Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1874, Page 1

YOLUME 98, GIFT CONCERT. usvills Concert FTEIET ND LAST ONCERT! FOR THE BENEFIT OF TiiR b LIBRARY oF EENTUCEKY, POSITIVELY MONDAY, i Nov. 30, 1874, THOS, E. BRAMLETTE, Manager. For full information up;;y to J. R. WATTS & CO., Room 47, Metro- olitan Block, corner Randolph and aSdlle-sts., éhicngo. FURS. 3,000 Sets of Mink, Seal, Lynx, Royal Ermine, Chinchil- la, and other Fine Furs. The entire product of a manufactory at facto- ry piices. EDDY, HARVEY & CARTER, 239 & 241 Madison-st, GREAT BARGAINS. LADIES, FASHIONABLE FURS, (From the Bankrupt Balo of & New York Iur Houso,, 810 for s Handsome Set, BEAL, LYNX, MARTEN, or MINK. S15 to 825 for Cicgunt Mink Sotr, worth 8l o7, i A AMinl 930 15,3501 remllprd gt snd vo de A;l made up in first-class stylo, and warrantod now and portect. K Residence, 5456 Michigan-av. e s v & SILVERWARE, Silver Bridal Gifts. The Gorham Company, StuvensynTus, ESTABLISHED 1831, No. 1 Bond-st., N, Y. Rich Bridal Gifts---Testimoninl Pieces---Fam- ily Silver---Forks and Spoons---Services for Tea, Dinner, Lunch, &c., &c., of Sterling Purity only, “loso dosirous of obtaining a ticlos of Bolid Silvor, euriug tho Gorhiam Sterllng Stamp (Lion, Anchor, snd {hs 1 atter G, wh ch is & postivo guarantes of parity, may do so through the loading Jowolors of this oit, upon torne s e favorablo as if obtainod from the Gorham Come pangsdicoct. E R AILROAD TIME-TABLE. MLEOAD bl o DALTIHORE & OHID RAILROAD. Commencing Nov. 23, Passengor Trains will depart from snd arrive at the Compa- ny's Dopot, foot of South Wator-at., aa fol- lowa: Leave, 7:45 a. m, 6:00 p. m, Arrive, 7:35 2, m. 8:55 p, m, TICKET OFIFLOES---92 LaSalle-st., and at Depot, ‘W. 0. QUINCY, General Manager, FINANCIAL. SYDNEY MYERS, FIMANCIAL AGENT, 75 Clarkest., Chicago. Personal attention given to mal- ing and ;managing invesunecuts for non-residents. MONEY TO LOAN On first-olass, Obloago provsrty, | O, oo D it S o o yapproved yroforred. MEAD & COE, 125 Lasallo-at, $1,500 TO LOAN For dm“ ,‘.,.nmnn;n Lm:“elsm. o8 llcal Eatate, with & S Loardin, "By TURNER & MARSI, 18 Washingioh-at, tho ald subsorthor whn styns contract {or 815 payablo to \xxln\(!}:gs‘!ln fl;umum’x? '\;':l'xflnuh NOWk, :x'xl\lylmmhu : Hir O it whio asks (6 bk R S e g Goror ftato and Motiroo REMOYV.AX. GEO0. H. CUSHING, Dentist, HAS REMOVED %G No. L74 STAIReST,, Opyesite tho Palmor Rouss, TRANSPORTATION. Examination of the Results of Railway Compe- tition, Efforts of the Seaboard Cities to Conirol the Trade of Chicago, Probability that Baltimore Will Draw Largely from New York. Documents Submitted by the Senato Transportation Committco on the Sleeping Car Guestion, George M. Pullman’s Plea that the Railroads Cannot Do the Work. Statistics Relativo to the linois & Mich- igan Canal Furnished by Com- - missioner Utloy, | Difficulties of the Wisconsin Roads in Complying with the Potter Law. How the Indianapolis, Bloom. ington & Western Came to Grief, The Pacific Railroads and the Steam- - ship Company Settle Their Difficulties. . The Receiver of the Muncie Railrond Continued. RAILWAY CONMPETITION. TEE DALTIMORE & ONIO RAILROAD—TUE OITY OF - DALTIMONE. 5 Wasitxazox, Nov. 19, 1874, To the Exlilor of The Chicago T'ribune: 8m: Tha subjcct of railway compotition is one of grea practical momont to the paople of this country. ¥t is also one which haa clicited no little thooretical discussion among mnotable statosmen ond writora of this and of other lands. The most of theso, vorbaps all, claim that thore is no euch thing as pormanent railway competition ; that, in tho ond, those great cor- porations always combine in behalf of their own mutual interests. - To this conclusion. the Bpocial Committco of the Sonato on Inland Transportation, in the voluminous roport of lest wintor, gave full asscnt. Numorous facls woro set forth to show tho corroctnoss of this opinion, and with great apparent strength of reason. As ig well known to your iutelligent readers, the Mnssachusetts Raeilway Commis- sionors, composed of men of wide information upon this subjecet, some time ago mado tho samo lino of argument, and with greater. forco and ability than the Senato Committee was able to bring to bear, or indeed than ks beon auywhere elso done, Ap opinion sustalned by “sblo and eminent men, Iwould combat with respect and deforonce. Novortholess, Iam bound to say that I think the opinion {8 based upon an orroncous conception of what compoetition is. To compete Is not the gamo thing =8 to cut a throat, Competition among men engaged In the eame line of busi- ness iy a strupglo for its greater share at fair profl ta; whereas the éut-throat notion of com- petition is the very reverse of tho true idea, and is a struggle for a monopoly of busincss. It is an artempt to deatroy all competition. Railways, in Luropo aa well as In America, havo, in many justances, attempted to destroy all com= petition in different Jinos of freiguts, or at va- rious pointa nuturally campchu¥ with one an- other, Theas attempts huvo almoxt invavigbly fsiled, and in tho long run thoy will inevitably fail, overy ono, It is trun, however, that, scelng that cutting throata is' not s profitablo ocoupa- tion, railways Liavo stopped tho business, goner- slly doing 80 tbrough a compromise or "combi- vation ” with compoting livcs. By theso combi- nantions the oid ** cut-throat” rates bnve beon in- varinbly raisod, of conrse, Aud benco it is con- cluded that railways do not permanontly com- poto, but inevitably *combine.” T'ho conclusion is a8 unwarrauted ns would be the conclusion that the dry-goods merchauts of Chicago do not competa with tho dry-guads mer- chants of other cities and among themeolvos, becauso thoy do not spend thoir whole lves an fortunes in "tho insano altompt'{o destroy the business of thoir rivals and complotely contral the trads. The marchauts involuntarily and nocessarily combino for fair profits ; precisuly as much 8o in_practical offect as if tho vontract wero writion down in plain words and nominated in the bond of an express compact, The diffor- ence, and tho only difforcnce, betweon tho vir- tual combinatious between all clagsea of teadarn in tho snme lincs of. business and ratlways, is this: That, fu the present stato of things, thero cannot, in tho nature of the case, bo ns much competition in the businoss of sailway-trang- portation a8 Io other bianches of trade.” This i all thoco is toit. This is onough, howevor, to coligo railway combinations ‘to be, in some in- stances, opprossive. Dut, if there lind not boen compotition to bring nbout combination, tho monopoly would haye been worso thon s tho oombination, p Unloss I have grontly orrod In those reason~ inge, it will now appear olear, 8o far from thero mfi holng compotition among railways, their law being that of combination, that compacts of combination are themsalves tho rosult of coms petition and a dofeat of monopoly. It will be pertivently asked, by thoso whose errancous viow—as I most respootinlly beliovo— 1 am hore attacking, Ilow does it happon that, during the winter-wonths, therailways invariably havo comoined to raiso pricsson froights to tho Atfanticseaboard ? I have, in general words, al- roady answore this propor quostion, win® eaying that, in the naturo of tho case, tliera isy 3t &0 mugh competition at presont in raiiway-transpor- tation u8 in other linos of business, _But a more complote anawor than this §s af hand ; sud 1t ia e in whioh the Cley of Cblcago and all tho peo- ple of tho iuterlor, ato vitally interestod. NEW YOI, THE GEAT OF MONOPOLY, Tor tho praduction of genoial compatition, ex- poaially in railway-transportation, meny ibings ure_sometimes nocessncy, The {(rout trouble with the producers and shippers of tho intorior fsn trouple bohind rallwsy-combinations, bad and ubwiso as thoy have somotimes been, his {1 what I shell call motropolitan monopoly, Practicully, the City of New York Jins hud the moucpoly of our trado with Iurope, Thenes, and tucnes Only, 1O JRNRY youmn, wove there gront lines of stonmships constuntly and roguintly I'Ivj 155 to Buropean porls, IHonco, only thoso vai v\n}d whose eastorn tormiul were ab New York wore of any practloal account to the poople of the intorlor. As theso linca wore fow, thoy could opsily combino on hugh ratea whon cold weather cut off compotition by the lakes, that was nocosdnry wa for throo or four *Raflway Kings to meot to- rothor at Saratogn, drink & fow baskols of cham- pagne, and ¥ fix thiugs" by placing ratos at the bighoat ~ondurable figure, Thia_ they tors suabled to do by roason of tha position of com- mercial monopoly occupied by New York, What the country wants to do, theroforo, In order to dofoat theso oncrous railwag-comblun- tiona, {8 to smnsh this motropolitan monapoly. Aud thia, I bog leave to #ay, Is nlready being -hnndsomely dono, with overy prospact of ovent~ ual complote succosy, g PHILADELUHIA, i The City of Brotherly Love bas long been only 'ayalcflph'g borough on'tbe road to ficw York, The mogic of progress has recontly waked up that groat big tawn out in the country, Itis now improving ror{ ranidly; Is fast becoming n f:onulno\y-muzrapn linn cily. What is of most mportancas to Lho peoplo of the intorfor s, theie 1s now s woll-cstablislied line of aioamehipa rog- ularly pl ivg botwoon Plulndelphia and Liver- pool. ‘They carry mauy passongers aund large quantities of graln' and produce. 1n conkequonco whereof, New York has boguu to shriok, sud the intorior hau cauro to rojoico. ¢ TIE BALTIMORE s OHIO BAILROAD. Bat tho great evont in recont conimorcial bia« tory, in which the peoplo of thointerjor are most intereated, is thé complotion of tho Baitimors & Ohio Railrond to Ohieago.. 'Tite: TRinuNe has so fully aud truthfully treated of tho importauce of thig euterprivo to Chioago and the Northwent, that I nead only rofor to it. I mny take space to a9, howovor, * that ‘tho : facts counected “therowith are - a “‘powerfol {llustration of tho truth of my {punll_lon w to rail- way-compotition, aud of the orronedusnoss of tho opposing optuion. Timay add, that, when uno comos to examine all the facts bearing upon tng'point, and to examine the aubject in all its length and broadih, and, height and depth, he he wilt flud mo‘,m\ma,g\'\\m' ovorywhero mani- desled, Ho will find, for instanco, that, in Now Lngland, whoro tnflways. cost twica or three times xs mieh as thoy do in tho Nortlwest, pas- senger-rates aud relizbt-{aviffu are, naverthologs, cousidorably lower, nbsulutely ; whoreas, but for the greator”conipoiition, thoy would and should Lo “bighor, Iie” 'will' find there is not a singlo locality anywhéra in the orld, which *-now ~has- & choico of = railways which formerly {t had not, but Lins Ycen greatly -bonoiited thioroby, unless the Legisiaturo Las +1.8tepped i oud destroged all the just advantages of a law of trade,—~thd umvoraut low of tho “value of competition, I assort that the railway ntatietics of tho world; fully, justly, ana proper- 1y studied, will show such roaulty beyoud disputo by any mind outitled to respect, Tho complation of tha Bultimore & Ohlo Road ‘to tho comimorcial eeniro of the interior wilt “briug tho truth practically home 1o all the peo- «plo, and that in o most gratifying menner. Al the farmors ‘of tho country heo at this moment reaping -tho Lenefila of railway competition,—dulnpetition boyond the ordinary powers of tombination, and likely to be pormu- neut, But, oven if it should not 8o prove ; oven Ir Tresident Gsarrett should succumd o the Dbliudishmonts of tho New York * Kings,"—and 1 fivmly believo bo will not,—sull thie truth will remain, Competttion will open a through line to Norfolk, auother to Boston, another to Port- land ; aud those whicli oboy niust faithfully the irropresaible and univeranl inwa of trade will ba tho most peraanontly successiul, THE UITY OF DALTISIORE, 1 boliove thot Baltimoro is, at this time, the moss prospeioas and progrossiva of Lastern citics. The 1smifications of its trade now ox- tend porthwestwardly to Chicago and beyond, sud ovor o Jarge portion of the Southern States. It lias become o thoroughly-live, go-shead city,— inforior, in my éli‘l(,gmnu', i the spirit of entor- 5 prise, to icago only omoug all tho ~ cities of America, Thoro too, as ot DPhilndolphis, has been mado a succeesfal attempt to break the commercial monopoly of New Yorlk, in tho estsblishment of o le of steamships botwoon Baitimors and Liverpool, These vesecl aro in the coutrol of the Ballmare & Ohio Railread Cowpauy. So it will not bo long till the itrepressible sbippers of Chicago will bu sonding their grain and produco diroct-to Livorpool by this route, ona singlo manifost, - Already ata . elavators . construiot- ed at Balumoro for this purbose equal to the lost olovatora of Chicago. At Now York :all grain s transferred 1o ocenn voesols by tho nslowand expousivo process of lightorage, The commorcial relations botweon Baltimore and Chicago snd all the Northwest are destined to become intimate and important, Intho uccomplishment of that fact, tho sun of the metropolitan monopoly of New York will set forever. After that will spring up o {ine rivalry between the eitios.of the Atinutic soaboard as Lo which shull, in the future, become the Liverpool to our American Lonton,—Chiengo. For ona, I vote for Bultimore, aud believe that it will be Baltimore. LD, S THEE SLEEPING-CAR QUESTION. INVESTIOATION DY TUE BSENATE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, From Our Own Correapondent, ‘WasuNGTon, D, C,, Nov, 21, 1874, The Sonate Committce on Transportation, in their report just published, devots considerable spaco Lo tho subjoct of slecping-cars in relation to the expenwes of railrond companies. The conclusions are that the sleoping-car companies are & questionable adyantage to the railroads, and that tho oharges for tho berths are ox- coskive. . L M, G, B. BLANCHARD, Becond Vico-President of - the Irle Railroad Company, in the courae of his tostimony made the fullowivg stutoment ¢ I thiuk thab ull thess parasites which attach them. scivus o railroads, fncluding sleopingecar compani aro of quostionabfo advavtage to tho valirood compas nies thewnselve, Tho result of tho transportation of sleepiug-cars bas been Lt all thas oraamentution and sumptugusuess that you obiervo in tho intorior and fn thie running of thess cars hins been obtawed al tho ex- veneo of the ralivoads ; first by the enormous wolght whieh wo aro roquired to Lisul over our road at very Iiigb Tates of spocd, and as iuclting slmilar outlayy in day.cars, In tho noxt place, I believoin the railroad compnuy furnishing stich fucllitlos vs they may bo sblata do for all tho travel, and chorging, inslead of &ucl o large um 03 1 chatged by thosa slecping.car companies, 8 modersto amoint for {10 kamn facilitles, It seans to mo to bu & falr contrast thut ope pays more for a sleeptug-coueh from Now York to Pittsburg than thie Fifths Avénne Hotel would ehurgo for boardl for un entiro das, whers you et thy servant required o an- swer vour hells aaid perform wll th sorvieen. noeded, sud thiat of {4l ought to khow tho Jarge’ profit that thicy hiave. ‘Il churgos are, m our judgnient, exces- s1y6 for fuenishing those facilities, sud we desire, it yossible, Lo modify thovs, Ahiat uvo bcen the inducoments herctofore for making thoto cundracts ro lurgely? A—Mulnly the fuct that tho parties ofering to iake those contracts bald” tus patents, which wero wall nigh exclustyo, Competition Lus required that tho Erte Compiny, for inatance, should Lnve, an agalnst the Central and Penn. sywvania’ Boads, cyual facllitics. and _comfort for it passengers, aud, when it triod to got those, theso Patunts stood {n'tho way of fndepeudent slcoping-cars, Q.—Arto your statements ubont_slcepiny-curs upplic- abla_ subsiautlally 10 drawiug-room cark algo? A,— ‘They oro practieally the same thing, 'Tue charges for drawing-roomn carsure not, perbuph, sa oxcessive w4 thiose for sleeplng-coach Q Wit o ttio cxplaustion of tho fack {lint fn tho drawlngz-room ears, I you go 1o a cortuin point, buy- ing your choir to thiat poiut, and when you reacls 'thore getout andget fu ugaln, or clse chatke your mind Sittiout reufbig ant, wi g0 on 100 miles forther, thit you uro chargod less tuan sume other mun who'buys Bl chatr Lo begin with from termind to tormiul? A— I donot know of any sucl casg, or auy rodsou why it shipuld bo so, " Q.- thoro any reason why it should boso? A,.— ‘None that ocours to mo, Q.=1s thorq uny soaton why paotlo galog to placey miore then 60 miloa apart should puy thy suime rute ror welinlr? Buy {wo peoplo’ start from New York, for grample i the raltroad tn quealion whoutd fead o Now York, aud go ono 50 milox fasther taan tho otler, {a thora nly rosson why thip aain Who gous 50 nles, the Josn alstunce, should pay o8 much as tho other mon? A~No, sir; I should say not, It bus, how. ovor, been customary and du Somo cares pecessary to bluck o theso distances i stations of 45 miles o wmore, aud, fuatiich a8 thero musk bo o line drawn womowhiere, us thoy argue, all thoso chargos Lelng lixed by thoso sleeping-coacis companlos, they buvo to fix it, o hoy do sz, ub ubot 5 aniies, S somia caaes milea, ¥ Q.—Do you know of suy fustasica where rallroads huve put inforlor pasengor-cosches on fn ordertto forou ussengers fuio thew woacnes, whero the oxtra chinrga b nadu? A,—Noj er; 1 do’ nob kuow of any sl casy, although { fmagine’ some compunies must Lava gohud el iunlal reservatious, Judulig Trom Uio compnrisons 1 esrs which their traiun afford, Mr, Norwood—1It bas beon tated that that Los beon douo fu order (o Liuve nn extea payment of $1 or $3, 311k GEORGE 3, PULLMAY, at the roquest of tha Commities, submitted hin vk]l]“u upon thig question in the letter which follows 3 O¥FINE OF PULLMAN'S PALACE-CAl COMPANY, Oiigatio, Feb, 0, 1674, Sty Thayo recelved your letlor poquestiug i ta furnivb such Information in reference to fhe ot of Pulluial ‘slaco-Cav Company to tho ruilway come anios, and the rystom under whioh its cars are opar- s Tiny b oF sorvice to your Commibtes fo its lne vosligation f tho goucral subject of transportation, 1n Toplylug, 1t seema_requisita to nlludo briely to {ho condition'of thlngs that axiated prior to tho organs Szatlon of thls Qomuunay, and which poiuted to such au organization as ita rometly, together with such dotails of Lo nystetn aa ehow thi ndvaniages (o tho publjo do- rivod thorefram, o8 well 8 Lo uxlsting rolatious to the Tallway companics, About tha yoar 1838, slooping-onts wero adopied by a fow of the Jeading railways of tlio couulry, Tho cars thion used woro for tho 1nost part crude alid tine mtlatactory n thelr arraugemont aad appolutuenta, Thoy wera consiructod under a_varlety of patents, andemploged various dovices which hiad mot been perfectod by experience, and, in many instances, ordlnary passonger-cars wers uiilized, They eorved, Towever, to educals the travellng pubile to the exiat- ing want, and domoustratod tha nocessity of somo- thing Uetter, . "Theso cars were, morsover, confiued to tho ronds of tho raflway companlen owllig thom, aud wero ne sniled fo tha nceessitios of the travel on long lines, Tley wore chielly used to_accommodate local travel, and then only In case o road was of suficiont longtht to acoupy an entiro night in the transporistion of its Dassengors, : It noun beesme Appatent that a claew of cars that would furnish necommodatious adequnto to tho wants of both nigiit aud day travel, togatloe will @ sywtens that shouid afford ~contiuous atd _unbroksn coni= mundcation botween far-distant. pointa, - ovor sevoral distinet Hnos of rnnmq- ‘would mxmfl{ a arowing want of tho {raveling pubiic, aud probably largoly fne creasa tho passanger-trafic. 1t was niot nasy, or, {ndecd, possible, for fitty or more fudependent railway compatien o nito upon & nnl- foutu putiora of car, to porfoot unlform arriugometl, or fo utllizo tho maby ditfrent inventions snd devicos which, combined, moke up tho comfurt und con- Venlotleo of (1o Pilllman cat; ; Even had nu‘y goueral plan boen suggeated by one or moro companies for uctiug in conviity some conis panles would not, perhiaps, havo fannd it conven: @t any given timo, to furnish tholr proportion of cars nor Wwould 1t biavo hoen osay to- decldo, Wwithout ods Porfonce, what in such o case cquity between tho roads Would dunanil, 3 1t i obYioys ilist the comatant provision of alnndant bupplicy of Ludding ond changes of hinen, and tho oecessary Iaindey arcaugenicnte, as well . (1o oloc- 100 of suitablo devices for hicating, voutiluting, cou-~ atructing, and running cara- with epocial refurcuce to thelr’ uio a8 slecplug-npiriments, fs of tlio very cusenco of n successful slcoplug-car syw= tem; yet this was forcign tho _Tegular busitess of rallkay compantos, ‘and - less Jikely to reccive tholr careful attontion than that of o comiany especially organizod for tho Jurpose, Honcs tho necersity for 8 soparato orgablzation whlch should boable 10 makoe arrubgementy of o Uni- form chinrsctor with tho difteront raflway companies o it reasouablo teria 38 would ppeal to teir fu- ereats, - L6 organization of such & company, which should ba clifiged it tho duty of WrovIdIVg shd accomnlo- dations required by an futelligont publlc, pressuted questions ofutich magaitudo and importatico, Tho problom war, o build cara which should em- hraco fuventions nud fmprovements porfected by the best fugaunity und ekill of tho' conntry, nud thus moet tho Just denjatda of tho truvoler, sl at tlo suno thug scctira tho railwaysa fair cquivalont for thoir servive, aud provido s fir scéien uvon the capltal in- vestod, ; : Lo following aro the ‘principal foatures of oxiating contracts with tho ratiway cowpanies whoreby it 8 sought to accomplish this end, . Tho Puliman Company coulracta to furnish ita cars 10 allway companies for o poriod of iftecu yoara, and Klvos oach compuny tho option, IF exerclsod within & Toueonable time, f0 purchase’s ouc-all interest in the corw naslguod to s road ab their cost, with 20 cliario for tho 183 of patouts, and to abaro cqually with the Pullnab Gompany in tho resuls of tho b nesv. ‘Tho Pultnan Compauy ngroea to provido such numberand kind of caniss msy bo zequired by tho rallway companies 1o moet o demaud of tho travellng. public: it furulshes tho omployes, whio ure aubjoct to tlte Pules and regulatiouis providod by tho railway come abics for tho_goverumeut of their own ciuployes, Tho tifichy compnnioa control the moveruout of tho car, and usa them tho samo as If thoy wera tuclr own, £y g Ui posscugers in thow, und recelviug the uf it eaflway-tares, s saving tho awmounl of capital which tioy would otlierwise bavo o fuvest In Dulding cars of thele own, Tho Pullman Company derdvon revonue frotn tho rental of borthy ow Its come pensation fat furniching the eara nnd atendance. ‘As L raflway comiaiiies rocelvo tha service of th cars [or Lo Lratispo:tation of their passcngers, fro of cost, they ogreo to miaintai thum, the gamo b ey woutd Liava to maintaln thelr own, With the exceptioi of tho carjioty, upholatary, and bedding, whicl cunsli- tuto that portlon of tho cqufpment pertaining to tue sleepiug accommodations, whlcl requlre froquent ro- Bl 10 50 WAIMAIRLA by o Fulliya Compunyy More thau wlxly rafiway compinios in tho Unitéd States snd Canuda Lavo wlroady eutorod 1ld wuck co- iracts, oo of hesocompanion havo Zecome pasticinants 1n the entire butsiucss by subscriolng- 0 the stock of tho Iullman Compuny, at ita par value, and receiving thie usnal dividends ; otliers by amsociutious, iu_which they sro Joist ownors with (e Pullmun Company in 1ho cars asrlgued o their reapoctive Hitos, providiug Linlt tho capitafand sharing equally i the reuds, “ino prosecution of this enterprivs fu_ovory step of 1t8 progress haw domonsirstad the paramount import- ance of coustruetiug cars which slisll, 85 Lo 5a pracii- cable, 10ceb evory wantof tho travasag piblic, com- biniug convanieies of arrangement nud elegsiico of finiat, with auch udoubted strength 28 will guarsutee, 40 fur'an ia utlainahie, kufely 10 tho passchgers, and sich duravtilty as [siiros 1 1he raflway comjanies the _minimum of ordiunty. repalrz,ad at tho samie tiue ‘avoid overloading the traluy With oxcesive wolght, Theso abjects havo boen steudily puraued -wichou faltcring at tho exponsonud lubor involved, until, ua ft iy beliovod, Teasouable succoss has Leen attalued (i tho presout stindard siceping-car, tho weight of which is 23 tons, ’ / This ouly exceods the welght of the ordinary twelvo- cel, flzst-calus pasnouger-Cars uscd on Josding Wost- i rowds by about 2% tom, tho execss befuz In con- acquanco of bedding and partitious esscatial to - tho sleeplug arrangeulens, "Lue Cullinan Cars are now used on oyer 50,000 milos of railroud in this country alone, atd the adyantages of the kystem have 80 fecommended St that 1t b alrendy been fntroduced in Eutope, ‘Theso facts pra tout Hio best avidence of tho great smportauce of tho convenlences wilich tho Pullman curs und tha system under which they oro operated sfford the publio and tho rallway conysnles Who hava udopted tiem, “Ihe rullman Company claiims to have roudsred tho traveling public wubetuntial heueiits in organizing und perfectiug a Bystom by which its cars are it ouly run through without chitige. botweou far-diatant voints, und over a number of distinct Ines of railway, i of resjonsiblo hroush ugents, to whom ladies, aud juvallds can be, and constantly are, wately tutrnwied, bat 1t lias, by o number of ingonious duvlees, very geeatly fmprovud the comfort, safoty, and heltLrulness of Fallwiy PIscuger-cars, ;, weniny the fatigite of travel, und waking night-Jourulys cone veufentund easy. By ils ar the traveler fa nizo enabled to avold auxicty aigh lusa of tlme by ewturing specitia accom- modatfons {n advance for tho etire juurey, thus sav. ing, co; ectully to ladies and trsveiug parties, coustant antloyance sud discomfort, - : ~ Jtwill bo scen by your lionorable commities, from tuw nbove tatemeny, that {he Pullman Compauy aitns tadoa work for tho publie, fu connectiub with th raflwoy companies, which thoy fopatately could not so well porform, Ani orgunization was thorefors nooded to amlcably unitowll tho difiereut luterests for tho botler sorvico o thio publle, and to ‘combine, 1 ouo cls of car and oue sytem, s only o singlscommpany could, all the ime provements whicli {ngenuity has contrived for tho couteulunc fafoly, id comfortof Lo teavuler ko us to enalio th publie to uso tho differeut railway linos a3 though thoy werd all under oo management, It is bolioved that tho publie will nover consont to . return to the old plan of frequent clianyes of cars and Droken travel, but, fustend uf taklng wuy step bocks srard wll donioud dv furtior i rofomcuts, Thete, €0 faf 03 attaunblo, tts compay line no doubt it car furnish, € it alforts i meat (ho publta wauts shull bo na tharoughly ecconded by the faflway Interesta of tho country {ii tho fullre a5 they Lava been I tho finst, Qo 3T, POLLNAN, Prosident, The on, William Windon, Ohiazman Senite Cumuiitios on Transportation, Washingior, D, 0. —_—— THE POTTER LAW. DIPFIOULTY OF WORKING UNDER 17, The Wisconsin railwsy cimpauics encounter many dificulties in conforming to tho provisions of tho Pouter law. No comgetent authoriby will undertake to do‘ermiuo haw tho through-rates shall Le divided betweou éferont roads, Tho Inw prescribes that the rate >f' freight upon any shipment shall bo computid from tho point uf starting, notwithstanding it may pass over the road of anothor company. I ditfcultics arlse iu tho distribution of tho rajes, TFor tho firat 25 miles the maximum ratos ongrain, lumbor, flour, and live stack aro allowod ; s reduced rato is pro- seribed for tho aecond 26 ‘miles, and, for any and sl distances beyond, the minimum rato only ls to bo cbhargod.: In caso & slip- mout originntos, say, on the Northwostorn Rond, and s ocarriod by that Compauy G0 miles or mote, and s thim doliverod to the 8t Paul Company, to bo awrried & considerablo dlstanco on thelr line, undwr the strict wording of tho law the Iattoy Company would bo entitled ouly to the minimtm rule~whioh i3 merely nominal—tor performing sprvicos oqual to thoso for which tho former Conpany fs sllowed to charge waximum- ratos, Cades havo actunlly arigen in which a litersl interprotation of tholaiy allowod thie compuny firut rocelving tho freight to exuck the whols amouut prescribod by law, obliging the second compauy ta work for nothing. One of thoso wus mudo o teat cane, aud taken to the Buprome Court, 1t was thnt of a sbirment of Jumber from Oshkesh Lo Ocunomowoo—n dik= tanee of 75 milos, 63 ¢f which are_on tho North- wentoin, und 13 on ‘the Jlilwsukee & Bt, Paul Ruiiway, The ltw wakes tho rate &8 por par lond for tho first 26miles, %5 for the sosond 25 mtlos, wnd &2 for thonext 25 miles, or auy frac- tion ” thorent, “proiding ” the fissdo ex- coud 13 milis, Al tho Northwestorn oar- vied it oxuetly "3 milos, they olsimed tho whole rato named for tho distance, which , NOVEMBER 24, 1874. loft nothing for tho 12 miles haul ot the B, Paul Road. As the Intter Company refuscd to dolivor tho lumber without compeusation for thelr sor- vices, suit was brought to recover possession. Tho enao was carrled to tho Btato Supromo Court, aud n doclelon wns reached ecarly this month, 'The Court held that, whoro frolght is carriod by 1wo or moro roads, the rate nust be computed tho same o lhoth carriod upon ono road ; aud, withont oxplicitly delining what would bo s proper division, they say: ** Wo aro aware of 1o stntuto which assumes to give the wholo froight to one company, and Lthus -compol tho othor to'render sorvico without componsa- tion, We aro of tho opinfon that 815 p lond 18 tho highest rate of frofght that can lnw- {ully bo domanded for tho whole carriage, and thint tho sum should be divided betweon thio to ratlway companies on somo equitablo proposition, to be determined by the courts in case the col Imnigs invoke tho aid of thé courts in- tho prom- RCs, This construction the rallroad companies aro quite - willing to sccept, but they are loft in doubt a8 to what is the oquitable principle of. di-~ ‘vislon reforred to by the Cours, “LIhe Attornoy- Gonoral sud tho Board of Rallroad Cownmis- slonors havo been appiied to both beforo nud sinca the meoting of. tho Court, but tho former declines to commit himself offloinily, and the Inttor disclaim the right to dot as arbitrators, ‘Ia thio absonco of auy other authority, the compn- njos aro forced to doviss thoir own mothod of obtainitig. oquitable divisions, Moantime they are boing threatonod with o varloty of suits for ovetcharges, nrlsing from mistakes o the pact of agents, In somo cases papors Liavo alroady boen served. Tha Commissionors nud Avtoruey- Gonoral aro ln receipt of numeious corplotnts, mlugb :t _whioh lLave beon satisfactorily ox- plained, Ono having o more sorfous aspoct arose from o _recent chango of runviug time on tho Milwauleo & 8t. Panl Railway, 1t is there cus- tomary in wintor to ruo all trains on slower time than v summor. Tho advont of theso slow traius gave riso to the report that the 8t, Paul Comypauy wore_dotormiued to malo ibo Potter Inw odious, and it was suuounced that the Stato oflicors would nsle the Roslroad Commissionors to ix tho rato of faro for passeugors on thoso trains ot 2 couts por mile, ~ The authority for such dowand ia not givon, 2 —— ILLINOIS & MICHIGAN CANAL. NEFORT OF JOSEPM UTLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE BOALD OF OANAL COMMIBSIONERS, Hrom Our Own Correspondent, " 2 X . WasiiNaron, 21, 1874 The following lotter addressed to tho Senate Transportation Committoe by tho Hon. Josoph Utloy, one of the Commissionors of the Illinois & Michigan Caual, is printed in the repoit of that Committee, which Las just beon publishod, Boanp oy CANAL CoMMsslONERA, DREAIDENT'S| Or¥iok, Drxow, 1L, darch 7, 1674, Stn: Tn zeply (0 your luterrogutorles, under date of TFob, 91, 1874, T havo the houot to reply: Tha Jength of the Iiuois & Michigan Cannl, from the Chicago River to the Iiliuois River, st Lasulle, is ninoty-six miles, T canal i G0 feet wide at water-surface and 42 fect wido at boitow, with s unitoru dopth of & feot, with tho exception of ths awwinlt, 8t the nusther’ eud, which fa ubout 8 fect deap, 2 ‘Thers ore fiftoen locks, with a total lockags of 145 foet, desconding from Luke Alichigan to tho Illinols River at La Salle: - “ T size of the chambor of the lockn is 107 feot long by 18 feot wide, ndmftting Loats of 160 tons burden, Tho total vost of Luu canal was $6,587,08150, The oxpenso of mulntouance, amount of tulle, and number of duys of - navigation' for each year, for-the lut twenty-0ve yoacs, are stated fn tho annezed tablos - 2 uadoslivp fo “ox| “syudos Revurpip 55olla wero roduced from 35 to 35 por cout Macch, 11 this amount 18 $35,400 pald collectors, lock-tend- cra, und Sagorintendont, which would leavo the anount properly chisrgeabla Lo ordinary ropairs $18,135, Tu unswer o your second fnterrogatary, 1.would aay thnt I know of no actof Congress giviug tho Stale authorlty to take coutrol of the improvoment of the Tinola River, but somo titno sulmeaient to 1871 Con- greas mada an _appropriation of $55,000 for tho ime provement of tho aaid river, s small portion of which was expended fn drodylog, snd the balnca diverted by tho United Statos Englucer Dopartmiont ta tho i~ provemont of the Mississipp] River, : "Flio Legislatitro of tho Btateof Tiinols, in 1889, made an appropriation of $400,000 for tho jmiprovemient of the Idluols River; and muthorized tho Canal Com- nilssloncr to_coustrict & lock aud dam in tho river : junction with the Iijinois & Michigan Cous} 50 as to socuro at least 7 fcat of water {n tio channol at all seasons of the vear, T Ayrdl, 1809, Coyross paesed o law appropriating $2,000,000,to ba oxpended under tho direction of tho Betrotary’ of War far the ropair, preservation, snd complotion of tho works for tio imsbrovement of Fivors and harbors, On tho 23th of June, 1800, the Honarable Sccrotary of War ullotted $85,000 for tho impraverient of tho Iitiols Tuver, the work to bo done and sxjenditurcs to bo mada uder the diroction of Bvt, Msj.-Gou, J, IL, Wilson, Uultod Btates Army. On tha 4th of August, 1800, the Canal Commissfonora and D, 0, Jenue, State Eugiucer, wot Gon, Wilsou at Dl oltice, whore'lt was dutermined that the Jutercsts of comnerco and tho largest and mast useful improve- mont of tho river couid be secured by expendlug tho 83,000 i dredging out tho bure sud deepoukitys tho cliannel of tho river bebweon Henry sud Copperus QOreck, o distanco of 60 mlloa, whoro,the noxt lock in tho seriea should ho Luilt, At tho seasion of Congress in 1870, an_sppropriation of $100,000 way made for the improvoment of tho Tilinols River, On (1o 31st of August, 1870, the Canal Cominissioncrs, accompaniod by Eogicers' D, O, Jeune aud Wilifsu Gooding, mot Uen, Wilson at Veorla, und aficr cx- amining the varjous pluns’ for improving the Illinois Rtvor, it was mutually agrood that tho amount ought to be expendod in dredging tho bars below the poiut whers tho former appropriation of $35,000 will be ex- hausted, and ue shull, lnuly to the diierout pofuta on the river where othior locks aud dams slall be buili, ‘The lnst Congress of tho Unfted Stales baving made an appropriution of 190,000 for the improvement of e Tilinols Rivor, and belloviog that tho Interest of the wholo peopls would bs promoted by ex- ponding ot least 8 portion of fhat sum in bnitig in tho foundation of the proposed lock at Cap- peras Oreek, tho Governor of this State divected the Conimnissioners to mako an application to Col, Macomb, United Btates Englucer fu clurge, for that purpose, “Ihe result of the spplication, and the Governor's raoral oftorta at tho Dopartmunt in Waehington, is m“y oxplained by the nccump:nu'll!ll correspouslonce ; 4 Rook 1sans -1, Apedl 30, 1673, “DpanBim: With u view of makjug the most ad- vautugeous spplication of the recent appropriation by Congrese of $100,000 for the {mprovements of tho Tilinols Llver, I should like to be Informod as to the rovisiun mats by tho Stateof Iiinols toward the same end, I sbould also by plessod to have any suggestiony from you as to the particular work upon the river that ‘wotlld, in your oplulou, bost subserva tho public fne teresty, taking inco consideration what haa beeu aone ulreaily toward this fmprovement, I romain, vory re- spectfully, your obodient sorvant, T, N, Macosts, 4 Colonel Euginecrs U, 8, A, *Ta Joseph Ulley, Lsq,, Chiairman of Board of Canal Comnlssiouers, 1Niauly,™ i “ Drzow, 1L, May 1,1073, “My Dean Sin: Your uote of the 80tk 'Apni bofors me, | 1u reply 0 your inquirics s ta provisto mdo by 'the State of " Iilfuola for the furtlior | Jrovement of the Hiinola Kivor, yuenil mo to say that Lo Leglalaturo of tho Stato bas mada uu appropeiation of thie not rovenug of tho liinos & Michigan Canal to tio smauut of SIIDUD for tha hurbose of Liproving the iinols River, uinl authorized tho Canal Uommis- slonore ta comencs tue hufidiug of w took sud datn at Copporas Orcols b3 Goun us {hore whall be acoiinu- Iutod tho mum of $100.000 % tiwt s will nol availuble uncll abott the 15th of Heptamber noat, CGonscquently the Catiul Commissionors wunli iuost respectiully ask (hat o wum sulliciont to pub in tho foundution for a losk at Copperas Uruok bo espended for that purpocs by the Uultul Gtates tho comlug summer, out of the $100,000 appropriated by Guigress, it ila 1t aession, for tho fmprovement of the IHinols River, You kve aware that tho Blate hus bullt » fock mud datn b Henry, 30 miles Lelow (be Junctlon of the 1linols & Michigan Cunsl and the Tilisioly tiver, utu cost of $490,000 and by it agtasuiout ily il ot Wilson, your prods. enwor, the suin of $33,000 atottil by thd Buorstary of War for tho Umpravement of the Lilinow Rivor was. oxpended in dredying 1o bars betwoen Heury and tho propossd lock at Copparss Urodk, a distuncd of 60 por car-’ miles, thereby giving 7 faet of wator at all sgxaons of {he year, whia te lock and_dam st Copperus Oreck shnll bo compleled. Thus you will seo that porfect harimony ke exiatod hetweon the United States En- glucer Dopsrtment and the authoritlos of this Stato an to tho Iinprovement of tho Itlinate River. - Dlylng withi the vequest. fudleatod . above you will Las- ton this compietion of this finportant work fully ono Joar, aud, in my Judgment, ft will oat aubsarvs tha nterost of commerce, and’be the inost econoraical ox- {enuitiure thnt con Lo miade of the approprintion by / oth thio Unitod States and the Btalo Governmenta, 1 romaln, your most obediont servant, ool 3., 31, Joareit UTnyy, Canal Commissfoner, | N, 1 i Rocktord, nflfymh. Engineor annnmgm, U. 8, “ Dixon, T, Yuly 10, 187353 HGOvEKON & You il re by she A advort e ment tat tho Unitod Ktatos Englucer Depariment hng deelded to use fo muich_of the uppropifation of §100,. 000, made by thie 128t Congress far the imyrovement of the Iiuvla River, ns_shall bo necossary tu bulld tho foundation for th lock at Cojfperas Crork, thus saving the Statd ono year i timo and abiout $90,000 i money in tho construction of thst fmportant work, Tho well-Kuown ahillty and largo oxperience of ol Mucomb, United States Lngluver n clinrgo, s & sura guarantes that the work will bs done in' the most thorough, and_substantisl manncr, Your obodiant sorvant, Joseru UTLEY, Canal Commissioner, “ I8 Excelloncy Johin L. Beverldga, Springfiald, ii,» ‘Thun you will seo that porfost Lurinony hins oxistod betweon the United States Logineer Dopartmont and thio authorities of tie Blata of Illinois in nlopting plana for the improvement of the Iliuofs River, Tho first lock wua dam, located a¢ Houry, was come ploted on tho 11th of January, 1872, at o cost of $400,~ 109, mecurlng 7 foct of water il tho chanuol o tiatanco of 30 niles,~up to tho Junction of tho Illuofs & Micligan Canal with the Ilinois Ryor, Two yoars ozpericnca bas matfsfactorlly demon. strated thot the improvomant will accomyllsh all thiat its most ardont supporters have predicted, Tho Logiwlatnre at 1ls last rossion mnde an appros priation of $430,000 from tho net revenuo of tho canal and river improvement for tho construction of ouother lock and dam nt tho mouth of Copperas Creck, 60 1wfles betow tho ana at Henry, “In onswer fo your - third Intersomatory, 1 tiver wouid soy: Tho locks in the Tiinols bolow the canal aro not being built under the direc- tion of Governmont eugincers, but aro bofng Lulit of a niza fecommonded by United Blates Goveriment Luginecrs, and of sufliclont capaelty for tho passego of gun-boats, nud mnueh lurger aud ore expensive thnu {s requitod for the ordiuary wauta of tho come iereo of the Btato of Tiifnols. o your fourth {uterrugalory, tho fall of tho Iliinola River from Laglio {0 tiio moiith of tha river, & dise tanico of 228 miles, 1a bt 32 fect und 4 Juchcs, 1t will requiro’ but thre mors locks sud doms, ruakhitg five 10 all, to cowylota tho ftuprovement, ko as to malu slack-water nuvigation througii the tntiro lengliv of tho river, giviug 7 feot of water in the chuinel ut all soasona'of the year, Inauswer ta your OfLh, sitbough very destrable, T do not foel anthiorized to auy that tho State of Iilinoly will at yaesent cnlurgo (ho canal-locks to tho sizo of thelacks I tho rivor, or incicaso tho dopth of tho caual to tho samo deptis that will bo obtainod fn the river whou the fimprovoment §3 completed, ‘5 your aixth, as to the effect of the Illinols & Michignn Canal’ and Illinols River in reducing [relglia on competing railwuye, by roferriug sa ths followiug table you will thora sce that the canal hown vory matked and declded lullucuco In roducing charges on combetlng raliways: I g3 ] Ba 3 e s s | B2 o o ) Chieuo, i . Quiney Aasiroad, I Princeton to Chicago Kewance to Chleago. ... Burlinglon to_Cnicogo (on) Missiaslppl River)........| Chif:ago * & Narthwestern| 105] 60|50 | 23|16 M, 63 B3| 20 (A 707’ 6|03 Tailroad. . Dizon to Chlcago, 08 B0 4812218 BMorrison to Ghirug 1230 02y A6 91,81 Chicago & Alton Ruilroad, | Bloomington to Chi [{u | 120} B0 45 21|18 Lisinois Centrad Luitroid. Paxton to Chicago. ... +| 103 6 Obnmnpaign {0 CHICIEO, eres| 1981 61 Tho seventh interrogatory, The cors of ing the three additional locks and dams to « tha whole ayafom for tie jnprovensout of® (ho Iilincis River conust excred the sum of $1,400,000, to which sloull be added the cost of the rdditiousl necessary dredging, say, $160,000, Thls comparatively small expenditure of money e curesn chanuel of 7 feet deep and at least 200 foeb ‘wide the whols length of the river, from Lagiallo to 8t, Lonls, s distance of 423 mia Elghth {nterrogats The slzs sdopted for tho locks for the finprovenient «f tho Hinois River &4 350 fcot long, Letwesu the gotes, and 76 feet wide, bt of cut-stons masoury in & thorouglh and substantial matner, Niull'interrogatory, The Stato has mailo no fur. ther appropriation for the improvemnut of tho Iillnols River beyond what i% reuuired to somplete the lock 2ud dam ot Copperas Crecl. In conclusion, T wili ey that the navigation on tho Ilinols River {8 very unrelable below the lork sul dam now constructed on account of the numerhus Dars which alstruct navigation during the scason of low water; thoro s not over 3 feet of water ou the' Tancagtor fiats, wud at tho mouth of Copporas Creck, ‘Josern Urnry, Ganal Commissioner. To the Ton, Wiliiwm Windom, Ohairman of the Sauate ilote S Second—Iho Taciflo Mall Stonmship Company o) x e Chicagn Daily Teibune, CHICAGO, TUESDA NUMBER 93. againat losn in wonbward-bound froight by water, tho Paciflo Mail, on the othor Land, rofusing to Y o any proposition, i stated that thoy have now agreod upon s~ Jlowing bnsis of compromise, r8/—Tho Union Pasifle Rnilroad Company to <antoo to tha Paclfic Mail Ktoamubip Compa- o 1,760 tons .of westward-bound through 5 ight, per steamer, at §22.60 per ton, for twa S samots por month. > A'.:p;] "I‘, aland allits ton at San _ Franclsco, and doliver ‘o samo to tho Contral Pacific Rallroad Compne ny for transportation enstward, tho Pacitio Mail pumnnn,y to allow tho ovorland roads to charge 4oonts por pound on all tea so received for tranaportation, Third—The Paciflo Mail Steamshlp Company {o guarantos to tho Panuma Railroad Company 3¢ of 1 cont on.nll tho ten brought trom China, and ono-fourth of the amount received for wostwird-bound fraight, Fourti—Thin contract to lust five yosrs from Doo. 1, 1874, oithor party roserving to itself tha right to torminato tlio wamo upon giving six munthis’ notica of such an inteation, 3 Jifth—The rates of westward-bound froight , 40 ba ontablishod by the Unlon Pacilio Compavy, and nona but ** clipper freights™ to be earvod by the formor Company below the scheduls rogutatod by the latter Company. Sezentl—Sottloments of accounts to bo made overy quarter, Zighth—All questions arising botweon tha ltllbnva-nnmod companios to bo sottled by arnitra- on. Ninth—Tho auits of the Pacifle Mail Stonm- ship Compnuy ngainst the Union I'ncific Come pany to bo withdrawn at onco, aud all difforencos m‘.{’l‘; lil‘jup‘t‘od\?‘lnabhrnfinn.h 'be Pacitic Mail Company has now pending a auit for $235,000 ngninst tho Unton PlE:iflr: Rail- road Compauy, which grow out of Mr, Clark's anntmons of tho contract, ‘Tha old_canteact guarantead the Pacifio Mail Company $24,000 Fur stozmor of 1,000 tons, or £24 por ton, with two steamors malling overy foventeon days. AMr. Rufus Hatch informally domnuded 30,000 per stonmer this timo, and 2z, Ruakell Sago #27,600, Noithar of thoso prop- asitions wors gortously considered, Tho Cen- tral Pacifio Railroad witl orect dock sccommoda- tions for tho steamors Pokin nnd Tokio, as thoy thd fortho Yasco De Gama and Vanconver undor tho old contract, and tho froight for tos from Hong Kong to Now York to bo 4 cants per pound ; tho Paoific Itnilronds aud the roada from Omuhe to Now York to got 2 conts, the Pacifio Mail 1 conts, and the Panama Railrond ceut per pound. This basis contemylates the carriago of ol tond all rail from San Francisco, and the [’au- ama Railroad to0 be paid ¢ cont per pound, whethor they do asy sorvico for tho same or not. — MISOCELLANEOUS. DECISION IN TIE MUNCIE OASE. Special Dispatch to The Chicagn Tribune, +. RiomxioNy, Ind,, Nov. 23.—Judge Kibboy to- dny rendered o deciston In the Muneio Railroad caso, continuing thie Recoiverahip, This mvolves the spaedy aale of the railrond under a foreolos- ureship of tho firat mortgago. EXOITEMENT AT COURT. A little tempostin n toapot oceurred at Lomont, on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, Fridny night, owiug to a coup d'otat accomplishen agmmue Mr. J. N, Brown, of that town, by the aforesaid road, The Chicago & Alton Railrond Company hias, during the last two yoars, beon groatly im- proviug tholr line by the layinz of n sccond track, They got along woll enough until they roached Lomont, whon sn obstacle was laid in tholr way in the shapo of an injunction by Mr, J. N. Brown, who wauted the Company to con- structe for -hum an underground-crossing, to cnnble lum to get from cho point of his stone- quarry to anothor. As the injunction hnd nlrandy delayod o complotion of the road formorethan a_yoar, tho Company succeedod last Friday in having tho injunction dissolved, Orders wera immediately given to tho Rondmastor by Supb. Meduilen to tako a train of matorinls and men and ropair to Lomont Friday night, and cowm- pleto thotrack over the dispuied ground at ouco. n pursuauco of these instructions, the Road- master proceeded thither with his truin and men, and whon Mr, Brown awoko from sluinber i the morning tho tirst thing ho observed was & train passing over tho now tiack. Of course lua rago was boyoud bounds, As soon a8 he hud comploted his toilob Lo repaired to this city to sue owt an ijunction provonting tho Compeny from oporating tho teack, Thus far ~ ho hnad mot vet succeoded’ finding & Judge williug to grane an injuuction. e swears, however, that ho will yot got even with the Company, although it may tuko lim s long time to succced. I'no Comipuny. on tho other hand, feols rather pleased ut the dlscom~ fituro of thoir antagoniat. Conunities ou Tro riation, C ———— INDIANAPOLIS, DLOOMINGTON & WESTERN, INSIDE IISTORY OF TUE NOAD, To the Blitor of e Chicago Tribune : Bin: Tho appointmont of a Receiver for the Indisvapolis, Bloomington & Westorn Itailrond Company was not alfogether uncxpected by peo- .plo alang the line of tho road, but few woro awaro that it was so noar at hand. For a yoar ‘paat McLoan and Tazewell Counties have anxionsly watched the manngemont of tho road, and the sequel shows not with out'caunso. ‘This county (Tazewell) has £100,600 invested in enpitnl stock of the Company ; Yekin City hay £60,000, and the townships along tho lina in this ccunty add $52,000, making an ng- grogato of $206,000 by which ho interest in tho rond in this county is to bo measured, It has loug been alloged that tho Company did not own ‘tho rolling-atock which it nsed, although it ro- tumed it for taxation, but that the real ownor wag 1L AL Smith, maonsgor of the road, who Jonsod it to the Compsny. It ham also boon urged that tho large stockbolders of the Rail- rond Company wero interested in the Wesloy City Conl Company, doing business in this city, operating large miues at Wosloy City and Hopo Miues, 1 milo east of Pekin, It is gonorally thought that the Peoria & Springflold Railroad, over which tho Indtauepolis, Bleomington & Westorn runs from uis city to Peorin, under a lcase, was built with moans furnished by tho Indisunpolis, Bloomington & Westorn, and that the Hovann Branch, from Champaign to lia- vaua, finished buc o fow weoks ago, was built in \the sumo way, snd that, to' raise the funds necadsary to carry on thess projects, tho maiu Tno from Champsign to this point hag been cov- orod with morigages continry to the provisions of tho ohurter. ‘I'heso things, among otliors, became so inter- | -ealing to the people of MoLeau and Tazewol Counties that last January, at the tnstauce of Olaries Shackloford and others, a mooting of bonn-fide stoekholders was called aad held at Bloomington, ostonstoly to hlv:&lllh’nm thoso matiers anad _progocute tho rosponsiblo partios. How it was done nobody kuows, but the, affair was so admizably mansgod that no dolinite oharges wero sindo at thns meoting, aud nothing has sinco been done, ovory oua brliaving (hat thero was sometiing rotton, but afraid to prove tho matter. That the Indinnapolis, Blooming- ton & Western Rnilroad, running through tho rogion and dolng tho busincss buth in froight and prasongers that it aotuatly doos, as is nppar- ent ta any one who Reos ity trains pass aud ro- aks overy day, sbould nob earn enough to pay ts oxponéen and interost on {ts lawfal iudebtod- neas, 18 something incomprehonsihlo and impoy- aible. Tho road wus built by subscriptions almont if not outively, and the coodition to which it i now roducad argues onoof two things,—ruscality or imbacility, dox. TrxiN, 1, Nov, 19, 16874, pehtiecie S P CHINA FREIGHTS. AGHEENENT BETWEEN THE PACIFIO RAILROADS AND FADINIO MAIL LUK TIntelllgouce way received hore yesterday to the effevs that the disugrecmeut oxisting bo- twoon the Pacifiu Rallroads and the P'acifio Mail Bteamaliip Company sinco tho death of 1forace F, Clark bad finally beon sottied to the satisfav- tiou of both purlics, who would horeaftor act in hormony, Al alovg, the Union Pucitlo s con- tondod that the Pacitle Mail had violated tha old contract annulled by .iloraco 1% Clurk, the Qontral Pacifio domnnding tho deliveries of tous at Buu Lisuclsco; in rospouse to a guarsnteo OIICAUO. & EVANSTON NARROW-GAUAL, A meetiug of thio corporation of tho Chicago & Evanston Narrow-Gaugo Raslway Company was held yostorday afteruoou ab the oflice of Warren, Keenoy & Co,, No., 102 Washington street, ‘Fhere ware presont Messrs, L. O, Pituer, J, 1% Koounoy, Merril Ladd, dr. Huoter, O. Huse, lsuuo R. iy, C. B, Browne, and D, H. Whooler. On_motion, 3r. 0. Huso was eloctod Chnir- man, and F. A: Soulo Secrotary, of the mosting. On motionof M. Huntoon, tho first Board of Direotors was olected as follows: B, I\ Alien, C. J. Gulbert, J, T, Kecney, Morril Ladd, O. . Brownoe, D. 1L, Wheoter. Oa motion, tho Chairman appointed as a com-~ mitteo to ascortain what arrangomenta could bo made to_procura tho right of way 1to tho city, Messrs, L. O. Pitner, J. F. Keonay, Churles L. Browne, and F, A. Soule, who wero insticted to report abt the next meoting ol the Bourd of Directors. o weeting then adjourned, subject to the | call of tho Secrotary. THE ILLINOIS BAILBOAD COIDUSSIONENRY, Spectal Dispatsh to 2'ho Chicnao I'ribune. BrrivarieLy, 1., Nov, 23.—The Railroad and Warehouse Commissionors meet hero tu-miorrow to tinish up their annual report to tho Goveraor, * ‘Thoy noto the fact shat overy operating railrond in the Stato has compliod with tho law ju wo far that thoy have mado the roports which they aro roquired to rako, ‘I'ho responso to the circulur which they issued, requiriug cortain articles Lo bo furnighod each passcugor concl, bave alk boon favorable, enying that they bad complicd with tho law, or intended doing 80 ac¢ ohce, aud _expressing 8 desito to conform to tho laws of tho Stalo. Tho tono and tost of tho lotters mny bo taiten s an ovidenco that tho railroads uteud to do evorything to satisly u reasounble womand, Mr. Mcdlullen, Superin- tendent of the Chicago & Alton, writes that Lo doas not comply literally with tho law, but acts in a more eloctivo way. Ho furuishes onch coaeh with a slodzo-hammer weighing 9 pounds, chispl to cut off thokoads of iron bolts, o hiand- Haw, o flreman's iustend of & woodman's ux, and two rubber buckets, Wlon s outfic 18 com- pleted, s it will boin a short time, ho bopes to satinfy the Commiasionors and the peoplo that he bna the best aquibped road in the Stato. I'he Commiszionera aye greatly Ylul\am! at the prompt manner in which ihis lnw bas boen uboyed. aud they balleve there Is more of & put- posd now ou tho part of th ruilronds to vowply witls nll the laws of the State than siuce thoic passage. Thoir roport will show considorablo progross toward the flual triumpn of the effors to contiol railroads by lww, and confine thoir chargos to ronsonublo tates for tho trausporiation of pas- songors aud feelght. THE GRAND TRUNK, As tho Saratoga Commissioners bave lately cironlated atoport that the Grand Trunk Ratlway had finnlly agrood to bocouia a party to thy Sar- atoga agreomont, thus jnjuring tho intch:uu of tho road, Mr. I, A. 1lowe. the Weatorn Lroight Agont, hus boen sompelled to issuo the following cironlar, showing thae the Company will tako froights at loss than tho ratos establishod by tha Comuwlsslonors : Quiorao, Nor 10, 1474, 0 X Ratlway Company having change ating 3:3;;“?;7)';;“ Mo to.cuntorm fo. {bo Americas e B0 ineredsod ite fucllitios by (ke addition of furge unmber of frofght cars uud ateol. cul track, ure o Ul to offer ungualitied. facllitiea for thu speedy Lrausit of freight in through cars, o niter date, untll further notice, the rate on fonethectys frotghit aud w0 Forstand will bo § felita 1or 100 pounds aud 10 cent per barvel on tour fosu than urrent rate 1o Joston, Arratyowents having beon perfected with Messra, Alian & Co, (Montreal Oeoan Siesmsbip Gompany) (& Qiapatah two steamord from Partlatid weokly, shipiers SF Eriropean frofght will bu hiusured specdy fransit, ‘Gar loaded {n the West wil run atongafite of woam- o (onoof which will always bo utPortland to socoive Frelgiit) nwd bo discharged direetly aboard, EANT-HOUND FREIGNT, The ofiieial through clussilication of Fast- bound frofght, adypted by the Wosteru Board of Comminslonors st this city, Oct. 14 and 1%, and yovised ot Tolodo, Nov. 6, Will go into elfout tb~