Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1874, Page 2

g 2 THE CHICAGO LY DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1874, ———— e e e ————— the troublo to attend his lovtures? Why, no; ho moroly looks in there for » moment, and soon finds that overything Is going on to his sntis- faction.” Tho pronchor thon pronounced tho bonedetion, and the congregation began to diu- porso, Before thoy could do so, however, n voico was hoard: '* Do you think n bitliard-hall » propor place Lo hold clitireh in?" Tho pronchor wns ready with s prompt and torse suswor. lie wmd: “Lwould go to hellto proach the Gospol,” und, amid the piatdits of “the congrogation, ro- tived uto the house. * THE CONURRAATION, Tho curli-stone cotigropation, which, by tho timo the servico wad well undor ~ way, filled the front yard of tho house oun whosoe stops the ministér stood nud the streot oppo- gito, seomed to bo quite in sympathy with the preacher, aud applauded his uttorances whou- ovor thoy wero more than usunlly poiuted, For a fow Bundnys Washington etroot and Warron avonue, west of Union Park, have boen given up to aluig'hmg, and yestorday tho usual number of vebicles_uppearsd on the former thorough- fare. DBut tho eecrmon was moro attractive than tho snow, and - the streot in front of tho churoh was blookaded with sloighs, whose ucen- pants listoned with groat apparent intorest, and aoomod to enjoy the opportunity of lmviu% To- ligiona services in so novel a manner. When ono driver got tirtd lio loft tho spot, which he could do without the trouble of tramping down an alslo of slnming & ddor, and some ono olss took hls place. Thero wore slso many ladios amoung the spectatora, Not the slightest disorder provailed, and many presont were heard to oxpross their intention of sttendiug the ovening mectibga at the saloon which 8 devoted to the amuromont of thoso who, lu the langnage of au eminent Joeal divine, *try who can knock most bally about on a square table.” % — IN A BILLIARD HALL. ‘Whon Florence McCOarthy mado the chilling announcement to his curb-stone congrogation, that he would not be ablo to address thom in the ovonitig ab Haiglit's Dilliard Hall, Lo wns not wwaro of the fact that already sn interest in his now doparturo had boon sroused in the brenst of Barnoy Taight, and that while the sunouncement wss making, Barnoy was weighing tho pros sud cons of allowing his room to play.the role of sanctuary 4 an houror two. Bl lees did he know that »tho boys” had tackled the votorau billinrdist and wero fast convertig him iuto the beliof that it was Lis duty to sllow tho locked-out mlln- to address bis locked-out congrogation et T ouo-racks aud bovolod tables of 1n room, The fdet remainod, novertheless, thaf Parney not only sent the Tev, Mr, McCarthy word that he might havo tho ngo of his kall, but e also sont for a sign-writer, and by 8 o‘Liluckln :hu nI& tornoon & sign earihg tho following legen stretched h‘mgu the door of his billiard hall to tho gorgeous lamp-post on thie otlier sldect the side- walk : 5 WTHE REY. FLORENCE McCARTHY WILL PREACH, AT 8 P. DL, IN THIS HALL" Tho offact of this simplo ndvertiscment was that at Lilf-pnst 7 iu the eveniug, tho billiard hall was CHOWDED WITIE LISTENERS, gomn of whom canie for excitoment, somo for curiosity, n fow for teligion, nud not a faw for pyramids, pin pool, aud billiards, with the usual accompaniments, the Intter portion wearing n disappointed look and forming o dintontented faction of the sudience, upon which tho revival- izing words of the proachor fell with but very littlo offect. It is just possiblo that a Dilliard Ball in uee as a church prosents AS INCONGRUOUS AN APPEARANCE, a8 any othbt misapplied or misemployed thing in the world, It way hard last evening to fasten the mind upon tho subjeot-matter of the rever- end gentlomun’s sermon, or join, with'auything lilo respectablo forvor in the roviyal * hiymns which werosung gn the oceasion, The air_in the room did nof‘savor exclusively of the odor of sanctity. It was somewhat impregnatea with tho smoke of Grabiolas and Henry Clays, and tho faintest suspicion in tho world of n floating fragrance of Bourbon called the mind to subjects which are gonernlly suprosed to be incompntible with that forvor which is the oue indispensnble elomont of a successtul rovival. MEDIFATIONS OF A BILLIARDIST. 1t was somewhat diecomposivg to an ndmiver of tho game of billiards to glance ulong a line of eue-racks at the proachor, standing on n 9xdl¢ boveled billinrd-table ~ (Phelan & Col- lender cushion),. and speculate, when, us his forvor pob, the uppor band ' of him, upon how fearfully out of plumb tha table would Eu pext game; after tho onergelic stamp- ing jusb inlioted upon it by its ocoupnut. And thien the different notices stuck around tha. ropin. —how could any one bo oxpected to fastén his thouglits upon things spiritual with rm’rh an- nouncements a8 the following glaring at him in invidions yellow from all parts of the rootu: ambling lnying. bililards for money, lofifing, or lasnxlhg Tound «’:;-Kmu, is smcuyprumgfie\{. i ‘Billiards, 15 cents u gamo frow 6 o'elock 4. w, to 6 . m, ; evonings, 0 cents per hour, 2 THE BAR. Aund _tho baor, although, with a deli*acy and patriotism whicll b does Mr. Haight justico, 1t bad oon draped with two large American flugs, still dtayiayed tha naoks and uiivor laboli of sovorsl bottles and finsks, whose appearatico, although crhaps not to all prosent amazing or tautnl- Pzing, didnot ndd to the dovotionnl feelings of wy. Undor the circumstances, howover, the preachor did quite as well, and kept tho attention of tne audiouce quite as fully, ns might bo ex- ected with so mauy things to distrnct dttention n the room, As tho handsot the clock in- dicated . HALF-PAST 7 the preacher-lofi the littlo vestry which hasbeen nprovised for him in the sonthwes.orn corner of the room, and entered his pulpit, or rather aounted his billisrd-tablo, By this time the bnil was crowdod with spectators, who yero, how- wer, remarkebly well-behaved, aud who, beyond iho pecutier flutter aud toudelicy/to congh and snovze nervously, which always u_/xrva as safoty- valves by which pent emotions aro calniod in the progress of unusually intorokjing spectaclos, they wero very quicband orderly during the eveniug, K - Till SERVICEY, Jounted on tho green cluth of Lis eccoutric rostrum, tho preachor pryjededed at oncs to business, abd gave out the flwsb hymn, which wny sung heartily by the largér proportion of the assergbly. ‘U'bis over, ho pmrcd. aud then tead from the sixth chaptor of the Gospol ne- cording to Bt.Johm. Aiter more sivgig and nying the preacher announced the text of is sermon, which wad tho fifty-cighth verso of the sixth chaptor of tho Gospel nccord- ingto St. Johu: “Iis is the bread that came down from liesven ; not as your fathors did eat moung, and _are dead ; ho that eafoth of this broad shal! live for,over.,” The sermon consist- ®d of a likening of Jesus Christ to the mannn which fell from’ hoaven in the wilderness, and was eaten by the Istaclites, and was a very falr, but by no means n rnmm'imble, discourse, with \ho oxception of o digresston made for the beue- it of the recalcitrant Deacons, which wai remerk- iy like the preacher's remarks on the sume mbject in the mornng. 9 THE (OVERNOM, . The part of the disconike which plensed tho sudionce most wus the preneher’s description of hia Yathor, "o waid that ho himself wan'n {om- porunco mian,—ho had no_appotite for ligior,— and, though Jio onco liad n wesknoss for swoot cider, eveu that had boon conquered, and hie was now & dyed-in-the-wool teototallor, ' His father was as good o jpau as ever lived, without being u Christion, e did not_sunoke, did nob swear, did not drink, didn't ramblo at night (laughter, n which the preacher joined, the meanmg of the words befug taken “in their fullest impiied sonso), was oun of the purest mou the preacher :v_erkknow, wus lonest, ¢harituble,~but he scld rink, A WORD FOR TIIE NAR-TLENDERS, ‘Tho proacher waa clathed, fod, aud oducated on the proceeds of his father's business as o seller of Intoxieating liquors, Tho nnl?' oxcuse shat his fathor could give for following the busi- nces was that ho must have bread for his olil- Aren, Ho it was with all mon, and ho thought shat it was tho necessicy of providing breud for thomselvos and thoir dopondonts s whick drove mon bohind the bars of the city to retail drink to their customers, . Many of these samo bar~ tondors had as fine minds; sud wore fllled with »& noble impulses oy many of the proachors in the pulpits of this city, but their love for thoir childrent drove them to do work ngainst which ho know their noble naturss robollod, Thus it wis with his futher, who, howovor, whon his family bad all grown up, was porsusded to quit tho business.,. The prenchor recounted the suscoss of the rovival ut tho Union Park Baptlst Church, and got off & successful anti-climux, which was rewarded with peals of laughtor, by winding up his description with, “ But the Devil cumo walk- ing up tho contro alsle, aud spoiled it alt,” NO UONVENTH YET, At the conclusion of the sormon tho Eranuhor calied tipon such of thecongregation ar had hoon converted by bis words to acme forward, and his dissppointment, whon no respouso camo to his nvitation, was uppareut, As an auxillary to Lils sermon, ho proposed the singing of tha popular tovival hymn, ‘Como to Jesus," which was ;nlne&l in with telliug effect by nlmost all progent. o preacher hegged of some vnv to put up his right hand au a token of cnu{urnlon and yot tha bowsts of tho audionoo rotalnod & Plistonli-lika Iitrdnoda, 'T'ho noxt 4o vorsos woré mote suc- cosaful, o, At thoir conclusion a right hand shiot up in the contto of the rooin, and Lo proncher neknowl- edged tho fact with a phout of Joy and sn ox- prossed desiro for mora convorts, i TWO, Two moro yersea bronght up tho delionto hand of & Indy convort, and ghn preacher sank on the billiard-tablo nnd uttered o prayer for tho two Intest additions to his church.. * HUNDAYS ONLY, The preacher thon asled Mr. Haight if he might have the uso of the room for meotings to bo held during tho week, but that gentloman doclined in tho“politeat manuner poseible. Ho then annouuced to the congregation that due notico would b g‘lvnn of farthor rovival meot- ings, and statod that if Jie had bedn able to got tho Toom ho was In for s weol, he wis toufl- dont that in thnt timo ne wounld make not less that o thousund convorsions, CONOLUDING REMALKS, Mo then pronounced the henadiction, which was hardly finished bofore thoe alr resounded with such’ familine colloquinl phrosos as, ““What'll you havo?” *“ Have a gamo of pin- pool?” “I'll disconnt you n game of Fronch for the driuks,” *'No, you don't get no soft thing on mo to-night." Bucl talk as this, in- tormingled here nnd there with a blasphemous roforence to the ovent of tho oven- ing, mnow ruled supremo, and the proncher, his allios, Jady sud gentlomen, tho nowly converted, the unconverted, all swopt townrds the door wifh ono intont, that of gottin, o broath of tho cool outslde alr—lhardly all, lowever, thors are thoso who staid behind, somo for o quict gamo of billiarde, some for nmoro intimate ncquaintanco with tho contents of the glapatrare which tho two luge national flags triod towbide from view., Hore, however, they woro disnppointod, Haight was jnox~ orably fixed against opening his bar, and one by ono the ‘bibulous _dropped out to other resorts, gonerally with the uttor-' ance of such a remark as ** Woll, I'll be hangod if old Maight won't holst his ‘haud up ot the next meeting.” This is somewhat a mattor of doubt, but there were not o fow in tho room, who woroe supposed to bo posted, who hinted, in o manner by no means vague, that Baruey was ronlly on tiie point of bocoming tho third convurt whon his barkcopor restrained him by ‘mnin forco from holding up his right arm. An Haight sald afterwards, *If I can only sell whinky end boas good o man as the parson’s fother, I'm satinfied, and my frionds ought to bo prand of me.” COLORADO. Fogislation for the Benofit of the Agvioul- tural and Nining Intorests, Memorialy to Congress Agninst Land-Grabbers, and in Favor of n Coining BMint at Denver, Speetat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Dexven, Col,, Fob. 1, 1874, Of the twenty-six mombers of the Territorinl Tlouso of Represontativos more than two-thirds aro ranchmen and stockmen, This is, toa groat messuro, tobo atttibuted to the influenco which the Granges excrt throughout tho Torritory. This Order, which had no existonco here n yoar 1o, has suddenly noanired numbers and power. Thore aro & & NEADLY FOICIY GRANGES in working order throughout Colorado, with n memborehip escocding 1,600 porsons, Much of the logislation, or it might bo, exd tho mhjbr portion, hiad thus far beent in bohalf of the farm- ing aud stock-growing intorests. Lyual or groater in importauce to the farming interost is that of THE MINES, ‘T'he men who prospect for gold and silver, and who delve in the wines of our mountains, desire some legislation wheroby the laws mny be sim- plified and bettor guaranteos socured for their rights, To this ond they have recoutly hold roveral meotings in this city, Aliuors, and mine- ownere, and others interested inthedovelopment of our mings, to the numbor of 200 or more, froém all parts of tho Werritory have conferred togothur upon hio bost mothod of Territorial logislation, Sevoral bills, more or less clabo- rate, have been prepared on the subject, and submitted to the Commitles on Mines and Minerals, . A goneral foeling secma to oxist among tho miners, that mont of tho focal tuws, and they uro numerous, should ba wiped out, and the Legislnture pass akbill which shall be in sttict conformity with the ra- cont cunctments of Congress. Thusuniformity and certuinty will bo nrrived at, and conflictin; clnims, and scenes of disorder and bloodshes will fall into oblivion, It has beon fouud that it is imiperatively nec- essary to throw v UREATER BAFEGUARDS AROUND MINING TITLES, a8 nothing frl%l“ulm capital so much as nurnstablo lawe. If eapitnl bo jroperly protected, much mora mouey will bo commandod from tho East for the development of tho mines. The jump- ing of ming claims, heretoforo, hes boen a orions ovil, which will be stopped by a striugent law; and, a8 soon 08 tho mousyed men of the Tast find that thoy are fully protected in their inveatments, Colorado will havo an ora of pros- Elmé(y such ag was novor before kuown in her story, Much opposition has cropped out against cor~ porations and their * LAKD-GRATDING AND MONEY-GETTING sgoliemues at tho expouse of the public. The peo- ple, aud espeelally those who ore engaged in agticultural pursuits, aro crying out against the Dburdons imposed upon thom, while moneyved bodies are loft virtually freo from toxation, Aside from tho bills whiok have boen introduced and passed, & number of momorials have been indorsed by hoth Iouscs to remedy tho ovils which® are growing up in our midst, Ono of these memorials sots forth that not Jesn than 800,000 neres, including some of tha best and most valuable lands in this ‘Torritory, Iivve been donated to railrond corporations, anc aro now held by thom at prices varying from £8 to 312, and nt an nverage of not less than §6, Por nero 3 that such lands are rapidly increasing n value by renson of tho rapid incroaso of sottle- ments npon mlgoining lands, and tho consequent coustruction of ronds, bridges, and othor publio improvomonts, all 'of which are conastruetod at tho oxpense of scttlorn, without tho nid of such corporations, aud without tho ald which ought to"bo dorived from the taxation of lands bolonging to them and others equnlly benofiled by such expeudi- tures ; that, whilo tho said coporations claim to own, and continue to sell, such lands, they yet rofuee to take ont fimtuuts for tha same, ewving tho title nominally in the Government, ‘yot practically Inthemsolvos; and thas, by a logal teelinicality, escapo taxation for the support of tho Govornment, the full bonefits of which thoy onjoy. Thus have these Compames, by holding tho Jands at oxorbituntly high pricos, and by re- fusing to sharo in the burdens attendant upon ilio sattlemont of thacountry, not only obstruct- ed tho aalo of all lands, but groatly incroased the burdens of the settlors, by shirking the burdens which, but for o technicnlity, they must have borne, and from which thoy derived equal bene- fita with tho settlors. Another momorial nuks the establishment of ) being 5 g A COINING MIN at Denver. It aots forth that Golorado produced cold_nnd silver bullion, in 1870, amounting to A 1d and sil bullion, n 1870, ti 8,676,000 ; in 1871, £4,003,000; in 1872, §4,001,- 466 ; and that the bullion produets of tho Terri- toriey of Now Moxico, Wyoming, und Utan would Do tributery to'the Donver Mint, end that they, togothor with Colorado, produced in gold and wilver bulljon, in 1873, an amount estimatoed at £10,000,0000 ‘Cho momorinl farthor sots forth thnf,grnnt loss, both of monoy and time, is occa~ slohed in shlgulng gold and “silver ored cast for reduction and coinzgo, co0. BIOGRAPHERS OF MR. CHASE. Ao the Rilitor of Tho Chicago Tribune : Sm: Inyourissue of Job, § you stato thab Judge Worden {8 proparing o blograpby of the late lnmented Chlof-Justico Chaso, It in true tuat Mr, W, hod somo acooss to Mr, Chase's MBS, and abtained pormission to pub- lish some monjoirs of tho Inte Ohlet-Justice, but with the proviso that tho lifo should bo submit- ted to hia inupoction. Blr, Chsso had groat con- fidenco in Mr. W.'s devotion to him, but dis- trusted the porfoction of his judgmont, which distrust (vanu to ho woll-founded, Mr, 0., upon Judgo Worden's enrncst roquost, simply oyinltted thotuso of papors, their disposition oing submitted to Mr, Ghaso, AMr. Bhokors, of Now York Clty, for go many yoars tho faithtul Heorotary of Goy. Ulnso, i sbout completiug his biogiaphy, lo haa_the aid aud patronngo of tho fawlly, L, SPRINGFIELD. Proposal to Appoint Assistant Uotinly Attorneys to Assist the Railroad Board. Memorial to Congress on the Subject of Cheap Transportation. Toxt of MoGrath's Bill for the Govern- ment of Pablio Parks, THE RAILROADS. TROPOSAL TO APPOINT ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTOR- NEYE, Spéetal Dispateh ta The Chicago Tridune. Brnivariewn, Ik, Fob. 7.—8inco Tue Tnin- UNE'S announcoment that ox-Gov. Palmer and Congressman Springor Liave boen added to the list of tho attornoys of tho Rallrond and Ware- houso Commigsionors, the plan has boen somo- what soriously disoussed of appointing nssist- ant county attorneys througliout tho State, by tho Govornor, for tho uso of snid Board, Tho attorneys at présent in the sorvico of the Board aro Commissioner Bteole, the Attorney-Gon- oral, Stato's Attornoy Iteod, Judgo R. M. Denjamin and L. Weldon, of Bloomington 3 M, Bailey, of Frooport ; Wm. Lathrop, of Roclk- ford ; an _attornoy at Champaign, and tho Ion. Jesso 8. mldmr, of Bolvidere, 1t is, howevar, undoratood thot the immensa prossure of Mr. Hildrup's prosent legal engagemonts provent Lis accepting tho appolntment. It i cortain that ho rofused tho rotaluer, and tho abovo is supposed to o the yonson, In addition to the ahove-ninttad goutlomen, nll the County Attorm- oya umm?houb tho State are, by Idw, subjoct to tho direotion of tho Commission. ALLEGED EXTONTIONS. Mr. Vorls’ rosolution, shiowing the incroase upon the established rates of the ratlrond com- panles oporating in hid district, by tho Commis- sloners in thoir schodulos, was taken up In the Sobuato this morning and dlsoussed o lttle, but soon cholced off by Mr. Whiting, who socured its raferenco to ho Rallrond Committeo, Mr, Crows snid that his pnuplu' aftor carafully comn- paring the Commissioners’ worlk with tho provi- oun rutes and maungoniont of tho raflrond come Enn[ou, almost unanimously charaotorized the oard, thoit schiedules, aud their construotion of tho Iaw to be a nuisance, Mr. Vorin was, a4 usual, loud in his donunclation of the Board snd its netions, RATLNOAY PASRES,' . Members havo constuntly boou nssortlug that pussos and_gratuitously-granted thousand-milo tickety wera in tho possossion of othor mombars, but they havehot heen ablo, as yof, to name thoso othor mombora. A gentleman' who has been a railrond man, this morning ascertainod that some members who-aro and have been local sttorncys on certaln roads, have beon using stronuous offorts to securo passcs or thousand- suile tickets on othor roads, but have failed, Bo far o8 Chicago ronds are_concorned, Tho roads lending out of Bt. Louls havo boen sparingly issulng posses, and this fact it wos thought wonld indace the Chieago roads to do tho somo, but they romam stubborn in_tholr detormination to oxtpnd no courtegy or priviloges to Btato officars br mem- bors of ‘the Goneral Assembly. ) RAILROAD TAXATION. Sonator Burke introduced a resolntion, which way ndopted by the Bonate, mlunatlng tho Attor- noy-General to attend tho United States Oourt to resiat the patition of Morris K, Jessup for an injunction against the collection or tho payment of thetaxcs of tho Chicago & Alton %nflrond Compnuy for 1873. ey . TRANSPORTATION. a Special Dispateh to The Chdeayo Tribunes MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS, Senixopien, A, Feb. 7.—Mr. Wicker, as Clinirman of the House Committee on Canala and Rivers, bng propared tho following timely memorial to Congross concorning cheap trans- portation and *tho Great West," which will bo presented and probably adopted. The Governor Las alrondy recommondod such action ina special message. To the Honorable the Senats and_House of Representa~ tiven of the United States, 1n Cangress uatcinbled : Your memordatists, the Stato of Tilinofs, representeid in the General Assombly, do most reapectfully repro- sent to tho CunyFess o tie Unliod Htatos Tt tho question of chieap tranaporfution i ngitating the peo~ ple of tho Norihwest 10 an extent thut Ly nover beon equaled, Tho sdvoeates aro not confiucd {0 any par- ticular party of the peoplo the platforn of which is cheap tranaportation of tlo products of tho Northw west to tide-wnter, ‘Thnt tids fecling lins tuken doep root In the Lienrta of tho peoplo is evidenced in_the Inte clections and frequent gathieringe of the agricul~ turlsts of the great grain-growlug district of tho West. Your memorinlists do further ropresent to the Cone gress of the United Btates that the increasing popula- ton and consequent onlarged production of tounnge of shipment to tide-water admonish tho nation to pro- vido ot an carly day such choap meane of trausporting tho surplus products of tlio Great West as will bo re~ munerativo to tho producer, Your memorialista aro satistied that fncreased water- {ranaportation between the East and West s the only ‘means by which the honest tfllor of tho moil ean be rowardod, ond as & 6lep in this dircction is the conn atruction 'of the Tilinols and Michigan Canal from tho Tllinois River to Rock Tnland, on tho Mieslusippl Ruver, your wmemorlalista do most respectfully urgo upon Congrees tho wisdom and jystico of an sppropriation pufficicnt for thin improvement, Tho routo hiny boon surveyed, and_pronounced by compotent cogincern practfeablo nnd_comparatively choap in tho cost of Cconstruction. It is, indeed, o link in tho grest plan uf water-transportation between the East and (hs West {hat must bo added boforo the country tributary to the Upper Mississipnt enu find 8 wtor outlet by tho sjey of tho Uppor Lukes to tidewater, Your memorialate do, therefore, most earncatly p- poal to Cougresa to tako early actfon fu this improye ment, to tho eud that the fnterests of tho groat groin growing districts of the nation shall Lo fostered, tho producer searded, nnd (ho msiufucturing s otes aboring manaca of ho Esat aupplled at low prices witl the abundanco of life's necesnities that cheap trane- portation can give them, LA D PUBLIC PARKS. TEXT OF WORATH'S BILL, Speciat Dispateh to The Chicaao Tribune, SprivarieLp, 1, Feb, 7.—The following is the full toxt of McGrath's Park bill, roferred to in yesterdny's TRIDUNE. . Theo Lill was introduced and read s firat time: A Brw for anact to regulato tho mansgoment und control of publlo parksund pablio gronndy in the severul countien, cltles, ond townn of this &ato, Sgorton 1, Dot enncfed by the pooplo of tho Biste of Tllinols, representod in the General Ausombly, that all parks und public groundw, or partof tho Samo, Iytng and being within the corporato Limits of any fu- carporated city, town, or villago in the Btato, shall b undor tho control uud manogement of il Gommon Counctl, Board of Aldormen, or Doard of Town Trug- feew, a8 tho _cawo iy be, of nny auch_city, town, or villugo : Provided, howover, that’ no such Board of Aldormen, Common Councl, or Board of Town Trus- Loen ahull wppropriato, oy, or colloct auy asgossmont or taxfor tho improvement or maungement of sny stich public park or groundsf in auy one year fo exceed thio siim of $30,000, unless fivst nutliorized by u votu of tho peoplo of suel'incorporated city, town, or village, {h time aud munner of anbmilting micl: Yoto or aucs: tion tobo provided for by tho Dioard of Aldermen, Common Council, or Bourd of Town Trustecs, v 2. Allipilo paxks, or publia grounds, 3¢ part of {lio same, Iyfug und boing in tho sevorul countics of {bis Blute, outslido the incorporatod limits of any clty, town, or Village, shull b wuder the control nud “mati~ agemewt of tho Board of County Commissionors, or Tonrd of Suporvixors, us tha caso may bo, of B county ; and they shall have power to mako ail neoe wavy rulos and regulations for tho improvement a govorument of wiich yublio parks or_publio grounds: L'rovided, lotwever, thnt 1o such Dourd of County Qowmissionsra or Bourd of Buperyisors shall upe proprinte, lovy, or collect sny nnsesament or tax for Aho fmproveniont or msnngement of nuy much publio park orpublie gronnd {0 exceed tho sin of $25,000 in any ouv your, unleas first authorized by n vote of tho 1eoplo of such county, the (ime and usuner of sube iftting such vote or question to b provided for by the Board of County Commissioners or Board of Super- gors, Bro, 3, All acts or parts of sots fn conflict with {hla uct aro horoby repealed : Proitled, that nothing ereln coutained shall intorfore with’ extutiug cons tructs, rights, or liabilitles incurcod by auy ourd of rs&kfl&io:nmlnlouvfl now exiating uncder il\o luwa of ato, —— MISOELLANREOUS, Syectal Dispateh to The Chieago Teibune, THE AGRIOULTURAL REIONT, BerivarigLy, 1L, Fob, 7.—Iho annual report of tho Board ot Agrioultura fills the lobby aud store-room of tho Bomato to-day. While tha Benators strongly condemn the matter contain- ed therein, thoy find it & very sultablo document to bo souttered nmong their constituonts, About 1,000 huve been pocked by the olf by Honators cu.zlny. VSho oo aad e BILLS PABSED IN TUY HOUSR, ‘I'he Iouso passod the following bills and ad- jonrned at noon : Revision bills of the Houats, fixing tho terma of Court in Cools County; cone corning roptevin ; the Buperior Court of Chicn- ga ; purtition of real estato, and tho Bonato bill amonding tho law fu rogurd to the adminisiration of ostatos, LIOENSES, Tho revision bill conoruivg lioonsos was taken | up, bolng a speclal ordor in tho Bonato, and an m'::'undmg:t b}‘ Mr, Baldwin prohibiting 'County Tioards from isswng any liconse to soll lquor, tvas talkod about nuntil tho noon adjournmont, Tho nmendment_was lost—yons, 0 noys, 20, On the ronssombling of the Sonala tho bill Was postpouod till Monday aftornoon. "o othor mombors of the Commilteo woro Messry, Sholdon and Cummings, MIXED BOHOOLS, Mr. Honry roportod & bill undor tho resolus tion of {nstruotions, punishing oflicors prohibit- ing colored ohildren from tho riviloges of Publio Sohoolas by & fine of $500 to £100 for onch offoneg, and punishing any ono intimidating such childron from attending such #ehools by a {ino of §26 for each offenso, ATPROYRIATIONS. Mr. Palmer, in tho diecussion on_tha rule pro- ibiting Honators from cortain distriots from aotivg on the Approprintion Committees, sald that in owo ovoning 81,600,000 wae approprinted by n sorlos of voles of 0 to 6. Tivo of tho aflirmative votors wero from s dis- trict in which Btate inatitutiona woro located, and were mombers of both tho Approprintion Committoes and tho Committce ou Obnritablo Iustitutions, Mr, Orows sald thoro wa n Oredit Mobllier nmuuldmng in tho wood-pilo. ~Ar, Stoole opposed the adoption of tho rule. It was, on motion of Mr, McGrath laid on the table— yone, 24 ; noys, 15, % AULLICULTURAL ROOIETIER. Gov, Moflitt raported from tho Committeo on Agriculturo Mooro's (ofjMarsholl) bill adversoly, and tho Revison bill favorably, both boing gon- orol bills congerning agricultural soclotios nnd fairs—tho laltor tho presont systom. 'Tho Bonate bill, concorning tho elaction of oflicers of theso soolotios was roported adversely from tho samo Committee, UANAL APPROFRIATION, ‘Fho_bill of the Uanal Commission -appropri- ating 31,600 for the improvement of tho Little Wabaaly racoived a lengthy disoussion in the Houso, ond was ordered to o third reading, 3r. Novillo moved to amend, prahibiting tho construction of ndditional farrios within a mile of oxisting ones, if Lhoy, in the opinion of tho Commissfonors, furnish” suficient factlities for travel or truflie, » PHOF, TUNNEN'S BUCCLSSOR, Tho question of Prof. ‘Turner's successor as Trustoo of tho Insane Asylum 18 gotting quite Intoresting, 'The namo of Dr. Lloyd Brown, of Jacksonvillo, said to be & very ecstimable and competont man by porsons of both partios, lins~ boon prosented to the ~Goveruor. Ho is Presidont of the Savings Bank of Jacksonville, aud tho officers of tho National Bank at Jacksonville, thinking that the appointmont might afford Dr. Brown some monoy to loan a In Deaf and Dumd Trusteos, aro opposing his appointment. However, no ‘othor nnmo haa us yot heon prosented to tho Governor that will recetvo favorablo consideration, AMUSEMENTS, THE APOLLO CLUD FESTIVAL, In conneetion with the grout musteal festival to bo givon by the Apollo Olub and 'heodore ‘Thomas orchostrs, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th insts., Mossra. Carpentor & Sheldon, tho local managerd of the festival, have issued tho fol- lowing ciroular ; Ou10AGO, Feb, 5, 1674, DEAR B Wa wish tocall your sttention to, and invite you to attend the farawell concerts which aro to Do given by Mr, Theodore Thomna on Monday, Tucs- day, and Weduesdny, Fob, 16, 17, and 18, in MecCor- mick Musto Hall, T'ho arrangements which havo been completed for this briof scason oo of much unusual ‘proportions nato warrant tho expectation that the con. certs will bo, not only tho most brilliant of tho wholo year, but tho most memorable over given by Mr. Thomas in this clty, Aglancont tho euclosed pro- grammao will convinco you that tho highest expoctation regarding the scagon will bo fully roalized, 1t was at tho carneat sollcitation of tho_Apollo Cluv, under_whoso ausplees the concerts wera projéctud, that Mr, Thomus cousentod to roturn to Chicago, eapocially {0 effect with it s combination of suglcint sireugti to produco,. for the first timain America, Schuwann's greot musleal work * Paradiso and The Perl, Tho presentation of this singlo composltion would, of jtself, bosufliclent to mako tho peason o momorsblo one, but wheu to this & added tho many othor ottractivo nand unusual features whiol sro proscuted dn theso programmcs, we think it not too much to fay that tho mukical scloctions, 28 woll as tho voeal snd tnatrumental combination by which thoy aro to bo effectively rendered, huve never Dbeen surpassed in ny proceding gerles’ of concorts givon in thiv clty. To the Apollo Club, which numbers eurly n hundred traiued and frosh voloes, has been uited for tus oceaslon tho principal vocal folo taleat of tha city, All tho niembors of the Germant Mynnorchor—tlio most famous voeal orgunization in the West—havo ndly consouted (o asaist in the opening concort, thus mukiug, with o olhier forces, & combiuation of wn- exsmpled strength, In uddition to Mr, Myron W, Whitnny, who is uscknowledged to 'bo now withoul au cquil in Amorica, Mr, Thomas brings with bim, cupectaily for this ¥cason, Miss Olsra Dorls, tho cmitient soprano sololst, who ¢amo fo this country with Parepa Itosa, ond tho will make hor firut up- pearauce in this efty in theso_concerts. Mlew Dorla,— ‘of whom 3¥r, Thomus writos ua privately that ‘abo * is Dy far the best siuger i tho tountry for {ho work to bs done,” waa cspectally engogod to sing tho ditiicult pact of Tho Perl,—n yurt &0 dificult that but fow kingers aro willing to undertako it, Lestdes tho bril- Iuut nrray of €olo tulont which has uppeared in bis orchestrs. during s provious visits . horo, dr, Thomes lus secured the violoncello, ' M, Louis Lubeck, will makao his dobu her in fho firat concort, T will tous bo seen ub o ‘glanco that,this will constituts tho most oxtraordinary vocaland instrainental combination that ha evor Deon effected in Obicago; and this fact, tagothor with the otbor—thut in Chileugo will Lo prosented entire, fox the st time on tho continent, Schumuun’s great work of *Turadiae and Thie Perl,” will ronder unuccessary sny npology wo ight ofherwiso fecl enllod npou to make for dopting tlis unususl method of nddressim you pernonally on & subject regarding which wo feel tertain yon shiaro our interost, CANPENTSR & BIELDOY, Manngars, N, B,—Negoliations aro in progress with tho North Slde, Weut Side, aud South Sido Streot Rullway Com- panies, by which cars marked # McCormicls Itall ¥ will o Tt for the nccommodation of South and West Side peoplo direet to tho hull, especially for theso concerts, ADOLPI BINGFELD, The Pnfludelyhm nowspspers announce the death of Mr, Florenco Birgfold, who was woll known in thig city na tho leador of the opera- ‘bonffo troupe which Batoman hrought hero some -onrs ago. Ono of the papers gives tho follow- ing skotel of his lifa : e, Adolph Birgfold, well kuown in this clty gs o 1nusiclun, a band-unster and orchestra-leader, and an operatio agent, died a few days ngo ut his furm in Murylaud, at' tho ago of 40," Mr, Birglold was an nccomplished performer on & munber of instrumonts, und for s long time occupled & prominent ' posltion In the orchestrs of the Academy of Musio on opera nights aud at clussical musieal entertainmonts, Opera-goers wil remember with especial ploastiro his fino ronder- ing of the beautiful oboe preludo o the * Joart Bowed Down,” in “Tho Bohemdnu Glrl” Mr. Birgfold ot oo tiine organized o military bund, and wiih 1t slgured st nflitory parudes ond on other pecssions, Whon Mr, Balemon firet. {ntroduced opera boufe, Mr, Birg- fold wus Bisugent sud musical director, und the alirerent operad woro produced under bia snporvision, Tio was n very ofticlent conductor, and tho kuccess of opora boufio wus largely duo to Lis exertious, BIr, Birgfold wos much estoemed by v largo circlo of friouds, who will hear of his death with rogret, He ‘who leaves o wifo and several children to mourn his oss, ' OINDERELLA," A porformance of * Cindorella™ will o given .| at Standard Hall on Friday evening, tho 20th inst., aud on the following Naturday aftornoon, by members of the Sunday-school of Bt, Paul's Chiuroli, Tho following will bd the cast: Blancho Bassott Tdu Shermon esslo Foolo Nolllo Leach +Oarris Howard ..dosfo Duvis Endio Wallaco .Ghrlatino Nichols wd Mattlo Updylo +ovsSumunlo Prico tort Morton Tord Chumberlsin, Lord fn Whaiting, . Walter Prico Conrt-Ladica—>dtinnio Senverns, Flora Colby, Ifattio utebiuson, Carrlo Brinkworth, Kutle Wallice, Baby ‘Wallaco, Courtlora—Alox, Barsh, Frod Burrows, Lugeus Morton, Eddle Kioth, Wallneo Tries, Walter Brink- worth, Geordis Wallace, “Oinderella" will eloso with tho “*1s do Nina” by Miss Mary 1, Kollogg, Durin thoavening * La Cachuioha and * Highlond fiug,” will ho danesd by Miss Emma Gaten, aud “ La Friewssio” by Mias Miunle Stubbs sud Alva Bournique, —_——— —A New Yorl papor says : * We have hoard of ono gentlomian who protocts himself against tho pique and’ sonso of injury which thieves oxpe- rlsnco whon thoy can find nothing to earry away, by loaving in-his conntry-houo, whon ho goes to town for the wintor, n demijohn of fino old braudy, A note by tho side of it explaius that thoroe I8 no silver in tho Louse, that all tho drnw- o8 and doorsare opon, ruquouh thut no nnueces- sary damago Lo douo, and that his guests shall Lelp thomsolvos to the brandy.” —Thoy had a ball in Philattelphin tho other night, and this was tho offcot of 1t upon n Press reporfors * Buoh scones must long lingor lovingly in the momorics of nll who saw them ; for, with youth at tho helws and pleasuroe at the prow, the goudola of enjoyment wwept swiftly wlong on the azure sow of hopo, heeding nothiy, of slioals, und doeming tho purple horizon an tha vooks of uftor-lito too far away to dowand a —0ld Phin Toople, of Proston, Wayno Count; r'a,, 18 70 yours old, though rumu'rl:nl%y vlgumu{: and looka huvdly 60, Binco 1L yours of ugo ho Liag killed 2,085 decr nnd 438 bLeéurs, His fuyor- ito buntiog-ground ia in Pottor County, | STATE LEGISLATURES, — Tho Lnst Day for Now Business in_ the Wi~ consin Logistaturo, List of the More Important Measures Introduced. Proceedngs in the Towa, Minnesota, Ohto, and Montann Legislatures, i ‘W1SOONSIN, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Mapisox, Wis,, Fob. 7.~To-duy was the busi- ost doy of & busy weol In tho Leglslature, it bolug tho last for the introduction of now busi- noss, and thore having beon 116 bills presonted in the Assembly and sevonty-five in the Scnato. Tho ageregate of businoss in ench House, com- pared with Iast year, when tho introduction of now busincas Wy cut off on Thursday, the Btl, 18 oy follows: BENATE, 1870, 1874, TPetitionn presented. 46 [ Tesolutions olferod. 2 Jolut resolutions o ‘a3 Bills introduced. 200 Momorials to Col 9 etitions presonted. 122 Tesolutions offered. 43 Joint resolutions offerd 47 Bills Introdueed. ., . 407 Momorinl to Cdrigrds, 5 9 1 "Tho grontest introducor of bills in tho Senate 18 ox-Sponker Barron, who also put in the Iast; champlon Introducer in thé Assombly is Bpoaker Bouck, who lia also prepared several introduc- od by others, including one to repeal all laws for tho rogistration of electors, which is about the only bill of any groat importanco pnssed by tho Assdmbly. My, Bartran fntroduced the Inst bill in the Assombly, about 9 o'clack this evening, it being a dond-bead, with the very appropriato titlo scunuldnrlng thio great number_ of ropenl bills introduced this scssion) of *A bill tore- poal the chaptor of the Revised Btatuocs snd Gon- eral Laws of Wiscousin that has not already been ropealed,” Tho last bill introduced on tho night of tho day limitod for prosonting now bnsincss was one '‘To doclara the Domocratio party tho boir-at-law of the Liberal party.” 'I'ho only bill of great importance yot passed by tho Senato is ono to make that body agaia tho Siate Board of Equalization, TO-DAY'S DUSINESS in the way of prexenting now wonsures has boon #0 groat t{mt t hass beon impossible either to ux- amiuo bills, or loarn from the introducers what lQ]lmy mean, 88 your_ corrospondont always on- eavors to doj and I only give thome supposed to bo ot goneral intorest, though somo with high-gounding titles are only designed as covors for local or ofimr moagures horouftor to be pre- sented in the wuy of subatitutes. DUSINESS, Sonate bills were introduced torerpeal the statutes requiring rogistration of births wud deaths ; to facilitate privato individuals going into courts against incorporations; giving hotol- keopera threo months to forecloso a lien ; allow- ing the appenlof all crimiual cnses from Jus- tices' Ouurls ; making twenty dhysa school- month, except whou othorwiso specified ; ox- cepting sohools and baiks from tho provisions of tho law msking oloction-day & logal lioliday ; raislng railrond-tax on gross onrnings from § to b por cent, and appointing Commission- ers ; to facilitate tho mottloment of tho estates of the desd; providing that, when forfoited mortgagod lands aro rodeemed, tho judgment for deficioncy shall not bo s lion thereon; providing that n wife's dower-intorest in proficny may in cortain cnsos be conveyed by tho husband ; onobling an Amerioan oitizon to bocome a voter within threo months, iostead of roquiring a yorr ; to establish an Industrial School for Girls; 1o provide for payment of Chaplains of tho Log- ialaturo ; to repoat the charter of tho Greon Bay & Misslssippi Oanal Comprny ; to amend the net regulating railroads ; for a division of tho County of Marathon, ond to ercct tho County of ‘Taylor; to - facilitato tho exccution of ° certain trusts applicablo to tho Wost Wisconsin Rnilway Cowpany ; relating to injunctions on Receivers ; rolating to evidenco ; to provide for a system of parke and bouloyards in Milwaukeo ; to promote uniformi- 1y in toxation ; to amend the Revieed Statutos,” of Mechanica' Lions ; to authorizo. an' incroasc fu the number of Dircctors in incorporations ; to amond the Rovised Statutes relating to com- pensation of Doputy Clerks of Qourts'; -In rela- tion to tho publicatfon of delinquent tax lsts ; to appropriat $192,000 to the Northorn Hospital for the Insana ; to provide for tho eclection of County Buporvisors, and to pay thom; to rogulato railroad tariffs, and to appoint & Board of Railrond Comunissioners; to nmond the act rolating to }ucorpumtnd villagos ; to amend ihe law requiring o licenso of dogs; to amend tho laws relating to tax-deods 3 to define the intent of statutos relating to limitations of nctions; to define the meaning of lawa relating to excentions and supplomontary proceedings; to create n Board of Reilrond Commissionars, and regulate tariffs; eight bills appropriating $1,000 cach to-cortain Milwaukeo Yospitats and Asylums, for which Senator Black made quite an oloquent ploa; to repeal the Jaw for su annual visitation of Stato mstitutions by a Logislative Committeo; to provide for distraining -cattlo m certnin casos; to codify the Gamo laws ; to provide for the taxation of 1nilronds ag other property. ~ Memorial to Congross for an oxtension of tho time ou the 8St, Oroix Land-Grant, Ll A rosolution was adopted in favor of cheaper transportation for the West, by the construction of slup canals around tho Northorn Lukes. Tho question of fixing = day for final adjournment was postponed for woek, No busincss of any importance, excopt introduction of new bills, was transnoted by the Sonnto; which, after o sossion this avohing, ndjourned fo Moudsy evon- ing, for tho flrst timo thin scssion. ASSEMNLY DUSINESS, 1lore there wero quantitics more of protests nguinst the roponl of the Grabam Liquor law, the bill for which sgreed on by the Reform eau- cus _was prosented to-day by Mr. Vogel, of Mil- waulkoe, It is & bill of twonty-five scctions, ra- vising and amending tho Excise laws of the Stato, repealing tbe scction of tho Grabam law making liquor-seliers Hablo for civil damuges, and fixing the bond at £500 instead of £2,000. 1t fixes the license for whole- ale dealors at $10 to 840, of rotail at §25 to 850, fixes n fino of $10 for tho firat offense, up ns high a8 940 for the second time, of selling withont liconso ; and provides for prosecution by the District Attoruey ; puts o pennlty of §60 for delling or giving liquor to uny one when it bas been forbidden by Town Buporvisors jon the ground that he is wasting hismeans, &c, ; mokes solling to known minors o misiemeanor, &e., e, Riesolutions wero offered, and tho Inttor adopt- ad, thatywherons It apponrs, by thin tonort of the Buperintendont of Public Instruction, that much of the incomo of the Normal Fund hing been paid to Regonts for building, supplies, cubinots, iu- wuvance, &o,, &e, snd o part ‘of thiy u)pmprflutlon for apparatus divertod &tn tho 0., paymont of comuittec oxponsos, lhum}m’o, instructivg ssid Board to furnish o dotailed account of such exponditures, and atate by what authority tho Board contracted with its own membors therefor, Thut the Committeo on Ways and Moaus inquire into the expediency of ostablishing o system of Btate iusuranco againat losses, ) Resolutions wore adoptod ordoring 3,000 cop- los of 8, D, Carpenter's addvess boforo tho State Agricultural Convention, on Production, Con~ samption, 'Fransportation, oto.; also, directing in- quiryasto the oxpedioncy of ndvancing thoprica of State lands; also, us to the proprioty of a change in the law authorizing County Judges to contino ingane persons in county poorhouses, ‘T'ho resolution for final adjonrnment on the 8a l;‘r March wus further postpoued uutil Friday noxt, Antong tho Dbills of a gonoral nature intro, duced in the Assombly wora tho following, of which the substance of the titles ia given, it hay- ing boen impousible to moro fully ascortain thoir drift; some of thom mdood "having no body whatever: To amoud Sec. 2 of Ohap, 49, R, 8,, relating to tho adoption of childron; to author- iza countlo, towns, olties, and villages to lovy a tax and isuue bonds for the buildiug of bridges in cortain cawea; appropriating 81,000 to the Northiern Wisconsin Agricultural aud Meohanical Asgociation § wuthorizing Oircult Judgos to audit tho accounts of Bheriffs and Jallors for boarding prisoners in thoir soveral Circuits; to provide }nr the appointmont of & Connuission to investi- gute tho State I'rison aud othor ponnl institu- tions; to vepoal all laws for n Binto bounty on wild animals; to rogulate tho lioonse aud keoping of (lofin, aud oncourngo tho ralsing of, shoop ; to provide for tho purchaso of puper ror{nlmd for public printing and blank books ; to amoud Beo, 88 of Uhap, 114 of tha Laws of 1872, in rolation to railronds; rolat- ing to public printing ; to doolaro the Lo; lolutivo Mnnlm‘ publie property of the State, aud to pro- vido for its distribution; to amond Beo, 14 of {Lo Sohool Uode of 1803; to provent the uso of polsshous aubatances in' the manufaoturo of ¢andivay to confor curgornld poword on the Ordor of Patrons of 1usbandty; relating: to tho onra of {hio ineanc, and nmandatory of Boo, IDJ Olinp, 103, Lawa of 711 in'roldtiont to cattlo an Tioraed running at larga; to annox part 6f Dodgo County to Iond du Lno; rolating to railronds and raflrond companios;' to ropeal Chap. 34, Goneral Laws of 1873, rolative to-tho juriadic- tion of Junticon of tho Lonco 3 to amend Soc. 18, Ghap. 108, 1. 8, of tho Limltation of_ Actions rolaling to clvil netions, rolating to tho sale of forloitod Stato lands; to provido for o Stato Board of Manngors for tho Contonninl- Bxfidsl- tion; to protact the public agninat irresponaiblo Danking, and provido ¢ tho. tnxatlon of privato banking capital; to amond tho chiar- tdr of tii6 Portaga & Superior Railiond Gompany § to provido for Hinto ald to Agrioltural and Mo« ohanlenl Associntions othor than coumty, whilch Lwld annual fairs, undor cortain' rostrictions;: to* authorizo Albion Acndomy to establish and thain- tain o Normal 8ehool s to nujond: Sea, 207, Oliap, 130, Liwa of 1868, rolativo to the nsscamont of gmnofl.y for taxation; {oatnond Soo, 1. Cliap. 2, Gonoral Lowe of 1868, rolative’ to thy apread of noxious weeds; providing for tho olection of ‘Town Suporintondents of. Sclinoli; nrld rapealitig tho law of 1861 crenting thu offite of County Sit=" poriutondonts of Bohiools; to rogulato tho elac- tlon of Diroctors of rnilroad companios; to- tranafor certain territory from Barron Connty to Ashlatd; o dinend “Soo, 1 of Chap. 56, Lawa of 1869, rolative to' tho limitation of tax certificates ; to provido componsation for oponing the prosoht sossion of the Legislaturo, and for indoxing and franscribing tho Bonato and Aesombly journals; to rogulato railroad passengors’ fare, and the numbor of: brakemen employed on railroad-trains; to provido for lidonsd foes and chnrges that idsuratica odm- ptios in this State shall pay, and oxempting their poraonal propoity frdm taxation to amond Boo. 1, Ohap. 181, Lawa of 1872, in yolation . to tax deeds; to nmond Boo. 1 of Chap. 066, Laws of 1868, relativo to tho limitation of tox certifiontos; to pny tho Clerk of tho Senate for services in- opening the sossion, and tho Ulerks of the Bonate and Assom- DIy for oxtra sorvicos in Indoxing’ and transerib- in tiv Joiirinls of tho Sonato and Assombly; to malko tho Brown OCounty systom' of highways npplicablo to thio smm; for tho Hotter ssonrity of Town and County ‘Cressurors' bonds ; to re- oal all laws for &° Goological Burvey of the tato; for the protection of fomnle por- gons agoiust jmmoral and obscone lun- o nmend “the Iiw' for the gungo; prlu‘img and distrilution of public doouments 3 genduailug tho nuabor nccording to tho domand ‘or different ones ; ropealing tho law for the an- nual publication of & Loglslativo Manual; to mncudl the laws of 1870 and 1860 relative to County Treasuror’s tax-receipts and bouds; to amond Chap, 60, Liaws of 1870, for the incorpo- ration of firg and inlond navigation insurance companied ; o roponl Bac, b8 of Chap. 10, Tt. 8. of Btnto officors; to nmend the lnw of 1870 in rogard to life ineuranco; to amond See. 20 and ropoal most of tho law for & _Btato Commisslonior of Immigration ; to define the manuerjof re-survey of lands; repealing Chap. 08, Lows of 1870, o~ Inting to tho salo of lauds for unpaid taxes; to repeal Ohip, 160, Laws of 1868, rolating to' the colloction of tnxes, and all laws smondatory thereof ; to provide for investigating tho gross roceipts of tho railrond compnrnlen of this Stato- by n Commission ; to detine tlie powers of Cir- cuit Courts In rendering Judgmounta of cortiorari; to provide for publishing notico of judicial pro- ceodingain certain casos; to provons counties, towns and citics voling aid to rallronds after thoy ars built, or to n pgreator a=mount than 10 por cent of valuation; transfor- riog certain territory of Marathon Coun- t{ to Ashland, and oxchnngiux‘;u tor- ritory botween Ashlaid and yfiold Couuties; to provide for the taxation of rail- rond the 8amo &8 othor propert: raitway, oxpross, and iolegrap this Btato; to constituto the Madison Democral tho oftioisl Btate papor; relative to the government of tho Soldiors’ Orphans’ Home; ~to provide for tho -~ triel of criminal onsos in _ Justices’ Courts; to amend Bec. 2, Chap. 99, R, 8., of Administra- tion and Distribution of Estatcs of Infants; to provido for building the sonth wing and com- pleting the Northorn, Hospital for tho Insans; to amond Bécs, 88 and 40, Chap, 138, R, 8. of Costs and Tees, and repoal Chap. 60 of the Genecral Lawd of 1802; to_amend Soc. 1, Chap, 20, Goneral Lawa of 1839; omonding Chap. 28, Lnws of 1860, enabling -forelgn executors and administrators to sue in this State, 80 s to make ita meanisg platnor; to prescribo and fix the reprosontation of citios In County Boards of Bupervisors atoue for ench dueed to raponl the nct providing for tho rogiat: . of births and doatha ; mnl:luggh tho du"ty :’f Drolinto Judgon Lo furnish tho widow of . tostae ' toryin \vrlllnfi, thoir nxlplum\flm\ of hor righta undlor the will'; to proyido for vacating or modi~ fying fudgmonts and tho ordor of tho court at| tho subsoquont torma of tho court ; providing, for tho olection of Stroct Commiusionors and thol nppnlnt{nulntlfir n']lnn;;l ufl Imp{l:avumnnb in ine corporated villngoes ; to reduce the pay of Town- ship Assossors to &2 per day. Ly -— MONTANA., Bat? LARE, Utnh, Fob. 7.—A roport from Vir- glnin Gity, Montann, .says tho Rallrond Bubsidy Bl séns‘iltied in tho Tottue—14 to 11, Tho Hnl&lfil Iillllcrcmofillngilhn nnp%ml to Mols onn, amoin in Coteil in favor of Doer Lodga,* posiiod tho Couneil this afternoon, L MINNESOTA, The Indian Pine Sales, What tho Logislative Tnvestigation Coms mitteo Will Learn. The- Legislature and the; Railroads, “wecfal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune; 81, PAvi, Minn,, Feb, 2, 1874, Tho investigation by tho Beuate Committco into Agent Bmith's BALES OF INDIAN PINES will bo & thorough ono in respect to bringing out. {acts whioh Becrotary Dolano’s Commistion ofy Tnquiry most caieliilly avoldéd, Happehing to Xknow protty tHoroughly what facts can bo ancer-| tainod, I think I niny gafoly antivipato ovonts so, far a8 to say that Mr, Donnelly's Committes will learn, with rogord to tho snloof tho Leook Lako pines to Mr. A, ILWilder ¢ First—That, on Commissionor 8mith's own showing, tho salo of tho whole was notat alll nocessary, boenuso the Pillagoers’ pine could hava been gold by itself, and is, slone, worth moro por thousand than tho contract-price, (Smith rosted the defouso of the sale on the nasorlion that the'Pillagers wera noody, aud their pine . could not bo gold by itsolf.) Second—That the sale wos not only made without consent of tho Indisuy; bubt without their xnowledgo ; and that nono of tho soveral: bouds intorestod woro informed of the salo Liaving-been mado until aftor its complotion by: Wilder's firat paymont being made, whioh was sin months or mora after the oxecution of the con- tract, tho samo socrecy being observed in knop-: ing tho eale from kuowledge of the publio gond orally. ' Third—That, if the #alo had: not been mada boforo the public know that so lnrge and desirn. Vlo a-property was to bo purchusod, thore would havo bebnn Bharp competition for it, out off which the full value of the timber might have been obtained. ' Fourth—That tho contract-prico is not on Hall thé prosont valuo of tho stumpage, nm more than one-fourth ita prospactive valuo withe in tho specified time of tho continot. Fifthe 'hat, while the contract pro-' ‘fosses to be basod upon au cstimatd that tho merchantable: pine it con< voys will not much exceed 200,000,000 feot,, tho real quantity, according to the opinion off bogt-informed oxports, is not loss than 800,000,« 000 feot, and may amount to ay much as 1,500,- 000,000 feat, ; Sizth—That, if tho utnmsngu had beon prop- orly advertised for sale, and’ sold in lots to nuit, no Taster than money was ncoded for tho Iu- dians,n much largor price per thousand foct would@ have beon obtained, and “the growth of small timber, and Hroupwtivn increase in value off the pine, would lave beon rétainod for the In= dinus, | Seventh—That the' contract is 8o loosa in its torms ns to be lisblo to cone atructions which would - include large bodica of tinber on Governmont lands outside the Rosorvation, which would givo to Mr. Wilder, withott money or price, one-third of the merchantablo pine, and which wonld givo 2,000 people or fraction theroof; to revise and nmend the Mochanic's Lion law. Memorinls to Congress for a reduction of the tariff; for inves- tigation of alleged abuses by Indinu Agents; for hm;.euo of mail-gorvico on some Northwestorn routes. ALill ropenling the law of 1879, requiring newspaper to be_published two years bofors it can subliuh tho delinquont tax list, that is, pro- vided thore ia moro thah one paper in thecounty, . elicited somo dobato, TFor.tho repoal Mr, Bing- bom offored and sbly supported u substitute ro- ducing tho time requisito for & paper to bo os- tebiished to ono yeoar.. Thls was opposed by Mesars, Carmichael and Evans, and earnest- ly advocated by DMessys, Fiofleld; Bing- ham,. and Whitton, tho Intter not bo- ing inclined to oncourngo travelitg printing-os- tablisbmonts to go from county to county to gobble up printing, to tho injury of good papors which had labored to promote tho -intorests of their counties for years, Mr. Winaus moved to amend the substituto by putting the timo for a paper to be published ut throo months, after- wards chenging tho timo to six months, whioh was rejected by o voto of 26 to 49, tho substitute adopted, and thoe bill orderod engrossod. ASSEMULY-BILLS PASSED. To fix tho weight of hny-seed (timothy) at 45 pounds; toamend the Inw of 1872 authsorizing Tomales'to vote by proxy in choosing Diroctors for town insurance companics ; to providoe for boring artesian town-wolla in cortpin cases ab town ekpense ; to reduce the quantity of publio printing by omitting detailed statothonts of ox- penditures, and such othor mattor as the Secre- rotary of Stato, 'Ireasuroer, and Attorney-Genoral, 58 ostato printing Commisslobers shall soo fit, from thoe anuual reports of Btato officers and iustitutions,—under which o multitude'of sins could ba covered up. . ABSEDMDLY DILLS INDEFINITELY POSTPONED. Boveral bills giving local ngricultiural sociotics the gamo right to State 8100 ald aa county so- ciotics ; to amend Chaptor 19, R. 8,, so a8 to al- low Town Bupervisors to rojoct s Tond ; £o se- cure & bottor organization and manigement of railroad companios, by requiring officors to have @ cortuin amount of stock, and the majority tobo rosidonts of the Btate, probibiting Crédit Mobil iory, ote. ;' giving & Stuto hounty for the destrue- tion of wolves, lynxes, und wild-cats ; to author- izo the Judges of the Cirouit Courts to cango the time of holding courts in their respective circuits (reconsidered aid postponed to Wedios- day); roquiring the flling of papers in civil actions within ton days after servico; to amend Secs. 82 and 85, Ohap. 164, R.B., 5o a8 moro savorely to punish assault with intont o kill. ‘Cho sossion this ovening lasted an hour, within whioh time fifty-oue bills ivere intro- ?llcl‘d rend a first and second timo, and ro- orre e IOWA, Special Dispateh to The Chieago Tribune, ‘Des Morxes, In, Feb, 7.—Very littlo wasdono in cither Houso of tho Logislature to-day. Tho House twico tabled a motion for o recoss, and each timo considerablo discussion followed, Somo mombers are dotorminod to have a recoss, and_thoy nsk leavo of absonco for n few daya, Nenrly half tho Ropresontativos have gone homo to spend Bunday, MINNESOTA. Spectal Dispateh to The Clicago Tribune, Br. Pavy, Feb, 7.—The Benato adopted a mo- morial asking Congress to compol tho carly building of anorth branch of the Union Pacifie Ruilway, as providod by tho nots of Congress re- Inting to tho Unilon Pacific grants; also, n me- morinl asling Congress to dlroct.the cancellation of convoyeuces to Btata railroads of lands oceu- pied by homestoad settlors. ‘Il Sonato passed a bill nngxropr!nhng monoy for the cxpouses of Blake & Co; 1h the United Staten Buprems Court, in the casoof the Winona & i, Petor Compauy, involving tlio validity of tho Biate 8law of 1871, rogulating froight-carry- luF onrailwoys, 3 ) Who Mouso, in Committes of tho Whale, roc- ommendod for passtge a blll ropealing the Ine- brinto Asylum law of last yoar, undor whicha fund of §12,000 bas boon collosted from liquor- denloris for the puiposo of building an asylum, —_— OHIO. Qorvmpus, 0., Fob, 7.—In the Iouss, this morning, o bill was introduced to vepeal Bech, 116 and 117 of the Behool law. The bill to amend tha act providing for the safoty of porsous at- tonding public assomblios wus indefinitoly poste poued, Tho Houso adjourned witil Mondsy, 1In tho Senato, tho foltowing bills wore passod Benate bill to authorize, by expross words, i surance companios to insuro sgainst dam: by lightning oy well ns by fire. 'I'ho Sonate bill providing that deods or ‘other fustrumonts by o corporation shall Bo excoutod by tho Yrosi- dent thorcof, and that foreign corporations may conyey or inoumbor roal ]gropnn_v in this Rtato under the Inws thoreof, Bills wore intro- to bim in perpetuity the'right to'occupy tho land, and cut away ils growth 50 long as it produces pine or cadar timbor, Eignth—That tho contract, giving to its tarms tha most favorablo coustruction for the scller, is unusually lberal to the purchaser. Other than what may be implied from the abovo facts, I do not think the Committes will discover evidences of fraud in the' traninction. Mr. Wilder's character as o straightforward but vigorous busiucss-man, end an lLonorablo man, would proclude tho idea thathe would. conceiva auy. gross fraud, oven' na 4 means to obtaining this immense progorty. And, if there coutd be, within- his kunowlodge, auy-tform of bribory about tho matter, his shrowdnoss and prudenco” must have boen sndly at fault- if hu- man ingenuity eau doviko u way to discover it, without “resort o the old-timo process of rack ond thumbserows. ‘., DAILKOADA#FAIRS intorbst Loth' Tlouses, nnd' have called ont a grenter varioty of projects for the same ends than any othor subject, JIr. Coggswoll hias so oured his Committoa'of Conferonco as to raile way-tiatmportation, through which ho hopes to | unite Towy, Wisconsin, and Bliunoesots in undore taking to’ regilato railway-traflic on both local aud inter-Stato lines. Alr. Donnelly bay started an inqulry, which ho lopes will' 80 far ondangor tho itlo of tho Winono & 8t. Poter Road to 700,000 acros of its land-grout as to compol the Company to com= {)romxsn with the State and ccmsnnr to logisln- ive regulation; the inquiry being founded on tho fact that tho Compnny ‘dld not ask that it should, and tho Legislature therefore neglected to, suthorizo the Governor to convey the lunds, a8 hag beon don, to tho Company, The Railrond Commissioner has hoon sustained by Attornoy-Gonoral Wilkon in his cluim that the Winoha &' 8t: Petor: Company owes 360,000 to 862,000 on tnxes (the tirat sum bo- ing the’ Attornoy-General's estimate; and the Inttor tho Ruilroad Cowmissionor’s). This claim is based os follows: Tho Legislature, somo years ago, by law required the Wiuona & St, Potar Company to do cortain things, and by the samo law grautod {¢ an abatomont of taxes.” Tha Compuuy resisted the requiremonts, but accopte ed tho donation, and puid 2 reduced tux acoord- ivgly,altliongh it busseedod I Hvivg o law udicially pronounced nuconatitutional and void, "The claim is for tho differenco betweon the taxes paid under that law and the 8 per vent upon fnml;ngs which would ive othorwise been cols eated, - "I'vo momorials to Congress hizve beon propose ed,which ask ronowal of tho land-grant foi the 8t. Paul & Pacifle oxtonsion-lincs, Ona proposos to ronew the grant for tho Lonefit of its present holdors. The othor proposes that its forfeituro by the prosent holders shull bo dcelared, nud that the rouewal shall bo in the State, In pursunnce of this second proposition, & Company has been organizoed within o few days’ under the Goneral Incorporation law of the Btate, which calls iteclf the Western Rail- road Company.of Minuesota, and declaves ita plirpose, in part, to'bo to build aud oporato a rallrond from Bauk Rapids to Rreainord, ¥. R, Delano; of this: oity, who tried last year ta obtain possession of thnt part of tho cxfonsion liues by purchaso of 8t, Paul & Paciflo stools, {9 at tho biead of the pow Company, Tliere are 8o many and varied propositions, looking to logisihtivo restraint upon froighte rutos und passongor-fares, concotning discrini. nutions, personni priviloges, and special *cone tracts, and with' rogard to all manuor of coms pluints againgt railway-manngoment, that it would be usoloss to even moution thiem until tlioir projactors hava arrived at some agreoment whiol will give promieo of anything being dono. I may mention, howover, that Mr, Cox Ympouau to cloar tha flold for action b{ a coustitutional amendmont ; aud that Mr, Wilkinson proposes, by ono sweoping onactment, to declare void ol contraots which reliove carriers from any com« mon-law lnbility, and aldo to declure recoiving and delivering carriors within tho Btato liablg for, loss or damange to shippers or consigneos within tho State, though the snme may hava oo« curred upon other but connecting lines. Q. ——————————— —A domure citizen of Portland was walking down town ono morung last weeli, whon a stran- ror addvessed him: *Do you know where the t’ant-omcu is?" “Yos," auswered tho Port. Iandeér, aftably, aud walked on sithout furthes ‘parley. Aftor Hmceudln for about ton stops he Iuolmd baok and luquired in his turn, *Whyi Did you want to know?" “No," roplied the vie: tim, with great enrnestnoss 3 and then, tho ace count having boon balanced, the two shook haida gravely aud walkod off, a—1'aul promotion—"* Why did- the Genorn! talio you on his sialf? " was nskod of & young husear, not long ago, by an onthusinst, " On, I'li toll you 3 bocauso I sut—" ¢ Through the rnnka of the onomy, you hero ?"(lntm-m pted (bt onthusiast (sho Was & lady)., OQhl Jnnr na nothing of the gorty it was beoause X qut upi turkey so woll."! | i