Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1874, Page 2

P THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1874 — THE RAILROADS. Tull Text of Gov. Taylor’é _ Manifesto, Tho Raiiroad Law Must B3 Vigor- i ously Enforceds The Constitutionality of the Act as Viewed by a Prominent Reformer. Action n;f feveral Ronds Relative to Thousand-Iile Tickets, “Miscellancous Matters. IANIFESTO OF THE GOVERNOR OF b ‘WISCONSIN, The following is the fall text of tho manifesto tesied Thursdny by the Governor of Wisconsin, \ synopsin of which appesred jn yosterday's adition 3 EXUQUSIVE DEPARTMRNT, Mapisow, May 31, 1674, Pothe Peopls af Wisconsi n ¢ "Llio act of your Leginlature passed ab the last soasfon sntitiod A act elating {0 raliroads, oxpress, uud lolegraph compantea In tho Stato of Wisconsiu," was spproved by, nio Mareli 11, 1674, it tho fiem conviction of fho nocesty and vhUUEY of yucly lepislation, Diut, in order that_amplo time should bo given to thio railt road cumpnnies atfected thereby to arrange thelr busl- nesssons ta meot it requirements, the Legialaturo Vory conslderately directed thnt_ its publication, which wus cssoutial to ils tsking eifect, should ba delayed kil tho 28th duy of Arrfl- 4 So far from using this period of forty-cight days for auch purpose, howover, bwo of {hy 1most poworful rail- y0ad comipanics, 18 you aro nware, Lo wit.: the Chicago, Milwnukeo & St, Pauland the Cblcago & Northwesteri Ruflway Oomyatiics, appear to haveemploged {t fu con- Bplring agatust tho Taw, aud in lnying pious to defest $tu operation, To {his énd, they procured, and yidoly ‘publlaicd, the opinions of couusel hitherto in iglh ropute, denylug, frst, tho right of tho State to limit {iio taril of mnilway corporations; aud uocoudly, apon the asia of ox parto testimony, pronounclug iy partioulnr law duvalld on_account of tha rates thereln preacribed boing unjust and unroasouable, aud grave- Iy oncouraging disoliedienes to its commands, Acting upou thess opinions of interested couuso, and undor the dictation of Dioctors residing in ree molq paris of tlo country, tho- Presldents of theso compantes then addresscd fo your Exeoutive commu- nications declating thelr ollof in tha injuntics and fu~ validity of tho law, and their deliborato purpaso to dis- regard its provisions, Tt s known to you that immediataly tlierasfter, to- wit: on the 1st duy of th', 1 mada publi¢ procinma- tion of these focts, decloring that the law of the laud must bo aboyed § that, whilo tho Aglt of all to fest tho validity of the luw is' conceded, With that right is coupled the duty of ylelding obedlenco to ita rogulre- monts until it ins been provounced ivalld by come Potent wuthority ; expressing ilio liopa that better counsols would Yo prevail with tho ralirond com- panics of thio State; and enjainiug all vailraad corpora- {ions, thetr oflcers nd ageits, pasceably to submie to a lavee This counsel and proclamation of your Exeoutive nave been wholly discegarded. Tha corpurationanbovo uanied bavo arranged thelr tariifa without tho slightest apparent regard to (Lo olazsification aud rates prescribed fu tho lutv und pro- pored and publiehied by the Bourd of Rudlroad Come aniefoners, In mnany cases thoy have ovou ncreaned thalr rates for fransportation of frelght above what thoy were when tho law wus ouacled oud becamo of Dinding obligation, Thoy Lave jssued commands to thelr ngents and o~ ployes, requirlug of them o llko obedionco, under ‘paliis and penaltics whicl, in many cases, practically amount to compulsion; ' thus usfug thelx dnfluence and powar to fusure tho criminal disobedience of many citizens, Labitusting them to o coutempt for tho authoriy of tho State, when its laws ore uot in_har- mony with & supposod solf-iuterest, and hance contrib- g fa.0 Ligh degres, o ek ti sespect for goneral, “Fley 070 now exncting and receiving ratca which the ZLeglalture, after much consideration, and the patieut Dearing of able counsel and officers reprosenting thelr intorcsts, hus, in offect, solomuly declared unreusons- le, unjust, nud extortfoate, and thoy boldly procistn {a (bo authorities and peoplu of tho Stato, aud fo the wortd, that they will coutinue 80 {0 do, any law of tha Blato, ok spproved by themn, to (he coutrry notwitie standipg, 1n o word, they bave set up niiother law {hou that of o Slafly aid luve mage obodienco to i he suprome dufy of afl their corpoiite norvauts and tho present uccessity of $he whiolu people. No objection is mude Lo any just coniest upon tho alidity of the Inw, ‘ho courts of thla Sluto aro open 20 oyery sultor, and the causo of every defendaut will o hewrd with’ mportiality, and dectded upon prin- ciplea of Justico. - Indeed, the Stao has already fustie tuited, sndt Wil trgo to the spoediest pousible lasy sudts o the Supremo Court, imvolving its vaildity, But for the muantim, or until tho law 1 ameaded, or Yopéaled, it ia enfllcleuit for your Esecutive, and slould cuough for every corpioration and every citlzen, that tho Principlo upon whicl 1t rests baa been aflirms by tho Suprome Courts of the State and the United States, as woll 34 by vory many of tho ableat jurists in tho cotintry, nud that {h tatuto itself bos been in due Sorm cuncied and opproved, and i the law of the laud, 1¢ other motive were necdad {o insure obedience to its mandated, it might ensify be fonud n tho fact (hat tholaw ad lorigln in 8 deop conviction, willy fclt that the Tallway corporations of fhie Statc, althougli ruciplonts of grent giftannd franchlses, have in map. instauccs cxaoted excoastyo tolls, sud’ mude unjust dilseriminations, 10 the injury of citizens and the eu~ Tichmient of Dircctors sud munugers, i€ uot of atocke Tolders, aud that tho very powers couferced upou them for the publlc good, 8 well as for thoir corporate sdvantage, havo been systematleally exercived to pre- veut tho enactment of Just laws for the Tedress of thesa griovances, Howoyer this may be, it cannotbo sufiered that the cburge of unzeusonablencss muda by thoso whom the Ivr secks to restrnin from extortiug: exceseive rates whollco for orrulgn s justnussos fo suspend its operatlon watil Ly.the {edious procotses of the cousts delayed by appeals mid eveey Nowslblo legot axtifco it validlty is, nc leugth -fully_ determiued, Submisslon Jike this 'on thopartof the Executive sad yicople would reault in w continunuec of extortionate gans by tho corporations and purbaps yet greater sncrilice by tho peopl for years to come, Nor i thisall, The delny being granted, what guaranty §s to be found in tho jiresent attitudo of thicko great corporations tunt thoy would yield a willing obedionce iu the svout of an afirmative dociaion by the courta? 1f they have be— come i stroug and indopendent of il Btuta tliat the Logiulatura caunot bo sura of thelr obedience until its chuctients aro first upproved by tho courts, 1 1t cor- taln that oven the conrts will baablo. to si¥ect u peaco- ublo complianco 7 1t cannot b anffered that any low which the Legis- Inturo bas onuctod xnd Lo Exeoutive upproved shull Lo put fn abeyauco and freuiod with opun dis- obedionce s flageant contemyb by any person, cor- poration, or combination of corporations, on_tho' plea of unreasunableness, or upon uuy otlier plea whatever, Such & suilerance would tend to & subvorsion of all logal authority, FrLrLow Orrizens: Tho foregolng facts and consid- erations can Icad to but ouo conclusion, A lated iu my aunual messuga : M1t mustbe admitted that rafiway companics are nocessnry 0 tho prosperity und developmuul of {ho Stalo, mud (hat Ju tho dischnrge of their honorable ob- Ligatious 1o the pablic, they ue entitlod to tho grati- tudo und positive and uuiform protection of the fetss Iativo nuthority, In this matter the pooplo will make o ‘peace witl eneraies, DUt fhey acel 10 War With Irionds, While they are willing to encourage™ to tho fullcat extint the dovelopment of (e Tuilway sysler of our Stale, they cunnot submit to wanifest iujustico, zor periult the wbuse of ehurtered privileges.” "It faw must thorefore bo enforeed, and with 8 rigor duly proportionate to the power and dutiancs of tho offouders. s i for this reason, and. becauso of tho general mis- upprebenslon thob exista 83 to tho steps ueceveary to tho enforcoment, thut I kave felt it my solemn daty, rflor reasonnble delny and tho aceumulntion of evi: \euce, to follow my proclamation with this plain snd fullor’ statoment of tho whole cuse in its preuent ay- Yot ; sottiug forth the nsture and enormity of this Gouafiriey st 4 I, the dunger it thrcaluns (o our froc iyatssution sid the impeyative duty of every aitizen o lend bis oid 1y putting it down, The law clearly defines the obligatiows of the raflway corporations, un( proviles ample remedics for it vioition, Iint the Legisisture untlcipsting uo such extravrdivnry aud fngrant violation aud contempt of it atntutes, han sndo na provision to ensblo elther the Excottlve or the Ruilrosd Commissioners to moet Ui amorgency with exiruordinary’ mouus s it slmply providod tlat avery fraction eliould bo pisnisiiad by io ardinary mueaus of prosoonting to coniotion u Duaislonent by fine and domoges every offcuder, 1t Tuturally sawumet tlint the neopla who "lind Ao ropeats wdly made the chargeof extortion aud eppression, only waited for an opportunity to apply the xemoedy for thelr yrlovauces hat thoy wero propared for Dromyt dischurgo'of the patrlotls duty of co-oparatlug with tha public euthoritles or 1 vindication of the rovereiguty of tho Slate, and for the euforcoment of & law by thensclyes doclatod to bo csscntiol to_tho gou- cral welfure, Aud hencs, although umple facilities ru Affordcd for tlio convenleut trial of offenderd Ly giviuyg toJuetices of the Poace concurrent Jurlsdiction with e Clreult Courts, yol ut in othur actions uf a crininal Ruture, 10 wroseotition can orfutnate theruwtse thun in Somptaimnt made by the injured_yarty or soms other Pevaon huving knowledye of the opense. With the usval chearful obedionco givon to tho Taws, » ew applieations of this enwy roniudy would inducs 3 fenaral‘acquiesoence, But i€ o sggregste waalll o great corporntions 14 to vupport an orgenized and Zoutamal doliutace of Juw, tho only mcans provided must B ordiully omployed’ by all good cillzeus aud your Expeutive susty uf«t by tho earty co-operation of subordinato ofliciuls. Y cannobdoubt that this support and co-oneration will o aceorded when the whole cay {a fuirly under- ntood, Tha intorests ot stake ara too vast ‘snd too Yital fo awit of auy other conolusions, For it will Clen bewwun, ot oily that this particular law {rumed Ly o Legsluturo of your own chooalng, enncted i your interoat and in abedionce Lo your own oxpresssl nimund, §6 divregarded sud coniomusd, but that the very ies Bd principlo of 1w, and a jist cnao of tho dduty of ohwdienoo 10 the conshituted snthoritios would Tie dloyded and_impuriled by o negicel prowptly to snee, rebike, and punish such detiunce of tho popil- Inr will, 1t will also bu scen that the people aro deals Suug with u powerfuband dauigerous combination which Tiohly itselt ubova tho law, and aceks o muko its’ awu suvhion vuperion W thesanetion 9f apy stwtutyywihud STATE OF WIRCONAIN, } ot the form and terma of thfs law upon which i lll(ur{, but that these corporations dony the rrinciple that ' raliway, though buflt with the public oonscnt, for a publia ke, and in pact with tite publia gitis, and chinriorell vnder s conatitution which o2- prekaly rescrves to thio peoplo the right of general cone rol, can, for nny oo, in miy way, o lwited an fo ita tolls by regulatious ofhor thinn tio corporators, lJluHmux ‘then that to the nuthority of the Biate, and fo tho anpport of publie ofiicers in tholr afforts to enrb nid reatrain the threatening \Yown" of tho great corporate bodies which now boldly defy them, yau will Urhng promiptiy snd manfuily all the aid and oo-opera~ Hon which mvory good citizon owen tho Stal fu any timo of poril to her institutions, lice mithorily or her Iaws, and elng dooply sensible of the obligationa rost- g dpon mo to avert, if possille, the davier MW Jonding, I coll upon, and_enjoln, ovory cltizoii of thls Hitate, to obngrve with scrupitioun caro tho requiro~ mients of the Inw heraln roferred todn avory instnuco amil parttulne of business doalings witht any ralirond Company of thie Slato, aud cepoolally tho compsnios Veroin named; to pay as & trasalor no highor ate than tho Jaw proscriboas to pay 64 8 slipper OF ro- calver of {relglit no higher Taloa tban the law pro- serihos, all of whicl ratos tho Ltnflrond Qommissiouers Tave ixed aud published ; aud that, §f fn any exigonoy 0¢ nocemsity ho ‘should suffer dny’sum in-execss of Tegal raton to bo oxtortant from lifm by any agent of bl oompany, oo sball noify, with sll convoulsnt dis- pn(clh tho Dirdvict Attoruey of his county of such Y. 'l;hnl:::)l nr:lill‘wv»t and enjoin all District-Attornoys promplly nud yvigorously fo prosocito to convietion sud puniahmont ak offendors againat aaid law, thior. onjoln vll Consiabies and police oflcers within tho Stato to luquiro of all such offcndes, and omyinin sgstat the olfenders boforo some Jutles of {Hie Peaco, snd diligontly to tako cavo thnt this 1aw bo not violated fu:thoir town or preoincts with im- nily, Pi¥tad forma and instructions for tho proscttion of such actions will ho promptly firntshed, on the ro- quent of any officorof tha law, made lo the Attorney- General at Madlson. . In the poesible cmi(lnrxunc{ of a sufilolant rosiat- ance o the local wuthorltiess to requiro tho interfor- onco of {he Exccutivo, the faurantco contained in my nrudnmn'l.llgu of May 1ecan hn“\'allull(l n’IlI \vl(hnlho ut- o8t confidenco, '>t, B, TAYLOR, 2 Governor of Wisconsin, SUIT FOR DAMAGES DNDER THE LAW. Special Dieptch to The Chicuan Tribune. MapisoN, Wis,, Ml;( 92,~thoriff Adnms_fo- day servod on L. D. Htono, Agent of tho Mil- watikeo & Bt. Paul Rallroad first papera in tho civil suit of 15,000 demagos for the indignity snd violonco shown in putting him off the covs at Waterloo, tho other day, whon ho hed paid #ull logal faro from hero to Watortown. The suits announced a8 to bo commonced hore to-dny against tho agents of both tho railroad companies for viola- tion of the Railrund law by overcharges havo not yot been beg Compnny_huro, the r. Hinkloy for g THE POTTER LW. THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ACT A8 VIEWED DY A PIOMINENT REFORMER. Mzrwauner, May 21, 1874, T'o the Kditor of the News : Tho following pasenge occurs in an editorial of your journal to-dmy : It s tho position early assumedd by tho Neiva thaf the ratos fixed fu tho Potter act ard such that the rallrouds oannot run thelr: trains under it without losa ; and that, thereforo, tho Potter act docs not comu within the ecopo of lhe admiticd powor of tho Stuts fo rogu. Iate ondls, and to limit tolls and rates of trauspor- tation, 'Ihis s also tho opinjon of Dr. Wight, an tho Lost thinkers on the subject, Unintontionally, pnrhn!;p, tho NVews misrepre- sents mo. Whethor tho “rates fixed in the Pot~ tor nct aro such that the railronds cannof run their traing under it without loss" is more than 1 Jmow. ‘I'ho amount of real oapital investad in tha roads, on which alona tho public ought to oy intorcst, i8 bob within my kuowledgo, I E-vc no menns of ascertaining the runniug ox- pousoes of the ronds, If tho rates of tho Pottor act would not afford tho companios & ronsonable componsation, then the Stalo Ly no constitu- tional power to make them oporate their roads at » loss. Roilvonds aro private property dovoted topublic use. Our Legislaturo cab regulate the use, but caunot confiscate tho proporty. Tho people of this Stato havo no wish to be unjust to Tailways. Neitbor will they tolorato robellion ainst any act that is at least presumptive Inw. 0 company can run a single train without a franchise from the Stato, The frauchise may be accompnuiod with conditions, Undor a apccial provision in_tho Constitution of Wiscousin, & charter may be altored or vacatod by the Legisla- turoj in other words, new conditions may at any time’ bo added to s franchise nlroady couferred. But if {he now conditions are not accoptablo to tho company on which thoy are imposcd, the company may abandon-the franchise and dispose of Ha privato proporty: Private property canc not bo taken for public use without compensne tion, by the TFedoral Goveinment, or by any State Govornment. Buch & procedure would be & Communistio revolution reaching the vory foundation of civitized socioty, I uny again, us I huve many Limes said, if the rates fixed by the Potter act involve such o violation.of funda- mental law, then the act is unconstitutionsl. If, on tho coutrary, the rates imposed op rail- ronds by tho Potternot still leave a reasvnable compensation to companies for actust capital in- vosted, then the act is clearly coustitutionnl and should be inforced in tho interest of the publio, T'he companies cannot suppose (hat the people of Wigconsin areso verdautay tobelisve that the rates of the Potter act will not sfford & reasonu- Dle compenaution, on the simple, unsworn decla- ration of intercated railway oflicials. Neithor can they uué:poun tbat the executive officers of the State wily allow them to violate a statute, presumubly i, on &ny such irrational and flim- sy grounds, 'The companios muy bo certain that tgn gront body of the people of Wisconsin will stand with untlinching courage bohind the Goy- ernor and Attorney General and sustain them in the discharge of their dutios. The people will not tolerate & zévolutlonary process_of testing the validity of an act paswed by & Legislature ropresenting their soverciguty. "The Potter bill was unquestionably designod to defeat tho ends of railway logisintion. 1If its inventors should finally I‘)ltladhlr:istr with their own etard, the mournera woi e fow. ’ i G. W, WiaaT. S THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, Special Dispatel to The Clucago Tribune, A DILL TO ENFOUCE A PRO RATA TARIFF. Wasasyaton, D, 0., May 22.—fhe following in the substanco of o bill, propared in the Arat instanca by Judges Wilson, of Indisng, and Jow~ ett, of Obio, & Bub-Committee of tho Judiclary Committeo of the House, to compel pro ratiug on tho Pacifio Railrord. The bill yesterday ro- ceived the sanction of the Iouse Pacific Rail- road Committeo, who directed Mr, Wells, of Missouri, to report the same for passage under nsusponsion of the rules noxt Mondny. The Speaker has promised to recognize Wells for this purpose, aud thora i# every reason to believe that ib will readily paes, It was found useless to ope to have the mensure roported from the Judiciary Committee, as Bonjamin Butlor, the Chairman, used nll his power ugainst it, and it was thorefore taken by its frionds to the Pacifle Ttnifrond Committes, whoro it waa promptly ac- cepted, Tt covers, a8 will be seen, all the points involved, aud is very carefully drawn. 'THE FILL PROVIDES for ndding to the Hiteonth scction of the act of July 2, 1864, the followiog: Andany oificer or agent of the Companjes sii- thorized to coustruct tho aforesuld rosdy, of of any compuny engaged in oporating cithier of suld roads, Wl #hull zetuss to operate and Usp the road or felos graph under Liw control, or which he is eogaged in operating for all purpoees of communication, travel, and transportation ko fir aé the public and the Goy’ ermment ura concernedt, asonu continuous line with thie said Union Pauitlc Rullroad, or with either of its Drunchios, or shall refuse, in such operation aud use, £0 nftord aud Aecure to each of sufd rosds equal ad- vantuges and fuollities as to rates, timo, or traunyor- tatiou, without any dlscrimiuation of any kind in fuvor of or adverse to the rond ov busluess of any or olther of ths maid Companies shull lo deened g\l"t{ of o miademoanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall Lo fiugd m any awm nob exceeding $1,000, 'sud oy be fmpelioned uot loss than aix monthe, In cuse of the faflure or refusal of the Union Pacific Railrosd Qompany, or either of sald brauclies, lo coms ly with tho requlromonts of this act, and thie section o whieh {his act i3 amendafory, the yarly injured, or the Company uggrieved, way Lelng au sotion’ u tha District or Oireult Court of the Unitod Btates fu the torvitory, dlstrict, or ciroujt in which any portion of the road of the defondant may e situatod, for damages vn account of stich fuflure or refusnl, and upon recoveriny, tho plin(il ghull Lu cn. titled {0 judgment for treblo the amount of nll excees af frefghit sud fares collected by the defondant, and for trablo the smouut of damage l\uh\hlml.n\:f the plain. ty by such failure or refusil: for” each ena every violtion of o fllure to comply with fhe” roquirements of this act, & new causo of actlon shull arise, und in case of suit in any such torstory, district, or clroult, procaes may e yerved upon uny ngent of the defeudant found fu ouy torritory, district, or cirenit in which such sult iy ho brotght, and such sorvice shall be, by the Court, hield to be good snd sufiicient ; und it 18 horoby rovidad tha for il tho purposes of anid act and of | the ncts amopdutory theroof the railway. of tho Denver Tucitlo Ratlwoy and Tolegraph Company ghull bo deomed and taken to bb & part and extonsion of tho road of the Janeus Paciiio Hojlrond (o the polntof jnuc- tion thereof with tho road of the Unfou Pactfie Rall- roud Compuny ut Cheyenue, as provided in the sct of Murch 8, 1609, sl CONNECTIOUT RAILROADS, The Ruilrond Commissloners of Connvotiout have just mado thoir auuusl report, from which it apponrs that thors aro twenty-two railroad corporations in the Biate, ownlug 1,304 nullos of rosd, of whieh 1,187 are furnished wud fo use. Of these only 808 wiles are within the limits of tho State, ''he only new worls reported s tho | opening of the alr-lino road from Middletown to Willimantio, forming, it 14 esld, & pow through a0 of lts own, {ins botwoon Boaton and New York, Tha toinl amount of tho capitnl stock of the ronds e 44,000,700, the amount actually paid in being £10,000,00£.02, an inoronse of an 8,676.08 over nat yoRY, ‘ o funded and floating dobt in reported at 820,680,270,49, o decrenso for the year of $22,- 743,232,80, cliiofly caused by omitting from_tha atatomont tlio dobt of the dofunct Boston, Hart~ ford & Irlo Road, ' Thoro has bocn an inerenso over lnst yoar in rolling-stock of sixtoon locomotlvos, sixty pas- songor-cars, and twonty-two baggage-cary, aud a doorcase of mevontssn in froight-cars. Total mileago, 6,296,818, an incroaso of 610,219; pre- songora earrled, 10,642,831, au inoronse of 408,- 188 orrried ono mile, 222,407,408, an ncronse of 8,809,007. Tons of morohandise onrried, 3,430, 541, an incrosss of 468,008; enrriod one mile, 121,204,804, an Increase of 10,202,830, ‘otn oot por train por mile run ia $1.33, Entiro gross receipts, ©12,007,080.98, of which sum £0,002,145.52 was from vusnuufur travol. The reeoipis por milo ranga from 838,~ 424.28 (on tho Now York, Now laven & Hart- ford) to $418,71 (on the Hhepnug Valley); the averags of all roads boing ezfm.os. Tho amoint of not income is £2,596,408, or about ¢ por cent on tho capital stock and 4.8 per cont on the cost of road and squipment, certninly not an extrayagant profit. Nino ronds paid dividends to the amount of 82,636,605, belng 5.7 por cent on the capital atooks of all the ronds, 4.0 por cont on the cost of thoir construction and e;luipmnm. The dividends ranged from throe of 10 por cont to one of 8 per cont. flore than Lilf tho roads in the Btate failed to pay any div- idond, and the entire amount of capital in rail- ronds haa roturnod to tho holders lass than § por cont of dividends, "Fho raport spoalts of #ho proposition to estab- lish & lofi,lqlntlvu tarlff, the opinion offthe Com- misslon bin; _nfipnrunlly advorso to such action. T'he oare which has been exercised in running traina fs mamfosted by tho fact that during the year thero lins hoon no accident to traina resuit- ing in tho denth of any passonger, and bnt three whiero an employe has bron killed. Tlio numbor of acoldents of all kinds resulting in injury to poraons was 110, of which 69 wero fatal. ——— THOUYAND-MILE TIOKETS. Tho agrooment of the Wostorn railway com- panios not to sell Lieroaflor any1,000-mile Uckets ab o less rato than 8 cents por mile, voster- dny recoivad tho sdditionnl assont of tho Chi- cngo, Danville & Vincenues and the Oblcago & Pacific Railrond Compnnios. Tho Rock Iatand sconsin Contral managers, although with- woidizy thelr siguaturey, hiave agreod to obsorve tho contract, Bufliciont reasous for hesitanoy oxist. Cugos froquently arise In which a slight laxity of tho rules adopted last Decomber would bo mutually bonoticial. Quite recently s goutlomon of sbundant resources annouuced his purposo of establiehing on tho Rock Island Road o factory thut wonld™ givo immodiato om- ploymanl: to 160 men, if tho maunagers would make coucessions similar to thoso fraoly extend- ed one year ago, but tho request badto bo donfed, Yet this road runs in competition with 8t. Louls linos that distributo paeses lavishly to their patrons, whilo the Chicago companies iave given up tho privilogo. It I8 an ascortained fact that tho agents of gpome of the most extensive ‘businoss concorus in the Stato ara supplied with pasacs over all roads leading to 8t. Lowls. Upon thoso linos they travel most ; consequently in that direction their busincss goos. Unquestlon- ably tho pmss roform has maved the manoegers much porsonal anuoyanco from irrepreesiblo doad-bents ; still it ia doubtfal whother tho net carnings have been incrossed thercby. In order to ba con- sistont, and discriminato against no one, the ofticers hayo to dony all charlty applicants. Ior instanee, it hna been oustomary with tho St Paul’Company once a year to puss froe to thelr homes the deaf and dumb attondnuts at the Stato Institution at Delavan. Tho Rock Island aud Northwestern' companios have oxtended eimilarourtesics. ¥or tho first time in many yoars thoy must be donied. The Iaws enncted in the sovoral States prohibit discrimination. The managers wora anxions to help fhis class of tho nnmn;;mity, and would gladly do so did the law pormit, — MISCELLANEQUS, The jaonual meetings of the Chicago & Mil- waukeo, Winona & 8t Peter, Elgiu & Stats Lins, and Union Railroad Componics, will be held in this city June 4, 1874, for tho purposs of electing Directors end transncting such other business as may come before the meetings. HEAVY STOCK SALE. A Bull Brings $17,410, and a. Cow $2,000. Special Dispatch to 2'he Chicago Tribune, Caxppioor Cray, Ind, May 22.—Anothor noted hord was sold to-doy at Cambridga Gity, Ind,, fitty hoad bringing $25,000. Procisely at 12 oolocik noon, Col. J. W. Judy took the- stand, nod aftorashort spocch roviowing the bright prospects of the short-horn interest on the Con- tinent, commenced the grout sale of Gan. Bero~ dith aud son, by elling tho jmported cow Royal Duchess Second to Judge Jonoes, of Delaware, Ohiio, at $2,000 : Joun of Arc 82,000, to Avery & Muryhy, of' Dotroit, Mioh,; Forost Lady, toJ. §, Long of Monroe, Town, $1,000 : laggie Andrie Tor 1,135, to J. B, Loug, of Monroo, In.; Ida, 510, fo J- S, Long, Mobroo, In. ; - Minnic, §400, to W, 8. T. Morton, Indianw; Vhito Rose, 5250, to William Duin, Indiona; Duchess of Oslland, 8900, to Murphy, Dotroit, Mich.; Auuie Lyslo, £0650, to J, .Lou’l:- Souun of Oakland, $700, fo J. B, Long; Tlurd Souan, S700, to ‘James Dloegan, Yatos City, L ; Medora, 8010, to J. 8. Loug; Maid of Thornhill, 81,600, to W. R. Dunean, Towanda, IlL; Flora Lesley, $600, to . 8. Long ; Minnie Wilson, §340, to J. 8. Long; Valloy Maid, $455, to the samo ; Creasida, 8300, to Jumos MoKogan, Yatos City, 1ll; Oxford Belle, 2400, to J, B, Long; Garland, $G00, to the #yme ; Onkinnd Queon, 325, to the samo ; Lucy, $200, to J. D, Clarke, Champaign, Ill; Emma, 600, toJ.8, Long; Kate Washington, third, 8760, to the sams ; Kalo Washington, £520, to James Moliogan, Yates City, IiL; Caskot, $803, to D. Garduer, Champaign, Iil; Cypria snd Dora, 4640, to J, Tackson, Webnsh, Ind.; Molissn, third, £850, to Avery & durphy, Dotroit, Miohi; Ella end calf, 9105, to J. Juckeon, Wabash, Ind. with a fow moro cows and calved- ather ‘ont of condition, which sold at a low prico, and brought the average down to $538. BULLS, The firat on the list was Joan's Cherub, £17,- 410, (got by the bull Cherub, which gold for $11,- 506 and outof thonoted nmported ehow cow, Joun of Are, which_sold to-day at £2:000) sold to Alox Charles, of Dixon; I1l, ; Sounn's Chorub, snother good oneg, $425 to Charles Hook, Xenia, Ohio, these being the highost prices. A numbor of other young bulls sold at very low prices, the demand for bulls boing light. ~Col. Judy, con- ducted tho enle with his usual ability, solling tho eutire Lord in three hows. —_— EDITORIAL CHANGES. Special 1hgvateh to The Chicago Tviduns, BunuiNaron, In,, Muay 22.~Frunk liulton, Inte of the Mouut Plozsnnt “Journal, has purchused the iutercst of Dr. C, Boardsloy in the daily and wealdy Hawk-Eye of this city, sud will assume editorfal control June 1. 'I'ho old firm will be diskolved, Mossrd. Aaves, Blackmar & Co, will go out, aud the Jawk-Eye pnss undor the coutrol of T. Haltou aud O. G, Wheoler, the lattax ono of the presont proprietor: e o, THE SOUTHERN: FLODDS, Mextents, May 32.—Notwithstanding the river ab this point has follen over 10 foot since the de- cline began, tho vast body of water. spreading over the bottom opposite_here, whioh has sub- morged the x\mmi)hlu & Little Rock Railroad to Madison, bas fallen but very liltle, Pnrtios who loft Madison yestorday atato thatthe deoline there has not been-over 7iuokos, The damage to the railroad is not known, but It Is fearod'it. has boen qulto serlous, o e Senator Ferry, of Oonnucticut, Tho Now lIaven Jonrnal says it has recoiyod truatworthy information from Norwalk that tha 1umors and ropreseutations concorning the con- dition of Sonator Verry are uulounded. Tho artford Times, howovor, roprosonts Lis case as critical, and gives this account “Sonator 0. 8. lorry's disense is like that of tho lato Bonator Sumner—a spinul troublo, It 1s oxcessively palutul, sud the afllictod patient sut- fors groatly. It luads in miony oases to a par- tial paralysis, and wo beliove It Lus affected: Honator ¥erry in that way, Ile has borno his uflliction with great fortitude, and boa attonded to iy dutios tu thoBonnte when Lo was not ranlly able, Ilo haw for months only hoon ‘reliuved temporarily from the terrible pains that fallow this disesse, by the uso of subonlancous injec- tions of mnrl)hlnug and these lio Las of luta hoen obliged to repent soveral titmes n day,—uo froquently, indeed, that-bo found It necousary to corty tho lltife itrnmont with whioh the mor- phitio was Injootud under the uliu, sud to per- form tho o{ml‘nflnu (o slight ous) bimeelf, Dupe ing Lho lust ninety doys his strength has failed, and ho bus become considerably emaciated. Io loft Washington last weel, aud atrived at homo in Norwalk on Wednesday, ‘The fatiguos of the iuumuy loft him {n a vory low condltion the fol- i lowing night, aud his frionds oxprossed the ; apinion that ho will never ba wble 10 retusn to i §uhluuwu. PENTECOST. Confirmations in the Jewish Syn- REOLUCS, Different Coremoniey in' the Reforated and Orthodox Chnreh Addrussos by the Rabbls, THE REFORMED OHUROH, A vory intercsting odremony ovcurrod yoster- dny morning st Martine's 1al), whore the Binal Qongrogstion of the Jowlsh OChurch is ncous- tomed to woralip. Tuls was the colobration of tho Jowish featival of tho Feast of Pontecost, or Tonst of Weoks, colebratad in commemoration of tho delivery to Mosos of tho tablots of tho Inw. According to tho ritual of the Reformed Jowish Olmreh, this day Lias baon sot apart for the cou- firmation of the youngor membors of the Church. In tho otthodos or anclent Churdh, confirmation wad rogarded in a difforont light. - Girls wore not confirmed, and their thirteonth anniversary was ot apaxt for tho conflrmation of boys. TIE THEORY OF CONFIRMATION in the Reformed Jowish Church is prooisely that of the Episcopal Church. Tho candidate ot his confirmation sasumes the full rosponsibilities of lis religious life end actiona, and bocomes nn in- di:pnndont momber of the Olhurch and congrega~ tion. Martine's Hall In tho hoight of the fashionable sonson nover looked gayor or briglter with rlch drouses and handsome wearers than it did yos- terdny morniog. Tho rlch, doft bsauty of tha dnughtors of laracl, and their exquisito taste in dressing, whilo admitted by connolssours in such mnhum, needs only td bo soen collectively, an on such on oceasion, to elicit admiration of the hoartiest doseription. TUE OEREMONIES openod with musioc by the ohoir, whicli consisted of u quartotto of oxcollont voices. At its con- clusion tho candidates marohed in, and took the front row of seats, tho boys sitting to the rl,zht‘ oand the girls to tha loft of tho lectorn, Tho Dboys wero drossed in black, with boutonnicres and white kid gloves; the girls arrayed in white confirmation dresses, mado in the most fasiion- ablo style, sud caloulated to display them to the boat possible nadvautage, Al wore wrenths of small white flovors in_the hair. The enndidates having taken their seats, the sorvices continited with anothor authem, and prayers road in Hobrew by Dr. Ilgimbagh, The ehoir responded ot times in the services appointed for tho day, a great part of which was musical, and thorefore delightful to listen to—a8 o contrast to tho nltornations of Gorman and Hebrow ronding. Tho was sung tho Min-Ha-Mozar, Dr, Koohler then road from Exodus xx, in English, the toxt differing in no marked degros from the accopted varsion of the Evangelical churches, followed sgan iu turn by the rosump- tion of praser nnd praise, Hymn No. 60 boing sung. This ended the sorvicos of the dsy. DIl. KOEMLER thon addreseod tho congregation, Nature and Juman history united, o #aid, in making tho doy of Pontodost the lovalist'of holidays. It was tho opening day when Nature unfolded its richest beautfes, filling all souls with thoe praise of tho Creator on high, But Naturo became silout, and oarth & footstool beforo the Lord of, Hosly, when He rovealed the socrots of tho heart to man., Over 3,000 yoars 0 God had planted the scod which were to ‘blossom into hopeand salvation for mav. ' Hoenco the day bad boen chosen by modern Judamsm to congocrate tho youth of thenation to the mission of the Churoh, By their children swearing alle- giance to the old flng of faith, their seniors folt their blood kindle in memory of thab scena on DMount Sinat. 1Io would choose # text from tho Fitth Com- mandment, * Honor thy father and mother."” T'he shortest compendium of Judaism was this text, He spoke with tho autliority of tho Talmud, when he assortod that the command * Henor thy fathor anid mother” waa the very foundation of roligion. Filisl snd parontal love were the connecting Jink of roligion and humanity, sud the key to roligion. * Ha that honoroth not his father and mother,” sald the Taimud, ‘despises Me that 18 in them.” As God continued speaking and uttered thoso words: “ Honor thy fathior and mother,” the Isra- elitos recognized at once that tondor love which cared and watched over us, elovating us to the pure atmosphere of holiness, Teligion was the building up of God's King- dom within us, tho unfolding of the Divine lifo rootod in us, nover to perish ; the cryof the human soul to Leaven, and tho response from on high. We could not ont off religion without rooting out our moral nature. Kaligion was the parent of humanity, begotting, educating, froe- m‘: the goul. God was our Fother. o was called by many names. No name nor title touched tho eore of the heart like this, In tho same re- lation that his hoarers stood to their human father, they atood to God. Neithor philosophy, art, nor science could rob thom of that rolation. Brovidence was for the sparrow as wollas the man, Tha lowliest and noblest of thom shared this priviloge. “Thero was no command givon in the Bible to love fathier aud mother. Love waa a flame kindlod by God Himsolf, never to be ox- tivguished. A man might dash limself to piccos, tonring these chords asunder, but love could 'not bo torn, Mon transgrossod tho law becnuse they forgot the Father. God alone could be loved, sinca He had declared man to bo Uis son, made in the likenocss of God. ‘The father sttended to his honsehald, nbsent all tho dnfl. It was quito differontly with the mother, who wes with the child. Bho was tho educating power of tho family, watchiug the child's progrees, and_ovorflowing with tender- ness and sympathy, In the same mannor relig- jon doalt with us, Our Heavenly Father was unsoen, and ofton absont from the Luman mind, = Roligion never left us; spoke God's morey, educated mankind Ly the culture of raor- alg, scionce, nud art, She was the mother of all wo know; tho mother of man, the educaling power of hunian uocm{. It was sho who led the childyen of humanity into the bosom of their heavenly Father, ence nll religions which drew boundary linos botweon mon and mon were not true roligions. Salvation walted ; tho gutes of Henven were open forall the plous of all nations and roligions, Man was the son of God, onch findiog 1u bis own heart that filial love for bis moral parent, What would bo thought of a ¢hild who, although always obsory- ing tfie will of its paront, expressed nono of that attachmont? He would be like & sunny dayin midwinter, Such & child was he who novor at- tendod o plage of devotion or kopt saved a day of prayer or rest, The Fourth Commandment stood in connection with the Fifth. Honor to parents implied respect, and Lonor to God im- plicd submisgion which made man virtuous, The gates of childhood withits goldon dreams, ware olosed behind his )‘N\llli hearors, 'The arms of thelr parents wers loosening ronnd them. They were about to bogin a struggle for their own exse nnd iudependence, They wero soon to bogin to steer their own bark. on the fitfal stream of life. Lot thom. thorefore ramembor the Fifth Commnnd- mont, There was & Father above who would nover leave thom; there was s loving mother al- : ways. with thom, to guard and help them—Qod and Religion, Might these angels who thom hitherto never leave their min thought, but live forever unto them. THY CONFIRSIATION, The sermon ounded, tha ohildron were eallod up into what would be the. chuncel of the churahi. uided and .The puetor gommunded thom to offer prayaey, whioh. they did In unison, and almost in one voioe, without boing led. —Dr, Koehlar then examinod them separatoly in the Calechism of the Choreh, Howe of the anawers to questions were very long, bt wora givon from momory with admirable ro- curaoy and intelligent roading. The girls an- swored fearlossly and wero distiuctly sudible in every part of tha hall, . ‘e langusge of tho Ontochism is impressive nnd poetic, its sentiment ratuer of broad phi- lonophy than of theology. In faet, the abrenca of anything lile dogmatiem, and the Jiberality of the sontiment, soomed striklvgly nt variauce to the rigid ritual of the aucient Church, The Oatechism concluded without » singla orror, or ono break-down ou the part of the oud- didates, the young peoplo prayed again in uni- son as with ong voice, the choir chanting the ro- n‘mmuu and hollelujahs in the atyle of ihu En- glish High Church, 'I'he pastor tirnod to tha children and exhorted thom to boar thae shield of ;;urll_v ou their breaits angl the orownjof virtne onthoir hends; to ba tho prido of their parents and their faith by growin up to o nobloe womanhood aud manhood, by fol- lowing Qod according to thoir vows. 'I'hon camo the benediction to tho children by the pas- tor, and g prayer for guidanco from above on tho part of the chlldron—who anyul togotlior ag bo- fore—and the blossing in Hebrew, GERTIFICATLS, or rather momontos of the occaslon, were then glven, baing Hluminated cards, bearing the date of tha contirmation and ploasant toxty,~suoh 88 thily, Birach vi, 8: Hweet languago will multiply frionds, aud » fai~ speaking tougne will incresse kind foeling, —and signod by the pastor. Tho gils eat with streaming eyes and busy 0okt Binndkerchiafs for & long timo Mtor thoy nd radolved thejr diploman,and the sympsthatic Tndion of tho cougregation wopt nleb, o readily flow texts from feminine eyos, Durlng 'the Alnglag of tho anthem that followed, oven the {ittractablo boy sat subdued and silent, . THE OANDIDATES, Tollowing are the candidetes, sevenloen in numbor: Julin Mayor, Bello Blum, Linnie Freiborgor, 'illlo Foremann, Ymma Groonobaum, Iiacho Wohdoll, Romn ' Elnstoin, Losh Folsonthal, Gortrudo Foromsnn, Jacob Gimpol, Nathan Toopold, Samuel Foremann, Anguatun Licbon- Atoin, Isnac Miller, Mildon Lindouor, Larry Berg, Loon Hang, Last ovoning Dr, Koohler was presonted with a suporb gold watch and chnin by the young oopla of his houso, No, 978 Indiann avenue. It n blatod that & sfill moro munificont prosent wad mudo, s o THI ORTHODOX OHURUH, Tha Hobraw hollday of Shobnoth (Pohtetost) commonced Thursday ovoning with Lhe sotting of tho sunyand will ond at sundown this evon- ing.. This holiday, which is aleo oatled the Foast of Weoks, is colobrated for two roasons: In the firat place, bacauso tho childron of Israol on this day celebrated tho ripoming of thoir hne vosts, On tho first day of Pesnch (Eastor) the old Jsraolitos used to Lring sacrifices of unripe Iruits, aud dontinued to do ao for neven woeks, until tho Othdsy of Stvan or the tbird month, whon the harvest was remly, nud the oelebration of Bhebaoth, tho fenab weck, took place, In the socond place, this fostival s colobratod bocauso on thiv doy tho ravelation on Sluni took place, aud the Toen Command- monts woro promulgated through Moses. Becauso fruits wors eonsidered ripe on this day, thorofore Idraclites seloot it for the confirmation of thoso wlio have: ripeued for e communion with tho falth, and' thdrofors the beantiful cero- mony of confirmation took placo in all the Ho- Lrow synegoguey in this oity. D'NAX BUOLON. At the orthoaox congrogntion ‘* B'nal Bholom * (Sons of Pence), corner of Wabash nvenuo and 1larmon court,” an immense audicuce was ag. . sombled to wituess the coremonies, whioh wero porformed for the Airst imo in this synagogue. 'ho rabbi's dosk end the altar were boauti- fully decorated and fostooned with evorgroons | sud flowers, and alltheburners in the chandoliors woro lit, their britliant rays nnmminfiung with tho perfumo of tho flowers, apreading light and Aragrance over tho multitude of iworshipers. [“I'ho regular hollday sorvicos woro firat gono | througli with, afier which the cholr, which had : been upucinfly engeged for the ocoasion, nnd : was renlly oxcollont, performed some choice ge- Tectious. 2 TIE PERSONS CONFIRMED, ' Fourteen girls and four boys, tho former elo- gantly dvessed in white, while the latter weore i clad: “ju- blacl, then: marched on the pintform | around the rabbi's desk, whoro chairs had beon i provided for thom. RADUT A, J. MEEBING, i aftor a forvont prayor, addressed the candldates, tolling them tling the_titno for which thoy had "longed so much Lad ab longth srived, The Thioliost dny, tho most sacred momont of their | youthful exiatenco, was now at hand, Thoy aj poared on this: enorod spot, aud bofore n large uwumbl:fo, golomnly to declara that henceforth they would' be good, pious, and devoted Jows. But, befora they ‘mado this’ solomn deolaration, they should once more liston to the kind admo- nitions of thelr teacher and friond. Thoussnds of" lionrtfolt emotions crowded upon him thot moment, aud thoro were many things bo could gy ot thia the tarning point of their lives, but it would be suficient to ronund thom of the words wirich their toncher, Moses, admonishing- ly ond improssively spoke to the chul- dron of Isracl before taking leave: ‘Ubechoras bechaim® ‘(choose thow lifo). The sentonce was shopt, and therofora cnsy to romombor, Btill thego fow words implied a great deal; thelr import embraciug the wcorots of happy existonco. They would no doubt ask, and it was reason- ablo that theyshould, *' If.we wero called upon to chooso bokween—*To live or not to live’—* To bo or not to ba’—who would not prefer to live and o be 7 Thoy would exclaim in their euthu- sizam 1 “ Life is 80 beautiful ; it appesrato us oven now -like unto a Juxuriant nowor{ ]glth upon which wo linger with delight ; what then may it be when wa shall Lave reaohed maturity, wo may, unféttered and without restraing, enjoy this earthly bliss 2> And: yot this subject deserved their earnost comideration. 'Mey wero now stauding upon the throyhold of life, and the future soemod to then u vast garden. Thoy, with their ungophis tlozted eyes, saw Lut the beautifnl, 1'he fra- grnm petals of tho flower often hid rough and wurtful thorus, and in the green and bloomin foliago vonomons roptiles sometimes abounded. They should loolt out and cull from the treas- ures of this earth only tho finest of roal and pure lifo, But they would ask how to discriminnte ; hiow slionld thioy bo onnbled to shun doath and clwose life, Thoy must make ?mp“ sud wholesome use of the blessings of this earth, and thoy must through deeds fultill the rea} pur- poses of this life. Man strove only for happiness. *‘ Bo happy! ™ was tho henrtfolf wish of a fond parent to a de- pariing child, *Be happy!” was the aownd thad wet their ears from all who ere near and dear to them. Anda voice within thomselyes spid: * O, may we be happy.” To chooso life ‘moant to chooka a lifa which brought happinoss, and the reagon why 8o fow could deom them- sotves happy was becauso they hadnot made propor use of tho blossiugs of this earth, be- cnms they know not how to appreciato dml‘n i ‘Lhioy all yoarned for enjoymontd, and thoy all hastonod fromn ono ploasiso to another. Enjoy- ments had o tendonoy to make them happy, and thuir roligion bade them evor to be checrful, to bo glad, aud to eujoy themsolves, but the same roligion also taught them the musofnl lesson whigh tho young, particularly, lheed eo little: * Consideration m ]oy and moderation in Ppleas- ure.” THE CERENONIES, At the eonclusion of the Rabbi's romarks, Misa Sorala Lnchmann came forward and said the oponing prayer with grent feeling. ‘I'lag 1ninister then dald that their forefathers pravions to presenting thomsolves Lofore Binai ware carefully prepavad for that event. They hind bicon made acquaintod with tho truths of their faith and the laws of their religion, It was | now their duty to give proof that they fully nn- ' derntiood tne duties imposed upon thom ns daugh- tors und sons of lsrnel, Ile thien urged thom to give this testimony to the honor of the Lord in o froe and ingenuous manuor, to suswaer distinotly, anditly, and mtulllgihlz, and to lot the wordy thoy“were about to spuak be sincere and emunate {‘rmn, the iuuermost rocesses of their youny eaLNE, But provious to so doing they should bring to the Lord, a6 their ancestors did of old, on this, Tl Foust of tho Firatlings,” thoir firat flixl ofturing, ‘They hnd devoted thelr little carnings to thie purposo of sdorning thoir sanctuary with n boautiful clook, They had shown that they wene willing tnob this® firsb judopeudeunt act should be o noble and & Godly one. 1La flually called upon Miss Jennle Goldmann to uay the offering prayer, which sho did, allud- ing to tho clook which they hud presented. Aliss Itobocea Glogosky then repeated a hymn, oud the childron wers exsmined, the subjeots bomng *‘ Religion,” * Glod and His Attributes,” * nortality,” * Rovelation,” *! Ihe Tradition,” ‘“Dugien,” ‘“The Coromonial Law." Tho auwvnsrs were vory roadily given, and the ohildren provad that they had learned their parts well. Isano Melzer then said the Ton Command- mouty in Hobrew, sud Churlle Hefterin English. Maurice Paradiso ropostod tho thirteou crocds of Juwlnism. Aftar somo further ceremonios, Miss Amelin Rosenborg, on bobalf of tho contlrmants, then nddressod the paronts, thanking thom in elo- quent. and woll-delivered words for the many kindnesses recolyod during thelr youth, and ask- iug fop;givengss for all the wroug they had doue, Hhe closed with tho hopo that thoy might be for many yonrs yet undor the care.aud protection of thelr pavents, i Amwont affectingscons now followed, Among the ohildren were two bright and_beautiful orphuns, Phoy folt keonly $hese remarks, and tears rolled Qown fheir choeks, -The largost of them (Mies Noboeen Korsoskn) stepped forward, and thonked ihose good friends who liad taken cars of her aud pravided for hier wants, ‘The otuar orphsn glrl (Nllss' Faunle Qoldstein) also foolingly thankogl those who Lad mabie her forget that she too had once a loving pareut. There was not & dry aye {n the inmouso audlence during ihose addrossas of the two waife. Ladies oriod like childven. sud mon wiped the toars from their oyuil, o y’l‘hu ministor now told the children to scol hoir purontsand their Llessings, They marchod down, spoking and fnding thom in the audieuce, whilo tle orsiun ployed & sscrod melody, Tho ohildren knolt down, and amid death-liko silonce tho pazents placod their hands on thoir honds and siluntly blowsod them, For five miuutes nothing oonld bo heard but the melodious atrains of ghe organ and the sobblug of both.paronts and vhildyen, After iho bossing, the children klused Loy parouts and fvlands, and sgaln took tholr ue on the platform, Mins Flora Mamlook reviowed thoir provious lifo, audl avked Qod's Dlessing for tho future, ‘Whon she hud taken fior gont agaln, Miss Eathor Harris arono and toppod up to the rabbi, and In oloquént worda thauked him for his tenchinga and vare'whilo thoy wore undor his guidance. Bhoaldo thanked tho offjcers nnd ox-oflicors of the congrogation for kindnessos shown to thom. Tho organ bogan to play, the rabbi blossed tho childrou, aud said that (tod was always foud of listening to childron’s prayors, and alwavs grant- od the wishes of tho Inuocont. Thereforo, thoy should uttor the cluullfl( nrayors, Thoroupon, Miuses Bortha Witkowki and Rosio Qoldatoin oftered prayors, The rabbi prosontod tho childron with thelr cortificaten of confirma~ tion, Homo oholca molestiona by tha choir aon- ¢luded thio sorvicts, and tho audionos disporsod. ——— THE THIRD TERM. Showing Mow the Proscnt Condition oli Gramuvm Looks to Sclf-Perpotnas tone Washington (3fay 16) Correspondence of the St. Louds Hepublican, Somo days ago your gonial co-laborer of tho Courter-Journal, in the course of n mastorly flank movement on Washington by way of Bos- tou and New York, encountered tho pickets of tho Third-Torm envmy, snd fired n volloy af them. Btrhightway, " tha Napoleonio Halstead \srumfllgfl(uungunoml ordor to tho offect that \Wattorson's roconnoissance was nothing but a foragiug expodition, aud the uupuwud pickets of tho Third-Torm onomy hathing but a harwless array of empty recoptaclos for chooring fluids, standing there like Btoughton bottles, as it woro, Naow, 1t i8 hardly bocoming mo, the merest pri- vato soldier in tho ranks, to criticise cithor the strategy or tho tractical Jflmnsoph of theso 1I- lustrious corpa-commandors, much ‘legs to in- torforo in a jndicial or arbltratory ospacity in their littlo difference of opinion. Yowever, Jny- ing nside at onco tho military metaphor and tho assumod deforence to_rank fhot socompnunied It I tru Rlbe pormittedto toll what T know about tho T Torm, it 8 not 8o very long sinco our silent ruler openod his mouth to say that the Third Torm would bo inflation of the tonure of tho Presidential offico, and that he was opposod to all ioflation, Notv, that was a nico littlo specch, and showod that Grant is° boooming nomotliing of & humorist in Lis maturo yoors: but I don't think the indications that evor and anon proceed from the White Houso permit us to believe that it meant anything more. In the first placo, we must consider tho fact that Grant, however inconsistont ho may bo with others, {8 alwvays consistent with himsolf. Those who m-x‘huvo imagined in the past thot Bon Butler,or Morton, or any other man, carried him in his \:mlchnn»Fooku: avo doubtless dis- abused themaolves of that Titusion by this timo. Likowiso, those who perohance imagine that Roscoo Conkling hae countod Grant among bis orsonal offcots sineo the veto, may diemies that mpresgion from their minds, Tho fact is, Grant is not owned by any of thoeso politicians; nor docs he lend allegianoe to any one of them, oxoopt in 80 far as they may bo made to subserve his own purposcs, ‘The moment one or any numbor of them bocome usoloss to him, by reason ‘eithor of a deoling of their fufluonoe in their localitics, or of their dopatturo from tho line of policy that runa parailol to bis, he incontinently ** un- loads ! them, not oarlng whethor thoy fall in the guttor or under tho whool Now, for two weoks boforo the voto, wo had bon ailicted with the daily strut and swaggor of Jobn Logan, as he swelled up and down the avenuo, inflated a good deal worsa than ho pro- poscd to inflato the ourrency, John was confi- doni that the Presidont would aign the bill. Ho could not imagino that tho President oould do mfizmns ¢lse. If he should,—Horrible Possi- bility [—thero would be instant ignition of the oircumfluent aqueous eloment! The g-r-r-cat Ropublican party of the g-r-r-eat Wost would get up on its ear, and—nnd—iwell, John was always carotul to refrain from telling ms exactly what would hnp})au. But we womchow auspected ho that, in tho drond ownnt of n voto, the -r-r-0at Republican party of the g-r-r-gat ost, whooped up %o desperation by the sublime bawling of John, would do some- thing very mayage,—eay, for example, tip over some old woman's peanut-ataud, or kick & bootblnck, or something of that sort. Woll, tho veto came, and prosently we saw John upon tho streot ngain ; but Le did not displace so many cubic foot of the atmosphoro as formerly, hig lusty bollow faint and fainter grew, and in'a fow days ho had sottled down to his old occupation of chewing his moustacho and swenring that this was the best Government, eto. You remombor how Morton wont in lemons, aa the saying is, in his inflation-gpeechios, and how he camo &l:b #queozod, o tha bays =aid, in Lis lotter to the Indianapolis Journal. 1 havo nover yot beon ablo to toll whether thatletter of Morton's mount inflation or contraction, spocie-paymonts or tha “artistio_ono-dollar bill,"—granting the violout prosumption that it mennt anythjng at ail, Well, this may not seem {o have much to do with the Third Torm 3 but it has, It goes to show how utterly at Grant's morcy all the poli- ticinng are. It showa that all the sound and fury of the inflationists signified nothing as soon as Grant sot his foot down. Now, suppose ho had signed the billl In all earthly cortainty we should hava seen Hawloy, Conkliog, and Sherman in juet as fine & frenzy as Logan, Morton, and Carponter wero ; aud that would have been tho andof it. But Grant did not take his cuc from nuy of these. Aud it happanod that Hawley, Conkling, and Bherman were on_the samo side a8 the boudholdors and bankers, It also happenod that, in this instance, the interosts of the bond- Lolders and bankors were identical with tho in- torosts of the poople, though for widely divorgent roasons. ‘I'he bondholdors and baukers wauted the currency let alone because inflation would doprociote their property, whilo the people wantod it lot alone becauss inflation was cortain to ond in anothor panic; aud in panics the peoplo, the bondholders, the bankers, and every- body elee suffer, Thus, when Grant put his foot on thoinflation- bubblo, ho crushed it; but, a8 tlie bubble col- lapaed, he rose ono stop toward his coveted Third Torm. Logau, Moston, and the balanco aro like Grant's shoes: when thoy are worn out, Lie throws them nway. Aund you might justas woll expect the Prosidential old shoes to get up » rebellion in the bapk-yard where thoy are thrown, as to expect Morton, Logan, aud the balance to make any fuss alter Grant gots through with them. hear that that amicablo old grandmother of the Ropublioan party, Heury Wilson, is llmpmf around out Woss with a bottle of Spaulding's gluo and some soothing eyrup, trylug to mend the brolien playthings of tho grandchildren and tush thelr bawling, There i o heap of trouble on the old mau's mind. 8o, if ho happens to strey into your baill- wick, send some mild manuered reporter, who {s amember of the Y, AL C. A., to him, with in- structions to ask him all about o certain accasion, immediately aftor the veto, whon a certain Sen- tor—maybo it was Conkling—camoe into a eeriain room, n a cortain house in Washington, where the amiablo grandparent was prosont, slang with a conclave of the godmothers, mnd wot- nurges, and midwives of the grandohild,sand eolomnly aonounced bimsolf for Grant for & Third Term, to tho utter and unspoakabls horror of the stmd family clans-meeting sforesnid, Just ask him and seo what he will say., Mind you, I don’t mako any assertions; I moraely give uttorance to somothing. Aud thon, by the way, you must have noticed liow Grant is working to make himself solid witls the Bouth. Baxterisn native Arlansan. Say he was not eleated, if you_will; Lut it caunot bo gainunid that, ns againet Drookw, ho ropresents the solid native population of Arkansas. Btill, Lo is origiually Graut’s oreature, aud dopends upou Grant's power for tonuro of oftlco. Bup- p0ge, asan ndh ciroumnstance, Grant should hap- pon to appear to the poople of Arkansas As thuir dofoudar agalnst tho scliowmoa aud plots of Clay- ton, Dorsey, ot al.? Do you imsgine that tho paople would ask soy. questions about tho pro- tector g0 long 8a tho protaction waa substantial 2 Wouldu't avy man profer to surroudar ay a prig- onor of war {0 tho Tegular army rathor than bo waylald and robbed by bushwackors, provided 1t w8 a plafu choice batieon tho two? « ‘What would you think if, one of these daya, somo reproveniative Sonthern mian, like Lamur, for {nstanoo, or Gordon, should got up and eay, in the Houso or Bonato, that tho Boutliern poo- ple woro not Bopublioans nor Domocrats, but that thoy woro of tho party whioh would protect thom from robbery, sud let them Los their cot- {on and their cano {n peaco,—moaning thoreby tho Grant put{lf What would be the monsurs of your astonlshment to learn that Urané anit Dob Moombs bad shaken hands, not over the bloody, ete., but aver the Third Term, with a mutual underatandlng that Grant would manage the nigeera if Toombs & Co. would manage the 1ate boys in gruy, and that belweon them they would most effeotually ‘‘mmnage” the oarpels bl§gul’fl ? ow, you mes, all these shols count in the ame, Graut mesus a Third Torm., Ho on't wonb tho Rapublioan orgaulzation to be kepe in liuo, lle wants ?t demoralized, go that its nomiuation of sny other man would not amount to anything, If it shonld nom- inato any other ; aud meanwhile he is industri- ously at work gathoring in all tho clomouts of porsonul strougth that are ]yh”i about_loogs. 'hat Ligh-toned (XHI\M-PN'W at the Manlsttan Club the other day was oxactly into COrant's Land, Hints emanated from it that the Undying Demooracy might nominate Lim themsoclvas, Now, it strikes we I had hourd of something like this boforo. I liaye s falut rocollestion of rend- iug & spaech of Montgmnrv Blair about seven {uura n&u in which Grant was pretty roundly ndoreed s the rogm men for the Domounts to nomiuate iu 1803, Well, thyt opeech probiae bly clinched tho Ropublican nomination fox Grant tho following summor. Haowever, this In & mattor of bistory. But history somotimos re< ebta {taolf. Icnnnot belp thinking that thora 5 an uttor nbsence of orags sud chasms from Watlorson's lead abont the Third Torm. Ia fact, bis hond seoms protornaturally lovel. Grant's SBirong Card, nnd Norton’s Shortsigntedncns. % v From the New York Herald, Porhaps tho only thing which could reconcile tho right-thiuking portion of Yhe Amorican poo« plo to tho third eloction-of a Presldout, is n com- inntion of circummances which would make that tho only roscuo from furthor dobrsemont of the currehcy ‘and natlonal dishonor. Morton, theroforo, with all his craft and astuteness, iy playlug & ulmrmhs]mnd gsme. Hela putsulng a courso which tonds to nvits and almost fofco, into tho_tleld tho ouly antagonist with whom Lo Tios fio‘chwnce of ooping succesatully. OF ail our publio moo, Prealdent Arant has catablished tha bost ‘rocord on_the ourronty quoation. - Of all our public men, he has rondered the most signal and timely sorvice In_ a oritical §unctura Traughi with alsrming daugoer. Of all mon in tho conn« try, ho is best ontitied to stand as tho reprosentas tivo of anti-inflation. If that is to bo tho great insue in the Republican National Oonvontion, hig clajm to the nomibation ecan be cou« teated on no other ground than. the ine oxpodionay of nominating a csndidato who hoy alrondy held tho offico two torma. But, If tho inflation fssuc is forced, mnny . cltizens wiil renaon 'x:molxoly a8 thoy would if wo woro iu the midst of n groat war, in which tho sorvicon of o military Prosident conld not kately Lo dlspensed with, Their ory would bo, ** Detter Threo Terms than [nflation! Dotter Threa Torms than the ‘possibility of 'a Presidont wha “lo)‘;m nnfslfluu tho public prosperlty sud nations al-houor " If, thoreforo, Morton desires the Ropnblican nomination, a trup perception of his own intorost shonid lond him 1o soquicsco in the voto with an much alnority and 08 good & grace as possible. It is tho stroug card of his most formidable rival, and Lo ought to bo too wary to give_ bim an ope portunity to plsy it. 1t Morton ind but tho gond Houna 10 Bhy, '* The known viows of the Prouldont reundor suy further expansion of tha curroncy impoesibls ; that Las ceased to be a practicsk quostion, and I will not distract the Republican party by urging impousibilities,” this controversy would ‘dic out before mnothor yoar, and Gon, Qrant wonld hiave no poouliar hold upon publia lualmfi a8 & candidate for Third Term, Wa FI“ the ambitious Indiaua Senator good advico ‘c 18 for himeelf to decide whether he will mopl £ THE DEARBORN OBSERVATORY. Prof, Sniford’s Meport Sctting Forihy tho Work of the Chicago Astronomis onl Nocietys - The following it the full text of the report subs mittod at the last meeting of the Astronomical Soolety, by Prof. T. I. Safford, tho Divector of the Dearborn Observatory : . THY BERORT. Al the Lime of thoGreat Fire, weweromoking o sorics of _atar-obaervations for the groat cataloguo of the ‘Gorman Astronomioal Sooloty, Our work was up to tho standard, both in quantity and quatity, Bt T found 1t then naceseary to mnko tho aclence s, littla more_practical, in ordor to gotmy livelliood, I liad, nlrendy undertdkon o proparo to ‘prepares catalogue? for the Tako Burvey, from the obsorvtions of abont 1,000 of the brightodt stars, This was compleled in 1872, and_published by the War Department for tlio s 'of tho Eugiueors, st the recommendation of tho Chie! Engincer, Gon, 'Humpbroys, sad ‘Gen, Come atock, of the Lokre Survey, T6 practical use of this, 1 to neslet fn moking s mop of tho fukew, Work ia now doingupon Lake dlichigan. 1 noxt undotlook aoma work for the Oliof Eugincer at Fort Leavenworth, Liout, Buffuer, Mo has been golting up mops of Knuyms, Colorado, and Now Mexe ico; ond my work {hore has fixod tho longitude of Iays City, Donver, and _Pueblo, The Inst placa was dotermitied in order to fix the eastorn boundary of the Ute Reservation, At Fort Huy, nvor I wa ace companied by M, F, loyne, thie son of our Secrotary, After my return_from tlie Weab in 1872, I asslated 1l Canadiun ofliclals in fixing an eastorn Doundary near Fort William, on the uorth shore of Lake Bnperior, This iuvolved, from old dacuments, finding whorq Oniro {u {hig State fa situated ; the ordinary maps of Jilinots givo this point four milce in error, With refore enco to Chicago. Tho noxt work T undertook waa some caleulationy rolativa to the Sonth lino of Wyoming Territory, Thle lino was aotually Luid down by s pupli of mina, 31z, -A, McOonnel, by, astronomical observatlonn. T mysell wont out'tn Novombor lnst, and With him fixed tlie southwest corner in longitude : visiting Sail Lake City, nnd there occupying righam Young's obaervatory. The corner in_question is tho starting line betwein Wyoming and Utal ; our obsoreations sbowed thocorl miuea near Evanston 1o be in Wyoming, ot Dtah ; matter of some Importance to the littl mining vilinga of Alma, During Jast summer I'was {n Now Moxico, 1 thoro determined the position of Santw Fe and Fori Union ; they are noarly fivo milea nearor each othier {bun tho maps bave made thom —fty-five miles fu- stoad of pixty. Thers i a great range of mountaiog Detweon them, In the fall I went slso to Dukota ta dotermine the latitndo and longitude of the and of the Northern Pacifio track, Al thoee abuorvations ute pratiizally fmportsot fn mapping the country,—a worls which i very nocessary for minfug and other operationy, and which 1s to ba well douo by the United States Engineore, a3 fast ot thoy can got tho naccasary appropriations,’ It is_no, ‘perhape, well known that the best maps yet' wade ol tho West are tho milltary mapa. It s hntd to estimate ‘whiat amounts of money could havo been saved by & proper solentifio exploration of the Weat, A marq *rafu chort 7 of that country might have Seved mill. fous which have beon usolessly epeut, if had Locx mude o few YO4TS ag0, The country hus oome to that osition whera it § necessary to ¢ {sko account of atook, and e whal thera In, before sponding any more monoy in dovelop- ing, withont any proper {dea of what the yesults will be, Theunstrouoniera have to do their part in training up the uen who are to exploro tho country, Our sci- enco hias tho position of leading on aud improving the atlicr olences, Wa bave dois something towsrds educating men for this purposo, Of my spocisl nstronomival pupils Messra, Stoue aud Skiisuor are dolug woll as obuiarvert at Washington ; Mr, Motealf is Profuscor of Engineera ot Evanston, ‘M. Maryatt wasin the employ of the United Btates Engineers in Montaua at the time of big lamentod death lnst year, Mr. Olson 1 now {n Lis na- tivo country, Norway, st tus Univorslty of Christionia, The young ladies who have pursued practical astronos iy at the Observatory ure teaching or writing, “Allow mo horo to asy that tho material intercats of Ohlcago and thie Wost Will require s great Polylechnie sohool, and that tho profossors of such a schiool must Do scientincally traitied. This1s ono use, and s vory important ono, of tha Dearborn Observatory, e difforence otween a sciontifio. and a puroly lit orary trafufug is this; the former brings the pupils fuco'to face with Nature horself, the latter with books, Our boasted American_oducatfon is far too bookiah & and, a4 a vesult, our saliolata tako thelr idoas a¢ second liand, and put themn into an uupraotical form, ‘Tb Deatborn Observalory, I proporly andowod could do very much to promote what I'may call a x ducalon, o s be of much busol o o conme nity, Of the mathemnticians {ralned under Profs, Poirce and Bond, who mado astronomy and higher mathe atics thbir solo study during the yenrs X lived at Cawmbridge, thore nro wany in prominent ositions not strictly scleutifio; one fu " President Df"'iie Doston Iusihuto of Fechnology, aunther Chiof Oork 1 tho urean of Stutsticn ikt a, vory promuiuent actusry of New York, and[eo on, Thers Dio tuany hal(-aciontitlc profeesions nowndiys, tho fict authoritios in which a¥o mon who havo pursued extonsive studios in abatract sclence ; and o thiy con= neotion 1t i extremely Important that American gclonce shall bo brought Into direct organfo cannoction ith $tmk of the world, _When, thorotore, {t waa pros Josa {0 eatublinl_a oentral coumopoliian astronos Inleal Hocloty, and X recoived an fuvitatio to foin it, I din soat ouce, The undurstanding was that it wus a sociely not for talle but for worli. As aqon e the btk of making o grest catalogus of was alae Cnsned, which X knew to be o vital necessity, even for tlio purposes of American geograpicul exploration, T proposed Lo our Presidont, the Lon, J, Youuy Beaiiie mos,’ it we In Chiago shiould “wiloriaks our ‘share of i, sud did 5o with his cous out ; my Toportn to the Bocloly in and 1800 and 1471 were duly made, sud l]?rb'nrfid 1in thetr Quarderly Journu), The meothngs are held bionnfaily, Ab the isat meetiug, in 1873, T was compelled to nne Jounce & suspeusion ot the work, ns it requires tho {ull thine of one ustronomer to cuiTy it on, au well o4 - lwlp from an meslstaut where possiblo; sud my own 1iine was fully accupied with Governmunt work—my auty ieus of support alnce the Flre, After we bad undortuken our portioy of this great enferprise, tho obiarvatory of Hurvard Gollegu ook part sl fn It Tho oxecution of it is futrusted 10 an sasisiont at {hat nstitution, a forme ‘:uml of my own, Prof, W, A, Ttogers, Fortunately, Le Is supportod—as’ are the Dircolor and otlor agsstaite—by mmple fuuds, n roat part bogueathie for the observatory, which &5 Theom of £5,000 or $10,000 anunaly, (e T do hot wiaks to give up tlip iiles of complsting our sliure of the work 1 meutionsd nt first, It must by dune necordiug 1o tho best modela ; it Has & standard fized by the most ominent astronaniors of tho world, ‘Whlch our obeervers wyut coma up to, This we can suadily do, Thoso who Lave talien yogltions in (he Governint sorvice from tho Dearborn Obcryator Nave, a0 far as T huve seen tholr work, dons It oxcol. Jontly, o mention two instances which 1 have ¢ Band; Mr. Slond's obasrvations of ‘the sun's dinmoter, fu n yenr ufter Le loft here, woro botler thun thoss of somo of the Greenwichoborvers, better than thoss mude at Noufohatel, Palenno, Oxtord, Turls, and Kane oo Tha s e R e Sl hote o subject, % War) sud lougiudes of westoru oinin, s g e urior instrumont, are also utter tiau iiich Euy work. Tho othierd ora sabi to. havo dons. efusily ol Lut I kavo not data ¢ bund in dotafl, A former pupil of i, 88 bofore atatod, Lta the managomont of flie ofhior Awncrican shave of {lie great stur catalogue, 1f wo cau nccomplleh thin work, wo shall. ba dolag oredit to Clilcago, uid ut the snmo tne extublinking 3 fixod stuudard of Chlvago soluntiflo work, which will ‘e known iy all futuro history of ssirononty, Thovoe suita are {0 ba published in Guemany, tyoy ate of practical importaied; 004 for they hte wauley by the Government oxplorcrd cd fast 0 thoy come ont, T I8y venturs, then, 0 uPge upon you The me e of “continnliig thé work hegnn,” for the snke of the lonor to Chicago, of {he praotical utllity avon to ons ovwn comuierce, dind of 18 ukefalness [ drawing At saud duvolopiig Lo Intont solontita tlent of {ho eal ro tliat fuHimo Lo come wo muy have selensifio schivols worthy of the name, Respoct u:)‘!y )luhmmm!. ', 3L, BAvyoun, Pirector of Dearbora Qlacrvaloryy