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4 STATE LEGISLATURES. Passage of the Railroad Freight and Passenger Bill by the lowa Senate. Classification, Charges, and Penal- ties Provided. Proceedings in Other State Legislatures. IOWA. Special Dispatch to 7he Chieapo Tubune. TUB B,>TT.p/y*n KlEJtfnT J'ASSENCEtt BILL. Des Moines, la., March 7.— To-day has been a field-day. In the House the consideration of the Senate railroad bill* fixing maximum rates for the transportation of pa-aengora aud freights, was resumed. The bill was amended so as to place branch roads in the same class as main. A sharp discussion ensued relative to the merits of the hill. Mr. Dixon, of Wapello, claimed chat it would not effect over 5 per cent of the Height carried. He also claimed that CONGRESS HELD EXCLUSIVE CONTROL overall Heights shipped to other States. Be supported bis views in a lengthv speech, and was answered by Bolter, of Ha rison, who claimed that Congress had no power to legulate railroad transportation. The Supreme Court of the United States hsd never decided that it bad this power. The bill was finally passed—yeas, 92; nays, 4—Heberllng, of Jr.cLcaon; Gilliland, of Plymouth ; Miller, otSsn; and Hartshorn, of i'alo, voting In the negative. Not a tanner voted againot the bilL The bill is iron-clad in its nature. Under its provisions lailioads are dividrd into three clashes—A, B. O. Loads in Class A are allowed to charge 3 cents per mile for - the transportation of passengers; in Class B, 3% cents; C. 4 cents. Hoads in Class A for freight, 10 per cent less than the printed schedule, in the bill. In class B 5 per cent more: in class C j 20 per cent more. The penalties for violation are very severe, and the State provides slo,ood for the prosecution of roads, to be drawn sub- i 3ect to the older of the Governor. An indi- i Tiduol may recover five times the amount of j damages su- tainod. 1 The House also parsed the bill for the repeal i of the Herd law. This result Is another victory for the farmers. The bill to prohibit the sale of wine, beer, and dder was called np for a third reading, aud passed with an amendment permitting the manmacinre of the same. In the Senate a joint resolution offered by Sir. Murphy, of Scolt, mfmonalizing Congress to open a dual from Bock Island to Hennepin on the Illinois Hirer, was adopted. LOUISIANA, New Orleans, March 7.—Tne editorial tele graphed from yesterday’s Picayune regardingthe Appropriation bill was suppress ed, and did not ap pear in the morning odiriou. The Times, Jiepuhh con, and German all report that the Ap propriation bill passed the House. The passage oi the bill siems to be general y conceded, other wise an extra session of tho Legislature would be called. Senator Andeison, one of tne Senate Committee, who was near the Speaker’s desk when the motion was made to adopt the Senate amendments to the Appropriatian bill, gives it as his opinion that at least two-thirds of the members voted **ave." Gov. Kellogg, who uaa also present, concurs in the views of Mr. Andei&un. CALIFORNIA. Ban Francisco, March 7.—*ln the Assembly to-day, a bill to make women eligible to educa tional olfiees pasoed. by a vote of 38 to 31. In ibe Senate, the Judiciary Committee report ed m favor of an election for or against a con vention to revise the Coustittuioa of tne bt&ie. MISSISSIPPI. Memphis, March 7. —Tho Avalanche's Jackson, Miss., special says u memorial has passed both branches of the Legislature, a-king Congress to make an appropriation to clear the Tcmhigbee of obstructions to navigation; al>o, a petition favoring the Fort St. Philip Caual. The Seo&te Committee report that the consti tutional amendments submitted at ihe last elec tion failed to receive the necessary majority. OHIO. Columbus, 0., March 7.—the Senate the House bill to amend toe Road law so ns to add to the original law, for whicb proceedings mav be had fur an alteration in a road c&ured by the eliding of laud by natural drainage. The ap pointment of James E. Cox, of Mansfield, to be Register of the Virginia Military School lauds, vice Robert E. Smith, whose uue will expire on Hatch 23, 1871, was confirmed. CASUALTIES. Serlons .Hill Accident. Uiepatch to i'he Chicapo Tiibune. Cabzjntzllc, LI., March 7. —James McKee, a man employed in the woolen mills of this city, was horribly mangled tins afternoon by getting entangled jo the machinery. Bulb of his arms were nearly cut off, besides one of his lego; also otner injuries, which may prove fatal. Eallro&d Collision at Kankakee* Snecnu Ln*oatch to The Cnicuco 7'noune. Kankakee, 111., March 7. — A double collision oceaned here last night at half-past 10, in which tbe band of Providence was unquestionably manifest. The evening mail tram, Chicago bound, was about ~ four hours lu«e, and approached the city at a high rate or speed. On the causewcy leading to the river bridge it encountered four freight cars which had been blown on to the main crack from the siding by the high wind prevailing. The concussion brought the pas senger train to an instantaneous stop, piling the occupants of the coaches on the 11-or in be wildering masses. The two cars nearest the locomotive were thrown one upon the other, while the other two cars were sent spinning down the track, over the bridge, and up to the e.ation where the south-bound night-express was standing. Heie occurred anotlu-r cMin-iou fititiicieucly loud to beheaid all over the city, but no damage resulted. It is remoikalla tea*, not a car leit tbo track in all this v.i.J occurrence. The loss of life must have been Urge had the incoming passenger been thrown down the em bankment. After reaching Paxton, the south bound express ran into another freight car which had been blown upon the main line. The mgine woe badlv !■’« in. S. At Galveston an. cl Dry an, Tex* Galveston, lex., March 7.—li. F. George’s irag warehouse was burned to-day. Loss, I=B,ooo ; no insurance. luo Aetna* Bryan special says a large fire oc curred there this morning. The sufferers arc : McQueen and Davis, loss $12,000, insurance £ti,ooo ; A. liaizer, loss $20,000, insurance $12,- DOo; Frank Clark, loss §5,000, uo insurance; Darker oc Flipper's Bank, loss of building $3,000, Insurance $2,5C0. At Bocktordf til* Special DisvaUh to The Chicago Tribune. Rockford, 111., March 7.—Three fires occurred In this city at about sp. m. to-day. Loss about *2,600. The residence of ex-Mayor Fowler was rery badly damaged. At Hamlet* Ind* Special Isiepat h to The Chxcaro Tribune. Hamlet, Ind , March 7. W. W. Gamed’s dry goods store, with building, was dt»-troyed by fire last night. Incendiarism. Nothing saved. Loss &3,000. No lusmance. The Burning of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., Match fi.—At an early hour Ibis morning, Hillsdale College was oiscoveieo tu be in flames. Tho College building was a fine Dr.ck structure, 262 feet in length, and four sto nes high. exclusive of tho basement. Thedn ititutiuu is located on a commanding eminence ibuut half a mile from the oubinesa’ part of the 3ity of Hillsdale. It was feared at one time, luoiigh the dirficulty of procuring water, tuat die budding would be a total loss; bat, by the itieuuous efforts of the Fire Department, thc iastmng was saved, though in a consioeiaolv iamaged condition. The Cabinet, containing many valuable specimens in the Depaitment of Geology and Natural History, was wholly con sumed. Here the loss is well nigh irrepara ble; and it will appeal strongly to the sympa thies of sister-colleges, and the lovers of science, throughout tho Northwest. The Philosophical, Astronomical and Cuemlcal ap puraiua was also mostly destroyed. The Libra ry, however, consisting of about 5,000 volumes. «m saved entire; as were also all the books, papers, and securities belonging to the Treas urer’s office. .. . The three College Societies had elegantly-fur nished halls, ahd quite valuable libraries aud cabinets. The movable property was mostly saved. One of the Societies, the Alpha-Kappa- Phi, is insured to the amount of $1,500. The others were uninsured. All the furniture and fixtures of the Commercial Department, includ ing a number of valuable telegraphic instru ments, were destroyed. The lues in this depart ment is covered by an insurance of $1,500. In the Art Department, which contained a number of choice paintings, fortunately the loss was but alight. Toe entire loss cannot be less than $75,000, about $-15,009 of which is covered by insurance. 1 understand that a special meeting of the Board of Trustees is to be immediately called, when plana for rebuilding will bo entered upon at as early a day as possible. Ample arrange ments are already making for the accommoda tion of tbo students dining the spring term, so that there will bo no pause in the work of the College. With endowment unimpaired, and with no indebtednnsa to embarrass it, the College will receive the prompt sympathy and co-opera tion of the Freo Baptists in the Western and Middle States, bv whose sacrifices tbo institution was founded and is largely euslainod. Aidmiy also be expected from tno friends of education in this aud the neighboring States; ho that the present calamity will bo turned into Messing, and the new structure wi‘l be more beautiful aud commodious than the old. CL M. FOREIGN.- Latest Reports from the Aslian tee Expedition. Account of tbe Capture and Shooting of Ex-President Ccspcdes. AFRICA, London, March 7.—A ditpatch dated the 7th of February, fiom Gen. Wolseley, says : *'Coo maasie has been captured and burned. Tbo King has fled. The British troops have commenced their return march unhindered.” A dispatch of Feb. 9 says : “Ashantee mes sengers just arrived request a treaty of peace. I will remain hero with my troops until the 13th or 14tb, to allow time for negotiations.” London, Match 7. —Upon the fall of Coomas sle, Goo. Wolseley issued the following oraer to his troops: England U prond of each men, and I am proud of tbe honor of commanding them. CUBA, New York, March 7.—Capt. Deaken, of the steamship City of New York, when about twelve miles out from Havana, put bacu to that city to give up to the authorities three stowaways, who had just been discovered on board. Tue men are represented to have declared that they wore sympathizers with Cnba Libre, and did not want to be drafted in Havana to go and fight against Cuba Libra, and that they would pay their nas sage-money upon the arrival of the vessel in NewYoik. Havana, March 7. —The leportof the killing of ex-Preaideut Cospedca bv tho San Quentin battalion is confirmed. On tho 27th of Febiuaiy the troops captured a negro, who was ordered to be shot. He promised, if his life was spared, to lead his captors to Ceapedes. Tho proposition was accepted, and tbo ex-Presideot was discov ered, with a few friends, 5 leagues fiom Ascer radero. Qis companions fled, but he could no. escape, and fired upon the troops, lead by a Sergeant, who returned the fire, and Ccppedes received bullets in bis head and breast, causing instant death. His body was brought to Santia go do Cuba and buried on tho Ist inst. SPAIN. Madrid, March 7. —Sixty-five thousand troops are operatingin the North against the Carhsts. GREAT BRITAIN. London, March 7. —Several prominent persona will ne prosecuted for conspiring wi b Arthur Orton to ge: possession of the Tichbome es tate. The explosion of molten iron, in a Sheffield foundry, demolished the building and suockiug ly tnaogicd twelve of the workmen. Tennyson’s poem on the marriage of the Bake of Edinburgh is published to-day. GALESBURG. An Interesting inorec-Kallroad Fight. Sjtcial insratr-u to the ch.eugo Tribune . Galesburg, 111., March 7. —lt is so seldom that our city is blessed with a Mavor who has any backbone, and who is cot run by a certain West Side clique, that it affords an agreeable surprise to see our present flavor snow his col ol s in fighting the horse-railroad would-be monopolists. The ordinance passed some time ago p.ving certain parties control over the streets of the city for railway purposes, having teen vetoed by the flavor, an attempt was made to puss the bill over the veto. This would have been done but for the fact that from a clause in the city chat ter the Mavor was found to count one in the City Council, and hence the necessary majority vote of all members elected to the Council could not be obtained. At the last meeting of the Council the matter was again brought up by a motion to insert, “the ordi nance was passed by the following vote,*’ for the vote resulted as fuilows, ” which alteration would annul the Mayor's vote. This motion was earned by a majority of those who voted, and the Mayor has come out to-day with a veto upon this motion. The question, when brought up again, must hinge as before upoa the question as to whether the Mavor is a member of the City Council or not.. Tao ultimate decision will bo given by the people at the election in April, who will undoubtedly sustain the Mavor by re turning other then the obnoxious Aldermen to the Council. This question, with the temper ance cause, which is beginning to assume a defi nite and positive form, promise to create a lively time at the election. Tie ladies are working iu a quiet way, but will malto their pressure and in fluence felt at die polls. THE WEAfHER. Washington, March 7. —The storm centre over tbo la.se regiuu will move northeast Imo Canada, f.fiiowed over this section by north to west winds, diminiKhing in force, falline temperature and clear or clearing weather dur ing Sunday. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. Cizicaco, March B—l &. m. iOit.on. £,.r, M:nd. t/hx;ni Breckenr’ge 50.37 -IjK. W., frteh, Cairo .10.21 45jN. W., fretu, Cheyenne... 23.02 22,5., brisk...., Chicago.... 2y,Br 39 W.,freah.... Cincinnati.. 3U.00 41 W., fresh.... Cleveland...pM>4 S5 W., fresh.... Davenport . 0.09 211 TV,,freah..,. Denver Uo.oo 29j3. E., light.. Detroit .... 29.59 S2iVV.,freeh.... Duluth J2U.89 XG li. \V. t britk. Ft. Garry ..i30.19‘ -ojN.W., freah., Ft. Gibson.. 30.24J 43 1 Calm Keokuk .... j3d.20 25] >V„ fresh..., LaCrosse.. Ibo.oyj 14lN, W., brisk. Leavenw’ih. 30.3d 28 N., gr-nt’a... Milwaukee. *29 .SO 20 AY., brisk .... Omaha L 0.37 gentle.... Peral iaa ... [30.41 -4iN. \V„ brisk. Toledo ‘29.7u 31' tV„ tread.... Yankton.... 3Q.45 18*N.\V., ireah. Sveriai Di.tpoteh tu The < hxcano Tribune, Cedar Rapids, la.. Maich7.—A furious wind storm commenced here early this morning, and has raged all day. Yesterday morning and this evening, west of Boone, a severe dnriug snow storm prevailed, and the Pacific express, due here at 5 o’clock this morning, hud no: aimed at 6p. m. The woist storm oi the season is pre vailing on the line of the 8., C.R-iM. Bail road, between Plymouth and Austin. .srretai LHsXXitch to The Chiauro tribune. McGregor, la., March 7.—One of the 'severest snow-storms of the season has i aging since yesterday afternoon till this even ing ou the line of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Between Colmar and Minneapolis euoiv has fa.lon four feet dtep and drifted badly. Trains are all suspended. The western train that leaves hero in tue morning treat only to Colmar, and was obliged to return this evening. The ram fell in torrents here last evening. 1 Trains cinnot get through for two days at leoat. HiT.Tv-/tT t N. S. v Match 7.—No American roads have been received in this city for three days, the storm of Wednesday haying washed away the bridges, preventing th* running of tiaiue. The Hood is tho most destructive experienced in twenty yearn. —There came near being a riot at Kentucky Lat.diug. 200 mdes below Memphis, on Thurs day last. When the steamer Pat Cleburne touched tho shore, a number of negioes at tempted to board her for the purpose of lynch ing the clerk. Several pistol-shots were fired to keep them off, and one negro was wounded, which enraged them ao that tho boat had to le&vi, They threaten vengeance against her if she lauds there again. Charge of Fraud in the Furnishing of Government Note-Paper. Politics—Financial Debate in the House. THE DISTRICT H7THSTIGATTOM’. Special Dispatch to The Chicaqo Triouiu, TIIK SUFFERING SCHOOL-TEACHERS. ■Washington, D. C., March 7.—The testimony adduced in the investigation into the matter of school-teachers' salaries in the District seems to have convinced Mr. Hoar that, unless Congress comes to the aid of the sufferers, they will get no money for some time. He has therefore sug gested to the District Committee the admissa billty of an appropriation of $300,000, to bo de ducted from any future aopropriations that mav be made by Congress on behalf of the District. This shows that Mr. Hoar’s motive in offering his icsohition recently was not purely to embar rass the District Government, as the ring seemed to think, but was really in the interest of the schoo-teachers. to put .au end to the scan dal attendant upon their unpaid condition. - The Washington Tribune, the now evening paper recently announced to be published, has never got beyond one number. The number published was devoid of news, and was filled principally with matter bearing upon tbo Dis trict investigation. The District organs an nounced that it wou‘d bo the organ of the me morialists, but the agitators disclaimed, aud ib died. Secretary Fish has forwarded to Congress a letter from Supervising Aichitoct Muliett with regald to the Department buildings cow erecting on the grounds near the White HuucO. He asks for $1,5U0,000 to enable him to carry’ ou the work. was had to-d«y, at whhdi Fernando Wood, Burchard, of Illinois, Bccr, of Kentucky, and Kelley, of Pennsylvania, made speeches on the abolition of the tax on matches. The speeches, of course, took a wide range, and com; rehonded question* of finance aud uoliiics generally, which were discussed at great length. Washington, D. C., March 7. —Tho House Committee on Invalid Pensions to-day agreed to a bill which provides that all pensions granted on account of diseases contracted in the United States service or wouuds in battle, since March 4.1861, which have been granted or may here after be granted on application filed previous to Jan* 1, 1875, shall commence from tho date of death or dischaige. Tho bill also provides that, in case application for pensions is not made prior to Jan. 1, 1875, the pension shall commence from the date of filing the last evidence neces sary to establish the same. The limitation herein prescribed docs not apply to claims by, or in oehalf of, insane persons or minor children of deceased soldiers. THE POSTAL-CAR SYSTEM. Special Oupatch to The Chicago Tribune, THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S VIEWS. Washington, U. C., March 7. —ln compliance with a ievolution of the Senate, the Postmaster- General transmitted to the "Vice-President to day a statement showing the cost of transport ing the mails, ihe amount paid railroads for postal mail-cars, too number and cost of postal clerks and agents; and whether, without injury to the interests of tbo communities, the postal service could not be abandoned lor some other and more efficient mode of transporting mails over the lines between Washington and New York, and New York and Boston, and others. From the showing made by the Pc etmaster-Gen eral, it appears that the total annual cost of mail SEREICE BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW TORE, supposing tho weights of mails to bo the same as in March, 1573, is $147,000, inc’naive of $42,- 600 for clerks and agents. The compensation demanded by railroad companies for the trans portation of moils aud railway Post-Office cars, is 13 mills per lineal foot of car or portion of car per mile run, taking the space now used for this service between here aud New York as the base, the cost to the Government, if tie demands of tho railroads were complied with, would amount to $1C1,C53 more per ani.nm than by the present system. BETWEEN NEW YORE AND BOSTON the total cost of the railway postal service is $107,278, including the cost of railway postal clerks and agents, which is estimated at $16,010. Calculating upon the same ba>is an above, it is shown that the cost to the Government by a change from the present a'stem, and a conces sion of the demand of the lailroads. the cost of the mail service between New Yoik and Boston would be increased to $303,000, or $78,765 in ex cess of the amount now paid. Tbo Postmaster General answers that there could be no increase in the FREQUENCY OF THE SERVICE, and shows, by an accompanying exhibit, that every available tram is now made use of, except ing chose prohibited by the ladroad companies themselves, providing the interval between the several departure? is sufficient to allow on accu mu’ation of mail that will warrant a du-paich. Thus tie Post-Offices at the more impoitaut manufacturing and commercial centres exchange by direct pouches with each other, and with the adjacent town and city Post-Ofilaes at frequent intervals, not depending entirely upon the rail way Post-Offices. These exchanges are cm a li belled in all cases where the interests of the community demand it. tut to extend THE SYSTEM OP EXCHANGE by direct pouches to all post-offices In the United States, rpgardless of their size, revenue, or importance, is impiacticable for various ob vious reasons. If the railway post-office system vas abandoned, it would bo necessary to* select certain post-offices at the termini and junctions of railroads, for distributing poat-oificos, be tween wliich tbo offices would exchange with each other and with these distributing offices, sending to them all mail for points beyond. ADVANTAGES OF THE POSTAL-CAB SYSTEM. Any deciease of expense bv taking off the railway post-office cars would be more than compensated by the increased num ber of pouches made necessary by the system of direct pouching. The weight of mails would be greatly increased, making the compensation to railroads larger, be side imposing much additional coat upon too De partment for the purchase of such pouches. Furthermore, under the system of the inter change of pouches, mails could oot be forwarded by the fast express tiams as now. The total num ber of pouches now in use throughout the whole country is less than 150,009, and 100,000 punches would not, under such a system, give the State of Now York alone the mail facilities now enjoyed. The railway post-office system is tbo outgrowth of ncceaaiiy, and the result of years of study and practical experience in this and trans-Atlantic countries. tVcaUttr. ..IClear. .JC.ear, ..‘Cicar. .. Clear. 01 Light rain. .. Clear. .. C^ear. .. Cloudy. 05 Light rain. .. Clear. .. Clear, .. C.ecr. .. Cloudy, .. Clo*r. 01.Light enow. . .!c.L‘&r, C ear, 04 Light snow ..{C.oor. NOTES AND NEWS. SENATOR BOUTWELL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Washington, D. C., March 7. —Senator Bout well has not been in Los place in the Senate for some days. Be appeared in public to-day, but is looking badly, and as if it might bo some time before he will be able to take his share of duty ou the District Investigation Committee. PAPER FRAUDS CHARGED. Senator West, and Messrs. Randall, of Penn sylvania, and Lawrence, of the House, have been appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury a committee to visit the paper-mills in Delaware County, Pa., where the paper on wmea the cur rency is printed is manufactured. Charges have been made that the Government is compelled to nay altogether 100 mnc.i for this paper, and the Committee go to investigate as to the truth of tho assertion. [To the AweiaUd Prt «i,l INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS. Washington, D. C., March 7.—Tho Commis- Biorei of Internal Revenue has written a letter to members of Congress, showing that ihe ag gregate amount oi internal revenue coilectel from September. ISG2,—when the internal rev enue laws first went into effect, —up to Feb. 23. 1874 (last month estimated), is 41,732,555,000. Of this amount, there is due from late Collectors $2,525,180, for the recovery of which suits have been begun. TRANSPORTATION REGULATIONS. Merchandise amving at Detroit, destined for British Columbia via rian Francisco, will be al lowed to go forward under combined entry for transportation and exportation. The Spanish Mims ter states that Ihe proposed TTTE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1874. WASHINGTON. A bHOUT-UVED ORGAN PUBLIC BUILDINGS. A SESSION or THE HOUSE PENSIONS. BILL AGREED UPON. blockade rom p.»NED. blockade of the coast of Cantabria is suspended lor Hie present. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. ■WAREncQTON. D. C., March 7. SENATE. Kct in session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met for debate on the Tax bills, Mr. Wilson, of lo wa, in the chair as Speaker pro tem., and was addressed by Mr. WOOD. Hr. RECK, another member of the Commit tee of Ways and Means, followed. He criticised the course of the Secretary, and ridiculed him for the panic he had got into about the finances. Ho (Beck) thought theio was no occasion for that panic, and ho had no hesitation in avowing he would never vote, in tho present condition of things, either to increase taxation or to add to the interest-bearing debt of tho country. Tho Secretary had seen fit, in palpable violation of law. to issue $25,000,000 of tho $44,000,000, which be facetiously called “rcseive.” He (Beck) intended to insist that the act should be legalized, but he would not hide tho fact that tho issue was illegal. It was no wonder, however, to find insubordina tion in tho Executive Departments when the President of the United States was soon to take the State of Louisiana by the throat, and by fraudulent opinions, previously obtained from drunken Judges, put tue Federal foot on tho neck of that people. After di-cuasion with Mr. Garfield, on tho question of the reduction of taxes, Hr. Beck re foiTcd to the enormous fees paid to Custom- House officials in Now York and Boston, and s:aicd that tho Collector, Surveyor, and Naval Oificer of New York, whose principal business it was to control tho primary conventions and stuff ballot-boxes, had received, since thin Administra tion came into power, more than wou;d pay the whole Senate of the Uuited States for a year a:;d a huli. lie bad no sympathy v\i h tho talk about irredeemable papercurrency. The currency could not be irredeemable while the Government collected tuxes averaging lor some years $461,- OOU.OOO, and which, by caking payment of its own duties in cunency. could absorb every dollar of greenbacks in twelve mouths. Mer chants would have been glad of it. but bond holders demurred and protected. Monopolists demurred. If Congress wuold abolish lue Na tional Banks and make banking free, or, better still, use Government currency, it would all come right. Mr. KELLEY, another member of the Com mittee of Ways and Means, next addressed the House. Mr. BURCHARD, another member of the Committee of Ways and Means, addressed the Huu&e open the necessity of maintaining the public credit, and /rgued that if the expendi tures cannot ho induced further, new taxes must be imposed. The Government must maintain its credit and fulfill every national pledge. There was no rosomce hut the severest economy, and oven then, poe&ibiy, taxation. At the close of Mr. Bmchard’s speech, the House, at 4:45, adjourned. CRIME. Adventures of the Notorious ITlollic Holbrook. Sveeial Dispatch to £'m Chicano Tribune. Hamilton, Out., March 7.—Molhe Holbrook has effected her escape to the Slates via the Sus pension Bridge. On Thursday evening, a con federate arrived from New York. • Ha was a stoat-built man of six feet or over in height. He and Mollie walked about town, though under the eye of the pol.co, and about 6 in the evening took a hack and drove to Winona Station, east of the city, taking a team for the bridge. The American detective, accompanied bv Detective Rosceanx,- of this place, followed In another cab to the station just in time to see the birds dee with the ttain, but too late to accom pany them.. They bad been preceded by a police man from this city, who noted their arrival at Clifton, and followed them to a hotel opposite the station. Subsequently, Detec. ive Topper and Chief of Police Young, of Clifton, recognized her as a person who some time ago escaped from a room in toe Court-House at Toronto, where she was waiting for her trial, changed wuu si ea’ing a large quantity of silks. On me occasion of vhat escape her whereabouts remained un known to the authorities. Shortly befo e the arrival of the Now York espres* train at Clifton, yehleid .▼ morning, at 3:55, seven men cro-sed from the* American side with two cabs, and in company with Mcllie and her pal took cabs, and, drawing revolvers, threatened to shoot the officers if they interfered or dared to keep the woman. They then put her in a cab and drove hurriedly across the river. Two Chicago gentlemen who went her tail arrived here yesterday, but too late. One of them save after he went her bad in Chicago she met bis wife on the street and robbed her of $2,000. The men who effected her re? cue are noted thieves. Recovery of Stolen Goods* Special Lriii/iUch to The Chicago Trionne, LaSalle, 111., March 7.—A portion of the goods plundered from a freight-ear moving west on the Chicago. Bock island & Pacific Railroad, between Utica and this city, on the night of the 4th Inst., were found last eight in James Sherry’s cellar, in this citv, and Mrs. Sherry says they wore brought there by four young men well known to the police. The goods found are sundry articles of ready-made clothing, worth about SIOO, and were part of a lot billed to Council Bluffs. Sher ry is in jail for receiving the stolen goods, and the police are on the alert for the robbers, one of whom is Dunlap, with various aliases, a for mer partner of “Cabbage" Byau, now in the Joliet Penitentiary. A Pilfering- Postmaster* Special biswitch to The Chic .go Tnbnne. Dubcque, la.. March 7.—Mr. Van Leuvan, Special Agent of the Post-Office Department, arrested yesterday tho Deputy-Postmaster at Sheldon, 6‘Brien County, on a chargeof pilfer ing postage-stamps. The prisoner is expected here to-night for an examination. .Harder In the Second Degree* Manitowoc, Win., March 7.—ln the case of the State against John Hotan, who waa tried for the-murder of lus brother in R.G3, the jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second de gree. Riot at South V/heoliny, TV. Va, Wheeling, W. Va., March 7. —During the riot in South Wheeling, this afternoon, a man named Bhutuer leceived two pistol bally through his lungs. He is still living, but theio are no hopes of hia recovery. Two other persons were se verely injured. The disturbance arose from evi dence given in court yesterday. Jewelry Store Robbed, in New York* New Yens, March 7.—On tho night of Jan. 9, Adolph Uawk called at the Twelfth Precinct Station House, and iufornuMl tho officers that his jewelry store had just been robbed, after ha himself had been knocked down and gagged. Tho officers doubted his story, but there having been a number of hacks seen in the neighbor hood on the nighl of the robbery, the police secured a driver, and he, in turn, gave the of five thieves, throe of whom have been arrested. One of these, was formcrlv a kcepei in the City Prison. Nouo of the property was recovered. A murderous Sr mud* Xew Toi e, March 7.— A dispatch from Meri den, Conn., says this morning John Anderson, recently discharged from the spoke-shop in Wallingford, entered there, and, after speaking & few words angrily, fired twelve shots at the men, two of whom, Horatio Hall and Frederick Newton, were fatally wounded. Anderson then rushed from the building, and cut hia own throat. CANADIAN ITEMS. Special Dfsvatch to The Chieaao Tribune. Psmoua. Can., March 7.—McMillan’s Oil Works, together with four car-loads of distilled oil, have been seized for alleged infraction of tue Revenue laws. Touokto, March 7. —The Rev. John Potts, of the Metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist Church of ibis citv, has been offered the pastorate of a church in the States, together with a salary of $5,000, but baa declined. 4 A new temperance colony is being organlzeflTto settle in the Parry Sound district. Georgian Bay. An international temperance settlement com pany, lor Ontario, has just been organized here, with the purpose of aiding such colonies. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The revival meetings in the Baptist and Sec ond Methodist Episcopal Churches at Kankakee have, thus lor, resulted in about fifty conver sions. —The Kankakee a so-called Grangers’ paper, will be sold next Saturday at mortagees* sale. —Mr. Joseph Longworlh, of Cincinnati, has donated $50,000 in Government bonds as an en dowment lor the Art Department in the Cincin nati University. —Trains from the East for Omaha were de layed some by yesterday’s storm. The Union Baci*io trains were on time, bringing three daya ! mail from the Pacific coast, which was delayed west of Ogden. —Recent heavy rains have caused the over sow of the Mississippi River at a nnmbcr of places below Cairo, and above Memphis, and homo sections of the country are covered for miles by water. Below tno latter citv the situa tion is still worse, as tho water U onfy two feet below the great flood of seven years ago, and it is feared some of tho levees will break," in which case the destruction of property wou'd bo im mense, and should a crevasse occur below* Chicot. Ark., or on the Miosiraippi side, the en tire valley would no flooded to Vicksburg, and even below there. Ail the streams in Arkai.sas are bank full, and the White River bottom is under water. SAN FRANCISCO. Alleged IrrcgiilartCics in the City Treasury—Kcsolulitme Adopted at a Lartre Public MeeUug* San Francisco, March 6. — A mass-meeting held at Platt’s Hall to-night to sustain the action of tho County Judge in his late charge to the Grand Jury against the Mayor and Tieas tuer of this city for a breach of that part of the Consolidation act relating to custody and dis bursement of public funds, was largely attended. The hall, which holds 2,500, was densely pocked. The meeting was called to order by the Hon. Sam uel Toulo, who nominated Judge as Chairman. Tbo Chairman spoke at some length relative to the necessity of upholding that part of the Consolidation act governing the col lection, management, mstodv, and disbursement of public funds; that no discretion in tho matter should bo allowed to any official, no matter how high his station or honest his motives. The speaker warmly eulogized Judge Stanley in the matter, and picceeded to trace the bankrupt Stale of New York and other largo Eastern cities to tho neglect and disregard of such laws by those having the custody of public fundo, and concluded by hoping a law would bo so formed that any official guilty of placing tbo public funds in any hank, except as a special deposit, should be sent to tbo penitentiary. Tho Hon. S. Soule also expressed the same sentiments. Houry E. ITightcn then prodeedcd at length, and with groat force and ability, to lay the case betora the meeting, commencing by asking if the law bud bfeu broken ornot. He proceeded to (show in detail that suen had been the case, ard, arguments to the contrary notwithstanding, the money was not deposited in the Treasury, and did belong to the city. The certified corus cates represented money due to the city and county, and not to the State, as no separation had at that time been made. No s; eciaf deposit had taken place, and there weio the certificates of deposit simply meant that the bank owed the tax collector the sum of money named, and, had the bank failed, the ci>y would have certainly lost the money. There has been inaugurated a system of collection, custody, and disbursement of puol.c money which, in the bauds of dishon est men, would have ruined the city. The money in question bos not been lost owing to the ban* lemaining solvent. Mr. Bishton alluded to the national loss of $5(1,00.1,000 caused by the failure of the United States banks, and with forcible language showed the necessity of obeying the law. Having read a letter from Judge Stanley, giving the reason for his personal absence from the meeting, and sustaining his action in the matter, the speaker offered a series of resolutions which were uuani moufdy adapted. The vindication of the law apply to the public funds; the punishment of those, no made.* what 1 heir station or motives, who it. and, if necessary, the passing of a stricter taw ou the same subject, concluding wj tb a w arm voce of thanks and confidence in the County Judge. LOCAL ITEMS. Detective Ed Miller, who was arrested in Can ada for a technical infringement of the inter national law between this country and Canada, telegraphed from Buffalo yesterday to the police authorities announcing his release from bond age. Yesterday, about 11 o’clock, a young fellow name George Haines, enter a butcher-shop at 4G3 "West Twelfth street, and, seeing no one about, opened the and embez zled the concents. He was seen running out, and was followed up and arrested by Officers Buckley aod OoUn. At midnight last evening there was a very brilliant display of the auroia borealis for a short time. For ten or fifteen minutes it was almost possible to read by them. When they to fade away, they went very fast, and at 1 o'clock were scarcely distinguishable. At a few minutes past 2 yesterday morning. Officer Moyniban discovered a light of glass broken in the front basement-door of 93 Wash ington street, and the door itself forced open. Thinking it to be the work of burglars, he made &u inspection of tho place, but found nothing disturbed. It was afterwords discovered that the damage had been done by a loose sign dap ping against the door. Tho wind last evening committed some qoeer freaks. Fences, tree*, and sheds were thrown down and cast about in the most piomiecuons manner. About 7 o'clock lose evening the large framo building at Nos. 53 and 60 South Jeffer son streer, occupied by Lets’ machine shops, was blown down and totally destroyed. The building was an old one, worth very little, and the loss is inconsiderable. An employe of the Book Island Railroad about 9 o’clock yesterday morning saw floating lathe river near Fifteenth street the body of a man. He reported the fact at the Twenty-second Street Station and Officer Arsh was detailed to iccover the body and take it to the Morgue. He went to the river and fished out the body of a man, apparently about 35 years of age and weighing at tho time of his death ICO pounds. He was dressed in dark coat and vest and checked pants. Nothing was found on his person whereby he could be identified. HOTEL AUIUVALS. Palmer Bouse —B. J. Beals, Utica; ii. H. Easton, St. Paul; J. R. Hoamer. New York ;O. Williams, Rochester; W. C. Turner. Milwaukee; B. Simpson, Oretron; J. 31. S. Sue, Detroit; W. Y. Roes. Trov; C. S. Mißard, Louisville. . . . Sherman i/otwe—G. A. Winston. Louisville; B. 11. Hall, Now York; J. Russell. New York; J. B. Bouch, New York; D. C. Marr, Boston; B. W. Judsoo, New York; L. Bark bousc, Louisville; J. S. Rankin, Washington. . . , Tremoni Bouse —R. K. Newton, Baltimore; A. Young, Dubuque: L. Ilorshfield, Montana; O. W. Wheelock, Providence ; J. B. Sutherland, Detroit; B. W. Judson, New York ; R. H. Half, New York ; J. R. Hearsley, Memphis. . . . Grand Padjio —E. P. Smith, St. Paul; J. W. Hall, Colorado ; T. C. Googins, Alabama : J. U. Herrick, New Yonc ; Chaney S. Millard, Louisville; Daniel Foot, Oewepo ; Charlen Carpenter, Now York ; William W. Ripley, Rutland, Yl. DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS. From the Christian Union . The writer recalls with grateful pleasure the intercourse which he enjoyed, some fifteen years ago, while a student at the University of Heidel berg. with Dr. Strauss, then already an old man, and living alone, in simplicity and apparent pov erty, the cloistered life of a German Professor out of service. We remember the bare garret lodgings, with their standing-desk, at which wo fitet saw him, poring over a huge ancient folio; the frugal supper, with bread and tea for two, made sumptuous by eloquence and learning from bis lips : the walk in the sunny Rhine Val ley, and the wondrons fascination of the flowing talk, so simple and natural, yet so profound and suggestive, with which he beguiled the hours. But we do not remember bearing from Strauss a single word of his theological views or the con troversies to which they bad given rise. Litera ture, art, music, nature, politics, history—on these topics he could discourse with majvelous acuteness and enthusiasm, and with the joys of a child, untouched by any trace of bitterness. But his reluctance to outer upon the topics with which he was publicly identified was evidently strong. The declaration made in this work: ** I have never desired, nor do I now desire, to disturo the coutentmeutor the faith of any one,” is confirmed by oar recollections of him, and by what we have heard from others. Nevertheless, when he took pen in band to formulate bis own faith.,or rather lock of faith, the experience of bis life was unfavorable to candor and to clearness. It mode him obstinate and partial; and, judged from his own anti- Christian or extra-Christian standpoint, bis book is weak and unsuccessful. We have spoken of bim personally, partly from an impulse of friendship and justice ; but partly also to show that, in our judgment of hia book, we are not swayed by any abhorrence of the man. If ha had presented as with the best arguments against Christianity, or the best statement of scientific beliefs and unbeliefs that oculd be made, we should be glad to sav so. It must be confessed that the works of Strauss have never produced in this country tbo same effect as in Germany. The “Lehen Jesu,” which startled and shook that nation, produced no remarkable results in this—probably for two reasons: first, because its nebulous myth-theo ry, congenial to the subtleties of German thought, was less attractive to tbe robust, prac tical American mind; secondly, because our community bad already to some extent outgrown that nanow, superstitious fear of criticism which sees in cveiy now assault the overthrow of tbe truth. In a word, tho greater part of Strauss' theory scorned preposterous, and was not seri ously troublesome, whilo tho test was a hind of criticism with which wo were familiar, in which our own scholars had fearlessly engaged, and which did not touch our deeper grounds of Christian faith. Moreover, even in Germany, Strauss has been outgrown, in spite of his efforts to keep up with the times. In vain he has rewritteu tho “Lobea Jesu in vain ho now puts forth what will be for him a final statement of his position. He does not succeed in representing truly cither tho present phases of Christian thought or tbo present attitude of radicalism. The science and philosophy upon which ho builds aro slipping trom under him. His notion of .the nebular hypothesis in astronomy, involving a return of the planets to tbo son, and tbo generation of sufficient heat by their im pact to at ouco resolve all things again into their minutest elements, and redistribute them iu space, as before, to begin anew cycle of men tion, is merely tho crude view of Kant, and not consistent with tho more precise laws of ther modynamics, ditcovered since Kant's time. His notions of Darwinism, spontaneous generation, and similar scientific novelties, axe those of a reader, and a reader of one side at that, not of an original investigator or an independent critic. His philosophy recognizes ooly the German schools, and even among these, only Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schleicrmacher. There is one alluson to Hartmann, none to Herbert, and cone to Comte, Spencer, or Mill. His politics will suit neither conservatives nor radicals. Ho condemns the aristocracy mildly, aud tbe socialists and Internationals fiercely, calling upon the Government to put down the working men’s leagues, that wantonly disturb prices and wages. He says the question. What is in itself tbe best form of government ? is always wrong ly put, and is e juiva’ent to asking, What is the beat kind of clothing? Government ia some- ; thing essentially relative, etc. Thus be denies ; the rights of Kings, as held by one school, and ; the rights of tuau, as held by another school. ' This volume [The Old Faith an I Che New]. ; professing to set forth what is left in the way; of religion to one who has surrendered faith . in Christianity, in a personal God and j in a personal immortality, rambles, natu rally enough, into all sorts of social, political, scientific and literary ques lions. We say naturally enough; for in truth . these things do constitute all the religion that a mind so situated con hope to find, llesigna- ■ lion to fate, since there ia no Providence, a cheerful present activity, since there is no proof or sign of conscious life hereafter; contempla tion of philosophic themes, and observance of 1 the good of humanity, as a counteracting force against meanness and selfishness; music, pic- ] cures, poetry and nature, as an antidote to sad ness; time, as the consolation of grief—these j fairly constitute the chilly programme which Dr. ; Stiauss presents us. He is too candid and keen righted to accept tbe scientific, literary, or seuti- , mental assemblies wt.ich have been devised as * substitutes for s church. He says: i I have attended several services of Uia free congre gallon in Berlin, and found them terribly dry aua unodi/ying. I quite UnrsUxl for an allusion to the Biblical legend or the CUristion calendar, in order to get at least something for the heart and imagination, out nothing of the kind was forthcoming. No, this is not the way either. After the edifice of the church bad been demolished, to go and give a lecture on the bare, imperfectly leveled bite, is dismal to a degree that is awful* To understand this hook, two things must he borne in mind. The first is, that it originates m a country where Christianity has been identi fied with the domination of State Churches. The unfortunate compromise between Catholicism and one or two types of Protestantism, by virtue of which the freedom of religious opinion in the church has been hindered, is responsible for much of German infidelity. Doubters and dis senters have been crowded into the position of inwatd unbell- ~ra but outward conformers. The second point to which wo refer is also a result of the first, namely, the existence of a widespread feeling among educated men that Christianity, or some other religion, is re&Uy a good thing for the common herd, but that there is an esoteric circle of the ►elect illuminated ones, where truth may be spoken. The good-natured way in which tho latest infidel schools protest that Uiey would’t for tb© world disturb anybody’s faith is roo.cd iu indifference, not reverence; and it could not stand before the fiery contagion of a glowing Church, free from the chilling, stiffening influence of the State. The appendix to this volume is the best port of it; and. if it could only be published separately, with the omission of one or two paragraphs, might be 1 ©commended as an eloquent and profound criticism of the great poets and musicians of Germany. In this field, Strauss might have be come as great as Lessing or Saint Benve, had be not forsaken it for misty speculation and tem pestuous controversies. "Wo close the book with profound sadness, as we reflect upon the sincere, earnest, mistaken, kindly, troubled, laborious, unsuccessful life now drawing to a close, and look with mingled pity and reenect upon the lonely old man who warms himself a little at the feeble flame be has kindled, while be looks bravely, though without hope or any expecta tion, out into tho dark. B. W. Bayxonp. LABOR. The Experience of aTToman» To the Editor of The Chicago 7VtZm;ie Sm: Undertho heading “The Labor Ques tion," I read m last Sunday's Tbieijne some statements which astonish mo very mneb. That any sober, industrious, healthy mechanic should work all his life at hia trade, until his hair te comes gray with age, and have nothing to show for his timo, is something that I cannot under stand, and in a country like this too, where labor m well remunerated. And that any Christian mother should be glad to part from her offspring, from a fear of not being able to provide fur them, with a good, kind husband to help her. is to me still more strange and unaccountable. I do not speak from ignorance of tbo struggle of hie; for I know too well what it is to stiugglo alone, and will give my experience, in contrast to the one referred to. At the death ot my husband, 1 was left with four children to provide for,—'the eldest 6, the youngest just 1 vtar old, —and, when ail my debts weie paid, there was 820 apiece for the mother and children. I had no trade to mrn to, but 1 did not despair, and would have considered tbo death of any oi my litilo ones the greatest calamity that could have befallen me. A relative offered to adopt my second child; bat I de clined to part with him.—buiiovmg that God would help me to keep them uil together; and He uid help mo. It ia true indeed that wo were sometimes ra duced to great straits; but I thank my Heavenly Father that my children never were in want of a meal of vitu&id, and were never without a home; for 1 still kept house, and paid rent, I educated my children, and put ibem to work aa soon as they were able to bo useful; and, when my eld est boy first went to work, and earned 82 a week, I thought I was rich Indeed. I never applied for relief to any society. Wo attended church in a city of 35,000 inhabitants, and did not ask io have the Gospel preached to os fur nothing, for we paid for the pew we sat m. VThat I could do 1 did with a will, and I found all that I came to deal with kind and indulgent; and, wiih gratitude I say it, in all my dealings with the outside world, they always gave me the best of the bargain. I was often obliged to bor row money, from time to time, bat was never pinched to pay until I was able. In this way I succeeded in raising my children, and giving them good trades; and, on the dav that my youngest son ended his apprenticeship, ho had 8400 In bank, saved during his lour yearn’ ser vice. Musi Lisle. Help for Helpless* To the Editor of 7Tie Chicago Jnlmne. Sin: Bat few girls arc strong enough to bear the burdens of house-service, and, allow me to say, without increase of strength improvement is impossible. House-service does not strengthen woman's body, increase her intellect, nor sweeten her disposition. The diseases created and nursed by servitude are too well known to bo enumerated. Nervous and pulmonary diseases thrive best upon the bustle, excitement, and ex posure of housekeeping; and it is almost im possible to hud a conscientious servant free from them. Great complaint is made against house-ser vants : some are just, no doubt, while others are wholly the fruits of oppression. If, instead of obliging them to carry ail burdens alone, some one would lend a helping baud iu time of need, their emplovers would find them far more oblig ing lovelv in disposition and deportment. If, instead of calling Bridget to replenish the fire, and thus arbitrarily tiling the feet of the al ready too weary, some one would condescend to Uy on a Utile fuel, they would dad her on the watch to savo them the trouble. If, instead of literally commanding 3-Id'ot to Ho in tho tail whilo tho bouse walk over her body, they would say, Give ns your band, and lot us go they would find both hands stretched no; only to help them, but to carry them over. We are not at fault when wo say tbo true servant is tho noblest and tbe women, as well as tbe most self-sacrificing of all tho human family. The rudeness and roughness manifested in some Is tho legitimate offsprin" of ignorance and overwork. Tho constant strain upon the nerveu is enough to drive one mad oven when there is nothing but the to meet: add to this the displeasure of a housed bold, and who can bear it ? General housework, as done in tho United States, is wearing to both body and brain. It is hardly worth while to enter into the details of woman's work in tho houao. Suilico it to eav. if one woman has all iho work to do in a family of six. or seven persons, though eho la smart enough to do tho work of two women, yet she is not smart enough to do everything which will add to.tho health and happiness of each member. How housework can be made easier and more desirable, is a perplexing question, and cue difficult to eolvo ; but allow me to say I think It can be done, and should bo done at the earliest opportunity ; that tbe comfort of every bouse should be increased, and tbe life of every tmo woman lengthened. It is useless to deny the fact: woman's life is shortened, if not f-uded, by tho anxieties and tods of housekeeping, i *‘Why do girls dislike to ho servants, and choose to ramble about the streets, when so many need help, and would gladly givo them comfortable homes ?” I question tho comfort of tbe homos, and leave room for any disposed to try the experiment. Many complain of vice in their servants : but I doubt if they ever trace the cause to rs’tn?* source, namely: to the manner in which they have been, and still arc, treated in these ccm fortabb homes. It is human nature (and I have alreadyshown that girls are human; lom;‘.)g:eic the society of friends, and to form new friend ships ; but they aro darned tho privilege Of 16- taining even tiieir relatives and former friends, without hoadacucs and heartaches over the man ner in which they aro welcomed to their homes. Homes ? Is a workshop n home ? But theirs is their borne, and they mad toil on without rest, seven duysin the week, early mid Ivo. If richness overtakes them, bow much oi a home have they ? They miut go elsewhere, nobody cares waere, to make room for another. There is no ft cling of rest, no assurance of safety. They may be driven out any day by tho auger of their em ployers or the malice of an enemy. Nor ia this all: The noblest, .ruest. purest, aud greatest attributes of woman aro crushed in the downtrodden race of servants, aud their case is every day becoming woise and more help less. It is with sorrow that I note tbo fact, the wor thy suffer for tho worthless. I have icon the thoughtful, careful, and conscientious driven oat In the world, shelterless, followed by tbe scorpion-tongues of slander, hatred, and insult, until my blood boiled with indignation, and I cried to heaven for retribution. As idleness is tho mother of mischief, so ig norance is tho mother of vice. So long as you chain servants with the fetters of ignorance, you may expect to reap a bcavv harvest of vice and nohapniness. How long will you do this with yoar eyes open ? Not long, I hope, for I think too highly of our nation to think them a race of fools. Americas Cm. 3LUIKEXS BT TELEGKAPH. Xew York Financial New*. New York. Match 7. —Money daced at 3 per cent on call. Exchange dull at 04-34}£ for sixty days, and 34.33 for demand. Gold firmer iu the late dealings, and closed at the highest pnee mad°; lowest quotation, lll3£. Bates paid for carrying. 3, 4, and 3% per cent. Clearings, $63,0 00,0007 Treasury operations fur the week at the New York oilxeeia eluded the disbursement of $3,500,000 gold for interest and in redemption of 5-20 bond anj re ceipt of $2,433,400 for customs. Genr.al mer chandise imports same time, including Jr; goods, $3,643,543. Produce exports, $J,934,(k& Spcci e exports, $43,111. Gorevamocta closed dull and steady. State bonds quiet and nominal. Washington rumors that the currency is to be contracted, rather than inflated, and the strikes exuding and threatened, bad their effect to-day in the stock market. Soon after the opening, a violent raid was made against the Northwestern and St. Paul Boads in particular, ami Western roads in general, carrying down for the time most of these stocks; * buc alter noon, and es pecially towards the closing hour, an advance took place, showing a recovery of to per cent from the lowest quotations. The advance was most decided in shares that led the down ward movement early in the dny. From 10 to 3 o’clock, 192,000 shares were sold. On Monday next a dividend of 50 percent will bo paid to depositors by the Bocoiver of the Bank of the Commonwealth. GOVi3NITKNT BOOT*. • Us;* *.»7 IIS^ .MIC jConpoiw, ’63 113 .113 2<UO» 112* .IlUif'.Cijrrency 6a 116 .119‘i l.'ew 5a OUjtf Coupons, *Bl Coupons. *62 Coupons, Coupons, ’55 Coupons, (new) STATE r-OKDS. ilissouri** U5 'Virginias, old S5 old isl# ’Xorrii Ciroliaas, 01d,.28 Tcnueseees, near Carolina, new.l 3 Virginias, new. 12 ) STOCKS, St. Paul pfd, Canton. Western Union 7J«* Wabash 43.«£ Quicksilver 21 Wabasn pfd.... 72 Adams Express 95K Fort Wayne 94-J Wells F-rv.6 75 Terre Haute II Aa;:rl.'.D Express.... fliutepfd 20 United States Ex...., 7U [Chicago A A.,ex. d1v.103 i’acitL AL.il k A. pfd, ex. dir...iOT Now York Control... Erie 43 o;eve„ Gin. k C 01.... 78J$ , 63 .Chi., JJur. St Quincy,.2oJ .130 Lake - Shore 73K Erie Hiricra. Harlem pfd 123 (Indiana Central 23 j Michigan Central.... 83 .Illinois Central lull# Pittsburgh t Ft, W... 87ij{Uiuon Pacific s&Kk... ii 1 * Northwestern 52>j Union Pacificbonds.. Northwestern pfd.... 70^‘CentralPacific bonds. 51;, Rock Is.and Lad z.< Wc*:ern.l2J New Jersey Central.. 104 (Boston, Hart. A Kris. IK St. Paul U>il Forelcn Markets. ■Liverpool, March 7—ll a. in.— Flour, 27* 3d«2S» 6d. Wheat—Winter, 12s@I2a 6d ; spring, lUfSISs; white, 12* sd(§l2j 7d; club, 12s 9J(jslih. (X-m, liCe CJ. Pork. 61**. Lird. 435. LrvnnrooL, March 7—2 p. m.—Breodrtaffs quiet and uu :.-auged. London, March 7—Evening.—Holiday; u) market. The amount of bullion gone iutu the Bank o: England on balance to-day Is £455,030. Paris, March 7. —Rentes, 60f 35c. Livectool, March 7.—Cation firm ; znid Uioy op* lands, American, G,£uo ; speculation and export, 2,000. Bi ead.<tuffc quiet and unchanged. Provisions—Baron—Short rib,4ls 2d; long clear, 29s Cd, Other articles unchanged. The New York Produce Market* NnwYomc, March 7,—Cotton —Quiet and fina; middling upland, ICKu; futures clo*eJ firm. Bbeadstvius—Fiourduli; receipts, ll.OCObrl*. la* ferior Western and Sale, C5.Gt'440.C5; e mmea W good extras, $9.25(56.55 ; good to choice, white wheat extra, ?5.':0t£7.23 ; extra Ohio, 7.D0; St. Louis, Rye dour and corn meal unchanged. Y,heat opened a shade fir®*** “* closed steady; receipts, 71,C00 bu; No. 2 Cbh.*go,|i.« (31.32; do Milwaukee, $1.54@1.56; ungraded Minnesota spring, White Western, *I.» J » No. 1 spring, iI.GO; choice winter red Western, $1.67K» Bye, barley, and mait uo-’b&fijed, Coro p light supply and prices slightly L jgher; rco lpy*» ip* 000 bu ; inferior to choice, tU(G-: eld Vcstero nu * ed, ; white Wester::, *2 firmer; receipts, 6,000 bu; mixed V»&»lcm, * white Western, C3(^Csc, Hops—Unchanged, . . ~ . Groceries—Coffee dull. Sagar Stdst, SloU**®* dull. Uic-i quiet. Pethoueu^—Crude, G>;(gC?; c; refined, I»X C "P o ** Tcr.J> ENTIRE —t7<*. Eooii—Heavy; Luatiie2—Unchanged. .. .. VTool—Hcarv; doiucstio fleece, 40^?65c; tuooec, B*J<c; pulled, 25<3i'>2v:r ; unwi beJ, IS.Ij-Wc. ftrovt^iOKs—Pork Ann I new me**. JflW-W®* ~z CMb : SIC-b5 ilorcb ; i!M!!f yl -J • ,8 -“ 3m i e and cut ineata unchanged. Middles excited anu hdt“ • Jong clear and fehort cJejr, 3c *poi, tnu leber Jarcin Lard linn; prime steam, U 1-I6c spot; »/* c Aprut 0 liMCc Hay. Butter a;;i> Cheese—Unchanged, ILettais—Manufactured copper uteady; tagot, LU Superior, 2*«c@2*Xc c.:sb ; pig-iron^ Scofh, American. liar-iron quiet. Buaala *£•*•> (517X<5 to poM. ,S'ajx.<-—Unchanged. Wiasuv—Finn at 9S^(S97c. The Legend of the Felt flat# There is a legend among hatters that felt was invented by no less a personage than St. Clement, the patron naint of their trade. Wishing to mak* a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, and »• ice same time to do penance for sundry unexpected peccadilloes, the pious monk star;cd on bis jour* coy afoot. As to whether be was afflicted *nh corns or kindred miseries, the ancient chrojiiclo from which this information is derived is silent; but, at all ©vents, a few days* successive trump ing soon began to blister toe feet. In order to obtain relief, it occurred to him to line his shoes with the far of a rabbit. This ho did, and, on arriving at his destination, was surprised to cua that the warmth and moisture of his feet hj“ worked the soft hair into a cloth-like mass. Xus. idea thus suggested ho elaborated in the solitude of his cell, and dually, there being no paieo* laws in existence in those days, ho gratuitously presented to bia fellow mortals the result of utM genius in the Uupe of a felt hat*