union the result of their Iabura at the mectiny aunvuoced tu bo held at 2 p.m, ‘The Sub-Committees were instructed to act civilly toward tnaaters and owners, uid not to ko on buatd vessels against the will of those iu charge of them, and to use no violence nor threats. ‘These Sub-Committecs started out, anf about noon that haying Je charge the North Branch, from Chicagu avenue to the rolling mills, returned and reported that the crew of the schr Willard wason board, and the Cum- mittee would learn the amount of wages thicy recelved when the vessel wus ready to leave. The Sub-Committee for thut portion of the malt river Detwaen te piers und Lake street bridge, came next witha report that the sche J. & A, Stronach had engaged two Union men at 22.00 per day, and the achr Lavinda would not fix the wages until the crew wert aboard. The same Committes also reported that the grain yessels tnylng in their district had engaged Union meni at $2.00 per day. For the district between Van Buren and Hal- sted streets, the Committee allotted to {t re- ported that they bad learned that the sehrs Avery, E. M. Porteh, Lumberman,, Trunan Mozs, L. B, Coates, Ollyer Culver, Lyman Dayia, and ‘Minerva hod all agreed’ to pay $2.00 per day per man to their crews: the sche E.R. Blake, $1.70; the schr John Miner at trip figures; and the schr Topsy doubtful, ‘The erain-carriers Anme Vought and E. Corping had Union nen engared at $2.00 a day, The Cowmittea for the South Branch, be- tween South Halsted street und the rofling- milla, returned with the statement that the Cap- tain of the sche Nellie Gurdner said be would quit salling when he could not pay Union wares; the kehe Frank Crawford's master refused to pay Union waxes; the sclir Charles Hackley was ‘lus to lay up on account of wages; the ‘ha:nix would not pay $2.00 per day; the Stam- pede bad a Union crew ou buard; and the D, B. Martin had a crew chipped, but it was doubtful about her paring Union wayes, ‘The report mude by the Committee assigned to the district between Van Buren strect and Chicago avenue bridge wus that the schrs City of Woodstock, Mears, and HE. Jones had each engaged two Union sailors, the schr Metropolis one, und the scow 8. P, ‘Wilson tivo, Tho above reports were all submitted st o meeting held st 2 o'viock, and placed on file, Some changes were made in the disposition of the committees, und the Union again resolved to giaud by its previous action and stick by $2,00 er day. F Messrs. Forbes, Coszrove, and Thornpson, tha Committes appointed at Sunday's meeting to catt on Superintendent-of-Police Scavoy und re- guest the same protection that the Lumber- ‘eseel Owners’ Committee lind asked for, ‘re- ported that they bad dono their duty, and they hd been politely recelyed by that officiel, who anid he would accord them the same protection thit any law-abiding citizens were entitled to,, butit “the boys” committed a breach of the eace he would have them attended to. The Joininittes gave hin to understand that they destred fuir play only. ‘The report. was accepted and the Committec discharged. ‘The President read o postal-card from the Clevaland branch stating that it had fixed the rate of wages at $1.75 per day out of thut port. ‘The meeting was attended by about 225saltors, Daring the day thirty new members wera taken into the Union, the President betny kent busy In attending tu thelr reception. Subserlp- tiona of $Leach wore made by nearly all the members of the Union present at the meeting, for the purpose of aiding the organization in carrying its point. Everything was quiet and onlerly abont tho seamnen's headquarters during the day, and those sailors who wero present expressed a strong determination to “hang out” to the bit- ter cnd. At the Lumber-Vessel-Owncrs’ Association's office, at No. 230 South Water street, reports were recelved indirect contradiction to thoso made by the Union sailora' 8ul-Committees, It was positively asserted that two-thirds of all the Jumber-vessels that left port. Sunday oald $1.50 ber day per maa, and not $2.00, as reported by the Seamen's Union, The schooucrs Grace Murray, Evaline, Topsy, ant Cecilia were positively re- ported as baying paid but $2.50, the C, Michel- gon paid a trip: igure, the amount of which was not stated, and the Captain of the E, M. Porteh did not propose to Ict his vessel go until ho got a crew ot $1.50 day per man, ‘The gentlemen in chars of the oflice stated that nearly all the vesseie that Jeft port yesterday did not pay $2.00 a day to thelr eallora, ‘The schrs Lumberman und Maj: Ny HH. Ferry pad 82.00 before o letter from one of thelr owners at Grand Hayen was received by thelr Kaptolng, and which instructed them to pay $1.50. A tclegram was sent to Uniled States Kenator Ferry, at Washington, by the Secretary of the Luinber-Vessel-Owners' Asso- ctatlon, regarding the Lumberman aud the Ferry, and he telegraphed Yack tliat he laa sent. inatructlons via Grand Haven, But the instruc: tions of Mr. Williams came too late for the masters of tho yeasele to act. upon, ‘The master of the schr Norman, which was Jylng iu the Lighthoussslip, eugaged two crews, and, aecording ¢o reports, the Untou seamen perguaded them to leave the vesael, und two of the mon joined the Union subsequently, The owner of the craft or the master ecnt to tte Bit- porintendeut of Police, abyut noon, for officers to prevent any disturbance on tlic part of the Union seamen wha were around the vessel. Four or five policemen were dispatched to the vessel, but they did not discover thot any breach of the peaco had been made, and did not mukelany arrests, ‘The Union seamen did not go on-board the vessel, but succeeded fo ectting: the crews to leayo by talking with them, A crew that bad beew shipped on the bark Nalad, lying at ‘Twolfth street, was reported ty have buen voaxod off by the Union sallors, and the vosset was left without a crow. No vlolenca Wor threats were used, and no disturbance oc sued ‘Tho ir E, M, Portch was Jo port last evoulng, Ler Captain being determined to get o crow at $1.50 of remain ut the dock. Masters of vessels who wero Jooking for crows resorted to a good deal uf secrecy nat Socuitbon in getting omen for 61.60 o day, Icat the wary Union men sho had ‘their scoute out all wlong the river would peraaudo the tren engaged to leave the crafts, Ip cases where the men were found needy, the Union seamen took them fu and promised them bed aud board until the lockout 8 ended. It waa stated by Richerd Puwers, the President of the Union, that he dtd not expect that all the veasela iu purt yesterday would poy 82.00 per a Ho sald there were soma nou-Uulon seu- men, but they were for the moat part unre Mable and comparatively wexperienced man, ant in some instances they would not be engaged on a gratn-carrier at all, A low boys bad been hired by maatera of sina) book- eré, au that waaa course the Union wes op- ved to; it had refused boys admission to tho uion, because ft could not recommend them a8 competent sullore, and advised them to make eogogements s6 appreatices. Mra. Powers bee Naved that the Untou would carry out its under- taking, and {f the Strufss should open soon there would vot be any uneaployed satlors in port and $3.00 a day would bo pala without. cavil, dio thought the umber yossel-uwners were better able tu pay $2.00 a day this scason, freights from Muskegou and Manistee ai 25 aml $1.43 respectively, than they were to pay $1.60 uud $1.75 last year with the rate from Muskegon ut 90 cents per 1,000 feet on lumber. On the other hand a prominont owner stuted STYLES, arte ar rn SPRINT ATTRACTIONS {hat the rata demanded by the Union was tuo high ju proportion to the rates of froight paid, and the Association contd not raise them In the face of a weak nid stow lumber market, He eaid the aaflors earned good wages during the searon of eight monthe,—mitch better than many tmechanicn worked the year round, Ho tnatanced the case of hia own vessel that solled 223 days Inst aeanon, and he anid he had pald bleevanien an average of $1.50 ner day, some of them being kept on board the vessel right ulong. ‘ An old Jack Tar who was intervicired on the but More Especially in One Locality. It Being No Other than Gago Brothers’ subject of earnings stated that the crows were frneraliy. discharged oo reach: & Co.’s Millinery . Estah- tug the dork = from) around trip, p: lishment, and patd off, and feft to seck another mck, * berth. He was questioned as to the time a raflor putinon the Jakes, and eatd {t would not av- erage more than days, which, at $2 per uy would give hima totat amount of $200 wit! which to pay his expenses and keep his family, if he bad one, and inany of then had, ‘The sailors will meet every day at? p.m. until the atrifo fs ended. ‘The veaset-orners will prohatly open a ship. ping office towny, nearly albof them having agreed to support It by payiny $1 per month for euch Vessel they represent. Sallora will not be charger auytbing for shipping, 5 MILAVAUKER. Spectal Inapatch ta Tne Tribune, Mitwavurz, Wis, April 21.—today the Vesael-owners, nding the sailors still unwilling to abin for less than $2 per day, hit upon a hap- by expedient to rellove themaelves from the necessity of submitting to the demands of Whoro Thoso Things. Which Decorate the” Form or Please tho Mind of Woman Can Be Found. * ‘The collection of Millinery and Fancy Goods which Messrs, Gaya Brothers & Co. have made this season has beet so unique and complete as to attract Lott attention and comment. Where: such u varlety of tastes a8 the public possess are to bo mat the taal yet we venttre to assert that the taste, it can be satisfied, bons, laces, stlka, flowers, feathers buttons, corsets, und all’ the paraphernalia of female ap- parel, ta full, complete, and exceadingly at- truvtive, Where there {s such a stock to select fron buvers may be certain that they cau secure goods which will please thelr customers, while very many of the articles can be had nowhere else in America. It te not surprising, therefore, however. severd They Are Seen on Evory Side, ‘ becomes no easy one, and - jo array of rll: * that the demand upon the stock which Mossrs, ede terrae lususn the fr fulliliment | Gage Brothers & Co. have Is very lurge, while contracts = made —_ previous | buyers sect uniformly well pleascd, A visit to to the movement for an atlvance of | the establishmont, at the corner uf Wabash av- wages. Alter consultation, they entered | entice and Madieon street, wit] please, satiefy: =~ and repay avy who choore to male ft. Into negotiations with the Mitwaukes Tug Com. pany, which reeulted in the encavement of the tug Welcome to tow six vessels to Manistee and return, the tug to receive 80 cents per 1,000 tt ou the awount of Jumber carried by the fleet, to do the towing tn and” out at Manistee und Milwaukee, and to tako such vessels as may be consigned to Chicago to the lunber-inarket in that harbor, orto the dock where the tuinber fs to be delivered, with. out extra charges, ‘The vessels included {a the Arrancement are the James Garrett, City of Toledo, Lucia A. Simpson, H. 1. Berger, and J.B. Prime. Their combiued carrying capacity {s upwards of 1,300,000 feet. ‘The Welcoma started with her tow this evening, and will be due at Manistee by nvon to-morrow, ‘The yos- sels carry only Captains, Mates, und cooks,—no men before the mast. The strikers watched Fe Am ny VORA GARDEN. CARNIVA TOURNAMENT! AT THE : the progress of © this movement — with ; Hy were oot gore, wr. | TIVOLI GARDEN, © and alarmed, for, if the experiment proves suc- cesaful, towlne with short crews tay: follow to aconsiderable extent throughout the seagon, The supply of turs for the “purnose fs ample, The prop Oconto reached Menominee nt 4 om. om. yesterday, She put within three niles of “Eesonaba, when solidyetes was encountered, ich caured her to abandon the attempt to talanding, The Oconto was duent Green Bay thistnorning, The Menomi- nee will follow, leaving this port Wednesday morning. = ‘The wreeking tug Leviathan will leave for bee station tn the Straits at the cluse of the present week, ‘The echy Arcturus has gone into dry-dock for large repaira. (Corner Clary and Washtogton-sta,),- ALL THE WEEK! SIX DAYS’ WALK . FON A PURSE OF $415.00. 17 Well-Known Pedestrians Aro Now Walldug for the Aboro Purse. The Management dealres to inform the Public tha this tournainent WIT be the best and most orderly o} any ever xiven inthis city, ADMISSION, 25 CENTS, ee ee HXPosrion BULLDING. CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE AUTHORS’ CARNIVAL! Formally openod Tuesday Ereatna, April 13, Rgpation Nutatis, tn teorwesuainiye + the, Ualiroad fares reduced te one fare and one-fifth. ADMISSION, 60 OHNTS, COUPON TICKETE, good for ¥ Entertainments, $2 PRICES for Weunesday and Saturagy M o duced tu 15¢ for chtureny Adults, no aaa TUESDAY HVENING. CLEVELAND, Apectat Dispatch to The Tribune, Chevetann, V., April 2l.—The marine sen son at this port is opening fast, Last week a number of boats caine in from a distance, and the Detroit live and several others are run ning regularly, The thing that stood tn the way of a rood dex) of commerce here, especially last ‘Year, Was the yery poor condition of the harbor, A vesecl drawise twelve or fourteen feet of water would often have difiiculty in entering unless very carefully piloted, ‘The City Coun- cll have “taken the matter of dredging in hand curly this season, and pro- pose to rush it througn and do all mt: is necessary to make the navigation of the river n inatter of ease and safety. ‘There in very little boat building golug on this spring, but the bullders expect that business will ro- vive shortly to 1 certain extent. Allen Bane, the Briun, the fermi Biaueh of Leoun, ANCTIORNUD OUTSIDE. The sehr Scotia, which is to be sulled this sea- Att son by Capt. Alexunder McArthur, was towed | _Moars. J, Martin, A, T. Sidwell, 7» Wallace, W. ' from her woorlngs, east of Clark street, yester- | P+ Herrick, Vipers. day forenoon, and nuchored. in the offing in or- Messrs, Monroe, Guat, Rognan, and Reith. der to be prepared for ‘an carly start when the | _stossre. WD. Ca . SORA MeGn George Siralts open, und to avail herself of the high | Newhouse, JounOre stuns, Yona morse” oO" atage of water in the river and get aut of the mud. Bho was the deopest draught yesset lyli inthe river, drawing fourteen feot and elght inches aft, ana fourteen feet and six inches for- ward, She has 60,858 bushels af corn on boani, While being towed out she grounded a~little opposite VanScnaick’s dock, near the mouth of the harbor, Other grain-laden craft will probably follow sult, and save heary tow bills which wall surety bu incurred fi the water falls snl thes remaln in the river. Allof them are moored some distance from the docks, ‘and stil some are resting in the mud. eee, WECKEION THREAT. Vp Viernes mance Secona week of the engagement of EDWIN BOOTH. TUESDAY EVENING, APRLL 22, Lulwer's Grent 3fasterplece, RICHELIEU, Wednesday, 234, and Thursday, ith, x1 ; i Pinas Bhakspearte Tha ne SIGHT KING RICHARD II. Friday, 25th,and Haturtay, 20th, TWO NIGHTS ONLY, Tum Taylor'a Tragedy, THE FOOL'S REVENGE, Ko Matinees during Mr. Hooth's engageneat. Hon h, BRUT OS, ogee wa LUMBER CITARTERS, The following charters were reported at the Lumber Vesscl-Owners' headquarters yesterday; Schr Amertea (Charnley Brog.), lumber, from Sturgeon Bay to Chienzo, $1,62}¢; echr Belte Walbridge, Jumber, from Sturgeon Bay, $1.621¢; senr E. M. Portch, wood and ‘potes, from di FR S NASER, sonpurt, Bias sehr jee Day, etiluiles and HAVERL Proprietor and Manager ties, from Kewaunee, Ye for shingles and 43¢e -N 7 1421 . rach forte ele pnawa, umber, from zea k= cepa Page LD fort, $1.50: sehr Cecilia, lunber, from Munistee, |. Wik ¥ 81,50;. schr C. Micholéon, lumber, from White | Suvorted Of Jt JOd, F. MURELOCKE and x Strong Lake, $1.32; echy C,H. Hackloy, frum Muske- RTIOLE 47. gan, $1.25, 7 Mt. RA, ILAILA MORRIS “ aieorae puunne i Titiraa’ iia¥ Sttiton, Ppa peelgck e c it ition, Werlne WELLAND. Matinee—#och Arden. “Friday Might and saturday Matinoe—Camilie, Claire Morris in SEX purtormi ony, Werdneaday Matines aud saturday hh, tenoch, Arden—Mr, Joseph EF, Wheeluck, OOLers WHALER. -aighing-room only até, Laat weokof the comed(ang, STUART ROBSON and WM, H. CRANE. A Startling Novelty this week! ‘Tne Comediaue will Be ee COTTE Oe MIE TS eeT ir, Hobson will play Mr, Crane's vert, afd Mtr. Crano will play Mx, io! . Dromlo of Epheana Mr. Stuart Robson, Mr. Wr. H.Crane, Drotnio of Syra Hpectal Dispatch to The Tribune Qr. Catuanines, April 21.—The B8uperin- tendent of the Welland Canal bas received in- structions from Ottawa this afternoon to let the water into the Welland, smd, accordingly, operations wera commenced at 6 o'clock to- cleht to Jet the water in. It will take a week tofill{t, There 4s creat rojolclug among the manufacturers between this clty und ‘Ehorold. ' PORT COLBORNE, Itrathera Bpectut Dispatch to The Tribune, Beeue yonr seats chnty to avuld the ruth, pa April o rat aypeurance uf tho fi Port Couuorng, Ont., Avril 91.—Vessels can JAUUIE MITCHELL, with ler owe bremerte arrive and leayo here any timo now. ‘The lake and barbor aro all clear of ice. Some of the fect lata up here are fitting our, and will leave this week, “_ WOROKS'TERSILIRE SAUCE. ae Se UR GREAT REDUCTION IN PRIOB, Le. PELs Caged ‘ ——— Stiguatura !s on every bottle of the GENUINE WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, < Uttmoarta the most dollaious taate and zest to sours THE CANAT. Bringeront, April 21.—Arrlyed—Prop Mon- tauk, Lockport, 375 bris flour; prop Peerless, Lockport, 4,500 bu wheat; Brilliant, Lockport, 6,000 bu corn; Mideie, Lockport, 5,800 bu corn, F Cleared Erp Moutank, Lockport, 74,139 ft under, THE STRAITS, Datnort, Mich. April 24—A dispatch from Point St. Ieuace saysa boat can get as for as Toint 8t. Ignace from Laka Huron, the north pasonge being open. ‘Thu lco is all gone from “EXTRACT the shore, The Mackinaw Islund docks are also anavies SLA LEITER from bY {ree of ice. ito NAN Cs NAVIGATION NOTES, ay WORCESTER, May, cnicaga, wee Dy neat The echr Dawn bent her sails yesterday. “Tell LEA & PER. Navigation tg open nt Sturgeon Ray, and the | UOT & CoD rua st Sate schrs America (Charatoy’s) and Belle Walbridgo 4 Indla, und ts in my sailed for that polut yesterday. aorgts 7A alabiorka elias ths ‘The sehr J. V, Taylor, while being towed out | vp gn rery woleroubauce of Evans’ Silp yeaterday,fouted with the rigging of the schr Lona Johnson, und lost the sad of her jibboon, ‘The arrivals were few yesterdny, and the departures not numerous. The wind was from the custard, Matters around the Jumber market were quict, aud but thres cargoes were there in the Svealse ‘Two mon arc figuring (or the appointment of Harbor-Masser in place of one or the otlier of the prescut lucumbents, aud havea petiilon in clreulation among vesselmen for that purpose, Ibis suid that some wity shipper has beon Dlayiug the rebate game ugaluy on the lumber, Yessul-owners, 9 it wos duve last season, but tho offlcera of the Association deny it. James Moffat & Sova, of Port. Huron, repre- sentlug eight fargo tugs for wrecking und gon- oral towing, write that the tco was running at ,! AND TO! 5 FIN E. BEAN HAVING & BOUTLE THT TRES SS oe JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, Agents for : LEA & PERRINS DO Colleae-pluce and 1 Union-Square, HOTEL BRISTOL, Gth-av. and 42d-st., Now York, that polut on the 10th [nst., but not very heavy: THE FINEST LOCATION IN JHE CITY, Fainutes ‘Tho prov St Joseph was upon tho ‘third. trip, Hetis ‘Rew Soko rami B fou wceks Cap eecure the Bertachy passed down on her second trip, CONES, Manager.» and the atmr Cilnton returned down Friday night leaking, and with her abaft broxen, Tho schr Wawanosh cleared Saturday to load Juimy ber for Kingston. ee HYMENEAL, : Avectal Dieeatch to The Tribune. Dusvqus, Ja, April 21.—Charles Hinay and Annie Morgan, two young people of Dubuque, eloped ycsterdoy, went to Fairplay, Wis., and were married, Another couple, hailing from Monticello, named Mr, Vanayke und Muss Lyou, also eloped aud were made man und wile, a fotines, affair created cousldcrable sensation in the city, . For Water and Gas, coated” PIPES luce required. Enitarawey\ ia uuusox aco, PMOTUUKAPALL. | BE. Louis, Ma. enn ae = set cod & REnING aby 2 REMINGTON, 65 sud 67 Mediavn-aty. PEDESTRIAN i