Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1873, Page 4

) of CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1873, TERMS -OF THE TRIBUNE: TRMMA OF AUNAONITTION (PATADLE IN ADVANOE)., Dally, by 312,00 Sunday,, LR R 111 Wepkly' Tarts of n yoat ab o samo sate.. Yo prosent dpiny and mistaken,'be wire and give Post Ot co nddrban 1 full, ‘Including Stato and County, Remittances sny bo mado olther by ileaft, oxpro Ofies vator, ot th vegietered lottors, at wue tiake TERMB TO OITY RUNRCRIDKRH. Daily, dolivored, Sunday excanton, 2 conte por wook. Dally, ocliserod, Bunday fncluded, R conts por wook, Addrusn . TH1K TRIBUNI COMPANY, Cornge Madison aud Denrboru-sva., Ubloago, Tl it sty TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MOVIOKER'S THHEATRI~Mndinon, botweon Doar: »orn and State. ' Romanco of & Poor Young Man,™ QLOBR THIEATRE—Depplatnos stroot, botwaon Mad. gon and"Wanlingon, . Jack Larkairay Aflost aud stioro. ™ WIOOLEY'S, THEATRE—Randolph_ntroat, botweon [inck aul LaSalle. "**Uhookianto,™ ** Wauted 1,00 Mil- noes, " MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE—Monras strast, botwoon DT A e e " Bouan & Kombio's Biiowtrats, T Di-Voreod. " BUSINESS NOTICES. s TR 1A ‘A SURR RXTRR- o T N i, Bird v, aad Al baloful insgate. The: Chicagoe Tribune, Fridey Morning, August 20, 1873, ITho Innd of this Stato Is assonsod by tho Btato Bonrd of Equstization at an avorago of $22.88 an noro improved, and £8.47 unimproved. P —-—EY Tho extont of the roligious pllgrimages in Frauco, which have furnished so curious n spec- tacle in the Iast fow months; ia shown by the roturns of the Fronch railronds, who report that thoy have #old 300,000 tickeis to roligious pil-' grims, L A soclal rounion of tho farmors of Maxshall County, Tilnois, took placo yostorday in Sugar Grove, at Whiteflold. Two thousand of the yeo- manry were presont with their familics and do- voted tho day to fostivitios and ligtoning to.ad- drosuen on tho much-yexed questions of tho day. Sovoral of tho Towna railrond robbiers aro stated positivoly to.be in Lafayotto County, Missourl. They have boon soen by thoso who know them &t both Dover and Loxington.. Thoy appoatod in tho Iatter place fouwr days ago sud paraded themuelvos in tho streots, but no ono dared to arrost thom, . ' An English firm axlibiting at, Vienna have rofused to rocoivo a-medal awarded thom. Their reason for this rofussl J8 .not mentioncd. Tho charges of corruption Intoly made sgaiust tho judges of tho Expoaition may havo somothing to do with i, but it is morelikely to bo a cliaracter- fstic British grow at Lisving Taited to recoivo tho.| Dighest prizo. S e e i i Tho national-dvbt hins hosn reduced 9250,000, 090 in tho thros years. which: kava olapeed siuco July 1, 1870, During tho Ingt yiosr tio reduction s beon on'y ene-fifth this sum, or 48,667,530 Tecelpts from taxation, both customs and intor- nal, are deereasing. Tho former lnst year was £90,000,000 less than {n'tho proceding yoar, sud the Inttor was $17,000,000 loss. - o publish ihis morning o numbor of dis- patehes trom the interior of this State npd tho lower part of Tows, showing the coudition of the corn crop. The goneral tonor of our information {s that tho érop s o poor -ono and bolow the averago. The most favorable returns are made from points along tho Jine of the Illinois Qontral Ralliond, but tho majority of tho districta along that road, in the contro of the Stato and in South Contral Tows oxpect ap inforior yiold, fhe storm that recently ravagod Ialifax, N. 8., aud the whole northanstern const, was tho most torrible that has visited that country in yoars. Wharves, railways, bridges, barns, and houses have been wnshed away or benten down by the storm in every direction. Vossela Lave, boon wrecked by acores in Halifax harbor, Over fifty are nshoro in Cow Bay, and fully ono hun- In a short timo coneumors would bo begging thom' to-opon, and would bo willing to pay any prico tho farmnras chorp to anl, The Chiongo produce. markets wore nctivo ' 'yostordny, oxcopt in provialons, and very irreg- ular. Mogs pork way -dull aud steady, at £10.00@10.12% cash nud sollor September, Lard was more aotive abd steady, at 75,0 por Ih for wintor, aud 75(@173{c for summer rendered. Moats woro quiot and unchavged, at 7}g@8e for shoulders; 9}¢@0¥o for: ahiort middlos, -And 04@113{0 for swoot picklod hams, . Lake, froighis, woro quiot and unchangoed, ot 7a for corn to Duffalo. IIighwinos -wora quict nt tho ndvanca of Wednesdsy ab §1.00 por gallon, TFlour was quoted nc- tiva and & shado firmor. Whoat was active and advancod 90, closing at 8123 cash, and 81184 @ 1,139 sollor Scptombor, Corn was logs notivo and 3o lowor, closing &t 80Jo cash, nnd 4134 sollor Ootober. Oats wore highor, but closed tamo ot 2830 cash, and 3730 sollor Soptomber, Ryo was moro active, aud closed 20 higher, at 690, Barloy was quict and steady, closing at 21,13 cnsh, and $1.10 scllor Soptembor, Ilogs ‘wore active and flrm at about Wodnoaday's prices, or at $4.20@4.75. . Tho cattlo and shoep markets woro quiot and unchanged. A paper published in Bloomington, In this Btato, publishos a numbor of * golutions * of the diffienltios undor which farmors labor just now, {o the oxcossive cost of transportation, and in tno coat of all things thoy havo to buy. Ono of theso solutions is, that a portion of the capital now invested in farme, and in Incrensing tho amount of grain raised in tho country, shall bo employed in tho mavufacturo of salt in the southern part of this Btate, *“#o a8 to retain and ‘bring into the State annually n million of dol- lats.” Balt was made, in limitod quantities, in the southern part of this State, »nd in Kentucky halt o contury ngo. As soon ns salt could be bronght into_tho State for less monoy than it could bo obtained for in Illinois and Ken- tucky, the sali-works were nbaqdonnd, ond tho ownors wont into somo other moro profitabld business. When salt can bo made in Illinois and sold and delivered for loss monoy than it costs to got it oleewhore, thon tho manufacturo of ealt in, Illinois will bo rosumed. Tutting monoy Into tho manufacture of salt that oan be sold-at a profit, is ong thing ; but to put monoy into the manufacturo of salt whon it will cost as muich to produco one bushol at tho works o4 will purchase threo bushels at the placo of cousumption, is Lardly such a menauro as can bo fairly .considered profitablo. It is truo that, if wnlt' could. bo produced hers snd sold . for §6. n barrel, nnd it tho Stato of Iilincis had -tho powor to lovy siich n tax on'all salt brought into tho Stato that it ‘conld not bo sold for less thon - €8, n barrel, {ho manufaoturo . of domentio galt would bo profitablo to the manu- faoturar, but would be rathor opprossivo upon . tho' pallio -generally, , who, in. the absonco’of such tox, might purchaso salt for $2.50 n barrol. That is procisely what Congrees hins done in tho ease of various other things equal- 1y necossary a8 salt, Until last yeor Lho'tax on galt was over 100 per cont. Tho tax at+this timo onall woolen:goods Tanges from GO to 80 per cant ;_on ootton goods from:25-to 60 por--cout ; on leatter- goods from 85 £o 40" por cont; steol goods from 50 to 80 per cent. Tho poople of Illinois pay this tax on their conts, pants, shuwls, blankete, hatsand caps, and on thoir shirts, dawors, shoots, calicocs, and all other_articlos of chthing ; on their boots and shoes, harness and boring ; on their horse-shoes, wagon-tires, andall obor articlos| of ‘iron or steol ; all Of which taxesaro vory pyofitabls to the manufacturer, hut are sxcoodingly oppres- sivo €0 thoso who have to pay such incroased pricos in corn at'20 cents n bushal, Increasing the'cost of living is not the Wayéo malio pro- duction profitable. HISTORY OF THE SALARY-GRAD. * Warrivgton,"” the Wushington corresinnd- ent of the Bpringfield Republican, hus been dred are bolioved to bo stranded on tho shores of Capo Breton. The crops havo not suffored less terribly, Within o radius-of 200 milesall the fruit ticos nro strippod. Tho loss of life seoms miraculously small, ns 18 shown by the fact that but one soul porished in the fifty shipwrocks at Cow Bay. . The rofueal of tho Hon, S, L. Muntingdon to xppoar bofora_ tha Rayal- Clemmiasion appointed | * by the Dominion Government'to take charge of the Pacifio Railway Investigation, has orouted great excitomont in Canada. Mr. Huntingdon wos the mover of the Parliamentary investiga- tion, nad oceuplos In tho present crisls the posi- tion of champion of Purlinmontary righta. He 15 applauded by al its adhorents, and tho Gov- crmuent is threntoned with sometliing worso than words it it attempt to' compel him to at- tend. On tho othor hiand, tho followora of , the Govornment assiert that the Rloyal Commission” has power to arrest this contumacious witness, and will uso it to ferco him to toll what he Jinows. . Tho only singular-thing about Benc's cap- {uro is that, in'#o populous a State as this, and in & community where lie was so woll known, it should hayo taken two weeks to ferret him out. + Auothor civoumstance that roflocts lttle. credit on tho profassions] erimic-bunters ia that the arrost wna made by o fatmer, . who suceooded “whon “all the | doleotives failed. Boano, adting no doubt under tho advico of counsol, refuses to give the public any informa~ tion about his part in the Sag collivlon. Our re- porter bas elicitad from tho porson who made the arrost tho reason which Boane had “given him, Ttis thatho did not romembor ho was runuing on tho timo of the oxpress until. after hio had started. Ieatonce in grout alarm or- derad the brakes to ba put on, and,whilo this waa Leing done, thio collision veourred, Aorrison, Whiteeide County, the ‘most popu- 1ous farming connty of tho” Stato, was tho scone of & Inrge’ farmors' pionic yesterday, Fully 5,000 farmers wero in sttendance, and spent the day in quiet social intorcourse, Thoy wore ad- dressod by s numbor of spoeakors, who ranged ovor all the political and Industrial problems tho farmors ara ruminating upon. One of theso @nid, in roferonco to tho question of a ‘mew party, that the Republican organization liad dovo well tho wortk it hud to -do, and, it " "hsd any ‘work ' still to do, It could not bo killed, ut, if ita mission was accomplighed, then lot it die. Another fApeakor touched on tho subject of combination to withhold produco from thomarkots. The pork- packors, he eaid, mot and fixed tho prico of pork, and the furmers bind to dccopt it If thoy wonld follow the sntne means they could govern pricos in the same way, All that tho producdrs’of tho studylng the Congrossional Glole, and, in ton. neotion with . his porsonsl observation ab the timo, bas published s very comploto history of tho salary-grab bill from it incoption to its finul passogo. - Tu ronding it, tho iuforonco would bo .that it had-been propared with tho oxpross pur- poso of showiug .tho full oxtent of Butler's ro- spousibility for the grab. It is proba- ble, however,. that..no accurato and com- plete history-of tho moasure could bo propared which would not give tho prospective Governor of Massachusotts tho most covspiouous placo in the movoment for inorensing Congrossional sala- rios with n rotrosctive clauso, Bubler himsolf, in his Framingham speoch, proclaimed as much, but was eavoful _to intimato that he wna. acting for somo oo olve, at the snmo time indicating thau tlie othor person was the President of tho Unitod Stutes, Indeod, when he iguouunod tho original bill inté tho Honse; as roported by the Judiciary Committeo, Lo -profaced his nction with this statoment: I desiro to say that tho ‘xoport is not drawn by mysolf,” 1o fmmediate- 1y added, howover, tint Lo coucurred with ft. "fhoro are two speciully promiuont fenturcs that suggest thomsolves in following the con- sequilyo utages of tho progress of the bill. Ouc is that some of thuso wha brought forward tho most convineing arguments why-it should not bo- comie &: law.woro smong tho firdt to avail them- aelves of tho grab alter it passed. Anothor is, that tho law wus pussod only by taking technical advantage of the rulog of Congroess, and employ- ing whiat {8 gonorally known' as * parliamentary tacties" In tho most unfajr and snoaking fashion, The bill wae' first introduced. on the 7th of Febranry, by Geu. Butlgr,. on bohalf of tho Ju- digiary Cowmmitico. In its original form the salary of & Congressman wae fixed-at $8,000 o yoar, making the increaso spplicable to the Qougress-just then going out of existonce. It In thus Scon that thoratronotivo fonturo was con- tomplated from the vory first, In thi shape tho bl was recoivad, road twico, and rocommitted: Ou tho 10th inst., Mr, Butler moved that the ro- . port: ony the fucronso of walaiea bd oado » part of the Miscollancoua - Appropristion DI, Jor the _consideration of - l.l_m, Commiilteo -of the WWhole, and ulso maovell & euspension of tho rules for this purpose. Tho_intontion e to vl a recording of thio voten, us tho yens und nuyh are not tnken in tho Comraittcd of tho Whole. t Butler's motion was dofoated, and the meesure started out with & disastor. On tha 2{th of February, .tho Iouso, sittlng ss Com- mittea of the Wholo, Butlor iutraduced & new grab bill, making tho walarlos §7,600 inatoad of 8,000, lacoording to tho original bill, adding soma now graba Lo strougthon I, and muking an appropriation of 1,260,000 for this purposo. T bill, like all tho other modifieations, provided for an Inoronse of back-pay, ne it was obvlous ot all times that tho Northwest hud to do wos to shut tholr granaries, rotlring membera would not eupport it on any olhor condition, Mr. Upsom, of Ohlo, tried to havo the rotroactivo clouso stricken out, but, of course, ho waa dofeatod. ho origiunl Butlor grab wan thou ngraod to by a voto .of 81 to 60, When tho Committooof tho Whole roso, Fob. 23, Butler ngnin movod a susponsion of the rules and the'nduption of the bill with the amend- mouts, Soveral gentlemen interposed, ealling for luforniution, whou one of the Butloritos ox- olalmed s * Wo do not want information.” Gen. Hawley Iuquired if the effect of Butlor’s motion waa to out off the opportunity to havo separale votes. " Butler told him of courso it was, and i holed boon a membor longer ho would haye known it was, This crontod o laugh, as did sov-~ oral other enllies during tlo discussion, Tho' grabbora uow appoar to o laughing on tho othor sido of their moutlis, At nll ovents, tho amond- ment to the goneral bill for raistug tho snlnries wna now defeated by & voto of G9in favor and 121 againat, Butlor voted agninst in order to be nble to, move a rcconsideration. As o rulo this motlon to rocousidor ls mado in ordor that suothor mombor may mofo that it bo tabled, which, if succossful, finally disposos of tho mattor. Buch waa nob Dutlor’s intention. o thorofore sald, ** I move reconsidoration of the voto just taken, nnd, pouding that motion, I move that the House ad- Journ," The motion to adjourn provailed, tho grabbers grined time, and kopt thomotion to ro- consider from being tabled, Their next stopa wore (1) to carry tho motion to roconsider, no matior what inoreaso was fizod, 80 s to attach the provision in somo form to tho Appropris~ tion bill; (3).to have tho- Bonate rojoct it, if the sum was not largo onough; (3) to got o favora- blo conforenco committeo; and (4) to Lave this Conforence Commilteo report ot o fa- vorablo momont, toward the oloso of the ses- slon, when there was little timo for its consid- oration, It is unnocessary to follow out in do- tail how this was all accomplished. Bufflce it to suy thab it was acoompliahod, aud by tho samo uuworthy moans which woro roliod upon from the beginning to bilug it about. Tho Confor- onco Committeo consisted of Butler, Raudall, and Garflold from tho Houso, and Morill, Car- pontor, and Bayard from tho Senate. Four of them wora declared snlary-grabbers; one wae doubtful (Bayard) and ho tinally favorod it ; and ono only (Garfleld) was opposed to it, and ho took tho grab aftor it was passed. From auch & Conferenco Committeo it is no wonder.thnt a fa vornblo roport cawme, which was floally agrood to, and thusbeenmo a law., . .. 1t is rathor-consoling than otherwise, if thero isauy consolation’in the caso, {hat so vilen measuro was- passed only by resorting to.tho vilest kind of tactics, But thoro is another foa- taro which is not o consoling. L'his i, that o lurgo a number of thoso who voted against tho bill, nud made .a protenso of opposing it vigorously, avmiled thomselvos of its benefits n8 .soon .ng it boeame a Iaw. Mr. Garflold was ono: of those, - Ile showed tho injistico of ruising . Congrosslonal salarics 40 por cont becauso thoy had the power to do it, and letting o mass of enlaries remain a8 thoy aro. “1lo.provod that 26,000,000, or onec-tenth of all tho oxpousa of curyiug on tho Govern- ment, is prid for salaries. Mr. Dawes mado o ploa‘for an equalization by incronsing tho sala- rios of rovenuo oflicials, and opposod tho bill from thin standpoint, Yoi both Garflold nod Dawwes have drawn tholr back-pay. At ono stago of the proccedings;, Mr. Butler proposed a goneral romedy for all ~ who thought that the measure was impropor. Tins was that theso gontlemen should come forward and sign & pledgo not.to.toke. it.” *Virtuous men, come up and sign it1" Lo snid, and therent thore was goneral laughtor all over thoe house, But no ono came forward. Wo should eay that thoso who domonstrated thet tho salary-grab wad wrong and subsequently took it, are a little more to blame, if possible, than thoso wha oponly sustained the measure from tho boglo- ning. 8o it is that all who are implicated in the grab by touching it—tho vast majority of tho Just Cougress—have bocome obnoxious to tho peoplo.: LUMBER--OUR FORESTS. Tagor No. 71, rend befora the American Assocl~ atlon for wa Advancoment of Scieuce, in session at Portland this wack, by Frauklin B, Hough, is on tho subject of “Thy Duly- of Governments in tho Presorvation of Forosts.,” ‘Fho American poople aro ropeating the ogrogious folly—not to call it stupldity—whiol, it is woll known,hns ren- dered largo districts of country comparativoly dosolate, - . : When the Israclites wore oncampod in the country of Moab, Mosos sont spica over the Jordan into tho land of Cannsn with speolal'in- structions to find out * What the landds; whother it bo fat orlenn ; whother there be wood therein ornot,” Thoy spent forty days in oxploring it, and camo back with spocimens of grapes, pome- granatos, and figs, and roported it te bo ** an ex ceodinug good land,—a Inud which flowoth with milke and honoy.," BSuch was Palestino 8,300 years ago, boforo tho Turaclitos hod stripped ite vallogs and hills and mountaing of their foroats, which, by attracting tho moisturo and the'raing from the clouds, mado it % an oxcosding good lnod” Iistory furnishos mauy other examplos of countries onco rich and populous, which, by being stripped of their forosts like Paloatino, hinvo bocome comparatively barron and worthloss, . When the Europoaus fivst sottlod upon the Atlautio seaboard, North Americs probably bhad moro oxtonsivo forests, with a largor und moro valuablo varioty of woods, than all tho world be- sido. For 200 years, man has boen toiling with unceasing vigor toburn and dostroy thisvast and inyaluablo horitage, and with the jucrosse of our wenlth and population the work of dostruc- tion 1 Incronsing al80 at ou alarming rate. It s well that our scientifio mon should. endeavor to call tho attontion of our logislators to this im- portaut and rockloss wasto of ono of Heayen's richost gifts tous and to ovr childron. If gho moro searclty of timbor and its Incronsod prico wero alt tho ovils to be approhiondod, tho matter might bo dropped ; but that tho deatruotion “of our forests is matorinlly dimimshing onr ralnfall thoro canuot bo a particlo of doubt. With that, of courso, must come tho lossuning of, our. food products, and ot timos, in tho not distant fu- Lure, oxtondotl’ droughts, and famind with all its attondant horrora, Rivers like tho Obio, Wabash, nd_Xllinois, half a coutnry rgo navigablo for most if not all the yoar, can now beyoliod on only In the epring and fall froshots ; and oven tho inighty Migslesippl 14 nearly *all run uub” for sovoral montha in tho your, Of courso, largo portions of the ‘vast forosts that eovored tha country onst of Illincis in our oarly history had to Lo cut away in ordor to bring tho land under cultlvation,” What ia dooply to bo regrotted Is, that & copso of any “flve.to forty aeros of primeval forout, in all ity bosuty and majesty, had not boon proserved on evory farm, Whkero no such “ywooda" oxlet, ovory farmor should take eatly and officiont moasures tv supply them, Hundrods of our prairia farmors oro doing so, adding thus greatly to tho henuty 38 woll an {ho valuo of thoir farma.’ ‘Nosr Griggavillo, for inelanc, in.thid State, thoto in & Iargo bordar of Liack walnut trooy:platited womo twonty-fivo years ago, now, perhaps Ofty fool Ligh, and with a foot or mare of diamoter at tho busd. Tho mouoy valuo of this ‘grova wunt amount to a vory considorablo . sum, sud wo aoubt if tho Iand could have boen mada to yiold o lurgor roturn in the oulturo of anytblog olso, "Turp to tho roport of thio Board of Trade for tho yoar 1873, and we cso form somo ides of the yonrly wnsto upon tho foreats that.surround Lakes Michigan and Huron. This city alono rdcolvod 1,189,050,288 foot of lumbor in 1872, bo- sides sbinglos, lath, pickets, and codor posts in vast quantitios, Tho nmonnt of lumber thint, gooa down tho Dotroit Rivor, the St. Latwroncs, tho Grand Trunk and other-railways, on ita way onstward, must ho immoriso, and tho pinories at tho hoad of tho Misslssippl and ite tributarios aro xapidly disappenting to supply the' domand for lumbor in tho rapldly-doveloping 'Btatos throngh which it mins. Unlesa oir pooplo usio morp brick and stono in the conatruction of tholr buurnpéa, it.ia plain that in a fow yoars moro tho wasting sway of aur forosts will forco them to do it, bosidos the bringing of calamitios - which have' bofallen othér couutries: for a like cnugo. Alrondy tho Now England States,” with tho oxcoption of Maino snd most of tho Middle States, havo boon stripped of their timbér.” A quarter of a_coatury will find Maino nm\rl‘y a8 dostituto ns the others, Along tho Ottawa and in tho districts that surround Lake Huron, thero aro atill immonso grovea of pine; but oven they connnot Inat many yoars, In Northern Michigan, ‘Wisconsin, and Minnesots, splondid groves of pinostill oxist ; but slroady, nost ‘tho stroams and Inko *ghores, ead. inronds have beon | mado upon thom, and now railways aro ponetrating] them in all directions, and soon tho vast forests of - splondid pines and oaks that have defied the 'blasts of winter for contnries Will. bo' scon no moro In all the'land. Tho fail of these old mon- archs bofore tho woodman’s meroilosa ax s a epectacle of molancholy and absorbing interest to him who can ‘estimato*tho offocts of their loss, upon the welfare and the prosparity of the coun- try. y]}ut thero i anothoer view which our awful e« Ismity of October, 1871, forcos upon ud in this .| connoction. These forests aro piled up betwoon ‘brick or stono walls, and loaded down with mill- jons of valuos in goods of all gorts, drawn from ovory land and overy clime, only to tempt tho dovouring clomonts - to ‘1ap them up and swoop thom away in a tompost of firo. ‘Wo are destroying our splondid forests on the ono hand only to have our citles burned up on tho othor, Built, ns thoy are, eo largely of wood, 1t noeds only s ronsting of two months in o summer's oun, and thovjs tempost and » ‘largo ‘firo. woll under way to windward, to bura up overy city upon tho continent, Henco no people evor practiced moro reckloss criminal waate than wo, Wo Lnow the dangers to which wo aro oxposed, both from tho radical chango our climato will suffer from the dostruction of our forests, sud tho burning up of our cities, into whose construction thoy so Inrgoly ontor ; and yot no offort is made to avert the calamities that must inevitably follow. When Chicngo, Boston, or any other city burns up, and loses -ite hundreds of millions, chargo it to man's avarico and stupidity in not building with moro substantinl material, snd not to tho aveng- ing band of an overruling Providence. RAILROAD PROFITS. . Ona of tho premises in the arguments of rail- road corporations is that the Companics are en- titled to a dividend oqunl to tho ordinary interost lyon borrowed moucy on tho amouut of tholr 1" » émtal invostod ; and that thoy have thoe right to oxaot such rates of toll as will produce the rov- onua that will yiold such dividends. In other words, that tho reasonnbleness of charges for transportation wust bo dotermined by the amount of profit which is received therefrom. Ta this argument sound, and, it itis, whyisit moro applicable to railroad companios than toany othorlinoof businesa? In considering this ques- tion, there are cortain facts which have a speolsl boaring on this question, 1, Tho eapital and. dabt of the various Railroad Companies include largo sums in addition to tho cost of tho rords, ond to that extont dividonds aro demanded on fictitious capital, 2. The business of raflroads generally fa conduoted most cxponsively, and often in tho intorost of minor organizations, to which, aro farmed out tho pnfuhnsing of sup- “plics, ‘tho construction and hiring of rolling- stock, snd milenges on cara nominally ownod by such orgonizations. Included, thorefore, in the oxpenises of the Railroand Companios are thesd oxtraordinary, or additional, profits made by ¢! parasitos of the larger corporations. Gov. Nogos, of Ohio, in & ragent publio address, Bavo somo statistios of tho eapital invested in, and the produotions “of, ‘tho farms in that Biato, which will serve to illustrate the difforonce be- twoon tho allegod ' rights™ of capital investod in railroad corporations, and that inveated. in’ agrioultural products, Tho capital invosted in farms, &o., in Ohlo, is thus stated ; - ~ Cuuh vulue of Impletne! sl valuo of Bve stock, Total {nvestod in farms fn Oho.... ..§1,200,457,541 J| - At tho eamo time thore wero in the Btato of Ohio 4,821 miles of railway, which roprosontod in stook, dobtd, &o., $387,654,003, As thisis an averago of over $80,000 per mile, a large portion of it must bio put down aa fictitious. oro, thon, aro two olasses of persons, one.roprosenting ovor “twolvo hyudred - millions of dollara of nctusl value lnvopted in farme, and tho othor clags roprosonting less thon one-third thnt sum, &. large part of which is fraudulent. The Lioldors of this socond class of capital in- aivt tha tHoy aro entiflod to oxact, in addition to their oxponucs, roal and flotitious, a dividend of 10 per cout por aunum, or olso; thoy must sug- pend opprations, and leave the poople’ without the mosns of transportailon,, While the Traua- portatioh Comparios ‘walio this domitiid; and assumo this doflant tono, what is tho ‘condition of the athora whoto twelvo hundred millions: of “dollurs afo invested in faxna? ¢They havo the swmo moril right, t9 o Al¥IdBha ot 10 o gint, ne Tavo the Railway, Companica, but thioy, must con’’ touy thomaotves withiwhat thoy oan- notually got. It, from sny‘cause, the yoar's biauinosdshould by #0 oulamlious as to loave no ‘profits ik ull, they havo no'romady, but muat boar tho loks, They havo' tho alternative, it Iy Lruo, of solling their farms, and fplomonts, and live stock, and of n- vesting tholr money n somo otlior businooy more profitablo. Thin {8 tho gole oholeo which all othor men ‘have who find iholr nionoy inyested in uvprofitable businoss, Capltal’ investod In minos, manufaclures, trade; snd commerce, musb teko [ts olancos to cam largo or smsll | rupt pariy,lod. by compl rovonues, and'why {u it that raflronds alono can olaim that, happen what may, thoy must reccive tho highest rojurn for tha capital invented in them ? Why fa it that capital investod in a rall- rond munt not tsko tho samo chances nd canital Invastod in manufacturow,’ md wht peentfar sanclity Inthoero jn allvond atoils thap ontitlow it to a regular dividond, evan if Lo obiain it requires the plunder of the pblic ? - That’ tailronds sro common carriors, wnd 13 - ol srosubjodt to tha “eoliimon law atipufation that thoy ean only- dowand ' reanonable compon. aation for tho sorvico por formed, .is & couceded . tnot. No charter cnn givo them o right to do- mand compeneation that ia oxtortionato, or un- 'just, ' or, unronsonablo. Now,. in sscortaining what I8 o roasonablo domand for- servioes . pore “formod, is tho assumod- cost of tho road; as rop- xosonted by tho eapltal stock’ snd dobts, a fair basls, 1|§p|m .which lo make is the osli- mate? Tho Railrosd ficmpnny ey, through tho corruption of ita officers, havo paid §100,000 pur'mll‘o for. construotion, when it might have Liad tha samo work done’ for 240,000 por ‘mile. Tho eatnings'of th rond may bo squanderod it thio mobt rockloss and fraudulont manner, and & ‘balancd-shioot may bo prosonted showiug & very small'porcontage of profit, Dutis the gonoral ‘Bubli to'bo taxol to make good tho doflclonclos in raflrodd rocolpts cousod by oxtratagauco, or traid, or bad maosgomont ? Can tho Railrond, Company includo all this in its exactions, snd olaim that to be relmbursod Is but s rendonablo domand. Railroida are not & now thing in this uonfir‘xj. Thoy have boen fu “progross loug onough, . and the goooral busluesa is 80 thordughly understood that thore ought to bo mo diffioulty ab this ‘doy In sacortain- ing what ought to bo nn honost nverage in tho cost of construotion aud equipment of & railroad, what ought to bo an Lonest.cost of maintaintnee, and what ought to bo o fair oquiv- alont foi tho transportation of passengera and froights. In ngeortining thoso rosuits, the amount of capital stock and debts of the Com- pany ought to bavo but littlo wolght. In o ma- Jority,of caces thoy aro tainted with fraud or aro largoly flctitious. * A fair and rensonnble com- ‘penantion is to bo ascortained, not by finding out ratos that will yiold 10 porconton the capital investod in that particular rond, but by an esti- mato of tho valuo of tho sorvices rondored. It no moro follows that the Compa- ny must have 10, or 9, or 6 per cont profit on the capital luvested, than it doos that thg farmer shall have an equal rate of profit on the capital invested in his farm, If railronds cannot bo run at rates for transporta- tion which aro rensonablo and make dividends, then they must bo run without dividends, just a8 oll other businoss which is unprofitable is run, Tho argumont that railrosds must receivo for their sorvices such rovenuo a8 will insura a divl- vond on thowapital investad, ia fallacious ; it s unjust, wrong in thaory and in practics. Rail- ronds are subject, like all other peraons, real and fictitious, to the great law of trade, whoreln profit or 1088 is not a matter of personal coutrol. Thoy nro probibited by the groat law of common right from downnding snything moro’ than o roasonablo compensation for the sarvico ren- dered, and it does not in the least affect tha amount of this componsation whether tha bale ance-shoot of the Company shows & profit ot o losa, NOTES AND OPINION. In posting up tho booke, nnd croditing Olivor P. Morton with a rofundoed portion of tho ealary- sten], we find that iho following Sonators have not drawn it and, of courso, Lave not refuuded it, viz$ Roscoo Qonkling, Aloxander Ramsoy, ‘Aaron 1, Cragin, Ed Saulsbury, Goorgo F. Edwards, Morgan G. lamilton, Jsmes Harlay,* Wilifaw Sprague, Williaw Windotn, Quorge G. Wright, *Coased to bo Souator on the grab-day. None of these gontlemon aro eligiblo to service on the Ropnblican stump, this yoar, in Obio, Jows, Minnesots, or Wisconsin;—at least not until they have drawn and rofunded **ir."” —The Burlington Hawk-Eye is going for tho salary-grabbors who have been tnvitod to stump | Town for the Carpenter-Rankin ($38,000 stenl) ticket, It takos up Jackson Orr sund Frank W. Palmor by nams, and says Theao honorablo gontlomen Will cut apretty fignro with thelr pockets plothoric With tho =~ # Dack-Pay Bteal,” and 1ho word InzaMous* branded upon thalr forchoads by tho Stato Ltopublican Convention, standing up beforo an Towa sudienco to expound tho principlos of Ropublicanisni! A good muny plain peoplo sre uuug whothor Republicuns moan what thoy say in tholr plaiform, nnd proposo to car- ry out tho principlea thoro enunciated, or whether ull Tt Was said abont Ibo “Tiscli-Pay Steultaud tho #iue fumons " acts of thoso wha pockated the monoy aftor voting against tha bill, is to bo taken puroly in # Pick= wickiun senso? Wo reapoctfully suggest (o tho Stato Qontral Comunittoo (ono of whom wa Lolloye residés Burlington) that tho *infuniots” ¢ Bauk:Puy Bleal ¥ cra (theso aro tho words of tho Ropublican platform, capitals and all) boleft in‘the background during this - campaign, to tho ond -that tho Ropublican party of Jowa moy not becomo ‘responsiblo for wifat It do- nounces oa “infamous ” and worthy of ¥ political cone demmalion” ° 1t is usoloss for thoso Domooratio-Consorva- llvu-Llhnml~Nuw-1’nrti-unpq-nnm to try to de- coive the peoplo into the boliof that tho Republ can {3 a monopoly party, for,ovorsince the agita- tion of the presont oxditoinont, the action of all Ropubliaan Convontiona ling boen decidedly au- ti-mouspoly. (As an wstnuco, sco tho rosolu- tions pasuod by the Marshall Cotnty (Til.) Repub- lican Conyontion,.and published in the Regorler ot August 1!3 Evéry yoform for which the farmors and Grangors sro flghting has boou 1ado & leading principle of the Republican party. —0gle County (m.) Reporter. -~ —Ab thiy tuno, of all otbers, ovory Ropublican {armor in Illinois, who is yeally in fasor of ye- form and'opposed to monopulics, should give °| ks eninost support to the Republican party, and not permit his position o boe questioned for s hour.—Rock Island (Xil.) Union. —Why should {ha facmars repods any faith in tho Republican party ? *_ What roson huvo thoy for hopo from it? They bavo .hold power for ton or twelvayens, aud sggressions upon tho rights of the’ jnduatrial closses have acoumu- Iated. Tho honost . farmora who once belonged to the Ropublican party avo tired of empty prom- {ses nnd pledgos thut huve' forover beon brolon. They do right to shake off tho rotton corruption, —lt{inol: State Register, - —T'ia farmers’ movomont, or rathor the idon it ropresenta, will purify the Ropublican parly. It will deal with the scoundrols and monopolists of all grados, and lurl them from ofico aud power wto publio contempt. To oxist nlone asa Farmor's party,” would not bu existence. To draw the faugs of the vipors that misune their !rrivflo :o8, Toll up the high taxes, and squander ho public money, are tha objocts aiod af, and thioy will bo acoomplished, too, by this same furm- ory’ movewent,— Helvidere (IU.) Standard, —Yot wo have such as Morton, Butler, Graut, Logan, Chandlor, Cumoron, Milcholl, Carpanter, and.a igst of otlier corrupt mon ‘ondenvoring'to dllay the suspicions of tho Quul)ln. iu ordor that thoy can go on in tliclr earnival of corrupt prac- .| tices, vuclking the substauce from the people, un- til thoy becoe too woak to offer rosistance to the.power thoy have to back thom in corrupt rln?u iud monoyed corporations whioh have hean built up by spoecinl. priviloges,” aud oxomp- tions "I . thousaud wuys by Congress. -WILL" the poople bLellove thoy are compluining without' & cause, or will thoy sny that Sonator .Alortop has gono to work systemalically to divort “their attorition from tho reul lusuos of tho duy, in ordor that the ohalus of opprossion muy bo moro thoroughly rivated npon them, and ncor-. oadord, atil] Lapthar., oxtort from thom thofr Vard carnings ?, It.1s tio for tho massos to arouse, and toll thoko cor~ rupt mon thoy can no Jongor Fruuewo tholr do- coption upon “thom undor thoe sacred garb of loyalty aud patriotism, LThat plea hias long since bn‘;m worn throndbaro.—Nurlington (Iowa) Ga- zetle, i —Encouragod by tho logislation of & friendl; party, nuplh\fnuu mullulfiud‘ ita oxaotiony uu% fimwu nore mbitrary a1t piled up its millious. otora tho Ropublivau party, ‘camo into powor, oowparativoly faw iaen could bonat of u fartune of a million, How {§ It now? Nuwbors of in- dividuals count thoir ncoumulations of vapital by tons of millions, Wenith in the handa of tho favored fow lias incronsed in the most unnatiral prol;urtlnnn, whill tho Inboring many have hoon Toibod of tholr legitimnto profta. " Tho biredons which tho farmors linve bad to boar have boon anpecinily snormoun. ‘Thene nre listorlcal tacts, —facts whielt Inbior feelw in the keenost pousiblo wonne.—Jollel (T4, Signal. —Lhero ts n point hoyond whichlios tho wreck of every_ wilrond, Wankinghouso, * s tarlit monapoly proteoted manifactorein this country, 1€ there ave ahy who doabt, thi, 1ot thew read the hititory of Ancrican shovers, and wtinly clono- Iy the requol to that hi-tory. * While we' regret the wuwrmth nmd constrnetion of tho ob- jectlonal portionn of Mr. B, M. Heitl's speech, - aud dopieento its untimely -and,- avldnnll{, BL prosont, unuocassary utternnce, yo o sbould rocelv the crodit of stating his Lo— liof, ma follows: “I think n remody can bo found, But, 1f n romady cannot be found, anarchy and Yloodshed will surely follow.” He who d{mbtn tiifs Inst s cortninly lumentably ignorant of tho charactor and Impulses of an Amoerican citizon driven to opprosslon’s wall, Lot Bmith alono, and turn your atlantion to the u}l pression of tho Westorn producor.—Centralia (11l.) Demacral, —It is o fact that tho eyosof therallroad man- agers will bo oponed to a reunlizing senso of their positlon, if thoy do not rogolve to act fair« Iy withi tho farmera, - Though the railronds may Do poworful, it Is nongenso to say that they can control the poople, . . . . It {8 the ‘bonst of America to lovel kyrants aud bring them 10 justlco ; and tho peoplo's fortitudo to undor- go whatever hardship may .intorvone s im- nioasurablo, Tho ruilroads had hotter not push lhlul mattor to au issue.—Peoria (1ll.) Demo- crat, —Tho farmers kavo becomo aroused with » do- termination to unite thair forces in tho coming eloctions and rend to Congress mon plodged to their caugo, Itis right; aud the entira coun- iry, if wo except the railronds thomsolvos, will rjuico in thoir grit, Indeod, farmora arc not alono intorestod, but tho intorest oxtends to ov- ory soction.—Sandwich (LIL.) Free Press. —Ong of tho hopeful gigus of tho times is o demand for anlty. honety, fidelity, and econo- my in official posttions, Our rural and {ndue- trisl population can moot this domand bottor than any other, Their rotired life, their Industrious habits, their freedom from corroding and corrupting ambitions, tholr fru- gality and economy, nocosnitated by the condi- tions of Lheir life, all point to thown as tho class from which, moro than from any and all otlors, wo mny oxpect oficers in sympathy with tho pooplo, and suitabla to govern such a nation ns ours.—Greenville (10.) Advocate, % —At n time liko tho preront, when thero is comparatively 80 littlo intorest felt in party poli- ties, tha pooplo aro determinea not to vole for moro politicsl hacka and bummors.—Ation (Z1l.) Telegraph, —Tho Ottumwn Democerat has enrolled itself by tho sido of tho Dubuqua Zerald and Clinton g in opposition to tha tioory tint “ Demacra- oyis dead,” Tho sentimentsof theso papers must_bo refrosbing to the ** Anti-Mounopolists,” who had hLoped to m(mo{aulizn the Dewooratio vote,—Datenport (Jowca ) Gt —Mahony doce not fike tho Anti-Monopoly nominations, Tho Republican press is in the same fix, Thisis a good omon, Elghony wants snothor 8tate Convention. The Republicsna want another Qonyeution. Very likoly a co- partnership may bo made, Mahony to furnish tho brains, and the Republicans the money, Any way to bont tho people out of & chence to rebuke oflicial corruption. ~ In this desire nud this kind of figuring, the Ropublican politicians, despito their blow and biuster about the ** Anti-Monop- oly fizzlo," &e., demounstrate the neeld of o now party niovement, and that thoy havo substantial feara that tho poopto have hecomo tired of official mistulo, and propose to be heard nud folt fhrough 1#_:: vew parly movemcut.—Fort Dodye” (lowa) ‘imes, « AMUSEMENTS. TOQLEY'S THEATRE. ‘Wo havo, como a8 seelers after arugoment, to look to this pleasant littlo theatro to afford us all the mirlh wo want, and, when the mannge- mont put anything on tho stage that doos not provolie Inughlor, o fecling of disappoiut- meont comes over tho lovers of fun, and thsy con- cludo that everythingis very dull nowadayw, oven Tlonley's included, 1t is not often, however, that this verdiob is a just ono. Occasionally some- thing appesrs that doos not mako a bit, but as roon Ay that discovery is mado another pieco is substituted for it. Without wishing to meddle with tho mgnagomont In the conduct of the affairs of Hooley's, we may bu allowed tho sug- gostion that if ** Checkmate,” tho picee of Inat ovoning, hadbeen ready on Monday night in placa of * The Victims,” tho receipts fortha weok would have beon mueh Iargor. Itis just such o triflo s the public liko to laugh over, and it is ouo which they oan sce twico without tiring of. It is only a triflo, but a charming one, “The plot ia vory ingeniously worked up, and the situn- tions ludicrous. Tho argument isss follows: A wealthy gontleman leavas bis proporty to his nieco, and desiros that sho shall marry hor cousin, an officer in tho army. 1o ks left un onormous retinue of sorvants behind him, of the most ras- cally character, as shown In tho devolopment of tho plot. The nieco in distrustful of hor cousin, whom eho has not scon since sho was o baby, and intends {o test bim, To do this, while {raveling to tho mansion bequoathed to hoer by her uncle. she contides in hor maid, and directs her to assuma tho rolo of tho boiresn, whila sho falls into tho position of maid, Hor inteuded husband arrives homo from Iudia, and journeys to the same epot, to meet the bride of his uncle's choico, Not satisfied with such @ mothod of socuring a wifo, ho intends to study heratn disndvantage, o thorefora,confides in higman, and directs him to appoar as the newly-mado DLridegroom-oloct, Lie contenting himsolf with his sorvant's identity. The two parties meot, and a most ludicrous” situation is the consequonco. The falsc-bridogroom makes an assault upon tho peoudo-mirtress, who supposes bim'to Lo the real master of t.0 house, and reciprocates. The roul master, disgustod with tho vulganty of the, woman ho sapposes to ba his cousin, makos love. to bor supposed muid, but aho cojocts him,bo- caugo of his low oconpation. They finally como to an uudorstaniding, and luy trap for tholr sor- yants, who have boan ordering thom yound with ludicrous impudence. This charming pair hay- ing agcoed to- marcy, oachy being dupod. by tho other) tuo lordly’ sefviug-men commands Lis mastor to draw up a contraot, which ho_doos, signing tho correct names of tho contracting purties. They, unable to read or write, afix their “mark,” aud tho trap s eprung upon ther, to tho delight of the audience, nnd the carcun falls, Lho rolo of Sir Zverton Toffey 1s asgumed by Mr. Bullivan, who showod ‘& full apprecisiion of the humor of the charactar, and un ndaptability for comedy x}:um which ho had no opportunity before to oxhibit. A littlo mora deliboration *“occosionully in his eloocution would give tho audionce a little more opportunity to appreciste the points in tho yory iy dislogho bowoan hiusolt and hia dogtined brido, iss Charlolle liusse (Mliss Siduoy Cowoll), for thoto pomts * aro oxcollont. Nist Cowoll, who appenred for tho first timo this sonson, and was, rocoived very beartily, playod bor part with hor usnal vivaoity and senge of humor, Tho intorost of tho pioce contres fu tho Absurd doublo deception the tiwa sorvants arrayod In the finory of tholr employ- ors, M. Ilinflap played Sam Winkle, and (‘i‘idyil withs suoh: evidont rolish of the part himself, thant from the time of his first appearance to tho fall of tho curtaiu ho kept tho andionco {n a por- potual slato of morriment: It was partly due Lo Le part, and still more to the actor, for there was uothing missod i tho waticr of by-play or stage-business, It is 8 finished ~ piece of acting, and, without doubt, the "bost that My, Bishop lms dono hero. Miss Tuuna Clino s Marthe Dun wag also equnl ta the qceasion, Dreesndd In tho rich and tasteful gormonts of hor mistrue, the ambitious maid N, Of conewo, over-drowved aud vulgar,—na much Bo,.that is, ag Allss Cllue can bo,—and showed (liat sho, ‘too, had studied up tho pare with the jutention of muking & favorable ime- l)reuslou. :Indoed, such charuotors aro suprome= ly hers, and in confluiug hor to thow tho minus agor is cortain of n gued, consclontiona, and capable performer., As the nu\un“cmcn‘ will withdray it on Mondsy for “Lallun’s Lust Lovo,"those who wunt sn ovening of gonuine comudy must sao ang of the threo romnining ’mrrorm.mccn. ‘Tho aftor-pleco, * Wanted, o Tionsand Bprightly Young Milliners,” in ‘ex- tremoly ludicrous, but nob as delicato a8 sowa furgos wo hiavo Hoon, 3 VIOKEW'D THRATRE, As sunouncaed fu ‘P I'ninuse yostordey, Mra, Burry's engugomont_at MoVicker's Theafro has como toan ond, and Miss Ada Gray mado hor fiet appacineo an this ulago 14 Harguerito tn thodvamn *“I'ho Homance of a Poor Young Man," In making this her fst appenrance, thy ludy wu nb nmunuup't disndvantago. S8ho Wus plny- ing for tho frtYimafn . piocq with which tho othor mombars of “the company were parfoctly famillar, and, in t]olnfiiuo, #ho wis brought nto strong contraat with Mrs, Burry, who played the name vhuractor only n weolk'ago, ‘Tho part of strongent. Minn Gray dooa not nasume to ploy it. In judgiug hor ono canuot - ontirely offaco from the racoilaction Mra.Jlarry’s potformance,and by ‘ tho contrant Miss Gray 4t tams and - mpiritiona. ‘'ho most trying ack ia that in which Manuel, to dlurro\-n tho charges of hia- Indy-loyn, lonps trom {ha tower, and fioro it in that Misa Qray fall whort of the roquiramouts of thapAit. Kho was cald and unspmnpathotio. = ot .uphiniding waa ot cold enough to bo gybleal; uok warm auongh for honost funilgnation, sl fier entroation wora litlio moro than polife invit tonn, 1twas une fortunate for Mr. O'Nell, whose oy, voloment, consuming Indignation horo exolted ‘surprisg where it dasorved applaudo, tar thore appenred 1o rewnon for gotting excittod ahaut the mattor, Mr, Plorco pnynd Laroque,- and was o matked imjirovement upou s prodeteanor” In that rolo, Mr. Floyd played Do Bevannes with s wsual groeo aud nfih, Tho pioco will be rotained for tho romaindor of , tho weelt, -On Monday, Bron. sou Howard’s sparkling comedy, * Dlamonda.” PENGONAL. =~ It wns stated ln Tug Tnmone_ yostordey that: M. Norrls claimod that Me, Hooloy had not lisadup to tha “torma- of his contract, which. rovided that ho was to Elny loading businoss,™~ Ir. Hooloy naturally folt hurt at tho imputas: tion, and, in defonso, oxhibitod the contract,which: prm’ld‘?n that Mr. Norris wau to play * fuvontla: pfl:lm dh{r. IIloolu “v.‘i‘ldn tlm; Mr. Norria has boon. allowed to play lesding parts, which 3 than bis contract called for, .* e TREASURE SECURED, « A Fow YWords Concoraing the Fidelity Savingy Bank and Dopository-fos Viults and Safen, I thig fast age, whon all are so foreibly roe minded that troasuros takoe unto themsolvos wings and Oy away," nothlog s o grontor do- sidoratum than an indisputablo plnce of securs doposit of those earthly goods -which toll and fortune havo brought to tha :loldors. The flames of fira' and the burgtar's clisel aro the dread of all whose weslth may bo exposod to the unconsclous rago.of the one, or tho desporato daring, prompted by eupidity and nvavico, of tho othor. Whare, thon, shnll tronsure ‘bo safo? Mur Tribuse lwa, during tho lnst. fow days, roverted to the dangers from the flend of fame nud the cracks« man's “jimmy," and pointed to the really fow: placea of doposit whore ‘monay, bonds, notes,. mortgagos, deods, étc., may bo eafely stored. Promincutly montioned among theso were tha splondid vaults of the Fidolity SBavings Bank and Bafo Dopository, o leading and roliable fnstitu- tion of this cily and the Wost; but, aftor accept- ing an invitation to visit this magnilicont palace of eafoty, it ig folt to be due that o more extond- od notico shonld ho given. Tho groat fira and burglar-proof vaults have beon coustructed ac o cost exceeding $100,000, und it would seem that ovory means known to modern keionce and ha- man skill have been used to render them perfoct., A substructuro of stoue underlics the entiro sys- tom of vaults, forming a bed of wolid® masonry, massivo and itnpenotiable. Tha walls of tho lower vaults, in the basomont of tuo building, consist of henvy masonvy and corrugated iron, tho wholo forming a foundation for the vaulty in the main floor” of the building a8 substantiol ne solid rock, Tho vall, coilisi, and floor” of thoso tawiu vanlts (whichl contat tha safes Or boxes for rent) are of Bolid masonry, of immenso thickness, and aro all lined with siz thicknesses of half-inch hardened stcel-plates, se- cnroly weldod and _bolted, making o solid metil cnnemont #hrce and one-half {ncls thick, weighs ing 120 tons, and 8o hard that, when subjected to the trial tost by tho most skilled workmen with tho bost tools” aud mechaulcal apylisncea that could be produced, no impression was made. After mauy hours hard labor, and the usiug up of alarga numbor of tho finest drills, the test. wag prououncod complate. ‘Tho outer dvurs of theso vaults (onch contain~ ing ten thicknessos cf the same havidened steel plates) weiglt three and one-half tous cacl, and are secured oy the best double combination locks that have ever Leen mada, Tho inuer doors (cach coutnining six thicknesies of hawlenod steel) have the samo double cumbination lock. "The boxes or safes inside are also constructod of bardenod stoel. Xach box is secured by a lock 8o cobstructod a8 to roceivo only its own ospes cial key, whick koy is beld Ly the routor. Air chombera batweon thn masoury aud metal lining outirely surround ench vault. Thess vaulta have beon carefully inspected by tho most oxs porionced exports, nud pronounved by thow among the fiueat iu tho world, and an absoluy , protection ngainst fire and bukglary. Tho dey aud night watehmon i Uho Depiosdty ara wall triod and rollablo men, thoronghly s ooy ed, sud proteoted also by ouinido watelt, ¢ yijon appliances, nuch o3 burglar-nlar, vigilsne * gapohe dog ote., 2dd £o tho uounsity. Iive of thoso vaults, constructed in* ‘Thomas B. Bryan, the founder of tho Iv withatood perfecily (the grout fire ¢ 1871—unbarwed by the'Inteaso koat, story walls of the Sacrman Iic on ‘them, snd stand perfoct b jions of troowuro " were > ¢ ;.ullx flu; groat (‘llmn!t!utr. 0 vaults are rented at from 20! youri—ouly n triliug COSE DOE oy fop. couoiate Boontity, Specinl doposits ave [12cod i a fottrs téon-ton burglar-proof eafo ir Nt Sipee: trablo vault, nd charged $02 pecording to valuo, Tetiring-rooms with do ;" ncommodations and private conveniencos ¥ ara’ provided for tha routers of safes. Whowho' 1o alios colde frome Ita atronlith snd solidity,Y 'y inodol of aloganca in tho itrior dlucom:ifin’r_ud tarnisliog and it ofiicers aro_too well ) inown. Ie cautlons and, roliable. -+ foaord, (0 the pubile x Dbusinei word of commendaticy ,, i o $5 g 1870, by spository, 1 Ot 9 or tho wix- mve fulling o-day. Dil. p thus saved 40 boxes in A DO7 5N SHIRLS, Superintonde? ;¢ Wwashbhurn's Charges, Agalmst * fyereetive Situsions, ' The. followir g arg” the'dlinrges profurred by Buperintondev ¢ Washburn against .Doteolivo Simmons, wylor which the Iattor will bo raigned he(y ro tho Board, of Polico to-day: T Regular “Police Patrofman Dennis Simmons = You uze Mazoby notlied thut tho fullowlng chnrges have beel ragda agafnst 5oi upon com;taint of Etmur WashLuyn, General Buperintendout of Police, nnd thnt the vizmo will bo heagd: ab the roums of tho Board of Pulico, ut 2 o'cloik p, i, on Fuldey, Aug, 29, CHARGE FIRKL, - Reoctving and accopting presents from ono Hawking, without the weltten pertssion of .t Geioral Suycre intondont of. Pulico, aud this in violation of thy ralv and reguliiions et -ullslied by the Biard of Poire, : Speciflontion 1~That iieretufore, toswit, on or ubout Aho ~— uiy of Devombier, 1872, iu'waid Chy of Cuieas 80, the sald Deunls Simmn wd sk 8 L, or wager, of's dozen - ghirts with oue Haulons, Loy the said Hanking, baing then and: thera knowl' n i “commion g7 2ublor, and 1ho suid D Sumutcs having wol, or 4ving protendud 1o have won the sawe, did accept end rucelve from the wld -Lauking o doven -suiris, wituout uny considerntion thereror, exeept sucls bes uf wager, ar protended bet or Wagar afores:hd, Apecification 3—That_heroteifura, to-wit, on or abong the'— day of Decombor, 1872, at the waid City of Chirago, he, tho wald Denhis Shmmong, did make, or vraionded o ueke, & certalt wager or Lt of o oap witis ono Hankins, Who wo then und thero woll known 0 tho anid Dennfs Binmons w3 camnon gambler, and did aceopt sud recclve from ‘gatd Hanking n fur cap fn paymont, or protended‘pyient, of such Wager or 1oty or protendod waker or et und Yilhont giving any conslderation for wic A oy © " onanas 65COND, Conduct unbocouti . police oiliver fn violtion of o rilos nd segulutious” eutabiiicd by tho Lisard of: « Npectfication 1—~That lieretofore, to-wit,ou or about: tho ~— day of Decomber, 1812, at tho ksid City of Ghi~ €ayo, he, 1l sald Dennts Blmmonn, did muko's erlafn, Dot o whger of & dozon shitth witli oue Hankinw, who wan thou und thiora well kown 10 il seid Deunfu Sime 10us a8 u common gambler, Canverning o logatity or power of tho police or ofliers of (o publio furce ta dostroy fmplenienta ueed for guming, Specification 1—Thut- huretofore, ia-yitt, on or about the — day of Decomber, 1872, ke, the §ald Donnle Simmons, d(d miko a cerlein bet or wuger of u fur cag With una Ttakiig, who was thou and thers well known - {0 tho waid Donnld_ Simnass a8, u . coumongupbler, concetniug thylegality or powotof the polies, oF otite cors of g pollon 0rce, o Wesleoy Inipleuendn od or. * gaming, | i 4 ] £ Spwoication d—1n ls, that, inving mads the wagor, or bat inontioued fu tiw st wpectlicatlon “wider Lt charge, aud having wou ur pretenidud £ have ‘won tha sald wiger s e, tho beld - Deuls Simmons, did aceopt paymivint of w1l witer ox bit, Kiowlug thon s \hers tho wsld Hankins to bo common gamblor, s:nnolcignnn 4—Tn this, that, luving mude the sujd wagar or bet mentloned I 1ie socond epeailication e dgr this chnrgo, and lisviug won or protonded to bave wou the sume, tho ssid Denuls - Aimmops aid accopt and rovelyo payinont of vald bok or! Wager from aald Tauking, Suowing fhiow i thoro (o gk Hankfus té Lo 8 comtnon gumbler, Eracen WASHQUIN, Geueral Superintiadont of Lolleo, — Louisville Ttomu, 2 LousvirLe, Ky., Aug, 38.—Goorge Mangrim, airouted Jnst weols on & ohtrgo of tho ravishmon aud wmurder of Mary Loo, on the commons nenr the ully L beon boforo the City Court two doyn, Whis sftoraoun tho case wus submitted witbont nrgumont, and the Judge committed Muagram on 8 olargo of yaurder, to answer ab the Novewnber term of tho Girounit Gourt, Cupt, Bdward Holbroolk, who was thrawn from n strost-car Insb night, diod of his Injuries this morning, 1o was ono of the ploneors of tho to- buceo trade in this cily, and one of the firat man- ufecturen of plug tobaceo. “The warchousen Margugrita wes gegarded ny Mis, DBaury's adjourn thoir salos to-morrow, and the Uobuc Tourd will atsond tho funeral,” E = -,