New York World (Newspaper) - April 29, 1875, New York, New York THE EDWARDS ACCEPTS TUG SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE April nude in The Sunday that Attorney hart been tendered Ed wards Plot t of New York was fully confirmed today by the reception of a letter from ad dressed to the accepting tlie Judge will enter upen his duties the of m Judge resignation on of that It la claimed among the Administration that the new la a more oon Republican his and thul appointment is step to 1m tallowed by towards a con policy in the Southern In proof nf this is asserted that Judge 1ierrtpont dis approved of the course pursued by tin tration in Whether this gossip re garding a better tempered policy in tlie South bo it seems to be conceded hero an amounting to a confession of if tint the action of Congress in the Arkansas and especially in the was and that of tbe President On the among Republicans as well as Demo no whatever is attached to selection of Judge It has been for a long time that the President has titen anxious to have him in the and it to assume that he and tho President have been fully in accord on the policy or lie Administration toward the South and in its details It is hard to make any one here think that the President would at the head of the Department of Justice any one less subservient than the retiring Attor Nor docs any aim believe that the President has at lust adopted the course of conciliation and harmony so long and so vainly upon him by tlie t as being tlie only means by which the discordant ele of tlie Republican party cau uc Edwards who succeed in the was born at New in educated at the famous Old Grammar School of that then under President Noah and en tered Yale in graduating in 1837 in the name class with Evarts and taking high His legal studies prosecuted at the Law School under Judge and in 1810 he was admitted to prac removing to where ho en tered into partnership with then State during the ensuing live enjoyed a most success ful practice and established his legal repu In 1810 he came to this he has since In 1857 he was elected to till the vacancy in the Superior Court created By the death of Chief a position which he held for three then When the war bioke out himself on the sine of nominally as a War Democrat was a of the Union Defence Committee of this city a in of the commission for examining into the cases of prisoners of and one of the counsel for the Government in the Burratt Shortly after the nomination of Seymour he declared for and oil the election of the latter was made holding the somewhat over a In he was offered and declined the Russian Pierrepont was a member of the Constitutional Convention of when he served on the Judiciary lie was also a member of of THE CASE Of GENERAL DESPATCH TO Tin April application of General Fitz John Porter for a rehearing of his case has not yet reappeared before the President nnd It was referred to the Secretary ot War for a and that official in turn re ferred it to Holt for a brief of the This lias not yet been com DESPATCH TO THE April is ascertained that the return of the escaped to New York rests entirely with the decision of the of This Government has not asked for his inline absence of any extradition and has done nothing beyond the action o its Consul in Havana in identifying as a fugitive Irom The Captain General is now absent from but on bla return it is according to advices re that he will give him up to the New York SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE April attention of the Mexican Government to the laids across the Klo Grande has been called through despatches sent to our Minister to Mexico sonio two weeks lint it is thought here that the Mexican authori ties are powerless to prevent and that it will bo necessary for the United States to rein force its army detachments on the Rio nnd at the same time cooperate with the State of Texas in repressing these border THE CANAL NEW YORK THURSDAY APRIL PRICE FOUR DISASTROUS IN US f April v fire broke out at Morgan on the north bank of the A high wind prevailed at the and tbe flames swept onward with irre sistible Of the engines several were par disabled anil one was and the reinforcements from FondduLac and Hipon proving inadequate to the task of sub duing the gunpowder was resorted and several of buildings blown up to chock the path of the At 9 the wildest 1 excitement and greatest confusion making it absolutely impossible to obtain trust worthy information as to the extent of and losi by the while OH both telegraph are destroyed communication is almost Im At least two men have been killed by falling and rumor speaks of or six others killed by an of burnt district is about a milo It Includes the the all the hotels but all tlic tlic two telegraph Opera the the of the Journal and nearly all of the best business blocks and a number of lino The loss is rudely estimated at No reports of the insurance have yet been re situated at the mouth of Fox River on Lake is next to Milwaukee the most important ami enterprising city in Wiscon It has a population of some thousand and is situated in the midst of a It is the scat of lumber trade of Northern an industry in which capital is almost exclusively Some shipbuilding is done in its and besides the Northwestern it has in summer three steamboat The largely and its facilities for extinguishing of an ordinary LOSSES OK April only news reported by specials to the morning papers in regard to the Oshkosh and which has not been already sent in the press is that the Northwestern Insurance Company of Mil waukee has lost The of the reports obtained is due to the fact that the telegraph were destroyed at an early period of the and little communication out side of messages wan had for some TIM EXTENT OF Tin April tin broke out in Morgan burning that and a other saw and shingle mills on and millions of a hundred all the printing Hardings Opera House and Beckwith Adamss The burnt district is one and a half miles and half a mile Three lives are reported to bo and hundreds of persons arc Nearly all of the business houses are including all the and on north side not n dry goods store It is impossible to give the losses BISHOP BURNING OF A April Allegheny County situated at nine miles from this was partly destroyed by lire this It was one of the most com plete institutions of the kind in the and lins been not only but a source of considerable revenue to the Out of 350 prisoners It is thought but few escaped from ciis The total Ions Is estimated at from to The insurance applicable to tint burned portion amounts to of which is on the building aud on tlie nnd is divided aiming tun local com The exact origin ot the lire Is as yet un LIABILITY OF NATIONAL April Secretary of tho Treasury in a letter to Treasurer Spinner with re gard to the receipts of notes at tho nun a national bank of and for which returns wero at once made to said says subsequently It was ascertained that in tbo BO received was included one note of the issue of was In fact a but which uad been redeemed by the remittance of other moneys for At tho re of the cashier of the bank the Treasurer submitted for decision by competent authority whether Wio liability for counterfeit rests with the bank ui question or the Tlie Secretary says It appears from your let ter the principle upon which tho bank founds Its be relieved from liability Is that the person who pays purports to be a obligation given by him tor the payment of but which is really a cannot recorer money and that ho is as adopting the paper when with better opportunities to determine upon its genuine character than are by any other pays the that courts have ruled to this us between private ttio United States lius always taken the ground that its in redeeming spurious could not bring tlie Government within tho operation of this nnd inasmuch us courts which tlic issue bus been tried have ail iu support of tho position assumed by the you tun with good reason and Brent of the bank tho refund of amount in TIIE CASE OF April tlie Grand Jury of Ihe District took up case of with a view of inquiring into tho charge of LOSSES BY THE FIRK AT April 1 oclock yesterday morning u destructive lire broke nut iu the at Lawrence destroying all the business por tion of the The losses ure Ac general Otis general in books and stationery Masonic general Green cabinet in no in no Matti A Insurance no no Derby in TX general no drugs and Alex in no no partly no no James in no tin Halo it Har The total losses arc over and the is about half that SERVICES IN TIIE OV TUB HOLY FROM oun consecration of tho Thomas Augustus as Bishop of tbe of Southern took place this morning in the Church of the Holy has been tbo rector of Holy for tbo past live years and by his scholarly acquirements and Christian graces has endeared not only to tho members cf his own hut to the whole body of Prot Episcopalians In this Tho was aisles and being Tho chancel was with high dignitaries of tlie Church from nil parts of the among whom were eight attired in the robes ot their At 13 oclock the procession formed and moved In the following while the Lord God Vestry of tbe Church of the Holy can for holy the clergy from Philadel phia and many of them In the clergy in tho Bishop Right of Delaware Pot of New York ot Long Island of New Hampshire Hare missionary of Nebraska Right William Anglican Lord of An tigua the venerable Bishop 1resldiug the church at the tho procession passed down the south aisle into tho and then entered the middle Here the ranks tho Bishop and Ing priests advanced to their places In the chan aud tho rest were assigned to seats in the middle The usual morning services wore begun by of the Divinity The Psalter waj read by Carpenter of Georges the first les son by of Peters Philadelphia the second lesson by Richard of tho Church of the Philadelphia tho Creed by George of Lukes and the collects By Cotton of the Church of tho New York In the service the Commandments were read by the Right the Presiding Bishop the by Right Horatio of New Yoik the Gospel by Right Alfred of The incidental the Gregorian the Jubilate Deo hymn thou King Ver and hymn Crowned with Imperial Rise Twing were solemnly aud rendered by an excel lent OF At tho conclusion of these preliminary the Bishop of the of Long entered tbo and preached a sermon from 13th and 14th Hold fast Urn form of sound which thou hast Heard of iu faith and love which is in Christ good thing which committed keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth iu The Bishop proposed as the special subject for thought The Dogmatic Faith of tho Church as Affected by Certain Tendencies of tlic he was a subject of great and one to be well not only by all tho pastors of but by all those who were foremost In station and and consequently in The danger to the Churchs dogmatic faith from tlie hostile tendencies of the day was altogether peculiar to our Bor was it specially It existed from tho From Pauls time unto the present had been an unceasing tu preserve Hie sacred deposit of faith from corruptions within and assaults there very little avowed disloyalty to fundamentals within the but without the whole field of vision was over run with tumuli and The old and the settled seemed on every to lie yielding to change and main current of theological debate has its course mate rially of late and there was u constant shifting of centres or theological adversaries of religion had also been greatly liy the recent progress of what in general literature as OKI Modern It was a certain temper prevailing among the more Intellectual classes with whom it might be said that science was Hie IN BELLOWS April number of serious fires have occurred in this neighborhood within the last twentyfour sawmill and mop factory in Cavendish took fire yesterday from sparks and was totally destroy The loss is The Baptist Church was also Several other build ings were Injured by the This morning woollen blanket fac near was destroyed by to gether with the The loss is heavy unin The Industrial Work Companys machinery at Springfield burned this together with the The loss Is The Bellows Falls Chair Manufacturing Com building wus injured by lire The loss is MB OF BUFFALO April are rawing in from all the surrounding counties of of horses and mules by Many small especially are ruined by having their only mules and unable to re cm at a time when so badly The publishes a letter from near which Not less than two hundred horses mules have died Up past three within ton miles of this I n to nmn distant six d d tli dead on the I four on niy and Hunter ilvo while nonie have lost as high as Swv to a i money Some cf the farmers will be to out part of the crop y tave no money to replace the MINOR KInp lea t at Volley wero Tuesday Tbe loss in j A lire yesterday at 171 Suffolk dam aged canned a long of ou tho k In Tuesday Eight in the Tlie total In fully wan tbo work of an The residence of James at was destroyed by fire Tuesday Nearly all tho contents Tlic loss Is estimated at from to If only portly by THE SHAKER CONVICTION OF THE ALLEGED INCENDIARY OF AHSON IN TUB 8ECONI April in tho case of Charles indicted for setting lire to tho Shaker buildings at Mount Lebanon on tho Otb of February by which property to tbe amount of was returned a verdict lust night of arson in tbe second The prisoner Is now on trial on tho second count of the charging him with sotting tho tires of the 27th of February In the sumo by which In property was April verdict of wil ful murder has been returned against Francis Manard for the murder of his brothers wife near only and culture the only idol a temper which took a shape ai various an the direction In which it Its essential characteristic was the exaltation of tlie The Modern was the reject ion of all truth on outward authority of any Hut outward authority was the essence of the The language the douma to man was I am from because In the eye of I am true but believe that I am I am from Thus snith the clent The Modern Spirit suid reason the dogma said reason Is revelation is What was called Free Thought was greatly helped In Its hostility to the dogmatic talth of the Church by the present drift of popular The morals of litero t lire liari declined in tlie sense of responsibility for opinions and for the mode of uttering thorn to go a step further in the direction there was an increasing school of thought whose distinction was that It studied life on what might be termed its arc It was charged that culture among though commonly esteemed as the boon and privilege of the half of the Christian nature and in some the best But a definite belief in a definite and positive In religion or out of had not proved a hindrance to the growth of any thing In man worthy of respect or There had been no obstacle to the progress of the race comparable to that created by its vague and spongy in matters of the noblest If it be true that the Holy Spirit creates habit of must It not bo equally true that he provides the object of faith 1 In both ways the Spirit witnessed with our spirits that we are the sons of God and heirs to eternal This Is the unassailable ground on which the Chris tian Without it our religion is a thing of vapor and TUB TO The sermon was more patiently listened to than long productions of that kind usually Having concluded Bishop turned to the candidate for consecration to the bishopric and iu tones of great tenderness Mr DEAK In consenting to take the duty which I have so Imperfectly dis charged this I was Influenced in some meas ure by considerations of a local or personal char reared and educated on Long There you were ordained to and exorcised the ministry of the Lord Jesus There are many there who still remem ber with grateful affection the fruits of your pastoral energy and and who will watch your future course with a tou der solicitude scarcely surpassed hy that of the attached and beloved congregation from which you ore now to be separated tor the office and work of a bishop in the Church of It Inappropriate that the Bishop of the Island with which your past life has been so Intimately should bo the preacher on un occasion so full of moaning and solemnity to you and to us Permit to conclude my task with a Tow words of counsel and The office to which you are now to bo consecrated is very highly exalted in divine and human But of the lat ter I make little The only exultation worthy of our thought at this time Is that which arises from promise of closer fellowship with the Holy and a larger measure of fils life giving As It was ordained of God that the Christian Apostolate should he foremost among the orders of the ministry iu dignity and as well as foremost In the Braces of character required In those who ace Jailed of so It is the will of God that It he foremost In witnessing unto Said he to his and through them to their suc unto the seed Ye shall be witnesses unto me both In Jerusalem and In all aad In Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the To my dear after travelling the circuit of more than eighteen and in thla region of the earth fur remote from the loly whence it tho commission of lory and readies in with overy anxiety aud every labor for the salvation of will rest upon you the Inly to be a faithful and brave witness unto the null om delivered o tlie saints ft unto the Church which is Christs the very pillar mil of the truth a witness ou tho one tlie of license and anarchy making out into open on the ambitious hierarchical pretensions hat would swallow up tho lawful liberty of all in an overshadowing n wit unio Ihe ministry nnd sacraments as Christ ordained same a witness into a Scriptural and Apostollo free lice alike from the caprices and disorders of Pu individualism and false symbolisms if Tho men whom the Church needs for chief priests in this age and in tills land should be men of loving stout wills and largo that they may draw all souls unto thorn by the mind hat was In Christ Jesus stout that neither fear nor favor may warp from the line of duty largo that they may aake room for all varieties of charac ter and policy necessarily Included In a living And now commending and to God and to tho word of his tuny he who brought again from tho dead tho Lord Jesus and the great shepherd of tho through tho blood of tho everlasting make you In every good work to do bin working in jon that which Is well pleasing in his through Jesus to whom bo glory forever and THE OF vested In cassock and was presented by Bishop of New and Bishop of to tho Bishop of who eut in the Episcopal The presenting as they offered the said Reverend father in wo present unto you this godly and lo be ordained and consecrated The testimonials of Jaggars election were presented by Richard President of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of crn Ohio the testimonials of tho Convention by of Trinity Colum Ohio the consent of the Standing Commit tees by Charles of the Church of the Holy Philadelphia the consent of the Bishops by Henry of New These testimonials being the copal oath was taken by Jaggar as follows In the Name of Thomas Augus tus of tho Episcopal in tho Diocese of Southern do conformity and obedience to the Worship of tint in the United States ot Ko belli me God through Jesus After a few moments oi silent Bishop Stevens led in the hy the Then came tbe public of the as to his doctrine and The attending presbyters placed the lust of the episcopal vestments upon who knelt while the WHS sung over The blessing of Almighty God was Invoked in behalf of the kneeling Then tho bishops laid their upon head while the presiding Bishop said Receive Holy Ghost for the and of a bishop In Church ot God now committed unto by tho imposition of our In tho name of the and of the and or the Holy And remember that thoi stir up the Brace of God which is given by this imposition of our for God hath no given us spirit of but of power am love and Hero followed the solemn delivery of the Holy Scriptures to who arose from hi knees fully consecrated Bishop of tho Diocese ci Southern The celebration of the IIol Communion by Bishops Hart and Mills followed by the brought the conse ceremonies tx an Or The Thomas waa bori at Long In Early In he entered tho of his a broker ot New York Subsequently he be came a bank He afterwards entered tin General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal of New Hero he war the classmate of Bishop of Missouri nud Bishop of In 1800 lie wa admitted to holy orders by of New and called to In 1HG1 he wa to the rectorship of the Authon New Here he remained unti Easter Sunday of when ho bade and went to Johns Yonkers In September of the following year rectorship of Church ot tho Holy in this was made vacant by the resignation of the Phillips and Jaggar accepted tbo Upon tho division of the Diocese of Bishop accepted tlie northern section of tho and on the Mth of January last Jaggar was OUR PROTECTIVE OF JOHN AT BIR April a reception given to the distinguished French i Birmingham this John Bright ado some remarks on Free In the course f which he said it was ludicrous for the United tales to Invite foreign manufacturers to com oto at an when a protective tariff them from competing in American OF THE CARPET MANUFACTUR April a meeting of ic Town Council of Kidderminster yesterday ic Secretary of tho Carpet irers Association stated that the man throughout the kingdom ad decided not to send their products to the Exhibition because of the exist nco of the prohibitory and that a me to this f fleet would be forwarded to tho British Minister at THE ASSEMBLY ACTS ON THE RECOM OF TUB CANAL FROM OUR April nearly tho most important administrative question of tho session in Its immediate Ibe reduction of the creator part of tlic session of the Assembly Men not personally In favor of tho step are conscious of a strong pressure in Its and sanguine reformers to make U profitable by sav ing In tho canal during lug tho current By far tho ablest speech yet made on tho subject was by Mr Iage In opposition to tho In the Senate the only of the morning turned on one of the minor phases of the disposition to bo of the lateral FOREIGN CUE PRINCE OF WALES AND TIIE FREE April ceremony of tho iu of the Prince of Wales as irand Mas cr of the United Lodge of Masons of England took place today in the Royal Albert iall in Iho presence of an Immense concourse of Great enthusiasm was PRUSSIA AND THE April have begun by ho Prussian Government for tho removal of the Prince Bishop of for vlo of the ecclesiastical TIIE GUSTAV AFFAIR April a final act of lon for the Gustav the Spanish com at on the arrival of tho German licet off that port tired a salute of twentyone guns with due as agreed MINING TROUBLES IN April trouble with tho miners at nnd serious riots lire DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST DON April demonstrations have been made against Don who Is re at A mob attempted to enter liU The police were called upon to protect and several rioters were DON ALFONSO April special despatch from to the Dally Ams says Don Alfonso was Insulted nnd beaten by and the hud to clear the with their bayo A GUHAN REBEL April u rebel was executed at Puerto Principe on the 20th PARDON CUBAN April has issued a proclamation offering pardon to rebels who surrender before May Tho pardon is unconditional for nil except deserters from the Spanish WHO will bo required to serve in the vanguard of tho army until the end of the The proclamation de clares that enough loyal bayonets remain In Spain to make those Spanish biro the dust who continue In close union with the Insur shedding tho blood ot former com panions and elected to the new Jaggar accepted this preferment at a sacrifice or per Jaggar went before the standing of tlie several dioceses as pro a Low Churchman as was a High Thirtytwo standing com to Jaggars consecration ind eleven opposed it will bo was at the same time rejected by a large MORE OFFICIAL Fit April commit tee investigating the alleged frauds by the Hoard of Managers of tho House of Correction held a meeting and the member makinc the wua examined at lengl He testified that members of the contrary to had purchased goods for the House through members of their own These hills were rendered in and many of the articles furnished were of Inferior grade President had furnished all tho furnishing and had also at one sup plied pounds of although the in mates are not allowed any of this The Secretary of the board substantiated these charges under Tho investigation creates considerable us It Is alleged that thou sands of dollars have been wasted for the of Individual members of the CHINESE THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE AND COREA AND THE April Is reported from Corat the embassy which visited Pokin last November to Inquire about the result of the Japanese negotiations were advised by tho Chi nese Government that treaties between Corca and western nations would now bo but that Japan should be This is bc to bo in consequence of Chinese irrito ion against Japan at that Tlie had been warned by China that France and were combining for n and tlie had consequently indo great preparations for the emergency nt on tho receipt of tt second message extra levies of soldiers were and lie King declared his willingness to al his purpose was at first strongly opposed y his It is now believed will to the next appeal for iu The authorities of show themselves live to the of increased Intercourse Ith Commissioner who in January that the Viceroys official should be changed from Fukien now addresses a memorial Ihe asking the removal of all i let Ions on trade with and o that This document reveals tho ro that all Chinese have under heavy penalties from entering he territory of the savages or from trading or with them that slave posts have always marked tho lino where aboriginal Thus now evidence is afforded hat tlie Chinese never controlled savage For In answer to the petition a decree has been issued authorizing The present head of the of Confucius Is now iu to receive the tablet from the Em according to is bestowed by each succeeding to be deposited In the at The IB about to start on a cruise around the world under the command of 1VB CONNECTICUT OFFICIAL April We publish the complete official rote of Con as declared today by tho State Board of It is an interesting foi the majorities are heavier than and ilie to tal Is tho largest vote that was ever given in Owing to the circum stance that many Republicans erased the name of their gubernatorial without stopping to put another name Iu its the total vote lor Governor though exceeding any former of the total on other State vote being about Governor Ingersoll has tho largest vote on tho and we think the largest ever given by Connecticut to any It wilt he seen that Governor plurality rises to the extraordinary figure of while his clear majority is no less than Tho majority against Greene the Grant gun is Con has spoken In sufficiently clear and de tones upon the question of more Grant Tho Democrats elect nvo of tho eight sheriffs and by aggregate majorities over tho candidates amounting to Also fifteen of the twentyone Senators by majorities Ing The Republicans have nothing to show for all effort and expenditure of money but a single member of a decisive minority Iu both of Mm aud throe by largely reduced We append tho returns by counties for I New New Scatter till 5411 41 I 178 1KD iUS 1H5 1 over Clear minority Captain of the The respecting tlie lino from to Amoy has ended by the Chinese offering to purchase work us far as JAPANESE REVISION OF WADE AND THE NEGOTIATIONS AT April Government notifica tion has been Issued Japanese sub to send contributions to tho Australian Ex position next Minister of sailed for homo March to ho absent a It Is un his departure wus in consequence of a conviction that the Japanese had the revision of their If is action was as tho Government Is now nearly ready to announce Itself for tuch Charles of the French bunking has just visited Japan for the purpose of making for the tho claims previous to the of tbe house in Telegraphic despatches from Shanghai of April 7 to a massacre of foreigners in The Japanese Government has advices ou tho subject which ure not yet made Japanese connected with tho recent mission to emphatically repudiate an us portion recently made in the British House ot Lords that tho British Minister to took an active part In tlie settlement ot tho dispute between China anil Early In tho negotiations advances to the Japanese which were per tho Chinese proposed to submit the question to arbi which again was formally Wades friendly towards the Chinese are admitted to bo wus never ad mitted to Japanese nor did ho at tempt to offer counsel at any Waeson and were presented to the Mikado on tho ot their withdrawing from the Japanese THE DEBATE IN THE FROM OUR OWN I April debate on tho proposed reduction of canal tolls was continued today in tho Assembly and took up large part of tho morning question came up iu the Committee of tho to which tho minority nnd reports of the Cannl Com bad been latter of these reports reduces the as recommended by the Canal Board while tlie former leaves them sub as they are on them on and changing the on The pending question before the com when the session began was resolution from Howard which provides for a reduction as recommended by a special committee of the substituting Its conclusions for cither report from tho This reduc tion amounts to 33JJ per on 30 pel ou lumber ami 50 per on merchandise from tide Tho debate began on a motion to amend Sowards resolution tho tolls as they The amendment was presented by who is Chairman of tho Cannl Com and he supported it by a speech unlike most of tho exhibitions of windy rhetoric on the door of had little in it but its figures and lie said It we permit the toll sheet to remain where it is the canals will yet return to tho treasury of the State to liquidate tbe legitimate canal debt and provide for their own perpetu ation and But iu his special tho Governor tells us that ho has received peti tion from boatmen nnd for a reduc tion of nnd similar petitions have been re by both and they have employed the best talent to advocate their Tub last I know was unparalleled In naviga But aud others arem Just boat witu everybody All In have borne their share of tho general The chief cause of this depression everywhere is life of u canalboat is twelve The tonnage of those built from 1H50 to During the next twelve years tons wero over 00 per Tho in crease of freight was from tons to than 50 A de cline in tho carriers compensation must and unless an increase business follows no re duction of tolls can when there are moro boats than there is Look at the From 1852 to 1858 no reduction was made then the rate was reduced onethird on down freight and onehalf on up The result was an Increase of only with a loss to the revenue of and this more due lo growing business than to tho re In 1850 the tolls were apain reduced one half on up with a slight reduction on down Tho increase of tonnage in that was tons with a loss In revenue of The tolls wero put up In 1860 100 per on np Freight increased tons and the revenue grew by The tolls on down freight were advanced in 1862 nearly 25 per and tho tonnage gained tons and tho revenue Tho next change was made in except a reduc tion of 25 per on up freight in with out material Now the amount collected for tolls from 1803 to was being an average of Tn 1870 the tolls wore out down 50 per and thu revenue lost in the next Tho average loss during the years succeeding 1870 was or a total of All these facts nud these results are presented in detail in tho Canal Auditor Bell for all this shows that In creased tonnage depends on prosperity not on any reduction in the After reading from Auditor Bells report Jn 1870 on tho effect produced by the past reduc tion of which hud always out down the he continued This reduction is in tie interest of farmers and cheap but have wo not gone as far as is Let me quote from the Governors message tolls on wheat nnd on corn 8 cents per from to They wero reduced in on Ironi 0 or ouo and those on corn from 4 to 3 or 38 One etnt per bushel tuken off tlie present imd tbe sumo proportion on would nearly all lie not of the considered mid would u In respect to four oi a if future ture should uo tbo as in these construction of tne details of tbo toll be to tlic Canal and from time U time limy bo Doubtless on will receive duo In the present condition of things to hastily aud upon it general of tolls oven In to To tbo surplus of 1 or por gives tho of making tho improvements expected to realize a reduction of 4 cents la tho coat oi would not seem n wise execution of even other considerations which cannot bo wholly To eut down tho revenue to a point where uo surplus would remain for repairs would be a most dangerous It should not be forgotten that the of these reductions Is for tho most part gained by tho Western To them grain is worth its price at tiie of Bitlo less the cost of and to reduce tho last Increases the price tucy receive lessen ing tho price paid by the A still higher reason can bo found In tbo fact thot this will leave us unable to meet the sums recently set apart for the I appeal to a yet higher The Constitution pledges revenues of tho to their own maintenance to the payment of the debt to tho support of tbe Govern Any disregard of these di or is A reduction of tolls as now proposed will riduco tho revenues to about as Is shown In the canal barely enough to maintain tho to sav nothing of enlargement or and leaving nothing for debt or tho support of A perfected is essential to canal and their own Interests will bo defeated by this A perfected canal oan not bo secured without an expenditure for which these reduced tolls will leave no us tho Constitution article section G limits In any one year the canal all to their gross receipts during tho previous the people ot this State will pay tbe debt by taxation they will not pay the current ex a It is bad faith and bad policy to reduce the tolls to a point where there will not be enough revenue to more than meet April tho Criminal Court to day tho indictment against of the for libelling Mo now City Tax hy calling him a was In This is the first of six similar indictments found by the Grand Jury one of that on the complaint of County Clerk bos been dismissed at the ordinary repairs and I warn this Legislature it will a hard time next winter to find money for extraordinary repairs with the tolls reduced nearly of Now followed Pago with a fluent speech In favor ot Sewards revolution asking the support ot the Chamber on tbe general ground that unless a reduction was made tho Assembly would fall to make positive and practical the general promises of reform with which the session Without pro to know much about tbo management of unluckily showed It by speaking oi tho hundreds of lying Idly at anchor during the last was ready to adopt the views and carry out the wishes of bodies of merchants and like thu Chamber of Commerce of New As a proof that the reduction was ab necessary lie read tho bills of two canal boats during round trips witu wheat from Buffalo to New showing that iu these cases tho transportation ot wheat In one ease 897100 and in tho other 0 while tbe average of expenses In any case was 8Si As the Central road wero now carrying grain on time contracts for 8 cents a a reduction OB the tolls was absolutely necessary to enable the bouts to run at Prince followed at length on tbo same side ot the A long and somewhat lull historical summary ot tho past commercial history oi Now dependent always ou its communication witb the interior of the occupied the greater part of the Borne change in tlie present be absolutely Tne canal f Continued on Eighth
