Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. * amnmi‘oF suBEORtRTION (n{‘m“ 17, ADVAKOR). 812,00 Bund Bttt 1200 Svoaiy Parta of & year at tha samo rato, : ; To provont dolay and mistnkes, ho anra and give Past ©Oftca nddrest in full, including Stato and County. . Temittancos may bo mada oithior bydeatt, nzpross, Post Offico order, or in ragistorod Tottors, Al our rink. TRIMN TO CITY BUDRCRINENS, . , dolivered, Bumdny otconton b cente por wooks B::}{. ln:ll;mud. Buuday Includod, 14 cants por wouk, Addrons TII TRIBUNE: COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Denrborn-ata,, Unioago, Tik, T AMUSEMENTS. | JRY'S_THEATRE--Tandolph _stregt,*botweon g e Lasatio, Viapagomontof Touy Bislors va: joty-Troupo. Y OF MUSIO—Halstod streot, hotwoen Mad- Funin s Fog." i = 3 t Adame lfl‘fi e k"hofin‘::%npmnmn. 'ION BUL atiget, OF Fasta s o SOCIETY MEETIN! ASHLAT J.ODGI, ‘No. 508, A. T, and A, M.A msot. thia (Twoadar) ovoning, 8t F@:' {hle Lo, il aceug'(his (Euadar) oraning, o . 1 1 n 5 e A AN Heerotary. ATTENTION SIR KNIGHTS, oial conolava of s No. 1, Knights Tomplar, will be ?J}fi"‘?fi?-‘""}':‘xfifé'&"num;, at§ ololock, lum, or work on WSourtoously invited. Q B grags ol LOGKE, Rovordor. B, W, —————— BUSINESS NOTIQES. 810 TO 81,00 INVESTED IN'8TOOKS AND P o e e PR PO The Chieags Tribuwe, Tucsdey Morning, July 14, 1!79. An injunciion to restrain the Northwostorn Company from complying with the Jowa Rail- road law has boon sued out by AMr, Horaco Will- fams, 'who {8 the FPresident and principal ownor of the Northwostorn lensed lines in Towa. 1t 1n bollovod that thoro aro poouliar foatures in this case which will insuro a decision” from tho Courte against the Btato. ] . ‘Tho nowapapers in Now York say that most of Hho donths attributed to hydrophobia ara g_nllsnl}_ by fright ; and, ns if to provont tho untimoly end of an jutoresting midsnmmer discussion, long and dotailed acoounts of every caso’are published. If fright has anything to do with it, every man in New York should by this timo be ready to go into convulsions at tho mero aight of adog.! An‘attempt to ansassinate Princo Lismarck wau mado yeaterday by a dull-witted follow, who missed his aim and wes tnken into custody. T'ho dispatchies about the affair. stnlq that the nesnssin hns boon ofton ecen of lato holding conversation with o priest. Nobody ought fo beliove on such: ovidenco that the carpontor of Kissongen was the inetrumont of a ‘Papist conspirdoy. The truth more likely in that ‘he was inspired by religious zeal on his own ae- count, and undertook to rid Germany of the groat onemy of his Church without onco rofloot- ing how torribly tliat Chureh would bo’ made to Ppay for the success of his plan. Another rotten dam in Massackusotts gave way yestordsy, No lives wero lost, thanks to o happy chance, but much property was de- stroyod, raflrond bridges woro swopt away, and travel will bo intorrupted for geveral days. - We suggost to the pooplo; of Massachusotts that thoy diroct 6n immo- diate scrutiny of tho dams which aro still In activo use, leaving an investigation into tho Middlofield enso to bo made at leisuro, This is . nota time to bo crying over spilt mill, Thore in atill too much to be done by prompt nx}d dooi- sive action. Theodoro Tilton has published another lotter In regard to tho Beechor seandal, Tho eubstanco of it ia that tho lottor to Bacon was not meant to +be aggressive, but in solf-defoneo; and that furthor provocation wns needed to'call Trom him o full chargo against Mr, Beochor, Buch aprov- ocation, lio says, is furnished by tho lotter of Mr, Boechiorto tho Examining Committeo. Ho aceepts $ho challongo, and within ton duys will give to tho Invostigating Committes all tho facts, Laving proviously takien the caro to sift thom, and make onth before o magistrate to such ea Lo desires to substantiate. Mr, Tilton bas taken the only course that wag open to him; and ho has taken it with all tho promptoess and moderatences of mannar that could have boen expeoted. A great eon produced among the ofticials of Gormauy by ¢to Congrossos of May- encoand Bonn. ‘Thoro wero many prominent Catholi~ Bathered togother in Mayence, and tho <cmonstrations of nffechon for tha Church wero something surprising. . Thus it wos sald that ‘‘madern civilization 18 incompatiblo with tho Church™ ; and the oaly offect of this uttorance was to spread sbroad in Mayenco tho opinfon that modern civilizstion is & nasty growth, and that nothing can to hoped Jfor until the world Is got back to & *etato of nature,” 1t was such nonssnse as this, emanating from the Encyclopodists, that led to tho French Tov- olution, only hoy wished to gomuoch farthoer Dback than tho early Ohurch for t)’olr atato of naturo. Their endeavora resulted in tho popular sanction of a gort of fig-loat order of morality, with which the world hne boon postered, moro or lewn, over sinco, It is searcoly this that the Gorman Catholies want, but it is somothing of tho same kind that thoy will got, it ever thoy eucceod in sotting bnok modorn civllization, Tho Chicago produce markoty woro genorally strongor yostorday, with more business dolng, but chiofly in a speculative way. Aloss pork was active, and advauced 40@450 por br, closing at §19.60@10.60 " ¢nsli, and $10.60@10.05 sollor August. Lard was quiot and Go por 100 lbs highor, cloalng at $11.87}¢@11.40 casly, mnd $11.40@11.45 koller August. Monts woro active and strongor ab 03@To for shouldors, 3o for short xiby, 930 for whort ‘oloar, and 103¢ @110 for mweot-plokled hams, Highwinos'woro quiet and flom, ar 0440 por gallon, Lake fiofghts wero dull and oaslor, at 33 @8}o forcorn to Duffale. Flour was quict and firmor, Whont was lens notivo, and 1o highor, olosing at £1.16¢ cosl, $1,103¢ sollor August, and 81,204 Tor Ko, 2 Minnogota. Corn was nctive and @ 40 highor, closing at 02 cail, and 6134@013¢o scller August, Oals wore quict and 3¢@lo higher, olosmmg nt 480 onsh, 450 ‘eollor tho month, And 840 sollor August, Ryo was in good domand and firm, closing at 880, Dar- Toy was activo and wonlk, ologlng at £1,04 sollor Hoptembor, Iogs woroe active and steady ; salen &t 85,76@0.85 for poor to oxtra, Oattle met with an activo demand and wore flrm. Bheop ‘Woro scarce and nominal, P Tho Postmasters in Town, Wisconain, Min- neots, Tilinois, and Indlana aro Just now man« {puleting the party catouses #0 as to have alltho ReeRont membors of Congress renomiuatod, I , | shonld b6 romombored ' that ench niombor of ot 4n ] boordor gl thu R, 0, Visitlaa Blr Knlauts Oongress-who In loyal to the Administeation appoints arid removos all tho Postmnsters m hls, Qistriot and, whon tho oditora of tho country pross aro also tho Postmastors, tho mombor is most commonly ablo to control " tiio looal ma- chinery of Lis party. L f Mr. John A. Knsson, ona of the mombors of Congrees from Towa, somehow fallod to control tho appointmonty in his distrlct, aud the Post mnators took ' the bualness in hand of having somo other person nominatod. Mr. Kosson wrolo liomo thnt o was not candidato for xo- oloction, and tho Postmnstors, including tho oditor of tho Dos Moinos Register, woro pitohing about for somo one clso, Whilo thus on- gagod, Mr, Knsgon roturnod to Tows; and all of sudden tho pooplo turned on the Fedoral offico. holders fn a way thoy dosplso, Throo countios, including Poik County, of which Des Moinos 18 tho coniro, bave sppointed delogates plodgod to voto for .Kasson's ronomination, Tho Dos Moinos Postmaster is grioved. Itisonly s fow doya sinco his ourronoy notions worn pronounaed taluted by the Ropublican Btato Convontion, And now to have Kasson oramwmed down bis throat is n drop too muoch, 4 —— INDIANA POLITICS, v Aftor tho two Conventions hold at Indianapolla last month (tho Farmers and tho Ropublican) bod adoptoed resolutions in favor of. currency inflation, the former eyen favoring the payment of the 5-20 bonds in greenbacks, wo ‘expressed tho hopo that somo party in that Siate would tako tho e‘ppnalto ground and doclaro oponly for spooio payments, ‘The Domocratic State Con- vontion moots at Indlanapolis to-morrow, and the opportunity ia offorod to that body to ocoupy tho flold of honest currenoy and honest dealing with the public creditors. It is porhaps too much to oxpoot that they will seizo tho chanco, but if thoy possess ordinary sagacity thoy will place thomselyes in the mnovel and unwonted attitude of bolug the only party in tho Btate in favor of an honost paymont of the ontire national debt. Tho greonbacks thomsolves are a portion of the ‘oational debt, and tho §-40 bonds aro'anothor portion. Tho Ropublican Convontion of Indiana wag opposod to paying the former, and tho Farm- ors' Convontion was opposod to paying olthor, oxcopt a8 ono dobt may. b5 pald with another. Lot us noo now whethor thore is any party in Indiaun that dares stand up to tho rack and ro- dolve to pay bath kinds of dobt and all kinds in tho only sort of monoy that & Governmont can pay any.dobt in, If tho. Domocrats of Indiana do this, thoy will bo entitled to tho votos of ol tho friends and advocatos of & sonnd out- roncy in tho State, and of alt who sustained tho President’s voto of tho Inflation bill, Evon if thoir ticket should bo beaton, it wowld atill bo most dosirable that thoy should take this position, It would be desirablo not merely bo- cnuso it i3 necossary that Indiana should have o partytin favor of honost money, but bocauso, tho otler partics having monopolized the ‘infla- tion fssuo in its lni!gth and brendth, there is no room thero for any third party, There is no more grazing in that gooso-pasturs, Tho Domocrats, upon principles of _ common prudenco, must go somowhero olso to foad, But it is not likely that thoy will loso tho eloction on this {ssuo, Tho Stato is very ovenly dividod at oll timos, and the Gorman voto is protty sure to go against tho Republicans this fall. And whilo wo should not oxpect many bard-monoy Ropub- licans to voto the Domooratio tickot, thora aro .thousands of thom in the State who will absent thomsolves from the polls rathor than cast o bal- Iot for inflation, s A NEWLY-DISCOVERED lle’l‘ION.j~ 3 Tho campnign of Gen. Crook against tho Apaohics, last year, oponed to rosearch A tract of land, 200 miles square, which ia rich in rolica of our couniry's unknown past. 1t contsins s chain of anciont citios in rufns and a coterla of anclent towns atill inhabited by & raco which Lolds iteol! aloof from Indian and Moxlcan and Amorican, prides itsolf on its descent from tho anclent Iohubitants of the country, and maintaing o roligion and o government,” both ~of which aro pecullar to itsolf. ‘Wo aro indobted to Capt, W, O. Manning, of the regular army, for the facts in our possession concorning ihis newly-discovered raco. Capt. Manning, who was with Gon, Crook during tho whols oampnign, and was rocommended for - promotion by tho lattor on nccount of gallantry in tho fleld, explored in the intervals of fighting, Ho visitod the inhabited towns, talked'with thelr rulers, and informed himself goncerning their coustoms, The largost eottlementis in New Mexico, sbout 80 miloa souts of tho border-line, Itisa typo of thorest, A strong wall surrounds it, Within aro houses for about 4,000 pooplo, Tho popula-- tion has dwindled, howover, to about 1,800. Tho placo was montioned by s Spanish Jesuit who published, in 1529, & desoription of his wanderings in Ameri- cs. Abont 1635, anothor Josuit wrote o minute nccount of it, This account s truo, In nearly overy detail, to-duy. Tho language re- sembles the Chineso. So nn ardont arohwologiat, who visited tho oity & year ago, says, Bomé of tho minor customs corraspond to thoso of the Chinoso, Tho womon aro of tho truo Colostial typo,~almond oyes, protuberant bodies,, Hlttle foot, ote. Thoy dress thoir bairand themsolvosin Obinero fashion, Thelr roligion fa barbarously magnificont, Montezumn is tholr deity, His | coming is looked for at sunriso onch day. Im- mortality 18 part of thelr ereed. Tho priosta kiavo beavily-ombrolderod roboa which havo boon used for unnumbored yoars, Tho coremonics of worship uro formal and pompous, The morality of ihis strango poople, as far ot loast a5 forolgners ara concernod, is {rroproachnble, 1t is probable that thoy koop a rocord of ovonts by moans of tying peculiar knots in Iong cords, ‘Thiis, I£ truo, seems to eutablish womo kinship or romots aoquaintanceship botwaen thom and the Aztecs. ‘Tholr Govornment fs a congorva- tivo ropublio. Powor iy vostodt in a counoll of thirtoon caciques. Blxof thom aro soleated for lifo, OId mon aro gonorally chiokon, In ordor that their torma of ofiico may not ho Inordiuately long, Tho romaining soven are oleoted from time to timo, One of thom is tho Exocutivo, Auothior {8 0 sort of Vico-Prosident. Tuoro Ian Wax-ohl'ol. 8 Chiof of Pollco, eto, Theso poyon caclquos aro uaually young men, Thoy sorva but a fow months. Sulfrago is univorsal, Tt I8 mearcely necessary to supplomont thoso facta with tho statomont that those dwollors in towns are quito far advanced in civilization, On this point, ono faot apeaks volumes, Woman 1s not a bosst of burdon among them, as sho is with oll Indian tribos, Bhefs hold in high ro- apeot, ITor tasks aro confined to thoss of houso- Lkeoping, 5 ‘Tho written records which wo hiave montioned show that this fuolated community Lea main- tatnod ita traditions unbroken for at loast throge Now Moxioo and Arizor TIE S \ titurlos, . Xte history, (onrofully. studled, miny prove acluo to lhq problom of the aboriglnal Athotioans. Tho' mowid-builders of tho North and tho oltv-builders of the Bouth' may bo roprosented. in the town-dwollérs of Bl A MISTARE| Tho New York Commeroial aud F{nanotal Chrontcle mnkoa light of thio recont docision of tho United Statos Circult Qourt at Madlaon, in tho mattor ‘of tho Wisconeln rallwnys. It thinks that thero ia no good ground for tho provatont boliof that tho doelsion of tho ,Courk wag vory unfavorable to tho ronds, Thoe Ohroni- olo anys that tho ' Court in no way oxprosaod an oplnion upon tho meaning of tho words * nitor or ropoal” in tho Wisconsin Constitutlon, It ithinks = that ‘oven , under this. - provision of tho.CQonstitution tho.ohartor of tho rond canuot bo taken away withiout just causo unloss tho Btate first roimburdcs tho par- tios’ owning tho ‘roads. It Brguos that, althongh tho Btato, of Wisconsln, hos'- mado tho rosorvation o quostion, its powsid tn- dor that rosorvation are modified and govorned by a highor law," which requires individuals and Btatos nlike to respeot vestod rights,—rights veatod with its approval and under its sanction and inducomont. It clalma thnt to advooato tho contrary would be againat justico and truo poli~ oy; tbatif a Siato inducos money to bo spent and contracts to bo mado within its limits, 1t will not bo allowod to conflscate that monoy or to ropudiato thoso contraots. It says, thereforo, that tho Qourt docided as ‘nearly ns possiblo— nothing ; and insinuates that: it gave a decision at oll only as, s mattor of form, bolng do- slrous, ae the quostions raised wore very important, to got tho opinion of tho Bupromo Court of tho United Btatos as sdon ns posaible, It anys, morcover, that tlio Judge who gavo the conclusions of the Court made ono or two romarks which might bo construed to go & littlo forthor then this; but that they wero slmply hia off-hand views vory loogely and by no moans olently exprossed, and that *in no gonge could tho Court bo held rosponsible for _thom, or be eald to havo adopted them.” * With tho position of the - Ohkronicls on the quostion of taking property without duo com- ;Snnanuon wo lavono fault to flad, It is sub- stantially tho same as that whioh wo muintalned boforo tho declsfon, Tho Ohronfols Is, however, ontirely wrong. in supposing that the Court waa not profoundly in carncet in ita dectslon, Tho Court found 'that_ it could not crase from tho Constitution of Wisconsin the words *alter or ropeal,”’ and that to Lave given any other declsfon would Lavo been to do eo. The question whothor the Leéglslature had tho power to altor or repoal withibug eauso shown,, wag fully bofore tho Court, and was doclded in the affirmativo. ' It ig truo that tho Court saw - tho. case would bo oarriod up to tho Bupromo Court, but timt had nothing to do with tho do- clulon itsalf, sluco tho Attorney-Goneral of ‘Wia- consln would bunve carrled it thore, if defoated, with just as much dispatoh 88 tho Raitway Com- pantes, Nor wore tho conclusions ‘of tho Court simply tho off-hand viows of Judge Drummond, “loosoly and confusedly exprossed. . Judge Drum- mond is not in ‘tho habit of palming 'off his ‘'off-hand” viows as law, especlally in vory fmportant cuunn'; nor i ho gullty of exprossing himself loosely or coufusedly. . It is altogother bost for tho ratlways, snd {financlal {ntorests connoated with thom, toun- dorstand that tho Judges at Madison woro not holding o villago Jycoum when they gave their doclsion, but that they meant all that thoy said. OUR FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. | TFrom cortain statistios collooted by the Cine olnnatl Gazelle, it would scom that ax unmixed Amorloan population i3 not now to bo found, exoeps, merhaps, in cortain of the Southern Btates: Tho largest proportion of forsiga-born to, natlve Amoricans is found {n Novads, and tho smallest in North Oarolinn, The following table shaws tho proportion in the sovoral Btates: Novada, 2 1 Galifornia,. 1 Wisconsin g 8 8 8 8 5 4 B 2 1 prd 1 1 1 O 1 In tho £ast, the foreign-born population ‘aro found ohiofly in the largo cities. Tho Irish thoro predominate. They aro the most numerous for- elgn clemont in Connacticut, Mussachusotts, Michigan, Now Jersey, Naw York, Ponnsylvanis, Rhodo Istand, and Californis, buttho great body of them aro found in Now York, Now En- land, and the Middle Btatos. Tho Germans are most pumerous in Illinols, ‘Todiana, Missouri, Obio, Wisconsin, Toxas, aud Maryland. The En- glish-speaking forofgn-born, including the Irish, English, Scotoh, Welsh, and Ganadians, aro 60 per cont moro than tha Gormans; nud of the English-spenking two-thirds aro Irish. Trlsh and Gorman emigration is falling off, That of tho English and Beandinavisns s incroasing. The number of Soandinavians m this country smounts now approximately to 114,33, of which number there aro in Itis gonorally supposod that Missourl Las a very large Gorman population. The Gormans of Mlssour! are conflned, howovor, to Bt. Louis and the adjolning countles, Bt. Louis containg one-half of thosoin the State. Nearly all the Irsh and ono-half the Gormans aro Roman Catholics, OF the English, Bcoteh, and Seandi- naviansthore are scarcely any Catholios, From all thoso faots tho writer in the Gazclle draws tho inforouce that 1t would be complotely hopoloss to attempt. a union of the foroign-born In_ this coun- try on any iden of rago, roligion, or politics, ‘This 1a porfeatly true, so far at loast a8 national and ovon Btato politics are conoernod, ‘It a tomporary unlon of the foreign-born eloments in _munioipal politics {a possiblo, tho succoss of tho Poople's Party in Ohleago last fall is sufMolent proof. But oven this union oan bo only tempo- rary, for botwoon tho difforont races which make up our forolgn-born population thers Is abuo- lutoly nothing in common, i The Chieago Tintes of yestorday had a learned oditorlal artlole ontltled tho * Antiquity of Faith- Monoy," showing how farbaok u the world's histo~ 1y theidon oan bo traced of making sowothing olae bosldes tue procious motals auswor tho purposes of monoy, and how elgnally it Line always failod. “Lho samo artlole, with a fow vorbal alterations, wae publishod as an editorial in Tur TRILONE of Moy 81, If wo had known that tho Zmes Intond- ,0d to publish that artiolo, wo would havo omittod dolng 1t go long bofore, ' LOANING' PUBLIO MONEY, The papers In Ponnsylvanis, of all partlos, hava ealled attontion to tho annusl statomont,of tho' Trossnror of that Btato, mndo July1, and aro polnting out how that oftlelal statoment must nacessarily bo o Ho. In plnin English; they charge that the money of: tho Stato Ia loaned ont to banks and othor parsons for tho profit of tho Btato, Tronsuror or somshody elso. Ovor In Miohigan thero s tho mamo public dlscusslon, Tho Tronourer of that Slato had In his honds on tho firat of July something ovor §1,100,000, ‘sud tho wookly balancos during tho yoar procoding it dato havo avoraged #000,000 It ia conoedod thint thls'monoy has boon loanod at Intorost, sud now ‘thore s n. domand that tho appso shall bo brokon up, 'The romody proposod fs, that, tho polloy of keoping o million of -dollara surplus ‘on hand bo abandoned, orthat tho morioy mob neodoed bo Invested in United Btatos soouritics, tho intoroat to bo turnod into tho Btato Tromsury, Tho prosent Stato Tronsurer of Alichigan is not by any monng tho originator of this ‘Aystom; it Lns como down to him from a long line of “predocessors, aud tho systom Is part of tho schiomto by which -partios sook thoir own’ advancomont ab tha cost of tho Btato, # ‘ The loaning of balances of publio monoy In tho Btato Tronsuries is, bowever, not confined to tho two Btatos namod, An acoldont ledtos rovolation of tho samo fact n Tows, and anothor In Kansas, and ln both Biates thoro wis 8 largo dofaleation. It is Renorally gup- voged that the practico provalls ovory- whero, and " oxtonds to local 'Trossurics agwoll as to Biato Tronsuries, Tho change in tho local officos in Towa by tho oloctions Ingt fall uncovered several Treasury vaults that no longor containod the money that should have boon thero. 8o in this Btato, and in Indisns snd Wisconsin, and in Boveral othor. Statos, 8 change of officors disclosed that. the publio money hed beon loanod out and had not heon roturned, | 2 Wo liave hnd in the Tronsury of Xilinols for sovoral yours ‘'n vory largo balauce, Wo do not moan to suy that any portion of it lins ever beon Toaned or doposited in Bpringfiold, or Now York, or Chicago, or olsowhoro, on intorest, Nover- tholoss, whon the salary of tho Btato Troasuror was ** £1,200 o yeor. and no moro,” aud ho had %o pay his own clerks, there was alvays o keen compotition for tho ofico. A good mavy years 8go the Trossurer of this Btato "rosignod, aud tho supposod ronson was that ‘the publio money had boon loaned out to Yarioua banks and individualy who could not return it, and that tho (% party ™ had to puta now man in and provent an exposure. Tho :samo thiog is likely to occur at any timo when publio monoy is thus reckloss- 15 handlod for porsonal profit. e —— A NEW BCHEME OF MINORITY-REPRE- BENTATION, The J\'ew-EnyIangm' for July has an artfole by Alfrod B. Mason, of thia ciiy,on “A Now Theory of Minority-Roprosentation,” which goes 8 good way farthor,—wa think, than suything hitherto published,—to solvo tho question: How every voto caat at tho polls, whother for & suc- coasful or unsucocssful candidato, ehall bo made to count whonover the ayes and noos aro faken in tho law-munking: assombly. Thus far thoro kave have boon five systoms proposed ¢ the Proxy, the Limited, the Cumu- Intivo vote, tho Freo List or Reglstorod ' Ballot, and Mr. Haro's schome. The Proxy vote, whioh nnthgrlzas tho candlasto, if oclocted, to cast ms mapy votes. for or againet any moasure a8 ho recelved at the polls, is dofootive, beenuso, if tho candidato s not olected, his supportors are loft without any rep- rosentation at all in tlio assombly, whother Leg- islature, County Board, or Ulty‘(!nuncll.‘ The Limitod vote is defeotive, bocause it loavessmall minoritles' withont any roprogontation, and one tails & vory groat wasto of votes, besides Insur- Ing tho fliling of vacancies by a dircot majority voto, It i, boaldos, open to othor objections too numorous to mentlon here. The Cumulative voto is dofoctive, bocause it always leaves some minority without roprosentation. This system allowa tho voter as many votes as thoro aro, places to bo filled, and permits him to concen- trato them on ono or seatter them as he chioosos, It thoro aro 1,000 eloctors and threo vacanclos, 1t would requiro 261 voters to olact ono mombor. A minority, thorefore, of 250 or any logser numbor wonld gounrepresonted. Moreover, this.system, liko tho Limited voto systom, is attended, or is liablo- to bo . attouded, by ® great wasto of votes. Tho TFreo List or Rogistored- - Dallot systom aiso wastes votes. Whoro tha number of votors is 1,000 and the number of vacaucios 8, Mr. Mason ehows that thero may be 6 wasto of aa many 08 240 votes, or nearly ouo- fourth, Whe Haro syatom is objeotionable, bo- cause in tho tranafor of votoa fom one numo to another, which happens whon the full quots nocessary to olection has bocn st for tho firat, ‘tho wishes of & groat many votors may bo on- troly ignored ; bocauso thore ‘mny bo no ropro- sentation whatever for any number of votors losy than o quota ; and for the ronson that all vacancles ocourring botweon tha goneral olac- tions would bo fllled by & diroct majority vote. Mr. Magon's plan is opon to somo of thoso ob- Jootions, and is, besides, remarkably simple, Wo give it Loro in Lis own words ; Aftor every genoral clection of & Iaw-making body, lot tho aggrogato numlier of votea cast by euch party o ascortajned, Divido this by tho number of Repre- zontativos aloctod by tho party in question, Tho quo- tent will bo the number of votos which each of thoso Tteprosontatives {s ontitled to cast, - Buppose thut of 6,600,000 voters, 8,500,000 bolong ta ona party and 3,000,000 to tho ofher, 1t fa quito possl- Dlo that tho Cougress choson by theso yotors would #tand 200 40 100, This eatimato gives lces proportional wolght to tho majority than it hne In the Forty.third Congreas. Whilo the parties in tho nation woro g soven taslx, thoy would Lo in the Houso as two to one, Tho legnl mujority u tholatter would bo 100; tho equitablo ono 33, But apply tho plan hore proposed, Each of the minority has (3,000,000 dlvided: by 100 equal to) 00,000 votes; cach af fho mo- Jority (3,500,000 divided by 20 equsl to) 17,600 votea, The eud sought for is ntfained, ‘Tho strength of each party in the Houso becomes o Proclso indux {o its slrength i tho nation, Evory vota cast at tho polls counta in ovory voto taken in tho Houso, Tlero {a mot an unroprescnted man iu tho country, Au {ndepondent Congrossnan, acoording to {his plan, would, it he woro suigeneris, cant tho number of votes ko rocolved himsolf; tho votos caut for his defoated opponent wonld go to the party of tho latter. Thoso cast for & defoated Indopondent wonld bo nddod to tha quotn of a #uocosaful ong, or to tho sum total of a party, 28 might o dosired. Tho authior of tho now schoma points out that thero s & wonk point in 1, inasmuch as it doca not, like most of the othor systoms, encoursgo indepondont candi- daclos. Dut it is not nocossary that thig systom should ontiroly supplant tho othors, It may vory well supploment them, and ita originator thinks that the most porfoot elcotoral systom Doksible would bo, porhaps, Alr, Hare’s, with his own ns a supploment, v no fault can 'bo found .with! bis. plan.on :the ground that 18 would provont propor local ropro: sontation, or that under it thioro would be moro fraudulout roturna than at progont, or that tho procsa of - rocording” tha yotes of _tho, Houso, would bo #o slow aa to rotard business: Its ndvantagos are that overy votdonst bt'tho polla wonld bd roprosontéd i tho taking of tho syes and noos In tho popular ssaomblyy’ thiat, "sitico it givos ovory voto tho wolght which is its duo, it would bring to tho polls many yvh'u now abaont thomeelves from thom'; l.bn'l:;l(;,,would involvo no sweoping changes in elootoral dis- triots or modes of elootion; that tho Ignorant- votor might continuo to ‘voto as Lo had boon used to, sinco all tho meohunlsm ofitlie mow mothod comes Into play only aftor the olootion' that it would nllow vacancies by doath or rosig- Datlon to bo fllled ot once, and withqut Toaving' tho minority In the partioulnr dintrict without reprogontation, and finally, that it would put o atop to “gorrymandoring,* slncd a_ voto ‘wharover east would count.. Itis also olaimed that 1t would grontly diminish the offedt of fraud, Ar. Mason'u articlo i3 a valusblo contribution to an fmportant branch of political solohoo; ey FINISHING AN EDUOATION, ™ Tlio Commoncoment sotson lsover. Hundrods of boys, olad in the oustomary suits of golomn black, bave mado thelr gradunting, apecohos, solving, with tho cheorful readiness of Ingenu- ous youth, tho problems of tho universe, Mun- drods of girls, radiaut In frills aud fidunces, have read tholr groduating ousnys,—ossays which have mainly consisted .of ploasing platitudea strung on s slonder threed of sontiment. Doth boys and girls have atudicd too many things, but, tho former havo suffored less from “ cramming " than tho lattor, Tholr knowlodgo, such as it ls, iz moro at command. Yot tlo advantoge 15 o slight ono.' This part of tho. tyrant sox “boa by no moans established tho tremendous supremacy it willehold ton yoara from now. From .the day of :Gommoncomont, ‘theso boys will work, theso girla will play, The inovitablo rosult will bo’ that tho distancs botwoen thom will incroaso, day by day. In a fow yours, whon tho Inano plensuros of socloty pall upon the girl-graduates of 1874, some of tho unmarried .gues will doubtloss bo in the ranlia 6f what tho Sdturday Review oalla the * Shrioking Bistor- hood," wailing becauso the womon'whose educa- tion was ** finished " whon thoy stepped outelde tho Minerva Young Ladics’ Bominary have not amounted to o titho os much sa tho mon whose oducation was but bogun whon tho doors of Yalo or Harvard closed behind _th‘u’lp. It fa tho fablo of tho ant and tho buttorlly over again, Tho fact that, broadly spenking, overy boy la trained for komoe ono pursult, aud. that no ono of the girls who graduate at -.our sominaries and collogos s so trained is g Baddoning ono,, Itis rosponsiblo for n ‘vory great part'of the suffor- ings of women. And womoen ars Yosponsiblo for 17 Tho girl who trios t6 do anythiing for hor- solf moots with tho groatoat opposttion from her own gox, . Mon will givo her fair play. Womon will not. Tho ary of * folr play," hos somotimes ‘dlsporsod & malo mob, but it falls powerlosy on fominine eare. Womon afo fealous if ono of their number studios, works, succoods, Thoy are prompt to invoke the ourses of Mra, Grundy upon lier, In, glmost every oase she has to fight tho hard fight: absolutély- aloro, Prof, Boolyoenld, tho othior day, thatthe world had got ovar tho notion that the only stralus for a wom- an to loarn aro, ' Haato to the'Wodding” and ‘' Hugh, My Babe.” If ho moant thio world ‘of oducatod mon, Lo waa right. Thoy do not agreo with tho alumaus of tho University of London, who eaid In thio recont dobato’ over ndmitting womon to that instittion that B, A. did nob look half a5 woll atter n girl's name as BABY, Womon, bowover, Lava ot yet roachod thia point. When they .cosso -to. dosplse labor outside of -homd -dutios they will cense to throw awoy ‘happincss, ‘It is incumbont upon thosaof thom who are clear-sighted enough _ to a6 the folly of ignoring tho brain as part of tho fomalo furnitara to stand by their slstors who dare to work. Whon it is no’ longer fashionablo to regard marriago and church-attondanco as tho #olo alms of exiatonco, we' &liall oo tho ond of this wrotched folly of finishing an education nt 18 and living in stagnation until 80, - o —— Tho St. Peul Press is in rd, fu ono mattor at loast, with tho pooplo of tlie First Diutrict of Minnesotn. Itdoeu not like tho Hon, AMr, Dun- noll, M. O. andwalary-grabber: Moroover, it 8AYH 80, with o shooking disrogard of party fonlty, Tho sulary-grab section of tho Tirst Distrlot Ro- publicans say that'the opposition of 'tho Pyess bus gooured their favorlte's renomination, Whorpupon the Press rotorts that if its firlng blonk cartridgos at Mr. D. has got him ronomi- nated, it is ovidont that it. must uso grepe-shot in ordor to got him olected.1:It proposes, then, to *gomo to his asslstance In tho way which his #rionds deom most offectun] for the purposo.” That Is, it will bring {ts hoavy artillory to bear. Tho logic of tho Pressis veryineat, 1f it Itoeps Hts word, the Hon, Mr. Dunnoll may got a chianco to spond his back-pay at home, —_—— The members of the Bar of Pulnski Coun ty, in thig Stato, have signod a lobtor requesting Mr. G- L. Fombello, tho Judgo of tho County Court, to resign. Thore is no imputation upon his hon- enty, or Lis desire to do justico, or his persoual charaoter. The objeotion urgoed is lits ingompo- tonoy, The Judgo has taken no ofticlal natico of thia extraordinary roquest, but, in a lettor to & friond, besays Lo doeh not think it proper in him to bocomo his own olismpion in a question which concorns his montal’ qualifioations. Ho doos ‘not ‘intend resigniug, . and . aseures his friends that Lo will show tho' *eapacity of pro~ tecting himself from ofticial or personul ingult when the proper ocension presonts itsolt.” AMUSEMENTS, E TIE AOADENY OF MURIO, It waa a daving vonturoon Mr. Gardinor's part to insfst upon tho Vokes party roopening for one woolk at his theatro, aftor tho disastrouy expori- tignte of tho past fow woeks, whon tho rocolpts ot the houso werc baroly eufolont to psy: oxponses during bie' absence iu tho country. Of courso tuo Vokeson woro playing to orowded housos with thio thormometor at tho higheat, but oven tho urtisty #earcoly dared to hnxtm for such n rocoption ag thoy tworo given lugt avoning, The lower part of tho lionaq was complately filled, and tho than half ocoupled, It what Chicago poople wanb to soo thoy will #eo, whatover Lo tho condition undor which thoy gratify thomsélves, If thoy wero only n8 couragoous in touling for themselvos what they wanled to #0o, tower desorving artlsty would lonvo the city disappointod aud dofeoted, Tho bill for the ovening was tho bost that -the Academy has had for a long time. 'Flio tryo-not comody, “Naval Engagemonts,” was playod flrat, and though not us artintionlly rondorod aw a govorely — oritieal oudlonco” might- have dosired, - snfilced to the audlenco amusod, “Tun I s Kor" tho Volen apcolalty, wad tho evont of ,tho ovening. It fa- tho most enjoyablo of all tho piocos in thofr roportory,—contains loss of the faroicul ole- mont, aud more of itho gonuino humor of comedy. Whilo tho othor piecos rather oxhibit tho Indies to the greatont advantago, this giveys Frod Yoken sll tho ecopo he.wants, ‘and he usoy the appartunity for sowo oloyer.littlo bits of lo- filumn 0 aotlngg, OFf courso thera in plonty of urlesquo and plonty of roaring fun ; ovory- body i delightod atd’ comparatively vool, File ppor portion more ‘logly proved that day night Frod Vokon 1a'to have s imnnflt. whioh . has boon 'worked up for him , by that; politast of Lotel-dlorka, - Mr, %rown‘nll, ‘This . gentloman maken o auggoation which wo vontura' to {n- dorao. At oharity porformanco filvm \‘:’um Voles family In lrow York, * ¥Fred - Vokos played Richniond in ‘i, M Rlchard IIL" Boveral gontlemen. . wlio saw . this iilqua_ontortainmont’ Lave snggostod fo M, Trownell to urgoe ity ropotition Frf ay night, and Lio will probably necado to Ly ygonoral Jomand, Next wook that ronownod comedian, Mr. John Diilon will play o etar ongagomont ot tho Acad- omg. Mr. Dillon rolurnod with Mr. Diatndell Inst wook In oxcollont condition, not having suf- i‘v?;l'xyl‘zl Iln llgflltll In two ll:mmhu. 'fl\ls it *his Inat n Olicago, a o goos with Mr, Diniedoll to a‘l‘x Lavo o tuno in Un!ftamin " tho following wa . TONY PABTON'S ' compnnyat Iaoloy's Ia drawing falr housos. Tho suddov aud delightfal coolnosg of the wenthior is s Dlcssing to puch thontros sy are open. Tho ‘I:lll hmla l;umtx nlmm;t nntgfiuly ohanged ;" thoro aro ovoral foaturos altogothor now, - tainmont is very ern%uva. At i daten e A NEW nmnonn?m‘zf . Barnum concotyos groat idoas, puts Into Krnaflco roaps hisg m%udln pllos 2?::;:::;‘ vos in Now York. Tho succoss of his oy hippodromo hna given throo outerprising Ohi- 0RgO mon an opportunity which no othor ity in tho: country ocould afford, and, it tho Couneil {aols inolined to lonsa tha old baso-ball ground on tho lako shoro for ono yoar.at s fair prico, wo shall bavo in two months s fluer Lip- odrome building than Mr, Barnum has put up. ho cnsh_is slroady offored, AMossrs. Q, N. ‘Wheolor, John R. Allen, nud Frank Olynos are tho goutloman who hava doolded upon this yone turo, aud s soon a8 the 1CCOBBATY 00nBent hag boon givon, and atipulationa mada, work will bo < i g 16 0 bo 400 10t Tn Tosgl, o ng 16 to bo 400 feot in lon, and 280 foot in' wiith, alliptios 1 form, and cipablo of seating no loss £han 10,000 pooplg, tha nverago of Mr, Barnum's New ' York attondanop. - Tho drawings havo alrondy boon made, and woro sub- mitted to tho Common Gouncil last ovoning, Thonorth endof tho bullding will bo 160 taot novs of Waahington strogt, and the south end 160 feot south of ¢hio samo thoroughfaro, which, with the 80 foot not yot ocouplied ylhnt streat, will give tho lougih abovo namod, 'The building will' bo of briok, At thoe north end thore will be n hand- somo tower 75 foot hlpil‘x, sudat tho south end a smaller ouo, 60 foot ugl. *Tho main entrance will bo in thd middle of tho buildtug, 80 foot in width, ornamontal and uaoful, ‘Thore will bo, besides tho eutrancos at tho ands and {n the .n‘:mdlu of tho b“"d""i; two largo ddors for oxite, ho cast sido will be likq tho West, so that with ::& “elxnu the .building can bo vacated Ina few 08, - ) Tho brick walle will o 25 faot high or 2 feol highor than Moo of £y bx onltion Duilding: shntlng gravel roof 40 teot Yong will cover tho soate, aud & canvass roof the arens, This will bo tho arrangomont for the Bsummer, & gravol roof will ronlace tho canvag, and, with Eropar hoating apparatus, make it as gomforta~ 1o a building ae tho Exposition, In the contro will bo an arone, with o race-track around it, ono- In winter ment will give the finest Lj podrome sports in the country, not confini g thomeolves to tho more charlot and horsg 11008 of tho hippo- drome, but gotting averything that montal fn- gonuity and entorptiso oan sooure. Tho Bcats will bo mado in tho form of plein sofns, a8 com- {ortable as thoso of a theatro, and will bo ranged in tiora above ono anathor, as in tho old thoatros doscribod in Tns ‘Tnrpung Sunday, They will start from s point 4 foat above tho ground, (lng :'hfi ine n; 2:algl‘\e'x:;uml :‘l:n bui{g:- nj il orfect. not, 0 _build- ing “will “bo'modoled " afheg o Roman g ampbithoatrs adapted to n loss balmy olimate, Inasmuch as the old .base ball ground {g not likely to bo sold at prosont, and cannot bo mado ornamontal for some yoars to,como, tho project- ord olaim thore is no roseon why it slould. not bring the oity somo ravenue, oapcially as thoy aro willing to bind themselves to romovo tho building nfter ono year, orat any timo theroaf- tor with sixty days’ notlce. It will givo omploy- mont to some three or four hundred people, and furnish tho publio with innocout and inexpensiye amusoment, LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. A Lively Fight for the Possesston of Qertuin Property at Gonevae Lako. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicagn Trivune. . GENEVA Lake, Wis, July 18.—Much excite- mont oxiats in Gonova to-dayon bonting mattors, Tho lake-ghoro in front of the Whiting House is olaimed by tho Gonava Manufacturing Company sud algo by tho original ownors, Wells and Soth ‘Warron, ' Mr, .. 'l', Whiting_ has purchased tho queationable .spot of. .the -Manufacturing Com- pany, and Mr. ‘A, Lytlo ‘has, by Whiting's por- mission built his bost-houso on the spot. War- ron hag gone to the court with the mattor, and on Baturday leet the Justico's Court decided in Warron's 1avor, and ordored tho Shoriff to clear tho grounds, This morning, Warren and a forco of workmen, within three hours, erectod n hoat- houso, the timbor for which had all to becut and fitted in advance. Whilg tho work was procoed- ing, Whitlog and Lytlo drovo to Ellchart, 10 miles, in 55 minutos, and took an appeal; camo bomo in 47 minuteg, and with tho nid of ono ‘Battisford, and threo - axes; thoy Inocked the building down and piled it upon tho shore, Tho Prosident of the Villugo Aesociation in tho mean- time hud ordored tho work stopped, and tho oorpenters had obeyed, but s number of Warron’s mon stood by lum, " refused to loave tho roof, raised tho Amorioan flag, aud continuod work, shingllug until tho roof foll with them, slightly iujuring tho son of Soth Warron, and hurying Lattisford beueath the ruins, arren Loy fus] taken out & warrant for Whiting, Lytle, and Hate tiuford for nssault nud battory. The onso is in- tonsaly oxciting, and will rovive the old claim to sourco of much litigation, What tho result will bo ls uncertain, ¢ Important Deciston Undor the Banlce « TUpt Acts Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Granp Rapips, Mioh,, July 13,—In the United Btates Court, Judge Withoy delivered g very in- portant deoision under the Bankrupt law. April 6, Pickaving waaadjudged » bavkrupt. Juna 22, tho amondmants to the- Bankrupt act wero: aps roved. | Juno 29, tho attornoy for tho potition~ ng oroditors applied for un order pormitting one-fourth in numbor aud ona-third in valuo of tho creditors to_ join in tho potition, in order to comply with tho thirty-ninth sootion of the amonded Inw, Tho application assumos that the docreo made April 6, adjudicating Piokeriug a bankpupt, {8 vord under the Innguage of tho amonded fao, 89, aud that it s Decessaly to havo the roquisito numbor and value of creditors unito in tho potition. Tho language of " tho amondniont would goem to Justify such a viow ; but:the Court Liolds that such Is not tho ofteot of tho nmondatory law; tho decreo of adjudication hnving boon rondored prior to tho appraval of tho amendatory act, {t will stand as tho dooreo of tho Court. It is not in tho powor of the logisln- tive dopartmont of the Govornment to o farin- torfora with tho judicisl dopartment a4 to vacnto tho decreos of the Intter, Potitlon danied, SPRINGFIELD, County Asscssment Roturns—Appoints ment, s Snectal Disnateh to I'he Chicaao Tyibune, Beminoricno, 1, July 18,—Assessnionts for thivtoan countios huve boow returnod to tho ‘Btate Auditor, ny follows 2 Asseasnient Asseaament Counties, 1874, I Bureuu eenn$ 0,370,850 . BLTL000 20,209, v 2,243,840 ‘'he assosamont, oxcopting In the countien of Buroau and Carroll, Ia lows thun last year.. The total falling off s vioarly 811,600,000, Bolon - Kondall, of Honry County, waa this 189,171 morning* roanpointed by “tho Govorvor an a Truatoo of tho State Jloform Hohool at Pontiup. MORTUARY. Rarmian, 'N. O., July 18.—Tho romnins of Goy, Caldwoll wore_ brought hero from Hillsboro ou Bunday night, aud romained in state b the Osapitol throughout to-dsy, ‘Lhoy will be taken to Morgantown, whore ho residod, to-morrow, for intermont. Dologatlons of oltixons and mils {tary will_nccompauy thom, — Lieut.-Gov, Jrog- dow hun assumod tho dutlos of the oftlea of Goveruor, —— OCEAN STEAMSIIIP NEWS, Livenroor, July 18,—Sloamahip Prusalan, from Queboo, and Pounsylvania, from Philadol- phiia, hnvo arrived out, QUEENSTOWN, Julv 13,—Tho steamship Oity of Parly, from Now Yorlk, has arrdved, BTETTIN, July 18.—8toamship Ernet Morltze udt, from Now Youl, hay atrived, Arudt, from Now York, sy asrivod eighth of 8 mile in longth, and heroe thomanagoa. the whole Inke-shoro, whioh has always beon s RAILROAD ' NEWS. | The Northwestern Company and Its Leased Lines in Towa, Tnjunction to Restrain (he Company from Obeyiug the Law. ; : Doubt About the Intention of the 0y B. & Q. Oompany, Abolition of the Commission System of . Selling Tickets. Mortgages on the Town Central Roag to Bo Forcclosed, THE YOWA RAILROAD LAW. CIICAGO 4 NONTHWESTERN ENJOINED FuON ODLYING T, Thuconrormuy of tio londing Towa railway companies to the now law of that Btate eu- cournged tho heliof that the Exooutlya Counoil would oxporionco ng difloulty in enforcing its proyielons, But {ho disposition to litigato in oaso thoro {s any prospoct of success is too strong to bo allogethor abandoned, From tho fleat, Mr. Ilorace Williams, Presidont of thrao Towa lincs, was disposed to tost tho constitu- tionality of tho law, 1t mnat bo admitted bio had battor ground for his action thon had tho major- itv of tho Iowa companies. Thoy wero hame porod by boing ohartored undor the genoral law. resorving to the Leglulaturo tho Tight to regu. late Whoir chrrges, But tho best ling directed by Mr. Williamo—tho Obicogo, Yown & Nobrase ka, oxtending from Lyons and Clinton to Qodar Raplds,~—wag chartorod pravioustto thia ugdortion of tho reserved power, and, conse- {iantly, s nob eubjoct to ‘it This road is leagod by the Ohicago & Northiwostern Company, and forms part of their through ling to OraLy Monday lInut tariffs in accordauco with the Iowa law wore sent aut to all the Company's agents n Towa. Now comes M, Willlams, and, by his attornoys, applics for an injunction to restrain tho Northwantern manngora from oporating the onsod rond aforosaid in ncoordaneo with tha ng"hlnuvo schodulo, Notico of thia application Wwas* vocoived Fridny, Acknowledgment wag mado, appearance entorad by tho Company, and & motion mado for s chruge of vonuo from the Btato to tho United Btates Court. This pro- coeding adds to the comploxity of the rallway gontrovorsy. Tho diffaronce botween this and tho Wisconain case boing that no reserved right to niulnn oan bo adduced in the Iown caso, It will clearty presout for Judicial ,decibion tha uestion as to whothor a3Logistaturo possosucs ™HE ratoa a railroad may chargo, It is ox) poc motion will bo argiiod thia smongly. C1Locted the INSTIUCTIONS TO TIOKET AGENTS. A, Thrall, Genoral Tickot Agent of the Chicago & Northwastorn Railroad, in furnishing $ho new taviff to tho Tioket Agenty of the Iowa Post.a copy in their waiting-raoms for tho |u!pe’btmn of fi’sanngor:;. Tho attention of ageuts it also callod to the ol logmg rllll: i e 'ar6 must bo obaerved not to sell ticl to Dy auy train that does not atop at such k:(‘l.flonfllnlu;:: fl:{‘fii’:}’}".& 'mlxlc, in caso of application for tckots to c ations, pussongers must oAl mku?m I ust boinformed of the 3 TIE OILICAGO, DURLINGTON & QUINOY, Tho Chicago, Burlington & Qn?ncy Tinilroad has not yot issned auy toriffa £o conform with tho law, nor hnye any ordors na yobt_boen given. to got up suoh tariffs, It i gonerally bolieved 1o rallway circles that this road has no idea of complying with the regulations mado under tho new luw, and that the Prosident, in assorting he. wonld uomp:lvl,‘ moroly wanted to imply that ho would obey the Jnw, but not thesa rogulations. —_—— BLOW AT THE COMIMISSION SYSTEM.. A meoting of tho Genernl Ticlrot aud Passon- ‘beld yesterday aflornoon at the office of tha Chicago, Rook Island & Pacifio Railrond Come- pany for the purpose of taking regard to the following GENELAY, NOTIOE, which was received by thom yesterday morning: On and atter Moudsy, July 18, 1674, the fal il bo tho only watkorizen ol b K vioe TE and vicinity for tho aola of first uud second-cluss 1fcle, ots ovor the Now York Coutral & Hudson Itiver Itnfle road, Erle Rallway, Ponnsylvanin Raflroad, aud Balti~ & Railroad ¢ more & Olilo New York Central & MHudson River—No, 7 Park and Trondway, g’lfilco,’, 413 B‘;nu'flway, Tnu]{lh streot Chirty-second street ‘and Broadway, Gru Donot, Thirieonts streot dopat, Druoyklyn, figmaflfif Jrie=No, 10 Groenwich stroot, 241 Broadway, 620 Droadway, 957 Braudway, dopot foot of Cambertroct, dopos fook of Twonty.(illrd sireot, dopot at Joruey City, Braoklyn, Mohoken, Lennaylounii Railroad—No, 8 Dattory placo, 1 Asa tor Uouse, 610 Broadway, depot foot of Cortland atroot, dopot Jurey City, Brookiyn, Hobokan, Jialtumore L Ohto Jiilroad—No, 15 Lircndway, 1 Astor Houso, 620 Brondwoy, 044 Diroudway, dopot foot of Dorbrasac atveat, depot Jersoy City, Al other ugents und officers aro lioroby inatructod to Toudor & fiual roport of aales up to und lucluding Bate urday, Juiy 1 and retum Lo tho' Goneral Tickot- Agenth of the sbove-named rondw, tho tickels rongo ing on Land at that dute, No connnisalone, draw- backs, o reullcllanl‘ il bo Slowed OF uada’ 0 uisy €008 or companics whatsoover ot the - rhurlzcd tlcknlo:nces or elsewhere, S This circular compels the Chicago & Omahn -Road to withdraw tho ticket oflices they had Lorotoforo waintaiued in New York City, It was decided that, under tha olrcumstances, it would ho best to leava the aalo of thoir tiokots with tho trunk lines only, Tho oplulnu provailed that the above-named offiocs of the Now York trunic linos mat_all roquiremonts of tho travoling publio, and the commissions peid other agenta and tho additional exponso of advertising woro uselass expouditures, and that they brought no inorenso in business.” This sotion AHOLISIES THIE DAYMENT OF COMMIRSIONS for the ealo of lickets from Now York \Wost, and thore Is good renson to beliove that the obuox~ lous conmmission system will 5oon bo abolished at all othier points.” Tt-will bo remembored that an offort for tho abolition was mado abont six moutls ngo, but it failed becsuso tho Baltunore & Olio aad the Erie Railroads refused to Join in tho movement. As thoso two ronds huvo now abollslied tho pnymont of commissions, thoro soems hardly o doubt that tho other companios, who laid all tho blame upon tham for the failure of the atlempt to aboliah the comminsion uystem Iaat winter, will follow euit immadiately. ——— THE POTTER LAW. TICKET AOENT AGQUITTED. Special Dispateh to The Chictao Tribune, Osukosm, Wis,, July 18,~Tho suit of F. R. Colton against W. L. Roborts, for aalling tickots by the Milwaukee & St. Psul Road at more than logal rates, canio up to-duy, and, on Jury-trinl, renultod in vordict of “ Nof guilty.” "o Jury ovidently made themselvos judgzen of law as well us of fuct, for, although tho sale of the ticlcot wnu proven, that In steolf did not consti- tute guilt. , | ———— MISCELLANEOUS, ‘TheDatrolt, Ennning & Lake Miehigan Railroad Company have just commioncod arrangemonis which go into oftect on Mouday, aud which open up au entiroly now and desirablo routo for tho businesh aud travel of Dotrait, This routo talcos in Maokinaw and Marquetto, aud placds them. many honra noarer Detroit than ¢ hey havo over Loon bofore, ‘Chis routo I the shortest nnd mont availublo for roaching Eeennnba and Marquotte, "ho annual mooting of tho stackholders of tho Baginuw Vaulloy & 8t. Louis Rabirous bold at Bagivaw City Friday at 104, m. Tha following gontlomon waro olected Diroctors : D. 1L Joromo, A, W. Wright, Newoll Burnard, Ueorge I, Willinmy, Amiosn Rust, Goory g0 Jo- romo, I IL Naustman, Tilt Joromo, J, L. Livang, Jamos Ilay, Douton fanchott, J. w, aud Togrn-Linsc, “Tho onruings of tha Tlinols Contral Railrond for Juno wore; 1874, 3075,723, ; 1873, §743,000 % dooreuyo, 803,873, or 83¢ por cont. New Yonr, July 13.=A_mooting of tho first and second mortgago bondholders of the Iowp Coutral Bulll'umlgwus beld to-lay, The Com mittoo appointed ou the 8th inet. furnished n ro ort, \vhruh wos to tho offact (hat tho road wa n a holploss ninto of iusolveuoy, and that the Hoouer ity afMultd_wero wound up the botter, Toroclonuro was resommondod ex the beat moe dium for acoomplishing this purposo, ——— AN INSANE MURDERESS. . Now Yonk, July 13.-~Mra, Dasyer, wno killed or threo childron iu Birooliya o, fow wookta. a0y hiag boen committed to the Poughkeopsionuyium, gor Agonts of the Chicago and Omaha lines wag - gomo action .