Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1873, Page 2

W11l GHLICAGO DALLY TIRIBUNE: S WISCONSIN CENTRAL, - Tho Next Fight in the Wis. consin Legislatu: Ex-Cov.. Washburn. and Atiorncy- Seneral Williamss History of the Road, and of tho Land- . Grant, Finanolal Condition and Reoults of Its Flrst Year's Operation, When, In the ently wintor of 1870, }r, E. . Thillips severod Lis long councotion With the Mlehigan Southorn; nud undortook to bulid the Wiscousin Central Rnllvoad, it whs ‘gonerally thought 1o had relapsed from a promineut to at obscuro position, During lis enrcor as Prosi- dent of tho Boythorn, and afterward nn Genoral Manager of tho cotwolidated Takt' Bhore & Micliigan Southiern Itailtond, ho liad Voey i~ mhingly formed a “railrond-mognnte.” Whis reportarial famo left him when ha dnterod upon _tho unpromising venture of running u road through tho Wisconein wooda to tho shorns of Lako Superlor, Thiu projoct 4id not origlnnte with him, 1t was nu ofd schone, dating back to 1550, whon Congross ceded to tlio Stato of Wise consin BEVERAL MILLIONS OF ACRES . of bublic Jahids'to aid in conutructing rallivava, throughout tho northern ‘portion of- the Stale,, For tho building of n lino from Madison or Co- tumbue {o Portago City, and theidd to a point on Lnke Superior, and another from Fond du Lao northwestward to tho like, ovory nltetnato rée- tion of land for n width of six scclions on ekch glilo of the road was granted. o & Threo years bofore, the Legislature. charterod tho Wikconsin Contral Tailrosd Company, em- powaring tliem to constrnot aud oparats, within ten yenrs, a railroad from ‘Portage Cily, vin ‘Oolumnbus, to Whitownterand Gonos, T'ho capl- tal stock was placed at $1,000,000, to bo\dh‘idnd into £100 shares. Tho Lioglelature was not then fonacious dbout its authority, else it would not have deerced, in the fourteonth woction, that, “On the complotion of said railrond, or Any ecotion of the track not leés then 6 miles, it ehnll and may bo Inwful for the Company to de- mand and recetve such snms of monoy for paa- suge and freight of porsons and property as they shall from timo to time think rengonable,”” JIb way NI UBUAY, STYTE OF CHANTER, : nnd this right, o make Lheir ofvh rates oy con- Cerved upon all corporations organizod at ihat timo, Ivon with sueh wide and unquestioned ‘atitude, railioads were not readily built. Then same the erash of 1857, when the Dbttom foll” out of Westoin cradits, aud_rallroad-bubtding was almost entirely suspended. = Now, undevol~ oped territory presented littic nttraction ‘to the wury capitalists; and, desplta the geverons land-grant sccompanying it, tho tet yowrs' lim- itation expired before a milo of thoe Wisconsin Contral had boen constructed. Yob the Logisin- ture, disposed to bo leniont, extonded tho timo tive yens from March 8, 1868, on condilion thut the road shonld be built from the Htate line Lo Jefferson by Jau. 1, 1865, “ In May of {ho last-naraod year, this condition way slyickon out of tlio ainonded nct extending iho charter, 'I'wo years proyiously, however, n company had boen organized to superacdo the Wikconsin Central: Compnty ; and, iu 1866, tho Legislaturo conferrod upon *the uew Company all the rights, privileges, franchises, &e., be- stowed upon the origioal Pompany. - The new nssoclation gave no particnler sigus of life; o, in 1869, the Legislaturo repenleil tho set coifer- vibg tho chartor, and gave it t0. tho Wiscousin! Northiern Ttailroad Company, which was seldoin or nover heard of aftorward. Menutimg, A YOUNGER, TIVAL CORPUSATION had been orgaa=d in 1866, It numboered amony its incorporntors I', McGregor, Cushier of tho late Second National Dank, of this city 3 B, W. Koyen, styled the * Bismarck of Wisconsin * be- foro Farmer Taylor had been heard from 5 H. L, Palmer, the ouly brilliant member of the last Legislatura ; John I Rountreo, John Nazro, and olliers of lesger notoriety, ‘Thoeir incorporated intentions defined two lines,—ono from Lortago, by way of Stovens Voint, to Buyfleld, ou Lako Superior ;. and unother from Portage, by way of Ripon and Berlin, to Stevens Poiut,—thence, ay best they could locate, to Buyfiold. Theso wero depondent upon Coilgress giving ite aasout 30 the routs selectod from Portugo to Bayfield, in order that the valusble fand-grant attaching to such route should bo diverted into tho pos- n of the new Compnny, In 1808, by n racess and in o way sorgo of the individnals above namgd inclegeiitly denonco, this Com- pany becnmo consolidutad with the Witinebngo & Superior Rteilrond Company. Two years later, ‘he neme of the consolidated coinpany wes shanged to the ? ¥ CENTRAL BAILIOAL COMPANY, In Chienzo it i known s *“Phillip’s Road ;" but, in Wisconain, tho poescreion 18 averediled to George Reed, styled. ¢ Hon." by. conrtesy.” Gardner Colby, of Boston, who advanced the money, i3 nontinally President of the Company, und Mr. Reed is® Vice-Prosident, Tho Vico- President is a pertinacious lnwyer of Manitowae, nud a brother-in-law of Alesunder. Mitchell, Uresident of the Milweules & St. Paul Tnilway. This fact is said to bo mmtually objectionablo, Jilwankee's representative is excoodingly rich, nnd Brother Qeorge faucies ho is fooked agon a8 n ¢ i!aor relation,” At oy rale, ho griovously repines ' at the un- batural mpnner {n which tho Lailwny and Bank President bag treated him. Iad ho been properly supported, ho_couceives that hik athway to eminenco and afifuence would have buen ersily pursued, But, at avery stage, tho Milwnn! & $t. Pant intereat has opponed him uud cudeavired to thiart his plans. Tor moro sesvions than is now material, e occupied g rgat in the Wisconkin Legisinturo, Motiring. there- fromn, hio took up tho practically-abandoned Wis- vonsin Central schetho, aud, by irrepressible, persistent lobbying, ecoured - A REVERSAL OF THE LAXD-GHANT 10 tho Wisconsin Central Railréed Compiny, Tt had gono begging for yesrs, Ubder Perry I, Winith's shrowd mwanipulutions, it wall nigll fell into tho grasp of thy Chicaggo & Northwestorn Company. ‘Lo fecuro it, o fow milon of & rond wero graded northwestward from that Company’s min line, nt Meunsha ; but 1onry Keop's nccos- wion to tho Presidoncy killed the projact, 1o wonld allow it to go no furthor, consequently, the prizo was lost. - When Ueorge Jteed did eventuaily seeure tho srunt lie wes unablo to build the read; But ho hntl wil and porsuasive power onongh to Induco certain Doston capitalists to afford him the uceessary relief, Unwilling, howover, to com- it the entorpiso wholly into tha hnuds. of politician, they induced 3Mr. Phillipn to assum chargo of the work. This was accomplished by 1hio formation of a second conypany, called the Phillips & Colby Consiruction Company, by whom the building and -operation of the rond Aesignated in the cha uf the Wieconsin Cen- trol Mailvond Compuny wore undertaken, This arrangement allowed ‘of E A DOUBLE DISTRIDUTION of Dresidonclos, Vico-Prosidoncios, ote. ‘Thus, Me. Phillips was¢Prosident of ho Couslritction Cowpuny, and Gardner Colby - Vieo-Lrosidont ¢ wiilo 3r. Colby wau Prosidant, and Mr, Jaod. Vice-President, of tho Rellrond Company, Un- der thiy mgeniqus disposition of affai, noither ono could quite outrank tho othar, nnd onch hind the lattering satisfiction of boing sceoslad, *Mr, President.” It prosented this, disndvan~ toge: Correspondonts wero at a loss.to Jo- oato the lend-ollico,—whothor at Btovenn Domt, ilunitowoo, Doston, or_Chleago, In ofich plice thero “was. an Excoutiva De- partment, Compuratively litMla incouvenlonce, iowever, restiltod, a8 tho lino did wol rusume jmportancs until it was comptetod be- tween Stevens Point and Meuasbks, Thon {t Dugun to dovolop motropolitan eharnctoristion Although by no mouns & * blosted" monapol it folt strong onough ta take ju the Milwanlkoo, Labo Shore & Westorn Railroud, . A proliminary arruugement was agreed upon, bub it was never perfected, A favorablo contenet with tho North- westera Railrond Compyny, at Menashe, gave the Central n Chicago outlet, Kuitl, belng o Wiseonsin enterprise, it wis Lo pocwie ey This wod of $io Milwaukee & Noviheri 8 ineo, by [ linilrond,—a line | rogion, thit was put throngh by Tosne 1 y of Now Yot and Augis Bulth and Alsxnoger Mionelr of Mitwtanion, ~ It oxtonded from Milwnukoo bo QGreen Bay, with one branch to Monnshn aud ans other to ‘Apploton, Doford the pauie, and iin leaso, tho Company prajeeted an oxtension of the tiuo northward, throngh the Menomoneo fron- to_Lake Michigamml, tho contro of {he bedl bre-doforly of tha Uppor Ponthe suld, This project in mol = mow ko nearly hrobable, “Swvovs wore mnado, but they will ledly bo avaitablo; for tho Gompnuy Wil aenrcoly Inizard n soeond lino, 200 milos in gth, through nn unsetilod ]umucr-rn‘(lml c8- pechully nu no land-grant attnchos ta tho ko Michignmmi line. Besidos, it is positivoly aftin- ©od thut valuablo doposits of iton-oro have beon dicovered nleng the routs north of Btovens Tdint, on the Company's luid. Whethor this \urnw out 10 bo & flticn or not, the Company will dbubtlosy renlizo handsomaly from 118 PINE LANDS. "T'ho mill:compnniés of Oulikbul ond Fowd du Tite hivo alrondy bégun to look anxionsly north- whrd for a nup{wlv ot logs, Iormor abundant Gourcoh v pivon but; and, it the Wissonsin ‘Coutral ean alford to carvry timbor at an oxcoed- ingly low rate, thoy will ‘danbtlesn ho given all tho -busincss thoy con handle, Othorwise, the drhfite, for n contidorable time, eannot ho ro- taurkably hoavy, But, thon, the rond wns not built wholly ‘on’ nccount of its business- prospects, In o now comtry, they, slono, woull Lo poor . incoutives” o eiterprivo, Largo. land-geantn wro tho most stimulating. T'his was the easo with the, Wineonsin Central, and 1t is no oxeeption, Precisely how much land e Company is'vutitled to, jn A JTATTER OF SERIODS DISPUTS, = Upon this question Gov. Wiwhburn took n vory doclded stand, In which he was not supported hy Attornoy-Gonornl Willinms,. Aw the enso prom- igex to e tho only oxciting ono bofora tho Wis- cousin Legislature at it noxt wession, it may bo worth whilo to glancoe ntthe particuluta: The, grant chimed by the Company embraees nbot 899,000 neros, botng'n portion of the Con- | Bressional donation of 1956 tu proyids for n rail- rond * from Fond dn Lae, on Lako Winnobago, northerly tothoStatoline”; andof tho net of 1864 for b rodd from * Yorlaga City,” Borlin, Doty'’s Tulund, or Fond du Lie, as the Stato may doter- mino, 1t a northivestortt dircetion to Bayllold, and thengo to Superior,” The Chjdago & Northt wentorn being tho fivat rnilway to meot the ro- quirements af tho nct of 1836, tho Innds pertain. ing to the line from Fond du Lno north woro diverted to that Company, Tho Phillips Com- pany now ctabn " TR IEAT OF TILE GCANT. - Lhoy commonceil bnildinyg ab Stevous. Lout, andy whon 2) miles of tho road luid booh come- yléted, lit 1878, Qov. Washburn was nsiad for his verlifieass, iil Secrotary Dolano for pazents, for #o much of the Iand as Wwas to ncenio “lxm“ tho construction of each 20 milos. Both offoinls deelined to comply with the roquest. 'They cou- struod tho acts of 1856 and 1804 in n way that soemed upt to have ocourred to. tho Itailway Oompauy's attorneys, 'L'ha Governor maintained that, in order Lo obtain auy portiou of tho grant, .oue terminus of tha rond must ho ot Portago City; and thet, until the link botween that city and Bteyens . Point built, ho must withhold his cextillcate. Secrotniy Delano. whilo sustalning this view of tho casg, roferred it tg Attornoy-tcnoral Willlams, Mean- timg, tho Compuny was dn siraitoned cireum- stauces, Its very existonco doponded upon & faverablo declsion, All the property, including tho land-grant and the timber thercon, wus bold for the security of the Company's bonds. So binding s tho arrangomont, that tho timber fas well s 'tho bands, can only o wsod to oroato & sinking-fund for the payulout of tho bonds or thoir Iquidutioti. Tiioir obligations were fast waa maturing, 1ho - ronds sud- oquipment ars siid to fuvo cost 94,120,600, mmd tho fanded debt, was pliced at @ $1,601,00. The interekt iipon thess could not rensonably bo derived frofh tho carninm, Xof tha year ending Doc. 31, 1872, {1 gross earninga only amounted to 813070319, aild tho not oniuings o $03, 77791, Tha fssue ntstako woy BUCGFER O}t BANRRUTTOS," nl). Tor hoard and lodeings In thewo {mprovirod hotols, in flush times, 54,60 pot vrecic 18 the dtandard prico. ) Tho tormy upon which the Milwaukeo & Northorn Rallroad was lonsed ave undotstood to bo 56 par cont of the urnm\ énrniugfs of that road. 'l'ho Northorn wag built by the Milwaukeo Congtruetion_Compnny, comprisod_of Angns Bmith, Jemed Tauddingtun, ¥, B, Greon- leal, "Guido Pfistor, and n fow othor Milwnukoo men. Thoy exponded 23,000,000 upon Lkn road, and morigaged it for am,noo,]mr milo., Ita muin lne to Greon Day iy 100 rhilos 1ong." Tho talk nbout an extonsion to Chicago AV NI REGARDED AS DREXATURE, Reconlly n line was aurvoyed betweon the two aitien, In tho roportedinterest of tho Lake Shor Raflréad, ‘Fho Michignn Central was rlso crodited” with flguring _to hecuro a Mil- waukeo , conncction, — For #omo time to como, howovor, it is safo to prodiot no now enterpriso will be nndertaken, the two niready in tho flold hoing nngm'\y anxions to tako caro of Al the business offorad, In any ovont, the Wis- cohnin Contrel is hardly strong” enough to cnrry the lml(lltlounl obligations of unothor new rail- rond, Adat [xrusunl or{;m\lzed, Mr. Garanor Colby will gontinue to look aftar tha fnnnces, Mr. Rtood will attoud to tho lobbying, while Mra Thillips will *run” the consolidated road, aud, Mr. O. Harris will operato it, TUR LIXOIS PARNERS CORVENTION, Comaents of the Prons, | 2'rom the DelVitt (HI& Pudtie (Independent). Tho meoting Iast woek nt Deentar waa a grand fteeces, and gdmo of tho resolutions . mlurm(l #liow o spivit of determinntion that will bo hard tolruslat, 10 the farmors will only ach -as they ro- solvo. £évam the Lincaln (110) Beratd (Repubideam), . "Tho vosolutiona Inst mentioned look ay thoneh Democratio influonen had shaped the work of tho Convontion, na it id at Springheld. TFieo trade nnd Btato rights bave not yot lost tholr chorm for Uho nvorage linyrood politiclan, In #pito of theso drawbneks, the Convantion . added nnother demonstration of thoTact that there In an onetgotie, lang-contintied protest by tho peo- o naninat high feeights, Ligh salurics, und sube sdiow. : Frons the Decatur (i) Zribund (Tndépondent), Tho Infer-Ocean of lush Sulurdiy” containg o longthy editorinl in which the writor altempts to prove that the Decatur Conveutlon was o fuilure; that tho sentiments embodied in the resolutions Fera ot thoup of the farmors of tho Btate: and that the Republican party is stitl nlive and Itick- ing,—and, it might have ‘addad with proprioty, stiil atoaling, 1t I bard fof tho Jter-Ocean man to kick ugainst the pricks ; ho woeps and wails over tho rotten and normptqu unrenss of 1lio Ropublican party ; ho naes tho 1ight and still tho wrong pursucs; le shuts his oyes to inovitn- blo facts, nitd ‘shoots Off his pop-zun ot all orcatfon,’ Now, this fs n freo coyntry; tho Infer-Occan man cen do s o' like Lo can romain and affiliate with tho parly of sal- ary-grebbers,—with the party that placed Matt Carpentor in the Presidouey of the Sopnte; hoe can indorse by his atiachment tho Oredlit-Mobil- for, Jand-graut, and oflice-holdors’ p:n‘l?‘; but men who lovo henesty, indapendenco, Xr noiplo, and good governmout bave' becomo disgusted with tho long erimes ana ¢riminsls justly ate tributable to tho old political patties, ” Tho Re- publican purty has frequenlly ‘promised to pun- ish her own rasonls, to ropeal the salary-grab, and throw ovorboard her unworthy leadors nnd momkery, - Tlow many of such promiscs has she fullilled? Not ono! and she nover will so long 0 Llio prosout Teaders hold tho party rolns. Tho Inte conventlon reprodanted tho agricultural sud mechanical clawses of tho Sgate, and, if thoy do not control tho nest Btate cleotion, wo aro torri- bly ntistakon, Lo the Cdkltneille (T1L) Enqiifrer (Dentocratie), Tho plutform ndopted by the Siate Convantion of farntors Is & plain, honest, comtbon-vouso docnment, that reads niuch like n soidol {o the and the Attorney-Geheral way to docide it. Un- questionpbly the people sustained tho Qovornor, The popular imprasslon throughout Wisconsin was, thot his positjon was tho only ténable otio. Conscquently, tlioy wore surprisod, to sy tho Ienst, whon Attoiney-General Willinms announced Dhis opinfon, 1t was given g0 soon nfter tho ono fayoring tho Alilwaukeo & Kt. Paul Compnny's bridgo foentioh b LaCrosse, igniust tho poopla's selection, ny to crento n singulnrly unpleasant ItnpYenslon. 'Ihlg opinion poluted ot thok fhp Wikcarisin Contrdl, béing 4 consolidation of thé Winnebago & Buperior end the Poriage & Supe- rior Railroad Companles, beeamo possossied of the righis, powets; aud privilogas conferrad wp- oft Loth; that the charter of tho Winnebago Compatiy empowered it to commoneo coustruc- Lion elther at Stevehd Polnt or Doly's Ialand, but provided ,that lands should ' Le awarde to it only us construction should extend beyond Htovens Poiut,. Tho chirloer aldo nuthorized tho Comgmly to build tho live noerth of Stevons Point jointly and iu common with any other chhrtered company huvini similar powors. Tho cligricr of tho Lortago & Superior Company con- tabnoda lika provision. It is ovident, ihore- fore," suid the AttornewGeneral, % that the lino | of road from Stoveny Point to Lako Suporior was intended by the Legislaturo, as Lo location, consiruction, co,, to ho u separafa work antirely from thelinesof the roed to meot at Stevens Polnt from Lho nantln” 'Lho elifin of the peoplo that, eenuse tho Portage and Superior oharter provide ad for the commencemont of the rond nt Portago City, a condition precodent was oreatod, upou the fulltthidont of which only mny lands be pat- ented on acconnt of construction north of Sto- vens Point, and that tho cousolidated Compntiy will not bo entitled to patents except by coui- mencemont of thoroad from Poringo City, the Atlorney-General dinmisnod an NOT WELU OROUNDED, Ho further urged that it was not the mtention of the Logislature to postpong the construction of the line heyond Stovens Point until tho come mencement or coustruction .of eitlor line south of it else n clause would have boen inserted in -the Winuchngo Company's chatter, that, whilo it might commenco otthier at Dotv's Ivlind or Stovons’ Point, it should, nevertilotoss, eforo Dreaking ground at the laftor place, await the conipletion of the Portage Gily buanch, Tho consulidated Cowpuny having” suceceded to ull the powors, nghts, and privilegos of tho two orignal jcompanies, tho Altotney-General aftirmod it wiw ¢ entitled to receivo patonts for the lnnds_conterminous with ench seetion of {wenty miles duly coitified to be comploted ne- cording to the requirements of the net of Con- greay.”. *+OF courss,” ho adued, ** the consoli- dated Comnpuny is under obllgations to construet the roud from Portngo Cily to Stevens Point, and to do this as spcedily g the lnw aud tho dbligations at oo falth require,” 3 "This eliborate apinion did not particularly in- fluence Gov. Washburn, Ifo persistontly with- held ik fuil . dartificato, althougli about 160 miles of the road wero camploted. A POWERFUL EFVORT will be made thu winter to Induco (Lo Tiogisla- i to g0 amend the it ds to comply with~ tho Reilway Company's domauds 3 and - the fict that the recont pass Yegulations were not signed by the Wisconsin Central will allow of an exchange of * favom” with tho mombors, Tho irropreasi- bla George Reed's sorviees will agein bo called into ngreenblo esercise, affording him amplo opportunity to earn his salury, 1o will not now encounter “the opjosition of the Milwnukee & 8t, Paul Company, that Leing headed off by & trafilc-orrangomant for an_interchango of ‘all business Lribatary $o all tho lines of either Com- pany. Walving tho diupn!u’d Jvid-quostion, it must bo confessed that the road iy g . A REMARKABLY 000D ONE. . Indoed, Mr;-Philips has oven been oconsured for laying #o udmirablo a frack through an .slmost” virgin conntry. Tho rondbed, rolling- stock, and equipment are of tho liphost ordor, Tlio ouly grado of uny consdquenco 1 53 faol, to tho miile;.tho otheols aro wuusually light, The tracic is woll ballustod, nnd.is alinost au air-line, ‘Phe cross-tioy aro of tho best lnrd iwood, and, hesides Leing icommonly long, ato Inid closer,—2,800° fvstend of 2,000 ‘to {ho ile, The passongoy-cars are olegant, and tho locomotives aro unsurpassed, The most note- wortly brldgo i that across Wolf Rivor, it balng 800 febt in longth, 'Lhoroad In honded for £25,- (100 por milo, and -its cost must cortainly luvo ‘hecn noarer that amount then i tho cake with the. majority of Wontern rmilronds, Boforo leasing the Milwaukeo & Northern Ruilrond, tho " Wisconeli Contral had in nse 16 losomotivos, 8 pagtionger-cars, 100 Lox-cavs, 200 platform-cary, and 50 ginvel, enooko, and baggage-cavs, Lhe flnt-oars aro of wnusual length, adaptod to the transportation of logs, many of whicl Y cut along tho routo, nro b feot in dinmelor, I'or n yoor poat this timbey busiuoss Jing AUNPASHED TIE, COMPANY'H EXPEOYATIONS, "Uhore . aro ubio indications of duposits of ore throughont the reglon north of L'wo Rivors, ‘Mo Tonolos ivon ruigo, traversed by this lino, 8 nlready fawonus for its excellont deposits; whilo, nonr Ashland, aro valuable_doposity of epppor, and_ nleo, it I8 xumored, of silver, Noar Htevons Point, lavgo luyors of ,lmulln, or porce- Inin-oarth, pure and white ns snow, have boon diseovored,~ Although no large kettlements have yob_mprang up slone tho line, log-hoisos, oecu- pled by choppors and lnwbormon, are abundant, In the largor elagh, rows of buuks lng cuch sido of tho honses, ench providing sleoping neeom- modations for u keors or moro. In thu centio of the npurtmont aro placod tybley, chain, winh- souls, ote, One houso fy gonerally rorerved fora Declaration of Indepondenco. . Thero aro somo good, noblo Democrats who will honestly objoct 1o tha reaolution in regrard to tho “ recont rocord of the old poldicnl pardies,” Bat thio mout re- contrecord which the Domooretie parly han mado is one' whore the Derocratic membors of Cougross votad for tho thieving Fornando Wood for Bpeakur of the 1onse of_ltoprosentatives, an nction that is too dstestabls fo ta abont. ~ Wie nction of the Convention domonstraten very clearly | that tho favmers mean politics ; that thoy havo leamnod what their wrongs ure, and that tho dnly way to rodress thom is at tho hallot<box, Of caurse; wo 00 1o ocension for their making n war npon the ‘Domocratin party, for they ate seeking for noth- ing okeops wht tho Domograey ave beoy wivo- eating for years. But the action of tho Dein- ocratic Congressmen is Ao mean and dishonor- oblo that thoy havo no confidence in any pariy that claims thom, . . . . Wo canbus record tho conviction that, for o number of veara to come, whera the farniers et in gnod: faith with themsolyes and avo true to their own intorosts, thoy will elect whoover they nuwy noiiimta for ofiicigl pouition. Lrom the Lawrence (Kan) Standard (fordpendents) The 1ezolution of the Xllinvis Far ' L vontion, “That tho farmers eus t foose from all ’]nu'ty uggocintion, and rally wntlor o bauner brond enough to embrace all in fuvor of just laws, aud opposed to monopolies, to cor- ruption, to oxlravagance, t6 the further donation of publio Inds 10 Tailroads, and to thio_ creation of uncontrolled monopoly,” loois lile huniness, Tt shows that tho poopla are_coming, or havo como, to o gonko of their duty, and will not lumfor continue the dupes of old party rulo. Buch n spirit as this will form a party nctuuted by honest_motivea. and that will ovorturn cor- ruption. Illinois wes n ploncer in independont [mllflunl aetion. Sho is fast . maturiog her plans n tho make-up of n new political party. Knnsas iy ber ally in tho samo eauso. I'rom tha Shetbyville (10,) tidon (Tndependenty, “Stick to the Faymors’ Cub organization ; trado with houest homo-dealors; fight the old polltiont pnitios LIl thoy enn’t rast’; dtrike nturdy, sledgu-hammor -blows nt the powars that aro bearing the producing and Iaborins clnsses down 3 don't nltow yowrsolf to bo led into any ment that is enlcalptéd to wenkon your strep for the great political coutests of tho future.; haye but litile sceresy, less solfishnoss, and no solng back on the time-honored principla of Rqunl aud_oxnct justico to all mon,’ and your suceess will bo cerigin,” is tho nadvico of the Ar::::lln Record to the turniors, And theadvice is good. “ From the Wayae County (111) Press (Inlepenideng), The Tarmets’' Convention at Decatur lns proven thut the. now Reform movemont Ly, taken n firm hold on the minds of the pooplp of tho Stute of Illinois. ‘Tho Convontion was largoly attended, enthusiastic,’ and harmonlous, Tho resolutions,pacsed menn bisinoss, aud are tho foundation of anew party which will seon coutvol the politics or Illinoie and of the Na. tion, g Fron the Ottwen (TIL) Remblican (Reynbliean), Wlale it is true thut thete wére men of somo note and decided - chaructor m strondancs, it iy wlgo timo that there were many whoso solo quaii- ileations weemed to bo ability to pay their ex- penses. Only o titho of the clubs of tho Stnte were roprosentod, while soma seotions had far mord than their ‘proportion of ropresontation. The Convention of lust yoar was sinjd by those who attended from this county Lo bo no hottor thau o mob. That of Jast {real, though perhaps uot. ko disorderly, was no.less. undor tho control and guidanes of politionl dom- -ngogucs, Mo intention of tho manngers ‘was' to convert - the Assacintion from its otlginal objects, which wore worthy, .to that of w politiedl drganization, in which thoy woro, 80 far 88 thoy vould determine that question, miccessful, It the farmor of Iltiucin aro no to ho led or dictated 1o by mou who have consti- tuted thomselves tho judges, sud undertakon to Dind the jndgment and conacloneon of the furm- ovs a8 a clues, T'Lio mombors of the Assockution bLind full vight to *“absolve” thowmsclves from “gllogiauce™ to tho old partios, but thoy hnd nolthor the right nor- powor {o speak for all farmors of this 8tute, “They never got auy fn- “stractionn h}lhm mattor, nnd thejr action wans purely gratuitons, On this matterthoy were in 10 Folso o ropresontative body, ., . No won- der thut thousands of tho bost farmers {n thq country, good, clewr-hendod mon, stand aloof from Farmors’ Assoclutions 6f overy kind, when thoy seo to what dishanest use thoy are being pat by mon whoko ilcliug for oflico ovorcomes all ofher considerations, . But, in spito'of alt theas facts, the rosolutions are, inthe main, zood, Sotting nside the wremmble, which is ittlo in the ¢ huncomba ™ order, and the socond rasolution, with ona or two minor inattors, wnd tho resolutions contaln sound doctrine, Bk it In Ly no monns now, Lliere fs searcoly » propo- “pitlon Inid down, that fs worth coutonding for, that hits nob recoived the licarty indorssment of the Republican party or the Ropublican proes, e G bl p The London 4 Tines ? and the gome t mune, o Tondon Tfmes Is about to becomo tho do- fondant in an notion for libol, which will throw somo light upon ni incidontal chaptor of tho se- crot history of tha Comun Tho plaintlil is o Yolo, well known fu litor circlos, particulnrly in Duris, whore ho wos for a couple- of youran contributor to ZYgaros Whon M. “Lhlors’ hougo wvan burnt down Dby tho Communists, tho plalnd@ volanteorad to nepotinlo with them for thio ransom of (ho valuabla privats pajors of the ox-l'rehidont, and 4 in conncetlon with thiis ondenvor that tho alleged libol appeared in the Zimes, Tho hassngos come Ymmul of mytfionred i n lottov from the- rogular Paris corrospondent of the 2hmea. M. 'Ihiers il mdmlieys of Lii family have beon oxtmined undor a commigsion, nnd thelr evidonca will form an important fentaire fn tho trinl. Amongse the wilnoswos who bave Leon subponned ata Mr, Delane, the oditor of the Témes, amd ok, lonst two of tho Paris correapondents of the lending Lon~ don dalljen, # % THE EUREKA MINE. Cnpty Ward?s Sldo of the Story--Ilow Bliu Taing Expert Was Chentodae A Tingight 1nto the Way Thoy ¢ Fix» RIvungs Over in Utah, From tha Detroit Poxt, Dea, 95, v 'The Eurokn mining swindle still ocenplos n ohiro of Lho public attontion, kept alive m soma dogroo by tho efforts of tho Associated Prous nt'nut al Balt Linico Oty to_oxcllo sympatly for Whitnoy and Lawronco.. 1o lins recontly takon the tronble to tolegrapl alt over the country that thoy nra porsocitod men, and Lhat gront indignation Iy folt wt-Utah Bocanso Whitnoy wan takon hwny In frone, Tho latter mndoubiedly i many frionds in Utah, ond the Assacialed Pross ngent s ono of thom. Thero nro unqites- tiontibly many pooplo thore who beliave him to bo an Lonost man, and tho Eureka Mine to be o yalble properly. It Is even whispered nearor home that the wholo nlTair in & grand selfSme to Doar thio utock, aid that whon the ond aimed at has beon accomplished the prosoutiony agningt Wiitnoy aud Lawrouco will bo droppod, and tho- wholo matter will gradually fado away nd di nrppur from publio view.” Tho rathor extrac lnary osicapo of Whitnoy whilo on route to this oity, and tho romavkable manner in_Which tho vaso of Tnwroneo hangs fire in New York, have given color Lo thiy supposition in the minds of somo, It {8 wuid that Capt. Ward is o pretty cloar-ieadod man, and it {8 not likely that he liag Leen takon in'and swindled in tho manner raprogonted ; that ho hias grot into i controvorsy with Lawronco aud Whitnoy about the control of ho mino, uud now comos thiy rub to seo which party will cowo out nhead, For the pirposo of nscortaining, if poaniblo, the timo stitogof Lo ens0, n roportar of tho Zost cullod upoR Capt. Warl yostorday, and ascortained the following pavtioulars: & : Tha négotiatious for the puichnso of the stock wns pending botween Ward wnil Lawronce and Whitnoy for sevoral weelrs, and finally ealmi- nnted, s hua Loon alrondy slated, in tho closing of tho transuction in Uetobor, 1873, Befors muking the purchaso, however, Wurd sont Mr. Cartisi, & mining expoil, tojexamino tho ming, Upon the strenglh of bik roport, and aluo that of o cirgular golkon up with rofergneo to cupitaliz- ing tho property on n basis of §3,003,000, which clrenlur contnined tho reports and statemonts of govaral mining oxports and v Inrge number of vesideuts of Ulaly, and upon tho puarantco of Layronco that tho ming would pay n mauthly dividond of 6 per ceut upon the the hen eapital of $500,000, Ward acooptod tho proposition with tho expraan proviso that nll tho fnetn kot forth In thoe cironlar wero trno, His suspicions wero first aronned by tho failure of the mine to pay the dividends promised. 1fe then became ratisfed thot o lind heon choated, and that tho mine was not what it lind boen re(ymunutml to bo, Gatheriug up hig stock, and without un{'ing anything about his wuspicions, he quictly dikpatehod an agont with it to Chicago with {nstructions to aell It back to Lawtenco ; to gub ad much for it ag he could, but nt all events Lo soll 1t baclk at nnf' sacrifico. Tho agent found that Lawronco and Whitnoy had disposed of all their own atock, and thnb thoy would not ‘buy back nt any prico. In tho monntime Ward and,| hig agent bad becomo entisfied that it wam not a beating game ou thelr pnrt, for he, controlling the bullk of tha slock, bad elocted himsolf Proy- fdont and had put his own men into tho Doar of Dirnctors, and had como into_nctual posaca- glon of tho miue and nll its books aud papers. A fall inveatigation of the agent mado on tho: ground, and assisted by parcies~in Utal, who had also been led into purchasing stock iA tho beliof that the mino whe a good and valuablo one, nud capecially beeauso Ward bad inyested iu 1t, developed plenty of evidenco thnt tho wholo thing wns & swindlo from beginning to end. Capt. Watd ho in his posscssiop afidnvitr, nnd the origiuals of letters from Whitnoy, which cstablish tho swindle boyond any controversy. Buome extracts from tha &worn statenfents of a porson employed at the mino will show Low the thing wao done, logays: - “On the 80th day of August, John N. \Whit- Boy, In company Wil W. 3L, Giirily and ‘Goorgh W.'Leo (tho men nont by Capt. Ward to ox- amina the property), camo to my hotse at Euro- In Cily, opposito Lbrekn ITill and Ehwoka Min- ing Company's_mino, atnbout 11 o'clock a, m. 1 wout on the Burokas IIill with them, immaedi- ately after their arrival, and we went over and visited avary portion of the property of suld Eu- reln Mining Company, and remained in tho ox- nmination of tho samo until 4 ‘o’clock p.m. I novor saw o man more pacticular, norone who exhibited mora good scuso and shrewduess in the juvestigntion of tho charncter and quality of nmine, nor ono who oxhibited moro patienco in s endeavor to nscertain tho. oxnct quality and value of a nuue, than did Prof, W. M. Ourtis, Wo took samplos all over the hill and carofully wrapped tnont In papor and marked them, oy aluo ouo sackful from * Beok dump,’ aboveled in promiscuously. Prol, Curtis was vory careful und partienlar in those selections, stating that what ho wanted was only au average, Afler wo camo down the Lill, the samples aad the sacl, stated sbove, woro put in the Company’s assny ofliconext my dwelling-liouse, and therenpon Mr. . Whitnoy invited and utrqu:y urged Mr, Curtis ~and Col. Lo to go with hil gver to Daxter's #nloon to oatertain them, which thev did, nl- though somowhat roluctanlly on tho part of Mr. Curtia? X had been oxpressly ordored and di- rectod by tho said Jobu "N, Whitnoy to mako o chango in tho samplesof ore, in ordor that whon Curtig should nseay tho sama it would show n splondid rosult, M. John M. Whitnoy bad by Lis lotter of Aug. 28, 1872, wrilton mo in rogard to his comlng with these people, and liad smd in his lotter, ¢ I sliall bo with you Friday forenoon, wud I want to bo suro that theso gonilomen get ‘good ore from the mino, aud that thoy will like the proporty. I want plenty of pood oro on liand so un to change samples on them if thoy full to make tho selectionn right, which wo must not fail to do Lhis timo, Show good ore aud take thio samo in lnrfl\ picces,’ ato, Ordered and di- roeted thug by labter, ag well as by word 8f moutls of John N. Whitnoy, and belioving from Whit- noy's power and_authorily over the Company's property as hitherto oxorclsed that lro was but currying out tho ordorn, directions, nnd wishes of Mr. Jonb Lawrenco, tho : Prosident of the Com- pany, tho deponant, in_councction with anothor | person nomed, who had roceived sitmilnr orders from wald Whitney, changed the samples of oro taken by suid Outble, aud put in each of snid papera, in lion_theredt, rich specimons, and iu Buid pack of 01d ghout m%ht yonunds of S200 pulp, and also five or six pounds ol very rich oro, “In the cireitlar with referonce to_ the Eitroka Mine, publisbed by Joab Lawrence, is metuded a letter written by Joab Lnwronco, dated Oflice Buroks Minlng Company, Sulb Lule City, Nov. 13, 1872, in which ho sayss _* Under, dato of tho Oth, Rawlings, Suporintandent, writes that Lo Lins out of the now workings 1,000 tons of oro, whicl will go §400 to {lio ton; tho lenst nseny ‘mndo by Neubit {o @410, cte.’ This doponent “snys that tho statements mado In eald lettor aro fll?fifl in wholo and iu part, and in overy partiou- lav; that Rewlings, Buperinteudent, never wroto any such lotter ; - that Lo does not bolievo that from the incorporation of suld Compnny down to thia prosont tima auy such amorut us 500 tons of ot flnvo {n whole beon mined trom the enid mino which would average u pay valug moro thau $40 to 560 por ton, sud thut he postively knaws that durlug tho timo Nowlings had chnrgo of tho mino he searcely mined 000 tons.in all of ore, and that of a low grade, 8o low that about ono- lalf of it was not lauled to themill ; that bo doos 1ot bellavo that at the ddie of tho lotter, with the most carorul eclection of ore from tha varions dump beaps, as many a3 oven flvo tous of ore cuul& bave beon collocted averaging 400 per tan ¢ also that bo belioves tho statement that tho leust asuny mado by Nosbit is falso, and that tho whole léttor lu false. ‘Clo deponent further soys that tho oro dups aro composed genorally of exconslvoly low frudo ore; thab the dumps undor orders’ by Whitney wore covered ovor with rieh oro, the richest spechinens being placed in the oxjioscd places, ndor said ordois tho Beck tunnol and othor parls of the mine wero “gulted" by dopositing in oxposed placos ,and in crovivap of tho rock rich ore und rich pulp, , “ Whituoy guvo mo uaiform and gouornl ordors that whonovor eny porsons. camo to oxamine tho mine te bo sure that thoy carried swny with thom rich spocimens ; lo uhl“:tw tholy ava-upon them if thoy did not have gaod specimons, and to al- WayH {mvu ou hinud sullivlent rich oro and puip Tor that purposo. I was obligod to do this or bo diseharged from the Compauy's employ, but the prineipul renson why I remalnod with said Qom- puny was boeauso Linwrenco & Whituey owed mo o lurgo sumn of monoy, and Lfqlt that {f T dls- oboeyed I shonld not ouly lose my pomtion but wmydebt, .. o N % Dopanont’ furthor sava that in Fobrunry, 1873, whon tho mill was making its flrst run, Joub Tawronco was ot the nssuy ailteo, and arkod mo {f I could smelt and alloy somo €20 goll plocos with thio bultion to como out of tho mill; hat ho woitld 1iko to :ship n_coipla of bars to Ddtroit, to Ward, fo mike ‘them *follows faol good. I naid I could, hut never did,” 3 Unpt, Ward haw also fu lils pogsossion nino Tt- tors from Whilnoy to n person 'nm\vloyed at tho mine, writlon at varlous Intervals botwotm May G aridd Oct 6, 1872, giving Instructions relative to “anlting" tho mihe, and tho purposo for which it was dorio, ‘A fow oxtiacly Wwill 8libty the ehar- netor of tho lotters : 1 oxphet, In o fow dnys, to bo at Turoka with a party of gontlumony nnd want Lo show up B Tolin Il i ne_good' light as possible. T want | ‘Beals hatt indlash in fabning ordor, and whon wo nrrivo T whnt yon to bo atewing ‘ont somta of Lliat rich oro; don't wnnt you to uso too much of tho pulp, a8 L may want »'portion’ for a, socontl ]mrty. If you could gat liold'of 4 nimbuerof nrgo ‘and tioh piccod from Chloridor's, lko | Baxtor's, good pleces to have lyving aroind, | Would do 80 ; aay bormow them foi'the oceasion, T will writo or telograph when ‘yon ‘may oxpéct us, whaon {un mny havo all iaen how in our em- lwlny woiling on the hill, taking out' oro, 1 will nform you whether to got oxtra men, and how mahy, “In euch ovout you ean’get such mon for tho short timo who nroall O K, who would not be blowing outside too much.” ‘_ . Tho lottor concludon with nome farther dotail | od fnstructions and somo ftoms of nows ‘abont othier similar * joba "' that wore bolng Lmt,ux- on | other mines in the Werritory, In ffiotlior Tettbr, duted u month dnter, hogives tin day on which {lisy will o kit tho mine, nud fenew Lik intitrac- tions, Ilownys: - i “If wo hud n roed 1ot broke up fine-and enrry nlonl: in our pocltotl, wo could Boak off into hands with somo of thait which Wwéhld make'n i food show. Wo mniit malte things go off all right thin time, and hnve thesa ponts favotahly improstied. One man knows nothing ; the other Is it motallngsist, and’dooa the oxporting.” In pelotter wellfon five days hiter {hio nbovo, ;\ml aftor Curtis end party lind virited the i, 10 KiVyh o g T oxpect thoro will bo & mon named Brown; from Now York, down to visit tho Bureka in about two woolw, I wish yon would pitt your- solf in an good shinpe uy porsible, linving every- thing dressed nbont the woits to show io bet ndvanti Provido yourself with plonty of rich oro fur them to tako “away, ‘or to doclor their snmples with, They aro-to como by thiemsolves, in a very quiot way, so that no ono may know thoir business, DBrown is n vory fiue gentloman, and wants a largo proporty. Winn, wlio i with him, protonds to b nmining oxport, but i docldedly * on the mitke,” whicli ‘ehimeo ho ean haya for raport making negotiations sug- ' cenful, I thoy nre got away with Al suctepis- fully ns Prof. Curtly und purky, ic. will do. Yon will understand, no persouns outside of Linwrouce nud mynel! aro ‘nequuinted with- this schonio s thoreforo the imporlanes of atrict coufidonco on your part, which is relod on” THE YPSILANTI MYSTERY. 'Eho Latest Developmentn dn the Koha Browning Cascs 1 ive to the 2ukol rom the Dets vit T'oat, e, 95, The drowning of M, Muy Rubinsoi on: tho ovening of tho I8th inust., at tho residénca of liet mother, Mrs., Barlow, in Ypwilanti, is «till n anb- Jéol of ‘much speculution fn that biit Ll iy tho tesult of the purely senantionnl ytiolos that hnve boen givelr oirculation throngh tha col- umns of one of the morning pipors ; siatenonty wholly unwarrantod by tha fusts, Still, oven serigational nowspapor itetiws are oftoutitnos nc- coptitl as focta by eome classes of readots, and thers were many In Ypsilanti vesterday who - ho- lioved, or affectod to beliove, that Mre. Robluron was etill alivo ; that the corpso of o fomnlo hal beon procured by #oma moans, dressod in Mirs. Robinsou’s garments, thrown into the vistern, and theu takon ont and vuried, but few persons viowing the corpse. Some’ aven drclmed thut not above , balf & dozen pursons, aut thoxe tho rehtil\‘es of 'the decensed, bnd over identified the remaius, “Lhieso statoments havo no foundation whatoy- | er, and nre all rofuted by tho faers, for not-only wits tho corpno of Mra. Robinson 'scon by the mombets of the fimily and otiier rolatlves, hut was fully identifled by a score of neighbors (Livo of whom dreatod tio Temaius for tho gravey, by Dr. Owen, by tho Coroner, and by four mombers of tho Ooroner’s jury to whom slo was potson-| ally known, Upoh tho poing of the denth of Mtw, ' Robinson thore ‘exiats uo ddubt in tho minds of tho prosecuting ollicers of tho county nor the - Bsurance aszents, who are perhaps moro interost- ed therein tinn any ouo elze. Ih fuct, thoy de- li!‘Ill“O ‘lho ides an’ ubsurd ono, and give it ne ought. i Our réporter yeetordny visited the econo of thio ensyalty, mid found the family porfecily willing to narrato tho particilars of thesad aifair. From {hom ho lenrned that about two woaks ago the da- ceased was taken i1l with wsort of bilious fever,ac- companied withi dysentory, but thediseaso yietllad readily to medical treatniont, nud shé way con- valescont some dayd bofore hier dewth, Sha was | vory much reduced in . strongth, howevar, and was subject to sinking ot fairitlng spolls. Navor- tholoss sho was rupidly recovetimys, nnd prepuse tions for tho dopaiture of horgell and husonud to Houston, Tex., whero thoy had déeided to locate, Mr. Robinson Linving inade arrangements Lo go into business with n friond in that ey, were nearlycomploted. ‘Phey weré oing first to Conlreton, 0., thore to vist the parenis of Mr, Robtuson, Mre. Robinson was. ncenstonted to bathe al- most dally, and aftek sha was nble to b about tho hougo repeatedly oxpressed n deiro to {atio o bath, but was dissunded therafrom hy her bus- band, who doemed hier too weali, - 'This conver- sation ensued on ‘Thursdey uitcrnoon. In_ the oveniug the Tumily, cousisting of Mr. and M, Robingon, Mys. Burlow, Dra. Robinson's two childron, Mrs, Whiteford, -Mrs, Robinuoi’s sfu- tor, aud hor husbund, woie assembled in tho parlor, lady neighbor baving calied i, I'ho’ decousod hnd nppeared very: cheorfil during tho day, and in tho ovening, when ler husband and Mr. Whiteford sav downt for o gamo of bnekgnmmon, seated horselt by Robinsoa's’ kneo and watehed tho gama with much noparont intorest, Tinully, Mr. Whiteford snggestod that thoy stop ,playing and lot thewr wives have u ;ame, bug Mra, Robinson suid she did not know far io ploy, but remoarked to her husband: “Whon woget down in Toxas 1 will learn, so that I can mmuso yon." Mrs. Whitoford, Liow- over, topk her usband's placo and commonced playing with Robinson, Whilo the gamo way in progresn ho said to bis wifo: * Won't you Liko my placo?” To which she respondod,.* No,” und this wos the lnst word sho was heard to ut- ter, A moment luter sho aroee from lior gont and wont into tho kitchou, humming a tune. Just how loug n Limy elapsed Loforo nuy ono followed lier is not Imown, though atuted nt tho inquest.us not exceeding five minutes. Doin, absorbod in the gamo, Mr. Robinkon enys it might bave been' ton minutes, When the game was concluded Mra, Whiteford proposed another, but Robiugon exeused himsolf for n moment to g0 to tha kitchon Tor p drinks of wator. Suppos- ing his wifo to Lo in tliat room, be waysomewhat surprised on opening 1he door to find the npart- mont um]llY, and, turnivg avound, inquired, “Whore% Moy 7" "Mry. Barlow roplied that sho was probubly Iying down on tho couch in (ko Titehen, or on & bed fu.n small sleoping-room be- yond, 8he wag in“neither of theso pluces, how- over, nnd, upou Robinson so_stating, Mrs, Bar- low exelrimod, ** My God! Ilas sho gono aver to Margaret’s ?" in. neighbor who lives on the op&wosllo sldo of River slroet). [ra, Bavlow then’ took up alamp, and with Robimsou aud Mrs, Whiteford pussod out thé Lnek door. Tho firse thing that tiey noticed way thit the covor of the olstorn was off, und 4 the light ponotrsted to tho oponivg, Mrs, Barlaw etk pilape of senistung aaking updi th top of the wator, and, a8 slio stopp@l noaror, suw it was o portion of hor daughter's red balmoral ekirt, B8ho called out, * May Is in the cistorn,” and Robison dropped upon lis kncos beelde the opening, solzed the garment, and drow lis wife parlislly up. Fiuding that her hond was hang- ing dowywnrd, ho thrust his hand dows into tho' water, grusped her by the slioulder, and with tho assjstanco of tha twowomen pulled her out, The Dody was. 1nld fico downwad aoross dfra. Dar- low's lup, and efforts mada by rolling, rubbiug, elo., Lo resurcitato hor, Mr. Whiteford rau for Dr, Owon, who lived a fow blocks away, aud ho soon arrived, ITo stutes that whon he frat ox- ambied the body bo discovorad a fooblo moye- mont of tho hewi't, or thought lie did, but &l his offorts to restoro nnimation wors of no avail, e also stateit that tho mun who came for him wus uttorly oxhausted from running, and chat the statements of tho family relutivo to tho time that elapsed aftor the decenned. weut into the clutorn boforo sho was tuken ont mist be aub- athntinlly corroet, g "T'ho olitorn i o small affalr, not four foot uquare, aud juwt that in dopth, It is mado of planls, 15 Yocatod about five foot to the south #ldo of the door leading from tho buck kltohen to the yard, and in u redorvoir for ¥uin water, o spout from tho enyos oxtending into®lt. ‘Lho Lop of tho chstorn is pearly flush with the sur- faco of tho eavth, but hny'n box opopiug iwonl inched square thut ‘)m]uum upward somathing ovor aix luchos, ‘Uhis opening I8 olosed with n strong, nubstantinl cover, proporly cloeted, and, inuhort, the rosorvolr 14 ns woll scourod as could bg_dowlred, Whon the Lody was found this caver was of, having been thrown over awny from the houso, as would nuturally bo dono whon auyouo desired to draw water, 1n #hort, thoro is nothing in or about the olstorn or its surroundings to excito tho loast kuepivlon of a'foul deod having boer desa. U'hig rosorvolr, hotovor, was not in dally use; tho watek balng only fit. for washing, A pump atatids ubt ovdr tou feot furthor baok in the yard, atd from thls was obfainod the water for goncral uso, ‘Iho thoory of tho, {nmll{y 4, that the docensod docldod to tako o batl hofora'roliring, and wont out for tho purposo of Ilrucnrhlg water, though thoy nro at 6 loss to undaratand why sho did not 7o fo tlip Bump, enrnamlly inher atiorvated con- ditlon af body. Throwing off the aistorn cover, #ho took o pole, to which 8 uitached n spring -tug-iron, attachod it to n pail (not. tha ono us.d for wator, but n alu&»pnl{?, drow It up nenrly full of fyater, hnd thon lnes “Li down, nttompted to roaoh woross tho' ovoning t0 roplaco the guvor, loat lior balance, and Pltchod In hond firat, "Then, tho lowor poxtion of hor body boing bntoyod iy np le' hor slarts,~~thio élstorn béing 8o pmall and neatly filled with wator,—sho was unablo to ralso bhor hoid abovoe. the surfaco, and strangulated withont boing_nbld to. utor s single ery for nu~ sibtanco, Thoy also doom It probablo thit the oxortion of Iiftig out. tho pwlol watsr was so tnxing to hor weakened systein'that sho faintod boforo falling in; L'ho thoory of. ths s insuranco agonts, of whom sho fiad withid” threo montls vbtathed 7olicies to the amouut 6t $19,600 (and the ngont of tho Travolors’ Company rofused to jusuco Ler lifo for 85,000 mnru} 18 wholly different, To them the fact that n woman [n.such straitoned Xommlnry cirounatancos that {6 was with grent iicully ahio could raiso tho manoy to pay tho prowdinia .notda for ’ thrao -months, in ond in- stanco giving an inddraéd hoto for a portion of tho amount § that while working for-_small gale ary in o pnper-mill sho shonld obligata liorwolf to pay noarly £600 annually ; that immedintoly affor procuriug theso pollcies shb shoutd malko n will bequenthing tho oatire antoniit, two of them in favor of the man whom shio noxt day married, and othior facts of similar import, aro portontous, Thoy aro of the opiuion that It is n cnso of pre- maditated suicida ; that, botng tlred of life, she deelded to destroy horself for tho benofit of hor childson and relatives, and to this_ond invested Al tho monoy sho_could rnide in lifo in ancé, puyine, for ‘s short-o timgy and, soquently, a8 emall n.snm ns possible. In Bupport of this boliof thoy ndduco tho. fact tht. 1o was o Sprsitonliat, ad lioneo bolloved that it was but a siuglo step from earthly troubles to Henvenly bllss, nnd that atop ‘was death, Tix- nctly whint coursa thoy will tuko to prove their thoory truo las not filly been deeided upon, but 1t ot probblo that thoy will part. with nearly 420,000 unlén compoilnd to dvso, - < - hay do ot beliovo tho decensed to linvo heon an instue woman... Withiu . the spaco . of wit waels sha was oxamined by four difforont medi- cal men omployod by tho -instranca . campanics and they all ugroo that hor mental' snd. phynical heallh was excollont. Her miud was wondos fully clear and comprehénsive, tho Hon 8, AL Cutchcon informing our roporter that:ho was surprised to find how-well-informed Sho wns pon iy sning Lorsolf with suely for ab lie bocifo onn- 316 df Lha subjest than ho dhid, Bho had evidetitly infdstigatod tho systom fully, boing posted upon tha advaningeous fentatros wot forth by tho variois companics. T'ho insurance pollelss, before stato these cotumus, are fur £5,000 each in tho Mic zan Mutnal, New York Mutaal fovthe Nutional’ of Wshinilon; ) tio Madsnchuiictts Mutual, . The tivo fret tiamod ara in favor of Jior obildvon, the third in favor of horsell, and the two last named in fuvor of Ler husband, Her svill moutionn those boliests, vou one-third of her personal proprrty to cach of. licr childion; the othat Utied adil' §3,000 of tho thizd policy of £5,000 to hér motlr, $1.000 to her eistor, "Mrs, Whitdford, 5500 {o M, Whiteford's child, nuil (ié vemaining 3300 is for cautlugent exponies.. Hor husbaud has applied to Iwve tho will admitted to probate, i ho-doctued Wy born in - Yysilant;* aud: ré- wided thevo milil lice mutringo to Willinm Stovens, nman of Whom tho, noighbors do not apenks fin teris of praise. ATter thoy parted sho returned to.bor mothor's houso, and has sitieo resido 1 thoro oxcepsing o few brief intor- 1s from tite sity, whon 4¢ was understood; slie s Viniling Ceiondh iir Ragal O er cluinied porionce nd.a Unitell § ¢rot sorvico d teeiive in Ohio and Indisna is regarded as o pleaanut picco of fiellon,” lor relations kuow no:hing about it, aud il the nuthority thero is for it cuies from ltobinson, to whom sho narre- sed the fucklent récontly, -ho smac is probably truo of her clnim to nacliorsing and the nom do plume of Rebeoea, Murding Davis, An . educa- tad and eultured gentlemun, g in Ypsilanti i e read works Trong 1o poii of 3Lrs., 3 long ieforo Mrs, H{obinson nhsiveéd “ta* 1it- erathirs; fifd kuows hér'to bo w vbsidont’ of ad ‘Eaaterweity, - - b ey o J. Robinkon,, is,a well-dressiod muu of ) seara of age, & nativo of . Centraton, O., und, in 1874, alovicTn a hotol i Coldwatet) Mich. Leavinis this omploy i Odtsbor of- that yoar, o has sinés taen ongagad a3 & commercial trevelor. 1T was mariied on the eysning of Noy. 19.to M. Brovens,—FEldor Todd; & Spiritualist, officiating,—and thaie hooymoon trip took -in tho eitiew of_Chicago, Juclcion, and - Ann Arbor, d of heitly two weéks., Up urn, Mi, Robingon want to Baton Napids, rétnraing in len diyk,' During this timo Nrs. Jobinson wuny toiten sick, nis nhove stated, 0 raturned. - Eaing dise inu, Robinson callod in | abont 3 Much has been #8id abont n 2k named Franlk Bawsy b porson will whom tlis deconsell hotamo wopaintcildrring har doteveive Jife, nnd who lins recontly shot at hor, with dendly intent, thron timey, 'Phis story, too, comes from Rabingon, was ot known by her mother or otlior relatives, and tho goneral opfition f2, tiat this youth of sane guinary prodiivitios, i o myth., Thero is - el ' of mystory nhout tho affair; bup it is belisved that more lighk cnu yot bo thrown upon tho mat- tor, and, possibly, o whole fruth acrlved at. JASK KETGH IN NEVADA. Further Bethiis of the Manging of Blatl, at BelinGiit, for tie Marder of Juck Copelasids = A Frone ths Virmnta (Nev.) Entérnyie At aiout 1 o'elock p, n. @ ciowd of mon, womon, aud children, afoot, in wazone, and us Tiorwohaek, bogan to courso toward tle featlold, A steanger us town, unewag of e object of the oxoius, would lutvo thought the pcoplo wores roin to n Liotie-raco, aud L elmost oipocted to [t lio Geivore of tho. Whions slug sup %Al Avrived on_ the abomd _for tho, hanging ¥ ground I found &'crowd of betweon 400 wnd GU2 Pooplo nssoniblod,—whity mien, Cliinamén, Tn- dinvs, women, children, fnd squaws, Many of tho womien, nith oluldton in thew arms, wero sented on -tho ground ohiatting aud laughing yny]y. A rope wis stotehod in & uirc}n around Lo . gealfuld, outside of which *ths crowd was kept, nod ibside were oy Députy Shorifts rrmed with Houry rifes. At sbout half- pust 1 o'claclk o murmur of ‘Iforo he comes " ran throngh tho crowd, and. in a foyw, moaments o cnrringe, In_which was_soatod Sherift Caldwell snd the prikonor, drové to the foot of the gal~ lows. IInll's foot wero shacklad, and the Sharift made o motfon to asalst lum to alight, disdaining which, bo sprang lightly to tho ground aud walked up tho stops of the seaftold, FHo was vig- orously puffing n cigar, and glaveed keonly aronnd at the orowd without bo @ying nny out- ward sign of emotion. A chair was placed on tho seaffold, in which ho sonted himsolf and ro- muined during tho resding by the Bhorift of the death-warrant. A~ cofd wind was blowing, aud, owing to his long confine- mont- i a' coll, ho felt it Leonly and shivared visibly, At the conclusion of tho reading of tho warrant he aroso, walked acrosn the seaffold, nod glanced in the dircction of the graveynrd, = Tho sSheriff asked hifn if Jio wished ta male nivy romarks, to which ho roplied in tho niirmative, and, advaneing to the front of thio gallows, spoko substantinily as follows ¢ »*Citizons of Belmont, gontlemen (after o pauso) and lndies—TIatandboforayou acondenmanl mnu—coudemued a8 o _murdoror-~condemued to dio on tho seaffold, Ikilled Blaok Jack, a1 thought, in deferino of my life, I have Loon condemued for the murdor of Jack Copoland, but those who knew Binck Jack and I know I did not {utend to kill him the firat shot, but it proved to Lo o fatal wound, Ihnd no monoy, was told tlo~ Bhonlf wonld bring my wilnosses ~ from ' Pioohie, Mr, Culdwoll is aware of it. May I ask yon, Mr. COald- woll, 14 it offirmed? [Bhorift Caldwell— ¢ '0ig aflirmed.’] X Lad no witnesses; I was tokt the State would bring thom here ; but. it mukes no mutorial differonco now. I do uot thinlk I had o fair sbow, or that I mot with juatico, I hopo that the light mny shina equally on tho Just aud unjust, and I feol” that I have not boou donly juaty by ; yob - am a condemnod man ; gondemned—iwlint for? o8 amurdorer, I am no-more & murdorer than any man that stands bgfore me. Jack Copeland followed mo up for ntonths ;' ho follewed me to Pinche to kill mo. I ngsort thoso fuots In thiv my hour of darknoes, 1Io swora Yo mo nnd othors that ho would kil moj; that ho woukl got tho drap on me ; and even attacked nnother man on tho supposition that it was mey thesy are self-ovident faots, Ilow conld I fool? 1fow could any man fool in my position? 1 am a strangor jn'a strango land, 1y tho clntchos of n hostile band. My life would bo safor In tho hands of Apnches thanin tho clutohoes of this poople, I have not hud jus- tico," At this point he was interrupted by a drunken bruto, who shouted, * What did you kill him for, G—d d—n you? wo hang your kind." ‘I'ho ‘only roply of tho lmm. wrotelh was & lopk of withering soorn, I out him likea kaito, and he folt it deoply, turning to mo nt the conclne slon of his speech, and naking: *Wa that, not linrd 2" And thon (o tho ShotlM: * That way rottglh, Tim, was it not 2" Mr. Caldwoll told hiny 1ot to nottco the bruto, and I am afeaid tho ve. marl of your cotrospondont was moro forclbl than polite, In this conncction I nm bappy to stato thnt n gontloman namod Feauklin huntad up the Indivldual afiér the execntlon, dnd bulls on him one of the most beautiful honds 1t has over boon my fortund to gazo upon, ahd Franlk- 1in waa not arrestod eithor. To tha erodit of tho peoplo of thia town, bo it sald that this acours renco was universally doprotated, and tho per- potrator denonficod withoit stinti Aftor tho In- torruption Iiafl resutnod -his spoech, olosing an Tollows: 5 3 8 *Iam looked upon a8 g wild.boast; nsn hyo- nn, an African lon, or o’ grizaly, I am nof wild bonst. It it 18 tho plonsurd of Henvon that I should die, 8o bo it. - T helieve in all-wiso Qo and I holisvo t[lle King Rulor of the univorse wil] protect me In (his my hour 6f ncod. Mny nona of you over realizo tho sed Lours thay havo fall. on to my_lot." ; % i anlugs cotichuded his apdeelt, ho waa adked by the Bhorlfr If,ho at nuy . further romicst to mako, Llls only raquast waa that neopy of tho Now Yotk Day-Jook bo placed in his cofiit, Dop- uty Blioriff Sarti McKoohan started to produro tho papor, and IInll nsked for. another eigar, and, lighting it, ho walked over Lo tho Sliodifl nud ' eald, “lot’n’ give thred theers,” Hia oourage wns ullghui’ fuillog . bl and Do winted to keop i, 1o was nde «vised to refrain from any dotmonstration nnd tc allow & minator to bo gont for, g consonted, ond a carringo was hastily dispatchod for the Rov, Moora. While..walling for. the rotuen of tho earrings lie angaged In convoruntion with Lhe Shenlf pud your correnpondent, seomingly the eoolost iiid o3k unconcarndd man prosent,. 03 M, Moore's utrival; ho aacended the terffold and mlvnueln;i to tho prisonor shigok him_warm. ly by tho hand, ahid taking from r(u pockot the atinistor's vade mecint ho 'read o - portion of the offieo fur tha. visitation of prisonors, Minister aud prisoner kcn krielt down on the seaflold, and tho fornlol offered -utp. a forvont prayer. Noto—IIall had perdistently objocted to the ministor boing on the seaffold, and only rolented at plmtost tho ‘lnst moment, Inving coucluded his = prayor, tho ravor. ond gentldman asiced him: ** Ia” thiers any. thhx% morol cait do for yon 2" The prisoner ro~ pliéd -iy the uegativé, nnd Mri Moore, tale ing hin hinad in his own, told him ho must now look to Gail ‘48 hid only hogo; Lhat ho ‘earthly Fm\-or could now avnil lilm aught, Tho prisoner howod; ,and, bidding: him n it favowall, Mr. Mom"n_nlanuqmlud_ from: the-seaflold, " ikl thea ook from his pocket o #erap of nigws. papor, in which Was wiapped a trinkot, tovl two gold vings from hid fingers, unscrowed n ot of gato sids from”his shirt, and, roling thém all in tlié pavor, handed them” to the Sheriff, with tho roquest that thoy bo sent to Liu brothior, at tha shms tins giving his hrothor's addrods, ‘I'to vrisoner now toolk bis place on the drop, Shorift’ Caldwoll and. Doputy MuKoshan . pro- eoaded to pinion his brms and legs, which waa gob throush with, ex editionsly; | the binck cap was deawn gvor hiia hosd and tho noose ndjusted; -tho Doputy ran down tuc stops to” thé; “grotind; tho ShorifT stopped to tho p‘)rlgm, thiow his Iinid to the lever gave it o quiclt pull, and, at sovenloen minutes past o'clocit; tho trap fell liko a flash; but noisalessly, Hall died without o atringglo. Thoro nppoarod to bo not oven o Lremor, or a twitching of & muécle, Lo death was instantanoous, the neck Leing eomplotoly broken, Dr. W. N, ‘Fowndrow stopoorl Lo tho swinglug body as it fell throngh ha trap, oud, with watch in hand, felt the puise, At Lwenty minutes past 2 o'clack, thyce nuautea atter falling, the pulso heat 93, and in two min- utes more the Dootor satd s **No pulse.” The Loy mmi: susponded twonty mmnutes, and wne then eut down ond Iaid on o board; tho black cap was remnoved, and the only chango in the fnce wias o slight discoloration of the Hips, the oyes belng hialf-cloded, DESTITUTION IN MINNESOTA, B2l Stdite 6f Thingy in tho Southtvests eru Portion of tho StuteseAn Appenl -for_ Add. 2 Worthington, Nobles County, Minn, (Deo, 2), Corres apniiece of the St Paul Pres, Thera 14 uo_doub . that wo have h splondid eduinly for firmini, ond that it hies sottled up fastor than any othar, nod that tho sottlers are a fine, sturdy act of follows, and {hat tho conaty- Keat \Yurthlu;ilton, is o surprise o oveiy one thub'eoes it and is nwate that 1t is only tiventy montis old. Due it is also n fact” that hail de- ktroyed most of tho giain sown it 1872, and thut the grasslieppers destroyed sevon-teutha of the grain.of . 1673, aud that the soltiors are now ulmost entiroly destituto of kool for the coming season,. and their provisions for the wintor. nra terribly seant, W'rue, wo searcely henr a mur mbr, and only thoko who have ueithor flour oy potntaea are, o5 a genoral rule, asking for nid, and:all hnvo kuch hopes of thoe county that, hs long ns thoyciin keop body nnd soul togothor throngh the coming senson, thoy aro dotermined to hold aut, belioviug that with fair crops noxt year thoy will bo on tho road to prosperity. Settlers, foo, that bavo come this season, ale lured bovo by the many brilifang accounts of tho placa fonud in loiters to nowspnnors—in wh tho writora picture bnly tho bright sido—L: found ihat, after thoy” have dono their own bredking, buflt_thojr -hausos and outbuildings, and bought their coal or wood, have but littla lert, und us_ strangors of conrso cannot got any et st tho ttores, Theso also aro among the ETor y - J I kuow man who are obligod to burn hny in- atead of wood this winter, ind meal nnd pota- toos are vory eearce amonss the poopld, A Itellef Qommitteo hag just Doen orgauized nt Worthington to try to halp the most needy, nud a pelition has just beon forwmdod praying the Stats Logislituro to appropriato o sum of money for tho purcanse, of seed to bo distributed atnong tho séttlors, to bo rofnided by thom at a futurs duy with o low. rato of intorest. n this woy wo hDEn to weatber tho hard times, nnd evo long bo o county that our State may well bo proud of, . - Alen.anay'be over do willing to ok, but they enunot gos any:hing to do hiere, and if thoy go to the woods they ;zet littlo pay, rud their homo- steads aro liablo Lo bo ¥ jumped . AN APPEAL. 4% the Peoplo of the City nf St. Paut s 2 A latigo number of persous iu the southwent. orh porilon of ol Stato are'in olrcumstances do- manding onr immediato sympathy and nssistanca, I'hoy comprise, fn all, somo 600" familics, scut. tored through tho contios of Cottonyood, Juolk. sou, Martin, Rock, Murray, Lyon, Nobles, and perbaps ofhers ; 114 famtiica {u the singlo county of Cottonwoad. Somo of thom settlod. in our Stato two vears siuce, but most of them a yenr ngo, ‘Thoir arops, through the ravages of grass- hwppors; aro o total loss, Their housos: are of tho most unsubstauntial klnd.‘lmmg of thom only hovels of wod aud mud. Tley kave no--fuel, and are in many cayes o acoro of miles from noy supply. Theiv elotbea aro worn out—in short, Lhoy nro sick, hungry, and cold, and, unless thoy ara’ speedily belped, many of them must froezo or starve'to donth. _Itid to bo hoped that wo, tho paoplo of this cily, may display o liborality commansurato with their grent aud” prewping needs! Already roliof conmitioos of responsible porsons Lnve beon organized In Lhe differont towns on tho froutior, who will seo that our donations aro properly distributed, and tho ofiicora of tho St. Paul & Bioux City and Bioux Cily & Bt, Panl Rouds {m\'n offereil fres trausportation of all contribu- 100, ) Tho sufforers nro, fieat of all, in need of monoy, theu clothing of all kinds, for men, womon, and. childron, blankets, nad all otlor supplics, Cash contributions may bo sent to Gen, IT. II. Bibley, Oharles Schofter, P, 1L, Kolly, Gon. It. . Jolmson, W, L. Wilion, W. B." Doan, O. B uivrall, 1L, 3. Tico, and Capt, L, ', Johus, who aroappoluted a commiteeo to receivo them. Cloth. ing aud supplics may b latt t the room of the Olnmbor of Gommerco, or will bo called for op }\‘Iandn}' aud Tuesday noxt, by W. L. Wilson, 30, 5 Lot us not gonorously aud at onco. i IL M, Rice, W. B, Dray, Q. B. Tunuzry,; 8y, Pavr, Deo, 24, 1 Followiny i fluelk to Seas From the Tallahassce lordian, . During tho recont oamp hunt on 8t, Jamos Ial- and by sonto of our citizons, an incidont acoitr- rod which is porlps without & parallel Iy (ho annals of huntingy nnd descrves to bo_recorded. A large buek, oloroly uumuo:l by ihat famous atay lound, old Ring, bolonglog to Mr, Hopkins, took wator, and homlud right out to sen; the dog, without hesitation, boldly followed him in his voynge over tho “durk’ and tronolorous waves,” Thoywore watchod wlih intenso intorost Ly the huutein nutil enoh was a more speck upon tho suriuco of tho sea, and until they were fually and fotally lost to iew. Attor sonio timo, whion it was supposed that both dog and docr Tud found u watory aud perhups o bloody gravo, in mortul combat, or baen devoured by sharks, & smadlobfect was dlscovored, which provedtoboold Ring, roburaing from his long, swim, much’ ox- Liausted, but resching the shore in safoty, Dut, to tho groator surpriso of the ulmutumm, aftor & timo the deor nluo np}mmud - sight, mkiny right for shoro, on reaching which, he was sl down by ouo of tho huutors, e