Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1873, Page 2

Vil CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1873, ‘Mw ‘GREAT BRITAIN. The Enormous Realized Wealth v of the Country. ¥Forty Thonsand Miles of Railway, Costing Twice as Muoh as the * American Railrond- System, Drifish Capltalists Creditors of the World to the Extent of $6,000,000,000! Tho Value of tho Property of Great Brit gin and Treland Bstimated ab $50,000,000,0001 Coal and Iron the Secret of This Aston- ishing Prosperity. Fearfully Unequal Distribution of These Riches---A Million of Ahsolute Panpers in England. Everything Rcdun.nd {0 a System--No Loafors or Dead-Beats--Everybody Must Wark, or Go to Jail or the Poor-House. Special Corresponudence of The Chicago Tribune, LoNDON, Oct, 10, 1873, Tho onormous realized weplth of Great Britain Yorces itsolf on tho obsorvation of the traveler very stop of his journey through the island. TThe country is ns benutiful o8 o park. It is o palace and s garden. It is thickly studded with gront cities, London, with its 8,500,000 souls, is ftho sun of o solar system of citios revolving liko ‘plancts and satollites around it. Solidity and etability charactorizo overything. Take, for )oxample, THE BAILWAYS. They are built with a caro and perfeation nevor secn in Amorica, Thoy aro constructed regard- Heas of oxpenso. Tho grade or direction con- forms very little to the faco of the country. 'The lnes aro straight, turning neithor %o tho right nor left hand to avoid motural obstructions, If low hills aro Fmt, they aro cut through; if vailoys, they laro filled up ; if high hills, they are tunneled ; if rivers interpose, they aro arched over with ‘stono bridges; or, if tho spring i too long for a ‘stono arch, they arc spanned with iron. Em- ‘bankments or deep cuts are oithor lined up with ‘stone walls or smoothly sodded, so the naked enrthis raroly soen. All public highways are eithor carried ovor the tracks on stono or brick wiaducts, approached by easy grades; or aro crossed by the railway on an iron or stono bridge. Tho railway never crosses a publio rond on tho same grado or level. In passing iuto or through cities, the tnilway- 4rack noarly always runs on a ‘161 LEVEL," The rondway usunlly consists of n serics of brick or stone arches, olevated about 20 feet above the surface of the ground, and under tho arches the trafilo on the street passes without danger or im- pediment. The traing are thercby onabled to run into depots and through citios as fast as tho * companies ploaso to run them. On tho oxpross trains I have dashed through citics and towns, or rather over them, at tho spoed of 40 to 50 miles per hour, looking down on the housge-tops of the long rows of tilo-covered brick cottages, end taking in the whole place at & glance from o sort of bird's-oyo view. The railway-lines have #ll double OR QUADRUPLE TRACKS (except the morely local ronds or short-feedors). Steel rails aro Inid on the principal lines, and all ‘tho lines are gotting them as fast as stecl can bo monufectared. I was told that eoxperience proves steel to bo more than ten times as dura- ble a8 iron. Somo railrond-men declazed that a ood stecl rail would outlast tweuty relays of ron. Theo traveler {s improssed with tlie enormous wmagnitude of tha raflway-traffic of Great Britain, by meeting twenty traing on hour flying past m; rarol 0.’ longer than flve or ten minutes in- toryene bofween traing. And evory balf-houror \go hie crossos somo railway line, and sees traiug sweeping through tho country in almost every direction, Tho tracks of difforont railways, 80 dar a8 I observed, never cross oach othior ON THE BAME LEVEL ; one always viaducts™ over the other, sap- ;;rn'nlwhing iton o high embaukment or serios of Brches, Tho Iomi;th of tho lines in the United King- dom at this time in about 17,000 miles, of which ‘thoro aro 14,000 in_England. Thos linos have cost . $2,800,000,000 gold, or 105,000 por mile. But besr in mind that nearly “all the British railronds hayo double’ and quadruplo tracks, If measured by singlo tracks, agin America, thoy must considorably exceed £0,000 milos in longth, If tho cost of the Brit- ish railways is estimated Dy tho netual amount of labor exponded in their construction, and in tho manufacture of the rolling atock, [ do not think I would bo far wrong in staling that thoy - CORT DOUDLE AS MUCH ms all the railronds in the United States. This gmay strike. tho readers of Tu TRIDUNE a8 n «wild statemout ; but lot us consider the facts. I‘Ibaxo are 07,000 miles of railway lines in the United Btates, nearly all singlo {yacks, nomin- ally costing 89,000,000,000. 1ut 380,000,000 to sx,ouo,uan,mm of this samo consists of * watered stack’ and discount on bonds. Most of tho bonds were uold for loss than 85 per cent, many of thom for less than 85 per cent, and some as low as G0. Then, oll the . xailwey coustructed sinco 1861 has been Dbuilt with depreciated ourrency, worth, on au av- erago, about 75 to 80 cents on the dollar. De- duct 81,000,000 for *yater" in'the stooks and discount on the sale of bonds, and say $800,- 000,000 for discount on curroucy since 1861, and thota rowmains ouly $1,700,000,000 as - TIE AUTUAL COST of all the exlsting railronds, with thelr equip- aments, in tho United Stutes. Thero should deductod from this sum, sny §60,000,000, paid +for right of way, and from the coat of the British roads 250,000,000 for right of way. Now, bear in mind that a dollar horo, in cout’ of construg- tion, ropresents at lenst 40 per cent moro than in rthe Btatos ; by which I mean that G0 cents in his country, did purchase as much iron, ma- hinery, or labor, ua 100 conts did in the United Blates, In the conutruction and oquipmont of the 2wo systoms of railway, reckoning money as if woin volue in both countries, Tho money to bulld theso British ronds was evory dollar furnished by the OAPITALISTS OF OREAT BIUTAIN, "Thoro was uo “aid " voted by towns, cities, «ounties, or Btalo, No municipal corporation subseribed o cent. In that rospect thoy ull fol~ lowed the E’umclm\!_ oxamplo of Chicago! 'Tho peaplo of Great Britain havo beon no Jungor en- goged in bulldluz; their railwaya than have (ho pooJ)ln of tho United Btatos, 'Ihoir ronds aro all poid for and ownod at home ; whilo, with tho Tailronds in the United Bintes, costing, in notunl 'hard eaeh, but littlo moroe than half sy much us *tho British ronds, and, in bard labor, much less than balf, o very largo partof the money for tholr construction was loaned by the Britisk and |Gennan capitalists, Fully a quartor of tho laotual oxponditura wus~ advancad by tho tBritish in oxchunge for bonds and Htooks of ono kind ~ or another Within twenty yoars thoy have constructed over 0,000 miles of railway in the Indies, at o cost of £600,000,000, Thoy havo provided tho monoy algo at for the constrnotion of all tho railroady of Oanada and the other Dritish-Colonies, and amore than half the money for the constriotion ‘of the railways in Russia, ‘Che monoy for thouo 1in Bpain and Italy, in ohief part, came from En- .gland; and, [ 1IN EVERY OTHEN COUNTRY, swhero railroads Lave beon bullt, excopt in France and Germany, Bolglum uud Tlolland, British oap~ Jital has been freely need ; and, where monoy hag mot been pubgoribed, iron ralls have boon ox- wchangoed for mortgage-bonds, or ¢ dobonturey " ®8 they are haro called. 1" T have dwelt thus long on railways to give Jpome faint conception of tho incaleulable wealth of the onpltaliats of thia Island. But is shown in anothor direction, and that is in the amount of B NATIONAL NANDH hold by them, To bogin_with: tho whole na- tional” debt of QGroat Dritsin, amounting to £8,700,000,000, {s hold by hor own _capltalists H snd, in nddition_theroto, all British municipal dobts, ostimated at £600,000,000. Tt1s stated on good authority that the bonds of other natioun of the world, “inoluding thoso of political and muniofpal subdivisions of otlior countrios, own- od in GI:-nnt Britain, fully equal the total of the Dritish dobt, o, say, #4,200,000,000. It s stated that tho dobts of il kinds duo Iho capltaliste of Groat Dritain by tho nations of tho st yiold £100,000,000 por annum, or £500,000,000, At n goneral avorage of 0 to 7 por cent, this amount of intorost would {ndicato a principal of ZIGHT THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, or nonrly fonr timos tho prosont national dobt of tho United Btates. To lond all this monoy, it must firat havo boen onrnod and_saved, aud overy pouny of it Laa ‘boen loanod sinco tho ovorthrow of Napoloon at Watorloo, but the greator part of it during the Inat twonty yoars, “T'ho construction of the gi- gantioc system of railways nt homo, and the im- monee atd qlvan for their construction nil ovor tho world, in ndditfon {o the billions of monoy loaned to all othor nations, Btales, and oities, roprosont but THE BMALLER PART of British accumulated woalth, Considor the cost or valuo of tho builmugs In Groat Britain, bogiuning with the 600,000 in this city alono, ovory one built of brick, stone, or iron, and cov- erod with tilo or slate, Consider the valuo of tho manufactorios sud machinery of all kinds; of tho stores filled with goods; of tho shippin, of ovory description, moat of therd of iron, an thousands of thom iron stoamers, plying all round thoso islands and to all tho porfs of tha earth,— in short, swarming whoravor thera ls snlt-wafor onongh to float them. ‘To all theso must bo ad- ded the farm-improvomonts and implomonts, live-stock,veliiclesof ovory description, churchos, and publio buildings, war-liko matorials, includ- h:ql ho navy, I had almost forgotton tho valuo of hundrede of thousands of miles of pnved coun- try roads, and city strocts, with their river bridgos of stone or iron. I have scon no roads in Great Britain or Irolaud that wore not stouc- paved. I heve atill omitted the hundred milliona of Ifold and silvor coing in bank or ciroulation, ond the hundrods of milliong of the precious metals in the form of plate, ‘iowu , and orna- ments, NorbhaveI included in the inventory the multitude of librarics, some of thom contain- ing a millfon of volumos; the numerous muso- ums of art and natural objects; the gallorios nintings, and collections of sculpture, enolent sud modern, To sum it all up in a short sontonce, the estimated value of tho prop- erty of tho Telands of Groat Brituin and Iro- land is put down at ton billions of pounds, or FIFTY THOUBAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS | Forty per cont of this nlnoat incomprehensible sum ig tho valuo of thio real cstate, and 60 por cont that of tho improvements thereon, and the orgonal proporty, moneys, and eredits. Ihave [acludod Iralund fu tho-ostimato of tho sggro- ‘gata of wenlth ; but, whilo sho contaius rather moro than one-sixth of tho total population sho reprosonts less than one-twentioth part of the total wealth, THE POVERTY OF IRELAND is in wad and fonrfal contrast with tho wealth of England ; but, while as poor sa Job in his affic- tions, sho has contributed largoly to the opu- lence of hor h(tg brother, by the payment of an annual rent of $100,000,000 per annum to tho absonteo English Lords who own her soil, which monoy {4 8pent or invested in EnFlnudA The sacret of England's astouishing prospor- ity and wealth is found in two words,—thoe pro- duots of nature: OOAL AND IRON, constituting motive power and strength, The ono built up all the manufactures; tho othor furnished the frame-work, the muscle, so to spoak, of British prospority. Without these, she would be scarcely o second-clags nation in in- fluence or wonltl, and contain lLardly half her presont population. Add to the coal snd iron amild and salubrious climate ; & fertile soil ; an Insular position, safo from foroign Inyasion; a Inw-abiding, mioral, industrious, onterprising raco ; and tho cauecs of her prodigious richey and national dovelopment aro accounted for. Notwithstanding tho onormous, unprecedented richos of Groat Britain, tho dislribution of the wenlth is fearfully far from goneral or equal. There are now ONE MILLION aupers in England, whose con- opicted b{ Dickons, They literally enough constitute tho ‘“undor- crust” of Toglish socioty, Tho ‘up- per-crust” number, porhaps, 100,000 fam- illes, orhbnlf ns many porsons as the paupors. Ono-third of thoso aro born nobles, and own all the land ; the othor two-thirds wero generally born rich, and own mout of tho rosidue of tho proporty, in the form of buildings, improve- monts, sfflpn aud railroads, stocks and bonds, 00ds'and chattels, moneys and credits of all iuds. Botwoon thoso extromos of absoluto destitution and overgorged afiluenco come the UREAT TOILING MILLIONS, who produced all tho_wenlth snd_development. They_live, a8 o whole, comfortably; but thoy linvo little or no accumulations, but, whilo solf- aupporting, subatst from hand to mouth ns arti- sau8, or au the product of oach yonr's crops as farmors, Thoy own no land, aud fow haven houso they can_ call their own. Thoy are oll tonauts, and the greater part laborers, depending on their weokly wagoes for means o! oxfiltnnco. I'ko tenant-farmers numbor 500,000 fomilios, who, by nlmost starviug 1,000,000 of hirelings manage to pay their onormous rents and savo a lictle monoy. D Thus, Great Britainias a LAND OF EXTREMES % in overything. The Brilish nation are the most industrious, frugsl, entorprising, sagacious, pugnacious poople on the facoof tho enrth. Thoy have the richest mon in the world, and tho Iargest numbor of paupers, and the groatest per cont of landleas persons. Theyaro also the most law-abiding, order-loving, respectability- worshiping people of ancient or modern times. ‘What Lionor is_to a Frenchman, respectability is to n Briton. No people uave tho Chincso are 50 devoted to pedigroe of family, or 8o tenacious of usage and precedent, form and cercmnue-. b :I_avecrything in this country is brought to a fine point,— of poor-house dition is . REDUCED TO A BYSTER, Nobody is above his business. Every boy and girl is cducated or instructod for womeo profes- sion, trado, or usoful employment, oxcept the horeditary nobility; and they are born to_rule and enjoy themsclvos,—to bave, as _Thrckerny calls it, an uuonding pionio. The words *loafer” and * dead-bent" ate not known in the Bntish vocabulary of slang, simply beeauao thoroe is no worthless clnss ore to whom those torms can applyin tho Amorican senso, - Millions of English boys errye rogular apprenticeships to trndea of ?ll‘llk;ndn. How many Awmerican-born boys do 6 ¢ EYERY ONE HERE MUST WORK, or go to jail or tho poor-house,—work-lonse it is called,—unless thoy havo honost meuns of support. Vagrants and boggers are arrested by the polico on - sight, and shut up from public view, - All clagsos of business are systematized and economized ; Inbor is dis- tributed and subdivided, and osch man or woman learns to do any one thiug, and, a3 practico makes porfoct, thoy learn to do {hat woll. Tho amount of savings in manufacturing and domostio consumption’ nd personal ex- Rfi;‘mou, ‘would astonish o careless, oxtravagant erican, : ‘Tako them all iu all, the DBritish are A PECULIAR PLOPLE, and have mnde a mighty impross on tho human race, and- their powor aud influence are not yot oxhuusted, J. M. —— Gustave Dores A marval of industry and production s Gus- tave Doro, who does #o much ibat one would imegine he had the anor of multiplying bLim- solf, Ie in 43, an Alsacian, a paragon of good- natiire, and u dolightful compunion withal whon he iu fairly out of harness, His instrations aro so far_superior to his paintings that ho ia soldom thought of as a paiutor, He has illustrated Rabeluis, Sue, Balzae, Montaigne, Dauts, Cer- vantes, I'aine, and many otliors, and bids fulr, should ho live Iortf\" yeara longer, to illustrate all the famous nuthors of the past and prosont. His roputation is world-wide, and he hag ton timos ay many ordors as ho can fill, Ho is sald to eurn from 200,000 to 260,000 francs por avnum, and ho might augmeut his income f1tty-fold if ho only lind a8 mauy bunds as Brinvous, Of Iato years hia manner has become slmost if not quite mannorim, which, whilo it may add fo tho in- dividuality of lLis sketchas, renders thom un- lensantly monotonous. In temperament and 1 womblance Doroe i rather German, o looks {\nungur than ho {8 Las o brond faco, small eyos, igh chook bones, wears only & mustache, an #mokos llko o Bpauiard,.—Junius Henri Browne, in larper's Bagazine for November, _— ¢ What Disracli Xuy Done for the Jews. l’.‘amwfl’l London Letter to the Cincfunati Commereial, Yerhaps in tho ono (mnfi that Iny noarost his hoart he tas nchieved substantlal rovolution lio hins dono mora than any othor muu to win for tho Jewish race a social and political rank in England equal to that of any other people, Tho other day this couniry saw, for the first tlme In Listory, ons of ita highest courts closed fora day bocauso its Chancellor is a Jew, aud the day s holy one to bLia raco, Had Disraali never lived, il s doubtful whether Bir G, Jossel would kavo boen ablo to give that historlo sign, KANSAS. The Senatorial Contest Wax- ing Warm. ~ Gov. Oshorn and Jamos . Fegato Exchango Complimonts at a Primary " Meeling. Ex-Senator Caldwell as a Candidate for the Legislature. Probable Strength of the Farm- ors’ Movement in Kansas. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, LraveNwonTh, Kan,, Oct, 45, 1873, Gov. Osborn iy tho mosat formidablo candidate for United Btatos Bonator at this writing, and to sy that ho is working like n beavor on a dam doosn’t Lalf oxpross it. o has been in tho city for tho past oight or ton days, attonding oloscly to all the little ward-caucusing, and deploying his force of workorn to tho bost advauntago. Nominations for tho Logislaturo wore made in threo of tho clty districts last evening, ench of the four wards of tho city boing entitled to one TRoprosentative. Porbaps it i not oxactly in good taste for n Govornor to desert tho Exocu- tivo Ohambor in tho OCapitol at Topoka in ordor to manipulate the primariea in Leavonworth; but, if I understand tho situation corroctly, tho Govornor's Socrotary i fully as ablo to manege tho affairs of Stato as the Governor himsolf, wlile His Excellency's capacitics for adjusting tho wiros af the ward- mootings are uncxcolled. TIERE WAS MUSIO in the Third Ward Iast night,—the distriot in which tho Govornor rosides. Tha rival candi- daten for tho nomination wore Jamos ', Logate, of impeachment momory, and 8. N. Latta,—tho latter for Osborn, tho former for anything or anybody to boat Osborn, The Governor was thoro, and likewise Judge Dolabany. Moro than _half tho voting population of the district partict- pated 1 the mooting, and the result was tho do- font of Logato by thirty-fivo votes. Thon James T. lost his tomper, and charged tha Governor with resorting to low and doapicablo tricks to da- foat him, Tho Governor denied tho acousa- tion, and so thoy quarroled. Legato porsistontly ropented his declaration that Osboru had talked to him like & “d—d skaolk,” and ‘‘troated him 88 though he woro o dog,” and informed tho Governor, with omphatic profanity, that ho would male it UNCOMFORTADLY HOT for His Excollency on tho outside, if he conldn't potinside. Legato promised faithfully to soo to it that Osborn shouldu't bo olocted United Btato Senator, and that the Osborn nomineo shouldn’t be elected to the Legislature. Tho disputants separated without using their muscle to sncmn the point in dispute. Logato went to tho Commercial oftice, and *‘rushed into print,” ovor his own signaturoe, after this fashion s The Governor of the Btale has resorted to personal abuso of mo, fit onfy for the most grovellng of nieu in the moat degraded places. A United States Judge who stands impeuched by (hoe House of Reprosentatives for drunkennces begged, plead, ond threatened for votes to nominato Mr, Latth to aid bis son-in-law to becomo uunsd Slates Seuator, that his own head might bo saved, 1t remains to bo soen if Oaborn can't got up somothing on Legate worse than tho paragraph from Legate’s card just quoted. Luoat night COL, D. R, ANTHONY, of the Times, wag nominated for candidate for the Legielnture wilhout opposition. Oune year ago, Osborn and Anthony wero most bitter oppo- nonts, The Colone! is now regarded ns an Os- born man, and I suspect tho cossation of the {ight ou his part was made on the assurance that he would receive the support of the Osborn dele- gates, should the Governor fail to mustor forco onongh tosond bimsclf to the Senate. Whis union must cortainly result to. Os- borw's politioal ndvantage, but I cannot 800 wherein Authon{ will run. Anthony always takos a hand in n political fight, Ho wages tho most aggrossive warfaro, and makes oneinics of tho mosc bittor kind, 1oL an unlimitod ro- sourco of energy, & goodly sharo of personal in- dopondence, and moro thau the average ability of Congrossmen. GOV, OBHORN gains many of his su{)porlum on tho score of good fellowship, Ho is & morry man within the ‘limits of Dbecoming mirth," and some- times without the limits he gets mer- ry. Withal he is thorough-going, good- lionrted follow, without that porsonsl con- ceit which lins rondered somo of our public men inaufferable. He does not possess tho scholarly attainmonts, tho polish or fluoncy of Mr, In- alls, and noither does he claim to posacss thom, o makes no protension of statosmanlike ability, but almpl{xn\mm that ho will endenvor, it olect- ed to the United Biates Senate, {o discharge his duty in o plain and practical manner, and render his State some sorvice in tho rough, 1t hias Just trauspired that 3Nl ALEXANDER OALDWELL, tho voritablo Caldwoll who oreatod so much nose jn Congresslast scesion, intends to becomo & candidato for the Logislaturo from the Fourth Ward, Mr, Caldwoll is a queer com- pound of humanity, If ho eovor folt the slightest tingoe of bumiliation over tho un- merciful oxposure of last winter, ho has con- canled it from bis most intimato acquaintance. Most likely, Caldwoll regards tho whole affair in tho Sonate as an unfortunato business-venturs, and accepted it as ho wonld accopt the failure of a_railrond-onterprise. Ho enid yeeterday that his only object in_running for tiie Logislature was to got an indorsemount from his neighbors. 1 bolieve hio will bo defented by THOMA# P, TENLON, who will be tho Demooratic candidato. Fenlon dosorves to be clagsod ey tho leader of the Kan- 888 Democraoy, for ho led about all the Domo- crats in the Logislature of 1871 to thie support of Caldwell, and now oxpocts to ;io the Logis- laturo again, and lend all his pari y—m})msumn- tivos to tho support of his Ropublican law part- nor, the Hon, I, Stillings, for the sumo laco in the Unitod States Bonato, finmm the Democratic party of Kanaas has Dbeen o select body of mon, with the proogative of selling oiit to Republican candidates, without further answor to tho poople than that thoy had no intercst in Senatorisl etec- tions anyhow, and_between Ropublicans thero was no choico. Tho Grange, bo it said, haa changed tho uspoct, and tho opposition to Ro- ublican nominoes will boreaftor havo at least ho merit of honesty. Fenlon is one of the brightest young men'in the Stato, uniting the s gift of gab™ with n high cstimuto of his own qualifications. o has gained what we call in Xonsas s brilliant roputation,” and really has tho mental force Lo sustain it. * Vory little is said about tho ATPOINTAIENT OF A BLNATOR to sorve until tho Logislature soloots, It i3 an- gortod, by those who ought to kuow something of the Governor's dolugs, that Capt. Henry King, of Topeku, was offered tho pluce, but do- olluod, proforring, for pecuniary reasons, to hold tho Topoka Post-Oftico during the remainder of Prosident Grant’s Administration, Bowe of the ftete papors have Leen emrnestly rocom- monding Gon. D, .W. Wildor, Blate Auditor, to tho cousideration of the Govornor; but the Auditor unhuauntingl( avory that ho doosn't want tho place, Gon, Wilder is one of tho Loest editors, 88 well ag one of tho best Auditors, Knusas over hind, and would, without doubt, make ono of tho best Bonators, Ho will have many of the sumo_eort of frionds iu {ho noxt Loglulituro that Mr, Iugullu Lind in tho last, con- sisting of mon eleoted without othor gludgua than %huau requiring_thom to voto for a Ropub- liean of mcnfiutzcd ability aud; fitnoss, As & caudidato o would “acquire strength from meny sources, because of bis known ac- complishuionts, and geuoral good-feeling which ia manifosted for him, 'ho swoepiug and unexpected rosults from the organization of owa farmors have encouraged TUE ANTI-MONOFOLISTH OF KANSAS intheir fight, In many countios the farmers have made nominations, and, in some instaucos, the tiokots have boon mnde up with raro judg- mont, and muat certainly succeed, Tho failure of the movemoent In Loavenworth County was due to an ill-advisod admission to the Farm- ers’ Convention of forly dologatos from the Labor-Unions of Loavenworth City. 'Tho meot- ing to seleat tho oity dologates was managed by politiciaus, hene tho presonce amoug tho farm- era of a body of mnnP edgod, or expocted, to ad- vanoo the intorost of certain candidatos of the olty, When tho failuro of the Farmera' Gonyon- tion waa made knawn, the Ropublioan papors of tho Blato, with few oxcoptions, | g MEANTILY RETOIORD, ~ * . - Thoy rolished it oxcoodingly, and prodisted that tho dlsastor attending the movemont in tho moat populons county of tho Stato would detor farmors -in_othor locslitios: from moddling in politicn. . Two or throo days thorenftor, tha med- 2!losnmu farmern of Atchison County met, ‘and put in nomination a tiolot ombracing the namea of the beat mon in that county, Tho farmors ato fiudmsll_v unm‘InF to Hm‘bolla{ %lmf. tho Ililu. ublican party of Xansaa is not in sympathy I\Luh tho t‘l;uk ¥vhlch tho agricultural classes have engaged to perform. tegarding tho " IROMADLE BTRENGTH of tho Farmers' Movoment in Kansas, thero 1s na way now of dofinitoly estimating it, but I think fully onc-half the mombors of tho House of Ntopresontatives of tho next Legiulaturo will Do cliosen from tho ronks of organizations pledged to the protection of the industrial clasgos from tho abuses and encronchments of monopolios ; but tho majority of such mombora will act with Ropublicans on party questions, if not drivon away by tho party-lieh. 3 . Loxa Ranae, LAKE-SHORE AND UNION TRUST. Startling Allegations, and Emphatic Denials of Thoma From the New York Tridune, Oct. 24, Evor sinco it was known that the Union Trust Gompany hind loancd $1,785,000 of its funds to tho Lake Bhore Tailrond Company, which the 1ettor oithor could not or would not pay, thero have beon rumors of frauds and complications of various kinda, It wae allogod that tho stocks with Grinnell & Co. wore originally bought for tho acoount of Clark, Scholl & Dankors, and that tho margin was from soourities of the Unton Trust Compnny and tho Lake Shore Raiirond Company ; that whon tho panto came it was tho intontlon to tranafor theso accounts to the Lake Shore Railroad Company as far as practica— blo, and allege thot tho speculation was for its account, as tha survivors of tho triumvirate were members of tho Tioko Shore Exccutive Committoe. Buch an ac- tion would throw the loss upon tho railrond and notupon tho persons responsiblo, —Theso ru- mors nro given ad tha drift of ourront discussion on *f the streot,” and are not vouched for by tho Tribune. Another statement racently published, to the offoct that 2,260,000 of . Laleo Bhore bonda wore atolon from tho snfo of tho Union Trust Com- any by tho Into Becretary Carlton, or talion out Ky other porsons and used for purposos of specu- Intion, and that the Lako Bhoro Company pro- J’n“d to contost its dobt of 81,750,000 to tho Trust Company bocauss the Intter lield these ‘bonds, was the eubjoct of investigation yoster- day by & Z'ribunc reporter. James B, Banker, Tressurer of the Lake Shore Railroad Company, snid, vory emphatically, that ho Lad never hoar the statemont before, and that it was false in every particular, G. @. Williams eaid tho bonds had boon trans- forrod to George B, Grinnell & Co., and wero uow doubtless in tho possossion of various por~ gons to whom that firm may have trausforred them in the course of businoss, The proceeding in tho transfer to Grinnell & Co. had beon por- foctly atraight on the part of thoe Union Trust Company. Tho bonds hed neithor boon stolon nor uged as collatoral by unauthorized porsons. As to tho statomont that tho Lake Shore Com- pany bad questioned ita Liability for the $1,760,- 000 due the Trust Company, ho bad heard 1o in- timation of that character. 1. B, Wesloy, Roceiver of the Union Trust Company, eaid the bonds were transferred to Goorgo B, Grinnell & Co., and had boon receipt- od for by them, and the Trust Company was in possession of the recolpts, The transfers wore ade regularly by the nuthority of tho T'ronsuror of tho Lake Bhoro ComEany. He belioved tho transfor of some of the bonds standing in the name of Grinnell and Co. had been stopped re- contly by order of the Lake Bhore Company, but ho could not say what roason thero might bo for tho {m:lceodlng. It might be in pursuanco of restrictions imposed by the injuuction, or thoro might be other reasons. The Union Trust Company was not in debt to the Lake Shore, nor liad any question of liability for 81,760,000 boon raised at all, to his knowledge, by tho lat- tor Company, From the New York Tribune, Oct, 25, Rumor charged, in addition to what has alroady boon published, that tho $2,250,000 of Lako Bhore bonde were trsnsferred by tho Executivo Committeo of the round, consioting of Horaco of Clark, James II. Banker, and Augustus Schell, to Grinnoll & Co. ay margin in their gigantic monipulation of tho stock market; that tho nf:orntlnns originally promizod success, but whon the panic camo they loat the margin and more besido ; that the Lako Shore Compauy never re- coived any compensation for those bonds; and, furthor, thata heavy dofelcation by ofilcors o the Compauy had beon discovered, and its financos were in o pracarions condition. These sumors, doubted &t firet, grined crodonco when takon in councction with tho formal trousfer of $700,000 or moro of property, by James H. DBanker, to Commodore Vauderbilt, Owing to these rumors and to heavy snlos of stock, thore was s vory marked decline in Lake Shoro, the prico dropping from 65 at the opening to 61, amid coneiderable excitement and ‘E’&’mh“""ion’ Lator, howover, it reacted to 66. Iiiforts to ob- tain oflicial information wore not vory success- ful, owing to the reticonce of nonxly =ll the ofticinls and the brusqueness of some of them., Commodore Vanderbilt, when questioned, esid that ho Lnew nothing about the Loke Shore transnctions during the illness of Mr. Clark, Tho transfor of Froparty by Mr, Banker was not to make good the loss of any bounds by the Lako Shore Company. Further than this he coutd say nothiug, Mr. Schell was very reticont, saying that ho did not purposo to answor newspaper attaclks upon him. Ho would only say that the bonds jore properly lssuod and propesly applied, sud that all transactions in regard to them were por- fectly satisfactory to the managers of the Lake Slore Company. Mr. Grinnoll, of George Bird Grinnell & Co., said that the bonds in question wore transferrod to the firm by Mesura. Clark, Sohell, and Bankox, tho Executive Committeo of the Lake Bhoro Company, as collateral for purchases of Lake Bhore stock, Whothor these purchases woro made for private interests or for the bonefit of the Company ho was unable to say, but he sup- posed the lattor to be the objoot, - E. 0, Worcoster, Acting Treasurer of tho Lake Bhoro Railroad aud Becretary of the Now YorkContral Railrond Company, seid that he had boon aoting ns Tronsurer since tho doparture of Jomos H. Bauker, tho notus! Troasurer, for Europe, about n year or more ago, on busiuoss for tho Vanderbily ronds. When Mr. Bankor re- turned ho had an acoumulation of other busi- nees to attond to, and Iatterly thore were even groater intorosts whivh required attention, so that e lad boen unablo to attond to the dotails of tho oflice, Mr. Worcostor had therefore con- tinued to perform tho dutics, Spunkluf from kuowlodgo, therefore, Mr. Worcester nid that there was no truth in tho siatoments of the em- bezzlement of 82,250,000 of bonds, 'Theso bonds boon rogularly paid for nnd the rocoipts turnod into the treasury of the Lako Bhore Conpany, and tho transaction regularly closod lony winco, Their transfor bad beon stopped simply beonuse of the pooulimrly delicste nature of afinirg whon the Company was sorved with tho notico in the Grinnell baukruptey easo, A question uad arisen ae to the legality of tho tranafor whon such proceedings wore ponding, and tha Compnuy had decided to await n_judicin construction of the matter, which would'bo had to-day, as the case had Leen sot down for argu- ment in the morning, As to tho dofaleation in tho tronsury of the Lake Shore Company, if cwrrent rumors wore to be belioved, thero was very littlo monoy in the tressury, There Lind boen mo embezzloment or” dofalcation. Fortunnioly or _ unfortunately, as _tho cago might be, tho Lake8hore Company had on- torcd upon a “sories of improvements designed to bonofit the road, and this for the time had re- quired tholr available cash, It was for this pur- poso thut tha loan from the Union Yrust Com- any bad been obtained, ‘This loan would have con mot in time fromw tho earniugs of tho road, which wore nmple. Some misapprohonsion ex- istod ns to thopreolse ohnracter of tho nogotin- tious in rogard to tho lonn of 1,760,000, An impreasion appoared to prevail that Commodoro Vandorbilt had assumod the obligation beoanso tho Lake Bhioro Ratlroad wag unablo to moot it, This was not tho caso, ‘Iho Lake Shoro Railroad could vory woll pay it, and would do so in the rogular course of businoss, but of conrse tho roady monoy was not obtainablo immediatoly, Commodore Vanderbilt, kowoyer, dosired to soo tho Trust Company resumo business, and pro- posed to faclitnte its reswmnption, He, thora- !olm, had mado the arrangomenuts noted olso- where, ‘With rospact to Commodoro Vandorbilt's posl- tion in tho mattor of tho LakeBhoro loan and the stook jobbing nccounts on tho booke of Grinnoll Co., varlous statomonta ara made, Ouo story is, that whon Commodore Vanderbilt scceptod tho Propidoncy of Lako Bhors, mado vacant by the death of Horace F, Olark, he discovered that o large amount of monoy had boon apl:rm priated for tho purchase of Lake Shore stool and for the account of tho Company. Ho nsked what that was for, and whon told, .oxpresaod hia disapproval and in- slstod that the Olark ostato ll:ld Mesors, Behell and Banlkor should assumo the lond thomsolves, which they wvoro obllémd to do. Another story rolating to the Lake Shore loan was to tho offoot that the Commodore eaid that ho liad not in- ourred that obll}mllon, but he would sottlo it in his own way. Ilo propesod to give, not tho caeh, but his notes, seenved by Harlom al 40, nt throo, six, and nine months, and deolared that Lio wonld save that amount of monoy out of tho oarnings of the Lake Shoro Company during the noxt yoar, He- insisted, however, thnt ho should bo sooured for advances mndo in stoolk n[‘lmulullnnn, on behalf of James II. Banker, bla son-in-law. It was for this purposc that Jamos II.. Bauker mndo tho transfor 80 froely commonted upon on the stroct. It is alyo understood that Augustus Scholl and the Clark estnto will also make liko assignmonts in ordor to rrotuct Commodora Vandorbilt, This secured, 16 is undoratood that Commodors Van- dorbilt will stand botweon the Liako Bhoro atock- hojl&_u:n and lfna. ora vaak smount of discussion, tho Com- mittoo of ' tho Union ‘rust Company appointod to considor mensures leading to the yosumption of businesn, soparatod yaoslerday, advising the Rocolvor of the Company to accopt tho terms rmpouod by Commodore Vandorbiit in tho mat- or of tho” Lake Bhiore loan. Rocoiver Wes- loy, who was appliod to for_information concorning tho dotalls, refused to impnrt ig; but it is officially known that Commodors ‘Vandorbilt declined to yary his original proposi- tion, namoly, to give his notes for tho 91.‘;50.- 000, pa; ablo in thiroo 8ix and nino months, so- oured by Harlom Xallrond atack b 90, 'Th Trusteos of the Trust Company have beon obliged to accopt thoe offor, and it is undorstood that the recoivor will npnl{ totho Court to-day for por- mussion to sell tho notes, bids having alrcad boon mado for thom. It is oxpeoted that witl tho procoeds from the enle of these notos, and an ndditional sum which tho stockholders will subsoribe, tho Trust Company will resumo busi~ nosa about tho 1t inut., with an increased capi- tal of $1,000,000. Tho outstanding indebteduness will be liquidated as rapidly as possible, and an oarly annouucoment of the resumption of busi- noss Will be made, ——— IRELAND AND ENGLAND, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : 8imn: Inthe numbor of your journal issued yeatorday, thoro apponred o somowhat oxteusive critique of the Rov. Fathor Thebaud's work on “Tho Irish Raco,” Tho language of your re- viewer, although, as o wholo, moderato, on one point tronched upon a . thome too often denlt with by American writors, who, as citizons of o froo country, ought to be more impartial: I alludo to the subject of what tho world now rocognizes as **Fenianism,” Tnz TRIDUNE Jwriter, whilo commenting on this probable offcet of Fathor Chebaud's book, in referring to tho Rovorond gontloman’s scathing donun- ciation of Evagllnh rulo in Irelond, romarks : It must tend to keop up tho most bitter hatred of all Irishmen to oversthing English, In 5o far na it docs that, its fnfluctico fa to bo condemned, for it can douo good, nnd, aa fllustrated in Fonlan moyements, it furs hishea tho means to knaves and chirlatus to live nud fatten upon the hard earniugs of their more ignorant countrymen, What would your writer bavo, Mr. Editor? Must the Irish peoplo porforco, and against sll nature, love the English for tho cruelty prac- ticed by Dritish governors toward their native land? As well bid the Pole kiss the hand of the Russian v gratitude for a partitioned country and afottored people. If your writer meana individunl hntred s botween an Englishman and an irish- man,—soclally considerod,—then, I grant you, such hatred would be childish and uncharitable. As Charles Bradlaugh recontly obsorved, neither the English nor the Irish are responsible for the necident of their birth and blood. But,—uation- ally spenking,—in the contest betweon Iroland aud Englaud, tho Irishman i o poor-spiritod oreature indoed who would not, if noed bo, ilre into tho bosom of his bost English friand, fu de- foneo of his country's rights,—on a fair fleld,— if avor tho, prolongod quarrel should eud, by somo providential chance, in an_appeal to arms. This, of course, with the undoratauding that tho English friond aforosaid shouldored his yifle to uplold Britigh domination in Ireland. And, Mr. Liditor, in this spirit, no Irishman will think less of any Englishman, socinlly ; nor, T thiuk, will any * gallunt Saxon™ think ‘meenly of & fravk Tish political onomy, who maufully atatos his views ou this voxed question To uso o vulgar, but very oxpressive torm, tho Irish, up to 1848, have been too ** mealy- mouthed” in expressing thoir real eentiments townrd England, Thoro would be a much better fooling botwoon Saxon sud Celt niter a good, stand-up fight, no mattor which sido got thiash- ed. You, Americons, and the English fought in '76 ond in 1812, and you have shaken hands ovor it; whon we, Irishmen, havo had our Bunler Hill und Yorktown, wo shall feolin much bottor humor to follow tho Christian advice of Tne Tripuse roviower, who, I dare say, would have boon among tho firat to pitch the ten over- bonrd 1n Boston harbor, had he been alive in thoeo evontful times, Of course, you may say that the Irish have no chanco for o feir fight with England; but more improbable things bave happenoed before our day. Why should your writer combino the word 'Feninn " with the oftonsive opithets ¢ knave and charlatan 2" Are tho pational Irish never to hear tho lnst of this sonreless echo of British spito and intoleranco? The “lLnrd enrninga” were well spont in frightening—Glad- stono, o ‘WY good unmoxi?, hie admitted it—lingland fnto lightening the lond of elavory on Ireland’s bnck. After all that has boon assorted upon the sub- {oct, I doty T Tninons toviowor to mainain is ‘chargo, that the Topian lenders fattoned upon *“tho hard onrnings * of the Irish working {mo lo, What Fonian londor is rich in Amorica o-day ? DBesides, tho monoy was not contrib- uted by “ the ignorant,” but by the most_intel- Tigont section of tho Irlah peoplo in_tho United Btates. They were poor, mxy ap, but they had tho right objoct in view; and, although most of thelr chiols failed in oxecutive ability, neither O'Mshony, nor Stophens, nor Roborts, nor Bweenoy, nor O'Nelll, nor eny Fonlun known to fame, wusod tho funds - contributed for Ivish liborty for porsonal boneflt,— granting that “some “of the monoy was injudiciously and extravagantly expended. This {a something that tho Amorican poople had better loarn, and some of the Irish poople, too, I am tired of hearing that old song abou * gorvant-girls' wages," started by somo anti- Irlah partisan, for the purpoge of sproading dis- trust ond disgust awmong the Irish masses at home and abroad, ’ 5 ‘With all the crrore—in poliey, not in principle —of Fenianism, I maintain that it did, indircct- 1y, moro good for Ireland than all the bslmy wordsand honeyed sontiments of the milk-and-wa- tor philanthropists and rose-waterrovolutionists, who, sinca O'Connell's titne, have been trouting of the Irlsh question aa if the Trish eopls waro crontures without a heart to fool o throb, or an arm to striko o blow, for liborty. Tho rocont boautiful lottor of Mayor Medill, dnted from Glasgow, and published in Tug Cnipoxg, shows what couse Irishmon have to cultivato a love for tho Dritish, especinlly in tho Imporial form, 4 1 am sorry to trospass so far upon your pa- tionce, but no Irishman should shirk his dulfl for tho sake of being cousidered too,muc Aworicanized to rosent nu injustico lo the frionds of Irish liborty, Outoaao, Oct, 27,167, Joux I, FINERTY, ——————— A Womun=Preachor in London, London Corresyondence Céneinnati Conmerelal, Speaking of womon rominds me to sy that on last Bunday ovening BMiss I'rancos Power Cobbe made hor first appoerauco in a London pulpit. Miss Cobbo must be known to most of your readera s tho author of various works of high excollence, tho most important belug her “iheory of Intuitive Morale.” That worl was much admired by Theodore Parker, and it lod to @ corrospondence botweon tho famouns Boaton proacker and Rliss Cobbe, who' after- ward odltod Parker’s works in fhis country, Mias Cobbe hnlox:{xnd to on Irish family of high position, and sho is porlmps tho "firsp Indy in this country of high posiifon and literary ability who over took her place outsido the ])ala of” the Obristian roligion. CUalling horself o sinplo Theist, Mies Cobbe made a deop improssion on the religions world, and for o timo wns rogarded as In tho vunguard of heresy, lut the rapid march of her followers hias gono Pnut hor, and sho had to sogk Lior allies in tho ratiounlistio school of whioh Jumos Mar- tinoeu is chlof, Up to to tho poriod whon Mr, Martineau was compelled by {ll-health to reslgn his pulpit, Miss Cobbe was s rogunlar attondant on lits eloquont ministralions, aud she may now 1o rogardod ns at tho lioad of tho * Consorvative Tholsts,” Tho pulpit in which she appeared last Bunday was that of & small Unitarian_mis- slon in ono of the poorest parts of London— Clorkonwoll—and hor soruion was directed to the {ignorant of that rogion, whom she aimed to per- sundo that the Buprome Belng is not tho Police- man of the Univorss, whioh thoy may havo bo- lioved him ta bo, buta Godof Love, Miss Oobbe waa listoned to with intorest, but her m-u{ trionds present had to concluda that sho is hardly likely to do so much good in the pulpit as sho exorts’ through the sparkling oditorinls which shie writos duily {n the Echo, THE COURTS. ,'_ General Adjournment of the Courts, Yesterday. Buit for a Stolen Deod---Damages for Falso Imprisonment, Actlon for an quringcmont of a Patont Ear-Mufl---Bankruptey Pro- . ceedings, Owing to the Bar meoting to adopt rosolutions on the death of tho late Mr, Fuller, all but tho Oriminnl Court adjournod Immediately on open- ing yostorday morning. Tho United States Ojr- cuit Court, nlso, on motion of Mr. Paddock, nd- journed until this morning. Judge Williams, who is holding tho Circult Court, folt cumpollod to hold court on account of the vory henvy pross’ of business, but adjourned immedistoly on hoar- ing of tho death of Judge Porter. 'Tho Buporior Court, of which he was a Judge, will not hold auy further seaston this term. A meoting of the bar on his death will be hold this morning in the Couucll Chambor, at 10.30 o'clock. 1 BUIT ¥OR A BTOLEN DEED, Ezra B. Lincoln filed a bill, yestorday, in the Buporlor Court, against Emily A. Miltimore, Georgo W, Miltimoro, and Franklin T, Wood- rufl, to doclare o deed vold. Complainant al- logon that in March, 1878, Lo owned the north 40 foot of Lot 7, in Laflin's Bubdivision, in tho northwost fractional quarter of Beo. 32, 89, 14, subjeot to an incumbrance of about $13,000, About that time ho mndo o contract, through Franklin T, Woodruff, who reprosented himsolf 28 an agont, o soll to Emily Miltimoro the north Llinlf of eaid property, and to sell to Augusta N. Lincoln the south halt of tho snmo, for tho gross sum of (840,000, £2,000 in cneb, $18,000 by the pssumption of tho incumbrancoe, aud $2,600 in pnid-up stock of the" # Doty & Miltimore Compound Axle Company," it tho snmo could be sold and converted into cash bofore tho dolivery of the deed, which, however, had then no market value, partly owing to litigation of the mombors among themselves, In oxpectation of the stock being sold, however, two doeds were prepared, signed, and acknowl~ cdged, ono for Mrs. Miltimore and ono for Au- gusta A. Lincoln, according to the contract, but-| thoy woro not deliverod, but retained by com- plaiuant until the ono to Mrs. Miltimora was socrotly abstracted and put on record by Wood- ruff a fow dnys ago. Bhortly aftor the deed yas mndoit was found that the stock could not bo 8old, and the trado was abandoned. Woodruff has Dboon sick somo timo in complainant's room, and-is thus thought to have gninod ncoess to tho tin box whora thedeeds and other {mpnm woro kopt. Complainant also allegos hat he borrowed 81,400 from Woodruff, and ns gecurity allowed him to lease the said 40 feot on which are two honses, in his own name, one louse ronting for $138.83 & month, and the other for $125, Woodruff has already collectod §1,178.- 82. Complainant therofore asks for an account, mnnifests lis willingnens to pay tho remainder duo on the borrowed amount, sud nlso asks that tho deed stolen bo declared o nullity and no claim on his title, and for o proper poraon to collect tho ronts of tho Liousos for the romaiador of the ysar. BUIT ON A PATENT EAR-MUFF. William P. Ware and Kate E, Baker filed o bill against Marshall Tield, Leovi Z. Leitor, Lo- renzo G. Woodhiouso, Joseph N. Fiold, Ions Tiold, and Ifenry J. Willing, partnera as tfiold, Leiter & Qo., for an infringoment of a patent, Complainants state that Ware, in 1858, invented o now nnd usoful ear, cheel, and chin-mulft, and obtnined o patent. In 1872 he obtained an oxtonsion for soven years. Dofendants, ho olnima havo, howoever, infringed his rights, by solling a_muff called the Isidore ear-muff, which is subutantially the samo thing, with the exception of o notting being insorted in the contro, to enablo a person to hoar more distinct- Iy whon woaring thom, An injunotion is asked and docreo to restrain the defondauts from fur. ther using tho invontlon, or. any infringomont thoreof. Bamples of the two kinds of car-muffe nccompany the bIll s oxhibits, Tho slloged infringoments do not have the wire stiffoning, nor do thiey covor thae lower part or lobo of tfiu ear, ‘They are minrked ‘‘ Patontod May 18, 1873," and no indieation is given that the patont is for an improyemeont. P Tho cnge of Farrell againgt Emory and Tice, which was commencod in tho Peoria Circuit Court, was yestorday transforred to tho Unitod Btates Circuit Court for this District. TDANRRUPIOY ITEMS. An order for examination of Fornando Jones, B. A, Briggs, and Goorgo E, Eddy, officers of the Franklin Bank, was entered to take place the 28th duy of October. E. A, Otisfiled an afiidavit a8 solicltor of David and Frau Woodbury, pe- titioning creditors, stating that tho baok closed its doors nbout tho 20th of Beptember, and bo- coma bankrupt, owing large amounts; that the officors are in control of tho asscts ; havemadeno showing of their condition or any satiafactory exhibit given to the creditors, A cortified copy of the ordor of Judge Farwall staying tho pro- ceodings of tho Roceiver was also filed in the District Court Clork's oftico. In the case of I, Y. Munn and others, tho dis- charges of Warron and John H. Norton were en- torad and issued, . Davis Zamanski, of tho firm of Tinstoln & Zo~ minski, filed o patition againat A. Op’[;uuutein on tio notos of $300 each, on which ho has stopped payment for over fourtcon days. DAMAGES ASKED AGAINST A RAILROAD. Harris Goldborg commencad an action of tres- prsy against tho Lake Shore & Michigan South- ern Railrond Company, the Union Star Line, E. A. Cornwell, Rouben Blayton, and A, H. Banyon. Piaiutiffe alfega that on tho' fourthi day of the progent month, the dofendants assaulted him and falaely imprisonod him in tho jail for novon- teon days, whoreby he woa damaged to the ex- tont of 910,000, CRIMINAL COURT. Daniol Daloy was tried for larceny, and sen- " tenced to threo years in the Penitontiary, Georgo Eckolshire, for tho larcony of a horse and buggy, was sentoncod to three years in the Penitoutiary. John King ploaded guilty to driving away s horso, and was romanded, John Fairbanks pleaded guilty to lncun?, and n’nu glven four months in thoe House of Corree- on, James Gahan, a boyabout 18 years old, on & & charge of fnrceuy, vleaded guilty, and son- tonco was suspended. “ Joln Hallon was trjed for assault with intent to Lill, and sontencod to three yours in the Pon- lttnutlnry. Hallon has just finishod & four yeara' o) rm. Immodiately on hearing of the dentls of Judge ‘}’omfl, tho:Criminal Court adjowrnod for tho s L g COURTH IN DRIEF, Mosos Stranss and Johu C. Bawyer, partners a8 H, Birauss & Co,, commenced au ection in assumpeit against Aaron Despres and AL, Levy for 92,000, Au rotion of trospass for $5,000 was com- x&lfi;\cud by Mattin Tlavin aguainst tho Oity of cago, . Johgx Sperry commenced a suit in nssumpsit againet ‘Goorge Kolly for 1,500, also ono against Jonathan Bmith and TRovorl B. Appleby for §3,000, An oetion of trespnss for 98,000 was come menced by Joseph Lripp by Dartholomow Rus- soll. Morris Mitohell commenced o sult agaiust Louis imby in {rosspass for $5,000, Daniel B, Briggs commonced an_nction in trospass for $20,000 against Elmor Washburn, William . Bulkley, Edward Londorgan, Dauol Considine, Augustus H, Dauyon, Vernet O. .Jamos, and Edmund Miller. Job W, Angus commenced a sult in nssumpslt againgt_tho Wardens and Vestrymon of Bt. Jamos' Ohurch for §10,000, “Thore will bo no call of the calondar in Judge Booth's room to-day, No onll of tho ealondar will bo mado by any of tho Judges of tho Buperior Court for tho re- mainder of this torm, Judgo Zano, of Bpringfiold, will bo hora to aid the Judgos of the Buperior Court noxt term, and Judgo Murphy will probably retwrn duriug the Iattor part of tho month, Btophon V. Rason commenced an action agaiust Honry I, Iionore for $7,000 damages., bl d il A BRIEF COUNCIL MEETING, Tho Council met yesterdsy ovoning, the Act- ing Magyor in tho chair, Prosont, all the Alder- men oxcopt Bowon, Plokering, Oullerton, Olowry, Bweot, Kohoo, Heath, Miner, MoGratl, Stout, Longaoher, aud Ogdon, PETITIONS, Petitions wero proseuted snd reforred for oty eeales at tho corner of Cotlago Grove avenus and Thirly-seventh stract; romonstranco syaiukt ll\ylll;{ track on Phirty-first 8 treot, from tho Cli- cago Plate and Bar Mill, ORDER, Tho Doard of Public Works waa ordered to roport an ordinance for widening . the river ot Harrlson stroot. THE EXTOSITION DUILDING, Tho Bonrd of Publio Works submitted the apa plicition for an oxtouston of the time for which the Exposition building was allowed to remain on tho Inle shoro, It wasroferrodto the Com- mittoo on Wharvos and Publio Gronuds, Ald, Mabr called attontion to the death of Judgs Portor, and moved tho Counall, out of eapeot, do adjourn, which way ngreod to. — e L - THE COUNTY BOARD, ' Amount of Taxcs Required for Couna ty Purposes, 81,227,305-«Adjourne mont Out of Respoct for the Memory of Judge Portors A rogular meoting of the Board of County Come misaloners was held yosterday aftornocon, Com- missioner Ashion in tho chair, The following gontlomon woro also prosent : Boguo, Crawford, Gallowsy, Harris, Harrison, Ierting, Jones, Lonergan, Pahlman, Russell, and Singer. A communication recolved from the County Olerk was read, prosonting estimates for town purposos for the coming yoar. ‘Fhe catimates wera roforred to tho Committae on Town and Town Accounts, COMMUNIOATIONS, A communieation from the Buporintondont of tho Insauo Asylum, asking thats change Lo muade in the uyahm of lightlng, wag also rocoived. It polntod ont the dangor rosulte ing from tho uso of kerosene, and called for the introduction of the system in uko at the Elgin Asylum and the 8t. Louis Asylum. [t was re- forred. A communication from Baker Bros, coal donlers, asking for cash, was roferrod to the ap propriato Committee on Finance. COUNTY TAXES, i Tho Committee on Fivauce reported as fols, lowa 3 ‘Your Gommitice on Finance, having had under o on- sidoration tho finonclal nffalrs of tho county, beg leavoto submit tho following cstimate of the amount required for all county purposes of taxes for thn year 1873, being four mills on the dollar valuation, and thoy therefore rocomnmond the ndoption of safd oati~ mate and tho following resolutions : Old fndebtedness, interest on bonds, oto, For county purposes.., Insane Asylum nnd Po (080, Bliorl{Ts department pay-roll,.. P X Advertising, salatles, &lry fecs . 17100 Erors, abatemonts, o Oreste eesnsnrarsnans, TOlAL, veasarasosssesersesvassavacesoe $1,221,05 Resolved, That tho sum of $10%,015 be, and 'the samo fn heteby, lovied a8 o tax upon 'tho taxablo prop- orty, both roal’ and. personal, In the Gounty of Sool, for tho purposo of paying inforcst on tho indebted. mesa of tho county exlsting on tho 8tk dny of August, 1870, 08 act forth in tho foregolng estimato, under tho ‘head of ¥ 01 Indebtedncss ;" and Resoloed, Further, that tho sum of $1,035,320 be, and tho samo {a hieroby, 'lovied a8 8 tax upon the taxable property, both réaland personal, in tho County of Gook, for county purposcs, o8 fot forth in the forego- ing atatemont, under tho head of ¢ County Pur ‘posos,” amounting in the aggregato to $1,137,305, The report was concurred in, - RETORT OF TILE COUNTY COLLECTOR. Following is o statomont of J. 8. Rumsey ot tho county tax of 1872 ¢ Devtor, To amount of county tax of 1872. ..., ....$1,174,534.33 Amount of doubl by different claimants., . : 8021 Total,... s eaeennerans e 8L 174, 014,64 Creditar, By amount judgment rofused on real s~ By amoninf fudgincit apyeals 20,481,08 Dy amotnt Judgmont sales on X 05,25 By amount” judgment crrors snd ‘ments on real asfalo,evs.yeeress 1,639.05 By amount judgmont forfeited property.. 20,540.07 By amount judgment porsonal property - dolinquont.. ... waanasiensgen TONMLET By commissions al own Collectora 5,133.14 By amount in arrear of J, B, Walsh, Col Tector of North CRICAEO.vveveeerrineeey 5,014.04 Commissions ' credited to commissions o~ count collected by County oilsctor..... 11,733.09 Commisalons from Town Collector. Leig July 31, paid into County Treasury. ‘Aug, 36, pald into County Trensu: Bept, 30, pald into County Treaeur Oct, 21, pald futo County Trensury, 67,047.04 177,936.05 Totalissruieasrsinninnsesnnes 1,174,614.64 The report was roferred to the Financo Com- mittee. Onmotion, a bill of Messrs. Strecter & Co. for iron work done on tho Criminal Court and Coun~ ty Jail was ordered paid. DEATIL OF JUDOE PORTER, Qommissionor Hurrison said the announce- ment Liad just beon mado to the Board of the denth of a well-known judicial oficor (Judge: Portor). This Board, out of respect for bhis momory, onght to adjourn, Ho offered the fol- lowing resolution : * ‘Woeneas, Information has this momont reached this Board that tho Hon, William A, Porter, oue of the Judges of the Caok County Superior Courf, has been Suddeuly striclon by death; abd ‘Wuenias, His high bearing as a gentleman and his honorabla doportment asun able and impactial Judicicl officor Liavo impresscd us with profound respect; thereforo, Itesolved, That, aga mark of ourrespect for the mem- ory of tha'deceatied, we do at ouce adjourn till nest MMonday, Tho rosolution was adopted, snd tho Board adjourned. —_— LAND-MONOPOLY IN ENGLAND. T'0 the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sm: I rospoctfully roquest tho spaco for m fow lines in roference to a point dwelt upon at somo length in the ablo lottor of J. AL, in your issue of last Bunday. While bis remarks on the consoqnences of perpetuating a landed aris- tocracy in England are no less -trus than forciblo, I think ho is & littlo too severe on tho subjact of titla, Pleaso remember that if William the Con- gnomr took the English demesunes from the nxons to give to his followers, Lo only took that which tho Saxons themselvos ind ac(]uu-erl but two or three centurios previously, and in a much meauer way. illiam claimaed the Saxon Iands by the right of conquest, in open aud honorable warfare, to ey nothing of ‘his fllflm to the throne, under the will of Bdward tho Confossor ; while the Saxons obtained control of tho country and its broad acres in amuch less reputable manner, They were called in to llegp tho Angles agninst otlier enomics, aud theu. Dbasely took advantngo of the_situation to be- come mastara of the 1sland. Iclaim that oven though the ancient Britons have the right to cnm]finin of tho conduct of William and his Normaa followers, tho Baxons were no more ustified in undluf fault thon is the thief who s robbed of his plunder by o more audncious ihiof than himsolf. Agnin; it should bo rememberod that the Baxons, sud still mora the Enaplo who were die- placed Ly them, could not bonst in the eloventh contury of a elvilization very much suporior to that of the North American Indiaus when thoy were dospoiled of their Jands on the Atlantic conat not moro than two hundred yeara ago, and of their Western lands in our owndny. ‘Though Lolonging to the Aryan (plowing) race, they did not cultivato the soil to tn extout which entitled them to elnim indiyidual posgession, and hence. wero not defrauded, ag_individuals, by the soiz- ure, You will agroo with mo, alio, that they woro not thon cupalfiz of solf-governmout; aud only the robbor-chiefa could huve o personal griov- anco in the chango of mwnstors, Those of tho common herd who ook no part In the battlo would experionco no greater hardship in tho ochango of mastera than we now exporienco under & ohango of Prosidents. Tha great grievanco of England at prozent in the Inw of cntail and primogeniture, which provents a division of property and a consequent change in ownership It iu not the fact thnt this or that man acquired his title from o suc- cosgion of holders, which originated in a Norman flof—just u8 good, and much older, than that by which cortain lots in tha School Soction Ad- ditlon to Chicago aro owned undor deed from a governmont that did not own them whon thio Inw under which thoy aro leld was passed; which lots aro bold out of tho market as absolutely fio any that are longed for a term of yenrs by a de- scendant of tho Norman horde. It would mattor little who holds the lands of England now, if the laws woro #o altered ag to pormit n chango of ownership in the future, Respectfully yours, NouAsNBIE, _— ‘The Vienun Exposition. ‘The ofileiul tablos of tho atlondauco &t tho Vionua Iixposition heve just beon published. From the oponing day to the first day of Octo- ber the numbor of vieitora were: Puymbl. Non-paying, 244,303 18,883 707,143 418,704 11,087 824,200