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4 — , 7 | wrong in my accounts to the smount of even a cent, ? fY | the democratic majority of the committee refused to | make y report at all, bat the republican min 1 \ ls | nade a report indorsing ‘my official conduct m every ia | particular. te | Atthe conclusion of Senator Morton’s romarks, Mr. beanies | McDoxaro, of Indiana, said at some future time, with Bet, 3 the permission of the Senate, ke would have something The Story of the Two Hundred) to cay of tue political history of Judiane, Io bad Thousand Dollars Well Told. A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR, | How the Conspiracy to Carry Indiana Qut of the Union Was Thwarted. THB MONEY ADVANCED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Receipts and Vouchers for Its Expenditure and What It Accomplished, nothing to say of his colleague vindicating his own | ot, but aiffered very widely from him as to the } | political history of the State, Mr. Monroy said he desired to exculpate his col- c, Mr. MeDonald, from any complicity in the piracy referred to, CONNECTICUT, chara INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR INGERSOLL— ASSEMBLING OF THE LEGISLATURE—HON. THOMAS M, WALLER CHOSEN SPEAKER OF THE LOWER HOUSE—THE GOVERNOR'S MES- SAGE, Harrronp, May 8, 1876 Tho inauguration for the fourth successive term of His | Excellency Charles R. Ingersoll as Governor of the State took place this morning, and was made the occasion of a grand civic and military parade—probably the —_— Wasuixetox, May 2, 1876, In the Senate to-day Mr, Morton arose to a personal explanation, He sent tothe Clerk's desk and bad read a Washington despatch to the New York World, dated April 28, in regurd to $20,000 received by him trom the general government while he was Governor af Indiana, out of the appropriation of $2,000,000 to pay the expenses of trausporting and delivering of | trms, &e., to loyal citizens, in the States in rebellion. He sud:— Mr. Prxsrpext—The President of the United States in the sprig of 1863 advanced to me $250,000 to enable me tocarry torward military operations in the State of Indiana; of this sum L expendod $133,202 81 in the service of the State, and with which 1 charged the State in my settlement with at, and the remaining $116,697 08° wi not expended, This amount I re- turned to the Treasury of the United states, sas is shown by the following vouchtr and receipt:— AWTMENT, April 11, 1865. ‘duplicate cortit- div i n to the United'States, fespectfully, To Hon. 0. P. Motos, In which I had expended on behalf of paid back to the government by giving the government credit for that amount upon advances which had been made by the Si the war, which advances were duly audited Treasury Department and allowed as just and valid claims aguinst the government in favor of the State, This setticment and (nal adjustment of the whole sum of $250,000 are shown by the following voucher and quietus trom the office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury ;—- vouc Treasury Deranumenr, & Nov 8, 1865, 4 argo of $250,000 on the books of this office on loyal citizens in revolted Ly nclosed on the books of this of A to wit, by deposit by you of $11 , and & transfer of B133,302 91 tunds from the bdoks of the Third Auditor's bflice to your credit on the books of this olfice, Very reapecttully, your obedient servant NM. Ms, Sin—The Ms, Second Auditor. jovernor of Indiana, In- JO To His Excellency 0. P. Monto: dianapolis, Ind. From these vouchers it will appear that the whole sum of $250,000 was accounted or and repaid to the government, It will be proper in this connection to State the circumstances under which the $200,000 were advanced to me by the President and the it to show that it was uot misapplie |. The Senator then proceeded to recount the action of the democratic Legislature of 1862 in the introduction of a bill which was intended to strip him as Governor of all’military power in the State, and which trans- ferred to the Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary and Attor- ney General the military power which was vested in the Governor by the constitution. After further com. menting on the character and intentions of the bill he soutinued :— It had become manifest that the democratic mem. ders of the Legis ature were determined to pass the dill at ail b Which would unquestionably have resuited in civil I could not and would not sur- render my powers as Governor under the constitution, nor could the government of the United States afford cou! to ha so, for the purpose of the proceeding was U alize the position of Indiana in the war, and to take her out of the line of loyal States north. west of the Ohio River, Senator Morton then sketched the action of the ro- publican meinbers im withdrawing from the Legisla jure, thereby leaving it without a quorum, and his subsequent efforts.iu borrowing money to carry on the | military operations of the State, and continued :— MIs VISIT TO WASHINGTON. After obtaining all the money 1 hes and other sources I made a calculation and found L Would need about $250,000 to carry mo through to January, 1865, aud to make my position secure I came to Washington to s f 1 could not ebtain that amount from the government of the United States, Alter a careful review ofthe situation by the President (Mr. Lincoln) and tue Secretary of War (Mr. Stanton) the President advanced me the sum of $250,000. They both agreed that Indiaua was threatened with rebelliou, and that the condition of the State came distinctly within the letter and the spirit of the act of Congress approved July 31, 1861. Mr. Stanton deciared to the President, with great emp s, that if Indiana lost ber position as a loyal the final success of the gov- ernment in stppresst:g the revellion would be en- dangered, and that the Governor must be sustained at whatever cost or hazard. Senator Morton thep quoted at length from bis an- age to the Legislature in January, 1865, giving a history of the transaction, from which it ap- | peared that out of a sum of $2,000,000 which had been appropriated by Congress “to be expended, under the direction of the President of the United States, in sup- plying and defraying the expenses of transporting and delivering such arms and munitions of war as in bis judgment may be expedient and preper to place in the hands of any loyal citizens residing im any of the Btates of which the inhabitants are in rebellion against the government of the United States, or in which the Febellion is or may be threatened; and likewise for defraying such expenses a8 may be properly incurred ip organizing, and sustaining while so organtzed, any of said citizens into companies, battations, regiments or utherwise, for their own protection against domestic violence, invasion or rebellion,” the President ad- wanced to him, as disbursing officer, $250,000. In the Message relerrod to, Governor Morton asked that a joint committee of the two houses of the Legisinture be appointed to investigate lis civil and military ex- penditures, In continuing his remarks the Sedator said :— THS LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATION, A joint co nmistee of the two houses, embracing some of the ablost democratic members, was appointed as requested in my Message, who patiently investigated ail my accounts, including the expenditure of $133,302 91 which I had obtained from the President, ud Gnaniinously reported them correct, wking no ex- eption even to the amount of one cent. The unex- oa portion of the $250,000 which I had received m the President, and which I described in my Message as the military fund, bot which was erroneously stated In the Message as $115,000 instead Of $116,000, I did not pay into the State Treasury, as Buggested in the Message, but refunded rt difectly to the general government, as before shown, and the $133,302 91 which [ had expended for the State were settled with the government by giving credit to the government tor that amount on the indebtedness of the State, as before shown. After the tull examination of my'accounts the Legislature made appropriation to pay my borrowed money and the debts T had contracted; also the sum ot about 300,000, the exact amount, however, Lam not able to tte from memory, which I bad proct Messrs. uslow, Lanier & Co., of New York, to advance on payment of the interest upon the bonds of the during the years of 1863 aud 1864, the payment Of which interest had been withheld by the Auditor and Treasurer of the State. During these two years all payments for the civil and nulitary expenses of the State, including the benevolent institu. Moms and the = ponttentiaries, und — excepting only the salaries of public oilicers, were paid upon my own check, through a finaucial bureau estab- lished in my oifice, the State Auditor and the State Treasurer declining all co-operation. My course was Approved by the people of Indiana by my re-election as. Governor i 1864 by a majority of more than 20,000 and by the election of a republican Legisiature and re- ean State ollicers. The intermediate history between the events I have described in the spring of 1845 and the meeting of the Legislature in January, 1865, 1 will reter to but briefly, although it is extraordinary in its character and w Shut of any other State. The State was honeycombed with seeret societies formerly kuown as “Knights of the Goicen Circle." After giving a sketch of the “Sons of Liberty” and their treasonubie designs to prevent the State taking part in the war, Senator Morton concluded as follows: — A DEMOCRATIC INVESTIGATH Proper to stato here that the democratic 1 1963, before its sudden adjournmeat, bad appointed an auditing committee of its own members to audit and supervise my accounts and expend: tures for military pui which sat almost continu- pn Ria alent pt 4 that this committee did a and approve of fang May) of my expenditure: including that of the $133,302 91 of the fund obtain from the President The same pon arn & Committee to investigate all my expenditures secounts from the beginning of the war up to Janu- }, 1865. This investigation was prosecuted with great Sthpence ‘@ntil Jate in the spring of 1963; and, after the Legisiavure, tailing breaking up of the to dod anything It may be Legisiaturs made of | aid from the coun- | last of the kind tnat will ever be held in Connecticut, citizens from all parts of the State in large numbers being present to witness the ceremonies, ‘The military, under command of Brigadier General W. Randel! Smith, consisted of the First regiment, C.N.G., Colone! P. W. Hudson; First and Second companies Governor's Horse Guards, First‘and Second companies | Governor's Foot Guards, Company B, Wilkins’ Batta- | tion, Captain Lloyd Seymour; Colonel 8. R. Smith, fleld | and staff, Second regiment, G.N.G.; Colonel N, H. Ames, field and staff, Third regiment, ©.N.G., and | Colonel H.W. BR Hoyt, field and staff, | Fourth regiment, C, N. G, These received the Gover- nor elect, with staff, at the Aflyn House at eleven ck and paraded the pringipal streets, State officials ex-Governors and Governors of other guests, county Sherif and deputies, o’ele in States, invite Judges of the Superior and city courts, members of the city government, citizens and members of the Chinese Educational Commussion reaiding in this city joining in | the procession. Bands of music from Providence, New | Haven, Bridgeport and this city were in attendance, | The 'mombers of the House of Representatives as- sembied in the old State House at haif-past ten and or: nized by the choice of Hon, T M. Waller as He acknowledged the compliment ina brief, | speceh. At one ate Hous the administere ef Justice Park of the Supreme | Court. The Senate and members of the Governor's | stail were assigned seats in the body of the House, The Governor then read his Message, which commenced with a somewhat lengthy reterence to the circumstances of historic interest under which the Logisiature met; to the coming changes in its organization; and this was followed by a retrospect of the leading features in the history of the State, and to the prospects of the coming celebration of the Cen- tennial and the Exhibition, He then referred as fol- lows to matters affecting | THR STATH TREASURY, | . Though the general depression of values has reduced tho Jast grand hist of this State pearly $7,000,000 below j the hst of the previous year, the condition of the | treasury js satistactory. The present list amounts to | ‘ ‘The revenues of the Stato have mcreased | over $107,000. There is uo reason to foarany sub- | | stantial falling off in revenue during the nexi fiscal | year. | The bonded debt of the State remaius at | $5,001,400, State House.—One million one hundred | | and seventy-three nd one hurdred and fifty-six | dollars have been e on the State House now in | process of building. The work has been done within the estimates of a total cost of $2,500,000 for the com- pletion of the building. ‘The State charities, reformatory institutions, State prison affairs, education, military, amendments to con- stitution, action In regard to United States Senator and other matters were reviewed. VICTORIEN SARDOU. HE JUSTIFIES THE ORIGINALITY OF “‘FER- REPLY TO HIS NEW YORK crrrics— | PARALLEL EXAMPLES FROM SHAKESPIARE, H Tho following letter has been received by Messrs. | Shook & Palmer, of the Union Square Theatre, ; from M. Victorien Sardou 1m answer to the charges of rism made against bis play of Ferreol”: ‘TLEMEN——1 received this morning the letter in | you tell me of the success of ‘Ferreol” in New | 1 had received om Sunday the telegram in | Which you tiformed me that a wicked trick was sought to be played upon you regarding the authorship or | proprietorship ot my piece, which 1t was pretended I | had copied trom the *‘Aesassin«du Bel Antoine” of M. | Paul Pariait. Lt was impossible for me to answer you by telegram as Ido by letter, This is why I confined | myself tostating lv you that this accusation is born of a » pbuntasy, and told you of the coming arrival of this leu You asked mea question whoso answer | would not meet the issue. question is not | | whether the novel of M. Pariait preceded in its publica- tion the production of my piece, but whether my piece was inspired by that novel. | ‘Phe publication of M. Parfait’s novel did precede the first representation of *Ferreol,’’ but it does not at all follow that I took from it either the germinal idea PI or form of my piece. It is true that when “Ferrel” appeared M. Parfait asserted (or claimed or pretended) that = my _ piece | was ivspired by bis novel, In this M, Pursuit | a otice which the French press | now occupies itself ovly to mock. In truth, no new piece of mine is played nowadays that some one | does not claim to have previously originated it. But | each time that the question has been submitted to a tri- bunal tor judgment I have gamed my case. This time | the decisions of the press were so decisive on this ques- tion that M. Paul Pariait declined having the matter | passed upon by the ordinary tribunal—the Cowmission of Dramatic Authors—who usually adjudicate these questions of literary prop gare This means that he | himself ‘ually recognized the fact that his pretensions | Were without foundation, He never dared even to attack, | and he acicd wisely, for I should have victorionsly demonstrated to hin before a tribunal of my fellow authors what the press had already shown him, so as | to reduce bim to silence, The trath ix that nis novel | was itself inspired several other French novels that had preceded it. The complication he would claim is one of those ideas which belong to everybody, and whieh y treat or use in his own Way so that vr manner ot treating it be new and his own. in fact, is less new than the idea of an innocent person accused of a crime he did not commit, And Of « Withess to tuat crime who, knowing the truth, dares not teil it lest he compromised a woman. There are y plays and many novels written on this com- pheation, as ikere are many written on every subject that has helped to furnish the modern draina; the difference being that I have treated the subject in my own Way, ina new way, ina way wholly mine, and have in that way achieved the success of “Ferreol.’? And that makes that piece mine and debars anybody from contesting my proprietorship thereof. Again, my piece is so hepeiirpie sf recognized as an original picce that I alone, and without question, en- joy its authorsbip and all the rights and benefits thereto belonging; whereas if M. Parfait or any other had seen | any Way to establish here a right to share in those benefits, he would not have failed to doit. But the p and tbe public had so clearly decided the fact tha M. Parfait did not hazard an appeal to a trial in whic! he saw he must inevitably’ be defeated. I am ready to jurnish you such proofs as you may desire, by sending you a declaration from the Society of Dramatic Authors, establishing the fact that in France my piece enjoys all the rights that attach 10 a Work recognized as original, Allow ine to express my astonishment that a pre- tension abandoned by M. Pariait himself, who nad Inost Interest in establishing it, should find advocates in New York when itcould find none in Par! Allow me, for the sake of the honor of your country, to regret that so disloyal a proceeding should be put in practice atthe very moment when sume honest mau like your- telf gave a too tardy hope by a probity to which we have not been accustomed, of a recognition of our rights as authors—rights of which we have hitherto beon despoiled in manner at once the most discour- teous and the most infumous. It 1 then at a timo | when French authors are losing their old right of protesting against the literary piracy of your countrymen that those ‘sons imagine a new way to escape the obligations due us by invoking for their profit pretended copies of pretended plagiarisms, If such a plea were adiniited, whut piece could eseape a similar accusation? What piece can be cited that does not recall another piece already played, ora novel already published? Would Shakespeare himself escape the disloyal examination? Would ip not be easy enough to demonstrate that “Hamlet” is but he fable of Orestes? Is not the assassination of the ther by the adutterons mother common to both? Are they not both equally burdened by tho awful | task Ull reason cracks in both? Yet, in spite of these resemblances, is not “Hamlet” the “Hamlet” of Shakespeare, and his only? Should his original authorship of it be questioned? We have been told there is nothing now under the sun; but there are new ways of putting old things. It is in the manner ef presenting and arranging old tra- isms er facts that denotes the originality of an author, In briet, “ Ferreot’’ is mine, and I do not seo why its authorship should be questioned in New York, when it was admitted in Paris, in Vienna, in Milan, in Berlin, and in every other city where it bas been played, ex- cept to defraud you of the tee which you bad hon- estly paid me to honestly tse. Be kind enough to keep me informed of the course and termination of an affair which, | assare you, afflicts me mayen at accept my cordial solatations, V. SARDOU, CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY'’S ILLNESS, Cardinal McCloskey is in retirement at Seton Hall College, South Urange, N. J. He is in sach a weak con- dition that no one is permitted to see him. He had made engagements to administer confirmation and reach in some churches in the archdiocese of New ork during the present month, but will be unable to | falfil them, and it is probable he will designate | Disnop to sapply his piace. His physicians have recom: led him to remain in seciusion for some time, as excite nent of any kind would be dangerous in bis present enfeebled condition, Bishop Corrigan is in | comstans attendance upon Lim, | THE WASHINGTON BURGLARY. MILES’ CONFIDENTIAL STATEMENTS 10 THE HERALD REPORTER—BABCOCK’S PROMPTING— A PROMISED BANQUET AFTER THE DEED UN- REALIZED—THE CRACKSMAN'S WAGES, Wispsor, Vi, May 3, 1876. Tn the courve of the interview had by the Hxaup correspondent with George E. White, alias Ailes, at Windsor prison three weeks ago, Miles gave to me the whole story of his connection with the Washington safe burglary. He assured me he had spoken the truth and gave the names of certain persons which he, at this imterview, requested mo not to publish until such time as he might see proper to annul the promise. 1 made him a promise that such should not be done up to this time. That faith has not been broken with Miles, as Miles bimgelf has now given publicity to the names given mo at that interview. It is due to the public to have it known that Babcock ig the man, as Miles stated, who was at the Metropolitan Hote! waiting for him to return from the District Attorney’s office, At this juneture the following conversation transpired between us:— * Rerorter—Now, Miles, you say General Babcock was at the Metropolitan Hotel? Mines—Yos, sir, Revorter—Now, how did you know you would find him there when you left the District Attorney's office alter discovering the presence of two men in the closet? AN UNRRALIZED BANQUET, Mi.us—OM, | knew he was there because we were to go uptown after the job was done. Remember, the hour set to break open the saie was nine o’clock, RerortrR—Whereabouts up town were you to go? Mitxs—Well, 1 will tell you this much about it There was to be a big supper given, and I was one of the invited ones. Reronter—Whereabouts was the suppor to be given? Mines (smiling)\—Well, not tar from Fifteenth street. You can probably guess the house, Reroxter— Do you know who was to be there bo- sides yourself and Babcock? MiLxs— Now, let that stand for the present, Rerortkx—Then you are sure there was to bea big | supper given by those in the secret, wher the openiug of the safe and the abstraction of the books was uc- complished ? Minks—Yes; I understood so, and a damned good | time to be had, BANCOCK’S REASSURANCRS. Rervorter—But, Miles, you did not get to this sup- per, did you? Min¥s—No; the reason for that was, when I discov- ered the two men in the closet I went to the Metropoli- tan Hotel and told Bavcock of it, Babeuck urged mo to return; said that the men should not moiest me. Under vhese assurances I concluded to return and do tha job, as I had agreed, Revorrgr—Avout what time did you begin opera- tions for the second time? ‘Mites—I should think it was after midnight, and I was probably in the building an hour and a halt Rerorrer—Were tue two men in the closet on your return? Mites. —No; I made sure of that, Revorrer —lhen your getting to work at so jave an hour prevented your vemg a guest at this supper? Mines.—Well, yes; I guess so, It was probably half-past one or two o'clock when I got through. In Miles’ last statement be says the prominent con- tractor he discovered in the room in the rear of Har- rington’s- office was Jobn O, Evans, This is one of those which Miles told me of at Windsor, tioned as to who the second man was Miles declined to teil, replying, ‘Let that stand.” The name of the second man has not been given me, AULKS? REWARD. Coming down to the question as tothe price to be paid Mites to do his job, I sa “How much were you offered to do this job?” Mies. —I don’t want to state for publicity, but it was $10,000. 1 got $2,000 on account, Reportke,—Did you divide with any one out of this $2,000? Mitxs—Yes, Rerortir—Who? Mitxs—I gave Benton $1,000, Revorter—Did you retain the balance for yourself? Mitms—I think not, The whole balance that I kept was, I think, $100, and the remainder I paid out atter- wards in various ways. WHAT REMAINS UNTOLD. The name of A. B. Will is Was not mentioned by Miles during our interview. The escape of Miles | from the building, as published to-day, is just as he told it_me at Windsor, Now that Miles has given publicity to the greater por- tion of the safe burglary conspiracy and bis connec- | tion with it, he can tell Who the second man was con- | cea | tell what house it was where the grand supper was to be assed the club house on | Jin the closet with John 0. Evans. He can also given; also whether he ever New York aven On this subject of a visit to the club house, in reply to a question if ne bad ever been When ques- | there, Miles hesitated a few mutes aud again replied, | “[ should not now wish 10 answer that question.” The name of Alexander R, Shepherd was not mentioned by Miles, When asked if he knew him, he simply smiled, It will be remembered that Miles stated he was offered $40,006 for the statemont he made at Windsor. Miles made uo full explanation of irom whom this offer came. He can tell. SOUTHERN PACIFIC SPECULATIONS. ‘Yesterday Wall street bond speculators wore startled by a despatch to the Hzraup from San Francisco, in which charges were distinctly made by a triumvirate consisting of Anthony Kgl, J. R. Robinson acd Anthony Cooldt, that the Southern Pacific Ratlroad Company had addressed, through its above-named stockholders, a memorial protest to the New York Stock Exchange, and also to the bourses of the European financial cen- tres, warning them not to buy certain bonds issued by the Southern Pacific road, as they were issued in con- travention of law, were consequently invalid, and that the stockholders would contest in the courts tho liabil- | ity of the company for said bonds, wh ch were declared illegal and vord. The German Bankers especially wero exorcised over this announcemert, as Central and Southern Pacific bouds—aimost identical :n character—were largely held | by them, A HkRAup reporter waited on Mr. Hatch, of tho firm of Fisk & Hatch, bankers, who stated that he had read the despatch to the Heras, and as it had attracted some attention he had no hesitation in saying that he believed it was a vindictive matter, and that parties were inspiring suits for the purpose of settling their own private difficulties with the companies. The firm of Moritz, Meyer & Co., No. 26 Broad street, was visited, a member of which stated that Mr. Alfred A. Coben, a San Francisco speculator, was supposed to be behind the suits aguinst the Southern Pacific; that he wi spec lator, and formerly intimately associated with the Cer tral Pacifte Railroad, As to Messrs. Egi, Robinson an Cooilt, be did not know them in San Francisco affairs atall THE PRESIDENT OF BOTH COMPANIES, Mr. C, P. Huntington, was found at the Central Pacific office, No, 9 Nassau street, and willingly gave the re- porter ap extended imterview in reference to the ob- structions sought to be placed in their way by the litigants on the Pacific siope. Mr. Huntington said, in substance :— “Yes, L have read the Herap’s despatch; I find that Egil, Robinson and Conldt are indeed stockholders of | One of them will b | ronping from Eloventh to Twenty-fourth street our’ companies, but the first named owns three shares | and the others not over ten; l venture to say in amount not over $2,000, The whole prosecution 1s incited by Alfred A. Cohen, of San Francisco, whom you may | Femember was dug out of the coal heaps in the Pacific He turned up again | Mail steamship scandal years ago. in the Bank of Caltornia scandal, and it was claimed he had made a tool of poor Kalsion tn many affairs involving large sums of money. Hecame over here to Now York a couple of years ago as the representative of the Na- tional Telograph Company, with a presumably sub- seribed capital of $50,000,000, as a rival of Western Union, but was atvised to go bome by an old Call- fornian—a triend of his—and he went. Now, to come back to his relations with the Central Pacific road; He was formerly in our employment, and we have very good reasons to believe that he received m commis- sions between $300,000 and $400,000 from persona furnishing supplies aod material to the company, which sums should be recovered from him, an suits for which have been commenced. It is true we are offering bonds of our road in Europe avd in this country, and the object of this attack 1s to forcd us to discontinue our suits against Cohen. We have authority trom Congress to issue bonds to the extent of $40,000 a | mile, and have a land grant besides, while a portion of the route has cost us $900,000 per mile, and is the finest triumph of engineering skill in the world. The South- ern Pacific is finished to Dos Palmos, The President of the Stock Exchange, Major George W. McLean, was seen at his ofice in Broad street, and told the writer that as yet the Stock Exchange had re- ceived no notice of the threatened protest trom the ‘Southern Pacific stockholders, but it might ve ex- pected by mail. It was reasonable to suppose from the despatch that the memorialista would select the post as the medium of communication with the. Exebange. HORTICULTURISTS IN COUNCIL ~~ ‘The regular monthly meeting of tho New York Hor- ticultural Association was held yesterday afternoon at Science Halli, in Eighth street, Mr. John Henderson Presiding. The Executive Committee reported that tho proprietor of the Central Park Garden had offered | the use of the garden free to the association for the purpose of holding its horticultural exhibition there next June. A vote was taken as to whether the ass0- ation should accept the ofler or take steps @ Hippodrome for the exhibition, which re- securing sulted in favor of the latter, The Committee on Flowers that a large number of rare had been sent to them during the past mon be whieh they exhibited to the meeting. A the mens | will be pushed toward completion as rapidly as possible, j anticipated, The President of the Sixth Avonue com- | appears to be the gencral impressiun that the Hrranp’s | right to carry pas: | work, for we feel confident that the people and the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. RAPID TRANSIT. The Defeat of the Husted Bill Con- sidered Unimportant. OPINIONS OF RAILROAD MEN. Work on the Elevated and Gilbert Roads Still To Go On. --—_—__+__—_—_. COMPTROLLER GREEN IN OPPOSITION. ———_-__—_ The defeat of the Husted bill, whereby it was sought to accelerate the building and extension of the Elevated Railroad, without tne necessity of the company at every step entering into costly and tedious litigation to repel the mass of Injunctions and other legal aunoy- ances of a similar nature, was at the first looked upon by a great many citizens as a matter of grave import. It was imagined that the throwing out of this bill would prove a futal blow to rapid transit in this city. It will be seen, however, by the interviews bad yesterday with prominent railway officials and others connected with the proposed new roads aud extensions which are published herewith, that they are look- ing forward to no serious complications aris- ing, They would have preferred that the Dill should have passed, as it would, by its terms, have fully and decidedly prevented any such unnecessary and vexatious delays in the completion of the projected rapid transit roads as will now likely arise from the avalanche of* injunctions that aro likely to be fulmin- ated against the companies Both the Elevated and Gilbert roads have all the powers they require to carry out their plans, and althovgh much time may be lost in legally contesting with oppositionists, yet both roads The Husted bill, had it become a law, would have been of immediate service to the Elevated Road, as it doubtless was intended to be, for it wouid have enabled the com- pany to proceed at once with their works beyond the possibility of stoppage by injunction or other legal technicalities, With regard to those now pending in the courts, a successful termination ts expected by tho | companies, as will be seen by the remarks of ex-Judge Emott and otners given below. That the horse rail- road companies will continue to throw every obstacle in the way of the rapid transit lines there is every rea- son to believe, but that they will nally succeed in thwarting the wish of the people is not pany gives his views on the question, but denies bav- | ing been concerned in any attempt to use money at Albany to defeat Mr. Husted’s measurs, It however despatch in reference to this poiut was correct. The President of the Third Avenue company, and also the Secretary, were among thoze visited, but both these gentlemen declined to converse with the HrraLp reporter atall, doubtless being averse to tell their opinions or what they know sbout the tactics pursued at Albany. A RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS. A Hrratp reporter called on one of the Commission, ers appointed im July last by Mayor Wickham, ‘The gentieman, while unwilling to have his name used, gave his opinions on the defeat of Husted’s bill, He could not sce that the failure of the bill would in any way affect the completion of rapid transit. The com- mission of which he was a member were given tho power to select the route of a rond and the plan of its construction, This they did, selecting the Sixth ave- nue a part of the line, and the plan of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad Company, with certain modifica- { tions, as the most efficient, They were also em- powered to make certain concessions to the New York Elevated Railroad Company uncer certain restrictions, by which that company was aliowed to extend its lines | so as to connect with certain ferries and steam rail- ways, The restrictions prohibited extension of the line of the road across Broadway and Fifth avenue, and consequently their only fecourse was across the | Battery Park and a separute live up the east side to | Third avenue. According to the hew clause of the constitution, however, which was adopted previous to the granting of this power to the commission, the consent of a ma- jority of property owners along the line of any pro- poses Toad) was necessary to its cunstruction, with tho proviso that ‘the Supreme Court should have power to appoint three com- missioners, whose decision should be final. In accord- ance with this law a canvass of property owners along the line of the proposed exteusion was made, and tho majority opposed it. Application was then made to the Court, ‘and a com:mission appornted by it, That com- mission aecided in favor of the extension, and thus legalized it, The procecdings have been regular from the beginning and guided by able counsel to guard against danger of litigation. a GENERAL HORACE PORTER, who is largely interested in the Gilbert Elevated road, was called upon and gave it as his opinion that the defeat ot Husted’s bill would have no | effect on = th progress of the work of | that company. ‘thew charter ant law requiring the consent of property owners along the proposed line of the road, and it was, xs far as they | are concerned, ex post facto. All opposition to rapid transit, he states, emanates from the horse railroads, and not from property owners. They claim an exclusi' ngers over the lines of their roads, and if their charters are so construed we cannot run a line of cheap cas or omnibuses. Nosuch construe- tion, he thought, could be sustained, It was simpl; the oid question of the turnpike and ratiroad, whic! has been so often fought, The temporary injunction | granted by Judge Speir will be argued this day | week before the Superior Court, and the decision will seriously affect the question of rapid transit. Should the mjunction be removed it will give lite and energy to the enterprise; if not, and it is made permanent, the whole question of rapid transit will siumber for trom tive to eight years, as it would take that time to reach the United States Supreme Court. SKCRELARY JAMES A. COWING, A reporter called ut the office of the New York Ele- vated Railroad Company, No. 7 Broadway, to ascertain the feeling of the manaxers of that company concern- | ing the detent of the Husted bill. The tirst gentleman | addressed was Mr. James A. Cowing, secretary and treasurer of the company. “What eflect, Mr. Cowing,”’ said the reporter, ‘‘will | presented themselves in other forms than those con- | nected with the construction of submarine foundations. | coffer dam is formed by solidly framed wooden box | the defeat oj the bill ave on the work now in progress | on your road?’” { Mr. CowrxG—It will not delay us much, I think, We | intend to prosecute the work as before, ‘We have 100 men working steadily between the Battery and Fifty- | ninth Street who are bow constructing four turnouts, | mile long—the one at Eleventh | strect—that is, there will be a complete double track | | and Ninth avenue, The avother turnout at Thirty-fourth street, another at Filtieth street and one atthe Battery, With these turnouts we will be able to ran twice as many trains. We havea new dummy completed, and two more will be ready in a short time. There are also ten new cars building for us. Reroxtsx—But what efect will the rpjunction at present existing have ? Mr. Cowixc—There are only two injunctions at pres- ent—the one on the petition of the Pacific Hotel pro- | priotor and another procured by a man named Spader, | which delays our work on tue Battery, Spader’s in- | junction will come up for a he«ring on Monday, at the jal Term ot the Superior Court, and we have every | reason to think that it will be dissolved. EPORTER—But were you not interested in the pas- of the Husted bill ? r. Cowixa—Why, certainly! It would have done | away with a great amount of tedious litigation, but its defeat will in no way deter us from prosecuting our | Greenwich sireet wall be press are with us, and, as we are assured by eminent | counsel. the law algo. Rerontzr—Judge Daly's decision was rather unfavor- able, though ? Mr. Cowrsa—TYes, but the best legal talent think that Judge Daly made a mistake this time, though he isa highly bonorabie gentleman and learned in the law. EPORTER--Mr, Cowing, do you believe that the | horse car companies used moncy in Albany to defeat the Husted bill? i, Mr. Cowixc—I have no doubt that money was used, but of course I have no piositive proof to offer, and can say nothing definite about it; my impression on that point, however, remains very strong. PRESIDENT MILTON A, COURTWRIGHT, Mr. Milton Courtwright, the President of the com- pany, was next spoken to. Mr. Courtwright’s state- | ments agreed 1m every particular with those made by | Mr. Cowing. He said the work on the road would uu- doubtedly be prosecuted, and he did not expect the in- | junctions at present existing would amount to any- u hi ee said Mr, Courtwright, ‘‘ we have been served with injunctions Lessig 5 and they have all been dis- solved—one feb. ohn R. Brady, of the Supreme Court, another by Judge Lawrence, of the Supreme Court, and another by Judge Blatchford, of tho United btates Court.” Rerortsr—Will you go on with the work on the year—that east wide this 18, on the Bowery and third avenue? jue Mr. Covntwaicrr—Yes, decidellly, and we expect to have the road completed as far as Forty-second street, if not to Filty-ninth street, by the end of the . No doubt we will be annoyed with a Cai bmn Tojanctions, the imfluence of the Third Avenue eer in consequence, we think, will but the Albany inthe deteal orive'Hustea butt ne See ol Mr. ‘Gounrwaaur-—That Ceannot say It seems Raror: to be the general im; fm foo Soong rec Who are vhe principal svockWolders in 7? waignt—Well, th David Dows, Dan- fal Tortance, Asubel"S.‘Sarucy, John ¥. Tragy, Jou - ‘William L. Scott, Alired S. Barnes, Jota v, K. Jesup, Altred A. Barnes, Morton, Bliss & Co, Babcock Brothers ME Contes leaner oe, I you | could not » Co , L assure yor say anything about tba, In fact, I have not before beard apy amount stated; it was ‘only general rumor. Rsvoater—Will the road bo built above Fifty-ninth Street on the west side this year? Mr. Pe ny meray T think not. Py: we — as we wish, we woul on 4 ing the west side line to Yonkers. if COUNSEL JUDGE re. The next visited was ex-Judge James Emott, counsel for the New York Elevated Railroad Company, who was asked Same ancenene as to what eilect the defeat of tho Husted bill will have on the prosecution of the work by his company. Judge Exorr {omphaticaly)—Tbe. work will go on of course; these injunctions will be swopt away as soon as they come up for argument. They aro i but ‘a bunch of captions and petty technicalities, and will not hold water, I think Judge Daly was mis- Jed in making the decision had examined the question bave been far different, joao of course it would do away at once with all this htigation, and on that account it would be avery do- sirable thing forthe company, but its defeat wil not restrain us in the least from going on with the work to its comp'etion. injunctions are pending Rerortek—Row many against the road at present? Judge Emorr—Two ;one the Battery case, which will come up on Monday before Judge Monell, in the Su- rior Court, Special Term, and the other the Paeific lotel_ case, which will come up beiore the Court of Common Pleas next week. The Battery case is parcly fact Spader, residing in Brooklyn, who owns warehouse in Bridge street, two hundred feet from the Battery and entirely out of sight of it. Revorrer—You have no fear, then, about the result of the Lig crea Judge Emorr—None atall. Of course the delay will be somewhat annoying to the public, but we will eventually aucceed =You can i Ad aire se like that we are wilhog and able to fight all tl jec- tions they can bring. PRESIDENT OF THE GILBERT ELEVATED ROAD, A Heratp reporter visited the office of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad Company, to ascertain how far the action of the Legislature in defeating the Husted bill would affect, if at all, the future efforts of the company | in carrying out its proposed enterprise. In the course of conversation Mr. Foster, the president of the com- pany, stated thatthe defeat of the bill at Albany on Tuesday night would not in any way interfere with the objects in view, so far as the Gilbert Eievated Rail- road was concerned. It had nothing whatever to do with the bill He considered, moreover, that, despite ail opposition, rapid transit was bound to come sooner | or later. TIN PRESIDENT OF THR SIXTH AVRNUR ROAD, Mr. Butler, President of the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, on being questioned in reference to the eftect of the defeat of the Husted bill, conversed very freely on the subject of rapid trausit generaily, but said that the defeat of the aforesaid bill would have no effect whatever on the quarrel between the Gilvert Elovated Company and his own, The matter at issue between the former corporation and the property hoiders along the avenue would be adjusted judicially on or after May 11 The injunction now restrain ing the Gilbort people from continuing the construction ot ther road on Sixth avenue as proposed still re- mains in torce, and counsel were to have shown cause why it should not romain perpetual @n Tuesday last, before Judge Monell, vut for some reason or other tho hearing was deterred until next week. Speaking of rapid transit and the Husted bill, Mr. Butler said that so far as he knew no railroad company in the city had, paid a dollar toward the bill’s defeat. So far as 1 am” concerned,” said he, “Iam quite willing to make an affidavit before the ‘notary, who is at hand, that I neither offered to pay nor contributed a dollar to any such purpose, In my judgment compensation to prop- erty holders for injury or depreciation by the construc- tion of a rapid transit railroad is just. Take for example any house now worth a certain figure. Ita value will be materially lessened by the erection of posts and laying of rails in front of it to accommodate persons who have no possibie interest in that district, The solution of the rapid transit problem will be reached only when persons or companies about to con- struct a road to aid it are willing to pay property own- ers for the damago they receive by the creation of the new route. No one has any right to impair the prop- erty of (ae im one section of a city merely to en- — i he value of that belonging to others else- where. he did, because I think if he his decision would If this Husted bill was PROPERTY OWNER'S VIEWS. Property owners along the line of the Sixth avenue with whom conversations were had yesterday contend that the defeat of the bill 1m question bas no effect on them whatever, Their dispute is with the Gilbert Elevated Railroad Company, and will be settled in the courts. So far as the question of elevated railroads is concerned some of the property holders do not think a likely to be beneficial to places located along such routes, COMPTROLLER GREEN ON THE NATTERY ENCROACHMENT. Comptroller Green, as the legal custodian of the real estate of the city, has endeavored to prevent the con- struction of the Elevated Railroad Ime over the north- easterly corner of the Battery Park, and at the first movement of the company he requested the Counsel to the Corporation to stop the work by an injunction or other legal measures. The Comptroller holds that the Commussioncrs of the De- partment or Public Parks have no appropriate any portion of the people’s pleasure grounds for the private use and ben- efit of rh person or corporation, and that the Park Commissioners in granting a license to the Elevated Railroad Company to run line across the Battery have transcended their lawiul authority. Ho is pleased at the faiiure of Mr. Husted’s bill. IMPROVED DOCK BUILDING. The submarine construction of foundations for | bridge piers, dock walls, lighthouses, coast tortifica- tions and the removal of channel obstructions, such as rocks, wrecks, &c., will be renderea more feasible and less costly ag improvements are made in tho construc- tion of coffer dams, The latest effort in that direction is illustrated by the new portable coffer dam now ready. to be launched at the foot of 106th street, Har- i lom Ri It appears to answer all the ro- quirements of such a structure, and moreover suggests asolation of many engineering problems which have ‘The subject is important enough to be worth a careful investigation, because if the new coffer dam proves as useful as it promises tobe many millions of dollars may be saved on the cost of government works and by municipal and private corporations. i Tho object of a coffer dain 18 to surround a space, ; the site of a proposed work, with an impervious wall | by which the waters can be entirely excluded trom the | enclosure and the work of excavation ana building carried on in theair, instead of boing, as at present, conducted under a great prossure of water. The new | walls, rectangular tn section, and built with a flat bot- tom and deck, vertical sides, and of any length from 50 to 200 feet, A keel like that of a ship is attached to he bottom of cach box wall which steadies it in the water when afloat, renders it easy of movement by towing from point to point, and fixes it firmly on the bottom when it is sunk in position. The box wall is fifteen feet wide from out to out, and its vertical sides are thirty-five fect high. Two of these wall boxes or caissons placed parallel to each other and from thirty to forty feet apart form the sides of the coffer dam, the onds being closed by A gates, as in a canal lock, the salients point- ing toward the direction of the water pressare. These | es are hinged on the outer sides of the ends of the Walls aud make a water-tight jointat the meeting of their leaves and at their abutment against the ends of the walls by means of thick strips vulcanized india | rubber attached vertically the full depth of the walls | and gates. | When needed for service the floating coffer dam is | towed tc its place and carefully moored in position | over the site of the work, care beiag taken that it em- | braces by its enclosing walls the entire area of opcra- | tions, The hollow box side walls aividea into | water-tight compartments, these are gradually filled | | with water by means of sluices arranged for that pur- pose, and under the weight of the water so admitted the whole coffer dam slowly but evenly settles down | on the bottom, the keels of the walls and gates biting into the soft mud and steadying the whole The water-tight compartments are then filled to the top by pumping, and this additional weight forces e Whole coffer dam downward — into tho soft stratum of mud that usually forms the bottom of deep rivers, estuaries and bays. In order to prevent under-leakage and to facilitate deep excava- | tion within the enclosure there are fitted ta.the insides — of the perpendicular walls and ends a series of guides for “suet f square pi which hold the pile perpendicu- larly and close up agatnst the walls and so guiding its downward motion tuto the deep mud in the same verti- cal plane as the wall taco, ‘fo these piles are fitted | broad wooden shutters, which fill the spaces between | the piles, and when driven aownward into the mud form a continuation of the wall to a depth sufficient to prevent leakage or disturbances of the substratum | when the Space is pumped dry and excavated. These operations beng completed, steam pumps, capable of cxbausting the interior waters at the rate of 20,000 gallops Per minute, are set in motion, and the enclosure is quickly pumped dry and made ready tor the excava- tors, pile drivers and masons, who work in the air, | secure from danger, he gg Bhat by the enciosing wooden walls, When @ masonry or other work Teaches the level of high water or even of half tide, the enclosure is again flooded, piles with the shutier | attachments withdrawn and the hollow wails pumped clear of water, the coffer dam is again ailoat, but it surrounds the work that was constructed within Ph gstese np it fa omen vm the bolts secure the Joint of the A 18 then opened and the Peete Log? oe sonry surroa! water, culty connected wits doce toes Taley tases ~ if propert: and we must ct iy iv mi regard itasone of the most inventions of the he launch of this novel constraction will take place at Harlem and a 7 9 aicsallniahirselapeimed lade A RAILROAD. WAR. A Conflict for Western Freight and Passenger Traffic. Commodore Vanderbilt's Answer to T. Av Scott, Hl J, Jewett and John King, In view of what now is fixed as a business war among the leading railway lines between the West and the East a Herat reporter called on Commodore Vander. | bit’ yesterday afternoon for the purpose of ascer- taimag from him his position in the case, In- volved in the fight for the carrying trade between the West and the East are the Grand Trunk Company, the Michigan Central and the Vermont Central railways, forming a through route from West to East, involving the seaports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Portland. These, with their accessories, form lines for transportation en either side of what 1s known as the New York Central line, imcluding, now, the Canada Southern line, The result ef negotiations entered inte Mabweee, the rival interests last February, and even asiter- ward, Was not satisfactory, the reason that while the understanding suited one of tne rivals to the New York Central it was not satisfactory to the otner rival hne In fact, as is ds the interests desiring to obtain the consent of the tral faction to a concession to their were such as renderod it extremely dificalt with, To the lino on ono side, miles longer than the New York Coutral, was agreed upon. But no soener was that as 18 declared, there was a request for such as would suit the line on the other sideof the Central, which is 100 miles shorter, sion was not acted upon promptly A Central interest, and tho result was | to Commodore Vanderbilt {rom Messrs Soott, road Com) “differences In understood as thoroughly as, they, should dence, requested Mr. tickson, of tho Grand arrive at some satisfactory basis of adjustment. 4 and King:— ‘ sae New You 27, Commer 6. ¥rorennn, Sea te AT Vico President New Yori Oontrat and Hudson r Rall GENTLEMRN—Belioving that the ¢: regard to the transportation of east. traffic ar: not be, and that these differences shoulk udjusted on a basis of equity to all interests, we have, through tele; rank tase and Goveruor Smith, of the Vermont Central, to moet us in York und talk the subject over) to see whiether we could not Neve iat your shorter line between the Wert and New ought to make x rexsonable concession to the Grand route, which embraces that ling, the Vermont Central other connections, owing to its location and climatic other causes incidental to it as a eerie roate, In onder to protect und promote the Interests of the varl- ous roads of the country, as well as the bent interests of the public, wo trust you may find it your interest to agree. if it can be arranged, to allow the Grand Trunk route tl How: ing scale of ditferonces on ens: bound trafic to competitive England, which are much less than those isting, and whieh we deom, under the cleum- onable . a.quantity, four een The Grand Trank to bays 8 third and fourth chess, which embraces ninety per cent ol the entire trafic, at equal rates, as tixed from time to time; the matter of west bound rates: from New England to remain as adjusted between your line and the lines of the ( Trunk route. Looking over the whole ground it seems to us that if we can prevail on Mr. Hickson to auree to this schedule, you 8 those ae should agree, us well for your own intere: a the other lines in the country, to make this adjustment fit is made, that the Grand Trank route should then be come one of the Eastern trunk lines, and by a Bert of the organization for making and adjusting rates and classifica. tions from time to time, on the general basis that has pre- vailed among the tour truuk lines during the pass. ene. to aeoosen this policy its result must protect lurge ainounts of property owned in thie and other countries from a that we destruction think) under the circumstan is not warranted, and we believe that the adjustment of this whole matter reste tirely with you. The pending consequences are, iu out opinion, so dortous that we must respectially request you to give us an ruswer by Saturday morning of this week, If you will address your reply to wx to the care of Mr. Jewett, ut the Krie Railway oifice, we shall be glad to cu adjustment of existing and an- ranched and destructive compe THOMAS A, SCOTT, President pene Railroad, iH. J. SEWLTT, Prosident Erie Rall Tomy any: @ Vico President Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, In_speaking of his response to tho letter given above the Commodore said to the reporter:— “The resportse to the gentlemen who sent the lettor - was very b:ief, for they understand the case fully and did nét need explanations, To the public, through the Hreatp, I will give a mor® detuiied account of the con- ditions which exist and which are the cause of the fa! ure to come to an agreement. All we have asked, or ask now, is that they shall art raves which shall be common to both their lines, “Atl theso men, you see, have their own views of the way to get atthe thing required, And I may say that I have my own way of getting at the points which are vital in the case, re are the Baltimore and Obio and the Penn- sylvanta Central and our own lines. We have alre: made 4 concession on account of their short Bal more and Ohio and Philadelphia line; and now, wh the Grand Trunk, on the other side, comet in and asks to make Concession t¢ that line, which one hundred and fitty miler longer than ours, Task, and I think the business pub lic will ask, Where is the jasticein itY Rather thus be stricken on both sides of our line we say to them, and I say to them, If you decide to make a declaration ot war why, we can’t helpit, You can do as seem toyou tobe wisest and best. You see, the climatic differences between their lines and ours are serious. In that regard, at least, their condition ta not so advantageous as ours. They ought to have known that at the start before they put their money into their concerns. But they say to us, in reality, now, We want you to fix your charges for treight so that we, though not so well Jocated, may still have what share ot the business wo want and really need. I think that proposition is plain and will be easily understood by the business public, “Now, here is a large traflic between the western section of the country and the castern. But there are also more lincs of transportation for the traflic, includ- ing the way lines, than can be matotained successtully at fair prices. In fact, there are more lince than are needed, and more capital invested in the transportation busine: than can be made to pay a fair return—that t fair charges for the work performed. The business won't sustain the outlay for its accommodations, Hence some of these starving lines, as I call them, if they can’t more than theif share can’t exist, or rather can’t be maintained profitably. The fact is, there are too many fellows 10 competition for this business, and they want us to so arrange our buginess as that they may live, [ think we have done all we can for them in that par- ticular way, jow, in order that we may live on proper charges we cannot make concessions which — shail offeet our natural advantages, Is it just that we should? Is it just to make these de- mands on the Central road? Is it just that the Central road should make such concessions to these other roads? I say it is not.” The above closed the conversation, and, with a hearty good evening, the Commodore turned in bed slightly, Tesumed his cigar, aud the reporter rotired, New York, April 28, 1876. | ‘The following ia the REPLY OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL COMPANY to the letter of Messrs. Jewett & Scott:— New York Cextrat axp Hupson Riven, Rainoan Company, Gaaxp CentRau Dxpor, _ GuxtLExEN—Your letter of tho 27th, addressed to 0, Vanderbilt, President, and William H. Vanderbilt, Vice Yresidept, has been received and du! considered. This company has arrangements with all the competl. live roads for West-bound business, which wo un- derstand’ to be satisfactory to all parties interested, So long as good faith is maintained arrangements will enable us all to receive a tair col for ‘tai jon, and we are not only but anx- portati ious, that they shall continue in force, On March 2, 1876, we entered into an with the Baltimore and Ohio and the roads sent in regard to the East-bound traffic, and believed that we had by it sat forences of the Western roads and kuown, however, that it has not been carried out, and one of the contracting jes did not issue the notices to iis agents requiring them to comply with its signed, President finally compelled to nally comy | "ment which, had ly agen until about a month aftor it was ‘againat this injustice and faith, An a loss of business followed and we we give notice of withdrawal from an been faitfully kept by us and others. This action does any other havo roe parties, wo should greatl fee cs any action of the other companies which ‘would i upon the railroad interests controversies preju- ictal to stockholders, Our withdrawal from the | agreement of March 2 simply places the Western roadt on East bound busiacss in the same position we are op West bound, and we refuse to exact from them any 1 compliance with our dictation. We cannot for Sndangors’ the Faltond tnlcrosis ‘ofthe ‘Counter en crest the and from a spirit of vindlctiveses fed what we bave done, our competitors throw the transportation business of the country into disorder by a general reduction of rates, the responsibiluy must Paling are Mel 7 them. The spectal case of the Grand Truol referred to in your communication See ge ei mn who declination to allow a difference on the ten per een of Caconpale | gabon peer tas ed by your jotter, the cause would seem hard: justify such result. Yours, v hee ee . 4 truly, WILLIAM VANDERBILT, Vico President. it Pennsylvania Ratiroad; Tomas A. Scott, Preside HL J. Juewsrt, Receiver Eri Railway Company. THE WOMEN’S BANNER ‘The centennial banner given by the women of the city of New York to the Women’s Pavilion of the In- ternational Exhibition will be exhibited at Chickering Hall on Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, before it 1@ sent to Phi phia. 3 others inter ested in the banner are invited to exaumiae