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- ) VISBISUAIR Y e ———— T OTYDOT X 23, “TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TENMA OF GUIACRIPTION (PAYANLE 13 ABYANCE] Dautiy, by mall,.... $12.00 | Sund el Wodkdten B0 fons Partaor n yoarat tho samo rata, o pravont dolay and mistakos, bo suro and giso Do Off conddross In ful, including Stato and County, Remlttances moy bo mado oithor by dratt, oxprass, Post Ofica ordor, or 1n regiatorad lottors, at our rlsk. TERMA TO CITY BUBSCIHNIE, Tially, dollvorod, Sunday osceptod, 2 conte por wocks Dally, dollvered, Sunday fucludod, 10 conts por wosk. Addross ‘TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madison aud Doatbo Uhlcago, 1L, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MQOLEY'S MUEATRE-Taniolpl stroot, bolwosn Clark und LaSalto, ** Disorcol MVICKER'S TIEATRE-Madlson atroot, betwons ik, pod” State,” Eogagomont of fdvin 1ot | Tho Modlson Journal makes s violont alfack (ACADENY O MUSIG_tiaa srso botwoon Ma a0 Mlanroe, Knigararhiats o Ojivor Dowg fpron 1 Bonoint o 6 'Lt Grnves. oveniugs o Dy Altey Stelny. ADELPII THEATRE-Cornor of Wabash avonu and Cougress atreot, Varloty ontartatamont, GLOBE THEATRE- Desplalnes Lyop and Wastington, Enggeiont of Josoph 1. Lintior. ** Fritz, Our Cous rian, MYERS' OPERA-IOUSE Dearboru and Stato.” Avlington, Minatrols., Miustraisy ‘and gomioalit Ulusion, " ** Our Groat Cily. NGSBUILY MUSIO HATT, i aid Rako. Lot Caricaturos, " UNION PARK Leetura by Alaj. Powoil, GREGATIONAT, tho Exploror of the Calnrado, e The @hicagy Toibune, Monday Morning, Fobruary 23, 1874, atreat, otwoon Mad- o tecot,botwoon Cotton, and Komblo's Cosworamical Olark streot, botweon ¥ Thonua Nest.’ Subjoats CIURCII-- 03 por gallon. - Flour was dull without chango I prices, Whont was netive and firmer, No, 2 closing nt $110%@1.20, o sollor Marehy at 0 | 812014, Corn was in good domand and fiem nt " 2@ {eadvanco, No. 3 olosing at 68£o eash, and N B8I4@080¢0 sollor March, Onts woro dull but fm, clogiig at 42}(@43%0 cnsl), oud 495@18%0 oollor April. Tyo was wantod and flrm ab 833@80% for rogular. Dar- Toy was dull and 3@Go lowor, No, 4 closing nom- funl b BLI0@L7Z and No. 3 at @165 @L60, Lo hogs woro in good do- mand ab stondy pricos. Snlen at §5.00@6.85 for common to cholee, Tho eattlo aud shoop matkols woro dull aud unchangod. " A WISCONSIN RUBEUD, on Govornor Taylor, of Wisconsin, for grantiug o cortificato showing that tho Wisconsin Contral Tailrond Company had completod o certain o | buzbor of milos of railway in o cortatn mannor, wheroupon it fs supposed that tho Iutorior Do~ partmont at Washington will iwsuo to emd " | Company patonts for tho nmount of land heroto- foro granted corrosponding to the numbor of miles Luilt. Tho Journal maintains thnt, ulthough the rond has boon built in manuor and form as cortifled by tho Govornor, aad althongh tho lnw oxprossly requiron bim to cortify to ovory section uf twonty miles of any portion of tho voud g0 comploted, still ko ought to Lavo withhold hig signature beeauso tho rond was not commoncod at Portago City. Tho Wiscon- ol Contral Company is » cousolidation of two old companios,—tho Winnobago & Supo- tlor and tho Portago & Suporlor,—ono of which wan roquired to commenco at Doty's Tsland and t Congroas s not likoly to do anything nt this sosslon for tho Fort St Philip Canal, which hins boen shown by englucors tobo & practicsblo scheme for opening the mouth of tho Mississippl pormnnontly to ocoan stoamors. Its cost wos atated by them to be nok loss than £10,000,000. Tho Sub-Committeo of tho Houso Commit- teo on Raflroads and Canals hns reportod against it advorsely becauso, for lack of timo, uo dotatlod report concorning it hns boen mado Ly the engincers. Tho Mikgouri Grangors on Saturday potwtoned Congress to do somothing to Improve the navigation of tho Mississippi, ns it is in this way the imporfections and oxtorlions of the railroads might bo ot —ere Ono oxplauntion, which camo from a rathor questionablo source, of tho reason for the sum- wary dissolution of Pariiamont was that Glud- stono was afraid ho might loso bis soat from Qreanwich, and thus presout the anomnly of & First Lord of tho froasury wonblo to voto on a division. Now comos tho statomont that among tho other results of tho coup d'elat will bo Gladstono's _ withdrawal from Parlismentary leadership. The ox-Promier's health las suf- forod u good deal latoly from his over-work, and i that Lo thio causo of his decision, it is unau- sworablo. But, if it bo moro political disep- pointmont or chugrin, his Liboral cohorts rpy feol it to bo Lardly fair troatment to loavo thom te tlud for themselves a now leador to retriovo a dofeat which ho cortainly precipitatad. — In order to cover tho cstimated doficiency of £700,000 iu tho Postoflico Department this year, sho Sonato Appropriation Committeo have do- ided to recommend tho abolition of the Postal- @8 on railroads, and of the froo delivery of ‘otters in cities. No reason Is givon for tho first tocommondation; tho second i rged op fho rround that it involves an exponso borno by sl tho taxpayors of tho conutry for tho bonofit of the inhnbitants of 4 fow largo cities, Thoso sitieens might rotort that tho samo argument Fould logieally lead to the abolition of uarly all o prominent post-ofices, for it s only {ho motropolitan oftices that aro self-supporting, Howoror, the fact that the oxigoncics of tho Dopartment aro such as to have mado it possible io contemplato tho abolition of theso two gront public convenioncos is respoctfully commended i tho consideration of Congrossmien who pro- 2020t0 restoro the franking privilogo. "o Lako-Front question is discussed in our solumns this moruing by Mr. G, W. Millor ana Mr. M. . Laley. M. Sfillor contrasts tho sum of £800,000, now offered by the railroads for tho property, with tue valuo it will havo when tho Bazbor is finished, which ho caleulutes will not enid " wnod lim, and hore is tho proof of it. Wo aro tho othior nt Portago City, the two uniting ot Stovens Pointand running thonco to Lako Su- porior. Tho Wisconsin Contral commoucad at Doty's Island and built thelr road to Stoyens Point, and thouco 100 milen in tho diraotion of Dayflold, on tho designated routo, Gov. Wash- burn rofused to cortify tho fact of such come plotion becnuso tho seetion Lotweon Portage and Stovens Point hnd not yot beon complolod, Tho Company having exponded $1,800,000 of thoir own monoy, and having negotiated tholr bonds in_Gormany for a furthor sum supposod to bo suflicient to comploto tho rand, woro brought to & standstill by tlio failuro to got tho cortificato, the German bankors rofusing to com.. plolo tho purclingo of bonds or to pry mny woro monoy whils any doubt rosted an tho land-grant. Mennwhilo, tho intarrsgt no. eount for bouds alrondy wold was cating; rapialy wto ho Company's assols. Tho partics mtgr. eetod fu tho building of thoStovons Point brancls contonded that the Company woro rich onougly to coustruct thnt 1o without, provicusly obiain. ing tho cortifiento for tho oo budred miles of completed rond, Tho Company assortod that, without this socurity, alroady cammed, thoy could taiso no more monoy, aud could 1ot go on with their work, Zittoya wero in Uhis position whon Gov. Taglor woliited tho apinion of tho Attornoy-Geueral, tho ou, A. Seott Sloun, a8 o bis duty in tho promises. M. Sloan gave an opinion in wriing, at considerablo longth, to tho offect tual the Governor had o ministorial and not a judicial ek to porfom; that Lo was wop g quired or oxpocted to Luow whetyer the road ought to hove been commygncod 84 Portago City or not; that tho ouly thiug ho was required to certify was. tue nak o fak that S0 many miles of tond bad been Lyt on the dosignated route, Thera is 10 1. otongo that tho Gevarnor's corlifleate 008 1y yiato tho truth, "he wholo cage aganyL uw * .8 that To rofused to 1180 bfg ofice,uud bla poas jon g 5 ey, i isro- gord of the plalu xoquir oo of 1y, to compol o Compans 0 00 w nghine Shioh, thoyallage, the4uiineo 9% ' iq cortifeato proveuts thom from doing. Xt o Govornor saya that tho ro. muaindor of £, 1o 13 craut. (uot yo cortified) is amplo I8 8 0ung 4o geours tho parformance, on tho Pt of tho. Compan, of thoir dutios in Y80St OF tho " portago & Steveus Point lino, L1 vory ¢ pvigout that all tho mortifiation mod ehagrin oonsoquant upon tho last State eleetion Iy g ylogeomed forth fn tho Madison Joural ; yugiolo, In fact, tho thing is much overdo g Govormor is siyled a “ Guber- 1Bt | Grangor.” ‘Tho railway monopolios uro .tohovo combed tho boy-sead out of his * dr. Tho Jowrnal always know that {hoy Do less than $15,000,000. In nddition, ho bo- lieves that at o not distant day tho neces fies of 1ho growing commorco of - sity will require tho romoval of all railroad {- an tho lake shore as far south ns Pavk ye discountenances the impolicy of grantin’ :7. and wammoth corporations additional & ' thes® foothold.” ¥Ix. “Zuloy objeots to solling tho ¢ door yard,” boeauao it i in need would profer that fundsbo raiscd does not think tho raironds threo blocks in question, | thom a8 & part of thoir sl of tho outer harbor, & miles of lake-front, an” af Chicago, o val 20,000,000, Among tho se pulpits yeatere this mornine on the rer succossor interest probu g aby's “front of monoy, and by taxation, Ho care much for the ut that thoy want somo Lo get poscenion 40 acerations of threo 4 control tho commerca e tho first two gifts ot m— smony proached from Chicago «ay, und roportad in Tre Trimuxe: % that by tho Rov. H. W. Stocking .ent Wisconsin Council to chooso o to Biuhiop Armitage will bo rond with 89 it -adds to the general popular disep- «on of it:s shocking sconcs, {ho moasured - doliberatey gondomnation of an Episcopnl © .ergyman. Alr. Stocking choso for bis toxt thoso appropu:intes words of St. Paul's, “ For wo a0 mudo u wpeictaclo unto tho world, aud uuto angols, and wnto men.” A sistor diocoso, thatof Wisconsin, , the revorend sionkor said, had been furnishing ¢ # n spectacle unto tho world,” Tho full uowspuy yor roports of tho Council have ando it impowshl ilo to ignoro its lamentablo pro- :codings, which havo *sent tho crimson of thamo to tho cf 100k of tho churchman all aver tho country.” ' Pho opposition to Dr. DoKoven is #nid to havo ¢ mptied privato lifo of its seorats, and the Council to havo spout itwclt in sconos of disorder that ¢ haustod tho arts of tho politi- ciun. M. Sitoc' <iug says with goutlo complain- ing, that hig wo rl, and that of overy othor clor- Fyman i tho I ind, will bo made hardor by this " gpectasio The Chicago produco markots woro gonorally firin on Saturds 3v, bug with littlo busiucss dono oscopt in wheut. und cwrn, Mess pork was dull but firm and 10xG27.56 per brl higher, closing at S1L05@1410 ca s, and S1440@14.42%¢ vollor April, Lard was, dull but 2)@0Go per 100 lba higlicr, closiug o L 98.77)¢@8.85 cash, and 68,073 @Y.00 keller Ap ril. Mants woro quito activo but uuhodo easlor, nt G{@5}(0 for shoulders; T30 for short 1ibs;; 74@T3o for short cloar, nd 95@10%0 for: swoot plokled hams, Drossod hogs dull ard 100 lower, at $0.00@0.125¢ for cbolos, Higlwin ea woro quiet nnd steady ab e ———— informed that mouopoly has mow dono its mastorplece, oud that tho pooplo aro bonnd Dhand aud foob; also that whirlwind has been unloosod. -Chis whirlwind is 6nid to bo florcost fn “lho thickly-sottled countics ubout Oshkosh, Fond du Lae, Mani- towoe, Shoboygan, Ripon, Berlin, Moutallo, Por- tago, and Dladison.” It theso thiokly-sottled countics avo in tho stalo of rotation roprosentod by tho Journal, thoy uro vory casily unbalancod, To mossago of tho Governor I o very straight- forward, logi uhould bo vond by tho citizens of Wirconsiu bo- foro joluiog in the whirl to which thoy aro #o aseiduonsly invited. THE REDISTRIBUTION OF THE CURRENCY, r, Thurman, us our Wshington correspond- ont stelegraphicd us o fow daya since, said a vory wiso thing, when ho gavo oxpression to tho opinion that the Senato had not tho ability u5 3 body tooriginats or carry out successfully « financial measure that would bo suitublo to tho wauts of tho conntry, This uttoranco of Mr, Thunnan contains a vaet doal of flnancial wis- dom. Xt ls, indceod, ono of tho soundest things thot has boon said in Congrosa on tho curranoy question. But, like nll the othor good thivgs sald fu tho ssmo placo on tho sumo matter by mon liko Shor- man and Schurz, wo aro vory much afraid it will bo disrogarded by inpircd financiera such a8 Logan und Forry, Wo must boliovo that it lins beou isregnrded, luco it i still proposed to tako $25,000,000 from Now England aud givo ittotho Wost and Houth, This is, indeod, n most oxtraordinary proposition, Lot us examino for an iustant what it means, and what amount of information it «upposca ou tho part of its origiuntors aud advocates. It nssumos tlnt thoso gentlomon know iutuitivoly—intuitivo- Iy, wo eay, for no committoo Lns boon ap- pointed to Investizato tho mattor—thiat tho Now England States havo too much eurroncy; that, thorofaro, (hoy can dsponss with n acrtain amount ; furthor, that tho Southorn States oo really doficiont in ourconoy, and that it I In ourrency, and not in tho means of obteluing It, that thoy aro doflclant, Dut those learnod gentlomon know moro thun this, Thoy kmow that the Now England States havo pro- cluely §26,000,000, not $24,999,900 nor $23,000,- 001 too much, but oxaotly §26,000,0001 Aud by an arithmotio equally oxtraordinasy, uuluows to othier mortuls aud nevor dreamt of by political ccunomiety, thoy lave calowlated that tho , county whoro published. losa nor ono dollar mora | Wo have not yot, howover, soundod L depths tho promolers of thla oxtraordinary moss- wro. Now Englnd ls not n goomotrioal polnt Laving position only, without langth or broadths. Tt covers somo 05,000 square miles. Tho 826,000,000 to bo taken from Now Eugland muat, of courso, bo taken from some particular placo or placos ; and thoso modorn Bolons oan put tholr flugors on tho vory places! Thoy luiow ovory spot In Now England whoro thoro fa adollar that can bo spared; how many eacl littlo placo oan dispouso with 5 tho quotn of oach county aud town; tho proportion in which Boston and Tortland should contrlbuto! And thoy ko, too, liow they are gotg to distrlbuto this 25,000,000 over tho South and Wost, Low much ench Btato, how much cnch county, how much onch towa should rocolvo of it—kuow it, to s dollar; porhinps to the fraction of a dollar ! Now, as monoy i uscd only £o offest a cortain olags of oxclinges, and na tho amonut nodod in Now Eugland, In th South and Wost re- spectivoly, doponds on the numbor of oxchianges tobo mado by its moansin theso sovoral soc- tons of tho country, our financiors must havo cateulated tho numbor of oxebangon that ara to bo mado fn each. Thoy must have ostimated the domand for monoy in New Eugland, in the Wost, nd tho South, aud found tho wupply from tho Easl too gront by $25,000,000, in tho Wast and South too small by the samo amount, And, 49 tho domand for money doponds also on tho stato of erodit in any placo, thoy must know how the morchants of cach seotion stand. When tho terma of thoso gontlomen oxpiro we rocommend thom to forma commorelal agency. Thoir in- formation I8 ns good ns capital. It Congross is compotont to eny whoro thero is too much monoy and whoro oo littlo ; to tako it away from ono placo and, wond it to the othor ; may it not gomo day discsovor that Iinois Lns too much currency? May it mot discovor that ook County hns tao much 7 May it not discover that Ohifeago b, too much? Mr. Thurman scoms to think thiat Congross hos not tho menns of osti- medin’s ho domand or supply of currency in avy vart, of iho United States, and thot, if 1t bad, it ©uld not remedy the ovile eansed by too much in ono place or too littlo in anothor. Wo ara inclined o agreo with Mr. Thurman, DEADHEADING ON THE POST-OFFICE. Tho lnut Congross, dospito its mauy erimes, Tiad tho deconcy to abolish tho franking privie logo with its attondant abusos and oxerosconcos. Among tho lntter wero tho right of nowspapor DPublishors to receiv all othor publications throngh tho mails freo of postago and o right of nowspapors to circulate through the mails froo of postago within tho Tho Postmastor-on- eral as repeatedly pointed out, nnd overy nowu- apor-publishor knows, tho oxtont to which tho froe-oxchango systom was sbused by fraudulent ahioots technically callod nowspapors, Tho gon- tlomen down in Cougress who are itching to have tho franking privilego restored aro very ol- oquant over tho great hardships oxperienced by tho :nowspapors becauso of tho payment of pos- tage ou exchanges, aud of tho necossity of payring postago on papors doliverad through the mails within tho county, Even Speakor Dlaino, au old nowspaver man, was weak enough, in. lotter that was published, to tonder «his gympathy to tho nowepapers that had suffored €0 eadly. Wo trust that Congross will not make the cago of tho nowapapors tho occasion for ro- storing tho froe-postage business in auy form or shapo whatovor. "Tlio easo of sending nowspapers frao of post- ago to subscribors rosiding within the county ia o vory small affaiz at best. It can hardly apply to any daily puper, and to weokly papars only to a vory limitod oxtout. Subscribors to daily papors do not, when thoy can avold it, ugo the mails ot all. Thoy profer recoiviug by tho moro oxpeditious modo of oxpross. Wo do not know liow tho case may bo in New England and Ponn- sylvanis, but out West tho subseriber to newe- paper, daily or weokly, who would, not pay the postage on his nowspapor would mot take tho thing at all. Wo vonturo to say that, iuall Ilinols, tho avorage loss of subseribors to the daily and weckly nowspapers caused by tho roquirement to pay postage will not oxcoed sn avernge of one subseriberto cach paper, and nowspapor-publishors in this country would scorn to print & paper which tho subscrityer would refuso to take if o bad to pay postage thoreon, Newspupors that dopond for sub- soribors upon beiug delivored froo of ‘postags through tho mails eanuot live in Ilinoia, post- ngo or uo postuge, Why should Conigross voto half w miltion of dollars & year to Laul such Dapors from town to town, and to pay mon for dolivering thom to subscribers *who would not bovo thom othorwise? Itisn promium ofored to dullucss. Tho livo nowspnpers of tho West wane no such md, aud objeck to the diserimina- tlon againgt them. Tho mattor of exchanges is gronsly exaggoratod, Tho caso of e Cuzcago LunoE s that porlinps of ovory Inrgo city pu- por in tho country. Wado not want any ox- chungo from cily or countty, daily or wookly, that s mob worth to us, in addition o tho oxchange, (ho postago we pay thorcon. Wo rocoiva mow about tho samo numbor of oxchanges that wo did bee foro tho chango of the law, and pay the postage ou thom ull ovory mouth, Our pastago bill on oxelinngou will avorago for tho yoar about 9300, and, wo supposo, all tho clty pupers pay in like propertion. Wo Liave novor had a caso whore ‘Tug TnusE, ent in oxchango, has beon ro- tnrnod bocauso tho postage Liad to bo paid on it. Wo know of no ronsen “why & newspaper should roceivo mattor through tho mail froo of postago, aud thoro can bo no good apology for tho abuso, T favt Is, tho last Congross did not complota the-job it bogan, Tt latt tho grentest-abuso uu- touchod, Itshould havo mado the propaymont of all postago on printed mattor compulsdry, and, hed this beon dono, tho rato of posiago comd Lovo boon reduced G0 por cent, uud would havo yiclded a grost incronss of rovonuo, Wo aro ok, wo supposo, much out tho way In saying that for ono-half of tho print- ed mottor that goos into tho mails and is trans- ported tho Clovernment nover gots any revonuo atall. Thore aro tons of matter dally ssnt by mall, doposlted frot what ara technically officas of publioation, addvousod to poraous in ll pacta of tho country (all of which I bandlod on an ay- orago by at loust blx persons), on which not ono- tanth of tho postuga duo i ovor collectod, It s that thono Intter Statesndo not need ono dollar of the finnnclul nd statisticnl Luowlodgo of Hon, not ovor 2 por cant of tho postago thoreon I ovor collactod, ho truio roform shiould bo to mako tho pra- Payment of pontngo on printed mattor compul- uory. Nothivg printed should bo admitted to tho mails on which tho postago i not pald, and, onco in tho malls, thoro would bo no postago to col- leot, and no nccount to bo kapt. Nowthio Post- mastor hns to koop a postage account with overy man in his town who rocotves a publiontion, of anyldnd. ¢ tho postagoon thoso publications woro propaid, this wholo syatom of bookkeuping wwould bo endod. Publishors would then pryy tho Postago on all thoy dosirad to sond by mail; in- slead of an nccouut with oah of 20,000 subs orib- ora recolving o newspapor by mail, the post-offic would hinvo but ono account ; fnstond of co lloot- Ing postago rom 20,000 porson, it would ¢ olioct tho wholo from ono man, not g0 ‘much on each Papor, but on 50 many tons of printed mattor do- Posited in tho oflico. ~ Now tho ofiico xocelves Postago on ono-third or onc-balf tho printed mattor gont through tho motls; thon it would recolyo tho ontiro postuge, and, if tho smount mofled woro roduced, tho sum mow pald for transportation of that mattor om which 1o postago I collootedwould be saved. ‘Tho soliomo to ro-ostablish tho cloodb.end eya- tom of mails includes tho free distribution of Boods. This Is anothor sonsoloss abuso. Thero 18 not a farmer or Lortloulturlst in tho country who is not willing to pay postago or1 any packago of Booda worth recelving atall. If tho soods aro not worth tho postage, then thoy are not of o kind that ought to bo distributed. Woboliovotho greatostauccoss thot tho Agricultiweal Dopartmont At Washington hos accomplishod by distributing soeda s to introduco in various partsof - the coun- ry many now variotios of herdy and resistant woods. Somo fow oditors in Michigan recontly momorialized Congross to restoro thwa dead- ot postage syatom for nowapapors, and also for soeds. On this point tho Dotrolt Tribu.ne cove orod » larga olass whon it 1aado this sugge tion : X£ hifn nctlon {s to b taken, wo trust an amou dment ‘Will. provail atrikiug out seede. If that provislor . ia re- tained, tho most vencrable specimen of tho article ¥ presides over tho destinia of tho Hastinga L ‘anner Will bo travallug frea all over tho country from 1 aiuo toexicol —————— REDFIELD ON RAILWAYS, “I1," snys Mr. Isnac F. Redfield, af Doston,. in tho Jauuary numbor of the American Law Reg- dster, “ho railways uro allowed to purauo ¢ ho unrestralued conrso now ontored upon by thova, tho expenscs of transportation will ultimatel v absorball tho proflts of inter-State trado and' manu faokuro,” This is a startling assortion, comiu g 08 it does from ono whose {familiarity with tho workiug of our railway system is un- questioned sinco thero i scarcoly what lawyors calia “railrond case" tho facts of which ho is. not feimiliar with, having mado Railway Law & spocia’ (ty, a8 Lo says himsolf, for “ almost tho verlod of the lifa of & gonaration,” and having; wriltou a standard work on tho subject. Yot, Mr. Ri1dtiold, with all his opportunitios to form a carzeot judgment in tho promisos, puts this ro- wult down s “ontirely cortain.” Ho says, morcover, thet rallvays nro ontiroly boyond all helshy compotition ; that whatever compati- tion thens is smorg them contros in a few im- portaut poiuts, to which froights and fares are morely nominal; that the profits lost at thoso Points to tho ronds aro assossod upon way-trans- partaticn, whoro thorois no compotition. He agrees with tho Wesiminster Review that tho talk about thio compotition of railways is * loaso, inconwistent verbiago, and irvational esnt,” and asgerbs that thore avo facts relating to tho man- agomont ¢ railroads, nnd the charging of faro and froigl 1t by thom, which, if properly collectod and proso nted, would ** set the wholo country in 8 blazo.” He montions oo inatance iu Now En- gland, kn own to himself, whore the chargey for transport. ation ** axo made, by some dovico, to double th o advertisod rutes, and thus rendor tho products valuoloss to the consumor ns woll 88 to tho producor” Io smys that tho ratos aro somotimos fourfold tho charge for trameportation of tho samo ios ton or evon twonty times as far, in tho same dire:tion and ovor the samo lincs, sud that the underchargo inono instance covers tho overchargo in tho othor, Theso words ate takon almost verbatin: fr om Mr. Redileld's articlo ; and wo foal very certaire that tho former Chiof-Tus- ticoof tho Suprom o Court of Vormont did not pen thom to oxcite tho ill-will of $ho community againet railway co rporations, but to call atten- tion toa great and growing ovil, andshow the nocossity of some :uppliauco to romedy it. Dut to what oxteut may-tho Stato Logislaturo or Con- gresd uterfero fu tho mattor? Mr. Redfiold is supposed to know tomo littlo law, and wa willlot him avswor, ‘ All railwoys mey* bo divided into two olnesos ¢ 1. Blato railways, or railwaya lying wholly within o einglo State, 2. Intar-Stato railways, or another. Ha:s tho Logislaturo of a Stato withia which o raflw sy wholly lais the power to regulato its froights rnd faros ? Tt planly has whoro it when tho L sgislaturo of tho Htato has not ro- sorved that powor toftkod ? Csn i, fu this lat- tor caso, re gulato tho freight or faro charged by & railrond ¢ ompany without infringing that pro- which dec' saros that mo Stato shall pass a law impairing tho obligation of contracts? Chiof Justico R odficld s of oplnion that it may ; for theroaso n that, spito of ite ohartor, tho railway company in only » comman carrior, and that tho common law applicnblo to common carriers is oarry { oryoasouablo compousntion, and to mako Do unt casouable or unjust discrimination among thoso who doaizato omploy them,” This s the comm on law which all who become common carrle 18, wrjother tailway corporations or not, aro b ound by, This is as much part of their chart ors a . if insorted in thom. Violating this, . thoy violat o thoir chartcxs, and the Btato {s war- rallways lying patly in ono Stato and partly in | has reservec | to itaolf that power. But how is it |- vision of ¢’ 20 Coustitution of tho United States | also & pplicable to thom, Thoy undor- [ tako, uo matlor what tholr chartor, Nko sl othor common carriors, “to rant od in intorforing. It will boscon that Mr, Red fleld ¢ joos not quosticn tho Darmouth Collog docision, but holds thas tho principlo thoro laid downlsr godified in tho caso of railway corpora- tione. by - anothor oqually undonlable, viz.s that ity corporations, a8 common carriors, can <omaad | only reasonablo componsation, and make u0 um' ugt disorimination among $hoso who om- | ployd jem, Mr, Rodflold quotes somo eight or nium ¢ jagen in which this principlo s boon aflirm- iadi * Ttis cloar, thou, that, ko faras & railway Mew® githin o State, it may bo rogulatod as to its 4 3, dta taros, and froights, by tho State, roslly translont mattor, but oscapos tho require- mont of prepayment becausa of the ovasion of tholuw, ~T'his stulf conulutu of clroular, lottery forms of advortisomonts got up in the shapo of, rogular waolly or monthly publications, and i 26,000,000 ourplus of tlio Now Englaud Statos 18 just tho pum which tho West and South want ; shovoled Iuto thomaila dally by tons and, tho agh tho Government payd in tull for its tranayjortas solicanos, muedieal advertisomonta, aud al otties | J aud how as to intor-Stato railwaya? Judge ® :dflold shows that B0 far as theso are con- 4o ruod, Congross, although It docs not oxorclso @ , las, undor the Conatitution, tho power to s gulato thom, Tho indlvidus! Btatos lhave 10 powor to charter, bnfld, or_control railways + aly within their own limits. When & rallway 1" )avos tho Btato i which 1t orlginates, it cosses to owo allegianco to Into anolghboring Btato, it eannot, oven a4 a corporation, carry ono of s franchlsos, This doctrine lins boon hield to bo tho low by all Amerlean Courls, A corpora- ton may, of courno, transact business in o Btato othor than that fu which it waa iacorporated, Dut only subjoct to tho Jaws of tho Stato into which it lins ontorod. Buch boing tho condition of our law in rogard to corporations, whother rallway or othor, It may bo asked: How aro wo golugto rogulato the faro aud froight chargea of intor-Statorailwaya? Thoro aroonlytwo waya of dolng It. Eithor Cougross muat do t, or tho forty indopondant Btato Loglslatures must agroo on o systom’ of intor-Stato commercinl intoreourso. Congross Is vested by the Conatitution with un- limitod powers ovor commorco awong tho States; und this powor s oxolusive of tho power of tho Btatos upon tho subjoct. Now, tho rogulntion of commorco botwoen the Blates, s hos boon docided by tho courls, in- oludes tho regulation of the moans by which it i8 carriod on, whothor means of navigation or paasngo over land, whon such pssango la noces- sty to tho commorcinl intorcourso of tho Statos—whothor rivers, tho oconn, or railronds. The ennctmonts of Congross can ronch ovory- thing affooting the conduct of Lusinoss of tbrough trains upon intor-Stato railways, Faro and froight upon such railwoys aro, accordlng to Mr. Rodfiold, wholly undor tho control of Con- gross; and this control beging from the mo- mout that goods or porsons deatined to bocarrlod noross Stato lines aro takion m chargo by tho rail- way company, and not merely whon they havo Doon earrled aoross tho dividing line of tho two States. Tho opinfon of Mr. Redfield on this Inttor point is in harmqoy with tho decision of tho Bupromo Court of the Unitod States in tho Daniel Dull case, reporiod in 10 Wallaco, p. 567, Thore fano constitutionnl restuotion whatovor on tho power of Congrass to control fares and Troight on intor-Stato rallways; and, as thoro is 10 such roatriction, its power to rogulato thom cannot fairly ba raised. e argumont that such rogulation of faro and froights is o violation of the provision of tho Conatitution prohibitiug the passago of o Iaw impairing tho obligations of coutracts is of 10 foree whatover whon mado against tho intor- foronco of Congress. 1t ins beon held that thia i8 & rostriction on tho States only, and daes nos apply to a law passed by Congross. So that if 1t woro truo that Government eannot control ‘tho rotes of faro of & railway wholly situate ‘within & State, which Mr. Redfield by means «toncodas, 1t would not bo truo nfter it ongaged 1uintor-Stato commoreo; for tho reasons that r ailwoys have no chartors to engagoin such busi- cam ; that Congross alone can grant theso char- ters; and that, it thoy do engago in such com- 1nerco, thoy, by doing so, ubject themaclves to I ho unlimitod control of Congress. Sueh aro 1:ho viows of an ablo Judgo and author, who has :mado tho law of raitways s speclalty for o lifo- ‘timo. Ho has pointed out o’ grent ovil, and shiown that it can bo conatitutionally remodicd Dby tho Legislalures of tho Statos, or by Con- gross. Ho thinks Congress tho propor power to interforo, and assuros business mon that wo shall nover havo a successful railway systom until it 48 brouglt eflciently under its control, 'WELSH ON DELAKO, Mr. Willism Welsh, tho eminont Quaker, is agpuin on tho war-path. Tho Philadelphin Press of tho 18th inst. publishios a lottor from him, in whick o does not confine himsolt, as heratoforo, to sinply oxposing tho frauds porpotrated by Tn- dian Commissionor Smith, but tonrs away somo shreds: from tho roputation of Seerctary Dalano, Oa Juno 11, 1870, a privato contract waa mado with one J.W. Doslor, who ngreed to deliver Americun cattlo at tho Sioux Agency for 6l conts por pound, The roport made by tho Ap- propriation Committeo to tho Houss ou Feb, 25, 1871, sota forth that Bosler dotivorod Toxas cattlo, worthabout8 conts, and got tho contract prico for thom, and. that this ssmo man hud been guilty of frauds in woighiug eattlo, In flour, sud in trans. portation. Aftor such on exhibit, 1t would bo thought that Boslerwould nover get auother cou- tract. When contraots woro last lot, tho Intorior Dopartment aud the Board of Indien Commis- sionors agreod that nono of them should bo sub- et without tho written consont of Delano. Tho cattlo-supply was nwarded to throo mon, who at «onco sublot it to Boslor, Delano making no ob- Joction, It will bo remombored that this man's irst contract wus for 83 conts por pound, Ho inow sgroos to furnish o supply at 2 6-10 conts, :and out of tho profits o payn & hoavy bonus to ‘the threo origiual contractors, Ho managos ‘to do this, according to Mr. Wolsh, in ‘this way: A fow largo cattlo :uro woighed, and their averago i cousidored to "o tho woight of each animal delivered. Army officors tostify that tho cattlo aro mostly small, aud Spotted Tal has forwarded to Washinglon “the complaint : * Ouv heof cattlo aro small, somo -smaller, othots very nmall.” Tho busy B, also -adds to his profits by dolivering cattlo by dny -and stampoding thom back to his own hord by inight, and by bribing Intians to mako & falso ro- tum of thelr lodges in or dor that tha Agout muy issuo them moro cattlo thuw thoy nocd, and Bos- “lor may buy thom back ngain for s song. Last :summor Dolano sent two up ocial Commissionors ‘to tho Sious Agencics, both of whom notiflod bim of theso fruds, The Indian Board “has since repestod tho 1totico, but tho Scerotary of tho Intorior Lisa dono nothing “whatever to cheols tho swindlo. As 8 corrobora- tion of what wo sald tho othor day about tho “wasto In supplios, wo may mon ton that whilo tho eatimatea of tho boof roquira, 1at tho Spottod Toil aud Red Oloud Agoncics for : tho your anding noxt June was 10,000,000 pounds s, tho amount tesuod up to Deo, 165 was 10,172,000 pounds. All of this hos boen pald for. Tha Indian Board Dna disapprdved of vouchars for § 120,009.95, of which $200,000 was for tho Bos lor contract. Delano hns sustunod tholr action on vouchors for €6,607.10 ouly. Tho root Lisvo | 1000 ordorod paid. o ac of July 16, 1870, says: It shull Lo tho duty of suld Commlesion T o Buper- vise nll oxpenditurea of monoy nppropris ded for tho ‘Lenefit of tho Indluna iu the United Slatce ; zud Lo fu- #poct all goods purchnuod for suld Indluns £n connece tion with the Cummissloner of Iudlan Afl sirs, whoso duty it eball bo to cousult said Comuntusion e in muke ing purelincs of such goods, Tn tho faco of this plain provision, T lano bas allowed Commissionor Bmith to buy @ 373,687.00 worth of supplios sinco Moroh 1 wit heut con- sulting tho Commissloners af all, and | in groat par without any ndvertislug, slthough o law oxplicitly commands tho lattor, Hero is aaotlior vouchor for tho difforonco of $23,000 betwoon tho Lwo contraots, and Delano ovarrlod the re- Joctlon and Lad ft paid, It Mr. Walsh will writo n fow moro nuch lottors, ho will convert tho wholo pooplo to tho boliof already hald In the West, that tho Sccratary of tho Intorlor, Columbus Doleno, Esq,, s bLinsclt o mombor of tho Indian Ring, CHARITY PROMOTING PAUPERISNM, English thinkers say that tho primo osuso of tho frightful provalonco of pauporism In that conntry fa the poor-aw syatom, Tho Stato for- mally assumed chargo of tho oxtromaly poor un- dor Ionry VIIL and Elizaboth, Witiin the last fifty years many offorts havo boon mado to got rid of this principlo of aunouncing that o man shall bo ablo to live at tho oxponso of othars it o does not chooso to support himsolt, but all in vain, Oharity keops on bogotting objects of obarity, Tho taxos for the eupport of paupors oro 80 heavy thnt many in- dustrions arlisans who pny them have Loss lott to liva upon thian thi reciplents of reliof got. Morcovor, many mon who would work des- poratoly to aupport tholr wivos and children it theso would othorwiso etarvo, agroo with tholr wivos to tomporarily dosort thom whon times aro bard, in ordor that thoy may ot parieh rallof: Tn this country, tho problom of pauporlsm is bo- ginning to domand a solution, Tho ovil is natu- rally grontest indNotv York Olty. ‘Tho station- housos thero aro thronged with profossional vagrauts, many of whow have come hundrods of miles. to got tho froo lodginge and freo food furnished thom in doforonca to n mis- takon sontimont. Bosldes thoso profossionals, numbors of workingmen on striko recruit tho rauls of charity-rociplonts, and 8o unflt them- solvos for futuro honest lnbor. Tho “Cap- Makors’ Union" is askiug for subscriptions to ald 1ts mombers In holding out ngainat thoir om- ployors, although wages from $10 to §40 n wook can bo rondily earnod at tho presont rates of pay. Tho clgar-makers bavo atruck; so havo tho stair-buildors; 0 bavo very mauy carpon- tors, It 16 ostimaled that strikes In tho bullding trados last yoor cont tho workingmon 6,000,000. Tho Now York ZTimes saya: *Wo presumo that not ono-hundroth part of tho usual uumbor of now buildinga aro go- ing up.” Tho mon who nre thus thrown, or who thus throw thomsolves, out of omploymont will nover all got back. Somo of thom will fnovitably profor tho casy lifo of a beggar to the somotimos hard life of o Inboror. Tho bottor class of them appreciato this fact, At o rocont meoting of tha working classos for tho purposo of organizing somo co-oparativo en- torpriscs, tho Chairman eaid: “Tho prosont utato of affairs in tho city is most deplorablo. Thousands oro atarving. And yet cortain portios aro plunging the workors Into worso state by sorving them with chonp soup geatuitously.” Stato charity, soclal charity, aud tho charity of individunle,— most of the givors aro women,~combino to promoto pruperism. Tho rulo of not giving somothing for nothing may bo a bard ono to fol- low in casos of immediato dlatress, but in it lios tho oue hope of oscaping tho curso that prosscs upon England o hoavily 88 tho O1d Man of the Sen did upon Sindbad. Loss evil will result from 8 fow cosos of individusl sufforing than that lundrods of thousands should bo oncouraged to drog out thoirs a9 inert drones, permitted to tax all honest men to get tho wherewithal to keop thoir bodies clothed and fod. (linoln paid, in 1850, $46.218 for 797 paupors; in 1860, 9196184 for 4,628; and, in 1870, 556,061 for 6054 Tho total tax thus imposed upon tho country in 1870 was nbout $11,000,000. Thoso figures, groat aa thoy are, do not includo Porsons recoiving tomporary and paxtial reliof. ‘Whion tho ald givon them is ndded to tho tax, it 8 noarly doublod. Evon this is notall. Privato charity caunot bo computed. It s tho rady victim of a lying story, and, probably, docs more to promoto pauporism than all othior things com- bined, Palmyre, Mo,, Ins o sonastlon to which tho womon's whisky war of Ollo, tho revivals of St. Louis, and tho condition of streots in Now York aro ag nothing. Palmyra s absolutoly torn into two bitter faotions all about & mau's nock. Ambrogo Coo Lias just beon found guilty of tho murdor of Abbio Summors, comwmitted four yoars ago, aud tho town fs divided as to whothor ho shiould bo logally stranglod or not. 8o closs ia tho contest that tho prisonor may bo ssid to Liavo o casting voto. The sowing-circlos aro all bisccted with mathomatioal aceuracy; tho church sooioties aro arrayod against ono anothor on this important quostion; oven tho rotail trade of Palnyra bas boon upsot by tho contost. Tho Presidont of Inglesido Sominary isa Hangor, aud tho Prineipal of Bt. Paul’s Collogo an Anti- Hangor, and tho scholars havo takon sides and fight singlo combats in support of tholr pedagogues’ viows. Tho hotols of Paimyra Lo joiued in tho discussion. Hungors will not diuo with Anti-Hungors, nor will Anti-Hangora drink with Hangors, Socloty is turnod wrong sido up. Ono young Indy is 8o onthusinstically on thio Langing sido that olie offers to reliovo tho Sherift of ull unpleasant dutios on tho oconsion #ho o onruostly looks for, whilo Lor sister vol- untoers to take Coo's placo on tho seaffold rathor thau bo dofeated. Tho Anti-Haugors Liavo tho best of it 8o far, bacausothoy can show their affeotion for the murdorer, who ia sup- plied with new clothos by bis supportors, and fed on tho choicost dolicacios coolzed by his fair symputbizors, Tlo hus given his namo to & now culinary trumph, and Coo-cakes aro among tho Deat things onton in Palmyra, ‘Tho Hangors aro poverlss to provont ol this, and gnush thoir tuoth with more malignity than over. What is to bo douo with Coo? Compromiso is mot possiblo. Tho trifling clroumstanco thnt Coo is a murdoror, sud theroforo ought by law to bo houged, is of no woight undor such circumstan- cos. Ouly tho Govornor can do any good In tho ‘muttor, apparontly, by roprioving him and thrn- inghim over to both partiea at once. et g Tu tho light shed by tho Intest advicos from tho contro af tho district thraatencd by tho hos- tilo Slous, itappears that tho contlict impending botwoan tho Indians aud tho Govornmont troops bias boon precipitatod by whito men, Col, Jolu E. Smith, commanding at Fort Loramio, givos an outlino of tho difficulty, in which tho Indiaus aro found rather on tho defousivo than tho aggressivo, Ho statos that o Choyonno Iudian cumo to tho post domanding tho roturn of s, numbor of ponios which wore stolon, 88 Lo claimed, by whitos. ‘Tho Indisn wns sont awny without investigation, but it aftorwards appoarod that throo dosporato bordor-rufiians hud actually robbod the Indinns a8 rolated, snd had andonvored to throw suspicion on’ tho Bioux. ‘Theso follows hod boon doaling fn whisky, and lind long boen suspootod of troachory, but, thoir businasa protocted thom, ss uo Indian could bo found to givo ovidonce agalust dealors fu thoir favorito fluld. They wero all captured, hovwaver, by Liout. Allison, who ovartool thom little Job: A contract was lot for trar wpceting morchandiso botwoen Choyonno and the Red Cloud Agonoy at 81,20 por 100 potind: ¢ per 400 milee, This was bublot to o man - xho ot 8L10, and for bhim tho distan to was put ot 176 miles, whioh was corroot, Thou Dolano gavo tho first man o retroactivo o onbrack ot L.75, and agreod to coveldor tho distaiics A8 212 milos, The Commissionors rojewted thiv and reooverod tho horsed they bad stolen. Tho massnoro of Licut, Robiuson and Corporal Cole- man aro #old to liave boon iu rovongo for tho tronohery of tho bordor-rulaus, which is a kind of roprieal that the Governmont can searcoly afford to recognize, Col. Bmith thiuks tho In- Agont, roports tiat sovoral partios of Indiana havo oen Acouring the country undor tho protoxt of attncking tho Utes, and Lavo used tho oppor- tunity o carry off eattlo. Itoports of additiona! musmncros srrivo froquently, but thero apponrs to o tho most nstonishing confuslon provalont 04 to the ronl oxtont of tho difficulty. Tt Is not gratifying to think that the throatenod troubloe aro owing to tho desporndocs who Infest the frontior, nor doos It rofloct gront orodit wpon anybody that tho informatlon is of so iudofluite = charactor, ———— Tolman Munt's famous painting, “Tho Shadow of tio Cross," still possessos paramonnt Intoroat from tho fact thnt Johu Ruskin ins not yoi passod Judgmont upon it. 1t s undoratood tint ho will ‘soon do o, howovar, and ono circume- atanico connoctad with it, and nareated by Mon- curo D. Conway, {8 at onco smusing sud Instrao- tive, Mr. Ruskin was atudying tho pleturo onrn- eatly ono day, in company with somo ladios, whon 3 man fu tho garb of o meokano startlod him by a romark that tho patutor know uothing about tho carpontor's trado, Mr. Ruskin asked Lim what convincod him of tho artist's technleal ig- norance, and tho mechauic in reply polnted out threo main dofects, as thoy nppoarad to him, Tirstly, tho paintor was unowaro that in o carpontor's shop throo varioties of shay. inga aro alwaya to bo found, and had in- troduced but ono of thom ; socondly, Josus wea roprasonted as Laving fust consad tho oporation of sawing, aud thoro was no snw-dust on the Hloor ; laetly, tho peouliar bond of tho truo car- Toutor's ann wan wanting fu that of the fignr Deforo im, Mr. Ruskin provatled upon tho : mechanic, who provad to bo a carpenter, to “writo down theao obsorvations for bim, and car- lod thom away to Oxford. Roalistio art stands in poril at all times trom axports. Everybody fs familiar with the romark mado by sn Englith livery-man upon a romarkablo painting which Toprosunted Abslom hanging to o troo, his mulo galloping away with every mark of vico in his Tenturon that tho artist could placo thora. In- dood 1t was tha admirablo charactorizing of tho animal that gainod tho painting snch a roputa- tion. Tho Lorso-man survoyod it fn silouco, “ Bloss my soul,” ho at last oxcloimod, * Lo's in @ protty fix; but ko ought to have kuown batter thau to ride that beast without a anafllo.” Bocloty owes to tho corrospondont of {ho Omaha ferald at Nobraska Cty tho dofinition of & “plonsant goutlomnn,” illustrated by o bodily imporsonation. Tho * ploasant gentle- man” s Mr. MoWators, who hias just beon nc- quittod of tho murder of Mr. Wolf at Wyoming,. “1fo ie," snys tho modorn Diogonos, “a young. man of gontool appoarunce, and is considored o ploasant gontloman whon not drinking liquor, and is tho reputod murderar of five or six mon in Missouri and Kaneas, It is sald that ho now stands indicted in the formor Stato for mudor. Ho lus s wife mud two chile dren, ond Wis family rocoives tho eym- pathy of thio wholo commuuity,” Why should thoy need sympatby whoro Mr. MoWators s so bighty oatoomod, aud where his plossantrios are hold in such high favor? It is only in doss c ized countrics, whoro & barborous coda cousigns practicnl humorists of tho McWatora etripo to tho gallows that their fomilics “rocolvo tho sympathy of tho wholo commanity,” whilo tho stupid viotims of thoir jokes aro laughed nt, Thers woro ouly four corpses piled outaide tho door of tho Nobraska City ealoou, and Mr, Me- Watore' plonsant framo was not smong thon, Ho woa found awong the wounded, but some of tho penotrating jests from the muzzle of bis soven-shiooter woro found ombedded in tho re- maing of tho stupid butts of Nis wit. Wonr~ not yot advancod to tho appreclation whick: X broake City s for ploasantry aud gontility. Whilo tho country at largo hes exprossed considorablo intorest in tho death of thoSiwmose Twins and tho post-mortem oxamination of their romaiug, it is not cloar that Boienco has gaind in any way from tho olaborate, notto sny ostene tatious, oxamination to which tho bodies have beon subjected. Counected o8 thoy wore, the twing woro o monstrosity, and tho conditiona undor which thoy coutinued to exiet for a num- bor of yoars wore puroly oxcoptional. Tha human family bad Littlo or nothing 1 common with thom, and the couclusions of the surgoons entrustod with tho autopsy do nat appear in nuy way to affect tha sclontific view of human life, Indeed, tho offlcial roport of tho gontloman to whom eversgbody was looking for somo geaornl deductions, to bo of uao to the world at largo is utterly barren of such usoful information, end tho timo, monoy, and newspaper spaco devoled to this caso appear to havo boon wasted upon & moro chiatce which has not rosulted in any prac- tical good to mankiua, Tho action takon by the Commissionors ap- pointed by tho Stato of New York to sacurs, by the offor of a promium of $100,000, tho beat steam canal-boat which humun ingonuity aud sciontiflo invostigation could dovico, ia of a vory practical character. Thoy have docided to givo tho full amount to no individual competitor, but Davo votod $25,000 ench to Mesars, Dobbins aud Baxter, on tho coudition that thay oach put fivo steamors, built according to their reapoctivo do- sigus, into oporation o the canal. As tho maney will sorvo for the equipment of theso boats, ti.e Stato will havo tho beuott of a practical trial of the iuventions. MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. Banquet of the Law Literary Soclotys Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, A¥x Anvon, Fob, 20, 1574, Tho Law Litorary Society, one of thu most ‘prominent organizations of tho University, hold its final bauquot of the your last night ; and the occasion proved to be ono af wnusunl intoreat. Tho Socioty embraces many of tho leading members of the Luw Dopartmont, and is fast t- tnining ominonco in its liborary oxcallouco; aud tho oxorcisos of last evening wero in kooping with its roputation. Aftor a short sonson of sacial intercourss, tho “Tonut-Mastor, r, D, B, Euglish, condueted tho invited guosth and members: of tho Socioly to & most sumptuous ropast, the tables upon which it was sproad being Indon with costly viauds, and which in point’.of oleganco Las boen rarcly surpnsyod loro, The following was tho ondor of oxorcisos : Ausic. Buppor o Influence of the Bar*'—T, E, Elllson, itie Gnorled aud Knotty Oaks "7, I, Braddock, 410 Lycoum "—F, E, Cloa.yolaud, “Tho Cluss of 75 Y-8 P, DeDivitt, sic, e Taw Literary Soclety—D, O, Magle, Jr, “;iimrgllnlltnll,hlx)wl“‘—hl. Gmg.n X *The Drift of pinfou . Drake, “Pra;lunulonll Hu{mr *—J. ‘0. Coffaian, Musle, Tho rosponsos waro woll worthy tho occselon, and tho gontlomon who mado thom motit cont Featulation npob Uhalr noatios s B Lottors woro road from Dr, Angoll and the Ton, J. V. Campboll, oxprossing rogrot at their inability to bo prosont, Among the iuviled guosts presont was tho Hon, Thomus M, Cooloy, who, in responso 1o calls, “mado o ‘churactoristio’ apooch, full of fumor aud good onac, fu which bo advisod o thorough eocial culturo. Mo boloved tho Iycoum au importaut wesus of dovaloping tho succosaful lawyor, e, L, G Youig, 7. W. Dlue, sud ., IT, Whito woro cailod out aud roplied 1 wolictimod ra- marke, After tho subatantials had boon disposed of, o Socloty, with i ussts, passod tho romain’ dor of tho night, until tho * oo ama’ hours,” in tho onjoymont of soalal convorse, Intormporsod with muslo, C.A W, rIQ] I0OTING IN MICHIGAN, Special uvatel to The 90 Tribune, East SAUINAW, Mich,, Feb, 22.—A pigoone alioot took pluca st tho Driving Park yesiopday, Tt wan participatod fn by sportsimen From (hle olty, Suginaw City, Fliut, Bay City, Pontino, and Dotrolt.” Tho first prizo was won by I, W. Bponcor, of iay City; tho sacoud by I, J, lall of thia city; and tho third by Eliug ‘Audro, of Baginmw. M. J, Closo, of Pontino, killed oight outof ton birdy, but did not win & prize. Afior dlana will romain quiot if allowed to purue thoir amusomont of butchoriug sottlors and carrylug oft stook, but, in the ovent of moleetation, thoy willriao in open war, L. A, Howaxd, Indian tho shooting, & match was arraugoed botwoon Mr, Closo xud an smatour sportaman of this for $250 a slde, Olose to shoot 60 doubls birds agaiust 100 singlo birds, The matohto tako pluco in April,

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