Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1874, Page 2

RAILROAD NEWS. ~ @ % The. New_Wisconsin Law. N Lie ser Some ~ Contradictions and Ine- “qualities; Tow' It W'll‘lt Operate ‘when ' Put in © o -Forces Circular of the American Reil- way Master-Mechanics’ Association. The Des Moines Valley Road. «THE WISCONSIN RATILROAD LAW. . 'Tho now Raiiroad Iaw passed by tho Inst Logls- Jature of Wisconsin goos into effect on tho 1st of May. The law contained the ueunl clauso, 4 to take effoot and bo,in forco from and ofter ita pesgnge and publication;” but, at the roquest of 2ho railroad companios, snd in order, to' glvu ghom timo to readjust their. pohodule of rates, fho Logislature paséod s joint resolution, ine strnoting the Booretary of Stato to withhold ita publication until the dny abovo indicated. = The Baw was pno.of five or six upon tho same sub- Jeot that woro introduced, and wns gonerally considered to bo tho; worst by tho conservative mon of bolh parties. Bpeaker Bouok, of tho Aa- sombly, declarad that it was crude snd nnsatis- factory in many respacts, -but aa tho bill was of Ropubltican origin, and as the Republican Sonate atoutly declined to” mccopt suy othor, it was posgod ag' " - i s Gl THE ONLY THING POSSIBLE nudor the circumstanocs, Boing tho firat act of 4ho kind ever passed‘and put o force in that Sinto, it is it surprising that a closo examination of ita provisions dlgclosos ‘many festuros which will', \bo.” found to bo . grossly = unjust in thoir | operation, :f - not wholly . im~ §£Mhonble: ‘Tho Leginslaturo that passod; and nator Potter, who formad, the bill, scemed to 0f tho opinlon_that, in order to control tho ron Horse whon driven by a'soulless driver, ‘it 'was necessary to have an froun-whip ; ‘and a0 the aolironds discovor this Inw to be n sort of Pro- mrustonn bedstond to which they will find -it very thord to'adjust themselves. They are now' dis- oussing what couraa to pursue, anf s & s .tl . THREE PLANG . finvo boon debated by the maungers, viz & First, 20 oboy the Iaw as woll ag thoy can during tho fprevont soason, and trust to tho uoxt Logisln- turo for a modification of the obnoxious portions of tho act ; sccondly, to disregard it altogather and eorry it nto the courts ; and; thirdly, t0 run 2ho freight’ and passengor trafns togother as Jnuob ns possible,-to the grest inconvomenca of ‘tho traveling public, and thus bring the lawinto disreputb, "It is ot likely that Lhe last proposi- Aion will'bd seriously entertainod or ever’ acted wupon. They, compintn that tho Iaw oporates rwell enough for & line only 50 miles. in. extent, Jbut that over that . distance it is ruinous in its Tequiromonts ;- and, indoed, somo of -ita provie- “Jous do imposoinjustice and hardship- upon all that honos _l{v_mgl_ in good fuith attompt to 'oboy .}z‘ Thus, for, oxample, it catabliskied {18 fol- owing .- . - Py . UNIFORM BATES, . . ntlor tho first 50 milos huuled, on the following muticlos: grain and -flour, 1 6-10 conts per ton | por milo; salt, ‘comont, otc., 92-100 conta por ton por milo ; luraber and shingles, oto.,” ‘80-100 ..ton,. per mile ; lve-stook, . 1.6-10 oonts por ton per mile ; agrioultural lmpfnmunu, 1 2-10 conta por ton per milo; and conl, . oent{mr -ton per milo, All of these pricos are below the | “nutunl cost of doiny shown by’ the stal tho business, na will "ba itios of ather roads in‘othor Blatos, gnumrud from their annual roports. . ‘.mficn,,t rovidos that, in computingrates under ithis act, 0 distance for cnrryinq such’ froight igluliba computed from where it is received, | notwithstanding it nm{ pass from ono road to another. This provision must work vory un- Yustly to euch ronds ss carry to market, the T10ight contributed by othor roads. As an il- fustration, if. complicd with by the St. Paul ' Company, tho Wisconsin Valloy Road could , Bringlumber to the 8t. Paul Road at Tomal, ‘end sond it to 8parta, 17 miles, by paying thom 82- per car, and to' La Crosse, 42 miles, by pay- ug them-$4 per car ; while, if losded by u"xlp- «per st Tomab, tha law wonld givo thom ‘cur to Sparta, and §18 to Lo Crosso, ' © .. BUCH A DISORIMINATION a0 this againat tho Womah: shippor must work sgnjustly, -No railvead company would -think of . establishing such digoriminations ag this lnw es-, $8 por thelf indreaso of businoss will [make up for tho -dooroasa In ratos, and, the e uga of 1874 will* bo’equal to thioso of 1878 - ) “r ‘Wo havo eaid that tho Pottor law required tho roud $o do tho work at 0oy .. LEGS TIAN GOBT . aftor the” firas 50 milos' Laul. Roforring to the tablos of cost for transportation on tho New York ronds, we {ind that, on tho Rome, Water- town & Ogdonsburgh Nailrod it cost 3.641 conts por ton por mile;.on.tho Nrlo,.1,087 conts por ton xor miloj on the Ronsnloar & Baratoga, 2,000 contd por ton por mila; and, on tho Now York Contral, 1,048 conts por ton por milo. Looklng at. tho Bubjoct a littlo' more minutoly, wa diacgvor that tho cost of -transporting diffor- ent kinda of froight diffors vory materially, and that tho ‘cost of shipping the samo goods on tho 8nmo ronds varios vory much' from yoar to yonr. Thus, the doat to tho Now' York Oentral Road for tranaportivg frolght in 1865 waa 2,52 conts por ton per;milo, whilo in 1871 it was only 1.01 oconts per ton per mile, ‘On tho ' Erio,'in ivaus, it waa doubls what it was in 1871, while on’tho Harlom Road tho variation of ‘cost’ botwoon '65 aud '71 was vory littlo, Thouo difforences in the colt of catrying are owlng to Y i A VARIETY OF CAUBES, - ° only a fow of which can’ bo cited, such as the in- craaso-of wages, rapair of road-beds, failure of orops, - strikea among employes, acoidenta to trains, oocasloning lons of lifo, severity of tho wintor, oto., ete, - One of tho roads leading out of this city met with an accldont that cost it ovor £110,000, and anothor hiad thirty locomotives dis- abled and sent to the shopa for ropair at ‘one timoe during tho oxtromo cold weathor of the winter of 1878, All.thoso things are chargonblo to tho accountof handling froight, and to them must be added tho intorest on . the monoy which hay boen invested in tho _origiual construation and nqnl[a:mut of the road,’ H It this Wisconsin law had given the threo Com< misaioners” Rani s ‘DISORETIONARY FOWERS ! to alter the tariff to suit the exigencies of the oaso It would havo boen bester than it now stands inllg arbitrary requiroments; novertheloss, ba- ing tontative and exparimontal, it has oponed the door for a fair aud rensonable adjustment of dif- forences batwoon tho poople and .tho corpors- tions. - The next Lemslature will probably cor- roct Its errors, aud mako it harmonize with, the rights of all intoreated partics. MASTER MECHANIOS' ASSOOIATION. Tho Amorican Railway Mastor Mechanics' As« soolntion will hold their annual Convontion at Aablishes. T'his 'minglo’ provision of Seo. &, if: {eomplied with by tho roads, will entirely dostro ¢ho lumbor markot of Milwaukes, _ ; Smown thot lumbor can b sold at Fond du YLao, ‘Oshkosh, and pthor places where it is manufao- tured, ot from 82 to $ per. M less than in Mil-. Faukeo, this difforenco. boing about, tho cost; of Iake froight paid by th™ Milsaukao dealors, Aided by this provision in Boo. 6, the Ohicago & Northwostern Railway could make rates from . Foud du Lag, -cto., eto., by ‘way of. Minnesota’ «Junction, Watertown Junction, and Milton Jund- ton, to all stations ontlielines of the Milwaukeo & Bt. Paul Rarond solowas to ~, * R A ENTIIELY PRECLUDE i, O tho possibility of o desler in’ Milwaukes belug sble to soll any-lumber in tho' vielnity (of “thoso luuctmu_s or at stutions farther west. on, the incs of ‘the Bt, Patil Road. Asa furthorexam-' “plo of diserimination unddr tho provision in Beo. 6,.tako the following: The Wisconsin Central Ruwlwny takos n car of lumber nt Btevens Ppiut, ' “1€4 mulea from Milwaukoo, to be shipped to Do- _loit by way of 'the Weatorn Union Railroad from ' “Milwaukes, Under tha liough to Beloit, allowlng the Western Unlon . Rond 83 por car for oach 26 milts, or'@7 jior, car! Arom Milwaukoo to Boloit, 85 milos, The dealor, 4n MilwAukeo who sbips s _car of lumbér from . Dilwaukeo to Beloit. is.charged by, the, Wostorn' Union Ruilroad, undor this' samo” Inw, §16' por’ ,oar, or $0 morp than was charged on .the car (whigh Bstarted from Stovens Y'olrt and ' pnssed ovet the somo rond from Milwaukee'to Boloit, . ... Tho law would make the * g - S ° . BATE'ON OBAIN. ' ¢ ‘from’ Hartland to Milwaukes, * 23 miles, * 6 cents por 100 16 ; whilo from Nashiotals; 26 miles, the Fato conld be mnado 10 conta per 100 Ihs,—Nakho- tah bomg.ovor 26 milos and loge than 50. _Under, this same ‘Soo.'5, the Chicngo'& Northwestorn ' Rullway can*lond its cars with whoat at Wauno-: %o, Dane,-Lodi, ‘otc;; and haul them to Madi-; son, and compol the 8t. Paul Company to haul “thom to Milwaukee au 18 [inr car; - while the nlligapur of grain who buys in Madison is charged $26'per onr for, the samo servico, “Jego would enable the CUICAGO & “NOBTAWESTERN Ballway to tako grain at stations near Madjson abauch pricos ae would ‘destroy the Madison zonckot and divert all grain to othor points, . using, too,.for this Yurpune, the 8t. Pau] Road, which hing'a direct interest in Austaining ‘tho Madison .gran market. It will bo scen that, * while the Potter tariff establishes many dinerima Inations, Bonate bill 93, whieh passed tiie day at- tarwards, ‘provides “that’ ** No undug or unren- gousblo’ disorimination shall‘be mado - oithor nFninst individuals or” corporations,” whick pro< wvislon is mada ‘to Iam?ly not ouly to frolght re~ ocived within the State, bub' on'froight pussing through'the State ' to and from other utnlnn. In thia partioular rnagact tho two: laws ure in direck conflict, aa tho Poiter tarift doolares that it shnll not ‘b6 hold'toapply to froights passin, * moroga'or through the Stats to other Btates—thal + power being vested exolusively in Congross, 'ha otter tarilf provides that tho Commissioners shall"pasg froe on all railroads, while Senatp bill 92 declayes'it to be a mlsdemoanor punishable by fino or imprisonment - for any Btate ofiicor to nc- popt » pass upon railroads, . & . "Thoso oxawmples will seryo to show the opora- tlons of tholpw in dolall, and a fow facts will givo an idon of its T vhe 1 EFPECTS IN THE AGOREGATR Buch a pnvi-_ . E{:on thé railroad companos of tho State, The Paul Compsny’s progont rates ara reducod from 15 to 45 por cont, which muy be {lluatratod by the tariff botween Milwaukee end the follow- ing statlons ¢ il . £ 4 REDUOTIONS, IS i Grain and A tirdl laur, atock, . “Gmplenients, .per centy percent, " per cont, ) EN) 40 % ot 18 4 It tho prosent law had been in force fn 1878, * $heearnfugs- of - tho Bt. Paul Compuny would ' have been §500,000 leas. than they were for that year, and * the ' rocelpta would have been corrd- .pnndin&y loss _on all other roads doing busl- noss in the Btatd. /. . . i Anothor law was pasged increasing thelr taxés | G one-third, which, In the cese of the 8t Paul Company, will require it to pny $60,000 more $hls your thon last, upou tho supvodition that t is well)| | law it glves a rate!| tho Bhorman Houso in this city, May 12, 13, and 14, Tho Suporvieing Committeo, consisting of H. M. Brittou, Prosident; N. 13 Ohapman Wirst Vioe-Prosident ; W. A, Robinhon, Second Vice-Prosident ; J. H, Sotchol, Scoretary, havo been busy for some time past in making arrango- monta for tho large pumbax of delogatos that will attend the Conventton. -They have also ad- dressod : ! X . THE FOLLOWING OINOULAR ' to the Prosidonts aud Superiutendents of ‘the various railroads in Amorica, asking their aid in the objocts of ‘thelr Association ; P Wo reapoctfully solfcit * your attention to tho objeeta and purposes of our organieation, estallishod in 8o tombeor, 1868, under s constitution which limits the mombership oxcluaivaly fo porsons having chargo tha niotive power of- railroads, as Superintoudents of nuchinory, moslor-mechonics, or forcman, Our car nest dosiro fa to mako this 'Aseoclation, s means of diifusing smong raflwsy mansgers comprohensive knowl of tho mochanical urts, as applied to the construction and operation of ratiway machinery, “lo accomplish Lhfs, snnual meotingn aro Luld, and spproprisio commitices appoiuled, whoso duty it {a to gathor from all parts of the country thioideas, practics, und axporionce of mannfacturers and mechianica, to carolully examinoand digest them, and presout {o'tho Association claborato roporis therson, s mone 10z, valtable fund of information will bo scoumu-~ Ited for the professional guidanocs and benofit of rail~ way ofleials ; motive power dopartments will be man— sged with increased eflicionoy and. economy ; railway oorporations will be dircotly benefited ; and gresé ad- Veitago will scerus b Lo travoling publo, Nearly ono-half the cost of opioroting railsays 15 ox- nded 1n tho machanical departmonty, aud that which Tenda to perfeot the conduct of this branch: of the sor- vigo will matorlally loascn oporative exponses, : . Eminont rutiway mochaules cntortain divorss opin- lons regarding important detalls of :construction of looomoliyo engiuog sogurdlisg the doroct. propartions of various parts; tho strougeat and simplest modo of bullding And biacilg locomotive boflers, to insuro thom ngainet explosion; the most eMelent form and sonstruction-of-lire-boxos to devalop tho valao of tho different kinds and qualitios of fuol; tho rolative valus of iron and steel plates for: boilors, and capoolally of , copper, iron, sud stcel, for furnaces and flucas tho relutive sofoly sud_econiomy of - iron and stool tros axles, crank-plns, and- truck-whoole;. tho causos and Jevéntivea of Loller oxplosiona : ahid a muliitudo of dred topics, embracinit a wide rauge snd thorough Imowledge of ‘the arts and sclences, aa applled to tho detaila of wmanufacture cud managoment of tho loco- ‘motive engino, g Thieso divorss opinions wo scok to harmonies by {n- terchango of thought, snd systcinatic lnvut:lfl;lllun of views prosented and opinions expressed. The solu- tlon of tho various questions yili bo plsced in {lis hauda of compotent mechanics, aud from tho exporiouce and yractico in our branoh of the sarvico, gatlirad from all portions of tho counlry, wo hopa to deduce conclu- .| slons that will form a baals for future guidaice and | on, Our Association ia not framed from motives of per- sonal sggrandizemont ; not, for tho advancoment of self-intercats, or to further selfish ends ; but we, &8 carnest: workers for the groator dovelopmont of 'tho | mechunical arta in thia tho” “ fron ago,” Beck -through | our organization 8 broador and duspes knowlodgo than 00 Hivo oA ot sy b 'With theso onds In viow, we roquest your co-opera= tion and aid In our imporlant undertaking, Our in-! eroits aro fdontical with yours, and while we foel de- .| pondont, to a great ‘extont, upon you, geatlomon, for tho suoccoas of our euterprive, wo -beliove that this’| identity of intorst will insure your support, Jook to ua for knowlodge th our branch of the service, sad expoct meohanical ekill and ability inthe parform= ancoof our dution; thatwe may bo ablo to All the moas- uro of our desites and your cxpactations, we solitt your op;vl‘erlld influence promoting the welfare of ' our soalety, ., T F T 'With your ald and oir sarnést cadeavors, Bizccoss 4 Ansured, ~We beg leave to suggest that you call theat-; tentlon of your Maater Maclisnio to the 1mportance of i -attonding our annual convantions, and sid in offeting 1l objouts of the msaoclation; and, also, that you place their names upon your exchange-list for annual pussca, L7g . = +“-We shallat all imes bo happy to recalve from -you such counsel aud_suggestions a4 you mey deem pro- ‘molive of the welfare of our organization, . - ;MISOELLANEOUS. * ... DES MOINES VALLEY DOAD. .- .. | The bondholders in tho mortgages of the Des Moinos Valloy Railrond, which runs from Koo-; Xk, Ta., to Fort Dodge, have' dotormined upon’ dividing thoroad in two sections, , The bond- holdors of one mortgage will take possossion of' the roud from " Koeokuk . to Des Moinos, and the bondbiolders of tho other mortgagoe will tako tho' rond from Dos Moines' to Fort Dodge.” X mer managers of the whole road.taka tl agoment of the First Division from Keokuk to! Des Moines, and‘the " bondnolders of the ‘Becond Division, roprasented by tholr Agent, Mr.Whitad ‘hond, of . New York, (have appoiuted 0. L. Gil- | - * -more, formarly a conductor of the Illiuols Cen: trol Hailrond, s Buporintandont of the Second Diyision from DesMoinos to-Fott, Dodge, Ard rangomonts for.a division of the rolling-stock aro now. perfecting, and, as. soon as comj lotod,| oach section will bo run s a separato road. Mr. J. M. Newoell, President of the Illinois Contral Railrond, is assisting in.making tho divisions,; ' * . OENERAL NRWS., o The Gonoral Froight-Agents of tho Iilinols Central and Ohicago & Alion letlrouds haye lssued circulars to tho offcot that horeafter one car of horses, or one onr of stock, with.Louses hold goods, eto,, will entitle owner, or man in chargo, to pass with it. to take cara of it. Ra- turn fiuauu will not be granted in such cnses, no? will this bo construed to change tho general ruleg a8 to stock-pasnon, - 2 : | : /e now * buildings of the Michigen Contral Railroad at .Grand lrunk Junction, just outsida of Detroit, will all be brought into uee during the presont mouth. . T'ho old round-houso, paint- L shop, passonger-car relmirnhol). aud the car do- partinont oflices in Dotrolt will. e torn ddivn,! and the ground now . occupied by. thom used nd an additional freight-yard, =t The business on tho Lenvenworth, Lawronce & Galyeston Tailroad and . Minsouri Jtivor, Fort Baolt & Gulf Railrond having, lntoly fullen aff to o qroat oxtont, and 1u congequenco, the mahegor mont of-hoth-to ronds was placed ' n tho Land of the Buparintondent of - tha lattor road for t!.lg purpose of reducing oxi)nuues. S E | o Mr, O, J, Brvlltws. hlua.:hlg-nlrnfltur of the Grand Trunk Iiaflway of Oaundo, hay remgned his position, which Le haa held for twelve yeurs, Ho urgod this upon tho Diroctora two yoars ago, but thoy would not aceept it, '~ Ho will contin to conduct the alfuirs of tho Company until'a no administration is detormined upon, ¢ —_— A.Wonther=Prophaot, '*01d Probabilitics” is at n discount, It is olainied that Onpt. MoAlocr, of Pitisburgh, Ia., i tho only man on thie nnn‘inout who can, to o cortalnty, foratell tho changos in tho wenfhor o month in edvanco s also whon theve fs to bo o rigo In the rivor. Iis prophooles for tho past five or six years havo boon so ncourato that the coal men of Pittsburgh have invariably cousulted him in ragard to & conl-boat riee, and, bofors the time arrives which. ho has predicted, the fleot is always put in trim to loave. B i e § e ~—It 18 #ald that Ray, Morgan Dix, son-of _the ovornor, snd Roctor of 'Crinity Olurch, Now York, will marry noxt month Miss Alico Houtfwrr, daughtor of a promiuent Wall afroot brokre, 1 TEMPERANCE. Meeting of the Central ‘Gommlvlleo of ~ " iho Chleago Organtzatioin, ol The Quefifion :oi" Hiiing Spenlcers, Preporing Pledges, Fto, Oondition of the Worlk in Other You || - | | basweaid yos, The committoos also’pl States. COHIOAGO. . The Contral Commitico of the Ladlca',Tom- porance- Organization . mot at No., 51 LnSallo stroot, yostorday morning, to further discuss s plan of ‘operations. - Mrs. G, B. Marah presidod, snd thero wore about fitteon 1adies prosont. TEPORTERS, About half an hour was epent in eonsidoring tho advisability of. admitting reportors. Objoc- tion waa mnde bocauss some of- the ladies had beon misreprosonted, but, it belng urged that vory littlo could bo dono unloss the eoxcltomont waa kept up, nnd that tho press could cronto public sontiment, it was finally decided to admit tho reportors fo futuro mootings. - i i On motion, J. M. Dean, P. W. Irwin, and P, Myors woro appointod an Advisory, Board; to act in conjunction with tho Finance Committeo. Mrs, Marsh was eleoted Auditor. _ DI0_LEWIS, _ The wmatter of procuring & temperance loo- turer to stir up tho community: wais™ next; dis- ons sod. * Many wore opposed to employing ono, boeauso it was not necessary to pay for auch sor~ vloes, innemuch o there was plonty of avallablo homo talont. Howovor, Mrs, Jutkin was au- thorizod to corraspond with Dio. Lowis, and, if Lo cnnnot come, $0 engago some othér man who i willing. R, L b g ibie o i PLRDGES, Tho queation of plodges-alse recoived atton- tion, nnd it wns dectded to diatriot the : city, and dulou;m: lndios to ciroulato the doouments for signatures. . Dow, Mra. Bassott, and Mrs. Blackall wero appoluted a Commities to propare a pledgo for Bunday-sohools, and it was intimatod that o plodge for young ladios was alao to ba ‘drawn up, FUTURE MEETINGS. ‘How shall noxt wook bo obsorved?" was Bottled by tho adoption of. tho following. pro- gramme: - s Daily, prayor meotings to bo hold In the diffor~ ent churchea in the clty, and.tho daily contral K;nyor—menllng in tho léotnro room of tho lothodist Ohurch Blook, Friday is to bo os- fnnlnll ot apart as a day of fasting and prayer n each- division, tho ladies assembling to O o'clock, and continuing In prayer throughout tho day. in. Oaso, Mrs. Marah, and Miss Dryor woro dologated to intorviow ministors and induco them to preach about tomperance Bunday woek. . CHURGH-MEETINGS. A : . The membors of the.North Division of the Lndios’ Tomporance Bocloty aro _roqueatod to meck at the North Btor Baptist Church, cornor of Division and Bodgwick strects, at 8-o'clock Thutsdsy afternoon, for- prayer. . All ladles are cordially invited to attond, - (S . Arraugemeonts have boon made for a mass | tomperanco moeting Bunday ovening,. at tho Wabash Avenuo Methodlst Qhurch, :)lcfhming at ) 7:90 o'clock, Miss Francos B.: Wills Dean of the Woman's Oollego, Evanaton, and Mrs. Gov. | Beveridgo, will be prosent, and will address the . mooting, Othor prominent persons are algo ex- poctad to spoak. Ve G P;nyur-mznzln;aiu undor the loadorship’ of womnon will bo held in 8t. Paul's Church, goueh Bido; Grant Place Church, North Bido; Union | Park Oongrogational Churob, -West Sido, Satur- | day afternoon. s ILLINOIS; . AT ELAIN. Spectal Disvatch to-The Chicago Tribuns, 1 ; Erowy, 1, April 2,—The proliminary shots in the groat battlo for Tomporance which' is fighting thrmughuut‘ the West, were flrod, in Elgin Thuraday 'evening, ' Pursuant - to) notlco, vag :mpny - of those interosted.. mot in - the niversalist Churoh, - and oisns%:h ized by clecting the . Hon, Z. Eaate: man, " Prosidont. ~ Tho Rov. = W. 8, ‘Baloh, stated ' the' object of tho mooting to ba, ‘ono of consultation in’ roferonco to the best mannor of forwarding tho temperanco causo., His remorks were eminently praotical and point- od. Tho speaker closed by moving that a Com- mittoo of Ways and: Moans, to consist of. five] ladics, bo appointod to insiruct tho masouline. {mnhm of tho population how.to procead, and ag' owhat wai their duty in tho premises. Tho motion .was floally amonded, by . adding 'two Indios’ from ocach denomination represented in tho work to the Committeo. i Tho Rev, L, M. Woodruff, then' spoko., He ‘was opposed to much’ talking “or the holding mooy meotings, and was in favor of work. Ho' thought thera was in his flock about 400 camest, temperance poople who could bo rolied upon for servico in this cause, “ ; Goorgg P. Lord mado's fow romarks exprosg- ing his sympathy. with tho movemont. 3 \ ogsrs, Scoflold , and Dullard’ followed, Mr. B. thought that E"'”’g women should compoge tho Committée. The General Committao seloot-, od waa na_follows : Mesdames L. O. Stiles, H, Sherman, T, Black, R, Weavar, and A, G. Soara, Mrs. 0. (. Church, and Mrs, H. Blado 'werd add- od by a subse uent vote, A : ‘I'his Committoe will meet this afternoon and, plan a. campaign, and livaly. timos, may soon be’ -oxpoctea in roforonce to tho question of temper- snce. ., ;AT ROORFORD. ey S Snecial Disvath to The Chicamo Tribune, 4 Rooxron, Il.,; April 3--An open lottor from tho, Tomperanes Losgue azd in to-morrow’s " Register, calling on all candidates * for offico “to, make.tholr views'on tho'subjecs; of temporanco| [mbllc, a8 thore aro o number of porsons anxious 0 goryo the public, The contest, alyoady, bit= ter, will be'intensiflod by this call'and | blo anéwer, g £ g proba- AT LA'BALLE. . :Speetal Diepatch to The Chisaqe Tridune, * | ' LiaSAtLr, I, April 8,—Pursiant to lust’ Buns " dny evoning's'adjournmont, an immense tonpor- ance moating was held at Opera-Hall' Jagt ovens ing, at whioh a permanont organization was of: feoted. Tho Iy lnn'\\-lll‘prlgnnlza this ovoning, | and. the circulation of “pledges will be’ coms, ‘monced next wook: 7. SR AT KALAMAZOD, : i~ _Bpeoial Dispitol to The Chicngo Tribune, = | ‘Karasrazoo,’ Alichy,. April 8.—Committods of tho lndios’ temperanco aesooiation havo visited o hrfiu numbgr of saloons., They Lunt in couples, aud pload with saloon-koopers, hotel propriotors; eta., to quit selling, but ench’ ropriator .an "Tf'thio fook will T WiILY . Onio hotel propriator l‘.grofriu or sad with the owners ‘of buildings rentod, for saloons. No prorooutions yet,-but.it is thought thore will b? 8oon, 5 1 WISCONSIN. . L. AT MIDWAUKKE. . g Sjiectal Diypatcis to The Chicad Tribiuna, . MitwAokry,. Wis,, April 8,—Tho praying ladios of the difforont, chuyches. mot ot 'the Hpring- Btroot Congrogationnl-Chuirch (his’ afternoon, Aftor o Tafgo uuinbor of. Aposclics, prayers, and singing, it wos rosolved to faat and pray Monday moiming and afternoon, and hold s 'ninss-moot- ing Monday ovening, . 1t waa furtlior announoed that there Would bo no crusadivg, %y ® spestil Disatah (o 10 Ol Tribune; © " | . §ectal Dispateh (o°the Chicano Tribune, ) Buroir, Wis,, April 8.—The tonporance sgita- tion horo culmf nnéud n’a’ nominating Convou: ton held in Hunchott's. Hall to-night. . Beveral briof and earncat addrobscs were made by prom- inont cltizons, and John'B, Morrll), of .the Mor- rill & Houston lron-Works, ;was ugminatod b; acclamation na tho'.no-liconge - candidato’ fo) Mayor. T, B, Bailoy wos nominated for ' Alde man from tho Tirat Ward, A Ropublioan Union Convontion will bo held to- f 1 IOWA. ! -0 AT DAVENRONT. o . | Snectal Dispalch to The Chicaco Tribune, . . Daveneonr, In.,, April 8.—Tho oleotion for municipal oficers oceurs In this city to-morrow, Both partles have mado their nomfuations, but yoither candidato for Mayor is a ropresontative man, Tho main issue is” tomperance. The ladios of tho ity havo sot apart to-morrow o8 A day of fasting and Hrnyor in tho causo of. tom« perance, and will hold prayer-mactings in all tho ohurchos in the worning, aud union-meeting in +tho afternoon, ; . ! g INDIANA, o] .. AT GOBIIEN, Speclal Dispatch to Ths Chicagy Tribline, GosugrN, Iud, .April.d.—The lndlos Gontlius thelr doily prayor-meeting in tho Paptist Church, This afternoon the gontlemon L lto%' in the tomperanca movemout \wore prosont, all of whom expressod a desiro that tho glorious caues for which the women were fichting might rewuls in 'whosa oolor always suggested - an’ affinity for :| bo too ovident to their awnkoned sontio. ;| and 'lasses in vain, and the well-filled ju; npl || 8oonded with public money smounting E) | but the 1i1ry sequitted him beoauso the mone; T ylotory, v AT RICITHOND, - Epectal Dispatoh to.Tha Chfcano Tribuns, Tiomxono, Ind,, April 8.—All tho saloons huvinz suspended, tho orisadors aro concontrat- ing “their “fores, and ~attaoking ‘tho~wloleenlo donlors. At one.of theae; rofuslng: to - retiro, thoy wore- ushorod out; and ot auother, thoy word locked in whilo the {)m rlotors . xopaired to tho Mnyor's offico to Instituto suit ngainat thom for tresprse, -Tho Chicf of Polico cnmprumlnml the affair by ordering the ‘};mpflnlm‘ 0 unlock hin door an dnmnufilnu 0 womon to vacato, Thoy hinve efnco’ boen. keoping up & constant ‘bombardniont from without at both housos, ‘WEST VIRGINIA, . i . AT WIHEBLING. g ‘Wneering, W. Va., April 8.—Tho ladies fully inaugurated tho stroot-praying in this oity to- dny, Thoy visited a numbor of saloons, and, al- though mnuth:{z with no positive succoss, feel gro ntdymjolcn at tho kind trentmont thoy re- colved. At a numbor of saloond thoy woro da- nlod tho priviloge of praying insido,- Thoy then knolt on the pavemonts, and sang snd prayod. ‘Tiio propriotor of Latamin's;Variotiod met thom at tho door, conduoted them fo tho concort-hall, and gava thom. full”permission to sing and pray, during which exorolacs tho utmost ordor was obsorved, Mr. Laramin publishos o card In, tho aftoruoon papor informing tho ladios that tloy can bave the uso of his hall, with the stago ‘llor 176 sonts, for sorvicos for a haif-hour oach ay. ) gt No, . . AI'ST, OLAINSVILLE, ; Josio King murrondored last ovening. ' This morning Downing, the last one, surroudored. At Bollaire, Bridgoport, and Mortin's Forry tho dally vinting still eontnuos with but littlo, if any, result, ™ . OANADA. . Special Disvach to The Chicagn Tribune, OtTAWA, Ont., Apr'l 3,—Patitions immonsoly signed In favor of the prohibition .of the: liquor traflic are inning .to como’in from various quarters. A London potition contnins about 500 names ; othors run from 500 to 4,000, 'SWEETS. T9 the Editor of The Chicago Tribuna:. Bm:, Bwdat thiugs of allsorts—whethersngar, * lucont sirops,” or Fronch candies—appont to bo watchod by Influcuces more malignant than thoso of a governmont offleial® bont on gotting up a’ prohitbitory tax. The household maxim ' long ago was, thas swoot things woro bad por se; which only led to the wonder why people who | bollovod 80 persistently supplied and ato thom. Later, tho world was rogaled with tho horrors of sugar-making,—tales which neod not be recount- od hero, farther tha to hirt at the too-nails and / whola thumba that woro ‘found in barfels of brown . sugar. .Tho logendary = black-snale that . crawled -out at tho bunghole of "a° hogshend - of' Now :Orléans mo- lasgos visited intorior villages Jiko o.primitive Dio Lowis, bourd on & broad-and-molassos: cru- eado. Iguorant people were staggored by tho discovery that large percontages of New England rum wore contained in West India -molasees, Dblnck snakes and.negro-labor. It was hurd for ' tho popular mind at'first to accopt the fact -that rofined sugar owod its punty to bullock’s blood. Bat these horrors a ro eclipsod by modern stato- menta. Faust, in his laboratory, by direot .ad-, vico and assistanco of Batan, hag compassed the | manufacturo of. golden-sirup and “silver drips " {rom piles of old rags aud refuso skillfully treatod with sulphuric sold, Truo, thore was no trace of anything unclosn in the limpld fluid; but. frightoned housekeopers droppod thoir | Bpo0) nor eover darcd essay - o dro, sgain, lost tho tasto of poor-houso rags shs{lh i hil- dron cried for their matin allowance of pnnnnk? o sirnp wag_charitably prosented to tho washor- ‘womsn, Sulphurio acid was a tea-tablo and sow- | ing-socloty wplol_flluulnted with oxperimonis | by puttivg sirup into o oup of toa to soe it:turn ‘blnck, and a knife-bladse into tho tds to oo that wrn blagker. OF course it proved the presanco | of acid, thonghi nobody: stopped to inquire whether it waa in the sirup or tho tes. If the ;| assombled spinsters had pat tho knife into somo specimons of toa without the airup, the rosulb would have beon tho samoe, Xt.might have stag gered, but it would not hava converted' one of them from drinking green tea daily. If she had atood continual dostug with copporas and_ blue viunol for thirty-0dd yonrs, sho wouldstand it to tho ‘ond. Bulphoric® ‘zcid’ and “old rags was anothor thing. Prof. Daniolls, of tho Wis- consin Btate University, writos to sootho thero |. trouf foars_by saying that all sirups havo tracds of iron, disgolved from tho boiling pons by tho natural .acids of cane-juice,—onough to turn tos black, by union with the tannia ncid of | 17 tho, lattor; but not in any way Injurious ; and, further, that “corn-sirups would bo toss li to contain irou than the gonuine, Tho- * old-: rag" theory ia " probably as truo as the story of. making artificial buttor from Thames mud; but, if it wore a fact, tho differonce botwoon eirup. drawn by tho eano out of the oomponb-benl) and that obtained - by 'the scarching and pur: {y\ug process of ehemicnl sgents, would probably bo, ono mostly in namo.' "The product 18 the samo,! and equally harmless, whether obtained by Nu- ture's Iaboratory or man’s, © And now, lot_tho childron kave thelr sirup if you plesse. , X. | & MISCELLANEOUS ITENSS. - }‘ha Agnasls Somorial fund” has roached - —‘,Om's hundrod and two;\ty naw?nvnm and Esrlodlcn.h havo been w%pmuodin ranos ainco acinhon becamo Prosident. [ —A party of - five Indin skelotons sitting in | 3y"gg ono grave, round succotash-kottlo, has boon! disinterrod at Nisntic, Oonn, The Coroner is delighte 1, fe 5 ) —Tho 8t Louis Globe states that at the ond of the present session of. Congress, Gen. Bchurz 5 will rosign his scat, and roturn to 8t. Louis to, |- edit tho Westliche Post. B i |2 —Collax was not s saccoss in Now Haven. Tho rooeipta didn't pay tho oxponsocs. ! —Qen. Banks' son Josoph ' was assaulted and left sonseless on a Boston streot by some roughs, tho other night, for trying tohelp some’ girly they wore insnlting. . ~~Tho plan for the transfor-brilge of the ! Mlilwaukeo & St. Paul Railway acrogs ;tho Mis- gissippi at_MoGrogor, haa boon adopted. The structiiro will bo built of pontoons, and will span tho 760 foot channel on tho Towa sido at on an- lo of 30 dogrees, making the bridge 1,000 foot, ong. Several hundred foot out from oach shore is be ocoupicd .by dpuln% 08 o protection agaiust ioo and drift, and as being less exponsi 81V, 3 AR —A fow yoars ago not a singlo oargo of whont was exported from Oregon.. The Uommerc{a‘{ Reporier ostimatos tho oxports of whoat an Alour from the Columbis River, from July. 1, 1873, to Julf 1, 1874, at 90,000 tons, and othor .produce as 10,000 tons. Horo aro no loss than {000 cargoos of produce sent out of tho Coy lumbia River in & singlo year. The imports arae | not losa than 25,000 tons, ... . ... . ... . —The Mauchestor (N, H.) Print Works worg pold for $1,000,000,. the othier ‘dny, to & Boston €0 jion house represouted by 8. R, Payson, ; |, —Qongrogsmen aro jubilant over pormission |, gl‘ven thiem by tho - Postmastor-Genoral.to plac uir. sutograply ignaturo -on printed bnuka:l 2 .pamphlets, documents, &o., a3 in tho good. ol Bayso tranking, although thoy will hovo to oy, the postago on printed matior, Cilizons gonort .ally cannot oven write thelr initials on printed ‘mattor ; but'Congreasmen and othor officials can cortity that ;" thls paoknago confaius nothmg buj “printod- mattor,” and .aftix their chorished auto+ grophio elgnaturos, In this way constituonty wilf know who gond their mmnmbmucwurmmr | tho Capital. . % Gh a0 R ~Veory likoly, when- gome of ‘our’ publi¢ rthioyes find w;ml ngonious legal defonce lu- of; fored their oraft under.the workings of trial by jury in Italy, they .will ho romoving to thab favored climo, A~ tax-colloctor of ogzéxnbr 000.. Ho was caught, brought back-sud tried) he liad stolon waa.the peoplo’s monoy, and as b was ono of tho pooplo ho was part owner of that monoy, and of course it would be monstrous to convict a man-of stenling what was his own. | A Long=Lived Family, Tha Utiea (N, J.) Herald announces the doath ot Mrs, Bathor Goodwin, at tho agoof 8J yonrs 6 months and 19 days, and gays: ‘'Bhe wus _bora_in Litohfield County, Coun., aud was o daughter of Xdmund Dunuiug, & Hovolutionary ponsionor, who died in 1866, at the advanced aga of 01, In 1800 eho bocame the wife of Phiness Goodwin, who had one son by a former wife, In 1813 tho family moved from Canaan, Conn., to Boheneotudy, and from thouce, in 1818, to Utlea. Tha couple lived happil together for elxtytiva yoars, aud haye pad olght children, all of whom | BB ROW llvlng}.‘ Mr. Barkor, tho eldest, is now 04 'yoara old; Norman, the youngost, is now 40 oars 10 months, IIurfy, on of Mr, Goodwin y the first norriago, 4a 00 ‘yooya old, Tho united ages, Maroh 23, of the family foot up 674 oars;-belng an average of .61 yoars and ovor, Atig sgod husband L1vos, but with shakon heall, snd oanno) survive his conserSmaoy years,” > o emtsovrow ok ! | ' THE_ LOUISVILLE LOTTERY izoly % 7 Full and Correct List of Prizos. f | * From the Loutaville Courfer~Tournal. The. following 1ist bk baon vory carofully re- visod and correotod by . the . official books, and may bo reliod upon a8 ncourate, almont beyond tho possibllity of a mistakot 10 to 1,000, Prize.\No, Prize,|Ne $ 150/ 4228 6] 821 87,600, 9,780(37,747., 160 7,604, ol o 5 PrET o L B8, 124, i 23 2% | The Decay of. tho Tullerids. + |"Park, - remarks- the “Pall Mall Gazlto, is vory 097... -, TBl6TI00 0L 300[88,028. 5.0 78{58,317. 58, 7516810 150[68,648., % e The fidelity. of the'fashionnble world to. Hyde| touoching. The flvo'linos of carriages already ;| beginning-to form In that region during-the &f-| torndon* dpponr annually within its precinots, only’ evidencing the sublunary necossity for; chango by choosing for 4 lustrumat a timo one , of . throe~drives,. tho road nup to Enightsbridge| ‘Barraoks, tha drive - along the Borpentine)’ or tho, long stretoh-between-Hydo Park corner and the: Marble'Arch, The publicof Parls'aro more ca- riclous. than this, Thoy -bave dcsorted thoi 'uilerfes Gardens to' such ‘an extont that; tho roposal “now' 'befora” the " Municipal Coun .of . -Parls, . for . outting., ni streot through the parterros: from the Ruo Castigliono to the Pont'Bolferino, raises but:al faint.outery. * Tho Tullerios Gardens wore novar, 8 much appreciated . aa. thoso of. tho Palais] oyl and thosa of tho Palais do Ricliolion, Luy- ing ot mout a sucoea de politique, -Thus, dn the days of the Rovolutiop, they formoa a sprt of] anttexa to tho' Convéntion; and wore s ill-sdapt-| ed’ ‘for quist ** pencooking * as tho vioinity” of; [{; tho Reform Ook whoen tho souting senson com- mencea. . During.the reatoration, indeed, it was _considored corroct to saunter np and down thair; stately,avenuos, rich in royaliut aseooiations, but| of ‘late" yonra unpolitical plonsuro-sookers- have gravitated with increesing determination townrd tho 'Oliamps: Elysees, and tlo bi-scotion of the! to;nkmt\i ‘uilorios Gardens will soon be- &/ fai mpl, . E Japuneso Mistorinns. The Pall Mall Gqsctie has the following: - Thei yalde of gymnastics o8 A menus ol strepgthon- ing™the- body *has long béon known; 'and g i 'ronch Profossor of . Gymnusstios, M., Puz, ‘used 10 maintain, 1 the days beforo the war, that tho! TFronch "mfl' by_reason of its gymnastio traine ing, was * tho ouly valid portion of the popula-} tion,” Iti is veserved, howaever, for a Japaneso, to discover that one” particular kind o ¥ nastics was gorviconblo as a presorvative galnst, poa-gloknogs, In a Japanoso accouut “i European manucrs and oustoms, ' of , which! B nalation ¢ wae lately " road . by Prof, Boverini before a loarnod = mocloty: at Floronce, the author states that awinging forms & Togular part of a European boy's educa-, tlon& “in order that, having to seck ‘his foriune in istant lands, lie may not. suffor. from sca~ sloknosa.” Tho foroiguers, ' although good mon of business, and. oxcollont- horsomen,” neglect, according to the Japanoso writor, **that philo~ sopleal and literary eulture so muoh ostoamed by our own countrymen,” Their habits of lifo, Lowover, . ard' eminoutly respoctable; indecd, “they are a4 oloan in their. persons as tha Japanosa 'thomsolves.” - Finally, joalousy is an’ uu\mn\m‘mflon' among thom ; and “so much affection“exista botweon mau ond wifo that it 11 quito & common thing fo see & European mar- rled couple-walking arm-in-arm in publio," Goni’' Raod, ¥ § The Richmond Btghidcrnyn It all the roturned Cou 8 should do ag well ag Gon, John B, Hood towards ropopulsting tha derolated South, % would ba but a short {ime .| worth .more than that sum. |, oapital or influonco. !l 19 ho marri || August, | "J. 3. Cross, - Sho is 60 yoars of || Tho girls and one’of thi | reside at-No. 60 Woat Twonty-second stroot. 76| ‘orth §260,000. Th 5 in the city, at 45! 305, |1+ Bophi Was tho noxt child, Skie marriod Daniol Torrance, of this n]l\t[y, ||-Beptember. | % nng’fl tho placos of those who wore kilted and 225°) *thano who dled of discnso during tho war would -bo flllod by & now goneration. Irom a private sourco wo loarn that Gon. Iood ina Loon mar- riod juat flvo yoars, {;Sgrtlm% bo {8 now tho hap« il VANDERBILT'S WEALTH. An Estnte of over 8100,000,000=Anong Whom tt Will IZo Divided, ) . #rom the New York Graphie, March, ° The woalth of the Vanderbilt family has boon vnrlougf oatimatod, and tho' rotioonce of the Qommodote hireolf kaa ndmitted of littlo clse than moro conjeoture on this point. Thoro is a oneral opinion, howovoer, among thoso who are n a position to judgo most corroctly that tho woalth vested in Commodora Vandorbilt excoods 8100,000,000, and a_prominent membor. of the lnmliy rocontly said that tho .**old man" woe This vast fortuno was acquirod” by Oornelins Vandorbil through his own offorts, starting enrly in lifo without His paronts, wore poor, snd his firat moudy was earnod iu conveyiug pcoglu tu and fro in & row-bow botweon Now York ‘and - Staton Island, He' mada a large amount of money in steambonting, but the great bulk of his woalth has beon acquired in railrond combinations and in the manipulation of rail- road stocks, Ho i8 and has beon all hia Jifo a vory romarkablo man. - Bis self-rollanco and pluok nre a8 natural with him as drawing brenth, and his will and purposo aro indomitablo. A mon of puch tromondons montnl forca Lins he boon that ho hias moved forward to tho accom- plishment of his objects with a powor na irre- sistiblo as .ono of his stenmboats. His ong purposo in : lifo has' boon tho: ncquisi- tion of money. To this ond he . baa, trainga bis © montal ond physical ~ ro. sources with “tho grontest care.”. Ho las mado of himself o machino that has alwaya oboyod the roquiremonts of his intolleot, aud ‘whorever ho has struck it has boen with tolliug force nnd offcot. Hoe has hind very fow vicos. ' Ho had always drank modorately and lived rogu. larly, taking just tho requisito amount of* exor~ cisa ‘always. Bmoking and whist-playing arq tho only ‘indalgoncos whick Lo has permitted ‘himsolf to any considorable degroo, 'Every day hoisto bo scon driving.on the road, with the stump of a ‘clgar botwoon ‘his tooth, and until within a year past ho bas hadsome of hlumn!ol in for a rubber at whist and to fall horso, & sub- Jeok of which ho never tires. - Lattorly, how- ovor, “his " evonin, bave Loen pnssod vary' quietly, ~* Ho %(:u! always boen lpntrlcl man of business, kopt 8 - own coum #ol, and_admitted or known mo- partnera, 1o nover allows tho plea of affection or oharity to intorfere with his businoss matiors. Appoala to his sympathy have about ns much effect as a straw forced undor the wheols of a locomotive, 1Ho has boon woll, activo, and in the harnoas ali '\ hig life, and haa nover tired or woakoned. Ha will bo 80 yoars of agoin May, and Lis sixty add ium-n of constant hard work show that he has nd ono of the atrongest physical constitutionn ever given to a man, Somo peoplo look at him and ey that ho will nover dle, but it is woll known that the machine o admirably built and which has lasted so long is slowly but surely wenring out, His montal faculties remain unimpoired, but his goitis loss eteady than it wae, aud -ho no -longor :truats himsolt with -the dutles ho used' to - porform, Ho frequently complains. of oxhnustio and when b drives out it is ta be noticed thi hié 1o longer drives fast. Ho ia gotting ready a Iny his harness ssldo, and hag, doubtless, made fuill provision fox tho distribution of, his cblossn! acenmulations, ' Tor a humber of yonrs liis son- in-law, D. B. Allen, was his right-liand man, bug of late years his son William . haa represonted him in cantylog out the more active dutios of ad- mimstration, . William H. is as asaiduous in hia attontion’‘to” work " as 'his ‘father ever was, is searcely, if ever, soon in Enbllc, and can noarly always bo found, during busincas hours, at hig dosk in the Grand Contral Depot, Cornelius | Vandorbilt was born in Bay, 1704, at Stapleton, Btaten Island, and his parents.wera also born on Stnfon Island,” Their parents camo ovor from Holland.. The liouse in which he wasborn is atill standing,-and is ownod by him. - At tho age of led Sophia Johinson, his sacond cousin, ‘who waa then 18. Bhe died fivo -yoars'ago lash She was 88 romarkable a womau as ho was & mAn,. possessod great ‘firmness, o ve shrewd managor, strong principle, and 1¢ 18 eni sho earped ovary dollar she spent atter hor mar- riago, eon “childron in~all were born to them, nine girls and four boys, of who are now living eight daughtersand two sons. - Their first child was Phwbo Jano who married 0, and is now living in this cily with hor busband, Thoy hayve four childron now living, two boys and two girls. 0 ions aro married. They . Tho socond child was Ethelinds, who ia the wife of D. B, Allen, of this city. Mr. Allen was associatod with Commodoro Vanderbilt in his stenmbont. businoss for some thirty yoars, but haa rotired from . aotive business. fio in worth & half million dollara and hns six ohildren, five of whom are boys. All are married oxcup‘ ona son and one daughter. 3 .- Eliza wos the third child. She marmded G. A Osgood, the broker. Ilo {8 presumed to bo oy haye no ohildren.. Thoy live af No. 19 East Twonty-first stroot. Enfll’} was the fourth obild, Sho is the wifo of V. X, Thorne, the lawyer, who is worth 3,000,- /| 000, “They havo four childron, Ono dnughtor and ono 00 aro married, snd a- daughtor and a son are Btill unmarriod. +,. William Henry wes the noxt child. Ho married tho daughtor of tho Inte Mr. Kiseam, the olorgy- man, He has soven children, . . .., ‘William H. has » gon and two danghters mar-~ riod, and two sons ond two daughtors are yot singlo. Ho ocungms one of tho finest residencos Fifth avenua. who wos long Prosidont of “tho Ohlo nnd Mississippl Railroad, and is .worth from §1,000,000 to 82,000,000, They bave threo childron, ono boy and two girls. '[hey livoe at 879 Fifth avonuo. ‘One daughter is married to Moredith Howland, Esg., who is a very wealthy man, «* Maria Louigo was the noxt child. 8he married the lato Horaco ¥, Clark, who diod leaving a for- tuno of about $2,000,000 to £8,000,000, and one child, & daughter, married to Claronoe Collins, of Conneoticut. i o Marin Elicia waa the elghth, BShe married \Nicholos B. Lo Bon, wha was formorly mombor -of ‘Congress from this Btato., and who diod last Ho loft four childven, two daugh- tora and two sons, and 8175,000. itho childron “are all unmarried, * v i Thonoxt child was a boy, who died at the ngo of 7 years. ¥, % - & +The next was Cornelius J., or, as he is_sccus- .tomed fo sign himself, Cornolius Jr, Ho mar- ‘ried & gran -dnu(fbtur of_Ohiof-Justice Williama. on ono side and Olivo Ellsworth on the other. Bho diod two Jours 850, {eaving no children. " The oloventh child wes Frauces, who was fee~ ‘blo in health all her'lifo. Bho was never mar- ried, and died at tho nge of 40, s Tho twolfth wag Georgo, Who #orved in the lato war..with - gallantry, .Ho duated from Weat Point, and was on Gon. Tyler's staff, He ied single, sovon years ago, at the age of 26. The noxt and laat ohild” was Cathorine, whu - marriod-Smith, Barker, & son of Teaac Q. Hurkor. Ho died threa inlm B8R0, and she married aftor- warda n BL. Laftte, of Faris, whora she is noyw living with him and hor fivo. children, two girle lufl'uuno boys, the eldost of whom Is now in collogo, * ", : 2 R gy T |- Tho paronts ‘of the Commodore lived to an advanced age, his father dying in his 76th year, and bis mothor living to the ago of 80, Ono yoar aftor his wite's death, Commodore Vandorbilt: married Miss Francis Crawford, of . Mobilo, with whom he lives vory hanpily. His “will has boon mado for nomrly twonty years, and + he ia gaid to overhaul it evory yenr, making nd- ditlons or changing it as he thinks proper. Soma ono once said to bim, **You ought to be vory "earoful’about your will,, Commodore, for whero i | thare aro such vaab intorests at. stake thera sy . bo endloss tronble and litigation,” 'To -whioh-ho is .ropurted as bLuaving snid, * What tho h—I do I care what thnr da with niy moug after Lam gono? ,"I shall talke good care of {t whilo I am hore, and after that it does mo no " good,” BLll it 1u baliovad ho doos caro, and tht iy pinn f8 to prosorvo tho bulk of his fortuno ln “tho shape in which he will leave it, at lenst dur-. ing the goneration whiech noxt succoods him, 51 course Commodore Vanderbilt is surround- od with n vast number of hangors-on and favor- itos, but ho slows nono sround him that are troublosomo, and it is moro than doubtful if any of thom have any influcuco gvor him to the ex- tont of making that influonce pocuniarily profit- oblo, . Ho recolves thousands ' of “buggiug ‘lottors, and novor ronds any of thom, Ho imopz his monoy continually in- vosted,” ‘and keops ‘ouly & moderato smount on denosit, 1o has only two bauks of deposit, o fitted out the Buuks oxpedition during the war at an oxpense of over £800,000, and prosented the steamer Vandorbllt to the Governmnont aftor lnyinst out $1,000,000in fitting hor as aram to bo used agoinst the Morrimao, Ha gavo §500,000 to tho Vanderbilt University ut Nashwille, pald for the Ohurch of * the Strangors In this uky ond has glven large amouunts in charitios, Ho Bupports a Alumfinn ohurch at Btaton Island, noar which {s the tomb whiok ha onused to bo built for his final resting-place. o never gives monoy in indiseriminato charis ties, and ouly' givos ‘When he hing’ satisfled hime molt that hix Ofmrlu will acoomplish real good, '] g