Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1873, Page 2

. “TTR'CHICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE w : SATURDAY, 'SEFTEMBER 6, 1873 MASSACHUSETTS. . Progress of the Gubernatorial Contest. Batler’s Stumping Tour---A Campaign of Seandal---Butler -and 1ho + Contrabands, The Republiean Caiicngess==Will Thore Be a Bolt2«-Why Grant Sup- ports Butler=--Position of tho Demo- crats. Bpecial Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Bostow, Bept, 3, 1673, ‘Tho campnign progresses in tho most Hvely manner; the plot thickons with every changing scono, and ovents ara doveloping so rapidly toward the final denousment that one can hiardly keep pace with thom. Tolitical blood is at fover- heat, and the groat iisuc now is, on ench sido of tho warring factions respoctivoly, Anything to beat Butlor, and Anything to olect Uutlor. DUTLER'S BTUMPING TOUR began at Worcestor last wook, Tuosdny ovening, and ins continuod, oxcopt throo nights, over sinco, From the column nbstract of his romarks tolegraphed to Tuk TRIDUNE, only o faint iden of tho scono, tho fucidonts, and the sayings, could be gleaned. o has spoken tho snmo picce, with minuto variations o nit separate localities, nt Taunton, Wakofleld, Clinton, North Adams, and Springfield. At Worcester, tho Mo- chanies’ Ilall, made momorable by reason of the Lolding of so mnny Btato Conventions within ita wallg, was crowded to yoplotion,—citizons of all classes nind purtios turning out to honr what the groat rotailor of political scaudal would have to oy in roply to tho strictures of Lis oppononts. While, to all appearances, his reception was a very warm ' one, 4t acuto obsorsor could not but porceive that tho applause aud choors were from & crowd of lacal clncyuors, roinforood by Lowliny dorvishoes from the Boston Custom-Houtse, sl of whom wore coutred upon and about tho stage. The audienco was eager to hear and laugh, but the enthusinem was not that kind which arises from sympathy with the speakor or indorsomont of his uttared wontiments, I cun only liken it to that morbid trait of human naturo which clamors for rovelations of scandal about public men, whothor real or faucied ; which glonts over the toaring down of all that is good and athractive on tho ontside, bocause of somo. fancied or dis- covered defect in the hitherto unoxplored ox- terior, Mo such baso foclings has Butlor ap- pealed in all his spooches aud lottors. Io spares neithor the sick nor tho frail, and carcs ks littlo for truth as for modosty,—uttering tho most barefaced falschoodn only to have thom_controverled within twonty-four hours; and brings tho blushos to tha face of overy womsn prosent by his vulgar allusions, At Worcestor the audience heard him o the end. Mr, Godfrey, of Milford, tho half-crazy Prohibi- tiommst who quostiouned Butlor at Framingham, was on hand to try tho wame thing; but tho grent ecandalizor had vamosed before the echoes of applause which his_pororation educed bad died away, At Wakefleld, 1,700 pooplo wora pros- ent at the begiuning ; and, boforo tho first haif- Tour’s tall was_finished, the oxodus begau, and coutinuod till ho sat down. At 'Taunton, tho aoplo wore auxions-to soe him aud hear him bogin 3 but the ball was haolf-ompty when he sat down. AL Clinton, o spoko to s similar radually-diminishing audionce, Last night, at Biringfiond, was probably the most notablo gath- oring of the tour. Two yoars ago, Lio lushed Bamuel Bowles and tho Spriogfleld Lepublican with_a _vengeanco, and » repotition was antici- pated. Mo dwappolnted overybody by consign- ing the Republican to therauks of tho o{‘)posmon, saying an opposition paper had a right to say auything it pleasod about him, and ho' would nover roply to it. In his mauner on the stump, in tho tono of his speeches, in bis troatment of Stato issues, and even in his rotailing of scan-dal obout bis opponents, Butlor is not the man he ‘was two yoars ago. A mysterious change has come over him. ove of the mows- papers remarked, ho talkts oy if somo ono wero tugging at his coni-tall. And that is tho idea oxactly. Ho has tnken counsel of Lis friends; thoy hayo coutioned him against “glopping over,” and, in the offort to provent doing 50, o bus almost takon (ho othor ox- trome.. Ho docs not scom to rolish tho thrusts ho makes at his antagonists; his romakes do not have the ring of two yeurs ago; Lo seoms to bo holdiufi: back, s if afraid to lét himaclf ont; occasionnlly *“drops off into puetry,” and fras quontly assumos a patbotie, plending tonce, to- tally inconsistent with Lis_character and provi- ous modo of opnm'.m§. Ben keops up a fire at tho nowspapors, and they rotrn it dny after day with renowed . vigor. ns tho dato of tho Convontion draws near. Thia constramed mannor necossarily dotracts from tho humor which urually charactorizes bis speeches_gonorally, oud, consequently, o bo- comes dull ot timon § bo Jowes Luw power over his andionces, and thoy naturally begin to leave in disgust. At tho close of his speochos two yoars ngo, it was often ns good 8s & minstrol- porformance to soe him etand on the platform and receive thoe congratulations of his admirers, Ihoy wonld rush toward him, squoczo his hands with tho grip of a vise, slap lim on tho baok, punch him in the ribg, and uttor all manuer of approving ojsculutions, buch s © Old Bon (" ““Bally Bon [ Qo4 and win, Ben 1" How aroyou, Old Ben?” * Give 'om L—, Bon,— they doserve it,” This yoar he repeats his parting words with = an earnestuess almost drumatic,—ono could almost imagine him struggling to repress his omotion ; ho Lows his adieu, and, a8 his dovotoes are cheering and applauditig, ho slips through the crowd, dodgos out of the hall, trips lightly down tho stairway, bounds into his waiting back, and is off for Liis hotel or tho dopot. If, wich all the onthusinem Lio arousod on his first tour, when Lis oppononts oxpressod sorious foars of his succoes, ana_had to manipulato the country-delegations to keop him from baving a majority,—if he failed.thon, how much more judicutivo of failuro is it now, when he is sailing under false colors, and whon hio receives but n titho of tho popilar homago ravious to the Convontion thatho recelved thon, havono doubt that his assuming tho role of the ** Artful Dodger” has dono Lim more barm than even his prominenco in tho salary- rab. 1o snonks away whon quostioned about Liv opinion of the Prohibilory law ; failato givo an outnight assurauce that he will onforeo i€ to the lonor}—oquivocnlly saying it ought to bo en- forcod. The temperanco men wore inclined to support him at first, but they have cooled off de- cidedly. IHia cquivacation has cauwed distrust among the lquor-dealers, nod huudreds uro Lnown to prefor a continuance of the old stato of Affairs, rather ihan risle thoe ovils of a radieal chango. A CAMPAIGN OF BOANDAL, This Is a campaign cf scandnl, It is the off- year i palitics, and uational issues do not onter into the content, oxcopt tho subject of tho sal- nry-grah, and that is really madon olub of to wiincle Bon Butlor over the head with by his por~ gonnl onomies, Had Butler not entored "tho fiold as a cundidate, I do not think the enlll'r grab would have boon mentionod 1 tho Repubfi- cun party ntall. ‘The donunciation of it would linve boon confined to the columns of (he fow Domocratio nowspupers and the stump-speakors of that party, Its use now is nothing moro nor losw than o neans of etirring up opposition to Butlor. Thoro aro soveral very important local insnen which ought to be diecussed bofore and docided ot the fall aoloctions. First aud foromost s tho old Btate hobby, the TLiquor law; then (here s the quontion, What shall bo dono with that great Tovo, L Haosmo Lunnol—whothor tho Come monwenlth shall retain control of the lnl[ilnvuy to the grain-flelds of the (irost Went, or lot it pass into tho handa of one or moro of tho gront fuilroad-corporations ? Then thoro iu tho prison wystom, tho aducationnl quostions, aud tho sub- Jout of abolishing #oma of tho eomminsion uyu- foms, into_whicn, it is alleged, abuses hive cropt, It Is tho Ropuhllean Convention which nactically controln all theso Insues, influoncing llm majority of tho iucoming Leglulaturo, sud virtually fixing tho charactor of the Ixeculive Council. Tn provious contesty for tho Inpubli. can nomination, the parsmount issucs have ro- ceivod u wide discusnion, This conzost hus dwindled intoe a mere porsonal fight,—a sort of froa fight among ruu-mad politiolans who soom to forgot that thore Is n Htato to be govornod ; that thero are laws to ho mude, and exocutad, and ropealed, and a polioy to bo marked ont for the future. It hay, iu fact, degoueratod into & rotailing of scandul,—not meroly tho toll- ing ot political talos, but the ciroulation an tho stuinp and in print of senndalous storles about iho privato lives and buninoss of publio mon, And In this Butlor maintaum supromaoy without compotition, Out in Houthborough, at s _temporanco #,'ulhorhlg, ® fortuight ago, a Mr, F'ay wpoke of Butler as ono who got rich during tho War, aud as & yulgsr buffoou, whose to rond, . Qon. Butlar respoided in a letter to Mr. Fay, tolling tho publio that ho drova thowamo tenm, lived in the pane Tioune, and kopt Just ng many sorvants as e did bufors tha War, and added, “,Hup‘wun Iabould take all tho. rumora I heard concorning yon [Fay], cspocially i rogard to the opposito sox, aud stito thom ny fnety, what would you think#” In tho wamo lot- tor,ho mada o homo-thurst at Gov, Washburn by supposing tho case of & pail-maler, doing a moderato businous, belng vont to Congrons, and, belng for soveral yoars Chairman of tha Commit= toe on Claims (a place where a Congressman can gotn corlnin for cout on_cluiina for pudbing tom through), and gotting very -vich, whilo his partner in tho pall businoss remnined’ compata- tively poor. ** But,” added tho Gonounl, * I ac- cuso no one.” T'his wns too much for the op- position to stand, and thoy took up Gov. Wash- burn's causo with such n vengeanco that ono might bo led to imagino thero was romo shedow of truth in tho jusinuation, In his fight with tho Messrs, Iloar, Gen, Dutlor sparedsno: the houorod dead In tholr gravos, insinunting thnt tho death of Chiof-Justico Chapman was a mat- ter of rojoleing to tho opposition, ag it would glvo anothor opportunity to Judgo Hoar to gratify bia ambition. Thrae days aftor ho spoko thoso words; it leaked out that Jndge ioar hnd boon offered tho Chiot-Justicouhip, but doclinod it. DBullor bas vilified and slanderod overy Fuhl[a man . arrayod sgainst .him with & reck- ossnons that s surprising oven for him, Iio ot & frlend to publish his Fay lotler in tho Worcantor Spy for $30. Tho lottor wns put among the advortisoments, and Butlor mauo it the ocension of a virulout attack upon tho editor of that paper, who ho know was at”that moment Iying at tho point of death, Ho did ono good thing, howover, in oxposiug Adin Thayor, of Worcestor, for rotaining his scat in the Bevato at tho spocinl sossion of tho Logislaturo, and drawing pay therafor, while ho hold tho offico of United States Ansonsor, in direct violation of tho Btato Coustitution, Mr. Thayer was one of tho firat to sponk out ngainst Butlor porsonally nt tho Hamilton Iall meeting; he hesn't opened his mouth sinca tho oxposure. BUTLER AND THE CONTRADANDS, Thoro is ouo subject upon which Butler has not touchad during his stumplvg-tour. His eilenco is ominous, Ho got o grent donlof crodit during tho War—indacd, the groalost foatlior in hig militery hat was obtained—Dby his declaratton thint nogroes woro contraband of war. Well, a fortnight or threo wooks ago, Capt. J. T, Tylor, of Chatlestown, published o lotter in_the Tran- script, giving tho history of that declaration, shiowing that it onginated with, aud Butler first obtained the iden from, Lim (Tyler)., The lottor haa boen widely commonted upon, and Butlor ks beon called upon 1o rise and_oxplnin. Capt. Lylor sorved through both tho Rebollion and the Mexican War, and oceupios a bigh ropus tation in_Middlesox County s n lawyor aind o citizon, though Lo Laa never taken an sclivo part in_ polltics, Butlor haso’t onco altuded to'tho eubjoct, Oapt. Tyler lins kopt up tho firo at in- torvals, howavor, ~ 1t is undorstood thata fow dnys ngo ho reccived formal notice that, unless ho stopped that busiuoss, Gen.' Butlov would como down npon him. As tho Cipiein s propared to mnoko further revelations, if called upon, it is_hoped that Butlor may koop his Erummo and deny the allegation in public, Per- ops tho crisie may conio beforo this lottor renches you. Capt. ‘Tyler is propared to prove Iug asgertions by roliablo witnosses, and rolato athor incidonts which may not bo 3uizo HO Bo- coptablo to the great self-nominated, . TIE RRPUBLIOAN CAUOUSES bogan 1ast weok, in this city, and ara being Lold allover the State this week. Except in n fow localitics, thoy have been devoid of the oxclto- mont and rancor of tho first Butler campaign. Howovor, thoattondance has beon unususlly Iargo overywhero, and the intorest hns boon as great as tho importango of tho acension domnud- ol Butlor's men, roinforced by Democrats in closely-coutestod wards, hnve boon on hand to voto aarly and ofton, and the opposition have dono o gront denl of dtumming up sinco thoy of- focted & rogular orgamzation, In Boston, tho Butlerites {)lnyed & trick ontho othor side, packed the Ward nnd City Committoes with sub- stitutes in favor of Butler, and called the caucuson & weok enrlier than the Antis would like to huve bnd them. The eminently rospectables had not returned from their summer-vacations, and, tho Butlerites wanted to reap an advantago by their absonce. This move was engincored Ly Su- porvisor Simmons, who hopen to go to Con- gross after his mastor, tho Hon, Sam Hoopor- sees fit to lay asido tho honor. It kicked up a Enmt rumpus, and thero was n great desl of reath wastod in swonrlug bocauso of it. Sim- mons has beon populat with the party, and might have hopod for almost any position he i capablo of filliug; but, if Bitler faily, Sim- mone’ youthful aspirations for futuro prefor- ment by his party aro dished. Boston guvo Butler clovon warda out of fiffeen, and ono more is to caucus, Tho plan of the Butler men, wherever they had control, was to call tho 'caucusos at tho carliost possiblo date, and thus make & good show for the Genoral ou the start. It Lng worked well so far. Within fivadays after (ho eall for tho Conyention had been isnned, cnucnsen had boen held in sov- eral towns outsido of Buffolk Connty knawn to bo for Bullor, aud the daily rocord Las shown n decided tally in favor of tho groat solf-nomi- nated. Tho rocord bas been changing esch day, aud, a8 tho small towns begiu to send in ro- turns, Washburn dologatos foot up quite n.ro- spoctablo column. Tho othor cities are all to hold thoir cancuses within tho noxt three days, and Fall Rivor, which went solid for Butlor twu yonrs a0, wont kolidly ogainst him lust night, which was o great surpriso to both parties. Bu it is the small towns which are to control this nomination ; at lenst, they hovo n majority a3 compared with the 'cities. And ‘horo- inis Gov. Wasburn's grantast strongth, With the cities dividod, aud tho small towns ugainst him, it would scom at glunce that Butlor's chances aro fading mway. Wasburn's mtrongost Lold rows out of his stand takon in fuvor of the Prohibitory law; in tho small towns, the Pro- hibitory law is onforcod ; and consequotitly n mnjority of them will go for Washburn. Traly the Governor has made Limslf unpopular in some parts of tho Westorn countics, notabl; along the line of tho Leo & Now Haveu Railron: & bill in aid of which ho vetoed; and there will Do & strong defection from his rightful follow- ing to Butler on that account. The Butlor wiro-pullers caunot play thoir old tricks this year, and pack caucuses with impuuity, eithor,— Tor the opposition arc on the alort now, and in- sist on having a square stand-up fight, "and lot- ting tho atrongest side win, True, the good showing for Butler on the start will have some weight with weak-kneed and ** fencors,” as tho doubtful are termod, but probably not onough to chango tho roault as bused upon tho thoory that thosmall towus will volo for Washburn, aud, commanding & majorlty iu_tho Convention, will, thorofore, secure hin renomination. 'I'lis is tho theory of the opposition, aud 1 givo it as ono of their sérongest rensons fur abiding faith in But- lor'y dofont, Yer contra, the Butlerites claim thot, with o large majority of the city dologa- tiony, o fair proportion of tho small towns, such o8, i.m\;o alrondy vyotod in his favor, will givo Butler n cloar mojority, Buk fignriug up boforo tho caucusos Llike pinco is vory uncertain, and wonld bo_likely to puzzle thomoet astute calenlntor. 8o T leave the two factions, and appond the Tosult of tho caucuses s givon In tho returns receivod to-day : £ tho citios ond towna roported to-day, Butlor hias 162 dolegntos, nfininst 104 in tho sano placen in1871. This includon ail his gains In _Boston, and loaves out the delegation from Ward 6, which i3 yot to bo choson. Washburn has in the samo places 147 dolegates, agninst 128 Anti- Butlerin 1871, By n comparison with tho vote two{uum ago, Butlor's gains have hoon vory amail. Bpringfleld has glven him only 11 out -of 16, aguingt & eolid vote in his favor then. Dukes Counly, whioh sent 4 for Butlor two years ngo, haa #loppod over to Wish- burn, When the returny from Norfolk County came in, Washburn will have at least threo- fourths of tho dologation, Barnstablo appears to bo swinging around agatust Butler, who will, no doubt, get o small majority of tho delogates. In Plymouth County, Lutler has - loat ground ; also, in Dristol County ; in ench of which o may, get 20, Iiftaon iu tho Butlor estimate for Wor- costor ; and the Washburn mon olaim largo galng for Bnrox and Middlerox Counrios, which seem to Lo warranted by the returns so far received. Bupposing that ho” goos into Humpdon County with 400 delogntes, hio will thon have to peb undlsputed soats Lo gain the nomination, unloxs this estimate is 100 loss for Butlor than tho nc- tual voto will show, When lio entors tho west- ern part of tho Sato, o Lus to fluht against the Cousorvative inflionces umltmlnug tho small towns, which, as 1 hinye bofore ahown, are Gov. \Vnuh‘mrn‘p dtronghold. I'he Hon, DY, Gooely, of Melrase, Congressman from Ianks’ District, iy to prosido ovor tho Htato Convention. 1o 1 non-committal in tho contoat; but tho Butlor men claim him g one of them, I'ho Convention will consint of oVor 1,100 delugates, and whoover i nomunated will have to socuro at loast 575 un- contosted veats to mako tho Uung appoar falr and satisfactory, WILL THERE BE A nOLT? This {8 the question usked by overy ono out- side of the Btato, and a bolt Is” what “every one damrous of witnessing o reorganization of par- tlos would liko o son, It maybe put down as a Bottlod fact that, if Butler is” nominated by the Ropublican Convention at Worcostor ou tho 10Uy inat,, thero will be o bolt ‘of fi'runtnr propor- tionato strongth, numorically and Iutellnctunlly, than has over boon seen in” Massachusetts, or, indeod, avy othor Btate, ‘'hio won who coutluoh spacclies in court ho would not_allow hin family. tho Daily Aduvertiner, tho lioston Journal, and tho Lvening Transeript, of thin clt{n all #ny posi- tively that thoso papors wil not™ sup- port” Dutlor for ~Qovornor, oven o gats n clonr wnjority-nomination. -None of tho spenkers of the ojposition to But--| ler linvo a3 you puhllclfi doclatud that they will bolt his nomination ; but no ono for a moment doubta that they will, 'I'he question of the hour i, Will Bon bolt 2 And “on this point Bon i wliant. Ifo Inugls b bis antngoniats for chnrg- 1ugs him with intonding Lo bolt two yoars. ngo 3 and, I turn, chargos that thoy Intond to Lol it ho Is nominated. “Nothing would give the ITam- iiton 1nll cliquo grontor watisfaction than to seo Bon holt, for thon tlm& and tho party would bo rid of him forover, Ou this quostion ho hau touohad only onca in n way that would indleato such action on bis patt in” tho remotest contli- oncy, You will remombor that, two yoars ago, 1t was discovered, on tho dny succecding tho Convontion, that, on tho ballot for Guvnmorl 60 Dballota moro than qunlly constitutod the Con- ventlon woro cast, It was to this fact that the Goneral alluded In his Worcostor and othor speochos ; aud I nm lod to think that, if such an ovont should agnin ocour, ko will be proparad for it ; ho will demand a recount or another ballot, and, if the matter is not sot right, ho will stop ont and organizo anotbor convention on his own hook, and obtain n unanimous nomination from it, 'Chis opinion is founded entirely on my own obgorvation of the campaign, and 1 do not pro- foss to mposk by nuthority., IBon'a ways are mystorious and past finding out, and you never know what he's going to do il ho acts, WIIY ORANT RUPPORTS BUTLER. I hoard a littlo story, tho othor day, on gond authority, Fiving tho ropson why Grant supporta Butlor in this contost, ‘Tho ronson was given by Bonntor Boutwall to an anxions inquirer who waa on tho fonce, and was desirous of kooping up his Blatus of loyalty to tha pmi. Mr. Boutwoll is roported nu saying that Prosidont Grant regrots having allowed the Massachusetts cliquo to con- trol g0 mucliof public patronago as thoy haye Lithorto, aud that he throws his influonco in favor of Butlor in ordor to rid himeelf of any such lability in future. Another rennon, £aid to have been given by Mr. Doutwell, is, that, in tho Prosidential cawnpaign, Butler, by his porsonal iufluenco and socrot maneuvor- ings nud promises, kept more Rupublicans from dodorting tho party and eutpnrtlng Horaco Grooloy than any othier man iu Congross. Thoso aro two woighty reasons, surely. DISSATISFACTION WITH WASHDURN, Although the contost is virtually betwoon Gov. Washburn aud Gon. Butler, lot it not Lo understood that tho opposition’ to tho latter bnyo ptain galling all tho time. It has boon hard work to keep & broach from appearing, and an opon rovolt Las boon threatened more than onco. Gov. Washiburn i ns cordially hatoed by many of his own supporters ns is Butlor by tho samo mow, and ho 1y takon up as o doruier rosgort, A sirong movement was mado in tho wostorn part of tho State to bring out Gon. Dov- ous, tho Commnunder-in-Chiof of the Grand Army of tho Ropublic and & Judgo of the Bupd- rior Court ; but tho renomination-movoment had progressod o far that tho Dovons mon had to give up, aud consent to swallow Washburn with on calm o faco a8 possiblo. Washiburn's radical Prohibition vjows aro distastoful to tho liboral olorii of o bariy; - aud tho only rodeoming thing they find is_ thoir bo- liof in his honesty aud wiliinguoess to do tho be- hesty of tho purty-leaders. POSITION OF THE DEMOORATS. . Tho nomination for Governor of the Hon, Willism Gaaton by the Domocrats meaus & square stand-up fight by tho londors of the party, with & hopo of slipplug in if’ thore should bo a thrao-cornored conteal growing out of o Ropublican boit, Mr, Gaston is in intimate business and social rolations with all the leading Ropublicans of the cnstorn purt of the Btato, and, in caso of n Republican bolt, would come mond £ho bost winlies, if nol the ontspoken sup- Ym' of & Iargo part of the anti-Butler men, Io has been Moyor' of Boston two terms, and would make just about such’ s Govornor.as Gov. Washburn hus wundo,—oasy-going, not 8o posilive u3 to give uffouse to opponants, aud conciliating towird all classos, Hiu nction, in votolug the city ordinanco al- lowing the opening of tho Tublic Library on Bunday, mado . him many local enemics among tho poorer clnsses ; and Iuw inactivity, during and aftor tho groat fire, ot him an clection to tho Mayorality for the third term. Theso little Tocal miattors would, however, be ovorlooked in 8 Gubornatorial contost, with Butler as the Ho- |fllu}:lllcnu candidato, and no bolting tickoet in the old. 1%, THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION. To tha Rditor of The Chicago Tribuna: Bm: All complaints agaiust railrowd com- panios by tho farmers of Illinois are bnsod di- rectly or indiroctly upon the single charge of oxtortion. . ‘What they mean by oxtortion is, that railroad companies are charging more than they ought under the circumstancos for tho transportation of passengets aud freight. Whether thore bo truth in this charge or not seems hardly to have been thought of ; and uo investigation to de- termine what aro the facts beariug upon this subjoct scems to haye beon instituted, eithor by the Logislature, ity commiltees, or tho pooplo of tho Stato. ‘Fhoro are many ways of dotermining this quos- tion, I proposo to call attention to ono of them: Aro the peoplo of Titinois paying highor ratos on froight and faro than mn othor States and coun- trics? If they are mof, other thiugs boing equal, it s fair to supposo that tho ~ chargo of extortion is mnot woll falkon—for, it Uio snmy o Iighor ratoy aro paid by all'tho world aside from Illiuois, n fair infor- alico from uch a stato of fucts would be, that tho pooplo of llinois aro uot paying moro than they ought, Thave takon paing, ton lorge oxtont, to col- Tect tho detual figuros and facts bonying. upon this quostion, sud from them it will bo found that tho peoplo of this Stato ara riding chospor, and the comumoreo of tho Hiate is bolng fraus- poriod at lews rates, than 1n most, or perhaps all, othor States or cotiutrios: In tho prescut articlo T shall conflno myself sololy to tho quention of freight-transportation. it is o woll-known faot that the rates charged by railrords in Stalos wost of Yilinols aro hixber than aro charged iu that Stato. - Tho sume is truo as rogards thio Sauthorn Blatos—tor hat couatzy fs sparsoly soltlod, with fow railronds compnrativoly, and tho cost of transportation must necesmanly bo higl; whilo, in the Middlo and Now England Btatos, tho averago rate por ton per-milo, both for froight local to cach Stato, aud on that bo and from lines out of tho States, is about 4 couts. Tow doesthis comparo with tho avornga oarninga por ton por milo of the 1nndm§ ronds in Ihiuoik, whiob, for 1872, woro about 2 3-10 conts ? Tho' following tablo shown the rates per ton por wilo churged in uropean Statos, ns comparad with tho avorago rates in Iilinols, on the follow- ing olasuos of frefht, which moludo tho bulk of trnusportation in tha Btato on ono of its loading ronds torminating at Obicago, which I tako to ho o fuir averago of ol tho loading roads of Tilluols, for I um sure that othors do not got moroe : ]m_ wnoranD, [vanor | BN Bls5| 8| B | 8 SEE 5| £ |3 L H fleg) B | 8| B Sle] 2| ¢ )% B9zl €| B | B H sl & H 2T R % Cta, C'ls.l Cents. | Cents, | Centy Lambor.,eeseeeess] 3 [ 4 ) 4 Uorn & othor grain | 2,09 T 4 4 4 al 1 7-10) 3] 2 2 21 2 x 4 4 4+ 1018 8 19 5.8 | 8 |agton 4 4 Mauf, gouils,, 4”8 [aigtos] 4 + Trom the abovo statoments, 16 will boscon that tho rates chnrged in tho Hintos® and countyios namaod, ou all the articloy mentioued, are largely 1n oxceus of Lho rates oharged by tho railvonds of 11luoia on tho same articloy, 50 that tho bur- den borne by the Ycoplo of that State in o light ono compavad with that of othor States and coun- tries ; aud this notwithstauding tho fact that our monuy is worth 16 por cont las thun in_Lurops, and overything that entors into the cost of con- structing and maintaining raitronda in Europe,— snol astron, labor, matorials, eoto.,,—is at lonst ong-third chouper, At an early day T will compare tho passenger- rates of Illinois With thoso of other Statos und countrion, X, To the Edilor of The Chicugo Tribune: Bin: Would it not bo ngond idea for yom to auggent to tho farmovs of your State, through tho colwnns of your papor, to buy a_lino of propellors and vusgols on tho lakes to Bulfalog and, algo, & line of canal-boaty to Now York (ua all propoerty is now very choap), to_ freight their oropd to markot ; and bodily to (Z’M into Cungress, “Lhio raflroads hayo dono nothing towards bullds fug up Chicavo and tho farming -intorest of tho Wost, only putting up the prico of farma from £ o noto to &76, nud advancing Chicugo from 60,000 to 400,00 people, Thoro uxe bwo aides to all entorprlyos, CANADA. The-Royal Commission-on the Padifle. Railtad ' Seandal.. Popular Indiguntiofi in Regard to the Matter, Probability that the Present Dominion Government Will Be Swept i Qut of Existence. The Grand Trunk Railway Tem- perance League. From Our Own Correspondent.,: OzTAWA, Ont,, Aug. 31, 1873, Tho final decision by the Caondian Govorn- mont in fayor of o prorogation, and the lssuanco of & Royal Commission to oxamine thoe I'acifio scandnl charges, togothor withh some of its re- sults, oan now bo rogarded ns having frretriev- ably gono to take their placo in ' THE DLACK HISTORY of what, without donbt, 1a tho groatest job and swindlo ovor porpotrated in Caunda sinco Bir Francly Hinoks sold out the Grand 'I'runk shiare- holdors and mado a £50,000 bonus ont of o nonrly bankrupt company, Tho Commission has boon appointed, and a notico to appear has been sorved upon the proscouting wituoss, with the golo offoct of ealling forth from him a stioging . refusal and '~ somo most bittor ° comments. Tho Commissionors havo takou tho nacessary oaths, and, apart from the power givon to thom as Judgoes, have boon vested with all tho extraordinary powers for the administration of oaths, and the forcing of tho -attondanco of witnosses, which, in ita’ gonoral . and spocifio torms, is granted in the Royal Com- misglon, Tho Governor-Gonoral hus gone down onst to tho watering-places, and sevoral mem- bers of tho Cabinot, following in tho wako of the lendor of tho Opposition, have gono to the At- Iantio Provincos,—tho ouo with the bonovolont | object of countersoting tho intluence of tho othor. Tho poor Bluo:Noses aro on- Joying cortainly ono of tho blossings of Con- fodorated rule and. Parliawentary Govornmont, . THE HON. ALEXANDER M'RENZIE, -t tho Opposition chiuf, immediately the scssion was over, started for the Now Brunswick and Nova Beotia Pravinces, tho Opposition ovidontly realiz- ing the faot that, sccure in Ontario, almost so- curo in Quobeo, it was: absolutely nacessnry to success that tho votes of ‘the ‘Lower Provincos should, ifnot in o majorlty against the Govern- mont, at lonst bo more favorable than for somo yoars hna boon tho case. No sooner-had tho sound of rovelry by night, which followed in the walko of | the adjournment of the Leglslature, died away, than, noting tho precipitato hnuton- ing away of the'Opposition leader, tho--repro- seutative in the - Oabinot of both Provincos pre- ared to. follow.. The.now:membor, the Ion. ngh McDonsld, togothor with Dr. Chatles Luppor, ‘waro not long in'preparing thoir - satch- els aud gotting upon the traock of. tho Bonuerges of thoir oppoucnts. Tho rovorios of the two men, as they sped ‘towards itho Atlantie, muat bave beon_very - unpleasant. Tho procip- itanoy of their flight offered n good test of the strongth of their fears, and tho hasto with which thoy hurriod forward showed the uncontrollable prompting of ill-omened hews which gave wings 0 their foot, builder, is & man of .considorablo fortune, but posseeses & mania for politios . which bas drawn him iuto the bad company in which he 18 now found. His companion, n VI 10N, GIFARLES TUPPER, id ono 'of- Nova. Scotin's ‘oldest politicians. o has boon intorested in minos like your own Gou, Schenck ; has located 8tate railroads with 8 view to promoto the good of the ‘Tapperian famly, avon at tho exponee of tho Btate, Ho Ling voted on-overy side of‘almost all questions ; and would bo glnd, doubtless, to desert the sink- ing slip of Bir John A. Mucdonald, but bo 1s too shrowd to tako 50 hasty & step, and in tho minds of thogo who huve ong boen acquainted with tho almost provorbinl success of the Cauadian Disracli, it is not by ouy . monna cortain that tho noblo’ Knight of Kingston -hag yob' ronched the longth of lua tothor. Dr. Tuppor is a man of powerful frame, rathor tull. faco, plesysnt benring, and grand oratorical powers, In tho lattor lios the secrob of bis succees,—always aided, though, ng it has boen, by a wonderful knowledge of men, Dr. Tuppor is . A TUE TERNOR OF REPORTERS, His cloquence guwhes out in u porfoct torront, and, except whon absolutely compelled for want of breath, he never pauscs. “Ho is & vory spo- cious rensoner, and, there being no hLesitancy whatever in his specch, ho somotimes convinces his hoarors, who, ontranced by tho bonutios of his oratory, and led away with his rush of sono- rous wordd, have not timo to dotoct' tho wenk points in his- argnment. He knows tho. value of a threat, and tho truo politiciau's dodgo of Imprnving Lis opportanity. A good man's perplexity is the dovil's oppor- tunity. ItlLas boon thus on many occasions with Bir John A. Macdonald and tho Hon, Charles B, Tupper. The former is not avaricious, and still posgeasea Romo goodacss of soul an patriotism. Tho uther is aimsn‘iy a bartoror, and Htauds bofora tho world an acknowlodged furu~ coat. In his own Province Lo has a considora- blo following. It is more from the fact that ho is the ouly giont nmong the Nova Scotian peo- le than from any spacial aptitude in imself. Ho i8 "tho avenuo through which _ all prefermont in_ the Dluo- Noso Provinco must como, and well he han turned his power to account. 'U'ho fact that such o man will undortake o joarnoy of soveral hun- drod miles for the purpose of chockmuting & political apponont, shows how strong his oppo- nont must bo in hin estimation, TIIF: BEACON-LIGHTE upon the hill-tops, which havo thus blazed away down through the Eastorn Proviuces, have not boon untrimmod within tho boundarles of this Provineo, and across in tho far-western parts of tho Confaderation. Irom evory town has come forth expressions of disgust and condemuation at tho nots, of tho Uovernmont, and, in. most instances, these mmuifestations of feoling have Dbeon accompanied Dy undisguised condemnations of tha part takon inthe drams by the:Governor-Gionoral, Tho army of Protestants in this Province fa no moan ono. Of the 130 membors who wero progont s tho mooting of Parliament, nearly one-half woro meonibera from Ontario ; aud, of those, an evon fitty nignnll the memorial addresged to the Goy-~ ernor-Goneral, askiug that Parlinment bo not prorogued. Every ono ‘of theso fifty mon Las uow returnod to his homo, and the whole Penin- vula ia aflamo with thoe flro of rovolt. The lead or, who shares with MNr, MoKonzio tho honora of commandiug -the Ontario ‘cohorts, in Mr, Xdward Blako, of whom I havo bofore written. to - you. Mr, Biake s o gront orator, and his eloquonce, while tinged with tho exactuess acquired by loug practico at tha Bar, Is gtill enficiontly Irish to warm tho Losrts of his loarers, and incite them-ta do whatsoover he ploases, 1o addressed a mooting u short thme _since ata hustling fown on the Ciraud Trunk Railway, known as Bowmanville, and for dn;fs thoroaftor not a gupportor of the Mao- douald Ministry dared to appear on tho stroots for fear of boing ront in twain by the mon who hiad beon brought to the light by Blake's over- powering logio and inflammutory declamation, ¢ THE COUREHFONDENCE Detween Judgo Day, of Quebeo, acting as Chair- wman of the Comumission, nud tho Hon, L. 8. Tuntington, hus bosn mede public, and formm, 80 far ax the lattor gontloman's oplstlo is con- cornod, a vory intorosting addition to the now voluminous correspondenco called forth by thoe Paciflo Railrond seandal. My, Huntington shinos a6 o lotlor-wrilor, Iloliss for yeavs paat boon ore or loss conneoted with the publio pross, and has acquired a polished style, which is in- deed roflected oven {n his upoeches, Iis roply to the mandate of the Quobes Judgo, desiring lim to furnish & lut of witnessos, and bo propared to appesr in orson and procced with his own ovidence ofore tho Commission on Thursday next, iu o carofully-pounod _dooumont, and ono that doon the honorable member oredit, Thoro Is no mistaking the dotermination of tho man when exprosuing Lis boliof that the desiro of tho Houso of Commong to have tho olinrges investigated, a4 shown hr tho vota on the rosolution proposad by the Ministry thowmulvos, atill remalns unul- torod, and adds that ho does nat intond t6 recog- nize " any inforior or excoptional tribunal,” I'ho honorablo merlier, in his rn{!l , WHOH words which are worthy of belng quoted in fulr, Lhoy Hugn McDonald, the gront ship-| stato iho l|uaitli;h of affairs clunfl{ ! sucolnotl and with tho host offoct, Writes Mr:Thintingt X tool that I sliould do 1o act which mny bo constriiod into ‘an_acqulosconico fu_tho attompt to remova from the Oommonn thu conduct and control of the Inguiry. "1 baltevo tint tliv creation of & Gommisston involves o Droacls of that fundaments] priuciply of tho Conatitn. ton which . prasorven’ to tho Commons the right and duty of initiating aud cantrolling fuquirios into high litteal offenden 3 that Tt fnvolves alko n breach of thut undamental pritioiple of Justice which provents tha accused fram croating tho t¥ibtmal amd controlling tho procuduro for thelr trint and that it s & Commiuei without procedont, wuknown to tho comnon law, eanctionod Dy tho slntuto Jaw, providiug Ly an’ oxe arclao of tho prerogative for an inquiry ont of tho or= diuary courso of Jitatico Into misdemeanors cognizan bl to tho Qotrls, and consoquently illegal aud vold, Mr. ITuntington clones Ins opintlo to Judgo Dny with tho romark, prognaut fn fts way, that hin sonuo of publle duty will constratn liim, nt tho oarliost practicablo moment, to ronow tho offorts, which ho has heon making sluco April Inst, to bring bofore tho Commons o'f’ Canadn the mon-whom he has imponchad ns * PUBLIO oRuMINALE," The eplistle hau cloked intorest fn tho mattor. Blnco its appearanco, no ono lookw for any furthor devolopment until after the Commission shall linvo mot on tho 4th of Boptombor, and do-~ cided what it will do undor tho pramleos. Judg- ing from its composition, it will delivor iteolt of judgmont then and thero, Judge Gownn; of Bimcoo, who i tho Ontario iomber of tho trin, in notoriously the tool of Hir John, Judge Day, of Quebeo, 18 ono of tho worst Judges in the Dominion, and has done by ono aingle act,—tho throwing over of_tho arbitation procoodings ho- tween the two Iraviuces,—moro to render tho progreas of Confedoration irksome and donbtful lian any other man fu tho Dominion, Dr Tupper perlinps oxcluded, 1o can bo rolied upon to do what lio is biddon, aud probably will go so for to earn the rownrd that is Lis for a favorablo ver~ dict, by profforing dvico to tho Cabinot undor tho circumntavces, Tho third member, Judgo Polotte, of tho samo Proviuco, ia tho tool of that Clureh of which Laugavin'a brother is a Bishop, and Langoyin himself natrowly oscaped becoming amonk, His courso will eall forth no quostion- ing.’ Ho will do what Mothor Church bids him, and that for the lovo of salvation, and the pro- motion of wasson for tho soul of tho doad Bir Goorgo, Tho Catholio Church {s not the only ono having mombors within its fold engor for the closing up of this ugly busingss. . Bingular to say, THE PRESBYTERIAN CITUROIC hag furnisbod a nlor&ymm\ to como boldly out ond spoak o good word on bobalf of tho opross- od 8ir John, Sir Hugh, and the rost, . It i& lous surprising, of course, when it is learncd that tho ministor fn quostion, the Rev. Gavin Lang, i the pastor of a church owned by the Montreal banker, and thot, as others import Hve-stock, 80 Mr. Allan imported tho proncher to take ohiarge of his spirituel ark of the covenant. It is’ novorthelesa quito truo. For roma timo I\mm. it lins, consoquently, been uxgcntml that Mr.: Liang would take the occasion offered by his Bunday rervicos to ropay in some way the mnu- nificarico of his patron who, roscuing him from slow-going Ediuburgh, lins travsplantod him in #0 butling a place as the commercial capital of the Dominiou, - Ho dld ko, but, like tho bull in the chius-shop, tho rosult was oxceedingly bad for tho crockery. The rovorend gentioman Franched on the woll-known text respecting the unbility of tho Jowa to throw stones at tho Magdaleno. With wondorful effrontory, ho com- purod tho Opporitiou to. tho dowcatilauts of Fathor Abrakam, and the Ministry and his em- ployer to— TIE AGDALENE [ Of course, thero bas boen a considerable laugh ovar tho entire Confodoration at the expense of tho foolieh virgin, ‘'ho Miuiatorinlists have been trying vory hard to turn the Iaugh ovory timo tha joko haa boon montioned, by pointing to tho rosult of ‘ 3 THE NEOENT ELEOTION for a mombor of the local Legislature, in the coustituoucy , of West Montreal, Tho result was, that n supporter of the looal Ministry wag returned by o large majority, chiefly because the Tiiberals wero divided into’ iwo opposing partios, polling in tho aggrogata 2,830 votos, ngains 1,890 polled by the Mmisterinlist, ‘I'he greator was eplit, howovor, into_two, and tho Conserva- tive walked in soveral hundreds shead of Loth ‘oppououts. No significanco is attached to tho clection by the Opposition, much to tho amuse- ment of Sir Jobm, who knows how triumphantly o different result would huvo boon snnounced by Lis opponents. In Quobec Province, the Jocal Ministry‘ia still on rapport with the Dominion Goyornment ; in Ontorio, & different state of feuling oxists; aud uo the interosts of the people aro divided, In a provious lottor, Igave rome fow lines to THE POETASTENS OF TH¥ DOMINION, Naturally, the occurrence ‘of an ovent 80 na- tioual in ité importanco as thls Pacifio Railrond businoss has callod forth any number of postical offusions, Most of these, it is true, bave omannted from tho wits or wit- lings of tho Opposition press, who lave seized tho occasion for the displny of their powors of jingling rhymes, and saying Lnrd_things gonorally. = Roforonco to Ciosar drunk nnd Cresar sobor, to tho hills aud vailoys, to anciont Wallace, and tho fato of the traitors in every realm, have been'abundant, The lsugh- ablo agony of Bir John and his jumping-jacks ne tho evoniful dny of their trinl approachos, tho mirth-provoking distzess of officolioldors ns tho inovitablo bour drawa nigh, the hurrying forward to Ottawa. of place-huntera who, fecing the ship about to sink, and foverishly anxious nbout tho paymont of thoir yoars of pationt slnvery, have all been utilizod. Tho rhymists have done won- dors with the word * scandal,” and * Pacific” has been spoken up aud’ down until it at last was wado to rhymoe with *‘leck.” But porhaps TIE JI0RT NOVEL PRODTCTION 18 tho offort of an employo in the ofico of the Great Westorn Rnilway's office at Hamilton. This ontlomaen holds o responsible position in tho ghmngfir's dopartment, and is one of tho londors of the Opposition party in tho sacond city of tho Provinco, With delicato flattery to our colored citizons, who exiat to a considorable extent m Hamilton, ho has Slncod hig idenas in the negro yulgar tonguo, aud choson to take the rolo of o calciminer, an occupation horo, na clsowhero, filled with'much glory and_galora by tho dark: skinnod citizons., The pieco ho has outitled ¥ Boloruon Rainbow's SONG OF RIIOICING on Gotting tho Ottawa Whitowash Contract,” ond the ditty runs as followns: Bring along do brushcs, bring along de lime! Hurry wid tto whitowash, and cover up de slime; Bomad may Lo be-kighted, but don §t's all do same, Do cunning fox do night does lub to gobblo up do gamo, Home tink do Job wory dirty; I don't earo what thoy sy, . S0 long a4 tourand dollar do Yaukeo dey will pay, T tako do Job by contract, a3 contracts aro for walo, But gy wist fud do Carler 0 blamo 1 Wo whodld il You'vo heard of whitod acpulehres, do outside cloan and white, And tho’ carzupiion dwolt. widin youd tok it wes ol right 3 Do man dat ook dat Job did uso a powor of limo, But my fob will best his Liollow, or it lasta or'all da thae, Do only ting dut bodders mo is, when will I gt dono? Yor when L'vo whitew'd ull do lof, Um juat whave T Dogun ; And, sinco to writo doso burrlod lnes T litted up my pen, Do Gubbiicr and do "mighted rogucs ae ot dlr dirty trick again, The fling in tho lnst lines at the Covornor- Goneral i3 anothor charactorlstic of thess po- otical productious. It i truo that, unlike Lord Moucl, rotten eggs have not yet beon hurlea at the hond of Lord Dufferin ; but, figuratively, hohas been blackguarded to an unlimited ox- tont. Thero was some cossntion of this for o doy ‘or two afler the session, because Mr. Mackenzio was ‘kuown to have held a long con- vorsation with His Excellency, and the purport of what was suid or dona wad mado tho subjeot of favorablo conjecturo so far g tho Governor- Gonoral wau ooncornod. But, as the days pussod, and no aign appeared, the torrent of abuso was ouce more_opoued, and Viscount Dufferin was greoted with a8 choico n colleetion of billingsgato o8 coild bo desired by any man, All thoso things show conclusively the beut of public opwlon, Tha oxcitemont will, it is ox- pected and hopod by tho Ministorial party, sub- sida in timo, and tho vory violonce which has oharactorized the utterances of tho Opposition causo a rebound, on which the M(nlntr{ of 8ir John Maodonald may sufoly sail onward undis~ turbod. But I quostion {f this relief will not coine too Into, Duy ntter day, suppostors of tho Government, who have through six sossions voted on every critical divivion with the gontle- mon on tho right of Mr. Spoakor, aro declaring thowsolves agniust tho presont position of the fn.ny in power, and committing themeolves to hat” changod opinion by letters and sposchos which will allow of no future explanation, Thus thore is gradually rising up & heavy majority agninst the Qovernment, and the proupects that it will bo BWEDT OUT OF EXISTENOE at the noxt rogular meeting of Parliamont, if it does not roalgy boforo, which is not likoly, ara . daily lucroasing. There ueoma no doubt that the days of tho Mucdonald Minfstry aro numbered, \Vflnu tho Hon, Mr, ''illey shall have socured hiy Knighthnod, when the losser birds shall have got away with their carrlon |u'u¥ thon may be eox- pooted a digsolution. Yrovidenco itwolf conld searcely forco it boforo, % * Whilo this politieal sgitation hay beon pro- grousing o bittorly, A GREAT MOBAT, VIOTOBY bas boen mohioved by tho Tomporauca try themaolves, monso and boneficial influenco.'..Ono of tho bugboata of (ho Ioform party in ovory campalgn has boon what i4 known ns tho Brydges or Grand Trunk-fnfinencoe. -Whilo tho Managing Diroctor has not withdrawn from politics, the Inflionco wioldad by tho goucral ofticora of thin rond ha beon turngd Iuto n chon- nol whielr will ‘moot _tha nl‘lpmwfl of all goud men, no mattor.of what nationality, *.Mr. Bpicer, tho Local Buporintondent of tho Wostern Divie: slon of the rond, hon takon tho firat stop in this now roformation, by aflixing his namo to n }flmlgu to abstain from intoxieaung liquors, Hnving ohargo of tho dopartment grovarning tho runuing of Lrains, the im}lurlnucn of thianct can- not bo ovorostimatod.” “Iispoeotally {s it rondered difMloult to ovorostimato it whon Mr, Bpicor has followed it up by issuing s . A IEGULAR DEPANTMENTAT, CINOULAR, gotting forth tho dangors resulting from any lndulfiwnculn strong liquors, and ealling 1ipon tho ofticors of the road in aevery ponlnon to unito with him in forming tho Grand Trunk Railway Tomporance Longuo. Station-ngonts and conductors are roquested to inform their 8tafls of tho formation of this soclety, and to forward tho namon of all tho mon who coneur in thoir movement, Tho reply hns boon moni oncouraging, Tho namos of hundrods of moen Lave con sent to the head-officors of the Company, and n good work started in a most succossful mannor. Tho romark with which Mr, Splcor closod bis lottor, to the offcot that total abatainors would horeaftor Lisve tho preferenco an rogards promotion and omploy- meont, haw of courso acted as an incontive, but is not to bo rogardad as th chiof causo of tho suc- cer of tho movemont, It-is unfortunately ton truo of tho inhabitants of Cannda that tho ro- sort to ardont liquora is almost universal. Tho oxtromes of cold and leat which the climate undorgoos, tho oxposura.and tofls. that accom- ny Hifo In tho woods, on the rail, or on the nkos, bavo creatad in our community n clngs of hard-drinkora unknown, I beliovo, olowhoro, Ardont spirits of tho strongest char- actor aro Labitually consumed, and no light wino ar boor is accopiablo, Tho'record of deaths from oxposuro during tho wintor, owing to drunkenness, is always o terriblo ono, whilo the rnilway accidonts that may bo traced 40 it form n hideous commontary ‘on” tho way tlie lives nnd proparty of pnsuongoers aro hondlod, THE IRISI TEMPENANOE AOCIETIZS oro strong in numbers- and indefatigablo in apirit; the Church tomporance _ asgo- cintions aro wlso * numorous,” and membership is composed ' of earnest workora; tho teototal organizations aro also poworful. But their offorts havo boen compara- tively unavailing, Tho spirit of thankfulness and cordlulity with which the greeting of #0 pow- orful an-allyns My, W: 8, Splcor hns booen re- coived pasucsdeacription. A now light {s openad to tho Inborers in “this vinégard; a frosh hope is sot in thoir hoartn ; aud tho flunl dofeat of their old, many-hoaded, Eowurful adversary, King Al- cohiol, seoma brought a decado noarer. May tho day bo hastoned ! OANADENHIS, s AN INDIAN WAR. A Large Forco Moving upon the Sottios menty =« Great Alarm Among the Sweetwiter People. Houth Pass, Wyo, Ter, (Aug. 28), Correspondence of the Laramie Independent, A tolegram was recoived hore from Camp Stambaugh to-day, with intelligonco that 200 lodgen of hostile Indians were encampad on Owl Mountain, within two days’ ‘march of Cump Brown and the- settloments in the valloy. Mr. McOabo, scout and Government guide, who was with Liout. Wholon and dotachmont whon “thoy purstied the Tndians last weak, followed them to tho Powider River Pasg, and all the signs showed them o bo in vant numbors, The report s con- firmed by frioudly Indian scouts, Col. Brackott, commnndiu;i‘(hmp Btambaugh, was informed Dy Gen. Smith, s fow days ngo, that tho Indians bod started from the Powdoer: River country, and bad declarod their intention® of cleuning “out this comntry. Two hundred lodges, 1,000 savages, away from thoir roserva- tion, advancing towards us in o warliko attitudo, don’t look mueh like a dsputation coming to intorview the Ponco Commissioners, docs it ? Rather it means ‘Pillngo, rape, and murdor, and tho destruction of all tho avidoncos of civlliza- tion, Tho raids from which we havo lntely suf-. fered wore but recounoissances to.ascortaln tha strength of tho community, and’'now that thoy Linvo found out our weakness, I sppposo they aro coming in overwhelming forco to make a cloan job of it. Opr sottioments, scattored along a lino 80 miles in Jongth, isolated ns thoy aro, aro comruutlvaly holploss, and unable to sfford mutual agsistance. Ono minimum com- pany of cavalry, oxhaustod with constant duty, is tho only availuble force in tha country. 'Thero aro infantry in Camps Stambaugh and Brown, . but they are almost wuscloss in warfaro with mounted Indiana, ‘The oflicors and soldiers sympathizo with tho citizons, and have always dono 8o, and aro doing all in their power to pro tect thom nud punish tho savages ; but they can- not do what it will tax tho energies of o rogi- ment to accomplish. Col, Brackett, Capt. I\fi:- Arthur, oud Liouts. Whelan, obinson, and Guthrio, all deservo praise for their conduct aud promptitude of action whon danger threatous. T'ho wilitary are, from their fowness, liable to bo Jjumped and takon in somo of theso fine days; and such an ovont will surely bappen, if thoy aro not reinforced. Wo know tho Poace Com- missioners embarrasa and thwart in every poasi- hlo way tho operations of tho military dopart- ment ;but suroly, when murdors are committed, and tho omorgoticy roquires immodiato, nction, the Wuar Dopartinont has, or ought to have, somo influence or suthority. Gon. Ord was to buvo beon hiero on Monday last, on his tour of inspection; but ho hns not yot como. “Tha citi- zons are vory desirous of #aoing nnd leamning . from him somothing positivo, ns this continued nn_xi?t{ to which they aro subject at prosent fs painful, —_— THE THIRD TERM. Wrsr Point, Loo Co,, Tows, Sept, 4, 1673, T'o the Editor of The Chicago U'ribune: fim: The public journals and politicians aro talking about a third torm for Graut. Many profoss to bo mightily indiguant at tho mero ug- gentiou. Blost prominent among theso horrified patriots aro tho Simon-pure loaders of tho Bour- ‘bon Domocracy, who ara busily engaged through- out the country in atfempting -to rlly a dofunct organization, and_therby potpotunto tho rings of Radicallsm, Who doubts tho result? No ouo,—not ovon theso dyed-in-the-wool ‘gons Thoy would sacrifico every public interest to remain leaders of aneffete or- ganization, or procuro somo paliry county offles, or, a8 editors, secara tho patronage of tho party. By this craft wo gob our living. Great is Diana of tho Ephosiaus]” Iustend of yiolding anhouest and hearty sup- Part to tho living movement of tho ngricultural- sty and other laborors of tho West, tho only movement which can throw down tho strongs Lolds of Radicalism and_Ciosarism,—they drag forth the vonorablo, but almost inznimato, form of (ho Domocratic party, to be tramplod into tho dust, as usual, by the party in power, In tho Btato of Towa, with o Radical mnjority horatoforo of 60,000, the Dubuque JHerald, Dus bujuo _Telegraph, Clinton Age, .and tast, and Teast, tho Ottumwa Demoerd?, eall out lustily for & clean Demooratio ticket! Oub upon such knavory and foolisbnoss & Naver beforo, iu the history of this State, hay ovenrred & more propitious oceaston for a politi- cal revolution than at presont. 'Tho air is full ofit. A muanly, houest, outspoken support of Jncob Valo aud his associatos would swoap away, if not wholly, at least l.rgol{y, the Radicsl major- ity in Towa, purify tho political atmosphoro, and .- Iusuro success in tho future, S ‘The ring-londers and oflico-holders aro now* shaking in thoir shous, They are calling loudly for aid from every quartor, notwithstaudin thoir past ovorwh«huln;‘; mnjorities, And ol they may, carrying, as thoy do, & orushing load of ‘corruption, Credit-Mobiliors, salary-grabe Ling, sud Rankin-stoals on thoir shouldors, ‘Uhoir chiof hope now sooms to bo in the indi- roct uid expected from n fow rocalcitrant, - gore~ hoad Domocrats, who, oaels, in his own looulity, is Lioping to catol *u fow rilllo fishes,” No mon mouth moro loudly about Cmsar, or tho third torm, than thesa follows, and yat noth- ingg will coutrlbute moro_to that very rosult than their own insane and dishoueat conduct. | 1f tho third torm over bocomes o fact, no ono wili bo so largoly rosponsiblo for i} as theso Borubon loadurs. Conaron Bensg, CORN. FuLTON COUNTY, 1IL,, Bapt, 4, 1873, To the Editor of 2'he Chicago Tribune: B¢ Thero cannot be in Illinois, in 1873, to, exceod one-third tho usual corn crop. As tho smount of old corn in tho handu of producers Is swuall, it Is cortain that every bushol will bo_re- ot wich is calowiated 46 bve' an | imi tho | THE RAILROADS. Ohicago leght-Agcngs on the New, Tariif, Thoy Dowt Belleve It WHL Work, nd 4 Give Reasons for Thinl~ ing So. Immense Froight-Pressure on Roads Running East. - . Tha trolght tarift issued by tho Railroad Com- misnioners atill continues to bo tho sll-absorbing toplo among tho raflrond mon of thia olty, wha unanimously declaro thot if that tarift {s appliod to Ohicago roads it wonld bo very damaging lo tho intorosts of tho city o8 woll a4 to tho rail- rond compantos, Thoy might just as woll closa up as to bo rulned by stch ratos. as prosoribed for tho Tolodo, Wabnsh & Wostern Railrond. Mr. Jamos Braith, Goneral Frolght Agont of the Chicngo, Alton & 8t Louls Railrond, end ouo of tho ablest ond most oxperienced railroad men in tho country, gives tho following opinton nbout the tariff: On pork and lard, which arti- clos Bt, Louls merchants purchnso largo quantl- tosin this city, tho,rates woro mado very low by - tho Chicago railronds to onablo our morchants to succassfully compote with Cin- cinnati, ‘Tho ratos for pork and lard on the Chi« eago, Alton & Bt, Louis Railrond for 240 milea aro §30.40 por car-lond, Pork packed—fourth class, for 240 miles on the Cowmissionors' tarift, 18 80 conta por 100 poundy, which is oqual to §60 a car. Tho ‘Commissioners’ rato for corn ia 18 89-100 conta por 100 pounds, whilo on the Chicago & Alton Road for tho samo distanco it i 17 7-10 cont por 100 pounds. ‘o Ohicago & Alton Road hia throo different ways of carryiug its froight: . ! First—Through cars loaded full st ono tor- minus, running through in twonty-four hours. Second—TFreight oars londed full at the tormi- nus, and delivered ot Jocal stations along the lino. It' takes about threo doys for such. frains to'.go ‘over the ‘lino, requir- ing“threo Hmos tho numbor of mou, aud alarge quantity of rolling stock and motiva owor, Theso cars stand shill at night, ay way usinoks cannot woll bo couducted, and frolght Teceived and dolivered at stations, oxcepting in daylight. It will appear that thosa earn are fuily londed whon lonviug the terminus, Tho quan tity in tho car {s roduced st overy station,nud tho earnings, thoroforo, diminishod bolow what ig racoived on full cars runulug through from ono terminus to another, honco tho carrior cane not afford to trousport such - business at the samo rate por milo ad freight, moved in full car- londs from ono terminus, or ‘from botwoen any pointd along tho line, to the terminus of tho rond. Third—Way ‘bueinoes froights picked up at statious on the rond, and delivared at othor stn~ tions in small quantitios, Lo law doos nol contemplato or pormit & higher rate tobacharged on such businosy, though fraquontly & car may be run fifty miles with unth.{ng but & jar of but- Ater or barral of flour, paying the Company abont G0 conts or lass for tho movingy of thut car fifty milos, and-- recoiving, bandling, dolivaring, making way-bills and’ reporty for that wmail ?\gnntlzy of froight. It is claimed that the rale fof transportation oo such business iy mnot unregeonably high, and in making our tarift wo, must keep'in view the fact that, under tho law, tho rates must apply to all businoss transported over the live, whether in full car loads from the torminus or in #mall lots botween intermediata stations. ‘They must, theretore, make such rates a8 will bo rensonably romunerative on onr.gone oral buginegs, 1f tho Iaw permittod us to maken distinction, our prosout ratos for general ‘busi~ ness would romain about the samo s they ara now, and e would make s considorablo raduo- tion in our rates to and from tho terminua. ‘Way business is usually moved for short dig. tances, and much of it very uuprofitablo, be- causo small quantities aro moved at much.gront- or comparative - oxponso; for that roason the Commissionora’ ratos are unreasonably low and unromunorative on such business. 1The rates on Ennnml merchandige, in ears loads, aro nob much higher than the Commia- sionora’ on_short distauces, and lower on long distances. Wo malko ratos 20 to 30 per cent less than toriff on such freight, to enable denlors on our line to come to Chi- cago to buy - tleir goods. A cast-iron tarill connot bo mado to apply to all romds aliko, or to any rand, without in many cosos doing great injustico to the producer and manu- facturer. - 2 Tho Commiseioners look at tho subjoct from ono_side ‘only, and, in fixmg rates, ‘have uu- doubtedly boon .goveroned to's gresb extont by the opinions of partios intorestad. They must respond favorably to the public clamor, and mako ratos that will be accoptablo to the peoplo, rogardless of profit or cost to tho carrior, do not know on what -basia their ratos aro made up, but tho cont ovidently did not entor in their calculation, and I think they can form but o very poor opinion of the fixad charges, or tho cost of conducting transportation. Wa considor both gides—tho wants of tho poo- plo on our line, a8 woll ns tho revonue of our Company, and have from timo to timo omndo such reductions in our rates ns circum- stancos required, equal to from 25 to 33)¢ por cont during the past two yenrs, and onr prosent tariff avorages lowor than that of any road in tho tato. 3 Mr., J. F. Tucker, Gonoral Frolght Agent ot the Illinois Central Railrond, being intorviowed, said that ho had not yet had timo to sufticiontly oxamino the tariff to form a propor opinion 08 ta its morits or demerits, but from casual observa- tion ho was preparcd to eay that the Commis« sionor's classification Jeaves out altogether,own- or's risks; it forces the Raflroad Com-~ panica to tako tho risk of transportation ontiro- 1y, withont ‘}nving thom increased uongmnunuuu for suck riuk. It forcos the Railroad Companics to take bulky artielos, such as carringes, at actual weights, whon herotoforo it has boen an estimated xato. It hias too fow car-load raton ay far ay classification is concerned, "ho short hauls aro too low. In goneral, u car is employed fully as long to go & short distanco as it is to Iargo towns, whothor thoy are torminating or not. Tho largest towns huvo facilitios in londing and unloading the smatlor towns do not possoss. Tlho main trouble with tho Inw iy thut It doos not soom to regulato througl rates, and in making their short dintances ko low, it would huvo tho "offect of drawing to tho junctions in the interlor of tho Htate scoking tho commou outlot for grain to Now York. EANTERN FREIOUT. Tho froight shipnients to the Eant are excoed- ingly henvy at presont. ‘Lho Michigan Central pouple havo ta rofuko ordors daily for want of cars, although they aro mdding five now cars to their lines every dny. The Michigan Southorn folks havo 200 or 800 cars engaged ahoad, nud i will tako 8 weuk or ton days to gt tho orders on hand off ; in tho meantimo thoy ara rofusing all now ‘orddrs, Phe great Jrossure is mostly on graln, Thoy have rofused thus far not loss than 800,000 busliels, L INCREASING IT8 FACILITIES, Tha Clicago, lock Island & Pacifle Railroad i# roorganiziug ity tracka at the City of look Isl- and, with a view of accomuiodating the increase of businesy, and to ronch & now system of build- inge. - Nearly flvo miles of Lrack will bo required to affect tho abjoct in viow. The work i boing prosecutod uudor the chargo of Mr, A, L. Morti- wior, tho Engincor of the liinois Division of tuis road. ‘Tho improveumonts ulready completed and in progroes, together with those 1 contomplas tion, involvo the outlny of an immeuso amount of money, and must, of nocossity, enhanca the valuo and’ capnbilition of the road. M, Hugh Riddle is Vico-Prosident, Chiof Eugineor, and Gonoral Buperintondezt, and the ontiro worlk iugs of the road arv ucder his chargo, -~ THE ST, LOUIS CORN-CORNER. 81, Tours, Sopt, 3, 1673, Tothe Bditor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: Will you have tho kindnoss to correct statomonts muade by your correspondoent fu your inmtios of the 18t and 2d fust., so far o8 they ro- late to our firm. Wo lind no interest' whatovor in the doul boyoud beiug * middle-men,” having covored all of our salea long bofore there wan any idoa of acorner, We did not appeal to the Committeo appointed to ostablish n prive for sattlomont, a4 your papor nuid we did, but sei- tled at the average price of tho last day of tho month, G0 conts, notwithstunding wo had our doubts whethior wo could, according to tho rules of our Board, uuder which we oporate, demand &mrnd for !unuhxgkd(uulllnx, and oxport, Now | tho samo sottloment of partios who wora short to 0 f4rmord,can agl “conts per bushol for all the corn thoy can upare. Lot tho Qranges sco that all aro mado sequaints od with the fucts as regards tho growing orops, Fanuen, nud got at least 60 .fo G0 | us. "Thoro aro still 2 good many who have failed 1o gottlo with uw, aud we are inclined to think ihat our Bourd must protect them, it they coms ply strictly with the rulos. Respectfully, WeCousion, ADA & ARMINGTON