Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1881, Page 2

e, J ¢ N 3 ) ] 3 - 1lobart, and T. S, E. Z THE CHICAGO TRIBUNL: SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGIES. {ng vote of the President, and 1t s anid that n war between the Bours and the native African Lribes I8 threntene Tng selzure by the Guvernment of the Toersen Contrier for ropublishing Rochefort's articla on the denth of the Czar uccasions much unfavorable comuent. The Ministers whl be questioned on tno subject In the Ttelehstag, Tire Grant men are very much vleased ab he appointment of Col. Adresn ns Post- master at Bultimore. Ho tavored tho nowl- nation of Gen, Grant at the Chicago Con- vention. The Baltimoro peoplo do not seem 1o bo pleased though. L.A&T Tuesday nfternoon fifteen men wont {0 the house of one MeLauren v Edwards County, Texns, and kitled Mclauren his wite, and aanan named Loase, who lved with them, Threo persons named Rawloyy Logan, and Humphreys ave suspeeted ot the erime. Tig Whashington Natlonal Republican, Gen. Brady’s paper, contains a eard this morning, signed by Brady, in which ho de- clares that all the charges, direct or indireet, nffecting his character for Intogrity as n pub- lie pfictal, _are absolutely and unqualificdly false. ° A susyoxs has beon Issued for tha arreat, on the charge of perjury, af Mrs, Ilart Davics, who was the clilef witness against Mrs. Susnn Fleteher, the so-called Spiritual- ist medium, recently convicted In the Lon- don Criminal Court, and sentenced to twelve months' Imprisonment, o Tne Land-Leaguo Convention at Dublin has resolved to givo tho Parnellite members of Parliatent full lberty of actlon in re- gard.to the Gladstone Land bill. The gon- eral impression seeined to bo that unless it Is ninterially nmended it would not be of mneh advantage to the mass of the tenantry, e — LuciypA FowLKES, a colored woman, was hanged at Lunenbwrg Court-Ilouse, Vi, yestorday for tho murder of ler -husband. The woman confessed her gullt, exonerated a suspected accomplics from' all blamne, and sald that she killed her husband because he wasniean to her and was alwnysabusing her. —— AT a speclal meetingof the Common Coun- il held Inst evening a resolution, Introduced by Ald. Wickersham, instructing the.Cor- poration Counsel to prepare an ordinance providing ‘that after Jan. 1, 1852, no wooden blocks should bo used for pnavements of streets and alleys on the South $ide north of Twelfth street, was passed. Gov. Loxa has replied in rather vigorous language to Wendell Phillips’ protest agninst the execution of Abbntt, convieted of the murder of Mrs, Crue. Gov. Long says that he has no authority to commute the sentence when theGovernor’s Counell decides agninst it. He refors to Phillips' Insinuation that he had personal motlves in the matter as cow- ardly and without foundation, Tae alumni of Beloit College resident in Chileago and vielnity held- tholr ‘annual re- union and banquet at the Paimer House Inst evenlng. Tlio affair was quite plensant to all partles’ concerned. ‘The following were elected officers for the ensuing year: Presi- dent; P. T. Pettibone; Seeretary, ‘Albert Durham; Treasurer, James W. Porter; Ex- ecutive Committee, T. O. ‘Thompson, 1L R, Dixon, i 5 PresipeENT GAnrFiELp sent for some Re- publican Senators yesterday to urge on thom to reliove his Admintstration from the em- barassmentof having so'many of his nom- inntions uncontirmed so lovg. o ndvised thnt the Republicans consent to go into ex- ecutlve sosslon at an enrly day. ‘Senators Shefman, Iiawley, and Hale aro’actively urging the Presideut’s viows, and it Is prob- able that the polley Indicated by thein will be ndopted. SureriNtENDENT IlonyEs, of the South Sldo Rallrond Compauy, hins Issued an order annouhcelng to the conductors and drivers of the Company thilt tifeir salaries have besn advanced 15 per cent, and in tho case of the barn hands 25 cents per dny, Mr, Ilolmes congratulnates the employds on their manly, courteous, and dignihed conduot, and thanks thém in the namo of the Compnny. All's well that ends wall, and this has cortainly ended well. { LABOR AND CAPITAL. BT, LOUIS, BSpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, 81, LouIs, Aprll22.~Tha street-onr conductors and drivers’ movement to scoure bottor honrs seems to havo the support of nearly all the drivers and at loast threc-fourths of tho cone ductors of n mnjority of tho lines, The follow- ing resolutions have been adoptod: Raolved, That on Baturday morning next the drivers and conductors of the various roada ns- scmble at thoir rospective starting-polnts, and it tho companics havo mot thon ngreed to comply with our just demands wo will in a body quit work and mnot take out n slngle car till our renuest for twelve bours for a day's work has been mranted, and conductors wages are placed at $2 per day, drivers at $1.60 per day, and drivors of bob-tails at §2 per duy, tho samo 68 reguIar <conductors, ‘To-morrow moriing tho troublo s to com= menco. The strike was tho universul topic on the street-cars this morning uwmony tho pas. dengers. “Wo will have to walk to-mprow morning or ndo in & furniture car, ! supposc,” ‘was sald many bundred timos, especially on the Market and Olive streot Iinos. 'Fhio conducters oxeapl 1o sy £ Tha sympathy ot the pulliv {4 about unnnimous on thiv A“h) of the drivers und conductors, The scutimoent is nearty universul that twelve hours 1s cnouglh for & mun to work in oneday. - This sentimont is not canlined (0 any cluss of people, and nnty, espeeinlly: businessemen, ross thelr willing- neas to submit-to slf necessary fuconvenlonee that a strike may involvo it ia to scours botter hours. The police talk more wnout 1L prohably than suybody else, They nra very zcatous in tholr championship of the twelvo-hour system. (One was hoard trytoe 1o persuudo tho driver that he ought 1o stiike an gencrul prinotplos. Thore wadkomo talk this morning by a mubager of the tnes of ealling upon the city nuthurities to provent nny inteps Terenco with ivers nnd eohduetors who sionk) bo willing 10 go to work o8 usuil to-morraw morping. ‘This, hawovoer, will probably .not bo dane unless thero should.bo somo rlotous doms onstruglon, whigh 8 not sxpestod, CLEVELAND, O, ' 8peetal Dispateh to The Chicayo Tribune, CrevetAsy, O, April 2.~The strcot-car strikers held o meoting this morning, but thore wus u natfoeublo deteetion In the muks, Tho fact that many men bad returned' to work, and that tho compantes were ablo with thess and now men 10 yun nenly all tholr curs, seumed to demoralize the “outs” A proposition was wadu ¢o hire horses and vebleles and catublish campetiuy lnies, gud o conumitice wis appainied to look futo the matter, ‘Phis dommitteo tulur reported the project unfonsitile, whun §t was dus termined ta renow the pollcy of persotnl solicitas Mon of cmployés, Toonight a crowd of rutlfve gnlly men, numbering purynps wuro tha alf’ Of them —specintord, 18 assomble ot the Publis Syuure, the comnou pbint of convovance of the street raflrusds, but ns n lan;u dutail uf paliou ts o the groupd no vie- eice 18 unticiputod. Two or 1hreo surs have tos day beou run off the truck, but the strikers, boe L;rn‘x:l;lnr(-'mnlnuul by the polie, pormitted thet o o e — e THE REV, CHARLES HOLBROOK. Bpecinl Dispatehs fo The Chicugo Tribune, Bowiox, s, April 2%—A disputch from Lortsmonth, N.H. suys Bishop Seyniour, of the Divcoso Of Bpriugtieid, H, hus aont 0 futicrhyy offer W the Hov, Chuvies A, Hulbrook, ot Povis- oiouth Bpiscopal Churen, oy i uny SF'tauw movt 13 portan WOk e Dish x| u X $uriadiciion, L2 e ~ WASHINGTON. Tho Capital Highly Excited Over the Downfall of Gen. Brady. Ilo Was an Autoerat, and Could Ruin a Contractor with a Fifte. | No One Dared Give Evidence Until Ho Was " Hxpedited” Out of Office, Now His Expeditions into the Treasury Are Reokoned by the Mill- fons: The Senate Adjourns Until Next Tuecsday to Iill a Little More Time. President Garfleld at Last Brings His Influence to Bear upon the Senators, A Cnucus of Republican Sonators to Be Held Next Tuesday or Wednesday. The Lawyers Continue to Grow More Plensod Over the International .+ ;. Bank Decleion, BRADY. TRE END OF 1S NOPE. . Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridbune. . WasIuNagTos, D. C., April:2—The alleged star-routo frands continue to be the sensn- tlon hore, although there really Is not much more publicly kiiown about them than was published months ago in Tue TrBUNE. The | fact that n Democratic Committee acanitted Brady, and that a Democratic Congress, by a Inrge majority, vindicated his star-ronte voliey, was taken .to bo conclusive evidenco that there wns nothing eorrupt, and that the only renl argunents which could be made ngalnst the star-route system were those which . went to’ the principle of sponding large sums. of noney to earry wmnll Into and through n wilderness. 'The answer to this always was that it was by such means that the wilderness was openad to set- tiement, and that the star-ronte’system \was ono of the greatest civilizing agencies of the g‘o\;crnnlenh Byt it has since been reported TIE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF TUE ©HOUsK D did'not discloso nll that it knew, because a minjority of the memberswere in favor of con- tinuing and extending the star-route system into the South and West and the Territories, anud that dosnments #ald "to be of a dam- nging character to' & number of unnamed persons - wero in tho possession of tho Comnnittee, and ought to hnve been de- livored to the Department of Justice for prosecution, but were not. 'To-dny the Post~ Onlco authorlties sny that nothing further can be stated oftloially relative to tho investl- . mation which has been had, and which Is not yet ended, and that the first news which the [ public will recsive is likely to come through | the Grand-Jury room. This scandal Is the : principal toplc of discussion throughout the city to-day, especinlly in the Executive De- | partinents, where eagér Inquirfes aro mnde of thoss.supposed to be acauainted with the facts, of the number of persons and who they aro that will be affected In their ofiicial cn- pacitles. i . . A MEMDER OF EX-PRESIDENT HAYES' CAD- INET this morning expressed great surprise when told that the corruptign extended over the entire pertod of the pretious Administration, When the gentleman expressed his fdith in the honesly and integrity of'ths immediate predecessors of Postmaster-Genernl James he snld that, It the current stntements were true, they clearly indicated that those ofit- elals had beon sndly Ignorant of the dutles and operations of the various. burenus under thelr chiarge. The case azuinst Gen. Brady and his friends has beon presented In lia incomplete shape to President Garfield, and Instructions were atonce given to complote tho evidenco nul lay the whole subjeet, in- cludmg the accumuinted mnss of documents, affidavits, and varlous deseriptions of in- eriminpting memoranda, before Attorney- General MacVeagh for such nction as mny lereafter be determined upon, ‘The state- ment that TYNER was [mplleated fn the frauds is said to hnve no foundation and, it he !s replnced it - will not be on accofint of any connection with the Brady coterie, It is repurled that, whils ‘Tyner wns: cognizant of the star-route operatlons, und long ngo manifested a dispositlon to expose them, beth he and Gen. Kvy were overruled by Geu, Briddy, whose power in the Posts Onlee sesms,in view of récent developnonst, to huve been ahnost absolutely supreme, Thero I3 & good deal of unenstness jn and about the Contract-ONice of the Post-Office Depnrtment. As yet no removals have been wnde, but It 1 stated that sevaral clerks will be dismissed within a few days, . It is nmong the rumors, too, that Auditor MeGrow, of the ‘Lrensury, who lias shurge of the auditing of the Post-Offies accounts, ns well ns his Doputy, nre 1o be superseded, McUGrew has: demanded an investigation, "The develop- monts, when mude publte, will, 1t Is sald, show the exlstence of A POWERFUL COMBINATION, the members of” which, It in alleged, wera benelflelayies In the np‘:mxnrlnuom for slar serviee, and in it ae insluded Congressmun, - ex-Congressimen,, and prominent lobhyists, Gon, Brady, who s under & clotd in connhecs tlon with the disclosures, 18 now In New York, “1H1s frivnds allexe that the storics now atlont ave merely o rehash of what wns develaped hofars the Sub-Committes o€ Ap- propriutions twe ionths ngo. On behnlt of the Past-Ofleo Departient this Is met with the statement hat v facts have been 1lu‘¥u|ogmi. showing * conslusively the -~ existence’ of the —star-routs ring, Thy Seeond Asslatant Postuster-Gonernl had the matter of the star-routs contracts in s exclualve chargs, When he had bare | guined with o contrnetor to sarey the mulls uie wien u week over v glven route for i sp sun, ho would somotimes order tho sorvi norensed 10 thiva tiwes, or six times f weok, and the compousation to bo in- crensed llunurdlnu'ly. 1n this way star routes orighally let for an agreemont of $700,000 RAVE BEEN MADE WORTH OvVER §200,000 to tho contructors, ‘The increased se: 'y In mnny Inatances, was ordered I the fuce of tha reports of Byeclnl Agunts of the Do partiment that no such Iucranse wis neede), und I humerous eases tha contructors went fi" verforming only the old service while rawing the ndditional pay, A HING OF POWERFUL CONTRACTONS held: posspssion of the piost profitably star voutes, u;ucu COVEring lumfi dlstances in tho Weatern ‘Torritories, il kept out all rivals by the systom of striw bids 0 often expused, that virtunlly fixed their owa compeisntion by the friomdly uld of the Contract-Onlcs, Uha ving - bad 4ts agents I Washe ington, Ono of them, “whun somoewhat In llyuor, bousted, not long age, that ho veeelved 520,000 for persuading ten. Brauly to slzn u eertialn contoast, Ever; cuniected with the star-routs ring flouy lm{ opuee, ‘The fulluwing case Is salil to be an Hlustrauon of the now evidence discovereds Toute 40,104 runs trom Mineral Park, Atl, to Plache, Nev,, o distanes of 233 miles, This route waa let on July 1, 1878, to Miner, Peck & Co, at 83,000 per annuw for n weekly sorv- Iee. In Augustor September, 187 the route ublet by the contractors to Isanc Jen- gy, of St"Cho coln County, Nev., at =4,500 per anim, or 1,800 more than the contruet price, Suon after reeeiving the sub- cuntract, Jennings wus requested to got up o petition for lrl-wueklr serviee, but refused to do so on the ground that the proposed in- creasy was wholly unneceasary, Notwith- standing his refusal, lowever, to make a movement to securo inerensed servios, e wns SURPIISKD TO RECEIVE FROM WASIHINGTON asub-cobtract oalling for trisweckly trips, and ratsing the prico to 812,600 per annui, This i3 exvlained by the fact that in April, 1831, the urlfilnnl contractors, through thelr nfluenee with the Post-Oftlea Depnttmont, seeured an inerense to trieweckly serviee, und had the pay raised to #24300 per annu. Thus Jonnings, who was performing the scrvico, received of this increaseonly S12,600, leaving 20,700 t be divided among the prin- cipals, ' 1n July, 187, or:aboul threo months after tho flval inereaso wis nuude, the service avas still further lnerensnd, withoutp auy so- Hieltatlon from Jennings, and withont his knowledge, to seven trlps per week, and the yearly pny was raised at the same " time ta 52,000, When this Inst Increnso was ‘made, Jennings was otderced to put on daily service, at_the rate of $25,000 pur aninin, thus leaving 834, 000 per wunuin Lo be divided among the prin. cipals, Defore the route was lncreased to daily service the contract. was transterred fram Miner, Peck & Co. todi WV, Dotsey. When the eiange was made, JENNINGS WAS NOT INFORMED of the fact that the Department, In adal to dirceting inereased trips, had algo * pedited ! “the service. About thrée months afler tha teausfer to —Dotsey, Jonnings was informed by M. C. Rigdell that the schedule time hited been shortened to slxl¥ hours, Rledel. was the clerk and ‘ngent o Jorsey. Dorsey mitde a contract with Rie- dell ut the full contruct price named nbove, and filed this agreement at the Departnient, After mnkbing the nomiund contruct with Rie- dell, Dorsey made an actuat contruet with Jennings for both tri-weekiy nul dnily serv- iee, specifying that hie shoulil be puid 813,620 for the tri-weekly and 823,000 for the dnity service, which ~ wns 90,700 por unnwmn below the sum fixed Dby the Departs ment for. the tri-weekly service, nmd 24,000 belnw that fixed for the dnl}y aorvice, ennings acted i perfect good-falth, and was Iginorant of tho transactions between Dorsey wid his clerk, ‘Uhe ngreviment made butween Dorsey and Jonnings was forwarded by tho latter to 2 REPRESENTATIVE DAGGETT, OF NEVADA, with the request that it befiled with the Post- Otlice Department. Mr. Daggoct, immudinte- ly npon the rctugut of tho agreement, left 1t with the Chief Clerk of the Contraet-Otlice, requesting him to pince ft- on fils, - For the servico of tho ~ first quarter, umder the tri-weekly contract, Jenulngs re- celved pny, nccording. to the his gl terms of his ~ contract. At the expiration of the next guurter, however, hé not only failed to receive the pay due, but he reeelved notiee from tho Department that fines had been fnposed for fullure to per- form the serviee, il that, instend of the Governmont owlng him $7,000, he was debtor to the Goverument by reason of the finds im- posed, in the sum of $700. These fines, it seoid, wers fmposed becaise of Jennings' fatlure to perform the service ‘on the * expe- dited ” sehedule, of which he had no notice until informed by Rledell, ns above ex- plalned. Nut comprehending this inethod of doing business, and being startled by THE LARGE PECUNIAIY LUSS which threatened him, Jennings nt once pro- ceeded to Washineton, Befors leaving the West he obtalnied a ninber of signatures to n protest against the frequensy -wd '+ expe- ditlon” of tha service ordered by the Depart- mont, ‘Uhere was no necessity whatuever for this fnerende, asthe route was through n wildernoss, and the number ot letters carried over it at any time did not average threo per week: Arriving nt Washington, Rledell as- certabned that Jenuings intended 2o tlo this protest with the Dupartment,’ and, fu. order to prevent such damuging testhuony: being made part of the public records, he gavedJen- nings 88,500 not to plnee the protest ondils, In the meantime, however, Riedell recelved from the Govermnent full pay, less the penalties, all of which woere charged to Jennlngs. For the two followhnrquarters Jennines was pald only $330, his prinsipal clulming that the bal- ance wus consunied by fines, Jennings hav- Ing heen thus exhausted, the route wns sold by tho owners to Suutsbu illmore & Co. Jonnings remnined at Washington with tho expectation that he would obtatn justice Yrom the postal authoritivs, not- supposing, of coursu, that - o i v TUE VERY PERSONS from whom he expected protection and re- «lress were parties to the practiees by which he hod been defrunded, 1Is had no rizhts whatever which the Post-Oflice .were bound to respect, for the renson that he was un- known to then, his agrecment never having Dbeen placed on th es of tho Departient, jity ‘The contract between Jennbigs and Riedell wis not placed o the files of the Departs went until Mureh, 1831, and then_only ‘upon the perciiptory demund of Mr, Dagirett and the two Senators from Nevada, whom he mado ncquainted with the Injustice done him. ‘The_waterial whieh has been collected by the Specin! Agents of the Post-Office Dupar nent under the instructions of Postmnster- General Jnmes 13 being prepared In tho forn of evidenco to be used {n eourt, if thought advisuble, and in that form I8 sent to the At- mruuf"(?uneml. Bpeelal Agents are now en- gaged in making personnl Ynspeetion of the prinelpal star rountes In the West, and, ns rapldly as possible, they will be sent over other rottes of Jess tmportance. Ono prin- cipnl renson for the swmwary uction in_ regard to Gen. DBrady wns “the (is- covery that mmiy sources of Informntion which the Special Arents deslred to make aceessible wero elosed through the fenr of (i‘tl-ln. Brady’s power while he remained in oftice, TIE FIRST INKLING the public had that a susplelon vested upon v Drivdy by this Adminstration was the su:‘l(mkun oy Postnster-General James 1 aking o bulletin of tho star routes o bp let, aud putting thom 1n o conspicuous place 1n the Departmont, At first the neme of Mr, Brady was appended, but, subse(luenlly. the nnme of -the Postmaster-Genoral wus” sub- stituted, It was ovhient, from this step, that Mv, Brady did not nu]ny the confldenco of his su\mflum. and, tuking the hint, sabl ha was rendy to tender his resignotlon,: but wonlkd 11ks very much to remndn in the oflice, The President did not intlmato that hls res- Srnation was deslred, and so 3r, Brady con- tinned to discharge his officlal duties, con- seious that, s0 long us the deadlock con. lh\uml. s successor, 11 nomdnated, would hiaVe t0 wait, for confitmation beford rellove ing him of the ofilew. SINCE l".i;nm' N l;mnc:rl g Special-Agent oadwird, saidd to be one of tho shrewdest and tost vigl lant oficers I the servis of the Pust- Ollice Departmont, hos been delving Into the workings of the star-rottte systetn, while othor Agents In the West, with o suspicion evel ol the nature of the duties nssigned to them, were employed i deiding to Wash- Ington confidentind reports of whut was by fug done along cortain routes, what service was purformed, and the smount ot business cartied over the rontes selected for speclal oxamination. Mr, Wondward uprooteil the strawebld syatem whoen = Mr, Juwell wus Tostmnnster-Guneral, nud, in enrrying out his instructions, - was fully awars of the Im- portunce of tho task ussigned i, A fow days ngo the sccunidated evidence, togother” with the report of the Speciul Agents, were submitted to the Presjlent, 2 MADY DENIES, 70 the 1Featorn Avroctuted Press. WasiiNaroy, Aprll 2="Tho. Natlonal lIinpuhucuu will to-morsow print the follows ng: w Yonk, April 2—Ta Georye (), Gorlam, o By, iyt 1 You will pleaso say fur mo that nll charees, direet or lnv‘ -direat, uifooting my fntegrity ns n publio oificlal v absulutol, unquulitiedly folse, ie WAb s 'J‘ugnn J, liany, THE SENATORS, ADJOUNNMENT UNTIL TUESDAY, Bpectal Dispaleh to The Chicago Tribune, Wassxaron, D, O, April 83,~Thore was another day 0f heayy, debate i the Senate ‘to-fay, and at Its close an adjournment was taken nutll ‘T'uesday, partly to ennble Senas tors who live near Washington to transact necessary buslness, partly to pormit the Ree publleans to have u private conferenco, aid :nominally to glve the Benate an opportunity to be present ay the ceremonies which will attend the unveillng of the statue of the late Admiral Furragut on Monduy next e, Morrlll wade n long set speech, In which he denled the Denocratle charge that & corrupt bargain had been made with Mahone. Mr. Morrill charged the Deniocracy with o wans of chivalry in unitedly assailing Muhoune. 1io suld that thelr chaxges wese ag unjust ns those which were made against Henty Clay, and that tho atories that were being hurled against the Seantor from Vire ginta would fall harmiess at his feat, and form » monunmental pile upon which ha could stand with greater.strength and pro- clatin the gospol of a free baliot and a falr count, MM MUERMAN nndo n brief speeah, In which ha reassorted the princlylo ot his specch tho other day,— that the Demoerats had adopted a revolution- .ary course which they conld not justify, Ile snld that the Republicana wero supporting Mr. Riddleberger and Mr. Mahone not be- canse they wero Readjusters or ex-Confed. erates, but becnuse, through them, they hoped and oxpected to put down the grint speetre of o Solld South, whose lenders do mot neknowledge thelr wronga ot express their willingnoss to accept the results of tho iWar, Mr. Sherman insisted that the Democ- iracy was attempting to Mexicanize the Sen- ate, particularly In view of tho fact that Mr, Beck ‘again deelared that tho Democracy 'rever intended to permit them to vote upon the pending resolution. SENATOR DROWY, OF GFONOLY, evidently stupg by tha critielsm upon his course, idelivered to the Senate a long nd- dress, In tho,nafliro of an autoblography. 1t was. the.same specch that he has made every day or tivo for six weeks. Mr, Dawes aftgrward called 3t n “confession,” a chnrac- ‘terization whigh-Gov: Brown was unwilling to aecept. It Is settled that the Republican Senators will .okl a cancus-nexs week, on Tueaday or dnesdny. Many {hink they sco In this movement tho boginning of the end, althetigh, those even -who have sigfied the “enll say that the only purpose is to confirm soms nominations of ofticers, who are necessary to earry on the Govornment, ‘The represeitations which the President has made for the Inst few days “huve evidently had thelr effect. ‘The move- ment, however, eannot be suid to have beci conducted by the Senators wito are mora .espeenlly known as the friends of the Ad- ‘ministration, s some strong supporters ‘of Conkling hnve sizned the eall, AT THE TIME OF ADJOURNMENT some fiftean Senators had signed, a consid- erable number more than necessary, and It wasgenerally understood thatthose who hnd uot signed consented to n caucus. The declarations which the Democrats have mado within the last few days have added n new fenturs to this contest. The Democratic leaders have distinctly sald that they would not, under any circumstances, permit the Kepublicans to elect oficers until December, if they did then, and tnat lhub{ would resort to nll oxpedients to prevent this, Thore Is no_reason ! to doubt the sincerity of the dee- Inratlons ofthe Demacrats, whatever iy bo ‘thought of the nature of their declslon, The Lepublicans, therefore, know that they can- not possibly ncnnmpl\sh one of thelr pur- poscs, even If they renmin here all suminer, amd that all ‘they ean accomplish Is to dise cuss the question, which they think will help to break the Solld Souths n task which those who know most. abont the South whu have watched the debate Lolieve Jmpossible. In short, all that the Republicans can do.'In view of these Demacratle declarations, is to remnin in the -Sennte Chamber and discuss the Issues of the,Virglnia campalgn, TUE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES aanml hearing cases to-day, although it will nog finally adjourn until the fiest Mon- dny In May, Slow progess has been made In disposing of the cases on the enlendar tirln the prasent tarm, Justices Hunt and Clitforc having been Incopacitated frown sittin the Dench, and Justleo Swayne having re- gigned. ‘This hns reduced the Court to tho Iowest number that ean constitute a quornm, a1t 18 desirable thot the Sonate shonld take simmediate action on _tho nomination of Stanléy Matthews, as, otherwise, much clrendt business wiil have to be noglected, and the Court wlll renssemble in October in its present erivpled condition. - OTIIER DISPATCIES, To the Warlern Associated Preas, WasmNatoy, D. C,, April 24—DPresident Garfield hos taken a_ firm stand lu favor ot exeoutlve scsglons of the Senate and cons firmntions of nomiuhtions, Ie has, since _i‘cslurtluy. sent for and spoken with eleven tepublican ‘Senntors, urging nll of them to rellove the Admivdsteation of” its' embnrinss- wment by confirming the nominations, ‘Che Republican Senators will hold o cayeus nbout’ next Tuesdny, to determine n line of nctlon fn Tregard to confirma- tlons, Among thuss who have been pressing: |, an . exccutive - session ure Sherman, Hawley, Inle, und other pro- nounced friends of tho Administration. Now thut execurlve sessions are to bg held, the ‘Robeptson ¢nse cones to the frgnt agaln, Senatdr 1lale has talked with a nhber of Duemocratic Senators, and assurcid them that Frye, in his speech, did not represent the Administration, Lnlestated that Frye an- tngonizes Blaing, und that the Administra- tion had nothini to do with the inspira- tion of Frye's speech, ‘The President sald us mneh - to o Democratlc Senator to-day, and said e deplored a reopening of the sectionnl question, and that by stands upon his Innugnral upon that question. A Senator who [3a meémber of the Commerce Conmittas says. that Conkling will not try to lmsumnu the iight on Robertsons that Conk- Ing feels that hels strongor now than ever, and when the. exeoutive scesslons ure held he will, instend of swothering Robertson’s naomhiation in Committee, report it adversely und attempt to have (4 rejected. A Domo- ‘eratle Sehator snid to-night that the effvet of -Frye's speech was to wenken Robertsow’s ~ case, nnd that this effect cannot bu eradiented, though it may be par- tinlly overcome, v said that soma Doino- ernts wha ariginally intended to vote to cons firm Rebertson had now determined Lo vota agnlngt him, and this determination could not now ba shaken. THE FIMENDS OF. STANLEY JMARIEWS !say bis enso will hoone of the first acted oft, and that he will b confirmed, ns twenty Demnerats ad oighteen. Ropublleans huye ‘romised to vate for him, Conkling whl not now ke any fikht on Matihews, as ho does not earg to Involve himsell in any_an-. tagonism. _Ail Indicatlons point to "Mat~ thews' confirmatlon PROCEEDINGS . _IN THR BENATE. WasnNaroy, D, O, April 22.—A colloquy took pluce between Sherman and Beck con- ournine the _ allatory proceedings, during which Mr, Beck remnrked that lie would be very caroful what he anld In view of tho declaration of the -Senator - frmin Rhode Island (Burnside), - that **this thing was fnlse, Talse, false, and must stop,” becanso i he should huve to fight ‘he might shoot his man, and thus break up & * constitutional Juajority”? My, Shorman doclarad that the dactrine that the mlnority should rule was danzerous and revolutlonury, nnd, it earried out nnder the rules, Seuate might- bo compelled to revise Its rules, or glo what the ‘Ilouss of Commons had recently dong to prevent dilas tory motions, Jessra, Harrls and_Sherman engaged In a briet discusslon of Riddlebergor, and dr, Shermun sald he did not know what the mas Jority would do, but the fact that it should be compulled to think of what It would do, showed Z A REVIVAY, OF TIIB ‘DOCTRINES OF 1801, Wiatover might come of this cqntest, i ‘would be the judgment vt overy rundor at history that the Dowocrats In this contro- -yersy had takon tho wrong lssne, Hodid on | notdesive to go Inte collutgrul matiers, but, ha would, at some future time, possibly, sibe mit u stutoment of the debt of tho several Slutes, 4 > ‘After o disclulmer by Mr. Burnsideof an Intentlon, Wednesduy, to” reflect upon any ‘Senntor, Mr, Jonas teok the fluor, and the Ileath business was . rovived, Mr, Dawes :Jolning isstie with Mr; Jonas, 3r. Brown then sent to the Clerk’s desk and hnd read extracts from what he called Republican papers, in some of which the deadlock was attributed to a disgrace(ul bar- gain, The pupers were In general pro- nounced not Jepublican, and Mr. Buruside | o, sunt to tho Clerk"s desk and had read an ex- tract from the Loulsville Courler-Journrt to the etfect that the country did not sympa- thize with the Demoorallc Senators i this contest. 3 g 3R, HAWLEY, Lolding lu hi haud o no?n of the Bopublle- an Conventlon in 1868 n Chicngo, read ax- “tracts from n speech wade by ‘tho recon- structed Rtebel, ax-Gov, Heoivi, of Ueorgin' 1l cominented upon the speeeh, and soveral times tirued «he Inugh upon Mr. Brown, [ who himselt Jolned '-in the werrl- ment® <1lo 1ald particular stress wpon n sentence in Mr. DBrown's speech n which ha-said: *1t-you- witl give ns (Geotaia Repiiblienns) the fruits of the vie- tory we have Intely won, we will earry Geor- uin for Gen. Grant 1t had only beon in tho Inst campaign that he had appealed to the colored men to®support -him against ‘the Bourbons, ' THE REPUBLICANS JIAD HAD EVERY RIGNT TO BXPECT 3 || the Senator to tnke. hls.seat on thelr side, They had a butter right to expect that Sen- tor than tha gallant soldior from Virginia, and now the Sehnlor|cnnm Ilmre uln'd dellvered leetur barmain: Laughter, eniisci b‘y‘l\irfil‘:lbv‘v)l‘yy':nmnxtr I;| elosing the book wllki{!!l&e] feld In s hand and throwtng it on s desk, Mr. Brown replied, and then the Senate adjonened tl Tueaday next, ns the Furragut statne will bo unvelled dMonday. o ; INTERNATIONAL BANK. FINDING OF TIE LAWYERS. Spectal Dispatch to 'The Chicago Tribune, Wasnixatoy, ‘D, U, April 23—Reports have reachied the Internal Nuvenue Bureau to-dny that the Internatlonnl Bank has with- held aven from its Inwyers lmportant infor- maton a8 to fts capltal, and thatn largo amount of tax Is:dué the ‘Government on ac- count of capital, ‘The. bank also. made n .proposition of compromnise, but withheld 1t, seeming to prefdr to go to the Courts, i need: be. ‘I'he attorneys of thebank to-night fur- nish the followlng statemonts ‘The figures presonted Ly the Commisslonér of Internal Revogue show thio full amount of the X s ariginlly elninod, und do not profeas to *1nto the amoeunt which he Iusists or finds under his aplnfon to be due from the Internutionnl Tiank. As wo_constrno s oplalon, ho allows our etnlin for deductions of cheicka for clonrings, overdrafts, certiiied * cheoks, collections, Aud checks in teansit, Tho nwount of these Haons, when nscertnined, would be, under his rulings, deducted from’ tho totnl amoent of tho tax claimed, Tho ftems of = “overdeafts aones na cash {toms,” and “Cashlor's checks,” ' which, thg ' Commissioner, in his opinlon, has refusod, would, we clialim,/bo finnlly Nllowed, an tho ground thut s rijection of thuso twn {toms 18 bused upon u misiake of the fnets. 'Fhus, out of the elovon itomns of dee duotion clatmod, seven would be allowed nnid dedugted, There hoing nothing tinal or cane clitsive in the action or lladings of the Commis- sloner, wo shall* dvise the bank' to contest the entire umount of taxes in tho courts, us it bus thorightiodo. . Bueny A, STORUS, Joiny B, HAWLEY. 'NOTES., . 5 atover, ** . Speclal Dispateh to The Chieago Tridune Wasmyaroy, D, O, April 22—It s sald that the evidenco in possession of the Post-s master-Genoral will show that ex-Congross- man Glover, the great investigator of the Forty-fourth . Congress, whose hand was against every man, was the halt-ownerof the patent;, for & olamp for fastening innil-bags, which'is to figure In this scandal In some way. Butit'appears that Glover was not benefited, as the clamp at that time was not adopted. . THE COMMISSIONER OF TIIE GESERAL LAND - ofrICE i has pronnredn'rqpnrt in responso to the re- quest of the Secrétary of the Interior upon tha rights of negroes to onter lands fn the Indian Territory, under tha trgaty with the Indians of the Indian Territory of 1865, The Commissioner deeldes {lint no siich right ex- Ists, ‘The Seeratary of-:the. Inturlor will is- suga proclamation to-morrow warning ne- groes not 1o jolnin the Oklahomn movement. MONEY ORDERS, To the Weatern Anoclated Press. Wasnixeros, D. C., April 22.—=During the first three nonths of the current year the United States money-order [ssies on Great Britaln amounted to £01,450, -and British fssues upon this conntry to £18,020, L THE REINSTATEMENT OF PAYMASTER ED- WARD BELTOWS," by Presldent llu?'ns, hns'caused an unusual dugres of opposition in the Pay Corvs. The Stevenison-Cnswell ease Is rovived, and is be- fore ‘Attorjoy-General MacYeagh for- decls fon. ‘The ensy has nlrendy engaged tha atten- tlon of three Sceretaries of the Navy, Lwo At- tarney-Generals, and two Preshlenfs. il 18 likely to ba carrled to the Supreme Court. " BINES, ‘The Seceretary of the 'Treasury, that forelgn holdors uf 6 por_cont bonds ‘of the United States ean have thelr bonds continned at 8ig per cent, will establish an ugency u London, This nctlon will avold shipwent of coln from this eountry, I ease any Iarge nmount of bonds held dbroad should be purchused here for continunnce. R 5 *, TIIE TOTAL VALUE OF EXPORTS of provisions and tallow for the five months ended Mareh, (1831, were §3557,2005 sanio fime I 1850, $16,200,100, Viines of_dairy »;:»du_cls for 0, the cloven monthsended Murcli S22,5801,0004 for theeluven monthy ended +h, 1850, S13,020,186, PRESIDENT GARFIELD AND WIFE attended to-day, closing the sesslon of National Aendeny ot Sclences, NEW.SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, Trof. Boll ereated quite a sensation at the meeting of the Natlonal Academy of Sclences yesterdiy by the reading of a paper entitlod *The Praduetion of Sound by Radinnt Ln- ergy,” in which he said he had mnde the hn- nortant sclentitie discovery that sonorouss ness would he found to ban general property of nll matter wlhen exposwd to the action of & T4 ldl\-wwrmptcd beatn of sunlight, The sclontistf, who were present at the meeting in large nwmbers, wore .very enthusiastlo over this new discovery, as nurruted in the pupery mind_the Academy. passed a vote of thanks to Prot, Bell,; ™ ALL ABOUT A GLASGOW BANK FAILURE, Speciul Digpatch to The Ciicago Tribune, MILWAUKER, -Wis,, April 22.—Alexander W, Bluck,of Edinburg, Scotlund; O, L.Catos, W, Barry, and B, 8, Sheldon, of Chlcago; W, K. May and IL P, Fuller, of jtnolne; and L, M. Hoso, of Now York, buvo been taking testimony nt thie Plankinton House, In this alty, fu rolutlon to rallvond sceuritios i tho value of 81,655,000, which form u pnrt of the asscts of an insolvent bank of Glasgow. Theso gentlemen form a com- mission nppalnted by the Divectors, Blavk bging apecially wont hero in the capnelty of an attore nev. The tegtimony belng tuken is lu connees ton with a suit communced by the Directors of tho hunk . aminst Willlam™ MeKinnon to maky him lly “llnble for the losses of - tho Lnn uKinnon was o Dircetor prior to tha Liflure, und wndor his direction cor- tuin [nvestribnts of tho bink wara inde, ‘Thoso socuritios #ro supposvd to huve a looul sigpille canow, but tho won ire reluotunt to suy any- 1hing about tha proosvcdings whatover, et ———— SENATOR DAVIS ON MONOPOLIES, Bpecial Dispateh fo The Chicago Tribune, MinwAukue, Wis, April 22—A gontleman in thia oity, who wrote to Benatop Lavid Divis Ine dogsinge the Heautor's viows rogurding tho or- ganlzation of & purty opposed to monopoll has recoived a reply, in which Mr, Davis i “The mechaules, the farmers, and the laborers of this country have its destiny in thelr hands. Thoy uraute Its weallh In timo of poucy, and thoy are its backbono in tinio of war, - Whane ever thoy chonsy txipmlmt themsoives agulnst corporato monopolists und extortion in othor foring, ""‘f,» huyo e pawor tu ke tha protoos tion elfuetive, and 1 hopo they will exercise It wisoly aud well,” e ——— ; HYMENEAL, 8pactat Dispatch (o The Chicago Tridusa, Oconoxowoc, Wis, Apiil —The Ion, W, | D, acon and 3Mrs, Jusle Gibba, hoth prominent residonts of Waukeshs und well known through etias, e mariedat s pag s ' 0 8 D 3 o Bir, Hoberis, i iho. Hubkles Cutivab, befors & soloc: & solect compavy afyintlnute m:mls. z * Dioors! uind Drunkurds® Oathe, ¢ Chambera® Jourial, Col, Bdweworth, an inveteruto eambler, hav- 1ug loat ail l‘ll Fpendy cish at the eurd-tubly, bor- rowed his wifu's dinmond earsrings, and, stuking - thein, il 1 tury of Inok,und rosua winner Gy the umlL whora upun ho solunly vowed never o touch wirds ordico aualn. And yol befure tho week was gub ha wus pullinue steaws from o iek, uud bottlng upon whicli should prove tho ' jongost, keeping o8 - sirictly to the leticr of hig pomise av the bapd drinker who vowed to eschew futoxicating flulds us fong us be bad a bufr_ o\ his head, and an hour afterward omorged from tho barbor's-ghop with a smooth- shaven poll, and thon got tipsy with a cloar copsolence. 2l Marel the Ibave lonfll rogeribed the Phakers' Sartapas rillas, and I think it a most vijuable mediclae,— Jeremlah Biako, M. D., Gilmunton, N by CRIMINAL NEWS, Execntlon of 'anh,idn Fowlkls, Colored, for the Murder of Hoer Hushand, The Murder Comtiittod with an Ax in Lunenburg Coun= e rh tys vy;‘h}m- s No Other Woltidh Hanged in thé o’ Dominion for Twenty- five Yoars, Servant-Girls in' Pittaburg Confis denced Out of Money by | a Scoundrel. Six or Efurit"'me'rgiera Near Mendota, W, Likely fo be Tried for Migder, Burglars nt Burlington, Tn., Caus- ing.-Considerable ‘Frouble and Vexation. A Hard Man In Springfield, IIl., " Probably Fatally Shot by. ? a 'Rough. A Fistio Encounter Between Two Prom- inent Oitizena of Burling- ton, In. . SYOMAN HHANGED. Spectal Disnateh to The Chicago Tribune, Luxexuuna, Va., Aprll 2. —Luclndu Fowllkes, tho nogro woman convicted of murdoring -ber hushand, wns hung here to-dny. The woman spont a restless night and got up early thly marning, She bad no appetito for tho dafnty broakfnst hor fridids had sent hor. ;"At 11:40 sho left hor cell, ncgompanied by a negro preacher, and wont to the scaftold, which was In thé jail yard. Standing on tho scnlfold steps her droop- fug spirits scomed to rovive, and she struck up tho old-time negro metndy, * Shout, my lttlo: sistor; don't you grievo arter. mo,”. and it was taken up by the ecrowd .of hundreds of negroes hanging around tho fafl walls, und sunge.n tholr peculiar Ethioplan way. ‘Tho condemued woman appeared to find great relfol in tho singing of ‘this and other hymns, Sho then bade farowell to hor friends, telling soveral of them, ** Tuke eare of yourself: good- by," and thon closed by saying, ** Good-by all.” 8he spoke kindly of hor pnramour, 1sauc Donn, and sald sovorul times that bo knew nothing ot hor erime. Her hands and feet were thon tied, thn skirts of her dress bound about her foet, and tho black cnp .drawn over her faco. ‘Bho trembled vielently-and had to bo supported by tho Sherlff and bls nsslstunts, At 11:52 the trap wns sprung. - She gavo n fow convulsive jorks, and after swinging elghteen minutes was pro- nounced dead. STHE ORIME, . On Baturday morning, Jan. 15 last, much ex- citement .was created in Lunonburg County, Virginin, by the report that Wilson Fowlkes, a respaotable colored wman, bud beon acoldentally killed by fulling into nwoll on his promises. When the citizons of the county came to Inves. tlzato the matter, howovor, thoy found that tho man had been murdered. Defore his body was lshed out of tho well, blood-stains and portions of braln wore found anthgsido of tho well about three fect - from the top: and this dis- proved the Iden that *Fowlkes .had fallon In. 1t indlcatod that his dend body tind beon thrown 1, and had grazed tho slilo in golng dowi, Clots of blond wero ulso-found lu the ynrd lending from the house of the deceased to the well. Go- ing into the hause, it was scen that the blanket on the bod was covered with blood; and a cont Lolonglng to the dead man was found hidden under the house, suturated with gore. Towlkes was o married man, nod lived with his wife,a grown duughter, and threo youngor children, Buspiclon was at onco attuchod to his wite, Luciuda, ‘and Isane Denn, a nelghbor, with whom sho was known to be too Intimate. Fowlkes had frequently to loave his home tont- tand to bis business, and would be absont from thrao to four dnys; and on thoso aconslons Doun was in tho bablt of sneaking nround and spond- ing his imowith Fowlkoy' wife, 'This soandal- ous Intimacy at last reuched. tho.cars of tho wronged huaband, and he warned his wifoto stop Dean from visiting her. Strungo to say Fowlkes nuver nppanrad to lay any blamg upon Dean, nor did ho appoar to chorish uny animos- ity towards him., Dospito the wurniugs of her. husband, the woman pormitted Dean ta visit hor,—hia visits belng ulways timed ihen the Lusband was away, ON ‘THE SUNDAY BEFORF TIIFE MUKDER, Fowlkes, baving learned of n .recent visit of Dean, whippod his wifo severely; und on Thurs- duy ho toid her that, {f lssuo Dean over came thoro again, hie would shoot bor, From the do- terminod way in which he spoke, tho woman be- llovod he would carry out his throat, On Buturday morning, early, Dean came to Fowlkes' house while he was naloup, Luolndn, who wasup at the time, suw him coming, und foaring that hee husbund mignt awake and cuteh him rhero, and kill ber, at onco doter- mined ta avert such,an ocourrence, Creoph atenlthily into the robm, and tuking nn -ax witl hor, shie stood ovor tho bod, uud with ono blow mushed In the skull of tho sleeper. He turned over on hia aide with a spasmudio Jork, but no sound oscaped his Mlps, The wilo, however, in order to muko sure of -her work; dealt him ane otber biow, Sho thon ewmu out and told Dean thut ber husbhand wiy fuslde, which announce- aient wis sulliolont 1) mako him leavo tha place in quick time, Tho murdoress than set to work to conceal her crimu, und, ifting tho bloody no‘;:{ of hor husbund upon her shoulders, cure rled (t noross the yurd and - DROUPED IT INTO A WELL. : Golng back into tho houge, sho bid as. well ns pass(blo ull truces of her urimo, and then woko up tho rest of the fumily, Bhe sont bor geown duughter to the well 10 get somo wuter, .and tald hor that ber fathor wus thero Ux(ng tha whidlusa. {ler iden wiis 10 propurs tho rlrl for the thnling of the by and convoy the linpros- #lon thut Fowlkes hud “fallun tn, Bho spon fol- lowed hur(lllllfil.lmr. nd, pretending to ho vory tnuch surprised it Dot seoing her husbuand there, suggested thut ha mh&m buye fallen -into tha woll, Uoth then leoked in, nnd the budy wag soun at the bottom. Tho holghbon, however, know of tho unlwful intercourso botwean Dean and tke womnn, and acoused hor af the crimo. Hho thon mudo n full cantession, Dean was discburged, Bhy vg‘{u tried und sontencol to be hanged Aprll 32, The Govoraor was nsked to commiite her sentonce (o imprisoninent for 1ifo, but declined, Tho woinan wis vory, rant, and insisied that she wag comimuu to kill bor husband Inorder tosave her Hfe, I3 s a very ruré occurronce for a womuh to be hung in tueBouth, Thisia the firet Buniing of u femule which bus taken placo in Virginta for twontys five yours, 2 . TIHE LAND FRAUDS. Speclal Lispateh 4o The Chicago Triduns. 8. Louts, Avrll 22,—~When tho United Btates Grand Jury waa in sesslon a fow days sinco for the purpose of investignting the tund frauds, which ¢ases hnvo sinco boen abandoned Ju the Federal Court, o subpieuy was lssued for the ut- tendance of Cnarjes W, Bishop, a Chicago Nota 1y, who was undoratgod tq know n great doal about tho acknowledguient of daods in contivce tlon with the tand slties, The Notary tailed to oboy tho summods, but n ‘portificute wns sont dawn from & Chicigo physlolyy to the effot that Bisbop wus too il to travel to Bt Loule. Populy Marshat Soost Joft horo on the Iitintoinvestiguto the matior, and discoyored (hat -BBlstbp, bad wous West. With the authority of, 8 Speolal Neputy of the Deuver District of the Unitod States Court, Weat proceeded to lows Guloh, a mining comp about twelve miles trom Load. ville, whero he found his mun ottlclating as Sco- retary of the Iowa Guloh Gokl & Silvgr Minlng Company, Howas at onco placed undor arrest and brought here by th_unn:xs through ldralln, ving thi orning. ishop appearod n M’u}ré 8l urely. »'J‘r...'é %rclaok h[: tho '::lmody of thu Muarsbul o answor for ovudiug ‘“the process of the United Btates Cuurt fn a wmattor fnvolyl criminal proceedings. la suld he bad not obeyéd tho summons Lo ate tend the Grand Ju; use an Audrain County, l?.‘t‘uxuor hmom bm; he could not be wm{ : '{vellcu to go tarther than 109 m, llean ¢ Bat- time ho bud 1o fiends to o Cotity, Lowis. "The Sifver Mining Compe Tl nished maney th tuko Bilim: out t cojo™ far, ho wua very alek whon he gat thire, 0 b4 WA told thit the Grand ey png gy 1260 b matter and ho - would nat 1 ORped thy to ntteml hove. lidge Front” pWie e td - disohoyed g et tho United States Conrt aid b prena™ of self on tho aeoro of. sickines, el bia, planning and did make a 1eip 1o 0 0wy ourt would order him fort)-. pieg - p, In tho custody of fia Sarshl, Iy by it o roqutr | butora the Urand Jury ooy nto Conrt having now lu bun inquiry. 4 tho fan IMPORTANT DISCOVERY Speetal Correspondence of The cu‘;‘:‘,“:‘. Mrnora, Tl ATElL 2—~Thar hay ot rumor woing around here for romo dayy. v but whispered In tho inost confdentiay ] thie mystery rogarding tho suddon m','."‘“' nnooof Horsog, somo throa. yonr siae” holng brought, to_Ight, and, 17 thery gy ™ truth In the rumor, some six Or oight fa, = whoso names are coupled with tho aftaly, y:fu" implloated in po less & celme than mur‘dnrlh caursc, no nnmes othor than that of thg p ) | ing mun can bo furnisbed il yn m“n tion, which s . Just beon comper will' jubtiey- . thelr boing e ‘The whispored rumor I8 to tha tollowy, i foct: On a Sundny evening, some mml’nl- 1go, soveral fnrmers nssqmblod at tho mm’ o Ot onp ofithoir nolghbors, Toslding aboyy 'tmios from hore, to rugale thomsclves on g of beer, IHorzog dld somothing that wey 4 tasteful tg them, g row folluwed, ang gy . was kitled,” He wia n man without family, i crilly, etbftoyod 1n. diuxing walls, ung oo™ garded, npact feom: his utility in that wy o worthless, good-for-nothing - sort. nt" ',“ low. Ho .was ' taken . out b itk o bited Con tha garp MM n8 lic digd, andn corn-crib that stoeg L I?‘ was shortly alter moved on the spot his remaing are suid to lle. THo tinn who iy segg {0 linva struck tho futal blow 13 e peochitd 31, awaiting his trind on tho chirgo 'of feakd I o i faFiner in Wwhose house e remniie g Whila soltciting ordors for o uflrn-&il\::x\;::},”’]:‘ hid been lu communication with the o WhiigD house tho mUrder 18 lioged o hatngt committed. with the object of obtnining ww}i threntens u filll confesslon relntive 1o the i immediate action be not_taken in accorduy, Wit s wishes. A day or WO Wi thran 1o op.this mystary. v g EVIDENTLY A BCOUNDREL, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Prrr8ngng, Pa., Aprit 2.—4A man nnmeq cnce Tnppl, who hatls from Cedar Rapids, Miey, bad a heariug to-dny on the chargo of being ¢ suspicious cbarncter, and was sont up for sz’ dnys. ‘Ao hns uutil lately beon omployed iy g walter {1 n promlvent boarding-houss ‘whore ;he mado blméolt agreonble uct only iy his gmployers, but to tho survant-glrly, for whom ho scoms to have a epectal liking, ny by iy ongaged t0 no less than three of then OUng. of thomn llves on Yonn avegus Bho, sponds ‘the, wintors in Plttsburg ay tho summers at lor homo Ih Detroit Bho is not exactly u servant, but o friendof s fumily whore sho atops, and for whom she oy somo work, Sho hus £5,000 In her own name, which ‘Tappl was not slow to T otuar ovanlng- "Lappi was ncconipauyiog te young womnan home from ehurch, Jm whila Ing down strect ho took i gold chain froq _Der noeck, saying ho would kecp It until oo vinced that the girl loved him well enough t ndmit of I8 .murrylug her. By subsequently nSked him® for i, but each. time ~be replled L he wus ot e convinced® that- ahe loved "him. The youog woman grew weary of such roplies, and seatde tectives nfier hor ‘lover, who discovered that by had pawsiod tho chaln. This girl tnd bought Tapplu now sult, und had louncd bim $1i1g cush, The other two mitld to whom bo is enr #wred also loaned him money, 1o owes ong 1 und the othor $17. Nonc of tho girls wers will. iug to mnke information sguinet bio. The De troft luss totd him at the Muyors oltice that ibs * bnted him, yet she lovod bl The loforms. tlon ngninst hlm was mude by a detectlve, wih the result above stated, { * ! THE LADIES DEPOSIT: + Bpectal Duspateh to The Chicago Tribuns T0STON, April 22.—~The trinl of Surah E, ltowy 1ho hoad and front pf tho Ladlos' Doposit awine dle, was resumiod to-day, and tho prosecution - furuished tho teatimony, Much of 1t was cum- Intive, but tho cusu for tho Government teened to-bo- much strengthened by the disclosurns made. Such books 0f uccounts us tho bunk bed could not bo got lata tho evidence, ns a former attorney for the defendunt Howe has them, ad though he responded to the Court summons b nppeuring, refused to pive up tho books excpt by dircctlon “of nis - client, eclalming o profossional privilewo, and the Court sustained tho elnfin. Ono witness testified i tho ‘mmmnr. of withmate paymcnt i3 beld outby, parties lu the Howe Interest ns an Inducement not to appear In court, the understundisg be goneril among dupositors, 18 tho witness n! that thoso who testify uguinst Mra, lowe wil not bo vuld th the good tima coming, .The women who belpeid Mes, Howe—ntl but one, o cunnot bo found—hve bean on the stund, bit oL muck was got out of thewn except testimoy showlng astiftiess and unbusineslike way of cor duuumixhu Dank bushierd, Ono testificd that just hefore Mea: Howe sturted tho bank sho carried on Lusiness a4 an nstrologer, A Quaker frvm Aloxandrla tostitied that no fund hd over beea formed thero hy Quukers, thus contradicilsy Mus. [Towa's story told tu all hor viotins wholo qulired of her financinl basis of the bank. A FISTIC ENCOUNTER. . 8peclal Dlspateh to The Clicago Tribuns Bunui¥aros, T, April 22.=Tho city to-dy .was tho scone of a highly sunsntlonal encountet botween two prominent members of thecom munlty,—P, lenry Smyth, late Judye of 1bs Distriet Court of thia district, and Gearge O sy, Jr, of the firm \of Ray & Fliw Tho difficulty grew out -of the discus slon whicn ‘has for somo timo existed among the wmombors of Christ Eplscopsl Church over tho purchase of a church bufldings A portion of the congrogntion bis been in favo af locating duwii-tuwn, while the baluncs fuvored u sito on North 11, Smytn aud iy bojong to tho oppesing factions, tho fecling be tween which has grown very bitter, ‘To-lay the two mot and engaged in a pagiliatio eucouatet, Ray striking the Judye In_the tuce with hislth una the lutter km;oklu;f tho former down, 08 uccount, of the ‘sociul standing of tho partid this alale hos groted a_great wensatlon wook the Ecn o of thls community, and causedit @ bo tho thome of univeraul discussion. FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY, Ban Fuancisco, Cal, April :2.—About i ] this morning o shooting aifray ocourred s corner of Washington and Kenrnoy streolah® tween Thomaa W, Cunningham and J, A Casd lor, in which tho formor was kilted aitd thelat ‘tor wourided, though not dapgorously, Fasdlf- quarrels wore the cuuse of the tragcdy, the P tiea haviug marricd sistors. Chundier oaiad that Cunnlugham sought to break up bis fuml% in vonsoquence of which his (Chundior's if® left hitn and sued for u divorce, He also cu!m thut . Cunnlugbum fivst drow his pistol ¥ throdteniig Junguage, Cunningham was & ¢ wnigslon morcbunt, Coandler wad formerly ¢80 ployed Iu_tho Mint, ‘and subsequertly ':‘m membor of the Callfornla Doard of Drokers Iately he wantout of'business, but upvmg Govornment appointmont, I is roported u nephiow of the lute Zuel Chandior. —— A TARD MAN SHOT. 8pecial Dupateh to The Chicago Tribune, | HPRINGPIELD, 1, April #2—At nbout 20 cl this moralug, Peachy Burus, prominant it clrclens o hurd cliizen, was shot &t bl and danco-houso noar tho Wabash depot. tho time ho was sltting in tho saluon ¥ o brothor Jobn, whon ‘Thomus un.‘lnrny.lll:"m ous rough, ontered with other hardt e Y'enchy attenipted ‘to'ejoot l:o:lm::gr.:;zfi round, and before B A oo o the nrm""u'g whom hnmedintely ran away, B¢ ornl‘u Inm Franks, and Andy Hurley were quently urrestod as mombers of the g % founi vovolver with ono cmpty chambor Waf Dy, of vious tro fatie 18 4l alivo, but ja. mab oxpocted 10 I B - ABROTL!S CAS! Tostox, April 2:.—Cov, Long hes ",f,'.”:x: tho projost of Wondoh Phillips agaiost B0 o cuton of Btonrns K. Abbott., The Gol clalme for himsolf the samo humanity 'n““ Iips on the subjact of cupital, pnnl-hM:'“ v bid recommended the Councfl'to com h soutonco, Ilo says; * With the Cuuncflm“ fhuvo no . mose power in tho case P have, clthor to pardon or ‘onmumute. wezrssh, withold or refuse to sign tho deat ¥y becausy the warrant, under the vmenn" 208" fsued by the Court at the time af ‘l;. motir® Iegardivg Pblllips’ nsinuation u8 10 aske 10f 3 on the Governur's part, the latier hll“D"““‘ :-‘gdlyrltg myulo an insioustion witbout foul tion.’ rngwn:ua&rmfxfl" Byecisl Dlapoteh to y 1 Dususatos, s, ApHl ”“““"',';..p‘w beonYplying tholr trado in this otty "nl(fi' (] wack, Quring which time scarcely & BE Lyqp passed Wwithout some’ houso being .:umd Dight-prowlers, though thus fa (B9 =T \\ P E=) A s g e B o N LSS g