Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1881, Page 3

NEW YORK. nquet of the Mem- Annl:)l;ls ]3? \%m Chamber of Commerce. S Windom and Postmas- smloc::“gmmml Jumes Dres- ent as Guosts. SRS ohes by Each @entleman, Touch- o Sucoessively the Treasury ing and Post-Offices it T the Com- cretary Windom Announces 2 plete Sucoess of His 6 Per Cent Call. e ‘ ¢ Already Taken to Move 4 cmtiltt?;lm of the Norwegians Qver Here: Pl Jay Gould Understood to Be Rap- Unloading His South [dly western Stocks. e s | mhe Praduce National DBank Beaten Out of $#4,000 by » Sharp Forger. s Showing the Ravages of Cerebro flmflpfinnl Meningitis and Typhus Fever, BANQUETING. NQUET OF THE CUAMDER OF AXNOAT BANUES R, NEw Yonk, Moy 10.—The twenty-third annnal banquet of the Chamber of Commerce took pince thisevening, Mr. James M. Brown, Chalrman of. the Reforn Committes ‘of Seventy, presiding, On the right of Presi- dent Brown sat Seeretary of the Treasury Willism Windom,and on his left Postmaster- General James, Awoug the letters of regret read was one from Prasident Gurfleld and another from Senator Conkling, Good-nat~ ured badinage and some nolsy excitement followed cheers for the President and the Semator. Chalrman Brown then pro- sented Secretary Windom, Ile was warmly * peceived and spoke In responsy to the sentl- kg THE NATIONAL TREASURY.” After acknowledging the compliment of the invltation nnd the kindly feellng manl- fested, Secretary Windom snid: * For sey- el yearspast 1 have defoted o grent deal of attentlon to the industrial and commercinl interests of the country, nnd Lam Intensely Iiterested In everything that looks to their promotlon, When I remember what o coun- ty we have and the magnificence of Its commerclal motropolls, nnd whon I look forward a little Into the tuture and foreenst, whatmiddle-aged men will live to sce, that this is, I believe, now to be the greatest Natlonon the face of the earth, and New York the leading metropolls of the world [spplanse and loud cheering], I feel n sense of pride and gratiileation which I cannot sdequately express, Wihon TUE PRESENT ADMINISTHATION CAME INTO POWEIL onthe 4th o Mareh, It found the maturing debtof the Nation nearly$700,009,000, $:200,000,- w0 of which (or $105,000,000 and over) bore 0 per cent Interest, and was payable the tst of Julynoxt. About $470,000,000, bearing b ‘por cent Interest, became redeomable on the 1t of May (the present month), but not sbsolutely payable. ‘The Administration found itself without any Funding bill pro- vlded for the pyrpose of refunding this large auount of indebtedness, 1'wo questions pre- sented themselves, Flirst, should an extra sesslon be called YOR THE PURPOSE OF MERTING THE EMERe GENCY which would arlse within two or thres months, or shill sonse other mode be adopted which will obvinte the necessity of an oxtra session and make requisit provision for the debt? The Prestdent of the United States— 1think we alt agrea with him very well on \hnxubjecl—l_-ecnmllzml the fauct that an extra session’ of Cougress 1s n very expensivp Juxury, Expensive not i Enney st perhaps, but in tho fact that urlnxtnn oxtra session of Congreas tho busl- fimn the country i3 nsnally unsettied and er':\wd. ud that bushiessmen dislike Lo’ eubark In enterprises requiring large invests me‘nu beenuse they do not know what some aetof leglslatloh mny have upon investments. ul;l WAB THEREFORE TIOUGITT DESTRABLE wflh“’“" this it possible, and adopt o plan bt th would meet” these bonds and pressrve M‘om‘m of the United Status. ‘The plnn o bied was one which would not disturh M{ul the business interests of the country, ‘mhgtle thew nor jar them In the least, which would not cost nny_ consid- e nmount of monoy. It was o st of solfneting, self-regulating fllm'th and [ am happy toannounce to you to- it M. Presidont and yentlemon, the grand fiexa which bas foilowed the ndotlon of that i Applnugo.] The fm';,wu.un of 8 por Fiitbon s which would fall due un the 1st of vm{n‘l';:n‘ calied, 8 you are aware, with u m'lm:“!ur;n‘flo‘n‘x;m rl‘hu&' duy, bt mrmlnlnlt:r!l ol ey desired 10 do 20 (as o favor 10 thom), &n » u:ccr:lvr 83§ PER CENT INTEREST oty nll baving the woney pald 1o thewm on the W‘_"‘“ sl.luuhwr.] 'ho limitation of that Werg Je 2xplced to-iday, thio 10th of My, Thoy by |‘ one month'to nxerciso the righg to o %0tho futorst from 8 per cont todl per R Iedtm! et lmitadon, ns I say, Bus noe by, oy it unlnd Mohtlomen: & Sispidioh ntlowmon, n#fl;“"“‘ me, at iy’ rmuml:::":lt. 4 Ll’gll‘(gfl 00, from th " reasuey, ' It th ue Toflowag 0t Buoretary of ml;,llmmx. D. C., Muy 10.—8lx per_cent edund opened, $144,00,000. Thore Nm rl{t‘ml‘bmnhl unopony Applausa.] meved for cautinuanco for uboul §17,- eard ‘fron(LIOUULLY aliout. 130,000,000 1 ar W| e llrln‘m].-lwwlnu only about ousanila held entiry §145,00, [Appinuse] abrond, of ow, | a1 :lnmflm!fi"'“‘ this about, M, President X Wuspy h":::l‘:r. NTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY The banigpc Sected {n tho slightest degres, Wl acqpet ¥ J0ITUAL Bus rumained as it wae, tag one “‘luybmly know the procoss waa go- Wdojt, .An Jut cost the Guvernment $:2,000 Be yjy ADpIRUs0.] 71 don't know but It may the ““Mdl':( the schemo somewhat s 12 churon wintster romurked of the brothur "“‘Chu‘!m ald; I huvo boen uw momber O oo flnh tweaty-live yoars and It hus not * And gy “l]:\mu- The ininlster ezolnlmed: soult+ 8 &'“‘ Bave merey on your stingy of thyy k] L The fuct fs, the entire cost ‘“Jfltlmma g tho futorest on nesrly $200,- B ahni et I ol v L ce) aid an, Wring o?': 1 0xchungo thom abroad 04 1 1 THAT 1y 4 Llsernents, und n 3 Beata beso Lassta, Ir, Presidont and gontle 2 LL IT AR COST. bo nugylticont oredit © ‘T‘nun (u-mu.lnuuuvnluumll. ::od FAROFiLy uf this groat country s e gt B gafe in suying vo nation "'"'mmna"u upou the fuce of tho onrth 1o-duy (s bOSDOTOUBUS tho Anjorivan Nu- haabblutise], und tle sucouss of this R ik L by, Peire4INEE1a which th propanti fon bas bepn nkors uxilelllner lliunxulul ppluune,’ ow o, e President aid gous ‘“;‘:Hnm I::; u;:al- operation, | ediidnonarn O *aY that tne Volllugiry Olury ' MAY " "&A'\‘t. THE BAME PIIVILEGE L“"lhw,“] ©OFtondod to the uwnars of the ay d[«un think (v would bo fale o ?a'fllun Of the hulders of Amere n theretouscrhalnuto wyuiuet kby of or, n! Satiargers, B¢ this bus provo 1ha 00 o sgug Ors 1Y Prosont burpouy fe W lapptauine priviieyo Yo “the Boiders of “'“B\ of iy 4], und 1 e ug sort o lemap, ) I‘l"-‘vcu.< Mr, R And | ey y 08 * mmfi{@:""“ peak of ot understand It soucwmed, 1t 1s ‘ th lest process In the worl t\l'llrc any amount of offort, but Whon the Loy whistled In schoul vam! for it ie plonded 1n exeuse, “1t whistled Lrolf," and that is all thare Is of it. It isbecuuse, A8 1 sald & moment ago, ol THE PROSPRRITY, AND PATRIOTISN, AND CIUEDIT OF TIE AMKRICAN IPEOPLE. ‘That 18 what did It, and nothing olse. (Ar- mim, ]« Tho debt will keep on refunding it- soif. 1t will keep on duing 80 A long AR we Watch the Natiunnl honor with lealousy, and ko long 0 keop up this prosperity, which 18 to be dono by guarding tho commorclal, Industrinl, and’ manufacturing Interestaof thn cmlnlri. Thero (s some rntay- onlsm now to our tarilf laws, but therc is no real trouble in gotting tho whole mattor futo ordor. There ought to hea now department to this G inged | o acivcmmnnv.. placed in apocial ahaego of tho FOSTERING THE COMMEICE AND INDUSTRY OF THE COUNTRY. 1 would make it embraco sgriculture, mincs and mining, and commerce, grouped under ono hoad, to bo put In chinrge of n responsible Min- ister, and with this we would stand very diffor. ontly from what we do now, Look at our shipping! Would not the ocean now he plowed by Amorican bottame, as itwas bofore tho War? Our production is boundiess, but the market Is limited. Groat lrltain - has oxtunded hor marketa to the ends the earth by diplomacy, and even by war. Shail wo roit the (overnmental powor of Ureat $ritnin to open mnrkots, while the Amaorican mgr-’;lan‘unmunnompnm slnglu-handed, Nol LET THE AMRRICAN GOVERNMENT DACK UP the Indlvidual Ameriean eitizen. If my own Btate Ia to grow and prospor, it nust have com- munlcation with tidewator, 1 wonld havo this Government Departmont look attor cheap |rnnu|imrmlnn. and linve the Administration ro- Apunaible for the ronl (nteroats of tho country. 1 sny wmin, thon, that present prosperity Is to be maintained by an organization ot sime kind, ana I do not thifik that anything can do It bet- tor than the Government. Glve our farmors tho murkats of the world, and .our prospority will contlnue. Ii\pnlnuan.] ‘The third tonst announced was ' The Post-Of- flee Depnrtment—its now administration hns nlready affondod tho stcongest poesible argu- wemnt in favor of Civil-Bervice reform,” Chairman Hrown Introduced POSTHASTER-OENERAL JAMES ns respondont to this toast. Mr. Jumes wns Emwu by tbree honrty cheors, the gucsts at tho unguct rising and wiving thelr bandkerchiefs “;Efl{l‘f; of tho Postmastor-Gouceral, In response ol I thank you most heartily for the kind man- ner in which [ have been greeted, 1 um directod by tho President of tho United Stutes to sy that 1t was his Intention Lo bo presout tnls evenine, but, owing (o the severe, though I am glad to sty not serlous, fliness “aof - Mrs, - tield, bo nde himself unable tend, nnd ho requosts me to prosent regrots. Spoaking of the inveatigations now in prugross in the Fost-Ollico Dopartment by di- recuon of the President, lot ‘o suy thoy nre alined at n syatem and not at men. But if this inquiry should discloso the fact that nuy persons have been K GUIAY OF CORIUPTION AND FRAUD, they will bo turnod over to the Departmont of Justico, presided over by tne intrepid, nble, and onergetic Attorney-Genertl Wayne Muc Vengh, [Great applnuse.]” Second, the country may bu ugsured no mpil service nccessary will ho nbol- fatied or curtafled, whils sl unficcessary and wasteful exponditisre will bo relontlesly cut off, [Appluuse.] In other words, 1t 18 propored that the Postul servico shall be' conducted ond distributed with striet regard - to tho notual publiv requirsmonts, and not with a view to serving rrlvnm interests, [Ap- plause.] 1 will only udd, in further rofercnco to this subjoct, that it Is the intontion of the Prosident, ns embodier in his explicit {nstrue- tioue tn myself and tho bouornble Attor- ney-Ucneral,” to pursuo this investipution until thorn are no more fucts conncotod with it to be ascortslned. [F'rolonged appliusc.] Again thuuking you for your kiud attunuon, i vonclustun, let_mo beg tonssura you no eifort shall be sprrod.to ndministor tho uifulrs of the Post-Ofice Depurtment fuithfully, effioientiy, and economicatly; that an earncst cudesvor be made to mcet tho Increasing de- mands of our yruowing The businoss and soclal requirements of this great oity, as woll ns those of other cltios, 80 far s postal facilitios aro concerned, shall nut be overlovked or Ign L and_that no Inbor shnll bo neglested to the Nntlon u la{rvlcn]ul which It nocd not bo ashamed. [Ap- plause, 'STREET TALK. GOULD SAID TO I SELLING. Hpeclat Dupateh ta The Chicago Tritune. New York, Moy 10.—*Tho market to- day,” sald & leading broker this afternoon, “ hag been rather quiet as a whole, although some stocks have shown a great denl of activity, There hasbeen considerable renllz- ing on the Vanderbilts. ‘The stock oy been sold carefully, so a8 not to depress the mar- ket, but 1t is undentablo that thero has been a selling movement. Mr, GouldIs sald to have given selling orderson nll Southwestern stocks. ‘The ninrket will not be depressed, yet L think Mr; Gould means to reallze on some of his long stock, Theralsa way of looking at Iron Mountatn wnich mukes itseem high enough, Missour] Pacific s capitalized at $12,000,000, Iron Mountain will be capl- tallzed at $12,000,000 under the new arrange- ment, That makes $24,000,000. Missourl Paclfic at par corresponds with Iron Mount- aln at75, Missourl Pucific 1a & 6 percent stock., Iron Mountain will, 1t Is sald, PAY TWO DIVIDKNDH THIS YEAR Suppose the new stock Is a6 per cent stock and Iron Mountain is within 3 per cent of par, 1s not that high enough, when Hantibal preferred, Omaha preferred, and Wnbosh preforred, *all 6 per cent stucks, nre In tho nineties, Youlsville & Nashville bas beea about jl;u nu;«-w:ln;«‘eg l'é{":k x\3 the list. It Iml- vanced from 4 undor good Luying, The price in Englund 18 fully maintained, and tha fricnds of the stook say It I8 certain to reach 110, Tho story that Westorn Union would be 801d to i forelgn corporation 18 atlout. aguin to- uy, A corporution 8 sald to bo all ready to or- nizo under the Jorsoy luws and -buy out the catern Unlon Company, snd thus scttlo tne questions mt lssuo, e stock hns been Tfairly actlye to-duy. 8t. Paul touched 1t8 highost polut In the present rise. To-day thero was an uttempt 1o dupruss the stoek, but thopoal cumne to the rescue, and showed ite powur by markiug the prico up to 1213. The snles may hot have boun all genuine, but some of them ware, and It is said the pool unlonded 8 fow more sharoa than it bought, ‘Fhero was ANOFHER EXPONURK OF LACKAWANNA to-day./ Mr. Sloan Is re“orux! as threatening to suo tiig paper tn which tho attuoks are mude for libel, Tho prico bas ruted au little bolow the ownhui- "'naro was & bult In the advance In Paoltic Mail this morning, but it is said the stook 18 good for sixty. Erlo has udvanced to (0¥, and Northwustern ollmbed to 1284, with very conaldernbla transactions. A largo businoss has been done ju Wabash proforrod.™ THE HIX PER CENTA, To the Weatern Amociated Prose, New Yok, Muy J0.—Tho Kvening ost nayst 4 An wo writo a dispatoh trom Washington comes to tho effect that tho Treusury Departmuont estl= mntes thut $40.000,000 of the 8 have not yet uj plled for extension at U percont. ‘Tnosoin position to Judge with uplxmxlmum correotness now oxpress the opinlon that the Tronsury will not bo ubliged to puy cash for moro than §13,- , or, &t the outsido, $15,000.000, providod thero ia no extonsion of time in this country,” STOCK ORDERSY, Orders from Loudon for 20,000 shares of Louls. villo & Nushvillu Ratiroud stook huve baon filled here within tho last ten days, and another ordor for 8,000 camo this mormng. A juod part of the tloating supply for thia stock in this murkot hos now buen wbeorbed. No part of the country has been sbowing greater Improvomnent in the lust yoaror twothau tho Soutn, whero tho Bcoin 1o bo giving loss attentlon to what fs politics and 1nure to matorinl developmunt, so that it Is not strunge that Bouthern Interosia are now lovking up In ull murkuts, TOO HIGI, Tho Graphis states that conservat!ve operators h:mo confidenco in tho present high prices of 8 NORWAY AND SWEDEN., CONTRACK TO MOVE THOSE COUNTHIES OVER HERE, Bpsctal Dispateh ta The Chicago Triduna NEw Youk, May 10—A faw days ago o ca- bla dispateh was recolved in this clty, stat- ing that the owners of a steamship line in Hull, England, had contracted with partles In Norwny and Bweden to bring about 80,000 ewlgrants, from those countries to the United Btates, Alr Christian Bors, the Norweglan und Bwedish Consul, safd to-duy that such & contract had boen made with tho owners of the Wilson Line of stenmers. The cwigeation from the countries he represents to the fanming lands in the West s rapidly doveloping, and the applioations for travwportation duriug tho wintor 1nonths wore 0 great tHAt A contraot with une compuny became nunuuur{. e son Liuo uffured (he groutsst ndvanisges,buving & tleet of vesscls runuwg between Hull sud the rinolpal ports, in Norway and Swodon, bosides Envw u mutual agreement with ull FRANSATLANTIO STEAMSUIP poses e Tull, wnd It proj to carry the emigrants to Iull, un then send thew by traln tu Liverpoul, whure they will be transferrvd to & stodmer for Nuw { Han tho agent of the Wilson Line, suid that the emiwrution froin K wnd Swedon durlng this sutumoer and T rubably exceed the number contraoted % [ the vastness aud wesith ouuntry hae becowy fuwiliar to twem the pust fow years. The ewlgrauts - THE coMPA~ ! 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBU "WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, ISSI—-TWELVE PAGES will bo renelv a the Com ateamer at the ports “of Chbristiania and Hergen in Norwiy and at Gottenburxe In Sweden, After their arrival at 1lull thoy will be amigned o different stewmers belonung to the Natiooal,lo- man White Star, aud Conard Linas, which Al from Liverpoal, ' ie did not know whether the ot wid Lo taku tho vinlgrants beyomd this DELAWARE & IIUDSON, ANNUAL MEKTING, Bvacial Dispalth (o The Chicago Tridune, New Youk, May 10.—The stoeckholders of the Delaware & Iudson Canal Company held their annual meeting to-day and olected the following gentlemen as o Joard of Managers for the ensuing year: A, A. low, Jamnes M. Hnlstead, 1o Qrana B, Cannon, Thomas Cornell, Robert 8., Hore, James R, ‘I'aylor, Thomas Dickson, John .Jacob Astor, James Roosavelt, Adolphus Iinwm- lton, Abraham R, Van Nest, 1lugh Jo Jewett, and David Dows. Mr, Jewott tnkes the placo of Levl I, Morton, and Davld Dows that of Geprge Cabot Ward, The aunual revorl of the business of the Company shows that In 1830 thoy mined and sold on their own account 2,074, 704 tons, and carred for othor parties 280 tons, making a total of 0,047,u0 tons bandled durlng tho ychr. Tho result of tho yerr'a busincss shows a profit of 135,142,271, ora tritle more than 0} per cant on tho capital atock. TIE LEASKED LINKR under control of tha Company have become solt-supporting, and Prosidont Dickson says: "It ia now safo to mesert that the nosses- sion of these lincs tus strengthonoed the position of the * Company to an extont that fully justifies tho policy that led to thelr acquisition.” The carnings of tho loused lites wero $4,111,487, and the oxpannes wore $1,120,1%0, Ieaving & deficit of but $14,613, Ty ¥ VITAL STATISTICS. CEURBROAPINAT, MENINGITIS, Nrw Youk, May 10,—The denths from cerebro-spinnl meningitis, otherwise kuown ns spotted-fever, have been so numer- ous since Junuary as to call for speclnl nction Ly the Hlealth Department, which s en- denvoring to prevent an epldemic of the disense. ‘The total nuinber of cases reported from Jan. 1 to lust Saturday was 263, of which 223 were fatal, Ina house on First avenue, between Fifty-sixth and Fifty soventh streets, five children of a Bohemlan cigarmaker fare now prostrated by it, and three chiliren died from the affects of the disense lust week at No, #H3 Enst ‘Thirtioth streel. Cerubrospinal meniugitls Iy, ae- cording to 8 medical ou- thorities, caused by bad sewerage. Horses frequently_fall' vietims to it.. A year ortwo agv the Fourth Avenue Rallroad Company and other horse-car companies suf- fered vonaiderable loss through ita ravages among their live stock. All classos of persous aro labla to bo afllicted by It, atthough it _more coininonly prostrates the young cbildron of peo- plo who llve in dirty, badly-ventilated tenes nents, In 1872, when tho uumber of deaths froin tho wanlady was 782, some alarm was folt in sanitary ciroles, and extruordinnry preeautions were employed to stay its progresa. The deaths in subscquont years wero as follows: 1873, 240; 3834, 168; 1875, 146; 1876, L7 1877, 110; 1878, 07; 1870, 1083 1880, 170, OVIRSTUDY AND OVERWORK. At tho Burcau of Vital Statiatics to-day wore roported tho deaths of Martha I, Cronk, 8 years, from ovorstudy, that produced cercbro-spinn wenlugitis, und Mury June Carulan, ago 80, from peritonitis, cnusod by overwork. . THIE NUMBER OF TYPIIUS PATIENTS on Bluokwoll's Inland I8 G3; smallapox patients, 160, During tho week 6 now cuses of smull-pox and 20 now casca of typhus wore ‘found clity. Doaths froin small-pox, 13; from typhui 8 47, “Thero wero 157 new cusos of measles (’lurmx tho lwenk. ilvo of them in tho Colored Orphan Asylumn, A BHARP GAME, HOW IT WAB WORKED, Nrw Youg, Moy 10,—April 19 Thomas Clarke, who has o desk-room at 17 Dey street, opened an nccount with the Produce Dank, e made dlifferent doposits, and on the 5th of May n young mancame to the hank and deposited to Clarke's credit » check drawnon the Nationnl Bauk ot Commerce for $4,600, and slgned by I 1l Rochester, ‘Trougurer of the Western Union Telegraph Comvany, On the dny following the same young man doposited to =~ Clarke's eredit a sinilarly-signed check for su.mm nud on tho same day he presonted a ohook sign by Clarke for $4,000 and recelved tho money. Shortly after tho Praduco Bank authorities found the chocka were forgeries, and, on tha Tth Inst,, the youug man sgain mAdo his appearuoco with a check from Ciarke for §1600, when ho wra arrosted. [n court this afternnon he gave the nnme of Hanr{ Tode, 8 West Twenty- suventh strest, and tus ocoupatlion ns a olork, in which mruu(!y ko was employed by Clurke, He said ho did not know the notes wore forgerles, but was hetd to answer, THE WALKING MATCIIL, DIRGUBTRD PEDESTIIANS. Nrw Youk, May 10.—When linznel left the track at the walking matoh last night he took n fow houry’ sleep, and then went home, The ounly men now walking nre Geldert, Clow, and Sulllvau, The latter having scored ‘130 miles at 9 a. m,, he went to his tent and did nos reappear until after 11, Geldert pussed Clow at U a. m,, and soon sucoceded in puttng nluo wmilos botween him- self und the lattor, who slept for an bour. At noon to-duy ubout torty perdons were looklog at the alrondy tirod outaud disgusted pedestrinns. The score_then stovd; doldert, 13U; Clow, 1503 Bullivan, 133, EDWARD GALY, Edward Gnlo, the English pedestrian, arrived yosterday. He has douo soveral wxtraordinary tusks, ammonk them 1,600 miles fu 1,000 hours, sturtiug ut tho beginning of auch hour, And 4,000 quarter-mtles fo 4,000 consooutive periods uf ton minuteg cuch, i ITEMS, BIG TELEGRAMIIIC SCHEMR, Bpectal Diapatch to The Ohicago Tridune. Nrw York, May 10.—Books of anbscrip- tion to the eapltal stock of the Contral & Bouth Awerleun ‘Velegraph Company wilt ;b opened In:this city and Phil- adelhin to-dny, OF tho total capltal of 50,000 shares, 85000 shares are offered fur publlc subscription. ‘Fle pay- ments oxtend to Decamber, “‘The Company intend to ostablish telegraphle communi- cation with Mexlco and Contrnl aud South America by way of the Isthmuses of Paunmn and ‘Tohuantepee, and has obtalned from thg Governments of the countrlea which its lines will touch valu- ablo contracts exteuding over u long serios of yoars, 1t hns made favornble agreements for thaexchange of business with the Mexlcan Telegraph and the Weat Coast of Amoriea Telograph Companies. The proposed line conslsts of nearly 1,000 miles of submarine cuble, and-about 300 miles of land line, TIHOMAS A, KDISON, the electriclan, has purchased the factory at Eust Nowark, which belongud to the Yeters Manufacturing Company, He will manu- facture his electric lights, and will, it 1s said glve employment ut the start to 1,000 men, STEAMSUIP CAPTAINS INDICTED, The (rand Jury of the United States Cir- cult Court presented Indictments to-day agninst the masters of stcamships running between Ilamburg, = Bremen, Glasgow, Antwerp, Llverpool, aud thls port who mre charged. with carrylug passengers—ln some Instances more than 200—in excess' of the number permitted by the Navigation laws, The passengers carrled were Lmmigrants, The aecused Captains will becalled on to-morrow to plead before Judge Benedict. Capls, Meyor and Braudt, of tho Hamburg line, who are indicted, committed suiclde—one Inllam- burg aud ene In Hoboken—a fow days ugo, TILE PETHOLEUM EXCUANQE, b the Westerw Assoclated Pross. NEw Youx, May 10.—The Petrolenm Exe chunge has chosen ' the following oftlcers: Yresident, L. IT, Smith; Vice-I'residents, W, W, Miiter and O, ¥, Ackepinann; Secrotary; J, F, Hlughes; Treasurer, Henry M. Curtls: Directors, Juslah Luinbard, U, ‘Trube, Liv ingston Roe, Nio Mehlen, Dah Josttel, II, Ituubius, C. W, 8tanl, Goorge H. Lincoln D, It Otley, Goorge ¥, Oregory, Willlam J. Ives, and E. Bchalk, ¥ . TAHGETS, Genernl orders have boon lssued by the War Department setublishing 4 systoni pf rewards to onvourage tarket practice o tha regular army, A VEHDICT FOI TUE CITY. The sult of the oitv axulust the Bruadway & ! Beventh Avenue Hatiroad Company to reoovs 4 licansu-feo of $50 on orch car resulted In a8 vordict for tho oity for $46,000. MAYOIL GRACE sent to tho loard of Aldermen to-ilay nomina- tions for the vacant oflicos. Threa only are known to be politiclans. The romalnder aro well known In thole soveral profossions. THE DEAD BLACKMAILEIL Whilo 8 datectivo was oxamining the hat of I rt he found under the d victim. Tho 1, Bagert's Mrs., SBtrasburger, origlnal 18 in the handwriting of V' accutnplice, who Is now in the Tombs awaiting trial. Disvlosures of & startling natLura are ex- peeted nt the trial LEASING A RAILIOAD. The Missouri Pucific Rallruad comrlnyhnl toased the Missourl, Kansas & Toxns Huilroad, which §t hos operated since the lattor roed was taken from tho hands of the Union Trust Uome iny in Docomber of lsat year, The lease ns " lieen approved aad signed by tho officory of both companies, and will be submit- ted to the umoxnu\&n for ratification on May 18, 1t {a undoratood that tho lcase in a virtual continuationof tho present ngreament by which tha Mirsour] Paoitic operates the ruad and pays W the Cotnpany the nut L1 e —e—— —— MATRICIDE—~SUICIDE. A Wisconsin Mun Attempts to IKi1 Fifs Mothier and Thon Himwelf~The Pros pects Are that Ho Wil Bo Successful in Both Attenipta. Bpectal Diapateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, MADIg0N, May 10.—A shocking attempt at matriclde, supplemented by the attempted sulelde of the criminal, Is reported from the Town of Rutland, eightcen miles southeast of Madisom. The first in- telligenes of the horrible occurrone was recelved at Stoughton, the nearest tele- graph statlon, nbout 10 o’clock to-dny, when amessenger rode In from the residence of E, S. Danks, n farmer living a few miles westof Stoughton. e reports that at about Y o'clock thls morning Danks had attemapted to kill his motber with a hatchet, and thon tried to kill himself with the same weapon, Ile succeeded in cutting the old lady’s throat so natosever tho windpipe, and thon drow the batchet uoross his own throat with the sume ef- fect, Medical attendmance was Immediately summoned, but all to no purpose, Thoy say that both will die, Tho reusons signed for Danks’ rush nct are that his mother, who Is ubout 70 yours old, Is partinily deranged, and has beon a source of trouble be- tween hor son und his wifo. Danks himself bas ith fts of in- also been troubled wi ennity, Hoth Danks and his mothor arn yat alive, though ai - oxtremely in precarious conditon. Later on In the duy ho seemed 1o realizo the anornity of his crime, and was overwholined with remnorse. A roport re- ceived from tho residonce of Danks nizht was that both were yet alive. Danks is a kind- hearted, churitablo man, highly respected by all uequalutances. e —— TRADE IN 1880, Report of the New York Chamber of Commerce for tho Last Year. New Yok, May 9.—~The Chamber of Com- merce has Issued fts twenty-third anuusl re- port, reviowing the work on tho Chamuer during 1880, and tho niovemnnt in each branchof tho commarco of the Nution, Btato, and city. ‘Tho sugue teade 18 said to bo in a prosperons conditlon. Tho total consumption of sugar In this country is placed at B00,UX tons, an increase In 1830 of 75,000 tons uver 1670, Boveaty-fivo por cent of the Imports of sugur was mado at this port. The Increased supply was from Brazil and the Weat Indies. Tho prospects for the sugar crop this yoar aro auid to be guod, In the colfee tradoe tho danger of attempting to forco rices by monopolizit the ly has ?mluu fully Illuslrn':cd. l‘].fimal.roul lp‘l:gullflfl In this trude resuited ina slightly docreased con sutnption, reaching 176,000 tous in 1830, against 184,000 tons in 1870, The tea trade during the yoar was also unprofitablo. ‘I'he importation of forelgn hides oxceeded that of nuy rruvloun ‘your, & declino in prices being the resutt. ‘I'he wine and llquor trade I8 said to have boen murked by unprecedented prosperity, Relerriig to the export traile, the roport sny! Of exports, 185,621 bales of cotton, agpiiust 1,407,006 ules last year, Now York scnt 850,80 bales, agninst 570,847 Iast your, thus not only re- mlul‘m; the falling off tha last threa years, but excouding by nuarly 50 per cent the largest fig- ures in tbe history of trad, The entire valuo af tho grajn Uxpurls was ot the whale United Hiates ¥288,000,00, aguioat £208,000,000 the {uur previous, and of this trado Now York had $134- W0, Of llve auimals uunr% HU0.000 wera exportod, valued at uearly $16,000,000. Of this trade Now York had over $7,000,000. Tha total provision trude, exclusive of aulmais, shows that of $120,000,000 valuo exported New York sent $91,000,000, The expurt of petroleum sho n decline. The productlon Is niso greatly in cess of consumpton. ‘Tho totnl New York trade lmports and oxports of moerchandise and preclous uietals amonnted, in 1880, to $U04,570,830, llrnlnnt $706,235, T In 1879, an Incrouse of’ $160,314,143, Tho yoar 1880 will b over momorable as thut In which the foreign trade of the commerclal motropolls of tho cuintry reached the sum of nearly $1,000,000,000. ————— DISRAELI'S FUNERAL. The Nephew Who Is INiis Helr—The Mourners Who Followoed the Statos= man’s Coffin, NEw Yonk, May 9.—Tho following paragraph 18 tuken from Mr. Smalley's London lettor i this morning's Tribune, describiug Beaconstield's funcral; “Nextto the bier came tha chlof mournors, Ralph Disraeli, hrothor of the luto Kurl, und Muster Conlngsby Lisracil, his nephew aud boir. ‘Tho lud I8 a school-boy ul Charter House, bug I muke bold to sny he has one of the most strik- ing of physlognomies, Tho strongly Jowish features bore u striking resemblance to thuse of Lord Beuoonsllels. Ho wad, one might faney, & vountarpart of the author of * Vivian Gray.' as Muouwll'ms ’I'““"fi r?lg‘fi T'I.:: !lrohor;hnll t"rk eyes glistoning brikhtly throug o tenrs lgll filied thom, justiticd the beliet of tho chlid- load stutesman that tho lad had *the stuff In him,' for which reason be hus inade him his vole heir. Thon cama the faithful friends of the lute statesmun, Lords Howton and Barrington, and the execuitors, Sir Phillp Rosuand Sir N, M, du Hothsobild, These constitited the chief mourn- ors, and following thow wers the threo Royal Princes fn lino, the Prinee of Wales {n the cen- tro, with the Duko of Connaught on his loft, xnd Prince lLieopald on his riwht, und asg the procos- sion moved out of tho north entrance It wae closed by tho oflicors and noblemoen represente Ing tho Quoen and Koyal porsonages who were utiable to Le present, " From the sonth ontrance thore came to meot thom wn assombly ot tho most distingulsbed en who have over assumnbled at an Engilsh country churchynrd., Theso wero the nembors of tho Deaconsieid Cubinets, marching four deop. It was nlmost atartling to seo thodo his- torle focoes, and to witioss tho statesmen whose names bavo so lonk boen huusebold words walk- ing bircheaded aftor tho mortal reimnalnsof thelr dead chivf, Hohlnd them’camo the Ambussadors of the grent Kuropean Powors, and thon tho Ministors Plonipotontiary, Including siulstor Liowell, Thon enme w crawd of noblea and poli- tlofans, somo the bunrers of historle namus, oth- ord groat in their (ntellectunl personality, fol- lowed Ly numeruscivil sorvknts whoso seevices aro felt If not appreclatol, but whode nawes are ousoure.” —— . THE INDIANA COMMISSIONERS, Bipecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, INDIANAPOLIS, Iud,, May 10.~Tho Commise alonors to nsalst the Bupremao Court In clearing the dockat of tho groat accumulation of casus conmenced thelr work today, Accordingto tho statement of tno Hon. Jobn Horr‘s. ano ot the Commisstonurs, tha plan to bo followed 18 that cach Cormissioner will, atter oomldunmf s caus, subimitiuls opinion to_his colleugues, 1fa mujority of tho Cummlnlunvnurpmvu the samo It will thon b subinitted to 4 Jolnt coasuitation of tho Judgos wud Commissioners, and, hpon be- Ing approved by u majority of the entite Court, wl‘fl atand by the Jlnul_aeclslon. ‘The oplaions will bo signed we the Commissionors praparing thems, and tho Commisstouors will “therofore ruuk us Judges, e —— THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. Bpeciat Dispateh to The Chicage Triduna TonroNto, Ont, May 10.~The Duke of Sutherland and party spent the day tn dMon- trenl, sl loft for Quebeo to-night. Their specinl train came through from Now York to Montreal In seven hours and a half, Ineluding stoppages. The party comprises, besldes his Grace, the - Marquls of Stafford, who Is his son, and also an M. I3 Ma}-Gen. 8Biv Henry Greonund Lady Green, W. JL Russei), und Mr. Honry Wright, private secrotary to his Grace. Of the rail- rond party wero J. It Blekenteth; Deputy Chalrman of the Landon & Norih- H«wru lhlllwlly’;s T Elv:lnwl- ML’)r %3 X ophien: 3 083 fold, Divcetars: . Crossfeld, Audlior; aud {1, P, Noolo, tratio maunker. His Graco 18 aking a briot visit wo thlscountry ina privatg cupncity, on pleasure, sad ot us a Director of 1h6 Northweatoro, but he vays they aro ¢xamig- ing into mattors to sve how rallways uro worked bere, and all wro travellng togother. Tho party will bo guests of the Gavoruur-General at g’uubw forun fow dlrl, when they will prooeed vat. Bopplug et N nrru Falls and_Chiougo, thence to S, Paul aud through to Callforols, quitiiog the Nosthwest Tosritory. Tho Duke 8aya it fs not true (that he ls intercstedin Northwest lands or {n tho Canada Pacific Halls way, Ho s loud Inhis pralscof whatho has scan sinoe his arrival on this continent. ——— LIFE IN WASHINCTON. Roclety Shoeked by Star-floute Swine dies—Rovolution in Etlquet—Garfletd g=Noithern Nonators=— ue—0ld HBoher and Young Myson—Wedding Bells—Vieit* ing Orators—Amateur Porformances— Natlonal IRegatta—tWashington Light Infantry—~Lo Duc's Tea Crop—Father Barotti-Real ata Toom~—1iteni- dences of Notables—~ ¥oung Lincoln— The Krrepressiblo st the Whito Ilouse =Indisposition of Mrs. Garfield, Bpecial Oorrespondence of The Chicago Tritune, WasnixaroN, D, O, May 8.—Just as “ pour prendre congé * cards were belng left, and Socioty was separating for the summer, to revel on the mountains and at the sea- shore, to cross the contlnent, or to cross tho occan, or to recuperate at some pleasant ru- ral retreat, there comes this unpleasant ex- posure by Postmaster-General James of the star ronte swindles, and some, who have llved in fine houses, and walked 1n silk attire, and silver had to spare (as the old Scoteh ballad runs), appear to be In danger of having to slesp in prison cells and to wear stripad, ill- fitt ing clothing as they labor nt some useful calling. “Itold you so,” exclaims Soclety, complacently, and those who have caten ter- rapinand guzzied drxy champnagne paid for from star-routs dividends now denounce thelr former Liosts ns having played an vsten- tatious and deceitful part tn the Dramn of Life. 'To thew, the degredution of triends Is only & matter to be regretted, hecauss it brings odium upon soclety. and they avoid those whose favors they have recelved, ny the queen of the lobby gathers up her skirts when she descends from her carriage at the theatre to avoid touching some shivering mulatty child of shame who Is out upon her wicked hunt for game, But this (s not all, it Is proposed to change . TIE CODE OF ETIQUET, as_procinimed bly; Mrs, Daligren, whose edicts hore are llke those of Lord Chester- lleld across the water, From the sophistries and deluslons of these written codes 1o man in soclety dares to err or to stray lke n lost sheep, and Mrs, Blalne jtas succedded in hav- ing herselt and the other Cabinat ladics (ns they call themselves) oxempted from returi- ingcally, This really places these damesa step higher, suclally, than the wives and the daughters of the Judgm of the Supreme Court, of Congressmen, of other civil ofll- claly, of the officers of the armyand navy, and of the wealthy citizens who make the metropolis their winter howne, They threaten rebellion, and say that next season, If the Cablnet lndies don’t return thelr visits, they won’t-Invite them to their houses, On the whole, It is a very pretty quarrel, and it s not strange that Mrs, Dahlgren, hav- gz printed her nmended code, has escaped from the wrath to come, and retired Ingood order to her summer retreat on the slope of South Mountain, in Maryland,near where the Dattle was_fought in“which flayes wans wounded, Whils the ladles are at war over this nice question of etlyuet, GAILFIKLD AND CONKLING have comnenced open hostllities, and before this epiatis can reach its destination It may be decided which Is tobe * cock of the walk.' Conkling hopes to secure the rejecticn of the neminntion of Judge Robertson by tho ald of the Southern Senators, who are always on hand when any political game Is belng sla ed, ready to espouss the winning side. ndor the Adninistration of Hayes they virtu- ally controlied all the Federal appointments in thoir respective States, and, inding that Gartleld igdlsposed tolisten to avowad Republicans rathor than to thom, they threaten to buck uP Conkling unlesa the Presidont surrenders. Unfuckily for hhn success of this little arrangoment, thero has oo A RESURRECTION DY BLAINE of aseries of red-hot Stalwart eplsties written from hore some threo years henco to Conkling's orgin at Utica. In thiscorrespondence,which un- doubtedly wus Inspired by Coukiing, the obscqul ousUorham denounced Lamar as o polltical Jes- ult, Butler ng n Hamburg pirate, Wade Hampton naa corrupt bargainer, und Bou Hill as a vacil- lating cownrd. Now, tho great Onelda Chief ‘wanis thoso sume Southern Senators to pull his cheatnuts from the lire, und it remains o bo scen whothier, by threatening to do 8o, he can foroe the Administrition to mako terms with bim. Meanwhile, ho may be scen vvery plensant ufternoon in bia buggy, driving out toeall an MIlS. BPRAGUE AT EDGEWOOD, and ho i often accompanied by his friend, Yice-Prosldent Arthur, who duesn't lind the lot of tho presiding officer-af the Senate * g huppy one,” so inteicuts ure the quesdons of ol and 80 comstant the neceaslty for mesnoc, o fil\'o a casung irs. Sprague lives rathor qulutly st Edgewood, und the grounds on which her fathior bestowed so suuch caro are sadly ln need of u llberul cxpenditure. Fences have gone to ruln, watks have wit ups in grass, and rank weeds diapute with a faw Howors the masicry of tho partorres. Mrs. Spraguc’s oldest child, & boy, hus taken sides with tho Governor, and lives with bim in Ithode Island, but the giris re- muin with ber, She I8 taking great palns with thalr education, aud tho oldest, who has no traco of hor mother's beauty and grace, is very woll Inforwmed. TIE CHINESE TREATIES were considered and ratified by tho Senate in a fow bours, under the lead of Geu. Burnaide, Chalrman of the Committec on Forolyn Hela- tions, who hnd been well crammed with faota bearing on them, 'I'h8 ouly real opposition was made by Mr. Hour, of assachusoLts, on high philanthrople and vqual-rights grounds, in a speech of two hours' lougth, but he onfy obtajucd tive votes nyninst tho ratifica- tlon, in addition to his own. Ho is now very nuxious to publish tnis harangue, but otboer Benators objpnur. unless they can also publish thoir remarks, whioh they had not writton cut inudvance, and of which thero Is no report. Moanwhile, no opinlon can be obtalned from THE CUINESK LEGATION a8 to what they think of tho treaty, and whether oir Governaient wili be sutistiod with the Con- resaional eurolinent that not more than fiftoen hinese sball be landed from noyone shipor atenmor. Theso Chiueso diplomats are. liko Jouy laystock, ** devilish sly,” from Old Bobua, the Minister Plenipotontiary, down to Young liysoun, tho attachd. They are, however, gather- iy up all accounts of murders and outruges an thio Chinese in differant parts of our county, and thoeir American Secretary, Mr. HBartiott, s work « ing them up nto a long bitl of Indlctment. Ouly 1aut weok B youw atmoned-eyed Inundrymau waa fatally stabbod by & party of roughs lu Now York, ;and tho catalog of crime agalnst the Chinuse 18 niready long. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND and parly havo ratbor onliveued tho West End duriug tho past woek. Sir Edwurd Thorntou sad Attoruey-Uenoril MacVensh dined and wined them, while Sccretary Inino olitained the Gove eruwent stentoer Dispatch aud treated thom to an excursion to Mount Vernon, entertuining them at dinner aftor their return, Bull Run Hussall, who now likes to bu called Doetor (somo collogu having made blm an LL.D.), 18 tho uke's * guidy, philusophor, and friend, * and he fouud a number of his ol war-aequalntincos ore, to somw of whom he apologizos for rough romarks ut their uxpenso in his book, Secrotnry Bising ll}ull 10w up to his vses In negotiatinig with 8ir Bdward Thormton, not chioosiug, afor Mr. Evarle' uxperionoe, 10" intrust nogotiations 1o our nconmplished und ornawmental, but sadly inetticlent, Minlster at London, A COPYINGITT TREATY 1a ong of tho questions nnder consideration, and tho Seoretary of State has invited n numbor of authors and publishers here for u eouncil on the subject, Another quostion Is tho Indemnity due Ly Groat Britain for outrages committed on our fisherinon at Fortuno's 1lay, which Mr, Kvarts tuought ho had successtully adjusted, but Mr, Lowell permitted futoslip through his Rngen, luhind and abovo all questions in which the two oouatrics urv 8t varianco looms up the tishories, sbout which sa niuch hus bean sild und written sinco old Johin Adams abandoned thom when he nogol| d our fret treaty with Urout lritain, It Llaine can succesafully adjust tho copyright dud the Asbery quoations, he will do- surve W bave hisportralt adiled to the colleotion of thnso of the Necretarios of Btate ut the Du- partment, TIE DEAF-MUTE COLLEGH at Kondall Greon, which Amos Kondall founded ‘with u portdon of the larwe fortuue which he ao- quired from his connection with the Mora tele- riiph, Was the suonib of a notably orililant and fulelleciunl guthoring on Woduusday last,—its presentation day, Tho General Govornmont is gunerous In 1ts uppropriations for the lurpar( of this fnstitution, us it Is with balf-a-dozen others hero, and tno youny tuon who graduatsd mave evidence of their sohulnrship, sithough they rather shucked the ltomun Cutholles pros- eut by tholr auti pal fdeas, as thoy flugersd them out, and_u Profeasor rond the transiation of tho sly! Eloquent remirks wore mudo by Fresidont Gartivid und ex-Spenker 8an Randall 10 tho six pradustos, snd tho nudionco then ud- Journed to the resldence of Prasident Gallanded ‘whers a bountiful lunich *on tho Ohlo plun '* bu beon proparud. For & while ull wero deuf and mute, as thoy onjoyed tho dellcacles of the suasoll, DINNEI-PARTIES have beon numerous durfug tho week, the moat agroeablo one—after, S ups, that fl\‘un by Attoruey-Geuoral MucVeagh to the Britishory— bavine beon given by Gen. Bu v Lo the Cubinet and thelr wives. Becrotary liiniue and wife wero unable to attend, but tho othary wers alt thery, an: 0 Gouorul's ** army-fure " was espociully relished. Ho wmfion onou ufter tho s Ie ourptneat to his furin ut Beletol, which ovor- ooks the broad waters of Nurragunscic Huy, dotted with steumory und salilug veasels. Gou. Bhoridan wua ulso eutertatued wt sovoral pluas- 3 ant dinner-parties of the military persusaton during bis short sojourn here. When he went to Mount Vernon with Becrotary Blalne's party, by the way, ho saw thehomo aad grave of G, W, for tho first tme. WEDDING-DELLS bave chimed morrily here during tho past week, theonly bridn whoso parenta worc known to Iama bolng Miss Sara, & daughtor of Mr. T. I, Duvant (once of Louisiana, who now atiends to Gen, Hutler’s busincss here), and who was mare ried to Mr. Melville Church, at Trlnllr. tho nitar of which waa elaborately decorated with Howers. Bergt. (eorge Bchaclfer, of tho Siznal Corps, isto bo inarried to-night to & daughtee of the Rov, James Harald, the High-Church Hector of the Courch of the Holy Cross hore. Next week & number of tha leading journallsts, accompaniod Ly thoiFwives, will leave for New York to nt- tond the wedding of that gifted and vorsatlle writer, Mr. Huward Carrull. of tho New York Times, and Miss Caroline, the only daughter of ox-Congressman Btarin, of New York, who owns steamboats by the scoro. THR BHOUKLYN PULPIT ORATORY, Talmage and [ecchor, have Lecn hero this week, Talmage was accompanied by hin daughter, a pleasant young lady, whoso health Is somewhat dotlcate, and for whose bunefit ho was Journeying., Heocher camo to lecture, and - B okl -alasd andience wesomblod to bear him baid forth on " The Rolgn of the Common Peo- ple.”” Ho looks older then he did before tho yrnluounflnl trinl, but hoarty and rugged, en- f oy ing tho telling of a good Jukn as well as ever, To-ntght Col, tobert G, lngl:nnll will lecture on *Tho Great (nfidels™ nt tho National Thoatre, and be will hnve a 1ull house. AMATEUR PERFORMANCRS will be fn order during the coming weok, On Tuesday night the cholr of St, Matthew's Catn- olis Church will give Moreadunto's ‘*Seven Lnst Waorids," with’ sntections from sevoral masses. Although tho pussessor of 0 finest volcn Kvurv.l at Bt. Mutthew's io. du Nogucirns, tho daughter of the Portucgusc Minister, will not etug It pube lle, On Mondsy the Itatlan Club will give u c}xmpllmnnur{dnmalm entertninment, and on ‘Thursday the Lawronce Harrett Dramatio Asso- clation will play “Julius Cierar " in behalf of & fund fur the crection of a monument to W. W, Henton, of the Nal{onal Intelligencer. A monus ment haa already been erected to tho mnmnr‘yof 1. Beaton's associate, Mr, Joo Galen, and (t in right that tho lending editorinl spirit of the old iz party, And oncof the foundurs of Washe ington City, should be recognized. A NATIONAL REGATTA, under the auspices of the Natlonal Amatour Associntion, is to be hold in this city In Beptem- ber, and it is oxpeaoted that at least fiftocn dif- ferent clubs will boreprosented. Tho Analoatan and the Columbia Clubs, of this city, nre doing all {n thelr puwer to miake the regatia 4 suvcess, but the Potomac Club, smarting under tho loss of araco Inst year which the Ansocintion decided against thom, refuses to be comforied, and will buve nothing to dowith tho rogatta. Boatafrom the different clubs are outon the river evers night, and each clubhas a pavilion up tbe river, where & quict dance can be enjoyod. THE WASHINOTOR LIGHT INFANTRY hns bad to ?vn up its armory, and bas tompora- rily leased Jackson , whera Mr. Rives used to publish thy L‘unfirmwmu Globe, but hopos to ralse muney enough for the erection of o new armory buflding. Should Prosident Garflell yo 1o Gettyaburg on Decoration-Day ho will bo es- corted Dy the Washington Light Infantry. 4 AMERICAN TEA, raised on the Govornment tea-farm, at Meln- tosh, Ga., is Commissionor Lo Duc’s trump card for retaining his office, that ho muy continue the exporiments. Some of our grocors who weru Invited to oxamine the specimen-bLoxes arc in- credulous, and intimate that tho so-called Amcrican tes was ralsed in the East Indics, but hus been brought out witha flourish of trum- 1s nt this particular time to socure uc's temporary retontion. Dr. Loring remaing boro *“alio samee,” and his {ricnds are very confident that, before the closo of the prescnt sesaion, o will be appolntod Commissioncr of Agriculture, FATHUER DAROTTI, 8 handsomo young Itallan priest, undortook a fow yours glnce to bulld up a Romun Catholic society of colored poople. His Iabors wero crowned witli succoss, and he organized a cholr which has for the pust two years been universals Iy ndwitted to be tho best In Wasbington. Ho also had & number of socloties and orders ocon- nected with bis church, and, by is earnost ef- forts and soif-donial, he gained the esteemn of the entire population of the metropoils. Thia was manifcsted when he suddenly died last week, and at bis funcral on Wedneaday.* Arch- bishop Glbbous camo over from Haltimoro with & full retinue, and many distinguished persons wero present, but the mOUraers werc tha col- ored members of the church, The interlor of tho editice was draped In black, and around tho baso of the catatrlque on which tho remning re- posed, in ecclestastical vestincots, wore massos of raro tliowers. The cololirated cholr of colored cople sang Esputa’s * Hequicws Mass' and ercedante’s ** Ave Voruoa.' When the re- malns of the beloved pastor were romoved from tho cburch, the Tflu’ of tho colored peoplo was alinost uncontrollable, and nearly one bundred carringes followed them to Mount Olivet Com- otory, whoro the interment took pluce, THE REAL-KSTATE 1OOM etill continues, rud valuablo lots ut the Wost End are chnopiog hands evory duy, many pur- chosing for the purpose of erecting valuable bouses, First Controller Willlam Lawrenoo, bus purchased the house on Vermont avonue, erected by Ulgual 8. Grant, Jr., for $84 Hon. Robert 31, MoLane, of Bhitimoro, has pur- chinsed Mra. Gen, Huchanan's houso on 1 streot for §11.500; Dr, 8. L. Bockwith, of Ohio, bas pur- chasod Mrs. J. P, Blinpson's residence on | sireet for $17,000; and Mrs. Platt, wifo of the Senator rom New York, has purchased th bulit by Secretary Windom for £0,000, an ad- vauce of $3,000 on its cost. lic and Hiaino will cuch bulld large donblo houses during the comi- log summer on Scoutt Hquare, near tho houso Just finisbed hy Sonator Cameron, which is do- cldedly the lirgest and tho ugliest privata rosi- donce’in Washington. BENATOR CONKLING s0ld his house on Fifteenth strcet a few years since, and purchased 4 lot at the West End, fn- tending to bulld, but the cooluess between him und his wife ensued, and the Senator remains fn lodgings. Just uow he s roows in a house with Vice-Presldent Arthur, and the two are catered for by Johin Chumberinin, who keeps the Club-House. Secrotury Hunt uwns a Louse on Rthode Island avonue, near those of Chief- Justice Waltu and ex-Attorney-General Will- 1a now runted tu Attornoy-Genersl Mac- Veagh, Postmaster-General James boards, with Lls wife, at the Arlington, wid Beorotary Kirk- wood boanls on Tenth strect, Mra, Kirkwood rarcly recolving or payiog calls, AECHETARY LINCOLN had rented tho bandsome housc. ocoupled lnst winter on Massachusotts avenue by Senator Randolpt, ot New Jersoy, near tho houses of Sonators Rmunds, Hill, Morrill, and Bayard, and Prof, Haird, of the Smithsonian. He s adored by the colored people, aud scarcely a day ‘muun that n delegation of thai do not call ot be War Departmont *jist to soo Massa Lin- fl‘llmtl).u'w:i" H’Ln ma\ nnufi n‘cwlfllona::l him to e Departmant, and reealls to old-stagers poor Tud Lineoln at tho While Houso In the n?nrly days of his fathor's Aduinistration. TIHE IRREPRESSINLE inmate of tho Executive Mansion just nowls Irwin Garfield, & bright-oyed, curly-bulred boy somu 11 years of age. whu I8 & regular tearer, and who'lias no revorence for theestablishment. Ho blows his tin horn AL tho keyhole of the President’s room when the Cablnet 18 m rides his bloyole In tho Kast Room, uses roller-akates in the vestibule, and plays ball ?‘n fon, bls s complotely under bls control. T tor, Dr, Hawos, hns not much authority ovor thew, and thoy almost worry tho life of tho stald old doorkeepers out. . MRS, QARFIFLD, ‘who has endeavoroed, e a matterof duty, to re- coive all visitors, and to superintend ° tho do- westio ecanomy of the White House, has broken down under the solf-lmposed task, and bas boen under wedieal trentmoat duriog the past weok, She ia already u gonoral favoric here. RACONTEUR. e ———a MODE—EN LITERATURE. A Man Who Sees but Little ¥opo for the Future, b {hs Editor of The Chicago Tridune, Ancora, I, May 6,—~The denth within the last decade and notably, within the Inst fow months, of somo. great lignts in litera- turs, confronts us again with that old recur- ring question, Are weabout to see o blight come upon English lettors? Thore will be small questlon us to the . brllllancy of the ern about closlvg. It presents sowme of the great nnmes of litorature, Commencing I the field of polowles and criticlsm, with Chris- topher North and Jeftrey, sud ending with Fmerson, commencing in the realm of fig- tion, simultancously, with Scott and ending with that mafestlo intellect, Georgo Ellot, it hns been throughout exceptionally powerful and brilliant, ; 1 concludo that this new ers, roaching back now over half a century, will stand In the thought ot the highest culture wmd widest critleism above the level of the wonderful Ellzabothan ora, umined as it was even by the gunius of “the divine Wiil- I - What an array of nzmes we have— ench of then In soms sense the father of gchunl: Seott, Wilson, Jeilrey, Byrou, Moure, Incauiay, Wordsworth, Irv) ma Thackeray, Dlokens, Bulwer, Ilawtiiorne, Ueorge Ellot, Curlylo, gmorwn, I"i save one, from the nerveless huuds of all of thow, uius, has fallun that weupon which Hulwor nukés Hicholleu doctare, at the vory orisls of bis fute, * tw by In Lo bunds of bin who I truly groat, wlgltior than the worl.” "Of 1his yreat lutouly one survives,~the soute, thu phl mrhlu Emurson,— the wan of whom Carlylo sad: bese butobe voleo ~ from _Awmerle the volco from Coucord.” The remuant of the contury which still remaius to us cauvot equul, even tu kind, wiiat bea beon accousplished in the lust slx decudua, Frow Wuverly toDaniel urondu {3 an epool Jn Euglisn Jutiors whioh may not, which cannot n the nat Bingn, soon roponted. * it rue that tho world nowadava ahounds in philosuphers whio ciniin that tho demnand with vroduce uupuly.—uml itis 1l n matter of en- Vironment: but, unfortunatels for us who have drank at tho fountaine, und who lang for this hectar worthy of tho gids, these philosophors contine themwolves to theory; whitle we purfsh ot thimt, 1f oo of them catld produce *The T lisman®’ or * Iyanking,” * Sirtor Reeartus ™ oy Tho Fench Itevalution,” “Fendonnis 1ty Faie” “Tha Caxtons * or ** Polim,” * Divid Copperfield " or Littlo Doreit,” *Tho Soarlet Let. ter* or Marblo Fay *Bracobridge Haill ** or tho “Alhurmbra,* Adam fedo ™ or *Middle marel," the rvnfllnfi publie wonld gladly excusa thelr philoaophy. Itut, alasl tho cunulig hands a’n‘!‘cgcmvn this wondrous woof tiave beon lald And now, beyond the water, we have In flotior orly Wiikis Cotine.ail Tiurs Charies Headecan gonsations Antbuny Trollope—all exnggerntlons Geurge Maedonald—all pictires Willluim Black all scencry: Mins Braddon—uli **Girlof tho P'e- iod ™3 and & score of others not uecessary to name are equally merltorions, Including that sublime anob, Disracil; but nono of thoeanre the peers of thuse gified names of atory and of song ‘which wa can now onl{ cherish In our atfectiond. And on this side wo have only the sontlmental, namby-pamby, goody-goody Holland, tho briil- fnntandversat|ie ftolmos, and the charming Mrd, Burnett, tn fiction, But nefther of theao rank with Dickens, ‘Thackeray, Bulwor, or Goorge Ellot. Tobo sitre, wo bave thut_brliliant par- fl“:l\ip‘wfi '}J‘;vur Ce, wvmuru “Foul's Eerand ™ jovers of political roman- ¢ing to be caual to * Unclo Tgm'l Cabin,” and Whu cume to the rescuc of a politieal party last yonr with a book minde scemingly o ordor,— *Jirfexs Without Straw*: but oven upon the shouldors of this great artist we onhnot rest the hope of Enelish fottors with a faith approximats Ing oven that which is supposed to bo cesentist to salvatlon, Judge Tourgée, great ns his ad- -mirers make him, can hardly supply tho place of those nuted leaders in English {auors who bave passed, not Into forgetfuluess, but Inta rest, And Iolmes, .mf" Longfallow, and Ewerson, and Whittior, and and - Deecher, and Bwing,—tho boest of tho londors who ~ yei' remalo,~ara pussing slowly but surely into tho shadows of tho Lorder Jand, ‘Tho lust flash of wit, the last slenm of hutnor, tho last sparkle of fancy will soon have been spent with thoso votaries of the ideal; that" light which wns nover on land or sea ' will soon have faded from thelr earthly way. What snen? From the loins of theso im- murtnls, living or dead, shall there como & new raee of intellectual giants to peoplo the eartih yrith new wad portipa & higher origin of geias It wil be observed that my classification has been goneral, Tho scapo of this artiole will not. allow of detall or oven subdivision. But thera 18 one featuro connectod with the status of toraturo In this country which must have im= ressed {tsalf upon the observer; and I mention t not by way of reproach, but as s matter of fact. e feature is a romowhat disagreeable one, in 4 sendo. The fact to which I ailude is tha status of literature in the West, Tho West, has no litorature propor.—I mean in tho higher walks. Wo have sumu ablo cséaylsts,—you have Rl v v simo Shsring paotcitigr, Bla a mo charming —Hiley, Bila Whaeoler, Fanuy Driscoll, G ry, w{nnnm Thompson,—but no literature. The moment a man takearank ws @ men of lettors be gravi- iatos to the Enst. Hut it I8 worthy of note that the prairies have not produced a noted novolist, if the author of ** Helon's Bables ™ ba oxcopted, and ha inigrated to New York, Gen, Lew Wals Inco 18 o fair writer, I admit. Why thls dearth? In it the environment? Does it requiro old ws- socintions and tho growth of generations to pro- duce Inum-g abllity of tho mrnur ordery I8 thero something Incompatiblo in this soll with tho literury and urtistic instinot? % It will Bardly bo denied, bowever, that the West oxcols In"quck, short work, of the kind ‘which has mado its newspapers colobrated. The press writor of tho West f8 noute, nlert, viva- clous, and {rrepressible, and i bo had tho timo =it worked on o ligntning method— would likely gmluu work worthy of his real power. ‘The hurry of the dally pross Ia fatal to flno fntsh; and when writer once gets Into tho hurying tiood. he geldom finda the leisura which hus given to tho East (s sceming superiority in lotters, Jonn MORGAR MOKOWN, —_—— KNIGHTS OF HONOR, Br. PAu, Minn., May 10.—Tho Supreme Coun- ollof Kuights of Honorof the Umted Btates began its annual meoting at Minneapolis to-day. ‘fho report of the Supromo Dictator shows the number of members to be 74,58L an Increass at tho rato of 2,600 & month, Balance In the Treas- ury, $123,872. The program of the meeting lu- clided an address of welcomo by Gov. Pillsbury, a banquet by citizens, and a public meeting at - the Acidomy of Mul THE WEATHER FOR TO-DAY, Indications—For the Ohio Valloy amd Tene nossco, alightly warmor, fair weather, southerly winds, and stationary barometer, For tho Lake region, southorly winds, slightly ‘warmeor falr weathor, stationary or higher bar< ometer. Fur tho Unfm Misaisalpp! and Lower Missourd ‘Valleys, partly cloudy weather, in the latter dls- trict occasionn! raln, southerly winds, ristog followed by falling barometor, stationary or higher tomperature. | hg:mpuru are missng from.the Missourd COWPENS., BrarTANnURG, 8. C., Muy 10.—The unvelling ot tho Cawpens Monument to-morrow will be by omw Indies desconded from the heroes of the nitic, Hbeumatiam comes from lonctive kidng Hop Bittera never fuils to curo it, g AMUSEMENTS. M'YICKER’S THEATRE, Special Announcement. HAZICY, KIRIKKE. 8t MeVicker's ‘Theatr fura limited nuwber of aven- Ings, couunencing next Monday, by the Nadison Square Theatre Company, ‘With the Orlgnal Now York Cast o its entirety, com- prisiug Lagond aueation i bust Dramails Compant 0 3010 OF sontawill bogin at the Hox Oos Fiaraday Soring, ey 1o et olcioes, HAYERLY’S THEATRE, J. 1L HAVERLY,, Manuver xnd Propeistor 'l 3 N LAST WEDNRERAYMATNER vraur, linA I'é_'l:-.‘l LEAVUITI'S 16 40 - NOVELT FOR VARIED AfUTIN DILLY "TATLOR, ‘Iho Iattor the Muriosque par vxoeienee, Rilly Tatlor, Billy Tullor, Hilly Tallor, The lass who sturlk to the Sailor. PEMALE MINSTIKLS, FEMALE MINSTRELS, Laruest, Grentust, and Most Vuried Attmedon. . :nulvi!’nlnt Slathnvo ut L Bunday, lust night. LANT! FAJRBANK HALL, utral Muate-Tnll Buildig, MisK.0.DODGE Ait v focamntio and siurical Entertsinment v T MORIUW IV ENING, Y FAY, Piunist, Muy 1% nuslated by 31 nd’ MR EVOUARD il w Central Muste-Tlall Box- ). 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Bhurmuy House, 0 Siatuecs Wednasday, . \’;\.(ilflul'{S! 1 MUNDAY, May 14, FANNIE LOUISE BUMELNU- naw h&w:a"-'u*nbmwun FESTAL MATINFE . P k [ 1 X 3