Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1873, Page 2

2 TRANSPORTATION. Tho Towa Industrial Conven- tion at Des Moines, Towa. Speech by Governor Bross, of Chicago, on the Transpor- tation Question. The Impcrative Need of Cheaper Freights and Additional Freight Facilitiess The Existing Railroad and Canal System Tnsuffloient to Do the Business of the Great Wost. Demand for the Enlargement of the Welland and St. Lawrence Canals. —_— Tho Proposed HMuron ard Ontario Ship Canals Tho Great Highway for tho Commerco of the Northwest. Spectal Deepateh to The Chieago Tribune, DesMorses, Ia., Joa, 22.—Tho Towa Industrial Convention convenod to-day, with full dologa~ tions from all partaof the Btate, also dologatos from Tllinois and Canada, Governor Carpenter cdlled tho Convention to order. Officors wero chogon, as follown: Mayor W. T. Smith, of Os- Laloosn, Presidont; ono Vica Presidont from oach Congresslonal District of tho Stalo; A R. TFulton, Seeratary, and 8, I, Bpofford, Tronsuror. Tho aftornoon businees was a discnesion on the amendmont to the Collection laws in oporation ju the Stale. Tho Convention resolved to me- morialize the Logistature tolimit tho stayof exe- catfon to ninety days ; to abolish tho Appraise- ment law ; to limit tho right of redomption to sis months, - o ] Tho motion to limit tho valio of Lomontonds to 86,000 did not carry. “The Couvention is composed of londing repro- noutativo mon from nll parts of tho State. 1t is large 'in numbors, and ombraces an unusual awmount of practical businovs talont, and valua- Dlo rasults may bo nuticipated. Govornor Brogs, of Chicago, iu sposking -this ovouing to & vory _large .rudicnco, composed not only of tho memberd, but of tho Sonptors, Represontatives, and others in attendanco upon the Legislature. iy subjeet i tho fransportation quostion.” . Tho following in tho stbstance of hin remarks Mz, PrREsENT AND GuNrLemMEN: Iam horo by roquest, to nddross you on tho transportation quiestion, 'Tho subject involves an ostimato, aa near us may bo, of the surplue ferm products of whnt aro commouly kuown as tho Northientern States; tho cost of freights belweon the pros ducers and the connumors; the capaoity of the channels of trangit; the moans by which thab capneity ean Lo onlatged, and tho cout of frolghls theroby reduced to the lowost possiblo limib; and lasily, the numbera and the wanta of tho weoplo smong whown vio expact to find & profita- 1o market for thnt surplun. “Che peoplo of o Atlantic geahonrd, ospocially thoso of the Now England States; are our largest and best customers. Tho stendy increcso of uouufacturing industry thore, eréaten 8 largor demand for our products overy year; but that domand hos long cinco fallen “far bohind the production of cereals and })mvisluns in_ tho Statea thet surround snd lio wost of Lako Michigan, This fact lag bocomo tho moro apparcat overy yenr sinco 1805, whon nt lonst 209,000 men coased to bo consumars, and, scat- tered all over theso States, have beon stondily adding to our surplus. In tho weantimo,"thou= anuds of people from tho different nutionalitios of Europe havo made their homes nmong us, thus ndding largoly, not only to tho numbors of our’ ‘population, Lut to the devolopment of our resources, aud tho intellactual and tho moral powor of the uation. 1t our surplus ?»'udunm ara nlrondy so great, and tho cott of their (rauuit to tho seaboard is so cnotmous, {het corn isused in Town for fuel, the quostion What is Lo o done with that surplus a fow yonrs houco, when it has inerossed inal- most & bowilderinyg ratio, becomes o maltor of the most serions concern. Lot us consider for a fow moments the oxtont, the resourcos, snd tho prospectivo dovelopment of tho North- ‘westorn States, nearly alf of whoso surplus pro- Auects musl find thoir way, oither by rail or the Iakes and canel, to tho seaboayd. LOOIt AT TEE MAP. £ you draw o lino west from Alton, the teri- ing vorth of {lmt and betwoon Lako Aichigan and tha Rocky Mounteiny, throwing out tlis ymall_pections that are valuless, om- Draces about 700,000 equare miles. Hero we have ppaco Tor fourteen Siutos as large as Obio, and 1o knows little of its climate and rozources ,that ig not convinead they will bo vastly moro pro- Guetive and mora populous than that noblo Htato. The rapid progress of thia torritory may bo inforred from a few Iaots. The following table showss the incronks of populetion in six Stutes bebwoon 1860 and 1870'¢ 2,600,801 13 1,101,702 i 564,590 Hinmesota. 0 430,700 Nobrask agsil1am60) Wisconsi 775,881 1,054,610 Total, 470,450 5,113,451 Theeo figures, taken from the Governumont ceusus, show a ratio of 64 per cent increaso be- twoen thoe years 1860-'70, The same ratio con- tinucd to tho year 1909, only twenty-soven yonrs henco, would givo these States 80,500,000 paoplo; ut, granting it counot Lo kopt up in them, cen any ono doubt, with the rapid oxtonsion of our zailwayn in ol dircotions through this vast for- tilo country, thet at least 80,000,000 of peoplo will in tio yenr of graco 1930 fnd thoir homos L en Lake Michigau and the Rocky Boun~ tuins, With only alittlo imore than half tho ratio I have named, your ovin besutiful Towawill in that timo havo o population: oqual to that of Pounsylvanin Iu 1870, then and now the sccond Biato iu tho Union. As nnothor oloment to help us to Eudgn of the immodiate future, I may montion Lhat Chicago had in 1860 a populn~ rion of 111,214, and In 1870, 298,977. ‘Fho ratlo in this caso—1.7 por cent—would give her n popu- Jation in 1880 of 800,000. T dzro not say tunt Chicngo will bovo thot many people fu o littla moro thau soven yoaris henco, bus I will gay that sho has far outstiippod tho pradictions that I or 2ny ono cleo has ever had tlo courage to make. Xnnlher index fo tho dovolopwmaont of tho Northwest fs found in tho rapld growth of our RATLWAY BYSTEAL Tho following Lublo shows the numbor of miles of railvey in the six Htatos above uamed, in 1869-'70, and tho numbot of milos camplnlcd in 187 4 Inereans Duflt 1870, {n10y'ra, in 1872, 4,018 1,241 838 005 1,440 685 ‘il 511 95 795 718 1,038 1,038 218 1,613 607 655 30 10,42 0,070 8,410 ol that mot< than lalf ss many of nilwny were built fn theso Btates dur- 1 Iesl year ug were bullt in ton yoars Letwaon v and 1670, Bul to tho Western farmor this unishing vallway progross toryos only to in- cvengn the hideons writhings of what your oxcel- teut G nor Ourpentor sptly cully *ihe akel- elun in hiz corn-crid,” It prowmotes tha rapid settlerient of the country, theveby adding large- 1; {u that surplus production which even now can ly bo rclx};‘v d by burning corn for fuel, Whilo puitor's moluphor fy feurlully 1 1, with our prosont moana of tranait, that ekateton 1must remain fixed in tho corn- cith, th: aro millions, moy call them lving wkolatons, clad in keauty pinelicd ond wun with the gnawings of iczmorsgleay hunger, whoso ahout of Joy and t ialness would inzke tho henvons ring, hia corn ba bronglht within reach of thelr vos aud children, ore pussing' from this branch of (o kavjiet, Lot us tako, nuothor. oxmuple fowg tav cusanorelel ‘siatistivs of Cblengo, 8 N, NEe The flist chipment of whoat from that city, 78 ushols, was mado in 1839, and in 1814, only twonty-nino yonrs ngo, tho_shipmonts vora losi than n million of bushiols, Up to_that iimo no other coroal had boen shipped Eastward, In 1871, tho roooipts of all liuds of grain—ilour boing expressod in bushols—woro 81,618,202 and~ tho shipmoniy 71,800,789 Lask vour _ tho recoipts, furhisliod mo y Charles Trudolph, Raq,, Scerobary of tho Board of Trade wore 83,426,812, Allowing nbout tho samo fl{zm‘oo for city conswmnption, tho shipmonts for 1872 would amonnt to 76,000,~ 000 bushels. 'T'lic figures for oach year in most cagos show n ptoady increaro of tho shipmonts of brendstuffs, kaeping paco with tho sottloment of the country Wost of Lako Michiggan, A refor- onco to the tables showing the conunerce in tho animal products of our vast fortilo praivies would_yiold the samo rosults, and need not ba given hovo, With nll tho incrense of produciion wesb of Lako Michigan wo have ndded but ono railwa; to our channels of transit for it to tho seaboa ne sines 1865; in_ all, wo mnow lavo four rallways, tho lakes, the Wolland and St Lawronco and ~tho Erio caupls. Aftor laving stndiod cerofully tho Yosourees, and the probablo devolopmont of_tho torritory wo havo beon_ considoring, I enid to {ho firsb Convontion,hold at "Poronto, to considor how our transit lines could be incressed, on tho 13th of Soptombor of lhat year: “ny woll nt tompt to load the boiling curront of Niamarn to tho tion in hoso-pipo as to ship the products of thoso 700,000 square miles to tho ocean by the Erio and the Welland Canglg, and all tho rail- wuys now, or horoaftor to be constructed.” Tho commoreial crash of 1867-8, and our four yenrs' War of tho Rebellion have somewhat delayed tho fulfilmont of what then scomod to many the vagaries of an_over-hentod imngination; bub that it is litorally, oven painfully true, to-day, this Convention cannot doubt for a montont. ‘Tho quostion before the Farmers’ Convontion, of Tlinols, rocontly hold at Bloomington, mootod ae Ilearn nhmost with despairing earncutuoss, was, Can any prosout relicf be found for the Digh froights and tho rainously low prices of our produce? Ican soo but iywo sourcos—ono in an activo demand at high figures, causod by o war in Burope. This would only bo temporary, at best. Tho only permanent rolief is to ho sought for by opening a chaunel, herenftor tobo noticod, for vessels of 1,000 tous, down {ha Bt. Tawrenca to tho occan. And now we como to the prico of TREIGRTS, and what is needed to lower thom to such n fig~ uro that tho farmors weat of Tako Micligan can ship tho products of their Lroad acros to the ocean, and nob Linve the procacds of their toil consumod in gotting thom to markot., On this Dranch of the subject, {he cont of froights onst of Chieago is tho only thing to bo considored, for tho railway chargen to thet city cuan only ho roducod gradually, by compelition among tho rafiways aud by tho greator amount of products tobo handled.” ‘he freight on corn from Dos Moines to Chicago, nnd places west to tho Mis- souri, hay, Tundorstand, been raduced [rom 20 fo 17'eonty’ po hundred,—abont 193¢ conts por bushel,—and, in procesd of timo, s further ro- duction may poasibly bo made, 'Iie averago of all rail freights botween Chicago and Now York, for tho yoar 1871, wrs 20.1 cents por Jwbel and 91.2 por Luehel for I havo the opinion of the idonts of two of our lurgost railways, that if balf o dozen donblo track railway lines davoled entiroly to froight wero built betwoon New York aud Chicago, tho rate could not ho redueed holow 2 conts per bushol, That would make the freight charges on n hushol of covn from Desdoiued to tide water #2)¢ conts ab tho Jowest rate that can bo hopod for by all rail, und, ndding the commirsions of the middlo men, 35 £ 40 conts would bo lovied, 60 thet you may safely caloulato it will cost you at least throo bushels of corn to lay down tho fourth ono in Now York. Using propellors bolweon _Chicngo wud Buftalo or Erio, and rail to Now York, tho averago tavifl of freight for 1871 was 23,4 conts {).m‘ bughol for corn, and 25.3 for wheat, eing obout 6 centa loss than by all rail. I'ho ovorage freight on corn by sail veasel, from Chicago Lo Buifulo, for tho paet summor, avas o smull iraction above 9 couts per bushol, Add churges for handling ot BufTalo, 14 conts, aad canel froights to Now York, 13 donts on corn, and 1254 conts on_wheat, aud ihe charges ou thoso grains to New Yori will e about 21 to 45 conts per bushel. Owing to tho large amount of produce to ho moved, freights huve yanged Trom 2 to 5 conts highor durhuyg tho pres- ont yonv abovo tho rates rmling in 1571, Tho rates by propeller and rail to Buialo nnd Kow York, mud by sail aud eanal, Lave soproashicd vory henrly 10 tho ramo figures. All lines nva taxed (o their uimost capeeity, and move, Tirie Cunal cannot bo cularged, for the w vhod of tho comntry through - which it runs witlnot afford n Inrgor supply of wator tofeed the canal, and tho queation rotucns whag can bo dono o e for our products & moro capncious chaumol, and thoreforo chuaper transit to tho ocoan 2 I angwer, in tho language of tho Jato Caplain ITugnnin, oitc of onr bagt and oarl jeat lako navigatora : ¢ Whe Greal Goil, when ho made the mighty Wosl, mudo alno tho Jukas and the mighty St. Lawronco to flont their com- 1mnerco to the oconn.” W'ruo wo have the Rapids of tho St. Luwrenco and the ¥alls of Niagara ; Lut without thoto we could not have {he gront lakos, and without them moteorology haylong pince proved that our vaab teom- ing prairios would bo arid W the rogions of Contral Asia, Avound thoo naturul barrlors men's enorgy has Tiuilt o Borien of vanals paksing vosuols of somo throo and part of the way pix hundred tons bo- tweon tho lakes and tide wator, Livory tyro in commorcial knowledga knows thut s you in- cronse tho tonuage of & yeuzcl you diminish tha rolutivo cost of froights. Tinlurgoe tho Wellaud and tho St, Lawronce Canals, 5o 01 to pas: sols Of 1,000 tons burthon, and X havo tho opl: ion of the eminont railwey Presidontu above ro- forrad to that a bushel of corn can bo transport- od from Chicago to Ifoulreul for I4 contn; aud Ly tho Cuughuowaga Canl,-of simnilar bizo, pinl tho Ohnwplain Canal, ' duly cnlargod, to Now York, at 18 conts. Thig viow 11 moro then conflined by our ablo engineer, Colonel 1. 1. Meson, who, in hid report on ths CGoorginn By Cunal, as Consulting Englncor, with Kivas "uilloy, Bdq., of Torouto, estitating tho_cost of froigliis in veascls of 1000 tons burthen, by Inko, ab 2 mills por ton por mile; by eanal and iver u 8, and ocoiu ot 114 foots “11,) the cost of truuu- }x\?r ing a buslhel'of wheat betwoon Chicnga, and Livorpool at 20 conts, und to Moutrenl u traction nbove 0 conts, ‘Cako the fivet ostimato, viz., 14 conty us tho cost of freight on o bualol of corn, botween Chicago and Monireal, and we have O couts added to the price ol cvery bushel pro- dueed by our furmera, Tho offcel of Lhnt on thelr wealth and prosporily wonld be wondor Huppose only hLulf of it roaches the pock- ots of yowr fannows, and it would odd 20 per cent to the vuluo of evory ncra of Jand hio posscssos, Tako tho figuros for your suplus as put down in the Governnent eonsua for 146), with the doductions for home conmunp= tion nwmade by Clovernor Cnrpenter in hiy nb‘u eddross bofore your Btato Agriculiural Socloty, and § conts o bushel on yowr ocorn and whont would dmt into tho pockols of your favmwvd £1,200,000 por yoar,—tho sum to 5o on luoreny- fui ovory yoar, for unght T kuov, totho ol of timo, Tho valuo of such u rodustion of l‘mlf htn to tha ontire Novthwest s far_beyond tho limit ol any figuron which I should dare to give. ENLARGEMENT OF Tillt OANALY, The onlnrgemoent of the Welland snd 8t, Law- ronca Cunali 50 88 to puey vessolr of 1,000 tous Lurden will acoomplish nearly il tho benilicont Josults sbovo upacifivd, 1€ our Gunndian nolgh- Lory prefoy for anv reason to do thiy, lot va ba cueer AT ARG thenkful and bid thom God spoed.. A oltor {hing, inmy judgment, to bo douo 18 to build tho Jluron and~ Ontario Ship Canal from the Georginn Day to Torouto, Tho pooplo of tho cition on tho Lower St, Lawronco foar, ny I think without ronuon, If this eanal is built, tho divorsion of tho trade of tho Northwant to Now York, Tho citizens of tho Vellay of tho Ottawn Vel‘f’ nnturally iusist on tho itmprovement of tholr great rivor; impractieablo, as I thinl, for thore would' bo somo 400 milos of closo rxiver and canal navigation, ond, 1f 1 1mistalio, not n dopth of ouly olght foct of waior, Woera it not for theso rorsons, I boliove {he peoplo of the Dominion would be wnanimous in fuvor of the spoody construction of o ship canal from tho QGoorginn Bay to Lake Ontavio. This, I confess, isan old pek projoot of mino, and a8 one of your most fav soelng citizona, J. B. Cathoun, 13aq., and His Excollency Governor Carpentor, lnvo onch recontly referred favor- ably toit, will you pormit mo to add o short doscription of tio routo aud its prospoctivo ad- vantngas Lo the commarco of oue vast and rapid- 1y doveloping Nortliwost, Leb us turn our at- tontion to tho AP, Starting from Ohicago to the Georginn Bay, the northigastorn part of Lako IIuron, the track of n vessol is vory direct to the mouth of tho Nottawaeaga River, Thonce wo lavo slack water navigation up that river, with oceasionnl reachos of caunl through tho sandy shoros to avoid bends in the river, to s point 20 milos from its month. 'Tho clovation of 180 foet ig oyorcomo by 11 locks, with an ayerago lift of about 14 feat, Wo have now renched the sum- mit levol of Lake Sincao, only uine miles dis- tant. 'To reach it n ridge composod of olay and gravol must ho cut through at un nvorago dopth of 50 faot, and 78 feot at its summit. From Barrlo, on Kemponfelds ay, thero fu lako navi- sation for 22 iniles to the mouth of the Iolland ~ River. The rivor end marsh for 10 milos can very mmfly bo mado navigablo by steam oxcavators., Tho roul dififenlty and n?nush’o part of tho work is hero roached. A ridgo 10 milos in width composod of clay snd ravel must Lo cut throngh at ap overago depth of 90 feot, and 196 foot for half o milo at its sununit. Ouco through this ridgo, the lino follows down the valloy of the IIumbor 23 miles, 'Thoro ara required 89 locks, with an av- orago lift of about 12 foet aud a total lackage of 470 Teot, Of course, this routo hns about 260 feet moro lookaga than that by tho Wolland Onual ; but it hay advantagos heroafter to bo noticod that makes it in my Judgmont fur pro- forablo as the grent ‘highway for ‘the commerce of the Northwest. ~ Tho total distance from tho mouth of tho Nota- wasaga to that of tho Humber on Linko ITuron i only 100 miles. More than half of thut distance in on tho swinmit through LakeSimeoo, through which stenin tugs would tako vossels in o fow houry, Thoro in less thon 40 milos of closo canal navigation on tho whole route; tho other parts of it ero_through Linke Bimcoo and the valloys of the Not{awasnge, tho Holland, and the Tlumber Rivers, Leke Simcoo and its tributa~ riey nfford uu amplo supply of water to feed the canal from tho summit i both directions. Very litllo wator would bo noeded on tho north from Lnke Simcoo, for the Nottawasaga River would supply that. This routo to ‘tide water is some 400 miles phortor tham that Ly Lako Evic and tho Wolund Canul ; and it iy nonrly ns much shortor to New York by Oawego than by Lnke Xrio. It is rbout 800 milos shorter to Liverpool. It will save two days in timo to tide wator, aud of course a finclion on froights to pay tho cxpousos of Lho oxtra 260 Toot of lockngo. A very greut ndvantago is, thab the genornl dircclion of *the routo malkes it the Dost possiblo for veusels to avail thomsclves of iho southwost winds of summer. By tho Lalko Erio route the veszol must beab sgainut that for more that 160 milos after passing Point aux Barquo on_Lake Huron down tha 8 Clair River and Leke ond tho Dotroit Iiiver to Lake Irio, The difioult navigation over tho 8t. Clnir Flats, thongh now materinlly inproved, is elao avoided. And besides, tho trnele of tho yvennol through tho Goorginu Day and Lako Simcos would bo through cdolor water than aronnd by Lako Lrio,—au ndvantzgo ok to bo overlooked in {ransporting grain in bulk to tho senbonrd. Uhe dungor of ils being dumagad by hoating o thorsby proportionately remoyed. Opou this route with a sufiiciont eapacily Lo paug vessels of 1,000 tous burden, aud,yoi have n cliennel of snplo dimensions {0 carr'y tho commerca of tho mighty West to tho ooean. You theroby reduco the (rolght on n bushel of corn to 11 cents, porhups to 10 cents, to Montyraal, aud to about 20 {o 25 conts to Livor- Jool, By go doing yon give choapar brond— parbaps reduco ity price nearly ano-&mlt——'.o tho 1nillions of Great Britein, and ndd immensely to 1ih and, (herofore, to tho menus for the - nal wad the soclal improvemant of tho 89,000,000 who rro nvon to live botweon Lako Tchigen and the Rooky ountuing, But, wusys ono, TIY CcOST of this workin nppallitz ; it oan novor bo built. Yoot s god, Colouel Mason wnd 3. Tully, in 1353, outimnted tho cont of tho entire work at Jess thau §231,000,000, Capilelicts In this coun- iry nnd Europe Lnvo of d_sovernl Linies to huilid it fo 000,009, his in scarcely maro {han our Crodit Mobilier gontry man- nged to geb- ms o grobuity | from aur Government—eomo uncharitablo poople will call it stonling—for building u reilwy from tho Mizsouri River to Salt Loke. Six eouts o bushol noved in feoights on the grain evon now ghipped from Chieago would pay for the canal in }csa {hen ten yearu; and tho same swn suvad on tho frenin imported knto Groat Britnin wonld pay for tho canal in'lesy theu fivo years, If you add tho uzyings on aunimal products and morchundiso nassing enst nnd west, the whola cost of the im- Proveutont wonld Le puid for in Lhroo yoars, and tho vrorld would thencaforward have the uso of it frao of churge on its cost forall Lime to como. Yho quostion, -3 WII0 ARE TO TUY tho surplus products of tho Novtliwost? fa all thint romuins to bo noticad. _ Bosidon tho people of Now England who would bu immoanaly hene- fited by this eaual, rizht across tho Atlantlo, nro nenrly 40,000,000 'of pooplo in Grost Iiilnin, ready to buy and to consumo thet gurplus, and, with'tho products of thoir strong arms and pkil- ful Lands, to Pny for all wo hevo to spare thom, Tnglnd omploys hov energles maluly in come merco and manufactures, Large sootfons of the country aro devoted to parks and ploasure- rounds, Hor weelthy inen oro constant- jy inorensiug tho aron of thoso plonsiro- grounds, ond thoroby lossoning tho upace dovoied to food cniluro, It was stated o fow yonrs ugo thab Coates, who munufacturos tho ‘spool-cotton used in tho making of our olothing, gu-a hin check for £73,000, ©830,000, forwoveral mmull favms, which ho fntinded Lo Improve as n splondid park. to chsontisl aro supplles of food trom abrond Lo tho life of Groat DBritain, that in a year of Yuur crops in tha couns {vies bordering on tho Biuck and Bultic Bous, from which Lor corcals aro mainly druwn, thab Mr. Cobdon declered thero was™ not money onough in 'hivesdnoedle slroot—ihe Bank of England is Joeated there—to prooure {he doll- cloney to pave the ‘pooplu from starvation, hud thoy ~ not found wn nmplo supply in tho United Statos, Reduolng thelr figares to our gtandard, and odding onc-clovonth for Do- combor, the iniports of wheat Into Qroat Dritain for tho lust yenr wore 115,000,000 of bushcls, end about 60,000,000 of Liwlicla’of corn, dudging from tho tablos-of formor yarrs, whon tho crops nYo poor mEnrqu, Auworlon furnishes nbout oie busliol in five, Lnlurge the St. Lawreuco route, o4 proposad, 8o that {E slinll not cost moro than ono, tvvo, or, ut most, threo bushoels of corn aud wihent to luy one dowu in Livorpool, instaad of six orsoven, ay by the prosent moaus of THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNHE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1873. transit, and Antorion might furnish ono-half or two-thirds of thoso fmports, to hor own groat profit, aawell na that of the peoplo of Tngland. But, noyn somo patriotio individual, thin route lion ontiroly through - A FOREION COUNTRY. Whnt can we do to Iniluenco its conglruotion? Tt soomy to mo that chanpor frelghts from Chi- engo to tho aconn’ would add immongoly to tho wasporlty of ovary railway betwoon Lnko Mich- | tho Rooky Mountaing, What thoy ‘most nood in oheap frelghts to tho. soaboard. ho Northwestern, tho Milwaukeo & 8t Poul, tho Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, tho ' Rock Tuland, and especinlly tho Ili- nola Central, could woll afford to combino thoir influenco usun the monoy marlkots of tho world to commnnd the moans to build tho camal—n thing which wo havo not tho loast doubt tho Canndinns_will bo most happy to havo thom do. _And what shall wo say of B grost Northorn Paolflc Railway? WIIL it not bo casontinl to tho suoconn of that road? Ilow can tho produots of the vasl country through whish it rana find a market oxcopt through & grontl cnlargod wotor-chonnel to tho ocean? And, Lesides onr railways, ovory man of tho millions hean. and new living, or heroafter to live, botweon Linko | DMiohigan and the Rocky Mountaing, hns adirect intorost in tho suceoss of thiy umn@ ontorprino, By rofusing all further considoration of tlie Nl~ agara Ship Canal, lot lellgruan glvo asauranco to Onunda that sho shall havo tho carrying trado of tho Gront West, if sho will so onlaryzo Thor canals 08 to commond it. And, bottor still, lot us have o reciprocity troaly, i which the wholo subject slinfl bo considored and scttled for an indofinito number of yoars to como. Commorco socs mnot _tho {maginary lino that divides tho Dominion from the Unitod Btatos, Bhe knows no good ronson why thoro should be any raoro trammols on tho trado betwoon Chicngo and Montreal than thoro aro between Chicago and Now York. Tho world has nonrly outlived such sn absurdity. Bai it may Lo gaid that our commerco would ‘build up o groat oity in a foroign country on tho Tower 8t. Lawronce, o rival to Now York, Tho raco will bo betweon Montreal and Quobeo, For mypolf think tho Statos, —wont * of TLako Michigan have fully cancollod evory dobb thoy over owed to Now Yorl, Fora [ilnnm-nuun oho hins quarterad a wholo hordo of political pau. pers and bummers on hor Interal canals, many of svhom do not colleot tolls enough on tho usoleas ditches ovor which thoy preside to Eny o titho of thoir salarios, not to montion thoir “steallngs; ond yot shoe insista on taxing tho commorco of tho Wost Puamg through the main canal, to sume-b all hor other cannla and to pay hor dobts besfdos. As to New York City, sho lis for o gon~ oration logalized the grasping avarico of tha most ntupendous land pirato that evor lived, —I monn, of tourse, Commodore Vanderbilt. Ho Iina watered the stock of tho Now York Con- iral Railway ovor and ovor ngain, and yoton thoo waterod, shall I call them macn.\l< valuos, ho insists on taxing tho lifo out of the West for tho bonofit of his own pocket. To keop pnco with him, Jay Gould end Jim Fisk for yonrs stolo, not only tho recoipts of the Eris, but issuod stooks and bonda for more than tho road wag origivally worth, and stole thom ag well, ond of couyse new managora must tax Wostorn commorca if possiblo, s0. as to- ro- triovo tho_ fortuncs .of tho rond, nnd pay its stockholdors dividonds on their atocks and bring them up fo par. Tor myself I beliove tho tima is not distant when the Northwest will haye the Now York aud tho S8t, Lawronco routos bidding ngainst each other for her commorco and lmrcmallug trado in the livelicst manner. | \\l’fllh:;lv on this subject nearly twoul{ years ngo Isald, It is truo that national pride and im- ‘mengo capital and tho boaten traclk of commerco aroon tho side of New York; but Gtod aud Na- tura aro stronger than all theso, end ot any in- tolligent man comparo the *Eria ditch’ with the mighty Bt. Lawrenco, with o canel to paes ves- gols of 1,000 tona burdon from, the Goorgian By to Toronto, sud ho caunot doubt forn moment on which pide tho immutable laws of commerce will decide the contest.” A singlo- cent per bushel on freights, -two, du?'s' uiclker timo, aud incrozsod capnoity will do It ; but six conth on fraights will, ioyond a questlon, turn our shipments of produce to tho New England States, 2ud to Europe all down the Bt, Lawrenco. But, says one, how could wo do without the Nisgara Ship Canal IN TIME OF WAR ? Totue havono war, Itis timo that rolic of savngeism was baniahed from tho plaus of Cluis~ tian nations, The scttlomont of the Alabamn cluims gives hope that it can bo done. For ono, loam \vfilhlg to put America, and Conada, aud Englaud under tho strongest 3055“}1@ bonds to livo in &nrpntuul friondship and amity,—Amori~ ca, by tho cortainty, in cngo of war, thal hor vaat rodnets shall rof in her fiolds; Canada, that hor commorco chall be - ruincd, and Tngland with starvation staring her in the face, In thouamo of sll that is truc and good and holy, may tho gonius of our Chrietian civiliza~ tion, with the ltoyal Cross of St. G_uunfll in ono hand oud the Siars and Stripes in the othor, waving them over tho sea and tho land, proclaim “to nll tho nations, lot thoro bo, now sud ovor- maovo, poace on earth and good will among mon, DEFECTIVE BUILDING---THE REMEDY. To the Fditor of The Chicago T'ribune : Br: It scems to mo tho timo hascome to awakon publio intcrest upon the subjoct of do- fectiva building, ng illustratod in Chiengo to- day. It is truo thero has boen displayed in our robuilding & commondablo encrgy; but, result- ing from that enorgy, what concealod dangor {lanks our streots! Tho rocklossnoss in design and execution of tha building done within tha year is simply startling, whon ono calmly thinke and looks it over. Of courso, much 18 to bo allowed on account of tho mngnitudo of tho work, which demands display and speod rathor than lefsure sud stability ; but, when such allow- anco ig fully mndo, thoro does mnot scom to Do any oxcuso for such accidonts as tho ilvln;; way of tho supports of Judge Farwoll's block last wintor; tho falling in of the boams and flaoring of Mr, Lombard's block, last weels ; the burning of the First Congregational Church by ronson of o firo-trap fluc, & fow nights ago; tho dostruction by fire, by reason of dofoctive fues, of 5 dozon or moro dwelling-housos within o couplo of months, Theso ncoidonts aro inox- cusablo. And_yot it in snfo to say thoy aro sinall compared with thoso impondiilfl; uversiruc- tures now daugorously built, and still dangerous- ly building, if means aro nof at onco taken townrd a romedy. Tho-romedy may bo twofold : Tirst—Make architeets and buitdora criminnlly ronponsiblo” for inolliclont, dungeroua work. Whynot? The law makes aphysician crim- innlly responsiblo for malpractico, aud propotly g0, for to his skill is intrusted tho preservation of human life, But the architock or builder, to whogo skill is intrusted the mu'cl{‘ of human lifo, must neods havo lenvo, by cheap contriv- anco ot liberty of hungling, to maim and lill at iy own swoob willl 'Thus ot prosont deals tho law with him. Changa this, Let tho law of Mala Praxis bo onlarged to covor iho vocation of building, and soon uLill will displace caroloss- noss, and gocurity dangor. Second—We should hinve & rigid Building net. Tho city should be divided into districty, aud a Dody of capable mon, an Building Inspoctors,— onchi ouo having in chiargo tho inspeotion of ell buildinga oracting within his distriot,—should bo sclosted to uuporvien aud control tha srostlon of all buildings iu tho c“ly; TPlans for buildings should bo submitted to tho Inspoctor of Build- ingu boforo commoncing thoeir ereation, and thon tho butldings ehould bo inupectod story by story nis thay wont up, until comploted, Tho Yuspac- tors, to Lo yesponsible for tho porformauce of their dutles, should bo required to give bonds to tho Stalo. ; Buch laws aro now in foreo in mauy of our older Btates, espocially in Nuw York and Penn- nlyl\‘lmln, and, although they wera cuactod for tho bonollt of citics, T find {heir practieal pro- visions ombodied In ordinances for tho govorn- meont of villegos and towns throughout thoso Btatos, and tholr oifect s mout satisfactory, ‘Iho presont vension of our Legielutura givos opportunity for inmediato actlon upon this in- portent quastion, and I trust it may bo carofully couslderad, Moantimo, it ia in ordor for thoso of ns own- ing buildings to oxamine tholr foundations, um)- yports, and fluon, to thoend that death, bysfail- ing or burning housos, may not suddenly come upon us, Vory tenly, Jomy OALvin WALLIS. Ciutoauo, Jan, 20, 1614, —_— An Fron-Foundry IZlown Up. Prrranunan, Jan, 22,—Last ovening, whila the workmen at Batoman & Garrleon's foundry wore moving n lzdlo filled with sevoral tous of molton matal, tho cranc-hooks broko, Iottiug tho hiot iron fall into & hola which contalned some two feat of wator, and n torriblo explosion followed, “Tho roof of (ko bilding wna carried away, und the walls wora oracked. ~ ITousos in tho vielnity hiad thelr windows bnfll{ shattored, Sovoral of tho workmon wore slightly Injured, though nono sorionsly, The damuga’ to’ the foundry will nmount to ubout §10,000, — Joalousy and Murders , Br, Louts, Jan, 42,—Georgo Cotteroll (colored wad stabboed and instantly killod about 11 o'cloc! lnst night, by John Groen, whilo coming out of tho house of Dr, Qillou, ou Pine stroot, where hio had baen to visit o eolored girl to whom ho was onguged to be marrled, Groen wns n dis- carded loyor, and is belioved to hayve committed tho dood in & flt of fealanav. Ha was arvested. " WASHINGTON. Colorado and Oklohoma--- Yerba Buenn---Paocific- COoast Politics. The Stanley Dinner==Journalistic Gentlemen in Congress. Mobiliavity in Tight Placos--- Bingham and Broois. From Our Own Correapondent, WhstraTox, Jun, 19, 1879, Tho admisalon of Colorado, and the oponing up of the Indian Territory undor tho proposcd name—and that no moro ouphanious thaun a bull- frog's ronv—of Ollohoms, ongago tho family of Bolon just now. Tho chances of nolthor avo consldorable. St Louis wishos the Indirn Territory dovolopoed by immigration, as it blocks tho way to lior back country,—Arkausas being rolatively poor, cxcopb in tho bottoms, which cannot bo cleared of Lim- bor but at groat oxpenso, - Kansns and Nobraske aleo aro bothoved by that impassablo Lelt of land, many hundred milos broad and huudreds wido, botweon thom aud Toxas. Tho Presidont ocoupics o medium rolation betwoen the whitos ond Indians. Ifo wauts tho Torrltory oponed, Lut all the profits thoreof to inure to tho bonefit of the Indinus, YERDA DUENA, of Goat Teland, 1 tho subjoct of cnvil at prosont ‘Dbetweon tho Contral Pacific Rallway and the poo- plo of San Franclsco. QGovornor Loland Btand- ford, Prosident of therailway, 18 horo, and his frionds say that *“his arrangoments aro all mado on & pormonent basls;” which means that his rond has olected, with money, cortain persons to the National Houso and tho Senato, and, thero- foro, oxponds nothing upon outsidors, -Ido not sny that this is the faot, but I sny that it is what the’eboyo romerk means, It will Do a grave mattor to ascertain which corporations and organizations do actunlly elect, by tho use of mouey, workmon, and intimidation, both Ilsp~ rosontativey and Sonators, Wo might find out, if ik was worth while, that wo wore gradually re- turning to tho English Parliamontary systom, whore corporations, colloges, pockot-boroughs, and rotton boroughs were, and probably are, maintained. Nevada is meraly o rotton borough, Oregon is o pocket-borough, and TFlorids ia n noquestration, Tho Goat Island controversy is o fight batwoen tho approhionaiona of a corporato city aud the ponurioncuess of o corporate highway. Yorba Buonn is & Covernmont fsland in tho Bay of 8an Francisco, ono milo and o Lnif or moro from the city piors, and tho railroad proposes to reuch it Lyan oxpon- slvo bridgo from Oakland. 'This would have the offact to mako Yorbn Bucna tho stopping-placo for Chincso and other stenmers, and, it is sup- posed, to dunago tho city correspondingly. Tho corporation must build more than thres miles of pilinga, and partly in eight fathoms, and even ton fathoms wator, tolay o track to Yerba Buons, or must reach San Francisco ab the exponse of fifty or moro miles of now rond, by going eround tlio Bouth Bay, Itisn queation wlhethors city originally falsely locatod shell compol roads to como to it, or whothse & Govornmont island shall bo sold in the Iobby to a road which ia even more powerful than the city. And probably both parties will bo beaton in tho end by the vol- untary ndoption of Valleo as tho common rail- way terminus of tho whole Pacifio system,—a point whoro the Government Navy Yard hes long boen placed, and whero there i8 n goodly thirty feot of water all {ho way up tho North Day. TACIFIC-COAST POLITICS. Senator Nye, who has beon o good denl of o patriotic waz, and kindly, and often cloquent, in his viows, has been Deaten for tho Senate by n gentleman besrwg the Welsh namae of Jonos, whoso means woro go abuund- ant na to Isy out even the wealth of tho roeo of Sharon. It was & fight botweon tho Crown Point and tho Bolcher Mines, and Ne- vada changed hands in tho issuo. This contest may hnve o correlative offect upon tho Californin Sonatorship, where Nowton Booth and Georgo Gorbam aro the chief contestants; for Gorham and Jones formerly run togethor at the head of the Californin Stato ticket, and would have as- sistod ench othor, in Lho due courwo of things, in tho Bflmnnt yoar of our Lord, had not Booth also itched in and dono yeoman work for Jones,— hus croating & ruclYmcnlobllgnt(on, ab any rate, noutralizing the obligation, if~ thoro was eny, to Gorhem, “Goorge Gotham hns got tho good will and good Wishes of all the politicians,” snid ono newly-arriven from California to me } “Dut tho Btato always had somo idol which if nursed to the oxclusion of all othar chinractors. Iivat, it was Fromont; noxt, John Chilton Birch; aud noyw, Newt. Booth.” Gorham soema to bo littlo troubled about the matter, and he {s punctual and popular in tho Sennto. Rumors increnge hore thet Ben Holladay has not maintained Lis nearly uniform success in railway and maratimo matlors on tho Conat. Thoro is a growing cry there for ourrenoy, bui how to gat it is tho quostion. TTE CORRESYONDENTS IONORING EACH OTIER, .Baturdey night, Jan. 11, was choson for & complimentary benefit to Henry M. Stmulufl, the Aftlcan nownpapor-corrospondont, b Willard's Hotel. The seats wero 310 apicco, and it wag & good oxhibit of the grand Populnrlby of tho nowapaper-writers that several handred applion- tions woro mado for iunvitations, all but sbout fitty of which had to bo rofusod. ‘The porsons invited wora nos pormitted to contribute to tho expenses, und tho hotel-keoper took in gross nearly 81,000 from a profession which is not so poor ns its mombera ofton jocularly maintain, he majority of nm\s]mlwr meun hero ara house- keepors and housoholders; soveral.of thom drivo their own carriagon s and those who are suspeoted of othor roghlar moens of livelibood oxeept the pen m:-f Lo countod upon the fingers of ong's hand. Lhe wholo numbor stationed hore is nearly one hundred. On this occesion, Mr. Georgo V. Adams, of tho Chicago Times, amongst othor papers, progided. 1ilo iy o native of this District, aud, From 6 quict boginning, bay ostablished o’ Inrgo :m%vnpxq)ur-conu‘efiuun, nntdsgv%? 1;, cum.l'm'tln?u indepondence at the ago of 86, Ho is o proprictor of lhlo Zvening Slar, of Wusbington, %[r. 13, B. Wight, of tho Chicago Erening Journal, o iomo= what now nud s vory intelligent arrival lore, was ono of " the hoats of the o\'nu'(ug. v, J. W. Knowlton, of T'ur Csroaco TrinuNE,—who is, I belicvo, a doscendant of Oliver Wolcott,—was ono of tho prominont on- tartainavs, and anothor corroapondont of tho samo papor Vico Prosidont ; and amongst the ruoots of Tue S'RInUNE wero tho Hon. John B. Tonderson, of Missouri ; Willinm P, Rosg, Chiof of tha Chorokeo Nation'; and Goneral John A. 1¥ugmuud. ox-Chiof of Goneral Shorman’s stall, Upon tho right of Mr. Adams sat Stanloy, QGeneral Bhierman, nud Bonator Casuorly § on tho loft, Sponkor Blaine, Becrotary Boutwell, and Scnator Thurmun, Amongst the guosts per- tinent to the occasion were Oharles Halo, who nssistod Stanloy at_Cairo whilo Cousul Genoral ; Joseph Huwloy and Eennior I\cha“fi', both edi- tors ; bath Cumeron and Tornoy 3 and Govornor Ooolko, long an editor in Ohio, With nearly one lundrod guosts, and two long Lranching tabloa suporbly ornemonted, tho effect, when ail the party woro nontod, wae excolled by no simflar ontertainmont ever given lero. As for tho din- nor, Geyeral Horaco Porter oxprossed his senso of its fullnoss by saying in n npooch : #Your sbundant “dict makes mo oxclaim, in tho words of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worma : ‘Ged help mo! I can take mno othor course I'" both, The specchos of tho ovening wors_pro- nouncod, h{ Henator Casnerly und Sonator Bout- waoll, to bo the moat oftertuining which they hind listened to at publio banquets; and, emongst the hnpplest, wore B, 8, Oox's, 8poakor Blaine's, Obarlos Hale's, Mayor Poore's, and Goneral Bhor- maw's, Tho lattor testified hiy fullost holiof in Htanloy's sucoess, aud said his valuablo 1ifo wni of moro consuquance than tho wholo Jutorior of Afries, Mr, Oox, spoaking of tho tonst of #ohomia, tho land whore corrozpondents recu- porate for & frosh start,” showed that Blinks- poaro, anticipatin Btnnioy, had givon Bohomin o seacoast and mado & shipwreok hnvpnn thore, and ho definod tho Yrfllt goneral truth with moro cathollvity than politiolans are wont to uso, that through “Bohiomiayun all tho roads of art and youtlitnl ambition, Mr. ‘Blaine snid that jour- aliom had indocd obiained rocognition when tho donthof an oditor (Grooloy) could affoot tho world . moro than tlio doconso of an Emporor (Napoleon). Mnyor Pooro rogardod Hlnulo{ ny nn exponeit of the auperlority of persons to imperaonal journalinm, correspondont congrntulated the ago upon gich progrous In Lwelvo yoars, that, whoroan, in 1800 llmru was 1o plneo Tor o Northern correspondon at tho gallows of John Brown, oxcopt upon tho gallows-trap, In 1872 tho most deppotle oflicinl of any Cbristian roglon, ~tho Captain Qonernl of Cubn,” throwa opon tho wicket to n newepapor-man to rolato tho talo of tho Inpurraction. Mr.Unwloy showed that lelnFu(mm'n non wag amenibor of hisbrig- ado, and dlod in tho Salisbury Rebol prison. AR, BTANLEY in ovldenu‘y not o nativo Amorican, but probably \nnalivoof onoof tho outer Englich ehiron, as Coruwall, or Walos, or Northumborland, Ho In # doublo-Jointed-looking young man, with oroct uhouldors, modinm helghit, and n firm and roso- Iuto countonanca and fanturos, —Ilis moustncho, f-unm. and oyobrows aro as blaclk na his hair; il oyon nra xathor light; and hia pronunciation In that of tho old country. His education was rmhnlfl‘y plcked up na ho travelled in the line of \is profousion ; and he Lold mo that, in 1866, ho licard mo lecluro in 8k, Louls, whon ho was ro- portoer and rover for Lhe Aliasonri Democral, The lind of commount which haa boon moted out to this young man,—whouo solf-rosourcen #how nll the finor for his defoctivo advantages, and whoso eareer would probably have beon fm- poziblo wndoe ottor thun Amorican nuspices,— 28 often boon of & frivolous paragraphio chare nefor, and occasionally thy puperfleinl omana- tiong of the liLorary nnab, ITo.waa not went upon his errand to do nico Lehavior, nor to pronounce according to Walker; and, if ho failed to muc- ceed fn noourso of six locturcs, that wan tho stupldity of his agont, or iy own Inexperionco in things of tho rostrum. It is easy for nlecta- tlon or malico to divert tho oyo from tho true point which the hora's suacess Jirs covered, and to show that Blonloy in not a belos lelires calf, ns _it might show thet Gmibaldl bad novor rcad Dante, nor Washington studied political econ- - omy. l)nhnppfly, thosa who are favored with tho softer oducation and gonufloctiony pocscsa no stomach for solitary adventuro, It roquiros n wholo fleot to take Mr, Lamsartino to tho Holy Lnnd, whilo 3r, Btanley can ride his mulo rlong tho lino of the African ‘oquator, protected from dangor- by hig simplicity and gn\'erty. The Toyul Geofraphical Boototy might have u‘mrud uny oxpressions of surpriso at Mr, Stanloy's so- cial qualifications if they had recollected David Livingstono's, The lattor was aboy in a cotton- nctory, and the pupil of o Dissontors’ ovening school, who went to tho Mlesionary Bo- cloty 'to got employmont In African ad- venturo; wherons, if the Tondon pub- ishors {md possossed tho bounce, ho might have dono the samo uflnfi for o_nowspapor. - When ho had gono and had boon lost, all tho Goographical Boclety could not get him back. Aud it is & nico juxtaposition of tho sensational and the Phlln:lhtuplu which diroctad Mr.Bennett to sond this Western young man to head off all tho Old World instrumentalitios, and opon com- munieation with tho oxplorer, Truly “mi' Lo snid, with Goldsmitl, that ovon our fraitsies loi to virtuo's side. ¥ Tho correapondonts hero—fow of whom are advonturous, althongh thoy gonorally proved to bo equal to henitaclcand prompt mnrc).\lu&' or~ dorg whoo thoy wont off mearly in & body to Santo Domingo—did thomsclves rospost in hnv- reating thoir sunburnt sssocinte, and showed that they know When to taka Oceasfon by the band, und mako ‘Cho bounds of Lotlera wider yoil ‘This business of sonding men on moroly dan- goruus orrands may, however, be oyerdono. jometimes it would soom that it was rathor tho oxpectation of a_ journsl thatits correspond- cnt must commit hari-kard, inatond of returning from Limho somowhere, safe and sound. 'I'Lo journal which sacrifices its corrospondonts to any nuch cruel sonzationalism will find that the inyestmont was no bottor than David's when h sot Uriah in the front of the batile. e DINGIAM, 8 Had. Androw Johnson recoivod any stook in tha Credit Mobilior, thoy would have mode it an articlo in his impeschment, and ail Clyistondom swould have beon shocked at the scandal. John A. Dingham would have mounted o tablo, and arraigned him as * tho groat criminal of tho ago,” and slnp(pml bia barron scalp ag o gosturo of patriotic pafn. While Bingham was making tho most ho could out of such materinla for Brouacution a8 ho had, tho dividends of the rodit Mobilier—{hose unholy dividends ro« ceived out of tho Public 'l‘mnsurf', and paid for by successivo votes to maintain whatover dodges of rapacity the Mobilior crow could dovise—iwero lying snugly in _his breechos-pockots, and tho impccunious Roprosoutativa could not even pay §2,000 for tho capital stock, o spont tho great dividends ag fant as thoy wero roceived, and Osnles Amos had to tale stock off hig iands oven when it had doprociated to * eithor 20 or &0 conts on the doilar.” . In othor words, Ar. Dinghom paid nothing at oil for his chanco, sold out his * throw whon the dice were abandoned, and enjoyed tho dividonds in careless cago. Thig Llusterer now proposes to show that it was allright, Defoated for Congress, and ox~ octing nothing, unless tho Prosident will over~ ook i turpitude and appolnt him to somo Tndgoship or Forcign Ministry, ho doponds upon ‘his rhotorie to lot him out. . OF NO CONSEQUENCE. To break the ico and debauch public opinion, thoy resort to-day to ono of tho Elrclx:\unbla journals pitched near tho National Legislature, and to tho extont of two columus employ tho fol- lowing loglo: Tho investigntions in progress beforo Committecs of 1ho House of Ropresentatives on tho above subject aro of doublful practical utility, , . . Ono of tlioplanksin tho Nationn! platform of tho Republiean party, on wliteh r. Lincoln was olected Tresident of tho United States, pledged iho Re- pub;.lnm party to seoure tho construction of this Tond, . . . AWn pledgo to private capitalicts of Natfonal sym- pathy, tho gentlemen who oseumed these great bur- dons rought to associate with {ho enterpriso (hennmes of a8 mouy dlstinguished men connected with tho Government s practicablo; henco they peranuded distinguished Senators nud ‘members to_subseribo to tho capltal Ktock such sums, howover small, as they conld convenlently apare, ‘The facts ero, that nobody (with one oxcop- tiun? prid any monoy, aud noarly all tho othors impficated havo admittod that tho transaction waa & eriminal ono by denying complicity, and thoreby proving thomaolves falso as woll as foolinl. ‘Tho oxtracts abovoe aro teken from tho paper Aup] nandli‘ controlled by United Btates Senalor Uarlan, who is still &~ Sonator; wnd, while it wwould bo unfalr to supposo overything in tho Ohronicle cmanates from bis pon, tho publio mind ig oxorciscd horo to know if tho Senato, in its avorngo character, takos this lax view of pub- lio responsibility. 'The Republican platform of 1860 did advoerto o Pacifie Rnilvoad; but not n Orodit Mobilter | Tt did not advocato perjury, duplicity, conspiracy, and corruption, It designed n railway as orig- inal in its groivth and choraotor as tho groon Continent it was to encirclo,—a publio work worthy of tho young party and tho era of Froc- dom, and & pure and noble mnterial oxample to tho nations of mankind. A POINT NEARLY FORGOTTEN. Thero has yot beon accounted for only a pmall portion of tho sharos nnd cortificatos of ptock obtamoed by Ockes Ames from the OCredit Mobilicr, to tho projudico of his partuers and unsgocintes, ‘I'ho stook was in parcols, appended to cartifi- catos. For iustance: Cerlificato 247 called for thirty sharcs, and cortificato 248 for twonty ghnros. Now, Onkes Amos ook, to plaoe™ in Congross, twenty-threo of thoso cortificates, rop- Yosonting 848 slinres, This will ho duly ehown as tho trial proceeds. Tho proceedings now our- ront do not point at moro than nine cortificatos, or 150 sharos, What Lina bocomo of the othors ? Did thoy got to the Bennto, or wore thay buttor- ed ovor both tho Domocratio and the Republican nidos of tho Houso? Docs tholr ovidonco, yot undisclosad, acoount” for that noarly-appailing roluctauco of the Ilonso to open the doors of tho Committeo-room? Doos it nccount for Poland and Nibluck on opposito vidos, Loth pronching homilies on tho oxcelienco of sflonco and tho nationnl grandour of closod doors ? TACKING AKD FILLING. No soonor did tho order paes tho Iouso that tho Committeo should open the doors npon tha job of \vhilowuulnnficoncnulmlthntc, than Onlcey Ames and John B, Alloy, aud their groat oqual and contemporary, Uriah 11, Painter, proceedod 1o prapare a quunfity of garbled tdstimony to siriko tho publio, and give tho savor of sanctity to ibo stook-transsotions uforossid, Tho ?ubhu, walking into tho Committec-room, vawonly o witnoss confronted with tho two venorablo stalls who Linve bean paddilug thoir consplracy through Congrous, AND JOAT, TQO, TIAD SONH AND BONS-IN-LAW, To-day camo Nolson, Brooks' son-in-law, to destroy the offcot of Cranc's nflldavit abunt the additional 100 shares whioh Mr. DBrooks had forgotton to acoount for whon ho mado what ono of tho papors horo calls *‘that sllly, crazy, agonizod g ooch ¢ Tho Ifon. Jomes Brooks, my father-ln-law, put moin tho way of yotting that stock by ndvanciug tho monoy. All tho dividends came to o, and I got the manoy. Mr, Drooka did the business, He lnhfllln witnees hio “hud o chanco to put Lim fu tho Cradit Mobillor, and 1d so, Witncaa waa not present at the nogotiation. Don't romombor who furntaliod bim tho cortificato, Doos ot remomber Liow o como (a nosseislon of the Typ; " ONICAGO ‘MIDUNE feals, Tho arrangement was mado simply by g‘l’:‘nraflkn ml\lmn:mfi l'l'w ‘money, aud I received :}m dividends, Gavono noourlly to Mr. Drooks wlen tha tmomay was advanced, Gava o noto or bond, DId vt ihink tuat noceseary botweon father and son. Thia ovidenco may ho said to hnvo hoen ron= dorod for filial Bifcot-fon, It boatyout ad thin -08 bragg-foll uudulr the hammor of moolisnical. and family necesnity, Bup, nsgv tho abovo, to bo true, whoro daca it Toavo Mr. Broolts any nenver probity than using .Govonimont neerats to Increnso the fmportanca of his family? Ho firub sworo that tho only amount . involved with Noilion was 50 shareg which his son hnd got in tho duo courss of Dbrokorago. Now (hero hnypuu to bo_ong hune dred and fifly shares which Mr, Brooks bought for tho son-in-law. Thoro is nothing moro to any to this, oxcopl that it 18 wri glingl of tho most- eel-like charace ton THanry e A Oomb mut anjoy it, unloss ha Do of o singululy magnanimous and pltying naturo, 4 <5 4 IR, GENTLEMAN FROM MIOHIOAN. Znch, Chandlor—tho person who, amongst the afilictions of myntorious Providenao, atands horo in tho Sonate in placo of & gontleman from Mich~ igau—lag boen cavning o uhung and conslstont colobrity by bololing ronnd the hotels during the Babbath evoning, armod with & club, sud pros '.umlm? to bo in soarch of n nowspapor-writor. Robriofy £nd ropontance should ba tho propbe objoctn of his pursuit, Mr. Uanunogan, who ro= Intod tho story of hin brawl in {ho National 1lotel, may bo found nt & noat and commodious oftice In I strcet, ndorncdat tho jamb of tha door by tho nprmgtly sign of * Cuvanagh, Han- negan & Co.” Olinudlor is again busily ongaged in hoaping up justification for making n vn\cnn:fi in tho Sonnto, ~ I propogo to lot him amango tho ovidence on that sido ot his loisure. > AT LITERATURE. . Jumes R Oszood & Coe Last year, drmos It Ongood & Co. published moro than sovanty now books, Among the nuthora roprosontad woro Longfellow, Whittler, Bryant, Browning, Tennyson, Roade, Erstlalo, Waltor 8Bmith, nswthorno, Warner, H, H, (Helon ‘Hunt), Johnson, Ficlds, 1lolmes, Hucto, Do~ Torost, Mrs. Leonoweus, Bayard Taylor, Fisko, and nonrly every otlicr name honored in Amerie can litoraturo. In thofr publiclion of tha tronslation of the “Eneld" by O. P, Cranch- thoy liave ndded n grent work to their noble gorioa of tranelations, which contains Longlel- low's Danto, Bayard Taylor's * Faust,” Willlam Cullon Bryant's ** Odyssoy * and ** fliad."” Winck- olman's ‘“History of Art” has reached tho fourthi volume, and will add bo tho famo of tha houso for publiehing good books. Wessons in Germun, Profossor Choxles W. Zaromba ig publishing 8 sorios of weolkly lessons in Gorman, in which tho pronunciatin of German is indicated by ' tho wno'of English Toltors in phonotio spelling, nud in whicl the scholar in ot oncersnndo to spealt short Gorman sentencos, instoad of boing taken . through tho grammar, Wookn Meceiveds QUY EARLSCOURT'S WIFE, Ty MaY AaNesFrost New York: G.W. Caricton & Co, Obieago t Jounen, McOlurg & Qo < T[E ORDEAL YOR WIVES. By Mrs, Assiz Ep- ‘Winps. 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Wo are Indebted to G, D, Ruarell, 143 Huno stroet, for Pelerson’s Ladics' National Alagazine for Decombor, Gedey's Lacy Book for Fobruary, Frank Leslic's Lady's Magazine, Harper's Majy azine, L!;pincnu's Magazine, Our Young Folks, . and the Populur Seience Monthly for Tobruary. THE ILLINOIS & MICHIGAN CANAL, Tv the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: Your articlo undor tho Loed of ‘“Btate Dobt of Ilinows" (tho dato of which I don't romember) ought to be read with pride and plonsure by overy citizon of tho Btato, and especlally by those who passed through the darkest days of our noble 8tato, 80 truthfully portrayed in that articlo. The pros- peets woro indeod gloomy thon, with our Stato bonds and Oanal serip worth only 12 to 15 conta on tho dollar, The recollection is the morovivid to tho writer becnuse ho liad all thet ho was worth in tho world invested in said bonds, but who never logt faith in their ultimato paymont at par. Thero is one circumstanco, howover, which ought not to bo forgotten, which is, - that the firat ray of hopo which bright enod our dark prospects was tha completion of the Illinos & Michigan Caual, With tho opon- ing of it, our bonds or serip rose in valuo 200 or 800 por cont, and contmuod to rise uutil they reacliod thoir full valug, 'Chis much for the oft~ abused Canal, which Iatill think aud belloye will, with tho 1linols River knpraved, and undor roper mouagement, prove a source of rovonue o tho Btate, and n lasting benefit to the poople. I cannot bolove thut the peoplo of the Htate of - Illinola will over give up Mlmb groat and impor~ tant work, and liopo that the Legislature now in gousion will muko provielon for an early coms mencemont of the improvewment. Qsticago, Jau, 10, 1873, R I Kllinols Reports. fl,!:fh‘ul .Mnulm'l f the Dur of the Tenth Judicial Dis- ot ¢ You aro heroby ro?uustod to moot at the Conrt Houeo in Monmouth, on Thursdny, Jan. 23, 1873, at 7 o'cloclk p, m., for tho purpose of cou= sulling togothor na to what nction, if any, should bo taken to reform tho preseut systom of pubs lishing tho Iilinols Roports; and also with re l’xmtl to nu‘z'o other mut&m nof lum‘azt :octhu D_r:r ok 108, suggostod. request of Commify 00 of 3 B 4 lkmmovmml. Jan, 16, 1878, CrrizeN, [