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

Z ¢ 1 Bank | ¢lalmed that, while tho conditions of the tho Internations) & atatuts aro not complied with, nor required by tho rules of United States .Courts, that they nre gmlwm of method mercly, nnd not of the substance of the right: that althougl poslt necount with wmler an agreement that its necotnt should not be reduced below £250,000, and that on that balance a certaln agreed mmounts of teresy was to by pald. ‘This necount was, no doubt, o nro one, and 1 apprehend thiat the reve | tho amount of money puld for the redonp- mn‘s“u!llm'clly\\‘t‘r«nlc)mslh'tl from thne to | tion: was less ~than the amount re- tinio as colleetod, and moneys drawn from | anlred by - the statutes in force wiien _tho mortgnge was mnde, 1t con- formed to the amendment of tho statuto pnssedd while the foraclosinee clause was vending, Tho-clalin of petitioner was not for o writ dirécting tho Court below to enter any judgment in the eause, but simply that it showlil proceed and hear, and the enuse bo presented upon its morits, VIRGINIA. A PROMINENT READJUSTER ON TIE EFFECTS OF THE MAIONE MOVEMENT. 8pecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune Wasuivaroy, D. O, April 21—\ prom- Inent Readjuater, who has just arrived here after a trip through n considernble portion 8t tho State, gives his views of the offect of the Malione movement In the United States Sen- ate, 1lesays: 41 think Virginians have always been op- posed to centralization of power in such de- gree as to niTeet the rights of a State. I think they will niore strenuously oppose tho cen. tralizatlon of power fn n Natlonal politieal party,—for, If strong centrallied power of Government is to bo foared, with all its fos- tering cave for the peoplo who form and de- fend i, thon how much more may the peopls fear centrallzad dmnination by a party of Tieated nndd defented politiclans, whoson otions aml words cloarly Indieate that orderof mad- ness of o minority that plunged the . Nation into abloody fratrickdal warfn 18612 S But will not Virginin, from foree of son- tlment and loeal attachinent, ndhero to the Solid South in their unlon with the North- ern Demoeracy, ns o neeessary protective al- llance " dny to dny to meet demands aeainst the city, It I searcely to he supposed that the city en- wzed I tho business of Joaning its revennes fi» buik, ‘The prestnption fs,iipon the con- 1rary, that they wero deposited with the bank for safe-keeping and to be drawi upon as accaston requiretd, 1o not concir i your view of the ‘nw. that such o transnetion” {8 o lonni. It I8 o deposit”” DILLS PAYANLE, INCLUDING CERTIFICATES OF DRIUSIT, & “Thirty-two certifientes which had beon |s- sued and paid by the bank, amounting in the nggregato to 81,685,000, were prounced for examinntion.” Ylcro follow copies of four. of these certificates, one to Ilenrletta Rosun- feld, April 16, 1850, for $140,000 at 8¢ per cent, oft five dnys’ notlee: onetothe Cinthm National Bank for 280,000, slxty duys, at 7 pur cents one to Ilenticttn’ Rosenfeld, May b, 880, Tor £203,000. thirty duys, 4 por eent] ong to the Union “Natlonal, Oct. 10, 1878, $50,000, at 7 por cent. ‘The Commissions eranys: It oceurs to mao that all tho cssen- inl elements necessary to constitute a cer- tiflente of depusit were in pll theinstruments exhibited to me, and that I [t 13 possible for the International Bank to fssue o certiflente of depogit it performed that functlon when {tissued the thirty-Lvo -instrinients which wwero pluced-before me as snmples, In-my opinion, the money reeelved by the bank and covered by such cortifieates was amd 18 liable to taxation under the lnws of the United States. ‘This view of the law I3 in full ae- cord with other rulings of the Department.” OVERDRAFTS CARRIED AS CASIT ITEMS, o, “U{mn this subject Lwill stnte that n * deblt cheek? drawn upon and deliverd to a bank, and pus to the credit of th drawer, Iz not an overdratt, but must bo eon- fdered, and 13 & discount and n deposit, 1t 5 well settied that when a bank discounts a note for o customer, and, Instenit of paying him the money in hand, earrles the proceeds o hils crecdit, the nmount so eredited Is o de- posit subject to, taxation, The checks In anestion wora. not ordinary checks to he pokl on presentution nud chnrgml to the drawer, but were glven In lien of notes or Uillg of exchange a3 n tomporary loan, mul the amounts were eredited to the drawer. 1n my opinion, the mnounts so_credited are depoyits in every sonse of the word, and sub- juct to be treated as such In nscertainlng the antount of the deposits of the bunk. CHECKS 1IN TRANBIT. 10., "It those checks ate received for collec- tiondnly, 1t is clear that thoy eatinot bo treat- e ns deposits, but 1t tho bank carries the amount vf such checks to the credit of its customer, and ho is authorized ‘to check against the s:\um1 Iam of opinfon that they should be treated ns'n deposit.” “ i MONEY TORROWED OX GOVERNMENT HONDS. M t 11, “In my opinion, all moneys coming into m.'.'},lf,uf:,fi',‘,{‘l,f"fl’"t‘l‘:fil thisls the fecling of the hauds of ubank to be repuld atn future | yirginfans genorally % ~dny, with or without interest, should he Y WIIEN COOL; 1T 184 trented as o deposits, without reference ¥ : 8 sy § fo the charncter of the Instrumonts | but, when excl!e.ll on ;\[flhnnelsm, nerhnrs fssued to evidence the recelnt of the | 60,000 Ir{:lnln voters would leap Into tho money, and whether the repayment of the yawning ehirsin of Demoeracy in order that money bo secured by collateral or not, Unaer | the Ben 1L Senatorial Deceinvieate might theso clreumstinces, it is expected thatuvery | be swved,® welt-regulated oank will hnve its books What will bo the character of the eam- ept In o systematic manner so ns to truth- | prign nexs fail E fully represent its daily business, and so that The keynote of the Funders will bo taken any oxamination of the bookswill discloseits | from the specchies recently made and now linbility to taxatlon, An examination of the ‘Dooks of the International Dauk shows that _its tennsactions woro entered i regular ne- counts with its customers in such manner ns to disclose the exact conditlon from day to dpy of each acconnt. A number of special nceounts were Introdneed into the system for-the convenlenco of the bank. 'Taken us whole, there seems to be no diliculty in ar- riving at the Hability of tho bank for taxntion on deposits. Thobooksshow thedaliy balunce dug to deposltors, tho amounts held for which cortiticates of deposit were given, the amount of certificd checis which had ‘been charged to customers, the amount of cash- fer’s "cliecks unpald, and {he ‘amount de- .Ebslled on margins, ‘The avernge dnllx while the latter will perpetunte our poverty niance on theso accounts for the month | and flnally reduce us to ubsolute depond- sliows tha linbillty of the bank to taxation on | ence.” . deposits, To allow the deductions which are o what extent will the debt question be clafmed would he to lLmpeach the sceuracy | urged 2 of tho books of tho bank and the truth- | “©y'tho Readjusters, to the maintenance of fulnegs of daily entries running through | State-soverelgnty, the niecessary alms of cly- 2 pertod of nearly six years, Thoe making | flized governngnt, the support of inatitu- of ‘the entries iwas colucldont’ with 'the | tions of charity, tho advancement of eduen- transnction which thoy represent, ‘Tho bank | tion, and equity as found i a courtof con- ‘was interested in Imvln‘.: tha entries ac- | gelencs between payer and payee,” curately macde, and there Is no renson to be- “I'o what extent'by tho Funders Ileve that milllons of dollars were entered to *Ileaven only knows. Recent writers to the credit of various firms ngalnst which | the Funder papers of Virginin say they will thoy were permitted to draw from day to | mivocntetotal repndintion—n comleto “wipe- duy, and yet {hat the transnctlons werc of o | ont’—If newd o to defent the Itendjusters, intangible a character that the sums credited | ainca tho Republicans have manifested u and afterwards actually checked out shoukl | fuvorable ~disposition towards Irginin not be trented ng deposits,” thvough Senator Mahone, ‘The*hypoeritical MR, 5TORRH, COMMENTING ery of the Funders will be, * Let us' rendjust apon this deelsion, snys; , the debt, but let us do it 1. Asto checka for cleariugs, tndor tho ruling INSIDE ‘TIE DEMOCRATIO PARTY.'" . tho deduction for checka for clearlows must bo | - * What offect have tho recent debutes In ailowod, far doposits aro not subloot to payment | tho Sennts hud upon the minds of intelll- gg“ohnciced or draft uutil tl:o chocka aro astunlly | pent Virgininus 97 REted, 4Ot cottrae many of the leaders of Fuond- E %8},:’.?,’,{,‘:.‘ :,‘;{o,,{l.'ffi?,‘,‘."i{fi,"}‘u“nw“,;, statod g | Orism, from tha VIHgnr subnltaruy to thelr tho bricf, this liem 13 allowed, and tho Collcator | fitocrntic nasters, aro intonaified in hnatred and spleen by the support given to Gep, Mn- . has mode An orror, 3 i 4, Cnshlor's checks, Tho Commissloner held | lone, who s the object of “all Buynrbon dis- i that thoso nro dcpouite, but, ns wo think, will, | llke, and the same conglomernto elass revel upon a more speelde presentation of tho facts, Do compelled toallaw this deduction. ;B Collcotions. _Ara uilowed, 7.6, Marging. Not allowed. Against this wo mnko no protest, 7. Bpoctilo nceounts. Not allowod. While wo think this u fair subjoct of debate, wo shall J .. make no protest. Mahone In the Senate Is vory strong. and de- ¢ _ 8. Bills paynble, tneluding cortiflod cheoks. | pressing, If thp Administration shall Joln in fi:’é :l‘lfi”lth A;rnhls(l '1'? mlrll;hl?lnm‘l ns ruh;llm ‘1 the encourngement given by tho Senntors riillcates of deposit, able AE 1 spe 3 e :{,‘."“' AE A g re0d r‘um ot R““mn' OB e now indorsiig Mahoune, the procedure must PROVE RUINOUS TO BOURNON NOPES IN Vik- . 0, Ovordrafts onrrind s cnsh ftoms, W clatm GINIA ¥y }h:t.t!:‘-n (‘i‘o‘l,mtsr {:;ll“flll,l:"l’l‘:‘lllll?ltgrfl{ ':w"_l'? tho * Do you think the mnsses of Virginia de- ucts, edutloy d 10 1 N 10."Ccols i truuait,” Dodotlon wllow, ig;s “l‘\‘l‘lg.llrzl.;g;y the practieal support of the . Money borrowed on Government - bonds, v Tho Commlsslonor deoldos mgatist us, Tho Suc | . LKuow tha peoplo of "'rfh,"“' excopt rempo Court has hold thut monoy Is not _capital, { those who would ruin tho eountry in orderte 0 olaim thot fc i3 not a deposit, Wo can ape | (efeat Qe Mahone, anxlously wish, aml ponl with confidonco to the decision of thie Court | rensonnbly hope, to guin tha contidence and an this point, The Commissioner hus ruled fa- | yecognition of the President, that thoy mny woralily to us on saven of the cleven polnta, fteel equn! to any other State,"” PRAYING FOR MANDAMUS, SURPLUS REVENUES. " BTATEMENT OF A CASE NOW NGFOUE THE | Ay AQUIEGATE OF $100,000,000 ESTIMATED HUPlENYE pount, YOIt TIT1; CURRENT FISUAL YEAIL Pt ke O Wasmsaroy, Apil 10.~The following Wasnwyaroy, D. O, & vril "“'_I“ tho | gy res, taken from the bodks of the ‘Treasury Unitod States Supramo Court to-day thoro | pyyceinunt, show the recelpts and expondi- JasanarEument du ?w Hitttae “l' the pett- | 4, vy of the Government for the nine months tlou of tho Connectlent Mutunt Life In- | o ging March 81, 1881, compared with the suranca Company for n mandnumus to tho | orrogponding nive months ending March _Clreuls Court of tho United Stutes for tho | 5“0 g tables are arkanged in quat- Nortkern District of iinols. E. 5. Isham terly petlods, tho first quarter beghim appeared for the petitloner, and Senstor L ‘1 TRURT NOT. You must remember Virginia once followed the fire-eaters in tho delusive hope that Northern Democracy was to prove a sticcor- fug ally: and, instead of helping hands, they welcomed us with bloody ones to hospitable graves,—whilst onr flelds and onr manhood Interposed « barrler to save tho fire-caters from Invaston,* ; * Do Virginlans fecl embittored on thils nc. count townrds her sister Southern States and the Northern Democracy " * No,~thoy harbor no 1l feeling, 'Their Sonthern nttachment I8 warm, and thelr re- spect for Northern Democracy fs fnlly equal- to Its deserts; but their polities now fs tend- ing more toward the practical, and lessening in the sentimentnl character that once guvy t shape. Sentitnental polities flourished when pillared up by the Inbor of 4,000,000 slaves, but is rather maudlin for tho present est, and othors ot the bitterest Dourbons, On the side of the Readjusters it will be In favor of free thought, mlclfumlmn netlon, tha full and equal rights of all citizens under the law, the taking of Virginin from anong the governed and plaging hier In Hne with the governing Statey, to the end that she may be prosperous, powerful, and lmm){. 8 wil domonstrate that our petition to Congress in i for restoration to the Unlon meant peagetul .slsterhond of Statos, and not sec- tlonal or party strife; and that tho former wilt {fiud to the development of our resources ) 2 PIIOMOTION OF OUR BEST INTERESTS, in npparent delight over even the imostbrutal of nttucks on Muhone; but the wholo Rewd- Juster party are greatly encournged by the cordinl relatluns between Gen. Mahone aml tho ruting men of the Sennte. The chugrin of the Bourbous at the ‘support given Gen, - Edmunds, W. C. Goudy, and W. It |JuW1 —— . Tage, of Chicago, for, the respondent. First quarter, 1880, 1881, ‘The caso has attractad conslderablo nttentlon (lf\ll"'m’:u-- ;»‘m-l}g 8 m’fv"?n!,"" . in Chleago, Itarosoupon n motion af tho | §Hertulreve XAV K / insurance company, in tho Cirenlt Court be- | eeton low, for lenve to fllen petitlon praying for o LOUMLcrurreeeveraand DB 8 U7,86040 rule upon the Master In Chancory to mnke [ o ecomdquarier, o 0, & 422101 . his doed to the holler of tho cortificaty 18 | Intornnt FOVORIG. s B]28M N « pued by the Mastornt hls snlo’'in the fore- | Alscollancous.. 4=d,007 HTATM closure cause, Objeetion was mudo by Total,.syeeee. WONEH B BLWIML ! FOW L |t g , who clalms to havo redecined n portion of | Customs, $ BLOT00L - § 48410960 * the mortguged promises by proceeding fn | Mtornul vove b T «» conformity to tho rules of tho Clreunlt Court | 2% —t e T of the United States upon the subject of ro- TOtal vevaroreiodone® ENOANLTI § BTALINL e deu;pr.lo;x from such snles, ;u‘ul \:'lm llmnk dos "'OAHTW'IAJ‘}“H« i sm' posited for that purpose with tho Clerk of i ’ the United States Conrt about 875,000, ‘Tho [ Taternuy rovenion, & %&m’i‘? S co’mplnlnnnt fn the foreclosure canso, | Mlscellsnsons..,.. 17,618,1 4,000,204 who was the purchaser ut the Mns- $ SIS15.074° © 207,000,703 ter's salo, aud holder of the certifl- Aleeaa ,,:,;‘::;;’,',i‘,::" Ll cate, cialms that the rules of the Federal Court nre in contlict with the provis- lons of the State law upon thut -subject, and | Freosuston do ‘that u proceeding in rodemption ROT 1N CONT" | Moigliueerroqereroo® SERANEN § 24,009,415 forilty to the State law was voll, and that |, ‘Flie above figures ahow au excess of snr- it wus entitled to have the cunse procged ac| plis revenne of §80,20011 In favoerof the cording to the regular course ofvprocedurd, | nine months opding Marel 10, 1881, as will by the lssuing of the Master’s deed, and | buseen by the fullowing table: Ordina; sl ¢ o Vo i THANI0 04051 oo buln‘z put -lmlo mfsuulloli but tha, rnmlllr:'lu " ;ah s, .w{fi;’.“ . ar}fl;‘:'m as It no redemption hud been mde, o ,| Augrowato; recolpts, . 34 [ _court bolow refused to pormit the'potition to '| A¥FFEKIIe BXPUBICK,, SISIRI - ALUSLHG o be filed, sud the pedition was filed In the Sue ot surplus,, B8040 § 63,053,800 3 prema Court for o writ of mandamus, dircet- ing the Court below to proceed dnid hear upon Its merkts the elalm of right presonted by the petitlon. The upplication for o writ of » mundamus was based upon the prinelples es- tablished by £ TUE CASES OF MUNE AGAINST TilE HANI- Vu{ the threo hs endinge June 10, 18350, tho totul receipts were 888,814, mid the total oxpenditures §55 188,785, of which 817, 206 Wits i uecount of fptorest on tio o debt, luavlnf o et surplus for the lires months of $:53,180,705, ‘The fndleations are that the surplus for tha remalunue threw T K FOUD FIRE-INSURANCE COMPANY . 0ty fur the colreapo of the tirst case was that the law of the Btute | the ourrent quarter will bo greater than the where the Jand Hes cannot govern its ullen- | 8 un above stoted, und that, unless there ation and transfer and the vifect and con- | s1would be a murked fullig off In the . struetion of conveyances, that of the second r.wu&l& it will reach 000,000 or cnse that the laws exlstig when and whore | § 3,000,000, Compared with the quarter e contraet §s wade enter nto und form mt mnflnx Jung 80, 1880, thero . Is likely uf Ity wd guvern s y llmm i-nnmucl , | o be a lurge reductiondln the nggrexate wid enforcément. » Qu othef bund, it was | exponditured durlugz the current uuarter, ) | i belng mnde (n the Senate by IIill, Johnston, THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 22, ‘1881—TWELVE PARG) for tho reason that all the deflelency appro- printions for Inst year were disbursed durl, 1ne, 1850, whereis the hulk of the deflelen nprromlnilulls for tie current year wers pald prior to ';\u‘ll 1, rhen, ngain, the larger vedietion ifade’ 1 the prinelpal of the public dobt during the past year will mako n corresponding rediction In” the Inferest ac- count, 8o that it Is very prgbublo the nggre- e expenditures for tho “eurrent «]_unrmr willhe leas. than §50,000,000, agalist 865,00~ 000 for the quarter ending June 30, 1850, With the snine atrount of receipts, thorefore, durliye the current three monthsad are shown for the correspoiuling nionths of Inst Lym\r. aml witln Inrge rediietion of expendliures i favor of the present three wonths, the sirpits revente for the eurvent liseal yéar Is certain to reael $100,000,000. SOUTIIERN SEN'TIMENT, WS OF A LEADING MISSISSIPI'T NEWAS U—TIE SOUTIE DOESN'T WANT NORTH ERN IMMIGIATION AND NORTIERN CAl'L- TAL, 8pecial Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. WasixaroN, D, C, Aprll #1.—Senator Georgo and Senator Lawmar, of Misstssippl, have both particlpated In the discusslons of tho Senata sinco the beginnlug of the presont struggle, They hnveevineed o great anxioty, ns have other Southorn Senators, to produce the impression that the Suuthern States are very anxlous to recetve Innnigration from tho Nortl, aud that the Southern prople‘extend n warm welcome o sueh immigrants, Every Southern Senator who has spoken has had more or less to say on thidsubjeet. The Merkdian Mereury, which is mnbllshml' ot Meridian, Miss., a fow miles from the héme of Senator George, miny perhaps retlect quite 3 truly the sontiment of tho people of Mis. wissipvl on the subjent of Northern lnmnigra- tion a8 does. Senator Grorge or Senator Lamar. Following aro extracls from a loig editorinl n the Merenry of April 15, 1881, Referring to soma deprecatory criticisms upon tho present struggle in the Senato, THE EDITOR OF TIE ‘“sEncuny” SERVES? Tho Vicksburg Heruld hus sonicthing in the anlmus nnd spinit of the foregoing nourly overy day. ‘Tho Impression it wants, to muke Iy, that ol Southern Senators are deing what is putting it tho millenniul day of reconcllintion Letweon tho North and Bouth, when fuimigration and capital are to flow Southward [n n great stroim, Mitny other Suuthern nowspiapers ave puattimge in dupreentory Words Lo abont the same tenor and effect, Gven tho Mereury, In somo of its amin- blo mools reeently, hus caugut o Hitle of tho -nrt—uulllr infeetfon, nnd may bave. uttered pome slekly sentitontal thoughts to the snmo tenor und cffoct, Wo only mention tho Vieks- burg Heralit more prominently becanso it Is tho most conslstont dirt-ontlug Joiirnnl in tho South, and wo thay oxpoct to geo 1t stiek to ts fault- finding with Southorn Senators fur tholrpresent CONTRE t tho Inst, For our purt, the late discussions bavo had the effect to rib our halr the wrong wiy, and, we confess it, our bnek is up. The otd feellng of resontment for wrongs Is upon us. - Agaiy, it we have been off tho track, WE ARE SOLID FOR TIE SOLID SOUTIL And, Instead of deproeating the nctlon of our Boitthorn Sonntors In trying to prevent tho Ies publicans carrying out thoir contract with o refieiade Donticrit, wo_bloss tho diroful conse quences of what our dirt-eating friends eone colve to bo thelr wrong-hoadedugss. It hnd de- velobed the trie fnwirdnees of the Nortlorn Bonrt and consolence, und demonsteated tho hol- lowsheartedniess of - every pretenaion of“returns {ng fraternity. nud kindness, And, most of all nmi best of all, a8 our Southern pouplo were wedkening and getting ready to disrupt the Solid Bouth, gradusily yiohiling to the persuasions of thoso dirt-eating “patriots who are dying to put thelr dirty hands 1nto flosh-pots of Govermmont patronage, thoy ary welded togothor in solid muss nunm.—v.'xoe‘)t the dirt-eiters, and thoy will have tholr foud sRucozed out of thom by tho rosaure, o Nortlorn feellng townarls the Bouth fnds ex- preasion avery day In tho Senate Chmmber, To n nool obierver, 18 cool ns he ¢an bo nnder tho clrcumstances, the good of it to this part of tho connitry 18, It bing fired tho Houthern heart, and made Southorn men real mon amnin, 1f wo aver had my wonk fnelination to huve tho Solid South disband, the conviction hus been rovivod and strengthoned that the ulthnato delivernnee af tho South I« in the malntennico of her solldi- ty, How lnn{w—unw long arowao to be debarred tom the blessings of Northern lmmigration and the intlux of i on- orthorn capitut? T ai LET IT DE A CENTULY it the doubtful blessings aro to be nttnized at the cxpenso of tho sncrifice of ovory manly son- thnont, What benefit do wo derlve froin tho Immigration of Northorn nun, anyway ? They wny benefit their m\m}luon, but how do thoy beneflt ours? Well, thoy sot us un oxnmplo of cconomy and thrift that don't bes long to tho Southorn churactor, and, for one, we hopo nover will. Give us tho genorous opens heartednoss of tho Southora eharneter forevor, instead of the meun, stingy, stink-fingored thrift of the wonuine Yunkee. 'Tho man who wants tho trne Bouthorn char- ncteristies wiped out Is the man who wonlid stop the mouths of Southern Nenutors in this dobati 18 & wreat hindrance to Northorn immierations and wo tell thom, if thoy conld flood the coun- try with Northorn Immigmuts, the pecubor Bouthorn churacteristio would soon bo diluted until it would becomu ns thin ns one of Hrothor (ressett’s woekly plntos of thin soup he serves toshis renders,—anu God kuows wo hupo never to encounter anything thinner, So ftappears that * Yankeo thrift” fa al- most ng mueh of A cnme 3 against what Senator Lamar so eloquently charneterizad ns thoe * elvilization, Wlens, nnd rellglon ” of Mississlppl, as s a beliof In n free ballot and an honest count. ‘Fho Merld- fan editor hns no love for *tho mean, stingy, stink-tingered thrift of the genulne Yankee,” which enabled the atingy * Yankees” to send holt a. milllon dollars In money, food, clothing, and medicines to relleve theplague- stricken people of Misslsslpil two years ugo, ‘The Meridian Mercury man prefers “the reiorous open-heartedness of the Southern chnruetor forever.” - In the Meridinu Mereury of the 15th ust, Is anothor editorial, evidently designed still further to fire the Southern heart, In romo cominents upon the'terms’of pence reportod to have bean limpesed upon Peru by Onlli, the editor remarks: y ‘The vistorious Cuillians seem to Lo bard and exucting In tholr demands, Tho world will e nut 10 puss Judgmont thut thoy are. lut tho sume world has lutely witnessed w victorions Nation (with u biie N) ton times wore exaeting and cruol, without shedding tours or breakiug out inta open lnmaontationg, una it will bo uble to bear it with toleruble composure. Wo nlude to the Yunkee Governmuont upon thelre linnl uyorthrow of the Contedorate Stutes Goverument, ‘The Merldinn Merewry 18 one of the lead- Ing Democratic newspapers of Mississippl, 1t hins been established - number of years, It Its readers did not npprove af such ‘sontl- ments a8 ure contained in the fOl’(,’Rlllll% OX- tracets, 1t would not Imy tha edltor to publish m, The cditorinls may not sound so well ns do the specelies of the Ml!ulaxlpvl,fimm- Lors, hut thers i8 avery reason to belleve thit thoy wera written in i splrit af sincurity, and suit the tastes and opimons of the Mississippl peaple who support the editor who wr ent, < S8TAR ROUTES, TIEY NOW LEAD DIRECTLY OUT OF OFFICE Speclal Dispaleh ta The Chicago Tribune, Wasixarox, 1. O, April 31,—Thera have been guirles why tho President did not re- move Brndy instend of asking for his reslg- nutlon, It was deemed advisable to adopt this conrse, beenuao it was destred In view of the developments mmde by the lu- pending fivestigation to have Gen, Brae dy vaente the: oftleo, wmd a8’ the ‘Penuro-af-Oftlce net pruvents removals during tho sesslon of the Sennto, the result coulil only--ba seeured by his resignation, T'he reslgnation of séveral-other ollerrs, who -ate, known to huve had questionable relu- tlans with tho Star Kotito ring, will - also ba domandwd, and sovernd clerks In the Con- tenet Oftien aro murked for dismissal, The fucts devéloped nt that lnvestigntion through unwilling wittnesses were sufilelont to causy Gun, Hrady's removal ub that thuo, but ho sucetoded T Intrenching himself so securely with mombersof Congross'in whoso, dtstriets routes had been hullb up to fobulony prices, and he was so sturdily defonded by Pastumstor-tieneral Ky, that . PREBIDENT HAYES WAS THONOUGILY DE- 1 CKIVED,’ . and rofused to take notlee’ of the shamefu] andd lawless methods practiced by the ceuteal oflew {1 conneetlon with the Star Berviee ‘I'he President is sald o bo oxtromely I enrne est i this. Starvitouts “buslness, and:ls determined to probu 16 to the Lottow, Jt-Js now expeeted that the heads of Bureaus snd Chief of Divisions thyough the Department genorally, with the exception of ‘hompson, Buporintendent of the Rallway Sepvice, are Indanger of removal, ‘Thore §s no doubt, also, that In several cuses there wiil be * CRIMINAL THANSACTIONS unearthod, but the evidencs ubeu that matter 1s not yet fully seeured, and, naturally, 'oat- master-(teneral Jamosdoes not wish to make anything public At would Injure nlthnate gitceess, Ile sakd to-night that tho pub- lie wonld be compelled to walt in patience for delalls; that thero undoubtedly had boen n great denl of corriiption, ahd that the Presldent was determined tohunt the raseals down, There have been several consultn- tions upon tho subject at the White Ilouse, aind tha Cabinet have all agreed that 1t Is the duty of the Administration to fnmlnh any rasenlity wherever it can bo found, TIHRIE 18 OENENAL EXCITEMENT througheut the Past-Ofilce I)e‘mrmmnt. The peremptory dismissat of Gen, Brady—for the action_taken wag equivalent to “this—lins caused unlversal consternation among n very considorable class of ofilelnls, 1t scéema they haye been plensing themselves for several weoks that nothing wns Lo be done, and that they would be al- lowed to retaln thelr positions’ na_ they wore uptler the Iast Administeation, in faco’ of all tho oxposures made iu Congress. Now thoy feel cerlaln of i very genernl ruoruan- ization, "Plioy have aseerlained that Poste mnster-tionernl James began an investign- tion] off the star route on his own acconit, hinmediately after entering upon tha dutles of hisoftice, Ha dld not go over the ground covered b{’l«ho tiouse Commlittee on Appro- priatlons, but ho necepted it as accurate as far s it went, and o BEGAN WHERE T LEFT OFT, At the Congrosslonal invostigation 1t was shown, by Gon, Brady’s own testhinony, that e deliberately violated the law in Invelvimg the Govermment o pecuninry* Habtllties lnu‘ely In oxcess nf tha mnount appropri- xs\g‘(n 2, fllerobg threatening o deflelenoy of 000,000, ~1£ was niso shown that the thraat- Il!‘lll(.'(l deficlency 0 wns mainly enused by inerensud compensation awarded favorits, ong roufe having been Inereasedl, within _sixty doys after was lot, from SUH,000 to S200,000, nnd 1t 1y now kinown that the “uexpedition,” or reduetion of scliedute time, for Which the 8166,000. incrense was awardod, wna nover performed, . Mr. James took nr the Investi- gation where the 1ouse eommittes stopped, and has succeeded In obtaining evidence that will establisl beyond question TIE PRAUDULENT AND CORRUPT CIIARACTRR of the Star-Route management during tho pust fouryears, aml whieh, at the same time, will confirm the suspicion that prominent ofticers not oniy had o guilty knowlwdge ot the methads prasticed, but wersbencticlaries of the cnn‘l\Pllou fund freely used to aor- rupt them. It has been ascertained that of the $6.000,000 regularly npl:murlmnd for 0,255 star routes for the last tiseal year, nearly 84,000,000 wera awarded for servicy on ninety-three rautes controlled by favored contractors, leaving less than $3,000,000 for the reninning 9,18 routes, It I belleved that at lonst 82, was distributed among the su\r-ltuuln group durlng tho Inst fiseal year. The Goyernimnent, of conrse, recelved no service whatever for the mnount abstracted, It Is declared here to-day that the investigngon of the river service abous Memphis has” disclosed greater frauds than | any heretofore e!mrrell. and that, upon one, Star Itoute, the service hias been *expedited from 870,000 to 820,000, 1t Is stated at the Post-Office Departmont to-day thnt tho papers in this matter have beon TURNED OVER TO THE. DEPARTMENT OF 3 JUSTICE, and that eriminal prosecution will soon be bugun agninst 1 number of prominent of- fleinls, Everycilort has been nude to inducs the President to allow this matter to pnss without extreme measures, and without pro- cewdings ngninst ofliclals, He, howaver, has bean L-xceedlnuly fivm In the matter, s evi- denced by his refusal to allow Gen, Brady to lenve of his own accord, and his order to the Postmnster-General to demand his imme- dinte restenatlon, It hias always bean much of amystery why Iuyes did not p"r‘m this matter nfter tha Congressionnl Investigntion, hie bl done s, he mizght have saved lis Administration from all responsibility for the seandnl that is likely to be davelopud. ‘The Indianu ¢rowd, It seams, foulad Loth him and Key. In justice to ¢ THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-OENERAL TAZEN, who was tratisforred to be Solioltor of tho Post-Oftive Department, It should be borne in mind that this was In no sense n_romoyal, hut, In_ fact, a Prmum.hn. Mr. IInzen has dlschurged the dutles of Lis offied to the en- tire satlsfaction gt his superiors, and has {inally beon trausfurred to his vlfn:uenh posi- tlon hecauso It whs believed his services would bo more valuable there. Ils eareer Iu the Departmant hus been a partloulnriy fing one, ns e hus rison from o S000 clork- ship to ba 1ts legnl advisar, NOTES, CURTOMB QUESTIONS, Wasmsaroy, D. C,, April 81,—Secrotary Windom is lkely to havo his thne all oceu- pled in hearing appeals from declslons made by his predecessor durlng the pnst four yoars, rogarding tho rate and mothod of col- lecting the dutles on varlous Ime vorted _articles, unless ho abandons his present program, Yestorduy he gave up several’ hours to ilhe cottun- tic and lhoop-iron manufacturors, who arguad agninst the rulings of tho late Seerotary, Mr. Sherman. Saturday the manu- facturors of worsted goods are to have. n hearlng to urge tho revoeation of tho rulling of Mr, Shermun affectinge thelr intorests, and they will probably be followed by the sugar men, who have takon renewed liopo from the recent deglsion of tho United States Court in New York axgainst colored sugnrs, and now propose to nsk Secretary Windom to re - gelnd tho exiating order prohibiting the fm- portation of Demerara’ sugnrs us low-grado BUBDIS. 4 3 TIIE COTTON-TIE CASE, Asslstant-Seerctary - French hns roqueatod Witdom to hold the eotton-tie ease over tor o week or two, untll the ense lnvalving thoe sane mln owv pending in Philade{phin shnll be decided by the Court, BENATOR BRUCE, It is reported to-day that ex-Senator B, Bruce, of Misstesinpl, will succeod First As- slstant Postinnster-Ueneral "Tynar, and that fii0 lattor wiil probably be provided with n Dace abroud, TIfE FARRAGUT STATUE, On Moiwdny the Farragut statue will be un- velled, . DATEMAN, 'The report that the appolntment as Solls Itor pr the Treasury has been tendered Wa ner M, Bateman, af Clnclunati, ‘Is authorl- tativoly denied, The only foundation for the roport 1S tha fact that ex-Seeretary Sher- wman suggested his nme to the President. POSTAL OALDS, Anorder hing been fasued daclariie postal cards unmnilablo with anything but di- rection ou the nddress side, HOGS DROWNED, pectal Disputeh to The Chicago Tribune, Br, Touis, April #l.—An cxolting, scotje wna wituessodl at tho foot of Spruce street this norn- lug. A lurgo drove, of bogs was drivon on a forrybout for transportation to Fast 8t, Louls, nud nbout 150 of them rushed Into tho river from the apposit slde of the boat. Stranko to suy, uhwost nll of thewm howded up stream whon onew I the eiver, and the awlft current swopt awny and deawned it pumbor of then, Bowe BwAin nsbore, and ‘longshoroioon 1n skite kot out Bumnlnw. Of tho romainder, one of thum crossed the river and wmade tho Ihiluofs sbore apposit the dog-pound, nearly rwo and u bulf wiles from 1ts sturtiog point.” *4hicty or forty were loat, * SHIPPING GOLD TO CALIFORNIA, BAN Fuanoisco, Aprll 21—The stoamor Zoulandln, which arrivod boro yestorday, bus four voxes of gold bary, valued at 304,700, the first conalgnment from Australls that hns boun roculved i San Francjeco, This Invoiow coulos to the Camptoir. Pesvompte do Parls, The yold recolved b[v.:lho astosmor has beon .gent to tho San Franolscn Ming. for colnage Into doublo vuytos, ‘Thu unomaly of sbipping conls (o News qaitle 18 having o repotition I ore gold,—ouo section of the world -shipping it8 produoy to unothor gold seetion. Yy BECAUSE OF JEALOUSY, ) elul Dispatch to The Chlcago Tribune, MirwAukEe, April #L—A daughter of O, T, Rufele, a farmor of tho Town of Stottin, near Wanusau, comilttod sulcide lnst night, Her tovér uskod hor to go to & bail with him, and she ucoepted, Ho falled to kuep the ongugemant, und abo wont nlone, - Bhe tound the (ruurl lover beside utwibier churmier, und this worked hee ip t0 such n pltch that sbo went home and chewod flgu‘,‘ box of mutuhios, und, was found doud in ber SMALL-POX, BAN PRANCISCO, April 81.—Swmall-pox Is epie demjo in the Bandwich lsiands aud China, It is uotivoable u this onneotion that the mortalls ty 1 Chinutown for two wooks pust hus beeg Emnlly o the lucrensy, but no one svoms to uow 0f What dlscasa they dle fu that quarter, i P e e e e T e e e T SRy e T S D e e T it CASUALTIE A Train Precipitated' Into a Raging Torrent Near Albany, il A Frail Trestle Over Moredosin River the Avenuo to De- - struction. Eight Persons Meet Their Death in the Turbulent Waters, Miraculous Escape of Others from a Like Terrible Fate. |, Fruitless Search in the Horrible Abyss for Bodies of the Killed. Terrifle Explosions of Nitro-Gly- cerine and Powder at Bing=~ hnmton, N. ¥. The Damage to Surrounding Prupar%y Will Amount to Bomething Near $60,000, An Exploding Botlor at Fort Mkinson, Wis., Injures Soveral Poople. One Thonsand Kegs of Guupowder at Bridgsport, Jon, Go Up in Smolte, A HORRIBLE ABYSS. Boectal Disvates ‘0 The Chicago Tribune. Crayroy, TiL, April 21.—The most horriblo orsunlty that over ocourrad in thia vielnity hap- pened ono mile below Albany, on the Rock sl and Divisjon of tho Chicago, Miiwaukee & St. Paul Rullway, nt b o'clock this morning. At thot hour the express traln golng. south, which was somewhat boluted, wns sulddenly and withont tho slightest warning precipitated Into Meredo- sia River, now ot a vory high stage, Tho track runs over tho rivor on o trestle, which 18 now nbout olght feot above the stream, tho latter bolng n raging torrent. 1t is not known whother tho engineor saw anything suspiclous about the Lrtdge, but it 18 quito Nkoly ho did not, aithough .tho track runs hulf n mile stralght Leforo cross ing tho trestle. Thodpoed of the traln was only slowed Into tho ordinary proonutionary rate. As tho engino struck tho north end of tho bridge It gave way with a terrible ornst, s HEARD FOR MILES AROUND. ‘Tho englno aud tonder, with. tho onglueor and Nremnn, wont downout ot sight and have not since been seen, Tho train was composed of in engino and throo ears, tho forward ear, with the uaual quantity of baggaze, wall, and cxpross, together with tho passonger conch, golng down and flonting off in the current of tho stream. The passenger cunch floutad ngninst and lodged atan island forty roda from tho scene of tho disaster. The englnoer, Willintm West, and fires man; name unknown, rosiding at Freoport, wero drownea, together with slx passongurs, making tho loss of lifo olght. Conductor Thomas Ful- lor cllinbed outof a window and escaped over tho tops of the oars Ina wmiroulous manpnor, ng did brakoman Honry Moyers, boggngomnn Sam Tlanngan, and messengor Dan Ellithorpo, who wore rescued, the threo Iatter in an injurcd conditlon, Tho eloeplng-car was loft hunglog over the briuk at an aoglo of forty-five dogreus, half out of wator. 1t had threo occu- ‘pants besido the portor. All v CLIMIED OUT OF TIE JEAR END. The porter's nume §8 W, IHL Thomas, and the three mon reacued aro W. I, Gordon, of Roches- tor, N, .3 G, W, Ctapmnn, of Néwark, N, J.: Honry Warren, of Boston, A woman and two chiidren woro in tho forward conch,nud uno chilt was drowned, tho other two bolng saved. ‘They got on at Bavannn, Thelr uames are not learned. Eloven passongars wore in tho- conch, including Dr. . W. Lundy, of Albany, who had Just got on tho train to go to Cordova. Among tho misstug uro threo men who were'In tho conch, They got vut ou top ns it flonted by the approach to the wingon bridge, which had been washed out, and trled to Jump off, two suceced- ng, one falling buck into the river and sinking out of sight. A who wns travoling with his brothor-in-law from Plne River, Wis, to Omnha was also rescued from the rouf of tho conch uftor it bad sropped attbo island, A womnn and child wero slso taken from tho top of the coach nt that polnt. ‘Tho rolativo of tho boy was drowned, but ho refuses to glve tholr nutoes, Just how many train men escupod they uro unablo tostate. A8 #oon ny possible help was procured from Albany, whitler tho wounded train-mon and some of the roseugd pussengors” were rentoved, The woman and coblid were taken noruss tho rivertothe houso of Mr. Goorge, n farmor, where tho womun Hics prostrutod by thy shoek, BRIVFS were sooured both from Albany and Conancho, and i search began for bodles and the contents of tho cars, Homo twenty loats, with strong men, wera working all day. Tho water had boen thoroughly uxplured by D o'clock, and most of tho cushlons and many of thu soats, togothor with what vallses aud othor luegage was In tho cur, waro removed, The bLaggago ludged in tho middle of tho stronm thirty rods northwest of tho disastor. Only tho roof is visiblo, A bolo was out in the top of the Lugguge-car, and part of tho contents woro fishod out, including some Loxes and trunks. The woumled tritin-men wore mude us comfortablo ns possible at the Eagle Hotel, tho only fracture found belng the coilary Lono of the brakeimau, which was broken. . THE INCLINED BLEEPING COACH was made faet Ly cables to the truck at the north ond to proveat its fulllng Into tho river, Aboutsn humleed foot of trestlo.work 18 gouo' clonr. Ahoavy frofzht-train passed over, tho atructure nu hour or so before tho acoldunt, Tho loss of Dr, Lundy, of Albany, ono of tho bost and modt highly osteomed physicians of ‘Whiteside County, ouuses deop and wide-spro ad loeal sorrow, IIo got on tho train ut Albuny to &0 to Cordoya to ace u patient, and mot his ter- rlblo fato whilo yot in wight of his village. The pluco of the disaster 18 nour Misslssippl, at the mouth of tho Morodosin, o 5 A PLACK WELL KNOWN TO HUNTENS, It ianbout cight miles from Oliuton. Albany peoplo have been fishing all day, but no bodles wero found, Tho sleop|ng-car was moved totho side of tho track and o pllo-driver 13 at work. ‘Tho bridyo will Lo in runnlng order to-morrow night, Large ocrowda from the surrounding country uve viewing the wreok, Tho overilow In tho Morodosia 18 caused by back water from Rook River. TIE NEWS AT FHERPORT, « dpeeial Diapatch to The Ohteage Tridune. . Faxxvour, Ill,, April 2L.—News has roachod Frooport of 4 horriblo zallroad disastor whicl cuuses widuapread sorrow lu this ity from the fact that twoof our oltizons uro sup, o huve boen lost. No dofinite Informution can ba hind, but whut Tine TRIBUNE roprusontative has gloaned s us followss fi‘\ 1 this morning n Passunger train, 'Chonias ¥l lor, OF _buciie, cun- duvtor, lofy this ity n:_[ ltock siand, "At ¢ 'clock, when the tralis urrlvod ut s bridgo noar Albany, tho engine, bagrago and express curs, and “@ coavh wore hurlod into - the rivor, the sloopur Lreaklug o, It i sakl thero " wose twonty Jboat Yn.uunuvrl ou bourd. Tho uows recoived at "l:il CITY was to qhongflaol' thut - the couductor, 0 bugguguinan, u oW . DOSSUIFETE WOFD ut the unginoor, Wililam A‘f"fiml of this clty, aud his fireman, Luke Killlo this city, as well pu sayurul nmuxun‘ ad mok = watery grave, The purtied are well knuwn in this olty, and the worst {8 foured, Later,ut ¥ w'clogk, u dispateh Crum Albtn{ nunouuced thay the caklueor; Ureman, snd three passongord wore drownod. RUN OVER AND KILLED, Bpeglal Dispateh to Tha Chicago Triduns Mioniaan Giry, Ind,, April 21.—Joba Donger,’ & suction haud on tho Michlzun Central Hstiroad, | “eanse of coursals unknown, but one thing is was run over aud instantly killed this morning i the Compnny's ynrdwhllyu repuiring the traok, m&’ &vlllcloz;"lgng 10, Tn’l‘l? cgljnes Aresmpy, A car ind beon ‘cut looso from n SWItSHIng | grun e i), Dacin o t“-'~ 0, 2. 4 frofght train and ranon to tho switeh upoi | 08 PEET, BACHH 1. fres. for ali d Which the hnuds wor nt work, snd camb yory: | o8 S S oy REred). The Ay uenr_viining over tho wholo gang hofore fia [ s alopted vttt to requiro o gt appronch_waa notiead, All esuaped. howover, | the ontranco fes to nccompan g i fut Mr. Donner, whoso body was budiy man- | onc-fourth to bo pald i thivty duyg g0t jods romaluing hlf tho evening Lefora i i ———— 1t Is thought tiils witl hrevant thonn o Ty A STEAM-BOILER. arlsing undor the provious methyg 0¥aucey % Bpectal nuule&to Tm:w‘w MA lnm. e em— 'ORT ATKINRON, Wis., April 2L.—At 1:30 p. m. 0 :lm: oity _vlmu thrown into intense uxouemflnt FIRE R'EOORD- y tho oxplosion of tro atationary engine-bollor P on tho Chiengo & Northwostorn Rallroud Com= | TNSANT TIOSPITAL AT Axyy, 8pecial Ditpateh to The Chicago ANNA Ty Aprll 2L—Tt I8 now tlod that tho hospltal fire atarted 1y yy, abovo the bath-room, Tho testimony :, » firat porsons who saw the fire and the Inry tion nil thoroughly pofnt In tho sainp e 'Tho supposition is that mlco carrieq “r:cu papets, ote., to tho attlo for nests, nng m.m' wiy got mntchos to tho nttic, whim O gunwod and thus fgnited. Tho eqeer, ™ Grace, who so narrowly saved the ltvngmfm' 18 At homo {u this piaco qm? -] e I8 receiving thu nttention of thg n"‘"‘ xl:]nyslclunu. o romuins of Furklu,wi” iy rtitd, Woro to-duy oxhiumed nnd turey " AT ELKITART, IND, Bpeetal Dispateh 10 Tha CMcago Tridyn,, ErxuAnr, Ind,, April” 21.—Tho Elkliary py il was partlully destroyed by fire nt gy o pany's pito-drivor No, 1, which was usod horo ree pnirlng tho Dbridge. At tha time of the oxplosiun it was standing on ‘the slde-track whilo tho inon were at diunor. The oxplosion sounded exactly like a poswder oxplosion, belug felt all over the oity. It exploded with tro- ‘mendous Foree, tenring tho boifler fnto pleces and totully domorallzing ovory bit of the ongino and houso that inclosod it lonving only n part of tho fluos nnd grato on the traok, At the time of tho oxploaion thoro wero probably” twenty peoply within 100 teot of it J. HL Davls, . proprietor of tho Greun Mountnin Ilouse, ‘wus within twenty frot of the truck, Ifo was blown tlown, his left arm Lroken at the olbow, and an artery cut In big head, and his loft leg wns sp- verolysbrulsod, and ha was severaly sonldod and Tribuny, Protty wejj gy, ?;“lm"l'rmn”;ndwun&“fl: Z d“n"' QE;W“"::::m:In: hourthis morning, Causo of the nrgn :"lv nn?! i 5 o et g | tancous combustion, Loss estimntod at gt i e PR fully insured tn tho following compailes; | not dangerous, John Beeker wns pnssing perinl, £250; Liverpool, Lok s I and was blown down and considerably brutsed, ‘me‘ \;:““;m 890'1!"0;\: on & g 3 Sovernl porsons reccived allght outs, but N0t | gysn! tromo. Now York. #2600 oot serjous, Tho great wander I8 that 80 many peo- > o SRR B h Fire & Marine, $2,600. Tho mil was ownd -0 1ion. Itufus Boardsioy and the Hon, T b i nt once, ud tho nll ngaln within thirty days, = w"”‘“‘m AT SOUTIL GIN, ILL, Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribung, Bray, UL, Aprll 2L=V. W. Pauteny factory and flourig-mills, and & smail dweli 4 bolonglug to Mr. Heath, nt South gy, ey fired by an Incondliry early this mnrnln;, n burned down, Tho loss will bo $10,000, Ty was sat ut two ditferent times. The box. factoy was {ngured in an Bl{zln BRANCY, tho Nuwark rp rylng #1,000. The Millors' InBurance cum{;'v’ A plo could be so noarand not be hurt, Thednmngo dono to property was considorable. A, D, Wil- cox & Co, whoso office s within fifty feot' of whore tha bollor stood, had thelr windows blown i by the cononssion, A very valunblo borso of tholrs that atood hitehed besido the oflico was kiiled, Largo pleces broke In thoe roof of the office and shed, and spolled a good deal of tumber, The cyllnder and valve-chest, welghing n}imn 300 pounds, was blowit up about . 200 feet, and foll on and domolished the wing of Mr.Corbin’s house, 300 feot nway. Another piece atruck Mr. Spooner's hotse on an adjoining lot, and broke fit ono corner. A part -of tho top Ahicets of tho boller, with tho enfety-valve nd n ploce ot tho storm-chost, in nll wolghing about cighty pounds, domolished the largostepsin front. of Mr, Shermnn's bouso, B feet nwoy, Threo )}lswn ufid erank rods toro up the sldownlks, o bick end of the bolldr wis blown over n lurgo tmber-shed, and landed 400 feot awny on tha cornur of Curlos Curtis’ burn, emashing tho door and corner, A couplln,r-v‘u Wil blown ovor 1,000 feot awav. ‘Ihe atr-chamber from tho putnp wna found ontop of Miller's ned, over 800 feot away. A large piece of tho oller struck in Anderson's garden, 1,000 feet away, and went down so far that it ennnot bo pulled out, Tho dume and a lurge picce of the Loller piate wns blown up* nbout B0 fect awny, aud struck in the strcet, 200 or 200 feot awny, Auothor smallor pleco was fount over ong-fourth of a mile awny iu Mr. Kellogg's yiurd, Bmallor piecos of timber and iron nro tound nil over town. Tho explosion very sovere, tearlng everything into little shrods oxcept the pleces mentoned. Tho boiler plitte Is torn e if 1t were rotton papor, The on- flluwr. Mr. P, Blaker, says bo luft the enging ot vo minutes to 1, and at that time ho hed uf Chicingo, carrlad $5,00 on Tauton ownad both. h il AT BAST LEAVENWORTIL. Kjs, Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuns, LeAveNwonty, Kas, April 21.—4A firg out nt Enst Lenvenworth, just upposit this. clty, at 4o'clack this morning In the grocery soregy G, L. Bonning & Co., n two-stary frame b...s. 1ng, oceunted in tho second story by Intningy amily, who narrowly esouped eromitton, Low £6,000 on stock wnd 22,000 on bubtdine nod hong hold goods; insured for §1,900. —e———— AT GARRETTSVILLE, 0. GANRRTTAVILLE, O. Aprll 21.~The sawmill g oxtensive rake factory of 0. Colling &Ca,¢f this plncd, burned instevening. They lad alsgy nmount of lumber on hand, nearly ull of whicy was consuined, The fire I8 Bupposod 1o b beun enused by n conl-box, or trom the b furnace: no Illauqlnuu. Tho tos3 {3 nut fy on alxty-five pounds of steaw, throo | frow $7,000 full gauges of water, and n light ~firo ——— of tamarnck wood, which was greot, At 1:20 CHICAGO. By W Vilcox, bh Wiesx'S ch, slogbod o | mnoatarm from lex 45 i 713 s erny ha S0 matenten 20 ™ pounds N ane | was eaused by n pan of grease cutehing firafron on nfter this, Tho real |'nkitchen stove fn the upper story of Nop Humsey stroet, Tho alirm was turnedinby somo pezson who heard gome smnll boys crying out fire, No damnge. surc: that whon {t exploded thero wins i enormous prossuroon It One curfous fact l4 that two porsons wero standing within six feet of tho engine whon it exploded aml wera nol hurt fu tho lenst. Tho boller it not spring or crack, or part nt any of tho rivet lines, but Just toro and cracked In ovory divection, and looks s if the shell had been tonded witl powder and went withas AT PHILADELPITIA, TRILADELPIIA, April 21.—Sucke's browery, Buhaal lnne, burnied this mornlug. Fosy, 800 Insurance, &57,000. i Lo gl S L anich force, Tt Is reported thut tho botlor. huv Doon condainnod, wilon, It true, will muko 1t POLITICAL. nn expensive uceident fur the ratiroad compuny. . CINCINNATL 4 NITRO-GLYCERINE. 2 Dixanaxron, N. Y., Aprll 2L.—About 7:50 this morning two terriblo aud nlinost simultancous explosions ocourred fromn nitro-glycerine In the nitro vaults of the Dittmnr Powdor ‘Works, two milea north of this clty. About five min- utes afterward 1000 pounds of sporting powder In n storchouso about 100 feet from the nitro vaulta funited.and causod an- othor torrifie explosion, The bulldings wero do- molished sud seattered in evory divection, snd property destroyed for miles around. Fences woro blown to spliuters, trees uprouted, many builuings in tho tielghborhoud ‘badly shattored, and windows two und threo miles away blown out by tho concussion, Sptelal Disnatch to The Chicago Trivunt, CINCINNATI, O,y April 21L.—The disadvantip to whichtuo Republican party has been plael In this 8tato Ly tho notlon of tho Legisiatum now happily ndjourned, will e ovenozt In n measurc, if mnobt entirely, by course of tho now Democratie ani Nefory Moyor of*thia gity, In tho matter of nppointe mants the wishes and ndvige of the purty lsk ora nro bolng ontiroly. ignorcd, nnd a bitter fee ng 18 belng duveloped, Seve ornts have declared that th further relation with Mayor others, though thoy say nnlhmf and Rullen. Tha eleotion, It 18 pl ns brought tho patronngo that will count. Moro than this, tb Heporis from tho colliers sixty-nino miles cnst | reforms in tho matter of Sabbath olser of this phico, and 8mithboro, oi the west, show | ance and lgquor-selling, which —wen that tho explosion wus fult ut leust sevonty mites | Promisod durluy the campalun, distant. At Unlop, ton miles west, glass wns | DO intention on the —part of broken in tho. wiklows of tho ohurch, The | Domocratio managora of ever carrying thea powder which explixed waa only_ that loose in | out. nlngur)lmma 1w deciares shnll bo earrid tho bulklings, Tho magnzine did not explode, | okt to tho lottor, Ovor this the purty is begie No one was serfousty hurt, Tho man In chargo | Ding to feel very soro, It 14 o reapongibllity ks of the nitre vault discovered that the five was | N0 BAFLY ean nssitmo n Cinclunut] withoat 't cuused by un improfor nixture of aolds. lo | tnrring cortain degoat in tho next olection. ™ warned othors and flod beforo tho oxploslons ou. | Mayor: hus jesuod an order to-day t curred, The loss is estimated nt 850, everyholdy vlnlntlnf the Stubhs Inw next o day will bo nrreated nnd brought to trinl latda Potleo Court, Thodetiunce with which tho oniet of lust Bundny wns receivold bas mide bimmuy mora obstinnie In his purposo to enforos i Inw, und he wil go on next Sundey i dend earncat. ‘The Germnne will tnko it us st attuck on tholr liberties, and decluro that they wilt hold the Democratio party strictly respors sible. Takonaltogother, tho recont Donteratie Jetory hero s working the Purty dueiled le ury, and Humiiton County is Hkely to enme up nihc fall with one of tho lurgest ltepublias majoriticd she has evor g aln to «cl urty Lut 1ittle in tho wayol A TRAIN DITCIED. Bpeclal Diepatch to 'Tha Chicago Tribune, CrastoN, T, April 21, —Traln No. 12, bound north on tho Illinola Contral Rallway, wns ditehod nbout 2 o'clock this afternoon Lotwoen Heyworth and Wapolla, and nino ocars nnd Its. ongino woro wreekerd, eausing a delay of sovernl hours, The wroek will bo olervod up Ly morn- ing, A portion of the enra worg badly dam- aged, to what extent cuunot bo catlmated, though sumowhero botween 82,000 and $LUW. Tho track sproud, Vo, PEKIN, 1LL. Spectal Corresponddence of 'The Chicago Tribunt. TrKIN, Il, April 10.—The city s Democrstis Coopor was alusterd Mayor by nearly 30 majode ty. The balnuco of the Democratio ticket ¥ clooted by reduced mujorities, except Cek Fohemann, Hopublican, who was elected b about 100 mnjority, The Republicans elietot _Alderman o tho Secoid nnd onu iy tho Fourts Wards. The Domocruts elect two b both wirit Thy L‘oumy Board of Buporvisors meet to-mee row, and Is Dumocratio this yoar. 'This e ship and oity furnishes five Domocrats 04 Cuounty Board, ROBERTSON INDORSED. Tociesten, N, Y. April 21,—Tho Lincd Club, tho loading young mon's Hepublicauo® Tmlmuon of this clty, this ovenlng strongly ® dorsed thio nomination of Judgo Hobertwnsh Collector of Now York. ———— A MEADJUSTER MAD. . Norwowi, Vo, April 21,—M, Glennan, cdis® of tho Nurfolk Virginian, and a prominont De* oorat, was nssaultod lu tho street this ofternood Dy W, A, 8wark, a luwyer and Reudjuster. — e ———— OBITUARY. JUDGE JONATITAN DUPF pectat Dispafeh to The Chicags Tribunés PORTIAC, TH Abril 21.—Judge Jonatbun DU dled nt his resideuco in Pontiuo this mornloé ! 8:00 attor a long nud lingering slekness of sever al wookd, The doceased wus born In llunllfll; ton County, Peimsylvanly, I 180, nid fl‘[‘;‘ compluting bid colicglnto cducution, bessn study of Inw. I 188 ho oame to Pontiaosh bogan tho Ymuuconr hia profession, nnd i o nufiahlmnu £ with ¢arious husiness ereRt L tho alty, chlef of which wuro bankiog, nl", ¥l tu te, und dovelopment of tho conl mli ll4|fl" ho was cleotud to Illo;‘mvlllun o Count yi.:nr«l und his efllelonoy in this ottieo sreatly el oot rity, 110 wus o mun of uniliocirs , and always proiginent in nny t""” priso mfiuulnmd 10 houofit tho comuuints, romoio justioo, Tho funeral will tu! ‘I;‘S:m' undoynoxt undor the auspices of the i Lodga, of which he was an honorud muinber R, W, KNOLT. . o LowsavitLe, Ky, April 81—kt W. Knol t;fl 5 tho Coulvfer-Journal staff, died at tho fawity 7 filenga ta-day, aftor 4 marclage of less Ut yours, > 2 3 N TITOMAS A, JACKSON, Cotysiwy, 0., April £1,—Thomne A, JAK0E Suporintondunt Of the County luficmury SMOTHERED IN WIIEAT, 8pectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, LeAavenwoury, Kng., April 21,—The Timeshns advicos from Nortonvilly, Jofferson County, tint Benjumin Lawson, about twelve years old, whilo playing with anothier lud around an clova- tor, nsconded to tho bin from which tho whent was beidg draw, and, while drawing nhinsolf up and down n play ot tho ocrosd-ties, his hold allppedd and ho wig smothored in the wheat be- foro disvovered. : —— GUNTI'OWDER, Nunaeront, Conn, April 21—A powdor mnguzine, threo miles from this city, containtng 1,000 kega of puwdor, oxploded this morning. TBuildings wero shaken about the clty-as by an earthquake, People were thrown from tholr foot and pinto-ginss and small windows broken inwmnny pluces, ‘Tho oxplosion wes honrd, for willes nmnn}l Tho damitgo to tho buildiogs in tho city 13 816,000, No lives wero loat, S — A FATAL FPALL, DAvroN, O April 2L—=Durlug -last night n Qerman nnmod August Bosgh, who has been bonrding sovoral weoka In tho olty, In a state of temporary {usanity climbed from his hotol win- dow in the third story to an_adjolning root, and wilkod off the rool tuto the street. - He woy picked up by a_police otticor badly brulsed, and died to-day, Nothiog {8 kuown of his ane tocedonts. » e BROXE HI8 NECK, Bpecial Ligpatch to The Uhicago Tridunse Conpwaren, Mich., April 8L—John Iradley, an aged nud wealthy farner of Kindorhook, in this county, was Instautly kitled in this oity this afternoon. e had: unlonded o luad of whont ut thodepot and was drlving away when his horses buaamnu frightoned wud throw him out of tha wugon, brouking his nook, B ACCIDENTALLY 310T. Spectal Dissateh to Tha Ulieaco Tribuns, MiuwaAvuker, April 21,-R, F. Copoland,'n truveling salosmun, for W. &J. G, Fiint, splve dealors, Milwaukee, waa udeldontally shot and Kkilind nonr Stoughton this aftuenoon, Copeland leuves u fumily, uow residing at Wi —————— aukeoshi,- RELIGIOUS, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Triduns. BAuTinong, M., April 2l.~At the Annual ordinations of young men for the pricsthood, at the Catuollo Somiuary. ut Woodstock, Md, to- | day, Thomus B, Buerman, son of don, Bhorman, his popul mm’:‘rn a8 admittod to * tonsure” und » minop ordors,t | ustulkht the preparatory step to tho pricathood, The u}Axun 1ov, Archbishop Glubons, ot Muryland, ; » SUICIDE. ool otficlated, - ¢ TExDERSON, KY., Snfl; :!Ll-sslm ‘:{,‘,fin\:‘cl“” 0, only son of Tom Evaus, alonding . THE NATIONAL ACADEMY, . murchant of this oity, sulclded st nlkht bl{""’ WASIINGTON, D, Oy Aprildl~Tho Nationu! | ing morphine, e bkad been 4! Academy of Bolences filicd .two vicanclesto--| hard * for sovoral days, butb P“: o duy, The contost among the candidated for tho | his destruotion with ' groat xlull\m': ' BiS two remaining vucanolos became so storny that | After taking tho drug be ululrt'llml“:'m e tho elootion was abandoned, A number of e | foot;put on u cluan shirt, wnd w ‘wllu o b turcsting pupera woro then road, g vefused pll appealy from bl yo "t Hhoutke : e e 4 rollovud. Kvuns was na“:flf:,'{:,':—‘..‘fl:uuulufl MORHONISH IN TENNESSEF, | i reraeatly oxprossad u dajoru .CUATTANGOQA, Toun., April #1.~Tho Mormong e — huve ugatn commenced operutions fu this locals THE SHIP DAVID STEWART. oarit 1ty, 'Furoo Bldors puseod through tho ity lust || Barriuonk, April Bl.—Tho missiv 8P /00, night to propagute thelr duum:n&r .'sm'!:. :vl‘lll Stuwart bas arrlved. Tho vessel was alue cuinaenoy operiiions At once, they Kain couveris sond thewm Weat. —e——— . CHESTER DRIVING PARK, t CINCINNATH, O, April 91.—Chestor Driving Tark Assoclation annouuces . sumwer trot- ting meeting from July 4 to 8 Inclusive, with premduws swountlug to '810,000, En- y .duys on 118 passage from Hio du Juncir —— 7 Awsasinatlons of Rulers: ;) 1t 18 compithd that sinco thu beglunll e century l“ly'filllfl uttompts bnve bee tho llyes of koveroiyts und Preside o8, of which nine huve succoeded: cow] wruon of Presidents khiled bulnr, wd crowned houds, four to Sve. P