Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1881, Page 2

useless to attempt to make thew understand anytiing, Seeretary Kirkwoud says that whers any Iatlade of construction” s Juft openn he” will wake Il rudiog and ioe terpretations favornble to the weaker party. But; I his instance, the tanguage of the treaty is explicit, and there Is no Tlcsllnn of eonstruetion, The Indians soldl thejr reser- vation, i oven day, for a stipulated and falr priee, arul; [t 8o far as the Department 18 .ooncorned, its provistons will bo adhered to, ——— ‘' NEW YORK 8TATE. VINANCIAL CONDITION OF 118 COUNTIES, X , VILLAGES, AND TOWNS—=VALUA= TION, DERT, AXD TAXATION * Spectat Carrupondence of The Chicags Tribune, Wasnixorox, . C,, Mareh 1—A preliml- nary oxhibit af the fiunncial condition of the + countles, citfes, villnges, aml towns of the State of New Yorlk, by countics, as reported by Robert P. Inurter, of Chieaga, Special Agent of the United States Census on Wealth, Dobt, and ‘Taxation, gives the total . valuation of real and personal property, the bonded and flontiig debt of cach of the above divisions, ant the amount of local tax levied thereon, s well ns the Stato tax for hoth genernl and school purposes. ‘The school- district taxatlon and fndebtedness are not in- cluded in the exhibit, und the debt is tabu- Inted 08 it stoud Dee, 81, 1879, irrespeetive of sinkinz-fund and property avallable or set apart. for.the payment of debt or interest, The tax-alsa as glven in every case, except . the City of Saratogm, does not Include the schobl-datrlct tax. 1Inthat city they counld not bo separated. In New York City the schqol-distriets nre only for purposes of or- wanlzation and dlscipline, and the amount ralyel as free-sehool tay, $3,540,000, must bo added to the umount given as the total of clty taxation in grdor to show acomplete rec- ordt of the tax rascll by thy cities, “There are thirty-onu eities In (he Stale ench having 7,600 poptlation, and their ngaregate taxa- tion amonns to consldernbly more than vne- Tialf the totu! lnenl tax of the State. The following are THE FIGURESS Valuation of real estate.... * Valuation of peesourl property’. Total vatuation.... Donded dobt of countles, . Floating debt of conuti 040,813 40,120 woaeec§ 12,388,000 . fTotal connty debt.....vere Bondod, dent of thirty-one hayioe over 7,500 pupulation g Floating debt of dlttU,essvens Totnl debt of cities of over 7,600 g POPUIEION ooe vevvrenrenssine.. § 215,803,678 Bonded debtof 'citics” and vVitlige s ttnder 7,500 population. Floating debt of ditto,..... Total debt of such citles and vl v Aged... .. Bonded debt of towns * Floating devt of towns. Total Abbt OF LOWNS...eeerrerees ¥ 1 * Grand totdl of loeal (ndobtedness, clties b Btate tnx for gonoral and cans! pur- s 401000 EM5200 GBI S0 population. 810 TANA X e 4,208 Total tax.. *To which ndd t New York City !G 48,077,407 3,540,000 Grand tota! 8 62407407 CITY DEBT AND TAXATION, ‘T'he debt and taxatlon of citloe are us fol- Jows; Tionded | Fionl debt. |ing Ther, 4 ST w113y i) e gt 1 o Lk o 4| GOIAST8] 200 e, GROWTH OI RACES, TIHE RELATIVE INCIIEASE OF X GREATEST IN FORMER SLAVEHOLDING « BTATEA. 5 WagnINaTON, Mnrch 17.—Tho Census Bu- reau hag Issued o bulletin glving n detail the population of the United States, clnssified by rnce. Itshows the total population to be 50,152,806, of which 48,404,876 nre white and 0,677,151 are colored. ‘Fhe number of colored pursons to enchi 100,000 whites 1s15,153, ngninst 14,523 In 1870, The grentest proportion of colored to white is In South Caroling, whero three-fifths of the wholeargcolored. In Loulslana and Mlssls- sinpl from one-half to three-fifthsare calored, In Alatmina, Bistrict of Columbia, Florida, Ueorgln, North Caroling, and Virginin the olored form one-third to one-half of the fotul, In Arkansas and Tennesseo from onu-tourth to ene-third of the total popula- tion arg colored, Tho least provortion mwong the former sluve States {8 in West \'ltrlglnln. where thers ure but 4,345 to 100, * whites, 7,104 Outslde of the forjer slave States 0 Kra;‘urllnn af negrops Is very small, The changes In the relative negro populn- tlon Ju the decades hotween 1870 and (8%0 ara also given. Iu the United Stutes, ns a whole, there Jins heen a gain of 625 on an_assimed basls af 100,000 whites. Tho great relativo Euhw durhyg the deendo have apparently ecn made I the South, the fortmer slive- holdini States, Of the nine of these States which have eatned, elght stand at the homl of the llsx““hnvlnw il relative galus runges ing from to nearly 11,000, It “Is belleved by the census ofifcers, howaver, that these ap- parent gains are due fn a great measure 1o the lmperfeetlons of the consus of 1570, Un- der the condltions whilel provalled st that thne It is probablo that a mueh larger pro- x‘m,r{‘lun of negroes were omitted than of whites, H Of tha former slave States which have lost, ‘Texas and Florida lend, Both thesy States Ive recelved weavy whito lmigration from other par! than averbalunced whatover gain in colored opulation may have been mude, Thay hisve been the seont of ripld developimunt, nid thus the relutive decrense of biacks js to bo neconnted for,—not by an exodus ar a dying out, ‘but by an Infysion of whites, movement "of . blacks 1n thy.Northern and Westarn Status has upparontly” been of Httle Lomparative account, ‘Cho nigration of ne- firnc s ot attalned such dimenslons as to 0 pereentivly lwro. /o States. from which the oxodus principaily took piace—Missis- slppl, Loulstang, and North) Caroling—have nllur;mrcully ifued heavily Ju rplatlve pro- partion of blacks, while Kunsas, th wiichthe Junlar part went, has lost fn proportion to Ity ndisns hos Aglaties” fn’ tha Tnited dnerease i papitintion, and JKalned but slightty. ‘Flic nymber of States 18 106,717, and North Ameriean Indlauy 63,122, * fndianus not taxwd,” that 1s, Indinns v pribal relwtions wndor 'the care of the Gavernment, aro tot fucluded fn the above. A BWINDLER, BTATEMENT IY T{E BANK OF ENGLAND. Wamissatoy, D, €, Mareh 21,—Seoretury tive to unclalined dividends, In which hp re- adds: DL, 1t would ssem that States, nuinbex of groundless appl Woneys | of Little Raok, 000 and in Missourl, where there are but of the country, which has morp The Blaine makes publlc w communioation from the Bank of Evgland concernlug a notice or handblll of a 8¢, Louls Notary Public, reln fers, as to futegrity, ew,, by permission, to tho Bank of Englund. The letter stutas that b Notary Is not In auy way authorized to use the pume of the bank as reference, and ‘‘From the terms of the unotlce, \vlnlp)l was recefved from an apparently poor woutan i Coruell, Cuunty Liviugston, thess notlees are being elrenlated in the United The supposition Is confirmed by murked hiereass in tue previously lurge chnuluns for un- fl‘n!mv tecelved by the bank trom ¢ Unlied Stafes JZ\\:my e wholv ot : ¥ these npp‘lnntlons are, 80 far ug the bauk is coneerned, bnsed on erroneous data, ob- talned. probably from very old lists of up- cliilmed dividends, which reforred-to funds were-long afncd-recialinbd, or froni advettise- |nm||ls"umt appear when the reclaims are made, NOTES. LISCOLY, 0 Th¢ Chicigo Tribuns. WastinarTon, D. C,, Mareh 21.~Scerotary Lincoln s not the youngest man ever ap- potnted ta the Cabinet, atthongh he Is but 38, onry Kuox, the first Seeretary of War un- der the Constitution, was only 87 when ap- pointed by President Washington, and, Alex- ander tlamilton, then Scerotaryof tho Trens- ury, was but 3, CAPT. TIENRY, It 1snow tho talk that the President has declded to apuoint First-Assistant Postmas- ter-Gieneral Tyner to the vacant Judgeship in the Court of Claling, and to appoint Capt, Henry, of Ohio, Flrsffssistant Tost- master-General, Capt. " Honry served In the sawe reghment with Presl dent QGarfield during the War, le Is at present i Special Agent of the Post-Oftice Department, umor has it that it had been Intended at first to appolur. Capt. lenry Marshal of the District, but the betlef now Is that Fred Douglass will be reappointed, and Capt. Henry provided for us indleated, B € IAMDUTGHER, of Chicago, formerly Clerk of the Illinols State Supreme Court, arrived horo last night. 1le comes as an applicant for tha position of United States Consul-General at Berlln, for twenty yenrs held by Hermann Kriesmnnn, of Chiteago. Hamburgher, sinco his arrival, has called upon o numbor of the Itlinols Re- {mhllcnu membera of Congress and secured holr recommendations for Kriesmann's pluce. GEN. PAVEY, OF MOUNT VERNON, ITL., who hns been hera sinve tho Inaguration of Prosident Gactield, pressing his clals for 4he Internnl-Revenue Collsctorshlp of the Cairn Distriet, will Lo unsuccesstul, but has assurances that he shnll by provided for in another position. COL, PATTON; amalmea Unlon soldier, it 13 suld, will be appointed United State Su- perintendent of Government Bulldings and srounds at the Capital. of that State. Col. Patton has the nssurance of the Presi- dent that the Federsl wifices of his State, which are now largely held by Demo- crats, are, as raphdly as practicable, to be transferred to Stalwart Republleans, Tho Colonel suys that, withzthe entire patronnge of the General Government in Arkansas in the hands of the Republicans, and the sup- vort of the Administration, the Demoeracy of that State can and will bu beaten at the next State election by 10,000 majority. GEN, HAYVES, Among the' candldates for diplomasic n}» volutment 1s Gen, Philiip O, Hayas, of Hil- nols, who wis o m@nber of the last Con- gress, Gen, Hayes' application for appolnte ment Is mdorsed by ninety members of Cou- gress and one or two Senators, Gen. Ilayes at tivst deslred to be avvointed Minister o Italy. but Is now understoad to bo a-candl- dute for the Austrian mission, HIy friends axpress considerable confidence that he will rect;lt:m that or some other forulgn appoint- wet - RN-UBNGRESIMAN BUEWER s not .In good ltealth, and would be glad to recetvo n diplomatlc appoint- meut, and his lats colleagies i the House, nas well s the members of the Senate, are quite anxious that e shall be appointed, espechally it Minister Christiancy slull be recalled from Paru, an ovent which nlmmrs to bo regarded as probable. Oneaof Mr. Brewer's frionds sald to-day that in uddi- tion to his Congressional Indorsement Mr, Brewer had recently veceived a petition In his behalf signed by all the Repubitean inem- bars of. the Michizan Legisiatnre, nnd by (si;fi.\?n Jerome und ex-Gov, Bagley, of that LEW WALLAGE, - It I8 undorstond that Gov. Lew Wallnee, of New Mexico, expeets to receive adiplomatic appolntment. One of his friends suld to-day thnt Gov. Wallace would bo glad to- suceeed AMinlster Marsh ut Rome, A TRIENDS OF MAJ, JOIN I. HAY, OF BELLE- VILLE, any that thero can searcely bo n doubt abont his recelving n Territorial Judgeship. BANE, Eftorts are making to.defeat the nomlnn- tion oL Gen, Bano for the Receiversnip of the Land-Ottice ut Salt Lake. Bane, durlng tho four yeurs ho has “held tho oflice, hax been outspoken In bis denunclation of polygamy. The UCYRI"IB to defeat his confirmation nre 1n- stigated by Mormon leaders, KILPATRICK, ‘Tho pressure brought to bear by tho friends of Gen. Kilpatrick to seeure his appointment as Minlster to Chitl has beon porsistent and powertul, They understand, however, that the records discovered I the State Depart- ment pertaining to his Inst service in that cotintry prove of u charneter that wil probu- bly prohibit his belng numed for roturn to that country, If thoy o not entively prevent his nuslgnment to any branch of the diplo- matie service. THY CHINESE THEATIES, To the TWeatern Assaclated Press, WasimnaroN, 1. C.,, March 21,.—The Chl- nese treaties were_ reported favorably to-duy from the Forelgn Relutions Commltteo of thia Senato, A RAILROAD LAND DECISION, LA dectslon was rendered bi' the Unlted States Supremy Court to-(uy ,1 the-enso of Grinnell et al, agalust the “Chleago, Rock Sxland & Paclfie Raltroad Company ugon an apieat fram the Supreme Court 'of Iown, "Llio anestion in cuulruvumy Is_whether n rallraad compnny, under the act of Congress, uequired n vulid” g to Jands withii the old fifteen-mile lhnlts of the Misslssipnl & Mis- sourl Rallroad Cnmmn{g certified to the State under that grant by the Department of the Interlor for the benetit of that Company, but witich woro left outsldo of the new twenty- mile Hnft by n ehange of locutlon of the vid line nuwde by tho present Company under an fiet of Congress amendutory ot the previous net. ‘The Judgmnent of the Supreme Court of lowa, sustalning the Ralirond Company’s titls to the lands Tn controversy, [s atlirmed. CONFIRMATIONS AND NOMINATIONS, ‘The Sennte contirmed the following nomi- natlons: Loyl P Morton, New York, Envoy Extraordlnary and Minister Plenlno(emlm‘.\' to Pranen; 8, Dana Horton, Ohin, Seere of the United States Commiusloners of t International Monetary Counference, Pariss Rucelvers of Publle Moneys—iTenry 11, Grif- fiths, Des Motnes, [n.; William 11 Snners, Heatrlee, Neb.; Henty 1t Peareo, Wator: town, DI Regjsters of Land Oftice—Ilenry (:nnshm. Florvnee, Arlz,;llonry \. Dwight, La Grande, Ore. THE PRESIDENT NOMINATED ‘Thomns Wilson, of the Distrlet of Columbin, Unlted States Consul to Ghents Thomus 1 Douglus, Pastuasterat Manstivld, 0. ; Chavtes Es»lluf(ur DPostinuster at Manitowoe, Wis, 3 Ttoiello” W, “Berry, Colicotor of Inturnal Revenue, Idalio, A WILL CASE. " A Young Man of Chicago Succossfully Contests a Willy aud Gots Ovor 8100, 000, Dixox, Il Mareh 21.~Judga Eustace do- clded this mornlng thio colebrated Clap* will case, tnvelving over §390,000, (n favor of 0. W, Clapp, of Chicago, the son of the lega- teg, Who contvsted the will. ‘The faets are these: About one yeur since Lewis Clapp, of this county, bequenthiod $160,000 for the es- tabllshment of an agricultiral college, con- ditioned on the cotinty ralsing $100,000, O, Wi Gl who 15 iy ouly son, contested tlis will, and hus now won thie victory.. —————— ! THE PERILS OF LAKE NAVIGATION, Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. MiLwAaokkE, Wis., Murch .3t,—The pro- peller Nashua Is the vesssl belonging here that'was exposed to the térrific sforin of Sat- urday, She left Grand laven early that orning for this port with 800 barrels of salt ond sundrles. Lato In the forenoon' the dtorm struck hor, and Cupt. Shay says It was the worst ha ever encountered. Ho was obliged to run past Milwaukee, uot darjng to attempt an entrance. Late Suturd®y night the Nussau found & harbor of leo of® Ruclue Polut, and Sunday morning sho entered that port, To-day ste ran down heru and dischurked her cargo.- "Lhe Depera 16s for Grand Hnven, and the g‘me; oll for Manistee, ‘Lo Ludington and gnowines aru on the wuy Lsre from Grand Haven, There I8 very little lee ou the like sxcopting well up toward the head, and It has becouo very solty THE CHICAGO TRIBUN 'THE STQRM. Cfipt. Napier, . of the Tug 0. B. Green, Safe at Home. He and -One of His Men Make the Perilous Jour- ney to Land. The Others, Now Supplied with Food, Are on the Vessbl, 1t Did Not Break Down, but Was Caught in the Ice- Pack, G A Train Snowed Up 'for Forty-eight Hours Within a Few Miles of Chicago, Completion of a Side-Track Round the Flooded Union Pacific Track. L Almost Total Blockade of the Rallroads in Central I~ nois. Church-Bervices Dispensed with and Business Virtually Brought to a Standstill, CHICAGO. THE 0. B. GREEN, The Interest In the fata of the tug O, B. Green and her crow was greatly intensifiod yesterday by the fact announced in Tug Tmuuye that * Duteh Fritz” hnd Ueen aban- doned by the tug A. Mosher In o snow-storni Sunday atternvon while en route to the Green over the ice with a skiff well supplled with provVisténs, The event furnished a leading toplc of conversation everywhero throughont the city, and thoss supposed to be acquainted with the situation wero besleged with questions on all hands, “Early in the wmorning * Duteh Fritz?* made his appearance at the Lumber Market, wilere ho stated that he had reached the tug aftor miuny halr-hresdth esenpes, te- livered the provisions entrusted to his eare over the rail, and then retidrned to the shoros with his AkIff-in the depths of & dark night. The reporter of an evening paper Intor- viewed “Fritz,” and obtnined materiul for a highly-sensational yarn, only to learn later Inthe day that he had been dupeéd by the follow. 'Fhe truth, ns It afterwards leaked ont, was that “ Eritz" did not proceed fur in thediryction of the Greon after the snow-storm setin, Holostslghtot the fca-bound tug, and having seen tho Mosher leave for the hurbor, chose toreach the land In profarence to spend- g a cold night on the desolate loe-fisitdy cov- In® the Inke. 'Ho roached the shoro in'the vielnity of Fortloth stroet, after several thor- ough duckings, lott his provigions ina place of safety, and returned to the city with the’ intention of making another start In the morning. Insfend of telling the truth eon- eerning his movements nfter the Mosher loft him, hu got up the yarn above rdferreil to, hoping to make n sedond start and -gut out to the tug without leaving any trace of his untruthfuluess: In this he ‘taled, however, ns his wanderings about town the previous night broughit him In contaat with ntzwmhwnb tugman, who hinmediately gave the whole proceeding away, Thus while “ Fritz"” was quletly preparing for his second attempt to reach the Green the whols truth eaked out, and tho tug Frank Crane at once proceeded out 1nto the Inke with the view of ascertaining the conditlon of the fve and rendorhig assistance, Just before the Crano arrived off the foot of Fortleth street “FIITZ LEFT 'THE BTIORE WITII HIS 8KIFF, and when she turned aboug beeause no farthor progress could be made, the gallant but antruthtul * Dutch” was = well - on his way, |lmrl:hu= the lttle skift after him. ‘Througn the medium of telephone connnunication from the vieinity of Thirty- cizhth streot Informatlon of his brogress was from time to thne conveyed to the city, untit at 4 o’clock In the attoriioon It wus reported that only nbout two miles of lee intervenod betwosn bing il tho Green, A lithle Jatern communiention from 1lyds Park, sunouncing hut Capt. Napier and Wiliian 'Treston had renched that plics from the tug, caused n flut- ter of oxcltoment in tug clrales, and caior crowds begun f" untfiml y swalt the return of the men, ug 1t was known that they would nottarry miylonger than actnally necessary In 1yde Park, Treston mwdo his appearance at half-past 6 o’clook, looking fresh enongh, but rather thin, With him oamo thres young wen, named Gurrity, MeQunde, and Walker, who, with Capt. Dalilke und . Mr, Shmonds, had slded i getting him and Capt. Nnr‘er,\u fandover the lust hnlf-ile of ice. Dahlke and Stmunds had sturted from the shore with a boat, and Garrlty, MeQunde, and Walker started atter thein with Inch bourds ns uurporls. . Preston had little to sy, excopt that McKee and Shaw were Jeft o board af the Green (v w halffam- ished ~conditlon, that tho tug .was all right, not. having broke down, a8 was supposed, but merely been canght In the lee puck and swept along with It in helpless condition, He also stated that Capt, Nupler had praceeded directly to his howe, after lenving Ilyde Park, In "bagly used-up condltion. - Alter waiting until "dusk far further bulleting coneerning the progress ot *Fritz,” tho last of which, by the way, an- nounced him to have reached within hilf or threg-qunrtors of a wils of tho Green, while one of the crew, suuposed to be Blinw, could be seen going to his ndslstance, the reporter hunted u}» Capt, Nopler and obtained trom him the following statement of his expeti- encu: CAPT. NAPIER'S STORY, * We left here,” sald Cupt. Nupler, “ahort. %\{nlwr noon Saturduy, b{ynnlur of the City Engineor, to ko ta the Crib, We went to tip piur, and, as thore wis no {ece apparently be- tween un and the Orib, we sturted out, Aftur belng under way tive or six minates, hows uver, wo ran into o fleld willeh was coming towurds shore. It was snowing at the time, und wo could not see nnylhlnf ahoud, Wu ran along to the northward o {litle to seo 1f wa could strike the Crib wekd—~nn open Plncu that we could go through, We striaak t, umud aftor gutting . hittle way in the ice cloded and we s We waltsd quits awhiie, g\fva hier all tho steam possibly, und finatly . turned the boat ‘around. Wa ‘F\n alolg, to the northward and found » cut, aud went Into it, but did nos 0 very fur, - We butted the lee thros or four Hmes, but 1t did no good. 1 then concluded lul;.'u a coupte of_niles north, outside of the field, und come down toward tho Crib with the wind, We dld 50, and found u cut thut 1 ;nmuim would about tuke us tp the Crib, We follnwed {8 nfong, and 1 thought we wers all:right, usthe cut, which wad ubout six foct, wide, louked 03 If we conld o, Hglt through it Waran along und gol withm elghty rade of the Crib, which wunou'unu plainly, but all at once'the fce closed in, aw it ‘Lus usieless &o wusle canl—wvy had f"ulf‘ 81x 1 on bonrd when we started und ) ’bunwd thres of. them—and stopped the engine, tuck, WE COMMENCED DRIFTING, and continved to drift all nisht, Supday mornbitg wo were abresst of the l'yms t}oi Buildiug, on a line with the Crib, (Ve Jear the whistle of the tux Mushier the braviopus evening, but, though we were only a litle way from bey, I thought it was all nonsepse to answer her. L didu't want her to get in the saue fix as the {ircen, as my bost was better boat and was helpless, Wa (lmn'? drift mueh during the nlght, but Sundsy wo wvlu. very fust. We could see the Crib,” and belloved the peopls there could Wflmgl. ‘The Governuent ™ breskwater and shoro were Diddon by the smoke from bulldings lu the' elty, thoukh wo got o gllmpse of botti onco In a while, It cleared np toward thio middie of the day, by whiel thno we hiad got farthor south, 1 knew that no attempt would be made to ron- der ug nssistande untl Monday, becauso 1t wis snowing amd we eouddn't bo found, Along In the afternoon we were abrenst of the ittie chureht in Hyde Park, and durin the night drifted about a wilo and _hal farther, Asnenras lcuuhlljmlu«. W \wero about elght miles from tho pfer, and fouz md one-lall miles from the shiore. ‘The lee ran in streaks, A portlan of it would ground, and the balunce break off and move, And wo could sea stationary fce half n mile from us, Sunday nmmlmf my flreman, Willlam Preston, coneluded to zo ashore, 1 told him 1t was foollsh tu muko tha attempt, but hestarted. ITe went abont halfa mile and then came back nearly drowned and frozen to death, ]lurwfi' McKeas and Georgs Shaw then concluded the would go ashore, Shiaw is 4 pretty active fellow, but MoKes blx and tieshy. ‘They went ubaut three-quarters of n mile, and roturnod, McKea bolng abont used up. In the afternoon they thought they would -. B TRY IT AGALY, as the ico looked safer, they having gone a3 far as they could In the morning, ‘I'hey, however, didn’t get any farther than hefore, and came bnek to the bont. We were about Riving unt a8 wo thought somebody would be sent ont 40 us with provistons, the sitintion we wetre in belug known, ns 1 hnd talked over the possiblli- tles with the City. Engineer when we started, This morning, whuen I got up, the ieo looked iretly safe In shore, and L tried to got one of te men to(fn with e, but hone of them was wlllluE, und I gave up the Journey, Aboutd o’clock the men began talking about golig, but I told them to walt until noon, ns the wind usually shifts then, 1 could see the Masher at the Crib, but no tug In shore, Wae could hear oceasionnlly the whistlo of a Iocomotlve, We had some crape aboard, and wa made a flag about ten feet long and put it on the smokestack, thinking perhaps the Reuple ashorg couldn’t seo us, We wero eaded about cast half north. About 11 tried ‘to get tho engineer, to go with me, Dbut ‘want __to, the at- having disconraged hin, would go, and wo left the bont together, Ve g|ut afong all right for about alf o wile, atid theft L WENT INTO THE WATER UP TO MY NECK, and I thought I was' gone, as I was so cold that Leould hardly catel my breath. We couldn’t tell what was ahoud of us, on ac- count of the suow, which looked solid enough In places, but when Lsteppod into it Loften found. out the contrary. Preston iy a lighter man than 1, and he, belng ahead, would go over a spot which wouliw't bear we, ‘The ice wos tiot I o solid eake, but wus {n ridges, as If tug-boats hind been going through 1it, and ~lere and there wers pools ol water which small pleces of Ice were floating about. When we camy to these holes—I Liad n pole and Preston n plers uf a board—we would put the boned on & fluating cake, get on the cake, and then put the board on the svlid ico on tho other side, and in that way get across, Every fow feet there was a ridge, and vory often we had to crawl along It and go sonie distance out of or way to aveld muuf drowned, In some taces the ice was 8o thin and shaky that we Rm! to cover ns imuch of it as posslole, spread- ini ourselves out and erawling along. We traveled really threo inlles in making one, on account of our zig-zag course. ‘I'he flce, when we got about nniis and u hatt from shore, looked 8o trércherous that Ierawled on my hands and knees for about a mlle. We were then met by Capt. Dahlke nnd may named-Simonds, the' Iatter n butcher in Hyde Patk, who had como out in n skift loided with provisiony, WIth the aid of the boat we had comparativoly littls trouble in getting nshore, Both of us were soaking wet and very-cold. 1had left my overcoat aml overshues on the Green beeanse [ didn’t, wint 1o ba bothereduwith them, About 300 people were walting, for us, and we were taken over to tho holise of My, Beverldge nnd well cared for, 1 told the men on tha boat not to look for unything that day, but that I would send:somebody out in the morn- ing, ‘The Greon was ralsed upabout eighteen inchey, more tu‘-\vnml than aft, when I left her, and was al! right.” )ID YOU HAVE ANY FOOD ABOALD I * Not o bit. I gotnothing to eat from Sat- urday, noon,until about + u'clock this atter- noeon, i W hkdn't ¢ Dutél{ Pritz! bring you some provisions Sunday night?” “ Noi we saw nothing of hlm.”” “he men avoitkd must be pretty hungry by this time 2" “ Thay have plenty of food now, as *Datch Fritz? went out to thom this aftarnoon,” “1low ddo yon feal, Captuln, after your rough. experience ' & “ Protty well, except about the legs, which soont to finve given out. Whon I gut naliors wy foet were blaglc and blue, and looked and folt as If ey were, frozen bt they turned out not to be. MrsiBaveridgo was very kind', to ns, and brought wis around, Beforo I loft the bout I didn’s feel very well —was very wonk,—possibly because 1 hind nob eaten any- thing for about forty-elght hours.” ** Liow was yonr appetite when food was plased befors you 2y’ “ 1 wanted to eat a great denl, but I know it I'dldso I would suffer from the effects, and therefore ate only moderately, Preston would have been very Imprudent it I had not restrained bini: 1o munaged 1o atow away g {wod deal, and I understand he s beeti ,é,n ing ever sluce he returned to Chi- €ago, S ¢ 'T'hy reparcer saw Capt. Napler at his home or{| North Clark street, Though lylny on w Idunge, and being spuewhat st fn the logs, ho atherwise dld not appear to have hnd stich an unfortuants trip on tho lake. He will Iy olf for soveral-fluys, but will be out ngaln by the latter part of the woek, Hesaid to the reporter: 3 “1 had u simllngadventuro severnl yenrs ago when Mate of the schuoner Guldo, b did not suffer ny much o this time, vessel wis frozen - up off St Jo drifted around for three or four weeks, the crow lving on codtivh und flowr, Two of us finally loft her sbout 5 o'clock in the oven- g, und walked (iftesn miles on the fee, got- }lng;lpxhoru about halt-past 3 the next morn- n, is o'cloek. I {ieorge Shaw, e did not tempt Sundn{ Preston safd he RFFORTS TO REECUE THE TUG GREEN will bo inade ns sooit ns possible, but it i hardls probable that a tug ean ronch hov until # shift of wind, earrles the fea atthis end of the Inke {u u hortherly direction, ‘I'he tugs Mosher and Constitutlon will bo rendy to mi uge In the service m—duly it uecossary, and i‘m’r{ Fox & Co? have kindly tendere the use of thelr puwerful tug Monltor also, Arrangemonts have been perfected with the Haunsler Brothers, bf South Chicago, and fishermon resldent i Chleage to procecd to the lee-loged th lu-dxx‘ with — an winplo supply ot va 3lons. Cuptain and sutilelont craw will wisw be put on "bowred to handly hor in case the feo should move suf- ficlently to causy heryelease. Atthe present tine theroare bue three men on board— Duteh Fritz, Bhaw, and MeKee, Thess will be sufllelent to soo that she 18 kept free of water iid in good conditlon urul‘f‘ other way u‘um asststanco cun by aiforded from the dhore, % oo STREETS AND STREET-CARS, Probably the most [profaue men In the ¢lty utthé present tumepre the policemen who nro dotalled to lonk after tho wtreet-crossings, and any porson wha will take the trouble to stand at the cornerof Randolph and Clark streets, for instance;and watch the crush and jamotf vehicles pussing und repnssing would conceda tha these blue-coatul gunr- dians of the peacoshittered tho second Com- mantment in a just cause. 'I'he grout banks of snow, mud, and {co that are heuped up on elther sife of tlie cal tracks on the down- town thoroughfares force the teams to “track It and very often thers 1s an inextricable tangle s{ the stre ernaslxll‘n wiiich is exnspetuting to overybody in the vicinity, ‘Fruck drivars yell huumuli-, slreet- ear cunductors sst ‘4p w tattoo wlth ‘h ir bulls, and the mllce’\mn Resticnintes wildly with his eans tn & valn endeayor to bring or- dur out of clhiaos, At the corner of State and Madison streets, the, common cm{;mo! the treet-gar lines of, theSouth and West Sldes there 15 & blockadb fro darly morniug until even(ng. J.unu Jined of cars are standing on the truck®, waltlig sturn to get through, knd wany dashhosrds arg broken and win- ows siiidshed beeaudo of *eloso calls,” At hls corner the ordinsry tenm stands no show whatever, @s the street-cars clalin the right of way and take [t. At the corner of Clark und Midison streets thers 13 anothor blockade, and the pollceninn on duty at that carner ls kept on the jump all the thne, Al of tho down-town streuts ure affected with ese crowda of vehicled of cvery gescrip lon, and it ix platn that something must be dune to remove the” huge banks of sjow frow the streets In ordor to muko " naviga- ton ™ An easlor matter, Almost sl of the street-car lnes wers run- glm{uu schedule thne yesterday, ‘Uhe South Ida lines were all “lm operution except e (&l‘mk nd ‘Twenty-fifth street e and the Wentworth “avenue line. In the worning the Indiana avenue cure ruu ou ‘Uwenty-second street ‘rclf{l"’ worth mentionuy Th to Wnbasit avenue, and abandoned the In- diana avenun and Eizhteentl stroet roufo; but in the afternnon.this was eleared and the cirs ran AR uangl. Yesterday afternoon the West and North Sidu ears wére running on tlme, with the exception of e Vun Buren atreet Hno and the short Clinton street line. “Tho Compnntes say that to-day tho ears on avery lino In the city will be runnlug on schedule time. STREET CLEANING, Thers were eighty men at work down- town yesterdny cleaning off the orossings, opening the sawer-intets, cte., and about as mnny more seattered throughout the cily en- gaged In the same work, With 815,000 at his back, ene woutd suppose that Mayor Hnrrl- son would be ore nctlve, but the truth is that laborers cannot bo secured. All who apply nre employed at $1.25 o day, The price is understood to bo regarded as too small, though that rate obtalns throughout the clity, and the men have to work only elght hours w day, Everythimg possible has been done to got wwure men, bus lahorers seem to bo scarce just at present. Unless 800 or 400 are procured within two or three duys, the streota will be hna horrible condi- tlon. One can wade ncross a street now. stepsare not taken to get rid of tho water when tho suow melts, o boat will be neces- sary, THE BLOCKADE, The snow blockade on the rallroads was pretty well raised yesterdny except on the Northwestern, the Milwavkes & St. Paul, and the Llinols Central. The Miwaukeo & St Paul tralns wero running only between hiers and Milwaukeo and between here and suburban points. No was vetng moved. g Northwestern Road was runnlng trains between here and Milwaukee, but not to St. Paul or Councll Bluffs. Suburban tralns were also rlmuln'g. ‘The Ilinois Centrsl was blocked on its Jown and North Divisions, but oxpected to be open on hoth to-day. ‘Trains to nnd from the South were, of course, runuing as usual, and all frul‘xhb not perishable was be- tng recefved for all polnts on all divisions, The Rock Island trilns were only from ten to thirty minutes lite, ‘I'ho road was vrononneed entirely eloar, and all trains wera started out on'time. ‘I'he Omaha traln that was blockud last Saturduy got here at S a'clock yesterdny morning. ‘The Chicago & Alton, the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quiney, tho Pittsburg & Kort Wayne, the Daltiniore & Olly, and .the Wa- bash traing were not delnyed by the blockade to any apvrecleblo axtent, ‘The Michigan Centritl trains were from half an kour to an hour and o half late, [ course the shovelers are dolng rapid work _on the blockaded ronds, and [t Is thought that to-morrow, and {msxlblym-nluht. will find the muin lines on all the roads open fur traflie, The Nortliwestern Is aull to have anumber of loaded frelght cars completely hldden by snow on somo of It tracks in the Northwest, Mr, IL C. Dayls, Assistant General Passen- ger Agent of the St. Panl & Manitobn, tele- graphed yesterday that the storm had not ex-' d beyond St, Paul, and that trains to and’ St. Boniface were running regus- tel Fatgo larly, o STUCK IN THE SNOW. . Tho train that left Janesville, Wis., Inst Saturday worning on the Northwestern Road, bound for Chlengo, struck the bliz- zard at Clinton Junction, At IMarvard the storm was incrensing in severity, when the traln reached a polnt a fittle below Crystal Lako It was simply torrifie, and about n mils below Palatine the train stuck fast In o drift which was from threo to twelve feet deep and over a hall-mile long. ‘The-storin beatdown upon it, and tha snow, sleot, and hail throatened to bury the conches, In this disagreeable sit- untion the unfortunnte passengers wero obliged to remaln until yesterday morning, and forty-eight hours m a suow-drift within n few mites of Chiengo Is nomull\lnx unpars alleled even In tho menory of that ancient hlstorian, the oldest Inhabitant, : Thers wore nbout forty passengers on the train, ' four of whom were lndies, and thero wure tio ehildren In the party, Among them were a_doctor, a lawyor, a fustico of the Peace, n elergyman,—the Rev, A, A, Fiske, vt 1larvard,~nnd soveral teachers aud commerelnl travelers, A retlet purt, camo down from Palatlne Suturday night, and on Stnduy another pucty from the same place bronght a quantity of provisions to the stranded travelers, 1t was found imposatble to uso a slelgh on aeconnt of the inmense drifts, Superintembent Cuyler telegraphed to Patesting directing the attachés of the roud there to see thut tho pssengers were well cared for, Members of the “snowed- In Vnnd say that thav had a very good thne during their Imprisonment, ‘Thoy gathered In ong cur, toll stories, sang sougs, and passed the time In o very pleasant manner, ‘Tho snow-plowsont to the rescite of the train reached 1t yesterday morning, nnd it was hanled Into the oity.” ‘I'ho passengers held n meeting and passeil resolutions think- nx Superintendent Cuylor, Conductor ltich, the crow of the tealn, and My, Julfus Tuurs tun, of Palating, for tholr energetic efforts to provide provisions and comforts for themn d‘ll‘hl?’ their huprisonment in a snow-drift in one of the fiercest blizzards of the season. M. 5. Hughes, ths baggageman, also re- colved the thanks of the little xnm( At the depit Conduetor Rich was thanked In o neat speeeh and was given three hearty cheers, He suid 1t was the suverest stonn e had seen n fouricen yewrs, ‘The Woodstock trafu on the same rond left Woadstoek Suturday morning, It stuck in a drift at Artington, Just four miles below the Jinesville train, aud remained there untll Sunday afternoon, when it urrived hero, OUTSIDE, ROCKTORD, ILL. | Speélal Dispatch fo The Chicago Tribune, - Rockrouy, IlL, Mareh 2L—By far the worst snow-storm ever known here visited this sectlon on Inst Saturday, accompanied by n wind from thio northeast which traveled at the rate of forty infles au hour. All trains on the severnl ronds were at once abaudoned, aud ull telegraphie commanication with Chil- cago wns entirely eut off. Bverythlog ln the elty was abyolutely at o standstill, and It was almost linpossiblo for pudestriang-to keop on thelr feot, while tenmsters dare not venturo out, ‘U'lie old cuts on the Chienge & North- western Roud ure pneked full again, and every foot of it will have to bo shoveled out, ns It I3 so heavy that n snow-plow shovel 1s uselens, ‘I'he Chieago & Iown Kond Is tho best off, thin thne, a8 the wind was ware favornble tor that rongd than it was for the Chleago & Northwestorn, The latter ron{ has suceecded ' in getting o traln golwg east as for ns Pecutonica, whils the Fresport da |;;m'uu er tealny, which loft Chicago at 03l Suturday moraing,is between hero and M'i I No TrinuNg has boen reeelved sinco Friday morning, and its many subserlbers In this city ure more thun anxious to receive thelr favorit Journal. No hopes are Riven, huwover, of any mall bufore {o~ MOrrow hlfhl, aud possibly Wednesdpy morning, - Business muttors ‘on tha wator- power are. In o terrible condition, for the different mannfucturers ara greatly in nsed OF material o duldls work on haud, and ajso slitpping tacllities to disposeof wurss already completed, . e MILWAUKER. . Bpecial Duvateh to The Ohicage Tvibuna, MILWAUKEE, March 21,~The snow em-’| bargoe is rapidly betng rafsed. Trahis fr- rived from and left for Chicago regularly this afternvon and eventng, Herole effurts are beng ninde to run on sehedule tima bes tween here and St, Panl. Another day will find the route clear, 'The Wisconsin Contral also éxpects lo muke sohudule time to- morraw, ‘Uhe through oxpress for Ashland koes put to-night ua usual Phe Lnko Bliore whl not Do opun - buafore W’cdnemay. Bug . lietle freight can . be wmoved on uny of the lnes beford Wednesday or “Thusday, ‘The milt weather of to-day fo- ollitutod ‘the work very much, -Saturday's stolw wad probably th mest severe gver known'in this region, but to-dny a thaw conunenced, Notwithstundlig the warmtly 1t s diticult to gou the packed show and ice from the tracks. So furthe strect-cars in this city havo not been nbie to run. Snow- plows are useless, and the comwon farm plows ure belng used to loosen ths lce from about the rails. ——— GALENA, JLL, Bpeclal Dispateh to Ths Chicago Tribuna GALexa, 1L, Mareh91.—Supervisor Court- ney, of the [linols gCentral, left Galena this worning ut half-past 0 with three engines aud o force of elzhty-iye shovelers for the TUESDAY, MARCII 22, 1881—TWELVE PAGES, D = ‘cuts onst of Scale’s Mound, and retirned hora to-night, having dléared but two miles of track tho other sidu of the mound, Ho informs your correspondent that the dritts In tha cuts arn more formidable than over before In the history of the rond, and reach n Iilght o & lovel with the tops of the fences onelther slde, P, 11 Murphy, n‘mm\t Free- |mn, is working thla way with a force of 00 men, and reache ena ta-nlght. Mr, Courtney saya tho round will not be opened so that trnins can run before Thursday, ‘The hl[dlwnys leadIng out of. Galona aru blocked with snow, and the lotels are crowded with lwnple Hving in _the country who are unablo o get home, Saturday nlght’s storm was the worst ever oxperlenced hors in the momo- ry of the * oldest Inhabltant.” STERLING, ILL. : Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridunk. Stenning, 111, March 2L—A complete snow blockade exists liore. No tralns since Iast Friday, and no prospect of any for somo days to come. The rond from here to Omaha s all clear, the great trouble now Lelng between hero and Chlcago. An Immense snow-plow, with four of the largest and most_powerful engines, cams In this momlnfz from Clinton, coming through drifts fiftecn fout deep, ‘They are now eastof hore, with several hundred men working lke Tro- Jang to get thraugh to Chicnmo. A caraful fieeount of all snow fallen here this winter makes it something more than ten feet, the amount betng unprecedentad since the sottle- ment of Rock River Valley, All business 19 suspended, aud the-manufactoriesclosed for wint of material, Fearful damage is prob- able when the snow melts away. —— GENEVA, ILL, Speelal Dispateh ta The Chieaga Tribune, GENENA, IIL, March 21,—7Tho storm which began early Saturday morning did not censo untit n 1ate hour yesterday afternéon, No trains have passed throngh Genevagince Sat- rday. This morning the? o'clock accom- modation left for Chleago on time and arrived i the city at 10 o’clock,— ninely minutes behind time. The Omaha, Codar Raplds & Sterling tralns are all abandoned. West of Ulluton to Council Bluifs the track 18 eleared, and o gang of shovelers Is now at work betw ere and Clinton, Itis thought through travel ean be resumed by to-morrow. No mnils or papers have been received® sinco Friday night. Travel on tho wagon ronds is completely blocked, ELOIN, ILL, 3 Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Erouty, HL, Marcn 3L.—Snow began falling at 6 o'clock Suturday morning, and continued two days, the wind blowing tremenduously. ‘The siow is plled in the business streets from threo to eight feet high. All business fs blockaded. No church services were held Sundny, The train dug hers at 1 Satur- day was abandoned at the Junctlon. Four engines pulled a conch up Sunday afternoon. Twa ministers—n Freo Methodist and n eplored divine—were aboard, ind the snow- botnd passengors rolleved the monoteny by having a rellglous scrvice, A train 1y ex- peefod to-night from Chiengo on the Chicago & Northwestern, ‘The Chicago, Milwaukes & 8t. Paul Is completoly abandoned. A dis- nstrous thaw and fload is feared, KEWANEE, ILL. . Speetal Disnaten to The Chieugo Tribune. KewANER, 11, March 2,—This point ap- peurs. to be the centre of tho great snow blocknde on the Chieago, Burlingon & Quin- cy Rallroad In this State. Passsngers who left Chicago on Sunday evenfug took break- fast hiere with the passeugers on the train that left Chicago on Saturday mgrnlng. The track was oleared at 10 o'clnck To-day, The united forces ot this strong corporation, with atl the extrn belp money would prdcurce be- twixt Aurora and Burlington, met at a short distanee westof here, and the snow blockade was rajsed. Owing to the blockade of the cauntry ronds no tenms ara in town, and ten miles have been made on fout where busi-' ness required. i OMATIA, NEB. Bpectal Dispatch 10 The Chicugo Tribune. 031, Nob,, Mareh 2L.—Omaha has had o enStern connectlons for two days except Ly way of St. Louis, owing to the recent snow-storm In Illinols, A side-track nearly three wiles Tou will bo completed around the high water nenr Fremont by Thursday worning, when Unlon Pacltic through tralus, which have been runuing regularly for sev- eral days.over tho Burlington & Mlssourk, Teund, will resume regninr trips on their own road. ‘The water retlng as high ns ever in ho 1] r, owing o the'lce:gurges not breaklng, WAUKEGAN, ILL. - WAukeGAY, L, Mareh 2L—Tho tvorat snow-storm of the senjon, accompanied by n strong northenst wind, began Saturday morning and continued throughout the day and night, oceasloning a Ylockade of tho rall- roud, no tralns getting thfough todilwankee for tivonty-four hours. The stregts belng impassable, the churches wera closed and no sorvices held In them yestordiy, Towlny the trains golng south from here ure ablo to get thmug‘a. but no traln hod arcived from Miwaukee YnL‘ This Is tho. first tine this winter that there lias been o serlous delny on this division. MAKING EVERYBODY WORK, Special Dispateh {0 The Chicugo Tribune. Dunvqug, T, March 21.—Clerks, cashiors, conductors, brakemen, and all the omployés of the litlhals Centrat Raflrond Lu thls elty luft for the west this morning toshovelsnow. The Superintendent sald they must have hands, and, as the ofticials In_the clty hinve been kdle for over three months, the Compn- ny deemed 1¢ prudent to have them earn their salaries In somo magner, Traing, s ex- peeted, will again n:ucfn this clty by Wednos- day It It don't snow. : COUNCIL BLUYFS, TA. Couxcrt Brures, I, March 3L.—The fifst through train from Chicago sinco Saturdny reached Council Bluffs at 5 this evening over the Rock Island Road, “Stub? trains eame In trom Cllnton on'the Northwesteri and Bur- lington on the Chieagy, Burlington & Quincy to-night. The Unlon Prolilo Is still suffering frou un overtlow of tha Platte, nnd traina to i from this city go_vin tha ]lnrlmgmn & Missourl Rond:to Kearneyy Neb, .\ very Inrge amount of west-bound frelgnt hns ac- fiumuluwd here In consequencs of tha over- 0w, ACONOMOWOC. Gpeetal Dispateh o The Chicago Tribune, QOcoxosawoc, Wi, March 21,—~Lucomo- tives from Watertown, with 200 men, arrlved ta-nlght. ‘They were two days golng twelve wilos. Shovelets working cast have gone thrge milea fn two days. Phe olif cuts nre packed-full, worso than before, Some dyifts are twenty feet high, Passunger-trains will rré)’hnbly b through’ by Wednesduy mozu- n| p NS FRELPORT, ILT. Bpecial Dispateh (0 The Chicaga Tribuds, TueevonT, 11k, March 81,.—A very severs snow-storm_ prevailed hors Saturday dnd Sunday, No trains are running, wnd the prospects are not very encouraging for thel arrlvat or departure for a day or two, ”j the ronds havo large gangs of men auploye ln clearng the tracks, MADIRO) ! MADISON, Wis., March 21,—Tha rallroads in this yidinity ara reported badly blocked by #ndw, ahd no prospect of getting n traln from Chlmggu to-duy. ‘The Ambtlml\ Nc"lmx“ pfll’g: Wl begln an_engagenion! ilcago to- R e o i % THR SIGNAL S8KRVIQE, Orpick or TiE QK BIONAL OFVICER, Wasmyaroy, ). G, March 23—1 a, m.—For the.Qhlo Valluy and Tennessoe, clearing fol- lowed by falr weathor, northwest to south- weat winds, higher baroinuter, sud stationsry or higher témperature. Yor the Lower Luke rexlon, clearing weath- rer, followed by falr weather, westerly winds, higher barometer, and statfonary or higher tomveratura. o gl 6 i . 2 T i\l e 55&:"1,.’ hlexl\u{" hrometer, and \C) ey e o e Dt At el Vallop, falr ‘weather, -uut‘wuturl wlmla‘pnnmly Yl ing vnr“b}s. l'lzhur nafiuna er, and stations ry or higher tempors e, o the Lower Mlssourt Valley, falr and generall varmer weather, northerly wiy, " Ine variable, and statlonary or i&\'vr!}r“g,"’, i metor, 2 i LOCAT, OTARNVATIONS, CHICAOY Mn Tree| TArr[HY | W, *lisromoter correctod for t and instrumental arror. Mean batomoter, Wish mean thory mean hnwnldity, 2.1, higticat témporatur tamparmture, 2410, ‘YMeited slgst, tou small to messurs, - URNERAL ONSKUVATIONR, CICAGO, Mnrah 31 -10y1g p o Wind, nomnter, s 0, W0; 1gwe NV 1 NV =3 saszessehydcex 1 Ruchesiar, a1l Lake C Nand as. EERESTENE: ENESEEANEERHRNGEA: ¥R Pt PARLIAMENT PROROGPES, Bpeciat Dispateh to The Chicapo Tritune, OTTAWA, Onty, March 26—~The third spe slon of the Fourth Parlinmoent wus prorogusd by his Excollency the Governor-Gienernl thiy afternoon at 3 o’clock, Quite n sprinkling of the beauty and fashlon cecupled seats on the flof of the Senate, and the gallerles, ay usun), were well crowded. But "very fey members nttended at the bar of the House, most of them having left for their respectivg homes. Tha guard of honor consisted of 10) men and o band from the Foot Guards. The eseort was furnished by the Princess Louse Dragoon Guards, ‘The Governor-General 1u his prorogation specel, sald: *The mensure for transferring to a coms pany of capitalists tho responsibiity of con. structing mwl opernting the Canada Pacife Raltway wlill, I am assured, be followed by most favorable results, and secure the rapld coinpletion of this groat natlonal enterprise, It will hu duty and the Interest of the Come pany to use every exertlon- to dispase withe out delay of the lands granted In ald ot thelt undertrking, and for that purpose to pro. mots fnnigeation from abrod on an ex tensive senle, My Mintaters will, however, not relax thetr efforts in the samoe direction, and It s belloved by the unlted actio of the Gouvernment and the Compnrny o largs influx of valunble settlers may be confldently antleipated, - Such fmmlgratfon whust tendto enhance the value of the public domnln in the Northwest, while the system of muking frea granty to actual settlers wil be waine tained (n its Integrity, ‘The lands reserved for sate by the Crown will, it i3 believed, b disposed of at Yl'll.'rs auilelent to eventuily repalr the whole of tho expeditur of woney by the Doeminlon op the = vonstruge jon of tho ralfway, ‘T'he oxtension of ho loundarles of Manltobu will confer the privilege of loeal - self-government on the penple already tesident in or who may horeuafter ocenpy the wren now added to the Province, and enable the Leglalature 1o eatabllsn mnnlnl‘ml Institutlons. Its enlarged Ihnits tend greatly to rdd to the welfare of that interesting region. The wmendient of the naturalization Inws will, I trust, have the cifect of removing the disadvantages under which {mmizrants from Burope have hither to Inbdared, amd attract u large Influs o yopulation frout the Old Workd.” —e—— FALL RIVER. Fears that There Will o a Strike of E Larygo 'roportious. Bpectal Diapatch to The Chicago Tribune, Farn Riven, Mass., March 21 ~Complieas l}m\s havo arlsen to-day which threatento muke the strike, now of Ingignitlennt propor- tlons, ono of lnrgeextent, and fears are end tertained that tvarlk will soon be entively sus- peirded at the Chnse Mlils, one of the largest corporations. John Morland, Treasurer o the Spinners’ Unlon, has fora Jong thue been employed, nnd to-tay ho waa _dlseharged for the alleged renson that he refused to occupy o corporation tenement, ‘The omployers state that his official position was not coli- sldered: but tho spinners claim that elght Unlon men have buen discharged within three weeks, mwul the result is tho mill will shut down tp-morrow unless Mo land is reinstated, and other mills will follow, ‘Tho manufacturers have not deckded on thele conrso of aetion, but they feol that somelhhu{ must be done to dalseourage the frequent atrikes, whioh nre. proving an Injurs to the ¢ity, and a genernl lockout 13 apprehends ‘The disoharged sptuners are supported by thy Union, anddoffers _of pssistanes ure ale ved from other places, areh 31,—The Treas urers of the ditferel Its this ovening vons sldered tho steflre. No dofinit getlon wus agroed upon, . ‘They feel that they pay 18 Iigh Wages for tio smue work as ave pald In Fl 3 e g 1\14\3' Yonk, .\{nrch 31.—The sash and done makers: demnnd an nerenso or wages, of strlke. Oghier trades are woving for un ads vunee of wnbm. Spectal Dispatch 1o The Chicaps Tribune Trrrsnura, Pa,, March 3L—The couldghl- ery it other orvn\u\'es n the Conugtisyilie cale n-itlun to-dny posted natices that o gens oral strlke \vll{ ke |,Ini:e on ,\lnlllll m,ly:u! un wlyatee of wages {3 coneeded it‘rlgm fs nt the fnstancy of tho Kufghts of abur, . rendy recel Farn Riven Ma: ———— OHI0 RIVER STEAMERS, Bypecial Dispaleh ta Tha ¢/aicago Triduns CINCINNATY, O, March 91.—Within threé weeks four ar five Tlver steamers uttemptiis to enter the canal at Loulsville or eimerse from It have beon carried down by tho curs rent pass the upper vud of itand preepitated througha gap {n the dam and styanded ou the ropks, To-dny tho tug Top Loudon wed assisting the steamer J. W, Gatr, for Mem< phis, to enter, when the current proved too strong, carrigd both boats duwn pust the en- trancuof the caual; precipitated them through the gap In the dam, and left lh‘om helpless on the rocks in o bad poaition. This uoubrlg iR _owing to the fact ‘that oLoutsvill whiagrf 1s* oooupled by wlhinrt-bonts snd tlonty so near tho mouth of the canal n_s;fl uumkl vessuls ontering or leaving it to mako @ short turn trom & Polul ear the wnit cur- rens of the river or nto |t, and o exposo s broadside to the full foree of tho streatt, The dunger bes been much greater l.!nlll usual thiy' winter, ‘Iecent ditect damuges i vessuls have besn not lusn'lh?n 220,100, l"l the indirect losa his beon vsthnated much higher, ‘Transportutlon emupanles within a ‘few da'ys have reported the fuclsto Attorneys Guonern Mlus\'eu{lll who has power to urd;l! the City of Loulsilite to etear the wharf (ae enongh Abuve the mouth of the canal 10 ke exita aud enteaice by steauers safe. 1tls a unml{ and prhups troublesome ques~ tlon before bl for deciston, e — it THE BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT. i CiveiNyaTi, Mureh 9).—The Olnelnnd! Brush Electrle Light Company ovened Il: books this moruing. All the capital stoc (§150,000) was takon, and tho follawing Board of Directons elected: Jo;m Kyle, " Clough, Johu rrivon Murkbrelt Lo Séhl;gnkuuu. John Ryan, and Warren Haw: soU, v