Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1874, Page 2

THE FAR Address of Mnster Cochrane, of the Wisconsin State Granges ERS. o tho Connty (lrange,—tho Maslotn of tho tnbordinate (humgos o conatitnto the County i trange. Thoto uro olvioun ronsonn to rogon= mend this plan, ono of thom heine that the roprerentution Lo the Hinte Giange mislt ho reduced fo n reanounble limit; v farlhor- woro, 1ho Councils, us Lhoy arg ealled, ave onte sllo of the Ordor now, snd soom’ to hevo grown ap oul of an absolnlo noceskity, Bome of th Cowneils In other Htatew have conformod wo far to tho gonoral plan of tho Ovder an 10 olact ofilcors with tho samo namos, dutics, elc., an provided for tn the Oxder, thun proparing themsolves to_be embraced with- In i, ‘Fho Ktate by-lnws neod Lo o rovised, rud the Htato Geango shonld bo * incorporated ; und provision should bo nade tising the muneration of uuch oficers of the Grange s will requira to be paid for tholr sorvlecs. On the 224 of July list, an wnouthorizod oall haviug boeu fssued to tha (range of the Stato to tako part In & Convention designod for ' altoration n tho otianization ms would provide i | Showing the Rapid Growth of the Organization, The National Grango Called upon to Deeido the ' Political FOLITIOAL ACTION, Priviler I deemod it my duty to wmn the Privileges, Ordor ngainst Dol comvmittod to partisnn political “action, and subsequontly callod the X\hmwmt all'u "ll? 3 ni:umrd‘llnn(u & urnm:: - [ to meot with the Exocutive Comml Circular to Wisconsul Con ot Watortown to provent serlons conso- gressmen and Their Replies. quonces and declaro the position of the Ordor in reapeot to such action, Ve have roason to think thnt the meoting reaulted to the bonofit of tho Ordor, It in qufin clear, howover, that the libor- tv taken by individual members of subordinate Grangea to constituto themsolven n council to call conventious of a political tondonoy s contrary to the apirit of Article 12 of the constitution, and if po\'m\tled would domoralize the Order. And there would seom to bo a nocessity for somo ac- tion of tho Nationnl Grango, at its noxt scusion, which wonld not uulfi doflne the resirictions with. in which the Order should bo confined, by amond- g Articlo 12, but also provide for enforclng dig cipline in this rospect. At tho Watortown meoting the following RESOLUTIONS Arraignment of the Federal Oon- gross for Ignoring the Inter- osts of the People, Reports of Secretary, Treasurer, and Other Officers. wore adopted ¢ Ntesolved, Thnt wo nro in favor of the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivora nnd Mississlppi River, Address of Worthy Master Brown, of the Michigan State Grange. on, Resolved, That tho Exceutivo Committee bo fn- structed to prepare and alstribute to (o soveral subordinnte Grunges sulteble potlilons to Congress for tho botter and cheaper means of transportation from the West to tho Atlantio snd Southorn ecaboard, with tho requost that sald petition be signed na numorausly an poskiblo and returned to the Secretary of the S:nto Grange nt 08 early n duy ua possibles to bo by him for- warded to Congress ut the boginning of tho nozt scs~ sion, dopted b i pccorduncs with e auvo rienltion the Exoon, mm| i tive Catiittve propared tho followlig potition ai Gommon Senso Resolutions Adop O DT | e e svuns to b the suhordinsty rasges of the MoLean County Farmers’ the Btat ate Club, The Order Reported in a Very Flourishing Condition. PETITION TO CONGRESS, To the Honorable Senuto and Llowse of Revrcaentatives, n Congress assembleu ¢ “ The wnderaigued cltizons of tho State of Wisconsin would respectfully represent that aroplo means of transportation, ata costso modorato as nob to he n Lurden upou fuo producers of tho couniry, hus be- come an fimporativo national nocessity, and Justly de- mands_ suchi aetion at your louds as will aliord ado- quate rellef, That the improvement of those natlonsl water chan- nels which nuture lwa provided, would securo such relivf to very great extent. “I'iat the delsy to mako rivors of a uational charac- ter avallablo far public uas, bas thus far noted, and will continue toact, notouly ns an_obstruction to commerce, but in tho ature of n subsidy to private rallroad _corporations, ot tho expense of tho public, ‘That_Congross, havibe complelo control of these natural thoroufhfares, 18 Justly respousiblo, if thoy are uot In o condition to cxnblo tho public to'avall it- self of thelr entiro usefuluss, That wo desire to_conflao our requests strictly to what we bolfove would not only contributo most largely to tho general couventeaco, but whichare considereil to Lo tlie unquestionod right sud duly of Congress to provido for, We _thercfore respectfully petition fhat you will prompily mako such_adequate appropriations as will securs the followiug resulis, to wit : Tuo apeedy improvomont of tho Misslesippl River ot its mouth, nndaz sucl other poluta on it o8 work has already been commenced at, by fho General Goyern= ment, nud also the speady Rnprovement of thoFox and Wisconsin Risers,; Having in view the same objact, the Executive Comuitteo of the BTATE URANOE OF 10WA invited & maeting at Keokuk in October last, to consist of the Executivo Committees of tho DPat- rons of Husbandry for tho States In the Missls- sippl Valloy, At that conferenco niuc Siatos ware ropresonted, and the following rosolutions were adoptad: Resolged, That n the opinion of this Convention tho Exccttive Committeo of each State phould be churged with tho speeind duty of corresponding with thelr re- spective ropresentatives fn tho Nutlonsl Senatound ouss of Representatives upon tho subject of the speeds improvement of tho ‘Mussissippl Rlver at its moutiy, aud ut suck otlier points upon 1t nw work may hava afready beon commenced by (o General Goverti- ment, nnd upon the spoedy Jinprovemeut of the Fox und Wisconsin Rivers ; that tho result of such corre- apondence b communiented by each such Exocutive Commltice to a Central Committeo, ta bo uppointed by thls Couvention. That such Central Comnilttee shail thiorenpon take mensures to communicate the come bined result of such Teporls, in a condensed form to cach and every Stato and subordinate Grango of tho Patronn of Husbandry throughout tlia United States, with such puggestions us sald Gomnnittee shull after duo delfberation considor advie- able to make, Includiug therein o requeat for tho actlve co-oporation'of each Grango, fo bring ubout tho cone sutnation of (hiy stcp Livaris“aseuring the Tull realization of (his great desiro aud, absolnts necessity of the peovle, having duo regard 'to uniform action therelng eapoially shull such Contral Committee, in making the uforesald wuggestions, advise the Grangora throughout the Unfon o bold fo o strict, real and antual uccountabllity, thele respectivo United States Scuntora und Represéututivos, and from tino 1o thno tako such mezsures au will 'In 1o uncertain terme, manifeat the delermination of the Order o insist upon prompt aud declsive action by our natious! leglylatura upon the subject under cousfdoration, VRIVATE AND PUDLIC INTERESTS. The Wiscousin Stnte Grauge. Speefal Dispatch to The Chicago T tbune, Jaxesviure, Wis,, Jan. 21.—Tho Convention met promytly at 9 a. m., Master Cochrano in the chair, but after openivg lio ratired to confer the Aifth degree upon o fow dologates, and Overscor Hubbell took his place. THE REPORTS. Reports of the Scerotary, Stato Deputy, Trens- srer, Exccutive Committes, and Purchasing Agent were read. Tho Seeretary's roport vhows that the numbor of Grauges and their total mombership in Wiscousin ls substantiully tho samo as roportod i the dispatch of Monday (ast. Ilis oxpenses for the pnst year have been: Tostage, $09.60; stationary and printing, $118.95; oxpressage, $11.95; Post~ Oliico drawor, $4; moal and Grange book, %0.55; telograme, $2.65; salary for 6 quartors, #2350, Total §006.10. The number of Grang- eg roported {8 804, or nine times 88 many working Grangos as thero wore one year ago, Hahoped to nave been able to make s full report at this time, but somo twenty-fiva Granges, organized since Oct, 1, 1873, have negleoted to roport aud pay dues, THE TREAYURER'S REPORT. ¢ Tronsurer Cory roports receipts for the year ending Jun. 1, 1874, £4,017; disbursoments, £2,277, leaviug $1,740 now in the Treasury. The exponses of the Convention witl bo over 33,000, which will necessitato the negotiation of a loan to ineet it uutil nest quarter’s dues are recoived. Otherwiso tho ‘Ureasurer reports afaurs iu s fowrisbing condition, : THE BTATY PURCHASING-AGENT, ¢ In his roport, vays that nearly 211 tho work in bis epartment hns 8o fur beon proparatory, but littlo having been done by him to nssist mem- bors in the purchnso of agriculturnl fmple- ments, ote. Up to Jan. 6, ho bas received for bis serviees 245502 ; expanses for tiaveling, postage &e,, $167.60. 1le.thon proceeds to the snbject of Granges and their purpose, and soys tlub for want of unity of notion the farmors Lave sufforod even more. thau from opprossions of capital, Ho dwells upon the importance of oslablishing manufactorics 80 a3 to avoid DBXLONBIV, afilpmom to great distancos, but finds that it 18 impossible to avoid shipmants of agri- otltural products entirely, In this caso they must unito and both ship and purehaso in large yunutities, To saccomplish this e pre DosoY thoeo considerations : Firut, facllition to exhioit, move, and distiibute goods ; second, an ability to couceutrate on selocted articles in order to creato o volume of trado susicient to bo satisfac- tory ; third, au ability to agerogato valucs so an to buy at wholesale; fourth,buch suthority given to agonts es will give erodit and {mwer to thieir contracts, Ta eurry out theso ideas, the | I call purtionlar attention to the resolution, as 2stablishmont of co-oporative purchasiug-ngon- | it ombodies an oxprossion of the situation and sies is necessary, Tho fraterual aspoct of the Ivronumu relations oxisting botweon the pooplo at Jrzanization i3 invaluable, bub that is mot | largo, their materinl interonts and their roproson- snough. Farmers neod pecuniary reliof, Tho | tation in Congress. 'The improvements recom- organization for business purposes is a | monded are obviously of the very fist Import- uccerenty, Mo gays it is nmonsonso to en- | ance to the whole poople, and are entitled to the dewvor "to conduct business upon a frator- | special attention of Congress, not only on ac~ nal bagiy alono. Cupitnl must be had [ count of their merits, but bocause they oan bo und tho farmers must furnish it. The local | reached only by the National Governmont. In- conncils hnva done much to concentrate means | dood, 1t would bo uurlmned that in view of the tor co-operative purchase and eule, but the | immenso material intorests of tho people in- stoekholders in them have. boen comparatively | volved in tho improvemont of these natural few in number. Thoy should iuclude evary | water-courses of the country, and that they aro member of the Grange of legal sge, and | entirly under tho control of Cougrese, " (hat indeed the wholo farnivg commumty. Certain | the first tling to recoive tho attention of manufacturors who Iave boen ssked to soll their | our ropresentutives would be perfecting tha untural fecilition of the peoplo for carrying on n vast mlund commerce and to improve the natur-~ ol chaunols to the woa, hoth from the *' Father of Waters” to the south, und by tho great Jukes aud their outlets to the enst. And yet the poo- plo have reon those improvements,” so vital to tholr interasts, langnish from want of sufliclont appropriations from year to year, sousiblo at tho sawo timo that their aggrogate loss huy boon largely in excess of whut the whola cost of thase improvomonts ought-to be, But whila suflfering from inattention to the improvoment of tneyo natural high vays, which would be open to all, thoy wero nuwilling witnosses of tho do- apollment of the national domain for the honefit of & clas of private transportation companies, whose only lunit to their gracd was the amount wares to our Order at wholesalo rates hod ro- fused, and nskad what wo were going to do about it, and Ilow can you help youctiolves ? Ensilv ovough, We will unite” and 1aise capital, be iucorporated vy law, pro- vido “for & coreful wuporvision of our uffairs ; requira frequent sud exnct reports of our agents : proveut the trausfor und specula- tion in our stocks ; manufacturo, and buy, and sell for ourselver, aud himit the powors of onr sgents 8o complotely ns to avoid failure of our plans, Wo rogard the co-operativo gystem a3 o necessity, and it ia cortainly ‘hio ouly plan by which our object ean be nceom- olished, Wa lave been enricling the world to Jur own disadvantage. Too much intelligonce is mctuded in our class to longor suppors wealth by ‘he swoat of our brow, and shame of doplotion that could bo borne by their vic- aod disgraco will, sooner or later, over- | tims, without absolato oxhoustion, The take those who aro willing to enjoy | solations of the poople and their ntorests with what has been eurned by otheis. Labor must concrol and own what it earns, Capital hes so loug lorded it over labor that labor haw ut last loarned & loswon, and now -says that we must lvo an equal chance, A groat soelal vovo: lution is in progress, and wmuse bring equal and oxact justico toalt men, ‘I'hore’ must bo #n equitable dintribution of the profits of labor. Lho tour is ubottt to striko when skilled labor will agnert its rights, and demand not only fts whola sharo of what it praduces, but that socioty <hall wward it all tho dignity attached to any ac- “upation, “Tian agont thon gives the results of co-opora- ion in Fingland and othor European countrics, il clouer by warning tho fraternity that now 4 the timo for them to strike ; that if they do 10t nehievo their just rights now, history only sau tell their sltuation in yeats to come, Liexo romarks were received vory onthmslag- lly, awd the Convention -then adjourncd, 1 tho Mester deliverod bLis: address, ‘s fol- THE MASTER'S ADDRESS, Prethren and Members of the State Grange On tho 19tk duy of October, 1872, the Stute firungo of Wisconsin way organized in Dortago ty. At that lme there wero twenty-six Jvingen in the Btate, ' GROWTIL OF THE GRANGE, A wubsoquent meoting was hotd ou the 10th ey of Dacember following, at Ripon, when the rehuwn wore adopted, which provide for the an- sl moetings betug hold on the' third Tuesduy At this, the socoud acksion of tho ituto Girange, thoro are, peihaps, 895 subordinate iranges in tho State, with o membership of not csh than 1rom 15,000 to 20,000, boing an inerease IF nearly 800 Grangos sinco our orgunization, a seriod of searcoly fifteon monthy, "With 4 vigy o the probublo jnotenso next yenr, T would eatt four utteution the nocessity of mul‘ung & ohunge a tho thoir reprosontation {n Congross havo flunlly Lecome ‘well uudoratood. Ounicinl posltion s now to & groat oxtent regarde:l ns & moans of u(lvuuclnf personal iuttead of {mllll'v interents. And indifferenco to tho renl interests of {ho peoplo at largo is not more apparout thay devo- tion to those schowes whioh have for thoir ab- ject privato emolumonts xather than public bonefits. Even an entire disrogard for solici- tatlons from their constitwouts is not at this day considered a8 indicnting a fuilure to meot ither the duties or the courtesies of ofiicial position. In accordanco with tho suggestion ndopted at tho Kookuk meotiug the Ixeoutive Committes of the Biate Grango of Wiscousin Issued the followiug aircular letier to the Unitod Stoies Senators and Nopresantatives of Wise congin * TO THE WIBCONAIN CONGRESSMEN, To the Honoruble : T your eapuclly as & membor of tho Natfonal Logle- Inture, we resprotfully ask your attention to the follow- i utiatement nad request s Adeqiate mvans o1 {ransportation st moderate cost has grown Lo bo n great nutlonal went, and Justly do- munds the attention of Congress, ‘0 the prodiicors of the conntry, a portion of Wiorm aro represcuted by the undersigucd, " the subject 5 of_vital npartauce, With dug vegurd for ull thu vavious pluns, heorles, and. schemen which ure advoculed tefore tho countty at Targe, or which iay be presented for the conslderation of Canyress, wo respactfally ropresent thab oo means of reliel {4'opon for tho action of thut hudy, which would neen_to demand precedence, 1o mufter what othier plan or plane muy ur mny 1ot o wubssguaatly adopted ; we vefer o tio Iprovement of rlvas of 3 nutioual charactor, While nnprovumenis upon thess have horwofore Deeu aftogather fguored or kept lingoring atony with comparatively trifling oxponditures of publla money froni tne t'timo, Congress hus mado npropeiratons of uch mugnitud n wid of privato O sepebios us to at ouco provil for und socure thele rapid couipletion, We belleve that thy fmprovement of natfousd wators chanven should bave corresponding acticn ut thio Tandlg of O-ugzean without Curthor deliy, nl huvo re- rolved to give what infiucico we possest toward seour ing el jesnlty, Yo lLat eud, in hohnlf of & large number of citizeus of the Htata which you reprosant n aur Ns'tional Gone grees, wo mpmm{ly ask o bo ansured /'.mu. your ef- By inistako Measrs, 31eDIN and Willluins, tho now mewbers of Cougrows, wero umitted waon tho abovo cirenlar of inquivy way seut (o tho Wiscansin delogus tlon iu Congroas, consoquontly fhoy Liave not Lad s oppoziunity to reply, BAKIS OF REVRESENTATION o lho Stato Giange, by reducing it to a reason- wle linut, expericuco, in other Btatos, huving woverl the preseut hueral ropresontation {o be not aaly very oxponsive, bub unwieldy, Tu this sonnection T would diveet your attantion to sug- estions which have beon mwado by Brother Wil- liamy Orledge, Mastor of Kenasha Grange, No, 208, vhiav tho Nuvtounl Graugo should muke such and other wator courses that will clicapen transportae .| t 1 fouts aud induenco will b glven durhig o coming wanslon of Unnyteess to Fenure, by adoquite Approprhie tinng, tho follmelng renults, to-wit 3 Tho sy eedy Improvement. of the Muntsnippl Rver at itk month, ond st wuelt ollher poluts upon it ns worle: Ik ulvesady beon conmiotead ut' by the Genoeal Q- erument $imd olko the speedy improventont of the Fox wnd Wiseonnin River: A reply at yonr cavliest convenlenee wiil oblite yours renpoctfithiy, Ju Covinane, T BRAINTID, Unions, Buenwry, A, W, MoLavenLiy, lixeentfve Oommilttee of tuo Btato Giango of Wis- conuin, TIEIR RELLIRY, HOUAK OF REPRRIENTATIVEN, WasniNacon, D, O, Do, 4, 1874, W Cuchrane wad others, xechttve Commniticr, Waaconsn tirange of P, af I Hiun: Your ciroulnr-lotter of Nov, 20 hos Just renchod mo, und Wil way in roply : T will favor any Ieglalution that will clieapien transgiortation, I havono doithit oug of the meana in_nceomplishing thin great wark will o (bg_$mproveniont_of wator commuuieas ton, nud wines L huve beow in Congrens 1 bave favored all Meanures that went to the. protection nud fmprovo- ment of onr water couraca, Tohail do what s in my power to seeurs the im- rovenient of tho Missdasippl und Fox nnd Wisconain tivors, My ditty a8 a mombor of Uongeess, and my Iuterests aw a furmer hupel mo to this viey, OUTA Tee spectuly, 1, M, Rusic, MiswAUKER, Nov. 35, 1810, J. Caclirane, Exg.: Ditan S’ Taavo tho honor o acknowledge the elrcular lottor from yourself and othors, duted’ Nov, lflx in which yon say': g I bolialf of »_Iarge number of cittzons of the Statey whiel you roprosont fu oue National Congross wo reapectfully nak to bo assured that your efforts and influoiico wiil e given during thio couilng nesaton. of Qougrens (o aecuro by adequate appropriations tho following results, to-wit : ** Tho wpeedy imurovoment of {he Misaissippi River nt Ita mputh, and at such pointa upon it as_work bun alrendy beow commeucod at by the Gonoral Govorn- mont & aud also the spozdy Improyoment of the Fox und Winconeln Rivara, “Aroply at your carllest convonfenco will oblige yours, reapectfully,” T biave nlways dono all fn my power to seonro thess ouds, and nothing haa oconrred to cinnge my cote duct, Therefure, you can bo assurod Taball bo with you on this subjact, Very traly yours, MATT I, CARPENTER, GRBEX Bax, Nov, 27, 1875, J. Cochrane, Eoq.: Tiuave your T440r of tio 20t of Novembor, in which ot aak £ bo assured thiat T will givomy efforts * dur- i hio coming ataion of Gongtein to. scouring by ado- aquute appropriations " (h apcedy improvomont of the Minuisaippl, tho Fox, and Wisconsin Rivors, Bluco I have held o seat n the Honalo T iave omitted no opporbinity to advauce the improvomens of tho Mise sounpl, miul for quarter of » century have inces- santly Jubored to forvward the ofhers, 1 ain not likoly ta relax those efforts now when I am permitted to live to bava the frmhwcfl eof tho Weat calling on o to porsevoro, 1 um, very reapectfully, your obedjent servant, T, 0, Howe, From our other Rovrosentatives no reply whatover bua boon recoived. No offense could Lo taken to the wording of tho cltculnr lotter, a8 nouo waa indicatod by those who did reply. T'he subject is concedod to ba of vital impor- tance to our claga in {‘mrlloulnr, sud 1ccorved speeinl attention trom the President in his mes- sage. e CONCLUSIONS OF THE MASTER, Thero is but one conclusion to be arrived at from this waut of sitention to our request, and that conelusiou is one that Is now gonerally ac- copted as correct nll ovar the country, 'Ifiat 8o Tar as rogards the poople themaelvos, and theic Ropresoutatives, tho conueotion is broken from the dato of eleotion, The Represontatives are mnstora of tha sit- uation, and assumo an nrrogant irresnonsibility well indicated fu tho negleot alluded to, There is n soriousnoss of aspect about this stata of things which calla for earvest action, and I particularly call your attontion to 1t, The neceasity which obliged the Prcunnmul- vorsal demand for chenp transportation bas not baen without its losson, nor should tho ex- amples afforded by the municipal corruptions of the country b without their warning. ‘Ihere in an important bearing upon our inter- osis conncoted with tho subject. In my judg- ment thore is no other that domands, ot this time, a mote decided oxproasion from this Order. It is soon that power delogated by the neopls to their ropresentitives is mado to renct agninst themsolves and thoy are obliged to battle with crentures of tholr own croatiou for their rights, It ia not alone tha quostion of chonp trans- portation that should absorb our interest. Wo sliould look deeper fnto causes aud offects, OQur matorial Iutorests are dependsut, in a proater or less degree, upon the action of our TRopre- santatives in Congress, We must not loso sight of the fac that although the people at larwo miglit not object to tite expendilute of public trcounrs for purposes of utility that whon such expenditures aro managod 80 a3 to acoruo to mvato bonoilt, tho intent is perverled, the pocple wnsulted and robbed, ‘Iha privilogos which tho poople have granted to railroad corporations buve Lecome iustru- monts of opprossion. By. tha law of soll-pres- orvation tho Brodnuum of thn country aro com- pellod to took for u romndy. All they domand is simple justico; an equul chance. Bat thoy ean- not longor congant to bo taxed at will by soullesn corporations. ‘The Jaw has givon those creatures of the poople this power. Wo now appeal for roliel from their avariclous grasp, Railroad roperty Lins atso boon relioved from boaring its Yuul sharo of the expeunos of -tha Government, Equal taxation demands that this proporly be assessed and taxed «t the samo_rato that other proporty i8 assessud and taxed. Tho law is mado fo sanction ratos of intorest for the use of money in this Stale at lonst twico 08 large as the wholo busincss of the people can ba made to pay. \Why should capital be in- vosted by Inw with those extraordinary priviloge- and advantages over commorco and labor ? Thess abusos aro of long stonding. ‘They hnve grada ually ceapt into the body politic,” To Buggast remedics rnalllru caroful, intelligont, pationt thought and detiberation, ' Whailo we firily re- fuse to submit to » continued invasion of our rights, let us commeond onr cause to the best judgmont of the pooplo of tho Btato by respect- ing the rights of others. X OFFICENS ELEQTED. The followiug ofticora were elected up ta 10 a'alock : For Master, Col, J, O, Gochraue, Dodgo Conuty; Ovorscor, D. Willinms, Walworth Coun- tys; Lecturer, W, King, Dane County; Stoward, C. W. Foster, V'oud du Lac; Assistant Steward, A, J. Soxtun, Kilbourn Citv ; Quaplain, E. F, Dunnam, Winnebago County ; Treasuror, prob- ably Cary, of Rtock County, The McLiin County Farmers? Club, Special Inspateh to H'he Chicago T'ridune, Brooxixaton, I, Jan, 21.—The County Farmers’ Club assembled in this city to-day, about 250 delegntes belug presont, roprosonting nearly all the Clubs and Grauges of the county, Tho ossion continued all day and late Iu the evening. and many intoresting discussions woro had. Tho following officors were elocted: R, M. Guy, of Leroy, Prosident; A. O, Johnson, of Dale, Secrotary, 3 THE RESOLUTIONS. Rerolutions woro adoptod, of which the follow- ing is tho substanca: That tho advance of the Taimors' movemont in n muttor of congratulps tion; thnt will indorso logislators s far o8 thoy are right, and onposs when -wrong; that Judge Tipton is on- titled to the admiration of evory honest man for lus treatment of railroads and_other casos ; that thoey aro in favor of glvlnf theRai.road lawa full and fair trinl bofors oocidiug on its meritss that they are m favor of exhousting State powor in Togurd to railronds bofote culling on the Faderal Qovernment; that the impravemont of tue out- lat of the Mlauh)hlrpx aud o ship eanal round Ningara is & prossing nocessity ; that thoy are in fuvor of TEFONME IN LAW, and that noodlogs formulitios and teohnicalitios be ubohshed, and s return to common sonse principlos bo naccomplisheds thut they recoms motd the sottlomont of disputes by nrbitration ; that thoy will not patronize mauufacturers who refusa to soll at wholosalo rates to Clubs and Qranges until they rescind thoir action; that it is tho intorest of Cluby to Luy ut home wheu pos- sible; thit the oflico of School Suporintendent should o abolished; that a short sossion of the prosont Logwlature will matoriully aid in reducing toxation; thsb they heartily npin-nvo the offorts of houa-fide stockholders of the Lafayotto, Bloomington & Mississippl and of the Indisuapolis, Bioomington & Wostern Rail- ronds to squoeza the mamsture out of the stoolk 3 that tho Aati-Monopotist 1s ontitled to the hoarty support of tho people, and vhould bo aided by ovory Olub and Grango ; that tho nssessment Iaws bo amendod o s to tuke bona-tlde indebte ceduoes from tho sesossed value of property, Michignun Stuto Grange. Special Dwnuteh to 2he Chicago T'ridune, Kausvazoo, Mich, Jan, 2L.—1'ha Btato Grango met at Allon's Iuil at 2 o'elock, 600 delogates boing presont, of whom 150 were ladlos, The seusion way secrel and uo reports were allowod to go out. A Publication Commit- teo will bo ronortod in tho morving, The after- naon was ocenpled in proparing for buainess to- morrow, deeding who wore ontitled to seats, and hourlng the addvess of tho President, and ro- ports, ~ Cummittous wore alvo appointed, This ovening 1t is undestood that the fifth dograg ig to bo conforred, About forty porsons woio imtiatod last night at a spovial sosian, Zho domonstration hore is vory imposing, All the hotols aro well filled, sad "It as many come lo-morrow as are oxpociad, Allow's Iall will ba much too amall, nod tha Iargost public balk in tie vity will bo toarcely Inrgo ouough, A RETROSPEOTIVE VIEW, ‘I'o Yiate Uraugo was ongandzed Inub April, twonty woak subordinate ludges having st sprang into” oxistoaco ot that timo by thu utmost - efforts of Dupuly I, A Whompeon, ‘Thors are now 216 Grangon, with un avorage of sixty mowbom to onoli, 'Ll i o smnll catimnte, o organiza- tton I eompored in moat casos of tho bost farime #rw and Jondingmion, p “Lha growth i {ha nation hus beoh ns Iargo and us rapld as bore, On the It of Janmiry, 1474, tho Ordor unmbored neacly 1,100, Tis tmber of Qranges i the Union, nnanry, 187, was lows than 2,000, Suma of the BEST MEN IN OUR WTATE arofu this movoment, I notwzey horo to-day Honey Chamborlam, of 'Th,cc-Onks, aud by brotlior, member'of tho Howsu; ‘tho Ion, Alonzo Boustons, of Ionin; tlu Lom, Aloxandor nity for thero collecting anid crodit-walohing agonts, ho would have only adinitted the truth, 1t .x‘lxe snlos atograded by what the farmor nocds to buy rather than by what the manufao. turer wants to rell, It will o far townrdy lwl\‘m(.i the middleman guostion ag botwoon tarmor and manufuctaror, This would be quito as much in accord with the logllimato Jaws of teado an thoe prosont conditioh of affairs, Q. neilah va. American Plows, ditor of the Chfeano Trivuncs Bin: On soolng tho nocount of an lutarview that took placo hotwoon yoar roporter and ono of our Woatorn plow-nakors, a luserted i your fu- . [0 of the 17th inst., T could not holp notlolng many of the romatks (heroln ; in partioular, the tho groat bonefits acoroditod to middlomon, aud the high stato of excollonao thoy had brought things to. Sinco living In Ohloago my businons Cniseron ;- tho Ion, J, B, Cobib, and prominent | has sovoral times called mo out among mon from Iillsdale, Lounwoo, Graud Rapids, | gho Westorn farmors, glvlug me o Juckaon, Lansing, and othor plncas, good opportunity to cxamine into the Trom what I Licar I boltove tho matior of poli- ties will not long bu lott alowrs, ‘THE GRAND BANTED'M ADDRESS, Tho addres of Worthy-Alastor Brown was o vory nulo offort, full of geod thonghts, oncour- sgomont, and sound advico. - 1io. aliudod in wlowlug to1ms to tho growth of the Ordor, which Lo givo in dotail, T dwelt upon the advantngen of assoclated labor, 1o 'said thoro must have buon some great recogmzed ne- cossity for this movoment which las made its growth BO rapld, B0 unprecedonted, — The sproad of tho pinciples of the Ordor nmouuted to an uprising of tho pooplo;—tho agricultural poopls,—who tecoguizod i tho movement n walit which had long boon telt but unexprossed, Lo aliuded to tho trunsportation and othor quostions, He tndd that koro 1u Michigan tue farmors bad, por~ baps, littio to complain of!, but our mscor Siavos of tho Wost had boon under TUE DOMINATION OF MONOPOLIES; nnd ho belioved it was our duty to ald our brothers ovorywhore. 1lo belioved that tuo otented should ot bo greator thon the croator ; tuat the sourco of all luws were the pooplo, au: they nro tho vnos to rauko regulations 1 respoct to commerco, oto. Fio tecommended that tho Delogute cleotod to the Natioual Grange bo inseruotad to do all in hig power to bring sbout cortain-uumod changes in the Constitution of tho Natiousl Granfe, and recommonded u variety of changos in .o ‘vy-laws of tus State Grange. At tho cluse of the address & Committeo was appoluted to whom wus referred tho Master's nddross and its reoommondutions. Lhe Grango than took u rovoss tlt 7 p. ms, On reagyombling tno vote by which the Com- mitteo ou Mauter’s addrows were appointed wis reconsiderod, A Comuittoa of Throo, consisting of Brothors Wolch, Howo, aad Woodwurd, was’appoluted to uuimrvlun tho roports to bo nrinted, ‘Lo Grango then proceded to tho work of con- farring the 1fth dogrue on candidates, of which thero are mauy, THE PLOW QUESTION. The Azollcr—sruleln--[‘l(nvlnllku‘l‘l Va. Feople. TAORMONVILLE, Ill,, Jav, 10, 1874, To the Editor of The Clieugo T'ribine Bm: 1o tho imterviow with Mr. Doero by your reporter, a8 givon in Pk TripuNe of the 17th, thero are some iuconsistencios of statement which you will, porhaps, permit mo to polut out. Mr. Deoro t.dmits, at an cmly stage of the conversation, that there aro *too mauy dealera in agricuiturnl imploments in o placo. Unduw offorts are made to overload the purchasers, iu- volving an unhealthy avd unsafo credit-systom." In this he hus stated the difliculty very con- cigoly ; aud it ts strango that he has not discoy- crod what i8 clenrly ovident: that the agoucy- system adopted by the manufacturers has con- tributed, and will alwaye contributo, to such s rasult. The wholo systom is pernlcious from be- ginulng to end, W'ho proper ordor of business is oxactly revorsed. It 18 tho desiro to acll whiol becowes the toutrolling clement in the transnce tion, rathor than tho necessity to buy. Lot us Lavo a glanen at the present agoucy-syatem : ‘The wholosaliug agent is sent out from tho works to make tho grand rounds and establish local agencies, 'These men command large solaries, and are expected to make largo sales. Ilere is the first inducoment oiferod to ovorload the market, It the local ngont is rosponsiblo, ns each one is always swpposod to bo, he is induced to ordor Just ny muny as tuore 1s any pousiblo expoctation of solling:. ~ ** You may not hava_enough whou tho markiot opens, and” 8o loso snlos,”™ Yoy Lind bost bo suro und order euough; they nre ood sbock to carry over, and wou't spotl,"—are among the encournging suggestions. As they are hot to be paid for in cash at date of ordor, but time is grauted, probaoly, until tho sclling season hns coge, tho agout is inclined to pro- vido foroveiv anticipated domand, Woll, the soaton comes; otlier agents in the eamo town luve pursued the. samo polioy, and soveral agouts aro, therofors, provid- od with a suflictont stock of each particulur man- ufacture to supply tho entiro demeud. And now comos tho compotition fn wolliug, Iach of thoso agonts has_papor maturiug; his stock must be puid for. Ile can’t wait for the farmors to como nnd buy as whoy need, o must go to them. Ho is compolled to soll, or Lis paper gocs to protest, As theio aro moro than can bo sold for cash, it naturally follows that & * good note ” ia prefer- ablo to dead stock ; aad so tha snles aro prossod on timo, and, too ofton, on long-timo oredits, ' Ilo taken theso email notes to the banl gets thom discounted, after giving his udosses ment, aud meets the large note to the manu- fucturer ac ity mnturity, Unfortunatoly, theto aro very many farmers who cannot resiat the temptation to buy the now machine,—especially wheh tho saving it will offect is 80 vory largo,— according to the agont,—if they can gob it *on umo,” And 8o tho old machine, wiioh would hiave dono very woll for o year or two more, is cnst aside, ond & troublesome ploco of paper fs lodged in bunk, or i the Linnds of somo private note-shaver, waiting there for a fow months until maturity, when & big holein the grawn- bin or u vacaut stall in the stook-shed attosts its payment, It is plamly to be seon that the market is forced boyoud roul necossity, Now, if all those paymonts wero sactually made at matarity, it would not bo o bad. But it is not #o, A short crop loaves the grain-bin empty, and tuere aro not steors onough to meot el euch domands ; and, while ‘the farmer mav not fuil, in the usual accoptation of the term, if tho agent fails m making » number of these col- loctions his paper goos to protest and Lo does tail, Itis the experionce of tho plow-makeis that such tailures are conunon, and a due por- cul;{t:gu 18 nddod to the cout-prico to covor tLose rieks, . Let us soo now what proportion of the $100 which & maching may soll for the manuluctmier ronhizos, A usual percontago to tho rotuilor is 25 per cent, and it is otten us much ns 40 per cont, "This 10duces it to 275, The wholesals agont will got not far from 20 per cent of that, which teduces it to $6J, Allow 10 per cout for the risk of Jous, aud wo biave n net receipt to the man- ulacturers of 54, I am awaro that all liuos of mploments do not allow quite such commis- #10n8; but I know from experienco that somo of thier allow more, and this is not far from tho truth in plows aud reaping machinory, Lot us take it tho other way, now, and, as I shall meintaiu, the only legidmelo way. “Iruo, thero 1nust be an agency systom, but, instond of baving the manafucturers to appoiut tho agenty, I would have Lhe purchasers mako tho appoint- ments, Lot the farmers of a county, we will ey, doclde Low many implemeuts of any partic- ular kind they need, and Low many they nre able to pay for, cash down, or at least on deilvery, ‘Lhis muy bo decided just as long in advanco as now, and the ordera sy bo mads for as lurge quantities a8 practicable, The Luver compro- honds the advantage of car-load lots ns well ag doea tho manufaciurer, aud, if ho doos not, it will tako but littlo time to loarn, In it not ovi- deut that tho maunfacturer can afford to fill such ordors for tho not cost of 54, nud bo just as well off as mnow? The freight “would be an addition to first cost in either eago, but would be less tv enoh purchaser, #iuce the prosont agont ndds rathor more than the actus! freight-oxpense upon ench machine, Tho agont who acts for the associntion of farmors must have pay for his sorvices; cor- tulnly; but, as ho takos no risk, he can afford to sorve for o comparativoly small commivsion, Now, I nm woll uwaro that thero must bo an nagoncy-system of ono kiud or tho otnor, nud, tho one bLemg alrondy established, it must necossarily be employoed until tho othor oan be goterally substitutod, so that noithor party may Lo too niuol inconveuloncod for tho time being, Mr, Doera says trulv, ¢ ‘Tho adoption of tho cash-system will ohouk tho extiavagunce induced by long credits, and nouleato cconomny in the purchuse of {mplemonts, us will as chaapen prices, ~ Groator carp will be takon, and, instoad of the dumngo to farming machinory by oxpoys ure whou not ju uctual use,—whicl is now asti- mated to bo greator than the wour, ontaihing an notial loss to Westorn farmers of millions, yonr- ?.-—-wo sholl oo thoso articlos kopk in good or- or and rrupml honsod,” If hio hiad added that the adoption of the onsh. syslom wouid go ¥ar toward rolloviug tho neoes- such grunt, that tho road shall bardly scem oo (o Linve boets mada use of by Congress sola purposo of distiuguishing it from tho placeknown und Company by Govs, Stono aud Mornill, named oxcellonce and parfection of plows, Thore may bo somo slight advantsges in the motal and ma- torials now used, but no important improve- monts in the shaps or form of the plowa have been made since thoy firat camo undor my no- tleo, moro than bwenty yoars since. It wns ot an oxtonsive trinl of plows in England, open to oll uatious, whora tho light construction and high finish of thoso from Amorloa attructod groat é- tontion, Tho plows wore all mado to cut the samo width aud dopth of furrow,—ench one be- Ing attnchiod, in its turn, to_the sama dyuamom- oter. Tho plow that took tho first prize mado good work, and indicated about half tho powor that was tukon to draw the Amorican plow, thio work of which appearod moro hike shovel ing tho earth up in hoaps than plomnE. I wos thon very young in the trade; but, y paving skriot atterition “to tho pruciplos theio. illus. trated, I was soon engaged, 1 tho old country, in mauufuumrlu;i plows by thousands, thut aro now guccossfully in usg fu “nearly ovory part of the eivilized world, ‘Those plows cat & tmiform width and depth of furrow, and are so atoady in band that a more ohild can guide thom, Thoy are applicablo to any kiud of woil, aud, in many parts of tho tropienl zone, thoy are worked night and day, in ordor to got in tho crops bo- tore thn oxtromo drought comes on. Many of your readors will say, Iow is it thnt thoso plows have nover hoen introduced into theso parts? I way, For tho vory rossan il- lustrated by Mr. Deoro. T'he farmors have been single-handed,—most of tuem bogiuning wich very lunited means, Thoy binwvo had no aiternn- thvo but to go to tho middleman, who, osing to tho large protits ho Is mnklnr, can nftord to give long crodit on just tho articls ho las in stock (for, being an oxclusive agont in mauy instances, Lio 18 forbiddon solling tho products of othior makers), and which hio is bound to hold up as the only available article adapted to tho eoil, IIo would hnto to ses & plow introduced that would work botter, “and Inst ten or fifteon years. It would, on u liboral systom, pull down ‘his manopoly; which, of courdo, lio tries to prbvent at any cost. Honco Llg reason why thero is no progress In plows;’ and this is ono of tho groat ovii tho farmer Las to complain of, I would eny to tho Grangers, Yours is a noble causo, and you must push on with o doterminn- tiou to hold it up in its Infaucy. With duo care and caution, it will rapidly grow to prodigious strongth and powoer, such s no outside opposi- tion can witbswnd, i 8. CHieaao, Jun, 20, 1874, A MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RAILWAY, Its Failurc to Comply with tho Cone ditions of K8 Lund=Grant in Xowa, Correspondence of I'he Chiicapro Tribune, McGnaon, Ta,, Jon, 20, 1874, Tho Stato of Tows in genoral, snd McGrogor in particular, entertain for the Milwaukeo & St. Paul Railwoy feclings akin to vindictiveness, That rond s discriminated ngalnst us, charged us unlawful fare aud freight, and committed other indignitics that would consume too much valuable timo to onumerate. It is common to 800 men and corporatious work for their own interost ; but you gonerally sco, with this fool- ing of eeclt-ndvaucoment, somo littlo respect for the rights of others, The object of this artlelo is to bring boforo tho peo- ple of Iowa, if possible, n subjoct that Interests the wholo State, and ono of which tho people gonerally seem to be ignorant, owing to tho fack that, until recently, tho mattor in quention had not recoived tho attention that its importanco demanded. On the 12th day of May, 1861, Congress ap- proved an nct whioh granted to tho State of Towa lands for the purpose of aiding fu tho con- struction of & railrond from s point at or mear the foot of Main streot, South McGrogor, in said Stato, in a westorly divection, by the most prac- tical route, on or mear tho 43d parallei of north Iatitude, until it should intersoct the road running from Sioux City, in said State, to tho south lino of the State of Min- nesots, at such point ns the mald Stato of Iown might soleot, betwoen tho Dig Sioux aud tho West Fork of tho Des Moines River, iu tho County of 0'Brlen fu said State,—said lnnds being every alternato soction designated by gdd numbers, “Boction 3 of the net provides that tha raut eliall be subjeot to the disposal of the Lieg- fi;lumm of Iowa, for the purposes nforesaid, nnd 1o othots ; aud to bs dwnosed of in the follow- ing ananner : the Govornor of the Stato, nfter 10 consecutivo milos of said road ara built, cer- tifles to tho Becrewnry of the Intorjor, who shall thon igsue to the State patonta for 100 sections, which aro then deeded by the Governar to the Compnoy that lus built said 10 consceutive milos ; and 5o on, decding 100 soctions for every 10 conaecutive miles of 10nd, to be built as good 88 auy firut-clavs road in tho West, The Logsiature of the State of Towa gave the graut of lunds to the McGregor & Sioux City Tailway Compauy, which soon changod its name to the” McOiogor & Missouri Rivor Ruilroad CGompnny, which is formad out of, and in fact is, the Milwnukoo & Bt. Paul Ruilway. L'he oon- ditions of tho_aot rogranting tho land to the above-named Com]muy Ly tho Legislaturo of Iown aro substantinily tho samo s the not of Congross, and it is nanecossary to give any furthor the torms on which the Company accept tho grant, It is noxtIn arder to sco Low tho Company haa complied with cho conditions of unid grant, A reference to that portion of Gov. Cnr‘mntur’a Inst message which treats of the matter in quos. tion will give the reador a better 1dea of the non-complinnes of the Compnuy than your cor- rospoudent s ablo to do, aad will bo of much lughor authority, T'ho Governor says : Tut Utlls progress has boen made towards the com- plotion of tho McGregor & Missoun River Rullroad wost of Algonn, Tho act of Congress making tho grant for thls road suys fhe initial point of the road #hall bo “at or near ‘the foot of Muln street, South McGregor.” Tho act of tho Genoral Assctibly of 1808, regranting tho lands, required, as a condition of Vo comploted *an far weat us Oufckannw, in Itango 14, in Obickasaw County, Ly the 1st day of Septemuer, 1360, That polut 18, aid was beforo that tmo, 1 Faflroad _communication with tho Missiselpp! River at North McGregor, ome 2miles north of tho proximate initisl polnt numed in tho act of Congress, Admitting—which fs moro s queutlonablo—ihat ilio pleco. of xoad buile £eom tiio Misessalyps River to Oalmar by suother Com. pany I8 o part of tho line contemplated in ths sct of the Gonoral Assambly, thers s yot much reason for doubt, whotlier tho rajuiromont fi tho {nitial polnt hos been complied with, ‘Lie dosignation “at or naar tho foot aln street, South McGregor,” would ta cover a 'mhlt not in South McGregor at ull, Tho word ™ Houth," lot it bo obrorvad, §8 not part of ho corporats namp af ths Oity of McGregor, nor was it of the Town of McGregor, the place contemplated in the for tho latted s ¢ North McGiegor,” Tho commiouce- wonl of tho road ub tho lattor point, (herefore, kg pears ot only {0 bo o usn-complizaco with tho’ law, Bl to ho ais et 1n direet contravention of o logista tivo will, , If tlils view bo correct, then tho grautes has nat completod its road to Obivkasaw ; and the fullure 1o,do ko givos tho Gonerat Asiainbly un opportunity to {take such action as may scem neoded to by complianco by the Rallroud Compauy with all tha cone ditions of tho graut, ring aboit & The part of tho messago abovo quoted ex- prossos tho sontimont of tho cutire State, nud we are all proud that our Qbfof Exeoutive hud backbone sulicient to stuto bis opiuion in so no- bio a maunor, Thae Company hed recoived deods for 134,058.81 acrus of land embrneed in the grant, oxtonding as fir wost ns Range 88, Tho mmost valuablo laads have beon dooded to the The last outleman rosided in MoGregor at the timo of his first oloction, and kuew the ciroun- stances of tho whole affalr ; and his action fn the mattor is strangs, to say the lonst, important for the people to_sce that the Com- pany racoive uo moro lunds until it had com- pliod with tbo conditions of tho grant, Gov, Carpontor goomy dotormined to Lreak throngh Yot it iy rocadonty outablinned by his prodecessors, and roat monopolios tho samo as individuals j whioh I o fact thut is reully rofreahing, 0. —— —Mr, Kallooh, wo undoreband, has acoopted tho call of the First Baptist Oliurch pf Loaven- worth to booomo its pustor at & saluy of 89,000 bor annum,—Lawrence (Kan.) Standard, COLORADO. Trogress of {lie Terrltory and tho Clty of Denvor During 1878, Some Intercsting Facts and Fig- ures, Spectal Correspondence af Tlis Chicapo Tribline, ' Desven, Col., Jun, 13, 1874, Tho yoar just closed has bosn ono of groat prospority to both Donver and- Ootorndo. Tho great financial panlo whica marked tho fow last months of 1873 nffuoted this Tarritory to n vory slight oxtout. Not a singlo banit suspondad, nud noarly every commorcinl ontablisamont las promptly. mot its llabilitles, Almost ovory avenuo of trado and industry shown o gratitying increnso, many branchios repoiting to have done f1om 25 Lo 50 por cent move bukinera than during tho precading yoar. The population of the Quoon Oity of tho Plalns has grown groatly, A censua. which has been ordered by the City Coun- ofl, will, it is thought, show a population of Froxt 20,000 To 23,000, Itistobo taken duriug tho prosnt month, and with the view of eatablishing the lotter-cac- rior systom in our midat. Dotweon 600 aud 700 buildings havs beon orectod hioro,at acostof about $1.500,000. Ducing tho prosont yoar it s thoughe that more tuna double this amount wilt be pat iuto editices, ns soveral large manuface turig establislimonts ero contemplatod. Thore woro 2,23 doods rocorded during 1873 in the oftice of tho Recordor of Arapahoo County, lo- cated in this city, Thoy carried o cousidoration of $2,379,905. Goods wore disposod of by our morchants to tho oxtont of §14,828,800,—nn fn- crenso of §1,234,800. Tho manufactuies woro $3,249,100,—nuking tho total of trado and manu- fuctures 817,672,000 a8 tho business of Douver ; as againat 914,433, - 000 tho previous yoar,—bolug sun incrosse of £0,139,000, Tho throo National Banks of tho city show a capital o1 §100,000, with surplus funds to the amount of $255,835. Tho individusl deposita asmount $1,879,787. These, with sovoral private Lanks, disposed of over $25,u00,000 of oxchange during tho yoar just closod. Tuo profits of tho Luuks huve boew vory largo, on accouut of the hugh ratos of intoross ounrgod. Tuis is owing to 1o muny transnctions 1 ronl-catate, anl tae largo nuinbor of borrowors, who draw largoly upon tho bauis 80 08 Lo vporato wuccossiully. Luod withim the city-limits bus inerossod in vi- uo more thaw 60 por cont duving the lnst two years, Tho owal value ot city-proporty, accord- iur Lo tho Assossor’s roll, is $9,304,100; and, woro lands and gousos tated aé their full vaiue, 16 Would Lo nuvly thre times a8 mucu Aaay public improventouts have vesu mado, and o.ubly sumouyg theyo i tho ex.cusivn of thy BLreoL-tLWIYH, Our agrienltural products, espocially in the way of cereum, have voon ull that 1ho most snu- guiao bad auticipated. In this oity sud imme- dunto vicinity, nearly $500,000 worih of ga teuck aud suwall 1ruus huve beon rawod, Tho mines have been proiie, and one oxpress com- puuy shipped 1,059,650 of silver-budion oast. Iue ores torwardod for roluciion durig tho siwo tmo amounted- to 1,223,700, making totul of ures sud bullien, 3,185,300, LANDS FOI FARMING have been Inrgely talkon up, ‘The homostoad- onurius wwonnted to 11,005 acres; cash entries, 18,2035 serip aud wartsats, 15,192 ; pro-omption Llinys, 208,700, 16 53.08 OF Lhio iansus racilie and Deuver Pacitic ladway lands amounted to 42,882 acres, ‘Lho tutal number of surveyea acres in the Torntory 18 set down at 13,833,419, ‘I'ho taxable wealii of Uoluraao, accocding to tho Auditor, is £00,632,498.50, Wora the prop- arty nssoseed up 't futl value, it would: cor- tainly smount to over 50,000,000, 8ince 1870, forty now towns ‘have been Inid out,—gomo of tuem pcosperiug, with large and industrious populaiiond. Usher. towny will be sturted during tue comiuyg spring aud summer, Some of ctho.n will be w proximiry to tho rich milver-flelds ot the San Juan district, Four yoars ago, loss than 63,000 neros'of land wore undor cultivasion 1 the ‘Lerritory. Now, over 850,000 are tilled and give a productive yiold, Faily 500,000 head of cattlo ure hording ou our plaing, wile tho sheop amsuye to twice chia number. The vatuo of vl the live stock 1s computed at about 812,000,000, Over twonty Jarge swoliing-cstablishmonts, and wmwmoraole 1eduction-worky, uro lucated througbout the Territory. Ixporienced imull- men cstimato that the prosent duily yield of ore sutablo for smolting iy OVEI 20U TONS PER DAY; and the forco eugaged iy mimog pursuits is fully 3,000 won. ‘T'ao averuge daily prouct, tha year round, may b sot dowi ut 318,000, During suo preaent year, the mining interest will grow greatly. At prosont, much forcign capitul is seeking fuvestmont in good miuing proporty. A lurge fnflux of furtune-seexors will go duwn to the San Juan region this spring, in quest of the precious motats, 88 wll accounts euming from thore ave vory dattoring as to the country’s rich- s, THE DENVER POST-OFFIOL hins grown to be quito an iustitation. During tho pust your the nwount of monvy uandied in its mouoy-urder dopnrtmont was $1,07,474.27, and stawps sold $27,870.20 5 wlile over §3,000 wus roulized from bos-routs. No loss than 16,887 rogistosed lottors pavsed, through the outioo, wiuto 5,000 monoy-orders wero paid. A equally good showlag “is madein tho other viancues of tha ouice's business, ‘Lhe quostion of POPULATION AND STATE ADMISSION in ngain agitaning tho pooplo. Luo wajority of the commuany ore auXious that Congrees should ullow them to set up o Stute forw of Govornmont, 5o that many reforms may bo ob- tutned that caunot be goiton uuder the' presont systom. Lho consus of 1870 gave Colorado sumoihiug loas tuan 40,000 populntion. The pooplo wura deatiored over a sparsely-otiicd country, aud many of them were never account- ed for by tho Uonsus-Marshals, 'ho onjvial ostimato has always vooa yegarded as too low. Lmmizration Lias been pourmng in quite hoavily during tuo past throo yoars, aud it i clainioy that tue Lerritory now bus betweon 120,000 aud 180,000 poopla, c. — An Austrian Bailway King, The Vienns correspondent of the Eastern Budget says: ¢“Thore is but little nceresting poliical now hiero just now, aud it is complately thrown iuto theshaue by an incident whizl i tho talle of all Vienua.” Ofoulieim, tho railway Crwsus, who formorly lived 1 a’ mugnificout pulugs on the Sehwarzonborgplarz, is Low con- fined in acoll of the prisou of tho provineial tribunal, ‘Flie papeis ure full of details of Lis arvest sud that of his accomplicos, ZuTor nad Luskowitz, nud not a voico is raiked ou taeir bo- halt, On tho contrary, tho decisive action of the Govornment, und cspecially of the Ministor of Commorco, Horr von Baubians, in the matior 18 approved by all classes, It is udwmisted on all Liaqds that, to seriko at the corruption wnioh was gradually undermiviog our finsnciul world jun wucn wore offsctual moans of improviug tho trado and industry of the country thun to glve peounfury assisiance out of the public fuuds, Usenheim affected up to 'tho list momenc to huve no four for lng porsoval liberty, aud 1t was evou roported by Lis adherents that the iequity wlhuot biad beour fustituted by tho Goverument into bis procoodings as_a railway Director hud fuiled to olicit any ovidenca against bim, 'Tho whola cago will now bo brought bofaro o jury, aud it is boliovod that somo scandulous reveln® tious will bo mado [ tho courss of tho trinl, I'he enorgy with whioh the Government hns ba« baved in tiie caso sooms to huve sproad constor- nation among railway Divcotoss genacally, ‘L'ncir orgnu, the Morgenpost, oven goos wo far as to hroaten the Ministry with a ocoalition of the roprosontativos of the railway Incerest in tho Reichmiath with tha ulttamontanes and Foudal- iuts, The Iattor atiribute the corruption umong the railway divectors to the liooral rogime; but, fortunutely for this thoory, it appeaws that thore aroas many Feudulists who ave implicated ia theua abusoes as Liboruby ———— ‘The Marquis of T'weoddales It i velutod of Willum M, twoed that, in the howshit of Lils powor, he wus persuaded by bis domestio civelo to attempt to hide tho fact of his hinving been a comman chalr-mukor, and n courso fho-boy, by looking up the noble line that hud gonoratod wo cxomplary a J»lululemr sud so Kifted u corraptionist. Tweod way aware thero Was 0o uso of huuting for s progevitors, if distinction was his objeot, Ilo weut to work in a dirvoter manner—oalling upon tio [vruvmnr of oscutotaons, and agreomy Lo sottlo the bill ay soun u the thing was dono, Tho noarest thov ounld cumo to ‘Pweed in tha Diltish Poorage was Twooddale. Thora s now a Marquis of Twueddale, George Hay, X, T. Larl of Qifford and Tweoddale,” who dates from William de Haya, settled in Lothinn sovon conturioy Hinico, and was royal butlor in thino of Malcolm IV. 'I'lig crest of tho family is 8 gont's nond, Lho Bupporters two Lucks adtired and ungulml, ench gorged with o co'lar; the motlo, *“Spare Naught,” ~ As the gont s roted Tor salnelty, and as tho * Bowg " sparod nothing in tho skiapo of mouey which Lo gouid pot his hunds on, thero Is resson for bis thinking that ho had o right to tho symbols of Ihe Enrl. At any 1ato, ay tho story goew, bo took tho Tweod- dalo arme, and displayed them whorovar thore waa synca onongh to put thom. Tho Marquin would be flatterad, it ho knew that tho * jy ont eelon of his hougo is tho fumato uof & conviel's coll, in thia blustad conntry, you kaaw.” —_— ILANSAS. Thoe Farmors’ Movement There, Correspondence of he Chicaao Iyfbuna. . TOPERA, Kan,, Jun, 16, 1874, Tho annual meoting of the Farmots' Co operative Assaciation—of which an acconnt hing beon sont you by tolograph—~suggests n fow roflections upon the gencral movowent of tho farmors in this Stato, Iu no Btato havo tho rosults of that movoment been moro surprising ; in uono, cortainly, hag thoro beon & mota c ving need of reform, In proportion to population and resources, no Stato cxceods Kausas in tho power of its monopolies, and [n tho politieal influenco of its groat corpo- rations, Nowhoro hns this power beon more offectively and unscrupulously employed for the control of logislation, In tho light of past de- velopmonts; it {s scarcoly nocossary to add that wo may falrly claim procedonco la political corruption, a8 in many othor Tospocts, ‘Thero has loug boon a wido-spread fooling that some check must be put upon theso cor porato influencoe ; that the undoubted right of tho 8tata to-control thom must bo exorcisod 1n tho interost of its citizens; and that thoir focilitlcs for ehaping and thwarting logislation must bo ourtaifed. This prevalont soutimont bias hithorto failed of ita purpose through the want of organized and unlted action, Indoed, " Autl-Ruilrond " majnritios have froquon.ly beon choson to the Loglslaturo; but tasy have generally turned out’ to bo tho most abject servitols of the railronds. Whenever any ro- straining leginlation has beon pertectod, 1t has sigually-fallod of oxccution, and hos remained o doad lotter on tho statute-book. A law of the Btato ab‘this hour fixes tho rats of fate at & certsin maximum figure, and makes it & misdemonnor tor any rallway-officor torecolve any sum in oxcess, Yet that statute Lins beon ontiroly disrogarded, Mote than that, logislation hns baon shapod ozpecially ta encour. ag0 rallroad compauiod to rosist and doluy tha paymens of taxes, ; More offonsive, If not mors injurlous, canse- quences have followed the opon and shamoloss wterferonce in our elootivns, groat and small, populur and logislnsivo. Totlie notive wterposis ton of the railway-strikera our municipalitien owo much of tho Liirden of bonded Indebtaduoss whioh 18 otushing thom, amouuting i tho #g- grozate to 313,000,000, or 4,000,000 more thun il chio roads of tho Stute are valued at uudor our infamous Rulrosd-Assessmont law. How to correct these aud othor glaring evily hus long boon tho conandrum with which our pooplo have wrestled, It has boen salvod. The Grangors Lavo farbisiod the romody, The State Grange was organized only lnst year, and alrendy i ramifications exten through avery saction ot the Stawe, Noarly 1,000 suburdinata Grauges aro in'operation. In ' the canvass of Iust full, quietly, without the blowing of trum. pots, aud 1u the faco of the ridicule of the autire party-press, the Grangers organizod thoir forcos, marched to the polls, aud elcctod to the Legsla- ture, If not an avsoluta anti-Ropublican majorl- ty, at lenst vo nearly 80 as to awsure the necom- plishmant of muen benefleial legislation, It this unticigation shall prove ilusory, thero will be no Legiulaturo. ow far the Grango olomont will be able to influcuce the election of Hauator, to ocour on the 27¢th or 23th 1ast., no proplict would hazard his roputation by prodiciing. Very littlo has yob boen dovoloped on tha subjeat, aud any torocuut- ing of the rosult muat bo mero conjecturo. An impresnion provails qute gonorally, however, taut the now Sena‘or will not bo un actual Grane gor, but that ho_will be a Ropublican of charac- ter and integrity, aud one in hearyy sympathy with tho Reform movemont. OF tho next popular cauvags it is onsior to taka tho measuro, “rhe Raformo:s will nominate aud cleot o full State tickel, every mombsr uf Con- greas, a majoricy of county otfizers, and snoyor- whelining mjority of the Logislaturo, : PERSONAT, Baechor gets $3.33 a minuto whon he Ipo- tures, g —Preston Powers has [n hand busts of Agae- sz, Whuttior, and Alvin Adams, —Sonator Sargent i3 clmigid with ¢ fairly slobboriug tho Prosidont with devotion,"” —Gov, Wushburn lus nover sousht a Fod- eral uppolutment, hus hod nono offored to him, doos pot expect:to have sush olfer, aud, what Is moro, there is no appointmeat he ‘would accopt, if it should bo tandered tohim. Ho is oomfor:nbly located on liis farm near nis city, hos all the worle ho wauts, ia tnuking improventonts, fixing up his trout-ponds, and is to0 happy in hig surrouudings to thiuk of uccopting avy office in tho gift of the Prosi- dout.—dfadison ( Wis.) Journal, —'the Rov. lenry Ward Boocher will not malka o ..at to London in tao spring, all roports to tha contrary notwithstanding, Ho says ha * never worltod so bard in his life as whea ko was in Laglaud before, and he doasu't propose to try it again just yot." —Ilenry "D, Smith, the Probibition candidate for Guvernor of Gonuocticut, 18 & woalthy maun- faoturer of Plattsville, J.'D. Buldwin, candi- dato for Lioutenant-Governor, is Prosident of a bank in Middlotown. Ho was & momber of the Ropublican partytill a counls of years aga, when hs joined tho third party. “Tho caudidate for * Bocretary of Stato, Hiram P. : Low- tonco, 18 o young lawyer of Norfolk. IIs wag formerly s "Domocrat. The candidate for Tronsitrer, Georgn Greenman, is a wo:l-known shipbuilder of Stoninzton. The nomineo for Qomptroller, Dabnoy Corr, of Bridgoport, is a slurt-manufactitrer, and a * colloge-bred man,” —Hartford Post. —Tlio spirit of fomale political ambition which has rocontly beon #o prominantly manifosted in Washington bas already ramitio} to cho Westorn borders of civilization, Mrs, Louisa Walker, of tha Iola (Knn.) Register, took a lvantage of tho temporary absonco of her husband—who probably **lot I dure not wait upon I would "—' to briog bim out a candidate for the United States Senato. Barnesville, O., Inst Fridav nigat, but failed to ooms to time. Tho anxions mombors uf tho Litorary Associntion tharo telogaphod for him invaia, Tho American Lecturo Buronu in New Yorl, undor whose auspices ho wrs allont, tole- graphod that ho could not ba found in tho country-~that they Lind spont two duvs trying to {ind him, aud had’to givo it up.— Wheeling Ine Ltelligencer, — Dodo or No7 L . From tho New York Evening Post, T great quostion as to whether or o a dodo Ia at this timo in actunl oxistonco Is exoiting the livehest intercat in soiontitlo ciroles in El‘mfilud. Wo publishod o fow davs ngo o ronort to the ofe foct that suck a bird hiad been found alive 1 the Navigator Islands of the Soutl Boa, and sent 10 Houolulu on Its way to Europe, I'his same fack wag made kuown in England, and awakenod tho instaat oppositlon ot those who preforred to boe liovo that tha dodo was ostinet. Prof, Owon, who is coitainly an authority on every point velating to nnimated nature, and is supposed to bs par- ticvlurly loorned oa extiuct boasts and birds, mnintaing thnt the Honolulu dodo 18 no dolls ab all, but only a dodlot, \We may assuma that dodlot is the diminative of dado, ay gosling is of gooso; and this thoory 14 supported by tha loarne:l Profussor, who gadsou to sny that tha oxitnob dodo waa six timos largor than tho Hving dodlot, Mr, Owen huving written o qQuarto vols trac on tho dodo, it Is scarcoly possibio to g0 bo- hind i dictum; so thore Is nought lott for ordinary mortals to do but to mourn the hopes that have decoived thom, and to contiune to glida tarough this valo of toars uncheornd by even a passing glimpso of the tormidable fowl of former duys, ? —_—— ‘The ¥Mouse of Lords, & Pooplo wio rogard tao Iouso of Lcrdsas composed of thoe descondants of foudul tyrau| who anproprlated titlos, &o., may nato th 4 1 Me. Gludstone lins ereatod nomly 40 peers since hiy accession to ollico flva years ugo, - About 140 now and still existing poorages laye boon oroutod durlug Ilor Mujosty's reign—28 whila Lord Mol- hourno was Promior, 4 under Sir Rolfort Pool, 20 dm-infi tho two administiations of Lord Ruunell, 18 undor Lhe throo torms of tho lale Eal of Dorby, 23under Lord Palmorston's twa adinin. Istrations, 10 whito Mr. Dlsracli wag Promior, and tha rest undor tho prosont Govern ‘Thore aro now 239 n.uum': antitlol to’ul’tlmotll‘xeé louse of Lords, As yot, thongh Barls and yis- counts hava boan common, only Mr, Disrach Lag z?:uuml tomoko & Duhe during tho Victosian room for douot as to tho composition of tho next > —Qen. N, P, Banks was to have lactured ot *