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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-11


Senator woodn moved that the vote by when te sec
ton was he rocODsidered and that that motion 40
lie upon the table. The motion was carried MI MoouIH
will ca up the section when there is larger number Oh
Senators present there doubtless Will DC tohorioW
and attempt ITS passage There Is no uOupt
fell that he will be successful. bill amending tue Jaw
of 1859 in relation state Assessors 80 ~ 10 pro
vide that in future of the at least Shall DC
resident of New-YOrk CITY, introduced by senator
Morrissey Senator Robertson presented bill authOrlz
ing the Commissioner OF Public Works to eXpend Tor
materials and labor III providing the Twentytb ahd
Twcnty-four;h Wards with CrotOn water the SUN Oh
100000. 81, l.. o.
In the Assembly tonight, Mr. Hodgess bill to prevent
agricultural societies watch offer niums Tor tris Oh
speed horses from receiving money APPROPRIATED
TO ncultura societies by the state, was considered
Mr. Hodges said that the object of the Dill was 10 ake
the statutes consistent IL wrong for the STATE 10
furnish agricultural societies with money when thcy
would use 10 dsObey Its laws. TIE bill was pOgfcsscu
In Committee tine Whole Mr.. Hodges then moved i't
il DO ordered to a third reading. the mGtoh was c.
feated by a of 80 45. oil amending ue Az o
1874 regulating the practice of medicine III lh s,'''
was ordered 10 third reading. IL changes the law 50
as to prosecution of pretended phy Scas mo me
hands OF the distrct-attOTney OF any county III WHO
an ohense against the law NAV he committed
The Assembly Committee on Cities VIII report favor
ably tomorrow "a bill giving lie Department OF Docks
the exclusive power to lease, for periods not longer IMAM
10 years. public auction or by sealed Dds al icriles
existing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-11

CTRlCTl RE, Impotence, and Diseases OF the
- 0enorstve organs radically and speedily surs OmCs
bonrs TO HEN kY A. DAN ELS a. d.. Ia LerngIona
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cities having less than 100000 inhabitants from the sec
tion providing that "cy elections shall be heid stpa
ratey from the state and National elections ana III
March and April" was also rejected. go,
Senator Prince then moved that Section De dVlueu
into three sections; declaring that III every cry
there shall elected board OF finance TO CONSIST OF not
less than six nor than fifteen members another III
relation TO the qualifications of voters for such boards IN
cities having a population of 100000. and third IN
relation to cities of less than 100000 popuatlOl
This amendment agreed TO. An amendment oHereu
h, Senator Kennaday declaring that the members OF e
Board of Finance must also be taxpayers was huopleu
All of the several sections of the bill were then adopted
NV a unanimous vote with the exception OF Sections
and g. Section ., in relation 10 spring elections was
voted against by Senators Starbuck Jacobs, ana hcnna
day Tue new section numbered No g. is IN relation 10
property qualification for voters. IL did not retevea
sufficient number OF votes according TO the Constitution
TIC vote upon it was follows. Republicans III iio
m. In qIgTe
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ur DEMOCRATS CARRY ALBANY COUNTY.

THE DEMOCRATS CARRY ALBANY COUNTY.
ALBANY, n. y, April 10.-At the election
here to-day the Democrats elected II out OF 10 super
visors and they expect to elect 20 out of 80 in the
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LECTURES AND MEETINGS.


At a meeting Of the New-YOrlI Open Board of
the e of the association changed TO the
"Ncw-YoIk open stock and Gold EXch mge."
meeting of the American Accumulation Society
Will held the library Of the Aquarium TINS evening ht
OcDck Several important TO he read among
which is by Or Greene psccuuTe IN emma, ilaus
latOn rom De lhersan Al persons Interested 10 a,chatng
birds animals and shes invited To their views on
the subject
At the meetiug of the Pilot Commissioners yeSter-
day, comp made by resident Of WMtestOne that
hObri had refuse
between WhitesOne ThrDgIs Neck, where
dumped Monday night The Police Department
deaied that had permitted refuse Ia be thrown INTO the
the foot al Nineetst East River Several
express themselves ready TO testify that the charge just
The committee appointed at the meeting of the
paint oil trade last Friday present resolutions Of
respect TO the memory Of George W. Jewet met
yesterday morning the Ofc5 Of g. T. nanolds Co.. No
Fulton and concluded further action This
conclusion nj Ia be in resp0ns 10 the wishes Of the family
Mr. Jewt who desire 10 give further publicity 10 the
tragedy than Is absolutely necessary.
The following amendment to the bylaws of the
Cotton Exchange relative TO the Classification Of cotton
viii by upon by the Exchange April ~; All qn,s
tiOns relating grades quality condition OF
requiring the examination Of the
decisiOn agreed by the deyerer and
be decided BY the brokers acting for them
fail then by the brokers and Of
the Exchange upon whom they the %
these three arbltraOrs be binding subject
appeal the Committee Classification ony
classification Of cotton delivered
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RADWhY'S READYRELlEF
FEVER AND AGgE.

FEVER AND AGUE cured FOR city cents There is not
remod agent this world that will Fever AMI Ague
and all other Maarl0us Bi0u. Scarlet typhoid Yellow AZ
other Fovers ,iaded by RAILWAYS PILiHl 20 quick as
RAILWAYS READY RELIEF Fifty cents per bottle.
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BREADSTUFFS.
THE WAR AND ITS EFFECTS..PROBA
BILE DEMAND FOR AMERICAN
PRODUCTS.
Especial to the Baltimore Americana

Especial to the Baltimore Americana
WASHINGTON, April %.
The certainty Of European war and the
prospect OF an active demand in the English
market for the breadstuffs Of this country
has caused much inquiry for statistics in re-
gard to the supply and consumption Of
b-eadstuffs abroad, and the probable effect
of the war upon the grain traffic. Dr.. Ed
ward Young, Chief of the Bureau of statis-
tics of the Treasury Department, has col
lected together some statistics bearing upon
the subject, and it is upon information OBJ
THE CEREAL PRODUCT OF EUROPE.
According to very careful and tho rough
statistical exhibit recently made by the
French Government, the total cereal pro-
duction Of Europe amounts at present to an
average OF 1894, goo, 900 bushels per annum.
OF this Russia alone furnishes 1,606, 900, 900
bushels, or nearly one-third of the whole j;
Germany, 742, 10000 bushels; France, 6S7.-
200 bushels, and Austria, 550,000,000
bushels. The production Of this country is
set down at l,537, $50. 900 bushels, which very
closely agrees with DR.. Young's own esti-
mate. Thus this country, with population
of forty millions, produces 800 bushels to
each inhabitant, while Europe, with popu-
lation of 297,0O0,oOO, produces only about
162 bushels per head.
The following table gives the amount of
cereals per inhabitant produced by the va
rious States of Europe:
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A Rich Maniac.
The New Orleans correspondent of I'll

The New Orleans correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, of date April %, says:
A maniac was dragged to the Tombs to-
day, after a hard struggle with the police,
about whom the Times has a. strange story.
His name is Martin Higgins, He bought yes
terday, an interest in small Yankee notion
concern on Chatham street, betraying no
striking traits during the several days of me-
gotiation. Last evening, in company with
several at his new shop, he suddenly exhib-
tied large number Of bills, varying in value
from $40 to $500. He then began to preach,
offering his auditors $40, then 500, then ST.
600 each, to hear him for an hour. They
were sinners. He was their savior. One OF
them tried to leave the room, bat be had
locked the door. Two others attempted to
90, and the maniac raved. He could save
all but one, but that one must be damned,
and he sprang across the counter for some
knives. They grappled with him and calm
ed him. 1t was late and the light went out.
He hastily collected the waste paper and
lighted it, drew forth his pocketbeok and
began throwing the bills into the flames, burn
ing several hundred dollars. His associates
then bound hian and gave him over to the po-
lice. Over $4,000 were found on his person,
and his companions say that they took bank
books from him representing from $4,000
to 100000. He Is said to have made vast
amount of money at sugar raising in the
South, but he has recently lived in Brooklyn.
There is something mysterious about last
nights actions, and the police hold the theo-
nv that he was robbed OF much larger
amount than was found on him.
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THE PRESENT PROSPECT.
The Wisdom Of our Law Makers.

The exquisite muddle of the tobacco law,
the agricultural commission law, the name
changing veto, the canal-bill veto, and the
act to give to a paper corporation in the
Southwest almost unlimited privileges touch
ing the penitentiary convicts-this multi
piled middle of veto and approval, of legis-
lation, amendments, and repeal, we propose
to lay often before the public, so as to con-
graduate Virginia on the wisdom which di-
reefs, perfects, or vetoes its progress.
But we have not space to-day.
The subject will keep, however; and in
the meantime the community may digest the
facts-the veto of the canal-bill and the ap-
proval of the narrow-guage bill, chapter
1879; the veto of the harmless little bill to
change the name of single citizen, and the
approval of the Tomfool law which has de-
stroyed all regulations Of the tobacco trade,
without substituting in their place anything
but a confusion ia which the best lawyers
can see no clue the passage of an elaborate
act which has no enacting clause, and the
appointment thereupon OF an officer to an
office which does not exist
These things are pleasant to look at, and
raise quite an infinite admiration for our
Legislative and executive departments.
If we had a Legislature once in twenty
years, and a Governor empowered only to
appoint notaries, we should get along much
better.
The above is from the Richmond State.of
the 23d, sound democratic paper. The
confusion which our contemporary SO happily
and tersely exposes is due solely to the eau
Gus system of nominating candidates for
office. Almost invariably men are selected
who do not feel an interest in the legislation
effected. They do not study the substan-
tial interests of the Common wealth, nor do
they care for them. All they do care for is
to control the primary meetings, secure the
nominations of the caucus, and then the
party lash is used to elect them. When so
much harm to the State results from this sys-
TEN of machine politics, we think it is time
for the substantial people, who pay the
taxes and are interested in practical, useful
legislation, to devote little of their time to
the securem ent of the services Of practical
men for public service. This can only be
done by dispensing with the caucus, and
vacating the occupation of the trading poll
ticians. There is no necessity for this mis-
cradle, demOralizing method of directing the
affairs of the Commonwealth, and it is the
duty Of the people to enter their protest in
such manner that the infammatory little
tricksters who generally run the eau Gus shall
be made to stand aside.
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The Wh;o. in its leader of the Oath, argues

The Wing, in its leader of the oath, argues
approvingly that the obliteration OF race and
sectional lines in politics. will have the eff
feet to reorganize parties upon issues affect
ing administrative policy that will divide
the people, irrespective of race, 'each ac-
cording to his own views and opinions, look
ing to the general good" This is very well,
and is the legitimate result Of the Presl-
dents policy. But the Wing spells its en-
tire thread of argument and conclusion, by
the following closing sentence: s'But, come
what may, let us maintain to the last our
Conservative organization in Virginia"
When it is remembered what the Soon
sentative organization is. the sincerity OF
the reasons OF the Wing preceding its clos
ing lines, must necessarily be brought in
question. Its argument and conclusion are
in direct antagonism. To preserve the
Democratic or Conservative organization is
to perpetuate fanatical politics, based upon
race and sectional lines. 1t has been kept
together solely upon such Issues. 1t mas
pleaded no other excuse for its existence.
With these obliterated, it must necessarily
dissolve.
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Important Decision in Bankruptcy,

The Richmond Dispatch, of the 23d, re-
ports the following decision rendered by R.
W. Hughes, U. S. Judge for the Eastern
District Of Virginia;
Judge Hughes on Saturday filed an opin-
ion in the matter OF B. D. Cogbill, bank
rupt. He said substantially: ALI the real
estate surrendered by the bankrupt was
bound by a judgment-lien for about 81 1850,
which contained no waiver of homestead.
A portion of the land was subject to deed
of trust junior in priority to the Judgment
for about 81 ,050, and this land was sold tor
$40. By the law of Virginia the right OF
homestead has priority over judgment, and
deed of trust has priority over right o
homestead as to the specific land covered by
it, The first question is whether or not the
homestead right may be set up against the
judgment, and in defeating that defeat also
the deed of trust. This proposition cannot
be entertained. The second proposition is
that the deed Of trust, by defeating the
homestead, lets in the judgment; which
concede. The third proposition is that the
deed-of-trust creditor is entitled to have his
debt.made good out of the proceeds Of the
land which was not covered by the deed, by
virtue of the principle governing courts OF
equity in marshalling assets-that is to say,
the principle of subrogation. This last pro.
position must reject. If the bond, for &c.
curing which the deed Of trust was given,
contained on its face a waiver Of the home
stead in writing, would think the PROPOSE
tiou worthy of some consideration, for then
there would be waiver as to the debt as
well as waiver as to the land but as there
was not such express waiver on the bond,
and the waiver in the form of the deed of
trust applied only to the land, I must reject
this proposition.
The learned Judge argues the several
questions at considerable length, and con.
cludes as follows:
cit seems to me that it would be SUBJ
version of the objects OF the law Of home-
stead, perversion Of its aim and violation
of its spirit, to apply the doctrines govern
ing in the marshallng Of assets i'll equity to
the destruction Of the homestead rights in
favor Of other debts and against other pro-
perty than those in regard to which the
right of homestead has been expressly
waived. The courts have already gone very
far in judicially legislating the homestead
right out of existence. But know of no
case in which they have carried the power
of judicial legislation so far as to resort to
the expedient Of Constructive soaiuer in at
lacking the homestead right. At all events,
I will wait to be overruled before employing
the expedient myself. will give decree
declaring that the right o: homestead does
not exist as to the proceeds Of the land COW
cred by the bankrupt's deed of trust; but
recognizing its superiority to the claim of
the judgment-creditor in respect to the pro-
ceeds of the land not so covered
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According to the most moderate esti mate
the average quantity of cereals necessary for
the consumption Of each inh abltant is four
teen and nine-tenths bushels per annum,
and it therefore results that all the States
that come after Sweden upon the list have to
obtain grain supplies from other countries.
In this country three-ffths Of the cereal pro-
'duction consists Of maize. In Europe oats
predominant, and next in quantity come
wheat, rye, barley and maize. Russia, Prus-
STA and France produce large wheat crops,
and the two first are our largest competitors
in the English market. In Roumania and
Servia maize takes the first rank.
At one time the chief dependence Of En-
gland for wheat was upon Russia and Prus-
sia, and the supremacy of the United States
in the grain markets Of the world is of COM
paratively recent growth. Prior to. 1869
Russia and Prussia led this country in the
supply Of wheat. From 1859 to 1861 the ex-
ports of wheat from this country to England
sprang suddenly up from 43O,5O cwts. to
15,610,472 cwts., while in the same period
Russia advanced only from $685., 454 cwts.
to a, SCI, 4S3 cwts., and Prussia from 8, 345 3O1
cwts. to 4, 1852, 573 cwts.
The lead taken so suddenly by this coun-
try has ever since been maintained. Tables
covering the years from 1860 to 1872 show
that the United States supplied England
during that period with 2S.5 per cent. of her
total imports of wheat, including flour,
against 24.7 per cent. from Russia, and II q
per cent. from Germany. In the same Pc
riod England imported As per cent. of her
total importations of maize from this coun-
try. In 1852 the exports of maize of this
country to Great Britain emily amounted to
l,341, 1904 bushels, against l,795,632 from
Turkey and Roumania and l, 500, 52s bushels
from Russia. At present Roumania and
Southern Russia, to lesser degree, are our
principal competitors in the supply Of maize.
Z The year 1876 was good harvest year in
England; prices were low, and the total
imports of wheat were only A, 1914, 152 cwts.
against 81, 7S6,393 cwts. in 1875. The fol-
lowing tables give the sources Of supply:
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The United States District Court in New
Orleans has rendered decision sustaining
the claims of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines in her
famous suit against the city of New Orleans.
The decree commands the defendants to &C.
count for all the income received from the
property during their long possession-more
than sixty years. Heavy claims are also in.
volved in the decision for large amount of
the property which has been sold by the
city.
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1t will be noted that although in some OF
the years of high prices the home harvest
was SO good that the requirement OF foreign
breadstuffs was smaller than usual, yet the
prices kept up. It should be stated, how
ever, that in the four years, from 1858 to
1856, the harvests in France were deficient,
and instead Of having wheat to export, as
usual, it imported 6,94e, l56 quarters during
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that period, thus. competing with England,
instead Of supplying it, as was usual.


The war between Prussia and Austria, in
1855, was so short that its effect upon trade
and commerce was very transient. 1t began
June 18th, and lasted only seven weeks, but
that period is nevertheless marked by an up
ward tendency in prices. The average price
Of wheat per quarter in the English market
was ASS. Sd in June; 54s. Id. in July; Sos
Cd. in August, and Ass. lid. in September.
Afterwards, the new crop being scant, the
price went up again, and the next year was
one Of high prices, ranging from 60 to SO
shillings quarter.
The period of hostilities between France
and Germany is not marked by any signal
increase of prices, low rates generally pre-
vailing. War was declared July 10, 1870,
and was terminated by treaty of peace on
February 26, 1871. The average price per
quarter for wheat in the English market was
AIS. sd. in June, 1870; SOS. 10d. in July
SIS. 10d. in August. In September, when
the new crop entered the market, the price
fell to As. 3d.. from which it soon went up
again, however, 1872 and '73 being years Of
high prices, and did not fall so low again I'M
til September, 1874.
From September l, 1876, to March 81,
1877, which covers the period since harvest,
there has been placed in the English mar
ket, importations and home produce to-
gether, only 40, 751, 346 cwts Of wheat, against
62,24O,531 in the same period of 1856,
$500, 067 in 1S74-5, and 81, 1885, $40 in 1874.
During the same period from September /,
1876, to March 81, 1877, the total imports Of
wheat into Great Britain have been only
2l,52e,722 cwts., against 33,s53,973 in the
same period of the preceding season.
THE PRESENT PROSPECT.
In this country the visible supply of wheat
is only about one-half what it was this time
last year, and if the Russian supply is cut off
from the English market by war, the supply
Of wheat until the next harvest will be very
scant, and prices necessarily high. This
will tend to make good market for maize,
of which there is in this country more than
twice the quantity in store than there was
his time last year, although the exporta-
tions to England have been larger than last
year. While much depends upon the area
Of hostilities and the length Of the war, it is
the opinion Of statisticians that the Eastern
war cannot fail to create an. extraordinary
demand for our breadstuffs.
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All trains daily on main line.

All trains daily on main line.
The Express South bound connects at Lyme h.
burg for the West and Southwest, and at Danvil lie
for the South. Southeast and Southwest.
The Mail South bound connects at Lynchburg
for Memphis, Little Rock and Texas, and for At
laIlta and all points in the South and via New Or
leans to Galveston and Southern Texas; also con-
meets with Ches s. Ohio East and West.
The $50 D IN train connects with the Ches Il Ohio
R.iR. Westward to Huntington, Cincinnati and
all the Northwest, and Eastward to Richmond and
the South East.
For MANASSAS DIVISION leave Washington
at $40 daily, except Sunday and get to Stras-
burg at 448 p. M Leave Strasburg at $40 a. IN.
and arrive at Alexandria at p m.
For WARRENTON leave Washington daily at
BIO a. m. Leave Warrenton at 935 am. to con-
net with the Mail South bound and at 235 p. m.
to connect with the Mail North bound.
Trains from South arriving at Washington at
1886 q. m, p. M, and 1:25 a, m: make good con
nections with Bait. Ohio and Bait. Potomac
trains to Baltimore. Philadelphia and New York,
and to all points North and northwest.
Through tickets to the South and West at low
est rates.
S. SPENCER, Supt. Transp'n.
]. NJ. BROADUS.
apr. 56 SOD. General Ticket Agent
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Accounts are received of most disastrous
fire which occurred on Thursday afternoon
in Butler county, Pa. The lightning struck
and tore to pieces tank containing $4,000
barrels OF oil, setting it on fire. Two other
tanks took fire from the burning oil, which
ran down creek, destroying everything in
its course. In all Al, 1000 barrels were burned,
and the Town of Troutman was almost en-
tlrely destroyed, besides much other proper
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Charles NJ. Sterling, a tramp, was hanged
at Youngstown, Ohio, Saturday, for the muir
der Of Lizzie Grombacher, aged IA, near that
place, in January, 1877. The girl was found
in the woods stranglea with her veil and
brutally outraged. The crime was traced to
Sterling. He asserted his innocence to the
last.
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An excursion party of business men from
Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and
intermediate points will leave Cincinnati May
l and visit, via Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, Will
mingten, Charleston, Augusta, Columbia,
Danville, Lynchbnrg and other points. 1t
is expected that about two weeks will be
spent by the party in making the trip.