Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1874, Page 4

1 e e r———— TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERMS OF BUDECTIPTION (PAYATLE IN ADVANCR), R O 358 Pattaof nyonr at the samo rato, Toprovont dolny and mistakos, o sure and givo Post ©Offico nddrosa in full, inoluding Stato and County. Romittancos miny bo nado oithor by dratt, expross, Post Oflice order, or in roglatorod lottors, at ourrisk. TEINA TO CITY AUDSONIDENS, Daly, delivorod, Bunday xcopted, 35 conte por wook, Daily, dolivared, Bunday included, 30 conts per wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE OOMPANY, * Corner M n and Dearborn. ltengo, 11l TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MOOORMIOI HATI—North Olark “"n‘:l‘;'u Phtotors Bimmms Brstor Woing. Mtroot, cornor Al u&:oau and AOADRMY OF MUSIO—Halstod atraat, hatween Mad- 1son and Mouroe. m;x.l‘ums.n'z af Olivor Doud Byron. ** Across tho Qontinont.” Aftornoon and ovoning, HOOLEY'S THEATRERandolph _strast, hetwoon Olark and TaSallo. Kngagemont of Lucillo Wostorn. **The Ohild Stealor." _ Aftornoon and evoning, 2 Y TRE—Madison at; botwoon DIt RS GUIEATRIE Madion strset, Batwonn Qombination Company, ~¢'Tho Boorot Marriago ond **Amorlcana In Paris," * OPIRA-HOUSK~Mopros stroot, botwoon DEnrn Ang Brae Ao Suene el yhotuten Minatrols. Burlasquo of ** Mazoppa. " Minstroley and comicalities, LPII THRATRE-Cornor of Wabash avenuo nn?{%fn eess s, Varioty ontortalamont. - Atieraooy and evenlng. GLOBE THEATRE—Dosplainesstroet, hotwoen Mad. 1 d Washiugton. Iingnagoment of Bidwoll & AloDon. oY Teotpe. o Haok Crooke" ANioraoen aad avening* EXPOSITION _RBU! Adams stroot. Dub: Bon,"" Afternoon and foot of TG Lako Slors, foot of Painting of tho ing. £ ol BUSINESS NDTlOES’. A UNIVERSAL REMEDY, - hs, Co nd B hisl Affeo- A MR N R 1t s en acquirod Ly a tost of inany yess The Chicags Tiibime, ‘Wednesday Morning, Fobruary 18, 1874, “* BROWN'S DRON- The Railrond and Warchouse Commissionora bavo notifled the railroads doing businesa in this Btnte that they must comply with the law re- quiring thom to provido seales to wolgh graln which thoy take for shipmen! Tho Milwaukoo Chamber of Commorce has paesed the resolutions submitéed by tho Board of Dircctors, protosting against tho passage of the bill now bofore the Wisconsin Legialature to reduce olovator charges onc-half, Tho Senato of this State has passed tho mo- morial to Congress, proviously passed by the Houso, asking for the oxtension of the Illinois & Michigan Canal from Honnopin to Rock Island. The ndvooates of thia messure claim that it would do for tho country wost of tho Mississippi vory much what the Erio Canal did for the country wost uf tho Lakes. Cbang snd Fng are shown by tho autopsy which was conoluded yesterday in Philadelphin to havo beon so vitally united that denth worlld tavo followed any attompt to sdparato thom during life. ‘The mombrano which lines the ab~ domen was one in both, oxtending through the myaterious ligament that bound thom togother. This ligament was algo connected with the liver and tho heart of ench. s — Philadelphia decided yostordny, by about 10,000 majonty, so far as known, that hor “Contonnial Msayor” should be' William 8. Stokley, aud not Aleck MoClure, Mr. Stokley i8 tho present Mayor, and had the support of the City Departmonts, the regular Republicans, and tome of tho best citizons. McCluro was sup- ported by himselt, J. W. Forney, and tho Demo-" crats, who made no regular nomination. Senator Thurman struck off tho inconsiston~ cios and cruditics of some of his colloagues rathor happily on the currency dobato yestorday. The ocurrency, according to theso gentlomen, is to Lo stable and elastio. ““To be stable,” ho said, ‘it was to bo fixed; and to bo elastio it was not to be fixed.,” Ho condemned tho Son- ato ag an.impracticable body for its course in loading down the Redistribution bill with gen- cral arhendments. Tho motion to recommit was debated all day, but not decided. Tho insane in Tllinols are reported by tho Board of Public Charities to number 8,000, of whom™ 2,400 are considerod incurables, Tho Stato bas asylum-room for only 1,600 of these unfortunates, and, whon the Northern and Southern Insano Asylums are completed, 1,300 will be loft unprovided for. They rccommend tho Stato {o furnish additional facilities for their care. Othor suggestions are that the cura- ble and incurable insane be not separated in the asylums, and. that the practice of roquiring pay- “ont from any of the patients be discontinued. —ee King Lunalilo, of the Sandwich Ielands, bot- ter known by his earlior title of Prince Bill, died on the 8d inat. Lunalilomado himself King, after tho death of King Kemehamoha, in 1873, who named no successor, by issuing plebiscitum invit- ing tho Sandwich Ielanders to vote for him, which they did with such unanimity that there wero but 19 dissentiont[votes out of 13,000, A meeting of the Legislature was called upon ZLunalilo's death to moet on the 12th inst, A mass mabting at Kawaliag bas nominated David Affairs In tho Iouse of Roprosontatives cama to a hitch yesterday over the contested election case in the Third Congrossional District of Ar- kansas. W, W. Wilshiro fvas declared ontitlod to the seat by a party majority of tho House, which did not includo somo of tho bost Repub- lican mombers. A motion to clinch the voto by reconsiderntion was met by dilatory tactica on the part of the Democrats. Thore was & pros- pect at one timo of an all-night sossion, which was flnally dissipated by adjournment by a vote of 87 to 81, Fhe Bonate yosterday agreed to a resolution of Senator Bogy's calling for the opinion of the Finauco Committoe about giving the Siates partiel control of the banking-business of the country horeafter,—tho number of banks, tho amount of their caplial, tho gusranteos to do- positors, and tho granting of charters, all to be decidod by the Btate Goverumonts, Fedoral #ogulation is provided for in the olauso requiring thio cirenlation to be securcd by bonds as at prosent, and requiring tho bonds to be depositod with the Fedoral Governmont, which shall {ssue tho notes used by the banks, and bo responsiblo for tholr redomption. Tho Ohieago produce merkots wore gonerally easior yotordny, Moss pork wag modoratoly notive, and 10@160 per brl lower,- olosiug at B14.12)4@14.15 casl, and §14.87)4@14.40 spllor April. Lard was aotivo, and 16@20c per 100 lbs Tower, cloglng at $8.87)¢@8.00 onsh, and $0.02}¢ @06 wollor April, Moats wore ju better de~ THE CHICAGO DAILY 'I'RIBUNE: WEDN SDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 187 mand, and stondy, at 5o for shouldors, $7.60 for short ribs, 79{0 for short oloar, and 0}{@11c for swoot-ploklod hams., Drossed hogs woro dull and 5@100 por 100 1bs lowor, olosing at $0.20@0.25. lllglflvmoz wero quiot and easfor, closing nt 05@D5}¢0 por gallon. Tlour was dull and wonk. Whoat was active, and firmor, olosing at 81,10 cash, and §1,103¢ mollor April. Corn wag notivo, nnd onslor, olosing nt 56140 sollor Maroh. Oats wore quict, and 3¢o lower, closing at 41540 cash; and 4140 sollor March, Ryo was in good domand, and firm, at 820 for rogular. Barloy was dull and ensior, at $1.78@1.80 for No. 2, and £1.08@1.04 for No. 8, On Saturday ovonlng Iast thoro waa in storo In this clty 8,123,- 248 bu whoat, 2,980,951 bu corn, 803,660 bu oats, 05,700 bu rye, and 820,802 bu barloy. Live hogs wore flrm and unchanged, closing at £4.50@5.80 for inforior to chiolco, The eattlo and aheop markota rulod falrly activo, tho latter at a glight advanco, — Grain-Inspootor Harpor's fate olork, Mr. E. W. Bmith, has writton s lottor to tho Stafg Jour- nal ot Bpringfiold, in which that gontlo- man is charged with gravo offonses. Mr, Smith saya that tho Inspoctor cortified offielally every month to tho oxistenco of bnlances which wero not- fn his possossion, the monoy baving boon drawn out for other pur- poses than to pay the oxponses of tho offico. Thoso purposes, it s mu&ima, ‘wore spooulations in grain or somothing similar, Lnst Novembor, tho Inspector dircoted Ar. Bmith to make out a now got of books to Lide these transactions, and in thoso tho cash bal- ance, for which tho Inspector was rosponsiblo, 'was reduced from its correct figure of $28,000 to 8,000, . Bonator Carpentor thinke tho olection of Pros- ident, Vico-Presidont, and Congrossmon ought to be surrounded with groater safoguards ngninst fraud, Ho bas propared a bill directing the Socre- tary of tho Interior topurohase tho Patent Sefoty Ballot-Boxes for gonoral uge in clections at all tho polling-places in tho country, provided thoy do not cost more than 16 apioco. Whether tho $16 Patont Safety Dallot-Box would ““oxcouto o freo- man’s will, as lightning does the will of Goa," so much bottor than the ordinary Lind as to bo worth the onormous outlay contomplatod, is doubtful, but it is not doubtful that the worst fraud In theso oleotions is tho way tho olect conduct thomsolves thereatter. Benator Car- penter would do bottor if ho could getup o ballot-box, like the famous: mearocrow, that would frighten Congressmeh into bringing back ioto the national corn-flold nll that thoy had stolen from it, Throngh tho stupidity, or somotling worso, of ono of its officors, the New York Btock E: change was thrown into 8 vory foollsh acaro yoi terday. Two lotters, purporting to be signed by Prosident Orion, of the Western Union Tele- graph Company, snd Prasident Oox, of tho To- ledo, Wabash & Wostern Railrond, addressed to ‘Vice-Prosidont Wheolook, were rond by him to the Board, ench announcing & considora- ble incroaso of capital stock, Tho additional isauo by the Wostorn Union was stated at $8,926,- 600; that of the Toledo, Wnbnsh & Wostorn at $10,000,000. In the flurry that followed theso sunouncemonts about $8,000,000 of tho stocks of tho two reads wore sold at a falling prico by tho panicky members, It roquired but a fow moments' investigation by the cool-hended ones to discovor that the signatures were forged aud tho statoments false. Vice-Prosidont Wheo- lock's conduot in startling the Board with state- ments whicl Le might so casily have tested is so strange that it ie hinted that ho may not have beon & mere dupe. . ——— THE WORKINGMEN ORGANIZING, The information which wo print elsewhere in this morning’s paper leaves no doubt that the workingmen are organizing after the mannor of the farmers. It soema to bo predetormined that, in & fow montha more, the laboring classes will have their Councils to correspond with the Granges of the agricultural classes, Though tho news which we present is moroe com- probeneivo than anything horotoforo printed on the subject, the movemont is not one of sudden growth, mor is it con- fined to any one locality. It has been gradually developing for some months in differ- ent parts of tho country, and it now secms prob- ablo that tho various organizations will convergo oventually in a central and powerful body. The Grango will sorve a8 a model, and very likely as o support, Asmuch 88 a year ago, whon the crusado against railroad oxtortion bogan oar- nestly in tho West, tho Workingmen's Ausocin- tions in Now York City disoussed tho feasibility of co-oporating with the farm- ere in such A way as to buy their breadstuffs from thom direct, and the groatest sympathy which the Farmers' Movement has found in tho East lias been among the induatrial olasses, Though this schome of co-operation wagnot carriod out at the time, the idea now sorves ag tho basis for organizing the laboring claggos, An articlo in Tux TaIsoNE, a couple of woeka since, setting forth tho general design of the Order of * Bovereigns of Industry,” started in Massachusotts, called forth an wun- usual number of inquiries from differ- ent meotions concerning it; and indications of similar organizations, or the purpose to or- gonizo, throughout the West and South. BMr, Earle, tho Mastor of this Order, has beon travol- ing in the West and Bouthwost, and 18 now in Chicago. An interviow with him yestorday dovoloped additional information in regard to tho orgenization. At the same time, n movo- ment to form a similar association in Chicago, to bo called tho * Advocatos of Justice,” roached tho point of organization, and it will cithor progrous indopondently or coaloace with the Now England Order. From New Orloans we lavo an account of tho * Mochanics' and Working- mon's Co-oporative Associntion,” which advo- catos tho samo goneral priuciples, ndding thero- to & practical attompt at co-operation in manu- faoture, and in buying and selling. The Amnl-_ gamatod Carpenters of Ohicago have taken out articlos of jucorporation, and the evidences of n more central organization than hny over bofora oxisted smong the workingmen of America aro incrensing on all sidos, Like tho Patrons of Iusbandry, tho Bover- eigns of Industry and Advoontes of Justice clam to bo non-political organizations, Tho doolared purposoe iu to organize against the ille- gitimate mse of oapital in spoculation, to out down prices by eliminating the middle-mon, and to promote o direct interchange botwoon the ag- riouliural and jndustrisl classes, The scops of the movement, it will bo soon, is yery difforent from that of {lg jrades-unions, or that of tho political coalition known s the Working- men's Party "whioh, from time to_ timo, los takon am active, thongh hitherte inofMolent, part In oloctions. But tho ulti~ mato design of the movewent is confegsedly to 80 slinpo tho sontiment of tho working-olasses that thoy may concontrato their lufluonco on log- Islation favorable to their intoroats, Votos wilt bo fndividual and indepondont, and partios will boloft out in tho cold; but tho formation of poitieal sontimont in tho true signifieance of the torm will Lo the ronl gonl of this move- mont, na it iy that of tho Grango's prog- ross. The sucecss of co-oporative buying and 'nollhzg must necossarily dopend, whothor with Patrous of Hushandry or Sovoroigns of Industry, upon the management of subordinate Granges or Councils in ovory cago, but tho Patrons and Bovereigus everywhore will Lo guided to tho samo political convictions. In how far tho gou= oral scope of tho contomplated co-oporation bo- tweon farmors and workingmen is praoticable, romaina to bo soon. Tho Intorosts of tho work- ingmon are moro diverso thon thoso of the tarm- ors; and, o a groator or losa oxtont, thoy nre sootional, doponding upon tho oharacter of thelr omploymont and tho spocial industrios of difforont localities. It will bo n much more dit- flonlt mattor to form n coutral, barmonious, and poworful Order among the worltiogmen than it has beon to socuro for tho Grango its ptosont prominonco and fnfluonce, It will bo constantly monnced by tho spirit of Communism, thaugh thia epirit~ i loartily and, wo \lolieve honestly - disclalmed to bogin with. . It will oncounter moroe stumbling-blocks, and will hove rhoro serious disscusions to con- {ond with, than tho Gravge lias had. But, for all that, tho offort Is undoubtedly to be made for woal or for woe, and it will in time Lo anothor thornin tho sidoes of tho old political parties that are now struggling so dosporatoly for oxisteuco. —— THE LABOR-MARKET, ‘Wo publisied yestorday tho results of in- quirios by tho omploymont branch of tho Ro- liof and Aid Bocioty. Tho numbor of establish- monts reportod was 112, not including tho lum. bor-yards, Wo havo countod the numbora thus given of hands nsually omployed in thoso catab- lishmonts, and tho number employed at tho timo these roports were collooted in Jnnuary and Februnry, Tho number given s usually em- ployed was 12,000, and the numboer at work, sny, oo tho Ist of Fobruary, was 8,388, lenving 8,012 out of usual omploymont. This doos nob includo thoso Inborera whoso omploymont al- waya stops when the wintor gots in, This ro- port of the Labor Buresu is, Lowover, to a date sovoral weoks past. It ropresents a fraction over two-thirds of tho men then at work, This is subjoct to tho modification that in' somo inslances thoy wore at worlt on one-half or throo-fourths time only, aud that three- fourths of them were at work on wages reduced {rom 8 to 20 por cont. While tha report is sub- Joot to this ‘qualification on tho one hand, it should be added that on Monday, Feb. 16, sov- oral hundrod additional hands wore to bo taken back, and that on' the 1st of March nearly all would bo re-omployed, . On the oponing of navis gation, whioh this yeor promises to be much onrlior than usual, the lumbor-yards will givo omployment to the thousand or moro men who are engaged in thom during tho senson of navi- gation. Those omployed in building will also resumo worlk this year much sooner than usual, Assuming that tho condition of the other em- ployers of ekillod lnbor is about the samo as those whoso names woro roported yestorday, wo find that tho combined effect of tho panic and tho winter olosed but vory fow eatablishments, and that, of thoso which did suspend, the groat majority resumed in n fow weeks, with a dimin- ished numbor of hauds, but have steadily in- creased their business, and by tho 1st of March will genorally have the full number of mon at work, Tho reduction of wages was a nocossity, a8 woll as tho reduction of the number of por- sons employed; tho main thing sought was to find employment at all, snd the supply of Inborers boing greater than the domand, and the profits of employers boing greatly reduced, a reduction of wages was inevitable, Thoe em- ployors have beon nssiduous in giving all tho work thoy could and to s many of their old bande as possiblo. As soon as they can find omployment for all, and sales for thelr pro- ducts, thero will, of course, bo s slow but cor- tain rostoration of wages. It will be gratitying to know that in many cagos tho manufacturers report the proapect of a larger trade during the coming season than in tho post, and, as the monoy market is growing ocasier daily, wo have no doubt that this ox- pootation is well founded. §The business of 1874, especially that giving remunerative wages to Iabor, will bo largely in oxcoss of that of past years, oxcopt, perhaps, in thobuilding trade, but evon in this lino the cheapness of building ma- torial will offeot to somo extont tho dulluess in that branch of industry, THE WAREHOUBE MONOPOLY IN MINNE- y BOTA. Threo mon, Delano, Davideon, and Kyle, own oll tho warchouscs on tho line of the St. Paul & Paclflo Railroad. Tho Railroad Company has ngrood to build no grain houses along tho line itselt, to allow nobody clse to do 8o, and to re- coivo no -graln west of Minneapolis from any warchouses not owned by those threo mon, Thoy got 2 conts por bushel for handling tho grain, and half & cont more for every fifteon doys' storage attor the first ten days. All the grain is rehandled in tho elovators at 8t. Paul or Minneapolis, and these chargoes are ngain lovied. Tho Compauy colleots them and remits to tho warchousomen. Such & rigid monopoly Las, of course, been & burden. The warehouscs are fow and small; tho chargos are many and largo. During the iuvestigation in- to this malter by a Sennta Com- mittee, & Minnonpolis millor aworo that Le would, ir pormitted, build at onco a privato warcliouso which, by eaving him the chargos of tho monopoly, would clear its cost in two years. The Committeo suggosts tho onact- mont of a suitable Warchouse law, an action to vacato tho Rellrond Company's charter, and tho taxntion of thio prosent olovators as the porsonal property of Dolano, Davideon, and Kylo. The warchouses have escapod taxation hithorto, bo- cruso thoir ownerahip has been uncertain, Mr. Delano, on this investigation, tostifled that tho Tiailroad Company owned them, and tho Prosl- dent of the Company testified that the ware- Lousemen owned thom. Ag tho lattor paid for them, the Committee has probably asaigned the ownership correetly, Tho roport onds with tho submission of tho following joint resolution ; e 4t vesolved by the Senate (tho House of Ropresonta- tivea concurring), “Tuat tho Attorney-Gonoral bo and Lo Ia horoby fnatructed to immodiately commonce Judiclal proceeings in tho propor court for tha pur- Doso of vacuting tho charter of the said Firyt Division of tho 8¢, Paul & Taciflo Rallroad Gompany, ————— Dio Lovwis, tho fifty-dollar reformer, mado a ppooch ot Lebanon, O., on the 12th fnat., in which he predicted that tho injunction againat the Millsboro female orugaders would bo dis- solvad, bocauso * Iaw must givo way bofore thia groat mornl passion.” It Lowis' logio fa truo,in ouo caso, it must bo truo inall. Buppossroma ono, thorefore, shiould suddenty bo #otzod with: & grent moral peslon to tho offect that Dio Lowia was o humbug and ought to bo restrained of hia porsonal llborty, wonld tho law havoto give way? Bupposo tho mombors of any one church of Hillsboro, for fuatancs, should nllow.their gront moral passlon to go so far ns to notuato thom to burn down all other ohurohos, would tho Iaw Linvo to givo way ? LI | A FINANOIAL FABLE, There was oncosaman who lived by a littlo brook, By his houso the brook was shallow, but at somo distance bolow it formed a decp pool, by which anothor man lived. Tho firat man thought it was not right that tho socond should havo so much water when ho had o littlo, soho dippod a pailful out of tho pond and pouredit into the brook in front of hia houeo, Bnt to bis groat surpriso it at onco ran down into tho pond again, and loft tho uppor part of tho brook as shallow as ever. This foolish man showed the proclso amount of wisdom oxhibited by cortain Senators who aro so anxious to pass tho bill taking 825,000,000 of Nationa! Bauk our- ronoy from tho Enat and distributing it through’ tho West. Xf thia is done, it will bo pouring the puiltul into the brook, and will bo praoisoly as pormanont in its effccts. Watoer runs whoro the ground is lowost, and just as surcly money ruus whoro Interost in roally highost. Wo say renlly highost, for tho nominal ratos of Kansas, for instanco, sro much higher than thoso of Now York, but tho groator risk moro than counterbalances the difference, Monoy ean bo used in tho city bottor than in the country; honco it colleots in citios. It oan bo used in Now York better than in most citios ; henco it collocta in Now York, A dollar-noto gains no mysterious property, by bolng pald over & California coun- tor, that provents its going East or koeps it cir- culating in the West. Whon o National Bank s wound up, its notos are sont in for redemption from tho wholo country. Sonator Bogy sooms to imeginé that stamping * Missourl” on a ploco of paper will mako it an impossibility for the Now York banks to get that paper outsido of Mis- sourl, charm thoy nover so wisely, Ho apparent- ly thinka bank-notos aro like postage-stamps and will stick whoro thoy aro put down. In both be- liofs ho is on o por with tho wian who thought tho wator would stay whore ho put it in tho braok. THE ‘‘ASSUMPTIONS” OF SCIENCE In a recont number of the ‘Motropolitan paper of tho Protestant Eplacopal Church in the United States” is an articlo on “Selontific As- ‘sumptions,” in which the writer takes to task Prof, Proctor, the English astronomer now lec- turing in this country, for some *assumptiona” rogarding the antiquily of man., Ho furthor- more lays about him gonerally with respect to the roiontitio theories of Geology, Dovolopment, Evolution, olo., now provalent; and the frequont uso of the words *crodulity,” “guces-work," ‘*fanciful speculation,” and tho insinuation that gcientiflo theorics aro basod upon “henrsay,” on ““the work of ignoraut workmon,” or *that of o California miner fond of practical jokes,” and also that none of tho facts *‘depend upon such testimony as would convict n common thief of potit larceny,” will bo suficlont to iudicato tho animus of tho article in question. Binco mon omerged from a state of barbarism, thinkors lave bad an uncomfortablo way of ‘*sssuming” cortain theories for tho explana- tion of cortain phonomens. By thoso who had a cut-and-dried explanation of tho appearances of Naturo, these * assumptions” woro as a con- tinual thorn in the side, and with all tho wospons of priestly intorforonce, ridicule, and power, thoy havo sought to provent thoir sproad and acceptance among men. When Copornicus offored his ““sesumption” of tho holiocentrio theory of the earth’s motion, in opposition to the geocontrio *assumption” adopted by tho Church, ho was greeted with this: “To main- tain that tho sun is placed immovable in the contro of the world, is an oplnion absurd in itsolf, falso in philosophy, and formally horoti- cal, becauso it is oxpressly contrary to the Beripture ; to maintain that the earth isnot placed in the centroof tho world, that itisnot immovable, and that it has even o deily motion of rotation, is also an absurd. proposition, false in philosophy, and at least erroncous in point of faith.” And tho grént Bacon, 0 confidently quoted by tho writer, who Inid ont a “really sciontiflo method of dednction,” rojected it, and said, “I am convinced that it is moat falso.” 1t i hardly nocessary to flofond such men as Bir Oharles Lyell, Prof, Tyndall, and £rof, Proc- tor from the charge of looso thinking, carcless oxamination,or hasty and unqualified nceépum:o of each and every “fact ” brought to their no- tico. Itisnot necessary to refer to the actual position of Bir Charles Lyoll upon the points ro- ferrod to in tho articlo, or to state that hia posie tion upon tho * Natchez man" is one of extreme caution, in place of the unqualified *asssump- tion ” inferred. No claga of men aro more oritical of facts than sciontific mon, Open inquiry, snys Huxley, ls their bosom friond, and & sup- position not capable of rigid proof is at onco dismissed. But thoy claim the right of exami- nation, nnd, pending the docision, il theories have a standing at their bar of reason. At this Lar tho theory of Evolution ia now undergoing its oxamination, and we may safely await tho judgmont to bo passed upon it, not by bigoted opponents, but by men qualified’ to pronounce upon its truth or falsity. “Prot. Proctor," says our writor, ““has for himsolf, we venture to say, never verifled a gin- glo ono of tho facts on which he founds his the- ory. He does not evon ‘know’ the faots. Ha talos them on faith from tho reports of others.” Theo theory of Copornicus was once an *agsump- tion” of ecionce, s Lvolution, Development, the Antiquity of Man, are now, It is now uni- voraally sccopted, whilo tho othors are in pro- cess of proof, Ias our writer ever **verified” the facts of geomotry, physics, and mathomatics, which furnish tho proofs which bave renderod this “assumption” a fixed and sccepled faot a8 ho ovor *vorifled™ o minglo ono of thom ? Doos he even * know™ the facts? oes he not tako thow on faith from the roport of others ? Tn tho faco of & negative answer to theso quos- tlons, dare he ackuowlodge Lis belief in tho tho- ory? If ho accopt it, how reconcilo Liy opposi- tion to the modern theorles, We accept tho fact, In Ohomistry, that wator is & compound eub- stanco formed by tho union of two invisiblo goees, IHow many of us ‘‘know” the fuet by verifiestion? and yot, in rocolviug it on faith from (he roport of othors, are we not *thor. oughly unsolontifie, uncritioal," and crednlous " Tho primp factor a¢ tho battom of all splontific roasoning, tho only thing which brings order out of chnos, which saves us from the wildest cone fusion of obanco and uncertainty, fs tho * 84 sumption,"—I¢ 80 wo choose to torm it,—of ox- aof, unchanging, continuous Iaw, which gov- orns the succession of phonomena. Ot tho pow- or boyond, and sustaining thla law, wo sponk not. I’s suMolont that tho relations of oauso and offoot aro dotormined o cortainly that tho oporation of theso Iawa (at prosout in physioal, Bsoon, it 1a belleved, eapablo of oxtonsion to mon- {al and social phonomona) oan bo forotold, v Tho solonce of Antfonomy fs rondorod possi- blo from tho fact thnt the samo Iaw which gov- orna a falllug stone from n oliff Liolds tho plau- ofs In their courson and ‘gmdes s comet in its passago around tho sun. The selonos of Goology in anaurod from tho fact that tho causos that rogulato tho doposits of mud in tho cstuatics of our rivers, undormine rooky shores, upheave continents, aud submergo islands, woto opora- tive in tho ghtldhood of the world, Tha malonce of Ohemistry would bo & dolusion and a enaro Bavo from thoe fact that onch moleonlo of mat- tor, throughout tho universe, bears impressod upon {t the stamp of o motric systom as dis- tinotly an doos tho metro of the Archivos at Paxis, or the double royal cublt of the Templo of Karnao, Tho oporations of inagimato matter and of organio lifo arc dopondont upon tho equiva~ lenca of forcos andliho imporishabality of matter, end upon the axiom that tho sum of all forcos is constant, and can noithor bo added to nor sub- tracted from. - & Tho contost botweon the *assumptions” of thoology and thoe discoveriea of soionce is aa old o8 the World, . Only in our timo has tho rolative position of the contestants so changed that the proponderanco of strongth and oredibility is on tho side of scienco. Tho history of molenco is tho history of thg contest, and it is almost with & susplicion of unfairnoss and pity that solentifio men do battlo in our day,—not with an antago- nist worthy of their blows, not forthe mere right to reason upon the wondrous oxhibition of tho power, benuty, and regularity in Nature, not for tho establishment pf laws which in a simplo and orderly way naccount for thoso seomingly mysto- rious phenomena which awe tho savage and por~ plox and astonish the unoducated man,—but_to dofend thomeolvos from the sneers and bigot- ries, tho misropresontations and arrogont * as- sumptions " of men.who, in their ignorance and blindness, foolishly blook the way to a grander rovolation of tho universe which surrounds us, and o part of which wa ar, i + —— THE SMORE NUISANCE, In tho robuilding of Chicago, tho capacities and conveniencics for the smoke nuisanco havo boon greatly incronsed~nnd the city is gradually buccmln‘;‘ s socond Pittsburgh, The number of manufactories bas incroaded, and, with barely two or throe excoptions, thoy ars omitting donee volumes of soft-conl smoke from morning to night. Tho hotols are gotting to bo 28 bad as the manufactorics; In addition to this, nearly all the now buildings are now furnished with clovators, operated by steam, and thisadds greatly tothe volumo of smoke, which hangs over and sottles down upon the city. Alrondy our now and clegant buildings begin to look old and dingy from tho offects of the smoke and soot which blackens them, and, notwithstanding tho immediato proximity of Lake Michigan, person- . nl cleanlincss i & good ways off from godliness in Chicago. So donsdis this volumo of smoko that, unless thero I8'a brisk, stirring breeze, tho whole of it settles down in the central part of the city and loaves its dirty imprint. "Evory man who hsa o chimnoy bolching forth amoke is committing & nuisance which should boe peremptorily abatod by law. Thore is no necessity for it, and no oxcuse forit. Soienco bias domonstrated that smoko can be consumed, and already there aro two or thrgo methods of doing it which operate with perfoct success. They work no inconvenionce to machinery, aro simple in oporation, and comparatively inoxpen- sive, In viow of these facts, and espocially con- sidering that the smoke nulsanco I8 growing worso almost overy day, every ownor of a stoam- eugino in tho ocity should bo compellod to use one of theso appliances. In London, theirusc is compelled by law, aad there is no resson why it should not be in Ohicago slso. If it is not dono, the city will’ shortly be blackened in appearance, now a8 it is, and grow more un- boalthy. What is to be done should be dono quickly, if tho boauty and cleanliness of thoe oity nro worth preserving, Tho Common Council cannot pass an ordinance which would bo more acceptablo than one to secure us o healthy at- mosphore, pure air, clean streots, clean build- ings, and clonn people. When the moans for se- curing this result are so'cheap and simplo, it Is tho height of folly to go dirty any longor. e Parson Brownlow, who has boen silent so long, Lins turned up once more, and in’'a most unexpected quarter. The colored peoplo of Ten- nesseo having grown somowhat rampant on the social rights quostion, tho Parson has written a Iotter from Washington to the Enoxville Ohron- icle, in which ho says : It stould o romombared the tho calored ace thougl largo in numbors, constitute a very small minority of tho wholo pooplo of the United States, Tlowover strongly united, thoy have no power to compel concossions from- tho whitos, Whatover they get must come as tho froo gift from the whites, It 18, thioreforo, the part of wisdom on the part of he colored pooplo of Tennesgeo to bo caraful upon insist- ing upou thiat which can do no practical good to ofther Taco, but is sure to bring dlsastor and ruin to the most useful fastftution of modorn times—frea schiools, Lot thio colored people of Tennossco auk Congresa to deaist from any legislation which enforces mixed achools, and they will have established a new claim to respoct and couidonce. Let tho colored peaplo v thelt cvn schoola and churches and the white peoplo have theirs, et the colored people have a fair divide of the school fund und they will find thoir own teachers and preachora, Thia i very sensibla but somowhat eurprising language from tho old-time friond of the colored poople, and is all the more significant as & Con- vontion of tho colored citizons of Tennossoo is called to moot at Nashville in April to consider social questions, Whother that Convention will nccept tho old Pargon's advico remaing to be acon, — The proprictor of the Now.York Herald, having contributed a handsomo sum for the ostablish. mont of & soup-house for tho reliof of tho poor, s boen nseniled by the maunagers of somo of tho charitable {ustitutions of Now York Oity, upon the ground that public ronp-houscs de- moralizo and pauporlze the poor, ‘Tho Herald, howover, retort with somo vory damoging facts concorning thoso charitablo institutions, show- iug that tho actual oxpenditure of tho Fivo Polnts Houso of Industry on the poor for tho year ond- ing Maych, 1872, was 814,000, and tho cost of ex- pending this sun was $26,000 ; that the Ohile dron's Ald Bocloty pdid iu the lust year 875,000 for salarics and athor oxponuos; that it racolves from the city and county 870,000 for oducating 9,000 children, and shows iteolf that it has only 8,000, for the education of which It ia appealing to publio charity; and that thie Soolety, which oharges newsboya 6 centa for a night's lodging, has §164,000 fuvested in tho shares of a Western railrond, Tho woll-paid philanthropists of New York havo ovidently stumbled into a lornots' neat, —_——— Somebody in Milwaukeo has discoverod at last the moans by which Chleago can be dostroyed and hor commorco transforred to othor and more oligibla poluts, It iy to bulld a railroad from Milwaukoo ‘to Bt. Louls, The idon is, that, it this be done, Bt. Louis merclinnts will malo tholr purchases in BMilwaulteo instond of in Now York aud Ohicago, aud that Milwaukoo can alyo fuyniul 8 Loujg with ping hoards, l GRAIN-INSPECTOR HARPER. His Official Carcor Roviewed by Ex- * Chief~€lerk Smith, The Public Money Said fo Have Beer Employed for Private Uses. A New Set of Books Written Up + to Hide the Transaction, Falso' Returns Made to tho Railroad Commissioners, Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, BrrivarieLp, I, Fob, 17.—Tho State Journal will publish the following letter to-morrow morning " OnoAo, Iit,, Fob, 10, To the Editor of tha llinofs Stute Journal: Bin: For soveral doys past thoro havo boen articles appoaring in tho daily press of this city (Ohicago) cone cerning tho condition of tho alfairs of tho offica of tho Ohlof Grain Inspector of this city, W, IT, 1iarpor, As thoso articloa appear undor tho ionding of Bpringfield corresnondonco, T desire to say somothing in rogacd fo thom and Task for space in oo columna of tho Journal, o orlgin of the srticlos T rafor fo was no doubt causod by n statemont publishied in » Pekin. paper,— tho Pokin L4mes, I think,—dntod tho 13th inats, do- talling tho conncotion of W, H, Iiarpor, tho Ohist In- spector, with tbo dofalcation of hls ‘Lrotior, John T, arper. "As I know nothing about tho artlelo af tie {imo, nor of any of tlio charges mado oxespt £ho ono concerning the $16,000 transaction, T paid no attention to thom, But, in view of the fact that the Oblef In- #pector permittod himmolf to bo interviewed by tho ZFost and Mafl, on iho 16th inst,, and tho furthoer fact ihat an articlo ppeara in tho Olicago Erening Jour— nal, of tho 10th inat,, that docs me great injustice, I deslro to 1€ Tight with the_publio, snd also to tatomonts mado by tho Chief Inapeo- tor in thoso articlos woro corraat, In the firat placo, tho subatanco of tho artioles sent from your ity did ot origioato from mo, mor d1d T know” snything nbout them until they ppared in print, They could hivo boon known o many In this ity (Ohiengo)) who are now and ‘niways havo boon bontile to Harpor's adminiatration, st thoy could bavo boon known to {hiem without coming from me, As to any intorviow the Chief Tnapoctor may hivo I)l..nd “"“g"a"’;"‘i,""’ ?mlgm In%( Springfield, or what oy wantod to have him do, T know nothing ; nor do know sny of the Pokin dintillors, B aed0T As regards tho charges mado sgainst iim of dealing in grain, thoy aro truo, or clso ho has mado. falrs statements {0 me, Up'to the timo of tho flight of hiy brothier, J, T. Marper, o told mo substantisily all about thedo trausactions, Sinco that tme T hags Xnown somothing about thom Lot us 800 {f thero'ds not somo ovidence that ho was dealing in grafn, or {n somothing olse that caused him him to use Inrge mums of money, From the 32d of Beptember, 1873, to4he 11th of December, 1873, —abont #ovonty doys,—Lio chookod out of his oNiclal Gcconnty gnd undor bl oflclal eignature, over $17,000, 43 fol- owa ¢ Bopt, 22, 1870, Ordor of melf ; $600, Sopt. 23 1873 Ordor of solf ; 1,800, Bopt, 24, 1873, Ordor of molf § 81,850, Oct. 1, 1673, Order of J, O, Myora & Co, ; $2,000, [Tn tho intorviow in tho Post and Madl, the Olfof Tanpcior places this sum st $5,000, ond says that ho borrowed that amount nt tho Oty National Dank.] Oct, 20, 1873, Order of R. B, Thompson, Blate Benator; $1,600, Octy 20, 1673, Bamo ordor as abovo : $2,600, Oct, 2, 1870, Order of A, B. Condlt: %508 [Tn the nterviow in tho Postand Mail, Mr, Harper tays o clhiccked this amount out of the Block-Yards,] Oct, 24, 1873, Ordler of salf; $114.05, - Nov. 41879, Ordor of salf; $160, Nov, 5, 1873, Ordor of self; $i Nov. 30, 1873, Order of sol Nov, 18, 187 Nov. 19, 18 ov, 28, 187, Ordor of solf } $008.17. Nov. 20, 1873, Order of Dr.' Kmmons, $250, (Thia ‘was in connection with & grain speculntion, of which Ikunow ail about,] Dee, 1, 1873, Ordor of ralf ; $100. Dee, 6, 1873, Order of self 3 $500, Doc, 11, 1873, Order of solf ; $300, Nono of theso checks wero drawn fo pay the ex- penses of tho ofico, The checks drawn for that pur- Tosp aro not given, During all these dates, the oftice Was earning over doublo the smount of the expeuses, from tho fact that the rate for inspection had been ralsod at the request of the Ohfof Iuspector, and, consequently, thoro was no reason why any of these amounta should have been for borrowed. monoy for offictal use. 'Tho conditlon of tho office Ainancially, during thia time may bo known from thio following & The otficial cash account of tho Chief Grain Inspector shows that there should bave been, but wan not, 8 balauco of publio monoy on hand Hopt, 30, 1873, of 58,303.'11; lance for Oct. 31, 1873, $13,618,00 ; balance ;;; mvi l.w, 1873, $20,012.79; "balance for Doc, 31, 1873, At tlio dntes above given theso amounta were not on Daud ot in bank, nud yet BIr. Harper, over his official signnturo, ertifce that the accounts dre truo and cor- Toct., Whother thoy woro true and corroct loave to tliosa whoso duty{t 18 to judge. Lot us procced to se0 whothor Mr., Hurper coneldorsd il thes transnco tions official, Thie $15,000 transaction, which Le saya in Disintorview was for his brother, Johu T, Harpor/and all tho otliers above reforrod to were carried into tho offlelal records of his offico, But, becoming alarnicd, for what reason I don't knovw, Lie pracurod in Novem: bor, ot his own expense, an ontire now et of rocords, and for wooks and weoln I was at worl, bofors and aftor businoss liours, rewrlting tho old records into tho now oncs, leaving out of the now ones ol the transnctions above referred to, The cash account fn tho old not of books aggrogates, as I now remomber it, .mn:’%as,ow, yot in'tho mow sof it aggregates only about $5,000, 3fr. Harpor aays, in closing his intorview in tho Post and Mail, that tho $5,000 draft reforred to as depoalt- edat tho Unfon National Dank, was not s draft is- suod Dby tho Pokin Bank for tux du whisky, but that It was insited by the First Nationnl Bank of* Bpringfleld, This {8 not truo. I eaw tho draft at the time, and it was aucd by tlie First National Bank of Pokin, 11l, Now, ahout my realgnation. At the timo of tho filght of hls brother,John ‘1", Harper,I tald tho Ghief Inspecior that Xwould follove him of anly ombnrrasstment ahd ro- sign. ITo told mothore was no reason why T should reaign, and I continuod along in tho offco, After T had about half completed tho rowriting of tho books, sn unpleasant occurrenco took placo between myaelf and Mr, Dean, o clork i the offico. At {his time® Ar, Harper was o1t of the city, As soon as ho roturncd. Tesigned, but Lo ngain declined o nccept it— not for the roason that Lo gives in his lntorviow, it o wero in the midst of o monthly report, But becauso X was in the midat of rowriting tho records. On Baturday, tho 14th inst,, I Iearned, not from tho Chiof Inspector, from whom' it should hiava come, that on the Monday following T ‘was to ba removed without any notice, I resigned at once, aud thus sevored my connection with thie ofiice, Al tho statomonts herln mado aro true, and will bo Dorne out to auy one who inay investigato them, Thoy aronot made public with any malicious intent, bup simply in gelf-dofonso, Vory respactfully, e E.W. BsaT, FIRES. At Prescott, Wis. 87, Pavr, Fob. 17.—A fire broke out on Satur- day night at Proacott, Wis,, in o building owned by I Field, and ocoupied by J. A, Smith as a ocory and feed storo. It eproad rapidly, and Lo storo of F'. F. Wilson and D. T, Dill, and the saloon of O, Vierling, wore all burned to the round. Smith loses 8400, O. Wilson §6,000, ill 82,000, Vierling 4,000, O. F. Wilson 500, and Field $1,000. Oneor two other buildings were slightly dnmoged. The firo ia supposed to be thie worlk of an incendiary, At Sing Sing, N. Y, Povamgeersix, N, Y., Fob. 17.—A largo fira is raging at Bing Sing. Two. blocks, including Olivo Hall, aro burned, and another block ia now in flames, En[:lunn have boon sont for to tho noighboring villages. o Bixa 81va, N, Y., Tob. 17,—The fire horo this morning broko out in Olive Hyll, and beforo it was got wndor control destroyed twonty-six placos of business, pringipally on’ Main, Bpring, and Leonard streots and Contral avenue. Mosl of the buildings woro of wood. Olive Hall was 8 now brick structuro four stories high. Two newspaper offices, thoso of tha Reglster aud the Republican, aud a number of stores and dwellings were burned, The tire originated from tho heater in Olive Hall, Lous, $115,000; insurance, $87,000, ©n the Rifle fivor. i Suecial Dispatch to The Chicago Lribune. Easr 8aomnaw, Mich., LFob, 17,.—A fire ot b o'olock _this morning, in_one of the camps of Amaga Rust, on tho Kiflo Tiver, dostroyed o barn togother with six fino horsos, hay, grain, foed, and harness, Tho firc had Fuinodnuc Leadwny, when discovered, that but lttlo was saved, Five Lliorsos wore taken from tho burning structure, 'ho horses burned wore valunble ones, worth from 160 to $250 each. The barn was a tompo- rary structure, for camp Furpnsos. Tha loss is not statod, but is probably in tho® neighborhood of §2,000, At Lagrange, Ind. tal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, L e gy o toan Houuo, tho largost hotel hore, was complotely destroyed lanb night D tive flue, ‘The loss 1s £6,000; suranco on the house and furniture, £4,200, Aost of tho fur- niture was saved. The Burned P ochnicon, at Lone don, " From the New York Sun, Feb, 19, The Royal Pantechunicon Compauy was organ= ized In 1808, and wad similar to our Seourity and Trust Companios, Tho bullding Itsolt was an imposing blook, elght stories high, lramlns Hyde Park, and {n the immediate neighborhoor of tho palutlnl residoncos of Daron Iothsobild, tho Duko of Wolliugton, Bix Robert Pecl, and .advancing money on t1 fire, caused by o defoo- | othera, Tha front walls wora of granite, olae finutly soulptured. Tho building. coet £1,000,« 00. “Tho basomont, which waa linod with iron, waa oarofully guarded by watchmon ; whils each safo had an iron fil‘Allng bofora it. ' Iora wora laoked up tho valusblo silvor wars of the old familios of England, who raral usod it oxcopt on stato occaslons, Thomo pricoloss collaotions wora carofully numbored, the Company, glving bonds for thalr 6afo keoping, and-cuargleg. scc cording to the value of tha proporty, The firat floor was nlnngnflfimn{ art-gallory, In which woro deposited tho rarost plotures o the Turner, Roynolds, aud other gallories, Pore sous going out of town also loft thamr privata .collestions of plotures horo for safo-koaplng. Bosldos theso thoro wero glaus cnsca cmur iowclry and valuabla collections Admitéanco to the Panteolinicon coutd boobtainad only from a dopositor or a Director. In fha rear of tho first floor woro colioctions of oquipas 808, moatly of foreign mbako, which woro cone sidered 5o costly that the ownors foared to trust thom on their “own premisos. On tho floors above, bosiden soveral art gflloflnu and marblos, wero andless colloations of contly furnituro, Tt quiring conatant caro and attention'to keep in order, Tho Pantoohnicon was also used for the eafo-keoping of landed titlos, mortgages, and other valuablo papors, the Company sometimos 0 colintorals deposited. Lvory day during the London sonson rows of catringos could bo soon stauding in front of tho building while thoir ccoupants’Wore viowing the colloctions insido, It was said that tho young aristocrnoy who visited tho Pantechnicon” wore often shooked to find tlat moro shopkeepory Posteaged mora woalth than thomaolves. The Company owned s large number of vana and carts, and omployed noarly s thousand per- sous. It also owned fts own railroad oars, which oro 60 constructod that thoy could bo run on toa large six-horao truck, thus doing away with the necossity of unpacking. 5 The Company was generally employed by fam- ilios to move thoir household goods in all parts of the country, It hnd branch offices ir ] the Ex;mc(];n‘lhcl%g‘thgf Gm&tl]]rlt‘nm. The destruc- n of the ing will Involve heavy los rare family pictures and plate, T oReR o, ——— THE FARMERS, —_— Mecting of the Ohio Stnto Grange—-g00 % A G;n:ncl in Ohio, RNIA, 0., TFob. 17.—Tho Stato Grange of Olio mot horo to-day, with 555 delogates,—all Mastors of Granges. Worthy Master 8, H, Ellis prosided. Ono hundred and ity visiting mem- bors woro prosont, Thia reprosents all but about forty-fivo Granges in tha Btate, and is thy firet annual maeting of tho Ohio Stath Grange. The forenoon was spent oxamining ecrodons tials ailil“ nppm:tn;ln tclflmnéxmmm. In the foroe noon tho roports of the Secreta: Mastor worcpresd. ¥l Worny A motion to ask tho railronds for HALF-FARE ARRANGEMENTS wnl: mnfio mzll im]ll‘gnmfly tablod, motion to make an organ of cortain papors mot the same m.u.g S 'ho Secrotary reported that 555 of THE 000 GRANGES 1N omro had boon organized sineo last April, A committeo was appointed to roport on the mutual fire insurance for farm property. B A motion to mako tho mecting open was votSd own, Tho maoting to-night is dovoted to confo the fifth degreo on 600 Masters, only about %?E tho Btato having recoivod thot dogree, Thomen aro enthusiastic, and work with rapidity and with harmony. filled with of coins, Farmers® Meoting nt Earlville. EABLVILLE, Teb, 14, 1874, Lo the Editor of The Chicago Tribune s Brn: Alargo farmers’ meoting was bold here to-day. George Wirick, of Dokalb County, wag called "to proside, and ,Eum‘f;e R. Richardson olectod Secrotary, A Committes of five was chosen to proparo_resolutions : A, J. Grovor, E. R. Wiclk, William R. Mann, Norman H, Powors, and Thomas Eagor. L, R. Wicln, of Moridan, madoa short addross on the importanca of perfocting the farmora?® organizations. - Ho enid that+tho Granges pro- posod to_iguore politics and religion. For hig part, he kiow of but little ontsido of politios and religion, in tho brond sonse of thoso great words, thnt was worth anything to tho world, Daniol Moshor enid that the only way to keop lhfi ‘Gnngnu together is to ignore politics and roligion, A gontlemau ropliod tho Bloomington Conyen~ tion resolved ngainst politics, but resolved on noarly all of tho political ishues of tho day, nevortholess; and they might disolaim never 50 camostly, yob politica ato’ iuovitablo. - Nothing can be dono in a Republio withont politica, A, 7. Grover- GEANOON sEastor, . J, Grover, Chairman of tho Committee Resolutions, reported tho following: . Resolved, That it is tho plain duty of tho of t‘hcn?t;)\n‘m nnforcnfflm l-ll‘lW! aj o and” that, in case of continued and concerted disos bodienca on their part, thoy ar to ba treated pmdd;:ly sa all other organizod combinations_to resfat tho laws, Resolued, That thero oxists in {his Stat an organe ized, concericd body of railroad-owners and thepa, gers, whoso object fa ‘to dlsregard tho Lawa regulating ralroad tarife, and to maintain such organizod violas ton of the laws ; therofore, Jtesolved, That it is tho duty of the Governor to {ssua his proclamation calling upon this hody of lawlees por~ sons toimmediately conform to tho Iaws of the State; and, in cago of refusal ‘on their to use auch means aa ko would In other casea of organizod oppoie ton to law and order, such a8 suita and tho like, Atesolved, That wo, tho fariaers of LaSailo County, il stand by the Governor in such measuros aa mey noceasary to socure witch obsorvance of law on il part of the raflroads, and we beliovo that soven-tonthg of the votors of thia State will do tho pame, Jtesolved, That monoy consists, not in tho ‘material of which it {s made, but in the stamp of the sovors suthority which alono has constitutional power to fge suelt: that gold and silver aro not monoy, but com. ‘moditfos Iike otlior commoditics, without tho. Governn ment stamp making them money ; that this stamp. on Paper {o au casentislly monoy as on gold und silves, tesoived, Tlunt wo nro in favor of ‘& paper-currency 1asued by {io 6overolgn suthiority, which Alall bo-ss freoto ono as to anothor, -and I auch quantitios o sy bo nocessury for tha wants of tho people; which Aball be convertiblo into low-intereat bonds, and vico ‘voras, at the option of the holder, dtesolved, That tho National Banking system is so construotad as to placo » monopoly of the currency in tlio hande of a fow large capitallsts ; that 1 taxes tha people for tho curroncy issued to theso capitatista ; and that, in many otbor features, it {5 most unjust’ and imquitous, and should be abolished, = Hesolved, That the Agricultural Fair-Ground Assoe clation at Ottaws, in aking the $3,000 from tho County Treasury, did 60 without tho shadow of law or cone stitution ; and thatit wae a shamoless act of robbery of the taxpayers of the county ; and that wo call upon sald soclety to pay tho money back into the Treasu: without delay ; and that, until the money is returned, wa will not patroniza said Associstion, hud will use avery propor offort to induco others to' givo 1t *a tere rible lottiug alono,” Jtesolved, Thut wo aro favorably impressed with Dr, Adalr’s plan of a Home Logislature, and bellevo that thero must bo somo plan adopted to dostroy the lobby und mocure bonest legislation, or Republican Governe mont, liko other syatoma of government, will prove s ailure, 4 ll(nolved, That wo have little faith in eithér of the old parties, and are dotormined to know no party but opposition’ to Monopoly ; and that wo will work and voto hereafter heart{ly and earncstly with all persons and auy party . which will earnestly oppose and surely crush Slonopoly, raiiroad, bank, tarift, und other come Dinstfons of capltalista wilich oppress fabor, William Worsoly, of ‘I'riumph, made an elo- quent specch in favor of & greenback currency, aud ngainst spocie-rosumption. I, R, Wicks also spoko in favor of a greone back curronoy. < * Prof. Paylor sustained tho resolutions, and apoko ia favor of the Farmors® Movement, A, J. Grovor roviewed tho bankingsystom, and showed that it was n monopoly from boginning Erecativa Inst tho railronds 3 to nn]d, tn favor of tho capitalist aud agaiuat the aaplo. i i Apgnnd denl of discussion was hu. " 10 regos lution indorsing Adair's plan for a'ii>.ne Logige lature, and tho resolution was finally adopted unanimousty. This meoting was a vory successful and en« thusiastio ono, and must have an_ Important ine fluonco on public sontinent horeabouts, Tho Ottawa Republican and othor partisan aboets in this county aro vory unhappy over tho prosent condition of politios. R ¢ - LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Konnicotiws, The County of D\Vnyne. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Emmanm.n‘ 1l1,, Yeb, 17.—Tho cago of Kon- nicott v, tho County of \Vnéno came up again for henring In the United Btates Court to-dey. The gonoral foaturos of tho case aro as follows ; In 1855 tho Logislature chartored tho Mt. Vor- non Nailrond Company to run from Mt. Vernon westerly to the lllinols Central Railropd, In 1859 tho County of Wayno gavo a mortgago on 100,000 acres of swamp-lands to securo 300,000 of Liobondy isaucd by the Mk, Varnon Railvond Company, This euit is brought by owners of the bond to foreclosa the mortgago. On the former trinl in this Court, tho bill wau dismissod, on the round that the County of Wayne hadno power o make tho mortgn((}vo. Tho ¢asae wns nppoalod- and tho Bupreme Uourt of tho.United Btntca rovorsed and romanded it. -Now testimony waa adducod in tho bouring to-day by both sidos, bug tho court AW *110 ronkon to “ohange its formoy doolslon, but reforrd tho caso to fire Magtor tq tako; turthor: tostimony boefore a-tinal ‘doorep. Tu tho moeantimo, parctics holding any of tho bonds aro mnotified to appear and prove the samo, Tho roand was abandoned in 1861, and little or nothing wag ever ronlized on the bonds, 3‘11? :imm willuo doubt adhove {0 lte formes cclvion,