Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1873, Page 4

118 CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1874, e e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMR OF AUNACRIPTION (PAYAI iy, 2,01 | Hunday. Rk S1Z0 | aiay Parts of a yonr al tho enno rato. o provont dotny and wistakes, bo suro and give Fosb Off.co addrosn fn full, fucluding Stata and County, Romittancoa may bo tmado oithor bydraft, oxpress, Post Ollicoordur, or tu reiiatorod lottors, at ourrlsk. TERMS TO OITY BUDSORINENG, : Dally, dolisored, Bunday oxconted, 33 conte por wook. Dolly, delivored, Sunisy fnctuded, fu conta per wooke Aduross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Mndisan sl Dearhorn-nta,, Oliongo, TO-DAY' MOVIOKER'S THEATRE=Madlson, botween Do born and State, ** Contrs] Park.™ g ATRE-Desplaticantreet, hotwgon Mad- L ington. > Tonrta Aro Teamps.n HOOLEY'S TIRATRE. mdotph stroot, botwoon Clark and LaSallo, **Viatime.™ BARNUM'S MENAGERIE-Cornor of Madison and Elizaboth stroeis. BUSINESS NOTICES, &) NRTIO INSECT POWDER 18 BURE O Soningis, oclranehos and worhip: The @hifagfl a¥ibune, Fridny Morning, August 33, 1873. Tho Waupun ZTimes, Fond duTac Common- icealth, Rock Island Union, Fort Wayno Gazelle, \nd St. Loufs Democrat ero tho only pnpors shich camo to this ofico yostorday urging Son- stor Carpenter to bring libel suits against sun~ jry newspapers to vindieato bis chsractor. The Fond dn Lno Commontocalth has hoard that he setually intends to do so. Sntanta and Big Treo bave beou taken out of tho Toxas Penitentiary and sont undor guard to Fort Sili, where a conforonce is to bo held be- twoen the Kiowas and Comanchos, and Bocretary Dolauo aud Gov. Davie, Gen, Bherman and othor army officors at Washington are said to regord thisns virtually & reloaso of these two outlaws. reamm——— Tho *lato Philetus Sawyer, AL O,," to whom tho Krening Journal and the Times of ihiy city dovoted thoir obituary talont yestorday, is in ay- tonehingly good hontth for a suicido. o loft Ena Clairo yestorday with no trace visi- ble of tho oight gashos m his throat with which, according to the Times, ho took his own lifo. The origin of tho report of lia sui- cido was in tho mislake of a telegraph operator, who, in chrouieling Mr. Sawyer's arrival at Baun Olaire and tho swicido of & man named Thomp- son, got the two things badly mixed. ey It tho appeals which Castelar is about to make in person at tho Courts of the lendiug powory on tho recognition of tho Spanish Ropublic conld bo reinforcod by a fow more victories liko thot ot Bergs, his success would bo much more likoly. Tho iusurgents who have beon besioging that town have been defeatod by tho Republicans with o loss of 90 killed and 800 wounded. Two of their leading Generals are in the latter list—Saballo and Tristany. Tho insurgents bave; in cougequence, abandoned the siege. et aj. Soutbworth, the newly-appointed Commis- sionor of the Ponitontiary (vice Wham, ap- pointed to the Wardenslip), was au ofticar of the Eighth Tilinois Cavalry during tho War, and ono of tho most ofiicient men in the servico. o hag proviously held the position of Clork of the Cireuit Court in Meclonry County, aud no oueis moro highly respected in that part of tho Btate. Wo believo that ho was not an applicant for the position to which ho has boou assigned, but wag chosen by tho Govarnor by ronsen of tho inti- mate knowledgo which ho bad acquired of him in the Eighth Cavulry. Mr, Abbott, the agont of the Yatrons of Hua- bandry, who has beon for some timo at work in Massnchusetts endeavoring to promote or- ganization among Eastern farmers, bas beon more buccessful with tho grain-dealors of Boston than with the agriculturists of tho old Commonwealth. IIis speech be~ lore tho Doston Board of Urade the other day has Dboeu followed by the organiza~ tion of & Grango among its members. Bimilar action is likely to be taken by tho dealers in othor grain ports in the Tast. Tho farmers of Maseachusotts take hold very slowly, ouly ona ortwo Granges having been instituted in conse- quence of Mr. Abbott's lnbors. Tho foreign papers bring the news of the death of Ferdiuand David, tho eminent violiniat, com- posier, and concert-master. ‘This estesmed artist, who was brother of Mmo, Dulcken, tho once famous pianist, was born in Hamburg, in 1810. The grentor part of hislife was passed in Leipsic as the lender of the Gowandhaus concerts, avd as Professor of the Violin in the Condorva~ toire, a double distinction, which would bo sufil- ciont famo for any musician, Ifo was an inti- mato fiiend of Mondolssohn, aud assisted bim in adapting the brilliant possages of Lis tamous violiu concorto, o wasalso npupilof Spoli’s, and his compositions for tho violin aro among the most mastorly that have over been written for that iustrument, Tho resnlt of the investigation into the Wawneset disaslor is caleulatod to udvance tho notion, so gouorally entortained in England, thiet thoro are vory fow disastors by eail or stesm- boat, if any, which could not bo prevented by buman foresight and care. Tho Inspoctor-Gon- oral of Stoamboats hay satisfied Limself that tho discipline waa vory bad on tho Wawassot, aud tho Caplain has been mado to acknowlodge that ho was ruuning without u liconso; that, consoquently, his boat had not been rogularly iuspoeted; and that he had wot been in the habit of drilling his meon in tho use of the fire- apparstua, The sleadinosy and porsistonce of the Wnwassot investigntion encourages the bo- Yiof that tho couses of groat disnstors will he moro enrnostly examined in future. If the pun- Islonent of those nscertained to bo guilty can 150 bo uswured, it 13 safo to predict that railroad aud stemnboat slaughtors will bo of rarer oceur- renco in this counlzy than herstofore. ono of the ox-Confodoratos who freod his mind 1t tho rocont session of the Southern Historical 3ocioty. Semmes, the commandor of tho Con- ‘odorate oruisor Alabamn, whogo operations havo s01t Groat Brituln $15,000,000, sddreseed tho Bovioty in vindication of his attempt to deatroy Amorlcan commerco, Tho late Ad- miral clalmed that the Alabama wan a regularly-commissioned vesuol, and that his warrant for sl that he did could bo tound in tho Iaws of nations, and justified his sonduet from an historical polut of viow. What- svor ostimate may bo mnsde of Admiral Bommos' Aefonso, its concluslon was honorable to him as » ditizon of tho wholo oountrv, Mo exprossod his willingnoss to loave his hintory and thal of tho Alabama to bo written whon thoro ehall no longor be any North or South, and urged upon tho Bouthorn pooplo the duty of dwelling togoth- or in unity with Northern peoplo, aund striving to restore the Govornmont *“to the pure stand- ard of tho fathers of the Ropublic.” In this ro- spect, tho addross of tho Admiral was in marked ocontrast to the bittorness of Jofferson Davis' ad- dreng on the following d The Chiengo produco markots woro fairly ne- tive yostorday, and loss rogular. Meus pork was in fair demand aud firmer for cash, ab $10.12}4; and onsior for optious, at $16.76@16.80 rollor Boptomber, Lard was quiot and steady, at 74@ 8o por tb for winter, and 7}{@78{0 for summor ronderod. Moats woro quiot and firm, ot 73@ 8o for shonldors, Bi4@03¢o for short middles, and 10@113gs for swool-picktod hams. Lako froights woro in fair demaud and g0 higher, at 6140 for corn to Buffalo, Highwines wore moro active and unchangod, at 956 por gallon. Flour was quiot and stendy. Whoat was active, but wenlk, doclining 53¢ on cash lots, which closod at $1.18, and 1}¢e on options ; soller the month closod at $1,16%, and sollor Septembor at 1,114, Corn was moro aotive and firm, closing at 3830 casl, and 88%¢o sellor Soptomber. Oats woro moroe active, and }go higher, closing at 203{o cash, and 26! sellor Soptembor. Ryo was activo and 1o lower, at GGc. Barloy was quiot and woalk, declining 10s per bu, to $1.05 for now No. 2 seller Soptember. Tho hog market was stoady for light, but weak, and Ge lower for heavy. Balos at $4.26@4.00. Cattlo wero fairly active and firmor, with salea at $1.80@6.00. Sheep woro quiot and unchanged. Four or fivo thousand of the farmors of Troquois County met yesterday at Gilman, in this Btato. They wero addressod by Secretary Bmith, of the Farmers' State Association, who modifled the extrems tone of eomo of his recent uttersnces. He had been accused, ho eaid, of boing o leveler, and ho was one, but only to the oxtont of wishing to lovel tho farmors up to (he prospority of othor classos, Ilo callod attontion again to thecontrast botwoon the poverty of those who raise corn, and the princely fortunes of the morchants and railrosd mon who buy and trans- port it. Farmers must sock tho romedy in combin- ing togothor as other industrics had dono. If thoy hold thelr grain for o highor prico, they would got it. Tho resolutions adopted by the meeting are noticeable for their vohement de- nunciation of proteclive tariffs which are styled tho sum of all villainios, and for thoir very out- spokon language concorning Iresident Grant's part in tho salary-steal. IIis conduct in signing tho bill, theraby putting $100,000 in his pocket, 1s declared to bo an exhibition of morbid navarico unparalleled in American history. Tho reao- lutiona also ask that railrond proporty be assoss- ed for taxation at its cash value, and rocommond tho abolition of tho Board of Railrond and Ware- house Commisgionors. ‘Wo havo received tho first number of the In- dustrial Age, the new weokly paper the prospoc- tus of which appoared in this paper some wools ago. It is o bandsomo papor, published in quarto form, and neatly printed. Tho Induslyial Age will be delivered to subscribera for §2 per year, with o Iiberal roduction to clubs, Tho edi- torial managoment will b6 in tho hands of Megars. J. A. Noonan, 8, M. Smith, and 8. T\ IT. Drime, all well and favorably known to the agri- oultural community of tho Westorn Btates. The papor is to bo devoted to ' socuring to labor and entorprige thoir legitimate rowards,” aud to “ protecting and defonding tho industrial classes of tho Wost from the onorous exactions of ‘monopolies, solicited aud ereated for the public Donotit, but too gencrally perverted into the most adroit and destructive public enomicsthat ingen- ious cupidity ever dovised. The present numbor is filled with editorials and original papors di- rected to these ends. Among tho articles aro {ho following from well-known writors of abili~ ty: * Amorican Rtaitroads—The Cost of Trans- portation on Them," by R. I Forguson, of Trog, N. Y.; *Tailways and tho Paople,” by Dr. 0. W. Wight, of NMilwaukee; *The Tarmers and the Railronds,” by M. M. Hooton ; the ad- dross of 8, M, Bmith to the farmors at Pontiso, July 4. The first number of tho Age is marked by ability, dignity, and & thorough vnderstand- ing of tho subjects to which it is addressod, Wo should say that Mr. Josoph G. Cannon, a momber of Congress from this State, isentitled to the medal for Congrossional impertinenco, oven in o boay that boasts of a Butler, A Westorn Congreasman, at the presont juncture of nftairs, who accopts an invitation to address a harvest- home meoting ou he transportation question, and thon offers the farmers n dofense of the salary-grab, has more impudence than all the othor dofondors of the grab hayo as yot doveoloped. This is what Mr. Cavnon is roported to have dono at Dawville, Ill., on Tuesday. Mr. Canuon's dofense, besidos being impertinont, was oxtromoly silly, sinco, not having boon a member of tho last Congress, ho rushed in to tho defouso of tho activo grab- bors, of whom howas notone. Thisilluatratos, howover, tho influence of tho forward-pay. Mr, Canuon iy willing to justify the back-psy steal in order that Lo ryay secure the bonofit of tho incroaso in tho futuro, 'Thero is anothor point about it. Mr. Cannon, who belongs t{o tho small, smooth-bore class of ordi- nance, recoived the nomiustion by = moro scratch, e has not o vory strong hold upon the community, aud ho has probably mado up his mind that liis chances of re-oloction are infinitosimal, and that ho had botter tako all lio can got while ho has the opportunity. Mr, Cannon has commenced his Congressional eareer by superfluously making an ass of him- wolf, and ho will probably fulfill the promise of his Dsuville spoech. An amusing musical contost recently took place in Glaegow, Beotland, which not only shows that tho pursuit of Protestantism mny wometimos be attended with extremo difoulty, but algo very cloarly illustrates tho bittor denom- Inatlonal fouds in that country, It apponrs that James Conn, a Jaborer of that city, and his wife, are vory zonlous Protostants, and aro in tho habit of giving expression to thoir views by the vory boistorous singing of Protestant hymns,—a stylo of musio which, in Scotland, belongs to the wost distrosslng * ponnyroyal.” I'ha noighbor- hood, howevor, in which Mr, and Mrs. Conn live is Roman Cathollo, and did not approciato ofthor the musio or the sentimonts. Ho, ono evening whon Mra, Conn wan sitting in her doorway, edi- fying tho neighborhood with o plaintive but very oxnaporating Lallad callod “Tho Papist’s Wifo," tho childron of the neighborhood swarmed {uto tho bouse and commenced singing Roman Cuth- olio songa until they drowned out Mra. Conn, Theroupon Mrs. Conn appesled to Mr. Coun, and Mr, Qonn, stirred with bholy zoal, drow & sword and charged upon tho youngstors, who fled in dismay down tho stairs. Subsequently, he girt Nis sword upon his Protostant thigh, and, gofng Into tho sirect, mado & violont haranguo, in which ho roquested gomo ono to furnish him o Romen Catholio, that Tio might ent his head off, For this diaplay of roligloun zeal the police arrested him, and ho was fined ten shillings and sixpenco, all on ac- count of Brs. Conn's ponnyroyal, THE CORONER'S VERDICT, In rondering o verdict thal the late collision on tho Alten Radlrond wan tho renult of * erim- inal earolessnosa™ on tho parf of Beane, tho con- duotor, and Joshua Puffenborgor, the engincor, of tho conl-train, the Coronor's jury did only what the ovidenco forced upon them. Theso mon wero clenrly proved not only to have vie- Inted the rules of the rond but to hnve abandon- ed tho ordinary cantlon which, in the absonco of all yulos, should govern men who lold buman Jifé in their hands. The ovi- donoo eclicited conld mot fail to establish this. Tho jury erred in stopping here. Tho scopo of thoir inquiry comprohonded the rogu- Intlons of the Company. Tho opportunitios aro oxcoodingly raro for invostigating the means adopted by railrond companics for assuring tho safoty of pnesongors. It can only bo done by o Coroner’s jury in a caselike tho Lemont disas- tor, The jury in tho present instance noglected to entor into this phaso of the inquiry. If thoy had dono 8o, there ialittle doubt that they would have probably found the rules of tho Alton Com- pany—which, by tho way, aro not osson- tially difforont from those of railronds gonorally—dofective, and they would also bave tound that higher oflicials than the freight conductor and engincer failed to do their duty on that fatal Saturday night. The promptnoss and onorgy of Suporintendont McMullen aftor tho disastor ; the solicitude of tho Atlorney of tho rond to socure tho arreut of Boane and Puf- fouberger ; and the general disposition on the part of the Company'a officers to facilitate the invoatigation, were all caleulatod to divert tho jury from o rigid oxamination of the rules and ovoryday practico of tho road. In o sort of informal conversation with Super- intondont McMullen toward tho close of the in- vestigation, ke exprossed the opivion thet a more genoral ugo of the ¢tolograph would not make rallronds safer, and that a double irack, whilo it would provent head-collisions, would increase tail-collisions. Iloro was s propor subject for tho jury's investigation, with tho Lemont dis- astor oy o caso in pomt. Woro the rules of the Alton Road regarding tho movement of trains by tolegraph sufticiontly brond and expleit ? Wns tho telegraph properly used on the night of tho collision, aud, if not, who was to blamo? ‘Would not & doublo track docroase the liability of collisions both ways? If o double track isan oloment of safoty, why Las the Alton Rond failed tosupply tt? IIns tho monoy which ought to havo beon spont in double track boon divorted to branches and oxtonsions? These wero tho most important inquirics which tho jury could have outortnined, and an intelligent discussion of them, with o verdict 1 accordance with the ovidonco, would have been a good Dbasis for Tuturo leginlation. The only resson Superintendent MeMullen gove why lie thought a double track would in- croaso toil-collisions was, thot there would thon bo groater confidence, and consequently less caution. Wo fail toseo why, By his own ad- mission, & double track would be no protection sgainst tail-collisions ; then it would hold out no cncouragewoent for greator confidence. Tail- collisions are more frequont at stations than anywhero else. If thoro were o rule requiring all trains to come down to a cortain low rato of speod a8 they approach a station, so that thoy could bo stopped in eago there wore & train on the gamo track, tail-collisions at stations could be avoided. Formerly the worst and most numerons collisions on railroads ocenrrod at crossings ; eginco tho law has required all trains to come to o full stop at croesings, thero have boen no collisions whatover st these points. It is n uuiversal custom, whenover thero is n dolay or accidont befween statious, to sond back a flag in tho day-time, or o light at might, which is a warning to all approaching traing. While this rulo is obsorved, there would bo no more danger of tail-collisions with two tracks than with ona. ‘I'ho protection of a donblo track against head- collisions is too obvions to require romark, Even Buperintondent MeMullen admitted, finally, that “ga doublo track wags agood thing," and *‘ kLo wished ho hnd moro of it.” When Buperintendont McMullen saya he docen't boliovo there ought to bo any moro gonoral use of tho telegraph for moving trains than there is now, ho says,‘in offect, that the ‘situntion of Saturday night did not domand tho employmont of tho telegraph, and that any similar situation in the future will not demand it. For tho fact is that tho tolograph was not used on tho night of the collision till after the accidont, Tho rules of the Alton Road, which wo havo consulted, do not epecify any particular class of omorgoncios in which the telograph shall be brought into requisition for tho regula- tion of trains, Wo infor that this is loft to the discrotion of the Bupor- intendont, the train-master, and the rogular train-dispatchors, as tho rules say that these aro *‘the only porsons suthorized to move traina by folograph,” On the night of the collision, the Superintendont wagin Chicago; tho {rain-master was, according to his owa ovi- donce, sbeont from the oflico; but thero wasa rogular train-dispatchor on duty. There is & rule requiring tho conductors of all traius to go to the telegraph office and report to tho train-dis- patoher; also to inquire whother thore aro any apocial orders, Wo prosumo that Boane did this, as nothing appoars to the contrary in the evi- donco, It does appoar in evidonco, on the other hand, that tho train-dispatchor gavo no orders, Now, why didn't ho? his ls a quostion which the Coronor's jury ought to have ankoed, The 8t. Louis mail was bobind time; the Ohicago night oxpross was scvontosn minutos behind time; the Jollot cosl-train wau two hours and & balf behind; several olhor traivs wero running wild, 'Lhe night was foggy, and tho rogular time-schedule of tho truins bad boon practically abandoned. If theroe i ever any good in tho use of tho telegraph for the movoment of traing and tho provention of collisions, then thore was cortainly an occasion for it Saturday night, If tho use of tho telograph nood not bo moro goneral than it was In this oase, according to Buperintondent McMullen, thon it may as woll be nbandoned allogethor for tho purpose of direoting the movemant of tralus. T'he Coroner's Jury erred in not including in Its examiuation the inquiry whothor the rulea of tho Company aro sufclontly expliclt in rogard to the use of tho telograph, and whore the fault lies that tho tolegraph was not usod last Baturday night. Whilo Coronore’ juries fall, in tho investifa- tlon of tho moat frightful disastors, to traco out tho oxnot responaibility of tho railroad company and its policy of mansgement, porhinps tho sureat safogunrd that can be provided i a large statu- tory fino for overy raflroad collision. "The rail- road companlos will thon probably discover how doublo tracks and tho tolograph can bo used to avort collisions AN UNSEEMLY SORAMBLE, ‘Tho seramble for tho vacanoy in the Wardon- ship of the State Penitontinry, occasionod by tho doath of Capt. Bmith, was humiliating, naot to characterlzo It by any haorshor appellation, Capt. Bmith, aa will bo remombered, waa horri- Dly mutilatod in tho recont railroad aceidont, and tho dootors at once docided that hie could not livo but o hort time, - The news of his fate had hardly ronchod Bpringflold before five applica- tions for his position wero on. their way from varons ports of tho Btato, and thoro would undoubtedly have beon many moro had all sections of tha Bate enjoyod tho enmo facllitios for gotting tho nows, It would seom as if a decontrospoct for the mourn- ful charactor of tho occasion, and for tho mem- ory of tho Warden himself, should have kopt oft his bungry pack at least until doath had en- forced his rosignation. On tho othor hand, buzzards nover congrogatod more quickly or por- tinsolously about their oxpootant proy than thoso offico-acolars, With no respect for the living or the dying, with no roverence for the wolemn charsctor of the occasion, Loth in Springfleld and Ohicago, while flags wora flying at half-mast, and bells wore tolling, and funeral processions were passing through tho streots, carrying the dead to the cometory, these vociforous snd b:awling hang- ers-on Intruded thelr private grood and itch for offico upon the mournful occasion. A decont regard for tho conventionalitios of such ocon- sions should havo made the small margin of timo botsoon tius lifo and tho life to come en- tiroly snored. Capt. Smith had boon a faithful sorvant to tho State, and while ho lived no one had & right to agk for his office. Thore was no nocessity for tho immediate ap- pointmont of a successor. Thoro was no possi- bility that the interests of the Stato would suffor by tho dolay of n fow days, or that the affairs of the Btate Penitontiary would bo administored in any othor than a proper manner. Another reason for postponing the application for Capt. Smith's shoos until aftor his intermont would bave beon to givo all hands a fair start, It was ovory way unfair for four or five men who happoned to be within hailing distance of Spring- field and Chicngo, and thus bocame swaro of the cirenmstances almost o8 soon as they trans- pired, to push in thelr claims shoad.of others who wero not so favorably situated for running. "This unseomly ecramble for an offico whilo its incumbent was upon his deatli-bed, sufforing most excruciating torfures, ig only another proof of the debssing charactor of politics upon thoso who malko ofiice-secking & profossion. Nothing i o sacred that it can bo kept ontirely freo from their clutches, No situation can be so solomn that they will not uso it if possiblo to further thoir greod. In this particu- Iar instanco, their nction was hardly less shocking to the feolings of the com- munity than the railrond disastoer itsolf. Politica have sunk to a protty low standard when office-seckers cannot wait for a mon to dio who has but a day to livo, and are * breaking for his situstion before death Las removed him from it. If Gov., Bevoridge had ordered tho ravouous crowd to atand back, and liad adminia- tered o public rebuke to thom for their unseemly jmportunity, he would havo given expression to tho sontiment of tho peoplo, and his sction would have beon applauded by them, THE KANSAS LYNCEING CASE, The oxtraordinary incident attending the ad- ministration of criminal justico which took place in La Cygne County, Kansas, dosorves somo public notice. Two women, named Eoller and Boyd, with their children, wore murdored, and the honso in which the dead bodies woro was burned. Buspicion rested on Kollar, the hus- band of one of tho murdered women. It sooms that ho and his wifo bad quarreled; that he had sued for divorco and she for alimony ; and that sho had found tomporary refugo at tho house of Mra. Boyd, hor sister, whose husband was ab- sent. Theso wero tho circumstances undor which Kollar was suspectod of having killed the two womoen and the two children with an ex. Yot thoro was no ovidonco of eany kLind implicating lim. Bubsequently, it is stated, *‘ndditionnl evidenco” was discoverod, consist- ing of “a shirt covered with blood and identl- fiod a8 Kollar's by o peculiar button which the alloged murderer usnally wore.” Upon this dis- covery, it is stated thnt the rage of tho poople beeame unbounded. Tho Bhorift ran the pris- oner off to a place of enfety, but threo hundred armod men compolled him to disclose where the prisoner was. The mob, obtaining possession of tho prisoner, took him to the timber, and wore about to hang bim, when Judgo Blair, of the Cireuit Court, appeared on the scene. Tho Judge informed them ihat ho wonld hold tho regular torm of tho Court noxt Monday, at which the scongod could bo logally indicted, triod, and, it guilty, convicted and hauged by tho officers of the law; ho romonstrated with thoe lynchors, pointing out to them the enormity of tho erime thoy were about to com- mit, and domanding for the accused the rights socured to sll bylaw, Ho appealed for morey to the criminal, promising that tho trial should bo prompt ond fair, The speoch wus mado to on -assomblage of threo hundred armod mon, holding s supposed murderer undor a troo from which dopended the ropo by which he was to bo banged. Xt was a golomn and improsa- ive scono. The Judgo was listened to roepect- fully, as wero soveral other porsons who made shmilar sddrosses in support of tho law, But the appoal was in valn., The mob refused to surrendor the priconer to the Court, but sub- mitted his fate to & committeo of twolve of thoir own numbor. Of this committeo, sovon volod for tho instaut oxecution of Kellar, who waa {hen hangod, ouo of those porsonally engaged in tho act boing Boyd, whoao wifo and children had boon murdered. Thoso proceedings ocoupied soyoral hours, A more flagrant murdor has never been com- mitted than thls one. It was rendered more atrocious by the fack that the Judgo of tho proper Court was prosont and offered without dolny to Legin tha logal trial of the acoused at tho opening of the Court. It was not proposed to removo tho prisoner from the county, During tho short tlwe intorvening beforo tho trisl and tho probablo conviction of the man, ho would have romained in the virtual custody of tho mob, and, it thoy wero not satinfied with the ro- sult of the trial, they could then have exocuted thoir purpose. It is stated that those compoa- tng thomob wore not disguised, aud that it ine cluded nearly all the noighbors and respoctable cltizons of tho township Itis dlMcult to underatand tho fooling by which theso pooplo woro actuated. Thoy wore ordinarily intolligont ; wore, porhaps, as a hody, law-abiding and ordorly citizons, and yot oponly, in tho presence of the Judge, Shorlft, and other legal anthoritios, thoy doliborately procacded to hang & man without logal ovidenco of his guilt, No groator or moro Inoxcuenblo outrago nor con- tompt of law was ever committod, and the enor- mity of the crlme is aggravated rathor than pal- linted by tho allogoed respoctability of thoso en- gaged in it, RAILROAD TAXATION. Tho 8tate Board of Bqualization met at Spring. fold last wook, and, taking ndvantago of tho ab- Bsongo of roturna from a fow countlos, preoipl- tatoly adjournod, Tho ghoat from which thoe Board fled in such torror was tho matter of fix~ ing tho taxable value of the railroad proporty in thia Biato. Tho taxablo valuo of railroad prop- erty a8 fixed by the Board Inat yonr was $26,658,~ 784 out of an aggrogate of §510,886,688 of all kindsof property taxed. It is now domanded by a largo portion of the poople that the ss- sessmont of railroad proporty shall bo advanced varfously to sums ranging from 250,000,000 to 450,000,000 ; tho srgument boing that, as the railrond companios deolaro that their roads cost them & cortaln Jarga sum por milo, upon which they aro entitled to dividends, the same ronda should bo asucssod for taxation at the samo valuation. The Constitution of tho State of Illinols atatos vory plainly this matter of tax- ation. It provides: Tho Gonersl Assembly shall provide such revenuo as may bo needful by lovying a tax by valuation, 8o that evory person and corporation shall pay a tax. lnflprapqllion to thovaluo of his, her, or ita prop- erly. The General Assombly may vest tho corporate ot thoritlos of cities, towns, and villages with power to ‘mako local improvoments by special sagcasment, or by spocial taxation of contiguoun property , or othorwiso, For all othor corporate purposcs all muniuipal corpo- rations may ba vestod with authority to assess and colloct taxes ; bui such taxes shall ba uniform in ro- apoct to poreona and property within the jurlsdiction of the body imposing tho samo, Tho ection of tho Stato Board of Equalization upon tho agsessment of railroad property govorns in tho mattor of county and town tnxation, na woll as of Btato taxation, the samo assossmont boivg in force for both purposes. So far ns tho railroads aro concerned, it'is theroforo a sorious matter whother the assessmont ehall bo increased, sinco tho rate of taxation for county and loeal purposos is about twico as great a8 for Stato purposes. Tho ‘*proporty” of rail- ronds whicl is to bo asscssed and taxed consists of laud, town lots, iron rails, tios, station-houses, and other buildings and improvements, and the rolling-stock, The franochisos of tho company aro somothing very different, and tho law of this Btato bus nover included thom among the taxa- blos, although tho Constitution authorizes the taxation of franchises, Now the land, town lots, DLuildings and improvemonts, aud rolling-stock aro to bo assessod and faxed at tho same valua- tion that would bo placed ou thom it thoy wero tho property of private citizons, Tho 100 ncres of land contained in the 100 fect of rondway bo- lopging to a railrond cannot honestly or fairly bo ngsessed as worth more poracro than the land adjoining it on both sides. It is tho land and not the franchiso undor which the land is occu- pied that ig to bo valued and taxed. Tho town lots ownod by railroad companies mast bo valued just as the town lote, similarly situated and owned by privato citizons, aro taxed. Tho pur- pono for which land or lots, or iron rails, snd locomotives are used, forms no part of thoir tax~ able value. A man msy oceapy a 25-foot front lot, improved by a four-story brick building, in Springfield, and mny carry on thorein & bunk or other business yielding him a profit of half n million of dollars annually; but tho lot snd building occupicd by him are not, for that rea- 8on, to bo taxod ton times ma high as a similar Iot and building on the opposite cornor used as & rotail grocery store, and which yiolds only a nominal profit. Tho ueo to which * property " is put forma no part of its taxable value. For taza~ blo purposes, alocomotive used on a railrond can hovo no higher value than the same locomotive in the shop of its maker, The iron rails snd superstructuro of & railroad have no taxablo valuo as component parts of railways ; their tax- able valuo is that of so much matorial, and tho cost of pulting thom to- gothor, o include thoe valuo of the franchisos of & corporation, whother it be a bank, railroad, stoamboat, or manufacturing company, in the value of the Iand or buildings it may use sud oceupy, is a glaring injustice, A man may have o patont worth a million of dollars, and yof ‘msnufacture and carry on hia buginess in prom- ises worth as roal and personal property not over §20,000, Could thore bo o ressonable protoxt for the Stato Board of Equulization to include the value of tho patent in the value of tho real estato, improvemonts, tools, and machinery of tho patenteo? And yob is not that preciscly what it isnow proposed the Board of Equalization of this State shall do in tho case of tho rail- roads? Railroads are taxablo upon their prop- orty procisely as natural persons. Thoir Jands, their town lots, their porsoual property of all Linds must be taxed a8 all othor property is taxed, *in proportion to tho valuo” thercof, and such taxation must bo * uniform in respect to porsons and property,” or it will be void. Any attompt to go boyond tho atrict lottor of tho law will be a feilure, invahdating tho tax, and diminishing, not increasing, tho rovenuo of the Stato. Lot the Board of Equalization roturn to their duty ; lot them porform that duty asthe Iaw points it out ; lot neithor clamor on tho one hand mor blandishmont on the other cause thom to discriminate for or against any one, but 1ot them assoes the property ko that every per- gon and * corporation shall pay a tax In propor~ tion to tho valuo of his, her, or its property,” no moro and no less. CREDIT MOBILIER IN CONNECTICUT, T'ho Now Havon Palladium culls attention to the complote change in tho manner of organiz- ing railronds in that Btate during the last five yoara, Prior to tho war, rajlroad companies were organized by cash subsoriptions to the stook, and very fow of tho companios issued any bonds or othor ovidoncos of indobtednoss oxcooding one-third the amount of the actusl cost of the roads. In oo oriwo instances this rulo was violatod, but In those casos the stook of the company bocsme worthloss, tho bonda depro- clatod, and tho investmont proved o losy. The othor roads, built with st least two-thirds cash onpital, have always ylolded s fair roturn to the utookholders, and their bonds have beon sought as good fuvestmonts. But tho now plan, adopted within tho Inst fow yoars, has been to hiuvo but s smallcashsubscription tostack, aud ofton thds way bogus, The main roliauce hag beon on tho lssue of firat-mortguge bonds, Formerly, firyt-mortgage bonds woro popular, and sought after, because J \ at a pinch thoy could bo pald by the ealo of the iron, land, and rolllng stock of the rond; buttho caso {8 now differont. Now tho firat-morigago Donlls generally oxcood the ontiro cost and value of tho road whon comploted. The Palladinm doclares that **Tho result of thin ia that not s nolitary rallroad fn Connoctiout cotamonced within the lnst fiv yoars s renlizod suffloent nctusl nob onrnings to pay tho interest on one- half of the amount of ite bonds and debt.” The Hartford & Erio Rond Lins put out 822,000,000 in bonds, which aro not worth over 80 conta on tho dollar. 'I'ho othor ronds in that Btate bullt upen tho no-cash and all-bond plan, for the year end- ing Boptombar, 1873, owed $11,000,000 ; tholr not enrnings, aftor. paying oporating oxponsos, wore $110,000, or less than 2 per cont on the omount of their dobt. Under thoso ciroumstancos, it f8 urgod that the Logislaturo shall re-cnact tho old rulo prohibit- ing the issute of any ovidonco of indebtodness by railronds for moro than one-third the ocash cost of constriction. The railronds built on {hat plan in Connoctiout are all paying handsomo dividends, whilo thoso built on crodit nocessarl- 1y coat greatly moro, and do not oarn enough to poy intorest on thoir dobt. Tho state of thinga thus described as exiating in Connecticut is by 10 menns confinod to that Btato. Tho curse of the railway systom has been tho practico of build- ing thom without cash and exclusively on tho proceeds of bonds, eold at a sacriflco, and fssuod rocklossly and often fraudulently. . THE 00EAN VOYAGE, Tho New York Evening Post, in disoussing the quostion of shortoning tho time of the passage to and from Europo, points out the ressons why tho schemo of mnking St. Johns the osstorn and northorn torminus of the rallway systom was abandoned. Tho harbor of 8t. Jobns, Now- foundland, is 800 miles furthor oastward thsn any other available polnt on tho continont, and the harbor itsolf is a good one, but to rench the Island of Newfoundland involves tho crossing of tho Gulf of Bt. Lawrouce, n distanco of 850 miles. That obatacle, therofors, is fatal to the Now- fonndiand schome, though the plan of con- nocting Nowfoundland from Cape Ray with Cape Breton Island would in- volvo & pastage by water of only 80 miles, Failiug theso, howover, thoro is the other plan of making Whitehaven, or Louisburg, in Nova Bootin, 200 miles north of 1alifax, the starting- point for Europosnstenmers. Boththeso placon have good harbors, Tho systom of railronds would.connect all parts of tho United Btates and Canads with theso placos, and passengers could proceed by rail to Lounisburg or Whitohaven, and thereby avoid sovoral days on the ocesn. DBut the goneral schome does not stop with shorton- ing the routo on this side, It includes a systom of rallways through Ireland, torminating at Valentia, on the southwest const. ‘Lhis would reduco the time of passage from Now York to London, which now averages oloven days, to eight days,—the time boing from Now York to Louisburg by roil thirty- sovon hours; from Louisburg to Valontin, 143 bours ; aud from Valentis to London, eixteon hours. The time on the ocean will bo six days, or littlo moro than half the prosent time. The ruilway system has boon slready extended o] Halifax, and it will not ba long boforo tho gen- eral schomo will bo complote. When this is dono, Louisburg and Valentia will bo the places for taking on and discharging passongors, matls, and such light freights ss aro gonorally moved by oxpress, and tho shortoning of the timo, o8- pocin)ly on the ocoan, will make the travel be- twoen the two continents moro ploasant than ever. —ee The Japaneso are demonstrating their pro- gress by tho adoption of tho follies and vicos of civilization. Rocontly » sudden taste for lop- cared rabbits sprungup among them, and the smatours paid onormous sums for fancy spoci- mous. Ono of tho craziest of them offored $5,000 for fifty Madagascar rabbita of tho Duke of Butherland breed. As anotler instance of this progress, ono of tho Daimios has doliberatoly thrown away his rank ond his offloial privilogoa for tha purpose of going into the potted-milk business, sud has succeeded not only in ostablishing tho supe rlority of his trade-mark over all others, but has alea mede a fortune alroady. The last ovidences of civilization reported are the rinderpest and an Intornational Exposition at Kidto, Itis not rolated yob that thoir Commissionors have loarned tho peculiar civilized iden of selling per~ mits for liquor-saloons inside tho Exposition grounds. NOTES AND OPINION. Btate Conventiona: Aug. 26, Wisconsin Pa~ trons of Iusbandry, at Watortown, for consuls tation; Aug. 27, Wisconsin Ropublicans, at Madison ; Aug. 27, Mississippi Ropublicaus, st Jacksou ; Aug. 27, Pounsylvanta Domocrats, at Wilkesbarre ; Aug. 28, Californis Ropublicans, at Bacramonto ; Bopt. 3, Minnosota Anti-Mon- opolists, at Owatonna ; Sopt. 8, Massachusotts Domoorats, at Worcentor ; Sopt. 8, Toxas Domo- crats, at Auatin ; Sopt. 9, Orogon Domocrats, ot Yortland ; Sopt. 10, Massnchusotts Ropublicans, &t Worcestor ; Sopt. 11, Maryland Ropublicans, at Frodorick ; Sopt. 15, Tonnessoe Furmors, ab Nashillo ; Sopt. 24, Now York Ropublicaus, at Utica ; Sopt. 24, Minuesota Domocrats, st 8t. Paul, —Trodorick W. Horn is a Dologate-clect to the Wisconsin Ropublican State Convention, Ho goes in to * reform thogood old party.” —A. friend at South Bend, Ind., calla our at- tontion to the faot that, undor the prosont gen- oral election law, Indiaua doea not clect county oflicers in October, but only Circuit Judges in a number of Circuitscroated, last winter, additional to tho old Circnits. —dlarlin Read, 8 Ropublican member of the Towa Sonatoe, sold out his votes to tho railroad intorest aud was provided n placo of refugo in Washington, Ifis Ropublican coustituents of Mouros snd Wayno Countics, boing now met to nominato successor, say in thel:' rluuoil’ull.lt‘m: 3 Martin Read, late Son- REbddd cfi%‘fl‘qlfl:gflficfl? ek, );;\l!l‘tl’,:‘)él::‘ni‘ ’um m?&. o p o O e i .8 paco I Lho Ponsion-Offica bears thie Jook of rownrd for treusolt, That wo demand, in the name of the peopla of this diatrict, that thoso in suthority sond the sald Martin Ttead back to private lifo, whors ho may micet the cons tempt of botzayed constitueucy, o roward that should bo muted out to ovury publio officer who botrays hila trust, —Brothor ITntlan, of } Tows, sitting in his ‘Washington Chronicle ofiico, says & Thero iu 110 indication uow of u now porty ; the po~ Iitical aifairs of tho country were never iunore har- ‘monfous, nor the organization of the controlling party 1nore compluto aud purfoct, Whenovor {he propls of tho conutry liava the fasno presonted to thom thora 1 1o hositanty or doubt in their Judgment on the mt}rd or couduct of the ]‘\IH{ {a powor, The Ropublican party, n tho Batos or the nation, novor was sirouger with {0 masnu of o peaple a1t i 0-day, Tudl- 1 0 party may ha Lo ofieial condnct§ Tawe Moy Lisvo boon et Boted thut wors uelthor wiso nor judiclous, Lut the \thiciplos of tho purty, 1ts organization, 1ta controlling Jeading mon, havo tho confidenco and’ will Lisve tho £ull fudorsement of o large majority of tho peoplo of thia country, —T'ho Ropublican party nover stood highor in tho public astimation than at prosont, The ron- gon for this is, it hias justifiod by its mots the confidence of the pooplo.— Woodstock (Iil.) Sen- tinel—Posimaster. —1It is true, perhaps, that wo live under the bost governmont iu the would ; but, all tho samo, thore is no doubt thntit can be made a muck botter one, The Ropublican party is not aa {;oud o party 08 it wonld havo boon if it had had s poworful, watchful opponent to cons toud ngninst constantly since tho closo of the xobollion, It hae grown carclegs through too much success, snd there are, in cone soqtionce, ‘6 good many pomlnnl mattory that might bo roformed. . .~ As for tho loud« ors In the Ropublican eamp, they havo of Iate done many things whiol have given fufluence ta thoir oppononts, The salary-grab. with ita re« tronctiva clause, was ono of "thoso monsuros whioh aro not only orimes, but what tho First Napoloon considered worse—blundors. Thoy nover wonld have commlited 1t had thero heon o Atrong opposing party to uso it against thom ; and, oven as it is, thoy have ahmout oreated a party against thomsolves through their Indoraes mont of the back-pay stesl.—Lhiladelphia Ine quirer. ~—Tho Democrats of Maine tion dun)arlnq that tho ltopublicans, boing in majority in Congress, wore rosponsible, not oul for the "back-pay, but for all the ovils of whic the country complainn, *including the seduction of Democratic members of Congress to the cors rupt schomes of tho Tiopublican party.” 1t tha Domocratio membors of Congross are go onail; soduced, what is the uso o% olacting thom Olenrly, s party whoso roprosontative mon are, tho Maine Domocratio Convention being judgoey opon to tha soductions of the othor party, is nod thio party to right the wrongs which its own mom have helped to porpotrate.—Pittshurgh Coms merclal. —Find 2 man who would rofuso n crumb of broad to a starving child, and thers you will suroly behold a ‘shrickor about the iniguity of back-pay, Trot out a tax-cortificato sharpel who would gobble up the land of a. poverty= stridkon widow lying on a sick bed at the poing of doath, and you will have a photograph of auothor honost citizon whoss foelings havo boom outraged by the incroaso of salary, Bring up from tho sinks of licontiousnoss and iniquity, the ocoupants, and you'll find thom ready to d nounce back-pay as immoral, All ovor the coun« try, the mon that aro 80 moan that thoy would “gtonl ncorne from a blind hog ;" grasping, sordid belngs, who, if they had been ucidontFy killed by a stray counon’ ball while vallantty/ bravoly, and patriotically sorviug tho conntry ss herole would have strotolied their __arms up from the decpest grave and domandod & land warrant 3 men who could take 10 por cont & month from tmomrlly cramped business mon, and onjoy a good meal tho enmo doy ; men who would rover ontly partuke of tho communion, and thon pub countorfeit nickels in the contributiou-boxz dysfmguc mon who grumblingly poy intorost on thoir bank-of-health ovordrafts for fun thoy'va hind in the days of thoir youth ; barnacled poli« ticioue who have no charactor, and who stay with 8 gurty ouly whilo it pays todoso; smbix tious little squirts, who imagino they aro going to fool somebody with thoir bankrupt Labbla nbout cconomy ; burglars, who steal tho silvon trimmings off” n burial-caso to buy thomselvea shirt-studs ; black-logs, whoso coat-sleoyos ara stuffed with ncos sud bowors ; theso, all theso, belong to tho groat army of ¢ economsts” tha aro blatting about ** b-a-c-k Gen. Glntyy in the Ohippewa Fall jd—Adniinim tration. —The candor and fair dealing of such men am Butlor, Osrpentor, and Ginty (the Zerald ed- itor will pardon this nssociation of names), must do much to narrow down the issucs botweon tha llni)ubllcxm party and the opposition mmn&; tha fall campaigu in Wisconsin, It may bo said now that tho Ropublican party of Wisconsin, a8 woll 88 of tho nation, is fully committod to the ine oreasod-pay bill,- Tho leaders of that organiza. tion havo openly and publicly indorsed it. Bove oral leading Ropublican papers in the Btato, bos sidos tho Chippown Falls Zerald, have coms out boldly in dofonso of the mensure.—Afadison (Wis.) Democrat. —Tt ia timo to 6oy to Johm T. Averill that, without impenchiug his motives for voting in favor of the obnoxious salary-grab monsure, uud giving his frank and plucky defouseof his action all the credit it doserves, he must understand, novertholess, that ho hag painfully misropresont- ad the viows of hia constituents in that vote, and thoso constituents will cheorfully ncquicsce im bhis ropeatedly and atmngly-oxgrasuml oiro, bo~ fore his Inst elaction, that ho sball never e con- sidered a candidate for Congress again,.—Anoka (Minn.) Union. nsied A msohx: sutlors, —Nevor in the history of our Government waa thore » time whou ofticial duty and honor wera g0 littlo regarded by publio meu a8 at presonts Tho disgrace and shome which almost invariably follows in the wako of public transactions whera there i any chance to plunder and rob, ia cnough to rouse tno nation to & true sense of it dangor, . . . Either bad men must be taker from offico and Funiuhcd, or mnn's capaeity for gelf-govornment writtou a failure. Defuulting ofilcors and grabbing thiovea canuot always flsuu their garmonts reoking with crime in tho facol of houest poople, and escape their just desorta Everywhero the pen[)ln are casting about for & proper remedy.—Ogle County (1lt.) Grange. —The politicians of tho Ropublican party ac{ a8 though they dared not stir up Rankin for foat of somothing, Carponter, who knew lio was holding funds without bond, and who knew be was o defaultor, allowod him to go long enough to transfor his dofalcation from the Blala Treasury, whore thoro was no quostion about ity being amonable to the crimiual law, toa lun& where thoy have sprung this question of no le; responsibility. Thero are as rotton a set of felt lows ot Dos Moines as over disgraced any capic tal, Considorablo of this monoy waa spent in tho canvass last year, Thers is no question about 1t, This is ono way iu-which the Kopubli« Ml“&: raigo tho wind.—Burlinglon (fowa) Gax elle, . —Whilo the farmors Lave got their hands ing they osu, if they will, save not lows thax $200,000 oach year in Illinois, by r quiring tho Logiulaturo, at its noxt mootd ing, to provide by law that tho salaries of county officars be fixed at figures proportion; to what other industrials are recciving., BlLoul this bo dono, there will bo saved in each county, annaully, not loss than £3,600, or 350,000 in tha Stato, Nobody but tho oflice-holdors and offices gookers will objoct to this.—Champaign (IU.J Times. —\Whether the fusilade of ‘the Western farms ora against railways and other monupotios will take rank in history with that of tho farmors of Middlesox, who~ fired tho shot heard round the world,” may admit of doubt; but it is certsin that it is making no small stir througbout the West, and that it is sure to introduce an Lmportant eloment iuto our politics, The farmors_are proverbially slow to movo, and equally hard to stop when they onca got fairly sturtod; and that thoy are now in dend enrnest thoro s abundant evidonce,—New York Independent. —Pho contont botwoon tho paoplo and monops olles is just boguu. No man cun now measura the extont or predic the duration of tho struggle IHoury Ward Deochor eays it will bo roforn: of rovolution, and ho is right. The man who canq not sgo that tho peoplo are rosolved upon rids ding themesolyos of tho insolont and rolontlosd oppressions that have for yoars been grindiug and crushizg their industries, and paralyzin, thoir honost efforts to live and thrive, is indoo DBlind to tho overwhelming, resistloss curront of thought and_dotermiuation overywhero oxistingy Do the people care for the success of partics when questions of individunl eoxistonce and n tlaunl?llc aro at stake ?— Yorkuille (IU.) J\'gwu? —Nover did thio pooplo of California go into political contost in which the issue was mora clearly dofined than it is to-day. . . . And what ia that issue ? Time and again wo have sot it forth in thoso columns, but it cannot bo_toa often repoated. It is a question, not of policyy but o question which underlies all othor quosd tions. 'Tho division is not a division of parties, but » division which dates back to n poriod when partics wore as yot unknown. Glosod up by the force of circumstances al times, it breaks forth afresh wheuover tho logic of ovents gives it the opportunity. 11 tho old fight betweon monops olists and the poople. It is, in tho words of Gove Booth, ** the bold u"nml)t, atripped of all diss ulse, of great aggrogations of capital to control o Government jn thelr own interest for pure poses that aro selfish and corrnpt. Which shall Fovern ? tho pooplo upon tho one sido, or ru roa 1s and allicd corporations upon tho other?" —San Francisco Bulletin, —Haying spokon of the resignation of our honored and rospacted citizen, Judge James Davis, from tho position of ‘Eroasury Apent aé Chicngso, wo dosm b just to him to publish a more complote statomout of tho uffair, Judga Davis has boen woll known throughout this dite trict as o Ropublican, always sound on the gooso, and & hard workor for that party; benidos, whal {4 more to his credit, ho has borno o fuir reputne tion at home, a8 & goninl gentleman, an honost man, aud o croditable attornoy, 1o wns sppoint od Treassury Agont at Now Orlenus upon tho recommiendation of Schuyler Colfux, amon) others, aud at his own requost —traveforre to Chieago. Aftor o timo Oharloy Farwe' v us grossmnn from Ohicago and head of the Ragical court-houso and city ringg of that bnrgbm.!- covored at whose rocommendation Mr. Davig had beon appointed, snd conoluded it would pay him better to give tho appointmont to soms of his own (Farwell's) dopondonts. Colloctor Judd, for Farwall, porsonally informed Mr. Davis thab ho had bottor rosign, a8 it was certain Lo would bs obliged to throw up his placo, it ho woulin's do it gracefully, 8o Judge Davis resigned, it with us again, and hins boen refused the city ate tornoyship. 11is vorvices surely descrvo soug botter cun(.munl.-—floup\h Bend (Ind.) Union, (3