Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1874, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: JANUARY 10, 1874, PERILS OF THE ICE. Two Men Adl-}ft for Seven Days on an lce-Floe in Sagi- naw Bay. LCow They Woro Saved--=Tho Story of tho Cnstuways s Toli by Themselves. Loss of Six Persons Who Went in Search of the Missing Men. Capt. Burrington’s Perilous Voy= ago Across the Bay. Tho SHtory of tho Ton Who Drifted for a Weetc on o Citleo of Jces Wo condenso from the Bay Clty Chronicle of Wedneadny the follosing account of the torrible oxperieuces of McEwan sud Smith, the two men who wero nearly soven days adrift on the icoin Baginaw Bay : Willlam 3cEwan and Georgoe Smith went out on tho fco or'Sagiuaw Bay on Wedneadsy, Doc. 81, 1875, ¢o fish, They dook with them to tho shwro sundry supnlics of provisions, ate., Intendisg to bo absent from homs severnl days. Thoy fook with tnom on to the ice, however, onlytheir blankets, flsh-8poars, two hand-sloighs, tocis for cutting holes in tho leo, and somo other ghermen's apparatus, Theico at this timo was (rom 4 to6 inchos thick, and tho wenther was steadily, but nob soveroly, cold. ‘Thoy spent tho arterhoon in fishing through tho leo, and scoured. throo flsh, A southorly wind was blowing, and about half-past 4 o'clock McEwan looked up-and saw aman who lad beon near them running toward the shore. At tho samo . Instant McEwan saw that the fco had oracked in along line about six rods from thom, toward shore. McEwan called to Smith, aund both ran toward tho orack for the purposo of escaping to tho shoro, but boforo they reached it tho crack, 2t first discovery only 6 or 8 Iuches wido, had in- orensed £o much that it was DINOSSILE TO JUMP ACROSS IT. When it was ovident that thore were mo moans of gotling across the crack otherwise, cEwan and Smith set_abont chiopping out n cuke of ico largo onough to hold them, whicl they proposed to pele across tho open water with their apear-poles. Doforo thoy hnd half cut out tho cako, however, they saw that they wero chifting into deeper water, and a trial roved that they were already beyond reach of Ennum with thoir spear poles. The castaways thon abandoned all hope of getting to shore at that point, and started ovor tho icc to tho weat, in the befiof that it had not, yet separated from the shore along the west, ‘Tho ico which had been broken looso hed also broken into many pieces, some large and somo emall. The ptece upon which the men wero was TIVE OR BIX ACREs IN EXTENT. Passiug ou to tho westward, they went overcakes gomotimes not over 6 or 8 foet square, Finnl- Iy tho ico became 80 much broken up thnt they could no longer procecd. Then they (ried to pole & coke towstd tho shore, using their spear poles for tho purpose, whon tho water was go decp thnt to resch bottom they ind Lo put their orms into the water up to the elbows. But aftor lalf an bour of this doaperate work thoy wero compolled %o abandon all effort nnd malte theit precarious way back to the larger cakes of fce in the main body, This attempt was continued into the night of Wednesday, which was fortunately s buight moonlight one, Yhe men found a sscnure feco of jco aud lay down for the night, putting Theis sleighi on thy widivatd Sides aados oitls Ing & tolerably comfortable night with the sid of blankets, During Wednesdny night and Thuraday the wind blew steadily from the soutuwest. This wua in THE BECOND DAY, snd still thoy were drifting toward the Charity Tslands, as nearly as they tould jndge. The ico did not veom to wasto uny on Thursday, but it was evidont that it was not strengthoning, Neither of tho men had eaton suything sinco comng on the ice on Wedueadny. Thoy had with Lfinm tho three raw fish which they had caught before the ico broke away, but thoy had no ¢raving for food. ‘W'his day thoy again moved to tho wostward, to got as near the west shore 08 possiblo, in the hopo that tho ice would ulti- wately drift that way, On Friday afternoon, THE TIIRD DAY, whilo moving toward the north shore, noross the drifting cakes of lce, McEwau's hand-sloigh, which Lio wna using to cross from one cake to another, went down between two cakes, and ha way instantly in tho water. Smith, however, was socurely on o cake, and reached his spoar- ‘polo to Lis comrade and holped him out, petty thoroughly wot. ‘'he drift was still eastward, and on Saturday, TIE FOURTI DAY, they had drifted so far in that direction that thoy eame in sight of Fish Poiut, Bxcept that of Wednesday, tho nights had not been very cold, and Saturday mght wae not uncomfortably to. Sunduy, THE FIFTH DAY, was the worst they bad experiencod. Tho storm was not of long continuauce, but it way violeut, and the warm rain cut holes in the ice all about the castaways, a8 largo 8 a mon's bead. Tha calto upon which they wero had weakencd, until it was only about threo inches 4u thickness. The Leavy gale mado & considorable sea, which broke aud ground up the ica on the edges of the groat field, and must soon have done the same to the picco on which the men were, had the galo con- tinued. Suddonly, however, the wind shifted to tho nortbwest, 2nd the ice begun to join up oloser together. Thero was o stendy wind after tho storm, and they found picces brenking off from tha ¢ake ou which thoy wero floating. THE GIXTI DAY, Monday, thoy stavted for the oast shore of tho bay, huving boen diifted 8o fur in that divection that they thought they could soouest roach the shioro thiere, After gomng about three milen thoy cawne ncross & small ducking boat fast in the ice. This they did not try to move, but traveled on tli 12 at night, when they found that the wind bad parted tho body of ice, aud further progress in tha direction was barred. Fhey rewirned to tho wostward, and taking u{) the ducking-boat on their way, ondeavored to break their wav through in it to tho west shore, towards which thoy were then drifting, Ono of them, how- ovor, got futo tho water, and fnally thoy were obliged to give it up aguin. Then they resigned themaolves to wait for cold wenther onough to stiffen up tho ico, or to make now ico betwoon them and tho shora. Ou Bunday they saw in the ditection of the Saginaw light-houss tho smake of n stesm vos- ecl, and thought then that their fricuds were ot Inst apprised of their eituation and waro making an effort to save thom, ‘Fhiv was the amoke of tho tufi MeDonald, which went out some miles ‘beyond tho light-house and returned when the ntorm canie on, hiaving discoverad nothing, he tug's smoke was peculinr, and they rocognized it at once a8 tho st sign thoy had received thnt auything of their fate was known at Lome. T'he hopo which this sight inspired of coursa died away duriug Monduy, whoen nothing more of the Lind was gecn, Monday night brought the eold, freozing tom- perature which the castawzys had beon looking and hoping for, and on the morning of Tuosduy, which would have beon their, BEVENTIL DAY, they found that ths old ico bud not only been materially strengtlicned and frozon togother, but thut u sheot of now ice hnd been formed atrotchs g off to the west eliore, Hore was deliveranco, aud noue too soon, 'Though tho night before bad heen Irieudly in itu frooziug, it bad also buen fatler of porifl than the others, T'horo must hwve been a atorn_outside, for during the night tho enkes of foe woro conatantly eraoking and breaking. Once she ealio upon which thoy wera broko within two feet of thom ax thoy lay upon it in their bluukots, ‘Thoy wore compelled to move three times during the uxi;m, 1 consp- quence of the fee Uronkiug nosr them, Wharn at e it broke within two feet of them, ay ahove ngted, they got up and did 110t again attempt jo tio down lorest, Thoice was driven lnwayd about u mile (Iurm(i {hiy time, About 7 o'clock Tuedwy mornin, agnin on the move, and got to the litrle bout bofors mentloned. Thera thoy left everything but their sleirh and speur-poles, With these they struck out for tho ice-bridge for deliver- anco botweon thom and the shoro, which had formed during the night. 16 was six miles to dry land, and the new fce was only sbout threo- fuirths of au juch iu thickucss, bhut it was vory tough, They went in uln{;lu fllo ovor it as rapid- 1y a8 possible, nud it bont and snnk henonth their feet at overy stop, But it did uot brosk fatally, though Smith weut through once, aud was helpod out by Mokwan with his spear pole, they were “When near the ‘Pinconning bar they tosoried somo Indinns on' tho ico near the whoro, and £0on ono of them skatod ont to MoEwan, who was aliond of Smith, As soon sa the Indien oamo'up McEwan got upon his lisud-sloigh aud bado tho Indinn . FUSH 1IN TO THE KHORE, Tho rod man did #o, and Meliwan sent him hack for Bmith, who waa brought in tho samno way on shoro again, The wondorful enduraues of tho costaways was suddenly ot an_ond, Thoy lad eaten not a mouthful since Wednesday until Tuesday morning, whon thoy took about one- uartor of n pound cach of the raw flsh which they lind carried throughont thetr driftings, Thoy liad nat folt wenlt up to the timo of got- ting ashore, Then thelr strength gave out, and thoy \ero barely ablo to walk to tho homso of Mr. Josoph Monol, 1Jere thoy wera furnishod with victuals, MoRwvan ate spariugly, but Smith gavo way to the weakened cravings of appotito, and ato rathor imprudently. It was 10 o'olock I'nesday morning when thoy renchod Menol’s houso, and at 13" they woro talos on_an ox-sled to Plnconning Station. Thero MoEwan tolographad tho glad nows of tho final rescue, which wont over tho eity liko nilash yostorday aftornoon, Thoso two heroes of one of the most wondor- ful advonturcs on record, nt bnlf-post 10 last night, were in na comfortablo coutition ns conld bo oxpegted, Smith i suflaring from ovoronting on flrst landing, but Moliwan was apparently a8 good s ovor, saving his frost-bitton foot, " Of courso, howover, both men feal o woakneas which thoy did not notico wo long as tho strugglo for life lastod. Loss of n Roscning Parey 0of SixX Monas Capt. Burrington’s Perilons Vovage, 2 y Cit atole, Jai, 8, From the Bay CALCX':;?'"I‘,hu' %28 b Saturday might word was sent by telegraph to Tawas Oity, aaking assistance to Tescue tho two youug mon that were catriod out in the hay on tho foo from tho mouth of Saginnw River. " Ne- ply waas returned that assistance conld not bo lnnduml from Tawas. This information beeom- Ing known at Alabaster, & TARTY OF VOLUNTEERS was immodiately orgnulzod‘cuumsyng of Lewis ‘Hutton, William Mitolioll, Cape, William D, Wil- son, John Soderman, Guatave Eman, and Otto Whilbury, who put in ordor the fishing boat be- longing fo William Mitcholl, and loft Alabnster ou Sunday motniug, intondiug to visit Charity Tulauds and vleanlty, in scarcl of tho misuing men. About 2 o'clock p. m. they were LAST BERN about four miles below Alabaster, heading for the Oharities, ~ Abthig timo the wind snifted suddonly fram tho southwest, whenco it bad beon blowing strong all day, to the northwest, acoompanied with violont rain, whioh soon turn- ed Into suow, It doss not appear satisfactorily that tho bont was aeon aftor that, slthough tho general supposition was that tho purty reached Charity Inland. MMonday, tho Irlonds and families of the absent oues began to fear for their safety, which fear almost verged into the cortainty of loes as the hours passed and no tidings camo of the absent, Yosterday porsons went below Josoph Mad- ison's, HOPING FOR TIDINGY, and learned from Madisou that the bont had not been soon from there, whilo it could hardly have been otherwiso thou soen it it hnd appronched the Obarity Islands. 'Po-dny senrch bias been in- stituted along tha bench for avy articles koown to bave busu taken with the party likoly to come ashoro iu caso of disaster. This search bus re- sulted in FINDING THE TOAT CAPSIZED a fow rods from the beach at Whetstone Point, At this Jute our it is impossibloe to give full par- ticulars, To-morrow the boat will bo rescied from the fco and tho shove thoroughly searched for tho missing onos. B, I'. Biurn, Ji, Lxperienced lakg men say that the only galo suficient to cauke tho loss of swch o boab as these Alsbastor mou hud, was thut of Sunduy afternoou. It will bosceu by the above dispacch that the first report that the boat was soen nfter the suddon squall of Sunday was not correet, or at lonst that tho probabilities arongainst it. On tho contrary, it uow seems nlmoet certain that tho bravo fellows mot their duom very soou after starting out on thelr errand of enccor to Me- Ewaen aod Smith, HRARCHING FO THE BODIES, A dispaich trom Alubaster last evoniug stated that messengers had beon sent Lo Tawas for iron with which to sbeath a bost so thotit could bo run through tho ico without injury, o7 that a party wos to start in a bost so fitted, to sonreh slong the shoro and in the drifting ice for tue bodlus of the lost, 1t was expected Lhat this nrty would start out to-day. Men havo also {;cun started slong tho beach to look for the bodies or anything that may have boon lost by the mon, CAPT, RUMITNGTON'S VOYAOE, Among the soveral partics of rescuers which started from this city on Salurdny, immediately upon the first alum for tho suléty of McEwan aud Simith, was one consisting of Capt, liltey Borrington, and Mesars. William Fox and Robert Coriell. They took a small kiff in a wagoun, and started for tho bay shore, inteuding to launch the 8KIIT from tho shore-icd ut o favorablo point, and go in quest of tho missing meb, This party nado what is probably TILE MOST PERILOUS YOYAOR ever attempted on Sogiuaw Bay, We give o brief varrative of their adventuros, as follows : Copt. Burrington's party left_this cily 80 lato Saturday that they ot to the bay,shore, somo miles from tho moutk of the river, too late to attempt anything that (Snturdn?-) night, Sunday they weut along the shoie to Big Croel, sookin a placo trom shich thoir siill could bo Inunched. ‘Iho ico which was along the shiore was 8o broken that it could not bo crossed, and thoe mass of #mall cakes wns 80 much of an obsiruction thnt u boat could not bo rowed through jit, At Big Creek, tho boat was sent back, but tho party went ou noxt day, intending to got & boat when- over a favorable chanco was prosentedl for using it. In this way thoy flually renched Pigeon Riv- er, and lioro found that n bout could bo got out into the bay. A muu who ownod a suilbont agroed to let it go, but finally declined to do so, and Capt, Burrington and kiy party found that thoy wore UNABLE TO GET A BOAT for love or money. 'They tricd to buy one, but invain. Dotermiiied not'to b balked in this woy, it was resolved that the uext morning, Tuesdny, thoy would go to a point whero o u-nsv- net Loat was known to bo kept, and if thoy could not then bire o bont, to takio one at all Lnzurds, aud mako thoir proposed uttompt to rescus Lho castanvoys, They got the fishermnn's boat and Inunched it, the ico ulong the shore heing favor- able at tha placo, This was st Oak: Point, Mr. Fox was compelled 1o withdraw from tho Imrl.y here, on sccotint of business matters at home, and tho uucertainty about (he duration of tho proposod voynge. Lhis made another slight dolay, but at Just twostout fellows wore hired to take places in the hoat, aud the party, thus mado up of Burrington, Coriell, and the two strangors, started OFF FOR TIE CIARITIES, 1 wos not o promising undertuking at the ont- set, the prospect of pulling a hoavy boat across Sagivaw Bay in nudwintor not boing an invitiy Job, even should the weathor b favorable, It was necessary topull directly out frowm the shoro to clear tho great flold of ico, bofore maling for the islaudy, “The mon bent to their task with resolution, and the bort went straight out until it wus out of sight from tho whove. Getting arouud tho lco field, Capt. Burrington, who wna directing tho courao, madastraight for the Chari- ties, and, after © JAND PULLING for three hours and ton minutes,the party landed ontheisland, A thorough search was made about the ikland and the icoon tho. shores, but of courso without fiuding any tarces of tho miss- ing men. Tho distanco from Onk Foint by the route they hud tuken was about 16 miles, ~Hay- ing untisfied thomuolves thut nothing was to bo learned of the fato of McEwan und Smith at tho Istand, the bout was started on its return, and hore was ; WIERE TUE WORK CAMP 1N, The distanco rowed ou tho return was uot s ront 18 ou Lhe voyago out, being oulynbout 14 miles, the ico having shifted 8o as to mako o shortening of the route Frnuuunblo, The wenther, hiowover, grow forbi idding befora the tp was hulf avcomplished, und thore wero signy afsuow, If this hnd como, it would havo muda it all thomorost guesn-work in trying to find tho shore. “Tlio men Worked ub tho onra with & wilt now, and thoy boar unmistakuble signs of their labor, All of thom nuderstood tho_situation, howover, and no numlnlninm wero mudo, Tinal- ly tho shoro was roached, the roturn trip having aceupled thren hours und thirty minutes, or i fonger tine thun the outward voyage, though tho distanco wuw considorubly lons, 1t wan o buzurdons undorinkin, and tha like has probubly nover tompted on the bay, T ] ~—Gen, Cunter Toports that, In_throo monthe, While on the Yellowntone Bxpedition, ho killed, Witk s singlo yifle, forty-onu autelopes, rour ullatoos, four elle, four buokeuil doer, throo Amoriown docr, und ' two whito wolves, bosidos Keewo, prulile’ chigkons, and othor fostherod tfumo Inlarge numpors, 1o also saya tht the avorsgo distance gt wiich tho forty-ono aute- lopes wora brought down oxceodod 260 yaras by astunl measurement, and that ho raroly obtained a ghot atan unielopo under 160 yariy, while tho ;:;x‘;‘:: oxtonded from - that “disfance up to 630 , ot tho best, ofore boon at- KANSAS. The Sooficld Scandal and Res- ignation. Pomeroy’s Case Called, and No Pomeroy Presont. His Bond Forfeited, and a Writ far His Arrest Issued. I, 8 Kalloch Rejoins the Church and TForswears Offce-Seeking, Spectal Correspondenceas The Chicago Tribune. % Lzavenwonir, Ran,, Jan, 6, 1674, ‘When 1t was tolographed to Tuz TrisuNe that Tnlled States District Attorney Soofleld, of Kan- 808, lind beon dotootod in AN UNPLEABANT INTRIGUE with ex-Sonator Pomeroy, an indignsnt denlal in chorna camo up from tho party-orgavs of this Btato, and all sorts of wicked motives were at- tributed to tho correspondent for chrovicling such rumor. Mr. Pomeroy himsolf supplied cor- rospondents of loading Wostern papors with {n- formation which, ho climead, would cloar up the wholo senndal, and set himeolf and Mr. Scofleld all right ngaln. I saw the Pomoroy lottors which Capt. Pough brought from Wasbiugton. The lottors wero genuine, and the ox-Senator's auto- graph was duly aflixed to ench. As doninls the lotters amonnt to nothing, oxcopt to show thm_. tho Sonator. will lave to ollow his casé in Topeka to take core of itsclf, so that o may &ivo his undivided attontion to tho Conway case m Washington. Ienco the Scofleld complica- tions are no bettor u nderstood wow than bofore Pomeroy wroto his lottora. The Afchison Champion, which speals by the card when it sponks of Yonator Ingalls, sunouuces that the 1 RESIGNATION OF R, BCORIELD has been demauded. ‘his anuouncoment wag not unexpected in Kangas, though the exnot ex— tent of Scofield's offonding s not known to tho owsidors ; and by outsiders I moan Lhoso not ac- censiblo to the socret couferonces of Mr, Ingalls and the Ioderal oficoholders of his ragimo, e, Pownoroy, it is alloged, has boon supplying Alr. Scotield with mouey, and giviog him prom- ises of money. 1IN JUSTIFIOATION, it Is offered that Scoileld is performing legal sor- vico for hia elient, Br, Pomeroy, Butb what legal servico bias Ar, Scotleld ougeged to perform that would inducs District-Attorucy Ryan, of Shau- aice Couuty, to throaten to resign his Assistant United Btates-Attorneyship under Soofield 0o that lo could prosccute tho Pomeroy onso without trammeling bimselr ? It is well onough known that Ryuu did threaton to resign ; that all tho Federal olliceholders in XKansus woro rampant with indignatiou over what was tormed *‘Scoleld’s pertidy ;" and that United Statea Muarshal ough wont to Washing- ton in hos basto to sottle tue alMair. Aliat ouco TIY SCANDAL WAS HUSHED, and tho information conveyed from one to an- oher thint Senator Iugalls “hud domauded Sco- fiold's reaignution. L'ho organa that wero Joud- est in denuncintion of correspondeuts for deal- ing in rumor aro now for poace, good will, and o clnge iu tho United States District Attor~ neystip. I do mnot bollevs mow, and nover Lave bolioved, that Sonator Ingalls was iu oy way iuvolved in this scandul, although men in'this State, who would glory tu his downfall, bavo industriously employod their political skill 10 munke suspicion cling to him, TOMENOY'S CALY was calied in the Dustrict Court of Shauneo Gonnty yestorday. 'The Stato indicated a desire to procoed ab once with the triul, * Llie defonse aslied for a thirty duys' continuance, which tho Court vofused to grant. The Stato then asked a forfeiture of Pometroy’s bond, which was or~ dered, togethier with A WRIT OF ARREST for the ex-Senator. Judge Morton is avidently determined Chiof Pomoroy shull bo tried; abd Attorsey Ryan fealy the snme way. Public sen- tment demunds Pomeroy's trial, not exactly for Lis punishiment, but to ascertain also who sold out to him, and what was pmid for votes, An interesling chapter of political history will be lostif Pometoy manages to elude, by Jlogal techuicality or thight to Europe, tho triol on tho briboryindictments. A REQUISITION J1AS DEEN MADE upon the oflicors of the District of Columbia for the delivery of Pomeroy nto the hands of an ofticer who leaves ‘fopcka to-day, If the ex- Sountor is slrowd, ho will flco tho country, as did Genot, aud leave his bondsmen to make good the loss, “ho bood only calls for 20,000, and Pomeroy could batter afford to pay that than “tako any chauco of trial in Kausas ot this time, Still, I thivk Pomeroy will appear in Topoks on tho 20th inst. rather than leave the United States, He s u wily schomor, and may propare agamo of eomo kind yet thnt will procnre an~ otherdelay, Bince justico is blind, she is easily deceived. ‘Lhe Legislature convencs noxt Tuesday, and THE BENATORIAL CONTEST will begin with the opening of tho scssion. It will be o serub-race, loss oXxciting than previons cnmpaigns of the kind, aud altogother mors creditable, At this time, Judgo Kiugman, of “Lopelia; Col. W. A. Phillips, of Salina; and Col. Plumb, of Emporia, ave in tho leading places, If tho Grangers do not bring out n candidato, no ‘anpirant will receivo 20 votes on the first Dallot. Biduoy Clarke is working up_ 2 combination of tho forces opposed to the Ropublican party to securo tho organization of the House of Repre- sontatives, If the task wore in betlor hauds, it would stand more sliow of success. T. B. KAGLOCK has forsworn office-soeking and political cancns- iug, and rejoived the Buptist Chwrch. Ho asks for grace to keop out of polities and out of bad company ;: aud we all trust it will be given to him. Keltoch is o fiuo orator, and, withal, companionable gentlomaw, and just the kind of perity, uud keep it thore, o preached his first sormon, since hiis rounion with the chureh, in Lauwronce. night beforo Ingt, and was listened to by an immenso audienco. e will probably tuke tho placa of pastor of the Firat Baptist Church of this city, "It is thought that he s honost and sincore in professions of reform, aud I predict o great future for him in the chureh, Losa RANGE. THE NEW ALBANY TRAGEDY. “he Eerrors That Precoded fte=Lust Zlisy of the Ruving Ilusband--Tho Wounded Wifes Story. From the Louisville Courier-Journal, Jan, 4, Dry, Clara Parker, of Now Albauy, tho woman who was 8o badly wounded by her liisband, who Itlled himself Wodnesdsy morning, wasg much better yesterday, and hor recovery is assurod. Ad Mrs. Parkar, until yestorday, liss beon unable to givo uny full particulars of the bloody tragedy in which she was the most prominent flgure, and ay it hes boon ourrently rumored for tho lnst threae doys that thore wus & third party in tho tragedy, our Now Albany roporter, yosterday, visitod Mrs, Parker for tho purpose of obtaining from hor a full aud olear statomont of the facts connected with the bloody affair. la fonnd hor rosting easily on o lounge in the kitehon of the house whoro'tho suleide occurred, Mr, and Mra, Hardy, tho fathor and mother of Mra, Parkor, woro both presont, and wore, of course, much concerncd at the condition of their unuuhfur. Upen au invitation by Mra, Hardy, the Courier-Journal reportor took a sent by the #ide of the bed and asked Mrs, Parkor {f Iv would hnrt hor to talk and toll him all about the shoot- ing, Bho replicd that sho would tell him all she could romoembor, and mado, Iu substance, the followlng statoment : ¢ Johnny, my husband, was always jealous of mo, aud watchod me whorever I wont, I could not leaye tho house for a minute without lie would follow me, lio has throatened to tuko my life u groat many times, but I did not fonr him until lately, Ifo commenced ubusing me Tuosduy night, aud charged mo with boing fulse to him, nud that T bud boen off with an- othor man tbat day. T triod to pavify him and zet bim in a good humor, but that enly seomed ‘o ‘mako him worse. 0o was. very mad, and told mo that ho would kill me and himself, *¢ When I found out that I could not quiot or enln him down by tutking to him I went to bed, ne I was wick, and had- been sick all dag. Johu still kopt on tullking to _me and Imu(uc up und down the floor, making all kinds of threats. I eonld not wlevp, uud uboni 3 o'clook In the morniug I was tukon with o faluting spell, Aftoc 1 canio to, bo luid down on the sido of the bod. but did not go to sleep, I would dozo off in s kind of u sicep, but ho would awuken me evor onco in awhile ; talking in & wild way, finally foll ustoup, Dlust have slopt about an hour, 4 I Lhink it was about half-past 6 o'vlock when T awakened, My hurband wus nwake, and sald, plensantly, ¢Good moraing, Clare. T eald man Lo place a ckiurch on the high road to pros-+ ‘ aunual report, Jan, 19, me there wora 101 boys ! Good morning, Johnny,! He then commencod |' to quarrol with me agaln, and sald ho intondoed to kill moand than kil himself. 1 was frightoned oL the m{ ho talked, and wanted to got up, o wonldu't lot mo. Ho noxt 2"“ his hand undor the mattross and drow ont tho revolver and pointed it at mo, saying, * Now Is {uur timo,’ and firod. o ball atruck mo in iho cheolt, I Jumped out of hed and ran toward the dnor. Whilo I was trying to get tho door open, ha onughit mo ana’ draggod mo back to bod ngain and placod me in it, I thon satd *Kiss mo, John- ny,’ and ho kissed mo the second timo, I then commenced tolose consclonsnars, and hoard n roport of & pistol, Xt sounded tomo like it wna s long wav off, Whon I came to, my husband was lying In tho position in which ho was found. 1 wad 60 badly scared and work {hat I could hardly got out of tho iouse to give the alarm.” ‘I'ho_publioc know the rest. Our repartor nakod Mrs. Parker If 8he waa not over the river tho dny bofore the tragedy. 8ho told him she wan not, at firah, but on Iis closoly questioning Tior ghie admittod that aho had boon over to Lous Isvilio to got somo sowing from hor sistor, Mrs, Motz, who residos on Portlaud avenuo, near Bix- toonth stroot. Bhodid ot go to hersiators, though, and_gives a8 an oxouso that sho waa' #atrald hor husband would shoot her.” How and why ehie oxvected hor husband to_ shoot hor thero wo do not know, 8ho stoutly denjod that sho was in comusny with o man, ‘and did_not n[‘)ronr io romembor the intorviow on tho Portland whart which sho had with ber husband when aho was In uompnu{ with the strauge man, Sho blamos much of tho affair on the littlo adopted boy, who, sho states, told bad storics on hor. ‘Thoro {8 littlo doubt but Lhat John B, Parkor shiot hia wife, It Is known that ho loanod hus re- volvor tho day beforo tho killing, and that om tho aftornoon” provious to the tragody Lo hor- rowed 25 centsat a neighboring storo, telling the storekeopor that o could pay him tho next day ot 10 o'clock, ““if Lo was ‘alive ;" dwelling with poculinr and suggostivo emphufn upon ¥ if lio wgs alive.,” GRICULTURE. Scssion of the Indiann Stdte Bonrd of Agricutture in Indianapolls, Special Dispateh to The Chicago T'ribune, INpanNAroLIs, Iud., Jan, 8.—At the foronoon sosuion of tho State Doerd of Acgrienlture, the subject of harmonious action betweon this city aud tho State camo up, whon pretty abarp tallk was indulged in. The fact ia that, throughout tho ontiro wession, Indianapolis, wio shoulders £100,000 of guarantos fund, £00,000 of which has already beon paid or secured, huss boon utterly ignorod,— loft cloar out in tho cold. Tho offort of the Bonrd of Trado to get a busincss man from the city oleotod u member of the Board resulted in n disastrons failure, a3 did also the attempt to so- cnro tho olection of an Indianapolis mon as Gen- arnl Buperintendont. The guarantecs feol vory sore, liaving beou completely sold out. Gov. Hendricks minde o _short spocoh, advising unity or_nction, and prodicting good results. Rosolntions wers sdopted ordaring the Exposi- tion to o held in councetion with ths noxt State Thair; providiug for statlstical exbibits of tho farm'products of tho Stato; wrging the necessity of Jower rates of raflroad transportation; also tho foltowing : Rtesnlved, That it s the duty of the momtbers of the State Board of Agriculturs {0 uae all the proper and legal means iu their power to provout the extouslon by Congress of the various patents dow about expiringon fewing-muchines, bolloving, a3 we do, that tho interest of the commuuity at large will bo greatly injured by further coutinuunce of the monopolios for sewing-mae chines thot have ao long been o burden upon tho plo, and thiat » capy of these resolutions Lo aent tocack of our Representallves in Congress, The election of ofiicora resnlted as followa : Prosidont, Johu Sutherland, of Laperte ; Vice- Prosident, William Crem, of Andorson ; Becro- tary, Aloxander Horon, of Indianapolis 3 Treas- uror, Carlos Dickson, of Indianapolis ; Genoral Buperintendent, Thomas V. Mitchell, of Now Satem, All of thom aro re-eleotions oxcopt tho Iast, A, B, Claypool, of Connorsvillo, wus ro- eleetod Trusteo of Perdno Uulvurslll. Tho Stato Horticultural Soclety adjourned to- day at noon. Tho session was devoted to routine business, Ohio State-Xonrd of Agriculturc~-Tho Agricaltural Gollege. Covuxous, Obto, Jan. 8,—Tho State Bonrd of Agriculturo organizod this morning by electing L. G. Dolauo, of Ross, President ; 8impson Har- mount, g¢ Tuscola County, Tressurer ; J. I, Kitppars, normlpnnamg ocrotary ; 1L, ‘B, Bubbitt, Financial Bocretary. Tho State Board will not decida on tho location for the Stato Fuir until their meeting, Feb. 17. The indications aro that Columbus will bo tho placo sclected. Tho Board of Trusteos of tho Agricultural Qollego to-day elected V. B. Horton, Presidont 5 Juwnes Bullivan, Sccrotary, and H. J, Babbiit, Tyonsurer. T. O. Jonas,d. T, Buchtil, and AL, M. Munson wore chosen Executive Committea. This p. m. the inaugural oxercigos of the Col- lego were hiold in the Senate Chambor, TRdward Orten, Prosidont of the Faculty, delivered tho insugural addross. The T'rusteos formally do- Jivored the koga of tha College to tho Faculty. Gov. Noyes made a few remurks, speaking en- courn,':iugl‘{{or tho prospects of the College, aud rocommending it to the peoplo of Ohio. CANADA, Assembling of the Ontario Legisiae turcesSpeech of LicutweGove Criwe ford, smeeial Disputeh to The CMeago Tribune. TonoxTo, Ont., Jan, 8.—Yesterday ot 8 a'clack in the aftornoon, the Ontario Logislature way eollod togothor. Licut.-Gov, Crawford camo down, accompnuied by his Aide-de-Camp, and callod upon tho Houso to oloct its Speaker, in- stead of the Hon. J. G. Currio, resigned. After s loaving tho throne, the cloction®of Speaker was proceedod with, and resulted in tho selco- tion of Rupert M, Wells. The House then ad- journed till 8 o'clock to-day, at which time the Lioutenant-Governor came in state, and formal- ly opened the Mouas, dellvoring an address, It ia seldom that that Chamber of the House con- tains such o graud display of the eliteof the city, The Cabinot Miniaters and s large majority of thoe mombors were present. Tho llon.,” A. Maclkenzio, Promier of tho Domiuton, the Ion, L. Blako, and other distinguishod gontlomon inoluding Judges, Sonators, and clergy, ocoupio positions on tho floor of the Chambor. Tho gallorios wers crowded to oxcess with ladies and gontlomen. ‘The specch congratulatos the Touse upon the proxpority of tho Proviuce during the last year, u8 manifested in the completion of so many rail- ways, goneral railway outorprive, and public industries, It alludod to tho nugmented immi- gration durivg tho past year, and the brigut prospect of tho Yrusuut year, Awmong the bills to be introduced isono for iu- creasing the purityof elections, voting by ballot, and the oxtension of the franchise. Allusion wag mado in tho apeoch to the efforts of the Ontario_and Quebes Boundary Commis- #ion, appaiuted to sottle this long-disputed ques~ tion ; also to tho progress of tho Northwest Boundary Commisaton, and the olaims of On- tario in thematter, After the nuenal formalities, the Houso adjourned, It is bolieved that tho wession will be a short obo. hetsad ccpist/ b SR INDIANA REFORN SCHOOL. Snwecial Diapatoh to The Chicago T9{bune. INpIANAPOLIS, Ind,, Jan. 8.—1he anuual re- port of the managers of tho 8tuto Reform School wad made to-day, Tho roport says tho total amount exponded in repairs and improvemonts hos been $10,497.81, At the time of tho last in the institution ; admitted Juring the year, 78; dischargad, 2; cseaped, 4 ; deconsed nono; out on ticket of loave, §3; numbor remalning Jun~ uary, 1874, 210, he roport continues: ‘‘Good health bhay prevaited ; disciplino has boen woll maintalned ; and wo heliove work has progressed sutisface torily, and that the institution lina bLeen effoct- ing, in o grout degree, tho object of its orection,” The amount expouded during tho past year was 864,244.76, Aftor deducting for ropuirs and improvomonty, a Lalauco Tomaing of §46,747.55 above tho oxponses of tho institution, e Stopped Blis ‘Train and Suved o Boy from Drowning. From the Leavenworth Commereial, Jan, 3, Wo are mdshted to X, L. Taylor, Ex., mait agent on tho L. L. & G, Railrond, for tho follow- Jug partionlnrs ; On Now Year's Day, while Cupt. Duniols’ train was moving at the rate of tweuty miles an bour, just as thoy thundered past Lako Joy, about one-half milo south ot Garnots, a Doy who had been skating_on the lalko was dia- covorad by the engmoer, Will Lorne, to break through theico and slnk out of Hhfilh In a womont, forgetting uvnr{vthlng elso but thut a Tollow-Lelng's 1ifo wau jn danger, ke whistled down broaks, reversed his eugine, and gavo tho alarm, While tho train was Yot in motion, he nud novoral presengors lesped to the resous, A gentlemun by the nomo of W, L. Parkinson, n luwyor of Ottaws, waded in, the fco breakin im 23 ho wont, up {0 hia armpits, su ‘RAILROADS. Synopsls of tho Report of {he Railroad Commisslonor of Minnesofn. Extract from tho Mossago of the Gov- ernor of Missouri. Tho Rntirond Commissionor of Min. nesotn, Tho annual roport of tho Nailroad Commis- slover of Minnosots, A.J, Edgerton, as synop- sizod by tho 8t, Paul Press, prosonts the follow- ing facts: E Tho' Commissionor makes tho nstounding statomont that 13,200,000 ncres, or ovér one- fourth of tho wholo aron of the Stalo, havo boon granted lo railrond companios, eithor by tho Genoral Govornmont or thaStato. T'lus amount 18 mado up of 11,260,000 ncras grunted by Con- gress and 1,050,000 by tho Blate; 6,616,000 serea havo slvondy beon ' deodod: to tho come panios, Of this amonnt {ho companios admit contracts of salo to tho oxtent of 660,028 actes. Add to theao traots disposod of in large quanti- tios which ave passed herotofore as holonging to tho companies, and have only recontly boon placed on the tax lists, and the aggrogato swolls to 1,434,364 ncros. Tho amount re- ortod ns rocoived from land salos is $2,328,047, Eikimating for' conooalad atles, bo. weie b total $7,313.483 received from wnles and oon- tracts of ralo, Within tho year tho companios have sold 117,000 ncres at ni nverago of 0,45 pec nore, ranging from $2.60 to $20 por noro. ‘Fho Commisionor notices thn fact that quite s roduction of Lho rates of transportation liss takon placo dnrluF tho laut fve voars, and quotoes testimony to tho fact that tho goneral and fneyi~ tablo tondoncy of railroal oporations is to lower rates for all classes of service, e s Omitting tho Northorn Pacifle, which has fait- ed to raport the Minnosota Division by itsolf, aud the 8t, Paul & Pacifle, which is {n a vory incomploto stato, overy milo of road in this “State, with theso excoptions, Tep- rosonts on the averaga £12,886 of stock fasued aud £34,946 of dobt. ‘e growy carnings for the past yeor aro §5.630,104, an fuoroaso of 23 por cont more than last yoar. Of this amount, 25 er cent {s from pasgengers, and tho rest from rolght, maily, and oxpross, The Commissionor calla attention to the fact that nearly overy railrond company in tha State bins refused to comply with the State law of 1871 regulating the ratos of freight aud fare, The Commissiover concludos the text of his roport with an ablo and interosting discussion of the absorbing quostion of the duy—What aro the royer remedics forreasonablo ratos? 1oshows hat any reliance on tho offest of competition is illusory. Experienco lns domonstrate ol that Stevonson's opinion that “ Whera con- wolidation s possiblo, competition is imposal- Dblo,” {4 a truiem 80 fur as it rolates to sailronds. o cites tho experienco of Lngland, and os- peelally tho testimony of Capt. T'vlar, who de- clures compotition tobs amyth., Whorover it has exiated at all, it has resulted ouly in closer com- Dbiuntion. The tendency of all railroad corpora~ tious in Eugland is to complot amalgamation,— absorption in one huge monopalv, The only computition poasiblo is betweon railways and in- Inud or sen navigation, This E"fi“’“ expericnco is confirmed by that of all our oldor States, Un~ uostionably, ‘then, wo must look olsewhora than to competition for rensonable rail- road rutes, —‘The Commissioner then pro- ceeds (o discues tho question, Bhall tho Stalo purchase, or coudemn undor the ight of ommont domain, the railronds, and run them in tho intorost of the peoplo? Tho Com- wissionor objacts to this on the ground of its contralizing toudencics, and of Lho cost to the Stato of Burchumn or condemning the roads. T'he cost by amicable purchase ho estimates nt 836,790,000, or by condomantion, 287,560,000, Ho oqually objocts to condemniug tho toad-bod aud allowing persons or companies to run their own trains, which wns Gov, Davis® suggostion. "T'o the plan of o mixod ownership, ndvocated by Mr. Adams, ouo ot tho Itailroad Commissioners of Massachusetts, and by the Press, Lo also objects, ns inapplicablo to tho conditions oxiat- ing In thin State, though it may operato vory well inBelgium, whoro it originated, or iu Massachu-~ aotta, -1l profors this to the possession of all the lines ; though this hnzardous remedy is only to bo tried whon all other means of raliof and re- form hava beon oxhausted. flo concludes that onr only rollef for the present lies in logislation, Reforring to tho faultinoss of the maximum rate lnw of 1871, lte says it was not intendod o8 a flual settloment of rates, but to test and sottle the priveiplo whatlior thie Legislaturo bas the power to fix rates of railroad transportation, I'bis power was aftirmed to exist in the Logisln- turo by & rocont decikion of the SBuprome Court, so far ny thoso railronds are concerno whose charters do not grant to their corporate authorities the right to flx their own ratos. Ho sys tho Winonn & St, Poter Company havo ear- rled the question to tho United Statos Suprome Coutt, whoso decision will settlo tho t‘gcsflon onoe way or tho other. Meanwhile the Commis- sloner venturcs tho rather untenable suggestion that tho Stato Constitution Las ropealed pre- oxiating contraots, which is o gaod deal ahsurd. Thore 18 moro practicabls forco in the next sug- gostion. Under the common law all common- carriors aro probibited from charging oxtor- tiopate rates. DBut tho ovidonco as to what ars roasonable rates is exolusive- ly in tho posscesion of tho railroad companies. Under such circumstances, tho Commissioner thinks a yulo of avidenco should be adopted which would shift the burden of proof on tho companics ; and that meanwhile rates es- tablishiod by tho Legislaturo should bo prima fucio evidence in our courts that they are reason- ablo, Tho railroad companies will then have tho privilogo of robutting this logal prosumption by l)mnu ‘Wwhich are oxcluslvoly in their possossion. € this is dono, bo suggests that the saveral roady e olassifled, ns what would bo s liberal rato for ouo road would e ruinous to another, But, s tho powor of tho State to rogulato rates is confined to our own borders, the Commission. or looks to Congrossional interventlan for rom- odizs for oxtortion practiced on inter-State rail- ways connecting us with the soabonxd. The Governor of Missouri, * Gov. Woodsou, of Migsouri, in his meseage delivered on Wednosday, Las the following on tho railrond question : ‘Che frequont complaint mado for several yoars past, and whioh wo still hear, ngalost oxactions on the part of the railroad compunies of the Stato, havo attracted tho attontion of the Gon- eral Aaamnbly upou saveral occasions, Up to tho pregont timo no et Las beon passed provid- ing for o Board of Railroad Comissionars, al- though the offort Lns boen mado to romedy’ the injustico found to oxlst in the rates of transpor- tation by the ditferent railronds, whera there aro competing linos and where thero are nono; tho ruinous chnrges mado whon the shipper is placod at the morcy of a railrond company ; the tardinoss often found to oxist on tho pact of compunica in the adjustment of loss suffored ; tho digposition €0 comwmonly found amongst railroad “men to forco all who have causo of nction against them to seck rodross theough the courts; the disadvantages. undor which private citizons go to law with Jargo in- fiuontial and overshadowing corporations—all these, and u thousand othor ransons, have baon urged in favor of providing by law for a Board of Maungers for the ruilronds of tho Btate, and vesting 1t with othor powers to regulato the rates of frofght and passage ovor themn 83 as ta produco mfil‘ormlty. and guard tho people againgt any injustico done or attempted by thom. The reilroad compnnies of tho Btato bave generally been opposed to all such logisla~ tion, sud bave charactorizod it as an offort on the part of tholr enomlos to bring their ronds iuto disrepute, subjoct them to great sud ruin- ous losses, ag an impropor intorforence with their private business and an innovation upon vedted righis, Some of them, 1f am correotly informod " through thoir ugents and ‘ropresontatives, have do- clared that the Legislature of Missouri has no owor to regulato thelr freights, to presoribio po- ica rogulutions for thew, or in uny way or nun- nor to control their action, 1f this position has beon nshumed, aud is now maintaiued by any rallrond corporation in the Htate, I think the time lins coma to tost the quostion, My under- standing hus always beon, and I think thecouris linve unormly hold, that railroad companios wero chinrtored and cortsn fmportant franchisos conforred upon them for tho publio good. No railrod company has ever boen {ucorpotated upon the ypothonls that it would bo of private advantago {0 auy one. The fundameuntsl prin- ciplo, I repoat, nvau which all sucl companies aro incorporated, is to wsubserve the public wants and necessitios, Whonover a frauchiso thue granted for tho publio good 1s diverted rom f Iogitimato ses, and la asad or private gnin without rogurd for. the goner sud coutrary to tho true jutent govoreign power when it was granted, from that moment it becomoes forfoitod, As- suming, then, that all rallrona corporations in Mussourl wero craatod for the accommodation of the pooplo, tho flovalnumuul of tho resourevs of tho Btato and to furnish facilities for travel and for the conveyance of tho products of the coun- woal, of the od in roaching tho boy withs pole and rescuing him. 'Che boy's name was Willie Donglas, 1lis fathor lives in Garnott, ~-v try to market, snd upon fair torms to both the corporations und the peaple, I hold it to be the duty of the Legiulature to go an far as it legally can, and, ag s just regard for the righta of all intorested pariiea will'parmit, in seolng o-falth- tul compromise on the ‘part of thess corpora. tlous with the oxprossod, a8 woll as tho mplied, torma upon which thoy Wera charterod. i daca #eom Lo me, when wo take into considoration tho foregolng facts, and romombor how much tho paopla haye done towards bullding our rallroads and how hoavy thoy are taxed to pay laterest on the monoy advancod in aid of them, that no ono can, in justico or with prnprlnl(. quostton tho right of "the pooplo, thronih thelr reprosenta- tivos, to, demnnd abgolulo justico at tho banda of thoso corporations. ‘Ihero ars mow 2,8673¢ milos of rallroad fn oporation in thin Stato, and when the ?uuutlou of regulating frelhts ovor this 2,8571¢ milos of road i pro- sonted in the Logislalro, one might woll con- cludo, from tho arguments of tho opponents of $ho moasure, that tho railrond corporations own- log and opotating the road, Liad, at thoir own oxponso, exacted overy mile of thom, and had done it with monoy brought liore from abroad. Bt lot us look for a momant at the facts of tho cago: Tho Btato of Missourl hos lssued its bortda to aid in bulldiug tho ralironds of tho Btato, ovor and abovo what ins boen realized by tho State, from tho disporition of the.lions hold upon the roads for ald given' them, to iho amount of $16,763,004,. Tho countiey, citios, nad townships of tho Stato havo, s i3 shown by offcial = roports mow in my possoskion, inourrod dobta for tho samo purposs, amoitnt- ing in the sggrogate to the sum of £28,5670,« 000, making tho amount of aid given In tho .construction of rallronds by tuo State, oountics, and cition, &15,398,90%, Wiat the constriction of tho ralltonds of Missami actually cost 1 do not know; but I do know that it ia mado the sworn duty of tho chiof ofi- oors of tho vatlous ronds to return the full valuo thoraof, lnoluding all rolling-stack, dopots, ato,, olo., to the State Auditor for taxation, an that for tha year 1873 tho wholo of tho rajlronds in the Btato, inoluding all propertv portuining to them and oxolustve of tho landa granted thom by the Fodetal Governmont, are not likely to ugfi:mun!u in valuo mure thon $21,291,830, “Tho railronds of tho Stato have nat uil complied with tho Inw requiring then to maoke this sworn atatomeut to tho Auditor of the valuo of thoir A WEST-INDIAN STORM. Its Rise and Passago Over tho Country, General Dreaking-Down of Telcgraphe Wiroa, From the Cloveland Leader, Jan- 8. Tho storm whioli Loy visitod Gfoveland for tho pasc two doys is one of the most romarkablo that lina over boon witnossed in this sectlon of tha conatry. ‘I'ho woather preceding it scomed out of sunson, tho mild aud balmy atmosphoro re- minding ono of spring rothoer than tho beginning of tho now year. Saturday nfteraoon aud Sun- day tho wonthor wao ns pleasaut as conid hinve been askod for, though o storm was not far dis. taut. Saturdey morning A RAIN STORM aroro In tho Weat, passed over Wirconsin during tho dny, reached Alichigan_and Lok Miooigan Salurday ovoning, nnd on Sunday, at 7:17 o'clock in the morning, was spronding its wings over this city, It contored ovor Clovelnnd uulil 8:25 a'clagk {n the afternoon when it nunounced it presouce by hoavy@winds, and foll in dronching ghowers of sloct ond, rain, ‘Tho thousands who woro out onjoying the bonutiful wenthe er ushorod in by the oarly part of tha dey, woro oaught in tho storm thnt Inated for about an hour, nud then awopt away townrd tho 8L, Lawronco Valloy, leaving us cold, criap, ganuine Jouuuary weathor tor Monday. The presont storm, which is unoquaied fn itg character by nny that'wo have ovor exporionced in this section, . - BTARTED IN THE WEST INDITS, tho oantro of the most tecrific storms fhas 8woop ovor lund and sos. A Jsader roportor. who “visited the storm signal oflic last oyoning, was informod that tho storm nrose in the above-mentioned quorter, and traveled slowly ovor tho comntvy nntil it ronched rondd and othor’ proporty for tho pust yoar, and I cannot, therofore, stalo with certainty the ostimato placod upon thom by. their OWLOES § but such eatimatos, it mado, would not all bo likely to excoed the amount assesded against ;!ael:“l for 1873, which is, 03 soen nbove, $24,- Again, it must not ba forgotton, that tho Federal Government has granted large subsidics of tho public Jands to nid In building them, Whut theae lands, g0 granted, are worth, I do uotknow ; but that thoy ara worth many mill- lons of dollarg is cortain, Lonving those land grants out of tha question, howaver, lot usstrike & balanco shoot and seo bow the account stauds ; T'wo thousand eight hundred and fifty-sovon aud one-half miles of railroad, valued for taxation at $34,231,830; Btato ald in building, $16,762,904; in conuty nnd city md, §28,676,000; tatal wid by Stato, county, and city, §15, 333,001, making tho amount givon ovor and above tho estimated vitluo for taxable purposes $21,107,574, including ol rolling stook, ete, When 1 remember how much has boen dono by the pzoplo to nid ir: Duilding the rallreads of tho State, in Lhe hopo that through their instrumentnlity, the proauots of the country would find = cheap and rapid ~ oxportation to the - kela of the “world, and morcovor, when I remomber how aaafiy they have, in most iuatances, boon disappolutod, I can but regard it a8 tho Loundon duty of this General Assombly to do all thot it can do to rodross tho griovances of which thoy complain, I would not havo you, under any clroumstances, do the rairoads of the Stnto the uhfihwat injustico ; for, with all their fauity, thoy have done much good aud will con- tinuo to doso. What I wantis to seo justico done botk to the roa Is and tho psoplo. All un- Just disorimination against non-competing points ought to be stopped,anda fair and roason- ublo tablo of rates catablisliod, o proper regard for the protection of human life roquired, and strict police rogulations for the governmout of every raliroad in the 8tato provided ond onforced through tho iwstrumontality of a woll-solscted Judiciory and s Board of Rail- rond Commissionors, ‘Bt tho tiue romedy, and tho only offective onojso far ns tho roz- ulatlon of transportation is concorned, must bo Prnvldod by an act of Congross, Whilo Stato ogislation may bo 8o formad as to afford vory considerablo protoction aguinst improper ox- actions by railroad corporations, the trial of such legislation in Maesnchusotts and several other Siates hns demoustrated its impotency, and tho uttor impoasibility of adoquato protection by it to the great producing interests of the conntry, Under tho power dologated by the Coustitution to rogulato commerco botween the States, Con- groas may most unquostionably establish & uni- form, just, ond fair rato of fransportation by ruiflronds throughout the United Btafes. This 1o Blate Legislature cun do. Honce (provided you concur iu opinion with mc), I suggest tho propriety of your instructing our Senstors, and requeating our Robresontatives in Congress, to vote for and urge the passage of a Inw for tho accomplishmont of the ond saggestod. ——— THE LATE GEN. SWEET. FoND DU Lac, Wis,, Jon, 6, 1874, To the Lditor of The Chicago Tribune : Bin: Sevoral errors ocour in your biographical sketch of tho late Gon. Benjamin J, Sweot. Tho General gettlod at Stookbridge, Calumet County, tweuty-fivo yoars ago, boing thon 16 yoars old, During tho firat and second summers of his residenco thoro e worked on a farm, and in the wintor nttondod distriot-soliool. ‘Tho time from hig 18thto his 20th yoar was divided between attonding Lawronco Univorsity, of Appleton, and toaching district-school. Whon 31 he com- menced tho study of law, Iu 1854 he was elccted Clork of the Board of Bupervisors for Calumot County ; and was an unsuccessful candidato for the Auuamhl{ in 1859, Ho was elected to the Stato Sonntain tho fall of 1860, took his sent on the Oth of January, and beenmo tho most promi- nout manintheSenato. In Juno,1861,lio resignad Lis gont In tho Sonato and was uppointod Blajor of tho Bixth Wisconslu'inetend of & Captain in tho Lhird. In October of the samo year Lo was mado Lioutonant-Colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and 1 Angust, 1862, he romgnod bis commigston, xotured 0 Wiscousin, snd was mado Golonel of tha Twonty-fitet Regumont, It is a singular faot that the Colonel, Lieuten- ant-Colonel, Mojor, Adjutant, and Quaitermps- for of Gen. Bweet's old regiment, tho Bixth, havo all passod away, and only ‘one, tho Adju- tant, wad killod in baitle. Gen. Lysander Gutler, the lirst Colonel, died in Milwsikeo in 1868 3 Lieut.-Col. J. P. Atwood died sbout a yenr ago; Maj. B. J. 8weot died at the boginuing of this year ; tho Adjutant, Frank Haskall, was killed at Cold Harbor, wlule Colonel of tho Thirty-sixth Wisconem ; and tho Quartormaster, I, N, Aason, died ab Milwaukea threo yeass ago. Ww. PERSONAL., < - James A, Weston, tho ex-Giovernor and now Democratio candidate for Govornmor of New Hampshire, wag, Jun. 6, inaugurated Mayor of Manchostor. A doorlk coper of the Virginia House of Dele- f““” having. tho other day, quus {oned tho Tion, ‘ayatio Modlullun os to Lis right of enmry, re- ceived the following stunnor in toply : * I nm an ox-momber of the Houso, an ex-member of Con- gress, and an ¥x-Govenvon!” ‘e doorkeoper wilted, and the *! ex-Governor " passed. Congressman J, P. C. 8hanks has appointed Lis brothor mall-ngont on the Cincinnati, Rich- mond & Fort Wayne Railway. Toraco Binney, of Philudelphis, entored his 95th yoar last Bunday, Jan. 4, 1874, and ro- col ved tho visits and. congratulations of soveral of his old friends, Goy, Austin, of Minnerots, now that his official torm has oxpired, will continue his rosidence in Bt. T'aul, Brs. Gon, B, B, Buckner, who died at Bliza- bothtown, Ky., on Monduy, was n highly ostima- blo lady, whoso lovs will_bo sgverely doplored throughout the South.—S8t. Louis Tinies, - Neal Dw, who bas snid a great many queor things in the United States, is enying some yery disngrecnblo things in Scatland, At a tepor- auce mooting in Edinburgh lie asserted that ** tho Prosbylerian Clureh of Scotlund way tho wain bulwark of drunkenuess there," Dlry, Julin Ward Howe asserts thut while mon xlot and rovolu tionizo, “'thoro i notLing but dumb gubinission for women.” Which® the Kingston Freeman supplements with tho sym- pathetio remark tbat “Julia’s dumbness s ono ou tho most affeoting epectaolea of the age," It is rumored that Copt, Brockway, from Col- umbus County, intends to reslgn Wi sont in tho Lonusylvanla” Jlouso of Represontatives, and thut thoHon, Charles I, Buckalew, the leader of tha late Comstituliounl Couvention, will be olootod in bl pluce, It scoms that Mr, Buok- ulow 18 auxious to perfoct the new Constitution, and that he oan only nccomplivh it by veeupying & soat in the Houssof Roprosontatives,—Zaris- burg Telegraph, Quecen Viotorin has, upon the recommendation of Mr., Qladstoue, granted to Luady MaClure, the widaw of tho discovorer of tho Northwest Tase sag, & pouston of £100 por anuum from the elvil ligt, Tho Iato Vicc-Admiral Sir R, Ale- Olure diod intostato, consequontly his widow only beoama ontitlod to ono-third of ‘the prop- orty, which was sworn uuder £6,000, H this olty. 1t moved at tiio rato of about 15 miles an hour, From the roports at the signny oftfeo wo lenrnod. tnat v extendod aver Florida, Georgin, Maryland, Massachusetts, Now York, Voumont, Now Jersoy, South Carolina, and per- bapa other States, Alltho country cast of tha Muatssippt River haa bean visitad by the storm, and it is probable that its results in othor citios woro elmilar to thoso witnossed in Clovoland. As telograph wires woro Qown ond communicationa brokon, it was impossiblo to learn tho oxact condition of the weathor' last night in othor citles. THE 8LONM YESTERDAY soomed stationary in a largoe soction of tho conne try. Yesterdny worning the barometer was still hign in the Now England States and low in tha middlo sectlons of the country, indizating that it was moving vory slowly. It was blowing grnat‘ gune and raiving” thronghout New Yorl, Ponne sylvania, Virginia, aud Vermont, It was clearivg’ up slightly in Tioridn, Alabama, and Georgin, and * Old I'mb."‘{rtmlwtu that the storm will havo partislly cloared away from this neighborhood beforoe tho Leader of this moruing reaches its readers, Violont storms have boen very common this {all wud winter, and the winds on the lukes Liave oxbibited frouks nevor bofore kuown, A storm' in Novembor aroso in tho southenst, and moved with growing violanco to tho Northwest, a PHENOMENON NEVER BEFOBE WITSESSED, T'ho tolograph-wires foll on ovoryline leading from this city, and nll communieation with othor citios was for o time susponded, ‘o wires work- od well until about 3 o'clock Tucsday moruing, when they bogan to fall. For an hour later the opciators woro forced to resort to every artifice to keep up any communication at all. Tho wirer were covered with honvy continwsof ico, and they fell to tho ground every fow minutes, come polling oporators to cliange wires in thy middle of & paragraph, By 4 o'clock o. m. Tues- day, the wires sirctching “out to tho Lest anc West wore all dowa. and tho operators having te communicate with cities in thoso directions wore left to cnn? the messages on foot, or wait uutil the fury of tho slorm-Ling was appeasod.. Wires from tho Bouth withstood tho pressure until about 8 o'clock ‘uosday mornng when thoy becamo unsteady and” shaky, ani begn to givo way, Ona by ono thoy fell, and by 0 o'clock but ono or two wirey wero left, The wiros rench(ng to Pittsburgh all foll, excepl oue, by about 11 needay morning, and that sol- itary wire over which all tho dinpatelies waore, sout, followod the othors at half-past 1, Come- munications were thus ENTIRELY SUSPENDED, and Cloveland way entiraly cut off from all tolo- graphio relations with every other cityin tha Union. The city occupied tho same position to othor cltios it did before the invontion of telo- graph, 'Tho inlluence of o storm moving from the West Indies had deprivod us of one of the most usoful invontions of the age, and put ua almost whero wo stood twenty years ago. ‘I'he roundabont ways to wlilch oporators roe. sorted to send an important dispatch to its des. tinution wero intercsting to outsidors. When the lines began to succuinb tho instrument ma- nipulators sbitted about to aunother wiro, thon to a third and a fourth uutil the elicks sond the words homo. A worchant deairod to sent a very important mossage to Cincinnatl, It wont first to Akron, thon ou the Atlantic & Greas Western ling to Manélicld, on tho Baltimoro & Obio lino to Sholby, ani thenco diroct to Cincinnati. ‘The wires were overywhoro so coated with ico 88 Lo be of the THICKNESS OF A ROPE, » The one strotching across Superior street from the Western Union telogra;)h ofice fell to tha stroot about noon yuxs(erdu{' breniting tolely from tho weigbt of tho lca. Along tho lines of railroads poles aud wires ovorywhero foll to the ground, Tho wiro broke “in Lundreds of instances whoro tho polos westhored the blast and stood upright to tho eud, Do- tween Grafton and Sholby foity polos were blown ovor vosterday afternoon. Baiweon Cloveland sud Hudsou, the wind, aided by the frozen sloot, creatod havoo to about the sanio oxtent, Along both divisions of tho Loke Sbore Road, poles and wires shared the sawe fato, Xarly yostordsy attespts wora mado to ropair tho damnges (hus Yo, and to re-calubiish some cominunications, bub EVERY EFFOIT WAS IN V. Mon wont out and tixed up the Tlyrin and Baes, and had the pleas- ure of secing thom go to pioces agamn 84 fast as thoy wore repared. “With tho ute most enorgy it way impossible to obtnin com- munications further than from tho ofiico to tho Uuion Dapot. ‘'he daniages oxtond sround (ho country, cov~ ering porhaps a scclion of about 50 miles, ‘Thia Iy tho opluion of the telograph-operntors ok this Eomz, aud nothing dofinite on tho subject can e known for at lenst twonly-four hours. THE BAILROAD TRAINS camo in early on timo, and but littlo incon~ vonionco was oxporienced excopt with freight trans, Thoso were delayed ou account ef tho wmability to rocorve meksages canceruing the coudition of tho track abead. Conductors at suwe points stopped thoir trains expressly to removo wires which were hanging ncross the track just high enough to come in contact with & wmeke stack, In sowo instauces wires wore thrown ncross tho track and out up by a wholo train paseing ovor them, At some placos, whero o numbor of wires mot neav au ofllce, on one pole, tho polo was wrenched from tho ground and the wires twisted aud iou- gled into un inextricablo mass, This was wite nossed noar the Union dopot in this city. IN CLUYELAND, 3 The damage Lo traos aud shrubbory about th clty was imuicaso, tho ivs hanging in massos from the boughs, and causing wmnny of them to brouk from tho purent’ stem. Uan; fine trcos ou the lawus of Juelid nni othor nvenuos wero broken fo the groundg, while twigs aud branches line the streots. Now- ly set out troes suilered vory wuch, At ong place on Euclid nvenue o lurgo tieo ios in the roudway and blooks it up. On the Public Square o lavgo ‘olm Liny Jost one of its limbs, nud on the ocoror of Outarlo and Lake stroets bas falion lrmnq to the ground. Many other troay attest lioir inability 1o withstand tho wolght of thelr foy londa, Indications last night woro that tho siorm was poseing uway, A S The Blind Murderer in Maine, Moxca Ponnoy, charged with iillng bis wifa in Grafton, Mo,, lust week, fs 83 years old, nud lus wifa was only 76, Thoy bud often quartolod, aud nlways lived unboppily together, v ‘lone noy hug beon bllad for lve yoars, und his lowor limbs entirely _paralyzed, "Ho las Leen Hup- ported by the Town of Geafton for sovarul yeurs at tho houso of his son (J. D, Tonnoy,) It ap- ours that on Wodnosday moring last Mr, J, D, lennoy and his wifo woo awakeuod by a noiss in tho room of tho old poople, but ali” soon bo- cameo quiot, und they thought no more of it, as such dislurbancus wera of froquent oceurronce, Altor thie youuger Touney had built tha firo in hin own patt of the hous, he went to bufld the five in bis tuthor's room, a8 usual, and eaw his wother lying upon tho bod with hior mouth open, aud bis fullier uitting u}w in lod with tho End- clothos uround bim.~ 1fo went to the bed and found hin mothor deud, and 50 euid to bis fathoy, 1l exprossod no uurprha. und 10malus ontiraly slent on the subjoot, “'ho Uoronor founa marks ?l °:wluuao on lor body and on her ueok and 430,