Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 1, 1873, Page 2

2 ~ o S I N L P VT TR THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: T'U SDAY, JULY 1, 1873. SHACKLED LIGHTNING. The Great Western Telegraph Com- pany Takes Another Sicp Upward in Law’s Laulder Their New Bill in ths Hands of the TUnited States Cirouit. Court Judge. The Old Allegations Against Certain Ofiicers Touched Up; New Allegations Made, Whet the Petitioners Claim to Have Found Out Since Previous Disclosures. Owing to the bill in roview {o the United Btates Circnit Conrt in QGoorge W. Barnham ot al, v. Groat Western Telegraph Company of al,, having boon inaccossible during His Honor, Judge Drummond's absonco at Indianapolis, and its having sinco beon in tho handa of tho printer, tho allogations thorcin contained have not hithorto been made public. The bill is *‘for eu eccounting, and other reliof.” Aftor stating the various transnctions, alrendy furnished to the roador, which led to tho decrce undor which an nccounting was ordered, and di- recting tho olaction of o DBoard of Dircctors, and (ho rather complicated actions ot 1aw that aie pending, and renowing tho various chirges so ofton brought against Reeves and his- nllogod confodorates, the bIll goces on to rofer to those notes on which were founded the TROOEEDINGS FOR BANKRUPTOY, and affirms that notwithstanding their want of power to do anything of the kind, after the proccedings at law, seid -Gage end sald Sclah Reevos procured snid Olis tho protouded Trensuror, to issuo the aforesaid notes, six of them being payablo to said Reove, and endoreed, and paymont thoroof guarantoed by him, oxcept that of ono of $1,000, which was payablo to the order of David A, Gage; the romasinder being payablo to the order of tho Commercial National Bank of Chicago, boing ondorsed and tho pay- mopt theroof being guaranteed by said Gago and Reeve, tho whole of thom being dolivered to #aid Reeve in Iwaymcm of a claim for con- structing o certain lino of tolograph undor a fraudulent contract of §800 por milg, which notes said Otis bad no powor or unthurily to s~ sue, the only sulliority protended being A RESOLUTION PABSED IY GAGE AND GEORGE 3. anay on the 5th Juno, 1872, they claiming to bo n ma~ jority of tho Bxecutive Committeo of the Board of Directors. And, witls reapect Lo tho lines for . whicts Reeves received srid notes, complainnuts sny Reovos throatons ho will oporato, soll, or otherwisa dispuse of them, which throat thoy fear hie will carry out, unless rostrained by in- Junction. ‘Thoy further allege that snid Gago and Reeves wasted aud squanderad large amounts of the moneys, propnrtfi-, aud stock of the Com- pany, and pormatted othors to do the samo; that u largo amount of said stoclk ¥ WAS ISSUED 7O THEM DY THEMSELVES, and to their frionds gratuitonsly, for which the Compauy has nover recoived any coneidoration whatever; that they hayo used and expended largo nmounts of said stoclk, amonntitg to noarly ong thousand sharcs, and sevoral thonsauds of dollars, the property of enid Company, for their own privato purposes, ospecially in tho omploy- mont of coubsel, aud in paying the cxponscs of litigation in L thoy souglit to susiain them- gelves in th aid actings and doings. Where- foro, complainant ingiats that said’ Gaga and Reove should make an account of all proporty and mouoys used by them. BURRENDER ALL SUCIH RTOOK to bo cancolled, mako good all the moneys that havo been wasted und misappliod ns aforesaid, satinfy all Judgments ngainst (ho Company, and roimbursn it all moneys it may ba compeflod to pay on said judgments by remson of the issue and nogotiation of said notes. g "Thay further charge that said Rocoiver has in hond belonging to the Compauy UNCOLLECTED PROMISRORY NOTES, amounting to £9,000, and a numbor of stock cor- tificatos, for, which np coneidorntion has baon re- coivod by said Cowpany, and which, they claim, shonld bo sntrendored’ {o the Company; also books, papors and accounts whicliare necessary to n.comploto accounting betweon himand the Com- pany ; that said protended Executive Committeo was not authorized to act or to eonfer any authority on said Otis ; that suid Snow, who was & mowmber of sald Comwittoo, had no mnotice of said mecting at which said protonded rosolution whaa passed ; that said Gray and Gago wero NEITHER OF THEM STOCKHOLDERS who liad given valuo for the stock standing in their nanics ; but said stock had boon issued by Grgo & Reevo to Gage & Gray, gratuitously ' that snid Gage & Reove prooured tho said Com- morcial Nutional Baulk to discount cortain of said notes for the personal use and beneflt of one of thom, or both; thut asid .bank is charge- ablo with notico of tho rolations be- tween said Reeve snd sald Company; that said bank is not sn_innocont bona fide pur- shaser of enid notes without s mnotice of tha =quitios in form of said Company, aud that the bank had netual notico of the truo cousidoration for raid notes, sud of the matters in litigation botweon snid Company and enid Reavo, Gago & Snow, That gertnin of #aid notes wore renewed, an:d wairants of eitorney given, noton the crodit of said Company but ON TIIE CREDIT OF SAID GAGE, and that whon thoy came duo aud were left un- paid, said bank cenzed judgment to bo cntored apon arid notes, and onprocess boing sorved on 81id Gage, as Presidont of the Cflmpln{ ho re- fasod to dofond them, although woll know- ing tho Company Lad rocoived no con- gideration for thom, and that he facili- tatod hostilo proccodings. That when the Supreme Court decision beeamo kuown to thom, docinring Reove's protended claima on contracts feaudulont, they tranwferrad cortain notew in their possession to Juhn Clark Hilton, who, thoy charga, is HOLDING BAID NOTES I3 SEQUET TRUST, and not for nny good considerailon, ho lLaving full notico of the litigntion herein; and that Judgmont was entorad in favor of #aid Hilton on baid notea, ‘Thet said Hilton, acting in collusion with Gago and Reoves, subsequontly took those fumous proceedings i banlrupiey, for adjudica- tiou, which uro by (his timo familinr to tho reader ; that said procecdings have beon conatituted for no uthor purpose than _to dofoat tho objeats of the Supromo Court decision; tlat sinco said pro- ccedings in bankruptey hnvo {akon placo, snid Directors have boou incapacitated from protoct- ing tho rights of the etockholdors. Wherofore thoy pray voliof in all tho promises os the Courl may fool it right and equitable to graut. _____ Pa THE FOURTH, Duntque, Tows, June 20, 1673, To the Iididor of The Chicago Tribune Bt Fourth of July buy degeneratod Into & gola-dny for small boys, with its tuwmult and pyzotechuic dicplays, and {4 the occaslon for sprend-englo orations about tho bird of victory, tho Star-Spanglod Banner, and the torrified Brit- Iel tion. This has becomo o littlo woarisome, It would bo woll to emulata tho oxample of O, I'. Adnms, Jr., who, lnst Fourth, discoursed upon “Capital and Labor,” and lot our coming ad- dresses bo upon wubjects of vital, present, Na- tional interests. National holidays aro a blees- ing, and thoso rovivals of patriotinm should be colobrated by comation from bsinoss, and by the earneat, caroful study of tho Nutlon's status and needs, It khonld bo'the shame of our bost mon ‘to renlizo that, if they gave but a emall portion of tho time and thoughit to this country tnat thoy dovote to porsonal affnirs, thore would bo no stein of corruption or mismanagoment on our eveutehieon., Tho influonce of alder nationy has Leen world- wide. Their heroes have boon universally nl- mired, and tholr artlts aro worshipped by every age. Buccooding genorations recrown their Sots, and wo roud tho riso and fall of empiros El their history. Our eavoor hay boen briof. Our nditions are fow, Our annald foll not of mighty eonquasts. Wo have no Ephosian tomples or fumed Colisoums. Around our leadors there iy no glamanr of romantio chivalry or parapher- nalin of royalty. Wo havo no IHomer, Danto, Milton, P'hidias, or Angelo. Wa huve uo hored- ilary aristooracy or feudal castlos, Toot us respect their riponcas and autiquity, — imitatfug whatovor ia is best in thom,—avoidlug . oxc! thoir narrowness, bigotry, aud relics of barbar- iam. Wo aro young,—bul and concolt of youfil wa have also its vigor. In less than’ undred years we have achioved o position among the world’n ruling powers which It lias taken oldor lands contuirios to ronch, Wo aro of the prosont and the future, It is well to bo impressed with our dignity, Our calling is high, To us it Is given to bo in the van of clvilization. ~ Wo aro tho ad- vocates of froodom,—tho workersout of tho gront problom of Republicanism, Our Kuights aro roformors, Our catles aro echools, Our bat- tlos hiave boon fought for truth and liberty ; our victorios have boon tho doath-kuell to dnuyutlnm; and our crusndes have beon fn hohalf of human- ity. Tho knowlodge of other opochs, so rich in rosults, shonld awakon in us of to-day the hopo that wa might add romothing of benuty, power, or truth to our time and Nation, and give to other agos a rl(;m royal horitago; romomboring thnt it 18 not alono by tho Inbors of those upon whom roat tho sonnoeration of genius that tho bost possibilitios of tho raco_aro devolopod,—it is through individaal right-doing “that a_nation rocoiven sn fmpotus Godward, —_—— HOW IS THE BLOOD CIRCULATED ? DirTLE CREER, Mich,, June 20, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune ; B : My attontion has beon called to an arti- cloin T TmnoNe of laab Baturday, hoaded **Oxygon and Carbon,” 1 noticed in snid articlo sovoral orrors which ought to be corrocted. ‘“Carbon" Informs us ihat tho molocules of oxygon are smaller than those of nitrogen or carbon. Novw, almost any schoolboy knows that, according to the Imw domousteatod by Ampors, all pioloculos aro of tho snmo volumo when in tho gascous stato. Agnin, we oro_told thnt oxy- gon oxpands by unjon with tho carbon and hydro-~ gen of tho venous blood, This statoment is also orroneous, ns any one with the slightest knowl- edgo of chiomistry can prove. Ionlso tolls ne that the animal hoat of tho Imdf' i gonernted in the lungs by the process which ho dercribos, Thinis an old theory, long since nbandoned s utterly untonablo, and is obviously in- correct, “sinco, if it wore truo, _ tho spocific heat of "tho lungs would nocessarily bo ‘much groator than that of any other portion of the body, which ia not the case, Furthormore, ho tolla g that this same procoss which aupplios thoanimal hoat of the body isalso tho ** true force of life.” By his roforonco to the henrt, X supposo ho meana by ‘“true forco of life" the foreo which ciroulates the blood. 'I'ho facts just montionod in regard to oxygon, and. the size of miolecutes, of courso domolish his wholo thoory. T agroo with him, Liowevar, in holioving that tho henrt is not tho only motive powor concerned in the circulatory procoss, and nlso that it is most intimatoly connacted with tho production of ani- mel heat.” Without intruding upon your spaco by entoring into tho wholo argumont in support of tho theory which I shall advance, although I shoyld bo greatly ploasad to placo it hofore your rondors, I will movely give what I consider Q’t‘) Lo the modus-operandi’ of the circulation of the blood, presonting it to the public for considora- tion and criticism, ‘The two essontlal elements for the production of animal heat are carbon and oxygen. Tho carbon is dorivod from the food, the oxygon from the air. In tho body, the carbon exials in the forn of fat and tho various carbonacoous pro- duots of tho disintegrntion of tho liswues; the oxygon is found in a frco state, boing conveyed by the red corpusclos of the blood, It oxiatsin a state of greet condousation, “as ean bo casily shown, and itu power of combinntion is conso- quently greatly incrensod, ns is tho case when oxygon is similarly condonsad by platinum-black, spougy platinum, iron-filings, cotton-wasto, otc. Lot 18 now tiaco the blood in iby systemio cir- cnit, starting with the left side of tho heart. The Toft ventriclo, by renson of tho grent thickness and tonacity of ita walls, has powor to contract with sufllofent forco to propel tho blood to tho minuto capillarios. Horo the condonsed oxygon is brought in closo proximity with tho carhon- ncoons matters boforo mentionod, and combustion onsucs, Tho vnst amount of heat thus pro- duced is immediately rendorod Iatent by Lha con- version of a portion of the water Frusnnt into vapor. ‘This ‘prmlucw # consequent incronse in the volumo of tho blood, B0 that a portion ia croyded forward by tho pressuro, in tho only di- rection pousible, into the voins. By the con- stant operation of this foreo, tho blood is driven in & oteady stroam to tho right sido of the heart, whoro, by tho contraction of the right vontriclo, it is ont to the lungs, Ilero, by tho rarification of tho nir contnined in tho thoracic cavity, re- sulting from tho downward contraction bf tho dirpliragm, the volumo of the blood is again n- croaged, and by this moans is pressed onward into the pulmonary_vain, aftor oxchnuging it carbonic acid for & fresh Supply of oxygen, and is thus returnod to the bieart, and passes through tho srme process agaim. The wholo volumoof Lho blood has not boen increased, Liowevor,—for tha vapor which waa formed, thun roudering latont tho heat producod, hias been condensed to water by cowning in contact with cooler paris of the hody, and, in so doiug, lins bLeen the means of oqualizing tho bodily tomperature, and maintain- ing the requisite heat by giving up its so-called Inton hent. - I clnim, thon, that the circulation is not main- tained by any one single force, but by the com- bined action of soveral forces. No doubt the processes of digestion, assimilation, muscular contraction, ete, wserve as susiliaries {o the forces nlrendy mentioned, But I claim that the priucipal foreo is the yaporization of wator. Joirs I, Krrroae, M. D. St g RULES OF EVIDENCE. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: Iam tempted to offor you o fow linos in answer to your correspondent “J. N, R."* Iam not an iconoclast, and would not swoep nway at a blow the accumulated wisdom of ages. No niore would I sit down, acknowledge that all wisdom is embodied in tho opinions of tho past, and refuso all advauce toward a highor wisdom, Tn fact, T hold tha there is no question that hu- an wisdom hus ovor sottled, howover venorablo, or howovor enshrined i conatitutions, laws, or proverbial maxims, which may not be roviowed, ro-examined, and rosottlod. - Tho quostion of the rules of ovidonco ia such a caso, a8 I can prove: First, by the_admission of opponents oven, if T havo any. For oxample, it was but a fow Jeums oz that univorsally, in {his country and n England, ono of the hest-sottled and ‘most- important rulos of ovidenco, as thon held, wns, that no poreon intorastod in tho ovent of & suit should bo allowad to testify. Now, everybody admita that it is most conducive to truth Lo allow both sides to tell cuch their own stories. My socond argument ia addrossod o tho con- aciousness of every individual. re is proba- bly not a peraon in the world who, if ho_dosired to satisfy his own mind a8 to the guilt or inno- cenco of a parly, would not want to hear tho whole facts in fhe caso from overy sourco, and not o garblod statomont, in which tho witnéss is interrupted overy fow minuies, and stopped short just at tho point when you would most de- siro o know whal ho would eay. : The fact is,—and thero is no uso in denying it,—that, in tnany casos of hilling, public soiti- ment ji against hauging, Tuablic tentimeut may bo wrong, and wo may snd ought to strive to rectify i, but, till that is dono, wo must acquicsco in tho oscapo of many murdorers, unless wo would bocomo murdgrors ourselves. But thoro is conough of healthy publio sontimont Ieft Lo #o- cure the conviction and punishment of & portion, at last, of thoso who aro guilty of the highosk erimo man can commit agimst soclety, woro it not for the tochnical rules of evidonce, so intri- cato a3 to bo almost iucapablo of correct ap- plication. It s to Dbe bormo in mind that tho ono smolo office of tho rules of ovidenco is to excludo tostimony. ~Why should Lwelvo mon bo put in . strait-jocket of rulos, and told only a partof the story, whon ench one of them, invesligating soparately, would desiro to kuow the whole. Tho result of this is, that tho innocout commmnily is punishod, flrub by tho erime, and secondly by the onormous ox« penso of repeated tiials; while tle wortlless murderor goos fro 1ask yon, My, Editor, and editors ara sup- posed to know all things,—if there is any neces- ity for more than those two rules of avidencej LI do Jiral—All that is irrelovant, N SBccond—What iy unnecossarily cumulative. My opinion is, that tho ruiow of ovidonce sliould be further rovised, und the absurdity of swoaring n mun to tell the whole truth, and then stop) mII,' hiim Lefore tho truth is half told, should bo rbridied. JUIL K. e A QUESTION. To the Editor of The Chicano Tribune ; Bun : I natico in your Bunday issue an account of a now restaurant about to bo oponed, Would it bo out of place to inquiro whethor the new wondor is going to have nogro waiters, and oach Waltor & nepkin to wipe dishes upon # It in #o plonsant to bit and watoh our volored citizens wipo off one or two tablespoonfuls of oil from their classio foatnres, and hmmodintely after- wards draw your spoon or your plate through tho saturated linon, . ‘I'he writor, having some objections to awal- lowing the negro i a liquid state, has boeu tonrching for a refuge, but ag yot without suc- co, AFBICAN OIL, with' tho orudoncss. TRIAL FOR MURDER. Brown, the Colored Barber, on Trial for the Kilting of Jesso Jones, A Material Witness Rofuses to Tell the Truth and is Sent . to Jail, Verdiot of Manslaughter, and Torm Fixed at Five Years in the Penitentiary. Yontorday morning tho colorod batber, Philip I Brown, who, on tho 224 of April lnat, solved tho problom ns to whick wns larder, a cast-iron skillet or a follow-creaturo's hond, waa placed on trial charged with murder, tho exporiment linv- Ing resulted in the sudden death of ono Jesso Jones, & confroro of thorazor and polo. Tho affair happonod at the house No, 503 Wost Mad- ison strect, on the 32d of April last, and created moro excitomont al the timo than such ocour- ronces usnally do, on account of the originality of the woapou used, snd the roport that Brown's nction was cansod by bis discovering Jonos pny- ing too closo attention to hia wifo, who was in bed at the timo, sick, and under the influence, it was gnid, of a quantity of soporific, DBrown la A VERY ORDINATY LOOKING 3IAN, with prominont eyos; is casy nnd quiotin mnn- nor, while bis spooch, Tvnn whon Iaboring under axcltomont, i invariably low and gentlo. Tho trin] bogan st balf-past 10; and was con= cluded by 1 o'clocl, tha wholo tbing boing fin- ished in ahout tho time Now York criminal law- yors take to decido that they will not accept the Borvicos of the first callod Juror, Tho jury in tho '}:ruucnt caso wore ail questioned ag to whother they wero projudiced on account of opposite colur, whethor they objected to capital nnishmont, whether they had formed any opin- on of tho caso, etc., and A JURY of tho following citizons was nolected: A, J. Youug, 832 Contra ayonuo; J. 1L Stedman, 20 Btatostrect; J. P, Sharp, Twenty-sccond and ‘Wabnsh ; G. Glresbrook, 241 South Sangamon suoot; O, 1L Bwift, 15 Fronty-sccond streot; R, X, Hollidny, 556 Btato streot; W, Itoborts, 165 Tywenty-second ntreot; Willinm Baxter, 174 Madison stroot; L. 11, Wood, State and ‘Cwenty- second stroels ; G, B, Hilton, 169 Twonty-second streot; H. L. Marks, 189 Olark streot; Charlos Tacker, z Considerable of the interest in iho caso van- isbed when it was known that_the principal wit- ness for the prosecution would not be willing to ronder such testimony ns it has boon fondly hopod sho would, and that tha_ dofonso liad lost their 1ight bowor witness complatoly. At about Dalf-past 11 tho cngo oponcd, State's Attornoy Ttoed for the Poople, Gus Yan Buren for the prisover. . TIE TESTINORY. Tho first witness Lo bo cxamined was Dg. F. A, Emmous, tha County Physician, who' testi~ fled to making a_ post mortem uvxemina~ tion of Jesse Jones' body on tho 22d April, to fiuding two wounds in tha farohenad, tho skull fracturod nud deprossed, death having on- sued from o concussion of tho brain caused by o blow with n blunt instrament such as tho skillot which was produced in court, Tho Doctor tostitiod to tho presonce of blood on the handle of the skillot ; did not think the prisonor was sufforing from delirium tremens ot the timo of tho homitido, but might havo been Inboring under the promonitory symptoms, Ar, Van Du- Ton, inhis best style, yead o thrilling deseription of the disenso, culled from o modical work. Tho next witness was Dr, Calvin M. Fitcl, who lmecnud to bo in Brown's shop nt tho time of tho homicido. Mo tostified to having oxam- inod Jouoes, who was killed by n blow on tho templo. Brown hnd been drinking for some timo, but witnesa did not think ho had delirium tromons, Witness had advised Brown to quit drinking somo du{a previously, and gave him somo sountive medicine. 3 Tho witncss Catherino Bekor, upon whom the sanguinary Stato’s Attornoy hed rosted Lis fondost hopes of hauging, went back on him, aud almost all she had testifiod to at the Coro- ner's inquest. The Btate's Attornoy couldn’t stand thin, 5o ho had hor recommitted to jail, ns ho considered tho vavintions in her testimony woro 8o matorial that o good perjury caso could bo got up pgninst hor. ¥ - Sovornl othors wero examined, but their evi- denco wau of an uninteresting nature. ‘he jury-rolired, and i n vory shiorl time brought in A VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER, fixing tho prisoncr’s punishment at 5 years in tho Denitontinry. Tho prisenor’s couniol gavo notice of mation for o new trial. TIHE PRISONER INTERVIRWED. Thillip H, Brown was immediatoly nfter tho rondering of the verdict returned to tha coll ho hing oceupiod during tho last two months, whither our reporter followed him to find out s vicws on tho latest aspect of affalrs. Anticipating finding tho full faco of tho oscaped man-slayer bonming with smiles, aud ovory crisp curl olectric with joy &b Lis nar- row exceape from hompen houors, our reporter wos disappointed st finding Brown morose and sullon. 1o was attended by biy wifo and sistor, who wero pouring forth, not congratutations, but consolatory uttorances, witl immensg volubility, whilo in tho back- ground etood Gus Van B. Tha roportor nsked Drown what ko thought of tho verdict, 1le shook his head sadly aud snid ivith intenso pathos: **Mr. Reporter, its an out- rage, on ouirage; we are moving for a new trial immediately.” - Tho roporter hiad heard enough, and tho click- ing bohind him of Mr. Folz's key aroused a train of meditations upon tho peculinritios of our colored fellow-voters. Herois a man onjoy- ing the luxwy of knocking out o friend's brains with a frying-pan, who ia lionizod for two months as * tho szucopan murdoror,” has o watehful jailor step in and stop procoedings just a8 ho is closing . contract \with tho Reapor by dint of s surroptitiously obtained bottlo of mor- phino, in intorviowed by & roporior, lLas ovory- thing his own way nb fho tria), oseapes with o punishment which s almost nominal, and yot is not happy. Liko tho clronio fmm\xlur in Punch who, notwithstanding tho fuct that ho Liad been gloriously drank for a week past, still Indulged in his mclancholy l;lunflhre, it fs ovident that Phil, too, is unreasonably dissatisfied with tho treatmont ho has roceived at tho world’s handa, and will not be truly happy until he ** iy 8 hangel,” THE ATLANTIC RELIEF FUND. Ozviak ot ik WiLTe STAR me,} Yo, Juno 22, 187, H, F, Jennison, Kag., Chatruan Atlantic Relfef Come wttee Dean 81n: I have the hiovor to acknowledge the recelpt of your lotior of tho 23d inst., ad- viging tho dispatel, per expross, of o package coutaining flve gold watches, throo lockots, with chains, aud £57 118 84 sterling coin, pro- Rentations from the peoplo of Chicago to thono who stand pre-emineat in tho rescuo of passon- gory per Atlantie, I have furthor tho gratiflen- tion to apprise tho sare arrival of the P“mi‘m’ the contonts of which are in good order, Tho commission which you entrust to me shall bomost carofully fuliflod. I mend by an oark apportunity n copy of your lattor, togothor with #uch of tho gifts as ure for the good people ut Proupoct, to our agonts in lalifax, who will give tho delivry of the samo thoir porsonnl atton- tion. ‘Tha” balanco, which aro for tho ship's crew, I will bo onabled to attend to mywolf, as I croas tho ocean on tho 13ih prox. Ap‘)recmung mout highly this humauo astion on the part of your conumitteo and the citizons of Chicago, T am, dear sir, yours fmthfully, J. Hypy Branss, ST HE COUNTY BOARD. The County Commissioners mot yostorday af- ternoon, Progldont illor in the cheir. Preacnt, Comumissionors Ashton, Bogne, Crawford, Hor- ting, Pablman, Bingor, Lonorgan, Ruesell, _Joncs, Gulloway, Harrison, Itoollo, e Conuty A{mruuy vocomuionds that thero phonld be, in the County Olerld’s oflico, & record of landa and lots in Cool County oxempt from taxation, and the reagons why oxempt, o Clork of tho Ruporior Court applied for chnirs for tho jury-raoms, sinco at present ju- rors nre oumpelled to sit on the floor or loan againut tho walls while tlioy dolibioruto, and thare- bygot tired nud agrooon hasty and ofton improper vordiots in ordor that thoy mey gt out, theraby dofenting tho ouds of justico, oto. Ho .aluo recommendad the chaira bo conspicuously brandod “8, 0.," in order that the omployes of the Civeuit Court might nat stosl thom, A numbor of bills were road and roforred. An estinato of $30,084 for (o cost of {ho ditlonal . story to tho Inanne Asylum: was pro- ‘gontod, nnd the Committeo autliorizod to advor- tlao for propaunlu. The C thorlzed to employ & compotent peraon to ascer- tain relntive Lo tho hoating capacily of tho boll- ors at tho Insane Asylum, £ |2 Commisglonor Orawford moved the Hoapital Conmmitteo bo instructed to ndverlise for propo- saln for gronnd for & now Conuty Liospital, e motlon ways ngraod to. % Tho Board ilmn adjourned. platnin Mt COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL, o ths Bditor of The Chicago Tribun 8in: Various communiontiona liavo of late ap- ponzed in your journal regarding tho presout COook County Hospital, its bad situation, over- crowdad condition, the hurtfal influonces which surround the inmates, the unsatisfaotsry rosults of surglenl oporations, and the large “ratio of donths to rocoveries. Much biamo haa consequontly beon heaped on tho Honorablo Board of Couhty Commissioners, who havo boon held rosponsible for the rosults of protracted convalesconco, erowd-poisoning, and deaths producod by the insatisfastory aone ditions and surroundings of this Hospital. A Board of businoss-men, howovor onlight- onod on gonoral topics, are not expected to bo acquaintod with {mml’ solontiflo aud profes- oional dobate. It is prosumable that thoir so- licitude for tho wolfaro of their unfortunate fol- low-citizons ig ot loast oqual to that of your cor- respondonts. 1t is, thereforo, tho plain duty ot medical mon to convinco these gontlemon, by facts, statistics, and unansworable argitmontadeduced therefrom, not moroly that Cook Couuty Hospital 18 hurtful toits inmotes, but that itis furthérmore re- quired of them to show tho advantages and cconomy to the county of the romoyal of the Lospital to moro commodious and sslutary quartors. Tho proposed new hospital shomld be & woodon structuro,—a tomporary hospital. This 18 congidored & decided adyantage ; for no hos- Elml should bo constructed with n view to its oing used as such for moro than fifteon years. It tho monoy required to put up such structures a8 tho Now Yorlk civil hoapitals, the Bhodo Island Ilongltnl, or tho Cincinoati Ilospital, woro divided 'into two oqual purm,—onm‘fugr boing used to orect frame-hospitals of tho eamo ca- paeity ns, tho'stouo sud briok hospitals actuslly uilt, and the other half boing put out to inter- o8t at § por cont—a comploto now hospital could ba furnished uvar; twolvo years for au indoflnito period to como. It is, therefors, good economy to-build hospitals in this monner ; nud there con Do little doubt that, s stated by Bir Georgo Ballingall, “ Such a measure would be favorable to tho interesty of the sick.” Furthermore, the grounds for this Hospital should bo ample, and capablo of thorough drain- age. Itis obvious that these grounds ought to be socured at onco; the soonor thoy are acquired, the loss will be tho cost. Xvan, A LINCOLN-PARK POLICEMAN. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 8imn: Coan you tell mo whether the policoemon at Lincoln Park aro hired for the purpose of con- tributing to the comfort of visitors or morely thet they may havo leisure to perfect thomaolvos in tho piacatorisl art? That it is for the latter Eurpuso i8_tho opinion of ono of them, judging y iy conduct to mo last smra:{. Being o strangor to the geography of the placo, and {nnocontly supposiug that a paild officor would bo willing to imparts information, I in- quired of that ofliclal, who was 'fishiating with & liook and_line from n bridgo, ns to tho where- abouts of tho band, and was rowarded with » wuporcilious miaro worthy of s botel- clork, and iho romark, “T don't know, I'm suro.” Aftor which this gentlomanly ofiicial rogumed his angling. Abnshed and bu- miliated, but not quite _routed, I roturnod to tho chargo by saying that Ihad henrd that a band was to piay there that day, and asking if such wag not tho ense, 'Lha oflicial, boiug momontar- ily mollified by catohing o fino catfish at that momont, condoscendod to mutter something, of which I could only distinguish the words, * Half~ past 3,” but signified his disgust for mo, and csiro to drop the subject, by faking the flah off tho hook ane unlell{ kicking it in into tho wator, Now, this did not hutt me, to bosure; but I could not help thinking it & bad examplo' to sot bofore childron, who loarn cruelty fast cnough without baving it taught thom by thogo in tho garb of authority. T muat romind this official that civility coats nothing ; and, if he cannot afford it at that price on his prosent salary, I would adviso hin to go into sowa otlior busincss. Cuicaao, Juno 80, 18 Ax OBSERVER. e THE SIOUX. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Swn: It your roporter, who kindly called last oveniug for information in regard to the rocent council with the Bioux Indians, will look over his notes, he will find thot ho has mistaken my words in relation to two or threo mattors. 'I'he most important error is the statoment in his report that * the Bioux aro fast bocoming civilized," Tho truth is, tbat, whilo many of them eviuce a strong leaning in that direction, they have bardly entored tho rond to civiliza- tion yot, and it would bo rather too much to ox- oct that Lhoy should until thoy have {eachers to ead them into it . I wish that this atatemont might be corrected, a8 there are too many who will tako advantage of the arror to discrodit my testimony. ‘Tho other mistakes nre not of so much im- portanco, and I am thankful to Tue TRIGUNE for nu\:liuhing tho fuots which are 5 ven, Yours ul) L. C. Keunre, y, Citloaao, Juno 99, 1873, Mr. Craig’s Onth, From the Springfield (11} Journal, ‘The following oath of office waa filed on yes- terday by the ifon. A, B. Craig, tho new Judgo of the Bupremo Court: . Brarz or ILLiNois, KNox CoUNTY-ss, 1, Alfred M. Cralg, duduv of the Supreme Court of tho'State of Iliinos, clocted in tho Fifth District, do solomuly awear that T will support tho Constitution of thio Unitod States, snd the Conntitution of the Btato of Illinols ; and that T will falthfully discharge tho duties of tho oflico of Judgo of tho Bupremo Court of sald Blato according to the bost of my ubllity, That I will sdminfster fustico without respeat to persons, aud do oqual right to the poor and to the rich without sulu or dunial, promptly without delay, tonformably to tho Inw, Without favor, objcetlon of pactlality, to the beat of ay judgnent and abilitics, (Bigned), An¥nep M, CRAto, Bubacribed and sworn to boforo me, tho 14th day of June, A, D, 1873, Lewis Anprews, J. P, Wo think tho public will agree with us, that, bosides aii unusunl, it is also u most remarkablo document. Certuinly it is the only one of that kind onZ record in this Stato. Tho Coustitution of tho State prescribes the languagoe of tho oath to bo tuken, and that ia suflicient ; nono other is expectod, roquired, or dosirod. If the people had thought nacessury to requiro of their Bu- prome Judios an onth” forbi g o violation of thio wholo citalogue of crimos, thoy would have said so. 'Lhis attompt of the new Judge-to amond the Conatitution, though harmless in it- welf, La in bad tosto, and ought to bave boon omitted. "o consldorations naturally prosont thom- solves to those who road through Judgo Craig's onth of oftica. 1. ling Judge Craig properly and constitution- elly qualificd himsolf as an ofticor of tho Stato ? ‘I'io fandamental law of Illinols progoribos, in oxnct words, tho form of oath which ** all civil officers, oxcopt mombors of the Gonoral Assom- ty, . . . shell, boforo thoy enter on tho du- tios of thoir respectivo ofiiced, tako aud sub- soribo ;" *“and no othor oath, doclaration, or tost shall bo roquired as & qualification.” Now, Judgo Craig was not satisfied with taking tho sufiiciont onth as sot forth in the Constitution, but ho munt, in addition, have himself sworn to do and not to do u large number of things, all of which woro already comprohended in tho simplo hirago that ho woild * faithfully dischargo tho sullfin of tho offieo,” otc, Has not Judgo Crai violatod tho Constitution in not taking tho ont exnctly as therein proscribed ? Hus ho roally quulified himsolf in the maunor that he iu re- quired to do ? Lo question iy an important one, ©a It Jud‘;u Oraig hag tho right to amond, modify, and add to the Constitutionnl oath ot plonstiro, why did 1o not, while ho was about it, complete tho catnloguo of ofliclal misfonsancos and malfeasnncos 7 Why did ho stop with say- ing ho would *administer justico without ro- gpoet_to porsona ” o should also have in- c!ndnd corporations, Why did ho linit himsoelf to administer justice without * favor or partinl- ity "7 Lo should also have sworn to do it with- out feo or reward [ Why did ko confina humself moroly to doing “*equanl right to (he rich and thio poor™'? . 16 ahouid atio havo includod tioso who aro in modorate oircumstances. And o should nave added that he would make no dis- criminations botweon tho blacks and 2he whites, Sinco Judge Craly iusists on particularizing, thoso aro all vory hwportant poluts ; and their omlasion from his oath, we foar, will cnst o shade of susplcion upon his judivial upright- noss, - "o be serious,—Judpo Cralg, in hia zoal to appoar like an unplediod expoundor of the law, l‘;i\n overdono the thing, aud made bimgelf ridio- oug, 3 ommittoe on Pablio Buildings waq au-- MINNESOTA. Skefches of Gov. Ramsey, Farmer _»l_(lng, Gen, Sibley, Junior Washburn, and 0thers, Life, Virtue, and Opulence in St. Paul. From Our Owen Correapondent, 1, PAUL, Minn,, Juno the middle, 1873, "Thors {8 n goodish kind of man up horo in this soparatod orb of our constollation. Ono focls & good deal as If he wore in Rochester or Buffalo, or somo of the larger communitios of Wostorn Now York, as ho pnssos slong tho strocts and looks Into faces. Horo are two cities proximate, 1ike Troy aud Albany, and sbout Lialf tho sizo of the lattor, and of liko rolative importanco to cach other. Bt Paul, like Albany, is tho Stnto Capital: Minnonpolis, like Troy, though it re- somblos Rochostor more, is tho manufacturing placo. Minnoapolis is ataid and moral. Its sa~ loons aro closod of Sabbaths. The Falls of Bt Anthony roar on that day, however, and tho chiof amusomant i@ to go and soe thom. Thoy aro & fino kind of palatable fall, and socm to bo o bad placo to fall in without provious dovotions; but who ever heard of a cataract wearing an apron at any othior point? Apron is tho word for it; o timber apron, built at governmont-exponsc, 80 that the fall shall not epill auything upon ita breast, and xotroat, at tne discovery of its nn- tidineas, farther up stronm. Discovored by ITen~ aiepin, it woars a part of his namo in this pina- foro. 8t. Paul is o loss dovout place, and tho chief land-mark in it is 4 BENATOR RAMSEY. A vory raro quadruped in larger politica In Unitod Statos Benator Aloxander Ramsoy. I call him & quaprupod because bo lLas 6uch a broad tread and is built on substantisl foundations. He came to stay, and nothing has yot boon found, of eithor the fluid or tho fulminating sort, capa- ble of disturbing tho elophantine equanimity of hisensy-going. Ho boars the namo of boing a Ponnsylvania Dutchman in Mionosots, but as- suredly tho nnmo of Ramsoy is Beoteh or North- English, a8 anybody knowa who i8 familinr with Allon Ramsoy. And yot, he can address German audionces In proviucial Deutach, so it is said, and close the avenuo to a roply from any pro- fossional Democrat who subsists on importa- tions. ’ Y No temperance manishe ; buta tomperato man, in truth, in that o nover oxcoeds his capacity,and could not do it if ho tried. Nature howod him out of the granito, and fed him on ber pulpy presorvatives. Evergihing ho tales inwardly turna to tigaments, and buttresses up tho staunch and cordial trunk of this groat old vote-getter. His smile {8 nover a sickly effort of tho will ; it 18 tho natural oxpression of such & feeder. Sav- age nations would bo moved by it to voto tho ouly substantial ticket in tho market, and, what- ovor this tickot may be, it is slways Gov. Ram- goy's. Incampaign times, the oxuding humor of this fino figuro of & man is like tho quality of morcy,—never ftrained, cicopt through a por- forated ladlo of ice, and it blosses Lim that gives and him that takos. Without doult, he is one of tho truest poli clans in our country, neithor soutimentcl nor hypoeritienl, o possceses nono of the mulig- nant characteristics of selfishnoss, Countrified, but clover; old, but jocono; big, but industris ouws; nud, withal, s friend. of his peoplo, of whatever party, he was nover known to rejoice in tho dofeat of his ndvorsarios ; and what Min- nesota might legitimately swk for, Ramgoy onn obtain. It is & refreshing plnoo, if not an clo- vating ono, i humati nature, to como to auch & posBoNngo. Obsarve, nlgo, how much of the onjoyment of famo this man has attnined in the rips timo of hiis own lito. Tho County of Ramsoy i tl:o me- tropolitan county of Minnesota. Tho oldest sot- tlors romomber the Governor with confidence, sud he affects the newest with his tradition ana opulonce. Cautious rs to overy expression ho minkes, and _soldom Vonl.urlug boyond inqui and interjoation, hoe is said to have onco replied, aftor coming up tho river and bolug interroguted a8 to whothor the boat wos in: *Thet is my I'm&)'enion, sirl"” 0 i8 probably the wonlthicst man in tho Stato, having takon up land sud city-lots einco lio camo to tho connlry; and tho saying is, that ho never gells and seldom improves. ~But he is famous for tho appropriations ho draws st Washington for the Stato. “Our roligion up loro,” ho said, *ia our town, whatovor it may bo. Nationnl insues cau- not carry a public man over, as they used to. ko ‘must make tho untion sorve his locality.” " Bonator Ramsoy’s mansion at St. Paul is the most elegent rosidence in Minnesota. Ilouse- building, howavr, is choap in this country, ow- ing to tho abundance of lumbor and the frinble nature of the building-stone, which can goner- ally o dug out of the cxeavation which in to be covered by the tho of the mansion, thero is & noble view of all tho coun from Fort Snelling to the Bt. Croix River, The Benator hng put his oftico in the garret, and his library in tho samo part of tho house. Ho has collacted: nowspapor-files of tho Northwostern jonruals sinco lie eame to the country, in 1849 ; and theso ho dosigns to prasent ta tho Hiatorical Socioty, Mre. Rameey is the daughter of a membor of Congroees from Ponnsylvania. 8he has beon of substantial and abiding holp to the Governor, generally accompanying him ~ throughout hia ca- Foor. Thoir surviving child, o daughter, hng beon edacated nt the best echools in Americs and Turope, and is bighly accomnlished. DILL KING One of the churacters of Minnesotn is Dr, William King, gonerally ealled * Bill Kiug," of Minuenpolin. tio has o nutiouel reputntion am tho Postmuster of tho Houso of Represoutatives at Washington, which offico bo has kopt for six or elght yeara continuously, bavisg beon Dboaton ouly onco. In this ago of imputation, injudicious pooplo ars in the habit of saying that Mr, King's fortuno was saved out of his snlary ; but this I am propsred to disputo,—for 1 havo porsonally bobield the fnstrumontalitios with which he accomplished the wholo thing. “At an carly poriod in the history of the Stato, o throw his ontire fortune in the line of stock, and imported into Minncsota soveral of tho Trgest bulls from the Kingdom of Groat iritain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, Theso bulls have boan comfortably stallod on Mr. King's moguifi- cont farm of 1,400 neros, which begins at tho ‘margin of the City of Minnoapolis, aud etrotchos out fo includo n race-courso, noarly grasps the Talls of Minnohaha ; and then, in anothor di- roction, gracefully meanders along tho banks of two or threo lekes,‘including a com- otory, where Mr. King's victima ropose; and’ flnally culwinatos upon a lordly hill-top, whero the mansion is to b crocted this yonr or tho next, The barnn on this place would delight the Patrous of Husbandiy, Thoy are, porliaps, the house, * From lurgost in America,” and ~ contain all * the conveniencos for finepiug tho aforosaid bulla in good order, ncluding an apotliccary shop, & lny-olovator, aud an adjncout maugion, whore tho cliof ‘farmor, who was brought from the Old Country, with his inuds and” superintondeuts, live ubout aa woll as thoy might on the entate of My Tord Dorby. Roaming through the rosounding con- cavitios of these mighty barus, bad lod out beforc mo, oue aftor the oth- er, tho tho bulls in question, and tholr numerous progeny. _'Thore was ono bult rated, I Doliovo, at ¥8,600. o utood like a President of tho Unitod States, complote in evorything, ox- copt tho oigar, ohoving away on that lino which took all summer, and his foot woro wido onough apart to lob a ‘whoel-barrow poss, This gront bull had mado I forget how mnl\‘y noros of the farm for tho propriotor, and ho still livos on to last as long, I should kuppose, as the Ropublican party, and to roll up tho usual in- come overy year, Noxtcamo a smallor bull, o moro violant’ and lively animal, who looked to have a llttlo Bloux blood in him. Thongh young, ho bad added w good many nores to £ho placo, and was expootod to oxtond it indofiuitely, so a8 to ombraco TFort Snolling aftor awhile, Tho barna and the Juicy fiolds outside wero ovorrun with short-horned cattle and splondid wool-giving slicop ; and down at tho race-truck wore stullions_and geldings unequalod north of Kontucky, Whon I saw all this euterprise and bovinoe luxury, and_thought how little attontion 1 had paid to bir. King as the Postmunstor of tho Iouso of Represontativos, Iwas ubleto attribute i succoss to a pationt sfudy of the Seriplures, Pm‘tlculm‘ly of that passage which says: ‘1 had” rathor bo & door-keoper ~in tho houso of my party than to dwell in the tents of " wickodness.,” Wr, King bhay & nowspapor at Mianespolis, which is baga- 1 and, ithough tello to him, called tho Minnoapolis Tribine. It has now quito a balo nge, and s woll con- duclod, ~ Butall tho timo Mr. King oan spato from the bulls aforosald ho glves to making Bouators. Just an ho discovers in tho by-ways of lifo [flnuddnuklng cattlo of "tho common stock, and raises thorofrom animals of blood and doportment, 80 ho meandora throngh tho Btato of Minnosota, from timo to time, to ace i o can find the material to make a Honator of, Bonator Ramsoy o permits to exist hocause thoro Ia a fino infusion of Lovine blood fu him, partly 8colc-Irish and partly = Pounsyl- vanin-Gorman; but _ ho tried his liand on ex-Sonator Wilkingon,—familiarly known as ' Wilk,”—and ho pafd, “I can't breod any stock on that man ; ho is foo high in the logs to atand solidly, and hnd botter Do turnod out to grass.” Buf, nt Winons, Mr. King had distingulshad siccesn, in, produciog o Bonstor whom ho bas loavened with lia own vigorous paturo, nud the firm of Windom & Xing continies to move on smoothly,—the King loading, . of courso. Tenra camo to my oyos whon I hoard Mr. King deeeribe tho awoolnosa of dinposition, tho grentnoss of mind, and thie abounding patriotism of Beoator Win- dom, To know it on this high authority, was nover to forgot it. I folt inwardly pormisded that the Transportation-quostion would now bo entiroly sottled, bocsuro I was informoed by Brothor Donnolly that Mr. K(nq bad bocome Grangor bimeolf; and as ho thinks, 8o thinks his Bonator. As Washington was agood many hundred miles behind me, and I had nover had much to do with tho Post-Offico of tho Houwo, I heard with somo genuino intoroat the story of Mr. King's strug- g}m and triwmph ot home. IIo camo out from jow York, in Piorce’s Administration, with a burdon of obligation bohind him, which 1o pald off with sweat and travail, publishing hia ‘ploncor papor meantimo, and boarding tho handa ho got tho typo ; aud tho first money which ho obtained waa planted, with Westorn confidence, in ndjacont roal estato, Helis now tho largost Jand-holder in this rogion ; and the sunual in- crenso In tho valuo of land adds o now parcel ovory little whila to tho original -domsin ; sowe affect to ‘beliove that the most profitable atock-farm of Mr, King is at Washiugton City, yot no man in. tho Common- wealth i more entroated by clorgymen, charita- ble woclotios, and socisl Institutes of all worts, to como to thoir rescuo, than this same ntock- brooder 1 wnd Lo slways 'does {t,—(raquontly at tho risk of momontary privation to himsolf, The Jeading candidate for Governor of Min- nesota, and afterwards for Sonator, is WILLIAM WASHBURSE, » momber of tho univorsal, co-oxtensivo Wash= burne family, Like Mr. Kin[i; Lo found hiu chiof prombiion in tho line of publio ofic, aud way sout to this country by tho influente of his brothren, to bo either Lsnd-Burveyor or Land-Rogistor for tho Government. o became monarch of all ho surveyed ; and the most fayor- able pinerids in Minnosota were pro-ompted or bought on Imowlodge by the Washburno family. Honco, o groat eaw-mill at Minneapo- lis ongages tho atteution of William Washburne at prosent; and tho River Minsissippi carrics, froo of toll, thousands of trunks of treos to Lo entangled in his saws; but still ho la not happy, for the Washburnos might pay, in tho langungo of Napoloon: ¢ With (ha namo I benr, I must eithor live in tho darkncss of & dungoon or tho brightuess of power!" Evorybody glves William Washburne tho it f boing o gontool, positive, porsistent, public- spirited mno, Tho chances nro, that ho will carry the Ropublican nomiustion and succeod Gov. Austin. A man quito difforent in tone and gait from thoso I have mentioned is GEN, IL. 1, SIBLEY, of Bt Paul. Ilo camo out to Tort Snolling at a vory onrly day, an tho ngout of n gront fur company. There ho lived s baronial sort of life, surrounded with half-breeds aud Indians, who poid o sort of foalty to hig will, charactor, and osition; -and zll tho gront travelors who came 0 thin part of tho world wore his gueats,— Nicollot, = Catlin, Foatherstonchaugh, and Marryatt, ITo proposed the name of Minnosota for the Btate, instend of Itasks, Algonquin, or Chippews, u8 bad beon mooted; and Bibley was sent to Washington as Dologate. His opponent way Houry M. Rico, who atill lives at 8t. Paul. Sibjoy was ngain olected Dologato in 1850, Originally a morchant, Gon. Sibloy has mado loisuro ufiiciont to Decomo nlmost o learned man; and tho vigor and man- liness of his * diction are well attested in soveral of his historical papers, which show him to have a conservative mind, cloar percop- tions of honor, and an equal knowiedge of the military art and of law. ~His prominenco, from tho eavago poriod to the. presont, has given him s certnin houiour, =~ which is not wholly understood by sousitivo peoplo ;. but no man in the Btate stands upon tho same plano of eminent charaotor. - Iis lnst sorvico to Min- nesota was pursuing snd clinstising tho Bioux, in 1862-'8,—Gov. Ramsoy having called bhim to the hond of the militia, and tho Govorn- ment at Washington bestowoed iIFDn him any per- tho rank of ‘Brigndier General, sona criticise his campaign as Incking vigor, and s parsimonious in"its results ; but io knew tho Sioux character so well, and was so careful of tha lives of tha numerous prisoners thoy hold, na to mako it the firt polut to recover those wretched people, and aftorward denl vengeanco to the murderors. In its greator results, the campaign haa proved to have been an obsolute success. Tho Sioux and Winnebagoes aro all removed from Minnesotn, and thore remains on tho soil of that Btate only the placid and straight-forward Chip- owne, 5 There are fow Fulu of the world whers one enn 600, 8s in' Mlinnogatn, RO many sutbors and oroators of tho Stato still alive in the midat of a swnrming population, haviug roaped all tho benefits of famo and enterptise while yet in tho primo of lifo. Of a difforont stamp altogathor aro the RIOE DROTHERS, ono of whom was Domocratic Scnator for six yodrs. Without any qualitios of oratory, Lo has o wooing sbility to’talk his way from maun to man, aud swoeten the sonienco with which he sponks, and mako Lis policy tcom alweys tho wisost, As prominont, and more popular, is Edward Rice, brother of tho ox-Souator, and Dotharo mon of position in this region. EX-8ENATOR WILKINEON is atill o different man from ‘any of the above. Ho is ou what is called the Orthodox lay, and tomporanco, pioty, and lycoums rorve bis turn from pariod fo poriod. He_lives at Mondots, whioro tho Sioux wore hanged nfter the massacra of 1863, and appears to ocoupy the position of Danuelly,—n man not quite formidablo in poli- tics, but never wholly out of mind. When Wil- kinson representod tho Stato in Congross as the only Ropublican, ho camo to King to ank whath- or King would givo him support for the Sen- ate, % No," ald King ; %I shall support Wi Windom.” % Wilkinson then went into eanous, and insisted thnt, ns ho was the only Republican from Min- nogota, Congress should not do him the injustico of muking its Postmastor a mau from his Stato who was ropollant to him. King, howover, got nbout all the votos, and Windom'wont up on the tripod. s ST. PAUL ¥ a seemed . to me justly cclobratud as having re- markably good néwspapers. Tho bistorie cditor of tho Sinte was James M. Goodhue, of tho P’i- oneer, who came to 8t. Paul in 1819, whon it was # littlo trading-post, and ho was 89 yedrs old. Ho wos o man of blunt speech and strong intol- loot,—somewhat, I &upporo, like tho lato Dr.' Ray, of Chicago. 1lo' hnd tho virtuo of imowitg how.to fight na woll s to writo, nud, having slashed his cnomios, onrried hia polnts, and _boon mortlfled with_scein, fllm&s protty minch as he wanted them, he diod in 1852, in con- soguonceo, it {s uaid, of injurios recaived in some inevitablo affray, whore both men woro badly burt. < Bt. Pahil is now in pursnit of a big_City Iall, and I travoled some distauca with Dr. D, Day, who {1 ono of the Conumisaioners sont to Milwaukoo, Dotroit, Chicago, Baltimore, sud other cities, to study bp plans for o now civie building, which shall cost from 500,000 to 1,000,000, Tho Qovornmont-odifico nt 8t, Paul s just about completad, at o cost of 400,000, It is ono of Mr. Mullot's beat-adapted constructions, and T fouud that architect in the city, putting the fin- ishing touches to the work. TIME FLILS, It hes boen j‘lmt fifty yoors siuce the firat stonmbont—tho Virginia—asconded to 8t. Paul ; and that yoar, at an exponse of £00,000, was built Fort Snolling, the firat of Lho groat cor- don of posts which wero tobo plantod, one aftor another, to tho Liond of tho Missourt and beyond it. It was not until 1855 that any road whatover oxisted throngh Minnesota to &ny part of tho Missouri ; aud the firet rond to the Red River of the North was & now thing when tho War of tho Reballion broke out, At Duluth thomau wag roln(nd out to mo, 08 a citizon théro, who had hauled tho firet ntonmbont plocomeal to tho Ited River, to drop upwands like bultoon into_the solitudes proporly sottled by ouo Bolkirk, Half- a~million "poopla’ alroady inhabit this region,— tho wholo of which, as I Leard Mr.- Juy Cooko onco Bny, “ must bo s past of the torvitory of Chicago, and como to i¢." GATH, —_— Tho largost priveto Jibrary iu Michigan is be- lloved to bo thht of Col. I, H. Thomson, of Flint, which numbors upward of 0,000 volumes. 1le hina tho firat edition of Bhakspeare, printed 1u 1028, whioh is vaiued at $2,600, am THE FARMERé’ MOVEMENT. Eulton County, Bl The Tollon County (IN.) Farmors' Asnocia- tlon, st o recont mecting nt Smithileld, adopted the following ronolntions : Repalred, 'Tht we, tho mombors of the Fermora’ Ase cociation of Fullon County, aro i favor uf good £ine fuig and duproved stock, and tlo best fari busldings aud farin Inplements, That wa favor the encouragomont of our smanufaoe turors, and tho advancomont of oitr commercial inter. onta, and Incronsad and cheapor factitios for comnte niention with tho naboard, Tiint wa favor good comimon roads nnd anbstantial bridgo#, good acool-houscs aud feachers, and univers #al oducation, ‘That we bolteva fn the supremncy of tho law, in the requlation Ly Iaw of all transportatlon, oxpross'compne nien, and other monapoltes, and in_ fmoting out oqual and oxnct Justice to all clanies of men, That we favor honeaty and cconomy n all departa ments of tho Govornment, nationnl, Bate, and county; in tho reduation of tazatiou to tho lowent polnt con- sistont with our public neconnitica—and fhtegrity— ond sbility, probity, and ofiicleucy in our public omeinl, n the presont dopreared atato of our financen, tha recont {ncrense of pay of our Govornmont oflieinis by Gongresn van unfust mud. nolled for and, po fa iy clive, It wan_almply o ATRAT, mgney from o ir'll.mlm Trsmiy ooy theft of At o ralary thoft, nud thio Tocont Congroasta Inveatigationn, linv. oxhibited Buch. dinomuiatio st dishonest yirnctices i our publio. Aorvanta that the national mafoty demnndn » union of ail honet monfi order'tn clevato the standard of 4 ororin ‘morality n tho puLlic Tho Becretary road a communication from the Bocrotary of tho Stato Assaciation, a portion of which 1 as follows : OFvICE OF BIATR BECRETARY Tustots Brize Pasieus! Ammgotation, - } EWANEE, 11, Jun Joln Pricket, Eaq., Lewiato, 3033, yDeanBin: L, . Wo noed only to tho facts, that In thn borioncant countey "of aimited resources, with the Jand_snnually groming beneath the producta of Luman offort, tho mass of ?ha people have no sunply boyond thoir dlly wanta, and tag often aro compollod from unjust condilions in mickness and misfortune to hecomo paupors and vagrantw, Slavory hins boon abolished, but tho rights and rolations of Inbor stand Just where they Ald beforein respect o the diviston of ils producta. Capltal fs mastor and dios tates the torms, and thus wa are all Ppractically slaves, our maatera giving us Just enough to ounble us to 1ive ond produce suother crop, from whick they rob us na mf::::; MIM. ought lg (Enh 8 that tho inferest of all mmon, A iey must 0 llfl_lll‘)‘ it ihoy !I;Cfifl;—'l‘-t G 'y glit tho battles in Flio réason of thin stato of affaira fs to the fact that the loglslation of tho whole u!’xlffi:;'nl‘: :: thio handa and under the supremo_control of haukare, stock-jobbors, land-grabbors, and professlonal polts Heians, to tho slinost exclusion of thore who produce tho wealth and pay tho taxes. To correct thess and other abuscs of government must bo tho purpose of our orgenizations, To do this wo muet not ask for artificial th!d or oxclusiva privilegos, but demand {:m«:flon u our natural rights, \\'quva long enough on tho tooln of demngogucs snd_acoundrets ; hava clected men to offico who bave no sympatly with us, and only uso tho power we havo given them Lo oppress and rob us, When we bad used our political privil leges with ordinary discretion and judgment we should not, 08 wo now do, complain of {lic moustrous wrongs we #uffor, but would retain a fair share of tho world's wealtli, hinvo moro lelsuro timo, and live higher ani nobler life, diminish poverty nutl crime amoug us, nud ‘wreat our Governwent from the hends of those who at0 prostrating it to tholr own bate purgose, aud to our own povorty and lavery, Wo want notliing wrong, nothing unjust, but. equal and oxact justics to all we must and will have; ot our oppregsors then take warning—tho day of our do- lverauco is near at band, if wo but stand forth na Americon froemen, arsert tho dignity of our manhood £nd Tofne Tongor hoekly 10 subralt 1o bs ha teois st dityoa of corrupt and smooth-tongued politicad scoun- 1 hopo you will celebrato 0a farmers, and holp to malko the day an oventful to us nn & olary as our fathers did to the nation. With bost wislios for a pleaxant aud profitablo rounion of tho producers of your locality, T an faitbfully and truly yours, 8. 31, Saurmit! Columbin County, W Tho farmors of Columbia County, Wis., met in convention Juio 25, and adopted rosolutious a8 follows : Resoled, That the recent decision of {he Buproma Court of tlio United Sistcs, aflrming tho Tight of tha Legislaturo to uiter, amend, ot ropeal thie chartor of railrond compaulcs, in this'State, 18 in harmony with e pladn provielons of our S8t Conatitution, and cs- tablislics beyond queation the fact (hat raflronda mny o rostralued in thelr oxactions, and their tolls moy bo 1imited by act of tho Leglslaturd, ZRienolved, That whilo wo nro friondly to raflroads as a necessnry olement in tho developmont and _prospority of tha Stato, and woull do 1o uct toward, nor imposo any.rostendnit upon, them excopt Buch us'aro founded on's basln of oxact’justice, wo demnud that their tari(® of rates bo 8o amended and reiluced, as stall ecure to 1bo producing clasres tho carrying of thelr products, without discrimiuation, aud st such rates s thoy can reasonably affoxd to catry thein for, and no mre, tesolvcd, That raflroad compauies khould *confino tucir busiiess to such aa they legitimately ncquire un= der thelr chartera,—{hat of commorce carriers,—nnd that th renting of clevatora and the eatablishing of tholragents, at thio various raflrond etations, for tho Pl of contralling tho markota nud ariving out of uginesa all persons not in thelr omploy, eithor direct~ Iy or Indirectly, in reprebiensible aud sliould ho forbida den by statuto, and sovero penaltios should bo imposod T etva That, whilo th 4y esolied, That, whilo thus asserling tho power of tho Legialature over the corporations of ito creation, wo believe tho {iniu bns_come when tho powars Lera claimed should be oxerclaod, and wo demand of our roprosontatives in tho Leginlnturo that thoy exert thiemsolyos to procuro such legislation ea will secure to the people relief from the ovils which are clearly rest- 1ug upon tho Btate, crippling its agriculturs, manufac- tures, and ita industry [»:cnunllr, oud that we will sup- port no candidate for tho Leginlaturo horeaftor who fa Dot in known eympathy and in accord with the sentie ments of theso resolutions, Resolved, That tho action of tho lnst Congress in in- creaning the salarien of J{s membors, and othier officors of tho Governmont, and nuking the bill retroactive in its features meetn witl our unqualified disapproyal, and wo demand the full sud unconditioual repeal of thie law on the assembling of tho noxt Congrass, Resolved, That, whilo Wo commond tho action of thoso Ropresentatives who voted ngainat tho Salary bill, and havo refused to take money under ita opera~ tious, 8o do wo umphatically condemn, not only thoso who 'voledd for tho bill, but g woll thoso who voted againet it and aftorward recofved the money, licsoleed, ‘That, while the srgument mag be truo which {a sometinies advanced, thnt the increased enlary voled 18 no more than thoy eould carn ot thelr privata Lunlners, wo aro compolled to recognizs tho othor fact, that th sum Ja more than Ilelr Sorvices aro worth 10 s, nnd grealer than we can afford to pay, and wo shall feol It to'bo our duty to look for just au faithful but lower priced publio servants Lercafier, Teeeolved, Thut the yeowmanry of Wisconsin invite jn dividual dud_nssociated capifalista to invest thelr ‘money in onr Stato for the devolopmentof our vast re= sources, and to auch wo ywill offer all encouragoment, and all necessary and proper logal protection, But we. do inslst upon o return to tho lotter and wpirit of our Coustitution, which expreasly provides that property of overy kinil sholl o cqually taxed, and wo hereby Jleio oussolven dhat bott Tank enpital and ealiroai uvestinenty, aud all other corporations_shall bereafter beur thelr Juet and cqual proportion of taxation, even if it requires o_revision of the Constitution of our Btato to offect {his meanure of aimpla Justice, ‘Tho following rosolutions wora submitted and ordered printed with tho procecdings of tho Convontion ; Resolued, Ihat,in view of the genoral jufidolity of our publio'officers to the trusts confided in_ them, we heroby agreo to horeafier support noman for uny public oflico or trust who s kuuwn to Lo au anpirait for ofiice, Rtesoleed, That In tho opinion of this Convention, wo can Liave o permnuent protection from rafiroud o nopolies until rutlronds (in the fullost acceplance of the turu) aro declared public bighwayw, 1lio ownerslip of tho rond, separated from tho ownorship of tho rolling stock, sud_ull persous shall hova the right to put on {her own englnioa sud cars, and do_a goneral carrylng Dusiness, on sll tho railronds in the country, by paying tolls 58 on canaly and plank roads, Dremer and Chiclcasaw Countics, Ine At & rocent meoting of the farmors of thoso counties, the followingresolutions were adoptod : Winkneas, Wo rogard party polltles, fn tho line of atrict party measurcs, ny tending to corruption in ofliciul etations, und that, a8 o fred and intelligent peo- ile, wo shonld 4o far abnolve ourselves therefrom ng only to support such men for ofliee, indopondont of party crecd, as aro qualifiod by s large stock of moral corage, cldar intollect, uud” untlinching integrityy sud 'WHEREAS, A largo class of the ruilroade of our land, aving the right of eminent domaly and large rans of publio laids snd donations from a- gonerous pooplo nwarded thew, have, ufter thus being cndowed sud fostored, ussumied to bo musters of the law-making bf‘urru]\llny Congress, Lribing ‘Leglslatures, ying tho Judlciary of our Governmont ; ond WitEiEA8, Choy hove becomo {o an alarming oxtont goulless monopoliats, casting an iufluonco which fa inbmical to bo principlos and purpotulty of our Repuls Hean fustitutionn s and-, Witknean, Many of tho machine manufactorica ara becowing dingerous monopolies by tho yower con- fersed by our patent-right systam, whercby thoy ara ermittod to eliarge fabulows prices for machinos, re using.to deal witls tho farming nud produeing clasres except through s eystem of ugencies, thoreby compoll- ‘purchaners Lo fo without their products or submit o ppproenlve i tfust clinvgea: thorofore, ed, Thut radlroads should Lo brought under Jtesole - judicions Congresslonal snd legislative contral, Tiesalved, Thiat the patout-tight Inw should bo o constructod and coustrued us to protoet tho purchaser as well as tho inventor, Resolved, That wo fukiodecp Infereat in tho oponing of water communieation to the seabourd by way of tho Wisconsin and Fox Rivers and tho Lakes, and {ho fius provemout of tho Mississippl for shipplug purposca; and tho buflding, as scon s practicabilo, by tho Gove crument, of otio or more double-track yullroads lrough’lie country, on ol locatlons us may Lcst soryo the ulercsts of 'tho producer sud consnnr. Resoleed, "Flind wo ure i sympatliy wilh the roform movoments of tho day, and aro willlug to co-operate Wit auy und all who' bro striving for the judlcloud control of oppresaivo monopolies and staying tho tido of poltial coreuption, tesolied, That wo will not knowingly support any peraon for'an oflico of trust or profit Whoso sympas thiioa and fuberests oro ot fu strict cousonance with thiat of tho produclng claesca, or whose Suelity and wmoral courago wo have reason to doubt, - esolved, Thint wo appoint a County’ Contral Gome mittoe, wiioso dutles it shall bo {o_coufor togethor and tako wtich weustres a6 sy be nccessary for our ngils cultural fuloreuta, i, if oy deous It nocoarary, (o eall fownehip mectingy and county couyeutlous wylitical purposea, {