Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1873, Page 2

A GREAT ENTERPRISE. Opening of Another Great Railroad Line, Chicago Put in Divect Communica- tion with Dakota "l‘crrllory. Tho Madison - Division of the 0, & N, W. R, R, Now 631 Miles Long, . An Excursion Party OF to View the Magnificent, Country Through Which the Line Passes, History of the New Road and lts Pro- jectors and Constructors. Tho {naugural oxcuraton train over tho now rallway lno bolwoen Chicsgo and Lake Kampeska, Dakots TFerritory, loft tho Chicago & Northwestorn Raflway depot Iast evening, It was a superb train, conalting of four Pullman palace sloeplug cosches, the Goneral Managor' spealnl car, 8 commissary and hagasgo ear, ‘Among tho party wero most of the gouoral oflicers of tho Qompany, Messts, John V, Farwell, Robert Law, Jolin Messor, John V. Ayer, Georgo Ilale, A, O, Heaing, William Dross, 3, D, Ward, Charles E, Gulver, John B, Lyon, Hiram Whoclor, J, A, Ellfs, 3iner . Ames, sud Ieading mon represonting well nigh overy business intorest of our clty, From Milwaukec, Monsrs, Agnue Simith and O, F, Ilisley camo to jon tho party, and, at Madisou the full Suprema Court Bonch of Wisconsin, Mayor Gregory, and E, W, Koyos, were to join, ‘morning, ot Davil Lake, diue nt Vinona, and reach Lako Kampo#ks, Da- kots, 031 milos from Chicago, on Wednesday morning tor n plenio broakfast, In Minnesota they will bo Joined by Gov. Austin and party, including Congress- men Dunnell, 8trait, and Averill, and Senator Ram- sey. Roturning, this city will bo reachied on Thursdsy _evening, A fowladics aro in the company, The sols object of tho excurston fa to bring the' nowly opened tonntry to th attentlon of our business men, for which purposo an oxcollont dolegation Las boon se- oured. JUSTORY OF THR NEW LINK, Another far-reaching arlery hos beon sdded to onr rallway systom, 1t extends from Chicago vin Madison, along the ploturesquo Baraboo Valley, through and smong tho mojostic hills of Monrao County, over the Misnissippl Dridgo into Winons, across Southorn Minnesots, and onward, in advance of civiltzgtion, into Dakota—s continuous lne G81 miles in length. 1t ds tho roslization of & drosm that once filled the mind and excited tho smbition of Willism B, Ogden. ‘Hia prophotic oyo foressw Chicago's queenly deatiny end the posstbility of bringing the vast Northwest into fron-bound unlon with her. THE CONCEPTION waeagrand ope. It embraced {hreo trunk lines, stnrling each from this city, sud radiating, one weat~ ward across Iilinols and Iows,to Omaha; amother, northiward o the mineral-shores of Lake Superlor; and tho other, northwest through Tilinols, 2Wiscousm and Minnesats, Into and, ultimately across Dakots, to a connoction with the Northern Pacifio, Tho major portion of tho projoct ko romained to sce accom~ pliehod ; aud, when ho retirod, tho wisdom of the plan ‘wan 50 npparent that hi guccoasors took up the ungn® tahed work, ond, despite innumerablo obatacles, car- rled tho multiform system to its prosont succosstul complotion, TIIS MAONITICENT REAULT hasnot boen easlly achleved. It originated fn con- ryative times, when, to project a raiirond, wass Qaring undertaking, So desperatoly Lard wan it, that, sleven yoars slapred from tho chartering of the Gae 1ena & Chicago Union Rallroad, beforo the Company was emboldencd fo commenco operations, and, even tien, it wan threo years in running” a strap atlrod 42 miles to Elgin, 1t was intendod to etrike the Mis- sippl, but tho Ilinols Contral people inducod the cons fidivg Galona Company to stop skort at Frooport, and Iave it tho remainder of the routo, Four years after- ward, the Compnny branchod out in a northerly dl- rectlon, from Delvidero to oloft, and, at tho ssme time, connected and. consolidated with tho Bololt & Madison Railroad Company, which waa irying hard to uild » rosd Lotweon tho two cities, Itwas only forty- seven milea long, but it was too much for the orjgina- tors, Tho Galena Company helped it along for a time, but, sceing it was unablo {o push it through, the Ga- Jona rond loased it in perpotulty and ran it until 1804, when the Chicago & Northwostorn Rallway Company, under Mr, Ogdon's direction, took in the Gslona Com- pany aud all its branches, The continual conflicts with tho Milwaukso & St Paul Tailway Company, st this early day, suggosted the advisability of extending the Madison lino to the Aiseisaipp! River at Winona, BURVEYH WER MADE, snd tho cost of tho lnma was estimated at $0,000000; but, aa the region of the Upper Missfasippl was comparatively undeveloped, and utraady supplied with two lies, the nocossity for 2 thixd bardly then existed, especially as the St. Paul Company was specdily brought to terms by the Northweatcr absorbing the Lino botwoen Obicago aud Milwaukee, Tho cousation, howaver, waa only au srmistice, The routo o Bt. Paul vis Aadison would be 0 miles ghorter, to which sdvantage was odded the desirability of comnecting with the Northe ern Tacifio Rallroad. The tido of travel and trado certain to follaw the building of this road sitracted Mr, Ogden's attontion, and a dosire to share in tho ndvantages forced the necesaity for the Afadle son extenslon again befors the Cowpany. GTILL ANOTIIER IMYETUR WAR GIVEN 1o the fall of 1867, when by o brilliant movement, re- contly described fn Tre Tnipuny, Mr, Ogden foro- stalled thio Bt, Paul Compeny in the purchase from D, N. Darnoy and asnociates of their Interest in the Wi- nona_ & Bt. Petor_aud LaCrosse, Trempelesn & Pres« ott Rafiroads, Tho former extended from Winona 105 milon westward, and the Iattor, from Winona,southe ward 27 miles, along the cast bank of the Missiasippl 10 & point threo miles onst of LaCrosse, Thls mova_tendoced the two grest vels mutusily do- pondent, The Milwaukes & 8¢, Paul Company’s La Crouse Division termiuatod at the city of that namo, Tus order to rouch it rond between St, Paul and Wino- b3, the shiort line from LaCrosso was & fmporativo ne- colsity, and, natho Northwestern Company lid uo other cutlet for ity new purchage, mutusl ruaning ar- Tangemonta wera agreed upon, “Cito United Statea Express Darneys pocketod a anug sun out of tho Winona & Bt, Petor Raflroad, Binith, of Milwaukao, shared with them, Beaides riu- aing throgh 5 fortilo whoat-country, a valunble land- grant guaranteod its coat, “Iho position and {nfluenco of this line1n the dovol- onment and._control -of the populous and productive Foglon, could mot, Lowever, e fairly apprecisted widl | comploted’ s projentl, beross Con- £l Minnoaotn, and conacctod, diesily, with the 1il noin and Winconsin system, of which it wus ultimately dz3tinod to becomo @ continuous part, Denidos, the Madizon Division belng morely » stub-line, waa scarce- Iy profiable, aud to muko it mirely a0, i must be en fargad to tho dignity of o throughi lins, M\, TRACY'S ACOEEBION to tho Treadency Treclplaied dsciulve aotion, - Cou- trol was obtainad of the charter of tho Baraboo Afr- Liuo lialirosd Compatiy s and, aflor comsolldating it with tho Boloit & Madfson and Northweatern Comp. nioy, immediato #teps were taken to constriiot the mizlng link of 120 miloy, from Madlaon to the south~ or1 tormious of tho LaGfosso, Trempeloau & Proacott Riirond, near tho City of LaCrosso, Tho monoy for fhis Lajortant work camo from Hollsud, During the first it ovor $1,000,000 wers expended, and twico that sum 4> year followliig, ‘Theso cnortuous outluys wore oo- clatonod by tho ruggsd churacter of {ho rutito, THE EXTENBION starto from Madlkon,—s city whoto surrounding Bty drow from Gen, Sherman the remark that he Bai Tooked upou Lake Gomo, Genovs, and Europe's 13'uous rosorty, but 1ona of el ware L hiin &0 beau- tirul as tho four Inkea of Madison, Thonce it ekirle around Lako Mondots, winds amonk_the Dane Count Bt Lodl, clrcles . through the fraliful, soullog valley of ~ tho Wisconsln, —crossod hat broad, log-covercd strcom uosr Merrimae, anl four miles boyond, through a dofile in tho msjos £1) rocks, tranaporta tho travoler into the unsurpasscd Tovellnosts of Devil Lako, Local poals Iinve sung tho Pratios, aud mmbitious’ painters huve portvayed tho glorive of TIIG INGOMPARANLE GRS, €azat soema ko u heaven-reilected pearl sob in fantastt. oully-shaped amethyst, Its full beaaty, however, is ©oaly seen from the sunmit of the surrounding blufl, weaick riso to a varying altitudo of from 300 to 505 feef @navo the Iake, The clamber up the llun%ncnnl i B>nowhat dificult, but tha proapect from the summit miply componastch for the toil, eapeclally if viewod Zuuwet, ‘The .bain i 13 miles long By % of ‘a inlle wide, ‘It has no vf!lhlu outlet, and but a ve: amall inlat, Porlodlenlly it overflows ta the norlh Into Babbling Brook, sud thonce jnto Baraboo River. It iv on s Jovol with tho church-splres of Baraboo, 8 miloa dis- gaut, Tho basin weema Lo bave been croated by a con- wulsion or upheaval that cast thew into thelr presant oanyon, mountsin-liks hhl?d. Tho wholo aspect fa wolrd snd fantastic, rendering ils Batanic appeliation ‘not altogether faxppropriate, : LEAVING TILS FANOINATING GPOT, the surrounding scenery throughout Hsuk County s {wariedly charming, The vosd winds alongiide the | tho-formation of a through-line Lo Bt, Iaul, Angua’ THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1879 preity_ Baraboo- River for 8 or 10. miles; ctosbing ik Roveral Aimes, “Approaching' Abloman'n, - 0k milos north of |tho | adinirably laceted: Oity of Haraboo, thef fambus Upper Natrows aro onterdd, | Thosp ako ore-! Balf n milg lomg hyiad rode wido, abid aro wakled in b7 quartzils rocka 400 feablugh, © "t <) 1 o partloulatize Leyond tiis polnt i only to indicato apectallion whoro no part in monotonoun, At Elray, & town that han sprung up rapidly and_promisos well, Junction i made with lEn West Wisconsin Railway jn Totwoon tuls station and_ Bparls, o distanco of 34 miles, tho mnst difiienlt work won oncauntorad, Toa peraon of Western training, the intorvoning hills are mountains ; » Now un,flnnmx might regard tiem us more hillocks, Cortain it {a, thoy wero ANEAP OF TTOULE to iho -Ballway. Company. ‘Thoy could not cut duwn or cirved nround, ,‘and tha only altoruative was to tunnel thom fllrnn‘ consecutisotimen. Tunnol No,1fs 1,700 foet - long; and was cut out clenn an 8 whistlo by Fox & Hownrt ) of Chlcago,« No, 2 {8100 foot shortor, and ' No, 3 iy Jonger than_either, boing fully 3,800 feot long, Tho natural difoultics in the way of lwn{vlflg out this great bore, ate what delnyod tho completion of this through lno. But the work wnl'vlunrmuly ushod, and tho connocting rall id on Weduesday, tho 101 fnst, ; ‘ e i mow e runa_paraltel with ona Junctlou, the -new line run: h o e tomme Divinis of the Milwatkes & i, Baul Rallway, It loaves LaCrosae 3 milos to tho south, Wheroat the denizens of that city of 16,000 or. 20,000 Deonia aro conldorably arotused, What tneroasc thoie dintroas s tha fact that thoy abominato the Milwsukes & B Paul Tailway, and eop up » standing quarret iththo only road that entern thiele city, Pursuing tho cut-oft railway 27 miios, along the otat bauk of the Misslaippl, tho rivor I bridged at Winons, clty, iho largint graln-nipping polt in Minnosota, is coslly locatod on_tho wost bank of the Minslssippl. A high rilge ar] wall. Batwoon tho city aud the wost bluff lies & small’ Tko. Although very prattily aitused, it 18 quito ovi- deut tial owovor ambilious, the city must ataye bo of limnited dimensions. Btill, it haa” room for 50,000 peoplo, ' The biuff in tho ror are 80 high that ‘the Tivor bank hadjto bo followed northwestward 13 miles beforo a woat lino could be run, Thonce, for » distanco of 200 mlles or more, the ‘route Moa through a soction of country which, for grain-culture, s 06 Auporior on the continent, ‘The scenery might not enchant a poet’s fancy or charm a painter's ese, but, viowed oatly in August, it would gladden tho eye- sight of hill-tountry, Now England farmer, For- haps TIIE GREATEST DIAWDACK 1u the nearclty of fucl; but it canuot be, that a coun— try 50 iuvithig to tho scttler, f_mimmor, can bo with- ot untural provision to warm him°in winter, Bt Charles, Rocheator, Owatonna, Bankato, 8t, Peter, and Now Ulin, flourish{ng, but maluly trocless towns, aro succosslvély pasncd,—tho last-natned tho almost 'for- gotten ncoro of the terriblo Indian massacre, ‘Buparb farming land is horo **dirt cheap,” but it i boing rapidly ¢ taken up,” At one time, an average of sixty omigrant teama"daily passed wostward through Naow Ulm, expecting o locato an the railrond lsnds, ) TIIE AOIL 18 EXORLLENT, and tho surface 80 varying that the sottior can select to suit his tastes from the low level * bottom lands,” tho high, rolling prairio, or tho broken rocky *coteaus,” ressmbling New England hills, Streams and 1skea aro abundant along tho coureoof the lUno into Dakota, Bome aro airongly imprognated with alkall, aud & fow aro full of animalcule, Many of thoso lakes aro with- out visible inlot, Bome bavo a weird, strange beauty, Ono, near the valloy,of tho lmLHoux ‘River,_callod by the Indiane, # Laka'of the Gathered White ‘Tocks,” {8 surroundod with light-colorad racks and fringed with trees, y Tho Biato Line {s 118 milea west of Now Ulm, Along tbis country, every acra in_mony townships hiss ben taken by sctual seltlers, Wast of the Btate Lino, in Dakots, tho country is broken snd hilly, The tops of iho prairios, in the swalls," are coverod with bould- ers, at the land in tho valleys is romarkably rieh; Tha railrond continues to the Big 8foux ' River, and ‘Deyond 3)¢ miles, to tho torminua at Lake Kampesks, » distance of 30 miles in Dakota, Tho engineer who Fan the firat survoy of the line thus spoaks of n sunset heo witnesscd © AT LAXZ KAMPERKAY “ Thero has boon & vast quautity of fine wriling shout ‘sunsct at sea,’ ‘Italian sunsets,’ and ¢ sunset ontho Alps,’ etc,, 'but I think one’ we wituessed on tho plains equsled any of tho import- el. As tho s6un mamk Dboyond tho broad, groen prairies, tho gorgeous hics of the clouds werd Feflocted 10 potfoctly n tho Iako at our feot that it al- ‘most soemed that rens were bolow aw woll as ahiovo us, There was_a #oft, dreamy hazo in the at- mosphero liko that of New England’s Indian summer, snd the wild roscs snd other prairio flowers filled the afr with perfuma ns swect s the orango groves of Florida, 'Ezclamations of sdmiration wore hesrd from every onc, and then all were silent, Ordinary conversation. would liavo seomed as improper then os in some grand, old cathodral ot the hour of veapers, 1 atrolled along the margin of the lako and thought of tho unnumbered centuries during which those silant waters may havo reflectod, A3 then, tho crimeon and golden clouds of ovoning, all unonjoyed by mortal Tusn, for the Toar snd clang of civilization, tho shrick of onigine, tho musioof church-bell, or tho Jaugh of school-chlld had nover yot found echo there," ‘Lovely, indeod, it s, and chiarming aa & maglo spell, Dut the intruding queation will arise, 44 WHAT ANE THE ADVANTAOXS 7" Driofly theeo: Dukola Tarritory contains $18,128 Bquaro miles, “boing nearly throo times aa larga as both Ilinofs and lowa, ond nearly fivotimes larger thon all Now England! Tho population in 1570 smounted to 14,181, including 1,200 Indians and 94 negroes, 1f equally divided among them, thers would fall to tho lot of oach a little garden patch of 14,000 acres, Tho railroad charler earriea with ita land- graut from tho United Btates Govornment of ton soctions, or 0,00 ncres per mile, To securo his the Company was required to havo tho rallrosd complgiad to Lako Kampeska Uy tho lat fnst. ; and) al- though bulit conafdorably in advsnc of any habita- tions, tho rapidity with which {mmigrants are pouring fnto {ho country “oncourages tho bellof that the {m- monsa territory included in the graut will specdily bo- brought under cultlvation, No fairor whoat o graz. ing country over gladdened the oyo, and the largest availablo farme can bo secured by peraons of the small- cst moans, on favorable torms, Already tho North. woat 18 famous tho world over for ita snporb quality of wheat ; and tho construction of & ine runuing direct- Jy from this city through tho hoart of Minnesots will form sn avatlsble chanuel info which the rivers of produco will bo naturally turnod, For thia resson, nlithough tho megnificent route has ‘coat over 12,000,000, the brilliant prospect of future profitable trafic asaures the far-soeing projectors that their outlay will bo returned with {ntorest, TR COBT, Thie Aigures givon as {ho cost of {hix line aro start- Lingly largo whon compared with thoao of an Tllinols, $15,000 a mile prairie road, Upto July 1, 1873, tho Madison Extension had cost $5,137,525.36, to which abould be added $98,991 oxpended for tunnal No, 1, $77,211,35 for tunnel No. 3, and about $350,000 for tun~ nel'No, 8, Tho Winona & 8t, Yeter Rallrond, from B, Poter (0 tho terminus at Lake Kampesks, Nas nl- roady cost $5,330,500.67. Thls Intter expenditure s offiot by & Iand-grant of abont 1,200,000 acres, valued now ot fully $5 per ucro, TIE SPECIAL ADYANTAGEA of the Madison Extenslon are, that the Division is now ‘made s throngh line, with valusblo connections and focdors thiat assure'it & constant flow of traflie, It Lrings within oasy and direct access of thio Chicago markot the largeand profitable trade of the flourishing citios of o Barahoo Valley and thie Uppor Missisaippl, ~—localitics whoao channels of trado have hitherto run wWholly Ln the {uterest of Milwaukeo, Sevoralof thess clties, notably LaOromso and _Winons, bave large’ enterprising populstions, and tha ' ontiro district traversod s ono highly productive and ca- pable of contributing materlally to tho prosperity of our city, Aside, therofore, from its ungurpassod scenio boauty,—whicli can never fall to intoreat and delight the tourist lover of the picturesque,~it is a through zoute whose {nnuguration to Lusiness must aliko Do & source of welcome accommodation to the dwollera along tharoad, of incressing trada to our business men, and of profitables roturn to the flnhx’rflllng projsctors, who, by this and their numerous other broad ayonues, havo Scaleulubly advanced tho growth and prosperity of our queoniy city, TIHE GAS CONTRACT, In the Contrnct Made for Ten Yours With the South Side Company Legal 2w-Ald. Stout Mulccs Some Pertinent Iuquirics, and Mr. Tuley Suggosts Some Remedion. Ald, Btout, of the Slxteauth Ward, interviewed Cor- poration Counsel Tuley yestorday on the aubjeet of tho ordinance relative to sunulling the contract mado Ly the city with the South Bido Gas Company in 1809, for ten years, Ald, Btout took tho ground that tho city cannot' malto a contract for any supplies in a vance of tho appropriation thorefor, and, a3 tho appro- priations for gas are mado yearly, tha contract msde in1869cannot bo contlnued, but a now contract muat bo 1uads esch year, Ald. Sfoutclalma that the Com- pany acts ndependently of overy onc,~Mayor, Com- mon Council, Doard of Public Works, and the goneral public,—and tiat 4t dosa mnot care whether tho ‘oftfzens are satisfed or nots 1t charges exorbitantly, th gas {8 villainons {n qua ity, and tho amount chargod and pald for is grosaly in of tho amount burnod, In msny cnsos the semonts for streol-lamps has bosn taken up s two and threo yoars ago, and the Company hus, on ono preteuss or snothor, aud somotimos under no protoxt at all, refussd to lay tie pipos, while fu other places it hau run 1ts pipea far oul futo the prairie on stroots where thore are not twenty houses to the mile, The Losrd of Public Works seeins to have no jn- fluonco, end, while somorosl estata spoculators can, apparoutly, oblain unlimited favora from the Com= pany In the matter of laying mialns, the publlc have 1o means of enforclug thoir rights, Mr, Tuley atatod that hio did not ntend ta give oo opinfon upon the question until ho bud heard what o Compauy, through s legal adviher, Lisd 1o sy on the othur slde, M thoreforo wroto s letter to the Company's Iawyers, informing them that he would be pleased 1o hear from thews on thoe subject, if they wrlaliod to be hoard, ~ Mr., Tuloy further stated” that, i the mattor of laying mains, hie thought the Gompany could ba rnflulrbd Lo do what was reasonable, aud that, f tho Board of Public Works should make & reasons: ble request to bave pipes lakl, aud the Gompany shoutd rofust, ho (houylit L could Gblaiu 8 mandamus com- anun it to lay the pip o claime that it {y a pub- lo_agoucy, aud, s such, can bo held to tho por- formaiice of reasonsble requiremonts, In the mattor of charging for a greater amount of gus than was used, _ho the clty conld asvo from $00,000 to $A0, or yesr by having » man omployod fu cach Division to vegulate ihe 4 teat-burners,” The wholo minount burned is esti- mated Ly cortain lights iu various parte of ‘tho city, which Liave metera attached ; theso test-liglits aro ay: by the oraged, snd the amount obtsined 18 multiplied number of streot-Lghts in the wholo ocity, Now, at first duk tho lights all ovor the city ore burning in rivato housan, places of bustucas, ofiiccs, etc,, And Blo toat-burnera. bura ‘stoadily without flaring’; bt Tator in the night, the pressure being constaut an the consutuption luaa, tiie sirect-lighta burn at full luat, aud_about one-third more gas cscapes than can 'bo burnt, This' oxcoss s duly reglatercd o teat-burners, sad the gas-bi I, bluff {nciosos it liko a £ \ " . of " courso, . gorroapondingly increnseds I8 tlio | mt-humn:'- ?lnld‘m\p “fhepector o wateh thiomy and ‘turn thom dowa whon_{hoy commenced to flarg, tlio Company would séon firld 1t o itn ndyantag (G atap tho wasto of gas, inatoad of {ncreasing {t by 100 hoavy pressure aftor 11 or 13 o'clock al Light, The alfy conld affdrd {0 pay mich an inspector » falr salary, and thon mako nonoy, DR, 148 cortafuly lo bo hopod {hat momolhing can ho dono o cietal g sypsrontly unlimitad powat of tho -gas-monopolies, If. somethilg could -bo dona to fm- - Provo thio quiality of tlie gas alsa, tho privato congum- DEm i o i ond . all heie buielactor blosned, whelhor lio wero tho Mayor, Curporation Couisol, of’ oven an Aldorm TIIE COURTS, Anotlior Bult on'n Fraudulont Asslgnmont fn the State Tuanraico Companye- - for Judgment for Clty Taxes- Miittern-=-Criminal Conrt Items, Josoph Frank, Ilenry L, Frank, Ienao Moyer, and Menry C. Frank, composing the firm of Frank & Co., fled & bill yosterdsy in'tho Olrouit Gourt against Tol. man & King, 3,3, Whilmsn, and 8. H. Southwick. Complainanta had & polioy in'the Biate’ Tnmuranco Compsny for $6,000, Aftor tho fits of 1871, thoy filed tholr proot, ofaiming total 1bes; which was so adjustod by the’ Compahy, Bubsequently thoy sold thia clasim to 31, J, Whitman for 11 conts on the dollar, glving an ssajgnmont in blank, This was subsoquently Allod up with the nsmes of Tolman & King, Complainsnts claim that Whitman noted in eombination with 8, J. Southwick to dofraud them, knowing that tholr claim was worth a large sum, Frank'k Co, first loarned of the fraud in Boptombor, 1872, and immodiately com- mencod an action in tho United Statos Circult Courts ‘This was arguod on amotion for' an injunction on which the Qourt intimatéd that it had no juriadiction, ‘but that it belongod to tho Btato Courts, Complaina: thon dismisged that suit and fnstituted this, They ask that Tolman & King may bo- compolled to ro- storo thoir rights and clalms, that tho assignmont may bo declared good, and that defondants may bo ro- stralnad from disposing of sald claim, DANERUPTOY MATTRRA, A potition wan filod Iato Saturday night by J, R, Pay- #on, Assigneo of tho Ropublic Insurance Company, sgainat Edward Mendel, on o judgmont recovered by the Republic Company sgolust him for tho sum of $3,370.61, The acts of bankruptey are allowing the cxecation in this caso {0 “bo lovied, and proforentiai paymenta to “otber creditors, In thomatiorof B, I, David ot al,, tho Provisional Asnignce, on filing his roport, waa ordored to soll tho stock of {ho bankrupt for §2,760, =7 4 In the matter of Charles F., Brown, Goorge W, Camp- Doll wan appointod Assignoo, z A pelition waa filed by Cornolius & Sons, of Philadel- phia, againat James McGurley, The potitontng cre tors claim $0,110,43 duo thom on varlous notes, aud allego suspousion of payment and profercnces glvon to other creditors, Ohsrlos G, Rice fllos & patition o bo doclared bank- Tupt, invoutorying his lablitle at. about £,200, and ‘aasola 81,000, conslating of goods aud weating ap- porol. COUNTY COURT. Bophia H, Porry waa sppointed administrator on the cstato of Johin B, Perry,-under o bond of $10,000. An ordor was dhtaradtlist any pariles ‘Laving ob Joction to the confirmation of the following assessment- Tolls should flo tholr objections by Wednesday morn- hlf next: Nos, 216, 229, 235, 240, 250, 208, 3269, 270, 7, 213, 274, 275, 216, 977, 278, 970, 280, 281, 284, 288, 249, 291, 292, 293, 294,295, 207, 298, 299, 300, pud 801, Also an order {hat all-parties having any objection o the entry of judgmout for the city taxes of 1872 sbal fle tho samo on or beforo Wedneaday morning noxt, 1n tho catato of Williard Cook the will was proven, and lelters testamentsry were granted to Anmol . Cook, and Ohiarles W, Cook, under & bond of $50,000, UNITED BTATES COURT, Abner O, Harding, of Warron County, llod & potition and bill in the United Bates Court agalust Jonsthan 8, Kelroy, of tho amo county, to foll sonte mortgaged remisos, Harding first took & noto aud morigage rom A, Matthow Thomas for & debt; Thomae mold this land to John McMillon, by whotn it waa convoyod 1o tho defendant. Part of Harding's mortgage being silll unpald, Kelsoy gavo: two mortgages to Mobfillon to socuro the purchate monoy, and thdso morlgages wore aftorward amsiguad to tho potitfoner. Two Judgmont notes were alio givon to Harding by tho defondont, on which judgnient Lina beou entered, In 1873 Kelsoy -was daclrod n bankrupt, Potitioner now alloges that the premisca £ro not suficient to cover tho indebtedness, smounting, with -acornod {ne torest and Judgmont fotes, to $5,131, ond uska that tho promison bo sold, sud, if th) procoeds aro not sufliclont, that o may havo julfmont against the baukrupt's_estato for the reiuaindor, and tlat tho Asslgiwo Moy bo rotralnod from adminiutoring on said oatato unttl this fa determined, DAMAGES FOI AX ATTACIINENT, Morton F. Halo and Richord T. Crane, iivory-stabls Xoopers, yostorday commenced an actioh i tho Bupo rior Gourt for £10,000 against Patrick ¥, Driscoll, The plaintiffe claim that Driscoll atiod out nn attachmont ogalnst them on the cliarge of Laving socroted tholr property to defraud thelr croditors, ciaiming $1,473,62, Platntiffs, to rogain tholr property, paid this amount under protest, sud now seck to rocover this sum and damagos caused by their placo boing shut up aud their businoss intorrupied. TUE CRIMINAL 0OURT., In tho Criminal Gourt, seventy-thrde prisonors were arraigned and ploaded 'to thelr indictinonts, among whom wore Carl Loronzand Jamea Fitzgorald, charged with murder, and the remainder potty orimes, . - Frauk Ouimings wia {riod ior larceny and sc- qu . : Willism Hibbard, on the same charge, waa cquitted, A mistake in tho namo of tho prisoner causod this, The_following prisoncrs ploaded guilty: Libbie Daly, Josoph ogors, for lazceny ; John Lamilton, bwo tudictoents for Iarcouy ; Clsrlen Lomb, plty’lar- cony; N. McDermott, lalo of tho Penitonilury, lar ancs Rogers, larceny ; Frank Williams ‘They wero remanded for scntence. GOURTS IN DRIEF, William Matthowa bringa suit for divorce againat Dis wifo Amella, for habitual drunkennosa, Tho par- ties hiavo been marriod oloven years, aud Lava four clildren, Charlos F, Dogort flles a: praocipo fn assumpalt sgainstWililam A, Dutters and W. Honry Butters, claiming $0,000 dnmages, Mr, Jonkiny, a8 utsigneo of ¥, 8, Winslow, Slos s {inecip In tho Ualted States Distclct Gourd agaiust Wentzol O, Krloger in assumpsit for $10,000, plicatlon nkruptey lar- 5 THE BALL FIELD. The Philadelphla-Atinntic Matcli--The Finest . Flelding Game in tho Annals of Basc Bull. The soventh gamo of tho championship serios bo- tweon the-Atlautic and Philadelphia Cluba, which was plsyod Friday last on the Unfon Grounds, Brooklyn, proved to ba the most clogely conteated and beat playett gamo known in the annals of baso ball, no loss than fourteon innings belng required to settlo tho question of the victory, and of thesa in thirteen on one side and cleven on the other not s alnglo run wea scored ; snd in the ontire gamo not a solitary run was esrned by the, winning nine, the game being won by superior fiold~ ing, Thero was a Iarge attondauco of specta~ tors prosent, and fhoso who saw he gamo were gratified with witnoesing tho finoat dis- plsy of flolding over exiibited in & profes- slons! contest, The game was closcly contested up to the Afth {uning, not a run belug scored by oither side until that time, When errors by tho Atlantics led to & single run bolng scored by the White Btockings, In tho slxth inning, too, they got in anothor by s bad throw of Dehlman's, 'Tho acore now stood at 2 to 0, Dut the Atlsutics raliled at tho bat, snd, by fine baso- Lits, carned tworuns, This tied tho scoro, 2 to 2, and thio game mow bocame exciting, In tho'soventh in- ning, the Philadclphias wore blanked, s were tho At- lsntics, ‘Tho eighth inning did not add to thescors on either #ide, and consequently the contost was walched with unusual interost in the ninth inning, Tho Phila~ delphians were splondidly flelded out in their niath in- ning for a blank by Burdock's fine cateh on a doublo ylay, and, as tho Atlautica wero eusily disposed of, ten tnnings had to be filnycd. The tenih funing saw both sidos retire for blankk ‘scores, bad base-runuing tho Aflantics a chauco o win, ‘Tho elovonth endod stmllarly, na also tho twolfth, The thirtesnth inning was now commonced, auil ngain wore the Phll- adulphias whitowashied, Tho Atlantica mow opened well at thio bat, and that winuing run was expected, but they failed to score, In the fourtsenth inning tho Philadelphias got in ono run by crrors, and, blaoking tho Atlautics, thoy finally cat fu the victors by 3 to 2, ‘s is tho sinallcat scoro on record for o goma ox- ocoding nino innings, aud tho firat one requiring four- teon inniuge to Lo playod to acttlo the quostion of vio~ tory, Untox . Gnounos, BroonLyx, Sept. 13,—Soventh game of the champlonship serles botwoen the Atlantics and Philadelphing 3 Philadelphia, \R &) l’!A Atlantie, 1{ 1) 6) 0fi Barlow, o, a1 0} 1| 6| U|| Pearce, s, 8, 18 0) 2| 7| 1{{Bootl, r.f,..00 1|0 +oo] 1] 1 6] 4]|Ferguson, 3 b, 756 of of 8| 1;{Burdock, 24 b..| 40 0] 0] 4| Bl{Britt, p..e. s 0] 4 Trescy, o, 1| 1| 1 0} Delinan, 1at b 90| 0 Back, 1st b, 0| 4f10f of|Babor, 1, 7..,.... 3l 0 Zottleln, p. 0] 111 of|Rewsen, ¢, f.. 30 Totslnue..| SIS Totats, iz HUNH BCOBED, Philadolphiss, . 00001100000001—3 Atlantie, ... 0000020000000 0-3 First bases by errors—Philadelplis, 5; Atlantic, 3, Runs earnod—Phuladslphis, 03 Atlaitis, 2, Total fielding errora—Lhitadelpitfa, 13 3 Atlantlo, 10, Unipire—3r, Matthows, of the Mutual iub, Tl of gamo—~Two hotirs snd ten minutos, S i i THE EXPOSITION. A meoting of tha Exccutive Committoo of tho Inter- Blsto Iudustrisl Exposition was held yoslorday after~ noou, Mesers, Lailin, Bouton, Orane, Drake, Brown, and Roynolds belng presont, 1t was ordored that alnglo admlission tickets costing $10 sach, and entitling tho holder to thirty alngle ad- wifsslons, Lo iasued, ‘The Committes on Musio roported in favor of em- Dloyluy Vass & omun'a band on torms agrasd upas, sud 1t ‘was conourred in, Boveral dealgus for badgos woro prosented sud ez« amined, and thoso drawn up by Glles Bros, & Co, ‘wero pted, A camnunication was received from the Crane Bros, Minufacturing Compsuy, offerlng the use of fre- utnps and bolougiuge for the Lzposition wewwon for )y and the use of & fire-box boiler for $2 per da) urlug tho sumo ssason, ho offer was Accubtods 4 belavad tst tho{ ity «will urulsh tho noconnsry O Gt S AN, T e Thio omunitien thon adjdrirned: . s e ! +»{, THE COUNTY BOARD, Petitlans Preacnted--Billn Andlted--Tho Ouen= tlon of'n New Lucatlon for the Itecorder of - Ducidn--Shall an Addition Bo Mado to thy Now “Jull Dullding (o o Oceupied by Jhn Stewart el Thin Asalutnun ® A A regular muotiug of tho Gonnty Gommisslonern was held-yosterduy aftornoon, Comtnissloner Miller In the chalr. The following Gomumisslopera were alio pronent: Ashton, Clongh,: Orawford, Oalloway, ar- tladn, Lonergan, Koatlo, Russoll, Sluger, ! COMMUNIOATIONR AND PRIITIONS. - - A gratultous essay on court-houso Yulldings and the xouponaibility of ‘nrhitects was read. Of course it cama from F, Nauman, and no notico was taken of it, A petition from tho Socond Preabyterfan Chureh, for abatomont of taxon of 1873, was referred to tho Com- mitteo on Equalizationof Taxes, A communication from the physician at tho Insane Asylum was referrod to the Committco on Poor-Hotiso~ snd Paupors, S { A communieation from the Jook County Bosrd of Educstion was recolved, containing sn eatimate of ox- penscs for tho year snding July, 1874, Tho salarics of teachers amounted to-$9,800, total -expennes, $14,100, Thero wore 23 puplls in the Preparatory,aud 139 in the Notmal Department, 1t was reforred, with bills, to the Committes on Ed- ucatlon, s 0o : A communication wras roceived from Coroner Bto phiens, which was reforred to the Committeo on Publio Borvico, Tho Judiclary Committes presonted s roport upon the quoation of bogus Constables, recommending that the gonulno Constables bring. tho matter under the notico of the Grand Jury, procesdings by quo-warranto belng not applicable to the tase, Conourrdd in, AETITNG THRIR PAY. | The Committea on Public Buildings reported upon {he Court-Touso plans, racommending that the Clerk bo Instructed to draw his order in favor of iho three architeots s follows:- Olto Matz, $2,600; Honry L. day, $1,000; Thomas Tilloy, $500, belng the county's shate of the promiums, Concurrod fo, * . "Tlio same Qunimittes recommended tho payment of bills amounting to $1,167, which were arderad paid, Tho samie Commitfeo ‘rocommended paylng Frank Bilverman & Oo, $3,227 on sccount of carpanter work on the now fail,” Concurred in. Tho eamé Commitiee reported recommending the payment to B, B, Balley the sum of $11,313 for workon ho new dall ; and to W, O, Drakomsn $16,215 for the mmo, Concurred in, 3 7| Tha Committeo on Poor-Totss and Paupérs reported rocommendiug tho paymont of bills smounting to §3,- 29,76, Coucurred in. - 3 Tho same_Committoo reported recommending that Qhrles Hoftman be relessed from thasum of $337, due tho county for board of his wife st the Poor-House, Coneurred In, s X Tho Commilitas on Biscellanoous Claims reported jocommending, the, payment of bills amonating to $260.08. Conovrred in, g Tha samo Committdo roported recommonding the ayment of biils for printing to the smount of $255,3, oucurred in, s Tho Committeo on Jall and Jail Accounta roported, recommonding the payment of bills to the amount of $1,823.80, Concurred in, L 'TUE RECORDER'S OFPICE. Commissioner: Crawford brought up.the subject of tho location of ‘the Recorder's ofiico, Thero apponred 10 bo amplo roomn ju the basement, Tho walla wera of such strength that an additfonai story conld bo con- structod for tho Follo Dopartment. To put up bullding on leased lot would” cont in five yenra from $18,000 to $20,000, Ho submitted a communication from Messrs, Armsirong & and plan of ‘the Recorder's oflico and other ofMices of the now Jail and Criminal Court bullding, Tho Lulld- ing, as at preent designed, compriscs a basoment and two ntorles, and the proposed alteration is tho addition’of a third story, to be srrangd for male and ' fomals dopartmenis of fho Rocord- er's office, with o emall vsult 9x8 feot, with lavatory snd clossla, Also genoral recalving room, 22581 fosty in the basement, and a-Recordor's gencral 'vault, slsc in bascment, 22249 feot, Tho catimatod cosb of thess :"?f'r’rfi' inclusive of steam-boating, s an sdditional Comemisefoner Harrison read m proposition from Loopold Moyur, offering a fot on Adama aireot, west of LaBalle, 431100'fcet, ot tha ront of $1,000 for two years, $1,200 for threo sears, and for whatever timo longor at 6 por cout upon & valuation, Ho also had snothcr offor from Mr, Moore, offering to lesso lob on Quincy siroct for $950 for two yoars, and $1,000 for the noxt ireo yonra, Bomething must bo don'st once, The light in the prosont Recordor'a office was horriblo, and was ruining the eyoulght, Tho quality of the gas furnishod was aimply vile, s it was a mattor .of humanity to do sumething, 'He was not n favor. of adding {0 tio Jail bulldiog for yory many reasona, . Commisstonor Ashton mndo s motion that the wholo subfect bo submitted to the Committes on Public Dulldings, with {nalruchions to ¥eport back {o. ito oard, Comimissionor Galloway saw in this proposition a sories of dangors,” Tho additon of another story would relosse sl thosa who woro bound by bonds, throw the county back info the misorablo Lulk it was otill in until Juno next, and if tho county gat out of it with $50,000, they would do it choaply, r. Egan, tho architcct, sald tho addlition would do- Iay it five or aix wocks, Without tho nddition tho whols building would bo'comploto by the end of Octo- bor, ‘Tho addition of anoihor story would add to tho appoarance of tho building. z Comminsioner Herting mioved to add the Committeo on Public Bervice to tho Committeo on Buildings, and tho resolution was read as follows : A Itesolved, Thiat tho Committoes on Publio Buildings and Pnblic Service and Commissioner Harrison e, and thoy aro hereby, instructed- to_inquire into tho practicability of having snadditional story erocted on tho Jal ard Criminal Court building for a recording dopartment as por plan and specliication of tha archi- tocts submitted, anid roport the same to this Board for its adoption or Tejection, Somimlisloner Gallowsy offored the followiag sub- stituto: ; Resolved, That th varlous propositions’ pubmittod ta the Board by the Committod which hod in_chargo tho subect of the Racorder’s offic be reforred fo tiio Committea on Public Bufldings, with instructions to Xoport tho bt plan, in thelr judgment, Lo sscure. ths object proposod. “Lhis was refectod, and the frst resolution adopted. TILX COUNTY PATER, The Committea on Publio Borvice Toported tha fol- Iowing bide for the oflicial advertisiug of the counly ; Evening L'oat, 45 centa a square the firat timo, and 37, conts aftorwards; Evening Mail, 35 centa ; ' Journdl 10 conts a lino ‘first time, and's conts ofterwards ; Inter-Ocean, 13 conta » line firat timo, snd 1055 atierward " Unior, G cenla lino; 'Staats a squa Commissioner Millor moved to make tho Inter-Ocean and Staats-Zeitung the official papers of tho county, Commissioner Ashton movod that the matior be in- defidtely postponod, which wss promptly loat, snd tue motion of Uommissloner Miller sdopted . Tho Doard adjourned, YEST.ERDA.Y’S GALE. Xta Effcct In the Clty. and on the Luke--Dam~ age Done to tho ltoof of St. Jumes? Churcliee Vesaely Blown Ashiore. A sovere wind-storm, amounting to n gale, swept over the city yesterday, It blow with terrifio forco £rom the south, varying occastonally to the southweat, About 8 o'cloek tn tho morning the men at work inside 8t. James’ Episcopal Ohmrch, corner of Huron and Bush streots, were warnod by men working outaido to leavo tho bullding, as the Toof was slaklug nnd threatening to fall. Themon climbod out of tho windows, and s0on aftor the north end of tho roof was lifted threo inches from tho wall and pushed from its resting-placo, * At tho asmo moment tho top laser of stones fell from tho wall. Tho roof was warped, aud at least ono-balf of it will have to bo taken down and recoustructod, Throa of the trustes wera badly siralned, ond tho ontire rodt was badly shsken, Tho windown in the south wall sworo open, allowiug & fros passago to tho wind, wlich entered aud raised the opposite, or morih side of tho roof, whilo tho storm bLeating againat the extorior of the 'south end moved both slaca at the mamo time, Tho building is 00 feot wide, and each slunt of roof 40fect, Tho loss -will bo sovoral thousand dollars, Much sympathy was felt for tho church, whoso congregation are making heraio offorts to re. bulld thelr besutiful atructuro, ON THE LAXE, Tho stenmer Muskegon, Capt,” Smallman, of tho Goodrich Line, arrived hore yeatorday alteruoon at 8:30 o'clock, dnatoad of 8 %elock in the morning, Tho Cap- tain reports heavy southwesterly winds outalde, which hie thiinks muat hisve doue great d; 0 to vessels on tho Michlgan shure, Eiaca s arsival o the” sleamer upatchios haye beon pouring inta the cit; hiiators on tho otbior aide of theJakg, >nouneing Thyo ytorn-lino of tho bark Maria Martin, Just lond- ing at the Gulona Elevator, gavo way yestérday after- noon, and the high wind prevalling at ‘tho tline forced thie vessel sgainst the building with such strength as to punch a hole fi tho side of the bullding, "Ihio scow Four Drotliers, yeaforday, ran ‘propeller Jutios Fick, J scow lost Lier jibboom, stack, Threo barges belonglog to Mossrs, Kirby & Furlong aro ashore near Muskugon, ‘Tho uchoonsr Hungarisu came I yestorday minus lier fore aud main ga! Tho scliovaor Wentolestor wont aslioro noar Mus kogou, ‘I'hio sehoomar John Tibbets sunk at Manisteo, T'he sohranar Magnolis {s ashore near Grand aven, Ao schooner Harrison {s ashore at White Lake, EYANSTON. GOSSIP, Roturn Home of the Wnnderera.«A Young Mun from Chicugo Iujured, The Proabytorian soctabla wlll be Luld {his evening at tho residonco of Mr, Anglo, Mignes Kitty Comstock, Lilllan Goodman, Tetty Turd, sud Anus Shumsn have left for Kemper- Iall, Kouoaha, Mz, Luthor D, Bradioy hus returned from hia Euro- penn tour, Ho will leave for the Eant in a fow day Dr, and Mrs, A, L, Marcy huve returnod from the East, Thoe Doctor wiil locato near Chicago, ¥, D, Rayinond, Es,, of the class of 773, has accept. ed a poxition s fnstructor of Groek fu the Proparstory Departmont of the Northwestern Univeraity, Bl A, Giags, Ee, 18 viaiting {n Now York, 2tus Eva Maitisoh has returned from har Fastorn trip. 6‘-1:. Arthur 0, Ducat returaed from Rurope on into the’ , oufulde the' barbor, Tha G the steamor Ler smoks. Egan, presonting report | ‘Wedncafay, lookipg niuch better-in health, and Jovll\l’ 8 evor, J. Kedzio and family, aud O, 3, Giihért and fa 1y o burs, | At home from thelr summor tours, | B, 1t, Bhrador haa just relurned from Wasling- n, Dr, M, O, Briggs, piator'of tha Mothodlat Ohurels, }"l“n avisitto Californis, tho aceno of his former Inbiors, ‘Tho studenta are Leginning to return, and applicants for admission nro lmlnfi examinod, A yovug man from tho city hud hia leg broken In {rylig to get tnto 8 buggy i which his compnnton waa naatod, noar the resldenco of Wilkon Dhelps, Esi,, on tho north ridue, on Bund iy Innt, o was token' to Calvary, and Des, Mann sid Brogdan swumoned, who foud tiat both bones in hils right leg, bulow the knee, wero broken, ‘Thoy xet tho lmib, and the patiout wug taken to tho city, .1Tla namo {8 not known, Yo e il SHERIDAN’S WITNESSES, Peraons Whom tho PollcosDomornlizer Wnnts Summioned to Teatfy Agninat Capts Lull, | Yollco-Commieslonor Shoridan, yeatorday atternoon, presontod to_um Mayor a list of peraona who, he nald, could featifyall about tho nlloged intquitios of Capt, ~Louls J, Lull, Mark professcd to bo entirely lgnorant of tho charactor or whorcabouts of any of thaso wit- tosses, any furihor than tho ddsemes glven oro- with, cxireme, when guestioned aa to tho probablo ante- cedents and rosidencs of such upright and Iaw-abiding’ citizons aa Al Hlankins, Ifarry Watkins, Madame Ru- ILII::[ZII, Maunie Marks, ste. Following 18 the completo Ald, Goorgo Towell, T, MeHugh, attorney, fenry Wiider, attorney, Lottio Whitnoy, Ed. Cunningham, oystor- man, 7. A, Montgomery,ox-Ald,, Jolin Payne, Dep-Bhorl, Tarry Watkihs, tor Theo, Noyes, hackman, "Thon, Oaroy, Linckman, Frauk P, Dodd, sgontfor l‘nrn, Hattlo 'Romer, W, Washe inglon airoot, Gus, Bwanson, policoman, Jan, Morgan, policeman, Jaa, Bromnan, policeman, Tottie Dono, Fourth av,, ‘Auntio Hall (colorod), Chan, Hale, Abs Pollock, Al. Hankins, Clark stroot, L. Tothgarben, 118 Olark | Young MoLain, - aireot, Jos. and Goo.' Apploton, Mannio'Marks, 58 Blalo atrent Goo, Cunningham, hack-| Jobhn and Eliza Napell, ‘mas, —_——— RAILWAY-LEGISLATION IN ILLINOIS. To the Kilitor of The Chicago Tribune ! Bmn: Tor somo yoars past, our flrm has car- riod on considorable trado with Bt. Louis. We Lavo sold of our manufacturos thero, ond ro- coived from thoro of our raw matorial. Wo have shippod to aud from, including transter ncross tho rivor, at 25 conts por hundred, But, under tho presont reform-arrangement, our friends in Bt. Louis aro charged on our shipments thoro 74 conts, and the rato on our raw matorial isto bo the samo. This advance cuts off the interchange, for our frionds there can got tho samo commodi- ti08 from Cincinnatt at tho old rato, 23 conts ; whilst, oven af oue-third of what the ad- vanco js, our raw material would lave boen ontirely cut off. Wo find also that othor businosa-houses are like go- iously sffocted, whilo no oue is bonofited. *'Wo are, thorofore, fully porsuaded that, if tho pros- out lino of logislation ia porsistedin, it will'bo.an. alarming blow at the prospority of the State of Tlinoly. o It is truo that rnilways, like other corpora- tions, shiould bo winoly rogulated bylaw; and, liko individuale, thoy cortainly aro smonable to law; but it should not be by raising o huo and crv, and by enactiug such rockless legislation as that in Illinois tho past wintor; reokless, be- caugo upon tho sssumption that railway owners and managers aro & pratical crow. Our firm i8 paying snually §75,000 to $100,000 in froight, Much of it is on matorial which is gathered frowm points within 600 miles from Chi cago,- and which is noarly yalueloss at sugl poiuts, sud cau ouly bomoved and utilized at vory low rates of freight; otborwiso it must go to wasto. We have ever found railway-mauagers liboral in arranging rates, and activo in facilitat- ing shipmeonts, -for this brauch of our businous ; ay well whero there were no competing liues as whero there were. They acted upou sound busi- nosg-principles in so doiug; bucauso, if theso froights did not pay 80 welk ua othors which woro 1moro valuable and upon which higher rates could be chnrged, still, thoy paid something, and thus business-ontorprisey were fostored and other froighting thoroby incronsod, Our agouts also wore abroad, paywg railway-fares, who would otherwiso be at home. In fact, wo Liave ofton ro~ ceivod pnsees for our agonts with o viow to facil- ftating ond incroasing such shipmonta. It is truo wo could not havo expected so much had wo boen located at & non-compoting or ont-of-tho- way point, whoro there were no other large ship- pors; for thore railways could ouly have done so at a.loss, Thesawmo can gonerally bo vaid concern- ing tho shipment of our products. Wo have alao ofton paid lous rates for longer distancos ; but this has boon bocauso of larger quantitics and less oxponso in handling on the longor routes. Tho past wintor, whou all tho railways wero flopded with froights, we would willingly havo puid $20 por tou to have Lsd certsiu of onr roducts ~ forwarded to Enstern cities; ul *wo wero compelled to take our turn with tho products of tho farm and othor froights, and thoso with ours, at S14. Ruilway-officors, ot tho same time, woro pushing slupments to tho utmost. In fact, wo woro Ent- isfled that nll was dono that could be done to favor tho intorests of shippors. And, furthor, the rates wero placed still lower as suon a8 win- tor-oxponsos woro past. In all this we havo Loon gonorally dealt with as ouo morchant donls with another, It 18 & portinout _inquiry, in this_connection, whethor nilwlf-lruighlu are higher than is roasonable in lllinols, or ihethor thoy are higher than in other States, T'his is an inquiry which should have beon instituted before rawing the Luo and cr{. If llinois rallivays woro not pormitted to carry through freights at a loss rate por mile than for short routos within the Htate, could thoy thus bo onabled to charge loss for the sbiort routes? Not at all. They would bo obliged to chargo higher, For, evoh bt o low rato, tho immensa volume of theso through freights, and tho ab- sonco of oxpouso in handling and dopot-room and elork-hiro, ete. (for thoy Lava only to attach locowotives and haul tho londed cars through), peys somothing, if not cuough for romunorative dividends ; Loudo, lowar rates can bo charged on local business, upon which the railway legiti- matoly deponds. And now, if through froights and tmigfiu from compeling poiuts at roducod ratcs are to bo cut ‘off, local ratos must bo ad- ‘vancad a8 & cousequonco, Flhore can bo no cast-iron rulo for the financisl mausgement of railways, Much must bo left to the good gongo and self-intorest of railway man- agers. For inatance, sonie Enatorn roads cliargo 2conts por milo for_passonger-fares, whilo in Kansas and other Western Stnces 8 conts ia chiargod, and so by regular gradatious botwoen the two oxtremes, Now, if at the East fares wore advanced to 8 conts, or evon advanced at all, racoipts would bo diminished; while, at the West, if faros wero reduced to Eastorn rates, roads could not meet expousea, Tailways Lavo beon chiefly instrumental in changing the Btate of ilinow from » wasto to o fruitful fiold ; rescuing Lor farming population from povorty, and placing them in comparative onse, and oven wealth, Boforo the oponing of rnilways, farmors within 100 miles and upwarda hauled tholr grain hero, eamping out duriug their journoy, and solliiig 4t such prices na scarcoly- enablod’ thom to pay thoir taxes. Nov, theso farmors, forgotting théso bounefits, aro madly en- donvoring to confiscato tho railways, What can thore be in tilling tho soil that causos mon to bo 80 puspicious and gmnvlng; grasping, ond, it .might bo added, without consoience, did wo not romomber thoir patriotism in ruslung to thefleld at tho call of their country? But, aftor the great Grango movemont Lias sappoed tho farmors, and oxploded, aud left thom high and dry, thoy may bo sadder, but thoy will bo wisor mon.” Like the boy who, in fooling around tho heols of a muls, go{uu]ly ‘marzed by o kiok in tho facos on hin artinl racovory ho uskod bis fathier if ho {hought o would over bo as handeomo again. *No," gaid tho fathor, **you will nover bo handeome again; but thon you will know a good deal mora,” ‘Wao aro satiaflod that the intoreats of tho ooplo, of farmors aud busingss-mon, will bo Bullur gorved by s community of interost, as iu tho past, thau by shackling and destroying or conflaeating tho railways, Whon railways are operated by tho Btate or by the Genoral Government, thera will bo an end of thoir promoting pruupurhy or bolng & goneral good. - Bwarms after swarms would food upon tholr rovenuos, and, in tho end, thoir oxponses boyond their recoipts would baukrupt the nn- tion, Wann Brotitrry, 49 Bouth Frauklin atrost, Chicago, et g Questionable Fumunity. A curlous cauno colobre hus just boen befors tlip High Coust of Pesth, Hunjary, whoro it has boou decided that tho fintshivg off ‘n dying per- son is an almost venisl offense, It appoars (hnt one Buaba, o shoomaker by trado, chioso to make love to hig nister-in-law without oven walting for tho docense of his wife, and that tho latter waa soon complotoly supplanted in his affootions. Prosently a tromaoudous seandal onsued; tho wifo Iott the houso 3 tho slster went out in one direc- tion to buy poison, tho shosmaker in anothor to buy & revolyor, both futent on suicide, An offer of a job only olicited from tho lattor & romark Iis smilo, it was childlike and bland in the. world;" and that this thronf to trabnfor hissory~ ico to anothior planot no alarmed his frionds that thoy communicated with tho polico, Exabs, on roturning hoine, found his ‘winter-in-law -in_the agonlon of polson, and forthwith procoeded to put hor nutof her misery first by four shots from tho revolver, and tlien by a blow from an ax, A fifth barrol, which ho atmed at hi own breaat, minsed firo; tho nlxth only wounded him slight- Iy and tho polics just arrived in timo Lo resicuo Iim from {ho lnkoe, G0 faot deop, into which he had thrown himcelf, Aud now comes tho cnrlous partof tho story, Tno_ local Court cwn= dumnod him to ten yenra' Imprisonment for tho murdor of his slator-in-law, Dut the Appeal Cotitt, on tho grovud, tho. doceadad wonld ot Liave rocoverod from the ‘offcots of tha polson, and (hat Esaba's uso of rovolvor and ax was moroly n rathor mistakon not of humanity, n- tonded to shorton her aufforings, roduced tho torm to throo yonrs, Wo should think that poo- plo with morlal disenses, who may suspeot their srionds of o wish to * shorton tholr pufforings,” must fool rather unoasy, E A NEW AVENUE OF TRADE. Froposed NnrrowsGnuge Rond from Lnko Suporior 10 Foot Point, S, O o the Chieago Board of Trade : Can you inform us, in this benighted region, first, how it is that, in the genoral telographic roports of the grain and provision markots of tho United Btatos sont to tho Charleston and Bavannah papera overy day, Chicago is ontirely igmored, whilo New York, Baltimoro, Philadol- phis, Cincinnati, 8t, Louis, Louisvillo,” and Now Orloans, aro carefully roported? This thing has attracted my attontion moro than onco, and, but for somo private correspondenco with your city, it might havo occurred to mo that tho cities of Now Yok and Philadelphin had quiotly wiped bor out, a8 bolng an unnccessary sppon- dngo to thoir commorcial syatom. ‘It is truo (hint tho millions of bushels of Indian corn that wo use in making our cotton crop and naval stores, aud that food our poople generally, are bought i New Yorl, PIhiladelphin, nud Baltimoro, through commiesion-merchants,— tho emall matter of 2% por cent being.of no moment to the Chicago grain-denlor, who fluds futuros s much safor and losa trouble~ #some way of oarning nn honest Incomo. But, admittivg that’wo aro not directly interosted in prices on tho spot in Chicago, still, the {informa- tion, whon wodo bhave it, affords ua an oppor- tunity.of noting how much it costs to got comn from the point that wo used to look upon a8 the gront grain mart of the world, Our wholesale rate in the region sonth of Capo Hattoras to Bt. Angustine, embracing tho States of North Carolins, South Carolina, Goorgia, Florlds, Alabama, and Mississippi, during the past yoar, bas averaged 90 contd on tho const, sacks includod, and 95 cents to %1 por bushel in tho intorior, ‘Common New York shipping hay is at §27to 240 per ton, wholosale, in Wilming- ton, N. 0. Cargo-corn is this day quoted i{n butk at 86 conta; Ponsylvania hay, $80. For- merly, much @ tho _groator .portion of our . corn camo from Wilmington. In Bavannub, corn js in good demaud, wholesale, from wido tho ship, at 83 conts for yollow Woat- orn, and 95 to 07 conta for white; Now York shipping liny, $28 por ton ; Eastorn hay, 933 por ton. Most of thia stuil goos by ratlroad intothe intorior; by rail from Jncksonville, Fla., Savan- nab, Charleston, and Wilmington, N. O, ho vessols that Lring this corn, hay, bacon, whisky, tobacco, &c., accommodate us vory much, we admit, for God only knows how the immonsga number of cotton-producers would ba fed if the supply doponded upon railrord trans- portation vin Chattancoga and acrosa Georgin. ue morchant hore sont an order to St. Louis in Decombor for corn, onts, and hay, to Bupply a Government contract, sud, though'Lis ordor wau promptly filled, the consignment was not ro- cived .until tho first wook in April. To got vessols to bring us this corn .from tho ports north of Iattoras, we aro obligated to ship our cotton to Europe via Northern ports. It ia truo that this outails an averago extra cost, {or tranpportation, handling, marino insurance, &e., of 5 to §6; bul, admitting that only half ot our cotton-crop goes by that routo, it doos not tako much out of our pockets, for £2,000,- 000 bales, ot S5 por bale, is only $10,000,000 por annum, and wlat is that—s moro bagatollo— ich South ? is the logic of the Now York and Phila- delpbia Rrilroad” Princes, the chiof of whom is tho _Vice-Prosident of the Tounsylyania Rail- rond, But what’s tho uso of all this balderdash ? T'ho Southern poople have no credit, no means. Thoy havo boon so syatematically destroyed by tho Southorn Security Company, and such rings in Now Yorlk and Philadelphin, 28 to o paralyzo this section of tho country that it may fall’ an onsy proy to the avariciousuess of the MMam- maonitos. . 3 % L Tho citizons of South Carolins and North Caralina fully realizo that they have been labor- ing under groat disadyautages from the oxcos- Bivo raton charged on Wostorn produco carried to Now York, ote,, and rosbipped by vossol, and again by rail, to them; and do most earnestly invito, not only tho Board of T'rade of Chicago, but the Boards of Trado in tho Weat_gonerally, to look iuto this matter. Thero is at Foot Point, Port Roya! Sound, 8. 0., & magnificont port, gufloctly honlthy all the' yoar, 23 miles from avaunab, 100 from Augusts, 80 from Charlos- ton, whore an outlet can bo found for a large portion of tho oxports of the Groat West. Tho routa via Chicago, Indisnapolis, diroct throngh to Cumberland Gap, Tonn., up the French Broad Valley. to South Carolina_in Pickous County, thoneo to Foot Point sud Savannah, is ominontly practicablo, and is, all in all, the beut roulo from tho Groat Lakes—Suporior, Mich- igan, and Erie—to tho Atlantic Oconn, en route not only to & most_important domestic markat, ‘but to European, Weast Iudian, and Bouth Ameri- can markets, ‘Tho natural accommodations af- forded for londiug and discharging freight from tho very largest veseols isfimportant, aud freight ehipped from cmenl;o can bo put in Liverpool moro oconomically than by any other route now in operation ju the Unitod Statos. The q;'mlt {roublo with Charloston and Savan- ah, to bogin with, is the want of the requisite draught of water upon their bars, which should bo at lenst 22 foot, whereas mno steamship can run to time, at all times drawing 18 foot, ot oithor of thoso ports. Agoin, tho ' Georgin - Contral snd tho Goorgia Raltroad boing broad-gauge roads, dependont upon numerous other councctions, cannof porform, economically, the transportation necosnry to sccure o continued flow of froight enst and wost. T'ho South Carolina Railroad in virtually boxed up ; honco, we ara left to tho tonder morcies of Wall strect. Dut, as I gaid boforo, our peoplo realize their position, and are casting nbout for relief, Manyof us beliove that tho uarrow-gaugo (3-foot)” system of con- structing roads will bo more rapidly developed in tha South, thau in tho Northorn States, and We aro auxious to securo one or moro yain trunl-lines to Port Ioyal Sound, connooting Lake Suporior with the Atlantic Ocoan, and with abranch from Lnko Erie, making & junction near tho Tonnessso and North Carolin lino. Tho distance from Lalko Suporior {s 1,226 milos ; {from Chicago, 806, A mocting will bo hold at tho Warm Springs, N. C., on tle 30th of Soptambor. Wo havo tho sssuranco _that sufllciont stoamuhip froight-room for Turope, tho West Indies, aud Bouth Amoriet, shall bo fortheoming Just as soon as wo can bo suro of o rogular sup- ply of freight, Thero would be an sbundance of conl to moot the demands of all vessels nooding that articlo. I am & poor man mysolf, but tho boarts of the Ronh aro with mo; and, whilo thoy can subsoribo ltborally of roal catato; cte,, along tho routo, thoy havo not much monoy to pubup, ‘I'he road wo want s o firat-clans nar- row-gauge road, as Bh'flhiht as it can bo built, from_ Lake Superior to Chicago, to Indiaunpolls, Cumborland Gap, and Foot Toint, 8. 0, It can bo thoronghly constructed snd_squipped for a Inrge :xluu[uouu, having oxtra eidings, at $15,700 por milo. If you fool an {ntorast in this work, and Chi- cago Diag not really boen wipod out, we would bo glad to hear from you. Bourit AN Nontit CAROLINA, ———— REPUBLICANS VS. DEMORRATS--A NEW PARTY NEEDED. Etrannass, Wis,, Sept, 8, 1873, Tothe Editor of The Chicago T'ribune Bi: What is » Republican? The namo is synouymous with Domocrat, Tho difforenco is mainly that a Ropublio admits casto in ite soclal organization ; n Democracy—l. e,, a truo Dem- ocraoy—doos hot, But both namos aro aliko suggostive of tho brightest, as woll as tho dark- ont, days in our careor s u nation. Lot ua cons aldor the riso and fall of Loth partiey in Aweri~ can polltica, Tho Domoeratlo pnrty was, in its infanoy, o progrosalye as well as an sggroasive organiza- tlon,—an uphoaval of popular sontiment, striv- ing to freo itsolf from tho lingering fottors of that ha wohld “mend no more hootd .t this | Toryinm ; and, as It was popular, grow in power, becoming fluatly a ruling party. Turthor, 1t 1s romarkablo that no period in our Miatory has beon so prolifia in {ta produotion of stategmon and diplomats, as durlng tho sway ‘of;the Domooratio party,—mou of mngnificont intelleats, and storling worth, who did much to “shapo and crytallize our Republican inutitutions, Dut, alaal like all human combinations, with popularity enmo influcneo, and with infinonca camo that hungry orowd of unascrupnlous domae gogues, the hiyenny that crowd whore loun feed, with no peinciplos, and whoso watchword was, ' tho victors hulnngf tho apoilu." Ihen, as timo passed, tho ominently wisa and upright founders of tho pnny.wnm removad b {ibalh or obliar extvan, . [lio Lyonas, Sager aug watchtul, with charaoteritio “portinacity, fillod ench sucdseding yacanay from thoir own vilo hord, Thus wau the parly insonsibly undermined, and, in tho Iator days, doctrlnes nnd platforms wero enunciated thnt would make the *‘old wheol bhornes of Domocracy " turn in their graves for horror, wero thoy consclous of thom. Tinally, whon tho dark hour of Robellion cmmo, tho truo Domocrats wara awakened to tho tact fhat their noblo ship hnd boon turned Into & Elrntlul craft, flying tho lng of Secession, Many ocame ** War Domoorats,” aftorward identifying thomuelves with the Republicans, Aa roso tha Demooracy, g0 tho Ropublican party roso, simply beecauso a sorien of prutrurmn woro onunciated " that awakoned a rosponsive ocho in tho henrta of peoplo tired of Domoeratio corruption ; and tho now party, boing guided by young and energotic hoads, rose rapidly into favor, and, during its sway, conforred many substantinl bonofita upon tho nation; but it hea now (I'mwn a8 corrupt as ita prodecossor ever was, ia daily falsify) n§ tho nobla principlos it started with, and has forfoited tho ostcom and support of overy honoat patriot in the land. It : maygngml by *“rings™ and *rings within ngs, Thore {8 no soundness in the wholo body cor~ porato; Thon what shall wo do? A remody must bo sought, and soon, Two remodies arg availablo. Tho ** O1d Men of the Mountain,” who aro now gaddled on the Republican party, and who start the ory, “Bland by your party,” to socura thoir oleotion, must bo thrown off, and the class of unprineiplod scalawags, hungry for ofiice, got rid of, olao tho Republican party will follow its Democratio prodecessor up the river whoso wa- tors are salino, a3 Home may eay, Why overthrow tho Ropubli~ can party, who have dono Bo much and so woll for tho natlon? Why, tho vory snmo was eald by tho Domacracy in tho’days of their deatruction. Not for the good yo have dono, O Ropublican Rnnyl would wo sock to tako nyay your powor, ut, for the ovil yo are now doing,—booniteo o tho frand and_corruption that aro fostoring in evory Governmont offico, throntening the vory lifa of tho nation. ‘Iruo, a fow righteous mon may boinvolved in the dostruction of this political Bodom; but tho wise will not hositato to sccuro safoty by n speedy dopartura, Tha signs of tho times show that tho pooplo aro woary of thoir burdon,—nre eagor for Toliof, Lot us chooso that other and botter romedy: form a now party, Let a fow storling mon call a convention, and Iot that convention ndopt & plattorm, ombodyin tho bost planks of any or all platforms 'pruccdg ing, with such new ones as the pooplo domand ; and auch o party will swoep likoa torront through tho nation, Tho * Grango Movomont " shows that tho poo- loare in a fermont, and nood o party to load hem. 'Tho tide is rising. Bpood tko]_«:in,\g E. E. B. g MISCELLANEOUS. Another tribo of Indian last waek becamo ex- tinct, It wasin Rhodo Ieland. ‘The Coroners 21‘(‘?’!."]“0“ *got™ on his remainy, eaid whisky it. —A Now Jeracy Justico snid that tho word ‘¢ tostimouy * had'an *r" in it, and the lawyer who rv'llnputml him was flued 810 for contempt of court, —A Dutch ametour has bought, in Brussels, for £5,000, a sl picture of tho * Marriago of Honry IV," authentically deciared tobo the work of Rubons himself, —Xrs. Dolly Love, the Inst pensioner of tho Rovolution, residing in Ulster County, Now York, died ot Higbland lsst 8aturday, sgod 100 yoars, 8 mouths, and 10 dnys. —* No cards,” is the fréquent -announcement to tho marringo notice; and now comos ‘no carringes,” to tho funeral notice, Why not? A groat funoral, in thoso Iattor days, has bocome more expensive thau a marriago, and a marrisgo often costs onough to sturt o young man in A prosperous businoss. -—Ten_young women mada tho Harlem River at Now York lively on Saturday, by a awimmin, match. Tho priza was o gilk dress, value at 176, and tho distanco o milo. Miss Do~ Jilsh Goboess, of PThiladolphin, proved tho winnor, swimming the milo in forty minutos, aud Misa Maggio' Colton, of Doston, oumo in Becond. 0 Shal's crowd woro thioves and doad- boats,'in addition to their other vicos, A London Joweler who sont somo valuable poraonal orna- ments for the inapoction of the Shah, at his own requost, lost $50,000 worth of trinkots; and somo of his rotinuo loft an unsottled acoount with o’ Paris glovo-deslor amounting to £350, which the Fronch Govornmont hag since paid, —The Vauw Wort (0.) Bulletin is ontively too procigo : * For the purposc of being mora dot- inito and cortain, wo will stato that it was not one wook ogo last Sunday, but two weoks ngo last Sunday, that o Democratic candidato for tfio Bonato got drunk at Delphos and danced ona beor-tablo.” —An oflicial in Franco ia so '* conservativo " that ho does not like .even a revolution in the phenomana of nature, and has just appointed o commission composod of & Gonaral, sovoral en- gineors, n.Judgo, and & priost, for Lo purpoko of “studying the shocks of earthqualie, which have boen vory froquont of lato, nud of ' suggesting gowoe romody.”. —An Evansvillo spooney was tho vietim of a heartloss joke, rocontly. His compeanions coun- terfoited u lotter from a young boiross, which said that his manly bearing had captivated hor heart, and hoped he reciprocated. Io throw away. his tools, investod his money in nosw clothios, and prosonted Limsel? to tho lady, who indignantly told him that she didn’t want a hug. band who looked like u crooked-neckod squash, and if ho didu't loave she'd remove his hair, He rotired. —Molly Adams, of La Crosse, Wia., bad three lovers como to sec her on a recent Sunday evening. 'I'ho lass thought there were two too many, sud ordered ono of tho trio to leave, Mo did Bo, Bhe thon told the other two that sho would give thom ton minutes to decide_which of thom should remain for tha evening. Bo saying she retired from ihe room, and for some timo thoroafter & sharp rough-and-tumble fight raged +in that parlor, which ended in a compromise to tho effect that-tho couple shonld court the girl in company for an Lour, Molly to decido nt the ond of that timo which of tho two should leavo, R e ity ‘The Will of John Stuart Mill. Extraota from tho will of tho late John Stuart Mill aro publishod in tho London journals. They nre characteristio of tho man, aud full of intorest, Tho original will was madoin 1853, and by it ho boqueathed all his property to hig wile, Binco doad, aud in the event of Lor dying in his lifetimo to his stop-daughtor, Mis Ilolen aylor. A codictl, dated Fob. 14, 1872, revokos all’ provious dispositions, namos Mixs Taylor molo oxecutor, aud gives her tho wholo estato, real and personal, Bho is to bo literary ezecutor algo, with full power to odit all or any of hia worls, and publish all or any of i munusoripts g8 sho may think flt. Thon comes this para- graph about his autobiography : . “Aud, whoreas, in thoso duys no ono ia soouro against attompts fo mnke monoy by means of protonded blographios, I thorofore think It necnesary to stato that I have writton a short account of my life, which I leavo to tho abso- luto charge of my enid stop-dnughtor, Miss Holon Taylor, to ba published or fot, 'at hor will and’ discrotion ; aud, in tho eveut of hor doath in my lifotime, to the chargo and control of William ''homas ‘Thornton, on condition that ho_publishos tho samo withii'two yonrs of my doconso, . And I hereby doclara that all papors and matorinls available for an account of my lifo are in tho ‘muuussmn of my said stop- danghter, and of her ouly, aud that no other ponion hes such knowlodgo of oither my liter. ary or privato life rs would qualify him or hor to write my biography.” Had Miss Taylor died bofore him, tho ostnte would have gono as follows: “Tomombers of his wifo's family and his awn ho leaves logacies to tho amount of £9,000; to the Socioty for tho Provontion of Cruclly to Animals, £000; to the Land-Tenure Keforin Annociation, £600; to auny ono univoraity in Cireat Britain or Irelnnd that shall Lo tho flvst to opon {ts degroos to women, £3,000; sud to the samo university a furlbor sum of £9,000 to u‘nd?w poholarships for foruale students exclu- sively.” In'that case Mr, W, T, Thornton and Mr. W, Ellis would have boon exocutors, . but his copy- Tights woro to pass to Mr, John ' Morely, _editor of tha Fortnightly Keview, *to be applied in aid of vome poriodical publication which shall bo n[]\on to'ths exprossion of all opinions, and which shall have all its artisles slgnod with the nawos of their writors," 1tis to bo noted also that Mr, Thornfou was enjoined to publish the autabiography absolutoly, aud no diacration left to him as to Miss Taylor, The whole personal 1‘wmrt¥ i? o_flfltll?ul‘:ll.l unt l87:-)l,lfluu. Tho nutu‘i ography is in the hands of 0 priuters, an wflhm out in Qatober, !