Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1873, Page 4

THE CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBU TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TRNNS OF AUDECTIPTION (PAYADLE 1N AIWAH;!‘Y * Pailyy by ms 2.4 undny, 2 oRkdy 15031 30 Parta of a yoar at tho samo rat ‘To provent delny and mistak and glvo Post DMco addreas b full, inotnding Stato and Couuty, Remittances tnay bo mado oithor bydratt, oxpross, Post Do order, or in roglstored lottars, at onr risk, TEIME TO OITY BUNSCRIDERH, Daily, dolivorod, Sunday oxcoptod, 2 conte per wook. Dally, dolivored, Bunday included, F0 conta por woek, Addross THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearboru-ata,, Clilaago, 1 TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MOVICKER'S TIIEATR! adfson, botwoon Dear. Sorn and Stato, ** Waost lind or tho 1rish Tolross," GLOBE THEATRII-Tiesplalnes streat taon and Washington. Miss Al Jack in **Tho Now Vbjoot of Interost. Yotwoon Mad. nnlo Eieminand Mr. John Magdalon,” To vonoludo with *“ Au BUSINESS NOTICES. INSTEAD OF BITTER, 4 USR SWERT QUININE TBATOHELOWS HAIRL DY TIiig SPLENDID nirdso fs tho bost in tho world, Tho ouly truo and por- cot dya, Harmloss, reliatis, and instantanoous nodisa golntmant: noridigulous trits or unpleasant ador. Romo- 11l affeets &f bud dycs and wanlioa. Producos it odiatoly a tuper binok or natu nir cloan, soft, and boantifal, . Batololor.” Sull all ATOIL o, ant oavor (he o gonuino, A s - "Rold Arogiiste. OHARLIES L%, Popurioior. . Y. * VAN SOHAACK, TRVENSON & RKID, Adent The Chicago Tribune, Thursday Morning, August 7, 1873. An Intornational Patent Rights Congross is 20w in session nt Vienna. Onoof its purposes ia to induco all olvilized natious to unito in pro- tecting the right of invontors to tho fruits of sielr invontions tho world over, Capt. Phillips and tho other officers of the City of Washington, who recontly wrocked that rensol on the const of Halifax, havo boon dis- shorged by the Inman Company from thoir jorvico for their inoxcusable neglect to uso the toad while rushing on through tho fog doy after day. —— Salvalan Khan has not beon succesaful in his rppoal to the British Courts to declaro his * con- 208sion” from tho Shah in 1866 superior to that Just got by Reutor. Tho Lord Chancellor dls- posad of the mattor summarily, saying that he could asgume mo jurisdiction over an alleged fraud of this kind committed on o foroign Gov- ernmont. : Tho attendance at the National Educationnl Association at Elmira proves to bo 1,500 instead of 1,000, na roported yosterday. A hopeful sign is tho prosence nmong them of a number of tonchors and Belioal Superintondents from tho Bouth, which needs & thorough and genoral bya- tom of educational Reconstruction not loss than ‘poiitical roform. It is announced from Washington that Gen. Spinner, the United Btates Tronsurer, is anx- iously awaiting tho back-pav which some of (ko Congressmen have told Lheir constituonts thoy hod coverod back into tho Troasury. Gone Spinner Las hore an opportunity for establish- ing o roputation as the most pationt man in Amorica. e Italy sonds us somothing bosides tho lnzzaroni, who were decoyed in #iarms to Castlo Garden last wintor, and the little slavos of tho harp who Infost our largo citios, The Italian Minister of Financo roports to the Italinn Parliamont that tho commorce botwoon Italy sud the United States haa grently incronsed, ns is shown by tho largo r numbor of vessels it omploys. This growth of trado will bo promoted by tho aboli- lion, just announced, of all import duties on raw products destined for manufucturo in Italy. [ ——— Canadn does not take kindly to ita Credit 3o- bitior, A groat meoting of tho citizens of Mon- treal was hold last night to give voico to their in- dignation ab tho courso of tho Governmont in tho Patiflo Tnilwoy scoudal—n kind of domon- stration never made in this country ngainst our Pacific Railwayswindlers. The meoting resolved that tho action of the Govornment, in thwarting tho investigation begun' In accordance with immomorinl usage by tho House of Commons, waa subversive of the rights of \the peoplo, and they call upon Parlinment to reassort thoir pro- ropative whon they moet again on tho 13th inst, Tho Cincinnali ratification meoting on Monday ovoning was sufficiontly formidablo in point of numbers, and in the character of the porsons prosent, to nssuro tho publio that the new-parly movement in Ohio means business. Tho action of the Democratic Stato Convention at Colum- bus, yeatorday, shows that that party is not yot roady to rotire. Thero will be tlireo tickets in the fleld, and Olio will be tho centre of public attontion in tho political arona this yoar. Judgo Colling, in his spoech at the Cincinnati Conven- tion, hit the nail on the head whon o said that, wherover you find a Republican with his arm in tho Public Troasury up to his shouldor, you will find a Domocrat with his arm in the same ex- chequor up to the clbow. e Thoso who advocate the suffrago for women and their participation in political assemblios will seizo with avidity on tho srgument to be dodneed from tho sceno in the Labor-Reformors’ Convontion at Worcestor yeatorday. The dele- gates foll to debating tho morits of Gen. Butler for tho Govornorship of Maesachusietts, and so warm waxed the disputo that they wore sbout to somo to blows, Thoro wero two women o tho Convention, however, and theso succooded, hy tho pscific arts of the sox, in quisting tho contestants, and saving the Conventlon from the disgrace of a fistleuff. Gov. Washburn is declarod by the Ttoformers to have perpotratod a swindlo of the most atrocious charactor upon Labor-Roformors by somo chiauges ho las recontly mado in the Btaff of the Labor Buveau, In violation of his plodges. Bunday laws uro not likely to Lo o dead lotter n Madison, Wis,, much longor. Acting-Mayor Chapman accepts with enthusinsm the suggos- tion of tho snloou-lkeopors that thioy appoiut a committeo of twonty to aid him in prosccuting all Bundsy laws, and stopping the business or stoamboats, livery-stables, and stagos, 18 woll ng that of tho satoons, To aseist thom, In his turn, ho will commission shom as specinl police, e adds that the tom- poranco and roligious soclotios will, do doubt, nleo swoll tho movement. At tho samo time, hio hint that tho offeot of this crusade will react upon the Jiquor-sellers who originated it, Tho onforcement of thovo Sunday laws whioh are not demanded by ‘pullle intorost will procuro their ropeal, and thus mako atill more prominont on tho statute-books tho luws against Bundsy liq- uor-solling, which publio opinion will not be likely to abollah, The Chicago produce markots wore gonorally | aftairs, mand and atoady, at @16.96@16.80 soller tho month, and $15.85@16.00 soller Soptomber. Lard was dull and nominnlly unchangod, at 70 @140 por 1b for wintor, and 73{@7ige for sum- mor-rondered. Monta woro quiot, but higher, 8t 7340 for shoulders ; 9}{@03¢c for short mid- dles, sud 10@12!¢o for mweot-plokled hama, Highwines wore quict and unchanged, closing at 920 por gallon. Lake froighta woro loss netive and stoady, at bigo for corn to Buftalo, Flonr was quiot and unohangoed. Whont was dull and Atronger, closing at 91.10@1.10}¢ cash ; 81.143¢ sollor tho month, and $1.075¢ sollor Septombor. Corn was logs activo, and Jgo lowor, cloing at 873¢c cash, ond 87}¢o wollor Soptombor, Oats wero moro active, and X0 higher, closing ot 270 cash, and 200 sollor Septombor. .Ryo was quiet, aud 20 higher, closing at 60, Barloy was dull and 10 lower, at 850 for now, seller Boptembor. Hogs wore Bteady, with sales at £4.20@4.85, Tho cattlo and sheop markots wore without mn- torial chango. . Four inchoa of platform tho Cincinnuti Zn- quirer proseribed to bo ns muoh of a doso s tho collapsed condition of {ts party warranted tho Ohio Domooratio Convention in ad- ministering at’ one timo, but tho Convention hos gono & fool boyond thnt prudent limit. They have issued a long address, which bogins ‘with tho roassuring statomont that tho Domoora~ oy mean to rovive no dond issuos, and is opposed to nullification and socession. Thoso live {ssues Daving boen thus vivaciously tronted, contraliza; tion is donounced, togethor with all extension of Btate functions -to interforenco with privato Liberal Iaws for tho naturaliza- tion of foroigners, opposition to tho ox- omption from taxation of n largo por- tion of the profit-producing wealth of the country, tho restriction of tariff-logisla- tion to rovenuo purposes, tho rodress of farm- ers' griovancos, the rosorvation of public lands for actual sottlors, deuunciation of the snlary-stoal, condomnation of tho Prosi- dent's Loulsisus policy, dro the chief points of tho Democratic erced, which closos with tho avormont that, as the Republican party has possossion of the Governmont in overy dopartment, it is responsiblo for all the mistakes in logialation and administration of which tho. country complaing, Qon. Butler promised to furnish the Charlos- town (Mass.) Chronicle with n copy of n lottor addressed by him to o constituont on tho sub- joot of tho back-pay bill ; but, as tho General was ablo only to furnish soven columns of tho unfinished letter, by reason of o press of busl- nees, the editor gives & synopsis of that much. ‘Wo publish clsewhoro this abstract of tho lotter. Gon. Butlor argnes thnt the back-pay and salarg- grab act is unjust because it does not raiso tho salaries high enough. Ilo inslsts that Presidont Grant onght to got $275,000 a yoar to placo bim on an oquality with Washing- ton. Mo argnes that mombera of Congress ought to bo pald highor salarics than tho Judges of the Supromo Court. The rest of the lotter contains littlo that is new, oxcopt an ag- sault upon thoso Waslington correspondonts of nowspapers, who ato also clerks to Congrossional committecs, and who, whiloe recipients of back pay themselves, Lave not hesitated to donounco tho grab on the part of mombers, We have no donbt that his statoments concerning theso cor- respondonts aro true, but how that can affect the morality of the action by Congress is not vory cloar, If Butlor's oxposuro shall result in having all these correspondents dismissed from their oflices, thera will bo no causo for regret. Tho Wator Supply Committee appointod by tho Board of Trusteos of Hydo Park, to ascer- tain which systom could, in their opinion, most chenply and officlontly supply the village with wator, havo submitted to thatbody o roport, which fs published in another column, The Committes confined their attontion to the Holly and Worthington gystems, exsmining the work- ings of the former at Rock Island, Baginaw, and othor places, snd of tho latter st Ruhway and othor points where it is in use. From thoir own investigations, and from the unanimous opin~ ionof engineors, they docideagainst the purchase of Holly engines, which cost twico ng much os many others, and are more expousive to run, ot the samo timo boing less ofiiciont. Sinco their cxaminations have not boon thorough onough to justify them in recommending the adoption of any partioular systom, thoy slnpiy submit resolutions providing for the immodiato orection of a crib inthe lake, its conuection with the shore by a sixteen-inch main, the lay- ing of the water pipo in tho etreots, and thoe orection of a building to contain the mnchinery, which should be tho simplest and least costly that can bo prooured, and which ia capablo of doing the work required. Now that Chicago is more oxtonsively on- goged thean ovor befors in the work of improving it thoroughfares, it is an oxcellent occasion to sbandon the systom that has been in vogue horotoforo for tnking cerc of them. It has boon the gonoral prac- tico in this city, aftor a streot bas boon paved, to allow it to go to ruinatits own rate, There are now woodon pavemonts on some of our stroots,—Wabash avenuo, for instance, and particularly that portion north of Twonty-sec- ond streot,—which aro in o condition of com- ploto decay that might have beon avoided for gomo time to como under propor attontion, The practico in Parla and muny cities of Europe is to koop o mant aud n cart forn cortaird stroot, or soction of it, and hold him rosponsible for its condition.” It would ho cheapor in the eond, and cortalnly more comfortable all tho timeo, if this practice wero adopted In Chicago. Whenever the pave- ment, whether wooden or gravel, bogins to give way in onoe place, itshould be repaired immedi- ataly. Onco startod, comploto ruin sgon comes whero nothing ies dono to avert it, A streot- pavomont can bo preserved by timely ropairing aa well a8 o houso, or & ploce of furniture, orn pair of Boots, This policy is adopted in overy- economical family, and tho snme ronsous should suggost its adoptton with reference to tho public stroots, The Nation recently stated that it did not he- llove thore was ono case in fifty whoro the watorlng of railrond stocks was dono uanlawfully. Wo commend to it the oxbibit made by the Now York Zribune of the stock accounts of the Read- ing, the Delaware, tho Luckawauna & Westorn, and tho Lohigh Valley Railroad Compauies, which are ohielly cngagoed fu the anihracito coal business. 'Thoy woro comploted in 1804, and wero, thnt yoar, bringing 10,000,000 of tona to market, while thoy now earry about 18,~ 000,000, But, though their businosa is not quite doubled, their capital hns beon incroased 120 por cont. 'Tho Dolaware & Iudson Ganal, auioh yasterduy, Aless ok was lmodorate de- | tho Lebieh Yulley,. sud tho Lachawauna & Wentorn thoir nominal Railronds have multiplied invostmont by threo, Tho capltal slock of tho four ronds namod bas boon incrensed from £48,000,000 in 1864 to £00,000,000 in 1872, and tho dobt from $17,000,000 in 1804 to 48,000,000 in 1872, The incronso of business during the samo timo has been about 80 por cont, which would, porhaps, havo warranted an increnso of capital of 40 por cont, fustond of which the nominal investmont, ¢+ »* 110 por cont dividends nre regulatly do- clared, has been incrensed 120 per cont, or throo times what it ouglit Lo bo, **Wo suspect,” saya tho Tvibune, univoly, “that tho monngors of thesa corporations think it looks botter to dis- tribute among tho shnreliolders 10 por cont on twonty millions of nominal capital than 20 por cont on Lalf the amount." THE UBES OF THE DEMOCRATIO PARTY. Tho solieltude manifestod by the Ropublican party for the presoit welfaro and futuro pros- pority of the Democratio party i vory touching, to say tho loast. Since tho innuguration of tho now-parly movement at Columbus, the Ropubli- cous have pald several visits of condolonco to the invalid, and havo entreated him still to keop up hopo, with the nssnrance that ho would bo out in a fow days a8 well as evor. Souator Mor- ton was tho first to oxpross himself confidently that the Domooratio party will not glve up its organization, and ropeat “tho mistoko of last full.” As tho only mistake which tho Demo- crats committed last fall was thot of boing beaton, and ns thoy have beon committing that ‘mistake for many years past, it is to bo presumed that thoy mny take Bonator Morton's view of tho' cngo, and allow him to induco them to commit tho samo mistake onco moro, Ability to commlit mistakes is tho only kind of ability loft in tho ‘concorn, The Republican papors, following in tho walo ot Scnator Morton, go furthor than tho mero oxprossion of holiof thnat it will stick to ita organization, Some of them are lavish in their advico and oncouragement. They oxhort tho Demoeracy, by all its past momories and futuro hopes, to como up to the bull-ring once more. Prat dofonts are delicately alluded to na only tomporary checks, aud tho disgraco of abandon- ing tho fleld whilo a drop of blood flows, oto., ote., in painted in vivid colors. Although the Domocratio party hins no furtlior’ uso for itsclf, and is lncompotent for any politi- cal purposos of its own, tho Ropublican party s usos for it, and hero lios the seorot of its tondor and touching solicitudo for its welfare. Thoso uses aro two in number. Aslong na tho. Ropublican party can keop its battorod snd groggy opponont on his foct—go battered that ho cannot strike a blow or ward eno off—so long can tho Republican party knock him down and win tho fight. The lifo of the Ropublican party. ia contingent upon the foeble remnant of life in tho Domocratio party. Tho moment tho Intter breathes its last, the former will expire also, or vory soon after. The Siamesc twine aro not moro vitally connected. Ionco tho othorwise curious iuterest which the protended @ omy of Democracy manifests for its health, The secoud ueo is for purposes of plunder. As long as tho Republicnn party can involve tho Democratic in ita corruptions, it senls the mouth of the Iatter. Rotten with corruption itsolf, and fresh from the debaucherics of Tammauy, tho Democracy hns proved itsolf a pliant tool, and dobasod enough to pick up oven the crumbs which have fallen from the Ropublican tablo. ‘When Oakes Ames commoncod to place Credit Mobilier whera it would do the most good, ho wus shrowd onough to bogin with the Domo- crats, and thero s nothing on tho record to show that thoy wera dissatisfiod with tho profor- once, although it was a moro pittauco that wos thrown to them. Whea tho salary-grab- bors commenced operations, tho Democrats went in with an avidity all tho sharp- er for thoir long ubslinenco from the flesh-pots. And so it has boon all through the history of the last four yeara. The Fort Snolling swindlo is the latest ono on record, but it is not essontinlly different from therest in tho charse- ter of o “fair divide.” - The engorness of the Republican politicians to nso tho Democrats for purposcs of political success and to coverup corruption, and the enr- nostness with which they aro striving to provent them from disbanding and to induce thom to mako straight-out party nominations, show that thoir protonded opposition toDemocracy is but a shom anda dolusion,” Tho timo is not so long past that our readors canunot remombor whon tho Ropublican prosses rang with vigorous do- nunciations of Demacratio principles. It wns but o short time ago that to Lo = Domocrat wns, in - Ropublican estimation, the sum total of oll villainios, Ropublican volers wore abjured to work carly and late, and to rally at tho polls, ns tho triumph of Democ- racy would involve tho ruin of tho couuntry. Hut now comes o now party into tho fleld—n party mado up of those who have become tired of the rascalitios of both tho old parties, and who pro~ poso to send both of thom to kingdom como. Btraightway, the onco prolonded Demacratio enemy i discoverod as a Ropublican nlly against tho now party. Tho voll Is torn away, and tho vaunted Ropublican opposition is shown to bo a sham, Just so long a8 the Demooratio party rotains its organization and goos into the flold againut the Republicans, it is sure to bo dofeated. It thoy wore not grounded in folly aund rooted in Btupidity, it might bo possible to convinco thom. The only argument, howover, of any avail will Do tho conutant ropetition of the knock-down argnment, The Domocracy of Obio, undoterred by the defonts of tho past, have again staggored into the ring to recolve thelr punishmont in Octobor ; and it will come at that timo, as it hay come rogularly in times past. Howover disau- trous that defeat may bo, it will oceasion no regrot from nny respectable sourco, It is not surprising that tho Kellogg Govern- mont of Lonisiana should dovelop fraunds as rapidly es thoy can bo chronieled. A fow days ngo, Kollogy suthorizod o speculation in Stato funds for tho purposs of buying up Trensury warrauts ns choaply as competition aud the pov- erty of tho people would admit, A few days prior to that, thero was information of almgo gas monopoly, which Kellogg was controlling by virtuo of thanuthority in Louielana which on- ablos the Qovornor to keop & bill in his pooket s long au 1t suits hiv convenlonce, and sign it whon It sults his interest, Now thoro iy in- formntion of o hugo stoal undor Kellogg's sane- tion, by which 2,600 acres of lnud Lave Loon, wold abt 25 conis mn acro a8 swamp-lunds, which roally include soma of the most valuu- Dlo suburban proporty in the nolghborlicod of Now Orleans, This property s sald tobo worth sovoral mitlions of dollars, and was sold by log- Islutive ennctuont for 700 or $800, A Govern- mont liko Kolog's, which resty npon tha sup- norh of United Btatos troous, aud Las no anunan., tlon of rosponsibility boyond thnt of keoping itnolf in powor in tho saime way which it attain- ed power, ornnot holp but be corupt, The tomptation would ho s great ono formon in- clined to bo honost ; the opportunity is smple for those who aro troubled with no good -inton- tions, In tho moantimo, thoro scoms to bo nothing for tho people of Loulsiana to do but to submit to syatomatic'and voracious plunderivg, THE RAILROAD LAW AND INTER-STATE COMMERCE, A dlspateh from Springfield says that the Rail- rond Commoissioners disclaim tho abridgmont of intor-Btato commorco, or any attompt to abridgo it, in tholr opinions on tho operation of tho now Railrond law. What the Commissioners docided, in thoir officinl construction of tho law, was this: #7i0 chargos from o point wost of tho State to o point within tho Stato must not bo the samo asor loss thon tho chargea from tho west lino of tho Btato over tho samo road to tho samo point of dostination; so the cliarges from o point within tho Btate to o pointoast of the Btate ‘must not bo the same ngor loss than tho charges from tho same point of doparture over tho same rond to the oaat line of tho Biato; so, also, the chargos from & point wost of the Btato to & point cast of tho State must not bo tho same a8 or loss than tho chargos over tho eame rond from the wost line to tho enst lino of tho Btato.,” These are the proclso words of tho Commiseloners. If thoy mean snything, thoy moan that tho charges on freight from outside tho State to the inside, or from inside tho Stato to tho outside, or from onmo Btnto to another, must bo greator (sinca thoy cannot bo tho same nor logs) than freight earriod for the samo dis- tanees within thoe State. If tho Commissionors mean to aay that this is not an attompt to rogu-~ Into commerco among tho Statos, thon it isin order for them to riso and oxplain what intor- Btato commoreo is, Tho lato decision of the United States Bupremo Court in the caso of the Philadelphia & Rending Railroad Company throws additional light on the limitation of Btato power .with roforenco to. inter-Stato commerco, ' Tho Btato of Pounsyl- vanin passed o statuto requiring tho railronds to mako roturns of freight, and pay taxes on URSDAY; AUGUST 7, 187 froight * carried over, through, sund upon that portion of the tholr linos within this Stato, ns if tho wholo of their respective linos wore within this Stato.” The same statute anthorlzed the railroads to add the tax imposed undor it to the tolls for carrying the froight. Tho Suprome Court declared this statute uncon- stitutionnl. The main question involved was whother thig tax was lovied upon tho corporation or upon tho froight carriod botweon the States: It was hold that it was o tax upon froight 8o carricd, bocauso it was ndded to tho tolls charged for their transportation. Tho railronds conld do this ovon if thore wore no oxpross suthorization for it in tho statuto. Tho burden of tho tax, thoroforo, falls upon the froight transported, or the shipper or consignoe living outside tho Biato, and it bocomos a restriction upon intor-State commerco imposed by one of tho States, Tho Court docided 'transportation of froight to bo o constituent of commerco. Any tax on intor-Stato transportation of froight is, thorofors, n regulation of commerce among tho States, the powoer to do whick is vouted exclusively in Congress, Tho Courtcom-~ pured tho the rostriction to tho establishment of Custom-Houses on the border of all tho Btates to domand & duty for allowing merchan- diee to enter or leavo the Stato on s railrond or canal lying within the State boundaries. Tho fuct that tho tax was intondod to raiso monoy for tho support of tho Btate Governmont was de- cided to havo nothing to do with tho question, pinco the offect was to lay an embargo on intor-Stato trpde. Tho right was fully concedod to ovary State to tax its own internal commerce, tho franchisos, property, and business of its own corporations, but.it must bo done in such o man- nor that inter-Btate Intercourse, trade, or com- merco shall not bs ombarrassed or restricted. Tho application of this decision to tho Rail- road Commissionors® construction of tho-now Railrond law in this State is obvious. If o State ‘may not restrict or.embarrass in tho slightest do- greo tho cammurcu‘nmong tho States oven for tho pwrposo of ratslng money for the support of its own Govornmont, then, a fortiori, it mny not embarrass or rostrict intor-State commorco whon it has nothing to gain in tho way of Stato re- gources. In tho Reading Rnilroad caso, tho Court mnde the Lwo points that thero was no constitutional limit to the amount of tax which onch State might levy for its own purposes, and that overy State would have tho right to demand taxes on freight passing through it, if such a right wore conceded to Ponn- gylvanin, Tho oxercise of such power on tho part of all tho Btates would ‘moon disablo the Westorn States from sending their products-to muarket, This was probably one of tho contingencios sgainat which the constitution- al provision for the rogulation of intor-State commorce was intonded to protect tho poople. But if this practical prohibition of inter-Stato commerce could be brought about through taxa- tion, it could bo more epeedily and effoctually secured through an arbitrary dotermination on the part of tho sovoral States to make thorail- ronds chargo more for froight coming from othor Btatos, or going to othor States, than for tho samo distanco within tho Btate. Tho ndoption of such o Iaw in Indlswa and Obio would fenco ont Illinois from the mar- Let, ns Illinols, through ita Commissioners, ks endonvored to fonce out Tows and Minncsota, Fortunatoly, tho Constitution of tho Unitod Statos will not allow tho States to cut each othor's throats in this way, The fact is thut the Railroad Commissionors mado o mistako in their intorprotation of this part of the law. Thoy will do well to formally withdraw the opiniou they first gavo, and thus doprive tho raiiroads of all oxeuso for applying tho pro rata fonture to throngh froights, Thoi railronds may carry frolght for nothing from, Jowa to Now York, or from Winona. to, Chicago, or from Dixon to Buffalo, so far as tho Illinols Jaw or tho Illinois Railrond; Commigsionors aro concerned, Noithor thisi Stato, nor any of its authorities, have tho righty to regulate or restrict tho tmanaportation of frolght, which is & conatitnent of commorco} wharo tho Intorosts of any othor Btato are in-¢ volved. Among tho rocont douths of prominent mou, in Europe are tliose of Viotor Luplwomion Philaroto Ohasloa und 8l David Solomons. Ther former was an ominont French author, /who, ati tho enrly ago of 16, was thrown into prion upotn tho chisrgo of couspirving againat the Btato. ife. way liborated upon tho intercession of { Clintosu~ briaud and went to Eugland, whore lre suporin: tonded the publiestion of Valpy's editions of Grook and Tatin classles, ¥ In his 20th yonr ha taok fhanrico affaral.bwiha Branch fcadoy my for tho best cssay on the history of tho sl toonthicontury, In1887, ho waamado Keopor of tho Mezarln Library ; in 1840, waa ‘mado Doctor of Lotters; and in 1841, was appointed Pro- fonsor in the Collogo of France. At the timo of his donth ho was on tho editorfal staft of the Journal des Debals. Sir David Solomons, who diod in London on the 18th ult, was tho first Teraclito over olocted to the English Parliament, a8 woll as tho first Bherlf and Justico of tho Penacoof the Iobrow raco admitted to thoso ofices in England. Ho has slso been Liord Mayor of London, Bhorift of tho city, and was elected Aldorman throo times. In 1809 ho was croatod o Baronot of tho Unitod Kingdom. Among othor writings, ho wan tho author of works on « Corn Laws,” Banking," and ' Englivh and Toroign Railways,” ANIMAL MAGNETISH. Tho dividing lino botwoon Naturo and the Bu- pornatural i in gomo places very obscuro. A young gentloman of tho namo of J. R, Brown, & reaidont of Red Oak, In., agod 21 yoars, called at T TrinoNE office, yostorday, in compauy with ox-Sonntor Woodard, of this ocity, and a gontlo- man from Whitesido County. Mr. Brown was introduced ns ono possecssing remarkablo pay- chologieal powers, of which tho assembled: oditors wero invited to make a test: Wo wore informed that, if any person would go to snother part of tho bullding and doposit any article whatsoover in o socrot placo, Mr. Brown, boing biindfolded, would tako the porsoh by the hand and load him aircotly to the place, the only condition boing that the porson dopositing the article should koop his mind intently fixed upon it. Ono of tho gontlomon of Tre TRIBUNE thercupon went into an adjolning room, closed tho door, snd placed & coin insido & volume of tho Poland Oredit Bo- billor roport, and covered his volumo with sev- oral othor books, Returning, Mr. Brown, hav- ing n handkorchief tightly bound ovor his oyes, took this gontloman by tha loft hand, held tho hand for o moment ogainst his own (Mr. B.'s) hond, and thon walked against tho door of the adjolning room. Tho door belng oponed, ho marchod against ono of tho glass doors of o bookeaso Llaving n dozen or moro similar oponings. Lhis door boing opened, ho placed tho hand of the gontloman, who had secroted the coin, on the Poland Credit Mobilier roport, and said, *There itis.” o did ot claim to know what tho thing was, but he know whore thoplace was. Sovoral oxporimonts similar to tho forogoing woro tried, with tho invariable rosult that Mr. Brown, by placing tho band of the oxporimontor on his own forehend, was cuablod to walk diroot- 1y to tho placo whore tho objoct had boen piaced. It was nlso ascortained that if s porson should moroly fix his thoughts on any object in the building, Mr. Brown would go diroctly to it, baving firet placed tho porsow’s hand on his own head. . Tho only explanation Mr. B. can glve of his own powers is, that, whon tho hand is placed on his Lead, ho sces n light lending to the object of which that porson is thinking. ‘Ho does not protend to road avybody's thoughts in any othor way than this. 1t is fortunato that Mr. Brown was born in tho ninotoenth contury instead of tho soveutoonth, olso ha would have been burned for n witch, As it 18 probable that ho will give some public exhi~ bitions of his powers, wo turn him over to tho “gciontists.” That thore is no humbug in his case, wo are fully persunded. The oxperiments to which ho submitted in the ofiico of it Tnin- NE, in the presencoe of half a dozon oxtromely skoptical oxperimentors, ncem to prove the ex- istonco of o physico-psychologio forco, to which tho namo of * animal magnetism * is most com- monly applied. The oxistonco of such o forco hns long beon suspected, but the con- ditions of its oporation aro so raro, and tho monns of verifying tho testimony concorn- ing it aro so unsystomatizod, thatit hasno scion- tifio basis or rocognition whatover, As nstart- ing poiut for some woll-authonticatod informa- tion upon the subject, wo suggost that tho modi- cal profossion of Ohiengo appoint a committeo, whoso testimony would be universally accopted, tohold a ‘seance” with Mr. Brown, and ro- port tho facts. BRIGHAI'S DIVORCE SUIT. Tho papers of the country havo generally treated thodivorce suit of thosoventeenth wifo of Brigham Young as a notablo joke. But thera is auother side to it, which should cauee il to bo troated with becoming gravity. DBy tho uenges *of civilized socicty nud by the lnws of tho land, there is no ground for o divorco suit at all, Evory marringe of Brigham Young and his fol- lowors, nfter the first, is o legal shnm, having ino biuding forca whatever, and is void and worthloss. Al protonded wives after the first aro simply concubincs. Noither thoy nor their childron can, without a will, logal- ly ehnro in tho property of thoir nominal hus- bands. Wo should not be surprised if it should turn out that this snit was instituted by tho pro- curing or thoconnivanco of Brigham himself, in order to gotttho Courts, by aflirming tho rights of tho woman to a divorco as s logally-mnrried wifo, to virtually recognizo tho wholo system of polygamy. The Court should dismiss the causo forthwith for wiut of & just ;basts for ltigation, nnd allow o remedy to . tho womsn in an action for wagos a8 & houso- ' sorvant, Tho influenco of such a decision upon . Brigham's * numerous family,” and thosa of his {frionds, would be productive of salutary rosults, 'Theso “plural wives” havo beon led to boliove «that thoy and their children have o lawlul claim <10 an cquitablo sharo In thoir husband's propor- ty. Mako thom undorstand how baseless such a claim is, nnd one of the strongest inducomenta .. for womon to submit to tins iniquitous systom will bo romoved. Fow women are ontirely above .tho alluromonts of groat wealth, and when the promise of & higher soat in Ioaven as n roward for boing tho twentioth wife of Brighom or some ono of his humbug apostles is added, an ignorant woman at Salt Lake hng sovoro tomptations to accept the situation rather than to becomo tho lawful wifo of somo honest toilor for his daily broad. By throwing this crse out of court, most of tho unhealthy glamour {that purrounds polygamy would bo exposod, and tho common sonsa of hundrods, porhaps thous sands, of women would return to them. It is o wondor that thig propurty question, in rogard to the catatos of porsons dying without & will, has uot como boforo the United States Courts for adjustment. Perhaps tho Aor- mons have all boon careful to have their wills mado, Without a will, there ennnot bo & particle of doubt that the Courts would give all the property to the childron of tho flrst wife, Asn grout mnjority of the leading Mormons aro moro than 50 years | 01d, most of tho largo estates in Utah must chango hands within the next fifteon or twonty 3000, Brloham'afu b fae tha Jasasat. sod. sa ho fa now 72, ho must pnss away boforo many yonra. It wonld lio inrd on his harom should ho happen to dio intestato; but 1t would bo well for his deluded followors Bif tho Conrts should givo hla vast property to tho childron of tho first Mra, Young, a8 thoy would be’compolled to do. 'I'hut would bo o sovere blow to polygamy. Tho Ban Francleco correspondont of the Graphio draws o frightful pleturo of tho ravages of leprosy among the Clinese rosidents of that clty. Thore aro over 200 of these pitinblo cros- turos known to bo in tho city, and probably many moro, a8 tho Chineso are sly, and know bottor thon tooxpose a fact which would drive thom out of thoe country, Tho result is that thoy isolato thoir lopors as much aa posaible, and ‘pay thoir physlcians to tostify that the dond man died from somo othor caugo. ‘Tho argument that tho disoneo Is not, contaglous bocauso it doos not sprond among the white peoplo in proved to bo fallacious in Ban Francisco as it hao beon proved in every othor place. Two or thireo white poople have alrendy diod of loprosy intho eclty hospitals, nmong them Judgo Ashor Baten, n mon whe held the highost placo in tho outoom of hin citizens, ITere is a question con- nooted with Ohincse immigration of a serious naturo, which must soonor or Intor bo dealt with. —eee The Signal Sorvice Bureau proposes to oxtond its usofulnoss in Chicngo Ly providing for the disploy of storm sigoals at tho crib, two miles from ghore, for the information of vossols that aro out on the Ilake. In order to effeot this it will bo necossary tolny a telographio cable other ;lm prosont was o friond, ho anld lu o foud volca: B, Buith, If you will fix thiat ro- port to sult un, wo will stivo“you 30,000 of tho stock,” *Mr. Jonos,”" wna the ropfy, “ whon you want to bribo an honost man—nn honos man, mind you—como right down with your spondulics; dnrn your atock! " —It must be ovidont to overy thoughtful man that tho Democratic party will not he dishand- od, nor will it dio. 1t s bolioved, by 9,000,000 of men to-day, that on this party deponds the very oxlstonco of froo govornmont on this continont, to mny nothing of tho noccflult{ of its oxistonco to froo tho nation from the ovils all acknowledga to oxist. It I8 not more party prido and pluck, not more bull-hondod stubbornnoss that holdy tho Democratio party togother and lnd held it togother amid dlnastor and dofest, but a doop, honost, and all-porvading conviction that its prinoiplos aro sound, 'Thone principles aro held a8 an inhoritance, loved as tho truth, and do- fonded with roligious forvor. They ave n port of tho malko-up of mon, and can no moro hu given up than any othor convlotion ean bo torn out of thio charnotor and trampled undor foot.—Grand Rapids Demoerat, Tho lato John Btunr Mill s said to have de- clared thas ** thoro maybe a plnco in the universo whoro $wo and two mako five.” It might not bo wholly unprofitablo for those Ohio Iemocrats who honat 8o much ahout tho250,000 Domooratio strongth of that Btato, and those other Domo- crats in and out of Ohio who so fondly contem- lafo the 8,000,000 Domocratio strongth of the nion, te organizo an exploring oxpedition for the difcovory of that happy land, and mnko it their future residence, 'ho mathematical difis cultica which invirou tho task of making a Dem- ooratio voto of 250,000 in Ohio out-number & Tiepublican vote of 505,000, and of making o nas tional Domacratic voto of 8,000,000 oxceod n natlonal Republican vote of 8,000,000 would not exist thoro, and the thing might’ bo dono.—St. Louts Republican, ‘Wo rogard it ns cortain that tho Domocratio arty will novor bo rostorod to the possossion of ¢ Gonoral Governmont. 8o long ns it prosents itaolf aa tho onlfl nitornative to tho Republican: party, tho Ropublicans will cmry the important olactions—as thoy ought to do, and so far ns wo aro concornod we will holp thom do just that rty to connect the crib with tho land, aud this con bost bo Iaid in the now tunnol. Tho co-opera~ tion of tho city authoritics will probably bo re- quosted to-day. NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Dubnquo Herald has o correspondont at DesMolnes who sy : From overy part of the State comen tho nows of An- ti-Monapoly County Conventions, held or to be_held, and of dologatoa appointed to ropresent tho counties in tho comlniflmtu Convention. And as tho time o pronches the politicinus begin to realizo tho magnitudo ‘of tho movenient, ond to wonder what effect it will have upon political affuira n this State, . . . A rumor hus been circulated hore to tho offoct that ‘tho Domocratic Stato Jentral Committeo would soon ssuo o call for n Stato Convontion, From what I can learn, all tho foundation there is in the rumor {3 tho fact that the Grantitos would bo delighted if this were déno, —Goy. Carpenter, a subsorviont tool of the railrond ring in tho campaign of two yoars ago, but now s very ardent wooer of the Grangers, will have no difMiculty, wo think, in understand- ing tuat, hereaway, Lis honoyfugling will not pay intorest on firkt cost. o comes bofore the peoplo ag o *politician_and partisan,” and for oll such the meoting at Franklin declnres it has no sort of uso whatever,—Icokuk Constilution. Do not desort the Republican partyi” is tho machino appeal to the farmors of tho Woat. In other words, stick to Colfax, Bing- ham, Garfield, Pomoroy, Harlan, Bon But- ler, and the host of jongressmen who have grabbed 86,000 from tho publio treasury, snd are now recoiving £625 o mounth for doin nothing. Thoso are tlo lights and loadors o thio Ropublican party in the Woit, ‘Thoso aro tho mon whom tho honest community iy asked not to desort.—Afilwaukee News, —Wo have no excuse to offer for Demacrnts in Cougrusa who voted for Gen. Butler's salary bill and were pecuniarily bonoflted by ite pns- BRgo ; we condomn thoir action as unequivocslly n& tho Bpringflald Republican can, and hopo their constituents will hold them to strict account for thoir conduct. No Massachusotts Ilopresentu- tive has returned his ' grab."—Boston Post. —That thero will bo a bolt, if Gen. B, sue- coeds in grabbing the nomination, may bo sot down a8 & fixed fact, Wo wish wo woro half as suro of tho Gonoral's bolting in case the boot turns out to bo upon the othor log ; in cago tho sgitatod respectabilitics mako shift to hond him off in the 8tato Couvention. Thero aro a good many Republican votors scattered avound over the hills aud valloys of the old Commonswealth who aro not supporting that siyle of *‘regular nomivation” at present s much as they wero, Thoy linvo made up their minds that thoy won't vote for B(mgn.min T, Butlor thia year, * uo how you cun fix it,” and they won't.—Springfield Re- publican. —Although wo have Deon disparngingly spoken of for denouncing thoss Congrossmon who, olected by the Republican party, proved faluo to tholr trust in raiding s they did upon tho Treesury, wo beliove that thoso who pided with us aro truor and wisor Re- publicana than the mon who donounced us for oxposing_ oflicial corruption, becauso the party ‘maybo damoged thereby. ‘It would seom that any man with an averago sharo of brains and wmoral porcoption might seo this, and yot the old notion that men in the party are to bo defended at ol hnzards and their crimes concealod, strange-~ 1y mointains its hold on poaple who ard sensiblo enough on other mattors. Mon who would kicl those in their employ into the streot, and leave thom with charactors blasted for lifo, for stealing ten dollars, will consent to shield from punish- ment and maintain in oflice officinls who havo leu]omd the Government of thousands of dol- urs, a8 these Congreasmon have just done. In- deed, thoy distrust the political sounduess of any mun'in the party who insists on koeping such men out of offico.—South Bend (Ind.) Tribune. It will not bo denied by any candid man that the tyranny of party 18 ono of tho most alarming outgrowths of our form of government, Tho convention and the caucus are the abuses of Rol.ificnl liborty. If n Republican daro assort is individual judgment in s dircction contrary to that pointed out by the caucus, ho is at once donominated s “sorohond ; * somo corrupt ma- tivo must bo assigned for his conduct, The truo party man Lps no mind of bis own; his course is govorned by & muajority of tho caucus. No mattor if hLo dislikes tho candidates, he must support them or bo disloyal to bis party. His personal judgmont must bo subordinated to tho bummers who got control of tho caucus ; and it i notorious that caucuses are conorally controllod by loud-mouthod, gabby fol- Fowe, —ialo-mindad, uu{mr-leyn.\ doad-Loats, . . . Wo 'fondly hiopo that the time has como when party will linve no nndue influence upon & man's suffiage,—Danville (I1L.) Times. —Wiiy, thon, should mon who think alike bo divided in their efforts to rench n common point and to socure tho samo ond ? Shall tha proju- dice of & namo or of companionship in nrms cre- ato a barrior and a division betweon the forces ? —Pcoria Democrat. ~Ramsoy's sham Domocratia organ, tho St. Paul Pioneer, oxcuses the Fort Suelling swindlo on tho ground thatif the sharks hud invested thoir monoy in Bt. Pawl or Minunespolis they would have made more than by robbing the Government, Wao incline to doubt the Pioneer’s ussortion, Stoolo's investmont was only £30,000, and for that amount ho has got 6,300 scros of land, worth more than £400,000, besides tho ronts ‘ho has collocted sud tho ferry profits, which_togother aro estimated as high as $300,- 000. If o more profitable investmont of $30,000 was over mudo in this neighborhood, wo would liko to Lenrof it. Tho Pioncer's oxcuso may, howoyer, bo roasonabls, on tho ground that “ glienting nover prospors,” and there is now & possibility that Steolo will bo mado to disgorge his ill-gotten gaina,—St, Laul Dispalch. In thelr ondeavors to punish tho peoploe tho railrond managers find that thoir ronds are the Josors, aud iu their attempt to create a fecling in favor of a ropeal of tho-dmw they have ovel yonohod thomeclvos, Lhe moro extortion prac- ticod by the ronds the moro dotormined will tho peoplo bocome ju thoir purpose to regulato tho ‘nril‘! by law, and to this thoy will come in timo, if tho prosont course is porgisted in. Thero I no renson why the Illinois Coutral should not emry grain to Chieago for G or 0 couts & bushel, oxcopt & stubborn will to enforco a high turitt, or not to do nny businoss, forcing tho men 'who yoars ngo invested their monoy in warchousen on their track to eithor romain “idle orhnul tho grain thoy may ship o half-milo from tho olovator to the Indianapolis & Bloom- ington Railway, Yot such ix tho easo, aud while iho grain shipmonts on tho Intter are only Iimitod by tho mumber of cars [furnished, tho Tllinols ICum[r’l\l d[z[ma not got any grain.—Cham- aign (1) Gazetlo, paigy (L) Qoaelts por soponts thio following anocdoto with gront unction: Iive years agoa goutloman in tho United Statos (as gontlomon froquently do in that and othor comntrios) got up o railrond speoulation, for which it~ was tliought nocossary that thero should Lo a Goy- ornmont subyentfon, Tho affair wau duly sub- mittod to Congross, and nn onginoer of high oharactor, who was without a cont,was appointed on the patt_of the Govermmont to report on the gehome, 'Chis sclontifte mau visitod thocountry, roturnod, and was ono day witting in his hotel, With o frloud lying on tho sofa, wlion ouo of the railway promoters entored snd nddronsod the ou- ginoor Inn low whispor, Spoak out, said the ou- ginour. Arcordinelv. aftor ssgortaniug that tho thing. Now we do not often assume to speak in a ropresentative capneity, but we aro conscious that our sontiments on this subject aro thoso of & vast number of our moat intolligont, indopond- ont and publi ririlnd follow citizouw,—Cincin- nati Commercial, et THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT. Farmers’ Pienicat Arnesville-=Address by Mr. Smith, of Kewanee. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Jaorsoxvitie, I, Aug. G.—The TFarmera’ Picnic at Arncsvillo, on tho line of Cass and Morgan Counties, to-dny, was attended by about 1,000 farmors, and their wives and daughters. Aftor a goneral gocial intorchange of rofresh- monts, Br. M. Smith, of Kowanco, took tho stand at 1:50 p.m., and for two hours ddressed tho nssemblage, in & plain, straightforward and telling spocch, 1o told tho farmers somo homely truths, and ail wout homo with some now idens. Tho nssemblago was vory respectful and oarncst in thoir attention to the spoakor. A yory strong Grango is_organized at Arnosvlilo. It shonld bo mentionoed that the meeting was oponod and closed with vocnl music and organ accompanimont, by a choir of younyg gentlomen m.xltll Iadies who live in the viciuity of Arnos- villo. Tho August term of the Morgan Circuit Court ia now in gossion, Judgo Oyrus Eplor presiding. This wook is devoled chiefly to eriminal cases, but none of importauce are on trial. WEATHER AND WATER, War Department Wonther Report. LOCAL ODSERVATION. Ciitesuo, Aug. 6, 187, B g Iour of ob- servation. e SuouLIyL Direction antl x| force of teind, “aappuosng| 10:18 pum| iaximum thiermomoter, 89, Minimum thormometar, 60. OENERAL ODSERVATIONS. On10A00, Aug, 6—10:18 p. m, Station. |Rar.|Thr] _ Wind, _[Rain| Weather, . Breck’nri'ge[20.95 79|Calm, ] 01[Clear, Bufalo,....129.08] 728, W,, fresh.,.....|Vnir, Cal 50.07| 77.8. W., lght. +{Cloudy, Choyonno..[30.14| 71,8, B, gentle, 2978|7418, W., fresh, 0|8, 5. light, 3.8, fresil. 71/8.'E,, fres, TUW,, fresh, T3IN.'W., froah, 67|N. W., gentle. 6.8, fresh, LaOrosse. .. [30.90| 74|N., light, Marquetts..[20,02) 61(Calm, Milwauler 76{8. W,, fresh. 2[N., 3 K 7418, W., freah. |, Davenport..[29.05| 795, W., gentle, Tt Gary...|20.9% alm, PROBATILITIES. Wasmratoy, Aug, 6,.—For thio Northwost and Tppor Lako rogion,and thenco to tho Lower Mis- souri and lower Ohio anlog, southwesterly to northwesterly winds, cloudy wenthor an cagionnl light rain, with low barometor, rising to-morrow. TFor tho Lowor Lakes and thonco to Eastorn Kontucky and West Virgiuin, folling ba- Tomotor, southwostorly winds, inoreasing cloudi- noss, and local rains, For tho Gulf States,lowor baromoter, southoasterly to southwestorly winds, partly cloudy woather and _occasionnl light rain, followed by cloaring and warmer wesather. Thursday, _for the South Atlantic Stutos, sonthanstorly to southwostorly winds, fallin baromotor, parily cloudy weather, occanlon: rain, and rising tomporature. Tor the Middle ‘Atlantio Statos, southorly winds, falling baromo- tor, warmor and partly cloudy weuther, followed Dy rain in tho westorn portion, TFor New Eng- land, falling baromotor, southenaterly winds, rising teruperaturo, followed by occasional rain Thursday night. STAGE OF WATER. Daily roport of the stago of wator, with %l;mguu in the 2¢ hours onding 8 p. m., Aug. 6, i oe- omANGES, Tall, ATOVE LOW WATER, Rtise, Cairo, GCincinuatl, Davenport. o0 £, 6 dn “Bolow high water of 1871, W, B, KAUFMAYN, Obaoryer, Ttoom 78 Major Block, Chicago. FRIGHTFUL DISASTER. Four Mon Killed and Others Dangere ously Wounded by the Falling of n Bridue. NEGAUNEE, Mich., Aug. 6 —A most torrible ac- cldont oconrred this morning at the Iron Clitfa furnace, by which sevoral persous wora kilted and wmm(fnd Ly tho brouking of a trostlo-worlk, ovor which somo heavily-laden cars containing pige-iron woroe passing, ‘Tho mon who wero killed and woundod woro working undor tho track, crushing oro, I loarn now that thoro were four Xillod, and others 8o eoriously injured that they are not oxpocted to live. Moat of thoso Lilled woro married men, with largo familics. 3 G A Despernte Fights Toumsvine, Aug. 6.—In Warron County, Ky, 1ast Monday o gonorsl fight ocourred in which Willinm 8hives wasshot through tho mym, Con- stablo Howard attempted to stop tho fight, whon ho was stabbed twico by Willinm Lavk, one of tho contestants, Another constablo, named Wright, was strnok in tho forohead with o rock inflicting & wound from tho offects of which he diod that night, ITowsrd’s wounds aro not nocos- surily futol, — Stonling from Widows and Orphans. Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicayo Fribune. 8r, PAur, Aug, 6.— Jenninga King, Grand Chlof Putrinrch of slinnosota, was expolled from momborship in tho ordor of Odd 'oliows lut ovoning for embezzloment of_tho Widows' and Orpliaus’ fund, amounting to $800. — Atd for the Oregon Fire Sufforers. Br. Lous, Aug. 6.—A basket of out flowers sold at wuction soveral timos on 'Change to-day for thio honeflt of the Portland, Oregon, suffer- o, A subseription is also in circulution for thalr henatit, whleh ia being numerously