Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1873, Page 2

’ WASHINGTON. Somothing to Think Ahont=-A Nalional Convention to Mako & Now Coititution. « Exhortation Jim”---The Per- sonality of the Press. Judicial Corruption--The Case of Judge Sherman. Show-Bread===The Scorned Hu- morist. From Our Own Correspondent, ‘Wasuixaron, Feb, 14, 1878, Tho last Eloctoral voto, it is to be hoped, has beon counted. Liko the Electors of Gormany who hind {o cboose the Emporor, the Amerioan ‘Electoral Collago hns probably explred. = NO MOIE LLEOTORS. . It would still bo o beautiful form of clecting our Premdont, if the public’'s attention to their own affairs permitted,—to give tho finost mod. osty in ench Btato tho honorable priviloge of as- sociating tholr namos with & Prosident's, wnd,” 08 the sons of DPoers attond o King to his coronation, to ushor in & popu- lar magistrate undor tho personal escort of & great aud noblo faculty of his fellow- oltizens, Dut what is this Elcctoral Colloge of owrs now-a-daya? A Oollego without scholar- ship or other endowments, made up of merub onucus notorieties often, who are honored with such briof public mention ns soldiers, travollora, sud passing notorietics ofton got undor the do- groo of D, D,, and LL. D., and no forth, Pan~ glosa-fashion. 5 Tho Eloctornl faculty hes come fo havo chlefly the facultios of smolliug, tasting, and tandling. It was o practical proposition; but, in the riso of the great buccancer gangs called parties, the Collego has come o be a picce of finory as cumbrons as it is dnngerous, Thore- foro, without regret, wo wipo nway ono of tho antique conceits of our Rovolutionary fore- forothors, and, as noithor party cares anything sbout tho matter, it will bo o pity to present it to the pooplo without making suflicient issue to bring out e vote. Add, theroforo, an smend- mont suggesting tho proprioty of making tho offica of Senator oloctive by the people of each Btate. ‘Weo have come to that place whero A NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION is dosirable, Everything has been changed by the agoncles of ateam, invontious, corporate movement, ‘prospority, snd emancipation. Tho oid Consti- tution is an honored charter, belonging to the dood gonorations, It can point the moral, adorn the tale, aud suggest the framework of a ‘newand moro accordent plan of Ropublioan Govornment, But, bofcto tho contennial yoar of independonce, wo should hold 2 grand investiga~" tion, directod from the advanced thought and- cbgorvation of tho country, and independent’ of party, like the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Whon the times aro out of joint, a3 we uee them now, the orror, lles in fundamentals more probably than in partioulars. Wo are procoeding like the Americs subsequent l.ul lllxa B1O1r Aty g oF Sonredsation sptiptarslio mekatho Aicen cloty and instrumontalities, After the -Revolution, they proceeded vory- much ga we have dono since-ta }yobulliom Thoy oxpatrinted tho Loyallsts, or Torics, and then goftoned townrd them. Thoy issucd much and various currency, and wore victuma of fluctua~ tion, epeculation, Ligh pricos, aud corruption. Disorders broke out, and two Governments in | tho same States confronted oach other, Pieco- meal remedies wore propogad; but tho prossure of businces apon Congresa prevented any gon- oral and Inndseapo discusaion of the evils "of tho E;rxud_, uutil'Mny 25, 1787, when the Convontion vevise tho Articles of Oonfodoration meot in ho Stato-Honao at Philadelphia, That apectacle, re-presented, would be tha ubblest Contennial Exbibition for the year 1876, Detter bogin it on the Centonninl of the outbrenk of tho War of Indepondence, in 18741 ~With Genoral Grant, i;, noed be, zesiding in tho Chair, a8 did Washington, and tho passions of partics burnt out by their mutuel and equol exhaustion, let tho ery of fac- tions be drowned, aud tholearned and freedom- loving, tho thinking and practical lenders of the pariod, re-examine the nesds of the timo, aod attend to tho harmonious revision of an organio system, longress will never lave the time, and partios will novor have tho loneaty, to do_the work, That it in needod to be done, is plain to any who foel that the questions paramount botweon capital and labor, producer and carrler, purty and purity, arc uot such as can over be examined by a Congress possessing in so little tho confidence of the people 28 that which is pasaing out and that which is next to come. 18CARIOT'S DAILY THIRTY PIRCES, James Harlan, Senator from Iows, n bribs- takor and o hypocrito, usos his pawnbrokers' haumnl in Washington to denounce the lov. obart Laird Collier for his_gourageous sermon upon tho deficicncies of public life, 'Uhis Har- lan is o gawky, unbappy-looking, mentally- damned man, and his disa probation is a deco- ration, Ho bought stack in the paper ho poasessos to absorb the printing money of his party ; overy number of the concorn contains proposals for joba ; he oxpected tocrawl into the Cabinet again, whero ho had onco lain folonious- ty ; but the President, who sesms to have a keen perceplion of aborg, smoked him out, What noxt hoe 18 to do, is of course only {o himself and N;lrglll\nllnn gnomo. st ho will perpotnate himself undor any ciroumstances 08 » nuisanco in inovitable. Wo adviso him to open a fence-shop, or take Loly or- ders in a Ponitentiary, A good deal hus lioen eaid about the riso of the personal.press in this country. Davelop- ments prove that the most extravagant news- npers come far shortof the corruption exist~ Ing 1n the bosom of affairs. . Tho New York Sun was looked upon, during the pust campnign, by some prudent people, ns reclloss and rough'y but evonts lave proved thatit posscssed the boldnoss of either proscience or Lnowledge,’ To evory namse -donoted on its Oredit Mobilior List, had been traced »_trauanction whosa secre- sy and stealth wero dishonorable in a high grade of publio men, and which bravado, perjury, and the ‘support of = corrupt p: press cm‘x'm not «{isprove or concenl. A prostituted prees,di- rooted by socond-rate go liticul mspirants, who are willing to spend thelr monoy to ga% tho fume and mnke the spologics of politicians, would be the moat datgerous ndjuncs of the wiin of anation, wero;it not the wonkest,: In tho nature of type-matal, o tondy is'of no power with it. He noutralizes the divinity resident there, a8 the bosuty and foree of a groat lam- age are loat whon s sycophant emplo‘ya it othing ia 8o easily loat aa the influence of-a li- centious journal { but to declare what can be indicated, 18 not licenso, if it arouses tho publio mind from lethargy, Ta change somowhat the nervous worda of Raloigh in tho Errand of the Soul, writton nearly thros hundred yoars ago, wo may ropeat : @o, Preas, au Freedom's guest, Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the beat,— ‘The truth shall be thy warrant ; o toll the Court it glows +And shinea like rotten wood ; Tio tell the Clhiurch it shows What's gocd, and dotl no good ; Go, or we uoods must dio, For thiou must giva tho le, THE JUDICIARY ROTTEN. Tho nowest osee of ocorruption is oharged sgainat tho Ways and Moaus Committeo, whose olork, one DBnssolt, demanded $260 a month from tho bankers and brokera-of New York to asaist thom in ropoaling the tax on borrowed clslm, Dbonides $5,000 when tho nct r[)unod. It did pags, becoming & part of tho Tariff and Tax 1aw of tho year 1872, ~At tho eame time, one of the nopotist United Statos Judges of Obto, Qharlos T, Bherman, prosonted a claim_ for 10,000 for services In lobbying tho bl slong with his brother, the Souator, sud General Ciar- fleld, Tho latter might be the caso, and neithor of these two membors of Congross awaro of a Job, bocauso much is done hers for the mere’ asking, Judge Oharles L' Sherman is like tho poor only in this rospeot, that wehuyo him with ue always, A blg, red-ficed, common man, of neithor judicial brains or tastes, he reoms to like the atmospliore of the Legislativo wtows, and he is ono of tho annual tramps acound tho Gapltol ‘odiioo, i brobhs, Joba, an, {8 o man of applloation, fale capacit; BT b5 nbovo £ho AVOrIgo of Bonatomm. s Brothor, Gonoral Bhermau, i a man of individue ality, olectrio nnmlo,n and o Atralghtforward, - Blust; rlght nature. Dut I hnvo yob to hoss euhurlanmwlm« t or n rouno_of “respoot oxe Srassod for this Uhitod Statos Tuidge Hhemos wlo is gonorall; rofim‘dod a8 tho Eimlly of the Anmily, and subalsting upon the coucomttnnt nulohrf{}r of tho Bherman namo. To neo a Judga of tho United States Conrts pawing around thesn lobbiea and Capitoline back-raoms, is to sco n man in o fair way of tomptation, if uo worse, A fow Imponchments aro nocoennty to purify our Judiclal systom. In Knusag and Loulsians, tho Tudgon avo sald Lo bo drunle protty mucl all tho timo ; the United Btates Judgo of Alubamn, who {a morally contomptivle thoro, tried to got onthe Uonch of tho Distriot of Columbin, aud all Wash- ington City,without rogard to party, raisodan in- dignant howl, which thoe President, on neighbor- 1y ounds, heard and responded to with an injunction. Tho United States, Judgo, in Ohlo, i8 now prasented for collecting monoy for Qongrosaional influcnco, and wo liopo that ho -may disprove it but it is singular, to say tho " lonst, that n muon 0s far off as Oloveland should Vo implicatod at Washington without causo, Guilty or not guilty, that particnlar Shorman is s Judgo onlyin titlo. It roquires to mnko a Judgo throo qualities: decorum, infloxible honosty, and o knowlodge of tho law; but tho only known -roquisito of this Judgo g, that his name In Sherman, Hia battlea sud his deoisions ro oqually unknown. ":Aa ?or G{nrgo A, Pasnatt, lung the Olerlc of tho TWays and Monns Comm'tios, the stories of his ugo of his privileges ate 38 old s my residonce in this oity. - I lioard complaiuts made in Call- fornia thut hie had domanded paymont for pash sorvioes, aftor oxpnrionuimfi unusual hoapitali- tioa from the corporations there. Turkish corruption ueder tho Pashas and Daeys, or Russian offloial rottonness, could bo searooly worso. What wo aro honring every dx:jy in thoss rovelations, is something of tho old. The now corruption can bo stampod out if theso exposures of formor and rocont fraud araen- couraged by the wistful attontion of tho pooplo, That editor who raises the party shield, aud crlos 4 Halt " to these providentinl dovelopments, ox- 08T8 N8 TN to come, or-fa an oxpectant sharor n tho public spoil, ‘Mark him as the sycophant of o thief, or & thiof himsolf! Thero aro now no partics. In the common sonse of tho ovorhnnging cloud, charged with tho judgmonts and -mocrols of theso paat debsuchod yenrs, tho public, which i tho victim, mingles togother and brenks old divisions down, Tho President of the United States hiaa no intentions excopt to make his socond torm tho vindication of hia Magistraoy. Tour years ate beforo us without a Nng.onnl oleotion to warp the sight of any man. The politiciana would now bo doclaring against Grant for tho littlo Olvil Sorvice he has encour- agoed, oxcept for thoso dirclosures of infam which is tho practico of high placos, and_ whic has compolled universal abhorrence. “What is Behuyler Colfax to the nocessity of n regonera- tion? What in nn{ man to tho preservation of our libertios, aud tho purifleation of public lifo, and of gonoral socioty, which is g0 largely;cor- relative with it ? - Faith In publio character ia Jonly ndmirablo to tho dogree that an intelligont jury would bestow it. To bury ouc's head in the ‘sand, and kick one's haels fn tho eir, with tho sontiment of “I won't beliovo It 1" s the province of a commu- nity of fools. Intho lightof tho vindication of such institutions as Bave boen inherited and established for this Continent, the tumblo of a second-rate politician is no moro than the tumblo of o black-bird shot out of the’ sk Comlsnm‘d to tho salvation of tholaryost~ flolds. Nodishonesty is mors reprehonsiblo than' than which edts with the Disciplos, and meen- time snugly concoesls ‘tho thirty piccen of bo- trayal nuder tho table-cloth. Such a publication a8 the Now Yorl Independent, whoso propriotor in a ropor-in with the religious multitudes, and, 'under that.covor, o sort, of . Montague Tigg to sound tha praiscs of overy public Cliovy Siynio,— ia n more wolf iu the moral press. No wonder that Mr. Oolfax; #nd ‘Mv Hincleir, considering’ lato exporuros, wiolied to dovivo from the New York Tribune the benefit of tho honorablo roputation of Horace Grooley. Hrd their littlo gnmo proved & aticoons, Ut Journal, consooratoll i honorie ‘blo yours' to the douuricintion of tyreuny nnd ‘meanness, wonld now be tho daily defander of Inrceny, and tho advocato of distinguished rjuwy. Making such honey in the desd on's ~ jaws, somo natirieal Bamaon might woll propound his riddle on such a Tribune: {* Qut of.the eater camo forth meat, and out of !l.\; fitr&-g fil‘;ms forth swootnoss.” i i e Washington corrcepondent of ihe Now York Indqmugmlt, Mr. D. W, Barllett, oxprouses the beliof that, when Mr. Colfax was takon sick Aome time ago, his memory failed him, and ho roall% forgot ho had -$1,200 from Oakes Ames, Mr. Bartlott thinka that Colfax now remembers the transaction, and is In n groat state of ro- morse nbout his statemont undoer oath, I do not gee whoro any of theso positions lonve Mr. Oolfax. To whatever now rafuge Le flies, some- thing hae forestalied him. Il Inat apology, of lugging in his stopfathor and tho rcs{ of ' one's solf, 1i the family, is like finding vouchera for o youdher and a consort to Mrw. Hazris. Matthows 18 a alerk appointed by Colfax to o placo in the clerk’s ofico of "tho House. Hollister, his gonein-law, fs_ ono of tho pillers | ot Utah® Ring, who want to divide thg ' raimant of tho Mormons, and is &hmnto by the usual grandeur of motive of such prayora. 5 THE BEEW-DREAD, Mt, Colfax's ropatation and standing in the United Statos havo been of such stupendous thinndes, like” the arch of the rainbow, that oritioiam hero has beon dismayed. I am sorry to confess that I novor fullydid my duty in the premises, and allowed the yapory illusion to go on, supposing that it must dissolve, after a timo, of it own volatility, I did not, however, oxpock :1“0 diseppear by combustion, as it has sinco lone. A quantity of the pertinent commonplaco, lenvenad with some oatentatious orthodoxy, nnd flavored with three ounces of glibness and half o peock of rural amiability, ‘To which add coloring, without stint, of greon smiles, and rapidly stir up with a sort of salgsman's snimntion. Bake the whole in the frying-pan of selllshness, and cut up into small and preparod slicos, Always to ba eaton without close examination. Such was tho shew-head which » superstitious generation thought tho Ligh priests ouly might eat, But thodo who had tastod of it ou the sly said it was nothing it Johuny-eake, THE UNAPPREOIATED SNATY. Amongst the persous who are about to leave Congress neithot regretted nor remewmbored, is H, Soapp, of Joliet, Ilo squared himself Loro for a clown, and, although tho intontion wes low, he could not supportit. Toseek to bo & humorist, and porish like your jokes, is what the colored Enuc called *pizen.” ~ To laugh to s 0 Jack Humé)hmyu, and aiso not o much as ‘*a grain, a guat, & wandoring haic” of aemilo, is death, intermont, and decay, whilo vonsclous of all. Bnopp confounded the extravagant assortion of his vulglrltg with a humorous talent, and ox- Rlented to dorive o roputation midway betweon :fl.}i:!, of Tonnessce, and Prootor Knott, But it 8 had an honost, simplo, fragrant na- ture, and tho man bohind his oxtravagance commendod both, Knott had good followship and a gonso of tha ridiculous, Sun.Fp appearsto Lave posscased chiolly a thoory that certain low proferencon of his own, msserted idiolically, would bo commended to a congenial Congress, Buch are some politicians' conceptions of their . conntrymon, ’ | Ho oponed his mouth with less éffaot than tho only celobrated ass, except Limsolf, who had evor spoken. Gant, —_— WHEATON COLLEGE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuna s Bin: This inutitution, ehartorod by the g~ islaturo ae“Illinols Instituto,” Fobruary, 1855, and reohartorsd as Wheaton College, Foebruary, 1861, was founded by Wesloyan Methodists as o Roform College, particularly set against Ameri can Blavery, Thomajority of the Board under tho now oharter wero, and still aro, orthodox Congregationalists, It has tho clomonts of permanent progross and prospority, and prom- isos not to disappolnt tho hopes of its founders and frionds, who Lopo to see it yet oxerting = controlling influence on tho idens oud oduca- tional interosts of this Biato and Nation, ' Ita prosent Faculty, hesidos tho undersiguod, aro the Rev. J. B. Walker, lato President of Benzonin Colloge, in Michigan; the Rov. J, 0. ‘Wobstor, o graduate of Dartmouth College, and aucoesuful Massachusotts pastor; 0. F, Lamry, A, M., of Knox Collego; tho Rov, B, F, Stratton, and Mosers, H. A, Fischor and 0. A, Blunch- ard, slumni of Whoaton, I'. d, Daker is Pro- fossor of Musio, eided by hik duughtor, diss Barah A, Baker; Mr, Walkor Milnor, » graduato of Bryant & Btratton's Commercial Collego, hag charge of the bookkeoping and business gupnrt- ment; Miss Hnrriet A, M, Read, odu- cated ot Tockford, lws chargo of the young ludlon e thofe Ludy Pricipal; and r. Alfred i1, Iintt gives Iustruction wnd loo- tures in Ilygionio and the sclance of hoalth. The new and henutiful Llldings wro unsur- pacsed for hoalth and convemionce; and tho domestlo dopertmont, in tho hunds of Mr. L. Biswoll and e, Biseofl, afforda the inwatoa of tha Collogo tho caro and comforta of an Agroo- able aud woll-ordorod Christinn family, in whioh: onjoymont blonds with instruction ; and it fs bos Hovod that thoro is no place in tho United Blatos, outaldo of the home-circlo, wharo ohil-: dren aro eavod for moro nealduously and taught moro thoroughly thau here, ‘Tho_oxponsed of puplls (indles) residing in tho Qollego Dulldin aro put st only ®100 tho - uohool your, | aboub onestbi or ono-halt what "tho smmo costs in many similar institutious; and the daugh- tora of clorgymon nnd misslonnrics Lavo s furthor roduction to $100 for the yoar. d M. Sarali IL Nuttivg gives Justruotion in l:nt\‘v‘l!x‘x‘g, parspsotive, nufi oil paiating from, During tho prosont ultnlhu‘nutcch one hun moat of thom fre with whom ap f\\'!nlur) tarm, thoro aro in rod and msaventy puj tho bost Chistinn familios, e hiom it 18 privilogo to Lnve childron A4~ (lm ato. The Roxes moot tablo, chapol sor- vico, and recitationn; and the oxporience of moro than s quartorof n contury convingos uy that institutions whoro the 80x08 moot as in well-ordorad famillos nro aurost, anfost, and best. Our spring torm opong Aprl( 3 noxt; and now rooms will bo opousd, furnishod, and in readiness for thirty young Iadies more. than now inbabit tho building, 1 shall be e, furnivh porticular information, by catal ond circulnrs, to thoso who may wish {t, con- nnrnlng what {8 nocossary for students to 'brlng with thera who intend to rosido fu tho building ; and also for young gontlomen who Tuay xoom or reside in tho village, Paronts or pupils who may como without provioun correspondonce cun “obtain-all noeded information by prococding at onco from tho dopot to tho Collego, Addrony ¥, BLANoiAnn, Trosident Whonton Golloga, Whenton, 1il, phdoesnhin-hle o THE STATE AND ITS CORPORATE OFFSPRING, GeNENA, TIL, Fob, 17, 1873, o the Editor of Tha Chicago Tribune: Bi: Worogard tho article under tho sbove caption, in the Times of Inst Baturday, aa belug simply n general onslaught on **railroad mon," Faotw aro ignorad, sud wo havo instond & oolumn of seneational goneralitics, madeup of sovereigu Statos, unlawful votes, Stafo osisfouco, &o., &o. Why not state that tho quostion of both passen- gor and froight charges I8 now bofore the Bu- preme Court of tho State for declsion, and upon thint decision resta the constitutionality of the Inw. Tho * Throo Contras," having nuticipated tho decision of the Sapreme Court, and the edn- stitntionslity of tho law, have prococodod to ex- ccution. The railrosd men wait tho docleion. Who are defsing thelaws? It is possible that tho Bloomington decislon may bo revorsed. It "is Knrab::lble that the Kaukakoo decision will bo rmed. afl 'I'ho Iiinofs Contral Ratiroad Lolds s position differing from that of nil other railroads in the Stato, in thia: That the Illinois Central Rail- road i operating under a spocial contract as well 85 o chartor, Its chartor is in tho form of *an nagroomont," by which tho State of Illiuois con- tracts to givo to tho Illinois Qentral Railrond all tho londs recoived from the Goueral Govern- mol;;{ and tho right lo eslablish reasonable rates ny to oguos for freights and pissengers, The Compang, on tholr part, agreo to build tho road, and sunually ny into tho' Tronsury of tho Btnte & por cent of Bi7 s earaings; iy considoration oF i Tighes and priviloges granted by tho Btato. Thii con- sideration has baen, and is, doomod to be 8o val- uablo that the poople have voted noonatitutionsl provision agninst ita ever being reloased, sus- ended, modified, ota., oto. Whilo tho Stato of Blinnlg is thus strictly holding tho Illinois Central ~ Railrosd fo tho porformance of its obligations, can tho Btato, by an oot of tho Logislature, rolense itsolf from porforming its part of tho agroomont with the rond? Of courso not, beeauso the Constitution provides #thatno faw impairing tho obligation of con- tracts sholl be pasged.” * Docs the lnw compel- ling the Iilinois Central to transport passengors ot throe couts por milb impair the coniract mado with tho Btato thot thoy shiould have the right to’ establish thelr own ratos 2 This question i3 now boforo the Supromo” Court for doolsion, Tho Btato of Illinois ing tho undoubted right to pro- vent the railroad from charging unreasonuble, rates, Dut who are to decide this question,—a mob taking possession of n conch, and constitut-" ing thomselves-judge aud jury; or the Courts, whio, boing In possession of all tho facts, will mos} likely render importial Justico? Auy body of men, bo they who Lhey may, should, in con- tendiug}' for their own rights, bo careful that thoy do not infringe upon tho rights of othors; for, in doing so, thuf' loso the confidenco zud sup- port _of oMl falr mon. Tho laws and must bo ohoyed by all. Yet, whon n law i bafore tho Suprome Court for u docision na Lo it unusmuuundi?, o think it 'l)( far tho bost course to patioutly wait its de- o riiau rather than attempt to onforce it our~ selvos. Although not & _political farmer, yot we know Hydraulic Ram. Tho lat wo hoard of the old fellow, n farmerin Olio was nying o cross in his Morino flock with him. We regrot to sa; that, in this line, ho was o fallurg, How ho will ¢ succeed on tho staff of tho Zimes, ongaged in pushing down railway;tariffs, and in pqshin%\q‘) tarift duties,” wo.are unable to divine. Bul slould"he fail ‘in this, ashe undoubtedly did in the sheep husiness, wa suggest that Lis namo.ba sontinto the Governor as acandidato for Rail- road and Warehouso Commigsioner. o —_— A STATEMENT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: In tho report of the shooting affray at No. 10 Archer avenuo, on the eyening of tho 17th inst., your reporter ropresented the causo of tho trouble as prising from the fact that an improper futimaoy cxisted betwoen mo and Mra, Perry, tho sistor of David Johnaton. ¥ Abant the 6th of April, 1873, I went to board at tho honto of Mrs. Porry. I went thoro ns o total strangor, both to her "and her family, and have, up to the night of tho trouble roforred to, contributed nothing by my conduct to give any foundation or color to tho slandor reforred to; nor has Mrs. Perry, so far as I am awaro. I am now satisfipd that such reports woro cur- ront in tho noighborhood since some time last spring, but I did not Imow of them till July last, and tfiun only as rumors not worthy of tho notice of eithor Mr. Porry, his wifo, or myself. About the 1st of January leat, I hoard ngain of theso reports, and that tliey were cansing somo trouble Letwoon Mr. Perry and hils wife. I called both of thom into tho kitchen, and offered to give them nny oatisfaction that an honest porson could give suothor, Mr. Derry then snid that ho waa perfectly satisfled ; and both Mr, Porry and hin wife requested mo to remain, for, {f I loft, it would conflrn the roports in the da of fhe people of the neighborhood, card nothing from that time till about last Thursday or Friday morning, when Mrs, Porn told me slin was going to give up koupln? Doard- ora. I wont on tlio Sunday following to look for & boarding houso, but did not ongagoe one till nbont Mouday noon, ¥ returned to the houso, and packod my truulk, and had nuypur. I walted till Mr, Perry roturned from hig work a3l wantad to got some money that he had horrowed from me. [wentinto tho kitchen, und callod him out to the pitting room, and, in the prescuco of Ar. Doyle, Alr, Xolmbeno, and M. Perry, . I offered o satisfy him that T wasnot tho causo of his trouble, Ile vemarked that I was not the cause of it, and that ho never wishod mo to leave his house, toolk my truuk, and went to my bonrding Louse, and roturned to sco my friend Doylo. = Whilo sitting on & chalr talklug quictly with Mr, Porry, Dayid Jolnston eamo up and ordored mo out, and, na I was going down stairs, ho pushed mo and shot mo. Mra, Porry was not présont during tho offray, and knew nothing of it, Innsmuch a8 tho nomo cf a vory estimablo woman lng beon slandored by tho published accounta of this nfiray, I make this ptatomont, Onioago, Feb, 10, 1873, ‘W. J. Lynen. From the Cleveland Herald, Feb, 19, A nonrly fatal caso of trichinw, the drendful diseaso whoao appourance in Cloveland over o yoar ago orcated such o grent sensation, han Just been mado known to o })h slolan in this city, A family by the namo o I{rugnr, congist- ing of mix porsons,—father, mothor, and four amall children, rosiding ut 63 Davis atreot, foll suddonly 1l a fow daysugo without any g pparont cause, A physician’ was eummoned and remo- dics appliod for anothor diseuso, but the patienta continuod to bocomo worso uniil Monday, whon Dr. Rosenwasser took tho caso in hand, and in a subsaquent invostigation discovored tho pres- ence of trichinw. 1lnguiry revoaled the fret that tho family had boon accistomod to enting cold sausnge, which contained raw pork, nnd was dis- csdod, Tho father nud mothior woro moro se- riously affeotod than the childron, but it s hoped that all will recover, 'he Krugor faully 18 from Ifolland, and tho porkers which caucad their uichunosa wore thelr own ralalng, W'ho swino are supnosed to iave bocomo disonsed” by eating rats or othior poison- ous verniin, A pieco plasad undor & microscopo tho oxistence of a numbor of small parasites, ul- thmxfih it van not s badly disensod a8 soino which was _oxemined at the time it fvat ap- peaved fu tho city, THE CIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1873 SPRINGFIELD. Plat-Notes .of iho United Statos Sur- voy of the Slate of . Illinois. Five Hundred Books Half o CGentury O1d. Some Interesting Extracts from Them. Shawneetown and Its Troubles--« The Great Inundations of 1813, From Our Own Correspondent, . BermvarieL, 11, Feb, 15, 1873, ‘*Gustodian Plat-Notes and Plats, U, 8. Burvoy, Stato of IIL," is tho insoription on n door Iocated on the wnoond floor of tho State Houso, botweon the chambars of the Sonato and Houso. At tho othor side of tho door s & small don, contalning a wood-stovo as largoas a cofin, n tablo covored with drawing tools, o small library on a sholf to one aido, walls hung with mapa and plats, drawers filled with old bools, and in tho midat of all the prosiding gonlus of the place, OAPTAIN W, I H, LAWTON. Ho wao educatod ne s ofvil onginaor, and, whilo Dpractising hin profession bofore Vioksburg, Jostilo bullet doprived him of the uso of his ltmbs, forcing him t£ call rutches as alds to Ho worka day and night over tho musty, time- worn volumoes whoso contonts it'ls his duty to deciphor, and transcribe in anothor set of books, which, whon complated, will indicate tho loca- tion.of every part of land in Illinois es definod by tho original survey. There axe 500 of thozo anclent fiold-books OVER NALF A CENTURY OLD. They were writton In ink by the surveyors as thoy earried tho chain over hill and dalo through timbor and prairie, bofore Tllinoia was known'ns a Btate, whon tho wolt and bear shared with tho Indian the ownership of the wide domain whenco theylinve been driven by the advancement of civilization, Theso romarks aro curlositica, Somo of tho spelling ia quite primitivo. Sasn- frag {8 epolled * ensafrax,” *'sazafrax,” and “saceafrax ;" buckeye, “bucki,” which is pho- notfo; soyamore, ‘*sickamoro;" . ecypress, “noypress;” porsimmon, “persimn;"” Baturday, *‘Battorday;” and so-forth, Somo of tho re- marks, too, . ARE CIARAOTERISTIO. Ono gontleman, survoying in Laurence County in 1805, jotted down his opinion as follows: ‘¢ Hell has broke loose in the woods with tho chunmen.” Tho same Individual, surveying in tha samo county and in tho same year, wroto: ‘On ourpagsage soutl, camo to s denof wolves ; caut two young ones, one unhurt.” A noto writ- ten TFob. 16, 1805,—ffty-oight yoara ago, ~—in Wabash County, BAYS “Ab this corner we hoard young Bears sucking the old ono late In tho evening, I sentup tho man to tho mettlement for a gum, which ho brought mo, and on Sunday I Lilled the Bear ond Infd by,” Tho party travelling through what is now Edwards and Laurenco Counties, de- ecribed ‘the leud as *‘tho handgomeab on tha globo;" which was flattoring to tho land. On anothor pagoe is the following: **& mile poat in boautiful prairio, iu n valloy botwoen orin tho forl of two rivers, to right at 50 (chains) top of the hill or high ground, whero wo oncempod un- der a olump of treos, fn the most beauti- ful prairie I conld lave concolved,— bovond the power of doscription.” It must lave beon goigeous. On July 21, 1806, tho following ontry wns mado: ‘“Procesded from Vincennes with my little party for Point Joup oo ; arrived at Point Coupeo noxt doy wenry, wot, aud unwell” A Dboolk of Iater dato rofors to TOE NORTUERN TART OF THE,BTATE, a8 ia indicated in the following: “ The surveys describod in this ook woro exccuted under tho authority of o lotter from William Roctor, sur- veyor of the Innds of tho United States in the Territories of Iltinois and Minnesota, appoint- ing John O. Bullivan as principal surveyor, and James McDuncan as. aseistant surveyor, to survoy under the diroction of Richard Graham and_Josoph Phillips, Coramissionors appointed by the President of tho United States to run all the lines of tho trnot of land ceded by the troaty of Bt. Louis, of August, 1816, which les botwoen the ongluufi cossion of the Sscs and Toxes and Lake Michigan, and leaves tho north- orn boundary only of the rest of the land that was af the same timo and placo, and by the same treaty, rolinquiehed by the Ottaways, Chippo- ways, and Pottawatomnies to tho United Btates." ‘4he survey to which these books rolato WAS BEQUN 1IN 1804, in pursnance of an sct of Congress, and con- tinued many years. Tho Surveyor Coneral's oflico was at Clncinnati, where the notos wero kept for many ‘years, and wora subscquontly turned over to'tho office at 8f, Louis, whenca they came into possession of fhe Slsto four yoars ago, An ach of tho Legislature appro- printed monoy totranseribe the books,—n tagk Tequiring infinito pains and patienco, Some of the ~writing has almost faded out, and o Fawnr(ul glase is used to decipher tho marof yphica, 6ome of which aro ps difoult to trauslato as tho inscriptions on the pyramids. Ongtmn Lawton has boon at work four years, and fwo-thirds of the worleis dono. Two years more will complete it. Ti.a entire cost will be $18,000. 'The work is tedious, and must bo ac- curate to bo of auy valua. THE USEFULNESS of the nndertalking wan illustrated n few daya sinco iu the United States Court Liero, whon the ownurshiP of atract of land worth thous- ands of dollars was in dispute, Tho books wora oalled for, aud the caso decided in_tho ovidence of the original survey. Judge Neal spoko of tho value of tho boole, and tho nepes- sity for their *restoration and prosorvation, ns tho looation of every footof land in tho Slate doponded upon theni,” 'Lie names of tho enrly sottlors ave given n those survoys. Tho land on tlie Iilinois shore opposito Bt. Louis wan granted by Louis XVI. ol renca to tho Bishop of Queboo, in 1782, aud soon after . TRENOIT DMIGRANTS took posseusion, und it romains in tho handa of their descondante to this day, Theso tracts, gen- orplly 900 foot wide, ran for milew mlong tho bank, each farm being six miles long, The priueipal crop ruised was vegatablos, which found a good market in Bt. Luule, and that oity is to-do; nnpillnd from tho samo torritory, ocultivated by farmers who spesk Tronck said to be pure, The enrly nottlers, boing isolated, maintained their native language and customs, which wera transmitted from gfinumflun to goueration ; and now we linve tho strange anomnly of nativos of this country unablo to aposk its lnufiungu. Thoy spoak French just as, in the Dutoh settlomeuts in Pennsylvaula, Dutch is tho 1hx§m\l modium of oxchange, Thoy ave thrifty and industrious citizens, have sohools sud churchies of their own, mix little in politica, and attend to tho cultfvation of tho soll. On the old plats aro such names as ‘Tynobotte Susauna Ciciro, Jean Baptiste Lancior, Paul Lopouche, August Oho- teau, ote. BUAWNEETOWN, Horo also may bo seen the origimal plat of Bhiawnaotown, the oldest town in tho State, which lueyw ita bost days about the timoe Chica- go’s foundation wag laid in the mud of tho prai- rio, It is nomod after Bhawnco, an Indian .Ohiof who was *monarch of all ho surveyed.” 1t is iu Gallatin County, ton milos below_the mouth of the Big Wabash, and 125 milos above tho mouth of tho Obio, In 1818-14, it waa lnid out by dircctlon of the United Btates Govern- mont, aud was long known ag the principal town in Illinois, whloh was admitted to the Union four years Ilator, In 1818, Who site was vhosen, not because it wns boautis ful or partizulurly ndapted for residence pur- oso8, bub Lecauso it was the noarest point on ha rivor to tho salt wells [n Saline Qounty, 13 mailos distant, Tho trade in galt was valuablo and oxtonsive, the product of the wells findiug itst way down fuo river to the Southern Btatoes, ‘Shawneotown waa then, as now, lisble to serious inundations, and attompts wore made to havo tho sile abandonod, Rofore the survoy was complotod, vomouslrauces wore sent to Joainh Dolgn, the Surveyor General, at Oinvinnatl, but locomotion, " Ho is o'¢4T, moldlorly-appenr- ing man, with & mbstache, and groat, kindly . oyos, .80t in a lhandsomo countenanco, without offect. Tho followlng lottor on this sube mct. written in 1818, {ncluden quite & grophio nurlpllap of . TN INUNDATION ;:f that yoar, and Iy worth rencuing from oblly- on s Jostah eige, Feg, j . Otk lels, Tag., Surveyor General ‘of the United Bun s Whon I rocently rocommoniled n ainall chango In thoplot of Bhawacatown, 1t waa thon my full cone victlon that thosite teolf oujtht to ho chnged § bat, not knowlng that ollors would foel an interest Bl clent to tnduce thom to unite in mich n rocomniendns ton, T was wnwilling to move alouo n vo imjortut an I wan an oyo-witnoas to ono of tho two inundations by which that place wan vialted lant wpring, and to tho' fln‘nt distress and ossos whloly wera oxporioncod, I ad bofore obaerved, in riding {hiroigh the woods atirs rounding tho town, tha oxtraordinnry helght of flio wator-mnrks upou (lio trock, which swotg Ro visiblo for tho Apaco of wo anllea In thd road to tho Balino that onn might imagino Limaolf #ding under tcater to- tha depth of from 128015 feet, Dut, the Jost apring, T' 8aw {hio water itscif oven nt & grontor hlyht than Lad Leon marked by (ho fey freshiots of winte, I rodo u on tho flood for more than two weeks fu n kool (boxty ovor o principal atreat of tio tova, Tashed to o vice: chant's store, aud tho boat was on n fovel with 3ia roof, An eitack of agno and fovor compelied me thon to qulk sad ool heall n tho highlauds of Kanticks, Tio flood continued to rise n fow feot afterwards, snd waa nearly s long in falling an it waa A ‘socondinundation _quickly succooded, ~ whod tho wntors ross as high in the first, At the timo I loft the hoat, tho waters wero ahout mide way.in tho roofs of tho houses gonerally, and qulto to tho ridgo-poles of soveral. Dolng heavy log cabing, thoy uaually did sot flont (il Immersed to tho laats mentioned depth, and I saw from 16 to 20 float awny. About 40, in (1 wholo, flonted off. It ywaa o niorcitul Providenco that the wind did not hiow hard in eltlior of the inundations, for, if it had done so, overy build- ing of ovory description must unquesfionably Lave Deon_demolishod and awopt off, I noed not descrilio tho alslress aud losses of tho inbabltanta s movoral were siclienod, and somo diod; ovory beast porished which could not bo talion Into biats, or was not season~ ably driven to tho bigh-lands; tho fonces, with everylhing sround and in the - hiouses wiifch could float, wero takon off ; gardons, grass, and all thingo widch find began to vogotato, woro dostroy= od, The time occupled by both freshets was about ton ‘weoks, Imean tho timo the waler lay on the surfaco of Shawncotown. 5 Tt {a cortain thint no building can_safoly bo orcoted on that site, unleas clavatod nbovo tho surface, on & nolld foundation of at least 13 feot in hieight, i)n!ldnl tho {nconvenionco of such nn olovation for dwellinga, Bores, atabies, ofc,, tho oxpousowonld be beyond cate culation, s there arotio sloue to be had williln o great dlatance, Nor wonld even n atono foundation be snfe ogainat suchinundationn a3 thoso of last spring, if nt- fondod with heavy winds, unless frinly comonted, Thoro ar beautifal situations on the margin of tho Ohlo, below tha month of the Siline Croek, whero a slto ralght Lo lalid which can nover bo approiolied by inundntion. ~Although tho distance from the salt worka 0 atich now sito might bo 6 or 8 wnilea moro thon tathosite of Bhawnoetown, yet s matorlal advantago might bo gained in tho suporior excollonco of tha ground for a road, Tlo ground in that diroction is Digh and dry, wheras, i the diraotion of Shnwneo- town, thore avo sovoral very bad Lills, ono forry to cros'a part of the year (tho Haline Creok) and s much a3 4 or 6 miles out of the12aroso low and soft as to Lo often dinpasaablo. for wigous, aud nlways diMcult, Besldes, s o_good deal of ma in rising. 13 t i, at proper eeasons, takon down fiio Salinio Oreck in 'boais, & alte for 114 dopostt, just below tho mouth of tunt creck, would ' bo infificly mors couvonient thnn taldug -4t goveral ‘miles up tho . river to Bhmwieelown. {t would ho advancing towarda (ho greatest marliot for tho nalt, which s still below tho praposed now ite, and clilefly'up tho Oum= borland Tiver, as tho whole Blate of Tennessoo is supplied from ilioso works throngh thiat chaunel, In short, i the United Statea do not take the advane taga of laying tha eite afa town fn tho situstion posed, Thave no_question thot somo individual . indivfduala will o uo a8 soon aa thie lands can bo. pur- chnaed, "X abould consider it a mont; eligiblo pocula- lon, - - Thore cannot bo a momont’s donbt ihat tho United Btatea would, by lsying out town there, before Bhnw- neotown {5 offored for sale, find, fu’ tho disposal of tho lots, n manifold _relmburoment of sil exponsos, And stil Shawneotown would probably’ attract purohosors onough to seimbirao ho axtra oxponses which havo beon laid out thero, us it 18 » fue body of land, & great Tond must slways'go through it, and somo havo partioular interests ot and near {t, and might hops to make it something, 1f anything allould b6 dono by tho United Btates in relation to tho premisos, it fs ovident that {t onght to Do dono beforo the Land Oflico o openod, or nt least boforo Bhuvnectown 18 offcred far sule, as it might bo deemed unfafr to remove tuo sito from thence nfter purchasers bavo vestod thelr monoy ond began ime Pprovomants at tho place. Dealdes, when tho Lind Of- 1lco §8 openod thio best sitea elsowhera will immediately fall into tho hands of privato tach, - T will only sdd that, provious tothe _grent calamity whifel bofel Shawneetown lst spring, 1 iind nolccted it for my permanent residence, but_ was then juducod to abandon {t altogottior, n did many otliora who Lad commenced ostibliskmeénts thero. Mysolf, ond most of those who abandoned Bhawneotown, Would un- doubtedly soltlo_oursalves at_any eligiblo sito which should ba laid by tho United Btatos in tho vicinity T Bave before mertioned, : Tho. above in very respeetfully submitted by, str, sour most obedient and very humblo servant, BTANLEY GRISWOLD, This lottor was received in Cincinnati 14th Auguet, 1813.” Tho author appoars to havo hoon Judga of tho United States Court of tho Diatrict, which, as may bo supposed, was spread ovor s widearon, Other testimony was forwarded ns to tho undosirability of tha mite. It was not chiangad, but soma modifications of tho original plou woro orderod. OTMER LETTERS, Writing to Moigs, April 23, 1814, Griswold be~ gina: * On Mondny lust, I received your come munication by tho iastor of a keol-boat,"— showing how the mails woro conveyed in thoso dave. N Mey 4, 1814, William Herris furnishod an ac- count for surveying the town, smounting to $1,001.80 ; rmong tho items being: ‘* two barrols of flour at. 87 pox barrel;" ** 150 pounds of kncon at 9 cents ;" “ for sugarand chocoluto, §9,50.” July 25, 1814, Harris wroto from Shawneotown to Moigs, sayiug, “‘This will bo handod to you "by Mr. Pattio, o young fiuunlnmm nt this plateo, and glso o map of Shawusotown as it is now layed off." ‘The work, it seems, wns ilnished ab that dato. And horo, though_ not quito portivent, may bo insorted another lotter, giving an ides of tho HTATE OF TIIE COUNTIY at that time. It is also from Judgo Griswold BrAwWNEETOWN, 1L, Aug,, 1814, Desn 8m: By Mr, RooI Lave ihe pleasurs to fn- form you that we onjfoy fing health, except o slight in- disposition T hava lately hud, from which T am uok tully recovered, tho’recovering. 1aball venturo to got ‘out to-morrow for tho Aissfasippl, to hold owe Coust, Soms danger attends tho way from lostilo But I sball be mounted on ona of tho ost horses (tho’ "I frust not 4u horaca or chaviots), aud I shall ‘liava compauy.. I hopo to wmake & good leg«difence- If atiuckod. Aany think 8t, Louis aud tho sottlementa on tho Misstasippt wiil be aseailed soon. It du possible, und I fear prohu- blo. A portion of our militia bave recoived order to- day tomarch, . . . Iti8 oxpectedagroat concourso of ‘epectators will bo hero nt thio sales, aud it ia proha~ Dlow manta will bo oxelted, Thoy are coming fram Tenucsseo and Kontucky, aud evon, it 13 suld, from Magsachusetts and RbodoIsland, % o ‘v o 0 4 4 4 Al our newa you will ees exiracted fnto your papors, The crlsis ia_solomn, both on the soaboard and’ thero frontiers, W huvo hiad ramors of great actions at tho northward, but our wmalls aro mogt shamofully coue ducted, and we can Ec"‘w{. got a paper. My, Olncine natl papers are near a month old when they arrive. Your nophow, tho P.'G, M., ought {0 employ an agent to vislt tho postasiices in tho Wostern cowiities, to scowhero tho fuult Uoa, The ovll Lias beon great for » long time, Mrs, G, and Mies G. send tholr best respocts to your- solf, and_(thoir love, with my compliments, to Afr, aud'Mrs, D._Yourfriend, , BTANLEY QuISWOLD, J. Me1as, Eaq, The Inundation desoribed by Judge Griswold wan not the original flood of Noah, but must have rominded tho inhubitants of thot memorn-. blo ovortlow, of which it wns & diminutive imi~ tation, 'The Obio in tho Nile of tho Egypt of Illinois. Troshots that are & repotition of that doperibed are LIABLE TO JIAPPUN LVERY SPRING, whon tho melted snows and liboratod frosts of tho Obio Valley rush with resistless forco post the dovoted town, or mounting its bauks, mnking tho stroots n dismal watery lovel, ani climbing to peop through socond-story windows, Tho floods cccpr af intorvals. Iu 1867 the wator rose, to o hoight of 10 feet. -It is not astonishing thot Griawdld, after hig exporionce, desired to move Lis famil; and friends -to highor and drier soil. And’yat, in spite of these floods, mon Lave do- ,liberatoly lived in that town for over half a cen- . tury, and live thore still. Thoy woro not an am- Dbitious pooplo, THE NATIVES OF BHAWNEETOWN, It indolonce is luxury, they wera luxurious. Almost isolated from (he world, withont any stimulant to thoir ambition, thoy traded on the “river, watohed the boata as thoy glided by day altor dv? weroe little troubled by the dolugs in tho world outside, lived lazy and contonted lives, and, whon thoy got throngh, dicd and wore burled away from the monstor river, on a hill | which, i its mightiost efforts, it falled to reach, Tt was only when doad and buried that they were Enfo from inundatlon. Porhaps, alter s, tho oxoitomont of o fréshot was tho most gonuino ploasuro of thoir dull lives. y Bhawneotown hias boon in a passive condition piuco tho frilure of tho Stato Bank aud the col- lapso of the Mutual I[mprovoment Lumbug. Whon they failod, the place REQEIVED A SHOOR from which it hias barely bogun to rosover, Hav- ing got thus far, the romaiudor of tho history of Bhawneotown may as woll bo told, especialiy ag it ia beforo tho (fencral Ascembly, 5 1In 180, the Legislaturo deotdod to bulld rail- ronds and jmprovo the rivors of tho Stato, lssu~ ing bonds for §3,000,000 to dofruy the cost, and appropriating $2,000,000 to bo dividod nmong the couution in which no improvementa wero tuado, o mora effoctunlly llay soctional joulousy, and to provido a3ainst ons county —gnin- Iug an advantage over nuother, it was thon providod thut *Work phould’ commenco pimultunoously on nll the roudu at eaoh ond, and from tho croaningy of all the rivors,” Ono end of onoof thoso roads ‘worl¢ was to begin ° | WAH LOUATED AT BUAWNEETOWN, tho Intontion Loing thnt tho othor end was to bo locnted at Alton, Work wus begun on the rond in 1898, undor the apsplees of the Blate, And now to oxplain thoresull: Brekof the town, & milo distant, running . parallel to tho river, s n rldgo, and back of this ridgo is o valloy, ‘and fn ihla vally “Bargor's Crook,” which rocoives wator from the aurroundlngf hilla, Before the grading of tho rallrond, thin creol ran zouthward, on the wont, 8ido of the ridgo, into * Bloos® Pond, nnd thonoa inlo tho Saline’ River, which ompties into the OLio 8 miles bolow Shawneotown.” Whils grad- ing thorond, the engincors cut throngh tho ridgo, sud lot tho waters of tho orcel INTO TUE TOWN, within 760 feot of the Ohio, To cl\l‘r{ off th) acoumulated wator, tho State built & culvert and sowor to the river, aud, anBhawneootown now allegon, agreed to koop it in ropawr for all timo, but falled to perform tho contract, There- by Imnga o tnle, The culvert gave way 5 ho water .out through tho sandy goll, widened, and dcoponod, until a now tributary to tho Ohlo, in somo pinces 40 faot doop and 200 wida, was flowing THROUGT THE HTIEETS of Shawneotown, or rather in tho place whore the stroots should bo, Work on tho railroad consod after yomo miles had beon t{,'rrudud, and Shawnoo- town had for its sharo of tlie Intornnl Improve- ment appropriation & big ditch that ate nway the realoatte of the town with n voracity that soomod inentinblo. It is claimod that 10,000 foot of atroots havo Loon washod awny, besides mumer- ous lota rended valuoloss, No particular offort scems to hinvo been modoe by the city to conirol the water, though tho work of destruc- tion must bave been the worle of yoars, Now' tho city potitions the Logislature i © _ FOn $124,000 Justly due eald oity from’the State of Illinols for the damagos aotually sustained by nald city in the construction of sald ditch and tyhs diver- sion of the watera from thelr natursal channel by tho Btate of Illinols, in ordor to onable said city to repair the damage already dono, and to turn tho . water into ils original ohannel, and thioraby noonrs ot olty from furttior great injury.” Huch ia tho lengitngo of tho memorial, The olaim is urgod nlao.on _ the ground that, in 1861, tho Leglslaturo approprin:ed tha miate taxes loviod on tho property within the corpora- tion to the eity for the period of twenty - years. Up to 186 the sum of $15,000 was roalized, and In 1800 and '70 tho smous. ronlized was half ns much 08 in the provious soven years. Lncour- sged by tho iucrease, aud by tho eompletion of fwo linos of rallroad, the city lob & contract, for building the “ UPPER AND LOWER" LEVERS, and issucd bonds to the amount of 50,000, ‘I'to worl hag cost, up to the &{nuunt. $65,000, with the prospoot that 625,000 moro will be neoded. - The Supromo Court cut off tho source of rovenue in 1869, by declariug the aot of 1861 uncoustitutlonal, Now tho momorialists plead their inability to moot their {indebtedness, thoir desire’- to improve their city, 'and tho justice of tho claim agoinst the State. ! i THE TOWN I8 1MPNOVING § 1t has boon roused from its lethargy; and un- doubtedly its futura will be byightor and busier then it -pest; What the Leglalnturo will do romaing to be seen, and, will dopend to some oxtont upon the report of a’Spe- dfl Committes-sent to investigate the ditch and tho claim. Thore is no record of agreoments bo- tween tho Btate nnd the city extant, tho city claiming they wero loat somo Yleu! 850, Hunving got through with Shawneatown, thosa ‘books mfgfit Do takon up sgain, and f INTEREYTING EXTRACTS MADEj ‘but this is not n history of Illinois. Enough has been given to indicato tho character of the baoke and manuscripts, which should not be overlooked by the historian of Illinois, whenever ho ap- pears. BuL. whero thin simultaneous —_— Progross in Medical Scionce. Tho medical profession of the world owes its best literature and its grandest triumphs lo the rsgruuantnfivo men who heve dovoted yoors of labor and_utudy to special departments—men who, liko Sir Ashloy Cooper, Gross, Mott, Dud- ley, Blackman, Cazeaux, Bedford, hm'va, Tros- seny, Churchill, Watson, Tannor, Flinf, and Wood, hinve devoted tholr usoful livos snd bast attainments to the specinltios with ywhich their names aro honorably identified. There ia onough, cortaiuly, in any ono branch of medical seience, to call Into plny the highost mental ondow- 1nonte—nnd it is only in concontrated applicas tion, ond in years' of laborions study, that tho names wo hath quoted have beon medo illue- trioun in the profession, Emulous of this well~ deserved famo, and intent on contributing some- thing o tho best good of Lumouity, in n critical inventigntion of tho Fathology and tront~ mont of Epilopsy, Dr. Chas. 1: Poaron, of La~ t!ynto. Ind., n reputablo physician of long slanding, and a Clhristinn_gentleman, hne for twonty years dovotod himseif, slmost withont rosorve, to {ho study of this torrille mnlndi-. hat for cighteon centurics thia disease should hevo been dosmed incurablo ia a ropronch to tho rofession. That- Dr: P. Las’ completely nng- ered the mnlady, in oll its oubtle and diversi- fled formp, is sttested by an overwholming weight of ovidence. A cloud of witnesses cor~ tify to tho wondorful cures ho has effectod. may provoke an unkind reflection from’ medical cyeics, wedded toell that is absurd in theiv ethics; but tho writer, .indiffcrent alike to their praise or their censure, sponks for himeelf, in heartfolb gratitude for. tho doliveranco of, & dear child from the terrible bondage of this disoase. Montal domnfinmanb and pertial parelysis woro among the foarful calamity to our house and henrt. 1t woro worth our while to have lived’ to have of- fected one such curo-—~and as wo road-the grato- snd to whom Dr, Pesrson hine boen providon- tially instrurgenntal in n complote restoration, we feel that uo poor word of ours can 2dd to his on- during famo, 08 the groat.mnstor of tho most tollowing distinguished gentlomon, as we hap- en to know, have personal knowledge of cases Ka han cured: Tov. G. D. Archibald, D. D, Danville, Ky.; Hon. Williem “J, May, Lobanon Junction, Ky.; Hon. I, D.”‘Caldwell, Paris, Temn.; J, M. Smel- Bor, AL D., Foit Smith, Ark.; U. E. Ewing, M. D., Louisville, Ky.; Harvey, Keith & Co. Louisville, Iy, Rov. G. C, Heckman, President Hauover Golioge, Hanover, Ind.; Rev. C. Nutt, Prosidont Indinna, State University, Blooming- ton, Ind, ; Hon. Conrud Baker, ox-Governorof Iudians, Indianspolis; Gonoral Thon. A. Morris, Indiauufl:lls, Ind. ; Jas. O, Forguson, Laq., In- dinnapolis 3 apolis ; Hon, M, H, Throop, 160 Broadway, Now otle ; O. B Bidwell, Prosidont First National Bank, Frooport, 1ll. ; Jas, W. Mill, 198 Soutl Holsted . straat, Obioago; O, O.. Munhall, Doputy Gounty Clorl, Watsokn, TIL, ; Mra. L, L. Bounseman, Albion, Ill.—ZLafayelle Courier. The Railrond Rivalrics of Chicago and 8i Louls, From ths Denver (Col.) News. Mr. John II, 'Lice, of St. Louls, is further en- lightoning tho citizens of 8. Louis upon the ratlroad rivalries in-Colorado - through tho col- nmns of the Globe, He tranafors tho contest between Chicago and Bt, Louis, to this Territory, upon tho bagis that tho Union Pacifio roprosonts Ohitngzo, and tho Kantas Paoiflo, fit. Louls, 3fr. Tico 18 generally corrcch in Foprowonting tho rivalries botweon the Iiunsan antt Union 1'acifie Roads, but we think it can hardly bo cluined that they stand as oxponents of the two oitics whose sirifes havo filled thousands of columns of their rospective nowspapors, Moro Chicago business is done over the Kansns thun the Union Pacific, While tho lattor may bo regardod as almost purely a Chicago road, the lattor is botls, Tho™ Chicage connootions at Xan- gns_ Oity aro moro numerous than those loading to St. Lonis, and do tho larger shate of tho business. We do not think tho contest is renlly botween the two cltics, but between the two ‘roads, sinco Chicago .receives tinde from Doth, and 8t Louis_from only oue of them, Ar, Tice has confounded the Denver, Geargetown & Utsh, and the Denvor, Bouth Park & Paclflo, and is at times eadly at fault with his goography, His offorts nro evidently divected mainly to tho completion of tho Boulder Valloy Road ; aud, if ho can frighton tho 8¢, Louis moun into this act »by picturing Chicago as & huge bon " winding +horsolf about 8. Louis intorests, and preparing to catch thom in hor coils, we wish him success, . This rond ought to have been completed long ago, nnd Mr. Tice's romarks on the failure are ewinontly just and proper. ———— Tho Story of n Vacant Klouso. Fyom the Lowell i.\lau.) Courter, Thore i noar tho- Douton & Lowell Rellroad, .in Sowervillo, a handsome Lrick house, just die- cornable from tho cars as theyonter a cut on tho roud-hod, which has & romantic history. It wns built by o rhllug young lnwi'm' of Boston, who wng engaged to bo'married, e had fully fur- ‘nigbod the houso, in nnticlpntion of soon mak- iIng it his homo, with his young wife, when the -ongagomont was brolen off, Jor roasons, which, 4f thoy could bo related, would greatly add to .tho romuuco of the story. Tho disappointed \lovor shut up his now house, just as it was, do- olaring it phould not be openod as long au the .wonld-have-beon bride should live, That was nomly mum{‘yom‘s 8go; and the furmshed but untousnred house still Atanda close Just na it was pronarnd to woloouo its exveoted mistross, John' R, Obildors, Esq., Indisne- WISCONSIN. B8ix Weoks of the Legislature ---Four IMore Probable. All at Sea on the Land«Grant. The Temperance Bill, Stato Prison, Tax« xemption, and Othor Matiors, From Our Otwn Correspondent, MaDpI5ON, Wis,, Feb, 19, 1873, Bix wool ago to-day, the Wisconsin Logisla« ture mot, with gonoral expectation of p short soaston, nud an idon that thero was little to da excopt to transfor tho Stato's rights in tho Bt, Croiz & Buporlor land-grant to somo company that would build tho rond proposed, spcedily and well. Thus far, 40 bills have boon presonted to tho dovornor for his ipproval, to 80 for thesame $imo lnst yoar, OF 417 bills introduced in tha Assombly, 85 havo passod both Housos, and 57 hiave boon killod. OF 164 bills Introduced in the Bopato, 13 have beon Lilled, and a8 many passod. A Committoo, to whom a rosolution for adjonrns meont Fob, 27 was roforred, heve recommendod March 6; but your corrospondent, who haa walchod aud noted proceodings haro for fifteon yoars,—Chiof Clork Young, and others expori- euoed in: loglslative ways, do not bollove an ad- Journmont is likely for » weok lnter, ... THE LAND GRANT. Our hotols aro stiil erowded to tho last place for & cot In tholr halls, with poople from ajl parts of tho Btate, and ospoclally from its northwest and from Milwaukeo, intorestod in the disposi« tion of tho land-grant, and meoking to influenca tho Logislature, % What will it do with it,” is tho” aunstion ached many fimas n day, but in which none but the most onthusiastio Paid lob- Dyists one sldo or tho otlior will vonture a Gafle nito answor, The fact is thero aro o groat many mombera who ‘don’t lmow how it ia thomsolver yob, and who aro trying to secure, as quid pro quo for their votos, pledges from companies soclkting tho laud-grant, to bulld ronds ta their moctions. Thoro oro a good wany who think they have an equal right with tha Chippewa Vallsy poople to hingo the cpnfirming or the land-grant of,building ronds for thom ag woll a6 tho rond for which it wna glven. Among others who are determined to exnct something ood ns & bond, from tho BMilwaukes & 8t. Panl Company ' thab thoy shall havo railrond fa- nlu“ugé are the opresontntives of the rich farme ing and _mtning rogion of Bouthwestern Wis- cousin, Whose peoplo hava boen waiting for a score of years for thnt conneotion with Milwaue koe which tho preas and the railrond mon of that city eny all parts of the State ought to havo in proferonce to. any conneotion with your wicked and allen cily, and which the building of s fow miles.of rosd west from on~ ros would havo given lon, nfi:}. The evident strong dosire of the peoplo of tha Bt. Croix anlo{, that the North Wisconsin Qom= pany, and not the Milwaukeo & Bt. Paul Com- pany, should lave the granb is Pmdum‘nplm offoot; but men and location are sollish, and will look ant for No. 1 first. 'There has been a good donl of talk, the last fow days, favorable to the Kelusy bill, providing that the State shall build tho 8¢, Orofx & Suporior Railroad itself, soll it to the bost bidder, and nse tho avails above cost to build other ronds whero most needed. Tha opinion ks also been freoly oxpressed, that an irreconciiablo disngreomont aw to tha dispozal will be the result ; in which caso the grant wonid most likoly bo roclaimed to the United Slales withiu & “year, ‘The Railrond Committes im nefther Houso_lns yet reported, or is likoly to this woelk; and it will be n wook’ at least, aftor the roports nre made, before tha bills will be finally ncted on in either Houso, TIHE TESPERANGE LAW. This may seom almost fulseme in praise,'and oplorablo complications of .this. ‘[ ful teatimontals of hundreds, equally afilicted,. torribfo malady which nlicts lumanity. Tho | Thoe QamYumncu pecyle are piling ia remor- strances in Iarge guarantoes against tho repeal of tho **Grabam Towperance Law " of last wintor, whicls, with a bill to ropeal srid Inw, and another tommond it ko that no city should be excopted from it by reason of any charter provision, hava boen referrod to o Solect Committes. The As- sembly vote to thus refer tho r:renl bill, afler it had been favorablyreported by tho Committes on Btato Aflaits, showed the {riends and cusmios ot the law bad tearly oquel nuwbors. Oonildenca frfolt Lt tho laiv il stond, TAX-EXEMITION. Tarly in the sossion & lucgs numbsr of poti- tions ‘ero received asking the rcpeal of all Inwn oxempting proporty from loxation, excopt Pubun property, - aud ‘the cwrent of feols ng in the Tegislatare was quito strong in~ that direction. Binco then thera Ling been a flood of remonatrancos agninet toxing the proparty of achouls, charches, and bonovo- lent -instifutions, aud ablo pens havo pre- gented arguments of the gumne tenor, Prest~ dent Chapin, of Beloit Calln‘fo, and Prosident Bteelo, of Lawrenco University, recontly pra sented strong nyguments egainit taxing colleges and othor iustitutions ot lum‘uing,—shuwinfi thnt, if it-was done, the moana romuining woul Do entirely inndequate to keep thom open. Tha Episcopal Bishop, Armitage, spoke in bobalf of tho churches, showing how oncrous the burden of taxation. would be to many wealor socioties. Among the iufluences oulist peal are the Catholic chu nmount of property kiold by which i wes one motivo to the ropeal agitation), sud the memberalip of the various benovolent ordors in tho Stato. Tho repeal is unlikoly to carry. t = Rl . TIE STATE PRICON. ¢ Tho Assembly, without dabate, and atmost without opposition, has passed a bill radically changing “tho'systom of mauaging tho Biats .Prisun,,—&:uulng it under tho control of a Board appolter poluted By the Goveruor with tho cousont of tho Benato, instead of & Commissionor elected ouce in two yeurs by thopooplo ; and correctingg various abusos, It is sald tho Senato will ma- torinlly amond tho Dill. Doth Houses havo concurrred it an approprintion for the: prison. of nearly $46,000,—tho Souato Laviug two or throo sharp discqasions ovor_the prison man- ogomont. ‘Chore is o genorul feoling that, while tho present Comminsiouer is onoe of the best tha Biato evor lad, such reforms and changes ara possible a8 would make tho prison more nearly Belf-sustaining. . ‘' NO NATURAL BCIENCE IN oums. . In an oloquont addross Lefore tho Joint Agri- cultural m‘h Horticultural Convontions, held here n weok ago, Blato Suporintondent Fallowa earnestly advocated intvoducing instruotion in tho elements of the natural soisucesinto our com- mon schools, which soema an_ominently propar thing to do, and was 80 ‘votod by a Convention of tenchors and superintondents hore, The ns- sombled wisdom, howevor, incontinently shughtered o bill requiring thab teachers should bo qualified to tenoh thioso branchoes, and tabled & motion to roconsider, no dobate whatover bo- ing hiad on the subje MONEY 4 Tywo E\'nporxlumm, involving considerablo ox- enrk, have beon rejected by thoe Assembly ; ons for & Commission {0 revizo {ho statutes, which have - been g0 fearfully ed since 1858 that abstract lawyers, with tho aid of indices cud digests, cun “havdly tell what the law ia; and tha other to submitto tha Eeoplu the question of calling a Constitutional onvention, 'I'ho vate lu tho Iattor, to-day, waa & tio—43 to 42—on o third reading ; and o difer~ out rosult may bo renched. . Whily tho Stato haa outgrown in some respeets the Constitution with whioh it was admitted into the Union, many feol 8 if they would * rather besr tho ills l]my have than fly fo others thnt they know not of." A EOVEREIGN BURLESQUE, Last ovening, for the firat time in-acveral years, tho old farce whicl usod to bo played an- nunlly of baving a meeting. of. * Bovoroigus,” aud a burlesquo messsge from a * Sovoroigns’ ™ Governor, was enacted, and 8, D, Carpoutor— familiary designated as ¢ Pump"—took the pars of Governor, and read a_rcroc enut:\lulu’fijuumo protty sharp hits at Oredit Mobilior, vonality of publio men, railroad high tarife, pious profos- :slons, and selfish actions, &e., to alarge nu- dionce, ovor which Mosca M. Strong wittily presided. BOOTAL, Governor Washburn's second reception, hold last night, wau attendod by many mombors and citizens, and was n very afiruemu nifair, though there was a lack of ladios, by ronson of bad weathor. Bince the marriege of his younger daughtor, Inat summer, an oldor married duughter, Mra, Kilsoy, has kept house for tha QGovornor, whose wifo hia for years been insano, but Mrw, i, wau il last evening, and the honord wore gracofully done by his sprightly and charms g niece, Misa Stovonson, of Galons, daughter of an old citizon and steamboat Cuptain thore, and Mra. Ol Bull, who rosides next door, Bomo of tho mamnbera invited in n tow friends, and bad o pleasant deuca at the Sonato Ohawmber, Jast Thursdsy ovenlug, To-morrow ovening thore i# to Do a mimilar affuir on a larger sonla in the Aesombly Chambor, Hacially, the Capilal Lina beon vory dull this wintor. Prus. ' by the Governor, nod & Warden ap- nmond- |