Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1873, Page 2

WASHINGTON. Suggestions to the Wind.om' Committee. Tho Director of tho Northern Pacific and Chairman of the Commilteo on Transportation Asked for Tuformation, Why the Senator Is Peouliarly Capn- ble of Giving Valuable In- formation, Correspondence of Th Chicago Tribune, Wasiinatox, Oct, 20, 1673, Somo ton years ago, or thorenbouts, -York Central, bought u) COL. W. B/ KING, for revoral sesslon ' Postmastor of tho National House of Roprorontatives, and o vory woalthy gitizon of Minnesota, was maling o losing Atrug- glo with o smnll weokly nowspaper in Minne- spolls, Mr, K. was vory poor; but, being & shrowd politiclnn, ho gained frionds and in- fluonce, whick in tima procured for him tho posl- tion above mentioned, Mr. K. wont to Wash- ington at o propitious timo for o shrawd, unsoru- pulons soliomer with a talent for lobbying, It ‘waa in the haleyon days of Oredit-Mobilior, and subeidies of all sorta. e was also excoedingly fortunate in finding in tho Houso a valuable friond and ally, by whose aid ond his own talonts ho quickly succeoded’ in accumulating: o fortune, which gayo him prestigo in his own State, and o roputation for success which placed him Iu the, front rank .of those who fatten upon corrupt logislation, This friond and olly was none other than TIE HON, WILLIAXM WINDOA," now United States Sonator from Minnesota, but then ropresonting tho Southern District of that Stato in tho Lower House. Windom had come from Massachusetts, ostensibly to practico lmw at Winona, but roally in searoh of political pre- fermont, which ho was not Jong in finding, aided thoreto, insome monsure, by Lis friend King, Yindom was o bright, shrowd, haundsomo fellow, with o countenanco and maunor calculated to win favor ; and, withal,.a fino stock of religious capitnl, 08 woll as & ponchant for address- fog Sundoy-schools, o' la. Colfax. If he nover blossomed into the mensure of full-blown Christian- Statesmanship attain- ed by Harlan, Howard, snd Pomoroy, it was not so much from lack of “activo aond per- vading piety ns for want of the brond flold on- joyed by thoso npostles. William is young yet, howovor, nnd thero is no knowing to what emi- ponce he may attain in this fleld of ptofitable husbandry. AT Windom and King appear straightway to HAVE JOINED TEAMS, £nd plowed the public dowmain to some purposo ; for, whereas both wore poor when they entored Congross, both wore soon after, and aro now, in afiluent circumstances, XKing's off-hand, engag- ing way of mooting and treating * tho boya™ was well supplemented by Windom's polite affa- Dbility and plous persussivencss, So thoy drove o thriving bueinoss farmor. While the monoy, was placed where it would do tho most good, the latter supplied an amplo guarantoo of resorve fnpltnl In tEo shapo of roligion and respectabil- ty. ‘About the timo these worthies formod this in- teresting partoership, “TUE NORTHERN PACIFIO HCHEMES tceonme prominont in Congress, end in it they found s.m main opportunity to advance their fortunes. King, amply m;pglled with money, actively lobbied for it.” Windom, os & Minneso- tinn, of courxo steadily voted and worked for it. The Iand-subsidy obtalned and the company or- gonized, what 80 ominontly fitting as that the re- spactable and ongaging Windom should becomo s | Diroctor, and that bis fidus Achates, King, should Bave ong of tho ixteon ahares in the first Con- struction Company of the rond, each and every share of which clenred thio net profit of $100,~ 000 7 The circumatance of howat least £80,000 of Lhie shiare was judiciously exponded to insure Mr. Windom's . ELECTION TO THE UNITED STATES BENATR is familiar to all Minnesolians posted in political alfairs. Tho propyictors of tho St. Paul Press, nngored ut not m!vmg beon admitted to o sharo in this Construction Company, mado diro threats of trotting out an opposing candidate. Becrob negotiations wero ontored into by them with a rominent railrond-magnate of much money, to gucnmn Windom's rival. Ono day, o dispatch went over the wires from the business-manager of the Press to this magnate's agent, couched in the rullm\'lnfilarmn 3 #YWhero can I meet o mutual friend »"* ‘When this reached the cars of Windom end his fidus Achatos there was glarm 1n the North ers Pacific cvmp. K. immodiately sought an in- terview with the Press folks, and offered them £80,000 out of the first profits ot his shara in the Construction Company to cease their oppo- gition, Tho Press folka rotreated gracofully from their negotiations with the mugnanto, brought their puyor to tho support of Windom, and recoived thair monoy in duo season, ncknowl- edging tho roceipt, subsequently, in their own eolumus, T havo thus briefly outlined some incidents of Benator Windom's connection with the Northern Pacifio enterprise, in order to give the:public a clonrer insipht into, tho Scontor's peculiar relu- tions with that rond, and ta pave the way fors valuablo suggestion. Senator Windom Is Chair- man of A BYSTERIOUS COMMITTEE appointed at the last scwsion” of Congrees for L{:‘u purpose of investigating the problem of tranaportation, and to inquire into tho abusos which load to or necessitate high freight charges, 1t is whispored in several uncharitable quartors that tho Senator originatéd this Committeo, and thus secured ,his own appointment as its head, for o purposa _quite foreign to that ontonsibly mot forth. It is asserted by tho irreveront that the Committoo is 5 humbug, and was intended Dby its designer simply to lead publio attention : AWAY PROM alleged ahuses in roforence to the Northern Paciflc, by bringing into prominonce- abuses in rolation ~ to other routes. and enter- priges. This is on the prlneiplu of Baeccher's vecips for orthodoxy. o show that sou are sonnd, says that eminent divino, you must piteh izlo somebody who 18 not sound.’ Now, wo suggest that Senator Win- dom has a flue opportunity to deny theso mn- Jicious allegntions, and defy the allegators, by MARING A TROMOUGIL INVESTIGATION of tho canses which led to tho estly failure of tho Northern Pacific enterprige. His position as Chuirman of the Committce on Transportation will enablo him to do this cffectually, aud his Jarge exporienco and Intimato connection with thao Northern Pacifio ominently fit him for tho tnsk. Ho can explain tho effect of extravagant Jobbying for a Guvernment-pubsidy in increasing tho xuitful cost-of & grent entorprise. Ho -can jllustrate the beneficent resulte that must nccrue to fhe publio “when a Unitod Btates Sonator holds the positiou of Director in a sub» ¢ldized railrond, out of which some of his (the Director’s) friends hovo grown rich, and out of svhich ho (the snid Direo orz hag not como alto~ ethier without profit, albeit numerous investors n tho bonds of tho road are loft n _the vooutiva, Ho cro expatiste upon the practical utillty of & Construction Company which clenrs §200,000 profit out of tho building of the first sbort sec- tion of bie road, and of the oficacy of o liboral orcontago of auch profits judiclously employod El facilitating Seuutorlal eloctions, He cen, in buief, withont resort to othor witnessos, furnish the publioc with u quantity of various and UREFUL_INFONMATION ‘beariog upon the problem of ehenp transporia- tion through government-subuidios, Congression- nl corruption, and hyperborean railroads, Of all thowo ¢hings which ho has soen, and part of which hie was, the Senator can enlighten us, aud N rnspncuufly call upon bim to do so. COABIONAL. —— qvater in Now York Oentral Stoglc. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bimm: How much wator is thore in New York Central stook ? would probably be & very hard quostlon to answor, Tho writor happened to be in Troy, about twenty years ogo, when the con- golldation of the verlous ralizoads from Buffalo to Troy and Albany into what s mow the Now York Central was in progross, Thero wae & lttle road from ‘t'roy to Bphencckudy, walch was in & chronio state of impeounlosity, pnd & spocial ob- ject of distrons to the bondholders whose money find built it. 1t 18 dombbful if a train ovor ran ovor it, oithor beforo or eingp Shp con- | solldation, which paid oxpenaocs, ' It {a still an nuprofitable Knrt of n’very profitnbla railroad, Well, Johu Griswold, partnor of. Erastus Corning, ho wna thon Prosident of the Now $100,000, and” immadintely tbld it to the consoli- datod concorn for £1,000,000. Mr. Coming waa thon very disintercstedly sorving the public urnllll}nun!e{ in this great Inbor, If hoe conld not liavo fold the Schbuectady Rond- to tho Central, Ar. Grlswold vould not husa probnby takon it a8 o gift on any terms. This {u the road that Cornelius Vandorbilt, in 1869, with tho consent of the Republican Logislaturo of tha Htato of Now York, watored to the oxtont of 80 per cont on top of the old wator, aid now squoczos divi- dends out of tho publio, oast and wost, on that much wator, Now, ean “anybody tell the publio how much wator thoro rasily I8 in Now York Contral stool ? . W, THE JUNIATA. Eor Arctie Cruise Amiad Rocks and Keeborgos From the New York Times, Oct, 27, Thae Uniled States sloop-of-war Juniata, Com- modore Daniel L. Braiue, whogo arrival from the Arctio oxpedition in soarch of tho Polaris was noticed in tho Times, lay yostordny oft the Bat- tory. The oxpericnco of tho Juniata cxpedi- tionirts bine been intonscly intorcsting. Thehie- tory of tho voyage fs n rocord of imninont dan- gora and hair-brondth cscapos, although but one man was lost, n sonman named Thos. F. Smith, s nativo of Boston, and much estoomed by his mossmatos. Ho lost his lifo on tho lomo passage from Bt John, N. T, to Now York, While tho ship waa rolling hoavily in tho trough of tho soa, 8 suddon lurch flung him hendlong from a Iaddor over tho borth-deck to tho bottom, nnd fractured his skull so as to cause his death, Tho Juoiats, it will be romem- berod, loft this port on Juno 24,1873, Aftor s run of fivo days and cight hours, sho srrived st 8t. John, Nowfoundland, Thore was n thick fog all the way, and tho ebip waa forced to fool hor way into the harbor, It wasnoarhoro that thos o on board gaw tho firat of the lccborgs with which thoy woro to'becomo o disagrecably familinr boforo the cruise was onded. Tho ship Tald at Bt. John for ton days, and was londed down to tho rails with conl for the supply of tho Tigress. Hor bows were aleo sheathod with sheots of bollor-iron as a proteotion against the ice, and every pracaution was taken sud prepa- ratlon made for the dangers to be oncountored. Wion tho ship left 8t. Jobn, July 9, 8 fog O denso was provailing that, in the “language of tho ehip’s officers, **one could acarcely sce tho flying jib-boom from the bridge.” The fog con- tinued up to the Intitudo of Capo Farowell, the northern point of Greonland. When two days outof Bt Joinn hugo icoborg wns doscricd, twico ns high as tho ship's masts, looming u in the fog, and o the ship possed {t her guards almost grazed it. On tho morning of the 13th of July n beavy galo sot in from tho south aud enst. Tho recollection of this galo is stamped indelibly in tho minds of thoso exposed to it mercy o8 one of the most torribla they had over encountered. It subsided tho noxt dny, and the ship steered for Fiskernaos, a small trnding port on tho coast of Groonland. The continuous fog still hung like o pall ovor everything, and filled everybody with a fecling of deprossion, An en- trance to the harbor of Fiskornaes was provent- od by it. ~ ‘Tuo objoat of touching there was to purchase dogs for the use of tho Tigross party. ‘Guns were fired but no {nlnt I\I]!pulmd in answer, and the Juniats, finally obliged to abaudon, the offort, stocred for Sukkortoppen, an- other trading port further north. A a fow houra’ sail from Fiskornons the ehip was only saved from destruction by prompt action. Exccutive Officor Morriman Bays that while Capt Braing and himself wore sitfing in tho cabin ho heard o cry of * breakers ahend.” Tho Captain, much fatigued, waa dozing in an arm-chair. M, Mer- riman quickly awakoned him, and the two rushed on deck and found the prospect before them ap- alling. : Nothing mot_ tholr gazo but rocks, Erenkem, and icebergs, The sceve was alio- other wild, terrible, and indescribablo. [ho helm was instantly put *“hard o ‘star- bonrd,” the engino atopped, and the ship, nuswering rendily, was ~ stoored safoly through & narrow space, botween fwo ice- borgs, into open_water. Next morning the Ju- niata_ reached BSukkertoppen. The piaco was found to contain about 100 peoyfle, principally Esquimaux, living misorably in squalid huts. The fow Danes thero woro housed comfortably, and Gov. Larasen, the Danish ofiicial in chargo of the port, showed tho Juninta’s party every attention in his power. To their disappoint- mont, however, it was found that no dogs could Lo bought loro, and tho noxt day the ship.left for Holsteinborg, nnother trading-port, whoroe moro Danish houses and more ovidences of pros- erity wero found than at Bukkertoppen. At Y!ulatolnbnrg eightoen dugs aud & number of soal- ekiug wero purchased, 'Tho dogs were bought for throe Danish dollars, equivalent in value to 81,65, ond_the seal-sking at the cost of ono Danish dollar each. TFrom Holsteinborg tho Juniata proceeded to Disco, & place of some im- portance as the capital of North Greenland and tho residenco of Mr. Krarup-8mith, tho Danish “TRoyal Inepoctor of North Grecnland,” This gontleman is the head of all tho trading ports 1n this region, and is desoribed IH tho oflloera of tho Juninta as well eduoated and finely oultivated, Inspector Krarup-Smith spoke of tho alloged dissensions - on the Polaris, and said that Cppt. Hall had loft Disco much dishoart~ ened, ‘Tho Iuspector oxpressed an opinion that Dr, Beseol, tho German gciontist of the Polariy oxpedition, was somowhat to blamo for these diusensions. He made mention of some disputo which Dr, Bessel had bad with Capt, 1all in rof~ erenco to another Gorman in tho Polaris expedi- tion numed Moyer, who iad some griovance. The Inspector, who has beon all his Jife interested in Tolar oxpeditions, and i very well informed sboat most of them, was much intorosted in the Polaris. Ho sent, for the accommodation of the Juniats party, & ¢ Kayack” (a small, canoe- shaped boat, made-of Bkiug aud rowed h{xnna moa) to Ivighut, aport 500 milos distant,with lot- ters from thoship, and in search of information of the Polaris, - Tho coal taken in at Bt. John was 1anded at Disco for the use of tho Tigross, and the Juniats, which Lind mado & woelk's stay, do- partod for Upernavik to await tho Tigress’ nr- rival. The hoavy fog which had sccompanied ‘the ship eo far.ghill continued, nnd ‘thero wore many nerrow escapos from collisions with ice- bergs, Ono huge monster, towering over tho mast-heads, and filled with ugly sopms and cracks, was noarly ruu into on the run from Dieco to Upernavil, While driving through the fog, at a Iator date, tho ship was suddenly found to bo hond in on land, ond, aftor groping awhilo in the obscurity, the. order wus given to ~anchor, which was dono in oighty fathoma of water, Wbhen gome Tiours of uncertainty bad passed tho lofi at last clearad away, and tlio oftjcors of the ship woro astounded to find how narrowly thoy had escupod dostruction, They wero in a pmal) by, of horae-shoe form, filled with iceborgs, and befora and on each sido of them tho rocks rose porpon- dicular from the wator. The ship had previously passed through a norrow iulot to the inkospita- Dle harbor, o passage prosenting K0 many.appar- ent difffoultios to o pavigator that ono of the ofii- cers of tho ship says thet ho would not havo at- tompted tho foat ot steoring tho.yessel through it he could have firat seon the dauger, Lho navigator, -on examination, found that " tho ship was ot tho baso of o mountain called Sander- son's Hn{m, about aix miles from Upernavik, to which sottlomont the ship with dificully mudo ita yn‘y tshlrnugh tho igebergs, mnd wns moorod on July 8L, On Aug. 2 the stonm lnunch Little Junista, tho open boat fitted up at 8t. John, was dis- atchied with a picked craw, under command of Elmlt. De Long, to Capo York, 800 miles further north, Upernavik buh;fi in 1atltndo 78 degreos. Liout. De Long lail ordors to search for tidings of the Polaris, and to ;’mrmm lils explorations until half of his supply of coal was oxbausted. 1o continued o fruitloss search until moro than balf of his conl was used, and was obljzod to aail ppartof the way, ‘Tho adyonfuros of the bont's crew pre described as being unusually parilous hy Liout,-Commandor Merriman, and bo also praises tho brayery ““1 horolem of Mr. Do Long and his orew. ‘J'ho boa encountered o torrific gale in its voyage. Off Pesslnank ho met_the Tigress, and told of his oxporionces tn Capt. Greon, of that ship, aud volunteored his services, Tho Junlata ‘left Upernaylk on the 16th of August, and srrived at Disco o tho 26th of "the same month, having had a plogsant [ run. Nothing more was heard from tho Tir ress aftor tho tidings bmu%hc by the aunch until oight wooks aftorward, whon tho Juniats reached 8t. John_harbor, ‘Tho woathor was vory comforiable durlug tho voyngo, tho meroury fn tho thormomoter at no tine bolng Jower then thirty-five dogrees, Ou tho voyaga homo the Juniats kopt a sharp lookout for whalers to got information, but did not suceoed in Enmng auy. Iargo oheut of papers bolonglug to Oapt, all wag brought from Disco by tho Juniate. 1t a#aid to contain documonts” concorning tho ‘Franklln oxpedition, and was loft in chargo of Inapector Xrarup-Smith, Capt, all intimated to '.Ym Inspeotor that it was his intension to koop these doouments unpublished until aftor Lady Franklin's death, 16 1y thousht tha information this littlo rond for i CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1873, contained in thom swaa colloctod by Capt. Hall during_:hia, explorations around Bouthamp+ ton Teland, and it is bolloyed' that five of tho Tranklin party lived: on that island, for five yoars after all track of them had boen loat, nud that some of the party Liad to rosort to the horrible mothod of osonpin starvation by onling onch ofhor.. Tha ropor that tho Tigross’ search was not a thorough one is flunlly donled by those couversant with the focts, Tvoryhing that could e done was done by (he ofticora of the Tigress, and the four houra apent by tholr party at Littleton Inland—or Lifo- boat Cave, 08 it ‘was-called by Dr, Kane—wns nmply sufliciont to got all tho information in raforonco to tho Polaris that could bo got thoro, snd to colloot the papers of tho Buddington par- ty. Tho Tigreas nleo sailed aftorwards wostward from Disco, and continuod the sonrch with inde- fatigablo zoal. Cnfll. Braino will go to Washing- ton, taking with him the sonled chost of papers loft Ly Copt. Hall, e A TERRIBLE STORY. A Little Chlld Starved and Frozen to Deanth, From the Des Moines (1a.) Leader, Oct, 27, A horrible story comes tous from Madlson County, laden with mystery and torribly sigit- cantof foul play. Tho circumstances, as relatod to o Leader reportor, aro as follows: Last Tuos- day Mr. Daniels, wifo, and little boy moved into Liouse in Boott Township, about five and o half milos northanst of Wintorset. . As Boon ne the goots were nll in, Daniols told his wite to straighten up things, and he would go and holp & ne:fhbur nbout hig throshing., o thon disnppeared, and “goon aftor Mya. Daniols loft the child, a bright little boy of 18 months, asloop on tho floor, and ~repaired tos npflnu about 800 yards from tho houso to got a pail of water. While at tho spring Mras, D, saya sho heard tho ‘child uttor threo distinot crion; she started, and ran about haif the dia- tanco, but, an shio heard nothing moro from tho child, conoluded that thore was nothing tho mattor, and roturnod to the spring for tho bucket of wator, Arriving at the house on hor roturn, tho ohild was nowhere to bo soon, Sho {nstituted a soarch about tho promises, but, fail- ing to discover.tho child, gave tho alarm to the neighbors, who turned out and sesiated in tho woarch—all to o avail, Wodnosday tho search was ocon- tinued but no traces of the lost child wero dls- covered. Thursday, Friday, auid Saturday passed and atill tho child was missiug, Tho mothor wag half crazoed with griof and anxioty, and tho wholo township wes aronsed. Bunday morning tha 1“mqpln turned out on masso, and wont to work systomatically to beat tho wholo country round and about. A fow hours search resulted in tho discovery of tho littlo onoin the brush, about one hundred rods from tho houso, quite dead, No marks of violouco wore found upon it. A coronor's jury was impanneled the samo day and bronght in & vordiot in accordance with the facts elicited. Physicians prosont wero of tho opinion that doath resulted about thirty-six hours provious to the discovory of tha bml{. The child.was tho son of Ars, Danicla by s formor husband, who had boon divorced. Mrs. D, states that whon sho loft tho houss sho alosed the doors carefully, and loft tho ehild aslcop on the tioor, but on her roturn tho doors wore open. It seems impossible that so small a child could Lavo openod tho doors and wandered 8o far sway whils ita mothor wag absent but o fow mo- monta. ‘There is strong suspicion of foul play. - - —PRIDE‘LEGISLATION. To the Editor'of The Chicago Tribune: 8tr: Whon n publio officer is granted cortain powers and dulies, which the people caunot do without and cannot buy elsewhero, it is bost that tho grantor say what pny bo may accept for his sorvicos,—excopt, of course ho .be President of the Unitod Statos. But, whon the channels of commorce are a8 open to compotition and multi- plication a8 tho harvest-fields aud factorios that food them, or the markets thoy supply with vendibles, the price to be paid per pound, bushel, or passenger, for carringe by those channels, onght, and, in the flual solution of the trans- portation problein, will bo, loft- cqually apon to control by that law which is above Legielatures; and fundamental to the highost typo of trausfor 08 woll at trafiic, tho law of supply and domand ; freo trade. ¥ Logisiating grain, lumbor, cattle, and humaun- jty across the couulry at a siatutory price, evinces & judgment for hand-sleda in swmmer, and wheelbarrows for the modium of communi- cation between production, manufacturs, and congumption. It smacks of a parental hand of. Stato laid, upon individual iutorests with the warm affection of the step-mother who blisters hor hand to *“baste” the child she loves not, but assumes suthority to rogulato. Why would it not be equally wiao for legislas tive wisonores to fix tho price at which potatoes shall be gold, s tho prico at which they shall be carted by ral from coun- t to city? 'The power to do tho Iattor has wrapped within' it the power to perpo- trato the former stroke of deapotic meddling. And the nctual onactinent of leglslative rates Yor moving potatoos, intimates that there lies not far off tho germ of inclination ‘to_pin tho eatiug-prico to tho potato itself. Why not furthor dovelop this theory of aniformity by onactmont, in opposition to ‘the natural law of variation to mect the supply and the demand, and put a prico for futuro years, not only on potatoes, but all articles of cousumption, that overy man may know in advauce the cost®of futuro life, and decido whothor it be best to stay orsuicido! Or, lot meddiesome legislators lay thelr joint-and-several noso to the root of tho mattor,—the potato hill,—and say how much it shall produce each yoor, a8 well a8 how much it shall cost to get its product to market! This would afford the farmer a sure basis upon which to figure his future-profits and lossos, and doter- ming, to & day, how soon ho would be rich onough to join tho church and purchaso & pillow in Abrabam's bosom, At the samo timo, it might Do woll for this paternal god of State to say whether the peoplo shall cat the Early-Roso tuber or the Peachblow with butter or gravy, and what proportion of tho mealy esculent is os- sontial to gond hash, Buch is the wildornoss of Erlm:uly nonsonse and unfatbomable folly into which the theory of rogulating trausportation-rates by logislativo en- actmont inovitably loads in practice, if applicd to analogous intercsts. Competition must ulti- matoly govern the Income of tho railrond, and tho corresponding outrago of the paoplo along its line, as it doos overy other branch of ‘business that is made prolitable only by tho applieation of personal braius and hard work, In.punhingi tradosman strikes for the froutier settlomont, opons his dry goods and grocerics in o sod Liovel, and, ovor a’door-skin stretched upon poles for a counter, demnmds ’ur his truck many times its value, ehould the Torritorial Logislaturo convene to mark down the prico of bis shirtings and his nutmegs? Until a rival booth shiall be oponed, peoplo will Trububly pay too much or go without, ¥ ot this radosman, with 860 invested, is s ‘‘monopo- ligt,” with all the tendoncy to ‘‘Dloat, " maui- fostod by tho $100,000,000 railway that's without compotitors; and tho thoory that * protecty” the people from the latter ia rottou if 1t fails to gnuil tho black wick of extortion from Lhe other. Euch hut makes tho most of tho market, liko the farmor Who occasionally renlizes for hin whent thrico the cost of its production. 'To oxpact mon to bo satisflod with & cents for oy articlo or & servico when its searcity and ity noceasity cambine to tonder them 10 conts, is to count thio lovo of gain no longoer liuman, ond to wrench from the merchant-world ‘tho god that makou 1t,—or, what is casior, to sot down the expector ns an idiot, And to say, by law, what shall bo the compensation of Inbor or it product, is not ono of the legitimate ends for which governments aro formed. Governmont may, with oqual justico, employ its offioial pitchfork to tons up tho prico of applied skill and Inbor, a8 torun down thoe %rcmr. #crows of its arbitrary choeso-pross Lo reduco prico—tho vory croam of industry—to the most diminutive diginoter, And their proposition embraces, aud ought to benoflt, corporato comumuu= ftios of ndjviduals po less than dintinch porsons, If it s beeauso govornmout i patornal {hat lnrge -aggregailons of skill and capital are to have thoir donlings rej ulatod by etatute, surely small-fiated childron, liko mor- chsnts and mochanics, ought to be occasjouplly apanked with the * reguiation " slippor, or the futherly affection of paternallsm is a myth. But thp glant argument in aupPon of fixing all thorates of tho rail, by the chronls grumblerd and frash ax-grinders ‘of o Logislaturo, has ovor been that, tho rail's right of ominent domain s drawn frnm tho suma impura source, Thut, it grauting a corporation the ‘right to appropriote private property rosorves, of right, to an outeido party, t\‘m powor to rogulatoe the corporato busi- nos# intorosts, that power certainly should rest, nat with legislators,—of whom nine in ton havo no direct futorost In fta ratos,—but with the in- dividuals along its lino, whoso landa {t has taken and whoso produce it is to market, Dut for those lands, damagos, and sll inconvonionces,. dwellors havo Leon plld and, latterly ab loast, in round sums, . How, t\mn, shall & Logislaturo standupon tho totiling thooty of eminent do- main 10 dutato to Yosds tho conts por bushiol tlioy ehall recelvo for tho. shipment of ‘whoat? Aud 1o othor theory lg:savored with any of the spico -of juatico, = Thoro is, thon, no bottor Fruuml for logislative intorforenco with tho tar- M5 of n railvoad to which has been given tho authority of ominont dontaln, thau thoro iy for n liko moddling with the pay of ullcnmon‘ anl tho faro of hacks In ocity to which hus beon glvon e?m\l power to appropriate private prop- arty to its corpornte use. This quostion is, thereforo, nowly-prominont fosturo upon tho old faco of froo trado, And diotating transporintion-rates by lopislative onaotmont is but a rot- ton ploco of proteotion, that, 1n striot ot kooping wl&l its umual rosults, . falls in feagments about tho hoads of thon it olaima to shicld, nud’ choats the wmisguldoed friouds of its ndoptlon, : 5 That tho Illinols Railrond law has booomo a Obinero wall against our commorco. with States Jying west, and has p:otmtmll‘ liko a plok- poockot, the friends that fathored it, aro proposi- tlong whioh have beon loni'slncu cstablished by a porfeot plothorn of facts, And yot last win= tor'a passnge of that law bogota fooling through- out n largo portlon of the Wost that logislation ¢l uestion of transportation was 16 bo tho pauscon of oll rural ills, Lt tho prico of crops, and drop the prico of merchandiso, ‘The Grangs' Boclotios of the Northiwost took up the refrain that was ox ootod to clinrm tho skeleton from the corn-crib, and ovory town lovelod its rosolutions agalnst tho railronds, Tho oxtont and sovority of that war- {faro surely and spoedily robbed rafiroad-seouri- tiow of that cssential value caliod * confidonce." .Buspicion prickod on anxiety to sell ; until thoso socuritios wore rushod upon the market in such an avalanche that tho supply orushed the de- mand, and panic ensund, Who have folt ita blows in the greatest num- bor, aud with tho least ability to boar thom ? Thoso -who callod it forth, nnd thought that rallroad-povorty would bo farmor’s woalth, Tho Grango-chicken eamo home #adly demoralized, and roosted on whoat-bins, still full, but shrunk- on in value from 20 to 80 por cent. Tho rosult 18 boon the climax of ovidenco to provo tho folly of logislating prices up. or down,—of nt- tompting by logislative notion. to build up ono induatry by sacriflcing anothor; and ought, with tho final roturn to financial equilibrium, to sc- wuro a corresponding harmony betweon the pro- ducor and carrior, orch recognizing in the pros- perity of tho other tha hlghosl assuranco of its own. Few warg closo with the killed and wound- od sll upon one side, “LAKE-SHORE.” Clovelnnd Railway NManngers and New York City S Financiexs? =-A Bit of History with o Moral. From the Cleveland Herald, Oct, 28, Most of our rendors aro more or less familiar with the history of what is now koown aa the Lnko Shoro Railway—particularly that portion hotweon Tolodo and Erio, and which originally formed two roads. Among the railways in tho Innd theso two earned thoe foromost place. Tho Oleveland & Erio Road became & gold-mine from its start, and numbers of our citizens roll in tho wenlth that rond brought to thelr pocketa, * Tho Cleveland & Toledo Lind its vicissitudes, but thoy woro tomporary, for soon that road became socond only to the Oloveland & Erie in the rich roturns it made to its stockholders. In thoso days the ofocs of their Prosidonts, and 'T'raasurars, and Secrolaries were in Clovoland, and woro fillod by Cleveland men. Nota dollar of tho money belon i“fi to either Compauy was known to be misapplied or misappropriated by nnfl one of its officors, ut theeso ronds wore gobbled by Now York City ‘' financiors.” A coneolidation was made that thero might be but onoe excoutive head, and that should be on a New York Guancior's shoul-- dera, and but ons purse string, and_that should Lo in & New York financior's hand. The financial munsgemont of tho Lake Shore Railway Company went to Now Yorlt, aud the first thing thatturned uxp worthmentioning was the failure of tho “*finan- cier " who liold that one purse-string; and an amount of Lako Bhore Railway. fuuds, figured Iigh up to a million or more, was put in a stato of “'suspense,”—whether that suspense has over onded, we do not kuow. In justice to the author of that calamity, it should be stated thathis character for honosty could not be donbted. Ho wag entirely s roputable gentleman, but ho was a Now York financier ; that menns ouno who taken the chances in stock, and gold gamblingh— more softly oalled « operating.” While the Treasurer's offices of tho two companios above alluded to wore in Clovoland there were no de- fuleations ; no suspension. ‘The Lake Bhore Railwoy Company, not yot re- oovered from the blow then received, has just now had a still more serious_experionco at the liands of ita lato Prosident, Vice-Presidout, and ‘Troasurer, as the Executive Committes of the Company: - All those gontlomen are New York ¢ financiors,” Noithor of thom is a practical rtilroad man, ' o what extont the Lake Bhoro Railway Company ia involved by tho misappro- priation of tho Bropecty of tha Company, fow know, and that few will not toll. LEnough is known to rendor it cortain that two million and a half of bouds of said Company wero fraudulently hypothooated in carrying slong rivale’ spooulations in the stock of ho Compeny, while. rumor, whioh, in the ill-ndvisod roticonco of thoso who have knowlodge of the actual facts in the cage, has full lay, puts the losscs of the Compa- ny through its threo highost ofticers at $4,000,~ 000, Whon tho Prosidents, Vico-Presidonts, ‘I'reagurors, and Bxecutive Committoos had thoir hoadquarters in Cloveland, and a majority of the officors named woro Clovoland mon, thore was no rascality ovon whisperod against them. And uow lot every iutolligont, honest man pondor this little bit of history, and draw for himsolf tho moral that is tsught by Cloveland railwoy managemont and Now York Oity finan- cioring, ''he groat railway enterprise that, un- der Clovoland managomeut and honasty, camejto bo the richest lino of railway in the United Btates, hap, within the week Iast past, uuder Now York City finauciering, been throatened with bankruptey. ——— THE ST. LOUIS' BRIDGE. 1. Louts,0ct, 26, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune: Bin: Your readors have probably scon that tho United States Board of Enginoors as condemned this bridgo g & permanent obstaclo to the navi- gation of tho groat river, and recommended that o canal and draw bo constructed at the cast end, ns Lhe bridge is too expensive to be torn down, It is hoped that their advico will bo followed, and that the slough, or branch of the rivor enst of Bloody Island, which 8t. Louis has completely olosed up with damy, will be opened again, though it will be but a poor substitute for the rivor itsolf. This bridgo isa marvel of engineering and meohdnical folly aud profligeoy. 1t las cost millions of ¢follars “moro than it nood, and hns boen throe times na long In building as it ought or ueed to have boen, Itis built of huge stool tubes, ench of which is about 16 foot long sud 16 juches in diameter. Theso tubos aro mado of stecl staves, somowhat like o barrel, six of which form the tnbe, boing bound tegothor with a stoel hoop, solid tho full length. Lach tubo welghs about Lwo tons, Tho bridgo conslats of tiroe double-track spans across tho rlver, which aro sapported by two pier {n tho contro of tho stream. The foot of tho arch s‘)rlnun ouly 85 feot from the contro of thoriver at low water, aud tho crown is only 70 feot abovo low water. As tho variations of the stronm areupwards of 40 feot, it is cortain that vory few boats will over pass undor it ab nuy stage of wator, But & porlion of ono of the spans is complated, and It hanga low-browed and sullon, n vast maes nf motal, apparontly gotting ready to drop to tho Lottom of the rivor, " 'Uhe weight in this apan is truly enormous, and the ' conundrum = with ouginoors 18 whothor the piors can sup- port tho thrust of all this mountain of steol os It oxpands and contracts with the varlntions of temporaturo, Tho ongineors on tho worlk protend to bo very positivo that the orown of tho arch will riso or fall as it gets hot or cold ; but othors aro nrfunlly positive that the mass of motal i onliroly too great for this to Lo dono, and that thp forcq of "tho thrust must como against tho piors, which sooner or later will glve way under such an onormous flank or latoral prossure, Tho' oxtremo difforonco of lonpgth of each of those spans, from tho frosts of winter to swmwer Leats, Is ostimatod ta bo about 8 inchas, Whon tho firat span was ready to bo com- plated, tho length of tho tubes had beon com- puted at P temperature of 50 dogreos, aud ono marning lust month (Bomnmhm-g, the wenthor was Just right to Insert thio last longth, De- fora tho workmon gathored it had got Loo warm, go tho tubo was too long, and conld not bo ounded ar forced in pt oll, A fow days after, orty-fivo tons of lco was tled on the arch, in {umny-umku, and tho span was at Jast contracted hm {ueln:fl and 5 quarfor, ouough to adwit the ougth, T'he work I8 now progressing on all tho spans, and tholr completion is nnmug 88 ogowrrjug in January. 'Ihe?:wmon of this immense job waa as bad aftor all, but o’ At the Travalors' Club play runs high, an a8 tho plan "of ita construction. It la placed In tho contro of the city, obstructing nomo of the nost froquontod stroots,nnd muup{‘lngl.‘x onsiyo roal ostate, Tho wagon-bridgo abovo tho rail- rond-tragk ocomos- out on Iourth atroot on & lovol, but tho track occuplos o tunncl eovoral L mllen . long, . the . railway-statlon buing in tho woatorn putt of tawn, "GOLD IN COLORABO. Rich Discovorios JReported. 0 Bomo incidents connected with the recent dis- covery of & now gold-mine, reportod to bo of ox- troordinary richnoss, in tho Ban Juan distriot, twonty-fivo milos southwest of Del Norte, and in Bouthwestorn Colorado, nro givon by the Donver Tribune. It says: * For yoars, or, in fact, from the first eottlomont of the distriet, frequont discoveries haye boen mads of gold-nuggets and spocimons in the vicinity of tho locality roforred to. Thoso discovorios excited s general intorost to find out the sourca from whonco they cama, All attompts, howover, liad proven futilo till the 18th of last month, whon P, J. Potarson saud H. Brandt wore #o fortunato aa to sirike tha regular voin or lead. - The discovery was made towards ovoning, Mr, Brandt's aitontion bolng first attrnoted by the glittor of the pure oro itself that was ombodded in a plece of rock lying at his foot. Potorson was but & short distanco away, snd immediatoly joined hia partnor, With- out further dolay the fortunato miners mndo good thoir claims, selooted a few specimens at random, and returned to Del Norto with the nows, Of conrse, tho lntolligonco, backed by tho rich samples, sot the town wild, and overy- body rushed madly for the now _district with the liopo of socuring something. Trom Dol Norto Monsra, Petorson and Brandt camo direct to Donyer, accompanied by Maj. J. Cary Fronoh, an old and well-known correspondent of tho Tribune. Tho sEncXmonn brought to Donver b; theso gontlomen have produced almost as muc oxcitomont hore as thoy have in Dol Norte—ihat 18, nmnng those who havo soon thom. Tho sam- los of thoload propor vary from aninchtotwo or hiroo inchos in width, and aro litorally the pure gold in manss, perfectly visiblo o tho naked oye, and assaying hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, Othor specimens takon at random from various parts of tha vein, just as thoy Iay on the surface, nud which wora thought to bo of littlo valuo, nasayod yostorday at the Mint as high ag $30,000 por ton. Taking all these facts into consideration, it appoars a8 though this was likely to tnrn out tho richost old doposit in tho known world. The bost fudge. in our city pronounca the specimens un- equaled by anything ever bofore known. Mr. P. J. Petorson is a Bwedo by birth, but has boon in our country einco he was 16 years of age. Ho is a gontleman of fine addross, ‘pleasing man- nors, and & gonorous cultivation,. Ho is now but 85, and went to Samanana poor carpenter. He m‘mus, after o comparatively short stay, o millionaire, Mr.F, H. Brandt is a native of Holstein, but las also boon many yoars in our country, Ho is an earncst, hnrdworking, reliable, and intelligent gontleman, caloulated to win aud maintain. the friondship'of sl whoso friondehip is worth tho having, ‘These are tho fortunato ownors of the Litilo Aunio—a lead which, if wo are not groatly mistakon, ia bound to croato more excitemont in the minoral and financial world than_any mine herotofore dis- covored all the world ovar.” bt R, WHIST ON THE BRAIN. Mania for the Game in England—Some Account of the Late Mr. Cliy, M. Pay 1t Champion and Expoundor. London Correspondence New ¥ork Times. Mr. Clay, tho member for Hull, an important, though not prominent, politician, and tho groat- st mastor of tho gamo of whist in Bugland, if not in Europe, has just diod. He rarcly spoko in Parlisment, and when ho did speak it was vory briefly ; but ho exerciged considerablo in- flucuce privately among members on both sides, o was in carly life thrown into intimacy with Mr. Disracli, and, though Mr, Clay was a do- cided Liboral, the intimacy subsistod to tho last. Ho was o man of gracious presence, with an ole- gont, fincly-moldod Load, and goft, ongag- Tug manners ; a witty Latker, and o man of many social accomplishments. He made himself vory ugoful in what may be called the domestic diplo- macy of tho political world, in_making up dit- ferences botweon soctions of his own party, or iu gottling compromiges with tho othor side. Al- though a Liboral, aud even a Radical, by cos viction, he was more Palmorstonian thau Glad- stonian in practico, doubting whothor in thelong run acts of Parlinmont mado vory much differ- ence. Mr, Clay was not only fanious for his per- sonal skill at the whist-tablo, but was acknowl- edgod a8 tho supromo arbiter of the rules of tho gnino. Tho mauual which Lle published under the initinls *J. O." is nccopted in slmost all whist clubs as an indisputablo authority. It sets forth the rules with groat lucidity and precision. But Mr, Clay reudored o grontor sorvicato whist by firat assisting to shapo and simpl(y tha rules, which ho afiorward un- dortook to oxpound. Ho was not only &_judgo, but » legislator, and tho modern gamo of whisl may be #aid to bo in no small dogreo his iuvon- tion. Among the educated classes the passion for whist is steadily extending ; but few peoplo hoave any idoa of tho amount of time which is ovory day given up to it in London, During the fimlmr part of the years littlo knot of well- nown politicians and mou of lotters meot regu- Ialy every aftornoon at G o'clock in the card- room of tho Athenreum Club. 1loro whistis played in its wost scientific form, and, it scarcely may be doubtod, with groat intollectual brillian- cy. Aftor Mr. Clay and Mr. Abrahom Hayward, thio Quarlerly Revlew is rocognizod as tho chiof suthority as to tho jurisprudeuce of the game, ond Mr, Hayward is the leader of the Athonmum Club cotorio. At the other clubs the worship of whist is followed with equal dovotion. It uscd to be said that at any hour there wero al- ways four meu at tho card-tablo, and that thowgh mon camo and mon went, the sitting was nover absolutely broken up through tho u‘nlx.\r. o Reform Club bas also obtained o reputation for LRGILEn, _heavy stakes within tho inner circle. Billiards are also cultivated with incrensing neeiduity in English society, but of courso thoro aro practi- cal dificulties in tho way of its making the semo progross as whist, et e T INHUMANITY TO HORSES. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune Sz : It does scom as if tho days of inhamani- ty to horees ought to bo ended in this ago of on- lightenmont and progross; but, to the thousands who live on tha Bouth Sido and patronize the atreot-cars, this morning waa an exemplification that not only Is such not the case, but to the in- humaa treatment of tho animals is added that of compelling the human freight to got out in tho storm and help push the cars along, or wallk through the slogt and snow to thoir destination aftor having paid thoir fare. This morning, thus enxly in the sondon, o loug lino of cars was to bo soon on Btato stroot,—horses falling ; drivers swoaring ; passongors jumping out o give the poor horso a_lift, or hun-{'mg along on foot for fenr thoy would bo late in their places, and incur thedis) {nnuuraolthulmm loyers; andseveralcars run of the track bocause it waa impossibloto run thom on it. How long iu this atato of things to lnst ? I think the Humano Bocioty should sta- tion its agents on State streot, from Randolph to Adams streot, and compol tho drivers to stop for no ono, and permit no one to get in, aftor hio has got fifty or sixty passengors in his car. It is % shamo to make one horso draw more than this, Who is reaponsible for this state of things? The vomody, and the ounly remedy, is to bo found in omployiug somo ‘other mnhvo power. ‘I'ho dwnmy is tho only thing wo know of now that will curtnhfl{ tako tho placo of horse-posor. Who objoots toit? Not tho horsos, 'Fnke a voto of uil the horses in the city, and thoro would be & vory large majority in favor of it. It thoro are & fow thal think they woutd bo afraid "of i, lot thom keop off that streot, or have n dummy-horse in tront, Are tho wishes of tho thousands who aro compelled to rido on the cars to haveno welght aguinat tho few who drivo toams? If the Ultyi‘nlhura are sfraid to take the rosponsi bility of pormitting it themselves, . let thetn gub- mit tho proposition to & yota nl‘llm paople, T'he aitroad Company would bo benofited by it, for thioy can run tholr cars by stoamy much pheaper than by lmruu-‘m\v»r, and can furnish incronsod facilitien for thoir passengors, The poople will bo bonefited, for they can be certain that the cars will always run, and can bo cortaln of ol- most always gotting o soat, instond of Luing com- olled to stand as thoy now do moro than threo- Pourtllfi of tha time.” 1 hope, Mr, Bditor, you will continuo to ufinn(n this subject until'a ro- form is cffected, Boonuse our fathors rodo altor hiorsos, that is no roason why we should always doso, I bollove in tho dootrino_of the grostost good to tho groatost numbor, J, O, Patagn, 011104G0, 0ot 28, 1873, —_— AMan Who wau to Hnve oen Sccros tary of the Intorior, The Bt, Louls Dispalch, s ulkln[g of tho death of Mr, Olarles W, Ford, of that ¢ity, in Chicago, & fow days IW, Bayay # Qharles Wright Ford was born In Baokott's Harbor, Now York, {n Boptombor, 1820, and at tho tmd of hin donth waa fu s 04th yosr. It wos during his oarly manhood that ho beosme nequninted with tho President, thon Liout. Giant, who waa stationod at that placo, and thid acquaintance riponed, In after yoars, into an futluato aud ardont'friondship. When Gon. Grant aftorward wont to Californls ho sried to porsundo his friond to nccompany himto that rining l.‘mmtl?'. presonting as {t did so many op- portunition for the ndvancemont of tho youn ‘and industrions. But lie declinod and afiorwar: romoved to Ht. Louls, whoro tho two mot ngain, Grant had then rosigned his position in tho avmy,. sud . gome offorts woro mndo to have him” occupy o position in the United Statos Exyrnss ompany, but Graut found it to s advantago to go to Galona to reside. Thoy did not meot A(flx(n until the broaking out of the war, when thelr old plongant fntimaoy was re- nowed, Binco tho accossion of Gon,” Grant to tho Prosidonoy ho hns froquently urged Mr, Tord to accopt high position within'hia gift, but ho haa always doclinod, His recont visit to the Proaident, howover, was possessed 6f moro than ordinnry intorest, Ho mot him at Toledo, and it is woll understood that at that timo ha yiolded to tho sarnont nnd oft-ropoated solicitation of tho Presidont to accopt & piaco in his Osbinet. Tho Prosident alwaya recognizod the faot that Mr, Ford was his true friend in timo of need, aud in his prospority ho waa anxlous to givo him rrotical ovidonoo of it. Tho position intonded o tendered to Mr. Ford waa that of Boorotary of tho Interior, Mr. Delano, the present incum- bont, being booked for Bocrotary Richardson's placo. Tho_doath of his friond will probably matorially chango the President's plans.” NBWS ITEMS. Larga smounts of gold dust ars sold daily in g«:flnuu. ‘The dust {5 from Carriboo and Balmon vor. —The Clark County (Wis.) Republican etates that the Frospocts of logging the coming season aro growing botter, —Bolifontaino, Ohlo, is building n $105,000 court-houso, o £85,000 jail, & $60,000 hotol, and o fine Prosbytorian church, number of small sewing-machine com- paunies have consolidated, and aro about com- mencing & monstor manufactory in Jorsey Oity. —It in eatimatod that New Hampehire has fur- nished mora money for Wostorn rafiroads during tho Inat twonty yoara than tho whole manufac- turing interosis of tho Stata are worth, 'ho Roman_ Catholics of Englaud proposs to organizo locsl pilgrimagos to tho sbrincs of 8t. Bwithin, ot Winchoster; Bt. Thomas, at Can- torbury, aod Bt. Edward, the Coufessor, nt Westminstor, : —In the caso of Elizabeth O, Parker, who re- contly obtained a vordict of $19,500 against tho Doston & Albany Railrond for nflmnnll injurles, tho motiun for & now trial, on tho ples of oxcess- ivo damogos, has boou overrulad, sad award at- firmed. —The 8t. Louis Globe hoa deliberatcly como to tho conclusion that the number of women who would rather not marry than bocome the wives of poor mon is much smallor thsn the numbor of men who would rather not marry tlian bocome tho husbands of poor women, ~—Davenport is lively on potatoes. On an avernge twelve car-loads of potatoes arrive thore daily for Dnvonflnxt donlera and consumers, Thoy come from tho Southwest, from Milwaukee, from Illinois, and from any place whero they can be obtained, Rorallors ask from 81,16 to 91,30 por bushoel for potatoes not, and the prob- ability is that thoy caunot be obiained next spring for love or mono(. —J. B. Borry, engineer for the Chicago & Northwostorn Rallrond, arrived in La Crosse this forenoon, and will at onco proceod to suryey for thie final location of that rond from the Junction to this city. This work it 18 oxpected, will tnke sbout one weck to accomplish, when the matter will bo gettled, and wo hopa, the iob for butlding the road in hero promptly let—La Orosse Republican. —The general office of the Northern Land Onco, now located in 8t. Paul, will bo removed to Brainord as soon a8 the rooms in the Compa~ ny's building thero can be pererd—P\'Dblgly about the first of Docembor. ~—Tho word panic arose ont of the battlo of Marathon. In that immortal fight s mero hand- ful of Greels encountered an infinito host of Porsinng, and put them to uttor rout, How did they do it? e Porsiana wero smitton by tho god Pan_with a, sudden canscloss and- oxtromo fulght. Thoy lost thoir wite; and that stato of thingas took its namo from the god who pro- duced it. . —In Wright County, Ia., on the Boone River, they had a tornado on the 17th,—the heaviesl ovor known in that section, though limited in ares, It uplit Anron Hoovor's granary opon at the top, outirely domolishing it, 'carrying one sido of tho roof forty rods, nnd dropplng the other on tho roof of tho houso and crushing that in, Mr, L. Bills was soveroly hurt by a fall- ing timber. The tornado did litile othor dam- nge, a(mxly becauso it visited a comperatively uusettled section. —Thore was recently on exhibition, at Plymouth, Maes., o picco of 2-inch water-pipo, 7 foot in longth, takon from tho sgction on the dam at tho Throod Company’'s Works, which was so complotely filled, its entire longth, with tho fine fibrous roots of tho willows that are growing near by, that not one drop of water could paes through it. A dopression in the pipe bad at some time caused & Blight breakage, nud into thia a portion of the root had insinu- ated itsolf and grown, until about s month since {he passnge of wator was atopped, and & search for the causo rovonled this result.’ A portion of tho filling was taken out, aud regembled closely & continuous *‘ wad " of oakum. For five or six foot thoso roots aro_so tightly wedged in that no forco yet applicd has been’ sufficiont to start - them. —Panics bring profitable sriata to the mill of many_ bosido Jawyors, * Gablo fuvestments,” the London Financier says, '* have this satis- factory peculiarity—that ovonts which provo dis- astrous to other unduflnk&nffl bring nothing but Denoefit to them.” This is illustrated by a state- mont that tho traffio roceipts of tho Atlantio ca- bles reached 16,000 (in gold) Bnr day on Friday and Saturday, tho 19th and 20th of Septombor, und that tho nvorage for that month, {ncluding Bundays, has been about $10,000 por day, or $18,825,000 por aunum, e “rhirty miles o hous, iacluding stoppages, Is to bo tho order on the Northwostern Railway, kntwaun Chiengo and Green Bay, via Milwau- 00, —The Now York Central Railroad expeots to have its four tracks ready for uso, on tho wholoe line from Byracuso to Albany, by January noxt, ond partially so for much of " the distanco wost of Syracuse. —ho Hudson (Wis.) Democrat says: '‘ A valuablo horso bolonging to Jo Aloxander rocoutly died. Saturday evening at the meet- ing of the Grange in the Town of Hudson some ono mentioned tho loss, whoreupon tho snug sum of $185 was thon and thero contributed as & present to him." —Trom » gentloman just from tho lumbering country of the Muskogou, and well posted in ro- gard to mattors thore, we learn that tho pros- Pects are decidodly uninferesting.” A caroful estimato puts tho bumber of camps to bo run this wintor at not much over ong-third of last winter's numbor, The wages to bo paid will run from 816 to $18 por month, and enough mon at those prices aro to bo had to ““F’f' tho small de- mand.—Bay COily (I{I‘lich.) Chronicle. —The Beaver Dam ~(Wis) Cifizen says: * Tuosday morning, as tho castorn-bound train was rounding o ourve about 4 milos wost of the city, o number of armed men sprang from tho bushes and commenced to fira at tha engingor, but fortunately did not bit him, He crowded on moro stoam, uud was soon out of their reach. Their intontion was doubtloss to stop the train and rob tho passengers, s numbor known to bave quite large sums of mouey on thoir porsons be- ing on board, . —T'lio statoment of tho First Natioual Bank, of Madison, Wie., in July showed among its assot yonl ostafo valued ot 61,096, Whon it fallod tho roul ostate was put in at 261.937.76 ; yot thero bod beon no addition to tho amount of ronl estato, Tho rise in Madison roal ostato, Judging from this, hos boon immenso .in threo shors months, Tho capital stook is put down at 326,000, yot thero waa due to depositors, ‘at the timo of the fuilure, the swm of 220,000, It strikos us that ox-Mayor Hill and the Directors of that bank nood au overhauling.—Fond du Lao Commonuwealth. e e MISCELLANEOUS. By annexation Boston has now four *Firab Ohurchos™ that havo been cstablished more than two conturies, —An enterprlsing nowspaper in San Franolsco secured tho sorvices of some oarrier-pigcons tao bring it & report of tho Modoo exeoutiony. They flow off a fow miles in gaod order, sud havo not been heard of sinco, —Tho power of lovo is again illustrated in t|‘m oago of Misa Cathorina Oaten, of Cornwall, ingland, whowaa married in Toulumuo County, Californla, rocontly, to ior lover, whom shio had not meon in oight yoars, and whom sho traveled 7,000 myilea to meot, i ~~A Junotion Oity, Kan,, glrl ewallowed s pin about & year ago, whioh rocently made Its ap- pearauce, coming out through the loft eyo, en- iroly doatroying her slght. —It soems Prince Kassa, suoossor of Klnfi Thoodove, of Abyssinia, lins boen mnking ba ugo of his English oducation, IIo has 1uam|nrl tho groat lhlngiu expootod of him by taking cap~ tivo a rival Pringe and hfluglng tho arts of olve lizatlon to bosr upon him., "ho oaptive's cars wero atuffed full of gun-cotton, and his roya hend was blown to atoms, 4 —A fow waookn ngo thora wagrold at thio Onntlo Johannisborg, from the famous collars of Princo T Mottornich, & cusk of the flnest wine in tho world—at loast n the ostimation of those who liko {t—gonuino Johamnishergar, It way tho best of tho famous vintage of 16!, and was bought by Consul Bauer, of Moucow, st the onormous prico of 28,000 gullders, or nbout $10 a bottle, —A Boston man dropped five conts in n publio clatorn under the stroot, and o firs stenmor gon- erously pumped out 120 barrols of wator that ho might recover the nickol, —One of his frlonds saya ln a * Landsoor delightod fn color ; ho would point to tho doop groon featera of a bird and Aoy, * Doos not that groen gurgloin your eyo dolie olously ' —Not long ago two Pnnflomun slartod from London on a bioyclo trip to Land's End, & dig- tanco of 800 milen. Thoir trip ocoupiod thom Just ono wook, They wero forty-two hours and twonty-five minutes notuslly upon their vohiclos, —A now way of prosorving sutumn loaves in ivon a8 follows: Iron thom fresh with a warm not hot) iron, on which somo spormacett hna con lightly rubbed. This method presorves porfoctly their lovoly tints, and givesa waxy gloss which no other one socurea. —At the Carlton Club, London, the hoad cook roceivos a salary of £1,400 per year. .Like Worth, who nover aows bimself, tho ¢ook morely superintonds and “‘tastes things™ before thoy are sorved. —A Momphis woman, afraid of yollow fever, #old a piano for $25, to get meann to loave towi. (7 32ym tho London Speclator of a rocont dato: It bas buon a suporatition for gonorationa that a mnrrln%n performed by a Captain of & man-of~ way on hls own quartor-dock was logal, Hor Mnjesty's lnw officors, howovor, having ine formod tha Admiralty fhat oli such marrisgos are fllogal, thoy have for tho future hoon pro~ hibited.” —Now Bodford ¢an claim the championship in modust{., An art dealer, among his othor goods, placod in his window copies of antique statuary, such na aro to be found in all the Old-World gal- lorios, whon s oriminal prosocution was onterad against him, and tho valiant Marshal soized the statuos, Tho mattor was taken into tho Polico Court, and the Justice decided that the exhibi- tion of the statuo of Narcissus ‘* manifostly tondod to corrupt the morals of youth." I —Boston morchanta havo oxpanded the idea of snswering certain queationa by banding s print- od card to the quorist. Thusa well-known firm in that clty, now in tomporary quarters, but ox- pocting at an um{ day to roturn to its old stand, choko off all inquiries by o card inscrived s fol lowa; “We don't know whon wo shall move, Wodon't *think’ about it. Wo havo not rented this tore, It is toront. Prico, 84,000. Lonse of four yoars. This fully tella all we know." —_— Lively Ghosts. Correspondence of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer, \f On. Beo. 86, in Bt, Croix County, lives a fami~ 1y by tho namo of Lynch, who nro_troubled by haying their clothes cut up, thoir dishes brokon, and many other things toonumorons to montion, All this" in broad daylight. I stayod thera Wednosday night. All wag quict aftor dark, un- ti17:16 0. m,, whon things, such as rolling pins, oggs, tin plates, carthon cups, began to got up of thelr own nccord and sboot around tho room. * . Onopleco hit o little girl, 2 yoars old, hurtin, her ‘badly, Mr. Lynch offors £8,000 to havo il oxplainod. Thoy have had some $2,000 worthof ‘proporty dostroyed. flundreds of persons have Beon these tlhinge, including the editor of the Dane County News, and tho River Talls poapor. Yostordsy £ M. Taylor, editor of the Star and Times, of this lace, Postmaster Jagor and eeyeral othors, loft or tho acene of action. The things all movo botweon 6 and 108.m, and 8 and 6 p. m., ond nothing is disturbed on Sundsy, Tho family Biblo went into a kettlo of boiling wator and was spoiled. Droad-nxes and nufium ézat up with no ono noar them aud fy around.. This is no myth, but & snd reality. From the Philadelphia Telegraph, Qct, 23, ‘The poople who live on Cumberland stroat aro smazod and alarmed. Bomothing is the matter with the dwolling No. 1006. For tho past two or threo days extraordinary movemouts, which ara genorally rogarded o apiritual pionomena, have takon place. Disios woro soon flying out of tho windows, the clock danced off the mantlo-piece, tho cholrs danced un Irish fig, tho stovd wont through & pas seul and them dropped to plocos, tho pictures leap- od upon the floor, and woent skimming out of the windows, oven tho phlogmatic door~ mats turnod ovor and rolled down tha stops, while tho eulinary articles kopt up an inforn: clatter, s _though the Evil Ono woro stirring them np with o long pole. The peoplo made an * investigation of the premises, but could discover 1o one, aud then camo to the conclusion that so rave an onigma should Le sumbitted to tho clergy for wolution, and, in order that thero should bo no war of socts, a Ontholic and a Protostant olorgyman wore sclectod, -Buth camo, saw, wondored, studied, and incontinently gave it up a8 u bad job, in which the dovil himgolf, 1o doubt, hiad s hiand, sud was playing hir myss | torious trumps with mastorly wkill~ So, the clorgymen having foilod to make it out, Liout. Crawford, of tho Eightoonth District, was sum- moned, and bo will, in his own languago, *“knock tho bottom out of this myatery, though the hoavens drop throgh tho holo.” privato lottor, —_— Minerals in the Pigeon River Coune . 1wy, . From the Winona (Minn,) Republican. ' Mr. J. F. Morrill, of Clicago, formerly Chiof En;iim:er of tha Sheboygan and Foud-du Lag : Railroad, and recently eleoted Chief Engineor of the Milwaukoe & 8t. Louis Air Lino Railvoad, . - hae just returned from a trip to the extrome northera portion of this Stata and Wisconsin, bordering on Lake Superior, commonly kuown as tho Pigoon River country, He informsus that, in connection with a citizon of Winona, ha Las elfected tho 1purcl.|nau of oighty acreu of yaluablo minoral Jand 20 miles back from tho lako shore, on which ho found large masses of iron ora of o vory fine quality. Judging from surfaco indications, the mine must bo practically inexbruslible, Wo have boen shown specimens of tho oro, selocted st random, whick contain a 'very largo percentago of puro iron. Mr, M. hag also fino specimons of silver and copper ore from % thosame locality, and ha bolioves thatallthe € mountain rangos in that country extending 10 = tho North aud Northwest aro rich in minerals, especlally in fron. Mr, Morrill hosalsoinhis posscssion a lump of pure bituminous coal, which was given him by on old Chippewn Chiof whom [ ho employod a8 & guide, Tho Indian informed him that ho know whore “ plonty more™ of the i samo sort' was to be found, but gave no clua to tho locality except tho statemont that the spot ‘2 was one day's journoy on_snow-shoes from tho = shoro of the lako. Mr. AL has mado an arrange- o mont with the Chief to finidu him to the plico for ¢ suitable considoration, on tho basisof “na a. rood no pay.” It is imposaible to oxnggerate 1! ho importanos of this last discovery, should i turn out as well as it promisos, in conuection with tho dovolopment of tho oresof that region, Smolting furnncos would of courso bo builtand ‘3 the iron manufactured in tho immodiato vicinity i of tho miues, effectiog, an immonso saving in " tho cost of transportation. = — b Xowa Farming. . From the Wayne Co, (la,) News, e - The attention of those porsons who claim that fa frrming don't pay in Iowa is called to tho fol- % lowing exhibit, furpisied us by Mej. Kellogg, of Ik tho cost of brouking, fenciug, sowing, harvest- . ing, oto,, forty-acra flold. Tho work was all p hired and a correct account of tho amounts paid % out kept. The items are as follows ¢ wy Broaking, $ por acre. o 000 fonce posts, 10 cta, ale Bharponing und driving s 1660 o Boring for wiro, 700 __ Tutting in wire, 800 Wire for fonce 10300 Ves 60 buskiola seod wheat, 03 00 ¥in Sowing snd harrowiny . 8900 mel Qutting with Marsh Harvoate . G300 BR Bhockiug and druwing (o mac! 0 00 ‘Threshing, - Telp bired €oTE . ie Total oxpensea*** 803 = MM 3 $323 00 Deduct.oeserriiarsrinnesaeesnassennrieess 634 00 30 o Toaving, aftor lcnelni aud brenking, ovor §6 = per acro clean profit, This we call protty falr for our chonp lands. ~n e e e e The Prodigal Son’s Brother. o To the Editor of the Loutevills Courler-Journul: e Wo aro pleased to #co that Ilenry Ward Deochor an gomo of tho nowspapors are do- nouncing that moan wrotoh, the Trodigal Sou'n brothor,” It Prodigal Bons dldn’t hava a brothor to lny up sometbing for them and_tako cavo of the old folks, how would the P. 8.8 know 5 whoro to go wheon their money was gono? Tha ¢ fack that wo have homes to board at whon wa find all tho other places closod against us, in uuolhlug&toour Bunny, generous naturen in tho hour of impeouniosity, Lot all the papers and all the pronohora ** go for" the Prodigal Hon's % fathor's oldest boy. What is homo without a Prodigal Bon's brother to do the work ? AMANy Pnopiaars, X