Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1874, Page 3

4 3 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRII, 4, 1874, CONGRESSIONAL. The Situation in the First, . Second, and Third Distriots, The Condidates Whom Chicago Is Roeady to Furnish. Wiliingness of the Present Incum- bents to Returns [essrs, Canlfield, Toyno, Harrison, Wins- ton, Rountreo, Ete., Havo Tlopes. What the Petty Aspirants Base Their Olaims On, ‘What Will Mr. Hesing and His German Vote Do ? O'Hara and the Irish Legion, 1 hos now bocomo a protty woll recognizod prinoiple in theso parts, that tho first duty of .ovory American citizon, who baa nothing bottor to do, is torun for oflice. Failing in this, tho noxt first duty of acitizon of these United States 18 to voto for somo othor citizen who is running for office. As thoro is always somebody’s friend, it not himsolf, socking to sorve the people, the first duty of a momber of this Commoniwoalth is raroly loft unporformed, So complox is our machinery of Governmont that wo have nearly s many ofilcials a8 wo hinve citizons, and whilo people in Europo who own laud ofton parcol it out in smalt pioces forthobonefitof thoir childron, thus propagatiug a race of little cottiors, so our bonoficont system cuty this Ropublic into divers pmall or largo slices, a8 the case may be, and glvos ovory big and little political glulton o chanco to clog his ambitious stomach with a sop from public patronage. From United States Bonator to Town Clork, ovory Stato in tho Unfon big this philanthropic mission to falfill, and porhaps no State among them all has o groater surfoit of officos, nud rplnco-lmutom than this good Comnonwealth of Iliucis, Hero, in the nidst of metropolitanism, we cling to township Brganizations, for fear syomight deprive our local pots of their daily bread. Wo cullivaie o school n!émllticnl thioving that eannot bo surpessed, nud 80 wo are supposed to bo happy. 5 Tho great question that looms upon this com- munity for the noxt fall mm‘}mlgu is the Con- cssional ropresoutation. e sond from our lreo districts, evory two yoars, threo citizous to represeni our inlercsts at wmsmn(ivmn, Tho prosont dologation have mado very littlo nofso in tho marble balls of the Capitel. They aro ‘mot mon of words, and their actions aro of tho quict stylo of patriotism. From tho First Dis- trict wo have the Hon.John B. Rice, a man of fino appoaravco, but of rather superiicial aoquiro- ments, He g lost righc off amoug the hundreds of botter mon than himself in_ th§ Houso of Ropresontatives, From tho Socond District wo have the Hon. Jasper D. Ward, who will_nover sob eithor tho Iudson, or the Potomas, or Lake Michigan on fire, but who is supported by the Republicaa party becauso e hnppons to bo o kindof safo figure-hond. From tho Third District we bonst of the Lion, Oliarles B. TFarwoll, o man of fow words, indeed, but atill a man who s rocognized as tho ablest momber of tho prosont delogation,. Among the three thero is no orator, Chicago doos ot shino in the Cicoronina art., Tercitizgns aro too much in onmost‘ too much in & hurry, to pay closo at- tontion to the principles of ‘clocution. The last loud orator wo had was tho Hon, Long John Wentworth, Ife com- maunded attention, from his _imposing altitudo and his sopulebral ‘voice. Ilo towered aloft among his fellows like somo new colossus amonss 80 many pigmies., Whon Long Joln oponed his mouth the reporters were compollod to hear. .Ho ronred like o lion at 8undown, and our Wash- ington dispatches were fillod with Mr.Wontwortl: and his dolngs. But ol this i8 changed. . L. J. ’has subsided into o modern Cincinuslus—minus the curls of that gentleman, for truth compels tho sad scknowledgoment that L. J. las no locks, ambroaial or otherwine, upon his mugsive brow. From _cultivating Conglossional cuact- monts, Mr. Wontworth has degonoratod into cultivating cabbages, which, taking pattorn by ‘'his atature, sometimes forget their true vocation in the vogotable kingdom, and spting 1o tho alti- tuda of hollyhéeka, ~ Mr. Wentwarth, floored by Farwell, is now upon the kholf, aud may be snid to hiavo long ago attcined tho Summit of hig smbition. And thora ia the Hon. N, B, Judd. Ho, too, has rotirod from tho groat national arcna, and holds the terror of docapitation over potly Gov- ernmont oficisls in tho Custom-Houec., Mr. Judd, like Mr. Wautworth, flourishad in tho days when this good city and county formed only ono } Congrossional District ; but, now, while we have ¢« multiplied our membors three-fold, wo havo 1 fniled to multiply our notoriety. Our men do f. nob produce o sonsation at Washington, and Chicago, over foromost in sonsatiovalism, chafes at the undue tawmeness of hor rathor too quist champions, Iere, thon, {s a great chaucs o win ovorlasting fame for Eomo promising young non, and, at the somo time, serve the Districts in botter fashion than thoy aro now served. Cougross is the glit- tering goal to which the fingerof ambition pomts in directing the political aspiraut in tho way of triumpl, Tho talismanic word dauces before his eyes, and beckous him onward, even.as In lioo 8igno vinces, ?lm’mg avound the cross, tompted and led Constantine to victory, Somotimes, in- deed, the legond proves to be an ignis fatuns, but while the illusion laats, it servex to amuse, . and, to thochronio politioian, * while there's lifo there's hopo," —— THE FIRST DISTRICT. Patriotio porsons in our First District have discovered that the Hon, John B. Rice, although a vory worthy cltizon, is not of the political cali~ bro to reprosont in Congroes the handsomest portion of the handsomest city in Amorica, He Incks foree and fire, and. they say, must yield to the pretontions of some othor man in whom + montal forco is more doveloped, Who is this ‘mon? Oh, thore are soveral such—so thoy themselvos think. Who, in Chicago, has not heard of, read of, or seen, e B PEBNARD G, OAULFIELD, called, for short, “Barney?* 2ir. Opulfield 14 not old, neither is Lo a spring chicken, 1o & Inwyer of some reputation, sud carries around with him an expression of profound political sugnn&b{ net unmixed with bonevolonce, Ar. Caulficld wears a full beard, and is boginning to gtow bald,—the latter boing an cssential qualifi- cation, in popular estimation, of & successful Congressman, 1o has brown oyes, and always woare a stove-pipo hat, Ilo is a‘member of the Rolief and Aid Bocioty, and was born in Ken- tucky, But his fathers came from Irelnnd, and Bernard G. is a good Romun Catholie, Also, ho is Intensely good-natured, and undeninbly chari- table. Ho is a respeotable citizen, oud, onrly m lito, jolnea the IRIBI DEMOCRATIC-VOTE-IROKERAGE COATPANY in this civy, helng in_copurtuership with those lights of tho local political harom, Dan O'Ilars, illiam J, Onahan, John Comisliey, sud ofhers of that ilk, "Those (fmmm have long hold tho j relns that guided the Irish Democratio voto, and thoy wore ever roady to tury that vote to the best possible account for themselves, Duv- jug the war, they olosely appronched tho gonus Copperhiead, but, affor Gottysburg, thoy trimmed and becamo ostonsibly loyal, Bince that poriod they buve, _still ostonsibly, ro- maiped 8o, _ ‘I'loir loud-monthed Deniocracy won the blind coufidenco of the Celtic commu- nity, for the most part, an d, although noithor oono of thoso political brokors really cares o cout for Ircland, oxcopt in so far as patriotio bun- combe gorvos his purposes, the combination has succossfully ringed the rish votors by their political nasal organ, sud can load paid votors whither thoy pleaso. Tii1 ELECTION IN 1800, 5 In every largo Americnn oity it i necessary for some mau, or body of inen, to do this . brokoerage business—to lave o scloot number ot vates on hand for any emergoney that may ariso. Mhoy follow principle whon thoy = must, polioy when ,, s&my can, Thus, when Ohani Fadni mau - pgoinst’ Loog 3 e e Jobn in 186D, the brokors, o considoration, of courso, turned the Irish Democratio vote over {o the firat-namad Cone grossfonal vandidate. Wentworth fatlod to como to timo, Ho is coustitutionally stingy for so largo a mau. Drokors hate stinginess, and, no- cordingly, whon Farwoll booamo *‘liberal ™ a fow days betoro oleation, the Irlsh Domaorats weore, by the magio iniluence of tho Brokorage COompany, brought to forgot that Ohavloy was s Ropublican, and actunlly stood in tho snow ab tho polls afl that droary Nevombor day for tho plonsuro of bealing John Wontwortl, Thoy succeoded, nnd thoke who led then wore satis- flod, Mr, Caulfiold Lind his sharo in the glorywt that oxplott. Ho wag in the ring, and did his part right manfully, DAN O'HARA, howover, hns boon unnnimously appointed ons- todian of tho voles, and, acting with tho otlior stookholdors of the Domocratlo Brokorago Com= pany, gold thom out to Iesing at tho last municlpal eloction. Nenrly all these brokers are ‘*good follows™ porsounliy. They aro jolly aud take their * toddy™ with ‘a healthful np{:etltn; but, I anybody Inquives Lo partioularly into what any one of thein by over dono to worthily fix himselt in tho niTections of tho Irish votors, 80 18 $0 bo ablo to sell thom out at pleasuro, he Hm bo Lardly ablo to win s satiafactory oxplana- on, for As o rule, they aro, theso brokors, cgotistical | sud not far rcmoto from stupid—excopt in the aort of wire-pulling, Thoy have nover, any of thom, advauced n ainglo political proposition worthy of considoration, and, whou thoy dio, will, sofar ng the intorests of tha Btato an connty aro concerned, go down to the dust *“ un- wopt, unhonored, and unsung.” ED_OULLENTON, And now comes Ed Cullorton, Who {g_Cul- lerton? Thoman who was trouuced by Dixon for the Prosidoucy of the Common Councll; He hails from the Soventh Ward, of which he bup- pens to bo an Aldorman, Ar. Callorton is ono of those llrum&tm'nly old young men who oar- ries with lim an outsido solemuity of viglon, which is moant to doceive tho pub- lio _into n belief tbat somothing sagacious underlios that gloomy sot of orbs and furrowod brow. Mr. Cullorton prides himsolf on being about the only Aldorman in the Couucil that can wrile & grammatical sentence, who doos not mako the porsonal pronoun a little *3," aud who doos not misapoll the louguago of tho United Btates. Il may bo called tho pedautic podn= gogue of tho Councll, It is sald that, nt ono timo, ho contomplated opening » night-sehool for the bonellt of his follow-Councilmon, ospe- oinlly for Dixon, but_the oleotion of the Inttor ovor him convincod Mr. Cullerion tLat scholar- ship was not apprecinted in tho Municipnl Logis- laturo, and that, In faot, Whero ignorance was bllss, it would bo rank folly to play that part. Mr. Cullorton’s head baa boen rendered dizzy by a littlo prematuro notorioty. Ho noocds somg mora Inying out, und will, no- doubt, bo obliged fu hat direction. THE TON, THOMAS HOYNE, Then, there is tho Hon. Thomus Hoyno. This oltizen 18 8o cautious that o will noy vonture boforo n convention for foar of getting whippod, which ho could never stand. Ho ls an old- school Demoorat, aud rofuses to recognize tho fact that tho Domocratio ‘mfi i8, 08 n_body yolitic, dofunct, blonted, and decomposed,—in short, o mnss ot putrofaction. It musters a fow ragged ndhereuts in somo of tho ward Jlums ot ovory city; but, boyond figuring nt a town elec-. tlon, théy amouut to simple political refuse, Mr. Hoyno vigorously protests that ho does not want offico,~—that he las no smbition in that dirgotion ; but mauy of those who know lhim woll as vigorously protest that he would run for tcm;gflm if ho woro not afrald of gelling do- fontod. OTHER ASPIRANTS. There ars other porsons epoken of, but nothing dofinite can bo kaid rogurding them, Judge Bradwell is faintly mentioned in tho list. Of coutso Norman T Gassotto is the standing Dbase-ball eandidate, but bis tremendous defeat, o8 Genoral of tho late Citizens' Union movement, Tas put b badly in th background. Still, as, Norman oxplaing, Napoleon himsclf would have been licked with only. 137‘500 to run & cawpaign. “Had I only 250,0001" istho oxclomation of Gon. Gassotto, *only $50,000, but havg cold water ! there 18 no profit in that kind of liquid anyway!" Ho defeat hns dampod tho enorgies of Mr. Gnssotto, and hiu futuro glory muet radi- ?]‘?d from the bounding ball and the dlamond old. 'THE PROSPEOT. Tooking ovor the goneral situation, tho chances of tho renomiuation of Join B, Iico may be con- sidored fair, unless some stronger cnndidato should run ‘on the Ropulican track. Dulage County is in_the Distriot, but has no available candidato, and, If thiero wote ong there, ho could not get the nominstion. And, if Mr. Rico is to bo opposod only by o seloction from the stock politicinus now on the boards, his chances for re-clection aro equally good with hils present prospects for renowinatiol e THE SECOND DISTRICT. The Hon, J. D. Ward, who ropresonts iho Sccond District, is surrounded on sl sides by onomics, Buch a erop of poiitical aspirsnts never vogotatod in any doomed soction as now {lourishes on the Wost Side. ‘Ihe Hon. Jasper D, will have *“a hard row to hoe," if Lie intonds to got back "from his District. Ifo his nover been heard from in Congross. Why did ho not make o spoech on somothing? It might fall 1lat, bo of no use, might be a nenr approach to imbecility, but it would have been o speech all the same, and would convinco his constituents that he was alive. As it is, hohas not been liourd "of mince ho wont fo Washiugton, Mr. ‘Ward should bave reised n commotion somohow, Gossip hero prodicts that he cannot go back, that his own party will not give him n nomina- tion, 28 Col. Dorickson, **Joo™ Roynolds, .8en- ator Doy, Col. Fous, Ald. Campholl, and lalf-a- dozen otliors can take it from lum, NEPUBLICAN COMPETITORS, Derickson, Dow, and Fossare mostly talked of, oapecially the two D's. Reynolda would be a mosb excollent represontative of the lndics, De- ing entirely dovoted to tho sex. Campbell would touch Congress patliamontary law as practicod in the Council, aud astonish uncultiyated mowbors from Now Yorlk and Boston, llcnrl:, Mr., Ward's chances are the color of indigo in lis own party, aud he has po claim anywhere else, HENATOR 2'QRATIL 15 of tho opinion ihat he could diatance him in n b-raco, and McGrath has audacity onough to thing. Ho jutonds ruuning for Congross on his own hook, if 1ot as the cundidate of tho party opposed to the Republicau. . McGrath has abondoned tho tinking ship. 1le is not wanting in sbirewdtices and sogaclty, and, to do him jus- tico, ho has been more attentive to his Senatorial dutlea than many of his collongnes,, IR OALTER N, HARRISON is roported to bo ou the war-path ouce more as the anti-Ropublican candidate. Mr. Harrison will spond [‘)luuty of maney, but ho is n terribly poor politiclan snd & bad manngoer. He Inys the *blexuoy " on too thick for tho ronsitive Irish stomnchk, Tho Irish Democrats undorstand o business traneaction, when performed by their Grand Brokor, Dan O'Hara, ud bis satiaps, but they can nover swallow Carter Inrrion's sugnr- coated 1[vflha in tho way of solicitudo for the physical welfaro of Celtlo infants, who may, a 80070 Of yoars from now, ko voting for Mr. Har- rison's descendants, if not for himsolf, GEORGE WIlITE, the Aldormanio lumberman, who recently had a caricature af himself priuted iu tho Land-Owner, {s tho farcical candideta for Washington, Mr. White's qualifications aro funcrons. 1le knows tho differonco betwoen o eaw and a clow-ham- mer, botween o log nud o planls, wears o fashion- ablo collar, larpe jowolry, o shiny lat, and #miles porpetually. "o i ugenial young fellow, personally, and 'his frlonds, if thoy aro his frionds, ought to give up turning his hoad with thoir practical joking. ~Tho mensure which is to tako him to Congross fa rather romarkable, It 18 a highway, but not a grand one, It lanot n Daclfic Italliway; » national road, or the improve- ment of tho IMlinols Rivor, It is the oxtension of Milwaukee nvonne from Kinzio to Lake streot, & sebemo popular in the Fittoenth Ward, and ou that, woak foundatlon aw it may seom, lie builds his flaugrneslmml nspivations. JOUN COMISKEY. John Comiskey, who Lns beon sleeping in iho shade for somo yoars, s again bobbmg to tho surfuco, like the uoxious gas iu llosly's Blough, 'This notorlous politionl trickstor and wire-pullor Iy just now in the trnin_of dor Ies- ing. ~ Tho Iattor likesn'mnn of John's kiduoy, ‘Thoy fonght Jike cits nud dogs in the old tmes, tnd My, Hesing did lis beut to gob Comiskey hanged to a lamp-post, in front of Eiu own liouge, aftor tho murdor of Lincoln, Whon rogues fall out, honest teoplo gonerally got Lnek thelr own, but wheu thoy gree, Gud holp the unfortunato community upan whicl they proy. Mr. Com= inkoy for Congress| Why, it Mr. Comlukey, and others hise htm, had had thoir way ton years 8go, wo should huyo no Congross nuw, TUE, OTIIH, Dr, Biuthardt and mauy mora are apolan of in tha sama connection, The chancos nro that, it a Itopublloan candidate of good standing can be aolected, ho will succeed i ruuning {u nhead, bocauso tho leaders of the so-called Poaple’s Tarty aro . too ambitious, and too greedy, and will, liko rapnolous wolves, ont cuch otlier np. Thoy Inck cohoslon, organization, nud taugibllity. 'Tho Nopublicans have an orgnnization, aud, by Judicious maungomont, can undonbtodly suce coed in oleoting thoir man, IL 1, Millor, proa- ont County ‘Lronsyror, & man who, although a born Amorioan, an was bhis fathor boforo him, trioa to paim himsolf off a8 n Uornan, s playing o rharp gomo for Gnnqmnu in this District, 1lo is usingz tho othor followa of tho Peoplo's Parly a8 “pawne,” Dut, doubtless, ho will” find Me- Groth moro than o match at his own gamo, —— THE THIRD DISTRIOT. It Mr. Tarwell cares to go agnin, as ho will, overy other Ropubliosn must etop aside, o ¢laims tho right of wny, and will run down any ono who ventures on the track. The ITon, Jobn A1, Rountreo, who has not decidod whothor ho will bo Mayor or a Congressman firat, expeots to stop i whon Farwell slips out. Of courge ho cannot go unless Mr, Hosing plonscs, and it ls doubtful if Mr. Iosing’s admiration for Mr. Rountreo Is unboundod. Last fall, whon Hosing had stakod ovorything on the Poople's move- ‘ment, Rountroo_doclined to mount the stump, ond, unil after tho eloction, turned_a cold shoulder to tho parly. This Mr. Heull:lg cannot forget or forgive, nnd ho 18 said to be nuder the improssion that Rountree hina beon well paid for doing nothing for the TPeoplo’s Party, by his clection a8 County Attar- noy,—n comparativa sincoure. Then, whero daos Rountreg stand ? Is ho n People's man or n Ropublican ? Probably a Ropublican, for ho :!l"..“ boen in Republican caueuses snd adores ,0gan, AND WIIERE DOE MR, IESING BTAND? Ho formally sovorod his gonnootion with tho party aftor the Iast cleotion, but there sre thoso who'hiut that he will roturn to the fold, if tho Gormans will only follow him,. This ia hard to bolieva, Ho alected his tivket Inat year In spito of the l'lcllle\bllcnna, and ho fanot ‘the man to turn round and belp thoss who abandoned him in an extromity—unloss it suit him, or ho cannot holp hismeolt, BENATOR WATTE. ‘Whaito would like the place, and wll.lvglvo Toun- trao nll ho can do to beat him in the Convontion, ‘Waite {8 an oxcollent gentleman and entertaing an oxalted opinion of Mr. Hosing's abllity,—to sond a man to Uongroes from that district. Tho chances are that Mr, Farwell will run, and in thot cage ho ean gob thonomination, THE ONANCES, - Whethor a candidato on a Ttepublicsn tickob will ho cortain of elaction deponds very much on the attitude of Mr, Hesiug, (lisadhoronts think ho can dofeat n Ropublican candidato in that distrjot by running his pon. At lonst that was the talk until that gontleman rondercd himsolf obnoxious to tho Cathiolio Gormans by his I)otnr’(:dox viows on Itomo, the Cliuroh, and Bie- marck, N.D. BSani Ashton could bo provailod upon to 0. = THE AGREEMENT TAST YEAR, It mny bo well to atato that thero are not wanting those amorg the Germans who atate that Hesing is & stupendons fraud, and that his ropresontation of the Toutonic oloment is all o sham, Ile nnd O'Hars nro notorions vote-brok- ors, Hosing saw last fall that tho Gormans wero boing drawn. futo the ** Poople's Party” by Michaslis, Lieb, and others. This would nover do. Accordingly, it is slleged, Hesing, Farwoll, Jdudd, McArthur, and the wholo Government Ring laid thoir hends together and plapned out o poloy. Heslng was to foll in with the Ger- mang in the muvicipa} election, uae tho Irish for his own and O'flarn'a purposes, and, when beor was victorlous, turn roww on the Celts, kick thom into the gutter, .| join hands with the Republicens again, and so keep up tho organization. The plan succoodad admirably. LnFur is froe, and the Gorman heart s eatisfied. This may sorve to explain the apathy of the Ropublican bell-wethers in Chi- cago during the lato eampaign, Whero will Dan O'Hara and his Irish stand should Iesing go back upon thom? 'They misged & good oppor-. tunity for ealling the Gormans out, but, with their customary pohtical atunldll{, sold out at the wrong moment, and becamo tho abject tools of Hesing. Should the lattor boot them now to their heart's contont, public opinion will ery out, “ Borvo thom right." i TIE LAST DEVICE. It is alloged by some that Washington Hesing i to havo Judd's place in the Custom-Ilouse, and that Farwell will be allowed o walk-over for the Third District. Oharloy has beon working aniotly smong the farmors of Cool and Lake Counties for eomo timo pnst, and, should ho offect a bargain with tho Ilosings, may calculato on succees. F. M. WINSTON In eaid to bo nmbitlous for political honors in.the Congressional lino. o has boen h'immth for #omo time and may try his chances this fall. If o, thoro may be some fun for Charloy Farwell. In Lake County, thero are no politics and no eandidates ns yet, The gront issuo is, whather the presont Postmastor at Waukegan shall o or atay. Tiois Im[lojillllnr, and,.if Mr. Farwell will ngroo to oust him, ko will galn atrongth; if not, lie will bo deoidedly unpopilar among tho peoplo in that section, e THE SUMMING-UP. The political situation, so far as parties is eon- corned, i8 more complicated in these threo dis- tricts than in any othor part of tha State. Thero is, in reality, but ono party in Cook County, and that the Ropublican, which, though not in the majority, is strong through the fact that it is the only ono which hos an organization. THE DEPUDLICAN BARTY. Tt 18 backed by F'aderal and State patronagoe and influence, and by a mass of ward politicinns ond petty aspirenls for oftico, Bo far as ward and county organization is concorued, it is in very good ghapo ; and, if 1t wins, its succoss will be due to this tact. T8 AUSILTARIES, But in addition to tho Republican votes, tho {mfly lenders can generally roly upon thoir aux- linry forcos, the Irish Logion, of which montion has nlready beon mndo. . Thig compact body of purchnsable or controllnblo Irish votes is nue merous enough to cma' tho Firat District, which ombraced tho Sisth and Sovonth Wards, and the Sccond Dstriot, which includes the Eighth aud Niuth. In tho Third District this elemont plays an insignificant, part,tho Irisly voto there being conflued to tho Eightcenth and Pwontieth Wards, and swamped by the Germau voters of North Uhicago snd of the uorthorn tier of towns in Cook County. 3 THE DEMOCRAOY. Opposed to the Republican party are fhe cdds and cnds of hnlf-dozou wonk aud “distractod or- ganizations. The Domocratic party of Cook County abandoned'the field five years ago. Sinco then it hns bean moroly a tradition, John Gar- riek,St. Clair Sutherlnnd, and the other mombers of tho old Demacratic County Committeo have protended, olection aftor election, that the old party was still alivo, but all this protonso was moroly for the purpose of persuading Nepub- lican ‘leadors that they had votes whioch they could doliver. i ; TUE PEQPLE'S PARTY was organized - to omry oubt ono single purposo, and theb it has accomplishod, ‘Thora is, thoroforo, no reaton why it should not now disband, It wns madoe uq of the Irish, the Gormnus, and u fow thousand Americans, Tho fitst will voto ns their leadors-tell thom. The courso of tho aecond and of tho third ia more dif- fleult to ealculato, It in truo that attompts havo Doen made to koap the People’s Party aitve, and it has nomiinated tickots for town ollicors for the clection now impending, This, bowover, {8 part- 1y an etlort by somo of the smaller politiclans of the party to provide oflicos for themseclves or thoir frionds, and partly nn attompt on tho part of Congressional aspirants to keop tho organiza- tion alive until Novembor. This cannot sue- ceod, and by fall tho disintogration of {his or, ganiZation will be complote. THE WORKINGNEN'S PANTY, the organization of which was begun Iast Do- comber, protends to number 6,000 votes, drawn muinly from the Gormans, Bofiemlans, Beandi- navians, and Poles, Lhe impulse which gave rise to this party,—tho distribution and lack of em- plo{mnm, which oxistod last wintor, has consed, und the party will fall to picces much moro rapidly thun if como togother, TIE INDEPENDENTH, Thero aro many other voters, once Ropublican or Domocrats, now perfectly footloose, who will vols only for the best man, orif it comes to choica of evils, wiil vota for the least worso man or stoy away from the polls altogother, 'hera nro many moro of thoso than i generally im- nlglllo{l, aud if, for Instanco, tho Republicans or tho Tirst District should renominate Mr. Rice, theso unattached votes would rathor Bupporl Lim with his ominont rospectability then any rln(her wan whois apt to bo in tho flold againat hin, Thus it will be soon that thoro are voters onough to muke n very respectablo DP]IDHILX(HI t0 the Ropublican party, but the problem is, how to unito thom,—how to Fot Gormans, Irish, In- doponderts, and workingmon to uur ort the sawe individunl, At proeont, at loast, ti II:! soomy impossiblo, aud, it the mtuation doos not altor, the Republican eandidates iwill havo to contend with a tigorganized opposition, which il not bo upt to presoit mon so much bottor thau thom- solves as to stand much chunca of Buccess, un- loss {u the Bocond District, But thoro may bo many changes in the presont condition of pariics. It iu cortain that tho farmors will exort o very dooided jufluonce in determining the resul: of the Congrosaional elections in lh]u Btato, outsido of Cook” County, Tho spirit of independenco whtch has prompted them to break looso from old party attaohimonts may -be communieated to thio peonlo of Chicugo and Cook County bofore noxt fall, RAPID TRANSIT IN CITIES. Tho Various Plans Projiosod---Under= rround and Elevated Railways, A History of Rapid Transit in Now York =-=Vanderbilt's Audacious Scheme. Lotter from R. P. Morgan, Jr., Oivil Engincer, BrooMIncyon, Iil,, April 2, 1874, To the Editer of The Chicago Tribune: Bim: Thosubject of rapld transit in the City of Now York, which has for mauny yoars past so Jargely acoupied tho publie attention, scoms now about to enter upon a new phase. Trom my professional cducation I was ontly induced to considor the varivus mothods pra- sented for the rapid transportation of pasaengers in large citics, and espocially up and down Man~ hatton Ysland, and bavo ondeavored lo keop ac- curately informod of tho 7 VARIOUS TLANS IPROPOSED to accomplish tuis object, down to tho presont timo. As corly as 1800, . tho noconaity for groater foollities for prasougor-travol in Now York had becomo 80 urgent that, durfig tho sossion of the Benate in that yoor, » Selodt Commiltoo of threo was sppoiuted, with tho Hayor of the City of Now York, tho State Engincor, and tho Engineer of the Croton Board, to consider tho whole sub- joet, ana roport the beat plan to accomplish tho object, . In Januory, 1867, tho Commitleo thus ap- pointed—oonsisting of George H. Androws, H. R. Low, Charles G. Cornell, Committee of tho Bonato ; Johh T, Hoffmnu, Mayor of Now York; and Alfrod W. Oravon, Engineer of the Croton Bonrd—made their roport, which will bo found" in Benato Documont No. 28, Jan. 81, 1807, This report shows that tho Joint Committeo was organized on tho 1st of June, 1866 ; aud, by publio notico, invited plans, which woro received until Octobor of that yoar, Jumes P, Kirkwood, an ominent civil-ongi- noor, was requested by the Commission to ex- amino THEUNDERGROUND-RATLWAY in London ; and visited thab worl in Soptomber, 1800, and devoted about threo weeks to an in- vestigation in regard to its working, tho charac- terof its construction, eto. Ilis roport in ro- spect to that 10nd Wil bo found in said docu- ment No. 28, Appendix D, commoncing at pago 25. Tho elaborate report of Mr, Kirkwood, chiofly of facts, with tho then suppored peenniary suc- coss of that rond, aud nleo tho absonce of satis- factory plaus for eolevated ronds, luduced tho Specinl Commission to adopt tho following reso- lution : Resolved, That, in tho opinion of this Commission, thio best mothod of _specdily nttaining tho design con- tomplated by tho Senato resolution paized nt its Inst sesslon, 18 Dy the coustruction of underground rajl- ways, Tho Commission, in stating the ronsons which ‘brought them to that conclusion, sny that * Tho tornis of tho rosolution under which they werg activg domanded that the plan adopted should posaeas tho elemcuts of spoed, safoty, cheap- noss, and rapldity of construction.” Innsmuch a8 1t wat obvious that & high rate of spocd was impracticable upon rails lnid on the surfaco of the traots, thero remainod only the ELEVATED AND EXCAVATED BYSTEMS to bo considored. Of the formor, thoro wore tiwo clnssca: thoso placed upon supports in the #lroots, and those running eithot wholly or in part through blocks, and sustained by structures of wood, iron, or masoury. Of tho clovated ‘plans, tho one recommondod by tho Commission a8 appoaring *to lisve boon {ho most carofully propared, the most free from ongincering difi- cultios involvmitue question of safoty, and tho least objectionable as to tho applicalion of _the motive power,” was that presented Ly Mr, O, I Uarvey, G, B. Tt muy be sufliciont to describo this plan by :fiying that it was the ono now so well-known ay ) ONEENWICT STREET ELEVATED RATLBOAD, a8 nrigluully coustrnctod, supported by a singlo lino of posts near tho edge of the sidowalk, on which the cars wero to be propolled by means of o sones of ondless wiro-ropes, moved by sin- %im:m-y engiues placed at intervals of about 1,600 ect. ‘Fhe public now woll that this method of pro- pulsion proved impracticablo, and the Company ‘which erected tho rond were compolled to abau- don the moans of propulsion eriginally contom- pinted, and which bnd been provided aud at- Lempied to be used, and substilute therefor lo- comotive-ongines, for which thoir rond was ill- adapted; ond yet tho structure, omploying o motive power not originally intendod, hng mot, it is #aid, a monsurablo dogree of suceess. The only other mothods of coustructing ele- vatod ronds submitted to tho Commission pro- posed to use thoe spaca over tho sidowalks in tho streots by plaus greutly more objectionabla than that of Mr, Havvey, or to open now routes through the blocks, on whiclk viaducts or othor olevated structures should bo buill. It is not to be wondered at thiat sach plans of elevated ronds should have failed to meot tho approbation of thas Commission, ‘I'he construction of the London Undorground Reilway, aud its assumed success, bad inducod tlre bollef that a similor road conld be construct- od in New York with equal facility, ‘I'o thoso mot scquainted with the difforent condition of facts existing in the Lwo citics sueh an inferenco wag nataral, - LONDON stands on a bed of very compnot and tonnoinus clny, of great dopth, and of such consistoncy a8 to alford tho groatest udvantagos for the oxcen- tion of underground work. New York, exceptat its Jowor end, which rosts on sand, stands on rock, contarted in varions directions, nud full of sonms and firsurcs. No tunuo), properly so called, can bo built in it, excopt at a depth bolow the surlaco, to securo a roof, Ao groal thataccosy to it becomes nearly imprnoticable, and light and ventilation, by natural nieans, impossible. Buch works, theroforo, in that city, must bo exeavated asan open cut, and an artitlelal roof built in the place of tho patural roof afforded in ordinary tunueling. Of all tho plans that wero submitted to tho Benato Commission, and raported upon, irly- one in number, it is uot sur\u'lalug that, undor the circumstances, thoy should havo renched the concel!:]slou oxpressod in thoir rosolutlon bofore quotdd. Tho effoct of this roport by gontlomon of such high standing, made aftor 80 thorough an inves- tigation of tho subjoct, was to concentrate pub- lie opinion mainly in favor of plavs for under- ground structurcs, Of theao, threo woro princt- pally urged upon, and for saveral yoars absorbed, public attontion, ‘They were the - ‘' ANOADE PLAN," so-catled, which proposed to oxcavate the strect toa dopt[x suflicient to allow tho construction of & rallrond, and reatoro the original surfaco, sup- ported by an artifloial roof ; the tunmel plan, undor the stroets or othorwise, by such routo e might bo found most convenient; and a third underground plau, by which tubes for the usc of puonmatio propulsion should bo employod, otwithstanding, however, tho rocommonda- tion of the Senuto Commission in favor of under- ground pluna, n chartor was granted for Lho con- struction of nan olovated Toad in. Groonitich stroot upon tho plan of Mr. Harvoy. - Itis not n little interesting to know that tho rond dovlsed .by Mr, Hurvey is tho only one on which a8 yot anything hiss ~ beon nccomplished ; and, ovon tpon that road, his mothod of propui= sion has been fouud o faulty us to have boon abandoned. From tho timo of tho ropott of the Sonalo Commission, in 1867, untli recontly, and mainly through its miluonce, publio attontion has beon almost wlmllf directold to socuring monns of rapid trausit Jn Now Yorl by underground rait- woye. Liberal chartors for that purposo, in tho liands of gontlomon of acknowladged oxperionco aud eapacity, and whoso weslth, und porsonnl standing uro suoh as to command publio confl- donco, hiave boon granted ; and yot, in spite of atrenuous exortion, and tho stringoney of & groat and incrensing public want, tho privato capital necesanry for the construotion of euch o road hos not been and NEVEN AN B ONTAINED, ‘Tho roasons for this acom obvions: they nra the diftieulties uttending tho construction of auch rouds from tho wnogm}fl\y of Manhuttan Island ; their great and uncortaln cost; and tho discol forts, for want of Hght and vontilntion, to whioh thotr pausengors muat be subjected; nud also the recont diselosure of the eomplete_fluancinl failure of the London Unfl&g#wuml Railway, whoro il the oloments favorablo to succoss ox- istod, vz, 1 ohonp enpltal, chonp Inbor, chenp materinl, favorablo conditions for tho construce tion of the work, and & population of 8,600,000 to be nccommodated, Whilo public nttontion was ¢hud directed, by tho nction of tho Sousto Comission, to tho plans for underground ronds, my own convie- tlons of tha sorions obutalos In tho way of their Auceons, to which allusion hing boon mado, lod mo to oxumiuo whothor SOME OTHER NETIIOD might not bo devised which wonld be fully equal In capaclty, loss costly, and moro sntisfactory. It meomsto bo olonr, if the spaco ovor the contral poriion of tho rondway in the oxisling stroots oan bo utilized for the dosired purpose, without eorious intorforonco with their prosont ugo, or injuryto tho adjncont property, by n atricture nob t00 costly, thit o plan combining all those advantages rocommonds itgelf to public fayor and adoption, To this ond I dovised and pntonted a plan for susiaining a double-track rallway OVER THE CENRTE OF TAE STREET, ot such olovation wsnot to intorfore with its ordinary uno, and occupying at the surfaco, by the unprorls. o 8paco loast ‘n amoant and valua. It is ovident thot tho odge of the sidowalk noar the ourbstone is tho least useful for goneral pur-~ poses. Upon this spaco I propose to orect iron ribs opposlto each other, nind meoting ovor the cenire of tho stract in the formof a Gothig arch, Dolow the apex will bo placed an olliptical rib, at rn cloyatlon above tho atroot, 80 nsnok to ntorfore with its uso. Gonuuc\fng the two outor ribg, and with other connections comploto, & compolent , trausvorgo arched truss,—such arched trussos to bo sot up b suitablo intorvals, suy about 76 feot. Thoe oflicoof thewo iron arches is tho samerna that of tho X‘thx of an ordinary Dridgo,—~to sustain . sories of longitudinal trusses, which latpor carry s double-track rafl- way abovo and over thn middle of tho streot. ‘Iio cara move on tho track nbove tha_olliptical; and undor tho outor ribs beforo degcribed. When Dr. Gilbert originally proposed the con-~ struction of a rond in New York, bis iden was to omploy pnoumatic power in tubes as o meaus of propulsion, After my plan was dovised and made publie, Lo adopted the structure to support his Pneumatic tubes over the contrs of the strocts. Au articlo on that subjoct, accompanied br o full-pago filustration, showing the motbod thon proposed by Dr. Gilbert, will bo found in Frank Leslie's Nlustyated Newspaper of Marcls 18, 1871, * Binco that time, a chartor for what is knownns i THE GILDENT HOAD, ‘s boen obtained ; but tho moant of propulsion now proposed aro locomotive enginos inatend of pocumatio tubes, tho engiucs and cars to run on tracks supported over tho middlo of the streot ; and the whole plan, thongh modifled in form, embodies substantially that devised and patonted by inyeolf. Wo now como to the Intest phase of this sub- Joct, alluded to in tho oponing of this articlo, tho plan upon which Mr. Vandorbilt asks au- thorlty to construct an olevated road, a bill to auttorizo which has been so quiokly and favors ably roported to the Logislature by tha Railroad Committee as to'oxcite sharp comment by the ontiro pross of Now Youl. ‘Thia plan, a8 proposod, is to sob up, ab intor- vals of about 16 foct, TOSTS IN TILE MIDDLE OF THE ROADWAY, to suppott tracks for tho pasangzo of engluos’ and cars. _Until this -timo, it has always been as- sumod that any plan of rapid transit must leavo tho carringe-way of the stroot entiroly unob- siructod, nnd engincers hiavo therefora directed thoir attoution to dovising methods shich would scouro the ond desirad without Infringing upon this indispensnblo roquisite, Tho structure of Mr, Vandorbilt is the flrst one evor suggested which ‘deslgns to uso any pottion of tho curriage- way for tho support of u railrond. Itis nothing morg than o simplo trostlo-bridge (mado of iron, itis true), which s baon kuown since bridges wero first_constructed for the crossing of small stroams. If such a plan can bo tolorated, - tho Inbor of the last twelve or fiftecn yours, which waa devotad to thi subject, was quite ueoless, and the delay aud inconvenienco which the peo- Elu of Now York havo suferad wero ununecessary. uch a roed would bo che“d’:m moro quickly con- utrl:‘ctnd. ond oqually efficiont, 83 any othor roud, It 18 extrnordinnry, to say the lenst, thata rond 8o built should not long ago have been pro- gnand, ifitis to_ bo pormitted ; thorofore, must ave been kopt in the background by souud and obvious rensons. Tho objections to it ecem to Lo insurmountablo. Bupposo tho road to becon- structed olong 'Lhird avenus, ovor the present surfaco railroad trucks., Tho widlh of tho sup- ports of a double-track railroad must be moro than 20 feot. Tho carringe-way of that avonuo i8 G0 feot, and tharowill Lo loft, thorefore, on oither sido of the (restle-worl loas than 20 foot in width, The MIDDLE OF THE CARRTAGE-WAY of any street is ulways tho part most usoful ; near the curbstons teams nccossarily stop to lond, and obstruct in that part of thé utnml the passago of vohieles. If tho posts or bonts to support the olevated road are sob up at intorvals of 16 feot, ns proposed, teams can cross the uircet only substantially at right angles ; and, if the preseut surfaco-road isto continue In use, such crogsing becomos difticult for foar of col- lision with the strcot-cars, Some time ago, I uoticed the number of ears passing on Third nve- nue, both ways, ab Fifty-ninth strect, aud found thom to average uot less than ono por minute, ‘This alono shows how difficult it would Do for teams orossing to avoid collision, hemmed in by poats between which thoy must pass. At pros- ent, toams passthg wuso that part of (he streot occupied by tho railrond-tracke, and are ablo, without diffieuity, to turu off when tho ap- prouch of o cax makes it nacessary. But, it those tracks nre to be run Dotweon rows of posts sot up on botheides, 16 foct apart, it would bo difticuls forany, and impossiblo for many, ve- hicles to get on ar off that ’Snm.,u! the atraet, ox- coptto makio o direct nud hnzardous crossing. In elloct, it is to givo up one-third or more of the carrisgo-way of that strect ontiroly to railroad uses, ond v . DESTROY It . torall purposes of ordinary traffie. Tho park thus surrendered, it is to bo obsorved, is that tho use of which for purposes of ordinnry traftic most facilitates the use of the othor parts, the sidey, for tho purpose which thoy alono enu ef- fect,—tho londing and unlonding of vehicles, ., In narrower streots thau tho aveuuos, these abjections become still groater, unloss, indood, 1ho stroot_is so nnirow o8 to ho spanned by the bents of the trestle-work. Mr. Vandorbilt is ontitled to whatovor credit may bo duo to the plan undoer considoration, which solves the problem so long aud earncstly discussod by tho citizons and press of New York, and to which civil engincors of this and othor countries hinve givon 80 much attontion, upou a wholly different bnsis. Pl plan is AB_AUDACIOUS a8 it is simplo, and cau only bo adopted whon tho conclusion shall havo been reachod that It is necossary to sacrifico the usefulness of somo of tho stroots rxisting to socure rapid trau- sit bolweon the parts of tho island romoto from oach other. Whether tho end to bo accom- plished is of sufliciont importancoe to warrant the encrifice which this plan involves, may woll bo doubted, and is a quostion which tho pooplo of Now York must determino for thomselves. Riowannp P, Monoax, Jn., Civil Enginoor. e A Duel Botween IRoys. £rom the Pall Mall Gazetle, An extraordinury case was brought bofore the Lindsoy (Lincomshiro) magistratos on March 12, f'wo boys, Gorald Mnurice Brown and Goorgo Honry Sengravo, pupils in. & boarding-school b Lincoln, quurrelod about o trivial mattor, and Brown, by way of sotting tho diflculty, sout Sea- grave o _forma! challougo to fight a ruel. Ben- gravo duly nccopted it, and about 2 o'clock, ot which timo tho boys are altowod to go out for n walk, the duclists aud thoir scconds started for u seoluded spot, © Hore Brown’s second, a boy named Dawson, loaded the plstol for Brown, and n youth named Walter Groon did o like oflice for Soagrave, DBoth plstola woro loaded with powder and bull. Duwson mensured the distunce decid- ed upon,—thirtoen paces,~nud pinced a pog in the ground for tho antagonists to stand against. Dawson then counted three, aund dropped o handkorobiof, e counted ulow]y, and the boys took direct alm at ench othor, firing tho instant tuo lhandkorchiof foll, Sengrave [mmediatoly cried out, **I'm hit," and then lay down, It was thon found out that his pistol hnd burst. The noconds thon senrched for tho wound, aud found 1t to bo In tho log, They bound up the wound, and, with the ald of Brown, assisted tho boy homo, ‘T'he plutols used on tho occasion wero Donght on their route nt & toy-shop, sixponco onch boing the price given, Ono of tho wit- nessos (nll of whom_wero soholars) doescribed tho combatants as Loing on nppnl‘unll{ friondly terms while going to the piaco ‘of tho fight, nud soid that no ill-tompor was diuplayod when on tho ground, Tho magistratos remauded the prisotior Urown and the two seconds until Batur- day, ponding the doctor's report of the State of Bongrave, e A Temperance Episados Touls Lont, saloon-keopor of Ashland, Nob,, was olieatod by the fomule singors, 1o agrood to goll ont, and wus to rocelvo 325 for his liquor, und $200 for bl furniture. 1o did ot got tho #300, nud started inbusiness again, ordering twa Logs of boor froie Omaha, Whilo tho kogs wore in iho hands of tho oxpross compuny sevoral ‘women selzed them sud smashod iu the hends with & hatoliot, ‘I'lio women wore sobor, MINNESOTA LUMBER. A Review of the Northwestern Moarket. The Log-Marvest of West Wisconsin and Minnesoia, Prices, Freights, Etc., Etc. Correspondonco of The Chicado 2rtbune, MuengAroLs, Niun,, Maxch 81, 1874, Tho sound of the lumbermon's ax Las cossed to o hioard in tho Iand; tho logs have been **banked,” and tho stalwart woodman nwalte tho gonial April sunshine and tho woft southern ‘breozes which are to convort tho snows of wintor into tho customary spring-time freshot, and flont bis pinoy **drivo " into tho haven proparod by the boom company for tho ncgommodation of his merchondise. In othor and more oxplicit latiguago, the LUMBERING SEASON ¥ 18 over for tho winter of 1873-'4, and the logging crows (save thoso who are to mccompnny tho drive) aro coming down for a brief sonson of rost ‘before commenciug tho labors of the summer in. tho innumorablo saw-mills which vex the placid watovs of the Missisaippl River at this polnt. A brief review of the work of tho season in tho Minnesotn lumbor-flelds may not Do lacking in interest to tho rendors of Tue Tminunz, and cortainly the frols will not be unprofitable to those auterested in the trade of tho West. THE LOG-MARVEST, Owtng to tho panie Inst fall, and tho conso~ quont stagnation of all branches of business, tho togging firms of this city failed to sond g large crows a8 usual into tho woods ; and henco, from datn ab prosont attainable, thoro soems to lavo been o very copsiderablo falling-off in tho cut. The Burveyor-General of Logs and Lum- ber oatimatos tho entire cit on tho Upper Mis- sissippl which sooks boomago at and abovo thin city (meluding tho Rum River torritory) at 160,000,000 foot; but the boatin- formed lumbormen, ot tho harvest much lowor,~varging from 180,000,000 to 140 000,000. Probaby the correct estimate isnot far from the last-named figuro ; but to this must bo added 25000,000 beld ovor from .the harves! of a year ago, and whick now lio in the ‘booms at or near tho Falla, 'This will give 105,- 000,000 foot for noxt senson’s work among the twonly-odd mills loceted fn this city, and those of Aroka, Olear Water, Bt. Oloud, and above,— o very decided folling-o from the amount cut Inst soaeon. THE 8T, CROIX. Tho above applics only to tho harvest of the Uppor Mismesippi, including tho Rum River rogion. I lonrn from tho vory best muthority (tho Surveyor General of the St. Croix Distriot, which includes atl tho vast rogion botweon tho Missisgippi Rivor at Droscott and tho liead of Lake Superior) that tho cut of that stronm and its tributavies, , will, from the most ocnroful catimates, and after an entire winter spent in vigiting tho difforont crows employed, yisld nbout 140,000,000 Tbls, too, Is n_vory large reduction Trom last yonr, and 'is doubtloss dus, in great monsuro, to the diffienlty in getting money from tho banks Inst fallat tho dato nocessary to commance operatious, A FAYORABLE WINTER, The wintor has boeu’ most favorable for oper- ations throughout the entiro longth and breadth of the Wiscousiu and Minnosota lumber-fields, Green Bay north and westward to, the British lino snd Red River of tho North, ‘[here has beon an abundancoe of snow, but not too much, and no dolaying storma; ihe suow camo early in Nouvember, oud, over a lnrge portion of the country usmed above, still covors the ground to o eufliciont dopth for active and continuous operntions,—it having, at 1o time, during the winter, melted sufficiontly to dolay in the least the atoady progress of work, All lumbormen agreo in roporting that never in the history of lumbering oporations has thero been a moro favorable season. % THE ‘“‘Dotves,” It now romnins to bo scen whethor Providence will continue to beams with amiling countensnco upon_the eflorts of thoso workors, or whother the fruits of so muony monthsof toil will bo “hung up” during tho summor for a Inclk of suficient wator ‘in- the smaller slronms for “driving" purposos. Should tho **drives” fail to come down, or sven & portion of thom. it will make it o romarkably slim year for operations, and will have a decided tendoncy to soud up the prico of lumber, MATKETS, Thero i8 littlo or no compotition between tha mils of Lhis city and the mills of Stillwater, ay tha two plnces cultivato orch au ontirely differ- ent ficld, to & vory great extont. Tho product of thoscore of mills in -this city sceks pur- chasors in tho southern and sonthwestorn por- tions of this stato, and nlso supplies entirely tho extonsive local demands of the cities of 8t. Paul, Minnoapolis, aud tiho othor large and growing towns and citics up tlo Minncsota Valley. Stillwator floats hor lumber down tho Sf. Croix into the Mississippi, and thonceto all tho towns and citios nlm:f the banks of tho groat river to St. Louiy, and comes in competition with the honvy lumbor-intorests of Chicago at tho towns of Du- ‘buque, Clhuton, Davenport, Burlington, Keokul, and westward from thesc aud othior cities hav- ibg railwny conuncction westward. —Notwith- standing the fact thut wo are_practically ns near to the rapidly-developing States of Nebraska and Kansas a8 is Chicago, and sre conncctod therowith ~with two “or threo lines . of railway, it scoms impossible, bacause of excessive freight-chargos, to competo with tho lumber-trade of Chicago, although, in isolated cepos, our ill-ownors havo furnished quito Iusge Dills to buyers from Omabn, Lincoln, and even Loavonworth and Kausas City. . This_ year promises eomewhat botter, 8o far us tho lower srados of lumbor sre coucernod, ns some of tho own roads offer freights 82 per thousand choan- er than they huvo over been offered botore. But tho }yxico remains the szmo on the botter grades, or cloar lumber. TRICES OF L0GS, Notwithatendlog tho fact that the entire crop- of tho winter lies snugly-slumbering in the jec- Lound strenms of their native forosts, the lunmi- bormen Lave bogun to buy aud sell, taking chancos on the *drive” coming down enfely, Mill-men are offoriug from $8 to &1 por thou- srnd now, aceording to grade,—tho first-montion- od sum huving been paid on Saturday last for quite an extensivo lot of inforior logy; und the Iatior offored by auother mwsuufacturer for a choleo lot, Doubtlogs the best run will bring 811,60, and porhups $12, as the spring advances, and tho mills discover that it [8 barely possible that they will run short before the sawing scason oloses down, COMPATATIVE ETATEMENT, The rollmvin%flmucu will sliow the numbor of logs cut in the Uppor Miselseippl district during the winter just closed, n8 compred with the har- vost of one and two years ago. Logs sealed in 1872 Logs scaled In 18] Trobable cuthing of LUMDER ON JAND. > Tho following will show Low tho atock on hand " at this timo compares with one year ago: Tumbor on haud April 1, 1873 (stimatcd), ., ,90,000,000 Tumber on hand Apeil 1, 1874 (etintatod). ., 60,000,000 140,000,000 160,000,000 Theso estimatos aro arrtvod &t by consulting with tho leading Inmber-doalers and mill-aou of tho city, and comparivg their statements, and sy be rolied upon as noarly correct. 1t will bo seon that tho supplion of this yoar fall fur short of last, while on™ overy linnd it is concedod that tho Joual, Stato, and noighborhood demand will bo much Inrgor. 3 . THE MILLS of this city and above will opon up for active business about tholet of May, commonoingupon the 26,000,000 of logs loft over from last year. Bhould tho cut of this winter como down clean and sufoly, it will furnish n fall uuprly of tho 1w materisl to koop tho mills nctively at work day and night during tho ontire sorson, but will leavo uo overplus to comynoncoe operations on noxt your, TRIORS, At this timo prices axa down, but the nniversal opinfon is, that thoy avo Lbound to advancd with tho sonson, ‘I'hio following s tho uealo boing followed by n majorivy of tho landing fixms hovot Common dfwension (por thousand).$ Socond comnui, . Tencing, Htogk-boary . Sldlng, . oo o 184 3, (G 25,00 Fluorhis.. "ier 200, BT00GU5.00 04T, oo s 00; 20.0@0U.00 Uwo-star shiingles., A etar shingle w50 Btur ghinglos, 00 No, 1 sbinl 1.3 It 25 2,00@4. 12.06@14.00 cent on the above prices before stated, Lowoyes, A reduotion of 10 per for largo ordors, Ia tho impression is gonoral thnt an onrly advancoe in pricos {8 to bo antleipnted. FREIGNTE, - Tho tmlflhh on lumbor to all points in Tows, Northorn Missourl, Nobraskn, and Kansas, shows & roduction of from $1 to 82 on Inst year's pricos, The following tablo will show tho prices lnst yoar aud tlis year to differont poluts ¢ 18713, 1874, $ 80.00 § 70.00 5,00 T0.00 Tincoln, Nel 05,00 8500 Kensos City. 2000 7600 .00 . 75,00 0,00 700 00,00 8400 25,20 19190 00 8, Toall polnts in Nebrasks, $3 reductlon per car on Inst yonr'8 prices; toall points {u Dakota uot named, advance of $1 por car. The prices quoted aro tho lowest, holng tho schedulo-rates of tho 8t.'Paul & Bloux City Railway. 'The i:xrlums of Milwaukeo & 8¢, Paul and councating inos, show n corrosponding decroaso to Contrnl oud Southorn Towas, and Northorn Missouri and Kensns. Aud the impression sooms to bo gon- oral, nmenfi both raflway-mon and lumber-mon, that o further reduction Yu highly probable. PruuiNA. BERLIN. O1ficinl HMonesty and Stupldity. Correspondencs of 'he Chicago Tribune. Benax, Prussia, March 8, 1874, Whon L Marmora's chef d'muvre appeared, it was hailed by cortain Ultromontsncs s a veritablo coup d'etat. Horo was an opportunity to bring tlio Ohnncellor to task, and tholr spokus- "~ man, Mallinckrodt, attacked him accordingty, in tho Houso of Roprosentatives, vory bittorly,— charging him, among other things, with baving negoliated with the French Govornment for o cosuion’of tho loft bauk of the Rhind Provincos, and tounting him with his desertion from the Cousorvativés. Blamarck, in his reply, declared that his solo object in his French diplomaoy was to cajolo that nation whilo busy with Austria ; and, in roforence to tho lntter accusation, hosald it had always boon his .principle to change his 'viowa 08 800n a8 ho porceived thom to be incom- patible with thio welfaro of Germany. To this anorgan of the Ultramontanes answored, vory pithily, that it was a pity the Chancollor's discorn~ mont was 1ot equal to his conscienco. If T shiould mako tho statomont that Gtermany is outipodal to tho United Statos, cithor in a goographical or moral sonse, I should bo guilt; of exaggeration ; but, whon I affirm that ofliciala disobargo their duty more cousciontiously in tho former. thon in tho latter country, I utfern la- montable truth, To bo sure, the Prussian Par- linmont gravely spout a wholo doy dobating whothor ornot au extrs policeman’ should ba added to tho foreo at Gaottingen, and tha intel- leot of this dignified body is often intorested in othior equally.momontous quostions ; but thero is & sotislaction in the recogmtion of the fact that tho picturo is not disfignrod by the picturs of an Oakes-Ames looming up in " the foroground. Anotler fnct worth annotating Is the lack of * Christian statesmon,"—tho only ones in the Teiohstag being Ultramontanes. * But,” porhaps a curi- ous ronder may inquire, * what. then, is tho congorvative of virtus in public lifo ?” 'Honor, my dea gir, honor ; a pride in the consciousucsa of ono's intogrity, which is a motor so powerful horo in ofticial lifo that a subordinate suspected - of u criminal misdomonuor doos not geok viudi- cation in an appenl to & voto of confidenco, but at onco putsan end to his own existonco, As for members of legialative bodies, thoy are nevor suspeoted. * Naturo,” says Ruskin, * is vory Pcuurinusin tho use of color; it is astonishing 0w 8he oconomizes in nltramarine in the fabri= cotion of a laroboll.” But Naturs is not loss misorly with men than with flowers, snd bhence ono raroly meets & person who is both good and groat. Thus, if, among thi oficiala of Germany, you find o g alrlu‘; undeviation ot the samo from uty, timo their labors aro not marked by any of those intellectual scintillations, or plays of fancy, which characterizo and render endurablo publiclife in tho United States, The German Jcamte is o machine who has no business to in- dnlge in original idean, his officienoy being in ‘proportion to his prssivity. For inatnuco: there - ° i1 o law oxisting by which a person threatoning anothor can b made to give uucuritfi for corroct demeanor. Grently nunoyed by tho constant tapping on my door by beggars, X placed & plac- ard on the samo, by which the latter woro in- formed that “-B“Fqi“g is forbidden here, on pain of death.” 'Chis came Lo tho enrs of o gon- tloman whoso noquaintanco I enjoy, former] Professor of Jurisprudence at Hcido(ber::, an now President of the —rath at DBorlin, who straightway sont to mo, in all bLaste, that T should take the placard down, lest I 'should ba arrestod by tho polico and bo compelled to give %;oml!,a that no beggar ehould come to griet sl m ands, Thon, thoru is tho Custom-Honso; no such af- fair ns tho Now York sincaure, but s dignified offico, from which all levity is bavishod, Rota~ tion is unkuown, and, whon once oue entom sor- vico, ho mny consider himsolf ag having & life- borth, Strango to sny, however, familiar a5 tho Beame may bocoma with prosoribed dotails, lio seoms unable to grapple with, saventitious casos ina satisfactory way, For example; till the closo of the year 1873 thoro was no chronicle of duty paid oun maple-sugar, and when, at this timo, an Awmorican theological student received soveral cakes in_n packago from home, the of- ficials woro puzzled whoro to class it. ** What {s that 7" said tho primo functionary, to which the owner repliod thint it was sugar made from the sap of a tree. ‘Tho incredulous officinl sum- moned all the subordinates to witness the frivol- ity of tho imngination that assumed to Iilow more than tho learnod compilors of tho list of imported articles dutinble in Ger- many. In vain did the Amorican dilate on afl tho known facta concorming tho articlo; in vain, foltowing his oxamplo, thoy tasted tho guga, and raitorated the portormanco ¢l nonrl Dalf biad disspponred. It seomed bub to launch thom on a oa of discussion, in which freo will, Divine omnipotence,—in respact to maple-sugar, —aond all tho questions which ngitatod tho Christisn Church in the days of Beholasticlsm, woro rosurrccted, and tho battlo fought suow. Finally, ay the only way of sottling the matter, u portion of tho remminder was gont to o chom= fi‘t, and tho Dill which tho student paid read s s Amerlean sugar, ... . 3 thalers Clicauieal nuulysis. alcra 23 grosclics Boing, as I enid, o theologian, not a singloe jm- procivion oscapsd bis Tips. os o poid cho bill, though, like Dante's Phiogyns, ho pined inward Iy, What was fiually handed over to him ha prosorves in a prominont position ju his room, and, whonever his oyes rest upon_it, he mutters beiween his seb tooth: “Thank God, if our ofticinls aro not so honost a8 horo, a least thoy are not consummate blocklicads,” Pamo, —_— A IRoyal Kissing Match, Tho London Times, in giving an account of tho urrival of the Duke and Duchoss of Edin- burgh ut Windsor, says: G “Whila the cheors aro atill echoing throngh tho station, Her Mnjesty etops from tho waiting- room to the platform. Close bohind her stand the Princo and Princoss of Wales, Prince nnd Priucoss Christian, DPrincess - Louise, Prius cess Beatrico, Prince Leopold, the Duko of Cambrldge, and tho two eldest hoya of the Princa of Wales, Tho train is skillfully driven, so that tho door of tho chiof snloon-carriage comes to n stop opposito tho door of the royal waiting- room, It Dhes hordly halted bofore tho Duke of Kdivborgh jumps hurriodly out, eombracoes his «mother, and turng to" assist his young wife. No sooner Tus the Grand Duohiess sot oot on tho platform than a glad emilo lights up the features of tha Quoon, who ndvances to meet hor, tales hor in both arma boforo sho can 1nuko any courtesy or formal greoting, and kissos hor ropeatedly on hoth chiceks with tho warmest affaction. Dore hmps ono ought not to note too curiously the - little incidonts of such & mooting, But all En~ gland wil be glad to hoar of this true mothorly weleomo given to tho young stranger who comos nma“fi us a8 duughtor of England., On hor | side, the Grand Duchoss roturned tho embraca with equal wnrmth, and in that_momoent must have folb instinotively thab in her new homo ihera would indood'be given to Lor the love of a now mathar, * Whou tho Queen had thua wolcomed hor Quughter, the Yrince and Princess lassed the Grand Duchouns, hey were familiar friends, lutoly parted from, But Princoss Holens, Prin- cosy Loulao, and Princoss Bontrico woro sistora now saen for the first timo. It was_thelr turn now to salute the Grand Duchess, Prince Leo- Bnm took the like privilege, and then the Grand uchoss, stooplng down, gave a hearty embrace to hor lnshand's nephews, Prince Albert Viotor and Princo eorge, who held up thoir oheska to bo klssod with a ohildllke wondor and simplieity. Other grootings lmlug oxchianged with other mombens of tho Royal family, tho Royal ortogo, without much logs of time, was marshaled far tho return to the Qastle,” ——— —Xvon death hina no tarxora for tho strong- miuded woman, Phere avs no loss than twenty ' fomalo undertalrors in the country, not to spoak ot thoso who havo undortekon ‘to supply with subjeots, .