Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21, 1874, 5 SPRINGFIELD. A Compulsory Education Bill Passed in the House. The’ Ssnato Not. Satisflod with the Penitontiaty Investifation: Warden Wham Defles ilw Comnission~ " crsy and Asks Further Inquiry An Open Issue Between the Logan and Beveridge Republicans. - PUBLIC EDUCATION, Bpeciul Dispateh to The Chicazo Tribune, ' piLLe IN THE HOUBR, T ' .| BerrkorieLo, T, Jan, 20,—Tho House' attacked a namber of Educationsl bills, tho first rovising an oft- ropeated attempt toabolish County Superintondents, which was recommiitod williout taking s’ oxprossion of opinion, Tho next bill rovised tho. School law; provided for redistricting townships; for the con- denotion of aites for sckool-housea by power of eml- nont domain ;- longthened the sehvol “month from twonty to twenty-two daya; allowed & prolongation of tho mohol torm by & mafority vota of tho, district; and_contatned bfhor smendments too numerotis to meution, considering thoy wero notadopted : for, after holf & ,day's -squabbling, during which thie woes of all the sehiool-districts in tho Stato were recited, . the bill, with o host of new amerdments, was roturaod {o tho'Committeo on Education, Coh Abill to enable nchool crgunizations ‘created by apecial acts to discontintio sl organization, aud_ or- anizo under tho general School lsw was ordored to flied Teadiug. - COMPULSONY RDUCATION, Thon came the tug of war in the form of & bill for compulsory educativu, Which wa on ita third readivg. Some, whoso hobby thio bilt {s, mado tho usual argu. ments .for it; including’ the statoment tuat thore woro fu tho Stato 4,176 childron of school g0 Who novor went {0 sclioo], 'and that the working- men of Chicago in thelr platform demandéd com pulsory education, A motion to lay.on the tablo wat defeated by 02 to 28, and the bill paesed, 87 to Herringlon entered a motion to reconaider, whon Cus- edy moved to Iay that motion on tho tablo, and it was w0 laid, 87 to 80, % 7 THE DILL PROVIDES . that chilaren between tho -ages of 9 and 14 sha bo sont to schiool st lenst thrce mouths in the yoar,. of which six weoka shall gousccalivo s tist ey shall bo taught rording, it~ nglis_grpmmar, -geograp a : 5t BerookDinaiors. kil ‘susbly books, abd tha Overseor of ths Ponr clothes, to indigent childreu ; that the Directors shall prosecuto parcnts and guard- dne who fall to send thelr children to school, and that they may be fiued from $1to §5 & woek during thirtoen ‘weeks, . < 4 —— THE PENITENgxla\RY INVESTIGA- © Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Sprmorizep, - Ill,, Jan, 20,—~The Ponltentiary im- troglio +fs furnishing anxloty to tho most prominent politicidns of tho State, Tha quict. contest botweon tho eldept Unitod States Bonator from Illinois and thio Qovernor, which has boon golng on for some time, is coming to the surfaco overy onco in a while, ' As o pre- liminary to the afternoon fight and discussion in the Benate, Wham, Wanlen of the Panitentiary, commonly known s a Logan man, telegraphed to Somator Stools ss followas ! x ‘WIAM 'TO STEELE, + Pr1go, JOLTET, Jun. 2010 ., 1, —T¢ {5 but simple Justico to the oflicers of ‘the iustitution, to tho public, and the Leglslature, that the Houss resolution to in- vestigate moro m!gusuuum provall, Pleaso say thig T 10 tho Senato, sud o e 3, W. Wirast, Wordon,” from Bteelo fo Wham ex- (Bigne: g‘hgnrul)lowinu dispatch laine Itself s - b2 STERLE TO WIAN, h “ SPRINGFIELD, TIL, Jam, 20, , 1. [Fham, Warden:’ . ‘Tho Governor thiuks your dispatch oughtnot to tod totho Bounte. Answe - . #0, B.-SrexLe,” red fo tho effcct that the Bonate could not be satiatied with tho whitowashing report, sud should inuist -upon thorough juvestigation, It was with difficulty that tho House resolution was DROVGT DEFORE THE SENATH - = - 1a the afternoon, dilstory motions and tochnieal ob- {osttons Lielog - {aterpolaicd o proveat {la-consnmma- . The ruloe wero finally nuspouded—yoss, 23 Days, 10, Williamson, Whiting, and Sheldon argued| t couourrance, on tho ground of expenso and of Aho auolexcy of tho Sonato investigation: - Willlume 8ou daprecated -tho presentation of tho House. resolu- tion provious to the discusslon of tho Senato Commit- too's Toport. Ho procoeded to discues tho merits of tho cnseof Williams, and tho meritaof tho Sennto Comnmitted's report, ua Murphy and othern tiad done before him, but, baihg called to order, stopped. Stoale exfd tha poople woro not gatiafled with the in- veatigation, but wora of the opinfou that - . ..A GREAT DUTRAGE - had been comiittod within {le walls.of the Peniton~ tlary. The question Lafore (Lo Scuald -ws, Aro tho 1,200 convicts there ontitled to the protection of ti iaw againat unjust aud Inhuman {restment? It wag time {0 have an fnveatigation—perfect, ' thorough, and complote, Tho adoption of tho rasolution could do no horm, but might do. good, Partiennship ehould ha Tothihg to do with thoquestion. . A motlon to sdjourn was lost—yeas, 16 ;- nays, 21, Chatrmon Henty, of the Senato Cominlttes, follows objecting to concurrauce, atating that o low Was ng sary to confer powar upon tho Commitico to send perzons and payers ::that tho invostigation ‘WOULD NOT DRVELOP ANYTHING in addition to tho roport.of. the Coronor'a- Jury, the Grand Jury, and the report of the Senate Commiites, o cared uothing for tho insult to kim, but ke could 2ot allow bis Committeo to ba disgraced Wwithont » pro- test, Thoepecch waan lame defonse of- Lis report, and’ an ottuck o tho. Bonstora who {avored more thorough_inveatigstton, The -Bonata adjourncd, tlie question pending, - ... THE PENITENTIARY BOAED 5 were in tho Benate duning the debute, and woro round town all dsy trying o muuce Senutors to vote down tho Iouse resolution, Even the Governor haa boen uslng bisufiucnce in o quict way in {he same direc tion, and but for tho conrago of o fw mon the whol thing would have becn emothored, Whanvs elogram iorws open war betwoon him and tho Commissloners, Ono of the Iatter . cursed Wham thix afternoon, and Inguired what & thunder—nly o didn't sy Wiindor —Whum “meant, .. 1€ the Conunlssioners - are not ousted by. itio. Logislature, Wham will ousted by the . Commlgsioners for bringing o yestigntion which be bolleves whl bo fujurious to the Comumlstiuners, who sro for Bevoridgo for United States Benntor, while™ thelr conviction and removal will gratify Wham's patron, who 1o Logan. Thus is tho Penitedtiary once more bocoming o political bone of conteution, | ———— THE WORE OF REVISION, . Syactul Dispitch to The Chicags Tribune, PUNISEING DRUNKARDS, SPRINGFIELD, - Jan.. 20~The criminal code was tako up fothe Senste;and & discussion followed on eces for the provislon for tho punishment of drunkards by Justices of ‘the Peaco, The qualitles of 100-rod, 40-rod, sud fustanter whisky woro expatiated upon with & readiness that ehowed an acquaintance with Ahe severl brands, Five dlfferent penaltiea‘and proso- cutions are provided in different sections of the crimi- nal codo sa Feporlad, and tho adjustmont of anch to tho other and the justice of all were dlscussed at length by'Canfield, Banford, Cummings, aud Archer, Another” bone of 'contontion was whetber Justicos »hould have the pawer to, BEMIT FINES YOI DRUNKENNESS st thefr discretion, Bome Senators contended that oceaslonal sprecs wero a misfortane rathor than erimo on‘ilie pard -of -the poor, and then thore was & S0 dlsplay of demiagogory by o or 1wo gentiomon, who argued that the rich got drunk aa well 5 tho poor, which uobody ind sttempivd to deny, ' In tho aficrnoon, the Seuste concluded the dobate, votiug down uil amendments, and sdopting the sections o8 it cam from_ tho Revislon Commitiee, It impoace & o of 5 for the firat offense aud 825 for each wube sequont offenco, Autbority to remit tho flue for tho firut otfensa ia reposed in tha Justico, The ection of 1O TN THADING! 0 section of v CI ual cods concernin, - bling contracts for futuro delivery of grain: wilch malten tho option trade of e Obicsyo Loard of Trade puniabable by ine of 31,000 and imprisonment for ono year, waa dsbatod at longth, Cunfield moved 3o siriko out the section. - Walte sald that, it snforced, $lio neotion would provent bidding for lling: Govern. ment contracts, Hsmpton s Bheldon, exyatistod on thio wickedness of the Ohicogo Board of Trado, and the way in which country innocunta Wero ficeod, Upton waa frequently - alluded to the suthor of the soction, Steele and othors desirod a bill abolishe {ng the gambling in grain, gold,bonds, cto., which was practiced in oll large citfed, It'wao porutclous to pros ducers and consumerd, Fiuslly, Caufields anjend- meut to airike out prevailed—yeas, 33; nays, s—Arch. er, Uawpton, Hineheliffe, Roynolds, and Shéldon, ‘Au winoudiuent wos adopted punishing court officers * far being tuterested in contracts commected with- thelr oiticos, and Thonpson's smendment proventing gam- blere from buving & remedy for cheatlng agalust ous auother waq defeated by a strong voto, § ———— MISCELLANEOUS. Special Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribane, TIE ANTIETAM NATIONAL OEMETERY, BrnrNaviELD, 1l,, Jau, 20,—~Tho Govornor submit- ted » monsnge naking the Goneral Asserulily to pass the bill making an appropriation forthe Autietam Na- tlonal Camgtery, “leat it moy be sald Iilinols {s forgot fulof hersons and slow to@o honor to the fallen heroes,” The message wae roferred to thw Ifouse Afliitia Committee, * EXAKINATION OF GAVINGS DANKS, The pankora and the friends of the bauking billa o the Senato -hiave offected a compromisa by which the uxamiuution of . wavings banks chall tako place on tho order of a,Oircuit Uourton the complaint of iwo stockhalders ar two,dopositors, whio must deposit with thelr complatata suflicieut smount to pay the cost of procoodlugs, aud to bo forfolted If theld somplaint shall not be austatned ; and by which tho Auditor of Publio Acoounta shall print_sworn' atatementa of tho banke beforo Feb, 1of esch year, Mo fafo call for thean statomenta at his discrotion, * Mr, Pattorson will repart hin substitute for the Sedway bill with {heao amendmonts, sud tho substituta 8o -Amouded - will ‘probably pass the enate, : JINAURANOX LEGIBLATION, The Commilteo on_Insuranco have conaidered and approved the Houso bill glving Boards of Underwrit- o1 tho pawor 1o snens compatien pro rata for (o ox penso of a fire-patrol inclties, Theroensued a dfeey slon of tho yarlous matea of ‘providing by atatuto tiat the valuation of any proparty fuaured shall bo and ro- mafn an fixed in tho palloy, and prohibiting Umitationn for sults 10 rocover under policien {0 a lesn perlod then 11yo yoars, Lt ito.concluslon waa- reached, ATT, Rey- nolds’ plah for attaining thono enda fs- to prescribo & polity othier forms than which ahall not be made, The plnfustatutory provisionn in tho premisea toot with moro favor in the Committee, - - - OIICAGO AND TilP RQUALIZATION TAX, Honator Cummings moved for the apppolntmont of a comnitteo of (hreo Honntors to iavemigate. tho. ro- £usal of Gook County to oxtond tho nascasment of tho Tioard of Equalization, Tho reaclution was 1aid ovor undor tho rules, It looks as 1f somo. one wanted to vislt Ohicago at tho Biate's exponse, OFFIOIAL REKPTION, - Senixorrenn, U, Jon, 20,—Gov, Beveridgo gave hin first ofticinl recoption ai tho Mousion this ovoning. It waao Urilliant alinir, Gueals wero prosent from Chicago, Evanston, and Tioomington, anil the fashion- ablo peopla of Bpringfleld woro on- fiand, s woro (o mombors of the - Geueral - Assembly, ' the _ Slate Officery, tho Ponitontisrs ond: Canal Comminsionorn. Tho {ollets woro rich, thio muaie, the dancing, and the cigars oxoellont, 1o oxorclacs will be repoated forte nightly during o scssion, . JAY COOKE & CO. Profieediugs in, the Bankruptoy Court 1 in Philadelphia. Julge Cadwalader. Holds that the Creditors Are Not Acting Intelligently, He Suggests the Appointmeht of Mr. Lewis as Sole Assignee. The Matter Taicen under Advise- [ ment by the. Court. Special Dispatch to The Chieaga Tribune, Prmavkrenis, Pa., Jon, 20.—Judge Cadwalador sat bo.| i the United Btatos District Court this morning, to hear the viows of such creditors of Jay Cooko & Co, 28 lind not voted for & committer of creditors upon tho real neeonsity for such commities, or their reasons why tho case should not now . proceed under the thir toentli section of the Bankrupt act, calling for the election of an Assignee,” A number of creditorsap- pested in person and by counscl, CoL, SROWDEN applled for furthor tima boforo the Registar proceedod with the rule made under the thirteenth soction, and asked whother tho question of having a commiltes Iind not boon alrendy definitoly settled by tho credit- ors in tholr resolution to proceed under tho thirteenth Bection, and thelr action in casting tho requisito vote for tho eloction of & Trusteo under that soction. Ho said lie could confidently sasert {hat tho creditors had gravely and solemnly eonsidered tlis matter, and ho had - personally no knowledge of the desfia of any ercditors to have thia vaet estato placod in the hauds of an Assignoe, 25 Judgo Cadwslader inquirod whethor it was thought a committes and Truatce had more power, or could do more, than an Assiguee, Col, Buowden said Lie thought tho answer to this question ahould be in the afirmative, Judge Cadwalader anid ho wished to know whether tho creditors biad had ‘suffclant inforimatiou to cuablo om TO VOTR INTELLIGENTLY, for if they hiad not ho should conslier mora earefully anything that might bo urged, but if thoy hod ho 2uld bo loth 1o delny furtlier the sottlement of this matter. @ Johu 8, Powell, ropresenting other creditors, in- formed tia ourt that at tho close of the adjourned aitting held in this Court after the presentation of tha Reglster's roport, an informal meoting of croditors was held, at which it 'was resolved that it wus the sonso of the moeting ihat the voting for commitice should bo continued, nnd ho sald Lo destred to mako that motion on beulf of those be represented, Judgo Oadwalader eald there wera TWO TOINTH npon which lio would like to bo enlfghtened,—firat whother nny bonefit to the croditors would veault from iho cloction of an Assiguco; and, secondly, whether the creditors Lnve beon sufliciently informed to onnblo them to voto advisedly ENl K, Price, represontiug tie Pennsylvania Col- onization Bacicly, replied to theso suggestions, saying that the faciliticn for voling at tho fitst mosHig wora 50 fmperfect that tho voting was not full. The in- dividual ballots could not all bo hesrd, aud tho con- fuslon was 60 great that the Rogistora Liad to csll upon tho Marshal 1o proservo order, This certsiuly was not thie proper mothod of deciding a matter of sich gravo importance, As to tho sccoud point, tho commitco of ereditors would bavo the poscer of Inapection and di- roction over the Trustec, and thers was 1o such fo. ture in tho proceodings by Assigneo, He waa satisfied that {lis greatost justice would bo dona nud_greatost satisfuction glven by pormitting the creditora o re- suma tho voto for a committee, Now, the creditors ware fully awake to the matter, aud ‘#licy would sl como in aud voto; aud if {he proper. fucilitles wera offured o ful aspression of thelr duslre vould be ob- e ‘Judge Cadwalader sald that . ONK FACT TO BE JORNRIN MIND . was thnt the priuted cxpoaition of the expected azsots of tho bankrupts did mot como from {he printer's hands untl tho 13th of (hia montl, and_then there wero abscut from it many items of information of great importance to tho creditors, In viow of this circumstance, ho wos to consider whether Lo should not permit those arcditors to vote again upon the so- lection of & committco who would show to lim that thoy hiad not boen £o fuformed #s to enable them to voto Intelligently herotofare, e, Prico suld he desired all the creditors to Lave the same cliance, Judge Cudwalader intimated thata reorganization of the entire mooting for this purpose would causo a Qulay of ovoral weeks in tho sottiomont of this catate, Mz, Price thoughit that doloy would bs preforable to a1oEx of $1,C00,000 or mors to tho areditors, I, LEWIS FOR BOLE ASSIGNEE, Judga Cadwalador sald that after all be would like to ¥now whothor tho creditors conaldared the Committeo an enlargement of thoir powers over the catato, or whether It wag not roally & reatriction upon and_ham- poring of its admiuistration, Since tha creditora had expresacd such thorough confidenco in Mr, Lowis, ko would ssy that ko bod concolved of s plan’ by whiich that gentleman would be chogen Asslgnee, or in othior words Trustoo, Without a committea. Inthelight of thia ntimation b asked whetlier Mr, Lewls . would bo assiated by & committce, or whothor he would not bo trammeled ond rotarded by thiose who, from tha nature of things, would not be coustantly with Lim, or so famillarly conversant as e was with the matter Bamuel Dixon replied that if Mr, Lewis was appoini- cd Assigneo and supported by o .Commiltes of the craditors, he would feol much loss hieslttation In adopt- Ing moastres which his own Judgment prompted. “Tho, Judge said. that under the English system, which fa similar to our own, they lad no- Asslguee oF ‘Trusteo who was ot & merp BERVANT OF THE COMMITTRRE OF CREDITORS, Altred E, Lewls, of Washington, ropresonting credit- ors in that city, atated that the valuo of tho interest of the District of 'Columbia in this eatato ws about one~ 1hird of the entire interest ; snd he would say that tho raons having that intorest hod mot boon entire Iy iRformod ks to what was 0 bo done. at ho ineoting when the Committeo wna voted for, or 5s to the nomes of poréons_nomi nnted. Mo lnd muggested the Ion, J. Hubley Ashtoh a8 & roper person to represont the Washington creditors, and hie thought the'vote for the Commitlea ahould friolude tho voto cast for Mr, Ashton, Judgo Cadwalador sald this point would ariso in cate 1 shoukd docido i fuvor of tiie application undsr dis- cusalon, Mr. Lowia addod that tho creditors whom ho repro~ sonted bad unlimitod CONPIDENCE IN MR, LEWIS, and wonld be perfectly sutisfied with hish a3 Assigneo or 'Trustee, with or without s committoo, notwithstands ing that they mny have voted for & conimitiee, e Judgo, said this lase remark would cuuss him to inquiro whiathor {here was auy objection from suy quartor {o Mr, E, B, Lowis a4 Asslguoe, Mr, Dixon said o thought lie could” eafely wsert that Woro wes 5o difierouce of opiniou on this point, 1zado Blinrp, reproaenting Washington creditors, op- posad to application, sayiug thot no notics of it’had on glven, and tho f rendiug it {n 1o nowspapors, Judga Cadwalader fnfornicd tho gentloman that he nover read nowapapor reports, which romark provolied An auditle awilo from tlie sudience, e, Starp proceeded to sposk agaiuat tho dolny and complication that might arise from (aking the caso out of the regulur course of baukruploy, us was propoked Ly tho application, Aftér obtaining the views of somo ludividusl oreditors, tha Judgo hold back the matter undor advisoment, —_—_——— 2 ODD-FELLOWS IN MICHIGAN. peclal Dispateh lo The Chis Tribune, LANaWG, Mick,, Jun, 50,—Tho Grand Encampment of Odd-Fellows comiméncad its nunual eesion b this city last ovening, A lurge numbor of the Grider wore preseut, A nuniber of roporta wore mady, which Were approved, ¥, W, Foator, Grand Setlbo, réports fity- six working subordinate oucampments fn this jurisdfe- tion, kaving a membership of 2,000, Tho receipts for tho year 167Jaro $0,076,31, At {ha ‘sosaion to-day, tho Grand Patrfarch delivered an. address congratulatin the Order upon its continued prosperily, e suk thut now encanipionts bad been Titiutoa_ ot Mare nolte, Owaneo, Haugntuck, Ttowall, sud. St Louls, Olicors wore tHien eleated abd haisii ] —— NAVAL. . New Yorx, Jan, 20.—A large number of dachtsyed fiom fho Navy-Vard Tt niit; snd more will ba dischiarged by Batirday, Tho work of repaire ing tho Florida and Blinuesoti Wil bo discontiuued, mowledgo Lo hud of it was by THE GRANGERS. Mesting in Kalamazoo of the Michigan State Grange, Subjects to Bo Disoussed and De- grees to Be Conferred. The Wisconsin Grangers Keep Their Official Deliberations Secrets ‘But Give Expression 1o Individual Views Without Reserve. Michigan Stnto Grange. Snpeclal Diepateh to The Chicago Tribune, KALAMAZ0O, Mich,, Jon. 20,—Tho Blats Grange of Patrona of Husbandary moots hore to-morrow aftof. noon., Thero aro, howover, & mumber ' of leading Grangors liora nov, and much consultation and con- forring 18 in progress, Besldea tho officera of the Blato Grango sovoral othor prominent mon connected with tho order, such aa Benator J.-Webster Olilds, of Whashtonaw ; Ex-Speakor Woodmaa, of Van Buron ; Oharles L, Whitnoy, of Muskegon; tho Hon, H. Boymour, of Grand Rapids, and otliors, nre hera, A MEETING POR CONFERENCE, A mooting 1 betng hold this ovening for conforence. ‘Tno headquarters aro at the Intornational Hotel, and tho roorus of tho lending Grangera hayo been tho aceno of some animated discussions os to ‘tno polloy of this or thiat movement. Tho Mastor of thoBtalo Grango,, tho Hon, Sloplien F. Browr, 18 the right mun to check anything Mk in- condiariam, Ile has visited Granges in Iawa, Iilinols, and other Btates, aud been presont ot Btate meetings, and Lis hias legislative oxporieuco ss Stato Benator, for sovoral terms, Hols - HOT DIATOAED 0 D NADICAL, though he 15 n thorough-going Granger, This meeting 16 ono of businces, ana tho quostions Itkely to arise ro tho olioy of changen of tho Conati- tution _of tho National. Grauge, tho discussion of cortain questions of policy. tho tramsportn- tion theme, ctc, Thero aro. thoso tho Order who would bo willing to tako the chances of poli- tics, but thoy aro fow, As near as I can loarn, two deldgaton ara to Lo chason to tho Natfonal Convontion, ‘Tha presont oficers hold their offices for two years, ‘The imparting tho fifth degree is also ono of tho ob- Jocts, It s belloved that about 500 dolegates will be horo by Thursday morning, making it the largest de- bating conventlon ever hald in Western Michigan, It will romuln n sealon tll Friday ovening, with doors closed to all but mombers of tho Order. Wisconsin State Grange. Speeial Dispaleh to The Chicago Tribune, JAXESVILLE, Wis,, Jon, 20.—About 300 dologates had tho fifth degres conforred on thom Iust night, and to- dny Mastor Cochran hua beon busy meatly all day cone farring the ssmo degreo upon later orrivals, Overscor ‘Hubbell preatding in his placo, Vory littlo businesa of publlo intoreat haa boen transacted to-dsy. * Commite teca on Credentials and Financo woro appointed, the former being occupled ll day in oxamining the papors of delegates Lefora graating them soats, A commilteo ‘waa also appointed to docide how much of tho pro- ceedings should bo given to the pross, but thus far very littlo nows hos boen obtalned from thomn. Tho Conveution will hardly got wll towork beforo to-morrow aftornoon, and, as thoro i 8ald to bo a great doal of important bustness to ba transacted, somo_prominont mombers eay it {s prob- able tio Jonvontion will kiold bvera part of noxt Er CONVERSATIONS WITH LEADING MEMDCRS in Tobbios of hotels Jead ma to infor thst strong resolu- tons will bo adopted favoring tho 1mprovement of tho navigstion of streame, aa tho boat means of oblaming cheap tronsportation’; also resclutions favoring tho dlrect tazation of raflrods on tho ssmo basia as othor property ; and_resolutions donouncing tho various Trauds and corruptions in high placoa, To-morrow the Master will dolivor fifs addross, and tho Executive Committeo, Treasurer, Secretary, and Purchaaing Agent will make thelr reports, Up fo to- night about 400 delegates hud arrived, every part of tho Slato belng ropresented, THE EVENING SESSION, Resolutions in regard to thio improvement in land and water rates of transpordation, and taxing raflroads, ‘wero ntroduced this evening; alfo, a resolution o the offect that agricultural implementa‘would not bo pur- clused of manufacturera who rofuzed to nell to Granges on tho same ferms aa glvon to thalr agonte, The clection of otlicera will take place on Friday morning, CRIME. Alicged Murder of 2 Child. Snectat Dispalch to The Chicago Tribune, Cruonxvinie, Ohlo, Jan. 20.—A, J, Pettit, living near Willlamsport, this county, was arrested Sunday clinrged with murdering his littlo boy, abont G years Gfago, Ho waived an examination and was committed to jafl Loro to-day, It appears thot about cighteon months ogo the family moved West, but Peitit soon roturned. Hostated that his wife had left him, but tho neighbors doubted the statement, spd noticed that his' wifo's clothing was in hia possession. It is now suspectod that Lhis wife was also murdered, The murdored boy disappeared about & year ago fn tho night. Tho fatlicr ac- counted for & by eaying an unclo had faken Dim to Virginia, but two othor children say that when Iast acen the boy was crying., Ono ovening Lo wus taken out by his father, who did uot roturn tll tho other chiliren weer osleop, Buspiclous pelghbors ‘vialtad tho farm of Jamea Keys, from which Pottit hud moved, and found an arm-bono of o child, and sfter furtlicr search a portion of skull, aud other bones In scorchod condition. When brought to answer for Lis crime Pettit enid the child was killed accldentally by flm.\k folling from a loft, and eays he burued the body 0 save droublo and oxpehse. Collectoxr Finrpox's Confession. Speelal Dispaltch to The Chicago Iribune, Seauiorreun, Ti, Jou, 20.--The cuse of Albert Bnith, who was indicted a8 an abettor'of tho crimo of Qollector Harper, was sot among the casea for the full Boneh, to be tried this woek, It traaspired this morning tuat Judgs Drummond would not probably be hore this term, nud, thereforo, on motion of Smith's attorneys, Judgo Treat contihued the case until the June torm without afidavit, Tho District Attornoy statod to tho Court that g0 far as ho was concerned b ywas ready {0 proceed fotrial, It §8 trug, no doubt, {hatif Judge Trent hud manifesied a purposo to go orl with tho case, the defonsewould have fled an afi- davit for o contimuance, but for what cause s not UARPER 1o not et arrived hero, but ho 1a_oxpected, to come down noxt weok, Tho quostion to bo proven by Iar- r 19 g to whoro the missing bouds of tho~ Tokin Hllors nre, and who tho person ia who took thom from his office, Jt will be remembered that their officlal bonds, as boforo stated, were stolen from the offica of the Collcotor ; and for this rouson the Govern- ‘mont Ena falled to ba ablo to collect coriain_ penalties for violations of tho revenue law. If these bonds can be found and the thief identified, tho dificultics will Do removed nnd tho Government will be cnsbled to rocover, It is thought {hat Hurper con nid the Goy- erament greatly, and Lis promise to do 8o entors iuto his free purdon, Convicted of Murder, Special Dizvateh to The Chicago Tribune, PRILADELTHLA, Pa., Jab. 20,10 tho court of Oyer aud Terminer this morning, Judges Ludlow and Fox- son preeiding, thecase of Frederick Heldonbleut, charged with the murder of Gottliob Kuhnle, wus again callod on, two witnesses having already ‘been examinod as to the prisoner’s auteccdents, ete, Afr, ‘Bregay, Asslstant Atfornoy, in 8 briof address, de- ‘mandad, on. behalf of the commonwaulth, n_verdlot of murder'in the first dogree, Ho was followed by Mesurs, Bhiskoapearo, Shiclds, and Rufus E., Shiploy, for th defonsc, and' Dlstrict-Attorney Mann for tho ‘prosocution, His Honor, Judgo Ludlow,in eumming up, ‘paldamarked compl{ment to Alr, BLpléy,whose addross Gn tho prisoner’s belnlf, was, he ald, the most eloquent nnd mastorly Le had ever Li The Jury retived at 7:55 p. m, and &t 8 minutes past 9 p, m. Toturnod with A VEIDICT OF 6UILTY of murder in the first degreo, Tho prisoner exbibited no emotion when tho verdict waa announced to him, 1 intorviewed him in thoaftornoon, snd Lo cotnplatnod bittorly of hla treatment by thio prison oficluls, There was 1o bed in hia coll, and lio bind to lfa on_thio stone floor, and for {he first time sluce Lis arrcst & cluan sbizt'wus giveu bim thismorning, stahl, the Docelvors {apatch o The Chicayo Tribuna, e Sone 3 ~Somothiug further haa 0. 'Btall, taeutioned in a ‘ago s boing arroated for obtafuing monoy under faléo pretenscs, Tont August ho wes ot Denver, aud, 1t 1 sald, sooured tho ajgenoy of i lusuraiico company by Fopresmnting himself a4 being connocted with tho Oificao Zntér-Ocean and Now York Times, and aftor- ward etaied tho editorship of a Gorninu papor, Ho Was obliged o loave Donver o nccounit of. dislionost Dracticos, hla chief offonsus Lolung the obiaining of Eionoy oh bogus clcoks Discharged from Custody. Prrrspusait, Jan, 20—, O, Dixon, who wwas ar- reated Inst night on auspicion of having stolen din- 2uonds in bis possession, hnd o hearing this nftoruvon, and was dischurged, thero befug no - evidone 1o Lol him, A telogram from Washington, signod by o mome ber'of Cougross from North- Carollum, atatos that Dixon iy ono of his constituents, oud & uian of prop~ erly and character, Escnpe of Prisoners. Speelal Dispateh 1o The Chicuyo Tribune, noxtaw, Ofo, Jan, 30.—This~ eveuiug, Deputy SLori wa taking the suppors futy tlie prison- bra in the Jall, two of thom 1manogod to get by him and cacapo, — WISCONSIN MANUFACTORIES, Special Dispateh to The Chieaqo Tribun Foxn U 1ad, {3y Jen, 20,—Fle Taliails wagon eatnblishment of thin city, in consequence of bad nian- agement, clused ton months wgo, and for which partics offored $80,000, wns to-dsy purchased by A, G, Ruy- les, late ‘I'reasurer of the Bleboygan & Fond du Lao fu\lmy, aud the Lon, B, ¥, Mogre, who patd $80,000, The works, which will bo atarted up tio 224 Lnst,, will @ivo omploymout to 100 mion, : ‘Special Divpatch (o The Chicago Triduns, Ontwontt; Wi, dan. 20,—Tho. difbeuity i tho mat- tor of tho Oshkorh Mamifacturing Company it banke ruptoy is yob unsottled, Tho Company waa thrown ot bankpuptoy tn Augst, with: Tiabillies amounting {0$50,000. Whioolor, Morrick & Go,, of Altany, havo since oblainod nn orlor from the Uniled Slates ourt for n ntay of procendings on tho ground of conpiracy among lfin Jocal stockholders, who wish to got hold of tho Gompany’a praperty. Tho petitionora alno asort tht tho Compnuy hine_assols amounting to $160,000, Danforih, Libby, mud Tuseoll, Directors of tho Com- phny, havo aince fled & agcond patition in_ Lankruploy against tho Gumpun{ in Judgo Iowe's courtat Ail- wattkos, and the potltton has boon referred to 0. D, Gloveland, Court Oommissionar, to tako testimony, Toth partlos clnim tint tho other” sido ia tryini to et posasasion of the Compauy'a Property and to keop tlio eroditors out of thelr duca, FOREIGN. Ninoteen Persons Drowned In the Port of Bastia, Corsica, The Famine in Bengal Assuming Alarming Proportions. The Frencli Government Invested with the Power of Appointing' Mnyprs. COORSICA. New Yonx, Jan, 20,—Forelgn papors contain o long story of o strango and disastroua accidont n the port of Baatln, in Corsica, Tho steotner Zconano Was ens {oring tho port, on hor roturn from Leghorn, whon, by a false turn of hor Liolm, she was driven ngainstn sca-wall or wharf, Althougha number of vessels, which wero noar by, hastoned to her assistance, sho sank so rapidly that nineteen persona wero drowned, including tho Captoin ond tho Ghief Englneor, Tho En:l(or part of thoso whe Enrlihcd ‘were Corsican borers, rotrning from Leghorn, INDIA. New Yonr, Jan, 20.—Privato adviées from England, roceived b; drcnk merchants in this city, stato that the famino in Bengal 1a nssuming an Increasod importauco and engaging tho carnest sitention of the leading men «in financial and commerelal circles, At London there secms 1o bo no doubt thut England will b called upon for Inrgo quantities of food to feed her famisling popu- lation {n Indla, e FRANCE. Panus, Jan. 20,—Mr. Washburne, tho American Min- ttor, yoatoriny, on behnlf of the Fronch residents of Philadelphin, prosentod ox-Preaident Thiors with o gold medal, In his spoceb, Mr. Washburno alluded to tho friendship of France l'nr ho United States during hor armed revolution, and ollln[flzml the French people who Lave taken up 'thelr residonce {n tho Unitod Btates, Thiers expresacd his thonks to-his country- mon in the United States for the manifestations of thetr confidenco I bim, oud doclarod that o Kopublio was tho only Government J)unlhlu in Franco; consc- uently thobond of friondship between tho two na- tlons would bo made stronger. VERSAILLES, Jon, 20—Iu the Assembly to-dny o bil conferring on tho Government tho powor of no: nt- fug Muyors finally pasacd by @ mufority of 43, ''he Duke de Cuscz, urging tho postponcment of tho interpollation on forolgh sffaira submitted by an Ultrnmontano Doputy, and declared that the appro- hensions that pesce might be disturbed, which had rocently sgitated them, were unfounded, Tho Governmont was folicitous for tho wellaro and apiritual indopendonce of tho’ Popo, but. at tho samo mo_eincorely desired to maintsin relations of har- mony ond fricndship with Italy. The Government wouid Iabor incessantly to provont misunderstaudings with any Powor, for peaco Wos necessary {o the pros- pority of France, The Duko ssid homado tho abovo statoinent with tho full coneurrenco of Presidont Bacdahon, Tho motion ta postpone tho Intorpellation was car- ried, GERMANY. New Yonx, Jan, 20,—In & theatro in Ulm, Gormany, during o performauce, onc of the twonty-four petros m Jamps attached 1o o chandolier suspended from colling exploded, and tho stuld foll like a ehower of firo upon the sudionce. The dresses of about tweuty were iguited, and ovefal of thoan woro sorlously buruie ad—ono, at lenst, Tatall o S GIEAT BRITAIN, Loxpox, Jan. 20.—Tho roport o contradicted that Beerotury Lowo will rotive from tho Cabinot in conso- quence of u disagreement with r, Gludsiono in ro- Iation to ko appolatient of the Bhelift of Lanark- shiro, A Licnvy galo prevailod around tho British const yoa- torday. g SWITZERLAND, BenvE, Jan, 20,—The Féiloral Councll has appointed thio 15th of Octaber, 1874, o5 tho doy for tho oponing of tho internationa] pontal congress, - — 1 AYRICA. Lonnos, July 20,~Tho Daily Telegraph sass it fa rumored thnt thie Kiug of the Ashanieea las scntan embasay to Geu, Wolscloy, asking for peace, and offor- ing fudewnity. ipe . e SPAIN. P MADRID, Ian, 20.—The frou-clad Numancis has ar- zived at Gartagena, ‘Admlral Topeto, Minster of Marino, hua gono o Cartagens with fult power to investigate tho circum. stoncea of fho Intransigente Insurrection, THE §T. LOUIS BRIDGE. ft s mn Obstruction to Navigation. Speclal Disyiateh o The Chicugo Tribune, 81, Lous, Jan. 20.—The Commission of United Stutes Engineors, conslsling of Gons. Simpson ‘Weltzel, Warren, Col, Merrill, and Maj, Sutor, which han been sitting in 8t, Louls for several days, Los concluded its labors. Tho report will be prepared under tho suporvisfon of e, Simpson, and bo for- warded to Washington, This isthe sccond sitting of the Commission to conaider tho subject, but it does not appear thiat any now_light hos beon thrown upon it, Tho meotings havo been held with closed dours, bt enough Lina feaked out o show that tho opinfons oxprassed i tho formor report in regard to tho bridgoas an obstruction to navigation will Lo relterated in this. Many peoplo wero lariied yesterday st an_abaurd ru- wor that tho Beeretary of War hud ordered Gou, Simp- son to seo that Y. HARDOR OBSTRUOTIONS were removed in nincty days, Inquiry, of courso, re- vealed the fact that there wad nothing {n it, Lut it only showed the foverish cordition of the public pulso, THE REVENUE LAWS, Attemipt on the Part of Enstern Nore chants to Sccure Their Modificas tion, ® Spectal Dlapated ta The Chicazo Tridune, Niw Yous, Jan, 20,—The comiuiiteo appointed re- cantly by the' Chamber of Commerce, of Which Jack- sou B, Schultz is Chatrmun, to investigate and report upon tho expediency of recommonding to Congross a modification of the ltavenuo laws, haa seoured counsel to conduct its inveatigntion Lere and fu Washington, and is now eugaged on the draft of a law which it pro- 10868 to offer for tho present complicated serics on bt subject, Delsgations of merchants from Loston ulelphis have recontly consulted with the Commitice as to tho bost courso to puraue, and repro- sentatives of the Chambers of Commorce of Now York and the two cities abovo named are constantly communleating with each othier on the subject, —_—————— TEMPERANCE: Xowa State Convention. Des Monxes, In,, Jan, 20,—The Biate Temperance Gouvention mt in session hero this aftornoon, forty- soven delegates roporting from tho different localitiea of the State, A temporary organization waa effected, tho Hon, Lowis Tod funtor prealding, and tho ususl ‘Committecs on Reaolutions wore appointed. A ronolution waa adopted proposing thie following plan of organization: An Exccutive Committes to bo composod of one from each Judicinl District in tho Blate Lo Lo appofnted by thie Conveution, oud em- powered {o call conventiona aa deemed oxpodient, Lut not lesu than once In two ys POLITICAL, Marylund United Stutos Sonntorship. ANxavoLs, Md,, Ju. 20,~Gov. Williun Pluckuoy Whyte to.duy reeelved a mnjocity of Loth Houses of the Legislature for Unitod Staies Senator, Gonet’s Senntorinl Succosvors New Youx, Jun, 20,—Jamen Sullizan, Indopondent Democrat, was *to.day elected Stato Senator in place of leury 1Y, Gonet, — CASUALTIES, Child Burned to Denth, Snectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, In0xTON, Ohifo, Jan, 90.—A 4 year old dntghter of CGarnolina Garr, fi this city, bud hor clothies catoh firo o Butlny, unid wa so woveroly buurad thut sho diod ufght, s i, CENTRAL ILLINOIS DENTISTS. Spaelal Dispatch to The Chicaqo Tribune, BentNayiziD, Ty Jan. 20,—1ho Gontral Iiliola Dentul Soclely liold & mooting hero to-dny, The pro- coedings wera of aroutine character, 'Ilio organizo. tion wau uoctod by tho election of De. V, Liack, of Jacksonyillo, a Presilont; D, B, O, Wilkon au Vico- Trealdent: aud Dry K, Davis ns Treasuror, Dr, Hloddurd Bunith delivorod an adre i o x oy PERSONAL. Erazavern, N, J,, Jan, 3,—The Rov, Dr. Tho Carctoty late of the Motliodist Hook Concers, hus b elosted My “Trewsurer, STATE LEGISLATURES. The Iowa Mlouse of Represeniatives 8till Unorganizod, Rejoicings in"Texas Over the Peaceful " Settlement of Their Troubles. Proceedings in Other State Log- islntures; IOWA. DzaMonzs, Is,, Jan, 20,—Both caucuses mot- thin evoningto hear the report of tho Committoo ot Ton. Tho roport is a8 followa : Tho joint Committco appointed to proparo a plan for tho orgsnization of tho Houso havo sgrocd o tho following plon, and refer it to their respective cau- cunca: First, the Ropublicana to havo the Bpeake: second, the Anti-Monopolists to havo all othor officors and omployes, oxcopt tho Tostmaster, Asslatant Post- maater, and tho proscnt inoumbonfa of theso two ofticen shull bo rotainod by the Hoteo, After dixcussion by the Ropublicans, tho praposition wan unnutmously sccoptod, and the' cauous of the Antis was immedistoly nollfied, Tho Intter, aftor o fong snd oxciting debate, rofused ‘to indorso tho progosition of tho Gommittdo, and rovoraed it, offoring {o take the Speaker nnd give all tho athor officors, Tho Tepublicana rofused to conslder tho offer, aud immo~ Qiately ndjournod, The only way out of tho lock now sooms fo bo by tirenking thie ranka of ono of the partics. : st TEXAS. GALYTATON, Tox., Jan, 20,—A potition signed by & 1arge number of citizons of Galveston hias been sent to Col. Georgo Flourncy, ot Austin, neking him to allow his namo to bo submitted'to tho Leglelatura ns tholr 10 mineo for Unitod States Senator, In honor of tho event of the ocaupation of tho Capt- tol and Blata offices by tho choson ropresentatives of the poople of Texns, n aaluto of 100 guns fa being fired in the public square by tho Galveaton Artillory Com- nny, Oapt. B, T, Mott commanding, A stind hos Poen restod, und sloquent speakers ato ‘nddroseing s Targo concourso of poaplo, e ‘WISCONSIN. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, MAp1soN, Wia,, Jan. 20,—A petition of tho Wiscon- #in Qentral Rallroad Compsny was prosented for on oxtonsion of timo fo complete their road, and & me- ‘morial to Congresa to that offoct was offercd, A resolation was offored ond adopted prohibiting the recolving of raflrosd passes by membera of the TLoglelaturo, it boing callod out by the delivering yea- terday of pusses on the Wisconsin Contral Railroad ; alno, that it ig the duty of tho Slate Government, so far 0a practicabls, to protect and promote the intercats of {ta own citizens in tho omploymont of help and pur- chinao of supplios, whioh was Iafd ovor ; also, for i~ uiring into the propristy of submitting to the peoplo tho quoation of calling » Constitutional Convention, which wag ndopted, p Tho resolution of. inqulry of tho Becretary of Stato relating to tho oduction of publlo. priiting waa adopted. A communication was rocefved from tho Hoard of Regonta of tho Btato Univorsity roquesting immadiato nctlon upon o resolution offercd aud reforred somo Qnya sinco n rolation to that institution, which was ro- forred to tho Committeo on Edueation, ‘Bills wore Introduced to catablish tho salary of cer- tatu Stato officers,- llowing $J,600 for Socrotary of Btato, Btato Treasurer, and Attorney-Gonoral, ol feca to bo'paid into the State Treasury; roquiring the Su- crintondont of Publio Property to advertiso for bids For furniabing tho Btato ationery: » folnt rosolution decliring rafroads_common Lighways, tholr officors common carriors, and rogulating rates for froight and ‘posscngers. . The Assombly jolnt resolution extending tho time for the recoptioi of now business to the 7th of Febru- ary wan concurred in. A Tteolutlons _wero offored roferring the Governot's mensago to A‘)pluprlnln committoes, o roport s eoon as_practicablo: to adjourn Fob, 23, and to_pass no billa after the 20th ; to procure of thio Stato Librarian {hirtcen copics of Taylor's Statutes for tho uso of tho Loglalature, to bo roturncd at tho ond of the scasion, iTho Iatter was adopted, The followiug joint resolutions wero adopted : That the Sooretsry of Siato is dirccted to make and dellvor to tho Obief Clerks of tho Senato und Assembly s defined statement of tho amount of monoy expondedl in tho construction of the Slurgeon Jay & Lako Michigon Ship Canal s roportod to bim by said Company; that the Secretary of State bo roquested to furnish, for the information of the Bonate and Assem- bly, a supplomontal roport of the catimates snd dis- buricmienta for tho yoar commencing Ja. 1, 1673, ro- ducing ostimates for oxpenditiires tottie lowest amonnt el u bis Judgumont, s comsiatont with tho publi ntorchis, Bllls of & general nature woro introduced; To pro~ vide for the appolutinent of Fire Wardend in unincor- porated villages; to n';fimmlnln $1,000 cach to the Mil- Wyaulice Inatitutions of Homo for tu Friendless, Orphini Association, Bt. Mary Hospital, Awclisnus Orplan Asylum, 8E. Jmnx;h'l Orphsn Asylum, St, lloso Or~ phian Asylum, Miwaukea Hospital, and Wiscousin Boamen's. Fricnde® Socloly ; ‘to_ limitstationory of mommbers £o $20, and to provide thut for employes and Toportors only such smonnts ehuil bo givon aa provided by resolution from time to timo; to amend Chapter 28, general laws . of 1859, relative to eleotion of Justices of the Peacs; to allow town fnsurance companles to be formed by sll the towns of a county, or aby number adjolning moro. than four ; to Lmit Committces' stationery to $10 each. S THE WTATE UNIVERSITY Regents, Preaident Twornbly, nnd {he Committees on Education of the Senate and Assembly had = protract. ed conforonce to-dsy over the University ditfioulties, there being an irroconcilablo discrepancy botween the statomonta of tho Tegents and.tho President, Tho legislativo. committecs] will mako o repost to-morrow ‘morniug, Hil which timo the Regon(s Lold thelr nction in_abeyanco, though tho President’s removal fu fully rosolvod on. ATATE PRISON DINECTORS. Tho appointment of Stats Prison Directors ia still undocidod, and 16 tho subject af frequent conforence with tho Govornor. Bat Olark withdraws es & candi- date for Warden, Commisslsnor Whoelor is Lere, p THE LODDY, “Thicre {8 quile a Irgo lobby of rallroad men, prom- inent politicians, snd lawyers hore, st by MISSISSIPPL Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Mpxrui, Jan, 20,—Both houses of tho Misalsipp! Legisluture convoned ot Juckson to-day, the liouse of Representatives with J, D, Shadd, colored, as Chair- man, and tho Benato with Nr. Little, Thero was s full attondanca of both branches, Candi- dotes for the United Btates Benatorship are Dumerous, Among thom Bruce, colared, Judgo Brawn, and G, Wiley Walla aro tho most prominent, Tho complexion of both houses is strongly Ropublican, and they aro in a mojority on the Committees, Tho {naugural of Gov, Ames takcs placo to-morrow. Tho Bupremo Court déclslon &8 sccepted gratefally by all classes, Meapmts, Jan, 20,—A Jackson, Miss., spcelal snya tho Legislature sssembled st noon to-day, . D, Bhodd, colorad, arron, was eloctod Bpoaker of the House; H, W. Warron was olectod Olerk, ond Goorge R. Rease, Borgeant-nt-Arms, ‘Tho Seuato olected W, O, Whito Becretary, and aa- Journed, 'Theroare at least s dozon applicants for eflirfi subordinato YOHMW. and numerous nspirants to Al the unoxpired torm of Senator, bt ibtdlativn MINNESOTA: Snecial Dispatch (o The Chlcano Tridune, 81, Pauz, Ming,, Jau, 20,~In the Sonate, bills wera introduced extending th imo for buflaing tho Bralu- ard and 8t, Vincent oxtenslona tothe 8t, Paul & Pacific Road to the 1st of January, 1870} rolating to the lia- bility of common earriors, and declding vold contracts for transportation contrary thercto; creating the Twelfth Judicial District from o part of the Beventl, Wilkiuson's resolution fuquiring lnto the Blate Prison funds passod. THE HOUSE: {n engnged on & conteted cat caso, arising from tho extraordinary voto roturned from sevoral precinets in Watonwan County, where tho county soat removal was being votod upou, Ecgry OHIO. Corustous, 0., Jan, 20.—In the Benate this morn. fug bills wora fnfroduced to provido for the poyment of the Morgun raid claims, The bill proposcs to sp- ropriato §380,827 o pay tho clvima growing out of Join Morgaw’s raid into Obio; to suthorizo County Treasurers to deposit public moneys ; to suthorize incorporated meuufacturing companica to capitalizo thelr dobta and lssue preferred stock, and to provide for wecond trista bofore the Supremo Gourt, ——— MISSOURI. 8, Tours, Jan, 20.—Tho resolution introduced in tho Stato Sonuto, chorging Judge Primm, of tho &t. Loufs_Orimiual Gourt, with such gross imuorulity and offensivo und judocent conduct aa to render him an uauitablo and uneafo persou to dischargo the du- tios of the oflice, and nking that ho bo_removed, was roforred to tho Committoe o Criminsl Jurisprudenco, & Conenrrent resolutions have been introduced re- questing our Henators and Ttopresentatives in Con- gress {0 vole for all measurcs huving tondoucy to causo au cxpunsfon of the currency, sud extending to {hie Wost low full ghure of it. b PR COLORADO. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tr{bune, DeNyEs, Oo),, Jun. 20,—Soveral huportaut measurea wore introduced n the Legislature to-dny, among fhiam a motmot al praying Congress to causoat] the un- {axed Jands of rallroads fu Colorade to bo taxed aa Teavily as other lsnds ; alao s bill to Umit the charges for pussongor favo to 4 cont por wile for {he disiuuce nctuully travoled on railwa i i A, KENTUOKY, TousviLLe, Ky, Jan, 20,—The local option bill to suLimit the quostion of proliibition fo any county or towa desiring to voto ou it, passed the House of Rep. renontativos by s lurge majority to-duy, “Tho Ll to vepeal tho 10 pior cent infercat law was dofeated n {ho House by 01 to 44, —_— KANSAS, #7, Lous, Jun, 20,—The Dewmocrat's special from ‘Tupoka, K, # I’A‘ t s utated that o majority of the mewbure of the Leglalatuzo Lave signed & paper agree- Ing to pupport no man for United Statos Benator who wall mot subecribo to the renolutiona paseod Inat Friday, which, while denouncing the sslary-grab, do not cone doran o Prealdent, and which oxpresn full confidonce in tho Republican party, 1t in gonerally bolfoved that 18 8 xqunra esio 1a mado Lotween (ho Topublicansand ttic opposition Gongroseraaz, Eillips wil bo elacted, but I politcs aro Liought irfo tio fght, ton, D W, Wilber, tho preaont Stato Auditor, will ba'the sirongost ll'nnn, 1o boing both a staunch Ropubiican and a Io- orior. Br, Lowss, Jan, 20.—The Democrat's Topokn, Kan., cfal_ aayn tho roport which hias gainod curroncy i somo Enatorn papors, that it Congressman. Phijlips comen haro to lobby In tho intoreat of hiimaclf for Sone ator, A joint resolution will bo introduced consuring him fof leaving In post in Congrenn, In geerally ro- garied an pensational, claim to-dny that nincleen Gay, Osborn's frion Sonntora out of thirty-ning, and tweitty-thren Nopre- sontativos out of 107, nro plodged to bim, Larimen ia thaonly farmor candidnto, Flum, from tho Houth- west, and Carponter, from iho Ossgo ceded Iand dis- trict, aro horo hard at work. . RAILROAD NEWS. Troubles of the Lafayette, Blooming- ton & Mississippt Road, An Inharmonious Stockholders’ Meeting in Bloomington. A Btormy Stockholders’ Mcoting in Eloomington. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Brooxmazon, Ill, Jan, 20.—In nccordanco with publlstied notice, tho aunusl meoting of stockholdors of tho Lafajottc, Bloomington & Misslssippl Rallrond, now operated under leaso by tho Tolodo, Wabash & Weatorn, was hiold {o-day in thia citynt 1 p.m, Al 4hough 1t was surmised that thoro would bo trouble betweon those who represonted stock in tho road sub- sorlbod and owned by varlous towns and counties, and thoso who ropresented tho balance of tho stock, by many elafmed to b fllogal, it Was not dronmed that tho fight would bo 8o flerco or so dotermined as it was, Promptly at1 o'clock o number of cltizons from Ford County aud from pofnts on the rond, ropresent- 1o what thoy claim aa bouw fido atock, wero ou hand 8t flio placo of meeting, tho passengor-depot of tho road ; also 8 number of flio old Dircetory, sud Col, Anderson, Vice-Presidont of tho Tolodo Ltond, repro- nonting, as Trustco, $5,812,000 bands voted by tho old Directory to tho Toludo Rond 88 part of the contraot by whicli §t controls (ho stock of the entiro road. ‘Both partiea endeavored to got tho organization, The Ford County men wero auccessful, and Dr, Morrison, of Paxton, was elocted Ohuirman, Tio uppolnted Murton Dinlap, of ho eamo counfy, Socrctary, A war of words, ALMOST REACHING BLOWS, onsued, dnring which Morrison called to order tha others, 'who wero attempting to;make a scparato organe {zation. ~ Thio old Directors, Anderson aud othors, lofl in disgnst, after having, a3 tley claim, effectod un or- ganization with A, B; Ives, of Bloomington, as Chair— tnan, and 2, L. Lander Sccrotary, Thoy ndjourned to thio Ashloy Ttouso. THE FOND COUNTY PARTY Dnd, however, befora this nominated s Direolory, and clai that it waa elected by bona fide stook, o8 follows ¢ N. 8, Sundorland, of Bloomington; Norval Dizon, of Bioomington ; Frea Michling, of Chenoy's Grovos O. D, Backetts, of Ford County; J, I, Collfer, of Gibson ; if, W, Muurico, of Arrowamith: B. Buttorflold, o Vermilllon Cointy; Muriton Duninp, of Yaxton; Fronklin Hendorson, of Towsnda:; W. F, Young: blood, of Hoopeston; P, VanWelduer, of Padus, “Thoy claim this Board 'was ‘cloctod by tlio following stock: Obeney's Grove, 600 shates; McLoan County, 200; Bolleflower, 250 Arrowsmith, 300 ; Ford County, L4207 Bloomington,’ 1,000; Butier Township, Vere miilion County, 250, il OTNER PARTE in tho Ashloy Houso, and clocted a Di- ows: A, Gridloy, of Bloomington; A. Andoreon, of Toledos ‘A, B. Bayloss, of Brooklyn'; 4. D, Cox, of Oblo; 7. 8, Cascment, of Toledos *d. N. Drutmond, of Tolodo: U, M, Buiith, of Springheld ‘W, I, Cornean, of Toledo ; James Spears, of Lafayelte ; 3. hicuoy, of Bloomington; W. H, Pells, of Pux- ton { 0, T, Tttovos, ofeBloomington. Tize slock wyon which such election was deciarcd it A. B, Bayloas, Trustee for shares voted by tho old Directory fo the Toledo Tord, and represented by Col, A, Anderson, 412 3'A, Anderaon, 1; A, Gridiey, 13 _C. W, J.H, Ohenoy, 13 T.. W, Capen, 13’ W, II, E, McCiuw, 1 O. T, Reeves, 1. teld s meating rectory, a8 fol older, Folls, 1; J. Thicre were In it 10,000 sborcs, Tlose not in ellhor list woro NOT NEPRESENTED IN EITHER ELECTION, Thus the matter restsa with lwo Doards of Di- Tectors, both claiming suthorlty, and {rom pres- cnt indientions o lswsuit seoms inovitable, ~The slinros held by tho Toledo Rond would seem {0 bo Thono of contention, and thelr illegality ouce entab® lished, o tho Ford County pooplo claim it can be, tho authority fa boyond doubt 1n the kunds of the pcoplo who voted tho mock, If this point fu eatabllshed, another reauit ju coristu, that many of {he acty of the old Toard elccted by’ fietilious stock will bo also annuiled, e s The Cincmnati Southern, CrvorNsats, O, Jan, §20.~Tho Trustees of the Soutliern Rtufirond hive locafed 133 milea of road fu Keotucky, from Bouth Danville, {ho northern terminus,’ Tho ridge route has been followed from Loxington, by Georgetown and Willlamslown, Tho, also purchianed of Duvie, Linton, snd Louls Worthing~ tontuoratlrond from Loxington to tho Kentucky iver, 23 miles, 13 miles of which, to Nicholsville i now in oporation ; tho remaining ten miles is graded to the Kentucky River, at which plers for_bridges ara roady for the euperstructure, Adverfsamcuta for proposals for o superstructuro have been ordered, ‘Thio price paid for tho road, dopots, and yards is $300,+ 000 in Cincinnati 7 por cent’ currency bonds at ' par, Do Truntaen say tho coutructs for thie road {rom lierd 4o Lexington will ba lot soon, FIRES, in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Jun, 20,—Mrs, Louiss Kosbela® fur- niture store and residence, 682 Mugazine street, was burned to-day, Losg, $10,000, Insurcd in {ho Mer- chanta’ Mutual and Fuctors® & Traders' for $8.500, The Burning Mine Near Wilkesbarre. ,_Smecial Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tvibune, ‘WiLzrsnanng, Pa., Jan. 20,—The fire in Empire Mine, adjacent o this city, 18 not_yet under control, ut slill rages with ungovornablo fary. Bridge Burnecd. PONTLAND, Me,, Jun, 20.—The Eastern Rallroad bridge at Blddeford, Me,, was destroyed by fire this afternoon, Loss, $10,0( i ey OMAHA ITEMS. Specinl Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tyibune. 0OstAtiA, Neb., Jatl, 20.—Tho Hon, W. AL Brewer, Mayor, tendered his resiguation on sccount of removal to Ohicago. Itwas accopled to-night by tuo City Council, Tho proposition of nu, of Tolict, IL, to ‘Doro an artesian well was accepled fo-nfght by the Gity Council, 7o the dssoclated Press,1 Qaratia, Neb,, Jan. 20,—An unknowi man, aupposed to be inaane, jumped from this morning's train on tho 8t. Josoph Tond near Bigelow, The frain backed up ond tho man was found fusensible, his head bolng crushed, o Lad s tickot for Han Francisco, and $15 in money, but uo papors on his porson. Ata citleens’ mass-meeting Leld lst night $10,000 waa voted to ihe State Fair, to Lo held here bor, “Thirty-one civil etnploes wero discharged seatorday st tho headquartera of tho Department of the Platto, ‘Ninety-threo thoussnd und soven hundred ploces of baggago wore forvarded Woul by tho Usion Phelto at, year, y-thireo cara of ten, part of tho cargo of he steamabip Ching, oo en route bero, i i by COLORADO STOCK-GROWERS. Speeial Dispateh to The Chicago il Drxvin, Col., Jan, 20,—Tho third Anonal moeting ot iho Oolorado Btock-Growers’ Association wus held in this city touday, Over 100 delegates woro proacnt. President J, L, Bailoy dellvercdd tho mddress of iel- come. Intercsting discussions cnsued rolstive to tho lording and branding of cattlo, Tho ofiicors of the provious year wera all ro-clocted, Several important commniitees were uppointed, and notably among them ono to deviso proper lnliz!nmllon for the stock Intereats, A recces was taken until to-morrow, DETROIT PUBLIC WORKS. Special Dispateh to The Chicaga Trilune, Dernort, Mich,, Jan, 20,—In the' Counetl, to-uight, wepeclal commiflee roported sgatnst tho'legality of any of tie appointents of mombers of th new Bontd Beptem- of Publio Works, The Ojty Counnelor disecnting, (ho mattor was 1uid ‘on tho tablo, Thin was a concerted offort, in_ bellf of tho paving rings to dofoat tho estublishment of a Hoard of Public Wol o Oity Counsclor was also ordered to-nfght to fne vestigate the question s to whothior (he recent nunox- atlow o tho Eloventts Ward to this eity was countitu- onal, THE LIVE-STOCK MARKETS. WATENTOWN, MASH, WATERTOWX, Mess,,. Jun, 20,~Biey OarTri—Te- colpts, 489 ; demand & shudo quicker, und supply cone siderably ligher; prices improved bu the bost. stock gg. a‘!‘mx"\n ‘wnl‘l‘\ 11u_, ico fiéu@wm H %un, $8,75 125 3 firat quality, $7,] ol ceon .00@7.60 5 nird, 45,00@5.50, @ el e HugEr AND Liups—Tecoipts, 8,119, Market fu- activo, aud prices uuwatisfatory s shioop, §3.0034,60 each; oxtra, $5,00@6.00, A Special Disyich s The Ghi b ecial Disyateh to The Chicago Tribune, Kanuas Oy, Mo, Jun, 90,—OATTLE—OMerings pour, aud -m‘:p(n Iuquiry slow at formor prices, Tioas—Murkol dull; common grudea steady at $4.60 ot @4,70; good and clivlee senrcy aud flrm at $4.706G 485, RIVER AND CANAL NEWS. Speelul Dispateh to The € g0 Tribune, armo, Tl Jath E0rha Gorgn T o Hiessiont vor north of thia oily brokio luat nighty and tho Jeo 1a Funing out, o wieamor Gapiol von{nred to start or B, uis this morning, ——————— WISCONSIN UNITARIANS, fneelal Blouateh o The Geugo dritune. JANRBVILLY, Wik, dan, 20,—Tho flate Conyontlon of Unifarluns commonged ' s seksions at Sharrou, Wi, to-day. Prominont Uniturlune from all parts of the Btate'will bo prosont, THE LABOR QUESTION, ——— A Miners* Mass-Meeting Teld in Ply- mouth, Pa, Last Evening, Speech of Johif Siney, President of the National Union. Anothier Meeting to.Be Held in Wilkes~ barre To-Day. Prosident Gowen Dotermined upon a ‘“ Btarve-Out,” THE V/YOMING REGION. Suectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, A MEETING 1N PLYMOUTI, ° PLIMOUTH, Pa., Jan. 20,—0n6 of tho largost meet- ings of minors ever Lield fn thia district convened fn Plymouth to-night to hear an address from John Sinoy in tho interest of tho National Miners’ Unton, Tho gront londer wan rocelved with tho wildest enthusts m, and, throughout a lengily speech, carried tho scatimint of tho colllors with him, 1o explatned tho object of tho Convention and declared thiat THL COLLIERS MUST OROANIZE to protect themaclvea from slavery, Lodges of aseos clatlon will bo immedintoly instituted here, Blney appealed to the colllers not. to atrike unless actually driven [uto it, but denounced tho attompt to reduce tho basia. o handled tho monopolies without gloves, To pntd n glowing tributo to Taz TouNe for tho fn- tereat it fa taking In tho minors’ war, and a resolution of tlianks passed amid tho greatest applauso, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribun WILREGARNE, Da,, Jan, 20.—1t Io to-day neseried that thio opinton provails among the minera that thoy do not believo that tho Wilkesbarrs Coal Compantos moan to fuslst upon thielr announcoment of a roduce tlon upon thio basls of 1873, but that tho declaration iy meant as a threat for the purposc of frightening tho colliora into on abandonment of thelr domand for sn Increaso of 10 por cent, If this bo tru, then o new plingo may bo thrown upon tho troublo, but as it fa morely a rumor, and s not entertained fn many quar- tors, tlio Toport must not b accopted sdof groatweight. ‘The miners will not prees thelr domand, it {s confident. Iy bolloved, na thoy seo thero 18 no likelihood of 18 bea ing considercd, Lut thoy will not subumit to the reducn tlon, This nfternoon A CONFENEWOR : of reprosentatiyen froin overy mining district in Lu- zerne Un\lnllv. was held fn this city, and su Executive Board of the Nalional Miners’ Union o) pointed, Jame O'ifalloran was cleoted & delegato to the Grand Council of the Assoeiation, « dohn Sincy, Prealdent of the National Union, is here to-day. Ho A tha lendor of tho strike in the Bchuylkill reglon, Your correspondent inerviewed him thix af- ternoon, aud wis iuformod {hat his mission Ip the rintd organization of tho colliers of' i’ und tho Lobigh and Seranton reglons into tho Dulon, He aid thotit s a square fight In Behuylkill County be- Lweon the mou and Mr. Gowen, and that it take six months for tho great col king to BTARYE OUT i tho detormiued miners, Tho question bocomes mora deeply involved every day, *llll colliors are silent, and uiavo indled tho arrival of John Blnoy with ent thusinsm, becauso of lis popularit: amoug his brotiren. Tlo people of this soction hufinvc that hia crrand horo I8 to fire the passions of the men, and iuduge thom {0 declsre an opon war at once, = Without tho shadow of o doubt, there i o schemo or plot. in Dreparation, and what it means remains et to bo’ aia: covere 2 m"rhuxfim mecting tukes placo i this clty ‘to-mora v, {70 the Associated I'res,] WILRESBARRE, Pa., Joti, 20,—Tho work of organ. fzntlon among mincrs goca steadily on, At Plymotth, Inat night, over 400 joined the new ssocistion, A resolution to sond no more committees to Mr, Pariah, but Iot hitn or the Company send to the nien wheneved they had nythin unanimously passod, To-morrow a mass-meeting will bo hold, The miners conduct thelr meetings in n deliborato manner, und caution cach other to bie prudent, and tho difforeat untionalitie find 1o ifliculty fn wotking to- gother, to communicato or propoae, was A T OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, TITERO0T, Jan. 20.—~Tho steamship Celtio, which left Liverpool on Thuraday last, camo in contact with saio floatiug wreckago at night aud loat all tho bludea of her propeller. Sho returued to Queenstown in tow of the steamsbip Gielic, The cargo of the Celtic will bo trunsferred to the Gulicat Queonstown, and tho passongers will leava fn tho Baltic on Friday for New ork, Steamehips Weener and*Ocoanfc, from New York, wnd Tndiana, from Philadolphia, have arreived out, New Youk, Jun, 20,—Arrivéd~—Steamship Andez, from Cardifr, QUEENSTOWN, Jan, 20,—The steamer City of Ante werp, from New Yorlk, haa arrived. e NEIGHBORING STATES ITEMS, Logansport boasts of 86 in tho City Troasury, —TFort Wayne has 81,121.82 in the Oty Trens- ury, and $109,257.08 of city ordera outstanding. —A rumor is afloat hiero that thore is nn effort being made to remove the United:States Land- Oftico in this district from Monasha to Oconto,— Mavrinelte (Wis.) Eagle. ' —Tho $1 per bushel now paid for wheat in the towns of the Minnesota Valiey is incroasing the trado at a wonderful rate. “On Thuvsday over 2,000 bushels woro rocoived at the 8t. Potor olevator, and n continuous stream of loaded teams ia roported pouring its flood into all the points on the Minnosota ltivor. —Now_that g0 much _is being said about the elovator business in St. Paul, it is properto state that upon the completion of tho larzo clovator ot Duluth, o few days since, an application was mado by a firm in this city for room for 100,000 bushels'of wheat.—St. Paul Press, —An Oskatoosn (Tows) man sent his friends in Scotland a barrol of applos. They went through all right, and the freight was 213.60. Notwithstanding this his frionds wrote him that {.‘Imy wero cheaper thou thoy could got them ai’ ome. ~Lhis winter two large blackbirds romained on Mr. Tattee’s placo, in Edna Township, Jones County, Iowa, and bave been thore all winter. ‘Whether lhoi; wore infatuated with their prosent. quarters, kicked out of the migrating tlock, or. lnstinctively know the Ereuuut winter was to bo EM of rare beputy and blaudaess, is boyoud our on —A seandal and tragedy aro roported at At~ lantic, Iowa. A young Swede surprised hig wife and her lover, and, without molesting thom fur- ther than to' eny ho would Layo thom both ar- restod, left thow, Whon be returned his wifa had fortified hor caum&a with a dose of strych- nine, and wag i a condition to dofy the pgflcs‘ The widower is not disconsolate, —Q. L. King, 8late ,Doputy of the Granges, writes that tho number of Granges in Michigan now oxceeds 200, and that the applications some in thicker than evor. 'The calls on the National Qraugo for chertors now'oxceed 100per day, The Stato mooting of the Patrons of Musbaudry, to bo held at Knlamazoo ou tho 218t inat., will, un- doubtedly be largoly ationded. A now degrea will be couforred af that timo.—Grand Rapids Demacral, ~Tho snles of the Land Department of the Fling & Morquotte Rallrond during the pnst yoar, sava tho Bay City Tribune, wero 7,408 acros, anmounting to $67,797, or an avorage of. €0.16 per aore. This is tho smnllest quantity 8old in any ouo yoar miuce 1869, when tho firat salo was mado, " The total satos of the dopart~ mont to Jan. 1 wore 252,284 acres, amounting ta 2,006,897, or an averago of S7.95 per acre. A[uu\lt balf of the laud-grant Las boon disposed of, —Lawyors are provorbially fond of good, round féos, and are generally propared to pluols the rich gooae with a will who becomos entanglea in litigation, whethor civil or criminal, Thora ia & promiso of sonio rich pickinga in Denrborn County, Ind, The wifo of ouc of tho wealthy citizens of tho county lias beon arrosted upon a charge of stoalimg a puir of shoos worth 83, Al« roady fonr changes of vonue have been taken by the “defondant in the proliminary trial, In tho moantino tho husband of the accused wifa lias conunoneed anit for libel aguinst the coma plaining witnoss, 1“3"“5 dampgos at $10,000, and procoss has been sorved, ‘Tho bost logal talent lnm beon socoured upon both sldes. Both arties are rich, the war promlses to bo carrled nto Afriea with upirit aud doterminntion, and tho Iawyors nra rubbing thoir hands gleofully in contemplation of the rioh lead they have struck. —Xew dtbany Ledger. MUSIC GILVEN AW.AY. cons HIE AMATIUR, (o londiug Hualeal Monthlz, con zing talus olaven pages of now and Popular imusio, ans pagus of intercsting muslval items and sketchos, SAMPLE COPY I'RER, Bubsoription, tnoludiug tho bosutiful chromo of * Map- or tours» Oue Dallge puryose, 3] WALKE] l“‘“:" WALKEIL, o i NOTICE. Aftor Fobruary 1, 184, tho promiu upon purchase of X CERTIFIOATES, lisld by tho olty for oity taxes of 1872 will bo rafvod to & PIER CENT Obicago, Jin, 3, 1014, 8, 8. HAYLS, Cowptrolles,