Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 23, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TENMH OF AUDACTIFTION (PATATLE FN ADVANOE), ) SI2.00] Wesiy 53:30 Tacts of n your at tho samo Tate, ‘To prevont delay and mistnkos, bo Offco addross in full, includiog Btato and Counts, Tomittances may bo maio clthor by deast, oxpross, Post Ofiico order, or in rogistored lottors, at our risk, TLUNS TO CITY BUDBCRIDTNS. Dally, deliverod, Sundny oxcoptod, 2 conte por wook. Daily, dolivorod, Bunday fncludoed, B0 conts yor wook, Address THIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornior Madison and Doarborn-ata,, Chicago, Til. TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, OOLEY'S, THEATRI-Randolph streat, betwoon Dlark and’ LaSallo, **boliol,” Aftornoon and ovoninge MOVIOKER'S TII! Doarborn and Btato, atrols. IEATIUE-Madison streot, hotwoon Duproz and. Bonodlot's Bine BUSINESS NOTICES, THRE NORSIEMAD QUAKER OITY GIRL AND the Obieago '*HMog Merciant® aro quoor lovors. 00 Olivo Lugan's now novol, _dJust ont. (YON'S INSEOT POWDICI 18 INSTANT DRATH toxznuuhhfl,lfizs, ants, plant lico-harmloss as flour ta human bofngs, 13 LE hitg Syrup ia s safe and cort lll :‘l}!nt\;n:\: “flx‘i w! lic{\ &x(lJmu aru afilictod durlug tha T, HAVANA LOTTERY_WJ BOLD IN ot 230 ‘April Inet tho £100,000 prive. Uitanlars e Informadlon givor. . B MARTINKZ & COuy ankars, 10 Wallat, - 1%, O, 1ox 4685, Now Yori. “FOR_T Ti§_AND MOTIH PATOHES, ASK B L cirga- Moth and ¥vookle Lotlon. Tovor T Foma-str, NowWork. _ For Fimploson thodiaco, Binolchonds, and Floamrorms, uso Porry's Improved Qo adono and "Plmple Komody—tho Uroat Skin Mediclng. ropared uny by Dr. B, U. Perry, Dormatologlst, 4 Tond-st. Now York. Tle Thitage Tfibune, ‘Wodnesdsy Morning, July 23, 1873. dravin, Bhippors by the Illinois Centra), tho Wabash & Wostorn, and the Pooria & Jacksonville Rail- roads hinve brought charges of oxtortion against thoso linos boforo tho Bailroad aud Warchouso Commigsionors. alt 5 dozon hoavy failurea have oceurred in tho tos trade of New York, for sums rising from 160,000 to 500,000, T'ho houso of A. A. Tow & Co. have algo lost & million dollars. The total losses of tho trado aro stated at £6,000,000 The Truetcos' of Plymouth Church sro stated to bo nwniting only the return of Mr. Beechor aud tho loading mombers of his church from thoir summor vacation to bogin an iuvostigation of tho scandal conncotod with his namo. . The inquiry, it {8 said, will bo scerat. P — A The Bheriff is aftor twenty of the unionist «coopers on o strike in Now York, who havo mal- troated non-union workmon for using & now ‘process in moking barrels. Tho warrants sro issued on the motion of the omployers, who have determined to submit no longer to the ox- actions and outrages of tho coopers. —_— e Gustav Roso, the eminent Gorman chemist, who died yestorday at the sgo of 75, was ono of tho most noted minoralogists of Europe. Ho was o disciplo of Borzolius, in whoso laboratary o studiod Leforo his appointment s Assistant ,Professor of Minoralogy in tho University of Borlin, Humboldt had so highan opinion of his ottaioments that whon omployed by the Em- poror of Russia to oxplore Northern Asin in 1829, ho chose Rose to sccompany him. Roso has writton several standard trentises on minerdlogy, aud o romarkablo work on crys- tallography. o follows Berzolius in attaching great importanco to the chemical composition of eryatalline bodies, and ondeavors to found his system on the morphological and chemical charactor of minerals, The recent sottlement by the War Dopartment of the clnim of Franklin Stecle against tho Uni- ted States foots up about in this wiso: Tho Government pays Steolo £102,000 as ront for its awn property (Fort Snelling Resorvation), and then gives him 6,300 acres of land for £80,000. Steolo turns around and sells onc-half of tho Innd at guction for §200,000. Tho extrome brill- iancy of this tranasction i shown by tho fact that tho attompted sale of Fort Spelling Reser- vation to Steelo was onco investigated by Con- gross and voted to bo fraudulent. BSo glaring & swindlo as thus cannot pass unrebuked, unless publio opinion is wholly demoralized. Tho de- inils of the transaction, as furnished by tho 8t. Paul Dispatch, aro publighed in another column, nd wo judgo that thoy are, in the main, correct- Iy stated. The snnual roport of tho President of tho - Michigan Contral Railroad, which was publishod « in our lzst iesuo, contains a fact of considerable importance to tho public. Tho goneral impres- sion mow s that the rates of froight are very high. The report shows that, in 1865, the rates por ton per milo on this road wore 8 6-100 ; in 1873, thoy arol 67-100, o reduction of noarly one-half in eight yoars. Evon with the increased business of the rond, the Company has boen obliged to paga tho Juno dividend and apply it to improvements, o that =nn inoronsed business may bo done at theso rates and tuturo dividonds bo mado possible. But eup- * pogo that tho rond in 1573 wus doing tho busi- nees of 1805 at the rates of 1878, The rosult would bo inevitable bankruptey. Ratos boing only half what thoy were In 1805, tho busincss must bo doubled to reach tho earnings of 1865. To meot exponscd and pay dividends, it s evi- ident tho business hns to bo much moro thon doubled. Tho Chicago produce markets were quiot yos- terday. Meas pork was in fair domand, and 20 highor, at $15.20@16.25 cash, and $16.26@26,36 sollor August. Lard was dull and a shado easior st £8.05@8.10 per 100 1ba for winter, and $7.621¢ for summer rondorod. Ments wore more active, end }{o highor, closing at 7T'{@75¢c for shoul- dors; 8)@Ye for short middles, and 10@12)0 for swoot pickled hams. IMighwines woro active and }qo higher, at 0lo por gallon, Lake freights were less active and firm at 5o for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quiot and stoady. Whoat was dull and deolived 20, closing at 81.10% sollor tho month, and £1.183{c soller August. Corn was quict and stendy, closlng at 870 cash and 87)¢o sellor August, Oats were dull and & shada essler, closing at 28%(o cash, and 273¢c wollor August, Ryo was moro activo, anda shado firmer, at 67. DBarloy was quiot and stoadlor, closing at 8334c for now No. 2 sollor Boptember, On Baturday evening Inat thore was in store In this city, 435,020 bu whoat ; 2,003,120 bu corn ; 791,201 bu oats ; 09,928 bu ryo; and 84,001 bu barley. The hog market was moderately activo, and closed firm at o slight advance, Thore was po fuotablo change in pricos of catilo. Bhoep woro firm at 20¢ por 100 the ndvanco, ] + Thoro has not beon a boldor or more dastardly outrage committed in & Northern Btato for many years than tho railroad robbory {n Towa on Mon- day night, While traveling ot tho rato of iwen- ty-six miles an hour, through the unpeoplod prairics of Towa, botweon Anita and Adalr, sixty milon from Dos Moinos, tha Rock Isiand & Pa~ cifio Night Exproas, earrying tho throngh mail and oxpross mattor from Oalifornla, was thrown from the track and bonrded by » gang of olght armod ruflians in whito flannol masks, Tho railrond employes were-nt once overpowered nnd a guard ot ovor them and tho 100 pagsongors, who woro threntonod with instaut donth it thoy ovon movod from thelr seats, As thoro was but ono plstol among thom all, resistance was hopeloss. ‘Tho oxproas messongor was forced, at tho peril of his lifo, to give up thoe koys of his safo, which tho robbors then plundered f all the valuablos thoy could find, fortunately overlooking n iargo amount of bullion. Usually this train carries $20,000 or moro, and this tho robbors ox- pected to pocurn, but it had Iuckily beon sent on by nnotlior train tho night bofors., Thoy obtained only 81,700 and somo other trifling booty. Tho strocity of tho affair consists in tho murdorous way theso highway- mon chooso to intorcopt the train, This they did by romoving o rafl but nn iostant hoforo the engine renchod tho spot. Nothing but tho presence of mind and devotion to duty of tho engineer, who died in saving the lives undor his charge, provonted o sickoning slaughtor. This outrage rocalls tho somowhat similar oceurronces soveral years ago in Indians, when & npumber of tho traing on tho Ohio & Mississippi Road wero plundered by highwaymen at Soymour. Thoy woro finally caught and placed in jail to nwait their trial, but tho indignant peoplo took them out and hanged thom, TAXATION OF RAILROAD PROFERTY. Thopapers of tho Btate aro discussing tho probable modo and amount of taxation of rail- road proporty for tho yoar 1873, The lawof tho Btato provides for tho asscssmont of all proporty at its truo or cash vnluo,' though at no timo has the valustion adopted by the Assossors ox- coeded ono-fourth, and froquontly not one- fifth, of tho real valuation. The mothod of taxing railrond property hos beon to computo tho number of acres of land occupled by each railrond in each county, tho number of town lots and improvements, the value of the track com- puted by miles in oach county, and the whole valuo of tho rolling stock apportioned by mile- ago to each county. Tho roadways ars computoed 0slands, and assossed at tho avorago rato per aorens all other lands in the county aro as- sosgod. Thus, in 1879, the railroad and farming lands wero comparativoly assossod in tho Stato as follows: Railrond lands, averago, $28.01 por nore; improved farm lands (oot in- cluding improvements), §8.87 per nero. Tho su- porstructure wns assscssed at an averago of $2,977.70 per mile ; the side track at an avorage of $1,931.06 per milo; tho rolling-stack at §1,820.11 per milo. Tho wholo nssessmont ngainst railrond proporty for 1872 was as fol- lows ; 08,447.72 acrea of land ot $23,61, 4,670 town and city lote at $401,91, 4,933 miles and 4,770 foct main ,977.70. .. loa $1,931.96,... Roling-s Otlior person: . 1,833, track at ; 170878 B 3 mil al property, Total taxablo ValUO.cuevarrss vasesrnss §24,384,428 . This doos not includo tho property of the Illi- nois Contral Rallroad ; that Company sottling with tho Stato by & percontago on its gross ro- coiptain liou of taxation. A number of tho nowspapers throughout tho Btate incline to the opinion that tho asscssment of railrond property for taxation should bo at its full valuo, and it is strongly urged that, as the railroads claim that the propoerty cost thom somo £50,000 a mile, and that they aro ontitled to a fair incomo on their inveatment, the property should bo taxed at that valuation. At the close of 1872 there woro in Illinols, oxclyling the Illinois Contral Railroad, 4,469 milea of railway, not Including eide tracks. Theso, valued at £50,000 a mule, would show a total valuation of ©223,450,000. Placing tho | rato’of taxation for all purposes, State, county, city, and town, at an averago of 2 por cont, the rovenuo from railroads for the year 1878 would thus bo $4,469,000, It is unquestionably truo that local Assossors in many counties will return thoir asscssmonts upon this basls, and it will ho for tho Biato Board of Equalization to dotormine whother that system of valuation or some othor shall bo adopted. In 1872, tho gross valuation of oll taxablo proporjy in this Btato was £505,000,000, boing a fraction ovor ono-fifth of its actual valno. Itis now proposed, in tho interost of tho holders of cortain bonds issued by municipalities to rail- ' ronds, to advanco this 20 per cout valuation to 100 por cont valuo, but in go doing wo cannot understand how thero can be any departure in tho csso of railrond proporty from the rule which applios to all othor property. Thus tha 70,000 ncres of land owned by tho railway companics and used by them u5 o roadway must bo assossed at its valuo as land, and notat what it lias cost to dlg it down or raise it up to a level. Tho 4,400 miles of main track and tho 850 miles of sido track must bo nesossed at its matorial valuo as @ track, Tho rolling-stook must bo valuod at its netunl cash valuo, and the property of tho rallroads must bo assesséd just as the lnnds, horecs, mulos, stock, and improvemonts of tho farmer aro aseossod, no more aud no leas. On this point the Coustitution is explioit; it B0ya : The Goneral Assembly shall provido such revenue as may bo needful, by lovying a tax by valuation, so that every person aud corporation slall pay n tax fn pro- portion to tho valuo of his, hier, or ite property. Thero can, thorefore, bo no taxing of railrond lands by ouy process differout from that by which all othor lands aro taxed, and tho town lots, and tho locomotives, and the track must bo assessed in tho samo way that the live stoclk, the wagons, and tho improvoments bolonging to perauns are taxed—that 18, by aecortain- ing the nctual value thercof as proporty. Auy attompt to ovado or dofeat tho expross lot- tor of the Constitution by taxing railroad prop~ orty in any way differont from othor pronorty, can only have the effcct of defeating tho colloc- tlon of tho lovy, Itis, moroover, an injustice which oan work no good. A demand for honest and just treatment from the railroadscan be bost promoted by adhoring to honest and just tront- ment of thom, Tho law compols them (o pay taxes upon thelr property at ita truo valuation, and tho burden of tax cannot be incronsod upon tholr property any more than it can bo on farm landa or town lots. Taxation must be equal or it 1s vold. It it could be done (and tho rovenue articlo of the Constitution scoms to furnish the author- ity), tho Legislature might devise a schome by which all tho railronds could pay an equitable sum for all purposes of taxation in the shape of o porcontage on their carnings. Tho gross oarnings of tho rallroads of Illinois in 1873, oxcluding thoso of tho Illinols Central Railroad, were §87,000,000. Thia sum of courso incrosses anaually, If thoso railway companiea would ngroo, thero might bo an arrangomont aftor tho monnor of that with the Llinols Contral, by which o porcontago on theso roceipts could bo poid info tho Btate Tromnury, aud by tho Btato apportionod among tho countlos, towns, and oitios ontitlod to share in {t. But until somo other plan than the one wo liavo bo adopted, lot ug carry tho plan out logally, honostly, and Justly, ag woll in the caso of the railronds ss in thiat of onch oltizon, Lot farmors fnoro than all othors bear in mind that tnxatlon that is not oqual {a robbory, and that ono of the grontest roforms thoy hinva to accomplish is tho nbolition, of all unoqual taxes and il disoriminating ox- actiona, ——— THE UNION PACIFIC RATLROAD BUIT, Tho Omaha Herald says that tho suit instl tuted by tho Govornmont agaluat tha Union Pa- cific Railroad Is o sort of conspiracy to bronk down tho crodit of tho road. It is not easy to 800 how this can bo &0, Tho only foaturo of tho suit likely to hiavo this offact is that which onjoins tho payment of tho intorost on a cortaln portion of tho firat-mortgago bonds. This was cortainly unbusinessliko, and might woll have boon omittod. Aside from this, tho suit is in ovory way caleulated to improve tho credit of the rond, by causing a large eum of monoy to bo paid into its trensury. Tho Union Pacifio Com- pany was mado aparty defondant simply for tho purposo of facilitating the progrossof the suit, which has beon brought solely with tho purrvse of onforcing the payment of ita matured stock, Among the dofendants aro all tho original stook- ‘hiolders who woro known to the Govornmont, in- cluding prominontly tho Orodit Mobilior of Americs, its stockholders and all those who ro- coived Union Pacifte stock from it in the way of dividends or gratuities, It is probable thatin no case moro than b por cont of the par valuo of Union Pncifio stock was paid for it by any of the original holdors, and the great bulk of it wns transforred without any consideration whatsoever. If tho Government can compel thoe full paymont of all the stock issucd on partisl paymont or no pay- ment, tho Union Pacific Company will bo placed on a8 sound o basis as any railroad in tho world. Tho first-mortgago dobt can bo patd off ; tho Governmont’s socond morgago will then bo amply socurod along with tho interest for thirty yoars; and tho oporation of the road will yiold a fair return on the capital stock, Tho fact is, thoroforo, that tho Governmont sult againat tho Union Paciflo, so far from being projudicial to tho intercst of tho Company, is decidedly favor- ablo to it; and, whilo the primary object of tho Governmont is to rondor its sccurities good, o simultancous result of its success in this dirce- tion will be to mako the Company solvont and tho railroad yield n fair profit on a bona fide in- vestmont, If the Govornment suit against the Union Pa~ cifle shall havo nguccessful issue, it will thon boin order for the Attorney-General {o instituto simi- lar proceedings against tho Contral Pacifie. A suit bus recently boon commenced by tho Bu- porvisors of Placer County, Cal., which county made a large subscription in aid of the road, against Messrs, Stanford, Huntington, Hopking, Crockor, and Marsh, who composed n majority of the original Diractors of the road, to recover an amount of monoy out of which the county s beon defrauded nlong with other bona fide stockholders. It is charged'that tho five gentle- men named obtained control of the rond in tho first instanco by subacribing for 650 shares of the stock at $100 a share, which thoy didn’t pay for; they then elocted thomselves Directors, and from timo to time issuod stook 'to thomselves to tho amount of ©100,000,000. Tho Central Pacific had enormous sub- sidics on nll sides. In addition to the land- grant, tho United States fssuod 6 per cont bonds to tho nmount of $27,000,000, Tho Stato of Californin camo forward with subsidies and guarantees, and municipal governmonts and in- dividuals nlong the line subscribed for the etock in good faith, Tho aida and subsidics grantod in oll these ways amounted, nccording to tha ostimate in tho Placor County suit, to $156,825,360. Tho cost of construction, ovon on tho Oredit Mobilier plan, was only $120,217,019.55, If tho cstimato of subsidios bo corrcet, then tho ring got full Credit Mobilier pricos for their work, and $100,000,000 stock and about £30,000,000 bonds in nddition thoroto, 'fho Placer County suit chargos that, besides tho stock which Mossrs. Btanford, Muntington, Hopkins, Crocker, and their confederates took, they issued to thome solves $105,601,741.88 of tho second-morigage bonds before putting any on the market, This, of itsolf, would indicate that tho subsidies ox- coeded oven tho Credit Mobilier prico of con- struction; othorwiso theso bonds would lavo beon Aold instond of boing divided smong them- solves. Tho construction ring of tho Central Pacifio was firsb known under the firm namo of O. Cracker & Co,, and after wards as “‘Tho Contract and Finance Com- pany.” Not content with the profita in money, bonds, and stock, tho *ring” are charged with laving acquired somo $2,000,000 worth of ronl ostato for themeolves, which properly bolongs to the Central Pacific Company. By succossful prosecution of eults ageinst the ownera of unpaid stock in the Union Pacific and Contral Paciflo Railrond Compnnies, compolling them to pay for thoeir stock or to disgorgo it, the United States Governmont can socuro its present lion of £54,000,000, and tho intorest on this amount for thirty years, all of whiok is now in jeopardy. But it will also nccom- plish something more than this, It will ostablish a precodont for tho prosecution of all railroads which have beon constructed on the Credit Mobilior plan. As s rule, tho capital stock and tho bonded dobt of railroads are sbouk equal, To compol tho payment in mouoy for tha stock that hag been # gobbled " by construc. tlon rings will, theroforo, bo equivalont to tho paymont of tho debty which thoso railronds aro carrying. Thoresult would bothatthese rallronds would demand dividends on only nbout one-hulf of thoir prescnt cluim, and the rates of trans- portation would be roduced in propor- tion. Tho Qovernmont owos it to the pooplo to follow up the Union Pacifia suit, thon, mnot only as & moana of rocovering §54,000,000 of* the peoplo’s money from tho two prinolpal Paclfio Touds, but also as & public examplo and warning (o proteot-the peo- plo againat tho most flagrant and most gonoral rallrond abuse of the day. ) Wo have already indicated many of tho prin- olplos of law upplicable to tho purpose of on- forcing full paymont of unpuid railrond stock, ‘Ihoro aro many othors oven moro diractly cover- ing tho Crodit Mobiller roads, It is n well- doflned prinolplo of law that the funds and cap- ital stock of a corporation aro trust funds, and that the Dircotors sro Trustoes, Tho duty and responeibliity of Trustoos aro most rigidly oconstrued, Every sharoholder, aud thero have boon numerous bona fido subsoriptiona from mu- nicipalitios and individuals, 1n proteoted in oqui- 1y whonovor his Interost {8 hinzardoed, and ovory slinroholder fs likowlso ontitlod to a proportion- nto profit of tho company. Stookholdora who havo pald In their monoy do not recoivo their share of the profit whon thoso who have pald nothing for thelr stook racelve an equal portion. Trustoos cannot maka contracts with thomeolves “or for tholr own bonefit, to tho prejudico of thelr cestuis que trust, 1t is doubtful, indeed, whothor contracts woro good which woro mado by Di- roctors who ownod no stool which they hnd pold for., At all ovonts, n Court of Equily has full juriediction in all cases arising betweon membors of o corporation and the corporation itself, snd i is8 a breach of trust for Directors to sanotion any act not expressly authorizod by tho charter of n company, evon though the misapplication of funds bo sanetioned by the votes of the majority of tho stockholders, Evory stockholder ina railrond fa ontitled to s fixed and unaltorable proportion of the ecapital, which ho cortainly ‘ennnot have if others obtain an oqual numbor of sharos for nothing whilo ho has paild for his stock in monoy. Franchisos and stocks sro proporty in tho oyes of tho law, and aro a8 fully protected nas any other class of proporty. Tho sssumption-of any unauthorized powor by o corporation has boen held tobe n violation of publio policy and public right, and thoreforo illogal. Unless tho chartor of o cor- poration gives the Diroctors power to discrim-~ inate botween the stockholders, they aro all en- titlod to an oqusl sharo of roprosontation and profit. If, then, the Credit Mobilior railroad companios of this country havo motbeon ox~ prossly authorized by their charters to give away stock, tho Government has a good caso againet the Union Pacific and Contral Paoific Compa~ uies, and tho peoplo will kavo good cases, in one way or nnother, sgainst overy railroad in this country which has beon constructed on the Crodit Mobilior plan, “ THE C0ST OF ¥0O0D. What advautage Lave workingmon in this country over thoso of othercountries, bocause of chonrpor food ? To what oxtont doos the cost of rosults of mechanical and manufacturing fabor affact tho cost of living ? 1f, einco 1860, the prico of farm products paid to the farmor has not advanced, whilo tho cost of products of mechanical and monufacturing Inbor has advanced 66 por cont, what is tho consequent difference in tho cost of living ? Theso and other questions, constantly recnr- riog in discussion, all turn upon tho cost of arti- cles of food ordinarily consumed by the working clags in this country; aa compared with tho othor clements in tho coat of living and supporting o family. It is strango, thorefore, that so littlo attempt has been made, ovon by writors and cconomists of acknowledged ability, to fix the rolative proportion of tho costof living duoto tho cost of food, and to other elemonts, It is trao, tho problem is not a simplo one. Tho prices of articles of food vary widely in dif- forent Btates ; the costof clothing, ront, aud other necessaries not less widely, Thus food costs vory much more in Eastorn States, whila othior elements in the cost of living are so much choapor that tho working men generally demand, and obtain 23 necessary to their support, at lonst 88 high wages in the Wostorn as in the Eastern Btates. But by ascortaining the quantity con- sumed of difforent articles of food, and tho com- parativo cost of other elomonts, in any locality, o closo ostimato of the proportion of each clo- mont in the cost of living in othor localitios may bo made. ‘Thie Massachusotts Labor Commission, by the publication in its roport for 1878 of detailed "statomonts of the oxponsos of about twenty families, has supplied vory importsnt data for tho solution of this voxed problom. It is truo, tho statements ombraco quantitios of onch articlo of food, but only the cost of the wholo without pricos of onch, except in a singlo instanco. But applying the pricoa thus given to tho avoragoe quantitios consnmod by all the fam= ilies, it appoars thot & roduction of ono-sixth in prices brings tho aggregato cost of all food to tho avorago amount stated, 8o that the ono fam- ily in question either paid onc-sixth highor prices, being in Buffolk County, than the avor- ago for others seattorod through many towns in differont parts of tho Stato, orused a littlo bt~ tor quality of food than tho avorago. Making this roduction, proseating tho actual avorage for twonty familios of oach elomont in tho cost of living as stated by the Commission, and’ ealeu- Inting tho proportion of oach oloment to the en- tiro yoarly oxpensos per individual, wo reach tho following intoresting statoment : GOST OF LIVING FOR EACK PENSON, IN NINETTEN FAM- ILIES IN DIFFERENT TOWNS IN MASSAOHUSETTS, WITIX TUOPORTION OF EACK ELEMENT X0 WHOLE COAT, Caat, Percent, 1, Vegetnbles, milk, and cgg .8 837 [X 2 Qhceso and buttor.. 7,05 53 4, Freah moat, 10,03 71 4. Packed meat 767 [ 5. Flour and meal, 0,67 T4 6. ¥ish, frosh and walt.. 213 18 7. Tmported £00d, sugar, o5 5.8 All food, 0.8 8, Soups snd ‘siarc] K] All grocerics and provisions, 0.7 ] T4 41 n3 Clothing..... 104 Shaltor. 1 Edueation, 1.8 Blckness. .. 11 22 Hecreation and travel UL 20 Religlon, 271 a1 Yapers, & 107 13 Poreonal and professionalservies,$ 13.08 0.8 1 9 43 [X) Cost all eloments bestde food. 60,2 WHOI0 COBby v veavre 100, QUANTITIES OONBUMED, 1, Includes B1 quarts milk, B doz, eggs, 7.1 quarts Desns, 8,9 bu potatocs, 2, Includea 19,3 Ibs buttar, 5,0 1ba cheeso, 8, Includes 0,3 poulu-fv, 4. veal, 10, inutton, 0.4 fresh Tork, 10, ronst beof, 7,8 soup boef, 17,9 ateuk. 4, nll;lun‘en 28 1ha corh beef, 20,4 salt pork, 8,5 ham, .2 lard, 5, Includes 187 Iba flour, 27.4 corn meal, 6, Includes 13,0 Blt, and 12,7 frowh flsl, 7. Includes 860 1be sugar, 1.7 s tea, 2,04 gallons mo~ Taswen, 2.5 Jlus cofco, 1.7 1ba,rce. 8, Includea .3 108 soap, 1.2 tha $larch, Theso aro tho avorages of quantities consumed, and of total exponso for food and for esch othor item following food, for ninotoon famlios,—six- teon Amorican and throo Irish,—of alovendiffor- out ocoupations, In sovontoen different towns, tho families avoraging flvé and one-fifth persons in onch, the quantitioa and sums being caloulnted for each porson, young or old, Doducting from cost of food the cost of arti- cley chiefly imported and tho cost of fish, it ap- poara that of the product of Northern' farme only 242,80 yearly is consumed by each porson, oven at Masuachusotta pricos—and food costs more there than In almost any othor State, Ouly 832} per cent of tho entire cost of living, even in that Btato, dopends upon tho price of faryy products whon propared, transported, and ro- talled thoro, Tho cost of proparation or manu- facturo of food for tho itoms in Claes 1 {8 nothing; In Olass 2, about: 20 por cent ; in Clasa 8 (butohor's charges), 20 por cont in Olasn 4 (cost and profits of pecking), 25 por cont; in Class b (millor's cost and profita), 20 por cont, and for aalé flsh 20 por cont; making in all 87,26 to onch porson, or about 53¢ por cont of the wholo cost of living, loaving only £85.63 yearly, or 27 por cont, a8 tho cost of farm pro- ducts, transportation and rotallng ncluded. Tho chargo for rotailing must be fully 10 por cent of tho cost to tho consumer, and the chargo for transportation, though varying widely in dif- foront locations and for differont nrtlcles, can Lardly bo less than 10 per cont moro, making 8.67 of tho costof food to tho consumer, or 6 6-10 por cent of the wholo cost of living, and loaving sbous $27.00 yoarly ss the sum vaid to tho farmers for tho food of ench person in laboring famitios in Mnssachu- getts, or 2034 por cont of thoentiro cost of living tosuch porson. Thus a chango in the prico of farm products at tho farm affocts in its propor- tion only one-fifth of tho cost of living, oven in Massnchusetts, whore food is most coutly. But & ohango in tho cost of mochanical or manufacturing industry affocts not only thab part of tho cost of food which deponds upon manufaotare (53¢ por cont of the whole cost of living), but aldo tho cost of soap aud starch, lights, fuel, furnituro, ront, and clothing, or 44 por cont, and in all 494 por cont of the whole cost of living. Nor fa this sll. It affocts also tho cost of transportation and of trade, of porsonal and professional sorvices, and of miscollancous itoms of oxponso, both in tho cost of materials and in tho nocossary wagos for support of porsons engaged in supplying such wants, Thus, in & gronter or loss degroe, it affects evory clemont in tho cost of living oxcopt tho 20} por cont for tho primo coat of farm products, and oven that portion as wall whenover materials, implomonts, snd bired Inbor are rondored moro costly. Honco it is that, with tho primo coat of food scarcoly groater than it was in 1860, the cost of living has In- creasod moro than G0 per cont. Honco it ia that, with farm products choapor than they are In Europo, tho cost of living ia groator. NOTES AND OPINION. The Republicans of Minneapolis expresa very marked discontent with the ticket nominated for them at Bt. Paul, last weck, and do not promiso it their accustomed support by 1,200 local ma~ jority. A citizen oxprosses himsolf through the Minnoapolis Tribune thus : ‘Tho lato Coivontion may not have boen worse than its prodocessora, Tho fault {s inhorent in the present cauoua and convontlon systom, and without romedy tunder our present clection laws, Tho peoplo do not and cannot express their cholco, Tho couvention is essontinly deapotic, There is_ono remedy, and only ono : Uaticus and convention should ga dawn at onco, uttorly and forover, And they will go down Just na £00n s thoy aro sLiorn of tholr tromendous. powr for ovil ; 08 soon ns the people can express their will ind enforco it without the necessity and in spito of thoin- terferonco of caucus or convention, —Tho organs of tho offica-monoroly party in Wisconsin are discuesing tho make-up of the rogular ticket for noxt Novomber's eloction, but tho Madison Democral says : 2 This {8 a bad yoar for slates and_for partisan candle dates, It is barely possible that thu people will con- cluda that thoy can dixponso wilh iho services of slonod politivians, and do tho nominating thomselves a8 woll a3 the voting. —In California tho burdensome oxistenco of the “two parties,” known now to bo equally controllod by tho railrond powor, is boing much disoussod by the peoplo, A writer in tho San Francisco Bulletin says: : Thess men would keop up party when tho only ond to bo aubserved by party fs to give them power and opportunity to plunder the poople. To that end, sud nove otlier, somio two or three iudividuals uro now running tho Republican party, sand a liko nunber, tho Democralle organization, . . . Whilo thero’ aro principles, and mensuros, and policy in which tho ooplo have n great intorost, involved in tho coming clection, thesp ave in dungor of Leing forfeited ins the sonselosh scramblo between {wo effeto organizations, Thero is ovidantly sn attempt to hide tho real lssuca under tho rubbish of old party formalities, It is to bo soen whothor the peoplo cau be so easlly cheated, —Tho oditors who are wont to say that only the Republican party, and it unanimously, ropu-~ diatos tho salary-grab, will please read and con- sidor what Gen, Ginty says in tho Chippowa (Win.) Zerald, and ring-oditors In thoee parts do not need to bo told who Qen. Ginty is, Ho 80y8 ¢ ‘When the workingmen and mechanies throughout the country—tho Lot aud sinow of the land--becomo thoroughly aequaiuted with tho {ncroe-of.pay sub- Joct, thoy will fool proud of Senator Carpoutor’s mans 1y courss ; will contrast it with tho criuging splrit of Gorangogism which 1s - cudeavoring to. put him down, Thoy wil = thank God that Wis. consin had two Sonafors —Matt H. nter and Timothy O. Xowe—who had back. Bono enough not to bo frightencd at the tomporary ebullition of @ falss {ndignation ; will feol thankful ihat whilo sll Lut ono Congressman yiclded to the prosauro of tho hour, her Senators ponscsscd couraga cnoughi to koep what thoy were Justly and morally entitled to. We prophesy that evory member who has attempted to make capital by returning tho back pay will bo completely swept from power within the noxt two years, Thoy will ind that norve which is not afratd to throttic.the storm raised by cross-road demine gogues, will Lo tho winnlng eard. —Tho silly cliarge of tho Democratio press, that Gon. Grant was intriguing for a third term, han had a two-fold good effect : it Lins drawn from him an ox- plicit denfal, and & statemont that he would not under any circumstances accepl a renomination, thug placin hifh right on’ thio question before tho poople, and Iy hiaa called public attention to tho embarransment and danger that may grow out of tho third torm queation in tho tuture, Will the Journal be good onough to tell Senator Morton where ho can find tho aforosaid oxplicit donial 7 When Colfax made his explicit donial st year, ho wroto It out, signed his name to it, and sent it to his frioud, Heury 0. Bowen, to be ‘published, —It ia_unlvorsally conceded that he [Simon Oamoron] ia the only man connected with the Governmont ot tho bogiuning of tho Robolljon who thoroughly comprohonded tho maguitudo of the ul.rugfi‘lu and mnado preparations common- burato with it roal 6copo and charnotor. What lio could dosire more, we aro at a loss to con- coiyo, Tho rosolution of consuro is a_ forgotton incident of the past—his position, sorvices, and Lionors aro living faots of tho present. "ho first 18 novor dug up from tho musty archives of Con- gmnu but in an attompt to disparage him, while 1o latter, always nxmhnF, will sceuro to him and to his memory for all time tho respect and remombranco of his follow-men.—Pillsburgh Telegraph.. —'I'ho following resolutiona woro farmers’ meoting beld at Clifton, County, July 12 Resolved, That wo boliove the farmers’ movement to Do based upon tho oternal principles of right and Juse tico, % Tho greatost good to the groateat nuwnber,” and wo do not prooto to allow ouraalvod to bo robiblod up by cithes the Democratic or Republican party, oxpari- eitco having taught us that politivians forgot promiscs 88 800N A8 fim cleotion I8 fairly over, Resolved, That wo bellove a thicf should be called a {ef, without regard to uocial or political stauding, and Yo chiaractorizp, lio oceut ualiryrab Ly ant Uongress and President ns mo bebter” than n steal, whereby cach Congressman and Sonator {s voted $5,000 extra pay from an slready overburdonod and blscds ing 'Troasury ; and wo hercby donounce as 4afanious and unworthy tho support of honest men, thoso Sen. tors and Congrossmen who lave pockeled this awag " monoy ; ospectally do wo ropudinte and do- nounco our awn Benators, Lyman Trumtull aud John A Logan, aud our Congressmau from thin diatrict, Jesso 1, Bloore, for thelr complicity in this swindio, —Ifow to mnko monoy—how to bocomo per- sonally rich—is the main study of the Adminls- tration oftioials,—Albany (V. X)) Argus. —This year, whon the™ peopla with almost one ncoord aro demanding that thoro shall bo 4 revo- Iution in tho transportation quoation, and demu- ogues as usunl aro riding or attempting to rido fim popular wave, Democracy agnin gives stroug- ont proof of ita own helploasnoss aud hopoloss- noss n iteolf, and ombraces tho n;»antlmlty thus prosonted to try to recovor its liold of af- tairs,—Lyons (Jmm? Mirror. —4“Who g your londor?” 18 now froquently ankod the farmor by tho politiolans who soo their lights bogiuning to flicker, o prosont move is ono thst has no londor in tho ronso of political wire-workers, but It Ia the out-oropping of ripen- od viows of tha farmors who have deolared their God-glvon right to be heard in the affaire of our nnunf . ‘They hinye beon following loadors, which {8 tho causo of the prosent burdons upon thom, and noy the timo hay come to iguoro all old party leadors, and for one timo do_ somoe Fnuacd bya n Iroquois " thing for thomsolves,—. ¢! Dm“n o ves.—Page Counly (lowa) cral. —Wo like tho ring of tho ** Grand Rural Ral- 1y It sounds like puro metal. Wo ssy amon 10 ‘“ Farmors ahoad and polliticlans in tho roar.” 1t ia timo tho tablon wore turnod_nnd the reins token from tho hands of political stock-jobbers and spooulntora, Lot the farmors rule Inatond of somo monopoly: lob tho poople govern in- atend of somo polltionl ring,—Auatin (Afinn.) Reegister. ~Ilopublican mrt{ mnanagora have hoon mo hmlix feanting in ofiielal power; and havo so thor- ghly rogardad politics nanothing but an engino upon which to rido into fat ofiices, that theycan- not imngine or concoivo of any political movo- mont oxcopt as lod by mon who aro thinking of nothing but office, Theso mon, knowing that ovory movo of tholr own is for ofalnl profor~ mont, x:snrd it ns an imposnibility that auybody should ndvoeato a political idoa for thoe good of tho country, henco their conatant ories that tho farmers’ moyoment originated with eoroheads nnd oflico-ucokeraand party haoks.—Peoria (Z1l.) Demacral. ~The Ropublican londers now bogin to discovor that thoy cannot depond upon the Grangera ne a gort of supplomont to their organization, and, from prosont sppoorances, wo could almost Frophnny that tho corrupt rule*of Ropublican-~ am in Iowa 8’ about over,—Davenport (Iowa) Democrat. ‘Tho corda that havo bound men to party are Leing brokon, and tho ruling party kuow that whon that is dono thoir chancos are slim. Thoy hnye held powor too long, and the peoplo feol it. It i now o strugglo moroly to savo tho pnrt{. Who u{q'wfl 1a mado ontiroly upon that point. It will f{ail thom, Tho bands are slready rent nsundor.—Burlington (Iowa) Democrat. —The Em:toctud " manufacturing Enst makes monoy, while tho unprotected sgrionliural Wost loscs money. . . . . With tho location of tho dinongo nscortatnod, tho application of tha rTomedy is comfinmuvoly onsy. Lho Governmont must coago backing one portion of the community to the (ngury of auothor class, and the rates of {ransporéation must bo reduced. To theso two onds the sgriculturist should be directed, Minor ovils can be attonded to aftorwards, or will cure ihi;muolvou.—l,awrmo (Kan,) Republican-Jour- nal. ~—Tho statute-books are alroady burdoned by onnotments looking to & proper rostriction of the gnvilagos of railways and patonts ; and the continuod opprossiveucss of the monopolics aro tho best nssuranco that the'created line grown boyoud tho control of tho oreator, ono of thoso anomnalous casca whoro man's impotency, sa agninst his follow who pursues a_systematio courso for solf aggrandizemont, is mnde frightful- ly manifest. . . . . It igocortain that such impoaitions, if permitted to run, will correct thomsolves ; but the dobris in the train of such o carcor will oqual that which rosults from po- litieal rovolution—wrecked fortuncs, lives, and hnp%llnnnu.-JancwilIc (Wis.) Gazelle, —If any railroad company in this Btato is try~ ing, by its now tariffs, to make tho railroad lnw odious, thou just how odious it desorves to bo will probably bo bost shown by the fact whother the noxt Logislative sosaion cannot find sufliciont in the law to properly punish such a company for ita odious policy.” If they can't, then tho law 47 odious in one imporlant respect, and u#opld bo promptly amended.—Rock Jsland (IU.) ion. —It is o significant fact that since the now froight and passenger tariffs have gono into forco, hr?o numbers of farmers who horetofora nid no attontion to the granges in their midst, tho way of bocoming mombors, are making opplications for mombership., The unfairnesa wanifested by the railrond companies to comply with tho demands of those who support them, has offectod a moro thorough organization among the farmors than anything elso horeto- fore,—Pontiac (1N.) Free Trader. —When tho railronds pay taxes, it is upon o vory low eatimnto of tho cost of thoir roads, ‘Whon they declare drvidonds, it is upon thobasis of stook watored to tho third dogreo, That kind of morality will in two generations breed a community of robbers and brigands like those of Greeco, Italy and othor worn-out communi- ties. Tho worst enemios of civilization aro theso monopolista.—Jacksonville (1il.) Sentinel. —What is tho use of fooling away any moro time with tho Domocratio party ? It cantiot re- gain possossion of political powor in this coun~ try. It has no principles. A majority of the so-callod Domocrats in Congress supported tho peot and dialiuguishinfi mensure of the Adminis- tration last winter—the incrosso of salary and back-pay bill ; and tho improvement rings of tho soveral ~ citiss and .that which would squandor ondless millidns on . impossiblo canals aro_ in ark composed of P Democrats. If the Domacratic party wore out of tho way, tho Republican party would bo knooked in 12locnn a8 it desorves. Tho only practical effect of the maintenance of the] 0- cratic party is to keop the Ropublicans irpowhr. Wo propose to mako an_ond of this littlo ar- rangement, that the political divisions of the peoplo may conso to bo arbitrary, and that thoy may be formed according to current affairs.— Cincinnali Commercial. > —A littlo talk bogine to make itself audiblo In tho Northwost about a pational convention of farmers to bo held at Chicngo somo timo this summor or fall. Tho suggostion prikes us s orbaps o triflo promature, and for that reason of oubtrul utilits e farmora hava abuadant opportunity in thelr soveral States, countios and townships for voting indopondently of party, and 80_convincing tho politicians, and tho con- fodorated capitalists ‘Wwho own tho politicians, that they ore'in carnest; the griovances of which they complain are already known, af lonst in n gonorsl way, to tho couutry; and they are nob yot quite sure enough of tho romedy to go into’the ¢ platform " fusions on so oxtensivo n sealo as this suggostion contomplates, Dest haston slowly, nnd get “a good roady.”—Spring- field_Republican. —Tho Illinois railroad ring'doos not sock to conform to thio will of tho pooplo of that Stato in earcying into offect tho now railroad law; but is doing all in its power to bring tho Stato undor its moro complete subjugation” by heaping ad- ditional opprossion upon the farming and mer- cantilo community, under the traudulent protoxt that thoir villainy 18 tho result of thoe railroad law instoad of thoir own combined detormina~ tion to rule or ruin theState, Tho same rockloss, Tuwless, solfish, and oppressive pirit that rulos thoe railrond rings in tho Stato of Illinois oxists in ths railroad rings in this State, and in every othor Stato in the Union ; aud it will roquiro tho most detormined opposition, not only on tho part of tho farmers of tho country, but a union of all clauses of woclaty to ovorthrow the dominoer- ‘;liwg monopolists’ rule.~Kcokuk (Towa) Constitu- on. ~Tho subjoct of rogulating railroad charges 16 fast bacoming tho''most absorbing question now before tho public. It is discussed in the newspnpors, in farmers’ socictios and granges, in_manufacturing cireles, and in all places of public rosort; and thore is no doubt but that it will entor lnrgul{ fiito tho {sanes of thoapproach- ing county oloctions, It bas now been 8o thor- oughly brought beforo tho public mind that it ean no laufiur bo_postnoned or ignored, but will have to bo fairly mot and sottlod. If the prosont Iaw is found to bo dofective or unconsti- tutionnl, tho Logislature will, nest winter, bo called upon to amond it or pass o now ono. 0 poople nro thoroughly aroused, and will not bo satiafiod until the question is pormancntly set- tled upon o just and oquitablo busis.—Alfon [e{ ll.} ZLelegraph. —Laot not thoe farmers be decotved, We nayit in not the *“Iaw,” but the railrond munongors who aro “doranging business,” and they aro doing it Dbecaueo thoy are detormined to * rulo or ruin." Thoy have combined togothor for the purpose of socuring the ropeal of tho law, and thoy will not stop at “doranging " tho entiro transportation business of the West, in order to accomplish this oud. Thoro is mno doubt that thoir struggle with tho poople on this question will be A Bovere ono. Thoy are mustoring their forcos and using all the “dnrnnfilnF o ng]fllmuul Pos- siblo, nofonly to dofoat tho faw, but to woar out tho pationce of the publie. DBut tho ond is mnot yot. Inspito of faleo frionds and timid coun- Bols, lot tho peoplo atand firm, The victory will yet bo tholrs.—IHinois Stats Journal, — - — Burncd to Deathe Speetal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridbune, Unbaxa, O., July 32.—A littlo girl, about 13 onzn of ago, dnughtor of Abol North, o farmor rlving betwoon Kingston and Kennard, in this ocounty, was burnod to death Inst night. Bhe had used » quantity of patent burning-fluid to oxtract groaso froma dress sho had on, and, got+ ting too noar the firo in ordor to dry hor cloth- ing, it caught, wrapplng hor instantly in flamos, Besido boing badly burned extornnily, she had also inbaled tho flamos, Bho lingered abouk eight hours, = She waa a cripple, and was in the liouso alono at the time, —_— A Scries of Fatalitics. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tyidune, Fonrt WavNe, Ind, July 23.—A sorics of nccidonts oceurrad at Antworp, Ohio, yealerday, wehich roaulted in the death of flve porkons, an dangerously injuring a sixth, Two young men nmod Vanhio went bathing in company with a oy, who got boyond his depth and sank. Vane lwo, in attompting his rescue, was drowned. ldA boy foll trom a tree and was immodiatoly lled, Anothor boy, named Pry, waas blown up by gunpowdor and dangerousty wounded, - A shoomaker nomed Morris Rochelle drank a pint of whisky on a wager, from the offects of whioch ho dled in a short timo, -It s rumored to-day that anothor boy, name unknown, living in the country, foll f; treo breaking *his nock. Buch I“nfi’pt:r crr a‘r‘n’:] al;wl: donts I raroly hoard of in such a small village as Antworp. . —— RAILROAD RATES. Chnrgos of Extortion Proforred Agninat Three [llinols Rallirondes« Meeting of the Amcrican Chenp Transportation Company in Now Yorke=RRosolutions Adopted. Speclal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Senmiarierp, Il., July 23.—The Board of Railroad and Warchiouso Commissionors woro in rosalon to-day, and woro troated to a number of ocomplnints of oxtortion by the raflronds, Theso complalnts wero against tho Illinols Contral, Pooria, Pokin & Jacksonvillo, snd tha Tolodo, Wabssh & Westorn Rallroads. It i not improbable that the mombors of the Board will vislt somo of tho points whors tho most flagrant oxtortions ara oharged to bo mado, to investigato the truth, and it possible dovise & Tomedy for them. 1} would soem to bo cortaln that thoro is just causo for somo of those com= m:lr:lu, from the evidouco brought to support J. O, MoMullin, Buperintendent, and O, Books with, Attorney, of tho Ohicago & Alton Railrosd Company, arrived horo to-night. It {s undor< stood that thoy aro to moot somo of tho officials gn'o ;l;: Tgluélui Wnbfls)il & Wostorn Railroad toe 'y bul lor whal h;{mm &Mlllhh purposo could not ba EW Yong, July 22.—~Tho American Oh Transportation Asgocintion, of this city, poflg;g od its organization lngt avoning, and sdopted rogolutions satting forth that tho unjust and ox- tortionnte rates chargod by the various railronds of tho country are detrimental to the industries and intereata of tho nation, and oondemning the action of tho rallroad companies in bribing Log« inlatures and dofying Judgos and Exeoutives. —_——— WALL STREET. Moview of tho Stock Market Yestors dny. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Nzw Yorr, July 22.—Thoro wna an sctive market in stocks, of which the strongost wore Lake Bhoro and Now York Contral, tho formoe solling at 042(@03%¢, and tho lattor at 104%@ 104 Wostorn Union ndvancod. Northwostorn common closod steady. Rock Island was oxcite od. Obio and Wabash wore irregular. Erio ordors wore numerous, although it wns discov= orod ecarly in the day that tho corner was a fallure, Tho true story of the flurry sooms to bo that largo purchasos of Erio sharca wero mado in London for specalative salo in this markot, and wero probably sold s fast 88 ro« coived, Instead of using tho idontical cortifia catos, othora wore borrowed and sold. Tho ime- presalon was thus naturally formed that tho sales ‘woro for short account. This enabled tho ime portors of London cortificates to soll dally ine coming stook at much higher prices than wors hopod for in tho boginning of tho entorprise, and of ovurso they cared not what ervoncous viewa might arise from theea tactics, so long as thoir apeculntion was n guccoss. 8till more forcign cortificaten aro coming, but thoy cannot bo ox~ peoted to pay as largely as tho turoo or foug consignmonts. DUBUQUE. Stroots Macadamized with Londss Suicide. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. DunuquE, July 22.—The city bought a lot of stuff for mneadamizing, rocently, and it turns out to bo largely composed of lozd oro taken from gomo of tho mines hero. One of tho atroots, Julion avenus, {8 partly macadamized with it. Tho boys have been picking it up. Dudley Dovling, & well-to-do farmor ' about 60 yonrs of age, living throe miles from Bollovue, shot off tho top of his head with a gun this evens ing, Mr, Dovling was a_peaceablo, good citizen, snd no cangs i assigned for his commitiing tho rash nct. He loaves o wifo and family. WEATHER AND WATER, War Dopartment Weanther Roports LOCAL ODSERVATION. Cittosao, July 22, 1673, HIEE Hour ofcb- | § |3 3(3|ntrection ana servation, | 8 |} §)&sorce of wind. SlgIE 0! ‘Maximura thormormotor, 83 Minimum thormomatar, G0. QENERAL ODSERVATIONS. ‘TUxsDAY, July 22—10:18 p, m, Station, |Bar.|Thr| Wind. iRain| Weather. . WV, frash, Qloar. aE N, Gl tf. froeh, 04 St fresh. i, E., light, 088, 1., fresh, 6|3, W., gentle, 71|E, gontle, 608.'W,, gontle 68, W., 69| 38, B, W, 7|trenn, PROVADILITIES. ‘Wasmivatoy, D. C., July 23,—0n Wedneaday, for tho South Atlantic aud Eastern Gulf Conats, ensterly winds, cloudy wonthor, and local rain. For the interior of tho Bouthorn Btates, Okio Valloy, and tho southorn portion of tho Middlo Btntos, southoastorly winds, somewhat higher tomperature, and partly cloudy weathor. For Now York and New England, westorly winds and onorally cloay or hazy weather. For the Lake g{uglon and Northwost, goutbwestorly winds and neroasing cloudiness, with local atorms in Towa and Minnesola, and possibly in Wisconsin, STAGE OF WATER. Daily report of tho stage of water, with changos in the twenty-four hours ouding 8 p. m,, July 22, 1878 : AmovE Low Lot i . AR, Rtee, Fell, ! Qairo.... Cincinnati, Davenport. watar mark of 1871, W. 8, KAUP3taw, Obaarver, Room 78 Major Block, Chicago. PoIsONM, * Two Futile Attempts to Polson n Yluse band—Arrest of the Wifonnd Anothor Poruon. Tirrsuuran, July 22.—On Fridsy morning Iant, John Buydor and tio of his ehildron, living in Springold, in tho borough of Butlor, wero takon ill with all the symptoms of havivg beon poisoned, They continued to improve until Bat- urday evoning,when Snyder wassuddonly takenill again with tho samo nflymptflmn. Tho physlciana ‘weoro again summoned and pronouncad it another oayo of poisoning by argenio, but, as in the pro= vious attompt, an ovogdoso Lad been givon,, and the violont vomiting eaved hia lifo. A party by name of Foroman, snspected of administering tho polson,was arrestod and lodged in Jail, Mrs, Euygar was algo arreatod yosterday at noon and committod to jaill. Tha partics will bavo o hoars ing to-day. —_—— Oalifornia Miving Stocks, 8aN Franasco, July 22,—The mining share markot is saadly domoralized. Savage, whick lod the braak along tho Comatook line, closod at tha Morning Board to-dny at 44; Ohatlar, flfi}fi Hala & Noroross, 24}?; Bolcher, 77 i Qrown Pol ntbfll ) Consolidated Virginia, o ‘Thero havo beon licnvy lossos, particularly in Bavage, which iy gonorally regarded na tho faucy stock., Tho question Is, whother the bottom of tho markef hag boen roachoed yot. Chilengo sition, 1 Digpateh to The Chicago Tribune, Brnitenin, Dy SleeiTho capital Btock of the Intor-Btate Industrial Bxposition of Chicas 0 has boen incresssd to $360,000, and_a cortif« oato to that offeot was filed with the Becrotary of Biato to-day.