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4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1874. R R == TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TENMA OF FUDACKIPTION (PAYADLY IN ADVAKCE), Parts of nyoar at the rune rato, To provent dolay and mistakes, bo suro and glyo Post Offico nddress In full, fnoluding Stato and County, Remittances may ba mado oithor by dratt, oxpross, Post Oftice o1dar, or in registared lottars, at our risk, TERMS TO OITY BUNACRINENS. Daily, delivorad, Bunday exceptod, 25 coute por weok. Daily, doliversd, Bunday included, 30 conts por wook. Addrons THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carnor Madison aud Pesthorn-ats., Uhleago, Tl TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, M'VIOKER'S TIHEATRE~—Madison stroot, bastwesn Dearborn and Stato, Engagomont of Edwin Booth. *'Tng Apostato,’ HOOLRY'S THILATRE—Randolph - street, betwoon Olark and LaSalle. ** Divorood." ACADRM MUBIC—Halstod atreot, batwaon Mad- A oy, Wiengaumout of Olivet Doud Byron, **Douald MoKay." ADELPHI THEATRE—Cornor of Wabash avonus and Congress atroet. Variotyontertainmont. BE THEATRE-Dosplaincsstreet, botween Mad. A . Fagagomons of Josopi IC. Hamots *Fritz, Our Oousin Gorman." MYERS' OPERA-HOUSF -Manroo _atraot, betwoon Donrborn and Stato. Arlington, Oatton, and’ Kemble's Minatrolsy aud comicalitios, ' Cosmoratmioal Allusion, ** Oue Groat Oluy." ; 5 LDING-Lako Shora,, fook of AN & e ot ot tfadtaat San.n" Atfersioon and evoniog. ST! INION ROOMS—No, 114 East Madison fifi‘n‘{‘ i a ot for Uso boasHicor tho Houndiaus oma, DR, KAHN'S ANATOMIOAT, MUSEUM-No. 148 South Clark strat. Scicnon sud Art. 2 ESS NOTICES. SOIK THROAT, COUGH, OOLD, AND SIMILAR troubles, {f euilorod to_progrom, rosult in serfous pul- eotlo oftontimes inourablu. ** Brown's Tironcntal rochios " reach diroctly tha Soat of tho dis- mac, sud givo slmost {oatant, roliof, Uhe Chicags Teibune, _Thursday Morning, February 26, 1874.. * Grand Chief Engincer Wilson was invited to resign yestorday by the mooting of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engincors at Cloveland; and did so. MMr. Wilson's indiscroot and contra~ dictory utterances of late, on the subject of the striko in contemplation by the Brotherhood, soom to have boen tho causo of bis fall. Nono of tho other procoedings hiave trapspired, as the mooting 18. socrot, , Tho Ashnntee war not come to the glorious termination which wns announced a fow days ago. Instead of the srrival of Sir Garnot Wolse- loy m England with captives, and tributo, and thoe protocol of s treaty giving Great Britain all it nsked, nows comes of & dissstrous dofeat on tho 81at of January, nit Aceroombn, in which sev- oral oflicors wero killed, sud which will compel 8ir Garnet Wolseloy to fall back upon the const. . The congregation of Christ Church mot last evening, nnd formally organized a8 a Reformbd Zpiscopal Society, thus following thoir pastor, Ar. Cheney, who some timo sinco accopted the office of Bishop in the now denomination. Among the ofticers chosen was Mr. Aldrich, who purcliased the church proporty s few woeks ago whon offored for gale on tho foreclosure of & mortgage. o was olectod Benior Warden, * Benator Cemoron has givon notice that he will call up the Hotise resolution in regard to tue Contenuinl to-day. Somo of his associates ob- jectod, on the ground that, as a heavy appro- priation was fovolved, it ought to be considered with (he other appropriation bills, Another nsked that it mijut bo postponed till the curron cy question was sottled, but Mr, Camoron re- fused, ou tho ground that any such consumma- tion was too remoto to be hoped for. Tho Anti-Mou:opolists of Iowa met in conven- tion yesterday at DesMoines. A pormanent or- govization was formed, with Benator Mitchell as President, and the usual committces were ap- pointed. The number of delegates in attend- anco is very largo, and they scem to bo alivo to the opportunity which is bofore thom, and do- tormined not to let tho Btato slip out of their bands again, as was dono at the last olection, for want of organization and o proper confidence in their own powers. Prepident Grant urges Congress, in s special message submitted yostorday, to como to the aid of tho Philadelphia Contennial with ail the logislation necessary to make it s national and intornational affair. Ho approves very warmly of the Exposition project. International Expositions havo boen held by three of tho Groat Powors of the earth, and now he thinks it is our turn. Our hundredth asnni- versary ought to bo celobrated in this way, and Philadelphis iy its fittest site, as it was there tho Declaration of Independence was promulgatod. His lost remark is tho bost: Lot us now whilo thore ia time tako all the stops that are necessary to manke tho Exposition s completo success, or lot us abandon it declsively. Rafferty ia to bo hanged to-morrow with tho rope that was bought for tho provious oxccution that would bave talken placo but for a superso- dens, Sherift Bartlott, of Lake County, with an abiding faith in the cortainty of justico, has ‘kopt tho rope cousccrated to its first purpose. A very strong sppeal for mercy was mado yes- terduy to Gov. Boverldgo by o dolegation from thig city. A petition with 500 signatures for tho commutation of tho sentonce to imprison- ment for lifo was prosented, and eloquent ad- dresses mndo urging overy possible plen for clemency. The Governor made no answer, ox- copt to promiso that he would give his decision to-day, and would try to shapo it in justice both to Rafterty and tko peoplo Palne, the only witness in tho printing invoa- tigation ot Springfiald who still rofuecs to tell Wwhat ko knows, has been ordered into confine- ment in the Sengamon County Jail. The vote of tho House on commitment stood €5 to 41, Tho Doorkeoper, while taking him to prison, way sorved with a writ of habeas corpus from the Circult Court, As .o anewer noed bo roturned for threo days, the prisonor vemoios In the oustody of the Iouso, eud emi- nont counsol on both sides have been sot to work to propare urgumeonts in regard to tho respeotive rights of the Courts and the Logislaturs, In Massnchusetis, the Courts have repentediy de- cided in such caves thnt the authority of the Legislature is sovereign, and that the Courts canuot interforo. 'The Chiongo produce muarkets were gonorally dull yostarday nt o lowor rango of pricos, Mous pork wus modoratoly uotive, and 100 por brl lower, closing ut $14.05@14,10 caul, and §14.80 @14.96 solior April. Lard was qulet and 6@100 por 100 1be lower, closlug at $8.70@8.76 onsh, snd §3.873¢ aellor April, Moata: ware more’ ace tivo and s shade oasior, closlng ot Gife for shoulders ; T(@73o for short riba; 7ifoe for short cloar, aud 93¢@103¢o for swoot-ploklod liams, Droused hogs wore quict and unchanged, at 80.00@0.12}4 por 100 the, Highwinos wore dull and onsler, at 93}(@04o por gallon. Flour was dull nud unchanged, Whoat was quiot and 140 lower, closing at $1.10}¢ cash, and $1.10%¢ seller April, Corn was dull and 3@3o lower, closing at 503¢o cash, and 68c scllor April, Oats wore quict snd casior, closing nt 420 casl, and 480 sellor April. Rye was moro active and firm- or, closing at 83)qe for rogular. Barloy was dull and 3@Go lower, at $1.48@1.50 for No. 3. Live Lioga woro active and flrm, with sales at 85.25@ 6.00 for common to cholce, Oattio woro notive and stoady, BSheep ruled quiet aud unchanged. In spoaking agalnst tho Senato bill for tho ap- pointmont of a Commission to considor tho regu- lation of tho alcoholie liquor traffic, Sonator Schurz uttored somo thoughts that boar dircotly on tho provailing crusade agalnst saloon-keop- ors, To attompt to suppress imtomporance by such mosns, ho senld, was bogitning at the wrong ond. Tho surest way to nllure men from bad pleasures was to subati- tuto botter onos for thom, A lasting reform could bost bo reached by the introduction among tho peoplo of wholesomo social enjoy- ments, Mr. 8churz ridiouled tho Commission suggoested, and proposed that Congress should oxtend ita investigations to gambling, extrava. ganco in dress, and tho offocts of tho consump- tion of hot soda upon sociot; ‘The currency dobate wns ‘‘on” again in the Senate yosterdsy. BSouator Allison said that he could not consider tho propoeition to Increaso the bank-note circulation to £400,000,000 as ob- Jjoctionablo or n contlict with tho bost interosts of tho country., Boustor Bhorman also admitted that this plan—which is Morri- mon's, of North Carolina—was loss ob- jeotionable than tho othor schomes for inflation, Not much inflation could como from any such incrense of the National Bank- noto cireulation. As Senator Schurz showed yostorday, it would cosb $1,120 in curroncy to got 8900 in curronoy for the banks. The in- crenso of $44,000,000 in banlk circulation, now in question, would cost a tritlo more than $50,000,- 000. Another appeal to tho Bonate to pass the original bill for the redistribution of $25,000,000 was made by Benator S8horman, who said ho was wearied of tho discussion that was current. + Tho Bprivgfleld (Alass.) Union publishes an~ othor instanco of the manner in which the in- famous Sanborn contract works. A bookkeoper in tho employmont of Joel Hayden, of Hayden- ville, Mass,, stimulsted bytbo prospect of a handsome moiety from tho Governmont, mado s complaint to the rovenuo officor of that district that the firm was in arrosrs of taxes. Tho rovenuo officer in turn informed Supervisor Simmons, the man whom Butler is attempting to foist upon the people of Boston as Collector, oxpocting, of course, that Simmons would instruct him to colloct the tax. Bimmons, howover, sont ono of the Sanborn de- teotives, who collected it, and one-half the amount was given to S8snborn. -Horo was o clear cnse, not only of blackmail, but also of defrand- ing the Governmont, inasmuch as tho rogular rovenue oflicer was awareof the fact, and it was Lis duty to collect’ what was duo and turn tho whols amount over to tho Government, Aa‘ s part of the burlesque vendotta which the oditor of the Chicago ZTimes 18 waging sgainst Dr. Johnson, itis now in order for this Bom- bastes Furioso to open his battories on Mr. J, E. Williams, President of tho Motropolitan Na- tional Bank, of New York. Mr, Willlama' bank subacribed. $4,000 of the Bankers' Reliof Fund, and has now had tho temerity to write a letter to a gentloman in this city, printed elsewhare, in which hosaya: * Inasmuch a8 thero was more than enough to meet tho wants of thot class [bunk officers and clerks], I heartily approvo of tho appropriation of $2,500 of tho smount paid by this bank to Dr. Johnson, who doubtless rolieved, without pay, many of thoso who wore intended to bo beneficiaries of our fund.” Mr. Williama further eays that he submitted & tlual account of tho distribution of the fund to tho New York Committos, whio gave o unanimous eanction to tho whole transaction, Hencoforth Mr. Willlams, and the New York bankors genorally, may look for mo mercy, ‘Whether they will be able to held up under tho Bpirituslist fury of the Times editor aud the withdrawal of Mr, J, O. Rutter’s financial sup- port, remaing to be seon, REGULATING THE S0CIAL EVIL, A conferonco was held yesterdsy by the Boards of Henlth and Polico and sunudry Alder- men relative to a proposition to *regulate” the gocial evil. The rogulating procoss discussed was tho liconsing systom in vogue in Bt, Louis and in some Ruropoan citics. Tho meeting was opencd by & disputo betweon tho Health and Polico Boards as to which of them was responsi- blo for calling the meeting—ench seeking to shovo the Dllamo on the other. Without gottling this question, thoy listened to a paper from Dr, Bchlootzor, advocating the liconso sys- tem, showing how it would lesson thoso diseasos with which Naturo has appropristoly stigmatized thoe social ovil, and how it would tond to ame- liorate tho condition of fallon women. Tho functionarios prosent thon discovered that thoy had no logal power to act,—at all ovents there wore grave doubts on that point. Some of thom wented to consult tho Corporation Counsel, olhers wanted to potition tho Logisla- ture, and finally thoy disporsed without reaching any conclusion, tho only rosult of the confor- once being tho enlightonment, or otherwise, of the mombors by Dr, Scliloatzer, This subjeot is ono uot essy to discuss in public, and wo should not soil’ our coluinns with it but for tho imporative noed, 88 wo coneidor, of arousing the moral sentimeut of the com- munity to opposo snd summarlly extinguish the wholo movement, The stock argument of tho liconkers everywhoro is that their plan mitigates and provouts disosse. It does .mot. D, Androws, of this.city, made a caveful porsonal oxamination of the system in Poris, and proved, iu & pruphlot published & few yonrs ago, that, with all the efficionoy of the Parisisn police and olf the skill of Parisian doo- tors, the proportion of this class of disoases to all discnses in the hospitals romained sk great thero as In cltios wheoro no such systom oxluted. Tho barrack towns of England, whero troops are congrogated, afford no just critorlon of tho workiugs of the systom .In @ city whero tho froquenters of such places are not subject to military law, Put tho males as well as tho fomales under tho system—mske both partios take out a license, and see to it that nobody en- goged {u this vilo commorce ia without & licouse —then if medical okill is rogulatly jnvoked, somothing may bo dono to mitigate aud lesson such disensca, Nosystom loss rigid ia worth a moment's conslderation on Aaultary grounds. The schomo is predicated on tho ides of malk- ing the lowd women pay tho wholo cost of pro- teoting the lowd mon from the consoquonces of tholr joint lowdnoss, Buch a systom 18 not only grossly unfair, but,ns we have already romarkod, inoNiclent undor thio conditionaof freodom which provall {n all largo cltios of & hetorogoncous pop- ulation. As to the moral fontures of tho liconk- ing syatom, they aro altogethor bad., Thoy hold out a hopo of immunity from the consequences of vico, which is for tho moat part illusory. Thoy givo & quasi public sanction to ono of the worst forms of soolal disorder. To esy that tho ovilalwayshas oxisted andalwaya will oxist proves nothing whatever in tho caso, Naturo has affix- od. o terriblo ponalty to it, and ono which tho ingonulty of man cannot add to. Wo would not oy that man should not seok to subtract from it. We would provide hospitala for this class of pationts, though not until the sufferers from more innocent maladios aro provided for. But wo would not employ the powor of the Biato to obato ono jot of tho detorring force which these disoagos oxorcise, not ovon to shield virtuous wivos and unborn children from tho conse- quonces, TAXES ON LAND. Bome weoks ago we published several columns of facts Hlustrating tho inconsistencios and ab- surditics of tho prosont Rovenus law of this Btato, and tho frauds and worse committed un- dor that met. Wo called attention to the fact that, of tho taxablo proporty in this Stato, only the land, town lots, and tho live-stock on tho farma wero onumeratod with any degroo of acou~ racy, aud that thoss alono paid any honest pro- portion of tho tax, The Rovenuo law was cun- ningly devisod to ewindle the land-holders of the Btate, who, badly duped, allowed the whole bur- don of taxation to be placed on their shoulders, undor an idea that the twenty or thirty printed pagoa of tho law providing for an assossment of other porsonal property would prove of sonie effoct, Tho Rovenue law of this Btate is o literary mouatrosity. Itisso fashioned withoaths and afirmations and powers of arrest, soarch, suizuro, penaltios, and forfeituros, that it would bo truly alarming if it could bo onforced. Like on overdose of poison, it dofeats iteelf. It is o jost and & byword, a fraud and a decoption. It attempts too much, and accomplishes nothing, oxcopt to moko taxation in Illinois more unjust and unequal, perhaps, than in any other State of the Union. The foult of the law ig in tho attompt it makes to reach porsonal property; of this, the Assessor ronches, perliaps, 80 per cont; nnd, of what he findg, ono-third escopes the Collector; so that 80 per cont of the personal property of the State escapoes taxation altogethier, In the sssessmont of 1873, “morchandise” in tho Btate of Illinois is roturned at $88,000,000. - In 1878, ovor 575,000,000 of merchandise wae sold at whole- eale in Chicago alone; and the sales, wholosale and rotail, in the State in tho year were probably not lesa than $1,500,000,000, Evory horso, ox, cow, sheop, and hog on & farm in Illinols way aesesyed and taxed; every farm-wagon and implomont was taxed, and thoy constituto ncarly one-half the wholo assessed value of personal property in the State. Tho land, outsido of town-lots— the farm lande—Is taxed on o valuation of $582,000,000, aud evory cent of this tax will bo collected by sale if necessary. Exoluding the live-atook, agricultural implements, snd lLouse- hold furniture on farms, the othor porsonal property in the Stato is valued at about $150,- 000,000, snd more than ono-half the tax thereon will nover be paid,—there belng no way to col- lect it. Thus tho Revenue law which tho farmors hiave been made beliove was intended to reach the holders of porsoual property, has no othor offoct than to make thom pay on thoir land and stook and lousehold goods nearly tho whole tax of the Btate, Tho fact is overlooked that the Stato of Iili- nois is now out of debt, and hes a cortain reve- nuo from other sources; and that the entirareve- nuo needed by the Btato for all purposes may bo levied and collected, without any tax whatever on either land or porsonal property. The Btato of Tlinois might, if the Logislaturo and Stato offi- corg wero willing, celobrate the National Conten- nial by abolishing overy tax on thoe land and por- sonal property for State purposes, aftor the Fourth of July, 1876, as has ' al- ready beon dono in Ponnsylvania. That would be tho proudest -monument that could be crocted, It would bo & proud record that a Statoonly a few years ago pronounc- ed bankrupt, numbering over 8,000,000 of poople, supporting & most liboral systom of public schools, maintaining an immonse arrsy of publio charitios, and having paid off every cent of pub- lic debt, colebrated the begiuning of the new century of the nation by a repoal of all the taxos upon tho land and other property of its people. Could the Farmers of the Btate want a moro glorious rosult to thoir movement for reform than tho abolition of ull Btate taxes ? Tho Constitution of Iilinois provides two modes of taxation. 1. A tax by valuation, to produco such rovonue as mey be, noeded, in ad- dition to the rovenuo otherwise collected. 2. By s tax upon tho agenolos by which commerco in products is carrivd on, The Constitution enu- meratos & long st of theso, and, whon this list is examined, it will strike tho roadoer with sur- prise that this last source of reveuuo, o camly roached, should nover have boon resorted to by tho Stato which for years has boen engaged in most abortive schomes to raise revenuo with any dogree of fairness by tho plan of valuation. There can bano question that the fairost -and ‘most equitable mode of taxation is by a taxon incomes, Such a tax, honestly administored, would b the most jusf ; but Luman wisdom hias nover beon ablo to devise o plan for its honest onforcomont. TIn the articlo published by usa faw weeks siuco, we mado au estimato of the number of persous engaged in the various ocoupations mentioned in tho Constitution, and the probable amount of rovenuo that might be collected by moeans of an annual license on eack, Weo are now satiafled that our ostimate was much too low, and that, st the modorato rates of Jiconse given in that list, over ono million and a half of dollars ravenue conld bo colleoted in this Stato for Btato purposes annually, at & cost of not over 1 por cont, Undor the wma- chinery of the prosent XRovenue law it costs an averago of 20 por cont to collect the taxos, Tho Auditor, In ordor to obtain §1,000,~ 000 for schools in 1878, haa lovied a rate to raiso 81,207,451, the oxcous, over 20 yor cent, belug to cover the cost of assosslug, colleotion, eto, The Rovento law has rosorted to tho complicated pro- cos of taxing corporations and capital stook by valuation, whon tho Constitution - givos & more direct and loss expensive ;mode of making them contribute to thé Publio Troasury,- A moderato tax on the gross oarnings of the rallrosds in this State would produce. & very large swm,. A tax on the salos of manufacturing compsnios would produco moro rovonuo .then oan over bo oxtortod from thom uuder tho presont atroclous systom of valuatlon, Tolograph companies, fu- suranco companics, horss-rallway companios, gna compnnlos, and all other corporations which now praotically escapo taxation, could aleo be roached by an e3sy procoss. Boor in mind that the ontiro amount required for Btate and soliool purposes 18 only £8,500,000, for whioh nearly §500,000 is paid by tho Illinois Contral Railroad. With tho oxtinguishmont of the Btato dobt noxt January, tho aggrogate amount will bo atill further roduced. Wo ropoat thnt it in porfootly possiblo to reloaso the land-tax al- togothor, and if the farmors and ownora of town and city lots are trus to thomsolvos thoy will mako it au {asua this coming fall, and compol tho next Logslaturo to make the change. MORTON AND S80HURZ. It would be charity to think that Mr, Morton's roply to Senator Schurz's able spoocch on the finances was misroported by the wires. Judged by tho tologram, his rambling romarks woro as wild s tho hitting of o prize-fightor both of whose eyes aro closod. Ilo accused Mr, Bohurz of having carofully proparved his speoch,—tho rogular thing being to make s spocch without undorstanding your subject, Bofors tho Mis- souri Bonator could recover from such a sting- ing roproach, Mr. Morton had proved that the currency ought to be inflated by eaying that ho bad kuown men who, slthough ignorant as a horgo, had ‘crammed” thres or four old spoeches, and bad thon made flaming speechos thomsolves, Is Logan, who bonsted that he bad erammod flnanco in the spare hourg of two weeks, to bo thus stabbed In the houss of his frionds? Tho sponker went ot to -gay that the doctrines of tho offeto despotisma of Europo could nobt apply in a young and growing land, where the American oagle, eto,, oto, To show that no was well up in the doctrines of the effoto despotisms aforesnid, the orator romarked that Schwrz was what “ they call in France a political litteratenr,” but othora had read and studied as much as ho had! Mr, Morton thon hastenod to show that ho Whs not ono of theso others, by bringing forward the foliowing arguments in favor of countorfeit monoy : Bchurz knows nothing about Amorica; somebody's travels in Clhina havo beon quoted to sbow tho ovils of papor-curroncy, thero- foro this country would be like Ohina, if we had specie paymonts; ‘“‘our currency is tho bost the world over saw of ils kind;" we have prospered moro under this currency than wo ever did beforo, orgo, the curroncy is tha cause of our prosperity. ‘This last is much the middlomon, The advocates of oquality of the soxos aro agitating tho rights of woman in tho highest courts of tho land, A balf-dozon Qonnooticut cows hinvo agitated the wholo couns try, and Abby Smith, tho Glastonbury martyr, suddonly finds hersolf at the hond of » noble army of martyrs, organized togothor to sgitate tho tax-colleotors. The boor-sollers are agitating tho beer-makers, and tha boor-drinkors aro agi- tating the boor-gollors, and tho womon svo agi- tating tha boor-drinkors. To atate tho case fn its gonoral aspoots, those who aro not agitating somobody aro bolng agitatod by somebody. Amidat all this agitation which is filiug the air with dust aud smoke, it is consoling to know that the world still movos, aa Prof, Colbort hag Just domonstrated with his pondulum in the Exposition Building, aud in thia movomont of tho world {a tho sccrot of all this agitation, It is tho protost of consorvatism against radicaliam, The world moves too fast. Thoro is dangor of ils broaking away from . the old moorings ontirely, and drifting off into unknown ethor, and so the thoologians and tenchora of morala put in thoir cavoats. Hovw far they will stop it, romains to bo soen, Theso agitations aro nothing now. There have beon groat rovivals and groat tomporanco waves beforo, Liko tho Rabbl in * Urlol Acosta,” * We have soon all this before,” Aftor thoy have hed thoir day, the world will settlo back agsin into its old ways, and will probably bo about as ready to erucify Christ as it was bofore, but tho gon- oral rosult of the agitation will bo productive ot good, Thoro are some men who will bocomo tomporate and romain so. Lheir aro somoe men who will bocome godly and rowsain g0, Some avila will bo corrected and romaln so. Thus, between tho radical perversity of tho world to go wrong and tho consorvative tendency of tho roformors to make it go right, weo moy hope for a compensating systom of chocks and balances which will not only keep the world up to the avorago standard of roctitudo, but give it s forward movoment, if it bo only a fow inchos, to tho good timoe coming. THE LATEST LAND-GRAB, Our Washington dispatches of yostordsy brought information of tho latest Land-Grab bill futroduced into Congross. It ia o bill to chartor tho * Iutornational Land and Immigra- tion Company," with the names of many well- known citizons of Ohicago, 8t. Louls, Philadel- phia, and other cltios as incorporators. Tho bill wes designod monthas since, and recontly widonod inila provisions to cover cortaln interosts lying noar Chieago, snd the plans of cortain Chieago gentlomon saud somo Chicogo names were in- sorted meroly for their influonco. Tho roal ob- like saying that, eloca the country prospored more during the year in which Clicago was burned than over before, the Groat Fire was the cnuse of tho prosperity. Tho stuff wo have here summsrized is very 8ad twaddlo for a Benator of tho United States toindulge n. Mr. Morton has not made such a melancholy exhibition of Limsole aince ha took the stump in favor of psying off tho bonds in groonbacks, e THE GREAT COMMOTION, ‘Wo are fallen upon a timo of agitation, Thero isa goneral shoking up of tho virtues and the vicos, and the pools of socioty are being vigor- ously atirred by the angols of roform. Whether thoir waters will acquire-any curative proper- tios in the oporation remsins to be scen, but We may ot least hofio that somothing good will ro- sult from all twis shaking up. The little tem- poranco ripple which sgitated an Ohio villsge & fow weeks ago hns grown into a great wave which is sweeping all over the country. Tho female crusadets are on the war-path agelnet whisky in evory part of Ohio. The temperance tsbornacles are rolling through Indians, notwithstanding the pot bears and orchestrions and occasional dol- uges of water and beer with which tho saloon- koopers strive in vain to obstruct the onward progress of tho movement. In Illinois, Tows, -Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessce, New York, Ponn- sylvania, and Now Englaud, the crusadors sre lighting their camp-fires 8nd proparing to be- siogo the strongholds of rum and ruln with pealm and prayer, and those failing, with tho moro carpal wonpona of legal processes. Tho ,revivale ject of tho bill {a to sccure lauds bulopgiug to the Government at meroly nominal prices, and then entor them in the Company's iuventories at & high valuation, Thoro are many lands in well-settled Btatea which gtill bolong to the Govornment, viz.: Submerged lands, now well drained; “bit™ lands, or graduatod lande, 83 fn Mis- souri, of which tho ontries, whioh wero fraudulont and vold, havo failod fo divest the Govornment of titlo; Indian lands, ete. Of these classes there aro several millions of acres. Tiseso lands, if sccured at & nominal prico, can be put inthe company's involcos at an hundrod- fold their cost as the basis of bonds, Immi- grants will bo mado uso of to farnish & wmarkot for the bonds and colonizo the lands at oxcea- sive valuations. A corporation with the com- bined powers of savinga banks, and doposit and discount banks, of loan officos and transporta- tion companies, composed of men connocted with the Land Dopartment, and subject only to the nominal supervision of tho Secrotary of the Interior, con procuro, in fact, if mot by the tarma of the bill, the absoluto control of alt the remnant lands in the United States, and expand itgolf afterwards. A poouliar featurs of the schemo ia that necessarily sll but one, or whatever number con- stituto the ring, aro merely catspawe. For whoever firs signs his namo to the subscription books can, by subseribing $1,000,000 and paying $60,000, absorb tho entiro capital nnd mo- nopolize the franchisos conforred. If Congross actually copronts to grant s national chartor tos concarn of this kind, it will be the firat time in the bistory of our Government that such genoral ists aro also on the march with their spiritun] weapons nowly burnished, eceking rocruita to serve under the white banuer f tho Prince of Poace, aud, although they are now concentrating their most stronuous offorts upon such, no- toriously wicked places a8 8t. Louis and Milwau- koe, all signs indicato that it will not bo long before the sinners and backsliders of Ohicago and other citins will bo called upon to ropent, for the Kingdom of Heavon is at band. The roformers are also upon the track of the gamblers and the social ovil. The churches thomaolves aro agitsting their own mombers and shopherds. Juat whon 1t was supporod that tho Plymouth Ohurch scan- dal was settlod at a brothorly meoting of the Rovsa. Boocher, Btorrs, and Buddington, it bresks out afresh, and tho two latter gentlomon are do- tormined that Boocher shall be regulated “into the old-fashioned practices of Congrogational. ism. “The new Reformed Episcopalisn Church ovory now and thon gots some shaky brothor in e old Church adritt from his moorings, and tows him to the now anchorage-grounds of Cum- mius and Cheney. We lardly nced recall tho recont Ritualistioc agitation in Wisconsin, which devoloped such a profusion of opithots and bord names. In our own city, Prof. Swiug is set down 88 » horetic because his thinking leads him now and then out of the dogmatio ruts of John Knox. Dr. Patton, of the Interior, is vory proverly stigmatized by his brothren in the pulpit as s busybody engaged in stirring up barmful animosities, Dr. Everta hiag been call- od all sorts of bard pames by brothron bofh in and out of iy denomination for slandering ouo of his own cloth, Dr. McKnig has alroady beon givou up by the consorvative Prosbyterians a8 a sclontific unbeliover or misbe- liever tainted with Darwin, Huxloy, and Bponcer, Whors tho bolligoront MoCarthy will land, no ono can eay j but 1t may bo safoly sssumed that Lo will rond Lis ohurch in twaln, and that the agitation will then got out of tho church into the courts. ' Mcanwhilo it is Lent, and, although faithful Eplscopalians should enjoy spiritual rost, tho war putwnnn tho two Bishops knows no cessation, and the courts etlll grind out tho stnfo botwoon Whitehouso and tho 1cousant Yoatry of Ohrist Church, But it s not alono iu the domain of tomper- anco and religlon that we find agltation. It provals everywhere, and, wera it not that theso poriods of agitation have boon kuowa boforo, it would almost soom 88 {f tho foundatlons of things wero broaking up, Although elootion s a long ways off, tho political kettlo is boiling, and 1o one can yet foresoe tho result:~ The peo- ploare agitatiof publio corvuptions ‘as they woro never agitatedbofore, The Grangoranro agitating and cormprehiensive powers havo boen ceded, aud thoe Forty-third Congress will oarn tho reputa- tion of Laving distanced its recent predecessors in tho work of barteriug away tho rights of the pooplo. — AT IT AGAIN. Ono wonld naturally suppose that s religious nowspaper, when advisod of the awindliug char- acter of the advertisemonts admitted to ita col- umns, would discoulinue tho practico of pub- Ashing thom, and thus luring its unwary sub- seribors into tho nets epread for them by de- signing scoundrels, Notso tho Inferior. That ‘brazen shoot, in ite issue of Fob, 25, publishes » letter trom & subscriber in Corry, Pa,, showing how his daughtor had been defranded by Georgo Stingon & Co,, of Portland, Me. We copy the letter and editorisl romarks from tho In- terior ¢ Ono of our subacribers at Corry, Erle County, Ps., writes as follows ; Beclog Goorge Stinson's & Co.'s advertisement, #Art Publishers,” in the Chrutian at Work, our doughter was docelved into sending ten dollars and sixty cents for whut ho called an oulfit in jewelry, be- foro the hiolidaya, 1 will inclose just enough to satis~ 1y you of thelr or his duplicity. I inclose ono of tho rlugs asn good samplo of tho whole, also s card from 3r. Stinsou in roply to my lotter, Tu tho frst place, Aii8 Postmastor aid ho took tho draft from the uffice, Not until we sont this to him, would Le ncknowledgo baving it, Theu only by sending Jowelry, which touk womo weeks, Iwroto hlm if Lo would givo $5, ho ahiould hiavo all tho jewelry, Afterwards wroto him if e would sond n few of his plctures we would send all tho Jowelry to i, for wo would not lot our_daughter e 0 on we racelved tho pomal.card Which T otion, ‘Goorge D, Hodgo's Furuishing Company, Now, 783 and 75 B13L0 wirsoty havo brought tho Feople hero Qown on anyhing that comes from Clicago, even to newspaper Calvaussors, The roply to our subscribor 1a as follows ¢ Gro, BTINSON & C0,, FINE ART PunLIsIiERS, PORTLAND, Me,, Feb, 13, 1874, Wo do not underatand you, You havo recelved what ou ordored, and, 88 Wo know 1t to be what wo laim, 1% framaterial 10 us what you ato ploasod to tay, Respecifully yours, G0, STINBON & Co, Our subsosibor gends us & ring from this * outst of jowelry, We hondod it 1o » Seweler, Who pro- nounced i brass. Turning to another part of tho same papor, wo find two advertizements of Geo. Btinson & Co., which rend as follows : $5t0§20 per day! Agonts wanted! ANl classes of working peoplo, of ofther sox, young or old, mako ‘mora money at work for u i tholr spare momeuts, or all tho Ume, than ot onything else. Partloulors froe. Addross @, Brivgox & 00, " Yortland Mo, $520$20 por day at homo, Torms froe, Addroas @xo, BrasoN & Co,, Portlaud Me, Tho Advance has the samo advortisement, Tho Northwestern Ohristian Advocate has the samo sdvertiomont, Now, it caunot Lo claimod that the Interior has sinned through ignorance, Tho ovidonce of tho fraudulent charaoter of Geo. Stinson & Co.'s business was buforo tho oyes of tho editor when he wont qut the last numbor of bis sheat, with the'slluring :promisen of -the aforcsaid Btinson, o Landed it ton jeweler, who pronounsed it | broas,” esys tho oditor, If the subscribers of the Inferior would hand thelr paper to any com- petont moralist, Lo would pronounce it sound'ng brasa aud tinkling oymbal, Tho * Publisher's Notes " in this papor con- tinuo to bo interosting, In those notes, forFob. 25, wo aro assured that ¢ Tho romarkablo cures offoctod by Vogetive lave inducod many phy- siciana and apotheoarios, whom we know, to pro- scribe and uso it in thoir own familles,” Whichis 8 lio—told for the small sum of 1,20, Not long ago an sdvertiacmont amounting to $5,000 wae offered to us on tho condition that wo shonld ingort it in the form in which tho Interfor gulls its ronders on tho subjoct of Vegotino, and wo rofuged it. ' ‘Wo yoatorday called the attention of an agent of Mr, Anthony Comstock to cortain advertiso- ments in the religlous press, 'I'wo of theso ad- vortisoments found in tho columns of tho Inde- pendent woro of such o charactor ag, in bis judg- mont, to warrant its oxclualon from tho maila, —— PROF, PROCTOR'S LECTURES. ‘We publish this morning a call to the distin- guishod sstronomer, Richard A. Proctor, F. R. 8., and Becrotary of tho Dritish Royal Astro- nomical Booloty, to lecturo in this city, with his formn) accoptanco of the snme. He will give & courao of thros locturos in Kingsbury Hall, dur- ing tho socond weok in March, commenclog on Mondng, tho 0th. Mr. Proctor {8 world-famous’ a8 an author of astronomical works for tho past ton yoara; and for two or throo yosrs past ho hisa beon equally famous as a looturer; proving that ho combines in an eminont degreo tho two facultios, which aro so scldom found assooiated in tho same individual,—the being ablo to writo snd talk woll. During tho prosent winter Mr, Proctor hus loctured in Now York, Brooklyn, Boston, Cin- clunati, 8t, Touls, snd seversl other places, boing rocoived on every occaslon with a genuino ovation, Ho is a fluont speaker, and, of course, is at home in evory branch of the comprohon~ wive subject on which le talks, DBut tho mt- tractions of hiu discourses aro not confined to s mors statement, though in oloquent languago, of tho newost iruths, and the most audacious theorles of the world of astronomical science. His lectures aro profusely illustrated with ex- quislto views of the most siriking cosmical phenomons, 28 developed by tho latest ro- soarches, and displsyed bofore tho sndienco by tho nid of the calcium-light. The oye as woll 88 tho ear i8 thus jnstructed, and tho auditor is alonco brought face to faco (en rapport, a3 the Bpiritunlists say) with the most sublimo mys- tories of stellar lore, which are opened out so plainty that bo who runs may road, and the moat unlearned msy undoratand. Chicago ought to extond to this distinguished lecturor o wolcome as Loarty as any that marked hig offorts in the Enst, whero hundreds wora turned away bocause there was not oven stand- ing-room. It is only onco in a lifctime that wo aro privileged to liston to such & man; and the opportunity should not bounimproved. Chicago ghould, for once, wake up from her indifferonco to scientiflo subjects, rest foran hour or two from the pursuit of tho Almighty Dollar, and teatify, en masse, to hor approciation of & man who stands in tho first rank of living sstrono- mers—Richard Anthony Proctor. MILWAU Roman Catholic Burial in Conses crated Grounde-The Saloon-Iecp= ors. Spectal Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, Minwavker, Fob. 26.—Some eoxcitement is likaly to be provoked Liere by & chargo that has boen circulnted, to the offect-that Joseph Por- thior, an old sottler, has boen refused burisl by the Romeu Catholio Church for nd othor renson nssignod than that the desensed lived in a dis- trict of Bay View in which thero isno burinl- place, and that the authorities of the Churoh ju Milwaukeo rofused to allow bim to be buried olsowhero. As Porthior was one of the oldest sottlors, being a trappor for tho Juneaus sixty yoars ago in tho woods whore tho city now stands, and was well koown, tho statement s calculated to cresto ill-feeling. Your correspondent intorviewed the Bishop on the subject, aud had a long conversation on the practice of tho Church as to tne burial of chil- dron, both insida and outside the palo, and a8 to this pactioular charge. The Bishop deniod that any application hadever boon mads a8 alloged, or that suy difficalty had been 1nterposed by {ho Church authorities, Ho assorted “that, ovon if anything had transpived to in- duco any pricst to rofuso burinl in consecratod ground,—as for mowmbership of o socrat society, for dissolute conduct, ole., otc.,— still tho decoased could find o buriul-pinco olso- where, aud soandal would bo avoidad. Thosnloon-kgopors metto-duy aud discussed the riso in boor. Tnoypassed rogolutions pledging =l presont to discoutinue to woll boer that costd moro thon $10 por barrel aftor March 1, aud that the President conguilt londing lawyers to soe whother the saloon-keopors cannot recover short~ sges for the pasttwo yoarsin the brawers' moasures. ROCKFORD, Obitunry Notice == Zealous Baptist Women Endenvor to Lead o Unitas yinu Clergyman from tho Path of Errore Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, Rookronp, 11, Fob. 25.—Our chizens wers pained to learn to-dsy of the death of City Attornoy W. T. Hyde, who died yosterdsy at Mason City, Ia. Mr. Hydo wss s promising young man of fine talent, Ho had boon in fail- ing health for soma time, and started a fow doys sinco to try the climate of Colorado, stopping for a short timo with frionds in Towa. A number of well-meaning_but over-zoalous Indies o fow doya since called on the Rov, Dr. Xorr, pastor of tho Church of tho Christinn Uulon, in this city, and asked him to dosist from further prenohing, on the ground thot ho was loadiog #ouls netray, For soveral. years Dr. Korr was pastor of_tho Firet Baptist Cliurch in this city, but finally rell iuto tho beliet that tho freo roligion of tho Unitarlan, or Robort Collior and Bterr King kind, was bot- ter for humonity than tho closo com- munion Baptist sort, severod Lis counuection with that socloty, aud for thrco yeara has beon ronching to an immonso_sudionce each Sunday n o publio hall. Those zoalous womon calied on him to persusdo him to dosiat from this, os thoy professed to Loliove Lo was tosching in- fidel dootrings, sud leading hia cougregation down to deatn. Tho visitors woro courtoously re- cofvod and kiudly treated, but the Doctor declined to accado to_their requost, The Church of the Chrigtian . Unlon numbors among 1ts mombory many of our best citizous oud leading business men. . SAN FRANCISCO. The Chnarges Against Mayor Otiss-X¥lo is Indorsed by the Board of Supore visors. Saxn Francisco, Feob, 25, —Last nlght, Mayor Otis appoared boforo tho Board of Buporvisors and offorod to rotire from his position as Presi- dont of that body till tho charges of malfoasauco made by Judgo Stanley could bo {uvestigated by tho Board, - The AMluyor justified his acts; and snid that he had done nomore than his duty, sud that Stanloy'aaction was hiasty and pmmptm& by potty joalousy, The Board passed unauimous resolutions of confldence in Mayor Otis aud Tronsuror Hubort, Mayor Otis hes sent & lotter to the Grand Jury, roquasting pormission to appesr bofora it and oxplain why the money of tho oity was doposited in the Bauk of California by the Treau- urer without his approval, Treasurer Hubort justifies hig sotion on the ground tuag the vanlta of the c:t{'l‘ruuury aro nob socure, snd thut tho moving of #o large a sumn ps 3100.060 iu coin was too oxpousave, and that Lo doomed it better to allow tho bauk to ‘forward the monoy to Baoras meuto by expraus aud bring back Lis secelpt, RAILROAD NEWS, TIE DALTINORE 4 OIlf0, Tho Manngers of tho Baltimoro & Olifo Rauk road have docided to eatablish s lino of veseels butwoon this city snd BSandusky, Olio, whora thoy connect with their own liuo to Daltimora and othor Enatorn citios, By this orrangomont they will bo able to succossfully compoto with ell other frofght linos until their oxtonsion from Deshlor, Ohlo, to this oty is complotod. Our citizons aro therofora assurod of contluned chonp froight-rato s to tho Enst. 5 IR NEW ORLUANS LINE. No through teaing for Now Ortonns have loft this clty during the last two days, owing to a bronk on tho Mississlppi Gontral Railroad, Mr. Miteholl, the upsrintondoent of the Illinois Con- tral Rollroad, who has just arrived hore from New Orloans, soys .that hoavy rain-storms had provailed throughout tho” Bouth during tho last wook, cousing a froshot nearly ol tho stronms and rivers, Tho Tallnhasse, River which is crossed by tho Missinsippl Contral at Watorford, Misu,8roso above its banks, washing awsy a fow lundred feot of tho track. Tho riveris rapidly falling, and a Jarge forco of mon has hoon boon set to work to ropair the damage, Mr. Mitcholl thinks that through trains will leave sgain by to-morrow. in PATIS 2 DECATUR. ‘Tho Paris & Decatur Railroad, which crossos tho Illinols Contral Railroad at Arcoln, and hos, auntil latoly, mado its Enstarn torminus at Parls, IlL., bas comploted its oxtonsion from Paris to Terva Hauto, gonuacting with the Terre Haute & Indisnapolis and ottior roads at that point. It is now running two pnssenger traius daily bo- twoon Torro Hauto and Decatur, ANNUAL MEETING, Tha stookholdors of tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Raflrosd held their anuual meeting yesterdsay at tho officc of the Company, at tho cornor of Rando!ph streot and Michigan avenuo, CORBECTION, In an articlo in Tus 'CrinuNe Kualordn.y, glv= ing s summary of the report of the Prosident of tho Illinois Central Road, it was stated that tho nek earnings of tho road wora 427,000, whilo it shiould havo eaid that that was the lucroasod net oarnings over 1872, The truo figuroa for 1878 wore $2,60,890, UHION PAOTFIO FREIGNT TROUTLES, seatta, Neb,, Fob, 3, 18 To the Rditor of The Chicaco Irivune t G 8mm: 1 tho Christian statosmen who oxpired Inst year of too much ‘“‘dividend” and othor diseaso, woro still alive and intarosted in furthor 1,200 dividonds of tho Union Pacifle Railway, thov_would probably soo that ity presont Gons oral Frolght Agont would do the Company the most good op tho ratired list, Up to the prosont month the freight intorests of the road went woll onough, bocause they ran in the rut of a monopoly ; and any foliow ¢an run o monopoly, —it runs itgolf, But, now that its * pool” with Paciflc Mail haos run dry, Mr, Vinlng floundors in the folly of wanting, on his freight-t:anspor- tation of 1,000 miles about the sasmoe compon- sotion 08 the links that make up the re- malning 3,000 miles of tho trans-continontal lino all agerogato, And our Omaha pajors encourago Iaying an embargo upon tho commerco tho dity thrives on. Lot us inquire i thero bo auy jus- tico in thin rond's rofusal to pro-rate on through froights with tho Chicago ot othor roads, - The choek of the Union Pacifle, in coutinuing to ask of lines workiug with it orumbs of churity and the fat licos of freighting in donation, prob- ably comes of its baving beon born & boggar and a_thiof, of the firat yoars of its mondicacy and pillage hnvlng Dbeon publicly excused to give it oxistonco, nud of {ca having crooked its line, lika a cradlo-snoth, to multiply its miles, and thoreby tho bulk of the Govorument milesgo bonds, at tho rato of from $16,000 to $48,000 per milo. Almost any ono bogotton of such rotten parent. ngo wowld Btill, whon grown, insist ou covetiug its neighbors’ froight profits. Thia 1,000-mile fraud has always had more por mile on throngh trafic botween Now York or Chicngo and San Francisco than_tho conuocting lines either cast or west of it. It sccomplisho thiy feat by pooling its_oarninga on through Iroights with the Pacific Mail S!cnthiF Lino,— thus forming a mixed monopoly of land and water agaiost tho other roads uniting to form the trunscontinental oo, But tho Pacific Mail having concluded todo all its pooling in ealt water, the Union Pnoiflc is left out in the cold. The Chicago roads, I presume, tco no good roason why they should pay the Union Pacifla mora per milo for hanling & ton of froight than thoy themuelyos recaivo for doing tha sume with at loant oqual npaod aud gafoty, It will bo kopt in viow that tho price of through froights boe twoen ocean-shores fs largoly regulated by water-competition and the cost of wator-car- ringe, 'Therefors, onch section of the ovor- Inud line cannot establish rates for itsolf, but tho aggregato bas to bo divided among tho sec- tions of the united lino; aund thus whatover tho ‘Union Pacific bas taken abovaits pro-ratn propor~ tion by *pooling™ with Pacific Mail bms been o deduction from the pro-ratas of tho othor roads. It has boon Brown, Jones, and Smith working togotber in a gravel-pit at o por-diem aggrogate of §6, of which Jonos has pocketed &3, and Brown and Smith #1.60 each, as botter than nothing,—Jones having kis pay assurod by an opposition, \fimg whothor ho worked or not. But to Mr. Viniug's rusty aud only argument for etill asking an unoqual division of aggre- o cornings: Ho eaya thnt his ling lies among illa; that there aro grados mscending ond grades desconding, and, thoreforo, it i8 o hard Youd to travel, which tho eamoit cost a groat deal to build. Thonco ho arguos the good ronds ruoning west from Chicago cught to be plucked to increaso tho profits of his poor road. And thia plea ho puts in the faco of hig Suporintoud- ont's boast that lig rond is operated on a less percontago of oarninga por mile than suy othor road in tho countsy; and in tho faco of tho fact that its lougth of liue is ot loast oup-lifth moro than necossity ro- quiros, or than honesty would havo made it. In all this world thoro are just threo othor follows who approva the logic of this Umion Pacifia prodigy : the three lluilwni' Commigsioners of your State, whoso schodules scom to ndvance Trelght-rates iu direct ratio to thepoverty, in- cnpneni;, slow time, and rough track of the ronds they seek to regulate ; the pooror a rond is run, tho better tho rales allowed for yun- ning it. 'l‘llzm tondenoy of this Vining froight-doctrine, in practice, would be to degrada tho character of all good roads, aud thereby udvanco tho rates of all ronds ag faut s thelr degradation could bo secured. If tho Union Pucitic is not in & condia tion to carry at the aame rates and mako the same profits as do somo other roads, let tha Cowpany put it in that condition, or ba satisfled with® loss profits, Not all men can make the same profit ou tho samo work ; no moro can al railrcads. But, aven for tho very thin reason rendored by Mr. Viniug, facty atford no foundation of eveu oqual thinness, ‘Lhe disadvantege of numerous. up-grades on his lino is partially compenuated by down-grados of equal distanco, and moro Lhaw overcome by its only nominal oxponsa for fuel, —mining nl{ ita coal by theside of its track, from the land Governmont gave it. Tho oquip= monts of & rond aro, of colrso, & pact of tho cost of oporating it. And, if tho cout of oporating & road ia to be made tho mensura of its componsa- tion for sorvices, draw out any oue of the Chi- cago roads, and the valuo of tho naked grounds for its Ohioago dopot alone will be found to_sov- eral times duplicato tho value of all the Union Paciio depot grounde and buildings from Omaba to Ogdon, to say nothing of tho moro numerous and expeusive way-stations, side- tracke, shops, ete., of the Chicago road. And, talking of oxiginul cost of construction ta the Compauy 0d the just criterion of what a road may ohargo, how infinitesimal wonld bo the rates of the Union Paciflc gnuged by its cost to the Company, aftor deducting what has boen given to it and what it hos stolon | But oue moro window in tho argumeut of tha Vining outfit against carrying through froight on oven torms with the Chicago roads is this: Phe threo parallol Chicago roads to Omaba aro yooled,” aud, for tho carviage of Dacilo froights, ara ossontislly one. Now, if this one, mado of threo, veluing all its triplet sppoint= wonts, cost moro por julle than tho Union Pa- ciflo, or {ta aporation coats moro por mile, which two promises nro, of coursy, trug, ought not the Union Pacifio to contribute’ from its througle freight earnings to maka the iucomo of thig bratded ling greator to tho milo than its own ? Such, at loast, 1 tho sequence of the Yning syllogism to mensuro rates by tho yord-stick <f cost and oxponss. . 0. A, THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL DAILROAD IN OBUKOBH, Speoral Dispateh to The Chicago T'ribune, Osukostt, Wia., Fob, 25.—Tho followlng reeo= lution has been adopted by the Board of Truce of this oity: “Reaolved, By thio Board of Trado of the Oity of Osti~ koah, that thy member of Congress from {lia District and $ho members from this Btate Lo roqueated to ur(o npon tho Heorotary of tho Interior the proprioty sid importanco of delnying tho issuo of patonts fo Lo Wisconin Central lallway Oompony for any lauds fcr ‘which they bave recoived cortificates, nntil sction on the cass BLall be tnken by tho Legislature, for tho resson that ssld Compuany les not complicd wilh the provisions of its churter snd with its agreamont to construct a road from Portago to Sloyens Yoint, sinco Do portion of such road bins boon bullt, or in by Meue ner provided for ; and furtlicr, for the Toason thut it is tha opinion of tuls body that snid Company i not en= titled to any such lands, until uid rood from Portaga 1a conatrusiod, It Whol or in part ; aud furthor, tliak in case Buch lands avo pateuted, there lu no guaran! x.nmvmhn such xoud o auy postien of 5 £

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