Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1881, Page 2

‘ 2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUN TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1881—-TWELVE PAGES. e iag heen sick for some days, s volee was fuint, and thin, and hoarse. There waa an ominons display of ent lemons upon his desk, showing that the speaker would be compelled to resort to some artiliclal means to give strongth to his volee, All who watehed hm as he rose, showing evident traces of his flness, thought It fmpossible that hie should complets the survey of the mass of documentary and other mate ter which was placed befora hinm. He ‘welghs ninety pounds, and thesy ninety pounds mnst he composed of brain, and votee, nnd sinew, for, notwith- standingg his evident eebleness, he spoke calinly and earnestly for threo hours, As for the speech, those who eame expeeting to witness n renewal of the outburst of Intig- nation and Inveetive whleh eharactérized his first appearance In the Senate, when he midde his lmpromptu, eloquent, burning reply to the savage assaults of Ben Ll N WEST AWAY DISAPPOINTED, ‘There wns very lttle that was porsoml in the speech, bnt there was enough to Sliow that the Virginin Seuator intends on all ocenstons to take eare of himscif, and that it will ho wise for the Bourbons ta forego personalities In their future debates with him. 'Those who came tw hear @ careful oxplanation of the debt fon in Virginin, us [t 13 wmlerstood by the Readjusters, and to llsten to an exposition ot the opposition te Bourbonisuy, of whicl Gen, Mahone §s the leader, went away ene Nightened, If not fully satisfied, The speech was ot fntentled as W phitippie, It was des stmned as nocareful exposition of the debt guestlon, s an argament m support of the J(mul%nsmr)umy. and ns an arralznment of the Bourbons, "It s the kiud of old-style, solid, politieal sprech customary with South- ern orators in the old which will be mueh sought and uunurnllr ad In the cross- Tonds countries ol the Old Dominlon, where the telegraph and the newspaper press have not ng yeb usurped the ancient fumction of the Congressional frank. The speech donbt- less glves KEW LIGIT UrON THE DEBT QUESTION, aml it very clearly shows that Gen, Milione's purty Is not*the party of repudlation—at enat not in the sense [ which that terin Is generally underatood, Gen, Mahone, with amuch’ fervor, denied that he represented repwdintors, Hu lnsisted that the State of West Virginty should bear her grnpurllnn of one-third of the debt Incurred by the Olid Dowminion when she formed n part of 1t, and in the henetits of which her territory shasved, ‘That one-third the party of Mahone propose that the present State of Virghin shall fiot pay, but that the ereditors must look to Weat Virginia for it. Ono of "Gen. Muhone's strongest polnts was made when he turned to the Senators from West Virginia and churged them Wit hypoerisy, In that they slded with those Who ar- raign b ns o repudiator I Vir- ;zlnin. while they, ag the representatives uf West Vieeinis, had not lifted u volee or levied a tns to pay the portion of the debt which s thelr eqnitabile sharer The n:umlnlugl\\*n»thlrdsor the debt, Mr, Mahone sald, the Rendjusters proposed to puy at such llnulv&uyd under such clreumstances as they could, THE DIFFERENCE between the Readjusters and tho Bourbons in Virginla, as stated by Mohone, seens to be this: The ereditors, owners of the bonds, are willing to muke some compronise s to the ante-\War debt, whieh Is alone in ques- tion, They propose that tho State shall reg- oizitize and fund the }»rluclpul Into bonds drawing a lower rate of interest, ‘The eredl- tory’ proposition is_emvodied In the MeCul- lough bill, whicti fixes the tate of Interest ou the refunded debt at 4 per cent. Tho Bourbons, so far as they have tnken o deflnlt osition, sy that they will enlertain tho rokers’ propusition, atid nllow the Intter to 1ix the rate of ?uemsl. “But ithe. Debtpny- ers'have only sald they would listen. Théy Tiava ;done nothing, although they have con- trolled the State'Government Tor ten years, The Readjusters, or Mahone party, on the contrary, say that they will niso recognize the principal of the debt, the same a8 thg HBourbons do, partjes nsisth pay herthlrd. DUT TUK READJUSTERS SAY the State enn nfford to pay only.3 per cent and defray I8 necessary onkes, ‘and that thiey, the Readjustors, will fix the rate at 8§ per tent, and not allow the brokers to i the Tte for them. In‘short, there is no questicn of nLsolute repudintion on elther side, - Both sides recognlze the snme princlpal amount, Doth sides expeet to.have the fnterest-rat Teduced, ‘The ereditors consent to i redus tion, but desire to fix the rate. thomselvess, The Bourbons suy that m:a{y 11 feeept the und to the ‘)vhulc awmount, both ng that West Virglnia must brokers’ terms. “The Readfusters tnsist thnt the Intorest should be reduced -t least 1 r cent more, owing to the Impover- shed condition of ~ the State. It this scallng of Interest, to which the creditors consent, Is repudiation, then tha Bourbons are nlse repudiators, but to the ex- tent of 1percent less. | THE READJUSTERS, IN PINE, scem to bo willlng to senle the Interest nnd Kuy what I8 Joft. The Bourbons profess to o willing to ncknnwlctl;m all of tho debt, and to pay notie of I, °The lutter, after ten vears’ control of the State, have dons noth- ng oxcept to furnish some brokers with an opportunity ' for speculation out of which several Boudon pollticluns have grown rich, Mahone mude his positlon, as’ compired with that oceupled by the States whoso Senontors have denounced . Mm, much stronger by making very clear the proposi- tlon that, whilo the Virginia Readjusters propose to way all thelr equitable” debt, Georglg, Alabning, North Caroling, and Mls- sisstppl, and other Southern States, have re- pudiated a Jargs proportion of thelr honest debt,—sealing dowil by various menns an ng- &regate of S218,000,000 to S84, In this connection Seuator Mahone y skill- Tul use of TIUR REMARKANILE PAPER upon repudiation in the Southern States pre- pared with such ability by Robert 1 Porter, of Chleago, Chiet “of ‘the Division of Wealtis, Dunt, and Taxation of tho Censug-Oflice, recently publlshed in theso columms, He called the uttention of Len il to hls own Stute, sud ugked him to ex- plain the Infamous record of repudiation of other Southern States outside of Virzlnia, 1le enlled upon all the Bourbon Senators to explnin iow they can _justify the elmr:fu that Readjustient 33 dishonorable m Virginin and that thoss who ndvocate It are dishonest, ‘When these same Bourbons represent States and distriets guilty of such monstrous, posi- tive repudintion, “Those who knuw Virzinin volitles well say that this thll. will be \'m-.y effective " In tho Old Dominfon and thut tho Iourbon sponkers will fnd gp difienlt to exelain nny future assaults which they mdy sttempt to nake upon the Lteadjusting ‘mn)» in view of thelr own repudiating record, The general ussuults upon him personally Gen. Mahone repelled by a diselaliner, und by THE ECOTTISIL QUOTATION, If thou muyest I am not peers "T'o ny lord of Seotland hore, Ughiund or lawiund, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast led] 000,000, mndo Yer, As he sald this ho turned to his pin- cloul enemles,—lohnston, Joo Brown, and Ben 10U "Plie former, iy Virgha' col- league, waos very restiess under his sovers thrasts, us Johnston is not the cyuil of Malone In debate, Mahono safd that It was & difficult matter to comparo his own record with thut ot Johnston, us the who I8 notably n compromise enndl- dnte, hud In each “instanes been chosen elilefly beeanse o had 110 re rd 3 and Gen, AMahone, with witheruuz st pointing iuis slender finger to his colleague, snid tht, for tuture cambulyns, hils recommendation 1o his constituency” 1s Hkoly to tw the sume, for, u!lur n caretul searcli of the proceedings of Conicresd, ns had - been wnsble to find apy mord hoportant record that Johmstorn, had mads than that he way the author of “one bill relntimg to lioxs, and of another relatiug to the cattle dl; My, Mahone polnted out umnf - portunt mistakes lu Johnston's speech, show- g, nong other things, that he had been so cureless us pot to distiguish between not nndf 59 revennes, Uen, Mahone indleated, pussibly, & ling for future nggressive debute 1t the Senate, when e called upon the load- 18 of the diiferent sehools of finanes and trltl kn the Democratle party .. TO HYAND UP AND TEL), HIM who ‘was the lemder of the party, He was Aunabla 1o sy whether 1t was the stalwart Groenbacker © Voorhees, the stulwart hard-money i vard, or e author ot the Ohlo kdea, Pendlutony and he culled upen. Mr, Voorhees, whose sliver- tongued eloquence, he sald, he had heard coubd ko the watess of the Wabash flow backwurds, to answer tho Inquiry nt his lelsure. Tho shafts of Mahone's surcasin, a8 fur s Ws speeeh took any personal direcs tlon, were malnly directed to Jos Brown, of Aicorgla, und that gentleman will have to re- sort to something elso thun eamp-meeting pralse to reseue himself trom. the ridlenly Which Malong heaped upon biw, Mahone, o “who knotys Lhe personal ‘tecords of. all tho Southern Jeaders, sketehed thetortuousenreer of Mr. Deown with graphie power. He showed thaty, whlle on ono lmnd he wis ving to be a Unlonlst, he was very zeal- s it tho Interests of secesslon, and that he wis the finst. Governor jn the South to con- fiseate private property for the Co and that ho seized Fort Pulnskl the net of seeesslon wns prssed, Next, after the War, he was heard making o Republican speceh at the Grant Conventlon. Next accepled the position of Chief Justl that I’rince of Greenbackers, Gov, fock, —of Georgin. Then he Prosident of w rallvoad: and now, eleeted ns a nominal Independent to the Sen- ate, he becomes n leader of the Dourbons, “ Surely,” sald Mr, Mahone, ** the Georein Senator is compotent to talk of Readjusters, forhe s TIE PHISCE OF READSUSTERS HIMSELE, o knows how to adapt his prineiples to his interests, mud, If ho sometimes fafted to reap anadvantngo which mlght bave b Bt eured by trenchery, it was beeauso he was Ixnorant of the opportunity,” In conelue slon, Gen, Malione (loelarved. to him, nnd to 1hi03a who stipport him, that the Solid Sautl hivl become o mere geographicnl expressions that te awd they stood for the rights of freemen, and that e, in the namo of the brave men who stood bebind him, would gurantee to tho Nortlre that, herepfter, in Virzinla, there should be w full and free bal- ot and nu honeat conunt. "The Repubilenns with some difenlty vestrnined thelr abplanse at the conclnsion of the speech. 'The Dem- oerats i the galleries did not endenvor to withhiold thelr “hisses, ‘Fhen tho tedions roll-calls on_dilatory motlons continued, ns for a week they have. e NO ONE TO-S101T Igplo to tell hetter than could be told o weelk afwhen the present dendlock in the Sennte ks toend, ‘There b a disposition on the part of roine Senators to so fur modify the position they have taken with regard o the election minorofticersof the Senate ns to nndertako o some executiva busliess, 'Ll exee- ntive ~ docket I8 becoming overcrowiled, There are already 100 nominations pending, and there are mnni; more to be made. The President will probably not make any mora nominatlons. except to fill vaeancies, until some of tho pending nominatlons shall’ have been contirmed. TIIE RECORD. SENATE. Wasuixaroy, 1. C., Mareh 28.—1he jour- nul of Saturday having been read, the Vice- P'resident lnid before the Senate the resolu- tion for the appointment of Sennte ofticers, stuting that the Senator from Virglnin ad the floor. Senator Malone premlsed his speech by expressing regret that he should Le com- pelled ngaln to interrupt the deltberations of the Senate, o sald: Tirust the Senntors and country will coneede that to this seem- ing forwardness I wm provoked. If I may foll to ehallenge gencrous conshlerntion ftom those who would appenr to have found plensure without justifieation In thelr varled and ungenerous nsaaults, T do not doubtthat 1 shal] command the respect of brave and independent spirits here, s 1 know 1shall RILONE Wy OWN reople, I shall not com- plain of that Indirection which las char. geterized the nanner and method of Senutors thelr allusions to me, 1 must accept the fact that they combort entitely with their own sense ol manly de- lmru-wnt and Senutorlal dignity, however ittle they do with my ewn, customed to meet oeeaslons where the in- lle{»euur-nt apirit of the Auglo-Saxon is ye- qulred to nssert itself, : VIRGINIA IIAS EVER MET WITH FORTITUDE AND BECOMING DIGNITY vvery duty which destlny has imposed, al- ways, however, with much coutempt for smell party lines when urlneiple wans In- volved in which her fulth and honor wns ecammitted, With absolute confidence in my loyalty to her, and my devotion to every hi- terest of her people. I will not relax my pur- pose here to rcrul every Impeachment of tho constituents who sent me to this chamber with clearly defined dutles, whicl they and 1 comprehend, 1was elected to the United States Senate to do_thelr _will; not to n eavcus to' do its bidding. Virginin enrned Der title of “Old Dominlon” by the broad . ond Independent uctlon of her own people; lxs- the loynlty of her sons; by the instinet ofdndepentence without help at the hands of those who would now Interfera with her affalrs. 11nwever feebly 1 may, ox- press that spirlt against the gratuitous eare undd concern for herat the hands of strungers, —straugers Lo her trials, to her saerifices, and to her will,—I feel that tho spirit of her peo- plo Inspires me when I scornfully repel, for them and for nyself, the wngenerous: at- tewpts to lnstruetn Vfrglmu Senator a3 to his <tuty to them and to hlinself, Senntors should be.williuz to denl with thelr constitu- ents. I nuswer for mine. To him that would fnsinuate that riy-actlon inremird to the organization of the commlittees of this Lody nnd the Tmlmscll election of oflicers has been _cantrolled b{) hinpure conslderntions (and I am loth to believe that any Senntor )lms 50 Intended), in the languuge of another g n 1f thou snyost I arm not peor 'Fo uny Lotrd of Scotlana here, Highlund or Lowland, fur or near, Lord Augus, thou hast lied.” Now, perntit me to say that Senators can no more reallze my regret than thoy can meastire my amazement that my colleague (Johnston) should have felt it incumbent on himself to oin the assaultng column In this chamber, e flrst introduces the gquestion af my politicnl conslstenoy, or, If he prefers, ll\uoxlslu(cllu¥. and next ho would introduce me to this honorable body, not as his col- lengue, but as . A REPUDIATOR OF PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS, The sense of justice to ny fellow-Senators renders it necessary for me to apologlze for notlelng my collengne's eriticlsm on the one hand and his porversions on the other. 1low- ever much he and his cohorts may endoaver, by the clieap logic of an attorney, to demon- sirate what Lought to be, Iam, by my con- victlons and my sense of honor, what Lam, In this particufar [ hnye largoly the advan- tuge of my colleague, for if I'take him by his record, diminutivens 1t 1s, he neither kiows what he Is nor what duty lie came hero to perform, [Laughter.) M. Mahono then pro- ceeded to glvoun oxhaustive history of the palitical and finanelal history of Virginia for the Inst decude. 1le decfured that the Read- usters had nover repealed any of the fund- gz contracts mnde by Virginia, but nsserted that tho il passed In 1871 by the Virginia Leglsinture and known as the * Drokers' DL which had been advoeated by his col- league, repudiated, aud forefbly repudlated, one-iblrd of the debt of Virginia. ‘Thoe Re- ndjusters held that two-thirds of the money \'lrfiluh\ horrowed should e pald, the other third belonging to We»;,\'lrnlnln, according to every prineiplo of law and cquity, Sinco 1371 tho Readjusting party had dented to the ereditor the War Interest, and lind proposed to pny the rest in full. Its adversarles hnd fided that War nterest, il proposed to repudiate one-half of thut which Virginls wos in Inw und honor bound to pay, Hewould like theSenators frrom West YVirglnla to tefl the country what that State had done with reference to the payment of one-third of the debt contructed by tho Com- monwenlth of Virginlae~whether 1t had ever proposed Lo pay one stiver to maintaln the honor and dignity of the Old Comumon- wealth, 1o erlticised the uctlon of his col- league in not defending the people of Vir- trluln from the aceusatlon that they wero dis. honorable,—dlshonarable, teo, in the opinion of the men who represented States which, by arbitrary legislution, had roduced thelr debts from E243,000,000 to $84.000,000, 1o sent to the Clerk’s desk and huul veud o table show- fng the extent to which the debts of the Suuthern States bad boen sealed down, “HEFUDIATION HONORADLE! READJUST- MENT DISHONORAULE] Oh, Virglnial? ho sald, *1t was for this you bared your hosom to the soldier's trend nnd horse’s foot] 1t was for this you Inld waste your flelds and displayed your foctitude und cournge, your herofo sutfering und sneritice! It was tor this you suifured the dismetuber- nent of your lun’hurfl. and sout your sons to the fleld o veturn to the rins that wero once thelr ho It was for this you so re- Inctantly abandoned your nllegfance to the commuon country to- b the Just In the War and the lust to” ko outl Oh, Ingratitudel “Thou busest sl meunest of orlmes 17 o would nol ocenpy, ho couthnued, any more of the thime of the Seunto with the sub- Jeet of the Virglnia debt, but would refor now to the terrogatory put lust I'riduy by Senntor Voorhees to - Senator Logun, as to whether the utter woul indorse the popers of the appheant for the smallest Post-Ofliee who favored mpmllnllnu of either n State or Nationul debt. Tlo would ask the gentieman *Vum'llumfl) how ha found 1t compatible with his prinelples to associuie With the Senators from the States who had *repudinted,” but had not *readjusted,” e had never heard Mr, Rlldleberger ox- press o favorablo oplulon oven of the views of the Senator from Liutlana on the National debt, [Laugh! Hoe also guoted from Julizt W Danlel, une ot the lenders of the 3 Vlrginia Is ne- | Bourbon party in Virainly, denguncing the inlyuitons mensures of the Fedoral tuanclers, nad "l‘()pu!lluz to reverse them. He yeeom- mendwl the Senators from Indlana nnd Dela- % Voorhees and Dayard) to try amd reconelle their differences of views on the financial question before the Seuator from Illinois agaln discussed the subjeet, As to the Senator from Georgin (Irown), who seemed to be so aueh troubled about Read- Justment, he questioned whother the worll hnd ever produced a nan who could so yeadily * rewdfust himsell to ol conditions and nll elrenmstances, [Laughter.) “Ihat gentleman had got alead of the people and of the Demoeratie party In his effort to dlssolve the Unlon, nnd was the firat Governor In the South to contiseato pri- vitd property In the courts of Snyannnh,andto gelzo Fort Palnski before thenct of secesslon, 1tumor had it that the P'residency of the Con- federate States was the gentleman’s object of that time, In the struggle that ensued Ie ;llmwu) was earnest for the enuse until ity fortunes began to waver, ad then hae abane doned I with his militle, After the War he wits nest heard of In tho Clileago Republican Convention, In fact, that gentleman might sny, with the Poct Laureate's hrovk,— Men may eome, men mny g0, But I'ku on forover. 1le wns next heard of ns n Radical candl- dnte for the Unitecd States Senate, but wag beaten by & moro woderate Repubtican, the lats Justiun Hill, 1o next appenred ns the appolutee of that earpet-bug Governor of Georgla, that 'rince of (-xlrln:l-bxufl: Bul- lock, to the oftice of Chief Justice of that State, which position lo subsequently re- shened to take the Preskdency of n rafiroad ', Now that gentloman was lel uy tl nder of the Demweratic party, and ks explanation was that the Demoeratle [mrlf’ hatterved and nbandoned him, but thatnow it Tl vighted itseft and RALLIED ITSELF ON 118 (BROWN'S) GIIAND RESERVE of undylng and unchangeable principles. [Laughier.] ‘That gentleman hnd alluded to runors of bargain, 1t there were any truth In thoge rumors, then he (Mahone) was in- debted for any advantnge he mlght draw from it to the fact that the Senator. from Georgl did not know of the opportunity. [Laughter.} On that ‘mlnh he (Mahone) would answer all nuendoes of the Seuators distinetly and gravely, and with due regard to the di of a Senator, 1le hurled back with scorn and contempt every imptitationthat his actien here had been indieed by any other eofsid- ation than that of the promution of his people's interests, and of the welfare of the wlale country. i1 nmight oceupy the Sennte for an hour with rumors as to the manner In willeh the Senator from Georgin (Brown) rot 10 the Senate, and tha gentieniu should earn from that foct the valuable lesson that every Senator shonld ust his ba left to accottnts with his own constltuents. lle avewed his responsibliity, his proud respon- sivility, for the Introduction of My, Riddle- berger’s nanie as a candidate for office, but professud his resdiness to withdraw that name, It it were true, as report had it, that the Democratic Senators would then cense their vbstruction of tho Senate, He ndmitted the correctness of the news- paper statement, read Snturduy by tha Sena- tor from Kentueky (Beck), ns to the speech of the colored delegate, Moss, s the motivn for his expulsion madeby Jir, Riddieberger, and he proceeded to explain the matter, in- timating that if the motlve for expulsion hind bean mude on neeount of color, then the Sen- utor woulll probably have regarded the mo- Hou as o reconmendation to Riddleberger, This oppo: n to Rlddleberger was In view of acoming electlon n Virginia, 1t was a desire to uphald Bourbonism there, It wns adesire to upholl the varty which, while professing obedicncs to the Constitution, lmhl‘ Ly uiental reservation, purposes hostlle to the Constltution. Itwas touphold n party thers which didt not beliove in the right of the freedman to vote. (L was to uphold n party that, while nominally nccepting the Sineinnatl platform, in which a full vote, n free ballot, md an lounest count had been demonded, had introdueed a constitutiunal amendment requiring that uo men should east u ballot for uny ofiles on any nceount until he had paid a'capitation tax, ‘T'he effort was to uphold a party which had defled the Demoeratle ereed, and whielt had -undertaken, by methods of indirection, todIstranchise thecolored man, That was Its purpose, and whether his collengue had voted for that disfranchising clause ho eould not speak. He (Mahone) had never given that doctrine his assent, cither in public or at the Lallot-box. For one NE WANTED NO POLITICAL SKMFS IN'VIRs UINIA, 11e wanted no longer any condition of per- sunal servitnde, Ho aaserted the right, sacred to ull inen, of a free, antrammeled ballot, & Eriouluus ballot, and, whatever might ¢ the professions of .tho gentlemen on that subleet, ho stood prepared, here on this floory by the courage ol tho men who were bentnd W at home, to nssure the country that, In Virginla at least, there should be freo suilrage, n priceless suffrage, a full vote, nml - an _honest count. }Av»lnuxeln the gnlleries.] 1o stood herg 0 "gunrantes the enforcement of the Inws, and he said it by the brave men who stood al his back In the canse of frecdom, Ho would tell tho Senators that hisfriend Riddleberger was made of sterner stuft than they enleu- lated, and would survive any hwesflfintlon. The record refuted the statoment that ho &.\[nhmm) had been elected by the.Bourbon Funding party, He had been the eandidato oF the people, who liad nominated him ot the polls by nm;umy of over 20,000 In an elec- tlon where tho Senatorshlp had been made the lssue. e kuew of no conshleration which coutd have indueed bim to have taken o sent In this Sennte or to bave held an rmuu at the hands of the Bourbon or Fund- ng party of Virglnla, He 'wis under no obligations to it or 'its champlons, here or elsewhere. s alteglnnce, under God, was to his country, ond his first duty to the peo- ple of Virginin, It wns true the Read justiug party had Instructed its Electors for lan- cock aud English, but _ IT WAS, EQUALLY TRUE 1t had forborne, and purnoscl{ forborne, from Instructing for those ecandldates ns nomi- nees of the Democratie party. Ho referred to tho tnanner of his cloction, nssorting that there had been o combinntion against him, and that the Demoeratic party, which, like Cuesar's wife, stood nbove susplcion, hud been willing to tradon seat In tho Unlted States Senato for o few county offices. It that was the Democrnc?' that the gentlomen on the othor side Joved, none ot It for him, ‘The purpose of the Readjusters was to stop A retrograde movement of years so us to bring Virglnln back from number fittesn in the grade of Statey to her originnl position in the slsterhood ot States, Far bo 1t from bl that his netion here should be controlled ot Influenced by n cancus whose party hnd made war ~ on his constituonts,” and whose party suceess wus hold para- mount to what he concelved to bo for the interest of Virginin and tho welfare of the whole country, ‘Ihe Readjusters of Virginin had no feeling of hostllity, no words of une kinduess, for the colored race. 1lo had faith, and it was his enriest hope, that: the mareh of enlightened clvilization and human prog- ress would proceed until God’s great tamily should overywhere enfoy the blussings of elvil, veliglous, nud polliical liberty, " The colored mun JAD DEEN LOYAL TO VIRGINIA in all the days of contlict and bloodshed which had come of -tho herole strugele in war of sectlons, By no act ot his was elther the clash of arms or lls freedom Invoked, 116 hind not moensured his dutles by n consid- eration of self-interest, Notso much conlil be said of the distinguished statesmon who urged the South to reslst the Readjusters In buhalf of principles hield to be fundamental, Virginia ind not forgotten her abandonment from that quarter, and needed no counsel as to her dulg. To hlm and the people of Vi ginky, the South, as the phrnse went, was “a meEre geogrn phleal expression,” “and _no longer spltomized o dream of emplre, *Ido not questlon,” he sald, In conclusion, *tie grandenr of that lovo and aspiration, but it was quenchod In blood, and the Su\lt\: of our dny has nequlesced Iy the declston of the War, The Demucratic party aftivis that de- cision In Its Nuttonnl platform and fn the deelurations of its Chuirman. 1 am lero to nssert that Vieginia, mother of tne Unlon, renows . her - old-thme falth and dovo- tlon to the Government hor honorud sous alled to - construct, cund in furtherauco thereof 1 proposs to glve my best abilitles and to exert wy Bver{ "'"“rf‘i"“ [Applavso and hisses In tie gaflorles,”] Muhone was warinly congratulated by Méssra, Conkling, Shermun, Dawes, and other Republicany, r. Harrls (solemuly)~I1 now move that the Senute proceed to the conslderation of executive busluess, [Loaughter) Lost— yeas, 255 unys, 27, A nimber of ditatory motlons having been votod down, Mr, Dawes, mumi hat he trusted his friends on the other shilo would comu liere to-morrow Prcuurud to finlsls thly busiucss und go on with executive buslness, moved to adjourn. Agreed to. 3 MYSTERIOUS OITARGES AGAINST THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Spectal Dispateh ta The Chitago Tribune, Wasiuxaroy, . G, Murel 28, —Seeretary Robert Lineoln, It reports wre true, i3 (o by confronted at the very outset of his adminis- tratlon with an unpleasant affalr, Some days wines Senator Ingalls iirodueel a sories of resolutlons dlrected to the War De- vartment, which were rather mysteriously worded, the seope of which was not under- stoad. 'The resolutlons proposed to eall upon tho War Departiment for answers to cortaln specified questlons, the plain inference from which was that thore had been Somo teaflick- g in ofllees, or some wrong-dolng in eon- neetion with the Department, Senator Sher- nan, quelte naturally, betug & member of the olil Administration, suggested that tho mat- :mshuuhl bo printed wiul lo over, which it i, 1T 18 NOW LEARNED that tho resolutions are based tpon eartaln eharges which for the present ure Wihheld 3 that, through sonie collusion with under ofli- cers of the Departinent, whosa nmnes, If known, are also withheld, post-trnderships havo been sold during the last four years, and the chnrues state in_somewhnt bl tegns that If an investigntion shnll be ordered the seandal will be of the same gereral hnracter oy that discloséd in tho Iatter part of Gen, Qrant’s Adinlstration, [ 13 intlmatedjthat i stbjeet Wil not bo Lrotucht np untll next winter, nnd that etforts will by mado to with- hold ull knowledgze relating to the matter from the publie untll e Govermnent oMeers shall lave hagbrmple time for an Iiguley, At present nothing Is definitly kiown, exeent that vagno charges have heen made that such n state of things exists TIIE PRESIDENT, HOW 11K L.O0KS, Soeclal Diapateh ta 'Ihe Chicago Tribune, Wasuisarox, D. C., Mareh 28.—Begin- ning with tho mlddloe of st week, the crowd at the White Iouse hns been deereaslng rapldly. On Satuvday it searcely exceeded: the ordinary ealls upon the Presldent during a recess of Congress, and to-day the altun- tion wns about the sime. ‘The determination of the Presidont to disturd very fow of those whose commissions are yet.to expire, p vided they are rendering satisfactory sery- ices, has nad the effect of turnine the large proportion of the officeseeking erowd home- ward. The pressure upon the President for the threo weeks that It has Jasted has greater than ut the opening of Republican Administration_sinco the . Lhie President shows the effeet of this very plainly, and, although he Is resting now and recuperating raplaly, his appenranco s very much that of # man recovering from o real nttack of sickness, IS BDACKNONE, ‘The report that the New York § were attempting (o Induee the President to withdraw the nomination of Robertson for Colteetar of New York hos brousht many (II.-:Fncllcs from_that State to the President, and to some of the memhers of his Cabinet, urging the Presldent to stand firm in the posi- tlon whicnh he has tuken, 'Tlhese dispatehes are of a very shanlticant” eharacter, and represent great Bepubligan strengtlt and prominence in the alfuirs of that State. The friends of the President, however, ook wpon niny a3 thoronghly committed to the position he has taken, butns hayhng nysumed 1t with o (ull belief . that [t would Involve. contest with the frlends of the -Senators from New York. In fuet, 03 horotofore stated, there is the best reuson for believing that the President, consideriog tho contest Inovitable, thought: best to brine it on at once, in urder that (¢ wight be disposed of in the carly duys of his Administration EXODUS O, NEW ME . : Speclal Dlapdich to The Chicago Tribune, WasniNaroy, . C., March 23.—A number of gentlemen friendly to the colored people of the South calted on tho President this maorniug for the purpose of calling his atten- tion to n provosed exodus of u large number of those people into New Moxico:. It was reported that o delegation would ol once go to that Territory for the purpose of exmnin- Ing nto the fitness of o certain tract.of lund, numberiug milllons of aeres, for the wants of the emlgrants; nnd the I'reslilent was re- quested to order n military escort fur the protectlion of - -the parties, -to™ 'which fie reply ‘was made that such an escort Wonld b provided, if hot prevent- ed by existinganititury rules, wns Lold, thnt gy tmusupds, of the more Industrloud 'cbltm: _ptbplo’ lind been for more than'\two yceXts orgnnized to leave tho Sontl, not as..paupkrs, but as the-proposed buyers of farms and homes of theirown, and that they wers now eager to move In the dl- reetlon of New Mesico, The Prestdant snid he would be glad to see a conslderable num- ber of them go, 'nnd hopyl the movement would be n suceess, . g THE FORGERY. JUSTICE! TO B TUNE Special Dispateh to Ths Chicago Trivune. Wasmxsaroy, D, C,, Marel 28.—It Is now expected that legal proceedings will soon be initiated agninst all the parties to tho Morey letter forgery, For some thwe past the law ofticers of the Government iu New York City haye been exeeedingly activo in thelr cfforts to diseover the conneetlng links which wero necessary to complete the various chalns of evidonce which they have been gathering ginee the flrst expospre of this forgery, It fs now reported here: upon what appears to bo excellent authorlty that these links have been supplicd, and that the gullty parties ‘will soon tind themselves in the hands of tho aw, I 19 nsserted that severnl well-known Demoerntle pollticians are criminally com- promised in this affuir, and that it \\'fi’l even extend to the Indietment of some of the meni- bers of the National Democratic Committeo, i THE OCENSUS. VALUATION, TAXATION, AND DERT OF CER~ TAIN SOUTHERN CITIES, Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Wasiexatoy, D.. C, March 28.—Speclal- Agent Robert P, Yorter, of tho United States Census Oflice, Issued o report to-day show- ing the population, ‘valuation, taxation, and debt of the fifteen cities contalning n popu- Iatlon of 7,500 luhabitants and upward of Alabama, Arkansgs, Delaware, Florida, Georgin, and Kentueky. ‘Chofollowing table presents o brlef smamary of this report: 2P 2 Bt HatE o REE i H i 'y “uomded } 5| ey B|aseh 3 8 8 8|uet ;é El&g&glsgfifl BEE glass | In the detalled nceount, the sinking-fund and other fnvestments: for the puyment ot debt mnd interest wppear under ihe head +*bonded debt,” The fotal amount of debt is lé(l\'uu above Irrespective of sluking-fund, ete, | - NOTES, f BECRETAKY KIRKWOOD, Spectal Duapateh 10 Tha Chicaoe Tridune WASHINGTON, D. U, March 28.—There are twenty applicants for each one of the 130 nd- ditfonnl elerkships provided for Iy the Pen- slonOftley by recent leglshatlol, Seeretary woud proposes to read every recom- mendatlon for each one of theso applicants, el loeks himaell up to eseape Congressionnl offlee-s¢ekers to (ind the thmo todo 18, My, Kirkwood svldently asplres to do too mineh, It 13 not physieally possible for nny Cablnet ofticer to know every detail of every ense that cotes before him, Even Secretary Schurz conld not, Much must be trusted to sup- ordinates, Mr. Kirkwond's friends hopo thut he will discover this befora ho breaks down, 1o fa nearly 50, and has not tha health to conthine tho palicy of minute personal su- pervislon which ho has begun. While ox- amining the vetitlon of some poor elerk for it plaee, Instend of referring the matter to the appolntinent offeer, hedineurs the danger of neglecting by delay linportant Natlonnl in- tevests, Congressmen are beginning to make this critlelsm upon Seeretnry Kirkwood's methods,—that he means well, but wonder- takes too much, and tasks others too little, A great General on the dny of battle does not himselt undortake to lond nll the guns, AEN, BADEAU "T'he Prestlent. peremptorily declines to necept the transfer from Consul-General at London to tho positlon Chinrgé ’Aalres at Detmnrk, Is friends suy thad he does not conslder 1t & promotion to he retired from S18,000 per year {o §5,000 per year, Cen. Badeaw’s retirement will probably bo recelved by the Awmeriean people with compnsurg, 118 lins already bad o wathor {iberal return for the palitical capital he has invested, and the Administration will not hnve to hunt for & capable person to il the rejected pace, ATTONNEY-GENERAL MACVEAGIT {8 snfd to bo makimg n somewhat aggressive fight aalnst the contirmation of Wililnm k., Chandier, and his opposition _hns_ attracted tho uttenion of the Senator, - Mr, MacVensh was not, it seems, consulted In the selection of My, Chandler, Gen, Garfleld appenrs to boof the oplulon that he Is President, and: it by virtue of his office, he is entitled to hava tha tirst choleo In_all matters of ap- pulntment. Tho oflico of Solieltor-General i3 ouly less important than that of the Attor- ney-General, and tho nomination ot Mr. Chandler has glven sntisfaction to thoss who have doubted whether Mr. Mac¢Veagh could heartily exeeute some of the Eleetlon and Reconstruction statutes, in view of the position ho hitherto has taken respeeting them. ¢ LONGSTREET "13 10t to be retired from the 'Lurkish Mission and mads Marshal of Georgin, ns had been expected, and his son has been sent to Con- stantinople ns an attaché. Gen. Longstreet Is understood to prefer the case aud retire- ment of this distant mission to the bustling politieal activity which wounld probably be expeeted in the Marshal’s oftice, TELEPHONES, The contest between the Subserlbers’ As- goelation and tha ‘Telephone Comnpany of this District had resuited i the resignation of the General Manager of tho Company, [t was this gentloman who planned the schedule of exorbitant prices against whith moro than half thosubseribers protested, ‘I'he subscrl- ers to the nuber of over 800 pledied them- selves to reslst this estortlon, wid carrled 1t to the estent of orderlng out thelfr Instru- ments on the 1st of April and taking the wires of the Cum[:nny from their houses. As these 800 subseribors represented nearly all the powerful business-men of the ity thotr withdrawal would render the rest v the Lixchungo virtunlly useless to a lurgg number of subserlbers. ‘Dlie resignation of the manager Is tho first evidence that the Company, which 1s o monopoly, feels com- pelled to pay attention to the publie protest against its extortions. POSTMASTER AT ALDANY, 7o the Weatern Aasoclated Press. WasniNaroy, D, C, March 28.~The President nominated \\"llllmg 1L Cralg for Postmaster at Albany, N, Y. Mr Cralg iy the pressnt Postmnster, BUPREME COURT. ‘The Supreme Court of the Unlted Staths couvened to-day: On the necount.of the ab- sence of Justice Fleld, whose mother-in-law, Mra., Swearlngen, died Saturday night, the Court. was left without o quorum, and ad- Journed. FUNERAL. * The funernl of Mrs, Swenrlnf{ou Wwill tako plice at the residence of Justice Fleld this afternoon, 3y - DECLINED, . Gen, Adam Badenu has positively doclinad the position of Clinrgé d”Alfafres to Denmark. The President will withdraw the nomination, WILL REPLY, - | 3 Messrs, ‘Vaorhees, Brown,and other Deuo- cratlo Senntors attecked by Muhoune will re- ply, Voorhees has been collecting Malione’s past history, and will make, It Is sald, o se- vere speech. . f WILL FIGUT, : ‘The Republicans still declaro their doter- minatlon to fight the thing out, £ It takes all suuimer. 3 g NO BENATE COMMITTEE " 4 mot toulni'. 1t Is understood to be the gen- cral Intention of the majority in the Sennto to postporie Comunittee consideration of pending nominations until the contest over the Seunte oftleers is ended, 5 PITTERURG. "I'ho award for mall, messengor, aud trans- fer service at Pittsburk has been made to It M. Brimmer at $85,840 per annun for four years. FIVE-CENT NICKEL COINS" having bLeen presented for redemptilon in such quantity as to show the nmount out- standing to bo redundant, colunge has been suspended, TIE EXCESS OF EXPONTS OF MERCHANDISE for the twelvo inonthis ended Fab, 23, 1831, 15 3 months .onded_Feb, 20 ,0443 oxcess of lmports or gole and silver coin and bullion for the twelve months onded Feb, 28, 1881, S73,002,8055 vo months ended Feb, 20, 1880, 863~ FIRE RECORD. CHICAGO. ‘T'ho fire In theHalsted Streot Opera-Ilouse, which was under way as yesterduy's paver weut to press, resulted in S$150 dnnago to the building, 8150 to the stock and fixtures of Edwnrd Horan, sntoonkeeper, S50 damnge to titg theatro sceriory, und slzht dnmnFu to the Chicagzo I'en Company’s portion of the bulld- inz. The fre originaetd -1n some unknown aunnner n o slesping apartment In tha rear of the gnloon occupled by Horan's bartender, ‘Pho latter was drunk, and was only saved from the flames by the efforts of Serat, lle{unl and tho West Twelfth street polico trol. L2 ¥ ‘o algrm from Box 811 at 5:20 Instoventing was caus®d by o firo in tho drying-room of n tworstory and busemont framo ballding st Now, W {093 Erlo strect, owned nnd ocenpled as o earrlage tnetory by Bradloy Burr, Dam- agoe to bullding and stock, 3503 fully covered by Insurguee, ~ Causo, an overheuted stove, AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 81, PAuL, Minn, March 28,—The mantlla and bullding-paper mill and pupwill of Averill, Russell & Carpenter, nt Minneapolls, caught fire at o late hour Jast night by some unknown means and o waterial loss of 4,000 or 85000 wns sustalned, This 18 fully covered by insurauce, howaver, A far ireator loss will bo experiencod by the tem- porary shutting down of the mill juat at the usy season, MORTUARY, Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, CenAn Ravipy, In., March 23,—The funer- alof tho Iatu L', M, Sinclair took place to-usy from the First Presbyterian Church at 10 o'clock. Two thousand persons were una- ble to ((zn!n adimittance to the church, 1t wus ono of the most Jargely-attended funeraly that evor’ occurred herd, Business houses were all closed from 10 until 3 o'clock. Ohe of the Inst letters that Mr, Sinclair dictated to his stenogrupher wus the necoptance of o coutrnet for o patent protection around tho lintehways Into one of_which ho fell, and the Inat wis to’ Secretury Kirkwood in behalf of the Pouca Indians, for whom he has given conslderable monuvy and attention, BUSINESS FAILURES. ManioN, Ind., March 3. h & Custor, gro- cors, of this vity, closed thelr doors this mornlug, Assota and liabilitios are unkiown, Tholr line ilitles may reunch 85,0005 thy ugsots will prube ably balauce one-bnlf of ihat. BMuupnis, Tean,, March w8,—8horwood & Co., ‘wood ‘n.\ud willowware, made an ussignmwent this worning. Aw_\:h N. Y. March 2.—Henry Rowland, Jowotor, has'. asalgued. Liubliitics, $76,000] ussets, $00, 1toue, Qu., March 28.—Llabllities of the Bank of lonie, exclusive of oupltal stock, §165,000; nowinal agyoty, §22 221,000, CANDEN, o March 23.—Tho Josse W, Blare Irou- Wurks bave closed, throwiug s lurge nume Lew LI bkads vut of cmployent, g z THE RAILROADS. Henry Villard's Projected Capt- ure of the Northern Pacific, Some Talk of a Consolidation of the * Northwestern and 8t, Paul Roads, Muntington Decldes on an Tmportant Scheme Aflecting the Clity of Loutsville, Beliof that the Ohesapeake & Ohio Will Absorb tho Kontucky Oons tral Road, PITE NORTIERN PACIFIC CONTEST. I'he efforts of Henry Villard and his Oregon Rallway & Nuvigatipn pool lo sesure control of the Northern Paclfic Rafl- way Company and to oust the present management at the noxt annuai election in¢ September, continue the subject of general diseussion in roflway clreles, and the contest between the various factlons Is watched with much Interest, A correspondent of tho St. Paut Plyneer-Press hns Interviewed all the partles on both sides nterested n this con- test, ‘The following nccount of an interview with Mr, florace White, T'reasuror of tho Oregon Rullwn]y & Nnvigation Company, wiil'bo rend with niore than ordinary Intor- est: Mr. White holils his own ogninst tho ravages of time, 11lg bulr 1a not yuite us glossy bluck ns It used to bo In 1860 whoit ho was Tie CHICAGO IRIuNE's correspondent fn Washington: but he hus not grown a duy older aluco 1872 when 1 saw him atanding on @ rickoty tblo v an_ante- room at tho Clucinnati Convontion trying to rally tho seattered delegates from Tlinols for Davls at tho vory moment that tho yells of tho Conventlon nnnounced to tholr dligusted eara the nominstion of Greeley. A thind baby, by tho way, was born lost week to Mr. Whito's pleasant hotto. Many lmpw’relumn of the day. Iamgorry 10 add that in Mr, Whito tho tucl- turnity of” the capitalist has eclipsed or cx- tinguished nitogethor tho sympathy of tha jour- nuifst, und thut bo helped me very littio von- corning tho subjeet of my quest, DL ho know liow much of the Northorn Preifie stock Mr, Villard, or the O.R. & N. Compan, had scoured? No, ho did not, thiey could control tho Northorn Pacllic Coin- prny at the next clection? Ho really could unt say. How much hnd Mr, Villund got of the now Isduo? Do not know, Wna he golng to buy any more? Could not say, Ll Mr. Villard cantrol 827,000,007 DI not know. Had ho renlly hought R13.000,000 worth of tho propriutary privileges? Coulil not gay. Was thora any news, whataver, about anybody? hllrlfll!unlngup, and leaning on a load pencil, ¢ Bald: Yes, the Oregon Ratlway & Navigation Com- vany bud just concluded not to walt two yenrs to tinisl 1is rystem of ronds to Oregon as expeot- ed, bt was using every offort to complute dur- iy the current yeur: IYjrat, tho Columblin River Hine, Trom Fortiind 1o the Daflos, ninuty miless sucond, from Umnditn on the Colwinbla, neross the Blue Mountalns to Baker City, 160 mllesy third, from Walle Walle to Colfax, In tho Palouse country, with branches to Dayton aud Patahe, 105 miles; 416 mites in ull. ‘To do this wa have ealled [n $2,000,000 of the new capital stock of the Company, and otfered a loan of bont 3,000,000 Move, Did he lcnow Henry Yilard? Lnow tm well; nlee mdny 1 woul b, ¥ 1 Hk) in, o , hio ‘it was the colorol his eyos? Nover thought. noticed, 1 finally lenrned from Mr, Whito that Villard was o native of 8pler, in Rbenlsh Ba- varly, aod that ho came to this country alone whon'he was 16 yeurs old. 1 know tho rest my= welf, ‘I'ie same corraspondant gives the follows ing description of Mr, Villard: Lwoll remomber Honey Villurd as onp of the freguonters of Nowspapor row, opposit Willard's in Washington, in 1601-"02. Ile must inye been 6 thon, 1 was o correspondent of tho Tribune, and ran out Into Virginia whenevor thoro was n battle, Villard"wns” on tho same vaper, but L never know him to_do auythbue., 1 doubt if he could write. Ho cortuinly never did, He had sumesort of n specinl cominisslon. from the wmanuging cditor, Sidnoy IHoward day, to hang wronnd headqguarters “and find ‘out what bo gould.” He wns on wood terms with Whitelnw fteld, THornee Whitg, ' nnd Adams L and’ knaw his buainess was Jegitimnto, bt it was nover visible, there three or four years, and then ho *etruck it fut.”* "When tho lutcrnsl rovenun wus clupped onwhisky he wis_n tha Ryndicato that profited T the gegrot lutormation, Lought hen\'lby ot distilled splrits, and mnde E20.00 to $H,000 uplece, * I nevor kuew bhow much Villard made, but I remombor that ho was uneommonly bland and smiling aftorwards, and apponred Ina tew Klovepipe bat, tho first of 8 Jongund shiny sories, Irecall hlin 08 o sturdy youny muu, with a broad lead, blee round eyes, und 8 big_rouad volcoe, Bhortly after this, probably .in 1884, he disap~ penred, and I next heard of him {n fipston, Io wns scoretary of ong of tho innumor- nblo socivties of thut city; but whether it was “dovoted” to womnn's rights, sociul selence, or tho amelloration of tho condltion of PUpooies in Iatagonia, oy was ran to turn mon anenrth into augels in Heaven, I nevor knaw, Hut it helped blm, for bo madothenequalntunce of n pretty daugbter of Willlam Lloyd Garrison and marrled ber.. Shortly nfter this, In 1810 or 1871, ho wns chosen by the Frankfort creditorsof Ben Hollwdoy, who hnd negotinted in_Europe 000,000 of the bonds of the Ovegon Kalirond & Stenmship Company, This guvo hin great re- Bh\ullslblllly and **q “chance.” Likewlse, when the Kansas Pacific dofaulted he was chosen by tho snme partios to tuke charye, and he beeamo tho Recelver, This waa only 81x yeard ugo,and now “ thoy say *’ thut this bold and audaclous oper- atar “controls $27,000,000 of thu stook of tho Nothora Pacific and will throw the prosent ol cers oyurboard! Who says this {sn't n great country? A GIGANTIC SCHEME, ‘The New York papers report that some of the Inrgo stockholders of the Chicngo & Norhwestern and the Chleago, Milwankes & St. Paul Rallroad Companles nre considering plans for the practical consolldation of these two railrond systems, The most fensible proposed was the creation of & new eorporn tlon which should elthor buy or lease the present systems, The plan Issnld to be sfu- ilur In Its features to the agreement under which the elovated railvoads in New York are operated Dby tho Manhattan Rallway Company, ‘The ofticinls of the Chleago & Northwestorn clnim to know nothlme about such a scheme, nnd do not be- Heve that it is contemplated or will ever be earrled out, Still, stranger thipgs have ooouired dnrlu‘; the luat fow years, and an arrangement of this kind may sooner or Inter bo minde, The Northwestern und Mitwankea & St 'aul systems contain neurly ail the ronds in theNorthwest, and have no other competitors In that sectlon of countvy, A consolidation of the two Interests wounld stop all competition throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota, and would no doubt prove ln‘ollulhlu to the roads, but tho peoplo in L those seetions would have to pay the plper, o8 the roads would be nble to ‘eharge any rates um{ plensed unless restrained by State Inws, ‘The Chicago & Northwestorn and tha Chicago, Milwaukeo & 8t. Taul own abont 4,000 mifles of rond each, which would, in the oventof o consolldatiot, bring usbout 8,000 1nifes of rond under ono management, MORIE RESIGNATIONS, The Baltimore'& Ohlo scems to be rather unfortunato In retalning good Superintend- ents on Its Western Divisions, Mr.- . H, Hudson, Buperintondent of the Tyans-Ohlo Divisions of that rond, resigned n'fow weeks ago, and now Mr, C. Donnelly, Superintand- ent of tho Pittsburg Division, follows Mr, Hudson’s example and nlso resigns, Both Messrs, Iludson and Donnelly aro as good ralirond superintendents as ean bo found in tha Wostern country, and it Is n pity that the Bultimors & Ohlo was shurt-slu‘ued enongh to allow them to go. Thuse gontlemen will find nnothor good situation much ensier and auicker than ‘the Baltlmore & Ohlo Wil find other goo men to fill tholr pluces, ‘The ~ managers of “the road have for u montli past been looking for 1 good man to take Alr, 1lndson's plnce, but have had poor successthus far, My, Hudson has been offered two f"")" situntliony, but has not yot declded wiieh one to sccepts THF EMIGRANT HUSINESS, "7 ‘The actlon of the Now York trunk lines i 1hmiting tho saleof emigrant tlckets to sea- bunrd poluts only, and requiring’ proof that the purchusers nre bone-fide emlgrants, is quite o victory for the Wustern trunk Hungs, Forsame yoars past tho Western lines havo valuly protested against the salo of emlgrany tickets from Interlor polnts, where they were usually purchased by scalpers, who used them for tho purpose of demoralizing the fivst-oluys business, It Is clalied that sume “of the raads hind an arrongement witll thesy sealpers by which pagsensers holding such tlo ataiil | tickets conld rido In first-clnss ears, and_thiy matter dld more than anything else to band the Western ronds toxether aud forne thy Western s Trunk Line Passenger Associi- tion. Thu —concessfon mde by thy New York trunle lies will do away with the necessity of watitnining that Assoclation unless it 1s the Intentlon of the Western trunk lines to carry out tha ol seheme of pooling the mmigrant business. A pool of this kind, 1t 18 claltned, wonli enuge n great saving to tho ronds, us It would do awny with the recessity of maln- talning expensiva agencles at tho Eastern ‘seithvieds wil - paying Inrge commisslons to procure tho bnsing THE FLORIDA INVAIIDS. As 13 gonerally known, three of our most popular railroad oflicials nre at present so- Journfug at Jacksonville, Fla., whither they went some time ngo to restore thelr shinttered liealth, “Thoy are Mr, J. €. MeMullin, Gen- eral Mannger of the Chicago & Alton; Mr. J. € Gauft, Ceneral Manager of the Wabash; amd Mr. R. C, Meldrum, (eneral Western Frelght Agent of tho Dltts- burg, Fort Wurnn & Chleago, Private ad- vices recelved liere a day ortwo _ngo bring tho Intelllgence that Messra, MeMullln nu Gault are doing well and are gradually re- gainlng thelr strength ond vigor. Butns far a8 Mr. Meldrum Is conterned tho news Is of n ditierent eharaeter, Sinco his arrlval at Jacksonvilly lils health hos been growing poorer every day, and his present conditlon canses grent anxioty to his numerous friends, e Is to be bmutzlu bnek to this clt{ ot olice, and it i3 hoped that the skillful physiclans who carrled him through a dangerons sur- gleal operatlon € few months ago will again succeed In restorlng him to health and viger, LOUISVILLIL MATTERS, Loursvirnng, Ky., March 28.—Lnst weel Huntington came West and gave speclal at- tentlon to his conneetions to and from Louls- ville, Some one had offered him the Short Lineatn price ho considered high, and he cameto look over the ground. For some thme, too, he has Leen negotinting for the control of the Ellzabethtown & Paducalh ang Memphis Ronds, In order to reach Memplis, Baturday he spent in Memphis, Sunday he wag In consultation In Loulsville, and ho went on the 3:50 traln Sunday afternoon, Tho resufts of . his visits nro most Important, and ecan be stated ag follows: ‘The Chesapeske & Ohlo will bulld » line to Louisvile from Lexington, coming through Versailles, tho charter for swhich was procured from the Inst Legislature. It will not b extended to Ellzabethtown.” Work will begin nt, once, and it will bo finished In two years, possibly fu elghteen monthy. Iluntiugtou states that he can bulld the rond for 25,000 a mile, while the Short Line would have cost him £10,000 more than this, Huntington lias se cured control of the Ilizabethtown & Padu- enh Ltond, and will nt onca ko fo work to build the gap which exists betweon Paducuh and Memphly. 1t I3 sald on excellent author- ity that Huntlngton hgs A _ er- feet understanding” with the Louis- ville & Nashvlilo” Company, 'I'hio managors of that corporation see that another line to Momphis {3 ono of the certalntics ot the future, and they prefer to have it under the control of men friendly to it rather than in tha possession ef more direct rivals. So the C. & 0. men will bo allowed touse the Ceellfn braneh, They will carry “their freight to St, Louls over the I, &T. to Northyille, and there deliver it to the Loulsville & Nashvlle, ‘Lhis will o cowmpensation received for un- restricted use of the Cecliln branch, By this arrangement tho €. & 0. get Into Meui- phis, and will have just as fuvorable arrange- ments with the Arkansns & ‘Texas Road sy say other company. o AN IMPORTANT ARIEANGEMENT, 1t reporfed ‘that the Iilinols Central hos nbout coneluded arrangements with the Mil- waulkee & $t. Paul Railway Company for carrylug its Town bnsiness vin the Chicago & Pacitic Division between Chleago nud For- restou, . At present. tho, Illinols Cone tral * uses the DBurlington and the Chi- cago & Town Iallronds ns . the Chleago outlet for ita Town business, but the removal of the Burington to e West Side Unlon Depot will make the conthiuance of this ar- rangemant impracticable. The Milwnukes * & St.-Paul, 1t 18 understood; will'erect two * wlditional elevators on Goosg Island, which will accommodate the Jowa business of the 1tiinols Central and greatly reliove elevators A and B, which have enough to do to accom- modate all {he -bustness coming here from the Chicago Dlvislon. A RATLROAD ALIJA&V‘CE. 81 ouvisvie, Ky., March 28,—Tlero Is no doubt but n combination las been formed between the Ohlo & Mississippl and Louls- ville, Now "Albany & Culeago Ratlronds for o Dbetter mode ol handling thelr Western frelghts, and for an Improvement on the part of the Loulsville, New Albany & Chicigo-dn tho shapo of u branch road to strike the Ohlo & Mlssissippl at Floridn, by which the Louls- vitle, New Albany & Chleago trafns can come froni that moint into Louisville without cuniing vin New Albany, as they nro now dolng, . They are supposcd to be inltlatory stops toward stlll grenter allinnces botween tho two companies that will-be doveloped in tha near future, i + 8pecal Dupated to The Chicago Tribuns CixcwwNary, 0., March 23,—0. P, Huntings ton and Gon. Echols, nf the Cheaapeake & Ohlo Rullrond, have been in close conterenco all day with the syndicate of Citicinnatl eap- itallsts who a shorb thno sgo purchased the Kentucky Central Rallrond. The pyrpose of tho conference has not been disclosed, but those who nre_hers Informed nroof the be- Itef that tho snlo of the Kentucky Central to the Chesapeake & Ohio peopfe Is contem- plated. ‘The rond ‘I8 needed by the Chesn- puake & Olilo in ordor to get Into Clncinnatl, The syndlenty Lought up the stock at sy ceuts. " It has slnce beon worth 60 conts. AN UNTOUNDED REPORT. dpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuns Erkuanr, Ind,” March 28,—George W. Stsvens, mnster mechante of the Lake Shore Railwny, saya thero<is no foundation what- over-to the ‘report that he was going on the New York Central n3 general master me- chanle, 1ia was wholly unaware of how the - rumior got around, and knew nothing ot It until dppronched upon the subject by triends here, — NEW CAR-SIIOYS, OMAIA, Nebl, March 28.—The Union Pa- clile Raflway Company hns determined upon the .erection of extenslvo shops dt Grand Inlund, and the Chief Engincer advertises for pronosals. B 1TEMS, : Mr. W, I, Hayes lias besn appointed Trav- oling Passonger Agont of the Luke Shore & JMichigan Southern Rallrond, with Lead- qunrters at Kansas City. Mr, Jomes Charlton, Genernl Passcuger Agent of the Alton Rallrond, has gone to St Loulsto attend to the meetlng of the Bt Louls 'assenger Agents® Associatlon, Aftor enreful and protructed Inquiry, the Penusylvania Ratlrond Linscome to the cou- cluslon that soft stecl-ralls wear awasy less than hard, beenuso the little part leles which rlse on the surface of o steel-rall brenk off under the wheols when the steel is hard, and hammer down when it Is soft. Tho magnlficent new dining-car Puhn.er[. which Jins: just been completed by the Chi- cugo, lloek Island & Paclile Raltrond Com- pany, wiil be on exhibition ut the Rock Istand depot, Yan Buren stroet, this afternoon. 1t faonoof the must elegnnt dining-cars ever . cons{ructed, and 1s well warth scoing. 'The Gieueral Frelght-Agentsof the Chleazo & Northwestern, Mjlwankee & St Paul, Hlinois Qentral, aud representatives of the varlous packet lines on” the Uppor Missis alppl River, held o ineeting yesterday at the Grand Puclfic Hotel for the purpose of estab- Mshing summer ratos 1o Upper Mississippt points, ‘Fhe rates’ that wore In force lost sumer waro agaln agréed upon, with the -excoption'of o fuw slight changes 1o the clus shtleation..i v, J. U Andersoh has been ap?olmed General Fm]slr.)m and Passengor Agont of the New York, Ontarlo & Westarn Hallway, In lenco ‘ot Mr. B, W, Thatcher, resfgued. r. B, W. Getty hus reslgned )the lnmltlnn of Asalstant Goneral Ticket and Passenger Agent of this rond, .auid the oftles s bewn abolished, After l',}l 'l lt‘lm ufllelu’suut gle “e{“mi! ¥ (l;c‘\l\;nl;g o‘n:kl chpt Agent of the New Yorl niar sfern itafiroad wili be. at Middictews,