Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1873, Page 2

© TIIE COICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, " MEDICAL MATTERS. Hospital Accommodations Furnished by Cook Countys - . Tho Arnold Stroot Rookery o Dis- graoo to the- City. Opening of the sflpring Course of Lec- turos at Rush College. i How to Promote the Soionce of Hedi- cine and Surgery. The Small-Pox Hospital--~Colloge of Pharmacy. THE COUNTY HOSPITAL, Tho attention of the poople of Cook County ‘has rocently boon ealled to the disgracoful hos- pital accommodations furnishad by the county tosuch of tho sick and disnbled as are compolled to avall thomesolves ' of gratuitous medical and surgical trentmont ; but tho half hns not boen told ; tho ronl condition of affalrs at tho Jounty Hoapital lna mesrcoly boon hintod ab.. Tho gloomy, scedy-looking brick struoture which ““tands on Arnold, near Eightconth stroot, was built elghtoon yonrs ngo, and was thon considorod + vory oroditablo institution. Presumnbly it was, 1t that remoto period, whon Chicago numbored icsg than 70,000 souls, and when comparatively dttle was lnown of tho. nlldmportant sonaldorations of light, vontllation, and aygionio arrangomonts. Loaving the savages of timo out of tho quostion, and, sup- posing that tho Lospltal bullding “stood to-day now nud clean ng it was ofghteon years ago, it would still, in tho light of scionco of 1878, bo condomned s utterly unflt for hospital pur- posos. But the ravagos of timo rofusoe to bo loft put of tho question, There they are, and yory striking foatures of tho general effect thoy sre. Tha building standa about six feot below. the stroot grado, #o that tho yard nffords drainago for tho surfaco water of tho vicinity. It might ‘bo used ss o skating park In the winter, ond ns a gooso pond {u tho spriug. On ontering the baso- ‘mont tho visitor {s at onco mado aware of the exintonco of o peculiar smell, It would puzzle ordinary olfactories to malko out procisely what it is, further than that it. is n very pe- culiar, o most unmistakable, aud a horribly dinngroonable smell. This, it shonld bo borne in. 'mind, is in tho basomont, away bolow the hospi- tal wards, but a3 ono mounts tho stairs and pro- ceads along tho varions corridors o dotects’ the samo odor, though more diffusive, and loss pro- nounced in its character. It has nscondod, snd had & chanco to distribute itsolf impartially through tho bullding. It is ono of tho glariug defects in arrangemont that tho sick are furnished but 900 cubic foet of air por capits, whorons 1,800 feat 15 tho lowost nmount connistont with tho roquisitos of successful treatmont of tho sick. It is a sorious matter to tho poor wrotchos ‘who ocenpy the varions waeds, this doprivation of 400 feet of vitally ‘ossential air. Under, or- dinary circumstances such & condition 3¢ things would bo rogarded with spprohengion and dread, as seriously affecting a04 only the progress of recovery, but also the rato of mortality, DBul this is nothing compared with thotorriblo disadvantages to bo contended with a¢ the Cook County Hospital. A large pro- portion of tho 900 fect of sir availablo thore is imprognated with the unwholosome stench ro- forred to, and 1t is tho opinion of competent medical mon that ‘patiouts would convaleges in ‘half tho timo, and that the doeath rato would bo grently reduced, with a suitablo and adoquate systom of ventilation and air supply. - Such a Eyatom is an uttor -impoussibility in -tho pronont building, owing to faults in original conatruc- tion, Every known oxpodiont is rosorted to for tho purpose of doodorizing tho, building, but to o purpose. ‘Tho institution is old and rotton, and nothing short of & thorough conflagration can ovor disinfect it. f LA Tho sickening odor of tho basoment procoods from tho soil-pipes londing from thoe water- closots, and emptying into the sower. Theso pipos Linvo boon in uso for oightoon years, and the metsl has gradually corroded and wasted awny until tho pipes loak badly, and a portion of . tho offensive contontd drizzle slowly down the outside. Any amount of soldering and mending doea mot suffice to provont it. Within tho wooden onclosures which conceal from eight theso lonky conduits aro also contained tho dumb waiters: on which tho cooked food ia clevated from thoe kitchon to tho various wards, If tho victunlsarenot brought into notual contact with the filthy llquid which tricklos down, thoy atlonat got the benofit of the smell whilo in transitu, Itis npon bread and meat subjected to such companionship that tho dolicate stom- ach of two hundred pationts are oxpooted to thrive. This cannot be helped, At least, an alteration of the arrangement for olovating food would bo attended with grent exponse, if, indeed, it bo practicablo at all. What with tainted alr, and food subjected to an atmoupheric bath of stonch, the inmates of the County Hospital have & hard battlo to fight. Evidences of oxtreme docay aro plentiful throughout the old structure. In noarly overy apartment the plastering has fallon in h“fin blotches, rovealing the rottou and broken lath. Tho roof lenks, aud #o do tho water-tanks in tho sttic, and although a cont of vhitewash is ap- pllu«f twico a year, tho coilings aro yellow aud mildowed. In case of nlumY Tain tho water findu its wey through tho plastoring, dripping down upon tho paticuts in their beds. 'Tho floors aro a complote notwork of ‘ratholes, Bo {ndustrious and effactivo aro the rats in thelr ssarults upon tho rotten pine flunrlnf;, that it is found noceseary to tack zinc around tho "holes to provont thoir enlargemont to s degreo dane gerous pvon to porsons with largo foet. It oc- cupies tho timo of one person to go the rounds each morning and zino over tho ratholes. Tho four-loggod carpontors ply thoir trado alto- gother Bt night, making eoriaus inrondn not olone upon the woeodwork, but upon the sleop and antetude of tho pationts, brillionsof cockroachios fnfost tho Luilding, Thoy profor tho kitchon for tiisir grand stamplng-ground, and are g)nr- tial to soup, coffeo, and molasuas, In which they aro found ab monl-time, quioscont and Inactive, but corporeally unimpuired. For a change, thoy vinit the slok, Who nra possibly oncouraged by thoso manifold spocimens of rabust health and bodily activity. The . writor, whilo passin; through ono of tho wurds, hiad his attentlon oall- od to tho caso of a poor follow who hiad beon . run over by tho cars some days ogo. The man 1ny nt tho point of denth,—tlio surgeon having ivon up all hope of his rocovory,—and, au the gud—clothos woro turned aside, rovealing his hor- ribly-mangled log, swollen to thrico its natural #izo, a swarm of coclironches hustled out from among the lint and bandages, and scamperod away. The varloty of vormin ls comploled by countless nnmbors of bed-buge, which are une romitting in thoir offorts to do thoir share toward moking things lively. These are somo of tho moro marked xlmuullnrl- tion of lifo (and doatl) at tho County 1fospital, then whick & more shockingly bad'institution qovor disgracod o civillzed community, Tho officers and employes of the Lospital, skillful and foithful as thoy are, scom to bo doing their uimost to keep tho place as olean and docent ag potsible, but lhoy aro confrontod by an army of disadvantnges positivaly dishoartoning, and un- der which it is & moral Tmpossibility to afford to tho inmatos the treatmont essontinl Lo a succoss~ ful bottlo with disenso and accidont, The houne~ hysician, Dr, Chenowoth, putn it very mildly in Elu annusl yoport, when ho sayat The overcrowded condition of the Asylum daring the past year had added much to the carcd and re- sponsibilitios of tho ofticers aud sttendants, aud to the dlscomfort of the pallents, Tho percontage of ro- covordea s not as Inxgo &8 we would liko, but this s in B great meanyro duo to tho overerowded _condition of tho_fustitution, and tho rulos iu forco, whioh do not permit Uio pliician to rufuio admnfssion to any patiunt, notwithutanding tho institution may bo crowd- 2d to afmost ita utmost capacily; tue slucping-rooms inl&nd&d for one contsining two, and sometiimes three, pationts, Cook Qonnty needs a new hospital, Tho stylo of bullding and italovation are mattors to'be Jotermined by tho Oounty Boazd, but ¢ho intere ost of doconoy, chiarity, humaulty, and olviliza- tion imperatlvoly domand a now hospital, 3 e ¥ SUBJEOTB." | N ' Tho' following draftiof o law intondod to pro- vido n way by which modigal collogos can obiain subjocts withont tho violation of law, ta.befora tho Loglslaturo of Illinols for ita dlatinguishod consideration. Sovoral ominent modical gontle- mon of Ohiesgo aro urging ita pascago, some of whom are now in Bpringfield. It is entitlod n #Bill to promoto tho sclonco of modicine nnd surgery in the Stato of Illinols :" o . Br0, 1., It sholl bo lawnl, in citiea and countics whosg popuiAtion oxccads 20,000 Inhnbitants, for St poriatondents of Pouitontinrics; Wardens of poor housos, Coronors, nnd clty undortakers, to deliver to tho professors i tenchiera in medical colleges and achoole §n this atate, and for profensors nnd toachors to Tacelve, the remning or boly of any docoaned person, for pufpoacs of meulcal aud micglcal sty proviied, that eald remnina_shnll 1ot havo’ been' regularly intered, ond il not hove been' dosfred for internient by sny selativo or friond of safd docensed, wilhin twenty-fonr hours after denth: Zrovided, also, that Lhio romaing of no_person who may bo kuown {0 hove relatives or frionds shnil" bo go deliverad or ro- gefved wichout tho consent of satd relatives or frionds : “And procided, that tho romalns of -110 ono dotaltied for dobt; or as a witneas, of on_ suapfelon of crimo, or of any fravalor, or of sy perann whoshall havo oxpressed & desiro in e or hor fant aicknoss hat his or hor hody may bo interred, slinll bo delivered or recelved as nforo- #nid,but shall bo barled {n tho usust mannor: And pro- vided, alas, thot, In caso tho romaina of nny person po dolivered or roceivad shall bo subscquently claimed by any surviving relative or friend, thoy shiall bo given up to'anid relative or frlend for intorment, ‘Bz0, 9, And it shall bo tho duty of enid professora and toachers dacently to bury in nomo publio comotory, tho rematna of all bodlen after thoy shiall have answors ed tho purposes of study aforoaald ; nnd for ny neg- lect or violation of tho prorisions of thin ct, tho parly 20 neglecting rliall forfult aud pay a penulty of not loed thinn twenty-five nor moro thai ffty dollar, to bo sued for by tho bealth oflicera of sald cities or ofhor places, for thio benofit of thelr dopdrimont. 8§50, 3. Tho remnins or bodica of gald personn as may bo g0 0celvod by tho proforsors and teacherr, ag afore; eatd, shall bo usod for tho purposes of medical and surgleal study alone, and in (his Siata only ; and whoevor sball uko ‘Buch romaing for any other urpoio, of slinll romove uch rematns boyond tho mits of thia Stato, or in any mauner trafic iu the snmo, shiall bo deomod gullty of n misdemoanor, and shall, on conviction, bo imprisonad for a torm. not oz~ ceodfig ono year in'a county jail, < 820, 4, Evory person who slall delivor up tho ro- mning of any doceascd person In violation of, or con- trary to, any or all of tho provialons contained in tho first section of thia act, and overy person who sbinll Tecolvo anid romains, kuotving the same to have Leon dolivored contrary to any of th provisions of snld sce- tion, shall onch snd overy one of them bo doemod aiiily of o misdemeanor, and ahall, on conviction, bo fuptisoned for o torat not cxcecding wo years 1h & county jail, RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE. TRush Medical College is gotting on prosper~ ously in splte of many advorsd circumstancos. Binco the fire it lhns beon ocoupying & small building ot the corner of Eightoonth straot and Wentworth nyenuo, with a limited lecture room and vory spero accommodations of othor Linds. Tho number of studonts has, nevertholess, con- .tinued large, and the faculty has kopt up to ita old standard of excellenco. Tho plana for the .now building woro complated o yoar ago, and the colloge would havo beou ore now rebuilt, but that the Trusteesof tho institution aro waiting for tho County Commissioners to seleot o placo for the new County ITospital, ndjacent to which thoy iutond that tho now - Rush” shall bo locatod, 1t t{xu Commigslonora would stir in the matter thoy would confor & fayor upon tho collogo, and do prospectively a good thing for tho sick of tho county. = 'l‘hoy collego, yosterdny morning, inaugurated ita spring ocourse of lectures successfully with an opening nddress by Dr, Norman Bridge, in- structor in-tho Theory and Practice of Medi- cino, Thero wasalarge attondanco of friends of_tho institution nnd of students. Dr. Bridgo began by roforring to tho ene Inrged sphero of tho nprlng coarso in Rush Colloge. This courso was horoafter to bo s pormanent instilution, and " its facully was distinot -from that which gave: the wintor courao of lootures, 'Tha conrso was tobo in every way as completo aud extonsive as the rogular wintor course, 5 Mo then: nddressed himsel? to thoro about to Dogin the study of modicine, Thoy worc undor= tnkingavorfl dorious businoga, I'ow, Lo enid, evor bogin tho study without much quostioning a8 to whathor it {3 tho bost thing todo. In holt tho cascs tho question s deter- mined by eomo accidont essontislly trivial. It is imporlant to dotormino- this point ot tho start, - The profession’of medicine Las many disadventages and some benefita for ita mom- bors. Tho g‘motmnnzr‘n work fs nlways hard, and iiona who oxpegt Lo bolivo physicians un not work-are blinded, - Tis work must Lo douo at all timos and in all wenther; he muat.com- poto with all sorts of quacks and charlatans,who onsily convince the massod that thoy aro the real physloians, and that ho is an old fogy, if not nn ok{fonh hio moots all shades of superstitition among the paoplo; lio_Lus ropoated contontions with old nursos who have absurd motions of caring for his pationts. The physician is tho most misjudged mon on enrth ; ho is condemuned when blameless and flooded with undeserved praises; and if ho settlos in the country he can nover uflcnim tho ulm-?n of being n doctor who quarrols with every other doctor, and is jonlous ovon beyond hig qusrrcl!ng{) Hea must tako hig foon after ell others havo boon sorved, and ho must worle yoars to onrn o compotence that will inhisold ago keop tho wolf from his door. Verily, thero nroonough discouragements in this sido of tho picturo to doter anyone from study- ing medicino, But thero aro somo comforts in the profession. If ho enn nEprouiulo thom, such o8 they are, tho ploasurcs that como to the phy- siclan for a consciontious practico of his calling more than counterbalanco all thrills that como to him, and thoy aromore to be eateemed than tho glory of popular spplause or politicsl profor- enco, But 10 ono has . right to como to the profopsion With tho tolo basis of his own ploas- ure. If hocannot bonofit and elovate tho pro- fosalon ho ought to keop out of it. Dusiness ml\'f with impunity bo tritlod with, but the hoalth and lvos of tho pooplo novor. Tho most esson- tial qualification for & man to bo & Yhyniuim.\ is that he Lo & student, Study modicing for o lifotime, and wo can scarcely master half ita known truths. Our groatest cirso hns becnmon with no inclination to study. Wo cannot mastor tho aclenco during collego lifo; wo must .study constautly afterward, No ono ouglt to take up tho study who has nota lovo forscience. Tho student must study constantly aftor graduating, £ thoro wore thoso among tho class stho could tako plonsure in such a life, Lo welcomed thom to tho work thoy wero cntering upon. But if thero woro thoso whotvoro to be routine doctors, gnmnF their dogroe and passing their lives with a8 littlo roading and rosenrch sy possible, ho nd- vised them to stop boforo going any further, to go baclk homo, resumo thioir formor vocations, and not commit o gravo a crimo a8 to continne in their prosont courso. After an n}vponl for moro real charactor on the part of medical mon, and some advico as to tho way to profit by lec- turcs, ho snid modleal studonts must work. The Almighty nover intended anybody to bo lnzy; nnture has placed hor ban upon idle- ness, Thoso who nro henlthy in mind and bodylike worl, and hu{)unud pray for it as o boon forover, The old lady who hoped to sit in heavon with a cloan wlito apron aud sing pealms forever had boen overworked, and was probably Bick, God pity them who gef no joy In contom- {)latinn of future ondeavor, But tho bost worl, ho most satiafying, and that which Drings surost success, is moderato, steady, conatunt worls, worl that shall bo undertaken both to ao-~ complish a purpose and for tho love of it. Wo must, after detormining tho whoro and whon to “worl, “ ereat our dorrivk and boro for success: " and tho oll shall como at first in drops, and when wo ara only looking for littlg rills, it shall como in great floods that shall find not sufliclont ves- sola to contuin it. Dr, Oharlos I'.Parka dolivorod tho firat locturo of tho courso yestorday nfternoon on the subject of Anatomy, The faoully of the spring courso consists’ of Dra, Danforth, Parks, Wadsworth, Owens, Ingall, Caso, Hny, Bridgo, Jackuon, Adolphus, Mydo, Adams, and Hayos. Tho prox- mity of tho County Hospital alfords an oxcols lont opportunity for clinical locturos, two of which will bo given wookly. SMALL-POX HOSPITAL, A gathoring of the following Alderman, to-wits Ald. Dixon, Behaffuer, Quirl; and Woodman, wag beld in tho Mayor's oflico yostordsy after- noon. Thoy eat them down, a emiling quintotto, to tolk ovor tho location of tho now small-pox hospital. It was undorstood that the Mayor would veto its loontion noar the Bridewell. Ald. Behaffner insisted on ita removal from the North ido, Ald. Dixon would not have it on the Sonth ide, and thought that the dosire of Wost Bido | Aldormon to hava a public building in their di- vislon should bo gratifled. Ald, Quirk wontd not Liear of it Ald, Behaffnor, alluding fro- quoently to his violation of n pledge not .to ‘spoalt in Council, maid {hat, it it was mot romoved Dby Inw from tho North Bide, it should, as soon ru the pa- tlents wers out of it, bo earriod awny by a mob, T'ho othor Aldormon again said (holr say fu furn, snd then the Muyor explained, ‘I'ho sama round wras again mado, when “Joo," of tho Staals Zed- tung, laid down tho law, after which the gathor- ing dispersed, Thoro 'woro two things to bo Joarned from tho meeting. Ono i, that ¥ Joo" ia standard authority in munieipnl mattors now, and tha othor, that Ald. Schaffnor's prominsnok to sponlt in the Couneil doea not hold good fu in-, fornnl meotings, Who botter way wonld he for oo " to porpotusily intorview the gallant Qol- onel in gomo obsouro quartor, unless ~the lattor- rofors taking rooms in tho new Staata Zeitung ‘Flulm(n{( and romaining thero all his time, tall ing to "*Joe.” 'Tho clh{ nffafrs conld thon ba run by theso two dlotingulshed gontlemen, without any furthor troublo or exponae, and tho dutics of tho clty ofiicera matorially lightenod. PHARMAGEUTICAL, o Tho annual meoting of the Ohicago Oollogo of T'harmacy was hold in Room 93, Rico's Build- ing, yosterdny nftornoon. Prosidont Bucle occu~ plod tho chinir, In hisreport Lo roturned thanka to Lnglish druggists, nnd thoso in this country, who contributed chomleals, books, and appara- tus to tho Collego kinco the flro, The donations aro valuod at about 86,000, The following ofli~ cora woro clocted for tho onsuing year : Preaident—Thomna Whllfold, Firat Vice-Preeflent—1oury Beot, Second Viee-President—A, O, Vonderborg, Secretary—Ds P, Pattcrson, Treasurcr—D, W, Jamison, Corresponding Secretary—Albert B, Ebert, Jioard of Trusicea—Goorgo, Buck, I I, Sargent Honry Biroth, W. X. Dlocki, J, if. Hooper, d. O, Torchor, M. 1. Ituyck, Jomes 1, Atils, rof, Barilett, 3. 11, Wilson, —_— GRAIN-INSPECTION. o the Editor of The Chicago Tridune s Bm: Tho deop- intorost yvu evinco in tho groain trado of our city i8 my oxcuso for again trospnesing’on your spaco, In Tur TRinune of tho 4th inst., yon oxpress tho opinion that tho proacnt systom of grading grain by tho Btate, undor tho Warehouso'Inw, is_defectivo, and that tho lnw should bo ropenlod or nmonded, You also instanco a fow of the irrogularitics in grad- inig grain, enld to rosult from the infloxiblo rulea of the Ststo, and sancrb that ¢'The mook offectus] romedy for tho ovil is to sell grain on its morlts ;" but you add, **'Thls cannot bo_dono 80 Iun;i- na tho grndlng provislons of tho Ware- houeo law remain in forco.” I am happy to inform you that large quanti- tios of grain are sold on ita moerits fu this mar- kot, under the Warchouse law ; and that tho law offors overy facility for such salos. Until the Warohouse law went into force, no such enles could bo.mado. Provious to tho paseage of tho law, when a farmor put his grain Into a railrond- car in the country, ho lost all control of it until it was delivered to his order through an clevator in this clty. 1f Lo dosired to hold his grainon track and sell it by samnplo, ho could not do so without firat paying tho warchouseman fo whoso house tho grain was consigued, 2 conts por bushel, tho ssme a8 if tho grain wont into storo; and, at times, he could not hold his’ grain 'on track, {hongh willing to comply with thls arbitrary rule. Tho ‘Warohiouso law madoe it obligatory'on tho rail- rond companios to hold the grain on track 24 hours—if dosired—without oxtra chargo totho ownor, whon, If tho inspoction did not ault him, Do might solf his grain by samplo, or have it pub into n spocial bin in tho warehouso. Tho Waro- house law, iustend of proventing tho salo of grain on its morits, made wiso provision for such sales, and oncourages them; and tho members of tho Board of Trado wore not slow in availing thomsolves of its advantagen. TRocelvern of rain over the Illinois Coutral, Chicngo, Bur- fingtondz Quiney, Rock Island, and Northwostern Taitroads appointed grain-oxports for onch rond, whoso duty it is to follow tho Stato Inspoctor whon grading grain, and, if tho oxport sco » car-lond of grain that, in lis opinfon, is of better qualily than tho grado ?lvon it by the Inspactor, ho holds it on track, or hasit put'in a spocinl car, to bo Bold by eamplo. If tho gontloman who put his grain in'bags, 08 stated in ‘Cue TripoNE, un- doratood his business, or the facilitica afforded him by tho law, he could havo held his grain on track, and sold it on its morits, - - It fo also statod thut * Thio Donrd of Teado maintained & spacial committoo, that fixed stand- arda for spocial lots of grain that did not con- form to any of tho cstablished grades. Very truo. And tho wheat trade of tho city is now sulfering from tho effects of tho “**spocial lot ™ grading, and not from the infloxiblo stand- ards of tho Btato inepection. The Doard of Trade Committco carried tho ‘‘wpecial lot grading 8o far a8 to mark with o oross the cor- nor of tha tickat on which tho grado wns writ- ton,—tho mark indicating to the warchonsomen to ship thet particular grain nt tho earliest op- portunity,—it boiug soft and linble to Leat purmllte(f to remain in the warolouse. In this manuer grain wai §rm!ull' and passod through #ho city au No, 1 end No. 9, wheat that chould bo rojected. 'Thia grain invariably. got out of con- dition ‘oni tho way to tho last; and the Enstern buyor, having no_eafeguard against such systomatio fraud, wag_drivon to other mar- kots for his wheat, It was the Board of ‘rade Committco, and its cross, that turnotl tho Eastorn whoat-buyer from our grain market, and, if o ia slow in roturnivg, it is becauso ho i not awaro that the Committos's floxiblo rub- bor bucket is superscded by the inflexible stand- ards of tho Btato. - Genorally, Tne Trmoxz s slow in puslnfi {ndgment boforo tho teatimony 18 talon on bot Bidos. .In summing up tho cnse—Stato inspeo- tion vs, Donrd -of Trade inspection,—tho evi- denco should bo thoronghly sifted. Itis only n faw dnys since o member of the Bonrd bonated Liin ability to givo barley o bottor color than that ivon it by the Almighty in tho harvest-flold, fluw much essior it is to color truth, whena poiut is to bo made. GRADGRIND. —_—— A RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Corusmus JusoTIoN, Tows, March 4, 1873, o the Editor of The Chicago T'ribunc: ‘f'o the long chapter of late railrond accidents, I will ndd anothor. Last night, about 10 o'clock, tho sleoping-car of the faat oxpress on the Cli- eago, Rock Island & Bouthwostern Railroad, going wost, when about n milo caet of Fredonis, was thrown from tho track by n broken rail, noar ond first, down o high grade, and landod, side up, squaro across & dcep ditch, In the car wero two colored ladios,—)rs, B. A. Dawson and Misa Andorson, respectively of Chicago and Davon- port; also, another young Iady, name unknown ; Mr, Anthiony, of Leavenworth; Capt. Oool, U, B. A., of Fort Sully; and anothor officer, whose namo I did not learn. Nover woro o fow sleoping-car passongera Ao roughly handled, I think, in 8o short a timo, without tho loss of more blood or broken bones. Mr. Authony fonnd himsolt, after tho car struck, |- in tho ditch, directly undor tho conch. In what shapo he was sont through the window opposite his %nd; o could not explain ; at all - evouts, ho wad thrown through, aud struok tho ground sbout ns soon ng the sleopor did, recoiving genrooly o serateh. In tho window througl which Tio was sont thore was o picco of glass loft nbout three inches squaro. ndor him was o rod blankot, on vhich he stood when the ‘writer ronched the spot,—tor I happencd to bo in a Iucky conoh,—trying to fit his logs to a. pelr of pants supposed to bo his property. Tho ladics and officors, after a littls work, wore roscucd from tho wrocl, moro or loss bruised, but for- tunatoly not dangerously hurt, ‘I'ho conductor worked hard, an did the othor ofticora rnd passengors of the train, to mako the* wounded comfortable, and in an hour Wwo wero on our way Wost, PAssENaER, S TR BROKEN RAILS ON RAILWAYS. To the Editor of The Ch;eaun Tribune : Bm: Again, during tho past wintor, lirs tho publio pross been compelled to record hundreds of shocking accidents from this causo, involving tho loss of many human lives, tho orippling of many others, and the dostruction of millions of dollars of proporty bolonging to railroad com- panies. 1t is moro than bolleved that all this might bo avertod Dy tho propor oxorcise of humau inge- nuity, and it is known that soveral inventora stand ready to do their sharo towards this most dosirable rosult, if railway manngers will but on- uumngn,-lnulmui of repol, this most useful vlass of oltizons. I'ho object nimod at i n big one, entirely bo- yond the rench of any private mndividual, Duf, f only one railrond sliows a desiro to offoct this grout reform, it is alinout beyond o doubt that it can bo offeoted. A I'ho present form of railway-rail is an adaptn- tion of Inglish pattornn, good onougli, porhaps, for thnt coutry, whoro tho soction In gonoral uso i much heavior than ours, but entirely un- anitud Lo tho nocossltios and viciusitudon of our govoro climato, INVENTOR. e —The Mayor of Schenectady, N. Y., runenfly laguined wi & * rough,” and stoggorod through ihe strootn to teut tho vigilanco of his police. 1fo wa nerostod, aud oxamination showed bur< glar's tooly, policeman’y whistlo, and other uu- canny thinga concoaled on his porson. o waa ahout.to bao locked up to nwait trinl, whon hia disguise was dismrangaed, and hio was rocognizod andd gk froa hy biw thund N|EW YORK. Another 'Corrupt Ring- . Autocrat Wanted. . - (' J Profits of Publishers===A Literary { Wonder. A Hamlet from n Rural Point .of View---An Eccontric DIill- ionaire, Littorateurs in TLeague for Their Rights---Povorty of the Astor Library. KFrom Our Own Correspondent, _ New Yonr, March 2, 1873, There aro men hore rash cnough to prodict thnt Willlam M. Twooed will, beforo n groat whilo, rosume the Dictatorship of Manhattan, Thoy do.not deny ho has boon to & cortain .ox- tont corrupt, but thoy aver ho has not boen noar- 1y 80 much 80 an s beon charged, They hnvo tho hardihood to afiirm that tho Roform party, in whoso hands the Oity Governmont now is, will havo o worso rocord than Twoed, Bwoony & Co. ; that the honest mon in power aro withoub brains, and that the mon of brains are without honesty,—ao that, betweon tho Lwo, tho Munlci- pul Treasary will be robbed right and loft. Tho signs of the times assuroaly are not flattoring. Qortain notorionn, knavich politicians, who claim to posacss tho integrity of Aristides, aro Imown to bo mombers of a now Ring, and to bo in o position to influenco loading officiala to do thoir biddlng. . Tt wo ara to have anothor reign of corruption, Inm afreid honorablo citizeus will dospair of Gotham, nnd make no furthor offort to offcat n roform, which thoy ‘doom hopeloss, They sup- poaed that, nt tho st alection, theyhad comploto- lydostroyed the odious Ring. If thoy have dono €0 only to oreate auother, oqually bad or worse, tho fablo of the Hydra will bo vorifled, oxcept thnt wo have no Horoules willing to destroy tho hideous monstor. I have seon 8o much corrup- tion hore, in tho last twenty yoars, that I am not at all suro that it would not bo well to separato tho clty from the Btato, convert it into an nbso~ luto despotism, and appoint an. autocrat who ‘would encrifico everybody and everytlung to tho slmplo cuds of justico, e TIE NEW CYCLOPZEDIA. £ Tho new edition of the American COyolopmdis, ‘which hina been in proparation for sorao monthe nst, will bo completad, I undorstand, in about two years from this timo. It will have so man; ndditions and improvemonts that it will bo al- most nmow. The present odition waa mainly comploted in 1857, and the fifteen yoars .sinco have boeu among the moat eventful, not only in onr own, bat in genoral history. D. Apploton & o, ero eaid to have cloarod moro than 81,600,000 on tho Oyclopmdia, and tho editors, Georgo Hiploy ncd Oharles A. Dans, to hnyo had, by their a)arcentnga on the wale, an annusl incomo of 86,000 or 86,000 each. The oditors aro, directing and. suporvising tho now adition, upon which, no doubt, the publishors will realizo moro monay than thoyhavo tpon the old. Bpenking of " GEORGE RITLEY, ) who has long etood at the head of tho litorary roviewors of Amorica, it Is a little singular he bna neyer published & \wnlr, or made any collec- tlon of his writings in book-form. Ho Lins writ- ten volumos upon volumos. in the Z'ribune, aud is & mastor of pure, norvous, elegant English. It would have beon 0 oasy and mnatural to put ‘botweon covera somo of his dainty and eloquent osaays, that it muat’ stem odd to many that ho has rosfated | tho tomptation. His las Boens prominont name in jonrnalism and lteraturo for n-quartor of acentury; and yet, boyond a fow contributions to the magezinen, ho has writton Mnmealy onything outsido of his editorial dopart- mont. } 2 1 cannot think of any litteratour with one-tenth Ahio ability or famo who hns not boen guilty of at loast ono or two books, ‘In this ngo of eagerncas to got botwoen covers, his dotormination not to got botweon thom should bo set down to his credit, It Is so common for porsons tomeke books without reason, that it is invigorating to honr of gomobody wiid, hnving renson and ms- toria), religiously rofrains from authorship. "' THE COARM OF NOT WRITING, Timo was—at loast I havo heon told so—whon o bo an author was to bo somewhat distinguish- | ed by that.faot .alone, Noyw tho diatinction is, “not £o bo an author. To-day ‘o\‘ughndy writes, and, what is worse, overybody B nts. I havo boen trying for ' somo time to find the manor ‘womsan who i8 not hopelessly literary; and yet, ‘wherover ‘I go, these infornal scribblers will spring up. 2 ‘Wouldn't it bo pleasant to discovor somebody who had novor composed a line? I was intro- ducod, tho othor ovoning, to o lady who, .I had underatood, was ontirel; fanocont of ink. I was charnfed by her for that ronson. XI'do not know that sho wos agrecablo, interesting, or accom- plished ; bt thoe over-prosent fl.\ougilt that sho, &t least, ind no sius of the pon to answor for, presented her to wy imagination a8 o lovely monstor. Attor an hour's conversation, I told her. the cause of hor secret foscination, whon sho cor- rootod my orroncous improggion by informing o that sho was tho author of six beoks. I have surrendered oxpeotation. I shall not aitempt to discover any more men or womon who are not litorary. oro ey bo such; but thoy aro seldom rovenled to mortal oye. RAfy rivato improseion is, thet tho non-writing race 5 dled out. # * RUSTIO ORITIONH OF ‘‘mAMtEr.” Somo_ono has boon tolling me that, when Edwin_ Booth was playing recently in a cortain Now England town, many porsonsin tho audi- enco rogarded Hamlot," not nu o poem, but aa o contomporaucous ayent prosented for their approval, Thoy ingisted on maling Booth ro- flgous(blu for’ tho Trinco, and camo away with tho opinion that tho actor waa yvery clover, but that ho lackod decision and consistenov, A Ono_woman in tho thoatro consured him sovorely for ‘ going. on ab such an awful rato” “wbout his father. ¥ Lordl" gaid sho ; “I'm only a woman, and my fathor died when I was a girl ; but I nover mado such a fuss about it a8 Edwin Booth doos. Ho's old enough to know battor. The idon of & grown man like Dhim toking on’ in_ thet way, just becauso his father 'sdead. And what if mothor did mnfl?v again? Thut ien't eo strango that ho should koep abusing hor all tho time for it. Ed- win Booth may bo & vory nice follow ; but Le con't nx{)cal: overybody to look at things asho docs, Thoy say he's a - Dano., I don't kuow whnt o Dano is; Dut it must bo & mnow-fangled name for a fool that goes ronnd crying all the time because his father's doad, and swoar's ho'll kill his unclo, nnd §6 afeaid {0 whon ho has o chaneo, Lord! 1 hopo we shan’t have ‘mfl moro Daues coming over horo, if they aro all like Edwin Dooth.™" 1t is zoported that JANES LENOX, y tho founder of tho Lienox Library, in addition to his privato colloction of hooks and works of art, tho sito on Fifth Avenuo, and £400,000, Las ve- contly addod 8300,000 moro to hisdonntion, Mr. TLonox is an eccontrio charactor. 1o hing boon n roolugo for many yoars, and has ke}et his fluo books, M8S. plotures, and antiqnos so socluded tlm‘ vory fow porsons have ovor roceivad pormission to ‘woo them. Mnn entlomon have endeavoroed at diiforent times, it s srid, to conault somo of his raro works; bub ho has seldom allowed thom tho levflngu. A story In told that Monry Ward Booohior callod on him onco to conoult some ancient yolumo, not to be found elsewhore. Nr. Booohor'’s namo waa sont in to Alr. Louox, who ropoated, “Tonry Ward Beaohor! Honry Ward Beeohorl” sovoral times, and, sunmnlng him to bo some unknown and_irrosponsible person, returned word that, not having the qleaaum of his soquaintance, his requost was doclined, no of Mr, Louox’s idlosyneranioa ia roported to bo his unwillingnoss to read tho nownpnTnm, oxcopt on special ocoaslons; and the result is, that o has no iden whatis ocourring in the world, It is said that, about & wook ago, soma- ‘ody spoko to _him of 1lorace Groeloy's death, o romarked that ho was not aware of tho jonr- nalist's deconsio s Lo had nu}vlpnuml Mr, Greoloy was atill tho odifor of the Atlantio Monthly. 1t might bo fmiagined that Mr. Lenox had not hioard of the discovery of Amories by Ohrlstophor Columbus, I amsure ho has, however, for ho has somo of _the original lettera and journaly of tho renowed Genoeso in his possession, and ho must, thorofore, hnvo learnad the fact, of which hio might othorwlse have remalued in porfect ignorance, TRITERS' CO-0JEBATING, orktruck subordinatos, | ~ Soveral prominent authors are trylng to form _advantage of them, froquontly rofusing to *pirit worthy of our brothren, Wo hopo RCH 6, 1873. a co-oporative nsmoclation of journnlists and ltorary mon, with n viow of protocting thom- nolvos from what they rogard as the injistioo*of- publisliors, = Thoy say that they aro moro poorly paid for' tholy worl Lhan any clase of cultlvatod mioti in the world ; that tha very best of thomt Jovon- after gaihing o hl;gl roputation, cuing, oarnniore than £4,000 or 86,000, 8 yoar, whils a Inwyor, netor, or pliysielan, with loan ability and Iabor, can oar nat lonnt fivo, ofton ten, times na much. They havo no partioular fault to find with newspaper-publishora - but with the puh- -| lisliora of magazines and bools they arosoriously at yariange, 'The Inttor, they alirm, take avery 0 for work whon it ia dono, rolurning MES, t{‘m{ have beon accopted, and rofusing docont com- ponention for revere and consclonilous labor, Exnctly low the authors {ntond Lo mend mat- tors, is not stated. Tho bost way, Lo my mind, to right thelr wrongs, will bo not o writa at lle It thoy ahould withdraw from the conyvmnIduu markat, and turn thoir gonius in the dlrection of penntisolliug, or boot-blacking thioy might orgot thoir woos in tho r.-ompnmflvn prospority that would attend their excrtions in the new and moro romunerative fiold of ontorprise. BALMAGUNDI, Thousands of New Yorkora tallc of attending 1ho World's Fair at Vionna noxt summor, - Pros- ont nFlmnrnnucu indionto that the Austrian Lx- position will be much moro lsrgely . attondod b; ?‘ur cnunl_rym(mn than was tho I'rench Expoui- on, . 4 All rortn of queor economy are practined in theso dayn. Going to Boston, tho othor day, on oo of tho Stonington boats, I mot an acqunint- anco whom X had mot thero soveral times bo- foro., I nsked bim if ho lived on the vossol, -and, to my surprige, ho sald ho aid m'tlullr 1t renson wan, that ho liked wator- rayol, liited tho faro, and’ found it _cheapor to ol;:nkwurd and forward than to. live in New ork, .- s Isnac H, Bromloy, formorly of tho Hartford Evening .Lost, has ’bocomo n momber of tho Tribunestall, . Hia wido political knowledgo and oxpsrionco will bo of much value to the journal, _Homeof tho hobitues of tho Astor Library ara taking up a subscription to purchinso n fow reams of papor for. that institution, which, on nccount of its oxtremo povorty, is unablo to far nish oven *the emallest serap of foolscap to thoro having occasion to visit {ta nlcoves. : T~ mund Yates will recelve, it insnid, from the Her- ald, 8300 (gold) n weels, for acting as corronpond- ont from Vienna, CorsTODN, R R N THE EVILS OF THE DAY. 3 o the Editor of Ths Chicago Tribune : 5 Bm: Thoro aro lessons in tho reoont astound- ing rovelations of politien] corruption that have altornately shamod aund angered us, that should Lardly bo allowed to pass unnoticed. Men who havo stood beforo tho nation for years, filling positions of trust ably and honorably,—mon who have boon looked up to and admired by all, —havo boen proved wanting, and are to-day known and despisod by honost mon as falso to tholr name, thoir country, and thoir God. % From every heart gocsup tholcry of oxecra- tion ngainst theso creatures who have smirched tho pagos of our history as a peoplo with stains_ that our children yot unborn must ovor blush to” 800 or hoar of. Already the storm of indigna~ tion, gathering atrongth onch dny na it is fed by fresl disclosuros, sounds a note of waraing to oll unworthy Congrossmen. Awsy with all who lavo 80 lowored thoouco high character of Amoricon statosmen! v . Arowo nover to undorstand that wo must havo nono to ropresont us, either in tho Sonato or the House, on whom the vory faintest suspi- clon of ovil rests ? Aro tho droams of & * mode]l Ropulilio,” such ns are dear to all who yot re- momber how blood wng freely shed in order to progervo tho form of Union, nover to bo real- ized? Aroweto rest tamely under these in- Bults to our prido? Are wo indeed givon over, boyond hopo of redemption, to tho vilo gang-of bribe-takers who crowd tho halls made gacred by our vivid racollections of other days, when po« triota studied haw to serveun? “Would to God theso freo United Btates’would but rouse from their lcthnrfi' ond sond baclk such a shout of “No" aa would onca moro confound our ene- mios. Monntimo, tho deadly influencos of wealth and vulgar displny, of inildolity and adultory, of slopticlam aud atholsm ; tho evor-increntin tido of crimo, and. tho equally deplorable sonti- ment which makes & murdorer sn objeck of morbid pity rathor than of detesiation; tho scandal of our divorce courts and laws; the lnxlt{‘. of morala in communitics tho most straight-lacod and orthadox ; thoe fonr~ ful roll of shamo, infanticide, and suiclde, which our daily papers so regularly chroniclo,—are working in our privato as well as publia lifo, pro- poring mon for a futuro more shameless than tho present, whoen virtue and honor will bo as obsoleto in name ns in reality, and our dograda- tion will bo comploto. 2 But while at times wo are disposed to envy thoso who, slooping, far away, un award of Southorn battlo-flelds, aro sparod the nin of secing tho laund in suoh a plight, wo, " Young Amerlcans,” aro willing to~ moot an fight thoso Intor dangors thet monaco us é“tn ob to 860 our country rescucd from the ovil hands into which sho has fallen; but tho ‘“new ora" will nevor dawn - unlges publio: sentiment i stimulated to such o degree than an honost man may touch politics and not bo dofiled. Ahl how long will Amorican gentlemen sit Rninfly ab home, aud soo thomsolves supplanted in posi- tions for which their talonts and abilities flt them, whilo gamblors, amists, adultorers, and bribe-takers are sont to logislate for thom and thelr childron; by tho In- fluonce of ganga that are strongaeut at our ballot- ‘boxes as at our groggerles? Bbamo on the indo~ lonee which can lool on and seo such things dono in the name of tho American Congress [ * Whero ig tho leador of tho fature, who will so rouse his countrymen to some sonso of their responsibilities as citizens, who will so lash the crowd of shamoless thieves with tho scorn and lonthing of a whole nation, that thoy may, liko Jaearlot, go and heng themselvos ? 4 Wo can only wait and hopo that the day will como whon we shall bo able to hold our heads up onco again. Porhaps tho bitterly humiliating experionce of this wintor may toach ug grent truths, that wo will do woll to hoed. DBut wo cannot cleanso o strenn tho sourco of which is foul. Wo can- not bayo honost Congrossmen without wo firat havo homest yoters, Wo cannot havo ecithor without honest and enorgotic citizens do their ANTERBURY. ox-prize-fighters, blg- duty. - OirtoAdo, March 3, 1870, - piicc el — THE TOWN OF KNOX, IND, . Kxox, Ind,, Fob, 25, 1870, To the Editor of The Ohftago Tribune: Sm: The town of Xnox, .countysent ‘of Btarke County, Ind., is pleasantly located on. tho mouth bank ‘of Yollow River, 68 miles southonst of Clieago, 60 miles cast of Kankalkeo, 1L, 20 milos west of Plymonth, and in tho midut of ono of tho bost stook-ranges in tho - groat Northwost. It containga population of 1,100 puro Anglo-Snxon, sirictly moral inlinbitants, It hna 1 weokly nowspapor, 4 goneral stores, 1 drug storo, 8 rotail grocorios, 1 millinory catabe lishmont, 2 hotols, 1 graded achool, 1 art-gallery, (tho pioture-car), 1 churcl, 1 snyw-mill, 1 cabinots shop, and 2 saloons (whisky). Tho profes- sions aro roprescnted by 0 lawyors, 6 doctors, 1 professor of musio, 1 artist, but nary residont proachor. Tho town also contnind a fine working Tiodge of Masons, who own & splondid hall-build- ing, furnished in good style. A Lodgaof I. 0. 0. . way organized horo last fall, is now in ool working order, aud numbors among its cit- fxnuu somo of tho bost citizens of tho town. Horotofore Knox hae boon without any moans for trausporiation, and, consoquontly, bohind nolghboriug towns in point of wenlth and im« provoments, DBut it soon oxpoots to be a first- class raflvosd town, or rather a town on a first- olags railrond,—the' Llymouth, Kanknkeo & Pa- eltio (which has beon }mullln onough for tho past 0ar), the road-bod of which is graded all along {ho line, the ties ou the ground, aud overything in readinoss for tho iron, which, it 1s said, will bo put down a8 soon ng tho frost is out of the ground, and tho cars bo nmnm[{, ero the Juno roses bloom, Quito n numboer of buitdingn were orooted hore last yoar, and many more nro incon- tomplation under the impetus of tho railrond. Our court-houso {8 firat-clays, and on honor to the county. But a flouring or grist-mill is ono of the gront wanta of Iuox, and any man who hnd tho norve to invest In such au outorpriso will find a splendld_location horo, would bo oor- dially wolcomed by the leading. citizons, and ~ Dblessed the community n onoral. '"horo ianlson splondid okanco horo for industrious mon of smull monns, to securo homes nllow pricos and oasy terms, without going nway out \Wost,—thera boing plonty of chonp land inthis county, Thore is a good manug horo for a shoowmnler, and a hurnosgs shiop would also bo well putronized, Iut, with tho first snort of (be fron hotwo, we n‘x%uo'z‘ull “loh to follow In hiw wake. Tod, L, or the warm: *docks.at Duluth wero a stupendous folly, much they cost i not known outside tho ring,” THE NORTHERN PAGIFIC. The ¢ Construction Company** and Us Operations--~Crodit fiobilicry Jr. The Duluth Docks Folly--- Buying Up News-- -~ papers. What . Minnesota Business Men Think of the Road. Who Buy tho Bonds?-«The Bondholders® Sccurity-=-Tho Rond * Alecad of Thmo.” —_— From a Cinetnnatt Commerelal Correspondent on (hs line of the Northern Pacifie Railroad, = CREDIT MOBILIER, JUNIOR, . To build tho firat 116 miles of road, n Constrnc- tlon Oompany was formed. Bill King, tho fa- moua lobbyist, who has done somuch forthorond emong hin frionds in Congrens, was at the lead of it. Tho lino of tho rond, east of Brainord, lics through n loval country, covered,, in groat part, by timber. Tho timber Ia small; being about tho right nlze for oroes-tlos. Bo you will underatand {hint tho cost of conatrnotion wns not_oxcossiva. ‘Tho Oonstruction Dom}mny built tho rond in winter, Tho ground was{rozon, matahios, swamps, snd nl], into a solid, unyiolding chunk. Thotios wore lald upon the frozon surfaca, tho rails prop- orly pub_on, epilked down, nud “the rusd do- clared tobe * huilt.,” It was vory nice, indeod. Tho bod was solid, tho ralls emiooth, and the sars ron woll ovor it. The Construotion Compan was pleased, tho-railroad company was plua.sndv nd gonoral happinoss porvaded all eiroles. ub spring came ; tho ground thawed ; tho-marshes wero rolonsod from thoir oy fottors ; tho Bwamps peoped-up through the ico ; the xaine'doscended, and the small floods cam, and what & rond| Tho bed was sunlk in some places, and raised up at others, Tho ties punk under the woight of n train, and at oach ond_of ench Lo was & puddlo. In places tho - track disappoared from viow en- tirely, It went down, down. Tho condition of things was deplorable. The rond could not bo oporated. 1t was plain, very rluln, that tho Construction Company hnd not built n firat-class road. Itwas but s wrotchod imitation, aftor tho frost caime out of the ground, i a 2 Well, by gomo sort of a hocun pocus, the rail- rond company, through its ougineors, was in- duced to recoivo the rosd with an_abafemont of 800,000, How much moro]than this it cost tho Construation Company is not known ; but so far a8 tho public oan g0, thoy got tha road off thoir hands at that figure. Noiv, marlkyoun, it cost the railrond company §500,000 to put tho rond in firat-clngs order aftor they had recoived it from the Construction Compauny, Thoy are at worle at it Lill ihis doy, driving pilos in 8oft marshos, trying to find boltom, and at some points chang- ing tho road bed for considorablo distancos, By thoir contract, tho Construction Company of_twelyo mon clearod over $100,000 esclt! ~ . But that was not all of thospoll, They oleoted’ indom. Win- dom camo hiore o smooth-faced flodgling of the 1w from Olio, and, by virtuo of s conaume mate tact of working wires, ratherthan by- bis {folonts,'has sucocedad in reaching tho Senato. Hoisncrontura of the Northern Pacific -Com- ‘pany. It is not disputed but that ho owos his olection to that Qompany and to the Company's rings. His namo bonutifully appoars among tho list of Directors. It wao important that. tho Company should have one of their Directors in “tho Honate. ' It will bo moro important,” after o while, whon thoy commonce howling for: & gov~ ornment subsidy. It ia roportod that Windom hns 800,000 stocl in tho road. At oll ovents, ho 18 n Diroctor, - o=, Bo you will seo the importance and' signifl- canco of his election to tho Senato, Inthe cam- Euign tho Daily Press, of Bt. Paul, tho loading opublican nows] I:Pl!l‘. was o littlo Iukewnrm on Windom, They did not rush up to the scratch Dbesutifully, with their faces wroathed in tho smiles of rejolcjng. Intimations wero thrown out by that sheet that thore were other men-in Minnesotn, besides Windom, cs.[;nblo of repro- sonting the Btate in the Henato. This would never do, and tho Press must be concilinted. So ;tho Construction Company gavo tho proprictors on oqual share in tho concern with tho rest, onc-twonticth intoroat. Thon' tho paper camo "1‘-{\ to tho work smilingly. Windom was olected, n United Statos Sonator, William Wi 0 sharo in the Consiruction Compiny notted ' tho paper a largo amount. The sheot bas™ beon v‘ary loynl to tho road sud all_concerned ever sinco. . Bill King, who docs tho: bullt of tho lobbying for tho railrond company, avd for any other company that may employ him, was for soveral onrs Postmastor of tho Houso of Ropresonta~ ivos. Ho went in poor, but is now rich. He has roaped tha reward of being on confidential torms with mombors of Congress. He knowa who of them will sell out. It s curront hero, where Bill is known. the bost, that ho acts "as sort of middla man, and recelves commissions Doth ways. 3 4 DULUTIL DOOKS, ) In thot stupondous fraud, tho Duluth docks, and in fanoy buildinga and unngcessary **im- provements” along tho lino, tha Company have #unle o round half million of dollars, The fiunt oW, but the amouut is eatimated all the way from n quartor to half n million, *‘Chis wholesalo: ex- onditure when it was not needed caused. the- | ompany to bo eramped last fall, and the only, thing that saved them was o brisk salo of honda. They havo now cut down oxponditures ol along tho line, and the fllm% is oimrntud ith & groat show of egonomy, but It will neyver go through to tho Paciflo upon itd prosont basis, i 5 DUYING UP NEWSPAVERS, - - Tho grontest offorts heve beon mado to blind peoplo through the nowspapers: a3 to tho real nature of the gigantlo job. In tho intorest of tho Compnn{ were enlisted o gcore of writors, Schuyler Colfax among tho rest. Itisenid oub horo that ho recoived §5,000 from the Compnny for Lis contributions in favor of {ho rond in the Now York Independent nnd othor papers, but this may not be trio, i Nn\\'avnpormnn haye beon boughtup by whole- solo, They are- invited out hors in tho balm; - timo of -year when tho:Iandsoapo {s-green ani tho birds sing swootly. . Thoir pockets aro stuffed with passes und their stomachs with wine, and they aro made the recipionts of so many favora that it is imponsiblo for them to becoms eritics, ‘Choy olther praigo or koop silont. thom pruige. - * 5 ML e Thera are & clags of correspondents who bave pufled this barron country boyond the bounds of reason or comwon sonuo, - When their expenses roall paid by the Company, aud thoy receive noat perquisifes besido, o moderate smount of “laudation i3 to bo expected, but for thom to deal almost ontirely in romnuco is a fraud upon tho publio, who want tho truth ‘or something near it, ' Carlton,” of tho Boston Journal, puifed thie country 80 gloriously that tho spaoulators npmed a town aftor him in the Red Rivor coun~ try, bt it ins gono to_ruin, * Liko tho puttery thint creatod it, it could not staud tho tost of ox- Furlmmu. How many poor follows have beon oolod out hero to freezo by tho siron soug of tho pald correspoudonts wo may nover know. Enough, at lonst, to boautifully teat tho power of tho press, I hear of two fellowawho dropped into a bookstore ut Bt. Paul. “'Choy had bought town lots upon the Norihorn Pacifle,” said my {uformant, ““baviog beou porsunded into the in- ‘vestmont h{ tho Boaton nuwspulpurfl. Well, thoy woro In hore during tho cold weathor— frozo out fup thore, I supposo. One was a pious man;. ond the othor was rathor wicked, ~ ‘The wicked ono lob In to cursing tho country up thoro awfully, Ylo said it was & d—-d swiddlo, blt at by &—4d fools. Tho Yluus man agreed, apparently willing that ,tlio othor should do the nwoaring, Prosently -tho wioked man said ho wauted to swep off I lots on tha Northern Pa- citlo for an acro in hell. Tho good man didn't agres {o that, but Lo had to laugh some as ho stood shivering by tho stovo." WIIAT TILE BUBINESS NEN TININK OF IT, Theo louding business mon of 8, Paul and othor principal ufilus of the Btato are tied up by tho oporations of tho Cowmpany, and do not eare to spoal thoir sentiments, “Tho Company is spend~ iug & vast amonnt of monoy in the Btate, aud tho onterpriso bag tho boat wishos of tho busi- nosg mon, Lt thoy havo no faith In it. -Down in tholr hoarta thoy boliova thore will be an ox- plnuiun, aud they aro oaroful not to run rinks, ‘thore nre no Northorn Pacifte bonds sold in Bt. Paul. I Inquired of severzl bankors, and ro- ceivod tho samo answor from ull. I'was told, howover, that partics had offored them there at 0 por cent digcount, Allowance should bo mado for the faot that 8t. Paul I8 in the far Western country, und without surplus capital, but with caplial{ doubt if thore would bo miny bouda eold, Xt s too noar tho line "of operations, the businots of the Company and oharactor of the country are too well kuown. ‘ 1 wan told by an old citizon of Bt. Paul, and A trntnoss man, that ho had bean up on tho rosd with othiors, and that the conclugion como to among {homsolves was that tho road would nover o throngh as conductod now. But thoy Lield thelr peaco. Tt will tako n largo cash Aube sidy from ltIm Governmont to completo tho job. Without o rubsidy, ovory milo of rond bullt be= yond tho Missourl impatrs the valuo of tho bonds na an faveatmont, ns tho country hecomos poor- er and tho oxpengo of construction largoly in= T T e s WI0 DUY TNL NONDI?, 2 In thoe farco of an Invostigation’ by Bypher's Qommittee ak Washinglon, in which just ono witness was oxamined, and ho the Presidont of tho rond, this quoation was asked : ¢4Whero nnd to whom have tho bulk of tha ‘bonds of tho Northorn Paclfio Company thys foz boen sold?” - - ‘T'o which the then Preaident Smith answered: ey havebeen sold in nearly all parls of the country, but chiofly in the Biates north cf Virglnia and oast of "the Mississippl,.and in . Canada. .Thoy havo been purchased .chiofly by working poople, by farmers, aud by conservativo capitalists, Vory many of the farmors who havo pnrchased tho Londs, have done so with tho purpose of ultimately exchnnging them for tho Compnny's lands, which thoy can at any timo do ot n premium of 10 per cont., Almost with ‘oitt excoptlont the honds have boén takon and aro now-hold a6 an myestmont.” . Through the New England Statos tho bonds havo been sold lugol,v. Whoroyor the Bchuylor Colfax and New York Inlependent_influence {8 felt among mon of small means, Paciic houds have found purchngors. Up to the 10th of Octo- ber lant, nossly oightoon millions of dollars of bondn biad boon shoved 'off in varlous parts of tho_country, and by this timo the aggrogato {8 probably twenty ml{llous. It takes tho proceeds of the salo of over a million.and a half worth of tho bonda to pay the interost on thoso already s0ld,” Healthy financioring thnt. TIE TONDUOLDER'S BEQURITY, Tho lnnd-gflnt of tho Company has been "“’“B!Eml poy J. Cooko nnd J, Ed- ar Thomson na Trustoey for the bon- it of the bondholdern. As far as land i8. mold -tho proocads are to go to thono Truateen in trust for the holders of the bonds, As sliout 8100 worth of bonds aro eold to ovory 810 worth of Inud nold, tho *sinking fund " for tho uitimato redomption of the bonds soems xather thin, But the joko of it is that the honoy from tho salo of landn, ns fast as it comen into tho hands of tho Trusfeos, io to bo invested in Korthern Paciflo Railroad bonds, But as the Company agrees to tako thelr bonda in pnyment for land ut 10 por cont promium, {6 would sosm that very littlo ‘inoney would resch the Trustoos, A man wanting lands would vory mtumllf ey for it in bonds. Bo, whichever way wo look at it, tho asuets in tho hands of the Trisateos for tho benoft of the holdera of Northe orn Paciflo Railrond bonds will be—Northorn Pa~ ci flo Railrond Londs. _.In. their report to the Railrond Commistionar of this Btato, tho company placo their roosipts from tho salo of lands from June1, 1872, to Sopt. 1, 1873, at 6,714.45, or less than 85,000 pmonth. During the snmo timo thoy sold tot lens than - 81,000,000 worth of bonds. ~ Of courso their Jand enfos in Minnosota will bo much largor than thia in the futuro until tho good land is all taken up; but tho proceods will bo_but o small per cont of tho amount of bonda sold, The ** sinking fund," oven 1f it was cnah, inslond of Northorn Paciflo Rallrond bonds, will not ho an immenso pilo. o 'I'ho mortgago made to necurs the bondholders 18 rathor & funny document. 1 have n copy with me, aud rend it & great deal for amusoment and inulrucfion. It occupies oight vory closoly rinted -pagos in fino typo. Articlo § throws ght on tho subject under this head, It saye: *Tho procoods of tho anles of the bondé shall bo placed to tho eredit of tho comrnny upon the books of the fiscal agonts, and shallremain ou deposlt with thom uutil requived for disburso~ mant oi account of construction and equipmont, or other legitimnto oxpenditures of the road; ond tho trustcos, under this mortgage, shall havoe access to tho nccounts of thoe fiscal agents, and shall certify, from time to time, as may b2 required, that enid funda have been so doposited nnd digbursed.” A Jay Oooko & Co. are tho flacal agents, and J. Caoke and J. Edgar ‘Chomeon are the trusteea. 1t is plensant to know that Jay Cooko ehall have access to tho books of Jay Coolte. Jay Cooke, ng trustoo of tho bondholders, must cortify from timo to timg" (when will one of thotimes come 7) how many bonds Jey Coolo, na flscal agent of the Gomimny, hos “sold. The thing is like A. Amos, military commander in Mlauina{gpi cortis {ying that A. Ames wns elected to the Unitea States Sonato, and thorefors commissioning the said A. Ames ns Senator, But tho point ng to the investmonts of land ‘monoy for tho bonoflt of tho bondholders in what I want more particularly to get at. Suys tho mortgage; ¢ All monoys in tho bands of tho Trastees, roceived by thom under the second of theso artlclos, or for bonds sold, shall bo invest- ed by thom in the flrst morigage bonds of the bonds can bo purchaned nt o Bum not excooding 110 oents on tha ‘dollar, and acorued in- torest ; .and . when said bonds ecan not (1) Do purchinsed nt that rato, then enid Trustcos may Invest in said bonds af a higher rale,” hay ing got the consent of tho * Exccutive Commit= teo of tho Company.” No consent,’ howaover, will ever bo nocessary, for tho timo will nover como'when the bonds eannot bo bouglit at par, "o Company claims tho right to_ issuo ovor $100,000,000 in bonds ; that is, they aro to issuo §2u bonds for overy acre of land they huvo, and thelr land-grant amounts to nearly 66,000,000 acres, Tho cost of tho road will not 'bo much, if ony, less than §100,000,000 by tho time it is complotod. Tho estimatos are somo lowoer than this, but I have talked with peoplo. who have been through tho Yellowstone country, and am {wupuml to ‘bolieve that it is rough, and will ako o triflo ovor tha €65,000,000 estimato. ,But suppose it_costs bub $85,000,000, or £80,« '000,000, will it have enough business to pay the interost on'so Inrgo o dobt, at 7 8-10 percont in gold? Lnst yenr tho rond, so far za bullt, fell 006,000 Lokind operaling oxponses, to sy noth= ing of {ho intorest on the bouded debt.. How ia all this doficit made up? Irom tho eale of bongy, How long can o business be carriod on with such rosults? 5 The truth is, the Northern Paciflois - < < AIEAD OF TINE. The business of tho- country does not now de« mand-it, and will-not: support it. It in drawing much of tho avnilablo «msfltnl of the country uj hero in’this™frozon wildornoss, cupital that is neoded olsowherp, and that {s not noeded horo " for'yaars to come.” 'Tho’ finencinl distress of this wintor—and overy business man kuows that it hna™ been ‘a lard winter—iy largely attribs utable to the drawing of aveilavle capital from its logitimato channols to invest in gigantia and impracticablo echomes, of which this North Tho most of Tolo ‘entorprise is a shinlng examplo.’ Tho Pittsburgh Jron World well says that if tho ‘monoy which hns been invosted in the” Northorn * Pacifls Railroad aud “cuterpriscs” of like charactor, had’ boon loft in its logitimato channel, and ueed in doveloping_our Industrics, there would hayo boon n_murked difforenco in our financinl condition. By tho use of logislo tivo influence, and tho uid of o subuidizod press, millionn of doliars have been oxtorted from tno unsuspeoting for the purpose of building a gis antio and impractioablo_railrond betweon tho orders of eiyilization and the North Pole. Tha cluss of pooplo who stopped out_of tho general line of business to juvest -in Northorn Pacitio Dbonds, and who are now suforing tho untold agony of chronic monetary strlugenoy in conscquence, know what they wore doe infilnnd investod with thoir oyes open. Not so with the preachors, plous doncons, confldinfi olass-londers, thrifty spinstors, and frugal ol malds, who Lave beon led to invest thofr Inst dollar in & Northorn Pacifio bond by roading the Lhighly colored advertisements of “thoso leechoy on tho body politic, inserted iu tho roligious weollica, H KING BILL'S CONTRAOT, Tho atory {a cironlated now that Bill King, bes foro roforred to,—the man wholias grown zich by boing intimate’ with Congrogsmon,—has taken, with othors, & contract to build throe hundred milea of tho rond ontho Pacificslope. The atory 1 thot tho contractors aro to tako their pay in bonds at par and land. It is likely not so, for bonds and 1and will not hire labor, sud the mon ‘who can carry tho cost of threo hundred miles of road would kinve to bo protty stiff-nocked; But King ia noy in Californin interviowing the onp~ italiste, and thore is no toliing what may bo tho result, % " — Singular Catile-Disensce The Eddyville (Iowa) Advocafe reperts a gingular sort of caltlo-digonso: “Wo learned Mondny morning that J. XL Bwitzer, - who g boen feoding nbont fifty hend of cattla for W. 8, 'J.‘hnr[i, of Blakesburg, lost fivo, from Thurs« doyuntil Saturday of last weol, with 'what was supposed to be tho mnad itch, Tho cattlo wore in oxcollont condition, and everything known to tho foedor had boon done to keop them in_good &l)luht, with the best of success, ag far ag conld discovored, Tho firet indication of tho din« ento was g ewitehing of tho tml and pawing, Boon thoy begau to acratch themselves, and cons tinued to do_so-until, in somo instances, thoy , wero covéred with Dblood. JThey stood up na “long ns thoy had_ atrongth, sud "then would lia and seratch untll doath onsued. Wo hoard of two moto casos, but hope it may not bocome gonoral, Lator—Sovoral more of Mr. Bwitzor's cattle havq diod slnoo our first intelligence.” Company sooured by. this mortgage, whon aid .