Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1873, Page 4

4 _ . Pt CHICAGO DAILY. “WRIBUNE{ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE - TENMA OF AUDACRIPTION (PARA“L‘ IR ADVANOE), Daily, by el 812,00 Syt DAty ntt e BV E-08| Wooity Partaol a yoar at the sumo rato, gallon, 6a for short ribs, 0@63¢o for nhgrt olear, and | bo regnrded aa rathor singular that the bummor B}_{@vu for ewoot piollod hams, Mighwines |'of -Tuesdny should bo motamorplased into waoro more sotive, nud n shade firmor, at 800 .per |;firat-class citizon on ' Wednosday, and vice versa. Lake frolghts woro loss motivo and | The chnangoes in philosophiesl and medical Electi- To provont dolay and mistakes, be suro and glvo Poat | oAslor, at 63¢@G6J{o for corn by eail to Buffalo. | olsm go moro slowly. Tho modieal Eolootio may Dfeo address In full, fuctuding State and Oonnty, Rotmittances may bo mndo elther by dralt, oxpross, Poot Dflico order, or in rogistorod Iotters, at onr riske ENMK TO CITY BUBRCIINERS, ° , Flour was riotivo, and 25@50c por brl lowor. | ndopt a proscription from Dr. Iiahnomaun this ‘Whont was aotive, and @3{c bigher, closing yoar, aud rojoot it noxt yoar in favor of ono Dls, delivoretl, Sunday oxconton, 55 donte per wooks wonk at 90540 cash, 0030 scller Novombor, and- | from ~Dr. Tuompson. Tho philosophical Dully, delivered, Bundny included, 80 conts yer wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Uhleago, Tik TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. . TY'S_THRATRE_Tandoloh stroot, Botwaen LR Lasallo, * Tuatlont or, Lifo tn Now York.t - MoVIOKRR'S_THEATRE-Madison stycet, bols O B etee Faegoraobs of iiss Nobion: o Taur of Lyona,” ; AUADRMY OF MUSIO—~Ialated straot, botwoon Mad- son_and Monroo, Engagemont of Carlotta LeOlorsq. A You Liko Ith : NYERS' OPERA-TIQUSE-N stroct, botweon Done g Niate: O bany Noken tn ¥og. Hin stroley and ocomicalitios. * ¥ THREATRE 1ainos stroat, botwoen Mad- oo and aabingion. ~ Kegagomout of J: . Wallaco, ¢ Erin A- T, Chorra.’ ¥ MUSIO FALL_Clark streot, botwoon AT Ll 215 b Fodo Jopanoro Sraupo. INTRR-STATE EXPOSITION—Lako-Shore, foot of Adamaatroot, , . S t——— BUSINESS NOTICES. ' . ADQUARTERS FOT BOYS' OLOTHING. C. 0. Oé‘ELAlE\ . le‘ and 188 Olark-st.. tho counfligrations at Cauastots, $1.01 soller. Decombor. . Cora was moro settvo,. | Eelootio may nbandon thio ‘oxploded theorles and 8¢ highor, but olosed wonk nt 00)¢o cash, | of aénuationalism ‘which ho accopted some and 8760, seller Docomber. Oats woro quiot, | yoira ngo, and substituto thoso of idenlsm in andl 34 bighor, closing at 30340 casb, and 81940 | thoir atend. Dut Dr. Storcy hina domonstrntod soller Décombor, Ryo waa dull, and 8@G0 low- | that tho political Eelootio resorvos the right to | or, closing at §1.25 for No. 3, and 8o for No. 8. | chiango men's charncters from :-bummerism to Tho log market waa aotivo ot 25@800 deoline, roppnclnhlll_by'.evory twonty-four hours. Dr. closing onsy at $3.50@4.00. Cattlo woro dull, | Btoroy hss various candidaios for tho offico of with salos At 91.00@5,625. Bhoop,temaln quict | Mayor, City Attornoy, Jugo of tho Superior and unchanged. n Court, County Troasurer, nnd County Commis- | eioners, which serve him alternately for making ! By n somowhat singular coincidence, during | up his Eclootio tickot: and a8 targota for - sbuse, tha past two days four towna hnve logt thoir on-, | It must puzzle Lis dlsolplos fu tho Eoloctio Selidol tiro businesa. soctiona by firo, Tho dotails of | soroly to koop up with him. The man who is ’ : , &nd | unfortunate enough tohave his name placed on s - Amoricus, Ga,, woro printed & day or two'ago. | tho Holectio ticket may find somo consolation s morning tho dispatchos contain similar in- | in the prospoct that tho Zimes will abuso him tolligonco from Froohold, N. 7., tho' county doat | to-morrow. If it woro not for this compon- of Monmouth CGounty, and.Rono, Nov, The | eating policy, wo 'confoss that it would bo difii~ Intter {s- one ‘of. tho' Unlon Pacific Rallrosd. | cult toconcoive of o groator Liardship than to bo towns, about 120 miles northonst, of San .Fran- | Eclecticlzod by Dr. Btoroy.” Mon who soe dofoat claco, and ono of the most flonrishing towns in | staring thom in the faco, boeauso they havo hnd Novads,~being gfluntnd in tho fortils valloy, of”| the misfortune to bo placed on-Dr. Bloroy's the Tuqkng River, and having thorofore an N L(okot,‘mv'nkn in tho morning with a more cheer- could bo pald. hls manngomont, . But Cbicago and tho Wt linvo n still doopor Intorest In the mattor. If tho.monoy. has ‘boon obtained, wo may lool forward to a now routo from Ohicago to tho sonboard aa o fail accompli. Mr. Watson's plan incindon tho lonsing of the Atlnntlo & Great ‘Weostorn Rallrond. Tho gauge of this rond and that of the Erio Rond will then bo narrowed to tho Ameriean standard—4 foob 8%¢ inches. From Gallon, on tho Atlantia & Great' Westorn Ratirand, an air-line road will bo- constructed to Ohileago, o distanco of sbout 280 miles, = This will givo a now and direot railrond conneotion botwoon Chicago and Now York; o double-track trink-itno with all tho facilitios of sny ono of tho prosont compoting routes, | Tho ofilcors on tho Erfo Rood, fn o rocont visit'to Olileago, com- plotad tholr arrangemonts for an entranco into the city. : Tho Erio Rond will, 1n all probability, como 1 ot tho Northwestorn dopot on the West Bldo to facilitato tho transfor of its, Woatorn business, It is noodless to poink out that tho acquisition of anothor combeting ‘mih'ond to tho Atlantio will ‘havo A highly Important influence’ on tho Transportation Quostion. T | ELEOTION RUBBISH. 1t I8 ono of tho nocossary or at loast inoviteblo ovils of oleotions that filthy men with filthy tonguos will take an notive part in tho canvass. The blackguard scoms to rovol in tho foast of dotréiotion which an ordinary claction prosents tobim. Four yonra ngo, tho poopls of this cily ulso tho point.on -tho rallrosd at which | havo boen taken down £ mako room for othor '|+ sought to broak up the old eystem by which par-, @}Jx, " @b ‘Ifm,fl @ fibum. sunl linportance ag an agrloultural contro, It is | fal prospoct at tho. discovery that tholr hamos | Fridsy Mormng, Octobor 81, 1873. Forolgn dispatehos this morning anaounod, tho ‘changes aro mnda for Virginia City, ' the Capltat | victims. Dr. Btoroy cannot recover from the, ot Nevada, and Gold Hill, tho locality of ‘the’| chagrin which Lo lLss ..oxporioncod of. tho famous Comstock Mino. The dispatchos intl- | :failuro to got cnough Eclectics - togother to in- | ‘mato that the wholo busincss part of tho town | doreo him for Mayor.” If 8o good a mon’ could. 1 dostroyod. Although tho loss In figuros soorms | ‘chorish rosontment at all, wo should sy that ho Marming iilnoss of the Empross of Anstria, small, it must 1l with crushing weight, infiwas trylng to punish tho, candidatos for offico by Rlizaboth Amalle Eugonio. Tho Empross was | ;theso stringeit times, upon a. youug aud grow- | occasionnlly indorsing thom ns evailablo Ecleotios, porn In 1837, nud da tho_danghior of tho Duko/|+i08 locality liko Reno. Maximziian Joseph, nud cousin, on hor mother's side, to tho presont King of Bavaria, * - . . m—— Tho contest in thoDominion Parlisment s not yot conoluded, but it -is posaible that & division; for'which the Opposition is eagor, will bo takon to-night. Yosterday, the Opposition gained goveral important accessions from: tho M tenal ranks, snd are hopofal of o majority. ‘Reports from o very considorablo ' portion of the country, rolative to tho q’rnpg, indiento, a8 compared with last yoar, & losgof 26 per cont in sorn, a galn of 63 por cont In whoat, o loss of D por cent in oats, 7 per cont in Lay, snd 43¢ por pent in the pork product. Thero. is, however, & very copsiderable inorenso in tho plauted 'rgcrn: ngo of winter whoat. s A Lot the friends of Luw and Ordor 800 to it that | they havo one candidato for Aldorman.in‘oach ward, ond that ono an honest man, an intelli- | gont man, freo of ol conncotion with Hesing and the saloon-keopois’. alliance, Now ia tho | timo to get rid of disroputablo inumbn;s of tlie Council, and to provent otbers of o liko charac- tor getting in. This cannot be done by runnlng:‘ two'or moro candidates in each-ward. .. s e fontures of tho manufeoturing - districts: up . the :genoral situation., quartor comos 'in tho columns of his newspapor. Tho fact that' all tho candidates on both tickets have dared to Tlhio Intorost of yosterday's finanoial nows con-"| oppose Dr. Btorey hos rendored it necos- “trosn thoe critical condition of tho Bpragues’ | sary for him to tako them ‘up ono affairs, Tho faote, ae slfted out of the confllet- | by 'ono, Henco tho numorous vagarios of ing roports, aro substantially ns follows: Xoyt, | the Ecloctioism in the present campuign.’ Tho Bpragho & Co., the:Now York ngents of "tho | only gontlomen who aro not affected by theso Rhodo Tsland Spragucs, havo susponded, ond | remifioations aze Dr. Herking, and Prof Miller, thelr - susponsion .is ono - of : tho gloomiest | of Buffalo, both profoused Ecloctics. These gen~ anio, throo milllons of | tlomon aro mombors of tlio present Board of tholr accoptances being afloat in Now Yorkalone. | County Commissionors, snd’belong to tho - Les- Tho ¢condition of tho Nhodo Island Spragues| ing ring which onabled Dr. Storey to ront his still romatos critical, but thoir fato will bo de- | Helectic hospital to tho county at $0,000 & yoar, cided at tho bank meoting in Providenco to-dsy. | Dr, Horting and Prof. Miller may, therofore, bo The' Providence & Now York Steamship line, | confidently lookod for'on all the Ecloctio tickets in which they are concerned, is:foported tobo | the Times may publish betweon now and ‘cloc- nunombarrassed, buf thoir banke havo sufferod, | o o tho Cronston Dank having mado a bad failure, tho Franklin having -tomporarily ‘susponded, and throo others in Providenco being somewhnt cripplod.” Anothor itom, of importauce is tho | News, published in Loudon, bonring the dates faot that tho Truatees of the Union Trust Com- | Sopt. 27 and Oct. 4 laat. Tho firat contains i pany find its capital unimpaired, and havopassed | account of the moeting held by the English & Tresolution :to resumo Deo. 1 “witli" their | sharoholdora of the Erie Railway to rotoivo Mr. capital incronsed . to '€2,000,000,—doublo tho:|.P. II. Watson, tho Prosident of the rond, and prosent . mmount;: Tho roports - from tho!| tho secoud the roport of an Interview with Mr. lighten | Watson, setting forth more fully the condition. _overy. | of the rond since bo assumed the managoment.: the -news of roduction of | Tho ~moeting of tho sharoholders was CHICAGO AND THE ERIE RAILWAY, ~ Wo liave bofors us copios of the Railway Wo printelsewhora o- dotailed acconnt of. s | Himo and wages and diéchargo of oporalives. | vory largoly sttonded, and reprosonted railroad collision noar Codar Repids, Tows, yes- torday, which rosultedin tho'doath of John B. Watking, tho Buperintendent of the Iowa Di- | vision of the Chicago & Northwestorn Railroid, who was crushed bolwoon two cars. . Tho Prosi- dent, General.Managor, Gonersl Buperinton- dent, and Chief Engincer, as woll ‘a other officials of the road, wero elso on the train, but oscaped injury. e The gratifying intelligouco comes that the yal- 1ow fover hud coased to bo an epidemio in tho South and is rapidly dissppesring. The munic- ipal anthoritics and tho officers of tho Howard Asaociation and other relief societies of Mem- phis, however, have issued a ofrcular stating that contributions of money and supplics will till be gladly recoived, to help toke caro of thoso ro- THE STOKES CASE, of Btokos, which "torminated’ ou | tailed statemont of itho progross that has been Wednesdsy in-his conviotion of manslaughtor in' [ -made in tho way'of reform slico the road was tho fourth dogreo, is tho latost mockery of the | reaouod from. the Gould mausgoment. When forms of justico, Tho sontonco of tho Court | Afk, ‘Watson accopted the position of President, was tho extremo limit allowed by law, four years | he did 8o on condition that tho money should ba Iad tho.| furnished to double-track, natrow-gauge, and jury acquitted tho prisoner altogéther, tho farco | fully oquip tho read to make it In every way would nob haye boen more glaring, In fact, an | the oqual of other trunk lines compet- scquittal might havo boon attributed to sn hon- { ing ' for tho through businoss Enst and ost doubt of tho man's sanity; but his convic- | West. Iiis purpose in visiting England tion of manslaughter oxcludes all suggostion of | was to porsuado the forelgn sharcholdors that irrosponsibility, admita tho ILilling, snd then | this policy is tho only ono that can insure the awards four years' mostjfjdelibérate murder. in tho State's Prison at hard labor. imprisonment for Thousanda are hpw withoutemploymont in Mas- | the bulk of Erio stock owned in sachusetts, Pennsylvanin, and Now York. Eogland, Mr. Watson was recoived from tho first with hearty oxpressions of approval and | confidenco, and then mado an claborate and de- a | profitable operation of tho rond on a basis of its Thore has hardly | renl value. Mo demonstrate this, Mr, Watson maining sick, and of the crowds-of dqamn'le .boen & murder committed in this country which | oxplained what had beer done with the $10,000,- swidowa and orphans who will need help for somo * dime to como. —e o Gov. Bevoridgo has beon succossful in pro- venting tho 8t. Louis roughs from having thoir prize-fight on Illinois soil, and, thwarted in their intontions in’ this' dircction, now. proposs” to tiave thoir amusoment, two or threo. weeks ‘henco, near Dotroit, which will give tho Gov- ernor of Michigan an opportunity of following up Gov. Beveridge's commendsbla -action. Moanwlile ono of tho St Louis ‘roughs, MaCoolo, tho prize-fighter, ia. under arrest for Kkilling another ono of big kind, in his saloon, . on Wednesday. g — ¢ In the list of cnses decided by tho Bupreme Court of this Stato is that of AMoore vs. The IUli- nois Central Railroad - Company. 1t will be re- mombored that Mr. Mooro, a citizon of Kan'| kakes, took passngo on tho Illinois Contral Raii- road, and, when applied to for bis faro, tendered the samo at the rato of threa cents por mile, that’ ‘being the amount fixed by tho Board of Rail- rond Comzigsionors. This sum boing loss than tho fare domanded by tho Company wss re- fusod, and Mr. Moore was compelled to pay the full faro. Ho brdught suit in the Clreuit Court of Eankakeo County against the Company, and tho caso wea dzeided by Judge Wood in an elab- orato opinion, published in Tue Tainose ab the timo, and in which the Conrt sustained tho Rail- road Compang. Mr, Mooro appealed the cage to tho Bupremo Court, and on Tuesday that body afiirmod the judgmont of (Lie Court below. In tho midst of tho uproar which Mr. Hesiog isralsing to torrify tho Catholics of this city into voting hiis ticket, they will not bo likely to forgot that Gormany is tho mont dotermined and tyrannical opponent of the claims of the Catholio Church on the faco of tho oarth. Noithor Engiend nor the United Statcs~Dboth Protostant countriea—intorpose any obstacles to the cocloslostical funotions of the comsli- tuted suthoritios of the Church. The Gorman Government, on tho contrary, claims the right to rulo the religious as wéll as the secular institutions of tho country, and henco i8 in o alate of chronio antagonism o pricats, Bishops, and Pope, Ar, Hosing las nover signified that ho disapproved of this form of persccution, though he olaims to be vastly concorned about the injurles heaped upon Cath- olics in the City of Philadelphia twouly yoars 8go, nnd ferys that tho same (hings will bo ropeated horo if Mayor Bond and Treasurer Gango aro ro-olocted. The Chicago produce markots were more ani- matod yestorday, and tho leading ceroals were stronger, whilo lour and provisions were Wonk- or. Moss pork was dull and easior, at §11.873¢ @13.00 for now, oash, snd §11,85@11,90 sollor Docombor, Lard was moderately active, and 3¢o lower, at To for new, oash or seller January, 2Moata woro moro active, and o lower, at 5%@ wes calculated to roling over the 'hirc of his mistrens, moat - vigorous slaughtor in " the . fourth - degroo NEW PHABES OF EOLEOTICISK, Jusk what Dr. Storay’s Ecloctlo tickot will ba | Watson for tho good work which ho had already thisg morning, it is not possiblo to say. Yestor- aceopoplished, dny morning it had beon changod in two or threo important reapeots from tho ticket of tlis daybe- | recolvod furtlior Ingormation that Mr. Watson fare, and na this bas been the caso overy day | has succeeded in securing the Foqyisito amount sinco the camopaign epened, it s ouly falr to e~ | of money to chango the gaugo of the Erlo Load, Bumo that it will bo tho onse every day untjl tho | and make tho othor improvemonta which he Rofore noxt Tuosday, Dr, | pontomplated from the time Lo ussumed its man- Storey will have had the distinotion of sbualug | agomont, Ho estimatod the smount nscessary for ovory mon on sithor tioket, and Jikowiso | this work at€80,000,000; and, itho has prooured commonding all the candidatos on sll tho tlok- | this aum in the prosont financlal stringenoy, pnd ofs, This, we prosnmo, i the privilogo of Lo~ | uncor the ill-roputo of American railroad soourts lootiolsm. OQuteide of Eoleotio practive, it would | tles abroad, It ls the highest complimont thst onmpsign closcs, waa 80 barren of uxtenunfll;g circumstances os | 000 already invostod for this purposs, Tho ob- tho murder of Fisk by this man Btokes. It was | stncles which ho enconntored whon ho entered & mean and cowardly murder; it was o deliborate | upon the management wero groater than'ho hnd &nd promeditated murder. Sinto tho murder of | anticipated, Though there had boen an inter- Abol by Cain, there has been no killing more | rognum of thres months under the Prosi- doliborately planned or more coolly oxccuted, | dency of Gon, Dix, the Gonld-systom ‘Thore was nothing to lift this man Stokes above | of bookkecping, the Gould bookkeepers, and tho Jovel of hia victim ; there was nothing in | the Gould ofilcinls generally wore retained, and Stokes’ relations to tho woman Mausfiold | Mr. Watson might as woll have been the jmme- lift' him above | dinto successor of Gould. e found an organ- of sny ofhor Jlibertine quar- | ization that had grown fat on corruption and Of | was hostilo to all projocts of reform. The books’ tho threo (Fialk, Stokes, and Mansflold), Fisk | of tho Compavyhiod bocn imperfoctly and irrogu- was in ovory sonso the superior; ho was up- | larly kopt upon a plan oexprossly dosigned to con~ scrupulous, vain,and concoited ; they woro menn, [ ceal the dlsposition of tho Company's funds, sordid, cowardly, snd murderous, Fiskwas a | Thero had beon flotitious roturns of time and good-natured roprobate; tho othera wore pro- "persons on tho pay-roll, which had enormously fosgors of tho penel gamo, Tho malo prostituto | swellod tho oxpenscs of the road. Largo at lonat mirdercd tho man who rofusod toibo. | sums of money bad boen diverted to. any longer plucked ; laid In wait for. him, and | illogitimate uses. Mr. Watson proceeded shot him down doliberately, maliciously,-and | to reorganizo tho stalf and draw about him somo’ cowardly. This man has boen throo times tried. | of tho most compotont railrond men in tho coun- : offorts | try, Ho dovoted most of Lis attention, hiow- tho | ovor, to followiog out tho tracks which tho of | march of the corruptionists had left bohind, and money could purchase, hio was convioted of mur- | aucceeded in running down sovoral millions of dor and sentenced -to bo hanged. Twico by the | dollars’ worth of proporty which ho recovered snme meana did ho eseapo death, on tho plea of | with the aid of ofilcient counsel, Ho has clues informality in the proceedings of the trlal. Wo | to otlier missppropriations of monoy for whioh have now the result of tho third trinl, and it is | suits will bo instituted, "Tho offeot of thia hon- simply disgracoful to the ‘exccution of the laws, | oat and energetio management has boon notably and the groatest disgraco that hag yot been g($611 liystrated Dby the. fivmuess with which Erie to the jury system. -tow twolve men of ordi- | stock has held its market value during the panio nary intelligence could conont to nLi;lli[y theme | to which nearly all tho Wall stroct securitios solves by finding this mman guiliy .of mnp- | bhave succumbed. Iad o similup panio oceurred : is ono | o yoerago, Lrio would bave been the first to suf- of those mysterios which dofy explana-r| for. Now, in spite of “boar” movemonts, Stokos' cither killad Fisk or he did | combinations against the Watson mansgement, not, and ono of tho defonscs was that Flsk dicd | aud falschoods that Love boon frooly clreulated, from modicsl troatmont. Mo cithor murdorod | Erio stock Los an assurod valuo to the oxtent of Fisk doliberately or shot bim iu solf-dofenso, | its facilities, which will bo fncrogsed by the con- Tho jury by thoif verdlot declaro that Iisk was | tomplated improvemonts lu a groator proportion killed by the pistol-shot fired by Btokes, and | than tho additional investment requived. The that SBtokes dld not Lill in solf-defense, and | improvements alroady made and tho lenkages thon Jet tho guilty wrotch eseapo with four | alroady stopped undor the new management on- yoara® imprigonment for manslaughtor. We will | sblod the Company to declaro & Jyly dividend of not say that thls yerdipt Implios corruption ; but | 83¢ por cont on tha preferred atock and 1 per it doos indlcate that tho jury syatom asuow | cont on tho common . etool, lewing o carriod on fn this country 1 an obstaclein the | balance of unappropriated earnings of administration of justico, and tho groatest of pll | 1,827,727, Aftor listoning to Mr, Watson's encouragoments to erimo, ptatoment, ond asking questlons which wero patisfactorily anewered, the Englioh sharehold prssod & unsuimoyy romolution ‘thanking 3r. Binco tho racelpt of theas ncoounts, wo havo ity convontions wero packed with tho loast roput- abilo portion’.of the cdmmunity,” snd thoso 'conventions placod * bofors: the poople nomineos * of 'thoir own kind for sl tho public officcs, Bo. strong lad become this gyatom that tho men in- offico- comprised 2 dort of dictatorship and ldviod taxos, and appros printed tho . monoy in’ tho -mout irfosponiible, wmnnuner, By the lovy of enormous suma upon tho people, thicy wero ablo to purcbaso tho cou- trol of any convention, and were thus ouabled to porpetuato their own ascondancy. Tho City Tronsnror's offico nt that time was considored & prizo. Tho holdor of that offico collected & largo ‘' sum ovory -yoar for intorest, ‘which ho. pocketed.. Othor offices were of even greater magnitudo in tho yicld.of porsonal rovonue to tho incumbents, Tn' 1609, thoro . wns on appeal taken from theso packed party conventions to tho poople, aud Mr. Danvid A, Gago offored to pay into the Qity Trensury tho intorest received on tho de- posits of oity monoy. ' Tho people heard tho apposl and eloctod Mr. Gago, Since that timo, and for the throe oxpired yoars of his torm, he bas paidinto the City Troasury over $180,000, all - of which, had his opponent boen olectod, would have boen kept by the Tronsiwor as his porsonal emoluments. ¥ Ordinarily, a public officor, who in threo years voluntarily surrenders to the ‘public $180,000 of the Taswlulincome of his ofiled, is ontitled to some commendation, but this very facthasbeon used and urged a8 s rongon why Mr. Gage should not: Do ro-oleotod, and as ‘ronson”why tho offica should bo given to'another person solectod by Mr. Hosiug for tho purpose of rebuking what ho. calls Puritanism, Thore is not anothor person' who hias ever held tho office of City Treasurer who bag not pocketed all tho interest he conld ‘got for tho uso of the public money. . Mr. 0'Hara bins boen in publio offico’twelve yonrs, sud never roturned any of his ‘facs, or cmolumonts to the Publio Tronsury ; Mr. Hesing bas been Bhori; and ' ho 'novor ' surrondered o -dimo of his large recelpta; on ‘tho coniraty, ho Les drawn out more than 883,000 for a worthless printing—ns thorough 'a &windle a8 was ‘over porpotrated’on, tho taxpayers, Honeo ho- cannot . understand the Paritanical principlo that has indacod Mr. Gago to roturn $180,000 of tho lawful perquisites of Lis office, and nssumes that tlioro is something dishoneat init, Tor this reason tho strocts are flooded with pamphlets, hand-bills, posters, and eircu- lars, ealling upon the publie todofont the man who has paid back'to the ‘city $180,000 of the lawful recoipts of his office. Ordinarily, this sort of chop logic would be ‘laughed at, but it constitutes o largo part .of the rubbish and #lth- of -the campaign. In o Duodred saloons ‘ievéry night thoro aro ns many persons vociferating to noisy. and Lislf-drunken crowds, appenling to them to olect O'Hara and turn out of oflice tha man who, thoy nssumo and insinuate, would never have givon up $190,000 6f his official porquisites if ho hind been an honost man, That is the burden of all tho saloon-keepora” jargon, That fa the argument of all tho saloon-keopers’ oratora and. candidates. Turn out Gago, put in O'Hara, be- causo Gago hns paid into the Trorsury $180,000, which' he would nevor have done had ho not been dishonest! b : — Mr. Windom, of tho Soncto Committes in- vostigating tho cost of transportation, has asked for o statement of tho'cost of trausporting grain by singla boat, and slso by barges, from Bt Louis to New Orleans; and thence by steamer to Now York or to Liverpool diroct. Asan indi- cation of how tho dotnils of this cost may bo tabulated, ki incloses & copy of two statements already roceived of tho.cost of transporting grain from* Bulfalo to Troy on the Erie Canal. ‘I'hese lntter statoments are as follows : Estimnted coat of transporting 200 tons from Buffalo to T'roy, by the steamor William Newma Tntorest, niuo daye at $2,13. Muintenanco, niue duya ut $3.04, 02,2 ponnds of coul, 345 miles, ut $5.60 per ton,, 01,80 Sngitieer, uine days, ot 3 27,00 aptun, e duye, it §2, 9 T en, nino doys, ot § 18,00 Coalz, nind days, ut 40 cante, L0 Tianrd uino dayh of #ix poraoun, at 60 coute,serr 200 O, tallow, and Wuste, 83Ysesesresaneess 801 Tolal cvevurairesninens Goat:por ton moved 45 milcs, Cost por ton moved 1 milo, mil Cust per bushel of wheat 845 1ol 16-100 Estimated cost of trunsporling 600 tons from Dufulo toCroy by tho stoamer William . Nowman, with two boats in tow, 1, Coat of steamor's trip: Interest, fifteen duys, ot §3, Mafntonnice, fitteon’days, ut .04 un';l, 1904 pounds per 1aile, 346 inlles, $5.00 por Engincer, ii1cen days, ot . 4mestrepers e Captain, Afteen days, at $3... I'wo men, fiftcon days, at'$i Cook, fifteon days, at 40 eent Tourdl, fifteon days, of skx Oll, taltow, sud waste, any.... $31.95 43,00 tolaliagsipeonsonbisring i 9. st of saeh Bl SRR 11 Tutprest, Ofteen duys, ot $1.92, . Maintunipco, fiftcon 'days, at §i Captodn, Aftcen daye, at ii.....,. "Pya mey, fttoon duys, of $1 caol ! Gook, fifteen days, ot d0 centa,.., ., L, 600 Board, fifteon doys, of four persons, st 60 couts 50,00 Total for ono boat, $140.40 olal for two boata NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Pittsburgh (Pa.) Commavolal, high Ro- publican authorlty, Lolds this languago t Mo pprl{.wu ovar ablo {0 profit by a success won by feas thian it usual alrougth, for it was sure to bo ovors turnod by {1 opponant 4 o very next trlal, 'Whls ls an axiom in politles which tio Oblo Dewocrata would Do wisa to study thoroughly. This *“axiom in politica" s just what's the mattor with tho Ropublican ring-managorsin Iowa. Thoy drosd 'the very next trial." —There appears to havo boou an alarming mortallty on tho Wentern Rosorve of Ohfo, In thoso oleven countlos, thia, yoar, whilo the Domocrntio'vote foll off 0,006, tho Republican loss was 16,408, —Tho Ln Orosso ILeader and Republican, pondiug tho cleotion in Wisconsin, next Tuos- dny, snyat ‘Wisconsin fa now tlio battle-ground hotwesn the manapolfes ani tha peopto. Pawértulrollway corpor- tions havo combined to thwart the purposo of tho masges in regard to the corrcction of oxiating abuscs that threaten to pcrvomnlly opprens the Inbor and ju- dustry of the country, .. . Tho combinntion of thieso great monopolica ia backed by money which has beon, takon 0w of: (i pockiots Of tha. poplas through the operation of oxorbitant freighit tarifing and thero s donger that many.people may, throngh negligonce and indifferonce, contributo to the success of the eno- may, in Whono sorvico uro some vonal, plinblo, or obsc. guious Bnonks, who, having boon more or less ldentifled with fho causg of tho peoplo, hava heen solocted and eaptired by the monopolics for tgure-ends, . —Tho Keokuk ‘Gate City, whoso oditor (8am Olark) holds o Fodoral offico and wroto tho Town Ropublican platform of this yoar, sxya now of tho rosult of tho olection That the majority for tho Ropublican Blato ticket 'was not largor wos duo to tho weakness of Carpenter, not to thoreatof {ho ticket. Carpontor could an would_ have bioon boaton §f Valo hind beon s man of feator strongih; or, a3 it wa, If thoro liad been any ato organization of tho Anti-Monopoly psrty, . » .+ "What saved tho Btato tickot from dofs fonco of organization on thopartof tlio Anti-Aonopo- . —Toad it again. In Towa tho Ropublican party is' bonton in tho Logislature. Tho Freo party hos carried tho Houso aud nearly ovorthrown the Republican majorily in the Bonato, Rend it- again, and you men, who have'beon so ignorant of your strongth this past summor, but whohave biad faith’ in the principles of the Freo Convon- tl on which took you to tho polls and nerved you for your duty, you who Lave carried tho dny, re« floct upon tho great rosponsibility your triumph ‘brings to you. Bome of you havo beon Domo- crats, somo of you havo boon Republicans, You are neithor now ; yon aro'mombers of the Frae }mrty. Beo to it that your organization ia 'Flsr- 'atted ; that your party carries out the pledges of its platform aud tho promise of its birth-day, ond if it do not, thon smite it to death and mako nuother party and another, until you got ono that will.—Jowa State Press. —Novoer wora affaira 80 mixed sinco Iown hns oxisted, and what timo will bring forth from thin inoxplicablo muddle the wiscnt' but loso thir timo fu guenstug, .. . . That thero is dissat- isfaction amony the péople with tho Ropublienn party for somo caugo, whother real or imagin- ary, cannot ba dunloz\, and wo had better look the matter fairly and uqunrcl¥ in the faco, nod maot it, than to cry * bosh1” and flatter our- solvos that the Republican party is invuloera~ blo. '« . . Letthe Reopublicans of Iown tale due heed to the warninga of this plection, sonnd-~ ed from uvnrg corner of 1ho State, and lot them got down to business, and lot that business bo tho work of ousting domsgogues.—Cedar Itapids (da.) Times. —Gonorally, tho Ropublican press of Towsa teoms with alarm, The *yoform within tho }mfly " doetrines didu't win this yoar. The frot 8, 80 long'as tho ‘plundorera aro kopt at the hoad of party, roform is. not possivle, aud the only thing loft for tho people is to ml’uo up a new party, with now leadorship. This the peo- ple recognize, and - this thoy will do.—Des Aoines ([“2 Leader. i —Wea are'daily amused at the offorts made by the Adminisiration’ party press to force upon tho publio tho absurd idea that the local move- mont of the Anti-Monopolists is final, that hay- ing won county honors and mado an indellible impression on the -Geuoral Assombly, thoy havo dono all thoy contomplated, and will ‘sit. down q:xlotl to'be manipulsted for national offices by tho Administrition whippars-in. Bo not decolv- ed, gontlomon, tho reform intendod is senrching and tlloroufh 4 it will not stop at countios, dis- tricts, .or the Btato Gdvornment; it intends cloaning out the whole stye of corruption. It has now tasted blood, and will go on until tho Inat vestigo of false protonso and solf-zgrandiz- ing powor have beon removed from the .oxecu- tive. . The State is vivtually iu the linnds of the roformers. 'The Frea parby will incroago; thero is nothing 8o successful a8 success, and 1t will add to ita numbers until the Cou, ragsional elec- tions aro in its hands, The Senate, too, will ba looked out for, and as to the premonitory rumb- lings of Ciosarcan thundor, Grant now atands ns much chanco of a {hird term as the subjects of tho other Shah do of & coustitutional govern- ment.—Davenport gluwa) Democrat, —T'me Cricaco [niBUNE gives o fow facts with rofereuce to the practical workings of the unlury-grab law which aro mighly interosting reading in those days of, mouoy-siringenoy and anic. If voters and tax-payord cau read these ncts’pationtly and in good temper, they possess & grentor dégroe of oquunimity than we over cradited thom with = possessing.—Evansville (Ind.) Journal. —\¥hilo the farmars aro secking somo way out from tho wildorness of their oppression, and Tooking for wenpons . in their own orgenizations ‘with which to beat down monopoly, it might bo woll for them to leavo tho shadows alone and deal Dlows only against those who aro i tho flesl, and who have renl brawn and musclo. Wo do not believe that tho movemont now going on in favor of Wostern interosts is ophemoral, Its roots, wo know, lio_desper than tho surface. Tho enuses that produced. it have boon at work for o long time, and if they do mnot succeed in breaking the hold of Enstern mouopolists upon the country; tho movomont will have been com- menced in vain, and the disenthrallmont of Western intcrests I;;It off for at least o decado longer.—St, Louis (.Mo.) Dispalch. ‘—Need wo centralizo tho Government any fur- therin order to check the despotism of rail- ronds? . . . Tho farmors hiave boon goaded into making this demand, and we are not pre- pared to consuro them on this account. They may bo wrong in tho modo of reliof thoy uug‘fuaz butif in orzor, it is an o1ror of tho heud and nok of tho hoart, Wo do nob boliove tho staunch farmors of tho West moan to incroaso tho powers of the General Governmant o g to interfore with the libortios of - tho pen}do. They would not deliborately jeopardiza their own intorosts, They are tho people, and centralization would directly afrect them,— Wilmington (N. C.) Star. —T'he post-ofiico, the savings bauks, and the tolograph are to be rolled tugethor 1 ono sys- tom, with the Presidont at the head of it. Add this consolidated J:owur to Ins other powers, of logislation, of judicinl decision, of rogulating the Civil Servico, of bolding down States by tho bayonet, of inflating and “coutracting the cur- roney at plensuro, and of managing local clec- tiong, amd how much ig thoro left for his furthor usnrpation? . , , The insidiousness of the gohete consists in its apparent humility, ag if all it desivad was Lo protoct tho savings of the or. . « . Lottbe peoplo of this country fuirly understand thut this schomo of a Govern-: meut bank is indoeed on foob; that it is favored by the Presidont; that its whole aim_and pur- poso are to wicld tho mounoy power of the na- fon; and that itisbut suothor part of that comprohensive plan of usurpation which is in- vading the public iborty as.too tides iuvado tho land ; ond there can be no shadow of a doubt as 1o tholr prompt and vigorous action iu response. —DBoslon (Aass.) Post. —Qivo tho Administration the control of tlig tologruph wires, and tho wholo syatom, iustead of bolng carried on for tho bonofiv of the atack- holders and the conyeniouco of those whose in- terest or inclination may load them to uuo tho yitad, will be run exclusiyoly for tho purpose of kooping the Credit Mobilior gaug in power, . . » 'Tho tondency of tho overweoning tyranny of tho ruling party—thua possessed of the only medium of rapid comnumicstion—will bo touse tho telegrapl to Lielp favorites among business mon and to larm othors engaged in commioreo or manufactures, provided they clioso go todo, Tho numerous instances—growing in number with foarful rapidity of lais—ol the violation of lotters hy tho ofticlals of tho post- oftice, givo oloar ovidonco of what would be tho result with telegrams, whero no soal hns to bo brolien,—Piltsburgh (’a.) Post, —The l’hiludelyh(u Age quotes and indorses an article from the Tiiusvillo - Courier which sums up tho disgrace of Ponnsylysnin ne os- paetally illustratod in tho last olection. It rep- resents tho honost won of all parties as utterly discournged and dishonrtened throughout thio Stato, sinco, they kuow thut howeyer Loavy ma. iurluca they muy roll up in the Etato ontside of philadolphis tho votg of that city will bo so wavipulated as to overcomo it, “In shott, tho pouplo of the Btato aro undor tha rule of tho roughest eloment in tho ity of Philudelphin by moans of sy infamous registry Inw paseod by n Radieal Loglslaturo, 'Tho "light™ vole of tho prosont yonr showo that tho peopla _wero "dishonrtened, nnd thut populsy * cloctions ~ wera coming to bo } complote farco, Thers ia no longo gny signitl- canco in the old sayiug that * as goas Penusylva- uin 80 goes the Union," for # sho [u to-day vnnk in degradotion nlmost g8 dgop as the }voor crushed States of Loulsiann gud Sonth Caraling, Ihono who doslro to repronont hor iu the Unitod Statos Scnate have only to buy their soats and pay for thom with monoy stolen from tho poo- plo,” 'he Ago pronounces. this indictmont not uul»y ptrgng and” forelblp, but true, but it addu: o havo not Jopt hope, Wo know the rrooplo ara long-suffering. Bo they woro {n 1770, but the Revolution came at last, aud when it camo {ts work waa dono in a thorough manuor," Por- lm[m m tho coming Contonnial the poople will have causo to ¢elobrate their emancipa- tion from_the presont thraldom, moro corrupt and dograding than that of 100 years ago. font waa the ab-- CANADA." The Contest Still Undecidod. A Division Expooted This Evening.- Important” Accessions to the Opposi- : tion Ranks. Rumor that the Governoi:-Ga'noifi.l Has --Bent His Resignation to the Home Government. . Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuns, EXPECTATION ON TIF-TOR, .. . OTTAWA, Ont., Oct, 30.—The Houso opened at 8 o'clock thia afternoon, and intorost was at' the highest point, as it was oxpeoted that other Ministorialiets would avow thoir severance from that* porty, and that Bir John, A, "Macdonsld, Promior, and tho'Hon, Edward Blake would ad- dross tho houso, aftor which tho Hon. A. Mac- konzlo would close the,discussion. | Mr. Palmer, member for 8t, John, N. B,, hav- ‘ing tho floor fsom - yestorday, was -tho firat speakor. ITo ontored into * A LAME DEPENSB of the Govornment, Though a good constitu- tional lawyor, ho is not an attractive epoaker, and did tho causo Lo dofonded 1o benefit. Cart- wright, S e £ AN ONTARIO INDEPENDENT MEMBER, roso, amid the loud cheoring of ‘the Opposition, and torsoly pointed out what appoared to him to, be tho evidonco of the Government's guilt; and announced his intention of votiug *“*no confl- donco * in them, * e % BEOESSION FROM THE MINISTERIAL BANRS. Not a littlo dismny was occasfoned in tho Minis- torial ravks whon Mackay, of Oapo Broton, who had bhitherto boon o prominont gupporter of the - Ministry, roso snd oxpressed his strong condemuation of thelr course on tho Pacific Railway ‘matter, and his conviction that Huntington'’s charges had beon fully sustainod by ovidenco adduced bofore the TRoyal Commission, and he sannounced, amid thunderous applause, his intontion of supporting Maskonzio's resolution. ; i Kirkpatrick followed, on behalf of tho Govorn- ment, in a short specch, which was chiofly ex- planations of his own position. . ANOTHER MINISTERIALIST WEARENS. ° 8. MacDounell, of Nova Scotia, hitherto a Min- Interinlist, aunounced . hia intention of now. op- posing tho Government. ? ¢ A CONVENSION ITE OTHER WAY. Dr. Grant, until within the laut day or two ox- pected by tho Op’fosflmnists. having roceived now light, justified the Government, and de- clarod i futention of supporling thom, 1lis ap- pointmont as family physi supposcd to have influonced his action. TISE THIRD DEOLARATION OF INDEPENDENOE. Cunniogham, of Manitoba, provious to pro- rogation & Ministeriolist, took strong ground azainst the Ministry, and pronounced in favor of Mackonzia’s amondmont. . TIIOMPSON, OF CORTNOO, ? Dritish Columbis, simply announced his inten- tion of supporting the Government. & JOLLY, OF QUEDEG Province, as an Oppositionist, spoke of the offect the Pacific seandal had upon the public mind, GAFFIN, OF NOVA SCOTIA, the soconder of Mackenzis'a amendmont, fol- lowed in support of thosamo. WALLAGE, OF OKTARIO, a Ministerialiat, was tho last spealker of tho even- ing. ‘o Hon. Tilly, nt 11:30, moved . AN ADJOURNMENT OF TIE DEDATE, end consoquently holds the flaor at tho opening of the Houso to-morrow. Thore is an ovident desiro on the part of many membera to connect their namos with this importsnt dobate ; and this has again placed the anticipated _divislon ono day further off, Tho fact that the Hon, Mr. Tilly takos tho floor to-morroy loaves the im- pression that au offort is to be made to olose tho dobate. 2 TIE OPPOSITION DELIEVED TO DE AIEAD, Both partios now nppenr to have Tully vontilated the question, and it will romain for tho * heavy guns "—DBlake and Macdonald— to finish iho battlo. At the present writing, vie- tory pgnnrs to be inclining towards tho Oppo- sition, but the arrival at the Capital of Dodgo,of sproad-eaglo famo, who was unexpected, may tend to mnko tho division more closo, - Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, THE RIEL OASE. A TonoxTo, Oct, 30.—In nearly every town in tho Province the Order of Orangemen have passed rosolutions cnl!lng upon tho House of Commons to vindicato it Tiel from his geat, and bave him brought to Queboe. The Globe bas o telegram from Fort Garry announcing thet Riel is now on his way fromi St. Paul to Ogdonsburg. RUMORED RESIGNATION OF THE GOVERNOR-GEN- ERAL. .. : A rumor ig current hero, which Incks conflrm- ation, that the Govarnor-Genoral has sent in his resiguation to tho Tmporial Governmont. s AN OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER'S OHANGES. The Globe to-day says the Opposition are rendy for o diviglon on "Mackenzie's resolution in tha Houeo, and ohargos tho .Govorument with » desire to- doluy, It also charges, with some forco that tho Govornment are geoking to shirk the1ssue, and points to tho unusual eircum« stanco’ of o membor of the Government moy- ing an amendment to their own address, in roof of it, It oharscterizes this action ne an nsult to Parlisment aud a dishonor to the Crown. WHAT A GOVERNMENT ORGAN BAYS. Tho AMail, under the honding of * The Strug- 1o ab Ottawa,” exprosses a ‘“forlorn hope." t no longer propliccies rogerding msjorities, but deals iu bitter inveotive againat the Opfnah tion, and styles thoso who havo sovered thoir connoction with tho Ministry as rencgades, and trimmors ; nnd likons them to a wanton dis- coursing of virtue, Though it awaits the re- sult of the' calmoest confidonce, it concludes with an oarnest apposl to tho Houso to sustain the men wheo it claims have proved theic cn- pacity for the highost statosmauship, » MR, BLAKE'S REPARTEE. Y By an erroron the part of the tolograph oporat- or ortho compositor, the paintof My, Blake's fine repartuo upon Dr. ‘Fuppor, roported in lnst Tuos- dsy's TRIDUNE, was quite lost.. Dr. Tupper had anid that tho Parllamontary Committdo was par- tisan ; that Siv Johu A. Macdonald had appointed threo [nmisnus on ono sido and two partisans on tho othor. At this point, Dr. Blake intorposod, and said: *“On the Royal Comumission, Sir John appolnted three partisans on ano side; and none [nov ** one,” as printed in Tur TrInuNe] ou tho othor 8ido,” RURVEYING EXPEDITION. ¢ O1TAWA, Oct. 80,—The lnat of the Canade Pa- cifle Ruilway surveying pnrties for thi yenr loft Collingwood this morning for Nepigon Torritory. BIDGE COMPLETED, . * Fonr Enie, Oct, 50.—Tho lnot spsu of tho ront international railway bridge was suocons- ully placad to-clay. TRANSPORTATION. §t. Louis Merchants Instruct the Na- tional Govern:ment as to Kty Duty in Xmproving the Nuvigation of the Maississlppis’ 8 81, Lous, Oct, 30.—Tho Bonate Transportn- tion Comumittco held n lengthy scssion here to- day, dugng which the Morclinute’ Exclaugo Committeo prosentod 1 roport embracing a groat amount of information rolative to ihe trado aud commoreo of the Minsissippi Valloy, the means and cost of transportation, and tho capabilitios of the DMissiwsippl River ns: an outlet to tho sen, Tho roport statos that the obstructions to the navigation of the river, and whichprovent the chenp trausporintion of the honvy products of the vnlln{ ta the occan are tho Rock Tstand and Dos Moines rapids, shonl placos and bars ot about & dozen poiuts, sunken wrecks aud unags, and the bar at the mouth of the river, Tho w‘dunlug of tho chiannel at Rock Talund, complation of tho oanel st Dos Molucs, tho construction of wing dams at _shoal -places, TOmOVAL Of Wr and snoge, and tho coustruc- tion of tho 1%, St Phillip Oanal would, in the opluion of the Exchange Com- mitteo, rosult in afording - sufilciont constant dopth of ohanuel from 8t IFaul to Now Oileans for stonmers und bargos, and re- duco tho cost of unn»{mrtntmn ton uniform rico not oxcooding tho lowast presont svorage, partionlay attention is called to tho bargo sys- tom no in uso both abovo aud below 8t. Louis, and {ts many advantaged in moving grain In bulk and other products of tho valloy, Oapt. Isane M. Mason, Suporintondent of the Keokuk Northern Packet Company; Oapt. John A, Soudder, of the Bt. Louis & Memphis Packet Company, aud Capt, loavstill, cian to the Promioer is | s honor, and exclude | ran) Suporintondort _of ho Misalenippl Vallog Bargo. Livo, oxplalned at longth varlous obe structions to froe navigation of the river, aud how tho diffloulties ean Lo overcomo nt n come pnrauvol{ light oxponse. ~Boveral other promis nont-gontlemen” presontod thoir views, and an- swered many quontions asked by tho members of tho Committae, nnd & number of othors .will givo Information tomorrow. It is also oxpoctod that soveral Grangors from tho surtounding Statos will have a consultation with the Commits :z:u, ond prosont a clpim-for choap tinusporia~ on. ) ONLY A SPECK OF WAR. Order Reostored im. the Afinirs o2 wWayno County, —Tho Mob Dise porsed and Disheartencd. ¥ #pectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, TRE NIGHT'S BIVOUAC. Lnst night thero wore sovonty Rickmonds in tho field at Centreville, sll snifing battle from afarj but to-day thore waa o ralnbow in the cloud of war. “All is roported quiot at Centreville,’ Tho mob, pooing thero would be soventy, Instond of soven, ‘men to put to flight this timo, failed to malo an attack. Tho only domonatrntlun mado was by a lot of fellows who woro ovidently in mask tho night bofore, and not yet wholly recovered from tholr excitement, , Thoy come nosr the jail, bud disporsod about midnight. TIE WOLK OF DEMOLITION. This morning, the Commissionors ndded about fifty men to the company of lnborors engngod in domolishing tho old jail, who were joined by ol bout tho samo number of mechanics out of +| Robingon's machine works, who weont ovor to take down tho'iron fonco surrounding the i square. To thoso wero added iu turn 100 moro meon, with twonty toams.Jn losa than threa hours tha fance, which olst originally $8,600, waa takon down, and by noon lonfiut\ upon cars, which wero brought over to-night. A GUARD TO DE MAINTAINED. Now tho Commissioners propose keoping na strong o gunrd a8 nocorsary, and as niany lfimr- ‘fnm 24 thoy can work, until the troublcsome job aver. SOME OF TIE MOD'S WORK. It §s said to-day that the houso belonging to T. M. Parker, tho County Auditor, which Lo loft vacant on his romoving o this vily, was badly domolished by the mob Tuesdsy might, Thoy broko windows aud stripped off woather bonrd- ing nud doors, i B An nnon{muus lotter was recolved by Com- micslonor Wiggine on Tuosday, admoaishing him to boware. 'This has been Tollowed by ru- mors of various threats ngatust the lives of bim ond hig associnte, Mr, Brooks; but they arc not approhonsive of their belng carried into effect. e [0 the Associuted Presn.] Rremyroxy, Ind,, Oct. 80.—The threatencd raid from tho westora portion of the county to aid in the capturo of the Centrovillo Jail from n guard of fifty doputics, did not {ako placo last might, although ut 10 o'clock it was learnod from a Cambridge City source that n party was goinj {from thero. . Warninge to the samo effect hl& boon proviously sont to the authoritics here, and the raid was the genoral theme of stroot discus- sion, Thore was not tho slightest disturbance us Controvillo lust night, and to-dey & working’ forco, 200 strong, Lias beon cwmployed thore, uumbly protected by gunrds. WASHINGTON. Bonds for the Syndicate.-District of Columbin Affairs-=Notice to Applis cants for Civil Servicoe Examinations GSpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘WasmixaToy, Oct. 80.—The Chief Clerk of tha Tressury Dopartmont is to bo sont to Burope on business in conneclion with the Syudicato, which, it is stated, will cause his absence {from liore about a year. o will aail from Now York on Weduesdny noxt, and 1t is probablo that lio will have the compavy of two or three other _Government omployes, who will go for the pur« pose of helping the Ohief Clerk to guard the quantity of now bonda that may then bo foxe wardod to tho Buropean Syndicate. Propnrntnrfi toanofiicial reportof the condition of affairs in tho District of Columbia, the Gov- ornor haa agked the Complroller and the Auditor for an ofileial statement of the revenuos and in~ dobtedness of the District of Columbia up to to~ morrow, ‘The Auditor statos that the total bonded debt to-doy is 930803 251,18, noarly $100,000 less than tho limit sllowed by law. From these official reports the rovenues are shown to bo nmplo for the én\rvmunb of tho indebtodneas of tho District of Columbia thus far contracted, B {7 the Associated Press.) APPOINTMENT RECONSIDERED. ‘WastuxaroN, Oct. 80.—Tho appointment of Jamos IT, Olark as Postmastor at Msttoon, Ill,, %ms H]unu reconsidered, sud Mr, Lynn will romain u offico, e CORRECTION. i A telogtam publishod in Tuesdey morn- ing's papers aunounced that from 800 to 400 mochanics and about 1,000 laborors Ind boon discharged from the Washington Navy Yard within the last two weeks is an orvor, « portion of the dinpatch having beon omitted tn tho transmission, Tho diechargo alluded to wns by the contractora of tho Board of Public Works and privato ostablishments, Not more than tweaty-five or thirty of ull classes have l{'m discharged from tho Wushington Navy The forthcoming Civil Borvico oxaminations in Now York Cliy_will bo fixed about the 13th of Novambor, thio oxaminations in Cincinuati on or sbout the 19th November, and in 8t Louis on tho 26th of Novembor. Applicants for theso oxaminstions may address the beads of Government Departments, including , the Commisssioner of Agricul~ ture, oxcopting the Secrotary of Stato, who does not appeat on the list of thaose to whom applica« tions may be sent. Applications for oxamina- tions In New York will probably be toolato if thoy do not ronch Washington as early as the 2d of Novombor, Applications for oxaminations in COinolnnati should resch Washington s carly as tho 8th of Novembor, and for cxammations in Bt. Louis as early as the 15th of Novomber, POLITICAL. Resolutions PAdopted by Livingston Connty Putrons, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, TFAmmnuny, Ill., Oct. 80.—Tho Patrona of Hua- bandry .of this county, upon the 16th of March last, formod thomsolves into an organization for tho purposo of perfecting a moro intimate and systomatio plan for obtaiuing information con= corning crops, markots, and transportation j also for.the purpose of purchasing stock, and farming implements. ‘Tho third quurterly sos- aion hus just adjourned at this placo, aftor holding a gession for two days. Tho organiza« tion reprorents twenty-nine subordivate Granges, with o momborahip of aver 1,200, Tho following resolutions woro unanimnausly pagsed, and meas- ures havo already beou taken to carry them into offect,: * Resolved, That wo are in favor of & mora aystematie purchasing systom, by which procucers and consum= ors siall d=sl us dirdotly with each: other as possiblo, . That wo appoint o Oounty Purclissing Agent who shall have control of n warshouse, where samplea of all closges of ngricultural huplemonta on which rotluctions aro made (o the Order, cin Lo found on exhibition. Orders will b taken by Lim di= ot from thio Granges, uud not from fndividual weme era. 4 . 3, That wo belleve that the Interests of furmors and niechunics and other laboring elasses are too closcly alliod toudinitof any estangement in this contest againat_monopoly, Wo alav nolivit tho cordial o~ operation of all the dlfferent orgahizalions of laborlngs men, Who havo for their atm tholr wocial, moral, and waterial improvemment, 4. That wo hienrtlly approve and Indorss the actfon of tho Northwestern Farmera' Convontion hield at Ohls cago, Oct, 22, 1873, in recommending to tho farmers of tho Nortliweat that thoy withliold from the matket thoiy Logs nuti) the prics shall givo & * romuncration to the producer,” ‘Funh&mnurl‘, wo beliove that it anly Tequiros a thorough spirit of co-oporution among Olimrelyes (o succossfully carry out tho spirit and letter of this resolution. 5, Tt u copy of tbia Tesolution bo xeat to each Granga in the connty, 6, That in order to improve and educato our- golyes, wo rocommend thit arrangemonts be made By which o caurds of leoturea will Ls dolivorad hofora ovr Granges thfs wintor upon nopulst scloutifio sub- Jects, The Grange in this county oro doing well, aud cnuulnml¥ adding to their membership. Tho following 18 a list of the County Grangoe ofii- cors :_Mastor, Brownson Bmith, Forrost; Over- soor, B, I, Fiteh, Faitbucy ; Soovelory, 8, T, K. gflmo‘ Dwight; Lecturer, I, O, Darell, Indian rove. The noxt quarterly meoting ‘will be' hold at 0doll, Doa, 29, Momoeratic Cnndidute for Mayor of Dotroit. Special Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tridune, Dernorr, Oct, 80,—W. 0. Duncan, Domoceratia coudidate for Mayor, hnvh:lg withdrawn, his place hag beon filled by Ald, Oharlos M, Gare vigon, —_— SOLDIERS’ ORPHANS, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, Davexronr, la, Oct, flO.—'Iqhm'u are now elghty-six boys and sixty-olght girls lumatos of tho State Soldiors® Dthnuu Home In this city, Siuce Nov. 1, 1871, 80 hinve beon admllted; lgl been disobargod ; 2 have diod.