Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1873, Page 4

TIE CIICAGO- DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1873 TERMS OF THE TRIBUN! TRRMA OF BUNRONIPTION (PAYADLR IN Anvmsnf).n 8124 S0 I Ls ol ¥ t tho sama rato. . . o provout dolay and inistakes, bo sueo nnd givo Poat ©fFcu address {n full, incliding Btato nnd Connty, Temittancos may Lo mado olthor by dralt, oxpross, Post ©Offivo ordor, or tn rogisternd lottors, at vur risk. TERMA TO CITY AUNRORIBING. Datly, doliverod, Bunday oxceplod, 2 conte por wook, Dally, aclivered, Bunday fncluded, 10 conts por wwook, Addrow TIIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison aud Dearborn-; Chieago, Nl r—r— TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, MoVICKER'S T} !.‘lll\u’l‘m’:l— disan, botwreon Donr- born and Siate. ** Uontre e, 2 THEATRI Desplainen atroot, botwoon Mad: oo e o < Unk Harkakay Alfoat.and Asliore.” Afturnvon nud ovoning, A THEATRE-Randolph stroot, botwoon Ol L battor PV et A oo o or o RRS' OPERA-HOUSE—Monroo stroot, botwoon Ehbors aii, ibio, . Asjington, Catton & Kowoios lustrels, ** Di-Vorood. E}SINESS N'E;TIGES. YO FOT POWDER IS ASURT RXTERMI- OB lones mokha, Dlont iao: Bird-varsiin, &34 all loful insvota. S “BE SURE AND_OATA, FOR ‘' MIS, WINS g Bt A i ond of niotior can Tontl Lt it Ens Dortoutly safo and roliablo romedy. It rolluves (ho i From paii, au onros dgtentory ot disrien, 10 soltons tho guim, raducos inflammation, euros wind colle, aid Carrios tho infant mfoly tirongl thd toothing poriod. A e e e The Chvage Tribune, ‘Weodnesday Morning, August 27, 1873, The German beor-sollors of Worcester, who have beon on trinl for violating the Massachu- sotts Liquor law, bave escaped by the disagreo- mont of the jury. 8ix stood for conviction and six for ncquittal Tho American exbibitors ot Vionna received 400 of tho 80,000 medals that wero awarded. It 8 charged that in many cages tho juries were corruptly influcnced in thoir decisions, Tho “workingmon” of Leavenworth, Kan,, at & mooting holdon the 23 inat., rosolved to indorso and co-oporato with the farmorsin tho clection of indopendent candidaten for office, and in sooking the reform of all special and class legislation, Every town in Ford County, Ill.,, was ropro- sented in' tho Convention yostorday, at Paxton, by a full delegation. ‘The Anti-Monopoly resolu- tions poesed by the meoting wero of the uncom- promising tenor that tho farmors always adopt. A full sot of independont county oflicera was nominated, 1 Alltho countios of tho Stato have roported their nssessmeuts to the State Board of Equal- Ization, and thnt body is theroby doprived of ex- cuse for dolay, and brought face to face with the problem of tho sssessmont of tho railroad prop- “erty of Illinois. The other proporty of the State I8 nesosnod nt $1,186,120,684, about twico tho figure of last year, Tho Ropublican pupors Lnve published all munner of storios #o explain why Josoph G. Valo was nominated for Governor of Town by tho Farmors’ Couvoution. Now the Rock Island Union thinks tho matter is explaived by the fack that Mr. Vail Las two protty daughters, snd thot tho delegates wero governed by that fact In making a selection. Senator Morton makes public his letter to the Becretary of tho Seuate covering his share of the salary-steal back into the Treasury. Tho lotter 18 but a week old, and shows by its dato how slowly the etibborn spirit of the Indiana Sona- tor yiolded to tho irresistible prossure of public opinion, Sonator Morton's restitution is the only case of Congressional repentauce that has coma to light for a month. The Democrals of TFulton County, in this Btate, pledgo their support to the farntors. They met in County Convention yesterday, and ro- golved that thoy could put no ticket innomiva- tion to compets with tho Anti-Monopolista. They declared that thoy beartily approved all tho principles of the luttor party, aud deemed it unpatriotic to endanger its succoss by any action on their part.- They nsk the Anti-Monopolists to put up = good ticket for county officors, aud promise them the support of the Democracy of the county. Tho ruggeation of the County Superintondent of Charitics, with referenco (o the Small-Pox Honpital, is entitled to favorublo considoration. Ho suggosts that, instead of spending $30,000 or $40,000 in erccting a permanent brick and stone building for a small-pox hospital, that a com- fortable frame building, costing $7,000 or 8,000, bo erected. The reason is a good one. Noone can tell at this timo whore the Small-Pox Iospital should bo loeated five years Lieuce, To erect n costly building and devote it to that par- pose is to rondor it forover uuflt for any other pwpdke. A comfortablo, but iuoxponsive, framo building will last s long as tho Hospital will be permitted in any oue neighborhood, when n now one ean o huilt clsa- where, aud tho old one Lusmed or destroyed. . A largo nad permanent building dovoted to small-pox forover, and, in tie, ko to upoak, sat- urated with amall-pox, is not a desirable addi- tion to tho cily proporty. Tho suggestion is a goud one for nnother ronson, ‘o amount of monoy to build the fremo building iy on haud, whilo to huild the othor wiil requira the ity to borrow §20,000 to £80,000, snd delay the con- struction of any liospital, active and utrony yentorduy, oxcopt provisions, Mess pork was dull, and 10@%0e lower for present dclivery, at $16.00@16.05 cash, and #10.10@16.12}4 sollor Soptembor. Tard was dull wiid cuslor, b 73go por Ib for winter, aud 75 @740 for smnmer rondered. Monts fvore quict and uuehanged, at 75{@8o for shouldors, 0} @ 9¥6e for short middley, and 10@11}4e for swout- pickled hams., Lake frelghts wero lows netivo and unchanged, at 7o for corn to Buffulo, Highwines wero in fuir demand, and advanced 20, closing at 97 por gallon, Flour wana more active and steady. Wheat was zelive, and 3o higher, closing at 8110} coub, nod $1.18} @ L13Y scller Beptomber. Corn was active and a J¢@5¢e highor, cloring at 1o canh, and 42%(c sollor October. Onts woro nctive and o ehnde firmor, closing st 28!4e casl, and 27340 soller Bopotembor, Rye was in fair demand and steady-at Gbe, DBarley was more active and Btudior at 81,10 for No. 2, cash or seller Soptom- bor. o amounts of grain in storo in this city, on Bathduy ovening last, wora 781,788 hm whoat ; 296,500 bu corn; 71471 bu oats; 88,421 bu rye, yq 40,587 bu harley, Hogs woro quiet and 088y 8Ys4 05@4,85, ‘Phore was a dull, heayy fooling 1n the.yig market, and all grades bolow choico rold at ‘s slight docline, woro falrly aotive and unchanged. Teee——— Bhoop Tho origin of tho State Convontion' of Grangors) now in mooret sossion at Watortown, Wia., daton back Lo the nction of tho farmers of Dodgo County. The Patrona of that couuty mot, July 24, at Boavor Dam, and ranolvod that, a8 nolthor the Domocratio nor tho Ropublican party wao willing or ablo to nupproun tho provail ing ruinons politienl corruption, togethor with the tarft, bank, rnilrond, tolograph, and othor mouopolies, the Farmors must take onro of thomsolvos by moking o uow party, To accomplish this result, thoy invitad thoir follow-Patrons to moot thom ot Mil: waukeo on Aug. 31, 'Tho Exccutive Committoo of tho Stato Grango took alarm at this bold atop, and jssued o warmng, July 29, to all the Patrons of Ilusbandry of Wisconsin to take no patt in tho movoment, as it was contrary to tho funda- mental privciplo- of the order to ongage in tho turmoil of political strife. Upon this, tho Dodgo Oounty men soundod a rotreat and changed their call to ono for s mooting at Watertown for consuitation, and tho tranas- action of business portaining to tho in- torosts of tho Order. Two hundred aud fitty delogates wove in attondance ot the moeting yoatordny. Rosolutions wero adopt- ed favoringthe improvomontof all water-chaunols that would cheapon transportation, the regula- tion of railroads by law, and tho prosontation of potitions to Congroas for cheapor transportation from tho Wost to tho Eaat and South. Tho Con- vontion finally declared that no man who was guilty of any complicity in the snlary stosl should recoive another vote from them. Thero seoms tobo no likelihood thattho Convontion will nominato au independent ticket, or in any way follow the bold lead of ita originators. PUBLIC AND OFFICIAL MORALITY, In his Olio mpoech, Senntor Morton avoided an argumont upon tho necessily of roform by the bold statemont that the standard of public morals {8’ to-day highor in this country than it hag over boon before ; that public morals have boen improved aud elevatod during the last twelve yonrs; that it is not that Congress is moro corrupt than formerly, but that publio opinion demands a highor standard of rectitude on the part of public men than was ovor bofors oxaotod. Is this statomont o true ono? Is it borue ont by the notorious facts chronicled from dayto day? Mr. Morton says ho has soarched history for the past hundred years, and finds that public morals to-day are higher than thoy have beon &t any dato within that time. The period indicated by Mir. Morton covers tho wholo life of tho Ropub- lic, dating back to tho Decluration of Inde- pendeuco, Il embraces the whole listory of {ho, uation, and it will bo nows to the public gener- 2lly to bo informed that tho standard of morals in this country Lns been wo improved durlug tho iast Lwelvo yours that the men who lived from the dnys of Washington to Jackson were com- paralively loss honest than tho presont geuera- tion, Ageingt this doclaration we placs the solemn records of the Government, Loaving out tho trongactions of tho War,—the fraudulent contracts, the geuoral swindling and ras- cality practiced in the bhour of the national troubles, wo will begin with the timo whon tho War closed. Itis mattor of rocord that, during the next four yenrs, much of tho taxos coliectod from the peoplo mnover roachod the Government; that tho wholo Civil Bervico degenorated ivto o systom of plundor and robbery ; that porsonal gain beeamo, ton gront extont, the exclusive motive for seoking office. The Civil Servico, mcluding all branches of tho revenuo collection, bocame notorionsly and confessedly corrupt and dishonest. 'Tho constant themo of tho Ropublican party at that timo wag [tho dopravity which porvaded the administration of tho public servico. It was truo that Andrew Johnson was then President, but ke could not make an appointmont that Qid not roquire the previous approval of tho Sonate, nor was Lo allowed to dismiss an officor without the pormission of the same body, Mow has the servico been roformed sinco? Lot 1he reports of tho various Investigting Commit- toes answor, 08 to tho unquestioned corruption of the various Custom-Ifouses, tho Loet aud Stocking jobbery and oxtortion, and the Now Orleans Custom-House affairs. Nor did tho ox- posuro stop thero. A membor from Munerachu- sotts, rising in Lis place in the ouso, announced that a gigantic fraud had boen mmturod under tho oye and approved by a momber of tho Cabinet to rob tho Treasury of over £400,- 000, ond only wailed for its complotion tho sigunture of & subordinate officer In tho Treasury, To arrost that fraud, ho asked the Houao to poss uluw iustautly to prohibit the payment of tho money ; and thoe Houso and tho Benate, in viow of tho notorious facls, passed tho law. Whore is that Cabinet oficor now ? Mas he boen dismisred ? Haw tho parly beon purged of him, or docs lio not yot ritle ns usun over his Department # We need not rofer to tho Secor frauds in the Navy Dopartment, or the Fort Buolling fraud in tho War Departmont, or to the payment of monoy by tho ofiicers of the Pacific Railroad Compeny to the head of tho Intorior Department, to show that, it public morality has Leen elovated to an unpre- cedonted high atandard, it bas failod to reach oficial clreles. When in the Listory of the Governmont hng frand nnd cor- ruption beon fontered in nuek high placos as of Into yenrs; nud whon in the history of tho Goy- orumont has auy man suspected oven of com- plicity with fraud beon pormicted to retain his bigh oftico ns if to brave and defy public opinion? The rovelations of last winlor aro too frosh to requiro o utatemont of them, Lot Mr, Morton call ovor tho roll of thoso detected and oxposed in Credit Mobilior frauds, 1lo will find no ob- souro names in that list. Mo will find namos conspicuons in tho political history of tho laut twelve yoars, and names Identified with the moral regeneralion of tho coune try. Where are thoy now? Ilns any oo of the men implicated respected tho high standard of public morals by rosigning ofileo ? Tor over four years thoy had secrolly onjoyed tho protits of Oukes Ames' liboral donation of Credit Mubilier, and whon it wau accldontally ox- posed did the guilty rosign? DI tho Sonato or the Ifouse expel tho convicted? When, in the previouy bistory of Congresy, was any Souator or mombor acoused and convicted of oficial tur- pitudo, did the body to which he helonged fall to oxpel him, unloss ho.defoated expulsion by roslg- natlon? Iu this caso, did not tho Henato rafuse to act on tho case of its own mombers, and did not the Houso refuse to expol the most conapious ous of its own actors in the crime ? Mr. Mortoun, last wintor, in porgon made a ro- port thet the purchase of seats in tlho Bonate wag o orlmo of such magnitudo that that hody nhould, by n prompt declaration that olectionn by such moans woro void, protoot - tho honor of tho Bonato and tho Intorosts of tho couniry, 1Io domandod tho virtual expulsion of a Benator supposod to have been oloctod by bribery. Doos not Mr. Morton know that thore aro sovoral othor ensos whoro it fs chargzod that eloctions to tho Bouato linve boon obisined by tho samo menus, and doos ho not-know that In the hiatory of tho Bonato, prior to tho last twolva yenrs, no such thing was ovor futimadod, oxcopt in tho caso of ouc Bountor who, at this timo, fa n membor of the hody ? Mr, Morton fraukly confosses in his spooch that tho not of tho last Congresn giving back- pay wea of o most “ dangorous” chnraator ; and that the monoey taken by the membors was a ‘'gift " to themuolves for which there was no considoration, Ifow many of tho 800 mon in tho two houses of Congress have refused tho money? Mr, Morton rejoicos that thoro is not now an habitual gamblor in Congross ; but ho is forced to admit that but very fow of tho 300 mombors of tho 1ast Congross havo had the do- coucy or honosty to roturn the $5,000 of publio money thoy won by passing tho Back-Pay. bill. Tho trouble, saccording to the Indiann Honotor, io that {ho public bave such bigh notions of ofiicial honosty that tho momber of COongross of & ho prosont day, though equelly honost with his predocessors, finds it difficult to keop up with public sonti- ment. Thus tho public sontimont that disap- proves of mombors of Cougresa sharing in tho §35,000,000 stolon by tho Crodit Mobilior Compa- ny {8 moro exacting thmn tho public sontiment that provailed from 1789 to 1861; tho samo public sentiment complaius that the liconse, sanction and oncouragomont given by Congrous, and tho Govornment gonerally, to all manner of frauds and poculations in tho Oivil Borvicois not only wrong iu itself, but has had a most domoralizing offect upon official integrity in the Statos and wmuuvicipalitios. At this timo thero aro in por- haps ten or fifteon States ofticors who aro de~ foultors ; all over the country there aro town, city, and county officors who havo practicod in municipal affairs tho loose morality and deflant irrosponsibility which is goneral in tho Nationnl eorvico ; and when Mr. Morton arraigns public sentiment s altogethor too high when it inslsts that all this shall be reformed, snd that tho country must leave tho correction of sll theso ovils to the Ropublican party, acting through ita caucugos and its Congressmen, he fails to do juntico to the intelligonco a8 woll a8 tho intog- rity of the peoplo at large, THE POLICE CONTROVERSY. Mr. Commiysionor Bhoridan has laid beforo the Common Council & serios of charges againsb Lolice Buperinteudont Washburn, and that body is roquested to resolva itsolf into a high conrt of impeachmont, and dovote the noxt six months to an invoatigatiou, in whieh the Commissioner ehall be prosccutor and Washburn tho prose- cated. The public aro heartily tired of this Shoriden and Washburn controversy, It has Dbeon disgraceful, disgusting, and demoralizing, The Police Departmont is a public institution entablivhed for the protection of public Interests, and Messrs, Sheridan and Washburn aro but comparatively unimportant persons compowing tho foreo. 1fud thers Loen one-tonth of the zexl displayed to promoto the public interests, in- vigorato the polico forco, oxecuto tho laws, and cultivate a propor spirit of subordivation from tholiead to the foot of tho departmont, that thero has beon shown to break down each other por- sonnlly and ofticinlly, theso mon would have proved valunble officers, An Mayor Medill raid, both tho Commisgioner and tho Superintendent are capablo of being valunblo oflicors, but this thoy can nover be 8o long as they aro porsonally and officinlly at war, and thoir timo {aken up in prosecuting and do- fonding accusations made by one against tho other. Lifo in not long enough to try the caueos of complaint botweon thoso offlcers, and it is to bohopod the Common Council will not ontor upon such a hearing, There will be an oloction for Mayor and Common Council in less than ninety days, and the publio will probably pass judgment genorally upon all these municipal questions, and, by tho election of a Mayor and Aldermen, provide for tho onforcemont of poaca in the Polico Department, and tho re-cstablishment of that discipline end ordor which was disturbed by the Klokko and Reno flasco. In the meantime, the publio would be rojoiced to know that Messrs. Sheridan and Washburn had postponed their porsonal grioy- ances and animosilios, and had for tho romainder of tho muuicipat year givon thoir oxclusive at- tention to tho prompt and earnest dischargo of thoir respeativo duties. The public want to hiear no more frowm oither of them concerning tho past. s — REDUCTION OF THROUGE FREIGHTS, Thero has been n gonoral raduction of throngh froights over all tho lines crossing Illinois from tho Wost to tho Tast. Tho Davenport (Iows) Democrat statos that, on Sunduy last, 350 loaded cars passad through tbat city with stock and grain for the Enat, whilo many {rains of empty carn passed Wontward. T'he causo of this is atated to bo tho reduction of through freights. IInd the schedulo adoptod under the Illinois law beou nadlicred to, there wonld have been a stoppage of businose. We yestor- day published n stutoment that the Iii- noig Central Iallroad was sending all tho availnblo ompty ears into Jows. The samo activity provails on all tho Weatorn lines, a8 Is shown by tho ariivals in Chicago. ITor many days tho racoipts of gran alono i this city hove oqualed 1,400 cars daily; to theso must bo added from 160 to 200 cars of Lo, cattle, nnd othier stock, and tho enra which bring potatoos and other produce, as woll as gonoral morchan- dive. Tho daily avernge numboer of cars reach- ing Chiengo i over 1,650, Tho schedules of freight charges ostablished by tho soveral companios aftor tho 1utof July hava hieen practically nbundoned ko far as throngh froights are coucorned, aund grain is now trans- ported to Chicago from the Missouri River for a8 small » sum as it would have cost under those tariffs to hnve brought it from poluts on the Il- linois sido of (ho Missinsippi to Chicago. The roduction of froights from tho Wost to tho Rast in general, and yestorduy thero was o largo ro- duction of tho rates of through freights from Now York to Ohicago and otber Wostorn points, Taking ndvantago of theso concessions, it iy very probablo-thnt thore will bo an hnmenso movemont of all kindu of freight within (he noxt thirty doys, Now that tho County Commisslonors havo re- consldered thelr ill-advised action in purchasing tho Ashland avenue proporty for n county hos- pital, It is to be hoped thoy will not punish tho publio by rofusing Lo select another site. MTho presont County Hospltal fs an intolorable nulsauce, It is not fit to bo used for any such purpose, and common humnnity demanda tho oroation of anothor hospital with the least possl- blo dolay. The Mospital Board havo united in rocommonding n site at onco conveniently lo- onted, and including n Inrge nres of ground, and ftiato bo Loped tho Commissionors will tako carly notion on tho aubjoot. THE IROQUOIS FARMERS’ PLATFORM, Tho Iroquois farmors, following tho politieal fashion of tho dny, have mot in convention, mada their nominations for county officors, and pro~ mulgated n declaration of thelr sontiments, which haa a good honest, raralring to it. In substanco, the rosolutions of tho Iroquols farm- ors aro not materially difforent from other resolu- tiona passod by tho farmors of the Weat, oxcopt that thoy covor tho ground of the now doparturo complotely, and aro exprossoed vory tongely and hoppily. Every issuo involved in the etrugglo TDotwoon monopoly bndanti-monopoly, and ovory reason for thorupturo of party ties and paat polit- ical afMlintions, is exprossed in tho Iroquols platform sucoinotly and oloarly, and ho who wiakos o atatoment in bricf of tho principlea notunting the farmors in their crusndo against political partlos and opprossivo oorporations, will find it in this platform, Tho first resolution providos a sottlomont of contosts between labor and capital in tho aphorism that overy man ehould earn tho pay ho recoives and recolve tho pay hio enrns,—nn oquipoise bolweon labor and capital which domands the bost work on the ono sido and oquivalont componsation on the othor; which givos to capital all that it pays for, and which gives to labor all that it deserves; and by which labor and wogos may bo proporly graded. Tho socond resolution oalls for thorough political roform, aud suggests tho menus by which it can bo aocomplished, and the only means,—namely, that it is the duty of every good man to participato in politics and oppose the nomination or election of every bnd man, ‘This advico from tho rural districts is specially epplicablo iu tho largo cities, whero good men havo horotofore left party nomiuations to tho bummors and scellawags by romaining awny from primary meotings, thus allowing tho lowest olemonts in the community to got control of tho party machinery and run it in tho intorecsts of their candidates up to the day of election, whon it is too lato to chango results, In the thixd, like thesccond, the farmersnot ouly state their griov- nnce, but theynlsosuggest theomoenans forromedy- ingit, and this, infact, is charactoristic of tho prac- tieal naturo of thoso resolutions from first to last., Oficlal intogrity is tho noxt roform, and this is to bo obtained by bringing offlcial dis- honesty boforo tho Courts without delay, and punisking 1t, tho necessity for which has alrondy been cloarly fhaientod by the immunity from ponal- ty which Crodit Mobilior Congrossmon nnd other participants in official frauds have onjoyed dur- ing tho past fow years. Tho rosolutions oppos- ing mouopolies, and domanding frao iron, steol, ealt, Inmbor, sugar, coffos, tea, woolen and cot- ton fubrics, aro so palpably right and just that thoy do not need omphasis, In rogard to rail~ ronds, the most valuable suggestion made in the rexolutions is, that railronds and railrond prop- erty shall bo assossed the same as real estato; in othor words, that the railronds shall not be nsucesod nccording to their dividend-producing ability, but according to the actual value of their property, just s one picco of real estato which may bo unproductive to its ownor is nssessed in the yamo manner aa tho adjoining pieco which may be romunerative. This is but common equily, and Lns alrondy beon domanded in Towa and Konsos, whero the ronds aro mot paying dividonds, Tho resolutions closo with an ap- propriate douunciation of the “snlmy-grab™ iniquity, and thus add one more telking blow to thoso which tho salary-grabbers aro ro- ceiying in overy part of the country, without reference to politica or locality. The Iroquois farmers are to bo congratulated that thoy have exprossed thoir views 80 well and so forcibly, and in 8o fow words, and it requires littlo fore- sight to see that tho candidates whom thoy bavo nominated upon this platform will sweop tho county mnoxt fall. The large numbor of farmers in attendance, tho carnostness and unanimity of their action, and the determined position thoy havo takon, rogardloss of political opinion or porty affilintions, shows that tho corruptions of the presont Admivistrntion, the dishonesty of oftico-holders, and gigantic monopolies of the protective tarifl, as well as the oppressions of Iargo corporations, havo at Inst renchoed that point whoro they will no longer be endured with- out an omphatic protest, at lenst. This protest tho Yroquois farmers have made in no uncertain mauner. —— THE CAUCUS IN WIBCONBIN, The letter published by Ar. A, AL Thomson, the editor of the Milwaukeo Sentinel, withdraw-~ ing from tho contest for the Republican nomina- tion for Lieutonant-Governor of Wisconsin though briof’ and uudomonstrative, tells tho samo old story of wire-pulling and log-rolling which precodes every polition] nomination, and which crnnot fail to disgust o man of sensitive uature, unschoolod in the tricks of the pot-house bummers, Thoaunouucement that Mr, Thomson would bo oue of tho candidates boforo tha Re- publican Convontion ealied out an nuusual prof- for of compliments and congratulations from tho pross of both purtios, and there was o vory goneral feoling in Wisconsin, and outsido the' Etato wherever any intorost is taken in Wiscon- sin politics, that tho nomination of Afr. Thom- son wonld Lo o desorved compliment to the #orvice hobnd dono, and sceure to tho Btato an oficient public oficor, Aen who ro- coivo ~ nponteucous and goneral attestation of confidonco whan their namea aro mentioned in connection with o political ecandidature aro oxtromoely rare now-a-days, and it would ho a natural conelusion that such men should not bo raquired to resort to tho usual bumming process necosnary to conciliato tho eaucus, Exporionco in muny cases Lins proved tho contrury, oud Mr. Thomuon's caso {a only confirmidtory of the lovoling tondoncy of politics. But Mr, Thom- son iy ovidently ono of a atll emallor number of men who rofuse to be dragged into tho gutlors and sloughs of caucus politics, In aunouncng Lis intontion not to como bafora the Convention for a nomination, Lo unys: I have now decided to decline to bo congidered any longor acandidato for any honors which that Couvention can bestow, but leave tho wny open to thoso whowo tasle oullsts them to do tho work which {s. nocosunry to insure suo- coss." This tolls the whole story. It botrays nouo of tho rancor of & soro-head. Tho declara- tion is medo Dboforo the assombling of the Convontlon, The flold was slill open to Mr, Thomson; and, with tho influence which would bave como to Lis oause from disin- terestod persons, it i3 probable that ho might oaally have socured the nomination for Licuton- ant-Covernor if lio had consented to the usual domands medo upon party candidates. I i nod nocosnary to deseribe what thono are, Thoy aro nlrondy too woll known., .Wo congratulate Mr, Thomson upon tho course ho hes taken, It othor respootablo citizens would imitato his oxample in slmilar casos, it would bo for tho wultimato politiesl good of the whole country, It is trua that tho publio offices, for the time boing, would he confided oxclusive- ly to the bummor olomout, which . composoy the strongth of tho onucus, but tho popular rovolt againat the syatom wonld como all tho noonor on this acconnt. As Mr, Thomson says and doon, * Lanvo tho way open o thoso whosa tasto onlista them to do tho work which i Teo0s8ATY tomnure succoss” boforo o party-convention, and tho timo will como whon thero will bo such n domand for good citizons in publie placos that the oaucus, whothor Republiean or Domocratio, will have to glvo way to tho preasuro, ITHE ANTL.BUTLER CAMPAIGN, A dinpateh which comos from ‘Washington given on nccount of what is roprosonted to bo the programmo adopted for the dofoat of Gon. Batlor in tho Republican Btato Convention of Muassachusotts. If tho dispatch correctly repro- gonts tho situation, tho opposition tactics aro not more oroditable than thowo which Butlor himsoit has ndopted. Tho statomont is mado that thoro hns beon o meoting at the Now York Sun offico, in- ¢ ich several Massnchusotta gentlomen participatod ; that n largo sum of monoy was thoreupon guarantood for tho purposo of buying off Butler dologates to tho Convention; and that a dotoctive named Wood has boon ongaged to manipulate tho funde, It ia algo snid that somo of tho leading Ropublican morchants of Massachusetts have contributed to this corruption fund, and that many of the Butlor delegates havo alrondy beon Lought over. It is just possiblo that Gen. Butler hias onused this programmo to bo promulgated in order to croato sympathy, and to rally his friends moro closely about him, This-would bo tho natural offect of such an announcoment, and no one doubts that Gon, Butler is both ingenious and unscrupulous enough to dovelop a plan of this kind, On tho other hand, tho political practices of the day warrant just such tactics an tho anti-Butlorites aro reported to have adopted. ‘While tho caucus Is recognized as final and ab- solato, the only hope for an opposition within n party ia to control the cauens, In order to con- trol the caucns, it is necessary to adopt the ways and means by which & caucus can ho turned from its purpose. Those ways and monns aro procisoly what aro described in this alleged anti- Butlor programmo, We do mnot hesitate to say that, if Gon. Butler is to bo dofonted in tho Massachusotta Convention in the manner indicated, his dofoat will bo s great a scandal, sod Lring about just as serions results, aa if Lo should be nominated and clectod. Tho opposi- tion to Gen. Butlor is brsed upon his reputation 88 a corrupt politienl practitionor. MHe slunds conspicnous befors the whole counlry as tho typo of the political guorrilla of to<dny. Ho is the chawpion enlary-grabber, tho dofouder of Credit Mobilior, aud the leader who, moro boldly thon all the others in the Ropublicen party, stands by the party right or wrang. It isnot necossary to examiuo at this time wheth- er Cen. Butler really desorves his bad roputation. It is enough that ho has it, and that tho mefority in all parties balieve that ho is entitled to it. Thero aro certain leadors of the Republican party in Massachueofts who think that Gen. Butler ought not to be elected Govor- nor of DMassachusotts ou this account. They think that such an event will be damaging to the intorests of tho parly throughout the country. This is probably true. But, if, in order to defent Gen. Butler, they cdopt the same pernicious policy which hay rondered hint odious in tho sight of lonest pooplo, thoy either show that tho whole political system of tho day is modeled on Butler's plan, or thoy betray a vicious wil- linguess that it shall become so. If Gen. Butlor hos gone about through Massachusotts and bought up delegates to tho Ropublican Conven- tion, and if the Republican party of Mossachu- setts is in a condition whero it can e controlled in this manner, the opponents of Gen. Butler will not bettortha situstion by adopting the same plan of oporations. Thoy may succeed thoreby in sccuring the nomination of a less objectionablo ecandidete than Gon. Lntlor, but thoy will also have established tho dangerous precedent that Lomest can- didntos can only bo scctwed bt tho hands of tho Republican party by the employ- mont of dishonost moans. At this rato, the liouest men in tho party will soon bocome dis- honest, and tho cnnpaign agriust Butler ropro- sents no prineiple, We strongly suspeot that this is the truo con- dition of things in Massachusotts at the presont timo. Gon. Butlor's oppononts have gone to work the wrong way, evon if the latest charge ngainst them is false. Thoy Lave acknowlodged tho absoluto power of tho caucns to be- gin with. It is well kuown that Gon. Butler's porsoual adheronts are found among the Democrata as woll as among the Repub- lionus, It has boon known all along that his mnin reliance was upon the control of the pri- maries, and that ho has adopted means thereto which houost men cannot imitato, Yot the domi- nation of party on both sides is so sirong that the ioneat mon of neither parly bave dared to como forward with tho purposo of Lrosking down tho corrupt political system which givos Gen. Butler the advantsge over beiter men. “hore is no sense of duly plainor than that which suggosts Lo a good citizon the proprioty of aban- douing any party whosoleadership and organiza- tion have become corrupt, If both the Ropublican aud the Democralic partics are contributing to Dutlor's success i Massachusetts, which sooms to bo tho case, theu there shonld be no eftort to fuave the party " by tho ndoption of domoraliz- ing nnd corrupting tacties, In that caso, thoro 11 no party worth saving, and, i thore woere, tho means proposed would have tho offect of wtill furthor dograding instend of olovating it, The simplo fuct is that if Qon, Butler rocolves tho nominntion and gols olected, and tho ono s prolty sure to follow tho othor, {ho peoplo of Massachusotls gouerally, and those who ack with tho Republican party in particulnr, are to btamo for it. If party spivit has tuken so strong a hold upon tha poople that demonstrated corruption cannat conntoract it ; if Ropublicans would rathor votoe for Butlor at tho hoad of the Ttopubtican tickat than tovoto ngainet tha parky ; it tho leading minds of Massachusotts can dis- cover no brondor plan for defenting Gen, But- lor than by fighting him with Lis own dirty wenpony, then Gon, Butler ought to be eleoted, snd the moro DButlers who succoed the soonor wo may hopo to soe the people come to their HOLHOK, Tho Btate ot Nobrasks Las no B-I.loh officor ns an Adjutant-Genoral, The Omaha Herald insists thak such an ofticor is nocossary lulordor 0 biavo a comploto Ropublican form ot governmont, and- urgoa {hat the Loglslaturo croato tho ofiics, or Congross, honring of tho omission, may oxolude the Nobraska delogstion from the Seuato sud ouso of Ropresontntives, ——— Tho Adininistration party aro atruck dumb with natonislimont at the political Ingratitudo of the ox-guorrills, Monby, Aftor having accopted him 2y o firnt-class Republican withoutquestion, aud, fu thelr dolight over tholr now convert, show- orod privileges of all eorts upon lim and allowed him to donl out officen to nll his frionds, tho un- gratoful bushwhacker turns round and supports tho Democratic nominoe for Governorin Vir- ginia. Tho Administration party, howover, have tho conmolation of knowing that it is not tho only cnso on rocord whoro & vipor has beon warmed boforo a hospitable fir, and thon turned round and stung tho hond of his benofactor. As Mosby, however, waa quito well known whon tho Administration ploked him up and ndopted him, and as it accopt- od him without quostion or plodge, whilo it roundly beratod or summarily suppreased overy othor ox-Confadornte who {dentificd himsolf with other parties, thoro is no particnlar reason why any sympathy shonld bo wasted upon tho Ditten, or any consuro should Lo lavishod upon tho bitor. Most poople, on the othor band, will bo inclined to- rogard tho suddon dash into {ho Ropublican linos, the capturo of fat officos and plundor cnough to nccommodato his frionds, and tho subsoquont easy oscapo, as one of tho most brilliant episodes in Mosby's caroer, nnd cortainly much moro succossful than anything ho did during the War. From this standpoint, tho plaintive whino of the Admiuistration orgen in Washington is amusing, * Is this bushwhacker to do ns hio pleases in both political partics 7" o has ovidently dono a8 ho pleased in tho Ro- publican party, and the Republican party is ovidontly not ploasiod with what he has dono; which comos of kooping company with bush- whackors. i ——— The peoplo of Town Lave been informed of- ficially that on the 17th of Soptombor they will be addrensed by n largo number of public mon, upon political quostions, and that tho samo gon- tlomon will continue tonddress tho peaplo of that Btate up to the timo of tho election. An cxami- uation of tho list shows that tho following per- fong wore mombots of the last Qongross, nnd took their ‘““Dback-pay": Sonator George @. Wright, ex-Sonator James Harlan, and Topresontatives F. W. Palmer, and Jackson Orr, It sppears, aléo, that of theso orators, who are to address the people upon the subject of economy aud reform, the following aro now drawing 8625 por month, or $20 por day from the National Treasury under the fiction that thoy are serving Uhe public in Congross at Washington. The gentlomon who aro (hus paid £20 o day by, tho Govermnont for tho timo spent in mnking spoeches in Iows aro: George W. MeCrary, Henator G. W. Wright, I, O. Pratt, John A. Knsson, A. R, Colton, James Wilson, W. Lough- ridge, J. W. McDill. Tho old rulo wna for the “‘party” to raiso monoy {o huro speeches ; undor tho new rule, the speakers are paid $20 por day out of tho National Trengury, Prince Jeromo Napoloon hes made o stirring appeal to Marshal MacMalion to have his army rank 08 General of Division recognized. He bages his claim upon the decres of the lato Em- poror, appointing him to this rauk, and mukes this 88 prominont that ho was evidontly not overcome by nwe for any Republican tendoncics which Lo could recognizo in the prosont Government of Frauce, DPorhaps he romom- bored that it is by virtuo of o similar deereo that MacMahon ia both Marnhal and Duke, bothof which titles Lie retains under tho Ropublican Government. It is rathor singular, howover, that Prince Napoleon is induced to mako this appeal by seeing his namo left off the nvmy register, If this was the first intimation Lo Lind that hie was no longer o Geueral of Divi- sion in the Trench army, tho inforonce is that the duties of that position ss discharged byn member of tho Napoleon family are not very onerous. NOTES AND OFINION. Tho Carpontor-Raukin cliquo, at Des Moines, appesr no lees anxious than the Mahony-Du- buquo oliquoe for o etan-gathering of “puro Do~ macracy,"” in Towa, to nominate a Stato tickoet. Mahony wants his to bo ut Cedar Rapids, Sopt. 9, n8 a side-show to the Stato Fuir. The Des Moines Postmustor rather dolicately hints Sopt. 15, at Des Moines ; and, & telogram to {hat ofToct having appeared in this papor, tho Dos Moines Zeader says: Thomas Jeflerson Seovers was hore and coneulted with the editors of the two radical papers u thls elty, and each gavo hin handsomo personal notices, 1t I8 possiblo that {his was the eocret caucus roferred to fu hils dispateh, and that thess woro tho prominent Dem- acrata, 1t Wik “Cniuune witl enll upon its corrospond- ent for oxplicit fuformuation, it will do ita roaders in Towa justico, 'I'ne TrisoNE will gladly print guch “expliolt Information ” if furninhed with it. —Ty thore another Yort Snelling divido on tho tapis in Mivnosota? The St. Yaul Dispatch BRys If those thirty-six or forty lhoumand aeres of the most vuluable piie land in the Hitato could oaly bo s cnred for tho pite-laud viug on' principles of equity,” whut u plondid Lalf million steal would bo or'oeted, Hunstor ey §8 the usn to do it, Lo s grout on “principles of equity,” —Wao quote from the Poorin Transeript : Tho Burlington IHuaiws-Eye is not pluased over tho nnnouncement. that the 1on, John A, Logan, of this titatg, it to epeals in the Towa canvans thla fall, Ttsays that until John A, purjes himaelf of tho backepuy Infamay, 4 a poaker fus the Repullicans, bo had botter Do inviled Lo ntay on Lis own ldo of tho rivor, Good for tho Hawk-ye, ~IT thera is one thing upon which the people of Wisconsin know neither division of soutiment nor indifiercuco of feoling, and sbout which they cherish no other cmotion than thet of utlor nbomination,—ihat thing is tho aforesnid ealary- yrob—Mlilwaukee Seatinel, - —1ho gonoral roprobafion which the salry- grab hns mot with {8 ono of tho best signe, in conneetion with the disgust at tho Credit Mo- biline seandnl aud other corruptions, that the Jrovplo thoweolves aronot corrupted,—Baltimore Sun, —Wo beliovo that no man who accopts tho Tiack-pay is worthy of the contilenco of tho peoplo, or fit to be” trusted with tho important Tttt olegated by the pooplo to thoir ropres sontativen nt Washington,” And, so far as wo nre coneornod, wo monn theso romarks for all— high snd low.—Albany Express, —T'ho peoplo will not botiove that the sorvices of & Representutivo whould bo paid forat a highor rato than Lhoso of ten good clerks or me- chanies. ‘They do not bolieve that the position of their logislativo servants should bo mado one npocially valuable und to be sought for on the hasiy of fab pay. Thono who protend to think differently and affect to snecor at the judgmont of the pooplo in this matior will have a good chunco to llcm-n the averugo weight of thoir pop- ulm’}ly woxt wintor.—Grand Lapids (Mich.) Lagle. —iAbonf. the funnjost thing that ono can think of Ju tho contemplation of the manner in_ which somo of our little peuny-whistle conntry Repub- lican papors in whimsleal, bogging toues, ubuse Congressiuen for the ** sulury-grab,” when Grant's homo organ—his month-piece (the Washington Chronicle) dofonds it, This slieot pronounces tho nct 8 wholosomo one, and so does overy other Republican who has wndertaken to oxplain awey the llth and corruption that at- tachoy to the Radical party, T'lioy know very woll that they ure 1'0&_11011&11!»]0 for the salury- uteal, and are andeayoring to make pooplobaliave it wus honor Ont upon such dovilish seoundrolism |—MeLeansboro (JIL) Times, —Wo know of uo roason why the Presidont should not travol iu tho wnmo Domt with ¢ tho & prabbom.” o prabbed moro than any, and s fon grentor degrea responuibla for tho oxfstonca of tho law than any acora of Congronsmen, ilo could. have killed tho bill at any moment. He could havo votoed it aflor Its passago. o didn't do either, yot other men aro denounced and ho 10es weok fro0 w0 far as tho Rndieal prpors aro concornod, It sooma tous that if thonof who votod for the bill nreto ho broken upon the whool tha Presidont ought to share similar 1iato for im}:nmng to it upproval and vatldity,— Jouisville Courier-Journal, —** It wag thoso nauglity Domocrats," sny the Ropublican aalary-grabbors ; and 6o sny tho Ro- publican legislators of Illinoly, in rogard to the nko-front-stonl investigation, — Zloomington® (I1.) Anté-Monopolist, ~Wo malke no oxcises, neithor_ attempt any paliiation of tho Domocratic mombors who con= tributod to thin thoft, Their votes could not havo dofented tho mennure, but their concur- ronco hns made oortain tholr consignment to privato lifo wo loug na honost men nro pormitiod :o voto for public sorvante,—Illinois State Regise ors —Tha Chippewn Zerald, ono of tho trnost and ablest roprasentativon of tho Graut party in Wit~ cousin, boldly defends the suloary-grabbers, and bittorly donounces their asanilants, It fa mot willing, howevor, that the Ropublican porty should shonlder tho rosponsibility of ¢hin moses ure, and snys: *“This quostion of back-pay ia not'a Bom.lonl one; &4 far as that i concernod, moro Domocrats voted for it than Republicans, ‘That would only prove, howover, that thero ware moro sonsiblo” Domoorata than Republicans,” Tho nu[;uhllcnn party connot bo roliovad of ity rospousibility for this gigantio stoal by such pitls ablo pleas as that.—Madison ( Wis.) .gcmocrul. —Ropresontatives are not mastors of the people. Tho foul stain of ingratitudo and falso atowards | ship disgracefully attachos to Sonators and Cone prossmen by their Oredit Mobilier complicil hack-pay, nnd ndvauce-pny robhory ; ufid t most henrt-slckoning reflection to all' honorahla Republicans and Domoorats, s thalr violated confldenco and trust in Prosidont Grant,—John Abbot, in Pike County (1il.) Democrat. —Tlo roins ot governmont havo long boen hold by n class of political hucksters, whoso only aim bins boon to pillago the Trossury, . . ‘tho_old partion ouglit to die, Jived thoir usofalnoss, Tho timo hna como for achango. Tower bas hoon abused alike by Re- Iml\llcmm and Demacrats, Their misdoeds Linve hoon auch ns ought to conaign them to oblivion, J. MelKinslyy, in Morrison (1) Independent, —Thero has boon n grand Awakoning—tho l{Mph‘ havo cast down thoir party idols ; and, to- (ay, mon of all partios unito to donounco' the domoralization, extravagance, weakness and cor- ruption of tholr whilom pnrly-loaders and tho organizations which thoso londera havo prosti- tuted to thoir own golilsh onds, IHonco this f;mn upriging which is sweoping throughout the ;'qglh and brondth of our land.— Vatseka [¢UD)] Thay have out- nes, 5 —Wa woro awaro that thoro was in other por- tions of our Stato o daop-sioated fecling in re- gard to tho question involved in what is known g tho Favmers’ Movemont, but wo found in much more no right horo o homo thau wo bad oxpoctod.—Piltssicld (1ll.) Democral. —Harvest homey, barbtenoy, ole.,.aro now the order of the day among the farmord of Illinois, At theso mootings anli-manopoly #poochos arg mado, and anti-monopoly rasolutions are passed, and tho participants and nrcnkam ara_ahout cqually composcd of Republicans and Domo- crats, Tho baudwriting on the wall in Ilinois ia tolorably plain—Cuiro (1) Democral. . —Tho Mattoon Journal {s attompting to ina juro thoFnrmera’ Movoment by fighting ovor ngain tho battles of thowar, . , . Tho cam« paign is nmow upon present iseucs, It im tho Grant party, with its riugs, monopolios, Lhigh taxiff, snlary-grabbing, and thiovivg, that is on trinl ; and {he man s wimply s fool Who ailows his mind to bo biaged b{ such silly stull us ap-~ vonrs in tho Jowrnal. ‘What the farmers and ln- Doring men generally want now is tho arrost and punisbent of the thioves—thoso scoundrola who aro not only robbiug thom of their hard onraings, but of liborly itsolf.—afatioon (lil) Commercial,” ~Like overy othor post-offico organ in the country, tho Cilizen is opposod to the Farmers Movement, aud has commenead to enst slurs ré it in n roundabout way, Our noighbor recs the haudwriting on the wall, and ig trombling for fear of tho final overthrow of his party,—Kush- ville (IU.) Times. —Tha people hiave lost confidenco in the Ro- pubtican organization, and are detormined ta ovorturn, overlurn, OVENTURY, until that organ. izntion comes which will rule’ in uprightuesy.— Albany (N, Y.) Argus. =Wo beliovo that the peopls of this counts will riso up this fall ‘nnd broak iy from oil party tios, and olectgood mon to offico, It looks thnt way fo us, and wo aro disposod to oncourago such independonco, Indopondouce in the bost avidenzo of manhood and’ houesty,—Burlington (Towa) Gazelte. —Lhere iy still, wo firmly boliove, honosty, virtuo, nud patriotism suflicient in tho conutry, which, if combined, would rid the Republic of the Grant incubus that has paralyzod T ooin yios, and in fast crushing oug its lifo; but, it 19 the old fable of tho bundlo of switches ; a roform mcoting liere, a Demoeratic combination thoro, & new departure somowhore elso. T'heso are oli tho scattered switches; lot us gathor thom to- gethor, and with their 'united strongth whip tha Urantism from the high placos it hag deflled, and restoro the Republio to hewlth and vigor.— Novilucestern Chronicle, St. Panl, Minn. ~Tho catling, and cspecinily the manner of tho calling, of the New York Republican State Con- vention at Utica to_suit Mr. Conkling’s couveni- onco, has caused a littlo unplensantucss t Syra~ cuso, Tho Syracuso Jourual, tho Administra- tion orgnn thore, unys: “Wo notico that n tele- gram from the Chairman of the Stato Commit- too to o Utica hotel propriotor inquiring about tho procuring of a hell for the Couvontion, was duted nt Loug Branch beforc tho Committeo- meeting was hold; and from this fact it would roem that tho pinco was designated in advanca of tho Committoo's action, We trust there will be no effort made to designale the State ticket at Long Brancl or clsewhere, in advance of the ac- tion'of the Couvention,” So! Is tho collar of Conkling, Coruell, Alurphy & Co. Loginning to gall tho wheel-horsos of tho Ropublicnn machino 2 1t looks like it.—Rochester (N. Y.) Union. —Secrotary Richurdson's logio is peeulinr, Ho onys ho dues not teko tho trouble to deny, officially, slatements mado ngainst the Treasury Department, * as experionco shows that othery will bo devinod as fast ns doninls appear.” This iy o uniquo way of shelving an nceusnlion,—s?, Louis Dispalch. —Socretnry Bolknap simply approved of the roport of thik [Fort Suelling] Commission. Tho whole mattor was thereby wottled, tho Unitod States rotnining 1,621 20-100 acren, and convey- ing the bulunce to tho purchnsor. ‘Fhts seemin to bo the Lost disposition of the n matter that could have beon made, so fav s fots Lave como to lij ht.—])uven‘mr[ Gaztle—organ. —Witkneas, The political and moneyed suso- cintious of the United States have becomo cor- rupted by n morbid desira to prospor at the ox- ronse of tho people, nud are daily, by corrupb ]bglfilntion o combinations, heaping upou the toiling millions burdens that must ut- timatoly rosult n their_onslavement to a politi- enl and monoyed aristocracy, &e.—ZLarmers near Kansas Cify, Mo. —1t ia the opinion of home very intolligent men that the monopolies in_this country will bo rblo to trample down and ride ovor tho laboring men of this conntry—ibat it is too Inle now to commenco & war upon the bondholding monopo- Tios of (ho East. But It is our impression that, before nnother half yoar expiros, thoy will ar- rivo at auothor conelusion,~—Sullivan (1l1.) Lragress. —Wo aro constantly mot by the questions: “Woll, what ure yon gomng to do about it?" It i3 their atock, is'L it? Iave thoy not as much right to control their mounoy, wherever it i, ny nuy othor mon hnve to contral their money, in- vosted iu othor enterprisos?” Wo reply that it is our duty to keep tho people advised of tho fnots touching thexo quostions, and to favor much romedis a8 may sicom logal, 1T corporato cnpi- 1] in no entrenchod thet it control s fmpracti- cable, and oppronsive oxactions avo insstod up- an, it will vo &n ordor to disenss the proyiety of* Liaving the poople own some of tho railweys.— Madison (1 'i.‘lVS Journal, . —To tlio mombers of tho Illinols Board ot Tqunlization the oyes of the wholo Btato nre turnod, and thoy cannot shivk their duty. }Horo iwa proporty within tho Btate, shown by its lmmlu and stoclk in all tho murkols of the worli to ho worth 250,000,000, and puying intorostand dividends oqual to7 or 8 per cont on this im- monke whivh interoat {s paid bi' tho citizous and proporty-holdors of Illinois, This property niust pay its honest, fair proportion ot ourtaxes, 4y o antiro pooplo of Lhis State domand it ; nud, should thoro bo any hesitation in securing such toxation, tho political aud socin) ruin of tho :;nu hou{imLiug would bo completo.—2ilinois ournal, ;i —It is doplorabla to witness tho groat and #uddon doprociation of railway property in this Btato. Not\xlnlg Lilio it has eyer before been ox- poriouced, aud railwny princes must fall back upon their respective ounntf' poor-houses, Of ihin dopreciation, the Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy Road is an ||||lmp5\y illustration, Bofore [ l.ug{nlnllvu committoeo, last wintor, wasshown, upon _unquostionable authority—thie honor of Bupotintendont Murris—that it cost 847,000 por mllu to build that road, Now, for the purposo of taxation, tho proprictors of the road lLiave ale discoverad thut tholr track and rond bed aro worth £2,850 por milo, What a fall is thoro, my countrymon |—Bloominaton Teader,