Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1874, Page 2

2 THE CIICAGO DAILY. TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1874, SPRINGFIELD. &ttempt of the Legislature to Preserve Its Dignity. 'wo Contumacious Witnesses Bironght + to the Bar of the Houso, Webbor Yields, but Paine Perseveres in His Contempt. The One Is Left, and the Other Taken in Custody -by the Door- keeper. Chicago Merchants Petition for Amend- ment of the Reilroad Law. Rofusal of tho Senate to Enac tho Schodules. . Comptroller Hayes'" Bill Concerning City Funds and Tex- Sales. Thto Ton, I.)un 0’Ilara’s Interests in Great Peril. SOME MORE CONTEMPT. Snecial Dispatel to The Chicaan Tribune, SenrixerieLp, 1L, Feb, 24.—Enoch Paine and Goorge R. Wobber, - tho stubborn witnesses, wero marched iuto tho Houso this morning and took sonts at tho bar. Anticipating a scono, tho printers turnod out in forco; filling tho lobbios, Stato officors of all grades were on the floor, whilo ladios decoratod tho front of tho gallery. Mr. Phillips camo in and gave the culpritsn sympnthotic shake of the hand, not that they neodod consolation, for they wore as ocol a8 a cucumbor, and more colleeted than the last aggessment of taxes, Paine and Webler did not caro & fig about the drama in which they wore tho central figuros. ‘When Clerk Mageo had finished reading o re- vision bill o sccond timo, tho Speaker ohnstised tho deslk with the'mallot to notify the Housothat ho Liad 3 SOMETHING TO FAY. Silonce—dond elipuco—being sccured, Alr. Cullom roported {hat the doorkeeper had re- turned the warrant, and tho two witnesses wero present. He would ask thom what thoy had to say, why they did not suswor the questions pro~ poundad by the Committee. - Mr. Webbor roso, and was tho cynosure of svery optic. Ho addressed tho Spenker in first- rato parlinmontary style, and anuounced thot ho mishod to say on the part of Mr. Paino, as woll 18.0n bis own part, that lic was obliged to the ohicers of tue Houso for tho tonder way in which they bad bhandled them. Ho wished to "y {u{mer, thot thoy desired to appesr by sounsel, Mr. Herrington objectod to further sposchify- Ing on tho part of -JEr. Paino, aud enid that they had no right to bring counsef into that Housa. ‘I'ho Obair bold that the gentlomen at the bar bad a right to excueo tiemselvos to the Houso, Jones moved that they havo time to speak. e desired tho sense of tho Houso on tho question. Inscore belioved thoy hud tho right aoyway. "l Sponker thought thoy Liad tho right. Dunbiam said they WANTED TO APPEAR DY COUNSEL. ‘Webber, again, on behalf of himsolf and Paino, remnrkod he was just going to say that when ho was interrupted. Orendorfl offored & rosolution that the cases bo postponed until Thureday, and that Paine and Webher be furnished withcopics of the warrants. 1lo read a Jotter from Gov. Valmer, stativg that he could not appear for tho contomptuous gen- Vlomon uniil 'hursdsy., Bradwell thought thoy should not wait for rounsel, uo matter how omiuent, / Cri-m\'lom haunkered for Liberty or death on the spot. Quinn chargod Orendor(T with noting as attor- ney for his constituents. 1f those wora THE HONEST MEN OF SFRINGFIELD, what kind of men were the dishonost ones ? Oreudor{f romarked that if Mr. Quinu asserted he was acting in any other capacity than as yop- tosontative ho was not telling tho truth, Jones dofended Orendordf, K Herrmgton called tho perverse witnesses cul- prits, which was objeoted to by Orendorff and sustained by tho Chair. 2 Greg bolieved the Houso had very littlo dig- nity, and should protect whut littlo it had, unham mode an argument sustaining tho power of the House to iusite warrauts and com- pel tho attendance of tho witnessos, Counolly did not care to_Lave the ouse fol- Jow the bell wether from Cook . (Bradwell) with such confidenco, lestit ho went into o slough tho Houea would follow him, Ho moved that the questions which the gentlomon doclined answor- ing bo lnid bofora the HD““I and further pro- ceodings bo postponed until Thursday. 4 A'PHERHON SBTRUCK THE POINT by inslsting that the witnosses bo asked to an- swer, and sce if they would refuso, so that the Ilouse might lmow where it stood. - Ho wauted 10 more screnming farces. Iuscora wanted to Buy ‘o single word or two,” and proceeded to observe that Lo was opposed lo ‘the whole procceding, Hoforring tho Chatley Reed caso, »momber of the Lhird Houso when Ieed wag comitted for contempt, and the Court hold 1hat Roed shiould auswor, bocause ho could not thicld himsolf a8 an nttomuf whon ho was on- gagod in corrupting the Leglslature sud buying aud solling membors, 2 Hopkins rose to shield Charloy Roed, who is is constituent, and wented the goutleman con- ined to the question of posthonement. 5 Inncors nover minded Hopkins but went on to iny that ho dispived powar, snd THE HOUSE WAS IX CONTEMPT OF THE PEOPLE, by the courae it hnd taken in tho matter, Ife did uot care for Cushing and other unciont pur- tinmontary Inwyers who brought down their rules from tho old Parlinments of England. Hohad 120 fear for the dignity ot the House, for 1t hadn't much—iwhich was the trucst romark Mr. Inscore made, . Condon was atraid if they postponed tho anttor and wllowed intollectunl gladiators to make tho Houso their arona it would rosult ina srosé botwecn & eauous and & bear-gardon. Counolly's resolution wns lost—18 to 80, Orendorll’s resolution got only 14 votes, Tho mattor was not postponed. Dradwoll moved the witnesses be allowed to offor any oxcuso ‘they had for not obeying tho Brat summona of tho Houso, aud why they should not then be deal with for coutompt. WEDBER AND PAINE CONSULTED snch other. The House was a4 tull as a oirous 1t a county fair, DBradwell's motion provailed, Webbor, nddressing the Houso, snid. the roa- €on they refused to unswer the summons was be- sauso thoy were not lawyors but mochunics, and uotod under the ndvice of an eminent lawyer, Phoy thought tlus was & freo country, and they Liad 'some rights, ‘Lhoy moant uo insult to the Howso or any of its momboru, ‘Lo Chalr fuquired if they would answer the questions of the Committea? ¥ Webbor cautiously gaid that would dopend on +ho questions. 'Fhey would Jike to soo the quos- Aous, ana get an hour or two to conwdor them. Tho Benato, having udjourned to attond tho ixhibition, arrived in the House. An attompt to purge the prisoners of tho flrst .outempt for not answeriug the summons failod, hio Houso fearing it could not hold thom to amwor tho second cuulomrt for refusing to mswor without issuing snothier warraut, DRADWELL PROPUSED TO READ TIE TEATIMONY »f tho witnesses. Oonnolly and Jones objeoted. Bradwell insisted, Tha House laughod, Brad- woll bogan reading, Joues objooted, Terrior objested, DBradwoll wont for Joues aud drow alood, ‘The Chuir ruled that Bradwell, as Ohalrman of the Committee, hud the right to propound any quentions toushing the mvestigation. éruudurl! held the uastions shiould not bo put while the prisonors wore undor duress. Home fourteor points of ordor wore wado, and a soneible man moved to adjourn for dinner, Whon they roturned Insicoro took baek all he sald in the morning about Churloy Reed, somo of Neod’s friouds bLaving Informed him that Charley yusu's & wembor of tho lobby in 1803, to, ho. suid ho iwas’ .The opliiton of Judgo Lawrence iff Reod's oase, whioh wab, in substance, thot the Hanso ‘had nuthority to oompol witness to anawor, yas roml, and thisa Bradwoll asked Webber and Palno if thoy would nnawor the followluy v QUESTIONS ABKED 1Y TIE COMMITTEE ¢ First—Did you bid for the public printing in 1873 ? Second—DId yon plve d bond In eonndetion with tho bid “which wne approved by Gov. Palnor P T'hisd—Did you recalve monoy cheoks or & yaluable considoration for not allowing the bid to'stand aftor it wna mndo P If 8o, what twas tho amount and from whom did you recolve it ? Fourth—Ara such bid ahd bond now in exist~ ance? It so, whoro aro thoy, and will you pro~ dugo thom ? F{fih—\Vill you anmwer any othor questfona that may bo put to yon touching tho yrinting gontract, br any combinntion to prevent vompo« titfon in tha lotiing of such contrnet ? WEDDER NEITIED that suswors to thomo quostions Liad alroady beon mado publio by other witnossos, which roloased him from the Masonio obligation that proventod him from aunsweritg them bofore, and ho was now rondy to corroborate the other wituesacs, it it would do any good, PAINE DEGLINED TO ANSWER until ho lind consulted his counsol, This dofi« ouce caused & murmur to run through tho Honao, which folt that ite dignity was at atake, and mado the gallerics, whioh were crowded, admire the grit of the contumacious gontloman. Connolly plonded for meorcy. Ho bolisved the prisoner lisd as much right Lo consult counsol as the murderar Rafforty. Dunham noved that Paine be kopt in oustody of the Doorkecper until 11 o'clock to-morrow ; then to bo brought bofove tho har of the Houso, unless ho ngrccll‘l to answor tho queations before that time. Ray wanted nim gont to the County Jall for tho samo time. . ¥ Dunbam bolived tho Houso Lad no suthority over tho Jail of Bnngfimnn County or its 8horiff, HOrundom moved that Webbor bo turned looso. 0 was. B Ray's resolution waa lost-=jens, 475 nuys, 50, Dunlinin won—b8 to 26, Jones raisod tho point that it required o ma- Jority of tho Houso to sond o man to prinou, Tuo Chnir snld it didw’t, Quinn movod that Paine be TNCANCERATED 1N THE LEUAND HMOUSE. Connolly moved that the Judiciary Committeo o instructod to anquire why tho opinion of tho Suprome Court, which had boon loancd the Houso by tho reporter of the Supreme Coust, hfid u&var beon published, ‘L'hey wouldn't con- sidor it. The play ovor, the Ilouso was soon empty, hardly & quorum romaiuing. Taino was taken in custodyiof thuDoorkeepor, It was expeeted that Judgo Zane would fssue n writ of habens corpus, But ho doosu't like to buok againat a Honao of Roprosentatives, ON THEIR MARDOW-HONES, The witnessos who woro 8o haughty beforo Judge Bradwell wore brought to their milk, got down on their marrow-bofos bofora tho Judgo this eveniug, aud blabbed as follows Wobbor sald ho O 81,000, Jolin Dikor con- fessed to 500, Pinkard to 31'950. Posoy to $650, oud Richards to ©1,000, The baluncoof the £10,500 invosted in biddors Las already boon ace counted for. PAINE continues to Do ey stubborn as a mulo. Ho might as well glve up, far tho age of martyrdom i ;malJ nnd hio is only malkiug a fool of himsolf. Ho will romain in " custody to-night, and bo brought befors tho liouso in the morning, to wasto auother day, porhaps. sk I RAILROADS AND WAREHOUSES. Sveciat Disvatch to The Chicago Tribune. TUE RAILIOAD LAW--CHIOAGO MERCHANTS ASK THAT IT BE ALTERED. 3 Cutcado, Til,, Fob. 14.—Mr. Dow presonted to the Benate the following potition ¢ We, tho undorsigned citizens of Chieago, most re- spectfully represeut to your Honorablo House of An~ sembly, that tho Railroad law which wont into opora- tion in July Iast has not realized to us the benofits an~ tieipated ; has not reduced rates of transportation, or otlierwise afded tho production or tho businessof the country, but nas proved a source of uncertainty, dis- pnte, litigation, and expense, placing our towns, clties, aua Stato fu unfavorable relutions to nolghboriug States In tho transaction of busmness, Wo humbly ask such modification or ropeal of tho law as will restore fo un o benets and advantsgos enjoyel befare 1t pussed, Bigued, wl'lll othors, by ¢ h A M. Wiignt, ‘Olarles E, Culver, Ioward Lriestly, . B. Lyon, J. B, Ranney, Tiram Wheeler, 8. . AcCrek, Clurles K, Ragmond, D, Raymond . Suymour, AL 11, Hovey, D. H. Lincoln, L2 Ruweyy Piokeriug, , Dentou, Georgo E, Bunaley, 3.3, Richurds, 1i. Sprusuce, X @, M. Tow, and 360 mcm}n of {ho Board of Trade and business men of Chfcago, 3 THE WAREHOUSE-REGISTRAR DILL. Sonatot Willinmaon presouted petitions from Chicago asking for the Bnungo of the Waro- house-Rogistrar bill, uo of them was from bankers, and bore tho following signatures: W. F. Coolbaugh, 8. M, Nickerson, B, F. Allen, W. J. Eames, 8, A. Koent, 0. W. Blair, Henry Groenebaum, J, V. Olarke, B. Loewenthal. It is not likely the bill will pass this session. NEW BOARD OF COMMISBIONERS, Cummings’ bill, making the Governor, Audi~ tor, and Attorney-General s Board of Railroad Commissioners in licu of tho present Board, was mado the specinl ordor for Thursday morn— ing. VORIS' NILY, continuing full and original rates of faro and freight for railronds, was taken up, 1t Leing the spocial order. Voris won tho floor with indelinite leave, and advocated his bill for two hows. Il walked over the Railtoad Commission and their schedules rough-sbod. Iio charged that their rchedules wore made in tho intcrests of railroads, aud kuowingly go. A gentleman had come hero whon the work of muaking tho schedules commonced, remnined bore for two weeks, and guided ~the Commissionors as to the tho plan . thoy should pursue, IIo complotely capured thom, and carried them over to the Plulistines, When bo loft, the Commigsionors wanted to pay his hotel nll, but hie was too magnanimous to allow that, Ho way public-spirited and Iaboring in tho intorests of tho poople. The fact wes, that tho railrond companies paid his bills, and of course ho would not allow the Commissioners to do so. Palmor asked him WIIO WAS THE AN, but ho refused to toll. s 1o continued his spocch, citing somo of tho rates on lumber in the Commissionors’ tariff ns applied to lus distriot, which wore groatly iu ex- coss of any avor charged by tho roilroad com- panics. 1o quoted copiously from tho Consti- tution and the New Testament, tore his collar u:I,l and throw himsolf gouomlly intrue Vorisiun style. ‘Starno fotlowad, citing other'than lumber rates to show the usclessuess snd INJUSTICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS' TARIETS. Donahue thought the offorts of the Commis~ slonory in this direction, though arduous, con- stituted thy <ost maguificont failure that ho had ever kiown or hourd of, _T'hio substitute for Voris' bill, bolug the Houso bill making tho sohedulos absoluto rates, was voted down, YEAS, Castlo, Jncobs, aite, Casey, Nicholdon, Whiting, Donghno, Palterson, Williamson—11, Gloun, 8hepard, NATS, Baldwin, Tampton, Toynolds, Tirooks, inchlitfo, Ktaruo, Tirown, Iiuualoy, Hteole, Crowa, Murphy, Voris, Cumnitugs, Tulwor, Warren—10, Dow, Vorie’ bill was mado the special ordor for ‘\lVenlneudny aftornoon, whon it will also be voted own, —_——— COOK COUNTY ATFFAIRS, Special Dispatoh to The Chioago Tridune, COMPTROLLER MAYES' BILL, Srurxarien, I, Fob, 24,—Comptrollor Hayes, of Clicago, has propared and sent down the draft of & bill in relation to the managomont of the funds of munioipal corporations, and to secure thom from paying subsoquent taxes on roa! cutate purchosed by thom for uupaid taxes, The bill was introduced by Halpin, of Cook, and re- forred to tho Committoo on Muuicipal Affairs, INTEREST ON OITY FUNDS, It authorizos tho Comptroller or othor author- itfen of citios, towns, and villages, whonover thore shall be more then ono-tonth of its nonual tax-lovy ' m monoy in the "Froasury, to invest tha samo in United Btates Intorest-boarlng bonds, and Ktoop the same fn the Troasury uutil it may bo nocossary to convert ony part of tho #ame to moot the propor expen- dituros of the city or town, BIECIAL YUNDE, The bill also ropoals all lawe which provide that the amount of cush for any speelal fund shall bo kept soparate In tho Tronsury. AVIHOPIMATIONS FOR PUNLIO WORKH, It also probibits any olty, tuwn, or villago, or suy Duard or dopartment_thoreot, to enter inlo any oontract for any building or publio work, or any fmprovemont, tho cost of whish shull oxened 1,000, until at lennt half tho sum provided by such coutract to Lo pald shall be in the Tronsury, and the Yomaindor y taxe lovy or otherwiso. TROPERTY PUROIASED AT TAX<SALRS, It bxempta from any subsoquent taxes of assossmonta any proporty whicl liau been, or may horenftor bo, uohl’ to or Atrick oft or forfoited to any cily, town, or villago for any ‘mYMd tax or nusoammont, Any municipal authoril { holding any proporty, or any right or interes theroin, by tnx-bumfi undor any salo for any unpnld tax or newossmont, or jolut or undivided owner with any and all porsous holding under any salo for subscquont taxéa of assowsmotits, may sell such joint or undivided Intorest in such real estnto nfter tho timo of logal redemption han ex- pired, Any me ‘may purchase tho taxstitle or olsim of sich municipality by paylug the sum dute at the dats of ' final legnl fodomption, and 10 snr cont interost por annum thereon up to the uly provided for nto of il IuF up such clatm’ or titlo, 1f any municipsl authority mhould mot rocood to tnke out A “tax-deod when no, for any proporty purchased by it or for- folted for unpafd taxon, thoe intorsator elaim wo acquiged shinil not Iapac in consoquenco of such fatluro, but that such lion or elaim shall eone tinuoe until paid or surrénderod. THE DILL IN THE BENATE. McGrath has boon furnished with a duplieate for the purpose of introducing the bill into the Sonnto. Tho bill, if passed, ‘would oporate to doprive the City Trensurer of nearly all the ine torost on the funds, and for that roason ia of special Intorost to Dan O'Hara, 2 ANNEXATION OF LAKE VIEW, Mr, Waito called up the Dill providing for an~ noxing.n part of Lake View to Chicago, and obtained permission to have it road boforo nny body know what ho wna flulnfi; An soon, how- ovor, a8 it was read, Mr. Thompson moved to rocommit tho bill to tho Cominitteo on Muniow palitios, and it was so ordored. NUNNOUUNE-EVERTS. Dow sticceodod, aftor n second thm’-t, in get- ting tho Univorsity Chancollor bill ordered to a third reading. The last offusion of the youngor Evorts has beon distributed in tho Benate as & campaign documant against the bill. ey BTATE INSTITUTIONS. \Svectas pmvaten 1o 'he Chitago Aridunes BOLITARY CONRINAMENT. BratNarienD, 111, Feb, 24.—The bill restrioting solitary confluoment in the Penitontiaty was tok- en up op third roading, 3ir. Houry mado a gon- oral Bpoech in favor of the bill, from the Lhuman- ity sdo thoroof, Mr, Cummings charged that this severe, though juet,monns of punishment was sought to bo restricted for tho pocuuinry bonofit of tho contraotors for tho convict-labor, that the pris- onors may bo sent to worle lnstend of solitary confinomont. Tho bill fatled to pass—yens, 187 uoge 8. r. Roynolds entered a motion to reconsider. TIE PENITENTIARY PIYSICIAN, Bovoral weoks ago, Dr. Mason, Physician to the Ponitontiary, was ssked to resign, To-day Lis rosignntion was tendored aud necopted, to go into effect March 1, Dr. A. W, Hoise, ono of tho oldost and best of the oity physicians, waa appoluted his succossor. Dr. Holso is an old Demoorat, aud was a candidato for tho Logisla- turo last fall on tho Liberal ticket. THE NORTUERN INSANE ASYLUM. The Sovate bill making nn appropristion to the Northern Ingano Asylum was Iafd on the table, This is & bnd yenr for sppropriations. ke Soaale, MISOELLANEOUS MATTERS. Speefal Dispatch to The Chicago Irtbune, VOVEE. BrrixariELD, 1il., Feb, 24.—Tho Houso gave s lonn of its hall for to-morrow ovening 4o Mr. Bovee, the anti-hanger, to delivor aJecturs on his pet topie, ORPORATIONG, Mr, Waito oalled up in the Senato n bill for an act to nmond ** an act to provide for chang- ing tho namos, for changing tho places of busi- ness, for inoreasing or decroasing the capital stock, for increasing or. decreasing tho numbor of Directors, and for the consolidation of incor- porated compauies,” approved March 20, 1872; and tho bilt was yond a first timo and ordered to a socond ronding, The bill makes the fol- lowing amondmont to Scc. 8 of the act of Moroh, 1872 ¢ Provided, That ol righta of croditors, aud all llens upon the property of tho consoliduted cofporations shall bo contiuned in oxistence, and may bo enforcod against tho rospoctive cousolidating “companies thy sawo a8 if such cousolidation bad uot been mads, or smuy bo enforced ngainat tho corporation formed by such consolidation, aml tho consolidated company may enforco any right existing in favor of either of thio respective consolidated companios in tho corporato namo g0 adopted by i, Wheu any corporation of any kind hina changod, or shall horenficr change its plaro of business purauant to this act, it muy also chaugo tho residenco of 1ta Directorn. ORUELTY IN CONTESTS OF BKILL. Tho Senato bill to prevent cruelty in contests of skill, or for wagers, was ordered to- s third rending. This moenus prize-fighting, wreatling, and pigoon-shooting. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Whiting ia workluivury hard for tho pnuun?-u of the Compulsory Xiducation bill. He thinks thore aro twenty-four Senators who will vote for the bitl, but this is disputed. THE ATTENDANOE -of membors was not largen cithor House, Those who bave beer home aro seared, as they found out the peoplo demand an oarly adjournmont. Tho only chance there is to got away by the Ist of April ia for them to tako up rovision bills, stick to them till they are finishod, and rofusc to cone sider miscallancous logislution. TIE ORININAL CODE. Tho Houso met this nyuuh)f and road the Criminal Cods n socond time. Its considoration by seotions will bogin to-morrow, DILLS PASSED BY TIIZ BENATE. Tho following Houso bills wore pusecd by tho Benato: To rovise the law concorning onths aud affirmations ; to revise the law concorning tho Stato Libraty ; to revise thelaws enacorning ‘bail in civil cases, CRIME, Hurglary nt Lansing, Mich, - Special Disvatch to The Chicago Tribune, ILiaxging, Mich.,, Feb. 23.—An entorprising burglar, named J. W. Bmith, went through tho houso of G. B. Allen, taking watches and jewelry yoiued at $160. He also ontered tho store of Rtico & Co,, taking a small amount, and stolo a valuable horso from L. V. Btambaugl, Oficers n}l;n ifi‘{m‘rsulb, with good prospocts of capturing tho thief. IR Pay, of Louisviilce=ilo Desertod Klis Wife, and_Stole 94,500, LovsviLie, Ky, Feb. 28,—Georgo Pay, of this oity, who dlsappearcd in Now York fitteen months ago with about 4,600 belonging to mer- chants of this city, and supposed to havo been murdered, has turned up in Montreal, whoere hie hay singe been living under on pssumed namo, and with another woman, DPay's wifo and childron are still living in this oity, and had mourncd him as dond, Tho Xialifax, Moy, Murder. Bostox, Mues., Fob. 23.—Tho Coronor’s jnry to-day, at Bridgowator, after investigating the clreumstances attonding tho Halifax murdor, ro- turned & verdlet eharging W. Evorot Bturtsyant, gr]nndmophnw of the murdored mon, with the crimo, * Onrl Vogt Still in Custody. New Yonk, Fob, 23.—Tudge Lnwrence de- clinos ta dischargo Oarl Vogt, the allogod Dol flmflt ‘murderer, from arrcst on the cliargo of heft, FIRES, At Evansville, TivansviLug, Ind,, Feb. 83,—The ship-chand- lory of Sinzich, Rankin & Co, was burned at 10 o'clock this morning. The logs on the stook is $23,000, ond on tho building, €5,000. Tho in- suranco on tho atook s 3,600 each iu the Penn Tiro, tho Girard, and the North American, of Dhiladelphia ; tho North British and tho Mor- cantilo, and the Tradors' of Ohicago, and tho Wentcliestor. On the building, 12,000 iu the Uitizonw' of Lvanavillo, Tho atack is not quits » totaljlosn, In Now York, Nzw Yong, Feb, 23.—A firo broke out this motning at No, 11 Laight stroot, and the fiamos, spraading to Nos, 0 and 7, causod damags amounting to §50,000; moutly insured. At Now Orleans, NEW Onteans, Fab, 23,—A firo in tho cotton atored in tho hold of the ship Jonathan Chaso noceesitated filling tho ship with wator, damng- ing 1,600 bales, At Eviinsville, ind, § Losa, 830,000 Lvansvirie, Ind., Fob, 28,—inzloh, Rankin & Ca.'s bout store wes burned this morning. Loss, 880,000 ; insurance, 15,000, —Ploture-huyors_will be intorcated in the jn- formation (given by tho Advertiser) that ‘‘a woll-known artist in Boston has o large number of asslntants who do most of the work on his paintings, Tlo thon finishes thom up nnd slgng thom, solling thom aw Lilw'own, appropriatod und subjoct to such nxpovl-,du\lm.' RAILROAD -NEWS, Annual Report of the Illinois Central, The Net Earnings Lnst Yoar Wore 8427,788, The Southern Conncetions---Land Dopartments New Regulations on_the Chiclo & Alton Road. Provision in Case of Acoident-+-Oircular of tho. Supervising Surge‘on. 1‘- THE ILLINOIS OENTRAL. At the ahnual meoting of tho Directors of tho Titinofs Central Railroad, Lield at Now York Jan, 8, the following roport, showing tho condition and doings of the road during tho yoar 1873, was wubmittod by the Prosident, Mr. John Nowell EARNINGS LART YEAR. Dllrlnr tho fira nine monthe of 1873 the eavnings of 1o Whole 1ina escorded thoso of o correspouding ‘months of 1873, $380,049,70, ‘An_nbundaut lavest of wheat gnve promiso of Iarger tramo und earnings for tho laat threo months, Dut the financlal panic, suporvoniug abont tho lst o Boptomber, causcd n tomporary surpeusion of traflle, and largely diminishied the recalpta of tho lnst quarter. Notwithstanding this deawback, the advantnges duo to o Jargor supply of vesscls, ind cansenquent lowor freiglita on graln from Obicago to tho scalviard, nnd n reduction in working oxpenses for tho lnst quarter, ennblo ua to show o gratifylng increnso in not carniugs over thoso of 1872, Tl grors oaraiiga of tho linain Tlinon yoro $6,01,- 024,64, ond the not, $2,412,640.60, a deoreako of $32, 403.43'tn gross, and on Incrense ‘of §206,901,82 In not eumlngfl, ‘s compared with 1672, 4 Tho Yowa leased lines earncd, groes, 81,077,300,54, doducting working oxponacs $870,207.00, fnxea 000, and ront £652,761.85, yield to this_company, 118,341 not, which is an fncroaso of $263,970.83 in grons, and $101,081,01 in not carnings, compared with Commonts on the Illinois Inture. "o total gross carnings were $8,208,325.18, and tho not, $2,640,99,60, an increnso of '§137,783.73, ar 303-100 po cest 1 ot earuiugs, 2s compared with i LAND DEPARTMENT, Mo Tho Taud Department holdn $1,185,663,30 of wneol- Jected notes, and 325,171,003 acres of unsold lands, The {otal enles havo been 2,209,828.07 acres; 2,083,718.30 acres lave boen convoyed {0 purchiasors ; leaving 166, 100,71 acrea sold, not deedod, The sales in 1873 wero 3,680, norey, for $204,044,99, ond_contracts for 4,~ 984,27 'acres sold proviously were canceled for non- ayment, o L 'i‘bn net collections from donated lanids for the year were $408,429,19, of which 290,000 was added to the Construciion’ Bond Fand, The balance, $178,420.19, with $151,421,93 derived from intcrest, ndded to $2,530,~ £90,50, net cnrnings of tho rafiway, gives $2,800,741,06, from which $359,437,12, paid for interest and oxchange, Jeavan $2,302,304,50 for division to sharcholders, Five er cont padil Avg, 1, and 4 por cont declared payablo Fobr 103,200,900, RAILROAD CONNECTIONS, Our Southern connoction, the Mississippi Contral TRaflway Extonslon, was operied for trailic on tho 24th of December Inst. ’ It givos this railway the shortest ronto from the Northwestern States to Now Orleana and Moblle, and to.the cotton region cast of tho Mis- alesippl Rivor, Passongercarsaro mow rum through ‘botween Cnicago and St Louis and New Orleans, and frolght cara ean be interchianged with oll linea in the Southern Btates. This traflic, now fully inaugurated, will nfford & large nddition to the rovenues of the Compnny, By tho oxtension of tho Clacinnat! & Lafayette Rail. “’l\?‘ to Kankalkee, this road, botween that station and Chl (’A‘m, his become a part of tho hest and most direct routo botween the Oitics of Ohicago and Cincinnatt, A running arrangement, made with the Cincinnati line, Ia proving muttnily advantngeoun and_profitablo. _All similor srrangemonts oxisting with othor companics at the date of tho lnst annual report have beon con- tinued, with benofical results, * The total olintgea to permanent exponses for tho our, in Iilinois and Jows, woro §504,400.00, Now Tmprovoments. woro mado it Onlro, to facilitate tho transfor of cars to tho Bouthorn line, at an oxpenso of $99,488,61, At Obicago, a mow dock, 36x1,000 feot, ' hus boen completed, and an additon of 61,208 equaro foet of 'land was made in the Jake opposite Madison street, to onable us to give tho Michigan Central Company posscesion of the Iand leased them in 1879, Additional sidings ond otlior improvements Love Loon mado; 4,045 tons of stocl rafla wore ured in renowals, and’ the oxcess in cost over fron rafls was chirged to permanent ex- penacs, About 88 milea of the road is now lald with steel ralls, . It ia proposed to relay with atecl ralls, as renovials ave needed, all tho track “now Infd with iron rafls between Chicago mnd Gilman, Carbondalo nud Cairo, Forreston snd Dunlelth, and soveral shortor rections [n Ilinols, sud betweon Dubuquo and Farley, in Towas in'sll, about 230 miles, To do this will re quire 23,000 tons of steel rails in tho next three yoars THE LAEE FRONT. The Common_Councii of Chicago have now under consideration the ([lmstlnn of transforring to tho Iill~ nols Central, tho Micligan Central, and tho Qidengo, Burlington & Quincy ltallrond Companics, the interes! of tho city in tho Inko-front Jand east of Michigan nvenue, and botween Xlludnlgh and Mouroo streets, for n paseonger station, If this convoyanco i mado, this Compauy will b required to_pay tho city £200,000, our share of the Lulanco due for the land,snd from &0, 000 to §100,000 morv will Le requirod this year to com- mouce tho crection of a depot. Youaro respectfully referred to the accompanying reports of tho Trustees of the construction mnrls’ai(n, aud of the otticers of tho Company, for detatiod iu- fornation of tho affairs of the Company in thoir sev- eral dopartments, The report of the Gencral Buper- intondont shows & marked reduction in cost of muin- totunco of equipment, sud that its condition has Leon full; mulnh?nml, ond the Chief Enginoer reports that tho improvement of thie pormanent way was steadily continued durlugthe year, at a small rednction of cost u8 comparad with 1872, Joux NEWHLL, Ourcaao, Fob, 2, 1874, Treaident, DIRKOTORS' REPORT. T'ho roport of the Dircctors containg tha fol- lowing important itoms: With the excoption of $8,074,000 bonds,which the Compuny i8 propared to pay upon presontation, tho original construe- tion debt of Qfl,nco,ooo Lina boon rodoowod, Tho balance bocomes paynblo . April 1, 1876, Tho share capital is uow $25,600,000 of full-paid shuros aud $1,750,000 half-pald sbaves, upon which tho romaining installmout of &0 per cent falls due on the 1st of Auguat noxt. The Bonrd has seoured rallway commuuication from the Inkes to tho gulf by connecting tho rond with New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northorn and tho Misuissippi Central Railroad Companies, providing for a dlvision of trallic by 1ilenge with thoso o railways to Now Orleans, thus constituting the snortest practicable routs ‘ouly ono-tonth longor- than the geographical [ istanco), enving twwolvo hours' time botiween St. Louis and New Orleans, and cightoon hours be- tweon Chicago aud New Orlenus over the previ- ous communications by rail, A small sharo of the immenso commereo of tha intorlor rivers of thin continent, which full fnto tho Msslsaippi Tiver at Quiro, avo toamply anpport tho railways south of Cnivo, whichs with imperfect menus aud insufliciont equipment have earned for threo yours past o aurp‘nu boyond tho interest on their mortguges, ‘Lho railway oonuection at Cairo was only completod theé lust day of the year, heuca theirnet traflio,whicl amountod to $1,543,~ 028,32 in_1878, was derived from their local ro- sources alono, TAE ENTIRE TONDED DENT of tho two Companios §8_ 10,000,000, The in- torost of this dobt being $1,200,000, in quite with- in tho not trafle of tho lines, Llo Boud, at tho roquosl of the sharoholdory, at tho last unual mooting assumned 20,000,000 of theso bonds by accopting annunlly tendors to tho extent of 800,000 per nunwin at pak. With this ongage- ment the Companies woro ablo to nogatiute thoir bonds. Bubsequontly $5,000,000 of the Southorn bonds, bearing 7 por cont futercst In gold, wero offered in even oxchango for £1,000, 000 storling of our 6 per cont bonds of L200 onch, The Board promptly acoopted this offer, and have ongoged that in any futuro mortgage that mny bo placed upon tho proporty of tho “Compauy this fssue of 6 por cont bonds shall Do invluded, limiting iho mortgagoe, when mado, to 15,000,000, 1t wanalso agroed thattho Compauy shall retuin the §8,000,000 of the 7 per cont douthorn bondy, and approprinte tho interest thorefrom to u fund to nuak the interest and redeom tho principsl of thoir bonds. ‘I'wo por cont por anuum, gainod Dby tho exchange, applied in this way, ostablishoy a sinldog fund to retive ail the 6 per cont bondn before maturity, and will thou louve tho &5,000,~ Ouotuf Bouthiorn bonds in the 'T'reasury froo ot coat, INFLUENOL OF TIE RATLIOAD, Whon the Illinols Contrsl Railroad was. pro- Pmd nerous the open Prulrlo to tho timber nnds of Bonthorn lllnoly, there were still Gov- emment lands opon to purchaso at 12§ conts por acre. Uho ‘valuation of real and porsonsl estate in Lllinois in 1850 was $160,205,000, Only twonty yoars had elapaed, and, in 1870, this vuluation has advanced 2,121, 180,670, The Dircotors boliova that tho o- velopment of the maunfactures of 1liinuis will, in a very fuw ybars, show o more remarkablo progress oven tharr hoa been obtnined from tho cultivation of ity aoil. ‘Tha conl-fields of 1Nl nols aro said to cover un extont of 10,000 squaro <} Botween Decabur wud Dizon, miles, and this ¢oal in_ hear nt hand to the inox- haustiblo iron orus of Lake Buporior and of Mis« soutl, The manufacturen of é)m Htato, 80 innigs nifieant 1n 1860 (only &xlfl,b{li,wi). aro siated in iho Ninth ensus (1870) at 8203,60,072. Tt FUTUNE, The Directors look hopofully to the futura of thefr property, and belloyo that tho timo hns nrrived to ‘adopt’ & holder polley in forming allinngos with other lines to rech the Infgor intorfor towns of tho Btato, which woom to bo deatined, In the noxt decado, to bocomo tho controw of manufaoluring dis- triots, Thoy nlno atato that tho annual maoting of tho sharcholders will bo hold on the lnst Wodunoaday ot May nt Ohleago, 3 THE TREABURRR'S REPORT. Tha ropért of thie ‘Lronruror shiows tho earne inga of tho road during the yoar 1873 to bo as follows : Total earnings In TUNOIAL o evsL ovees Enrnings ovor loased lincs i Town— Dubugque & Sloux Oity Ruliroad, Towa Yalls & Bloux City Raflroad Qodur Falls & Minuesota. Ralirond, Totzl,. +480,601,024,64 1,100,330,42 AZHU0T48 107,030,04 1. $9,208,025.18 © TR LAND COMMIRBIONER, . Tho report of tho Lam! Commissioner shows the follawing important trausactions during tho yonur 1873 . ¥ 7 1 During the year thoro woro sold 2,560 13-100 ncres of tho donated Jands, to 535 perdons, for $203,319.29 3 MAng ot AYOrago of €4 7100 nercd 10 ohch pitfoliuver, and tho averago prico por acro $8.02, Contracts wvero canvolod_forr §4,184 27-100 acros, amionnting to £43,- 022,31, 'Theag Iauds wero noarly ali resold ot & amail advanco ou_the orlginal averago priccs. Thero wero 1,918 deods famed, for 78,220 8-100 actes “of tho do- nated lands, makifig tho wholo aren conveyed 2,089, 718 30-109adres, and lenving inconvosed ot 281 64100 acres, Of tho purchased landn - thiere wero' 920 nres sold for . 'Tho total nics of donatod lands ko 2,260,828 7-100 aores, for $33,481,700,20, leaving unsold 85,171 92-100 acros, ' cash rocelpts for sales of lands, town lats, and collections, wero $527,210.10, of which, $200,000 in applied to the constrigtion-bond fund & $176,429,10 to tho interest fumd; $8,747.15 to purchased lands and_town lots, whicl'lins' beon paid o thooperativo department ¢ $10,109,10 to_the reduction of sundry assol | aud §39,00,20 to tho oxpenso nccount for thio yoar, - ‘I'ho obligations for landannd town lots sold, now o nnd_ 3t 1o maturo, amount o K1,104140,79, of which, $505,%00.70, belong to the coustructivi-hond fund, $323,253,60 1o the intereat fund, and $4,683.04 to tho purchased londs nnd lots fund, which litter liclongs - 1o tho operntlvo. departinent exclusivoly. Theso obligations aro socured by couirdots of sale, tmbracing 180,100 71-100 acres of land and s fow town Jot, , Tho donatod lsuds undisposed of aro located as follows : OX MAIN LINE, Bouth of tho Ohto & Misstssippt Raitrond, Jictween Sandovul aud Decatur, Acren, 27,315.97 b3,473.06 2,045,84 6,692.95 83,700.11 Between Dixon aud Dunleith . CILI0AO DRANCIHE, Between Odin and Tolano, ... Botween Tolono aud Chicago, - 1,082,60 TIE SUPETINTENDENT'S REPORT contatos tha following comparative statoments of glégnunrumgu of the road for tho years 1872 and 1£9,334,693,97 + 8,095,840.75 Tho operation expenses show a daeoroase of €24G,745,65 {rom tho expenscs of 1872, Tho longth of road operated is 1,107 7-10 miles, * R e iy THE OHIOAGO & ALTON. Travolers on the Chleago & Alton Railrond will hereattor Lave tho satisfaction that, in caso of ncoidont, they will xeceive immediato aud propor eurgical attendance, tho managers of tho sbove-nsmed road having just comploted ar- rangements which will prove of great benofit should anothor accident llke the ono at tho Bag bridgo oceur, - TN CASE OF ACOIDENT. Mr. O.'H. Scnvor, the Assistant Superintond- ont, has just issued tho follomng natice to night opor ators sud watchmen employed by tho rond ¢ In caso of any emergenoy, such s collison or othor verlous accident on thio road, or o fire in the Compauy's buildings, or neur them, requiring immodiate atten- ton, you will eend a man_with quick conveyanca to tho ‘residenco of tho following ofiicers and employes, sending particulars : J, 0, McMullen, General Supers intendont, No, 729 Weat Adamns strect’; Jomes Suiith, QGeneral Frolght Agont, Palmor Mousos A. A, Ricl ardr, Division Superintendent, No, 427 Wost Von Buren strect; O, 1 Scaver, Amsistant Superintendent, No, 464 West Jnckeon sirect: M, D, Mason, ‘Lrain-Dis patchar, No. 1045 West Adama streot; Patrick Leo, toad-Master, No, 8 Hanover streot ; 3. O'Ndll, Seation Foreman, No, 23 MeGlashen stroct ; Johu Loe, Sectivn Foreman, No, 104 Bushnell street ;* John Fox, Section Yoroman, No, 100 Sholto etresl; W, B, Thompson, Yard-Master, No, 74 Bunker strect: J. D. Johnsou, Foreman Englue-iTouse, No. 101 Sholto atreet, Dr, N, 8, Darues, No, t28 West Mudion ‘streot, in tho Company's physician, and must be ecnt for at onco in caso of injury to cmployes. In urgent cases, in addition to sending a man after Dy, Barnes, he should bo telograplied tirough tue iy telograph oflice, ! In caso of a serfous accldent or fnjury to soveral cemployea or vassengers, Dr, McViclar, No. 635 Wa- Larh avenue, tho Supervising Surgeon of ‘the Com- pany, must nlso Lo sont for by day or night, and ho will'procure alt the neceskary profeesional atiendauce, MEDICAL CIRCULAR. In_aocoordance with the above circular, Dr. Brock MeVickor has issued the followiug circular to surgeons at Joliot, D\rjgflm Bloomington, Bprivgficld, Alton, Jnoksonville, and Mexico : Haviug beon appoiated Supersiging Surgeon of tho Oblcawo & Alton Raflrond, and finding that you have® ‘Dboen appolnted Local Burgeon over tha foliowing por tiou of the road, yiz: ————, I tako tho oppor- tunity of submiiting to you the following suggestions, which I hope will moet.with your acceptanae, and with which you are requested to comyly un farns poesiblo, 1, When any peron of nuinber of porsons may bo injured withili your district, or moy be transported into tho sauie, orl elng notifid, to praceed prompily to thelr assislance, aud tako cliargs of them, procur- ing all supplies which may Lo necessary, 4, In conjunction with " tho Tocal Agents, to make permunent nrrangemonts with somo suitable’person in Jour towa to recelvo aud bowrd injured porsous whose omos ate not §n tha vicinity, at a fixed rate, not to oxcoed 86 per woek, wolitying thoso who do receive themn that thoy moy hot furnivh snything outsldo of 1ho ordinary noccensarics, unless on s written order from yonrsolf, and such ‘written ordera must accom- pany thelr bills whon proscuted far paymoat, 3, Tn all your atlondance, while providing amply for {hio needs of the fnjursd, to kee that proper economy i used, and tho peeuntary interests of the Company protected. 4, Tu sovero nccidents, to seo that tho ciroum. ntances of tho snnc, as fully ns_pousible, boat onco ielegraphed to tho General and Division Buperin- tendents. &, Lo call, ns far as possiblo, in cascs whero you do~ #iro couneal, on the regular !»l.\ynld:nl of tio Com- pany, whoso names nre herswitl furnished you; and you will, in such cueus, it i» hopod, ulioorfully respond 10 such calls, 6. To notify the Division Superintendent as carly as ‘pounible, in cach cavo of fnfurad employo or oflier per- son placed under your charge, with a statement of tho extent of tho fnjurlcs rocolved, sud {ho oxponses o~ Jug incurred on secannt of tho same, 7. o keop a full record of overy injury occurring under your care, and trenstudt or diachargo, to tho Su- porvising Surgeou at Glleeyo, the necounts and Youche era in the case, with all nocesary oxplanations with vegard to 16 avmp, with opinion aa ta dogreo of tome porary or persuncnt isability, 8, 'Po sco that all articles of a non-perlshable naturo, - furnislied by the Cumpunyl und susceptible of future une, bo preaorved, and an’ Inventory of the samo fur- nfalied tho Division Superintendent, All communications to .bo addressed ta meat tha offices of {ho Company, No, 2 aud 4 West Van Buren streot, * MEDRUNE CHESTH have also been placed in the dopots of tho above- unwmod stations. PESSRG- S MISCELLANEQUS. TIE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. The Kanunas Oity Reporter is burling tho fol- lowing arrows of ridiculo agninst the wiso logis- Intors of Iilinois on aogount of thoir abllity in manufacturiug rallroad Tnws: An intolligont Bucker leglalator, who had a_hand {n 1he goncral carpentering business which produced the Tliiuois Rallroad Iaw, ia fwpatiently wulting to hear tho death of old Vanderbilt, as ho ‘intends to marry tho widow and succeod 1o tlio Prosidenoy of the :vari- oun ralroad lines now controllad by the Commodore, T'he legislator thinks bie experience iu ths Iilinuia Henato amply qualifies him for o succesaful railroad man, No question about it 7 A general gloom olwcuros the logislativo faoo st the Illinois capithl, Ruilroad paescs are “played out,” Yomosick legisiators have (o pay fare or ¥ hoof it " home, Instead of spending three days of eaoh woek i tho bosoms of thelr familics, a8 was their custom Just wintor, and drawing_regulat pay in their absonce, {hicy naw Asvote thelr timo to busiucas, from inabilit to get homo without & pecuniary consideration, 8ad, but truel Tho gentlomen who wear No,4 bats and No. 11 ‘Doots, aud make luws for the Cammonwealth of Ylli- nols, are having & lively timo aver tho Rallroad law, If thioy wore No, 11 hats aud No, 4 boots thero would Do some chance of tleir comprebiending the queation at “]nuu. The trouble j& thelr bralus are at the wrong ond, ~ TUE DECAWARE, LACEAWANNA & WEMTERN IOAD. Bamuel Bloai lLas been olocted Prosidont, TFredorick F, Chambors, Bocrotary, and Androw J, Qdell, Traasuror, of the Dolawaro, Luok- awanua & Wostorn Raliroad Company. peieiiorit i~ i Mysterious Disnppearances in Paris. The Paris journals aro ontortaining their roudora with startling stovies abont the sudden disappenrance of u number of nice young men, o atfay tho unonsinoss of tho friends of tho missing youth tho story of Lecoy's nm\mu\y in yovivod, telling how in the time of Louls XIV. twonly-slx young men, who wore nmnrtnd to Jeve boon enorisiced to tho whin of an Princoss who bathed herself in human blood, woro at lsat found to hava témporarlly given thomsaolvon over to the influbucen of beauly and wine, Whether the samo influcnoos hiayo boen nt work again is yot undeoidod, but the recont disapponraitcos are cortainly vory strango. Tho firat took lvlncu throo months ago, when tho son of a wenll I|¥ buildor left lils homo one morning to tako a walk on tho Boulevards, ~ Nothing ling beon hoard of him sinco, and all tho offofts to discovor his traco havo proved unavalling. ‘I'ho sccond cao fu that of n young man who, it iy tmportant to stato, had boon out all day colloot- ing Lilla, Ho was unqngnd to no marriod short- Iy, was prosperous in business, and possopsed overgthing that shiould mako oxistence ploanant, Atter dinnor 1o wout out, as ho told his mothar, to eay his prayors at the churol, and Lis not re- turned yot. A third easo {s that of a youth who bad gono home on Hunday to ding with hig parents, JIis fathor was oul, aud ho left to go and moot him, 110 has nover returned smae. THE CRISPINS' STRIKE. Tho_Shoemakers vs, Tho Mauufac- turers, | Letter from S. M. Booth, Esq, 'o the Kdttor of The Chicaqo Triduna ; Bin: Pormit s disintorosted party & fow sug- goutions on the disagreoment of tho boot-nnd- shoomaliors and tho boot-ahd-shoo-mauntifnctur~ ersof this clty, My sympathies aro always with laboring mon, aud I agroe with you - that. thio co-oporative principlo must oventunlly ad {ust tho relntions botween Lnbor and Capital. Dut sitch adjustment roquires mutual explana- tions, conceesions, and good will, oulargod intel- ligenco, and must bo the work of time. It can- not be oxpected to meot the presont emorgoney. :l\:llhmu well to both: parties, I write primarily in o 3 s 3 INTEREBTS OF OHIOAGO, rogardingthe wholo a4 greater than a patt, Horotofore tho boot-and-shooimakers In the Inrgo Louses of this city have diclated tho prico for thelr worlt, After the paule, when tho out~ look for tho trade was discouraging, the manu- Tacturors said, Wo cannot afford to continue the prices of Inat year. Wo cannot manufacture so long in advauce of our needs, and pay moro than 4 o cano; ond tho workmen acquiesced. Roocoutly, without consultation with their cm- ployors, or sny attompt at amicable ndjustment, the workmen struck, first in one establishmont nud then in another, for last year's prices, Chero is no disguising nor disputing tho fact that it was the beginning of & gonoral striko ; for, hind thoso honses beon brought to their terms, they would bave compelled the other houscs to pay thoe advanced price, or censo manufacturing tiil thoy could supply their places with other work- men. In tho mean time, tho prospects of trado hnd brightened, sud the mouufacturors volun- tarily fucroased the price of work to $4.50 & cnse, but anncxed the condition that those they em- ployed shonld not ** strike ™ nor aid others in * gtriking." Thon the manufactnrers formed a Trades- Union? Yos, They wore competled to it for > BELF-PROTEOTION, Strike bogats striko, Thoy had to chooso be- twoen_ stopping now, when thoy are strong onough to stand it, or stopping by and by from sheer oxhaustion, Eastorn doalors and Westorn Crispins would soon drivo thetn to tho wall, But the manufacturers dictated to tho work- men how they should sqlend their monoy! Not exactly, and ‘not at all, excopt that they said, You sball agree not to spend the money wo pn{ you to injure and destroy us, We will not willingly furnish you with a olub to boat our braing out. We will not employ mon who con=~ spiro against our futercsts, and who combine to extort from us what' wo can't afford to pay. That is tho law of 9 SELF-PRESERVATION, which all prudent men obey. Tho facts aro: Tho workmon have struck for last yoar's prices, and the manufacturers liave struck back against this strike. T'hat is all there i8 of it. Tho manufacturers have paid from §1 to $1.60 & cnee moro for tho samo grade of work than Eastern houses pay; and tlioy say—with good reason—that they cannou py &5 & caso and competo with Enatern houses n solling; that they must gt thelr work done at tha pricoy thoy proposs, or coaso to maoufac- turo; and that, if they cannot do this, thoy must Liro their work douo at the East. "I'io rosult of thia action on tho part of the worknten, if persisted in, will bo to throw some 800 to 1,000 men out of work nt their own trade, and either add thom to the number of idlors, or push them into other avocations aiready over- crowded, The truth is, aa wo have long known, the boot- and-ghoo-mauufacturers horo. HAVE MADE NO PROFIT on the sale of their own work, because the cost of thoir labor hms beon 80 to 40 per cont groator than that of thoir "Enstorn competi- fors, They have established o reputation for Chicage-made boots by using uniformly tho besb matorinls, and thus drawn trado hers, and mado galos for their imported stock, whio! constitutes o large part of their total sales. B this home-manufacture they havo attracte millions of dollars yearly lg} Chicago, which would otherwise have gone to Enstorn citios, and hove made this the groat distributing point for thio boot-nnd-shoe-trade of the West. Aud the indircet benolits of this_trade to Chicago can Lardly bo ovorestimated. For, if Western doal- ors go Enot for their boots and shoes, they will also go . there for their dry gaodaf groceries, . hardware, clothing, hat and caps, millinery, etc. Not oniy is the boot-and-shoe-trade of Chiongo & vory largo one, but iv has beou most honorably condueted, aud tho houses engaged in it aro among the strongost and bost in this city, In- stond of giving employment to 1,000 boot-and- shoemakers, thoy ought to bo able to give cm- ployment to . YIVE THOUBAND, . Wo have tho best hides, the best tanneries, and the bost matorials of all kinds, at our com- mabd; and the prime ngcesnaries of lito—flour, beof, pork—in fact, almost everything save louse-rent, are far chesper lore than at the Tost, And, bat for the- excossive prico asked for worl here in comparison with that paid at the Last, we should havo tliousands, whore hun- dreds have been, employed in our manufactories to.day, Dut it counot bo oxpected that any clnss'of men will long continuo a profitless busi- noss. Wo CANNOT REVERSE THE LAWS OF TRADE, They aro stronger than trades-unions or manu- facturers' unions. Peoplo will not pay $5 for an nyticle that thoy can buy for &% or for $4.50, Not willingly, “And not long, oven undor com= pulsion, Iu is unpleasant for tho boot-and-shoe-houses that this strike hns acourred, though it may ulti- mately inuro to their bonefit. 1f 1t shall break | up the tyranny of the trades-unions, whioh will allow no ono to leara thelr trude without their Eelmiauiou, and ouly a very fow at that, it will e & bloseing to the whole community. Tho intorents of nmplninm aud employed are mutual, and whoovor seeks to antagonize them does both them and the city & wrong., With work at such prices that the manufacturers could live and competo . with Eastern houses, such a busi- ness conld bo bullt up lero v would muke Obi- cago the 'y GREAT MANUFAOTURING OENTAB, not only for the West, but for the Bouthern and Middle Statos. Aud 1t would giye conataut em- ploymeut to a great multitude oi workmen. B, M. Boorit. — Rabbi Bismarclc. They hayo promoted Blemarck to a higher of- fice now ; ho ia callod Rabbi Bismarok, Which Lins hopponed in this wise: Tho last oleotions for the Gorman Imporial Diet had beon orderod on a Saturday, by somo ono who evidently hnd no rabbinical lore, All tho Jews of tho empiro were thrown fnto commotion whon this terrible dincovery was mado; but no ono was so excited a8 tho Rabbl Dmhm'fiar of Wuorsburg, who is of the most orthodox Jowish scbool, and would no more think of voting ona Baturday than ho would of eating pork. Bovoral days and nights ho spent in anxlous meditation and prayer, uutil divine lght poured into s troubled soul, He immodiately telograplhiod to tho great Chancotlor of the German Empire his sore ‘trouble, Thon came tho answer, worthy of & lifolong studont of the Talmud: “You may write your tiokets on Friday; your Sabbath expires at fifty minutes pm{ 4 tho polls do not olose Il 6; you havo, thore- fore, one hour and ten minutoes forjvoting.” Rabbl Bamborgor waa rolieved of a woighty load ; tho ansyer complotoly satisfied him, but, wlnhl‘np to ascortain whethor his 6wn disciplos in rabbinical loro would bo able to find the solution, go read- ity suggested by Dismarck, ho Yrupnnndad them the caso. No'ono was nble to discover n remedy, and, whou tho Rabbi at last wado known Bis- marek’s answor, it was uuannmously rosolved that Lis titlos of Princo, Chaucellor, Prime Blin- iustor, ofo,, aught hovoafter to be supplomentod aud complimonted by dubbivg Lim Labbi Bis uevrious | marek, " CHARLES KINGSLEY, 1iis Second Lecturo in This Couniry, “The First Disoovery. of America A “Tremondous Waek" in History, ®peciat Dispateh to The Chieano Tridune, BosTox, Maen,, Fob, 23, 1874, Tver since tho subjoot of Mr. Kingsloy's soo- ond looturs has boon announced, peoplo have wondored what ho would toll us about Y TIIE FINST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA{" and this atiornoon s most flattoring nudioncs listoned to bim, at Hortloultural Hall, Mr, Kingslog's monnor, without being that of & “popular” locturor, {s ono that will not de- croase his populatity? At firet it ia a littlo dim- cult to entch every word} but, wlien onoo nocns- tomoad to tho alight inclination to intono, and tho decidedly Engllah omphasls and pronuncine tion, thoro {s no diffleulty whatover. 1Io began hig lecturo by ropoating ono of the old Norso Bagas, desaribing the loas of tho ship commanded hy . TTARNE GRIMOLFBON, and which adverse winds drove into the Irlsh Ocoan, 803 yerrs ago. Whon tho Captain found his good ship sinking undor hiin, be and his orew drow outs to sco who should bo saved by the boat, and who should sink with tho ship Binrno drow onoe of the living slips ; but, impor - tuned by another Icclander, ho gave Lim hie pinco in the life-boat and stayed by bis ship 4 This story,” said Mr, Kingsloy, * may sorve as & toxt for my whole lecturo, It givos a glimpeo of the noblencss that undorlay the grim aud often crutol naturs of the Norseman, It bolong- ©d, too, to the culminating opoch,—to tho bdgin- ning of that ora whon tho Soandiunvisn povple h:dhtlmlr g'r;mt titnes,—whon tho old flercencen of the worshipers of Thor and Odin was to od by the faith of the * White Ohflntl:‘-flml’fi; very mon who had beon tho destroyers of Weute ern Europo beeame its clivilizera, “Yor Americans it should have special in- terest ; for Bjnrue was on bis voyage home from the shoro of Now Lngland, They had found Tcoland, Greonland, Labrador, Nova Scotis, aud Now Eufilmm, which they called Vinland, ~And more, Heyond Vinland the Good thore was said to be anothor lnud,— WHITEMAN'S LAND, or Ircland tho Micklo, as somo callod it. For thego Norso tradors from Limorick bad found Arl Marson and Kotln, of Ruykjanes, supposed toliave boon drownod ab sos, who eaid that the pooplo hod made them Chiofs and baptized Ari. \VDL\“ is oll this? And what s this, too, which the Esquimnux childron tnken in Markland tola tho Notthmen, of a land beyoud, whero whita peoplo woro white clothes and carried flags on poles? ~ Aro those all droams; or some part of that gront civilization, the relics whareof our antiquarians found in so many parts of the nited Statos, wtill in_existonco komo 900 yoars ngo, and were theso old Norso cousins upon the very edge of it, 'Chisis all kuown to the anti- quarian; aud tho’acts of the carly Norsemer! and wouten tand out clear as the nots of dramatio personages, Thorvald; Gudrida, the maguifi- cont widow; Helgi, and Trimbogi, and the tor- rible Frigdise,—ail thoso folks, I sy, uro ng phautoms, DUT REALITIES,— at lonst if I ean judgo of internal evidenco. “ But beyond tliony, and Lovering on tlo verge of Mythus aud I'miry-land, thoro isa ballad callod “U'rim the Fair,—about him snd his Dbrother, Holdano tho Birong, and the Princoss Injiborg, duughter of tho King of Icoland,— which waa still uaug, with othor * Romur’ of bal- luds, in_tho Faroos, st the ond of tho lnst cen- tury, Prof. Rapo hgoinserted it in Lis Antig- uilates Americane, beonuse it talks of Vinlaud a8 o well-known place; and tho brotliers are eont by tho Princess to elay Amarican Kingy, “It anything moro important than 15 told b Prof. Rups und Mr. Black bo now known to lh{ antiquariang of Maseachusotts, lot me eutrent thom to pardon my ignorance. Lut lot me rocord it s my firm opinion, that, though somo- what too much may lhave been made, in past years, of eertain rock-inscriptions on_this vide of the Atlantic, thero can Lo no reasonnble doubt that our own race Ianded on, and tried to sottlo, tho shores of gow England “81X HUNDUED YEARS before the Pilgrim Fathers of tho Bevonteenth Coutury; and, but for tha fogs aud ivobergs, tho rocks and currents, of tho dreary North At- Iantic, a Beandinnyian dynasty might have been seated now upon tho Throno of Mexico ; and tho knowledgo of Markinud, and Viueland, sud White-mannoland might not have diod sway in o fow gencrations, and become but firosido Bagas ‘| for tho winter nights. “ Lot me skotch for you once more the tale of TUHAT TREMENDOUS WEEK which sottled the fate of Britain, and therefors North Amorica,—whothor wo should bo on a par with the other civilized nationsof Europs, heirg of Roman civilization, Roman litorature, Ruman Inw, and, therefore, in due time, of Groek phi- losgphy and axt. No loss o question thau this bung in the balance during that week in Qo- et ola Edward oor old Edward tho Confossor—holy, weal and sad—lay in_ his now clioir of \Veanyl;(nntulf-’, whero the wicked ceasod from troubling aud the woury wero at rest. He lnd loft no heir. The South Lnglish, in their uttor nced, bad choson for their Ring Earl Harold Godwiusson, of the oll-dominant~ Seandivayian blood,—for his mothor was a Danish Princess, Thon out of Norway, with a mighty host, camo Harold tTard. raado, King of Norway, and_couqueror, for the timo, of Donmarl, to take Englaud, ad Sweyn Cnnuto tool it sixty yonrs boforo. 1f he and big half-barburous "hosts Lad conquered, the civilization of England would have boen thrown back porhaps for centuries, But Harold Hurd. rado camo, with all his Vikings, to Stamford Brldfiu by York, ouly to take what Harold of Eu. glau pxomiuad’ ‘hint,—forasmuch as he was tall- or than any other man,— BEVEN FEET OF ENGLIBI GROUND, HTho story of that groat battle, told with fow inaceuracies, anf told as ouly great poots tell, you should read—| Y\:: Lave not road it als rondy—in the Zleunekringla of SnorioSturlesson, the Homor of the North: 4 +High feant thot dsy hield the birds of Glha beusta of (hyfi fald, e, Winlnon ey aut White-tuiled erne, aud zallow glods, Dusky raven withl horny nob, ‘Aud tho gray dcer, the wolf of the wood.! **Tho bones of the slain, mou say, whitone tho ground for fitty yors, " % 4 #On that samo day, Willlam, Duke of Nore mandy, was sntling, With hia Fronch-speaking Norsemen, to conquer that Iv:ufglnud which the Norse-speaking Normans could not conquer, Tig Iarold met him on tho fatal downs, an thon came TIE BATTLE OF IASTINGS, Bo England was conquered by tho Norman,— but by the civilizod, not the batbaric. Ho it was to be, for Bo it ought to have been. *Bub thoy were fearful times, As long s William lived he kept ordor and was just. - But, in hia son's times, mattoragrow worso and worso, And what camo of ftall? Wbt was the rosult of ull this migory ? I'his, paradoxical as it may seom ¢ that the Norman Conquest wos the maks ing of the English pooplo,—of tho YREE CUMMONS OF ENGLAND, #Tho great majority of tho Deers have aprung from, aud’ all" intermarried with, the omuions ; and the Pesrage hus beon, from the flvat, tho prize of succoss in lifo, Dub_casto— thank Godl—hos never existed in England, sinco at lonst the first goneration after the Nor man Jonquest. “But how did theso wild Vikings become Christian mon ? = Their conversion was slow, To Rome—then the fount of all theology as of all civilization—did they owa much of {t. But also I must boliove that much of their Chris- Hanity came from that MYSTERIOUS, ANCIENT WESTERN onunen, —the Churoh of 8t. Patrick, St. Dridgoet, 8t Columbn,—which had covered with_rudo 'cella and chapols the rooky islots of the North Atian. tio, ovon to Iceland itsolf, And lot ua boliove that the intluenco of woman was not wanting in the snod work, - * Bad und blood-stained an theso Norssmen are, we love thom, Your own poets—men brought up under circamstances, uudor idens, tho most opponito to thoirai—love thom, And why? Not for thoir daving,—their stern endurance. 1Is it not rather bocktso > 'THEBE MEN ARE WE { that their blood runs in tho voins of erhaps nh\le:ml:x; %u;‘ 0{! ::vrtz{ ton, \Lhethor in Kmnflm or Englan artling as tho ar T beliove it to be striotly true.” 'woruon Honed A P —A Prairle du Chicn ball, gt wedding, bogan at 10 o'clgol ':::ahx'ng::i‘:fgo:-fi Instod until the next daylight. Whon it olosed tho brido was drunk, and the husband had boon uhnw]nfllerbtp @0 of tho guasie.