Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1873. R R RERREREREREEESS==B TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. — TERMA OF RUBRCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVAXOR). Datley by mail 2.4 s [t Aivessesay L pAiL Parts of n yonr at tho sumoe rates To provont dolay and mistakos, ha suto and wive Post O o addross In full, Inclading Stato and Couuty, Itemittancos may bo mado oltizur bydralt, oxprss, Posy Ofea ordor, or iu registercd lotlors, at our clsk, TENNMA TO OITY SUNACKIDERS, Dally, deliverod, Sundny oxcopied, 2 conte por waok. Dafly, dlivored, Bunday tncludod, 30 conts por waok, Addross THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Dearborn-ata,, Olleago, Iil. HOOLEY'S THRATRE-Randolph stroet, betwoen Dlark and LaSailo, **Caste.” MoVICKETUS TURATIUL-Madison stroct, botweon Dembora_and Stato, ‘Tho Katlo Putnam Troupe. “*Mog's Divorsfon,” **Littlo Rubel" MYERS OPERA IOUSE—Monroo, botwveon Dearborn and Btato, **Sohool.” NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Ollnton sirast, botyoon Giaaiinklon and Randolph, ooy Tastor's Varloty Com= untion, ——— BUSINESS NOTICES. oo LD IN JOTTERY-WE SOLD 1N &G0, OVAL HAVANA dr?mln of 224 Aprit lnst tho fifidfl,\w Hz&uz senty Ioformntion given. . e MARTINI: Tanitors. 10 Wail-at. " P, O, Hiox 4§85, Now York. ud boautiful o ton” Sold by mi _d Troprlotor, N. Y- The Thicagy Tetbune, Tuesdsy Morning, July 8, 1873. Gon. Stanley, in chargo of the military expedi- tlon oscorting tho ongincors of tho Northern Pa- citic Railway, roports that tho survey of the road s beon made to s poiut soventy miles wout of Blamarck, Dakota. Tho route traversesa finely- watored and fortilo country, and cuts through amplo coal deposits twonty-sovon miles west of tho Missouri Rivor. ——————— Satanta and Big Troo Lavo been the subject of another ronforenco botween Gov. Davis, of *Toxas, and Socretary Delano, Tho whole sub- 4oct of their releasois to bo roforred to o coun- cil to bo hold next month betweon tho Indisns, the (yovernor, and the Commissionor of Indion Affairs, Satanta ond Big Tree mosnwhile lie in the Toxas Ponitontiary. . e mm—— Ex-Empress Eugonio has booun prophosying to a roportor of a Now York papor in Genova., Tho downfall of the wrotched Thiors makes cer- tn the return of France to order—that i, to. Bonapartism. Bho prodicts that Franco will bocome the consorvator of Euro- ponn poaco and ordor, and the oxtirpator of 'all communistic and anti-Christian socioties. France will again load the world, will restore the Pope to is old digpity, and pulverize Gormany Into insignificant Btate Another foroign steamer bas been wrecked pear tho bnleful Sambro Light, which drow tho Atlantio to its dentruction, but thoro is, happily, woloss ‘of life. The placo wher tho City of Waslington went nshore on Saturday in the fog soems to be about fifty miles from tho econo of the Atlantio horror. How many passongors sho cnrried {8 not stated, but most of them wero probably omigrants, lik' thoso of the Atlantie. They and tho crow Lnve been saved, but the vessel will bo o total loss. Ex-Secretary of the Intorior Jacob Thomp- son, who resigned Dhis position in Prosident Buchanan's Cabinet, in 1861, to join tho Reboll; fon, bas boon Tecontly charged with haviug left tho funds of his Dopartmont §821,000 short. An sxplanation is offerod of this, Lo the alect thae tho dofalcation was committed by ono of his clorke, ond that the doficlt, in accordance with the stylo of bookkeeping in vogue in the Depart- monts, is carried forward from yeas to yoarin tho acoounts. Botweon the Courts and the Legislature, Btolies' nock is in littlo dangor of tho halter. Tho Now York Logislaturo, --at its lnst sossion, amendod the oviminal law of the State so a8 to malo proof of deliberate intent to murder noces- pary to conviotion for murdor in the first dégroe- This change in tho deflnition makes it practically impossible, in the opinion of Now York criminal lawyors, to got & hanging verdict against Stokes, and the effcet will bo tho samo on most of tho othor murderers now awaiting trinlin that State. Neither Gen, 0. O. Howard nor his follow- Trustees dony that ho racoived back-pay for his sorvices to the IToward University, The Com- mitteo of Trustoes appointed to oxamine tho charges againgt his managemont adopt the lino of dofense takon by tho Genoral in his spocol the othorday. It.is, in briof, that ho got no moro than he gave. The flnancial statemont following the Committec’s report shovs tho nvailable resources of the University to be ©118,773.88, and its wlhole ondowment, produc- tivo and unproductive, to bs §1,051,64. Gon, Howard's recoipts from tho Universityhave boen 17,680 ; his oxponditures in its boholf, 16, 80618, i . Mayor Medlll sont in s voto to the Common Council last night, objecting to various itoms in the Appropristion Lill, smouating to about $600,000. Sowme of thoso, like ‘ho appropriation for au artesion woll and fountsin in Union Parls, and the increase of the eslaries of pipemen 4nd drivers in (b Tire Dopartment, and of gome of the clerks in the City Hall, hio wished to strike out altogether; others, like tho appropriation of §100,000 for main water- ripes, ho wished only to reduco. Notwithstand- ing tho advice of the Corporation’ Counsol, that the items could bo roconsidered aud alterod, alihough July 1, the legal limit for approprie- tions, had passed, the Council took tho opposite viow, and refused to amoud any of iho itoms which the NMayor wanted ont down, and sus- tained the voto only by rojecting tiwe or threo of the minor appropriativus, Qen. Butler mado the open! ng:;mnch of his tho original idea upon which railronds woro first chartored in the Btato of Massochurotts, ns ombodied in tho olngtors of tho Doston & Lowell Rallrosd, empoworlng overy man to pub Lis car and locomotive upon tho raliroad, to go ovor it for a reasotinblo toll, tobo ixed by the Di- ractory, subject to appoal to n propor Lribunal in coso of disngroomont. Nothing in tho spoech nbout ealary-grabs. . e The Obieago produco markets worn modorately active yosterday, with little chaugo in prices, oxcopt that corn and provisions wore highor. Moss pork was quict, and ndvanced 60@70c por brl, olosing at $16.60@16.60 cash, and 218.90@ $16,00 sollor, August, Lard was quiot aud Go por 100 Ihs higher, at £8.00@8.05 onsh, and £8.26 soller August. Meats woro in good demand and- {0 por Ib highor, at 63{@03{o for shouldors, 85¢ @8Mo for short ribs, BX@83o for short cloar, and 10@11360 for ewoot plekled hams. High- winos wers quiot snd firm at 880 por gallon. Lako froights woro moro active and stendy at 6o tor corn fo Buffalo. Flour waa in bottordemand atunchanged pricos. Whont waa less activo andl @134o lowor, olosing at 81.143¢ cash, and 81,1836 sollor August, Corn was quict and firm, ad- vancing 1o, and closed at 863 cash, and 88340 gollor August. Osts wore activo and oasior, closing at 28%¢o oash, and 28}¢@28)0c soller August, Ryo was quictand ensior at 60@010. Barloy was [nactive and nominally firmer ot 68@ 60c. Tho hog trndo was activo at about Batur- day's prices, closing steady at $4.00@4.60 for in- forior to chofce, Thoro wasmoro lifo in the eat~ tlo markot, and prices were firmor, with sales at £3.00@0.20. Shoop were inactive. An importaut petitlon will to-day bo cirou- Iatod on 'Chiange, It is addrossed to tho Btate Board of Railrond snd Warchouso Commis- slonors, asking thom to establish a grade of whoat at Ohicago to be known as ‘' Minncsoia Wheat.” If successful, tho Minnosota whoat ‘brouglt to this market over the Northwesiorn, Iilinois Contral, and Ohicago, Burlington & Quiney Railronde, will bo kept ' distisich and soparate, and bo ehipped thus to Now York. By this means Chicago will, oventually, Do placed on, an -equality with Milwaukeo in tho Now York market. The differenco for soveral years past in No. 2—the prineipal trading wheat—has been from 2 conts to B conta in favor of Milwaukee. . With this dis- advantage, it is up-hill work for tho Ohicago rail- roads to compoto with the Milwaukee companios, It is almost impossible for the Northwestern to socurs o bushel of grain for Chicago from any torritory that can be reached by the Milwaukeo rond. Were & Minne- sots grado, however, to bo here ostab- lished, and the grainto bo kept distinct, and the Now York morchants to bo assurod of the fact, thoro is no reason why this grade should not command a8 high o prico in Ohicago as would the samo ivhoat it ehipped from ‘Mil- waukee, Tho petition bas alrendy received the indorsomont of tho Northwestarn, 0., B. & Q... and Tlinols Central Railrond Companies, and of tho olevator mon, To-day it will bo presented to tho membors on 'Change, and on Wodnesday tho Scoretary of tho Board of Trado will bring it up at n moeting of the Board of Dircctors for their ofiicinl countenance. O — WATERED EAILROAD STOCKS, Mr. 8. M. Smith,_in his Pontiso spooch, said that tho farmors had no intontion of making tho railronds carry their grain at o loas, but that thioy woro willing that railroads should make & falr profit on tho monéy actually invested. This jsnvery falr statoment of tho renl isgue be- twoen the railroadsind the shipping community, and, if the farmers adhore to this position, thoy Wik havo both the people and the law on their side. The railronds claim ihat they are en- tittled to " tho current rato of interost, or ot lenst .a. fair rato, on their capital mtock.’ The people say timb this is all right if tho capital stock ropro- gouts the actusl invostmont ; but that it is all wrong if the eapital stock is fiotitous, or to ¢ho oxtout that itis flotitious: Tho railronds have the full protectioa of the law in tho docisions of the United Ststes Courts, which hold their chartors to boin tho notura of a contract which tho Stato counot violato. © They can set up the law in any mse whoro & State Logialaturo or tho peoplo endeavor fo deprive them of any of the privilegm specifically conforred by their churtora. But ty will make a mistake if they prosume that my law bars out the people from ascer- taipog whothor ox not they are complying with tliir obligations under the contract. Tho courts will oxtond to the peoplo tho same pro- Qubornatorial campalgn st Framivgham, Maus,, on tho Fourth of July, The spocch was dovoted in about equal parts to the questions of temper- nneo and railroad transportation. With rogard o tho former, ho neithor advoeated nor opposed prohibition, but oxprossed himsolf in favor of enforelng the law as long as it romained npon tho statute-books, Upon tho question af reducing railroad transportation of frolght and paesengord to ‘the minimum cost, ho wasmoro oxpliclt. o waa opposed to the Btate undertaking tho business of transporta- tion, In its corporate oapacity, upon the ground that governmonta should undertake no business enterprise whatever which can bodone by the pooplo for thomuotves, aud e was also opposed o taking awsy the railroads from their ownerg, His Eromedy was a roturn ‘to toction that they extond to the corporationf’ and, in tho conflict betweon the rail- roads and tho farmors, tho principal thing to bo detormnined by evidonco is whothor tho ratos chnrged by the railronds roprosont & profit on tho actual investment, or s porcentago on flotitions capital not author- izod under tho charters, but croated in a varioty ‘of waya without the fuvestment of moncy, If tho formor, tho railrond rates will be sustained ; it tho lntter, tho rates will bo changod, in ono way or another, and the railronds will be forced to bo contont with earnings that will pay s fair interost on tho actual iuvestment. 1n tho oyes of the law, a corporation is & fieti~ tions person, created for spocial purposcs, and utrictly limited’ to "the torms of its charter. It can’ tako nothing by implication, It can form no co-partnerships, enter into no bLusiness transactions, spread out into mo fiold not ex- plicitly dofined in tho law which originally ‘brouglt it into belng, orin amondments theroto. Now, we know of no railrond clarter which authorizos the corporation to exyn'a percentage ou flotitious eapital, and the Courts will not con- struo this to Lo an unexpressed or implied priviloge of the railroads. On the contrary, tho law eoxpressly holds that raiiroads must make fair and renvonable rates, and rates can bo neither fair nor reasonable which ropresont divi- donds on capital that hae never beon invested, or profita on stooks fletitiously isaued for tho benefit of spooulators, It Is on this ground that the farmors can make thoir bost fight, and, if thoy koop oloso to thia lino of battle, thoy will bo cortain of victory, F ‘We have no moans of knowing what, propor- tion of the eapital stock of the railroads of tuls country 1 fictitious, An cstimate mado somo two yenra ago placed 1t at 83 por cont of the ag- grogats rallrond stocks, The proportion is cor- tainly not lesa to-day, and probably is much largor. If this bo true, then the average rail- road rates are 83 por ocont highor thau they would be if the railroad stocks of the country roprasontod tho capital actually Invosted in con- structing and operating thom. It is the work of tha people to ascertain the procise differenco bo- twoen the actual investments and the fictitious stooks; and, when this shall have been done, thoro will bo n Aolid basin for doterminiug what roasonablo rates are. X Tho waya and monns adoptad for croating ficti- tlous railroad stocks aro at onco numorous ||m1v ingonious. ' A popular mothod I8 {o declara slodlc dividends, If tho Rock Tsland Rond, for in- stanco, Is oarning mora monoy than 1t -caron to hiava tho peoplo know of, it declaros n stook divi- dond. Tho oopital stock I8 thereby incronsod and tho enrlngs appear to bo lass. Tho fact is, that o means hao boon provided whereby tho oarnings may bo incronsod without arousing tho susplclon of tho publio. Tho now atock ropro- sonts no investmont: of caplial whatovor, but thoncoforth It conatitutes o basis on which the railronds clalm tho right of earning the current rato of intorest, The raten of transportation aro thus incronsed to pny intorost on stock originally issued for tho purposo of covering up oxcossive carnings. Anothior favorite way of jssuing fictitious atock is by the lonsing of othor railroads. But tho most com- mon monns of obtaining flotitloun stook is by what 1a whown as tho Crodit Mobilier plan of building rafiroads, Blarting with a land-grant from Congross, oraubsidios from State or Munie- ipal Governments, tho construction company {ssues sufflcient bonds to cover tho ocost of building tho road, outside of all shrinkage from deprecintion, brokers’ commissions, oto. Theso bonds aro sold, aund tho rond is built and oquipped from the proceeds Tho construction company thoen have tho capital stockof thoroad intaot. Whether it be $1,000,000 or $10,000,000, it has not cost them one dol- lar. They thon commonco operating the rosd, and claim that it should not only oarn money to poy tho mnterest on tho bonds, but also cnough to pay dividonds on capital ‘stock that does not roprosont s ninglo dollar of actual in- vostmont. Tho cost of the road is ontiroly com- prisad in tha bonds that have boon issucd, and tho capital stock is altogother fictitious. How large a proportion of tho 63,000 milos of rail- roads in {ho Uniled Btates hos been constructed in this way, it 13 not' pos- gible to say. DBut the timo has come when tho poople will undertake to find out. Tho poople aro willing that tho raliroads shall carn o fair profit on actual cost, but thoy can no longer bo forced to pay o royalty on fraudulent issuos. That timo bas passod, and tho soonor tho rail- roads make up thelr minds to it, tho better it will bo for thom. THE VIERNA BCANDAL, Tho Viouna corrospondent of tho Boston Her- ald, who has been investigating tho history of the great Exposition scandal, sonds that paper a detailed statement of the facls in the caso, which confirm nearly overything that has been hitherto roported. Tho full story of tho scan- dal, as statod by this writer, is of tho most dis- graceful charactor, and showa that almost every Amorican who was connocted offiolally with tho Exposition wns moro or less tainted with the provailing corruption. The first publio state- mont of the irrogularities of tho Commissionera was mado by Willinm Jewett, of Now York, to whom Gon, Van Buren's man Friday, Moyor, san Austrion ronegado, who loft Vienna in diograce years ago, made o proposition to go to Vienna and conduct an Amorican rostaurant, promising to secure him the privilege for $1,000. Mr. Jewett did not consent to the torms, but determined to go, and for this purpose formed a partnorship with one Hitzel. After arriving at Vienna and exam- ining tho prospects, ho daclined to psy the wonoy, Subsoquontly, tho proposition . was mado to him that ho'should pay two-fifths of the proflts to the Commissionors. ‘This, also, ho'de- clined to do, and at.once dissolved partnership with Hitzel. 'Tho lattor paid over the price of the concession to Bleyer, and toatifies that ho askod Vau Buren if he got it, and Van Buren ro- plied that it wes all right. Moanwhile, Mr. Jowott made ap orrangomont with Baron Bchwartz fo establish a restanrant on the grounds, with the undorstanding that Van Buren's concessions amountoed to noth- ing. Another witness, Mr. Bachm, of tho firm of Boohm & Wiehl, of Brooklyn, who proposed to cstablish restaurants and drinking-placos on the grounds, tostified that thoy paid £2,000, the . understanding bolug that tho mons§ was for tho Commissioncrs, snd, whon they arrived at Vien- 8, found that they woro obliged to buy tho privi- legeoveragain from Baron Schwartz. Mr. Brower, another witnous, who wishod to obfaln tho job of printing tho cataloguos, was asked to pay 1,000, which ho did. It waa furthermoro stipu- lated that ho should pay $8,000 for overy 100 pagos of advertisements; and this bargaln wos mado in writing, and the paper has gono to Washington with tho offlcial testimony. It is alo in ovidonco that. ®thoy sold the privileges of loading voskols in Now York to a stevedore for 8500, but tho testimony doos not show who roceived this monoy. These are the principal monoey {rans- actions of the Commissioners and Moyor, and tho tostimony shows that Lhey wore kopt entirely socrot from thelr asaociatos. . ! Mr. Jowelt's statomont of the transactions camo to the ears of Mr. Jay, the American Min- istor, several mouths ngo, and’ woro at onco transmitted to the Btate Department ab Wash- ington. Becretary Fish at that timosont a copy of tho statoment to Van Buron, whomado answor by explicitly donylng it. Meanwhile, Mr. Jay bad recolved from tho Austrlan ‘authoritios o statomont of Moyor's ronl ehnractor, and, when Van Buron roached Liverpool on hin way to Vienna, he recolved & dispatch from Washington ordering him to peremptorily discharge Meyor. Instoad of doing 8o, ho took him with him to Vienna, tolling him they would fight it out to- gother. Meantime othor facta came out, and it Locoming appnrent to Mr, Jay that Van Buren was implicatod with Moyer in recelving money, ho telegraphed tho fuct to Washington on tho 281 of April, and shortly afterwards came an ordor from the State Dopartment suspending Van Buren and all his assistanty, and appointing Mr, Jay and Mr. McElrath, of Now York, to take cliarge of the businces of the Commission, .ap- point tomporary Commiseionors, and Invostigato Van Buren and his collengues, Tho Inveatige- tion haw Just closod, and some of the reaults aro thus utated by the Herald corrospondont : Vun Duron snd Meyer wero oth called beforo the Minleter, Van Burow's testimony, of coura, I dou't know, but ha told Mr, Jowett oxplieitly that ho Juew of Moyer's taklug the monoy from Ifitzol aud Tioohmn & Wiehl, 1Io sald tho monoy was receivod for the Amorlean achool-houss, and whon it waa known thiat $5,000 hod been dakon from thoe national appropri- ation for that purposo, ho statod thut the oxhibitors® money was to bo used for hulldinga club-housa and rendozvous for Awmerleans, such & Lullding on the grounds Leing talked of, Nothing, howover, was oyer done taward securing it by Van Buren, Meyor hin- noit siatod thiat ho divided tho money with Van Buren, aud when be found that Br, Litzel could got no con= ccarlon from {he Auatrian Govornment, he boggod Van Buren fo give the monoy back, and Van Duron ro- fused, saying thut INitzol Lod given him too much troublo, Apart from the direct chargos of corruption mado ngniust tho Commissioners, evorything connoctod with the'Amorioan departmont kboms to have boon poculisrly unforlunito, if not nbsolutely dlsgracoful, ~Of tho thirteon original Commiestoners, five wero Americann of Austrian Dbirth, whoso antecedonts. wore such that thoy could nover be received in Austrian socloty, In thin conneotlon, thé correspondent in quostion rofors to the distinguished rorvicos of Mr. Tsaso Took, of Bt. Louls, formerly Postmastor of Chi- cago, and woll known as an ardent dofondor of “truth squoshod to earth.” Hesnya: Mr, T, Cook {8 knowh fn Vionna na thospocial friond of Gon, Grant, and it ls understood that ho wna ap- polnted under Van Bitren by the espocial mandato of ilio President, Mr, Cook happons to’be s doaler in wincs, or at least an exhiibitor, but ho ia also a drinkor of winc, and it oocurred to bim that it would bo quite cony toslilpfo Vieuna a fow casos of wino for hin personal use in the United States tranaports,: So lio nont nlong twolve or fifteen cascs, togetlior with over 700 casea of othor wines and provisions, which Mr, Von Buron allowed to bo brought ovor for tho restaurant- koopors, Thero Is Jittle doubt that the Intention was 10 smugglo thia wholo 7aass of gooda within tho exhibl- {lon grounds; but the Auatrian suthorities woro emart enaugh to seize the whole, I bolleve that tho restsu- rant-keopers sro fo obtain thefr goods, but Mr, I, Cook’s wines have gono whore tho woodbino twinoth, and Mr, 1, Cook 8 in & atato of wrath thereat. A protty on, suroly, to send over hero Lo xepresent America at & world's exhibition, Acoording to this ocorrespondent, AMr, Jay himaelf is not entirely freo from suspiclous cir- cumatances, A roof was noeded for the sowing- machino doepartment, for tho construction of which €80,000 was paid, wheroas responsible mon say that they could have dono tho same work for $20,000 and mado a profit of 25 por cont. Tho principal agent in this spoou- lation wns & man named Jameon, half English- men and half Confedorate soldior, who In- ‘habits Mr. Joy's office on the same torms as his attaches, and was appointed by Van Buren, on Jay's sccount, Ono of tho firat acts of tho tom- porary Commisslon was to forbid this man Jamos having anything to do sbout tho build- | ing. Notwithstanding tho offorts: of tho new: Oommissionor, Mr. Schultz, tho American ex- ‘hibitors aro disappointed and disgnsted, and aro unanimous in regrotting that thoy had ot re- mainod at lomo. Upon arriving at Vienns, thoy found thomsolves hampered and blackmailed by tho vory men appointed by the American Gov- ornmont to. nseist thom. - Tho tomporary Com- mission which succeeded Van Buren wea not much bottor. Two of tho mombors did noth- ing, and tho third offonded every ono with whom he como in contact. In thoir troubles, thoy would naturally look to the Amorican Min- iator for asaistance, but Mr. Jayis reprosented to be un-American in feeling, and makes it a point to seo as littlo of Americana as possible, 8o that access to bim is very difficult, . While tho American resldonts sposk in tho most dissatis- flod tono of Mr. Jay, they refer to Gen. Post, the American Consul, in torms of tho highest compliment, " Tho burden of the testimony scems to bo dsm- oging to Mr, Van Buron. It certainly ehows that ‘he handled monoy in su irregular menner, snd undor suspicions ciroum- stances, to sy~ the lonst, ond although ho now donouncos Moyor as a scoundral, ho ro- " inained on good terms with him until the inves~ tigntion was completed. At tho same timo, thors ig no doubt that Mr. Jayhad astrong proj- udiéo against him from the outsot, and that he haa been vory unfairly usod in the invostigation, espeolslly in being réfused an opportunity of honring tho witnesses and cross-oxamining them. That ho took the money seems to be clear, from the fact that ho has paid back one-half of it'to tho rostaurant-keopers, It ia a sickening atory, ¥lowud uvenin ity most favorablo light—s story .of corruption, blackmail, and ineapability. ‘How far Gen, Van Buren ia rosponsible can be more fully ascertained when the tostimony is all placed bofore the publio, and this should bo ‘dona spoedily. t ; 2 HOME-MAREETS FOR HOME-PRODUCTIONS, 0Ot all tho absurditios by which tho monopoly of protection sceks to' delude it victims, the worst i the incoasant twaddle about the home- market, A Chicago orgon of tho high.tariff fra~ ternity, in ite isauc of yostorday, distusses this mattor with the gravity and wisdom of an owl. It arguos that, beanuso a small proportion of the broadstufls of tho Unitod States sre oxported, the forefgn market is not worth tho loast con- sideration; and that farmera’ should look alono to tho sale of thoir products ot home. Thorp aro two thinga which may be acoptod | as facts: 1. Tho United Statos produce moro cotton, moro beef, more pork, more cliccso, snd more grain than they can consumo; the esport of the surplus is, thorefore, n-noces-. sity, 2, No maon oxports any article -unlesa, 'ho can got more for it' nbroad than he can at home. So long, therefore, &s the country producos o surplus, and a bettor markot is of- fored- for it sbroad than at homo, 50 long will. this surplus be exported. - Resulting from those conditions is tho othor fact, that tho prico of all thero nrticles at homo is regulatod by tho prica which can bo obtainod for themn abrond.” When tho prico for grain advances in Liverpool, tho advongo oxtonds back to the rémotest com-crib; whon the price declines in Livorpool, thou the prico of all the grain in tho country rocodes in tho same proportion, the value of the grain for exportation dotermining tho value of tho whole stock in tho country. Ever sinco the foundation of this Government, tho Unijed States havo' Imported largely of forelgn products, and mnover o largely a8 with- in ‘tho last few years, Those imports have to be paid for with such surplus products ag Wwo hnvo,~cotton, tobacco, beef, pork, or Dbrondatufts, or with the products of tho mines, gold, silver, orlead. Xt fa'forlunato thatwo Lavo this surplus of products;- it wo did not bave them, wo would be precfgely that much poorer than we are. Having them, we arp able, to exchange thom for their oquivalenta in thoso artioles made or grown olsewhore which wo desire to have. ‘Proteotion assails the commorcial value of all our surplus productions by what is equivalont to an oxport duty of 40 per cent, That is to say, when we send grain or provislons of tho valuo of. 1,000 abroad, protection provides that with tho procoods wo shall purchase but §510 worth of ‘forolgn pro- ducts; tho” other £490 .it colledts ag tax. Not contont with thus robblug the producers of 40 por cent of the valuo of all they produce for ealo, they now insiat that they should not have, pyihlng to soll at all, or at loast nothing to'soll abroad, It eyery farmer produced only cnough | graln to feed himsolf and his family, thero wonld bo & famine fn tho land, and thoe farmar and Lis family would bo roduced to the condi- tion of subslsting oxclusively upon the producta of his own farm, He would have nothing to ex- ohiange for clothos,’ boots or shoos, malt, fron, Ilumber, or oven for an {uorodeo'of his live stock, It thoe productions of broadstuffs in thia country ouly equaied tho consmmption.'of the .whole people, tho price at which thoy swould bo sold would berogulatod by the pricoat which we could fmport them from other cotintries; so whothor wé produce & surplus or o doflolt of broadatuffs, the highest prico wo can ovor obtaln for thom is tho lowest price ot which they sell for in forolgn “markota. - The surplus represonts the farmor's profit, and aby law which confirenton 49 por cont of that surplug in tho wny of export {ox on tho thing sont out, or import " tax on tho thing recolved in oxchango, is a robbory so plain ond go evident that any man of ordinary renson must rocognizo It at once. Tho proteotionists say that, 1f wo did not ox- port any brondstuils, but rolied exclusively on salea ot home, thero would be bettor prices, ‘What would bocomo of the surpius is not ex- plainod. As wo havo sald, no man exports & bushel of graln until ho {8 offered more for it abroad than ho can get at home, Tho export of grain, therofore, novor bogins until the homo markot s entlsfied. It ia tho prico offered abrond that provents tho homo market going furthor down, If tho oxportation of grain wore out off, then the prices would recode to the mero cost of transportation. The protectionista toll tho poople that it thore woro a Lowell and 8 Pittsburgh in every section of tho country, then tho consumption of breadstuffs at home would bo 8o great that tho farmors would got large pricos for all thoy produce. ‘Wo have shown previously that if all the por- sons ongaged in tho wholo United Btatos in tho manufacture of cotton, wool, and iron wore col- leoted togother and put down in Iliinols, thoy would not consumo tho brendstuffs and othor produats of ton counties in this Btate. Corn sella for 75 conta at Lowell; but the operatives, it located on Rook River, would pay for thoir corn, not the prico that it brings ot Lowoll, but tho prico at Rock Rivor. And if tho producers of corn'on Rock River shonld advanco the prico to 70 cents, corn would flow into that district from all parta of the State, and othor Btates, in such quantities that tho prico would be tho samo a8 before. The people of Masaachusotts, whon thoy pay 16 conts por bushol for corn, pay 16 or 20 for the corm, and 565 or 00 for transportation. It thege same pooplo "bo romoved to Tiiinols, Tows, Oolorado, or elsowhore, thoy would pny pro- clsoly tho current prico of the corn at tho place of growth, with tho cost of transportation sdded, 1o moro and no less. The poople of Pittsburgh buy their whoat and. corn whore thoy can got it cheapest. The pricoof Pennsylvania wheat and corn in Pittsburgh ia regulated by the prico'st which Obio, Indiana, and Ilinois whoat and corn can be delivored thoro. Tho prices in the homs market of tho Pennsylvenia farmers aro abso- lutely controlled by the prices at which tho products of Wostern farmers can bo dolivered there. Tho result is, that, whilo Wostorn Penn- sylvania imports largely of bresdstufls from the Western States, Eastorn Pennsylvania oxports hor graln to New England' or to Eu- rope. Tho price of gruin in all parts of Ponnsylvania is the price of tho semo kind of grain in Iows, with the cost of transpor- tation added. There is no such thing in any part of tho United Statos as a home market oxclusively ; the prico of every commodity at overy point is the price at the.placo of produc- . tion, with tho cost of transportation added. If corn io solling for 10 cents in Iowa, tho price of like corn will be 10 cente per bushel in Maine, Floride, Colorado, Massachusotts, Pennsylvania, and overy whero elso, with tho cost of transporta- tion added. Any othor rep:osentation is false und fraudulent ; any other theory is & delusion, invontoed to divert attontion of producers from tho fact that 49 per -cont of every agricultural product in oxcess of what the producer consames in his own family is taken from him fo increaso tho profiis of thoso-engagod in manufacturing articles ho noeds end doos not produce on his farm.” e . THE CANADIAN PACIFIO RATLWAY. From our dispatchos published on Baturday, giving tho syriopals of cortain lottord that passed betweon Sir Hugh Allan, O, M, Smith, G, W. Molullen, " of this city, and othors, tho fuct scoms to bo well ostablished that a * Crodit Mo- bilier™ of ;huge proportions - secured the chartor of the Canzdian Pacifo Railway. Tho differonce bebweon this and our own ewindling oconcorn s, that the Osnada schome hns boon shown up in all its deformity bofore it had gained ‘possession of thobonds of the Governmont, whilo ours built the roxd snd scourad tho rowards of its rascality. Tn thoso transactions O. IM. Swmith and G. W. MecMullen, of Clicago, figuro largoly in tho oharacter of speculators looking out for o job,—either on their own account or as agonts of Jay Cooke, Mr. MoMullon is & Cana~ dian, and has rosided horo only a few years. Ho Los engaged in' soveral spoculative enterprisos, aud his, transnotions with the Btato In- suranco '~ Compary, buying up the .claima ot its policy-holdors at a .morely nom- inal figure, convinco those who ! lmew lim that ho is capable of all the impudence de- veloped by thoso lottors, Tt is in evidouco that Sir Hugh himsolf pald out some $350,000 gold o got tho chartor, and it is protty strongly sus- poctod that this money was used to carry tho olections in tho Dominion, It doos not appear, Lowever, that Sir Hugh lns anythiug to show for his money, or that Iis prospocts of reclama- tion on Smith and Medullon are particularly ‘brilliant, ‘We present a fow choico extracts from the correspondouce, fo show by what monns tho present Canndian, Government was enabled to retain its power, and the. wholesale corruption by which tho railway charter was obtsined. It is stated that Bir George E. Cartior was the attorncy of tho Grand. Trunk Railway, and, thoroforo, was determined to placo tho charter .in the hunds of tho managoment of that road. How Bir- Hugh made a flank movemont on Bir Qoorgo is told in the following languago : 1 saw iu- this French rafirond schemo [tho North Shoro Road from Quebeo to Moutreal) and in the near approach of tho goncral oloctious, when Cartlor as woll as othiora hall to go to their constituents for ro- olection, » suro means. of attuintug my objoct; espe- clally 8 T proposo to,carry It through to the terminus of thoPacifio, Tho plane X propose aro iu {hemsolves the beat fop the interests of the Domiufon, and in urging thom on the publio I su really dolng a most patriotioaction, But even in {hat view, means must o used to lufluence the public, and Yomployed several young Fronch Juwyers to writo it upin thulr own owspapors, - I subncribed & cantroliing influenco in tho stock, and proccoded to subaldize tho nowspapers themsolyes, both -editors il propriotors, I went to tho country through whieh tho road would pass, and colled on many of tho inhabliaute, 1 visitod the priosts aud medo frionds of them, and I employod agonts to go among the prineipal people nnd talk it up, Ithon begsn to hold publio mectings, and attonded to thom mysolf, making froquent @peochos In Froneh to tham, sbowing them whoro thelr truo interost lay, Tha sohuine at once bocarua popular, and I found & committes to influcnce tho members of tho Yegislaturo, Tho fact that Bir Hugh * subsidizod tho nows- papers " doos uot speals woll for & portion of the Osnadian pregs, Jlow much all this amusement and tho subsoquent proceedings ocost’ 8ir Hugh he atatos in o lottor to Mobullen, undor dato of Bopt. 16, 1872, e sayo: I linvo disbursed 043,000 in gold. I havo still to pay $13,600, which will cloko overything off.” The following lotter to O. M. Bmith, Fiaq., Chi- ongo, datod Fob. 28, 1873, I8 so apeolfls thiat wo prosont it in full : z Dran Bin: It meems pretty cortain tint, o ails ditlon to monoy paymonts, the following stock witd hiave to bo distributed : D, L, Macphorson, $100,000 3 A, I, Foater, $100,000 ; Donald A. 8mith, $100,000 ; 0 J, Brydgen, $100,000 ; J. J, O. Abbott, $60,000 ; D, M~ Inncs, $60,000 ; John Sheddon, $50,000; A, Allan, $30,- 0003 0.8, Gzowsld, $70,000 ; Goorgo Brown, $50,000; A. B, Mincks, $50,000; II, Nothan, $50,000; T. Mo~ Greovy, $50,000; totsl, $860,000, To meot this T proposs’ that wo glve up of our stock ws followsa: O, M. Smith, £230,000;' G, W. McMullen, $260,000; Tingh Allan, $360,000 ; total, $850,000, Plcaso suy ifthinis ngroeable toyou? I donotthink wocan do with less, and may haveto give more, I do mot ihink we will require ‘moro than $100,000 {n cash, but I am not sure as yet, ‘Who am Ito draw on for money when it is wanted, and what proof of payment will boraquired ? You aro awaro I oannot get rocelpts, Our Logialaturomeots on the 11th of April, and I am alresdy deop in propara- tlon for tho gamo, Every day bringa up some now difficulty to be encounterod, but I hopo to moet them all succesafully, Writo to mo immediately, Yours traly, « (8lgned) HluGm ALLAX, P,8.—1 think you will have to go ¢ blind in tho mat ter of money—cash payments, I have already paid $8,800, and have not & voucher, and cannot get one, Soven montha after, as above satnted, Bie Hugh had disbursed a third of a million in gold, “monoy payments.” Thata systom of wholo: salo bribery and corrnption could have boen car- ried out by the leading business men and states- men of Canada; thataman so wealthy and slirowd, and of 8o varied and wido an experienco a8 Sir Hugh Alian should have footed the billa and been at the head of it, is one of tho moat romarkable facts in this ngo of manifold chi- canery. A curlous commont on the life and morvicos of political partien is found in some allusions mado by the Hon. 8. 8. Cox, in his Fourth of July oration before tho Tammany Bocloty, of Now York. o rccalled tho fact that, just fiftcon yours ago that day, Calob Cushing had addressed the samo Sooclety, and glorified tho Domocracy 08 tho party of progross snd of patriotiem. “Havo we derogated from tho high standard of tho fathors?" aslked Oushing, and thon he denied it eloquently and emphatically, so far as the Demooratic party was concerned. Mr, Cox alao quoted from s lotter written the same day by Gon. Dix, in which ho hold that **Domearacy and national froedom are idontienl.” These wore in the daya of - slavery, and tho sontiments wero vigorously applauded. What would theso samo gontlomen sny to thom to-day 2 Mr. Cox, at tho same timo, rominded his audienco that Honry Wilson onco said that his party was a party of Christion statesmon, thatit was ‘‘planted on therock of ages, aud hadall the measuroloss moral influencos of tho universe to suatain them.” This 18 n quoer-gounding phraso to-dsy in the light of Crodit Mobilicr transactions, Louigiana administration, impoachablo Judges, salary-grabs, oto. If tho patriotic party utior- ances of “tho past could be gathered togoethor, and placed side by side with tho condition, mo- ocratic organizations of to-day, no intelligent man would dony that partics may outlive their ambition and usefulness, and that both the Democratic and Ropublican parties are dead. NOTES AND OPINION. The Grange Movemont is gaiving headway in the South. In Mississippi to the 18tk of June, 140 Granges had beon organized. Richmond papors speak of the spread of the organization In Virginia, and the Richmond Whig saya: That which evideatly Ucs ot tho bottom. and is destined to swallow “{w tho rest, {8 the grest and irropressible contlict betwoen capital and Inbor—be- twoen tho monoy-ntercet and the producing interest, + + o o Whon we consider tho dificulty of combin« ing suck scattercd forcos, howovor numerous thoy may bo, and tho concentration of thoir adversaries, we con- foss to be not over sunguino of tho result, 'But tho enthusiasm and confident fone at tha West, where overybody secms to be infected, are well calculated to inspiro hope, —In Californin the railroad managers control both the old party orgauizations, and indopen- deut roform tickets ‘are boing nominated in every oounty, for the Logislature to be olected in Bcptombor. Tho call siguod by 276 citizons of Yuba County, for a convention at Maryaville, got forth that— Tho prosent important isaues In our Btato and na- tional politics roquire the united cfTorts of all good oit izons to bringabout reforma that are much desirad, Tho prosont bigh taxes, thooppresslvo frefght and pas- Benger tariffs on our ratlroads, the oxtravaganco and corruption 1 biyh places, ‘the ucronchimeuts of monopolies on the rights of the people, tho disrogard of pladges and publicsentiment by our Roproaonta- tives, all derund that the independout voters, without regard to party, should unito in an effort to bring about reform [l all theso abuses, - ~Thero is & loak in the County Treasury at DesMoines, Iowa, and $8,000 havo run out, Tho County Trensurer is slso the Ropublicsh candidato for re-olootion, but there is & rumor that "he will be withdrawn!..:Che Republican Stato Convention at DesMoines, Juno 25, sald: Resolved, That wo bolievo that whenovor a person holding any position of trust given Lim by the peoplo 15 gullty of fraud or ombezzloment, ho: should be con- _yicted and puuishied under tho crlminal laws. of the land, 1 nddition to thie recovery from him or his boudemen of tho amount s0 embozzled, —Congrossman Burchard wns tho orator at TRueh, Jo Daviess County, on the Fourth, aud the ‘banner of Blockton Gravge, No. 87, planted con- spicuonsly behind tho stand, bore this inserip~ tion: “ Grangors will seud men to Congross who will not voto thomselves $10,000 back pay.” ‘Tho correspondent of tho Galons Gazetle says: The_ differont Granges came In processlon—some with banners, sud all in regalin, Some of thoir mottoos were determinedly significant,...These Patrons of Husbandry aro terribly in esrnest. - No anny of soldiors ever wont into the fight with a moro fized rosolvo to win or die, than do the Grangers of Jo Daviess Gounty to accomplish the purpone for which they havo sot out. —Thoe Charlotto (N. 0.) Observer, spoaking of the oxtortions practicod by Tom. Scott’s Bouthern Seourity [Rallway] Company, says: Ono thiug s cortain, the people,—tho merchants, the farmere, and others of the trades and professions must have protcction ogainst rallrosd . mo- nopolista, any ouo with a prophiotic oye can foresoo vory clearly that the time {s coming when tho ple will demaid such protection ; aud when tho w will ay to thoso rallrosd companies, * Thus far &hult thou go, and uo farthor,” —The farmers of Wost Tonnessos mot yeator- dny, July 4, in convoution at Humboldt, and or- fimxizod s promptly 88 men usunlly do who have usiness to trausnot and are prossed for time. The resolutions show that the farmera undor- stand the fnwur and scopo of the Granges quite 28 woll as their brethron of the Northwost, and are quite as dotorminod to make & right uso of them. Thomoanopolicsarato feol tho WHFM of that ower first, aud no doubt the next Legislature of ‘onnasses will bo oloctod on a platform in which the esseutial plank will bo reliof for tho planter. ‘T'he farmors hiave at Inst hit upon a feasible plan of roliof, Thoy havo only to keep it out of tho hands of the hun; politicians and they will succeed, Theira. iu tho paramount intorost in tho Btato, and it should recoive the consideration due its importance and their numbers, Lt thom gae to it that they make no entangling allipnces, and thoy can control the Biate.—AMemphis Ap- peal. ~~For ton yoara there has bean a {zanurul dlg- position to turn aside from the publio good to- word privato interests on tho part of legivlators —oxtravagance in publio oxpouditures, cqrrup- tion in olections, malfeasznce in oftice, purty lato and calumuy more or lous ; but, upon tho wholo, thoe patriotio sentiment of 'the cduntr is bocoming healtbful, and pollll:tl action s tonding more than formorly toward the truo ends of tho Biate.—Memphis Avalmiche, * X —Tho wail of ¢hard “timos” and ‘tight monoy market” is provalont from Malno to Poxus, Winlo thore may bo an excess of the complaint in the impoverished Bouth, it is by no moany coufined to- that scetionm.' o , . . 1t must bo confessed the outlook is not promis- ing at tho South, and tho prospect of & reastion at an eurly dayis mot as hopoful ns wo dould wish, But what will be tho consequence if {Lings do uot improve? Ave we to havo a» gons tives, and sctions of the Ropublican and Dom-" aral bankruptoy or worso—a famine ?—Nashuille (Zenn,) Banncr. A e udgiug from the noundn coming up from tho party slogans, we nro disposod to boliova that the voico of the Domocracy of Ohio ix about cqually divided upon the Allan Counly move- mont.—7oledo Blade—Admintatration. —The lendzney of majority partios to fall eventially nudor” tho control of rings anems ta bo much tho same in all Etates, ropardloss of tha politics pmfuawl. Bavy tho Baltimoro Ameri- can: *'Iha truth fs that the Democratio party in Maryland is very. much like nn automaton, tho moving springa of which aro controlled by somo very shrowd and clover maniputators,” —Tho ‘Binte of Iown even canbo redeomed from the thraldom of corrupt party deapotimn, ‘Fhis idon of justifylng corraption becauso m thorough exposuro might injuro a particular party must be frownod down aud tmmrlnd under tho foot of reform, or our liborty will go with our public morals, 'The timo Las como for a mave to bo made in just the direction proposod in this Biate. T.otihe naturoof tha peoplo be tonted, nndscoif thoro is not yet loft a regard for publio morala’ that will mako a roform move moro powerful than mx} party lash aad party dospotism.— Brerlington (Towa) Gazelte. —The Butler movemont thraatons to mako, At onco, a olean isauo and s sharp division in the politlea of . Massnchusotts. M ambition only anticipates tho inevitablo soparation of our poc~ plo into roformera and corruplionlats, . , . . Erlo, Tammany, the Emmna mino, the Viennn scandal, Crodit Mobilior, the grab—surely wa have given our frionds on tho other ido of the wator o sufliciontly heavy lond to_carry alrendy withont adding Gov. Butlor. Unhappily, his charaoter and recdod ara almost ns woll {nawu thoro aa here ; and intelligont forelguors atill rogard Mnssachusetts, in spito of all thet haa happened, as tho most enlightoned and virtuons of American cowmmonwenlths,—Springfleld Re- P o 1 lootod —If Butler is oleotod Governor of Marsachu~ sotda it is quito {;rohul\ln that ho will prove the bost Governor that State has bad since Gov. Androw’s timo. For, howover mon may cone domn Butlor’s opiniens and courso in various mattors, it canuot bo denied by any fair mau that, as a rulor, whorovor o bins boon tried, ho has proved himsolf vigorous, bold, faithful, and oxcocdingly ablo and umelent.—bctrafl Post— Adminisiration. ~—Sonator Carpontor, salary-grabber, usca this Fm\'orl‘u.\ argument in favor of tho stenl: * Tho axity of lifc is rostrained by the suporvision of & wifo, and tho henrt is kopt alive to tho bet- tor fasllnfiu of our natures by tho swoot voicos and tho tondor touch of childron, Momboers of Congress will havo fomile ios in Washington, It Is bottor that they should havo their own,” Asun argument for retiring Bonnter Carpenter from publio life, this is sufiis cient. Mon who talk in this way are not to bo trustod vory much in anything. 1t is 8, fact, however, tlat honeat men in large numlors, quite ns_valuablo to the publicservice as Car- ponter, have comfortably supported themsolves and families in tho District for years, and ara now doing it, all tho year round, for less than . $5,000 salary. Coungrossmon can do_ the same, without inconvonionco, if thoy avoid the gam- bling tablo and other ‘vileness, living honestly in ‘“their own ” homes, Buch Plcna 88 Carpeu-~ tor's aro an intolerablo offonse to the public nos« trila,.—Cincinnati Times. —TLess than two yoars ngo Mr. John Shorman, Chairman of tho Sonate Financo Committeo, ag~ gerted on tho floor of thy Sennte that a large ro« duction in tho expenditures of the Government could bo and ought to be made. Probably Mr. Bhorman told tho truth. At all ovents a man in his position ought to know what is possible in tho way of rotronchment. TFurthermoro, tha last, Cnnghruss mado a protenso of rotrenchment! by abolishing the franking privilego, ol adverig: the: - ammbor o o tornal rovonue officors, How happons it, thon, that tho approprintions for the fisonl year upon which wo havo just entered aro $23,~ 000,000 greator than wero thoss for tho past onr? Whera ia the rotronchment -that - could have baon, and ought to have boen, made? If expenditures could have been, and ought to have neon, reduced, it is probablo that the ap- Emprlntlonn could hayo boon and ought to hava oon fally 330,000,000 less for the current than thoy wore for (e past yoar, Why are they not less? Will some orzan of tho party of *‘glo- rious memorics ” and ¢ groat moral idons * rise to nplain ?—Buflalo_Courier. —1ho plonsuro wo have enjoyed in announcing that Senator Alcorn had returned bis part of the Dbnok-pay into tho Treasury voted by Bite o bors of Congress, i8 short-lived. Ho has in- formed tho Friar'a Point Della that ho has nof disgorged, and doos not intend to do 80 ; that ha thinks the mensuro of incronsing the ealary, right, and shall voto against its repeal; and thon i * tho form of & thosis” tho cx-Governor pro- coeds. to give Lis viows on the subject, and ta rond * the Sonthern press” a locture.—Jackson (Afinn.) Clarion. - —Tho poople may find it unpleasant to con- demn by implication those who huve been onca Tonorod, but it will be dono if nocessary. ‘The have made up their minda that, if possible, it ehall not go or, and in pursuance of this resolu= tion it is cortain that the Congrossmen engaged in tho back-pay business are markod for condem= nation whenover thoy sliall como before the peo= plo.—New York Times. - —It is nowso well undoratood that the leaving of tho back-pay plunder to be called for horeaf- toris only a postponcmont of fhe evont, thet na Congrossman can lay any claim to tho credit of snorifico whose auswar I8 simply that ho * has not drawn it.” Tvery man who leaves it in that position must bo reclioned a participant in tha swindle—and swindlo ia tho proper nama for it. —New York Tribune. —The intelligent American traveller is just now in the Bandwich Islands, and he writes thence to the Republican: “Don't let anybody porsuade you to encourage Bundwich Teland an- noxation on any pretext. It in tho morest job and speculation i the world, Tho plan i4 to bribo the King and chiefs with a subsidy trom the Becrot_Sorvico fund. Tho natives are all apposed. It is now the only outirely respectabla governmont I know of.” Pray let ua not lny rofano hands on i, then, Nor would it bLa Eiml and neighborly to mako the Islands-a Bot- any Bay for anr Crodit Mobiller and salary-grab politicians.—Springfleld Republican. —Thoro may bo & groat deal of libolin tha charges that aro sproad broadeast over tho land, but theroe is o groat deal of truth in them also, and the extraordinary procecdings now being ro« sorted to, to intimidato tho (lmsu with libpl eunits at Now Orloans, Now Yorlk, 1 nothing moro than a symptom of ofiicial corrup- tion, and of tho desperation of those who ara guilly of it.—Sl. Zouis Republican. Sl P et s S f INDEPENDENCE, 1A, InDErENDENCE, Ta,, July G, 1873, To the Editor of The Cldcago Trivune: 8 : This ovoning, at about 7 o’clock, s girl, 12 yoars of msgo, namoed Higgins, residing 3 milos north, while driving cows from pasture, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The' Fourth - pnseed off quictly here. Tha Graugors hold plenics at Littloton, addressed by D. W. Bruckart, and at Quasqueton, addrossod h{ . Husnor, both prominont lnwyors of this plac The Burlington, Cednr Rapida & Mionesota Railroad is bowg Jmuhud rapidly uorth, and will &oon be completed to_Postwillo, connaoting with the Milwaukee & 8t, Paul Railroad, i Crops in this county aro looking finely. ——— 1 The Crops. Spectal Dispateh to T'he Chicago Tribune, Taxroy, I, July An far s cau bo rrcors tainod, the prospeots for whoat aro cousidorod bettor’ thun eyor bofore. Bpring wheat is con= sidered b Winter is very fair, Thoro will probably be none shipped to market, but cou- sumed at home. & Special Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune. Manon T, Fana Te—Tho prowpocts for_fall wheat ure vory poor. Bpriug whoat is a littla bottor, but seriously damngod by the wol weather. d From the Streator (Iil.) Monifor, July 8, From present prospects, the crops in this part of the county &.smo), while not as groat au Jast year, will'bo fully up to the M’onge. The aorongo of whoat is ot Jarge, but what thera iy now promiscs an sbundant crop, Ryeis about roady for the roapor, aud, with_the excoption of somo placos Injured by water during winter and apring, 18 good. Oats, if not yet injured by un- forosoon causes, will produco at loast an hvorage fold, ‘Tho click of tho mawer s already heard n the moadows, whoro the growth of grass Iy more than usually heavy, and nothing but wek wounthor can now spoil a splendid Lisy harvest. —_— Dinston Moeoting Broken Ups . DunuQue, July 7.—An o}mn-nlr mooting undor tho auspices of Uity Misaionary Willard, on the Post-Ofilco stepn, on Bundayovening, was broken up by Gormans who wore inconsed against him by Lils sormon on the Bunday provious, when he sovorely oriticlued thelr Bunday mmaemouluAh’l charaotoriging thom as * followors of n.u‘) dovil," g Malpractice und Manslnughter, WonogsteR, Masa,, July 7.—Dr. Fontkine, of- Sponcor, waa hold in ' $2,000 bonde this moruin for manslaughtor in causiug tho denth of a cbil by using tmall-pox virus for vacoluation. iustoad of vacciue mattor, 5 o. Washington City, nra | { v