Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1873, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TENMA OF SUBSONIETION (PATADLE R ADVANGE), Al mail,....812,00 | Sund 3 Ralyppan.....8 .00 Waalsy 85:08 Parls of a yoar at tho sams rato, Ta proront dalay and mistakos, be sure and glve. Post Ofico address in {ull, ncluding Stato and Connty. Romittaces may bo made ofthor by dratt, expross, Post ©Ottie ordor, or In roglstorod lottars, at eur sk, TENMS TO CITY AUNSCRIDENS, aily, deltvored, Sunds . 25 conts por weok. Batly i, Sunder qicenlyd: 55 sonts por yeok: Addrow - THE TRIBUNI COMPANY, Coruer Madison aud Dearborn-sta., Ohlosgo, 1ll. CONTENTS OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. FIMST PAGT--NEWS OF THE Wi ZpE balflll\u .inpll ,fl(.lu ]Aflfl;l;lflwnlm;l ]K:IIII:I.I’: Do Raviah Nirondu- Fead and Thoft—-Orimao Fonde inocllanoous, {7 TARIYT-Talicoad Tistos from Now O A A attador” Rognifod by iE= g 25 acthyunko it Hundrod Lives Lost—$13, 00,00 eatroyad, "MURTIY 1114 Powor, and thio Oxuso of It. AT OF RAGES—lattla. Hotwoon tho' Blscks and Whitos in Grant Parish, La..—About, 100 Nogroos Killod 1.3 Goutlof 8 Gl Gburt Tonto~ ot Dainaen Whilo and Golored Minors at Knighteville: Tnd. DO LAWRANOR-The Judlolsl " Onmpalgn at Piinoaton. Tifs Oivir-Beuvicr CommissioN—Mayor Modill's Resignation, BEUOND PAQUR-EDITORIALA~Tho Compromise Rail- ad Bili—Monopolios, and ~ Disoriminntions—\Weatarn fi"“"“‘"‘f.r"& et SR Ryatom ot Taliay Cane —Tho - - truction—Troadstnls’ and Blankets—tho Givil-Borvica BHIND PAGY . Tie Mopoo Wan—Mardor of Gon. Canty and tho Ponco Comminsionors—Ordor of Kivents B O et o ol Fitat Coumalie-Tho Com 2 Rgsui i ey ar " Gommislones Thomas™ Dolay on tho V) ‘ONE'S INCOME—Romarks of Sonator Chand- i ) 10‘1’?: Sl S Runator Losan, oa tho Bl to trenso Qongrossjonal Sa IDGE LAWIENOE—D; s of the Bar Invito Him to Bg:;mu llélndldllfl for Ro-cloction—His Letter Accopt- 520k QuEaTION~TFrom tho Rallroad Potnt of View, ANi1-Moxorory—Boating of ‘the Burosn Oumaty rmors—Tho Bnpram. Court, Quostion—They Disciatm ledging s Uandidate to Doolds Questions in Favor of 7 Oma GiassUpposion to Judge Lawrence. T'mE LADOR QUE )N—A Gonnral Strike of Working- mgn Throughodt the Gountry In Gontompla T \EIGITT-] -Mant ‘758-Blooting of Ratlron g ¥ 3, .DITORIALE~Tha d the A e o Balvadey Earihaeaxe—jiaiirond Gomyaglor and Publio' Bights_fuo/ War of acos in R F ey Giteo) Lr2kii Ohange In tho Law of Mar- RS (6 iaitteo, of Thistaon. —y Jominltteo ol 1— ATy UA;I;E,QL ml;?m" Commission—Tho Com- Warohousos— uostio ho O, B, & Q. . 3 4 oward tho Buprome ‘Court—Lottor from Mr, M. Bl.' ooton, Vice Frosidont of tho Illinols Stato Farmers' ssociation—Mootings at Various Pointa—Letter from Mg’ Bontks fnaokoz-Lotter from tho Rev. 7.0, VR MBbo0 Honnon—Tatorsiow with the Commissfoner f Indlan Affairs—Ordors for tho Extormination of tho g!odnnl-"l’ha ‘Poaoo Folicy—Gon. "Canby's' Succasior— af tho Peaco Cormissivn. et AGMCOLTUMAL INVORMATION—-Ofcial port an tho Itatation of Crops. ADYENTISEMENTR, . SIXTH FAGH-Tit: Monstons—Drighum Young Abal- catoa—Goorga A, Sinith His Sucocasor—Whora the Mono Gons—What thio ‘Movomont Mosns—Brigbam's Dispata o tho Naw York lorald, T1y; THANSPORTATION QUERTION—Somo Quorlos A FAMILY QUATREL—I1s Traglcal Ronult. TRENOH BTORY—With o Moral, ik RAILROADS—Bocauzoof a DI tlon Booka ta Provont Tranworiation ody Elso—The Bupromo Court Dulluos {1 ifroads—A_Gompany May Not Mako Runaing Agro- monts_that Wil Intorforo with tho Rights of thio ouplo. A COUNTRY PORT-OFFIOE—Tho Froo-and-Easy Manugs’ 1 Which It Was Kont. 3 “Tin KAnae A OAnbe, 3 TIARY. SiONTHonN" — Tho ** Woodland » - Fiora " Hords of Short-Horn Cattle Sold at inle of Short-Horns at Racino. A RussIaN WINTER FAIL~Saino of Tte Pebullaritios, ‘ LigAt-Tang - tult for Damagos Groding Ou ** Logal-¥aro " Toador, on the Rook falaud Rafiroed, SEVENTH PAGE—** TIAT Box "—TuoSpring-Yoarn- tag that Possouion Humanity. : WINTER PANTASY—A Poom. CAUSES OF DEATI—Some Curious Roading. . A L0ST ART REVIVED—Tho Emprows Josophine's O1d Rl ENORY—. 5 A NEw HONG OF STXPENCE—Apropos to tho Atlantio, Disastor, DYBPETSIA—A Novel Curo for It. "HE SECRET S0OIETY—A Thrilling Story. - UMOn—A Oollotion of Comicalitios. EIGHTH PAGE—FINANGIAL—Donoy Batters at ONI- oego. UOMMEROIAL—Chloa; Produco Markots—Chicago ive-Stock Marko nwr& Roviow for Wook-—Chicago ber Markot—Horkimer County Di rkot—Eu- gbcbfl g}l k‘fll Bugnla%"nifllb(filk Mir]mtix-“N'n %ri;k 5ods w York, Milwaukoo, Halfalo, Cin- il;’mu. ‘Tolodo, Ulovaland, Sad New Orloana Produso 'rospootus for 1873, CéNTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—The Modoo Troublos—Washington Ne wa —Tho Minors' Riots at Knightsvillo, Ind.—W.all Straot—Miscollanoous Tolograns, s BECOND PAGE—Tho Farmors' Movomont—Suburb an Nows—Tho Clty Hall Plan Undorgoing the Sifthag Procoss—Tho Modov Campalga. THIRD PAGE—Tho Uourta—The Knlckorbockor Insurr- anco Company—Tho Clty in Briof—Railroad Timio- Tablo—Adsertisoments. FOUNTH PAGE-Ldltorials: Tho Toulsiana Slaughteirs Tarmors and tho Tarif—Curront Nows Itoms—Notos & and Opinton, * FIFT! PAGE—Tho Stato Loglslaturo—Markots by Tolo- graph—Marine Nows—Advertisomonts. .: BIXTII PAGE-—-Monotary and Commorclal, SEVENTH PAGE-Small Advortisementa: Real 'Iis- tato, For Bale, To Ront, Wantod, Boarding, Lodg- ing, ota, EIGHTH PAGE-Forelgn Nows-Stato Loglalaturos— AMiscalianeous Tolograms—Emall Advertiscuonts— Auction S . TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VIOKER'S THEATRE—Madieon streot, betwoin Stato nud Dearborn, Engagoment of Miss Noltwo 4 A8 You LikeIt," AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabnsh avenuo, cornor of Cota gress, Eugagowont of Stuart Robson, ** Law in Now York." HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph stroot, ba- twoon Olark and LaSalloat, *‘Allze,” AOADEMY OF MUBIC— Halstod stroot, south of Mndison. Engsgomontof Mr. ¥. 8, Chanfrau. *'Kit, tho Arkansas Travoler," MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroa street, batween Stato ond Dearborn, Avlington, Cotton & Kombla's Minatrol and Burlosque Troupo. ** Romoo and Juliot.” NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE — Clinton, Washington and Randolph stroots, National Oirou betweon Wildor & Co.’s BUSINESS NOTICES. ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY, Qinacy drawing will sko placo on fiwr;.-m ot Apii. 1813, raw . Fliora. whll ba o0 tiokots anc 3,007 Jriadne J. B. MATLCINEZ & Clny 16, 6 kot 1 9,007 prizos. B ettty Fontosive Tion S50 No Forer BATCHELOI'S HAIR DYE, THIS BPLENDID hairdyo (s tio bost in tho world. Tho only truoand por- doct dye. Harmloss, roliablo, and Inatautancous; nodlsap- intmant : noridiculous tinitu or nnpleasant odor. Rowio- Sioa tho il affeots of Lad dyos and naahos. ucos im- orb black or natural brown, and louvos the and bogutiful, ~'rlio endino, sigusd . Datcliolor,’ Sold by all druggists, OHARLES ATCHELOI, Propristor, N. ¥, The Chicage Tibune, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1873, ! Fuuds for building the much-needed dam at Copperas Creek aro at lougth assured, providing the Govornor asscnts, by tho action of thoe Sen- ate in passing tho Houso bill, which sets apart tho rovenues of tho lock and dam at Houry for that purposo, Fivo and & half millious of dollars Lave boon sppropriatod by tho Capadian Houso of Com- . mons, uittiug in Committoo of Supply, for tho survey of the Camads Pacifio Railway. Tt s #0id that tho cost of eonlavging the Welland Canal will be £0,260,000. ——— Postal cards, whichhave been usod with groat favor in England and Canade for & long time, will be iutroduced in this country on the first of wnmoxt month, Tho cards, with tho postage stamp, cost ono cont apivce, aud will bo sald in any quantity. Ordors for 30,000,000 Liava alrondy been vecoived by tho Poat-Ofiico, and it is Lolieved that 180,000,000 will be callod for in the first year. . The compromiso Tiailrond bill was considorod yestorday in tho House, section by seotion, and way passod to o third ronding with some amond+ ‘ments and without 'the emergeucy clause. An aitempt, which may be renewed “in tho Senate, " $o throw tho wholo bill over aud roplaco it by the Tonahuo Lill, was lost by the significant voto of 93to 24, Three porsistont offorts wero made togot ARoalal zates for manufagturors mho mako LoaY7 can bo subdued only by starvation, .doro might in some way bo involved; but, as | Prosident Grant has named Mr. Dorman B. ‘nutu ©of tho back conntry who do not joln tholr " TIIE CHICAGO DAILY ‘TRIB shipments, Lut the Houso gave thom no quartor. The ohief amondments extend hw ponalties of the bill to dlscriminatinesin handling, recolving, ‘and dolivering froighta; dircot tho mdvortine- meont of tho rates fixed by tho Railrond Commis- stonors to bo published in a Chicngo instead of » Bpringfleld papor, ns first proposod ; and give casos arising under tho bill priority in the courts “ovor all others. ' In tholr hasto to develop thoir railroad com- ‘munications, many of the towns and villages of this Btato havd voted to issuo tholr bonds on behalf of delusive rallroad corporations whoso growth has nover gone beyond their prospoct- uses. Tho Bonato haa passod a bill allowing fthe authorition of such communitios to transfor’ thoso bonds to other companics that will bulld In pursuance of agreoment. The Zion Church Farmors' Club, of Jackson County, Iil,, have given us & gloam of light by momorializing Congrosa and tho Prosidont to opon negotiations with tho Dominion of Onnada for n ronowal of tho Reciprocity Treaty, and the onlargoment of the Welland and Bt, Lawronce Canale. This is a far choapor, spoedior, and more offoctivo modo of relief than any schemo -of Amorican ditoh-digging. Nows from the lava-béd s {nterrupted by the foarful snow-storm in Nebrasks, which has ‘broken down the Weatern wires, and has buried tho Union DPacifio Railrond in drifts from ton to twonty-fivo feot doop. It s 'known that tho day nfter tholr asana- aluation of Gon, Canby the Modocs resumoed tho offenslve and attackod the ontposts of our forcos. Thoy were ropulsed with tho loss of ono killed. Thoe podrogal, as tho position of tho savagos is called, is moro imprognablaithan Gibraltar, aud it 1a bolioved fn,Washington that the Indiana Monoey In Wall atreot Is still losned &t ratos running from 200 to 800 por cent, notwithstand- ing the menaces of tho Grand Jury., The stock market was thrown into a flurry yes- terdsy by the failure of a firm com- yoana of a nephew and grandson of Vanderbilt. It was supposed ithe Commo- Mr, Grooloy found to his cost in his advances to Cornoliue Vanderbilt, Jr., the old gentloman s in tho habit of, lenving his rolatives to tako care of ‘thomaelves. * Whon the Commodoro was found to ho-safe, tho panic onded, tobipests, thop -In place of Commiesionera Medill and Curtls, Eaton, of Now York, and the Hon, Samuel 8hol- labarger as mombora of tho Oivil-Bervide Ad- visory Board. Mr. Bhollabargor fa well Imown. Mr., Eaton is & momber of the New York bar, and soveral yoara ago was prominent in the dircotion of logal and logislative moasures agninst .tho Fisk monagomont of tho Erio Tailrond. He disoppoared from tho public view one night about thres yoars sinco, in consoguenco of o dastardly nssault, be- lieved to have beeu instignted by Fisk, which loft him for dend at his own door. His system waa 80 shatlored by the blow that hio was unablo to rosume tho practice of his profession until Inst summor. At tho invitation of the Commit- too of Soventy, lnst fall, ho deliversd an addross’ upon the principles of municipal government. Tho Chicago produce marlkots waro g1 v quiot- yeaterdsy, Mess pork was active, and closed 10c por brl lower, at 910.85@16.40 cash, and 816.76@16.80 sellor Juno, Lard was quiot and unchanged, at $8.40@8.45 por 100 ibs cash, and $8.60@8.56 soller May. Moats were active and ateady, at GX{@63ge for shoulders; 8@ 830 for short ribs; 83¢@8lgo for sbort olear, aud 10@123go for sweot pickled hams, High- wines woro inactive and nominally firmer, at 8634@87c per gallon. Lake froights woro dull and nominally easier, at 160 for corn to Buffalo. ‘Wheat was ° dull and unchanged, closing at §1.193@1.20 cash, and $1.213¢ sallor May. Corn was active, and advanced }c, closing at 343¢@342{o cash, and 955@353{c sellor Moy, Oata wero active, nnd advanced o, closing at 2734c cash, and 28)¢c scller May. Ryo was acarco and firmer at 50. Barley was dull, but firmer, ut 703(@760 for No. 2, and G0@63c for No, 8. Heavy hogs wero in domand at a shade botter prices, while light grades woro neglected and woak. Bales at 25.25@5.70. The caitle market was again lower, but was active at tho docline, Bhosp woro unchanged. Mesars. Phelps, Dodgo & Co., In their pub- lished statoment, succeed in throwing much obsourity over their importations of tin platos, which resulted in their tendering tho Govern- ment £271,000 a4 & compromise for undorvalun- tions; but thoy adduce nothing which tends to vindicato the honor of ‘their house, They say: " A chiargo of fraud having beon proferred, tho firm at onco voluntarily surrondered thelr books and papers to tho legal authorities, and offered without legal delay or oxpoauro to pay tho just elaima and penaltics that might bo proved ngainat them, snd as in carnest of goad faith, and before auy completo oxamination, de- posited tho value of tho imported articles clalnied to hiave been vitlated. " “A charge of fraud having Loen proferred,” ono would think that the firat utep to bo takon by an houorablo Louse would not bo to tender the Govornment tho full amount claimed, * with- out logal delay 6r oxposure,” but to domand a spoody aud publio trial of tho charge of frand before an impartial jury, Then, If tho trans- nction were an innoceut one, growing out of tho techilcalitios of tho law, that fact could Lo mado to appear, aud would bo worth far more thon §271,000 to tho firm, "o waive such trial, aud offor to pay the monoy without legal dolay or exposure, is oquivalont, in public catimation, to'n plon of gullty. Er—— T'he advicos from tho camp of the insurgents in Cubs, which Mr, O'Kelly was ablo to sond to the Now York Zerald bofore his arrost, indlcato that the revolutionists aro more detar- mined and more Liopeful than ever. It alyo up- pears that thoy have good ground for encour- sgement. Thoy aro richer in clothos, ammuni- tion, and syms than they wore o yoar ago, which shiows that, In spite of tho disparity of forcos, they aro making hoadway agalust tho Bpaulards, If thoy can gain not ouly in numbors, but in materlsl of war undor the most vigorous porae- cution und wtchfulnoss, it i not likely that thoy will loso any of their ardor, pluck, or bopofulness. . The hoadway which they are making In the futerior s signif- onnt, It is searcoly 90 bo doubtod now that thoy aro driving to the soaboard oities all the inhabie fortuncy, Thoy onnuot but gathor strongth in resourcoa and uow volunteors as thoy acquire ad- ditionsl territory, Tha call of tho Captain-Gen- orul upon Spain for additional troops indicaten thint those roporta aro not oxaggorated. Cospedon lag takon xeasousble yiow ¢f tho ghango of 1 govornment in 8pain, whon ho thinks that tho dissonsions botwoon the Ropublicans and Mon- archista will soriously sonkon the ‘powers of tho Bpnnish Govornmont, ' Ihe Car- list war has nirondy accomplished more in this way than Cospedes conld have expocted for somo timo to come, It s ovident, too, that tho Cubans demsnd independence. It makos no difforonco to thom whothor Spain is. & monarchy or a ropublio. O'Kolly roports Cospodos ns saying that thoy wero ‘soparnted {from Bpain by nnocoan of bloodshed and cruolty, and this oxprosses a sontiment that can only be orushed out, if at all, by overwhelming forco,— euch forco ns 8pain s wholly unablo to muator. From Conpodos' words, It doos not apposr that tho Cubana are looking to America for intor-, foronco, and it {8 oxtromely donbtful whother they would conelder any proposition for Ameri~ can annoxation, Their ruling idea is indepond- enco, and thoy are fighting for it nftor n fashion that is likely to succood. THE LOUISIANA SLAUGHTER. The collision at Colfax, in Louisians, botweon tho blncks and the whitos, hah so far resnlited in the killing of noarly s hundrod of the formor anda fow of tholattor. Though this may bo tho ond of tho opon warfare, tho murder thus bogun will bo carried on in guorrills fashion, un-_ til, porhaps, s many moro shall bo killed. Grant Parish, or county, as it would be oalled any- where outside of Loulsiana, is upon tho Red River, somo distanco abovo Aloxnndria. Alex- andris ia 850 milos by wator from Now Orloaus, Tho country fa roriiofs, tho nows belng carriod by boat to. Now Orleans, Tho troublo seems to bave Loen browing ever sinco last November. On tho day of olection, Grant Parish, according to tho roturns mado by tho elaction officors, voted for Kellogg 404, McEnory 518; and, ns doclared by the Lynch-Dursll Board, Kollogg 779, MoEnory 105, The candidates for roproson~ tatives in the Leglslature wore William Ward (Kellogg) and James Hadnot (McEnery). Tho Lynch Board, having no offieial roturns boforo thom, mado up a canvass for every parish in tho Btato, declaring the vote theroof for all officera from Prosidont down to Constable, With ro- epoct to Grant Parish, by some accldont, they omitted to mako any canvasa for parish officors, and made no doclaration showing who had been elocted, That parish, thereforo, had no local officers cloctod by the Kellogg side. To supply the deflicioncy, Kollogg appointed other officors, who failed to qualify. Then Kellogg ap- pointed thoso who had boon declarod clocted Dby the McEnory roturns. In tho mosntime, ‘Ward and Hadnot had eachbeen declared oloctod to tho Logislature, and woro both gorving in tho rival Logislatures at Now Orleans, Ward ro- turned bastily to Colfax, took possession of tho Court-Touse, aud declored bis purposo to ex- clude tho nowly-appointed officers. The nogro population turned out en masse to sustain Ward. In tho excitoment, overybody, white and black, armed himself, violent spacchos wore made, and, finally, Ward garrigoned the Court-House, From that timo out the counity was in the hands of rival mobs, who very soon camo into collision. A flag of truco ment to the Court-Houso was firod oft and Mr. Hadunot shot through the body. t of allegod treachory was thon avenged ng the building, and tho killing or wound- of fioarly ono hundred of the inmates as they shod out. Of courso,Jthe accounts received and to bo received aro more or less partisan, but tho doplorablo fact of au armed and bloody col- lision botweon tlio whites and the blacks of Lou- isiana ia tully established, Thero can be no question where tho responsi- Dbility for this bloodshed falls. Aun olection was held in Louisians in Novomber last, and tho Judgs of tho United Statos Court, by his ordor, set asido tho olection and tho canvass of the oflicial voto; authorized o partienn committee, who nover hed a roturn from any precinet, to make out a list of porsons aud declare them elected. Tho saa0 Judgo ordored tho Marshal to employ Fedoral troops to suppress any meeting of tho legally-clected Legislature, to seizo the Btato offices by forco, and thus instelled in office & Governmont not olected, Tho main difforenco botween the two Governments was, that the ono had been voted for by tho white peoploof tho Stato, nnd elacted, aud tho other hnd been voted for by the colored prople, and not elocted. Tho Prosident of the United States, at first through his subor- dinate, and aftorwards in porson, approved of all this action, and by his orders Judgoe Durell's injunctions and decroes are still enforcod by the Tedoral troops in Louisiane, The Kellogg Gov- ornment in Touisiana, whatover may bo its moral charactor, has no other warrant of loyalty than the order of tho President to the military to support it This whole busingss has been fully and carofully. oxamined by seven Sonatora of tho United Btates,—0. P Mor- ton, M, H. Carpontor, John A. Logan, J. L. Alcorn, IL B. Anthony, Lyman Trumbull, and | Joshma Hill, These soveral Sonators unani- mously condomn Judge Duroll's ordors ns fla- grant violations of the Conatitution, disgraceful totho judiciary, fraudulent from beginning to end, and the Government which was ereoted upon theso ordors o monatrous and iniquitous usurpation. Messrs, Logan, Carpenter, Antho- ny, and Alcorn, whose dovotion to party will not bo questioned, thus spenl : #Viewed fu any light, the orders and injunctions 'made and granted by Judge Durcll inthis causoare miost reprebonsilile, erroncous in point of law, and are | wholly vold for want of juriadiction, and your Commit- toe must oxpress thelr sorrow and Lumiliation thut n Judge of the United States should bave proceoded in such flagrant disvegard of Lis duty, sud have so far overstepped tho Limits of Foderal jurlsdiction. Thore ia nothing in all the comedy of blundors and frauds une dor considoration more indefensiblo than tho protend. ed canvaen of this (Kellogg) fraud.” 1t was testifiod beforo your Committes, Dy Mr, Boveo himeelf, who participated in tho canvass by the Lynch Board, thot thoy were determined to lisvo o Ro- pmbliean Legislature, and inade tholr canvass to that eund, Tho testimony abundantly establishes the fraud= ulout character of thelr canvans, In some casos thoy had what were supposed to Lo coples of the original ro- turns, fu othor _caacs thoy had nothing but uowspaper statements, and §n othor cascs, whero thoy had nothing whatvor Lo act upon, thoy made an estinalo, Lascd upon {helr knowledge of the polilical comnploxion of tho parlsh, of wlat the volo ought to havo boen, They also comted n lurge nmuber of afidavits purportig to be sworn to by voters who bad boon wrongfully de- nled reglatration or tho right to volo, many of whleh aflidavits thoy must hnvo known fo bo forgorles, Tt was tostified by ono witugsa that Lo forgod 1,000 afi- vits, and delivered them to tho Tynch Doard whilo 1t wau in sewslon, It fo quite unnnccensary to wasta (imo in consldoring this part of tho caso; for no person can oxamine {ho Leatlmony ovor'so cursorily without acoing thot (hfa proteuded cauvass bad 1o somblanc of futegrity,” “Ttfa tho optulon of your Committoo that but for the unjustifiablo dutorforonco of Judga Duroll, whoss arders wero executed by United Btates lraopl, the can- vass mado by (ko Do Forlet Towrdand promulgated by the Goveruor, doclaring Molinory o Lavo boon sloctod Governor, elc., und also declaring who had boon slact. €d to tho Leglalature, would hava Loon acquicscod i Dy tho pooplo, and that Govornmont would bavo one tivod quiotly u on tho oxerclao of the sovereign powor and tho support glven to Lim by Unitod Btates troops, Tuiuligd 15 eniaklialiog thg pwtliosily of Eellogg and of tho Blate, But tho proosodings of Judge Dnroll,J UNE: THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1873, . Lis associates in Btate ofices, nnd the porsons dé- clarod olected by tho Lyuch Board to bo oleoted o tho Loglalaturo, Wo Lava alroady neon that the proceed-' ings of that Doard cannot bo austainod yithout disre- garding ali tho principles of law applicablo to thio eub- Joct, and {guoring tho distinction botwoon good faith and fraud . That Committos, strong Ropublicans as thoy wore, appenled to Congress to intorpose and ordor anow oloction, They predited that if Con- - greas ndjourned leaving this fraud trinmphant in tho Btato, thero would bo collision and blood- shod. Thelr prodiction ke beon fulflled. Tho illogn! intorforenco of Durell and of tho Federal troops has producod itw natural result. A hun- drod alaughtorod mon boar testimony to the in- famy of tho usurpation, tho oruel dospotiam, aud ' tho reckloss ‘and disgracoful viola~ ton of overy principle ‘of law, order common decency, and official honesty. Tho nogroos, having boen instructod that thoy aro to havo thoir own way anyhow, pay no moro heod to tho orders of Kollogg than thoy would to thoso of MoEnory. This is tho natural fruit of lnwlessnoss on tho partof tholr suporiors, and it 48 fo bo fonred thiat wo havo not hoard tho last of It. FARMERB AND THE TARIFF. ‘Tho 8t. Louls Globs is of opinion that the farmers of Illinofs, who have rosolved that the oxlsting tarift is highly injurious to thelr intor- eats, do not know what ia for their own good. As tho propriotars of that papor have beon on both sides of this question, their -sincority of conviction is boyond dispute. In 1870, when Mossrs, MoKeo & Houser woro propriotora of #hie Domooral, #hat paper arguod aa iealously aa avy journal at t1® Wost in favor of tho very roforms which wo now urge, ond ropoatodly domonstratod that thoso roforms wore sbeolutoly nocosaary to the wolfaro of the farmers of tho ‘Wost, Theso same men, being now propriotors of another papor, and seeking rocognition for 1t ns tho organ of tho'Administration in Missourl, bavoadopted acontrary opinion, and expect poo- plo to bo guided by thoir advice, § Concoding thelr sincerity in both positions, we aro forced to conclude either that thoy did not know what thoy woro talking about in 1870, or that they do not lmow what thoy ave talking about in 1879, " Tho only argument which the Globonow pro- ‘sonts is ono very feebly copied by that. papor; but resorted to constantly by the advocates of tho system of monopoly from the earliot dis- ousslon of this subjeot, namoly, that the high tariff, by buflding up manufacturos at the Wost, will creato n hiome market and seouro & higher prico for tho products of Westorn farmers, Thero isno topio upon which moro absurd nonsonse hes boen writton and uttered than upon this:nml yot in part by tho aid of the formor propriotors of the Democrat it has boen mado 8o clear to tho comprohension of the Wostern farmers that vory fow of thom can now be deluded by this shatlow dovico, To the produoer, it makes no difference what~ .ever where his corn or whoat finds & consumor: The only question of importance to him is, at what price ho can sell. If hia corn, sold for ox- portation to Europe, will bring kim ono cont more per bushel than it will if sold for consump- tion in tho noarost villago, then it is Lotter for him to flud tho consumer in Europo Tho prico at which the farmer can sell, whother for transportation to a distant consumer, or for consumption at his vory doors, is governed abso- lutely by the oxport price. This country pro- ducos, and as long as it Ling abundanco of cheap and uwnoccupied land always will pro- duco, moro of tho loading agricultural products -than it can congumo, That surplug ‘govorns thio price of the wholo crop, If corn for oxportation can bo sold in New York at $1.20 por busbel, and not highor, and it tho cost of got~ ting it into the hands of the exporter ‘at Now Yorlk, with all charges of transporters and mid- dlomen, is 81 per bushel, the farmor canmot soll a singlo bushal formore than 20 conts, no mattor whothor ho solla to o home purohasor or to an agont for exportation. Tho Globe mn); Lo ignorant of (his ugly fact, but the farmers of Tllinois and Towa, having learned it by years of trying exporience, know it only too well, and tront with dosorved contompt the sophistry of those who igaora it, and continue to prate about tho advantages of.a home market. Theso facts bul"ng indisputable, it follows that tho farmor cen bo bonofited only in one of thesa waya: First, by incrossing the -export prico of his products ; second, by decreasing the cost of transporting thom to the point of oxporta- tion; third, by docreasing his cost of pro- duotion, Now tho oraziest advocatos of the high-tarlft systom do not protond that it does cithor. Ontho contrary, it ls easy to provo, as the proprictors of tho Globe in formor days ro- peatodly did provo, that the high-tarift systom tonds to diminish the export price; that it in- croagos tho cost of transportation; and that it incronsea tho cost of production, Thuait injures the Western farmer at ovory point at which it con possibly affect Lim at all. Turning first to tho cost of production, avery farmor knowa that ho is compelled to pay more for labor, more for implomonts and machines, aud more for materiala nocossary to the carrying on of his business, than ho did under the lower duties which precedod the tariff of 1861, Tho largent itom In the cost of production ia the cost of Inbor. DBut the tarift indreases tho cost of tho clothes, food, and sheltor of tho laborer, and consoquontly forces him to domand highor wages, Although it is known to every farmor that he s compolled to pay highor wages for evory Liaud omployed than Lo did in 1860, yot the cause is not by all fully underatood, nor do all Iaborers thomsolves realizo that they are not ‘bonofited, becauso the incroaso in thoir wagos hins beon loss than thoinoroase in the cost of liv~ ing, Whothor the farmor cultivates his own ground in whole or in part, the ef- foot s the samo; ko has to pay more for his own labor ; more for his oloth, his Liats, his boots, his lumbor, glass, iron, and other articlos in tho building or repair of his housa or barn ; more for tho clothing of his family, and wmoro for the food of Limself and family ; aud theso burdens mako Lis own labor more costly. Carofully-collected statlatics prove that the in- oronse fn tho cost of living since 1860 has Leen not less than 60 per cent, and tho incroase in wages of labor not loss than G0 por cont, sud to this oxtent tho cost of production, o far as it depends upon tho cost of labor, is nocossarily incronsed. Nor will any intolligent farmer over- look tho incroads iu tho cost of implements or mnchinory, and of ropaire, From the horse- shoe, tho harnoss nnd log-ohain, to the wagon aud tho mower and reaper, every Implo- mont used Las bocome moro costly in oconsequonca of duties wupon ironm, ateol, and othor materinls, People who know nothing about this subjoot, and pooplo who, knowing somothing, still fnd it thoir Intorast to chioat tho farmais, may roason that somo Implo: monts sotually cost lose money than the same SORkAR 2000, Tau pho, fawrack M ROt LoRges that, if invontion and fmprovenient have Iogunn- od tho cost of making theso articles, ho fa enti- tlod to hia tull sharo of that bonofit, and that thoy conld nianifastly bo #old st n’'much lowor price but for tho duties which incronso tho cost of tho materinls used in their conetruction, In short, tho tarlft imposcs upon tho country o tax of lnindrodls of milllons boyond what {s puid into” the Trensury, and this tax increnses tho cost of all Iabor, and. of evory articlo used by or pro- Quoed by Iabor. Ono-half of tho laborors of this oountry aro farmors, and thoy hisvo to benr moro than one-lialf of this onormota burdon, bocause in tho ond tho Jarger part of it falla upon the producors, and not upon tho carrlors or middle- mon, But, sacondly, the carriors and doalors have to boar somoe share of this burdon, and tho coat of transportation is thus increaged. Ienvily-iaxed iron makes rails, rolling-stock, bridges, and en- glnos more costly. Every pound of iron used in & rallroad has to bo roplaced aa ofton as onco in thirtoon yoars, and by far tho largor part much oftonor. Inthia country, thero aro’ used every yoar, in railronds alono, not less than 1,200,000 tons of iron in form not choaper than tho rail. Tho cost of all thia iron is incroased at loast 40 por cont by duties, and much of it still more. But tho transporters, heving » monopoly in tholf businoss, do not pormit themsolves to auffer in consoquence of these burdons, and, by charging highor rates for freight, they throw itall upon the shipper, ‘tho drover, and tho farmor, Nor is this all. A largo shoro of the cost of transportation is in tho labor of the throo hundred thousand persons ongagod as ofil- clals, olorks, employes, and laborersof railroaa companios, aud draymen in clties, and theso slso hiavo their cost of living increased by necdless taxcs. pay more for overy form of sorvice, throw that additional burden also upon the farmor, Thus every dollar of tho incrensed expento of trans- portation of farm products, whother in cost of iron or othor matorinl, or in cost of labor, hos at last to comoout of the pockets of tho farmers. Thoro is but one other wayinwhich the farmer can be nided or injured—by n ohange in tho oxport prico of his products.. Tho faats provo that in that way also ho hna been injured; that the export price of corn and grain has beon Iowor, on tho nverago, during poriods of high duty than during periods of low duty on.tho manufactured produocts which wo bring from othor countries in exchintigo for our corn, whoat, and cotton, The advocates of protection will deny that there is any relation of cause snd offoct botwoen our import dutios and tho export prico of our products. Itisnot nocessary to provo that any such relation exists. To the farmer, it is enough to establish tho fact that, for moro than forty yonrs, and undor tariffs of many differént kinds, the same coincidonco bo- tweon high import duties and 16w export pricos has always ocourred. The ressoning mind will concludo that tho samo coincidenco, whatover tho causo may be, will be apt to occur in fnturo, Noria tho causo altogothor conconled. Com- morco i an exchange of products. If laws pro- vont our buying manufactured goods from Eng- land, or paying such prices as will afford fair profits, England will be the losa ablo or likely to procure as lnrgo & sppply of grain from us; either hor morchants will turn for their pur- chasos to othor countries in which they can also 8ol their goods—as England is ovon now look- iug to the Baltlofor hior grain—or tho ombarrngs~ meut of manufaoture may become such asto lesson tho number of consumers, or restrict the quantity of grain consumed. TFroights from thia country to Burope must rise in proportion a8 ships going thither with corn lack profitable cargoes for the roturn voyago, and slight differences in froight may give to the products of othior lands tho advautago over our own in European markots. But, bo tho cause whatit may, there is beyond disputo s striking coinel- dence boetween poriods of Ligh duties and periods of - low oxport pricos. Under the . protooctive tariff of 1825-1883, inclusive, tho average oxport prics of wheat at New York was $1.103¢; undor the compromise tariff of 1833-1842, inclusivo, that average was $1.85}¢ ; under tho protective tariff of 18431840, inclusive, tho nverago prico foll to $1.02, and under tho low revenuo tariff ‘which followed it rose to £1.26 for tho four yeors ending with 1850; to $1.44 for tho four yoars eonding with 1854, and to $1.69 for the six yours onding with 1860. Coincidencos such s these forco nll romsoning minds to beliove thot & rolation of cauee aud effect oxists, Cotton sold for- export at the averago of 103 conta for tho protective poriod 1825-'83, but rose to 12 cents under the compromiso tariff ; it foll to 634 conts under tho protective tariff of 1843-'6, but averaged 9 conts in the four yoars ending 1850, 93¢ couts in the four yoars ending 1854, and 1034 conts in the six yoars onding 1860. Corn averaged 62 conts for the protoctive poriod of 1825-'83, but rose to 7734 conts avorage for tho poriod of tho com- promiso tariff; it foll to G7 conts for tho pro- tectivo period, 1848-'6, but roso to an averago of 0834 conts for the period onding in 1850, to 7134 centa for tho period ending in 1864, and to an avorage of Bl3¢ couts for the poriod onding in 1860, Buch coincidences, whother they estab- Hah & rulo or not, at auy rato fix in the minds of farmers & facl—that when duties are high the oxpoit prices of their crops aro low, aud vice versa. Now, if protective duties inorease the coat of producing crops, and Incronue the cost of trans- portetion, aud, at tho same timo, always colucido in some marvelous way with lower export pricos than provail whon lowor duties are in force, how long will farmors be 83 cheated with the story of & “homomarket " nu tovote for the system which thus robs them at ovory point? Has your home-manufacturer contracted, in any Westorn town, the plensing habit of paying moro for farmorg' products thau tho ostablished market rate in that town? If so, lot the town and tho manufacturer bo advertised ne tho latest and moat marvelous of all inarvels. CONVENTION OF RAILROAD MEN. The socond aunusl meoting of tho Railroad Association of I'raveling, Passenger, and Adver- tising Agouts of the United Btatos aud Canada was Lold at tho Mattoson Iouse yeaterday. Tho President, Mr. I G. Whooler, faf Buftalo, ocoupled the chair, and Mr. Alleo, of Buftalo, notod as Beoretary, The following goutlomen wero prosent: A, J. Davis, L, 8. &3 8. I . ; Georgo En Earl, O, R.L &P RN ; T A, Glllespie, U, P, & O, P.R.R.; J. B, Turnbull, M. O, &G. W. R R; A, B, Prontico, 0. & N. W. I R.; J. I Lano, L. 8. & M. 8 R.R.; A, Allen, Oy A & 8t L. R Ry A IL Wobster, Erlo R. . ; J. Bimpson, L,X 0 & N. It. I.; B. Rankin, 0, & N, W,; I, loland, Ponnsyl- vania K. 1, Co, ; Jolin 3, Towlar, 1., P, & W. R, R, ; J. G, Wheoler, M., I’ & A, P, 1L R, ; Charles Thompson, I & E. R.R.; B.G, Truosdel], A, and G. W, R, 3t ;' A, Burnlm, 0, M. & 8t P, ), R.; 1. D, h}n&, Penusylvania B, 1. & P, & B.; James R. Wood, B. & O, R. R.; Willinm Rickoy, -3 LB & AR B W A Crowwelly, T B, & | 0f proclalining iti—Zariford Courani Tho railrond companios, compolled to M. 8.R.R.; W, W. Iugglos, T 8, & M. 6. R R.y 31, Barkom, T, 0, T B honfi Whito, M. 0. &4, W, 1. By W, 1, Maraball, . 0. & G. . I I 8. Tarlow, M. 0. & G, W, P. Hart, M. 0. & G. W. R, I.; N.B. Hpring- ntoon, M. O. &G. W. It. R, ; 1. Quirk, 0, R. L& P. 'R, } Jolm High, O, A, & 85 L R o3 "0, ACB, Ttoea, L4 éz.] J. R Ruj Frank . Palmer, t, boy . . 4 o o T.; 3. Do Aloott, @ T. R I Ion Abbott, 3. 0, & G, W. B, R; N.C. 'reat, M. O, & G. W. . Ry Hnwloo Colo, M. 0. & G, "W, B, R.; Ohotlos L. Wood, M. O, & G, W. . Tt,; J. @, Evorost, 0,, M. & Bt. Paul R, R,; W, I, Bhor- win, M. 0, & d. W. R, : Bamuel Hurlbert, N. . Tt IL; G, G, Cook, I & Bt. Loula B, R; B. W. Barbor, T, W. & W. R. It.; Justin E. Loomis, .8, & M. 8., s A Medillls, 0. £ N, W. R Iy O P Pillips ‘Poomggiranis, T, 1L; 100 5 Hughos, Grand Rapida; Marshall Gilos, Erio T, R.; Mark Hondricks, ., M. & 8b, Paul R, R.j Bon Kimball, Ponnaylvania R. R.; Goo. Pachen, Ponneylyania R. R.; Charles Bradford, D, & B, R, R.; Paul Mondeay, C., M. & Bt. Paul T, I.; Goorgo Motzgor, Ponhsylyania R. Ti; L. K. Bar- ;{mhgl. &N.EW. R. 1.; Jumes oy, D, & M. Lotters woro road from W, H. Firth, of ihe Ohicago, Burlington & Qulnafi Railroad, and Goorgo F.Fiold, of tho Eastorn Railroad, Manun- chusotts, whoroin they regrotted tholr 'Imblhty tobe prosont at the sessfon, Tho following committeo was appointed to arranga for the tranaaction lof buslness ,to-day: Masers. En Yiar), Palmor, Wood, Rverest, May, Rood, Burn~ ham, Cromyyoll, an l'mFglun. ‘Tho following rosolution was adopted : Resolved, That all persons intorcsted in railway pas- songer busincss, togother with mombors of tho prees, bo invited to mect wilh us to-morrow (Thursday), af 10 », m,, at tho Maltoson lfouse, Chicago, " lzlhn meoting thon adjourned until 10 o’clock o-day, x NOTES AND OPINION, < Trom the amount of dirty linen hung out in Rock Island, it appoars that washing day has como not a moment too soon. Now thatit has come, Capt. Haverstick (late Postmaster) and Capt. Hawloy (Congressman) have gone at it fu good earnest, and Haverstickhas o daily nowas papor and Hawloy the franking privilege. How it must surpriso’ tho faithful meon of the bost party tho world evor saw, to rond, how, wholo details of the wantonness sud chambering in party politics last yoar. . ~—Benator Morton will presently addross the poople of Indianapolis ““ on the grent quoation now ngitating the public mind, viz.: the rela- tions of railroad corporations to the people'and tha Govornment,” — The Now York Times glvos s liat of thirty Scnators and Roprosentatives, out of 817, who have ' concluded not to pooket tho back pay.” The list includes those who make bonst that they ‘‘have not drawn it,” and who are supposed to bo waiting for the storm to blow over. Liess than a dozen have honestly covered the monoy into the Trensury and placed 1t thors boyond ro- call. With the exception of this smaller num- bor, whoso nsmos Troasurer Spinner can certify to, tho roll of Bouators and Roprosentatives in the Jast Congrosa will dervo, for years to como, a8 & dircotory of those who are never more to bo trusted in publio life. Thoy are eftectually dis- franchised. — The Datroit Free Press is respectfully noti- fled that our Stevo Hurlbut came Lome from Bogotn & year ago and got elected to Congrees, It was snid ho had “grown lukewarm in the ‘cause of GQrant,” but he cumo out hot onough in that causo before November. And the placo at Bogotn being vacant, it 18 probablo “ono Beroggs, of Goorgis," noeded it an much as any othor man ; but our Bteplien Las not boen mado o marlyr, .—When ‘gomebody blundored,” and Bala- Ilava was the consoquenco, somebody went out of oflico at London, The Dotroit Post (Admin- istration) now snya of the Modoc blunder : Tho Interior Department should be angry at itsclf, and condomn its own olalinate and fatal folly. We neithor know nor “ask what the President thinks of tho Secretary of the Interior ; but o largo portion of tho pooplo of tho country woild sccopt Mir, Dalao'a realguation with indignant satistaction, —Nov i8 tho timo to ask whiether tho * peaco policy ” hias not boen carried too far. Mercy and pationce Linve boon exhibited by the Governmont boyond tho limits of justico and National dig- nity. The opinions of thosa who have lived and served on the frontior, who are perfoctly famil- iar with Indiau character, have beon set aside in deforenco to the sympatides of & fow in tho pul- pit, and on tho pross, who know nothing what- ever about tho ways and dispositions of the in- diang.—Byffalo Commercial Advertiser. —As a rule, tho Indinn hns not o redeoming trait in bis oharacter. 1o i6 Inzy, idle, vicious, treacherous, vindictive, jonlous, and brutel, Ho forgots favors though thoy may rain upon him; ho nover forgets an injury though it may bo unintontional and not ropoated. e waste of philanthropy on the Indian has beon enor- mous, While offorts must not cense to mould the savage into civilization, thore must boe no moro rolnxation of strict dlscipline than in the case of wild beasts.— Cleveland Herald, ~Proofs that tho millennium is approachin, multiply.—[ Universalist. Yos; wo ‘havo (1 Grant'a Mosgage; (2) his Civil-Sorvico Reforn ; (8) his great Indian policy. We think we ses it —UQincinnati Commercial. ~—Tho massncro of Gon, Oanby and his asso- ciates is dirccting o storm of criticlsm against tho Prosident's Indian policy. Roports of mur- .dors continue to pour in, too, from othor poiots on tho frontior, and it is likely that tho policy of tho Administration will bo thoroughly analyzed bofore the discussion terminatos, ‘Tho ghost of the murdered Canby will long shake hia gos locks before tho Drosident's oyes.—ZLouisville Couricr-Journal, 5 —Quaker policy for Indiana and Civil Sorvico roform for whites, aro among tho played out in- ntitutions of President Qrant, Thoy served for loligpops.—Pittsburgh Post, —il ovor & man was talkod to death, surely Geon. Canby was that man. His own bettor judgment was drowned In tho cant of a pnok of sontimontal whiners, who, in their snfo quartors in Eastorn citios, arrange’n polioy for the Gov- ornmont.—S¢. Paul Dispatch, —@Gen. Cauby mot his doath, aa the natural ro- sult_of & policy continuod for two yoars, of vacillating and timid mensures.—Albany (N. ¥.) Argus. -zAnd this is Prosidont Graut's bonsted Indian olicy—#o wise and so humano! Ts it wise or Finiong to prm: & nolioy. tayolving the, saedk fice of brave and good meu for tho sake of deal- ing gontly with s band of marauding snyages who urd alron Iy guilty of innumerable mnrdora ? Tho poople will answor.—Rochestor (N, Y.) Union. —A poople who will pormit allsorts of plunder~ ing to go on and thon ropay tho plundorors with Diankots, boof, homilies, and whisky, and evor and anon in tlio porvons of tho Agents of the Governmont steal from them, thoy [the Indinns] not_only coaso to fosr or oven respoot, but loarn to despiro ne o ot of cowards and poltroons,— Terre Haule Gazette, - —Tho Prosidont’s Indian polioy was considorod ong of tho mubatantinl trinmphis of his adminia- tratfon, but wo fear that. this cold-blooded mus- sacro will cronte a rovulsion againat it.—Balll- more American. ~When nll has beon concoded that juatice ro- uires to tho othor or reilrond view of the quos- tion, there romains & Inrgo balanco of right and Justico on the popular side. Exporionce every day is domonstrating the necossity for some bot- tor systom--roatriotion in the flrst Y]ucn, or of logislative supervision aud control in the second —than has horetoforo boen rocognized. . . TFinally, thoro iu projoctod ovor tfio whole sub- {)uut the ominous shadow of possible intorferonce y tho Coneral Goversmont. However slight tho foundation which the Conatitution may ap- oar to furnish for tho exorcise of n power ko rmmuuduun and so fraught with such momen- tous consoquoncos, thore can bo no doubt that tho iden hay reooived of late n poworful impe- Lus.—Baltimore Sun, —T'hio pooplo will sustain thorough and officlent notion, and domand to know whether thu{ hoave any rights which railroad corporations are bound to reapoot, If thoy do not urgo the noxt Con-~ 088 Protty slarply to pass a genornl statute do- ning the rights” and duties.of railvond com- panion, 50 far a8 thoy aro conncotod with com- inoroo botweon the tatos, wo are much mistakon in tho wigus of the times.—Utica (N, Y.) Her~ ald, —TFar bo it from our intention to eay anything ogainut tho Stato of Mussachusotis.. A Btate wfixlu}a can point with pride to o Ben F. Butler ng ity rulln}; spirit, and an Ames a8 its pattorn of cammeroial mnmm{. does not need to have any- thing aaid against i, If wo could think of 'mf- thing wo should sy it in {ta favor, We shoul llkolia sy that its Legiglaturo condemned But- lor's snln?-a!unl, bufigva cannot, No, we have not a word, But we can only quote Massachu- sotts nowswapors whou we say that I'oah Day hias bocome such a da{‘or liconuo and dissipation in thet Commonwenlth that ovon the newspapers disenss tho expodiency of abaudoning the furco THE LAMAR. - Position of tho (}omp:;ny and Progress of the Efforts to Seltle the Estate, Statoment by the President---Somo COharacteristio Outhursts, An Imnner View of the _History ot: [ Singularly Unfortunate Cor- poration, A Noew Method of Ralsing $100,000 to Comply With o State Law, Tlo condition of the Lomar funda s not nuch 88 it3 doaront frionds would desirs to 800, aftor so long a lapao of timo, and so groatan expendituro of logal acumon and forensic eloquence. From the day I're Trmuxe roported BMr. Shufeldt's gront offort, for the appointmont of & Recelvar, in the Clrcnit Court, boforo Ji udgo Williama, down to tho Iatest Pprocoedings bofore Judge Gary, the readors of this jonrnal have boon poste od as to all that Liag hoon dono, which all has boon 5o littlo that it is hardly worth talking abont, It s woll known that Edwin A. Wilson, of Bpringflold, i at tho Load of tho stackholdors who refuso to pay their sssessmonts, and are fighting tho Company, but it is perhaps, not go well known that tho Company, a0’ far as its lo~ gltimato nsnets aro concerned, should have mora tlan onough to pay all its dobts. The diflleulty is, T“l; n;:fllzu thoae acsots, o Prosident of tho defunct Compan: , Leon- ard Bwott, Lna issucd o longthoned ::,ntzmunt to thoeo concorned. Aftor showing the preliminary atops attending tho formation of the Company In prosperous times, and its diogolution in loss fortunato times, ho BOYB : After about $500,000 capital stock hea beon snb- ucribed, & per cont payabla fu ca por cont within - ming yumuun, \v::;hnugou}j ve tho Company $100,000 thin o year, usbman & Mardin woro indu ito Ountral Board los:x!!lml:lnbefimfm ook por cont at once, with the condition, oxpri written contract, that aftar twelvo montha. the, %Eh‘g have tho election of retiring this stock, Tho nfijlct of this subscription was to give tho Company $100,000 ro-. quirad by tho Biato Iw, untll it should realiz that amount from fta collectiona; and attor it should hnvo scquirod thatamount from those collectiona tho intontion was to rotire this stock until thoy should ouly liold abeit tho same amount oller stacktoldora bad, Placing tho stock at that timo was costing tho Qompany about 1% per cent, and as an induccment to- this wulscription’-Qushman & Hardin wero paid in atock 1 porcent on_ {ho cash paymont or $55,000 of 20 per cont paid stock, or $11,000 in paid up stock, In the course of timo all tho mibacription was cancel sccording to ho torms of tho contract; and af tho timo of tho firo, they hold 55,000 stock, On. thia thore Is now an anscssmont of $8,350, Thus, for thia subscription, {ntonded for tho Lorefit of the Gompany, Cushinan & ffardin got only what now proves {0 b the Inrgest lons of any ono contectod with the Company, In the summor of 1870 Mesars, Cushman & Hardin, Pt foto the Company pe capilal (ho pum of $70,000. s was put in obsolulely sud unconditionally as ths pmxim'l.y of tho Company, They noilher recelved tock or llfl{ obligation or promise, express or fuplied, for it, nnd If tho Company thoroupon had immedis ately grabbed and divided it they would bave been without remedy, either ot Jaw or equity, It was put in_under the statute 84 a eccurity to tho polley-holder, ond if 1 Dad boen or ot will bo ngecamary fo auch pallcy older, thers {a no reason in _morals or law why thoy shiould ot pay it, 1t was g dsugorous (hing for thama to do, and they did not do it becausa thoy thought it a wino {nvostmeut, but heeauso thoy wanted to_ belp the Compsany, and belioved it could go through, Now, ‘when the Compay camo to close business, it hiad meaus enough to pay off allits Mabilities without exacting from Qusbman & Hsrdin this $70,000, a0d tho only queation was whether tho Company would demand that this monoy, intended os security to the policy holder, should b divided among thie stockholders, At that time tho incomo was cut off, business: was_stopped, the expouseswere going on, the clorks could not_bo dismissed until tho reinsur-. anee with itho Peoplo’s was consummated, the monthly rup of logses for six months had aver- agod 8{5,000 por month, aud of cash nssets on: hand they kizd 876,000 to 310,000, whilst the beat offer for reinsurauce thoy had roceived was from. A by tholsiler by s goare ot 3 800,000 to 70,000, tho uupaid losges amounting, attho srmo timo, tb botwoon 925,000 and 30,000, Finally the reinsurance wes offected, with the Pooplo's, at n costof somo €60,000, The Com- 'mn:‘y was ascortained to owo 336,000, which was paid, followed by various outstanding claims, amounting to an aggregato of $10,000; aud then tho firo atruck tho city, ~ Horo the President may speak for himself : 2rovlous to tho firo the Company hold noarly $80,000 1 moten of tho stockholdors. for Tha. Mnpeid’ sorion of the 20 percont, Thoso were mover collectod, and the mamos of tho makers cannot now be ' fully ascortained, because, although tho building in whick, tho offico 'Was located was nupposod to Do fros roof, not o scratch of & pen was saved, but rocords, 00ks, and overything was destroyed exccpt tho stock motes of the slockholdera, These wero 80 situated in the vault that, with about o bushel of canceled policies falling over thom, thoy ware saved, On Wednesday ofter the fire my attention was called to the debris taken from the vault, and in it I found theso stock notes. No ono af first knew of tho presorvas ton but ono employe at tho ofiico, ono otlier party and mysclf, Thoy wero in perfoct order—onch branch, inan euvelops by ftself. They omounted, o8 has since been nacertained, to over $1,600,000, and amon them waa my own for 312,000, less 20 per cent pald, ‘would soonor have met the ovil one, hwofs and Lorns and all, sud I wondered why fn eli “thoburning, and when everything clse connected with the Com- pany did’ burn, they could uot luve gone too. Whatover anyono moy thiak, God liows I would cheorfully ‘have pall my own noto, poor 88 the prospect was, if without a groes wrong tho others would have departed from me, Whatever I ma; havo thought, my duty waa plain. It was an T belleve: to prosorvo them and givo the etockholders the benefit of sbeoluto silouce. I'took them to my house,~no ono kuowing Lo fact—and kopt them in o closet of my sleoping-room for about n year, A3 ruatiors have turned out overybody onght to Lo thankful for thefr preservation, Otherwiss hore aud there a stociholder would hava baon found and_compelied to pay the full amount of his note, whilo others would have escaped without any loss, In February after the fire,, 1 was aummonad befors the Conunissioner in Dank< Tuptey to ascorlain what assota I hiad elongingto, the: Gompany, and, refuslng {o snawer, waa voported to tho Court for contempt, One way aud anotler, by perafst- cent and systemutic offort, I oblained o yeur's dolay, By this timo sottloments with the eople’s had stoppedt, nnfl vera brought on many of tho outstandiy, polie and there Liavin another fustitution Loro a Jargo nmouut of fraudulent claims, aud feariug greater loises from thia causc, ns I conld ot attond peviouslly o tlio matter, I sufren- dered {heso noles to & rocofver iu order that Lo might look after tho casea, Tho Company lost by the fire £400,000, and' this nmonut, with 8600,000 of their own, bioke. tho Peoplo's. At prosout tho following i osti- mated to bo tho financial state Judgron! Claimy in beon proved up agains ‘Thero can bo got from thoe Pooplo's, DIBNCO.cvveoririssiansans The President concludos with tho following charactoristic fling : If wuybody thiuks T wanted to pcculnie out of tho Campaby, with $1,600,000 of bouds in my poszcasion, on men I kuow (o Lo gooil, and 1o ouo kuowing it, and o polltos seliug for 55 centa on to doliay €of n yoer, Task i€ there was ever @ Latter chanco? T hve: core taluly twonty ellents 1n tho city who, on thin Informa- ton,” would” havo bought theso policies, and from $100,000 to $200,000 mighit essfly bave been made, 16 Tias boon oy fortune du life o fako Goune reasonab bold chances, In which T have several times made aug loat more mouey than this wholo thiug, slnck noten nudull, fuvolves, but T om thankrul’ that to s ‘monoy fn this Woy bns nuver amounted to u lompine o, "o story that Judge Higgina or myeelf owe tho Gompany s (00 far from s (ruth yan fo exelteindige antion, On the contrury, T udvaneed for it, Juet befora tho firo, about $1,600, undl sitzco then move than 31,000 ingayments of cush ond Habllitls fuourfed, till, ot no ono disposed fo doubt in the Josst “bo fufluencod by {ha deuil. Tho courts tro opon aud can_castly réttla wmattorn, Thero in & pros caoding in bunkruptey pouding fn #ho United iates Court nnd & chaveary proccoding i the Supbrior Court, {v which thia inquiry may be tacked on at any time, " To Lo bankruptey proceeding I Luva rocently had & supplomental patilion fied, Sust to Lold 1t for tho uso of auybody thnt wants it; ond, aa for mo, T have been sunimoriod bofors Nocolvora uhd Commia- slons upou thiu matier 5o often, that it will not put me to the sligliteat inconvenionae, A story floating round over tho country a alisdowy and escapos my grasp, but, if T ean ot it futo a courte Tiowse, T hink 1 ean bedl t'10 tho walle 1 was about to cause o atatoment of coudition of tho. Company to bo published when tho fira oceurred The reason [ did ot do it afterwards was sinply this Tho Teople's vers taking up our polleivs ot & dincou and could not yay tho full amount, To publish that T had $1,000,000 of” your notea was to utop theso sottlo- ments, and to forcon debt of $400,000 upan you, I coucluded it was Dotfor for mo to’ bo misundorstood than for you o pay {ho debt, Tho stntomeut mado by tho Prosidont a8 to the liabilitios doos not “include the “claims proved,” Eawe Ball, 5 Wasurxatow, April 10.—1ho second game of tho chumpionship botween the Marylands, cf Baltimore, aud the Washing !gx!aclub. WeE Wou