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Grain ErelghfS.

ST. LOUIS, April 6.-The trunk rail-
roads to-day agreed upon the following
rates on grain and -four to Eastern
points: Boston, As cents; New York, 30
and 20 cents; Phlsdeiphiar 80 and o6
cents: Baltimore 80 and "a cents. These
rates will take effect tomorrow.
CHICAGO, April G.-The general freight
agents of the trunk lines today received
a circular letter from their managers
stating the facts of the recent compro-
mise in New York, and advising the
adoption OF the following rates, which
the agents this evening adopted: Grain
to New York, per 100 pounds, 30 cents;
TO Baltimore, 29 cents; 20 Philadelphia
2S cents; t) Boston, 3j cents. On
fourth class freight: to New York, %
cents; to Baltimore, "a cents; 70 PniIs-
delphis. SO cents; TO Boston 40 cents.
These rates take effect Immediately. The
agents are instructed to make no rebate
whatever.
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Further Particulars Of the
Bomb-Shell Tragedy.
Oakley Hall Interviewed
The Cause Of His
Flight.
Incendiary Fire in Pied
mont.
The Louisiana Commission
Have a Talk with
Packard.
Account of the Massacre
of the Passengers and
Grew of Steamer
Wright.
Governor Hampton's Wei
come Home.
Cause Of Oakley HALLS Flight.


NEW YORK, April 4.-Louis j. Jen-
nings sends from London the following
dispatch to the World:
LONDON, April 5th.
In reply to your further questions con-
cerning my conversation with A. Oakley
Hall, it may be proper for me to say that
his flight was plainly caussd by the ever.
recurring spectre of his alleged COM
plicity IL the ring frauds. The perpetual
revival of these charges made life so in
tolerable to him that he came to think
death better than to be thus constantly
lsmented. He said to me that he wished
to be considered dead by his friends and
to be forgotten. He is very greatly de-
pressed and seems to have no care for the
future. As to the woman who is said to
be his companion, we have seen nothing,
and from my conversation with him, L
believe that no such person had any
part IN bis flight. 1 don't think that
any other person, man or lady, besides
himself was cognizsnt of his purpose in
leaving New Yerk, or is in any way con-
nected with his presence here. AS l said
Yesterday, l consider him to be simply
an utterly broken man. The WorM
supplements this mornings dispatch by
saying: There is a theory connected
with Halls disappearance which, on a
close examination OF the facts, seems to
cover all the circumstances of this other.
wise incomprehensible affair. 1t appears
that Hall had insurance of some $4,000
on his lite. To his friend, Douglas lay
lor, he said only few weeks before his
flight, "My family would be better of if
were dead" and there is much to prove
that he wanted to cause the belief that he
met his desh that Friday night, after he
left the office.
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The Render Family.

MUsKoGEE, l. T., April 6.-Detective
Bears Of Emporis, Kansas, arrived here
TINS afternoon in charge Of the keofer,
al,as Ben der, family, recently arrested
in Arkansas. They were three days on
the rosd through Indlsn Territory, and
reached this point On their way TO Kan
sas but two hours in advance OF deputy
United States marshal with 8 writ OF
ha6eas corpus, issued by Judge Parker
OF the United States District Court, COM
mspding them to bring their bodies forth
with to For. Scott, Arkansas. There n
considerable excitement, and the detective
looks upon it IS ruse to obtain time a, tor
their friends TO effect 8 rescue. They
start back for Fort Smith to-norro"
Keofer claims 70 have been member oi
the Wisconsin Legislature in 1850 from
West Bend, WsshOe county, snd 70 have
resided there until 1873.
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THE NtRSHAIhsiP FIGHT.

The United States MarShalship Tor the
Ds,ric,of West Virginia is just now
tie ,tject Of bright and beautiful quar-.
;e! snong Republican aspirants. MIR
GEORGE W. PATroH, late of Pennsyl-
yaas, who succeeded in eliminating Maj.
HgDoNAX SLACK from the Msrshalshlp,
sld who represents the best and only
be4gest o. the departing Csmeronlan
tyns;ly to this State, naturally desires
.oholI on to the place to which he has re-
Gently been appointed.
"lfso soon he must be done for,
What the devil was lie begun for?"
SLACK yesrns unutterably for the
onions snd hesh.pot that have been taken
sssy from mis- political bill of fare.
Assor RoLLYsoS stands ready to COM
PJ'e the unseemly strife, and would suit
We. IS s selection from the composite
order Of office-seekers. Besides
ia&e names there is q mighty
A'a that have not yet crept
mo print. We hear of one
P@mnent politician, who has recon-
@eaiet St least two dozen applicants
'o' 'hs place, and he is not yet halt
''"agh. The place Is worth about fifteen
-4hd'ed dollars year, all possible per-
E-'iIe; included, and the contest over 1t
Flows how chesply the purest patriotism
: /" De purchased, in these days OF su-
ys'-loas public virtue.
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EISAL ALLOTMENT.

The Secretary of War, upon the recon-
mendstion of Colonel w. z. CRAIGHILL,
engineer in charge, has authorized the
expenditure of $4,000, the unallotted
balance OF an appropriation of s27O,OOO
made by Congress last year for the i'm
provement of the kanawhs river. This,
with the sums heretofore appropriated,
will aggregate about $6OO,OOO-an
amount sufficient to complete the locks
and dams at Brownstown, Cabin Creek
and Paint Creek.
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New England VI. L. Conference.

Boston, April 6.-At the session OF
the New England Conference OF the NJ.
+. Church to-day, the Committee on the
State of the Country, to whom was re-
terred the political resolutions offered on
Wednesday, by Rev. DR.. MaIlalieu, re-
ported through the chairman, Rev. l.. R,
Thayer, D. D., series of resolutions as
a substitute for those of Rev. DR.. MALTA
lieu The new resolutions extended the
sympathy of the conferenceto Hayes, and
stated that as legalized slavery had been
annihilsted the sympathy Of all the
members Of the conference should also
be given to the social and political eleva-
tion of the colored people in their efforts
to obtain their rights. DR.. Mallalieu
advocated the adoption of the resolution
which he had presented. Pending dis
cussion the conference adjourned.
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JUDGECOCHRAN'S OPINION.
CLEVELAND, o., April 4, 1877.

Capt. John McLure, Wheeling, W. Va:
DEAR SlR:-On Tuesday, after the
Wheeling delegation had started on its
return home, Mr.. Chamberlain, the Pres
ident of the the g., I. V. 81 w. railway,
requested me TO examine the contract be-
tween that company and the g., g., q. u
l. Co. relating to prorsting arrange
ments.
l read the contract in the presence of
Mr.. Chamberlain, Judge Tyler, Messrs.
Russell, Holloway and other members OF
the directory, and a free discussion of its
features between those gentlemen and
myself followed. The "short" of my i'm
preston and conviction Is that the con-
tract Is in every sense satisfactory as q
favorable and valuable arrangement for
the G., L. V. & w. railway, and / do not
now know OF anything that could or
ought to be added thereto IN the interests
of the last named company.
l am most tavorably impressed with sil
I have seen or learned of the manage
rnent, and it is my most decided convic-
ton that Wheeling should at once secure
the friendship Of this company, and the
extension of the line to or into our city.
Yours truly,
4. II. COCHRAN.
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AWARD AT THE PENIrENTIARY.

The Board of Directors Of the Penl'
tentiary, in session at Moundsville, last
Thursday awarded the contract tor GER
tain power and machinery, advertised
BY Superintendent BRIDGES to be let to
the lowest bidder on that day. Com
peting bids were opened from Baltimore,
Cincinnati and this city. Upon con-
sideration the award was made to Messrs.
A. j. SWEENEY & Son, of Wheeling, at
$500.
As is usual in all such cases, there ls
more or less curSent rumor and criticism
concerning the award. Among other
things it is stated that the successful firm
were allowed one hundred dollars advan-
tage in the bidding by reason OF their
having furnished the drawings and speci-
fications; also that in accordance with
a request of the B'srd they reduced
their bid after the opening, and that by
this reduction their bid was made the
lowest. AS the members of the Board
have all returned to their homes it is
difficult to verify any of the gossip afoat
concerning their proceedings, and it is.
therefore given for just what it is worth.
If there is any truth in the criticisms
made, it will be brought to light by the
legal proceedings which are understood
to be contemplated by Cincinnati firm,
If there has been ally untsirness IN the
award, of course it will not be approved
by either the public or the courts, but
our information is that the difference be-
tween the competing bids was SO small
that the Board might very we'll be iusti-
fed in awarding the contract to we'll
known and responsible firm in our OVID
State. We congratulate the MessrS.
SWEENEY upon their success, and the
State upon having secured their services
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Of yesterday. A night of intense sorrow
and agony was passed at George w.
Jewett's mansion, Staten Island, and
Mrs. Jewett's cries were heard tsr be-
yond the house and grounds. There was
no more loving couple anywhere in the
country than Mr.. and Mrs Jewett. They
were constantly seen together after his
return from business. and after brief
visit to the lead works near his dwelling,
afternoon ride over the hills and along
the shore of their beautiful island home.
NEW YORK, April 6.-The Time,
furnishes the following account OF how
Mr.. levitt me. his death: Orville ID.
Jewett when last noticed by any one was
standing with his hands under his cost
tails in front of the CRATE fire. The wife
of the janitor said yesterday that when
she and her husband were startled by
the first explosion they sprang up
from the breakfast table and ran rapidly
down stairs. She had got but
half way down when she heard four
sharp reports in quick succession, but at
tached no importance to the circumstance
until the finding OF the bullets and their
connection with the empty chambers of
the small pistol were pointed out to her.
She also afterwsrd heard the small ex
ploslon spoken of by Assistant Foreman
Cook, and several others as occurring. 1t
must have been nearly minute suose-
quent to the great one. 1t seems evident
after throwing the grenade and finding
himself comparatively unhurt, Orville,
carrying our his preconcerted plan for
which he had amply provided himself,
drew the small revolver and discharged
all four barrels at his breast, three re-
naming in him and the fourth went
out through the right hand pane OF thick
ground glass forming one OF the tsnes OF
the hall door and buried itself about the
depth of the sixteenth of an inch in the
soft wood of the hallway. subsequently
Orville drew large revolver
and put the finishing touch to his ghsstly
work. This theory is the most probable
one from every point OF view. That
Orville possessed the necessary strength
to accomplish the shooting is proven by
the fact that more than five minutes
after receiving his wounds he was able
to raise himself from the floor, carry
glass of brandy to his lips and swallow it
unaided. His wslstcost over the points
of entrance of the bullets was set OH
fire, while his overcoat and undercost
we're unmarked, showing both the delib-
Grafton and closeness with which the ps-
tolls were fred. The direction of all the
wounds was sucn rs might easily have
been caused by himself, holding the
pistols IN the right hand, and such alss
as to preclude the notion that he was
fired at by another.
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THE location of the new wool house at
this city is evidence OF Steubenville's
superior transportation facilities, and
shows the advantage of having the same
properly presented st the proper time.
The new wool house will be under the
control of the Grsngers, which order in
the United States in 1876 numbered l5,-
10 oranges and $685. members. If
the enterprise proves Il success Steuben-
Vile will probably become the centre for
the wool trade OF Ohio, If not of the en-
tire eWes:-SteuJenriiL Herald.
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WARRINGTON, April 6-Sscrslary
Sherman has established Q precedent for
the disposition Of oil proportions looking
TO Q compromise Of the whisky sLitA, .
large number Of which Are now pending
before the Treasury Department. He
bss taken up the 6rst cass presented,
which is . proposition to relieve the
sureties from all responsibility, upon the
payment Of merely . nominal sum.
After reciting the history Of the cass
and quoting the law, the Secretary in
the letter says; Noquestiop b made but
thst the principal had violated the tsrms
of his bond, had been proven guilty Of .
criminal breach Of the Law and Of the
conditions OF his bond and had been con.
victed and sentenced TO fheen months
imprisonment and 10 pay . fna. The
suit Was commenced on his bond and
judgne eut was entered by confession
There are no extenuAting circumstances
in favor of the principal Of the bond ex.
cept the guilty participation Of many
others In his crime. This crime wss
wholesale fraud and conspiracy involving
the loss of many millions Of the public
revenue and . wide betrayal Of the
public trust that thoatened the
utter subve-sion Of the revenue laws.
Ii q case ever occurred Of open daring
and pslpable violation Of the public
duty, 1t was this conspiracy known -
the st. LOUIS whisky ring. The sureties
are admitted on all hands 10 bs free from
the fraud and crime Of the principal.
but they did assume pecuniary liability
for him, and in law are held 10 the full
extent OF their bond. They asserted their
ability TO pay the bond by signing IL
and their legal liability 10 6xed
by the judgment. Their legal duty 10 10
pay the bond and the secretary ought
not to relieve them from this liability,
except for clear and conclusive reasons.
Mere insolvency Is not sufficient reason
for release from penal bond, and their
insolvency occurring since the ding OF
the bond is not sufficiently explain
ed in the papers, and II II were.
in my view it would not change the case
The granting OF n pardon by the Presi-
dent is not All argument for the release
of pecuniSry liability by the secretary.
for the President may have supposed
that the pscunisry liability was =
sufficient punishment. To tho claim
that Judgments were rendered
against the distillers for ta1es lost by the
gaugers' crime, the answer Is that those
judgments have never been satisfied.
and besides no one can say that oil the
judgments combined measure tho loss
TO the government by this conspiracy.
Ii the judgment can not b. col
lected the sureties are not injured,
while the release Of judgment
would be an evil example. II
the Secretary errs in this Congress can
grant the necessary relief. II the law 10
wrong, or too severe Congress can rome.
dy 1t, but charged rs he Is with eIecu.
tion of the revenue laws, the Secretary
must insist on their enforcement and
must refuse to yield 10 the appeals 10 re-
lieve those defendants from their liabil-
ity. Very respectfully,
JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary.
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A LARGE mass meeting of the friends
of NICHOLS was held in New Orleans
yesterday. From ten thousand to fifteen
thousand people were present. Strong
resolutions were adopted appealing to
the President to maintain a policy Of
non-interference, aud entreating the peo-
pie of the United States, by the power of
public opinion, to enforce the adoption of
that policy.
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Miners Strike.

PITTSBURGH, April 6.-The miners at
Connellsville, Broad.ord and along the
lives OF the branch roads in Fayette
county, have struck for higher wages,
They were getting 25 cents per wagon.
ana now demand 33 cents. They are
opposed to the company stores, and want
their pay IN cash instead of part store
orders as heretofore. Throughout this
region all the coal mined is used tor cox
ing. In the Youghioheny district the
miners are still in. but a strike is sntici-
pated. There will be meeting of the
miners at Brosdford this evening.
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Governor Hamp ton ~ Hs1s

COLUMBIA, April 6.-Gov. H.mp.
ton arrived here this evening on . special
train, accompanied by large military
and civil delegations from Charlotte and
all points 10 the State on the line Of the
road. He was received by the entire
military force and other organizations st
the depot, where the procession formed
and headed by band Of the Eigh.senth
United States Infantry. He was Escort
ed amid great enthusiasm 70 Carolins
hall where he was inaugurAtsd
in December last. Addressing On
immense concourse Of people, he IN.
nounced that his policy in the future
would be oHe Of peace and harmony. and
that he would support President Hayes
as long As he pursued the policy Indicated
10 his inaugural address The Governor
reiterated the pledge made 10 tho colored
people in his campaign speeches, and
said that in the admin istration OF the law
be should know no race.
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Advance OF Passenger Rates.

New YORK, April 6.-The managers
of The New York Central, Erie, Penn
sylvsnis Central and Baltimore Il OHIO
railroads have agreed to advance the
rates for special limited tickets to the
following figures, to take effect Monday
next: From New York to Cleveland
81, Detroit Sl3, Toledo Sl425, Chicago
500, St. Louis S24, Kansas City $50. In
dianspolis Sl9, Cincinnati SIS; from
Albany 81 less than from New York,
snd from Boston by all routes 81 more
than from New York. The same figures
will also be adopted by east bound pas
senger trains.
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Unemployed WOrkmen.

OTTAWA, CAM, April 6.-The unem.
ployed workmen of the city interviewed
Mr.. Mackenzie this morning. He sd-
dressed them, and said thst the govern
ment had no power to grant them relief,
as it was not a matter for local legislation
and the municipal couucil to deal with,
but he would willingly contribute liber-
ally to relief fund. The men dispersed
quietly. A reliet fund was started.
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The Wrong Man.

MILwAUKEE, April 6.-The Sentinel
has special from West Bend showing
that q. Keller, arrested ir Crawford
county, Arkansas, on suspicion OF being
Bencer, resided for many years in
Washington county, in this State, and
was member OF the Legislature of 1860
He removed to Arkansas in 1878.
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The SnnduskY Railroad War.

SASDUsKY, 0, April 6-The las: de-
velopment in the Cincinnati, Ssndusky
and Cleveland railroad war at this point
is that motion will be made at Toledo,
on Monday next, be Judge McMath for
Caldwell and Prentiss to vscste the re
ceivership and dissolve the injunction.
Ii the motion prevails. the road will pass
from the hands OF the Sloan faction into
the control of the Boston stockholders.
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Hormon Co q feFeaee.

SALT LAKE, April 6-Ths semi annu-
al Mormon conference convened to-day
a, st. George, Utah, Brigham Young
and many prominent Aormons bang
present. The non. Mormons OF The terri
tory will hold 9 MAS meeting on the 18th
70 arrange legislation for the coming
special term of Congress, and parties will
be sent from here 70 represent them.
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Freight Regulations.

NEW YoEE. April 6-Genersl Ae ent
Rut.er of the New York CAotral and Hud-
son River Railroad, sent letter to-day o
the President Of the Produce Exchange,
saving that owing 70 the recent agree
ment of the trunk lines the export rebate
Of IA cents per hundred pounds ceA.e' /,
and the percentage systsm Of rates based
on mileage is abandoned, and in lieu
thereof the fixed differences on sll classes
OF ess: bound ss well as west bound
traffic are agreed 70. The pay
ment Of the export rebste consequently
ceases.
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pra.o..,. nor N.ll ksr,iss.

WnnIsGTos, April 6.-Tbs postofhcs
department has prepared sdvertissrsspts
inviting proposals for mail service on
aboni sII hundred routes, in oil psrn Of
the country, for terms ranging from oDs
20 four years from the hrst Of next Sep
ternber. BIDS received until June 9Th,
and awards made by June 1Gh
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Indian Prisoner for MoundsvilIe.

LITTLE Rock. April Ga dispatch
from Fort Smith says the Arrspshoe In
dian who was sentenced to be hung there
on the 9th, has been commuted 10 i'm
prlsonmert for life in the Moundsville,
West Va, Penitentisry.
The two negroes heretofore sentenced
will be hung on the 9th.
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Fire I'm Lynn. Mas.

BcsroS, April Ga fire in Lynn,
Mass. this morning, starting IN Z. G.
Sweetzer's factory, Central avenue and
Oxford street, rapidly destroyed Sweet
zer's block, and the shoe factory of E.
+. Bancroft. These buildings lad sew
eral occupants, whose losses are, Crscrsft
& Psrrington, leather dealers, s24,O0O;
Sweetzers building, $4,000, stock aud
machinery, $4,000; David ). Boynton
i Co. about s37, 800. The other losses
will aggregate about sl50,00O.
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High water.

OMAHA, April G.-The steamer Den
YER passed Browpsviile at 2:30 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon. The riyer has
risen TO IA feet s inches, and ia full Of
running ice. The current is very rapid
and the water is running over the low
lands between here and Council Blu6',
and has a small channel across the neck
northeast Of the city. -Four Winnebsgo
Indians who were hunting on an island
below Dakota City, to-day, 60, caught
by the high water and were drowned.
The heavy ice TOOK their canoes of and
the water covering the island they could
not escape.
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II now stated that CHAMBERLAIN
i. to be appointed Minister to Sweden
:. v.y Of compensation for his loss OF
,,n,b Carolina Govcrnorship. This
-.r,. 3 touching mitigation OF his
.4i,;ion, IS well as beautiful iiiustFs-
-, # the Presidents pledge to "dlVorce
=, ,,blic business entirely from psrti-
=, politics"
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Cincinnati Eleeiian

CINCINNATI, April 6.-The official
count OF the vote OF this city taken Mon
day hiss been completed, and gives Moore
Republican. for Mayor, ajority l,6OO
81 over Johnston, Democrat. The only
Democrat elected is Moses Wilson for
Police Judge, over Walter F. Strsub
Republican, by 81 msjority.
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Tss virginis General Assembly has
.3 and the Richmond Dispatch
-, hody the doubtful compliment
= ,;,ctbe State may never have a
s,,e Legislature '"'n ~
....,,o.eI lis labOrs.
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r.. friends OF Charleston opened the
1870, c.mpaign in behalf of that place
meeting at Fayetteville, last
" 4. Hon. E. w. WILSON
o,s Of the speakers we infer that the
sings were loud and long.