Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAIL e S CE = Y TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY for tho numerous liquor hills, It emposers County Doards on_petition of fifty frecholders of any township or elcction precinet to grant & Jicona o to pell liquor,—the license tax to bo not less than §60, nor moro than €300, ‘Tho hill does not apply to incorparatcd citlcs, the author- irion of which aro empowerod to grant licenwes. Tho bill requires the liquor-soller to give bonds fn tho sum of £3,000 for complianco with the Iaw, and makes it penal for & minor to obtain liquor on falgo pretenso that ho is suthorized 0 10 do by bis parent or guardian, or that he is of 1en. Tho decided mnjorty voto, by which the bill wan ordered printed indicates that it will paes at an early dato. PLATER ! ssked and ohtained leave to call up hia bill (tablcd zome days since) to roposl tho lnw nro- Libtiug the publication of lottory sdvertisc- ments under penalty of a fine of A100. In his characteristic semi-idiotio _fashion, ho explalued that bis bill was doslgned for the enconragement of huma industrs, in that it swould enable Ilinois ublishern to chmpeto with thoso of other Emcs in the publication of lottery advertiso- meints. After Plater finishod his spocch, tho bill was tablod, Tile TNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL ANEND: MENT, ¥ Mo Times acophalous constitutional amond- ment resolutions havo been mado the special order for next Tuerday evenlng, when 1laines wiil deliver hungelf of his great specch thereon, A BCANE, There was quite a flutter to-day in the Senate over Arutzon's Court-louse Site bill, passed yous terday, It provides for the condemnation of any public square owned by & city for & Court-Ilonso sito, or o County DLoard may appropriate such _equare for such prico s wmny bo sgroed on by the City and Comity Brarde. Tho bill was desixned to apply to Quiney, for which purpose couuties having o population excoeding 100,00 wore oxcluded from its operatian, but it ls now the genoral opinion bare that such limitation is uuconstitutional, and that tho bill,if it becomo & law, would Lo of gen~ eral operation, Then tho question aroso whother the bill wonld nat allow the Connty Borrd of any county to mavo the county-veat, and, in Chis eago, whethor it might not suthorizo the County Doard toselect any of the parlis as & Court-11ouse Fito. A molion was offered Lo reconsider tho voto by whicl the bill pussod, snd the cueation wHl be brought up in tho morning, 1If the legal opinion s to the unconstitutionality aa to legis~ lation for counties or cities containing over or under & given population bo sound, the Citizons’ Associution billy, in o far as they refate exclusive- 1y to Chiengo, would b unconstitutioual, sinco they nre mado applicable to Chicago ozelusivoly by such a liwitation, STEPUEN A, DOCOLAS, Aftera warm debate, tho bill sppropriating 50,000 for tha completion of fhe Douglay monument pawsed tho Sonata by 23 veas 10 14 nays. It will probablly pass tho Tlouso by a do- cided majority. INDIANA, YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINCS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Ixpiararorts, Ind, Teb. 1L.—Tho Senate parced o bill for a Commission of Five to bo appointed by the Governor to locate two insano ayslutug, one in tho northern partof tho State and another in tho southorn. Indisnapofis wos excluded from being considered in meking the Yocation. A fierce fight onsited, but the northern and southern Scuators carried the day, The bill appropristes $200,000 this yoar aud £300,000 next year. Bills puseed cutting off tho fees of the Anditor and Treagurer of Sinto in the freo banking do- partment ; allowing the sppointment of attor- noys a8 Judges pro tem. in casos of chango of venuo ; proliibiting nepotism in the appoint- meuts Ju Btato inatitutions s for tho admission of cojored ehiidren into white schools. This only ‘received 12 nogativo votee, ‘'hio Committao was ordered to investizato tho oharges of fraud and corruption made rgaine the manngoment of tha lnsane Asylum located &t this city. In tho I{ouse bills passed for assossing the property of corporations tho same as that of pri- ‘vate firms ; consolidating tho Prison Lorrds iuto onoof throo mombors, at # enlary of $500; to allow Tawn Trusteos to exnct licensen for liqtior eelling; rogulating coal mines, and sppoluting Bime-Inspector for the Btate. Biessrs. Goorge 1. Hoar, William A, Whooler, B. 8. Marshall, and William P, !:‘r;'e‘ the Louis- iana Committes, en routo from Now Orloans to Wasbington, visited both Flouacs of tha Loginli- ture, and were introduced to the members dur- {ng & recess taken for that purpose, igimsinds WISCONSIN. TLOCEEDL Spectat Dispateh to Tne Chicaan Tribune. Mapisox, Wis,, Feb 11.—In the Benato a reso- lution for smendmont of the Constitution allow- ing each county to decide a8 to what system of county govorument it will ndopt, was passed; also a resolution for 1,000 copics of tho Dlue- ook, and appropriating $750 to Mrs, Lt.-Gov. Pottit, tho balanco of the salary duo her huge band, In the Assembly a joint resolution me- morializing Congrens for its consent to tho pro- orad change of the Wisconsin Contral bntween Fortane. e, Stavons. bome. passad. A& Inrgo numbor of bills were ordered to a thira reading, “I'he Sorgeant-at-Arma loft hero this morning to rummon before tho Indiclery Committeo Hona- tor Carpentor and others maling charges ngainst Judgo Small, and Court Comtnissionor Tlhomps mou, of the Mitwaukeo Circuit, Toresa, I'eb, 11,—~The Henaf pent most of tuo day on the matter of fees aud ealaries, ro- sulting in tho passage of a bill fixing the anlaries of County Clerks st 2700 to £2,500, according to Lo population of tho sounty, The Bunato aleo passed resotutions indorsing and recommending tho Btate Central Rolist Committoe. 'Tho House has boen busy to-day with an elaborato Lilt on the subject of assousment a0d taxation, which 18 made the spocial order for evenlug seusions un- til gisposed of. The louso also passod s bill appropriating 5,000 to the Ytate Graugo, to puy freight on rolief supplies, ~The Souata bill mak- fug an appropristion of $25,000 fur the honeflt of &pectat Disvatch tn the Chmg Triduns, dentitute s waw inado the peciul order for RO-IOTTOW BILETIOLN. —— QH10. TEQULAR BUAINEEH, Cortareos, O, Feb, 11.—1n the Benats this morning, tho Henato bill to provide for the ap- poiutent of thres Fish Commisslonors, and ap- ropriuting $10,000 for constructivg housos for Bumhing 1is, was pansed, In tuo Houro bLille woro introduced o 6x the salary of membors of the Cioueral Asscmbly ut #4 per duy, aud 10 cents for ench nule of travel ; to appraise the property of rail- roads nud assign taxcs on their roal eutate to the locality where tho sume is situsted § to provide for lettinz the publio printuyg and advertlsing to $ho fowest bidder, —_— FLORIDA, ELYCTION OF UNITED STATEN RENATOR, Bavansan, Fob. 11.—A spocial to the AMorntny News, from Tallabasse, says C. W. Joues, (Democrat) of Escambia Couuty, has been eleet- ed United Statcs Senator. Bavaxxai, Yob, 11,—"T'he following ls the yote in tho Florida Leglulature for United Btates Seu. ator: C. W, Joues, Democratl, 40 ; Jisbeo, Rad- dcal, 20 ; rost seattoring. Jones had tire unani- Jnous support of the Democrats sud Indepsu- dout Hepubicun T ¥rench Orown Jewels, The Punis correnpondent of ths London Daily Telegraph writes : 'Fho orown jewels of France have returued fo ue. Attho burnof the war thoy were mecretly dispatehod to Euglaud, snd ouly 1net weok waslt judged unfe to recall them, In puwher, socording o tho uventory made for Louis AVHL, they wero wlready 64,812, weigh- ing 18,751 carats, ¢f £337,000 value, Hines that time precious stones have risen enormously {n price, and tho late Emperor added to urnd, 'The crown of Frauce, in which * ftogens " dismond aud 5,360 othior ja vslued &t L310,000 Lalf u coutury other famous dinmond, the **Buney," 1s sot ju thio kiret Bmperor's sword, a mekiack pricad at near £11,000, A piaque I brilliunts of, the Ur- der of the Holy Ghost is calenlated as *£16,000, ¥ crown Juwnls of France wors stolen on Aug, 16, 1762, by » bund of forcy thieves, who climbed th lamp-ponts and broke through & windaw of the e lionss, A poor wratoh” was gulliotmed for Wiy offetnp, Whareof Lio wus perfoctly innus wout ; but ote guiticas hend more or loas mo du swali difuroues i 1994 The Juwels wero ull found in_the attic of a bonze mtuated in the Custps Elyeoor. but how thoy got there, and s tlo police Leard of thow, 18 o mywtory to hie uos. IRON AND STEEL. Annunl Mecting of the Amertcan Assoclation. Report of the Eecrotnl;y Setting Forth the Condition of the Industry. Tho World-Wide Depression and tho Cause of It, Government Aid to Transcanlincntal Raliroads Urgod. Bneefal Dispateh to The Chicass Tridune. Pomaveneirs, Pa, Feb, 1L—Tho sunusl ‘moating of tho Amoricyn Iron aud Steol Associa- tion was tiold to-day, Samael J. Roevos, Irosi- dent, in cionrge. Thio annual report of the Socre- tary, James MeNchauk, was presented, which is lengthly document. TUE DEPRESRION GENERAL. It stated that tho declinein the do- maud for fron which commenced in 1871 bss continued during 1874, and with tho docline in the demand there has ene sued a resulting fall in prices {n all the principal fron-producing countrios. Loss fron has beon made in 1874 thon was mado in either 1872 or 1898, Tho reaction in 1874 Lins been a8 gonoral aud docidod ns the advanco 1n 1872 was wnoxpocted and bewildering. 1t has been feit more soveraly iu the United States, but in the United Kingdom sud in Irance and Qermany the dron industry hos been 80 nch dopressod il through the year that many iron-works have boon closed and mavy otchrs havo been employud only o patt of tho time. In the United Kingdon the depres- eion was vory marked at tho closo of the year, and in some branches of ' tho trade did not differ in degrea from the general dopreseion then existiug in our own country, The interruption to the prosperity of the iron industry i the United States Lias been caused mainly by tho partisl closing to that industry of the United Btates mar- ket, but tho spivit of speculation and ovortrading which wrought sueh disastrous consequonces in this country at the closo of 1873 was not wholly wanting in other countrics which were largo consumers of British iron, and with tho subsidence of this spirit in thero countrice o docrensod demand for Britlsh aa woil a8 dumestic iron bay resultod. CONDITION OF TI[I: NUSINE4S, On tho 18t of January thig Assoelation defl- nitely nscortained the situstion of the GGG com- pleted furnaces of tho country to bo as follows : In Llast, 400; out of blast, 206. On tho samo date it npacertained that more than oue-half of (ho rail-mills of the country were wholly idle, while otliers wero running only o part of the time. At the closs of Apnil the Association again ascertained tho condition of ftho domestic iron-trade ey follows: Few railroads were in the market with offers for rails backed by occeptable paper. Coneoquently but few contracts wera made, and they mostly for small Tuts, which wero urgeutly needed. Rails had fallen to $§0, but tho railroads, a3 a rule, wero not in condition to avail thomselves of tho advantage offered them. During the month lariten at Ditsburg was quoted at 237 cetw, but ralos were made ot oven alowor figuro than this. At Now York, Philudelphis, and other leading fron markets, thore were fow salos of Lar iron, and thoy at IUISOUSLY LOW PRICES, Many mills shut down entirely in this month other than§run at o lows, In pigeiton the ‘month was ono of decided panic. Tho best gray forgo at Vittsburg sold at 323 o four monthy' time, and No. 1 Foundry st Philadelphins, best Lehigh, ot 833, on time. During tho summer sud autumn of 1874, tho iran business did not improve. On the 1st of November, of 677 fur- nuces haard from, thero wera 332 in blast, and 205 out of bast, or BT per cont in, aud 43 out, show- ing o larger nuwber ont of blast han iu, Jaguary or April. MEETINGS II4LD. November and Decomber mectings of pig iron manufacturers waro held in Philadelphis to do- vise meauns by which production might be still further reduced. Large stocks of charcoal and other pig iron were taken umold in tho hauds of furnacemen and their agents. In Docomber overy rolling-mill ob Tlttsburg suspended opaiations nt fts puddlicg farnaces becauso af tho refusal of puddlers to acept & reduction of wages, But, evon if the proposed reduction bad been accept- ed, it is cortain that wome of tho mills would havo snspended during tho snter, because of a scarcity of ordors. At tho closs of the yoar the iron trado of thoe country was in o condition of greater deproseion than had existed nt any timp rince tho beginning of the panic, Tho quantity of pig iron on hand sod nnsold was entimatod ot "200,000 tous of charconl and 200,000 tons of charcoal und coke. Thers can Le no doubt that the EXCESSIVE IMPORTATIONS of fron and steol in 1872 and 1873, ageregating over $100,000,000 in gold, addod greatly to tuu severitices of the panle, 1f, indned, thoy 'did not belp to produco tho panic ifself, by lutting tho morkot with forelgn ron, ‘and closing home furnaces sud rolling-mlila. 1f we had not imported 8o largoly of thero commodition in those years, thora would have been no ground for the abunrd chargo that the coantry {n the eamo yoars pros duced too muchiron. The following tabla showa the relative amounts of iron aud steol imported; 1872, Tron #41,950,813 teel Rt Tron 2,082,674 Bigel . TR Tron 318,872,610 Hiel o 14,810,845 Tlo_imports from Great Britain into all the [)urlu of tho United States of fron and steol any helr manufactures during the first ton montus ot 1873, compared with like imports from tho samo cotnsies during tho cortesponding porivd ol 1473, wero a8 follows ¢ Ten months of 1874, 173,841 tom 416,066, ‘T'en wnonths of 1874, 960,6 valus, £440,657, ‘Yhe total production uf coal in (ho United Hlates 1873 was: Anthiencite, 23,829,178 tons; bitumis value, 9 tons ; nous, 23,685,220 tone, Towsl - production i 1872, tons of 2,000 pounds, 2,651,554 ; total production iu 1473, one of 2,000’ pounds, 2,868,478, Entimatod anhusl capacity of tinished stooks, bet tons, 4,500,000, umber of Htntes ltaving furunces, 23; nambor of Htaton making plg dran tin. 167% 21 number of Hiates makivg Pl iron in 1873, 22, Lonnsylyauia, with 202 stacks, makes very noarly oiic-inlf of all the pig iron in the coune try, Ohio comos nexl, mwalig one-soventh of the wholo product, with 83 slacke, Now York, with flity-three atnoks, takes aver one-fonth of the wholo producs, ‘Ihese three Blates und Now Jersoy malio more than thres-quatters of the totul produet, Iive Westorn prairio Btates, In. diaua, Iliinois, Michigan, Wiscousin, aud Mis- souti, meke 131§ per cont of ALL TIE PIO-1OX PRODUCED in 1872, and 133 por cont. of all made In 1873, 1% Iv @ einggutar (ot $hiat Houth Caroling haw eight charcual-twinaces, and thut not ono of them wad i blast {o 1874 or 1873, The averseo aunual iroduet of the furuanea of tho country in net tons s a8 follows : Chareoal, 3,004 tous ; bituinous coal and cole, 5,592 tons; anthrae cite, 6,495 tuns. In 1870, cighoen States mado Talls with o total of 890,097 tons, sgainst 1,000,000 tons in 1872 Denunyle yunia Was Wroally In the ven, having pioc duced 41952 tons in ' D874 med 29,522 tons in IN74, [*}3 the mills which produosd tho ralle, 56 mnda leuvy sections wmnly, and of these voven mado Hesso- mor and iron yall $8210 Vo0 edo Vessamer rails exclusively, e elght il made only light lron vels, 'I'io total mumber of milly making rals of all kinds in 1873 way 84, of whieli Petmsylvanin doutuined 29, Ohio 17, v York 7, Ulivoin 7, Indiang 4, Kentucky 4 Tenuosdeu 8, Massachusotts, Maryland, and Gourgis each %and Maiue, Vermont, Now Jersey, West Virgine, Alichigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, oud Culliorain 1 e, 1n 1565 THE FIRSC EXPRHINENTAL BENSEMER BTEEL-RAIL waa yollad i this country ju Cbicsgo, sud in 1307 th fivat wteel vatly rolled in the countty on wider Iwose tulled ot Jobnstown from lugots tondo ot Harrisburg, We 1ow havo eight untab- lishtuotts devoiod 1o tue manufictnre of Losse. tner 18ils, aud iwo more sre belng built, 1 1874 Wie piivo of Aworican-iade Doswemor tails was lowor than tho n\'rrng.{lfles of eithor Engheh or Lussian iron rails af Now York for tlio preceding oleven years, In 1874, Bornomor wils of American mnunufacture wero 60ld a8 low as E7 o ton, which was a lower prico than American rails bronght in 1873, Tho introduction of the Ieksemor process in this country cheapenod the prico of Beasemer Tall: to our rallronds, and & has glvon an im- portant industry to the nation, ‘Tho production of pneumatic of Bossomer xteel in the United Blates since 1567 Liay beon as follows, in tons of 2000 pounds s Frar. 1 1874 (estimated). . 2iobsnnes TIHE NUMDER OF ESTARLIRHMENTS in the Unitod States that now make ail kinds of slool excopt Bossemeris 42, 'I'he msnulacturo of steol in this country was in ita infancy in 1850, when the census gave the nnmber of atecl furnacen as fivo, nil in Pennsylyanis, employing capital of £62.450 and forty haud, yielding product valuo at $172,040, ~ In tho censun year (1860) thers,wera thirteon stecl-making esfab- lishments, employing 10,800,000 of _ capital and 548 hnanus, and prodneing 11,838 net tons of stocl, valued at 81,179,240, In 1570 the number of establishmonts hnd Incrensed to twontv-rovon, and their total produst of steel swas #0351 not tons, valued a3 #7,7:4,633. THE PRODUCTION OF MANUFACTURKD IRON, Fho production of rolled irov. blooms, and ;miln in tho United Biates in 1873, was a4 fol- own ¢ 1ar, angle, bolt, rod, and hoops, tons. Ilato end shioots, tous. .. Kegs of vut nalls aud spties, Bivows from ore, tons,. Blooms from pig-iron, tons, Trun-steel rafls, all izes, tor Tholow is a summaty in et toug of taincd production of iron aud s Cuited States in 1372and 1373: 105,064 169,107 408470 Tron and stest rafls. Bosemer steel fails, . Tron Falls,.veuee,, Otler roled fror Hiooms (rom ore'and plg-iron, Dzgsenes steal, merchiantabl Allother kinds of ateel pUES LU PN RATL CUTION. Tho mileazo of contriction in the United Stales and Cannda in 1874 was 92,1083/, Total lengih of all narrow-gaugo ronds construct- ed. under coustraction, nand projected w tho United States and Canads, 6,823 miles, of whioh, la addition to the covstructed mileago above given, thore are 615 miles now in course of construesion, ‘Lhe milonso constructed in 1874 in Canada was 200, The Taronto & Nerinsln;: Itallroad in Canada, which Inid it first rall in 18G9, war]Lho first narrow-gaugo ratltoad in Awerica. Tho firat in the United Statos was tha Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, wiueh Jaid its dirat rail in 1871, rem £TACKS. Of 69 completed furnnce-ntacks in the coun- try, 472 lwd rovorted to tho Aswuciation up to the 1ith of February inst. 01 the condition on the 1st of January last of theee 472 slockk, 26 were thou fu blast and 212 were ont of Liaat. Thirty-swvon of the 370 then in blaet swere annouuced fo bo Llown ont in Javuary. This wonld giva on the 1lst of February 249 furuaces out of blagt, 223 in blast, and 224 to be heard from. — Of tho 234 not reporting, it is outiraly safe to assuumio, that one-half of them were out of blas® on tho 14t of Fobiuary, Tully one-balf of all the furnaces in thio conaitry woro thetafora out of Llast on tha st of Yabruary, n degros of dopression not pre- viously reachiod since the beginuing of tho pauic. The 472 repurted stacks aro se follows ¢ In blast Jan, 1. st of | T be bivwu on Total... In blast Jan. 1 Out of blus Lo be Liow! Total,...... Tn blast Jun, 1, Out of blant., Lo be Liown Total... 1In blast dnn, 1. Out of biast.. Totul..... 7 3 5 The 472 reporting stacks roturn an aggregato of Gil),§71 net tons of pig-iran as unsoid on the 15t of January last, of which 184920 tong wera anthracito, 160,990 tona bituminous coal and colie, 150.197 tous ordinary charcoal, mod 64,745 touy wero car-whool charcosl, A DISCUSAION took place upon tho propriety of the mom- bers of the Association taking rome immedi- alo stepn to prepare s sultablo collection of the iron orca, fuels, fluxes, eto., of tho country, used in iron making for the Centennfal ~ Exhibition. Tho Hon, D, J. Marie.], James M. Wharton, aud the 'rosident upofte upon tho subject, and it was suggested tuat o commitico should be appointed to tuko tho matter in chiargo, : Mr. %, 8. Durfeo, of New York, rcad o paper on tho iron trade and frovspor- tation, Ho eaid that tho Iron and mtael trades coutributed 863,000,000 per year for transportation upon the railroads In tie United Siatew, taking 150 miloa aa tho averago distanco, and tho nvorago rates ns paid as 11¢ couts per mile. Allowing 60 nor ecnt for tho teal COST OF THANSPOITATION, thesa trades would be paying & profit to tho carriors of 25,200,000, reprosenting 10 'por cent dividend on 252,000,000 or st 83,000 per milo on 7,000 miles of raliroad, ~ If the iron aud stool worka in tuo country wore run at thoir full capacity they would employ about 10,000 miles of railroad In their own buginess. LESOLUTIONS. submitted by Mr, Morrell, were adoptod, provid- Iug the it was the duty of the Goyernnient, In of the midst of tho geuoral depression of Lusinows, to show by its acts an carnesl sympathy with workingman who woro at prosent out of employmont; that the National oredit should be austained iu- violate by the immediate onastment of tha necessary additional roveutio by Congross 3 that it was tho opinion of the Assoclation that the Nattonal credit might plopgrly - be grunted under Auitabio restelotious ' to ald in the coustructlon of ono or more of the transcoutinontal rallrond lines which havo heon already fn part conbtructed Ly rrxvm en- terpriso; that the rntnnllcv-dsteclm revehuo frauds in New York, offocted by undorvalun- tlon of sl and ~ othor datisble goods, or by emuggling latgs quantities of such 00ds througth tho Ouatom-[{auxe, has demon- atrated the advantage of tho grester vigilanco which hat Iately boen exerclsed by Government ofliciuls, and alao -uyfieals the proprloty of erect- ing now safoguards by liritation and sujtable appointments, ard that the next meeting of tha Association shall be held in some Wenter: or Bauthern city, ot such time as shall no fixe by the Excentive Committeo. A resolution u) proving the action of the United States Honato in rejecting the proposed Heciprovity Treaty with Causda was offcred by Mr. Rogors aud adopted. ey S—— THE PHILADELPHIA DRY.DOCK. Mecting of a Commission to lnvestis gute the Causu of lis Destruction Luvs Tuesday. Special Inspateh ta The Chicado Tribune, Pmraptienta, Feb. 11.~This morning a come mission of naval oficers met in tho Navy Yard to investigate and endosvor o discover the causo of the sluking of the large floating dry dosk in the basin of the yard, which ocourred Tnosdsy after- uuon, Lhis dook was brought to this poit frowm Brooklyn in 1832, Laviog Leen iy use nine yours at that slation. 1t cousists of blue seo- tlons, each 30 foct long, making a total length of 270 feet, wud cust origiually sbous #100,000. 1t wea the largest flusting dock ia this neighborhood, and hes boen in frequont use to raise our large steamehips, Tucsday last it wau Bunk, préparatory to berhiug the ateamship Petnsylvania. This was & work of considorable difticulty, uu the machiuery worked lard on account of the frost. They flually wettled down into place, and the vessol was brought iu- ta placo over them, Tho snachiuecy wau start- ed to pump the water out of she wections, buy Ravo out, the rods conuoctiug the engines with tho puwps giviog way, Thus submorged, Hoats ing - ieo struck the upper poriivus of tha dook end wresked them, but not until the stesmor Lad boen towed out sud returned to her dock, 'The duck husbsen o long in uso that 1t 1y 8 wonder that it has held ot yo nobly, 1t ly fearcd 1t will provo a total loss, It was somarked thas, it it could bo raiscd, it would cost s least #230,000 to put It {n good ordor, aud that the cont of & uew douk would be as loast §300.600, 'T'lie Cowme missiou will ascortain, if poasible, whether the fault attaches to any one who aided in working ;zllm huge wachive, aud xoport 88 woou a porsie ) " MISERABLE SINNERS: The Murder of Deacon John Mce Cormick, at Mount Vere non, O, The Miserly Eccentricities of the De- ceased the Supposed Incentive, The Murderors Fail to Discover Noarly $15,000 Hidden in tho Store. ‘THE MT. VERNON, O., MURDER, Frors the NIt Vernon (0.) Ranter Lrtrd, Feb, 9, Our citizens woro startiod on Saturday mor ing by a report that our woll-known fellow-citi- zon, Mr, John; McCormick (usually called * Doncon " McCormick), yron merchant in the Kremlin Building, had been murdered in Lis stora ou tha night provious, 1OW THE MURDEN WAB DISCOVERED, Mr. liarvey Drauyan, biackemith, on Front strect (who wns ona of Mr, MeCormick's cus- tomors), went to tho slore about 8a'clock on Saturday morning for tho purpose of buying lorso-shoe nails. Knowing Mr, McCormick's Labits of eatly rising, ho was sutprirod to find that tho blinde had not yot boen removed from the front door and window, o noticed, how- ever, that the door was ajar, put bis hand on tho knob and pushed it open. Al was darkness inside. Ifo entored and paused & moment to aacortain if mny perdon was in the room. Iy thig timo bis oyes, adapting thomeelves to tho darker atmosphore of the store, discovered what appeared to bo tho body of a man lying on the floor, about the centro of tho room, near tho stove. Io approxchod, and was amnzed nud Norrified to flnd tue doad body of the man ho way looking for atrotched on the floor, his skull broken, and his hoad lying in a pool of blood, Mr, Branyan ran out and communicated the s~ ful nows to Georgo Bunu and others, and in o momont the storo-room was crowded with peo. ple. WHEN LAST SEEY ALIVE. The last per=on who saw nnd convorsed with tho murdored may was Mr. Joff Bapp, who keopa & grocory-staro next door. Mors Mr. MeCors mick sat and chatted for about half an hour, ap poaring to bo in unusually good spirits, Ho then weunt into his atore, and closed, but did not lock, his door, and proceeded. it is supposed, to read his daily paper (tho Cincinnati Guzelfe), ay has boen Lis custom for years, MOW AND WHEN TIF MURDER WAS COMMITTED. As tho deceased has slways been very regular in bis habits, leaving his storc-room about 9 o'elock in the evening for his boarding-liouso, aud then retiriug for tha night, the murder was unquestionably committed between the hours of 7:80 and ) o'clock ou Fridey eveviug. From the appoaraiic of things in the morning, the con- clusion 1u irreaistiblo that one or more porsony entered Lo storo between the hionrs mentfonod, under the pretense of buying soms 1vop, but really to commit & robbery. The uowspaper which tho deceased had boen reading was found thrown caralassly on a pile of fron, back of the EEQL whero lus chule stood, near the stove, as though Lo had laid it there while waiting uron customers, ‘Uwwo »lips of light lron (one a round and tho other a flat bar) wern found on tho scales, which wero balanced, On tho iron Dlock ot which the iron is eut was fouud & rod of balf-inch ronnd iron, & piece of whicn was partly cut off. Tiicsn facts £o to prove that tho mr- dereus did not go to buy fron, but to commit o roboery, as it was gonerally understood that tho deceasied bad o Inrgzo sum of monoy, supposed to bo from 91,000 to &3,000, in & pocketbook which o kept concealed somowhers 1n the store, This pockotbook probably boing produced to make change whon the slips of iron on the scales wore weighed, tho murderers protonded to want o littio more fron in ordor mora succeasfully o carry out their purposo; and i: is bolieved that, while Mr. McCormick wan stooplug down one knao an the floor, in the act of cutting off the other alip of fron, ho was struck on tho head three or four vlows with a hammer, brenking his skull aod producing Instant deatin, Blood was found ou tha lloor near whero the cutting was done, as it it had spurted in n smali stroam from a wound, and blood and bair were fouud on two hammers, close to whero the dead body rested, —oue » small cold-chisol fismmor, and tho other a sledge welghing about oight pounds, thoe very ono used by decessed in cuttivg iron, which wak no doubt taken from hia haud after the first blows Lind boen Eiven with the small hammer. When discovored, the body waa strotehed o the floor, the hoad toward the front (or wost) one tianco, aud tho foat ubout two yards from tho iron-cutting block. 'I'his goos to show that after the blows bad been given by tho small hammer (each ono of which broke the skull and woull have prodnced death), the deconscd struggled aud foll over on the floor ot the mpot moutioned, when, to complete thelr murderous and horrible work, o boavy blow was givon on _the top of the Lead with a sledge, which mashed the shullin o borrible manner, the blood and brains pouring out upon the floor, y THE RODAERY, * Deacon McCormick aiways kapt a largo sum of mouey—#5, B10, §20, 50, and 100 notes—in o Inro pocketbook which he doposited in his sufa duriog busluess hours, % hich, it s suppoued, he concealed behind tho Ellen of fron beforo he loft tho store at night, Thiy &\Ioclmtunuk is miesing, and it is belioved {t wan tho only thing valuahio the murdering robbora obtained,” Various small sumns of muue{‘ & waich, and othor articles, wero ho found in i pockets of tho decoasad, untouched, Thore , was also some change in the safe, ¢ aud * sbout #10 in small curroncy in’ & drawer bohind the counter, whioh were undfslurbed, The safo, which was found wilocked v th morning, indicated that it had beow searchied hustily, but not thuroughly, as tho small change wis untouched jn tho drawers., The safo Is an old-fashloned one, which was uot considered burglar-proof, aud for this reason Mr. McCorwnlek did not make it tha dopository of his monoy, bonds, or othier valuablo propesty, : WEATLI OF ‘THE DECEASED, ~ Tho deceasod wal ohia of thio woallhy cltizens of Mt. Yernon, and, a8 ho ownod but iittlo real eatato, hia menna wora mostly in ready money, bouds, and uotes, bosides a heavy ntock ot lion, Wo havo heard hin wealth variouely estimated from &50.000 to 60,000, Al tuls hes boew accus mulated by a loug life of iudustry and economy, Wnuen ho camo to Knox County, in 1835, Le was quito n poor ym!n? man, sud for deveral years supported himself by manual Inbor. After ac- cumulating about 100, ho _bought a fow plows and & small lotof iron, sud with those he lnid the fouudation of his futuro wealth, Ilo was very closo and attentive to businees, nevor em- ployed a clork or sssistant, and vory seldom evon called for nesistance in earrying great loads of lhieavy irou luta hig storo-romn, EWAS MANRLED, sbout tho yoar 1828, to n Indy near Oskiand, Va., b{lwhnm he had three children, all sons, two of who are otill Living, aud are carryivg on farin- 1ny opozations tn Towa, ho havivg bought cach of them a valuablo farm. 18 marrisge dld not Prove & Liappy one, and he and_his wifo parted short tima before hio camo to Mt. Vernon, 1hw wife obtained & divorc and was married agaiv. 1a vixitod his hous in Town ooorsionnlly, and ul- Ways spoke cnoouragingly of their prosperity. M1 FCCENTIIO HADITS, Daacon MoCoriick, although fond of money and boarding it away, was by no means a miser, 1o was alwAysready to loan bis monoy and ausfu Iiis frisnds it their business oporations, 1Mo never was without woney, aud could make change, cash a drafy, or 0 & loay, to ale wost any amount, wheneyer called upon. e did not ‘make moncy-lending or note-shaving buklnoee, aud it wak more to socommodato his pordonal friendd (han anythmg elso thas he loaned mouey at al, 1lla scomod te Liuve but Titéle faith in bouky, and houce Le did but little business turough them, Sl Le kopt & stunding denoslt accoltut, which was but seldom increaso or dimluished, 'His surplus money, bonds, sto., hia always kopt hiddon in his storo—tho gold and mnall chiauge (n bags, some bank notes in au old wallat, and bis bonils rolled up und placed ina fin tibe, which were deporited on the floor behind wovoral tons of iron wlich lood upright on the uorth slde of the store, Mr, Charles Cooper », poars to have been tbe oulfir porson l’; whom Die futrusted the Eknowlodge of this piace of depomt; aud after the appolnte ment of William McClelland s sdininistrator on Haturday, & searci wag made Lelind the iron, ot tho instance of Alr, Cooper, And fons small bags, aud an old wallot, and the {in tube slluded to weto found, sud were taken by Mr, MoClelland aud AMr, Cooper to tho Kuox “Cuunty National Lauk for doposit. o contonts were as ful. lows 1 Goverument bonds, §9,350 : greaubacks, #4780 gold, 31805 silver, §98,50; B-cont niokels, 862,90 ; !mnni €71 Iractional our- reuoy, $20.70 ; total, §14,317.02. Bunie of this toney, the bank-notes eupeoinlly, must have beon keptun Laud for & long tine, a4 tho notes stuck so olose together that jv was diticult to soparate thow. The peuuios and nfcliels wero not sll acoumulated io the way of busiuess, for thd nush of thewm wore entiraly now—is boiug o bLiabis of the decoased, whon a new emisslou cama fivm the it 1o the bauk, if Le (0ok & fatoy 1o 12, 1875. thelt appearance to bny many dollara’ worth, not fo much for the change an to pat away for rafo-keapiny, Thess eccentrio habity seom to havo been pretty well known, and tho fact that hie kept Inrpe sima of ooy i his atore, and cexpecinlly & larga poekot-hook full of monoy, was also weil “known. aud this affordsd tho temptntiun for the robbery and hornble murder above detailed, HEAVY REWADH, 8oon atter tho discavory of the murder, some of our citizens, who wore {n tho fron storo whoro the murder was commiticd, determined that Tandinlls shonkl he Issuod at onee offaring a re- ward of 81,000 for the approhiension and convie- tion of the person ur persous who commutiod tho murdor. Bubaoquently s meoting of the City Conncil was hold, when a pranwblo and resofutions were unsmimonsly adopted, suthoriziug tho Mayor to offer a rovard of £2,000, and alno Lo pay an addi- tional eum, not exconding $500, to employ spa- cial polica or detectives, NO CLUE TO THE MURDERERS 1ias bean obtainad, nlthougl the polics at once went_vigornusly Lo work, and havo been busy day and night, "One or two arrests weio mado, but it is gonerally believed the parties had noth- ing to do with' the Lloody and horrible act. Chiof of Polico Bankin, of Nowark, came up on Baturday, and commeoncod workiug the case up; anil the police of Columbus, Clevoland, Cinein- natl, aad othier places, havoalso gone to work 1 tho Lope of socuring the large rewards. ANOTHER WOLF. Bpecial Disnateh to T'he Chicagn Tridune, LACnossE, Wis,, Fob. 11.—Tho Democrat to- night published tho doings of tho Rev, Mr, Jones, allas Bonstead, lately proaching at Farm- ington, iu this county, Jones camo to theso parts two years ago, haillng from Iianoves; N. Y, 'This winter Jones married the danghter of & prominont farmer in Galesville, in this Btate, M, Jones has disappeared, and at lonst six ofticers of the law nio lero to-day anxiously looking aftor this clerfeal scoundrel, who, it seams, 8 on (ho ragged odgo, troubled with too much wife, ba having been marrled no less than fivo times witbout taking out proper cleatances. POSSIBLE Snectal Dispateh to 7 INpEPENDRNOE, In, Fob. 11.—A young man named ¥, McKowon, aged about 26,1va8 murderad or frozon to death last night in this place, De- ceased may have been intoxieated, The place where ho waa found was fn o rather closely-set- tled neightorhood. Ilo was, however, Xrnl.my murdezod, ee his fnco 18 badly jammed in, a8 though struck with o club, both his pockely turnod inside out, and his watch gane. LAWLESSNESS AT KANSAS CITY, specal Diapateh to T'le Chicage Tribune, Kaxurs Crry, Mo, Feb. 11.—At a dance in thig city early tiis morniug, two hard characters enterad tho bhall aud croated a disturbance. William McArdla fired & rovolver at Mra, Willum Mulkey, bringing her o the floor und inflicting & sortous wound, McArdlo fled nnd oscaped arrost. THE TANYARD MURDER CASE IN CINCINNATI. Civerxsaxs, O, Fob. 1l—Iu tho case of Rufer, now on trinl for tho murder of Behilling, commonly known as the taayard murder, tho jnry were chargod by the Judge this afternoon, and up to & lato hour had not rendered & verdict. FIRES, IN CHICAGO, The alarm from Box 764 at 12:45 p. m, yester- day was occayioned by fire fn tho two-slory framo building No. 143 Olybourn avenue, owned by John Umbrecht, and occupied in tho basement by him 08 & show-caso manufactory, and on the first floor ns o dwelling, Losa on building, £1,500; on tools, stock, and farniture, £000; no insurance, The secoud {loor front was oceupied by John Vogt ns o dwelling; loss, £600; no in- wuranco. 'Uhe rear part wag oceupiod by Honry Burmoister, whoso loss iy 86003 no lnsuranco, No. 141, s frame building ndjoining, was dame agod to tho amount of ¥130; fully covered by insuranco. An ovor-heated stove causod the fire. A defectivo chimnoy causod & Alight fire in bath-room ond somo consternation among the guoats as the Durdics House, corver of Wabash avenuo and Adame stroct, nt B:l5 o'clock last nighs, The damnge was trifling. An alarm was signaled from Box 41, The slgnal from flre atetion No, 62 at 9:10 @'cluck last night was caused by firo in St. Jolin's Catholic Chureh, corner of Clark and Eighteenth sireots. The damago amounted to 3300, The property is fully insurod. Thore woro no flves in tha churel, and tho Ray, Fathor Waldron nt- tributes tho blazo to {ncondiarism. AT KEOKUK, Spectal Diepaten tr Phe Chicago Tribune, Krokux, In., Feb. 11,—~At an early hour this morning, & fire broke out fn & threo-slory brick building on Main strect, owned by Judge Miller, of tho United Btates Supreme Court, and occu- pied by Cooper & Graliam as a stove stora, Tho building, with its coolonts, was entirely de- stroyod, Loss on building, §5,0003 insured for £2,000 fo the Empiro, of London; on stock, #2,600 5 insured for £1,500 in tho Citizons’ In- surance, of Nawark, N. J, The fire cominuni- cated with tho egg and butter depot of E. 0. Pond & OCo., and destroyed that also, Losa on- building snd stook, $10,000¢ insured for 24,000 in in tho Atus, and $1,500 in the Iowa Btate Iusurance Company, Of this city. Tho building of Pond & Co. contained 8,600 pounds of butter, 1,800 ponnds of feathers, and 50 tans of cut straw, Theso mado » fire that throat. aned to weop over a large territory, and would doubtioss Lave dono o, oxcept fOF the snow, which fell the night provious, ‘The weathor was intensaly cold, nnd serioun dolays were ocoasioned by the froesing and bursting of Lose. Tho origin of the fire is unknown, AT FOND DU LAC, Apecial Dignateh to The Chicdao Tribune, Foxp vy Liac, Wis.,, Fob, 11.—Light wooden buildings on Main etroct wero destroyed by fire in this city to-day, they were occupied by N. Hawlin, restaurant; Frank Aliller, boots and shoos; (. A. EgRorhioff, boots and shoes; Doue nis Bliort, saloon ; 3. Launors, saloon; Heury Bwart, sowing machines; Georgo C. Wright, boots and shoes; W, Roloff, meat markot ; Johty W, Dillon, utirll Tenuo & Hcholl, boots and shoes, All but Diflon aud dfiller eaved nost of their goods, T.oss, §20,000 ; insurance, &7,000, ‘I'uo buildings wore owned by men who have the mosns ta orect brick blocks, whiclk they will do noxt pummer, A number of tho ficemon wera badly froaeu, AT LAPORTE, IND, Bpeciat Disvateh to The Chicauo Tribune, Laronte, Ind.,, Fob. 11.—A emall tenemont house, bolongit to James Ridgway, was burned to-night. It wad sot on firo by some unkmown erson, porlapa for plunder, a8 soveral Lousey have bocn brolien into dunng thie 1ast two weoks, Loss about $1,000 ; no insuranco, AT SPRING LAKE, MICH. Speciat Dupateh to The Chicago Tridune, 8pniNe Laxe, Mich, Fob, 11.—Tho Natfonal Hotal was entirely dostroyed by firo last night, cauaod by o dofective chimnoy. Hoarcoly auy. thing was saved. Tho hotol was nesrly destroyed Iaat August, and had recontly boeon re.upened, Lose, 10,000 ; vovered by insurance. AT FARWELL, MIOH, Bpeeial Dispateh to The Chioica Tridind, East Baawvaw, Mich., Feb. 11,—Wolls, Btona & Co,, of this place, had & branch store at Far. woll destroyed by fire this morning, Loss, 811,- 0005 insured for $5.000. 'The dopot building of tho Fling & Pera Marquotte lioad at tlie same place was also destroyed, Loss, 1,000, AT CAMBRIDGE, PA, Bpesial Duspatch to The Uhicago Tr{dune, Meanvinre, Pa, Fob, 11.—A fire took place at Cambridgo, this county, enrly this morning, which destroyed B, M, Bhierwood & Co.'s saw- miff and shovel-handio manufuctory ; also, Pene dieton & Bherwood's large chieeno factory, Loss 0vers$25,000 ; origln of the firo unknown, AT SIOUX CITY, Bpecial Dirpateh t T'he Chisago Triduhe, Brovx Orry, In, Feb, 11.—A dwelling-house bolonging to W. Agnes, of this city, burned st 8 o'clock this morulvg, Nearly ali the furni- ture was deatroyed. Loes about 81,600 ; insured iu & Hartford campany for 500, AT MOKENA, ILL, HMoxena, Will Co., I1L., Feb, 11,—The National Hotel, owned by M. Indors, was conwumed by fira to-day about noon, The loss {s $2,000; said in be well ineured. ‘Lhoe origiu of the fire is un. LOWL. AT NASHVILLE, MICH. Dsrsorr, Mich., Fob, 11.—MoCormick's Hotel, at Nashvillo, Miob., was burned yeaterday, The loas in £5,000 § wwnsused, e e e e — COMMON CARRIERS, Representatives of the Boston & Albany Road Before a Logisla- tive Committee. Answers to the Charge of Discrimination Against Boston, » Earnings of Wostorn Roads for January, BOSTON & ALBANY. Spectal Dispateh to I'he Chieaao Tribune, Bostoy, Feb. 11,—Tho Legislative Committes on Railtonds lind a hoaring to-day on tho order offerod by ,Mr. Frodorick Mosoly, of Doston, to inquire whether tho Boston & Albany Railroad is furnishing freight facilities and clixrges 8o as not to dincrimiuato against the City of DRoaton, and to inquira whother tho Btate Directors of said Road havo mado their anuual roport a8 re- quired by law. Vico-President Lincoln represented tho Boston & Albany Railrond, snd Mr. Bartlott said tho Commeroial Exchange and tho Board of Trade Lad sppointed Commiesioners to appear. Mr. J. I, Locke said the difficulty with tho grain trado was tho lack of guarantea of weight, and drafta wore givon for full weight when tho weight was short. The matter had been placed bofore tho railrond oficers, but nothing was done. The harm done to the Boston trado is sometimoes very great, ag, when tho gralu is put into the cars, they havo no assaranco of the woight until it Is nnlosded at tho olovators. The cure for both the over- londing sud slortage s to guarauteo tho weight, which i done to certain pasties, but not to tho trado as. a whole. Tho wresent systom ennbles parties olsowhers Lo Jay down corn at 6 to 7 couts loss than in Bos- ton. ~ Tho ratey s publiabad are b conts more to Boston than to Now York, and the road adhercs to tho ))ubllnbud ratos, while New York always “outs™ tho rates. Evidonce of this had beon shown Mr. Dligs, the Boston & Albany Road Manager, but the difioulty was the partles who gottho ‘cut” rates wore unwilling to stats tho fuots, The Ioaton Albauy would not made a pro rats “cut” with other” Westorn lines, but asked 80 much for carrying a given amount, which fleaves all the **cutting” to be dono with tho othor luos West. In rogard ta tho discrimination in favor of Portland, Boston morchanty lind talked of having cars billed through to Portland and having them stopped at Bostou, for they could then make 5 cants o tho hundred, It coats more to lay graln down hero for home consumptlon than it docs in New York. Mr, Calvla M, Winch, of Cutting, Winch, & Co., 8aid bis firm had abandoned tho grain busi- ucks on account of tho refusal of the rosd fo guaranteo tho amount of grain, Thero was no inducement to make advances on bills of lading unloss thoy could bo sure of receiving it. 'Tho shipper roceives o Lill of Inding for & cor- tain quantily more or loss, and draws on the morcliant horo for it at ro much per bushel, but m ro many cases lind thero heon shortago that his firm rofused to continue the businees. Mr, J, ¥, Paul narrated the difiiculties he had cncountored in the lumber trade, He turned his trade to Now York, and thoro made & handsoma profit on it. If freight can go through Doston for G ceuts leas than it costs to stop in Boston, wowething {8 wrong, Alr. Shumway, of tho Bay Btate Sugar Refin- ery, stated that hie #hipped 19 per ceut of their froight over tho Doston & Albauy, 41 por cent over the Yormout Contral & Grand Truuk, aud 33 por cont over tho Erie, This was bocnuse of tho Ligh rato of chargos of tho Dostop & Al bany. This morning ho had beon affared freight 10 cents a hundred lous than what the Boston & Albany would tako. YVice-President Lincoln, being ealled upon, snid e tind 1o doube that the sbortage, otc,, was much exaggerated. 1o Lolioved the graiu was coming regularly, snd the Committea wonld be surprigsed to see how regular, He was willing to giva the Commttce an sbstract of tho rocoipts and weights at any time. Ila would bo giad t have tho Doard of Trade or appolut o mun ta woigh the grain At tho elovator. Ha sald the roud had_reduced the expeuso of lrnnnror_lmg Lreight and prssongers 38 or40 per cont sinco tho consalidation, e donied_that any guaranteed Lills of lading Lnd been given to atiy one, Ho said they lind nettiod cased of shortaze whon satislled that it wos from lcalago c¢r from any _resson which showed that the road was fu fault, Tho roud had beou putting in track-sonfes at overy important point, 8o that all grain in thuw woighed, oxcapt that which goes inta elevator, when it is weighed, Businews loretoforo hay bacen dono yvory loosely, Thoy could bavo fcales w Albany, but Lo doubted the powot of the road tooufotcoauy road as to quantity. ''he rondsowi shares In the turouzh hmos, 80 much pro-ratn far tho miies of oach road. ' They would recog- nizo o contract nde by ou “agent of those livos, Iuregard to ehortage, e had uo doubt they could strauge that with the New York Con- {ral by moans of their elovator ot Bufalo. The Now York Central had sbsalutely refused to guarantoe fraights, and refused Lo Joiu in giving wpecial bills of lading of miscolinnoous froight fram the Wost. ‘The hoaring was adjonrned till to-morrow, THE WESTERN ROADS, The representatives of the roads west of Chi- cago hold another meoting yesterday afterngon, ot the Groud Pacific Hotel, r, J. O. MeMullin, Qoueral Buperintendent of the Chicago & Alton TRailroad, in tho chair, and Mr. A. C. Bird, Gen- cral Troight Agout of tho 8t, Loufs, Kensas City & Northern Railrond, sctiog as Becrotary. - The objoct of thia mooting was to fix rates for poluts west of the Missiasippl River. Hercto- fore thio practico Law been to prorato from Now York to Kansas City snd other Missouri River points, msking the throngh rates from New York to Kansas City bat littis abave thoto from Chicago. An sgrocment was mado at this moeting whoreby oll {freiglts dextinod to Missouri liver points sball be subjeot to the following- srbitrary ratest From Si. Louis, Lous Iginua, Hannibal, Quinoy, Burlington, and Day- enport to Kansas City, Atchinkon, Loavenworth, Bt. Josepl, Eust Nobraska City, Plattemouth, wnd Conucil Blufls, first class, 73 cents § second class, 49°couts; third olass, 33 conte; fourth closs, 86 centu ; speoial cloas, 24 conts; clays A, 060 ¢ olass 1, §45, .- It was nlso agroed that the looal-taiff ratos from Ublcago to Missouss-Ttiver points sha i bo 20 conts on first class, 15 cents on sccond and thled ciass, and 10 conts on fourth claus, highct than tho rates that may be charged from St. Louis, An agrcement was nleo made that on irou produoty, such as rajlroad-iron, pig-izon, oar-wheols, ~spikes, and splicen, and har conl, the diftercuce shall bo but 10 a car sbovethe rates charged from 8t. Louls, This Action places Chicago merchants snd mmnu- fuciurers on an equnlity with’ St, Louls mor- chants, giving the latter no advantago over the former, as the rates from the seaboard to 8, Louis ara at lonst as high, it not qu«r,lhm the difference that has been established. It was further agrocd that the rates from Chicago and 8t. Loms to Council Bluffs should bo tho samo, No changens in tariiX ratos from Chicayo or Bt Louis were mado. THE FREIGHT QUESTION, Tho frofght war iu at an end, and neaoe roips suproms In tho countits of the Gencral Fraljphit Agents. Afier numborless ineffectual attom pis tho Freight Agouts of all the liues loading from this city agroad to adopt tho tariff uuggestod by tho Daltimora & Oulo Rellroad, and plodged themeelves fn writing to maintain theso ratey Leroafter, It cannot be denied that the raf at which freghta wore carrled during the lasli foiv weeks were too low, and ruihious to the rosds. One of the Ensstorn Goneral Frelgl: Agenta exprossed the situstion very graphically toa Taiunk reposter yesterduy, Doing asked whether thoy would agree upon higher ratos, he. saidl the raljroads wers {u about tho vame gondir tion as tho little bu{ who was bound to calch the woodebuck, They bad to sgree, forthey wore gotting ous of meat, Although the ne'w ratas are ligher than those obarged during the Just four weoks, 8ull they are very reasouable {or this ecason of the year, and lower than they bavo ever beon during the last few wiuteri. ‘hero will cortaiuly be no complain about thes rates, unlesu it iv ou the highor olasses, but, .1 very fow high-cluss gaods are shipped to the Last, it makes but liitle d{ltaruuc. what the: chorges on them wre, Nearly all the fraightes slipped are grain and fouriliclass_goods, sud tha ated ou these, 10 couts to New York and 95 conts to Philadelpuis sud Baltimore, are reason-- ablo sud equitable, and will pay tho roads but. little profit, Th s provicaly adopted by the Baratogs Combiuation were 45 cents to New York, aud they intended to raise thom to 50 vents when the Baltimore & Ohio put in its veto, and adupted the tanfl which the other roads bhave uow accopied as thoir own, It will therefors be seou thed tho rutes would now be much lughor but for the Baitimore & Obio standiug in tue s l‘zmi saying **thus far and uo farther.” 'he meel Wostorn rosda daring the months of Jan, g yosterdsy was hold st ile oflice Z = ————— T ot the Lako Bhore & Michigan Yo d, ni thoro wera' iremoue ate oL gem Wa storn Gonoral Froiyht Agont Lais Sroh & Michigan Houthora Ttailrond j - L0% Meirum,~ Westorn Genoral - Soight e S Pus urg, Fort, Warno & Chicuyo Jiott tau 1 dames Walaliy Axont Bajtimgratis Ohi 0" Rnilruad: €, C. “V1soclar, Gonoin) prg, o Ate b Michtaan Gontrl Rniirond s and oop 5l Hex ris, Freitit Agont Fattsburg, Cincingan & - 8t Louls Railroad. Thar) wore alsg fy the : M. . C. SteCollough, ¥ lco-Dreelont o 7 Pout naylvania Company ; Mr. J. Vilas, ks Teel ght Agont of the Eclo Talirond § 7ts, Gene, Addy 1ily 4, General Freight Aga nt of the Lake (2R & BI lohigan Bouthern Raulr o8d, and uv:;-:[su".;“ Liast ern Rallroud men. T liess ntlomen oo B0 4tk I tho munotlng, but thoy brousirss ook con; s dorable moral persuas ion on the A, ents = brin o” about an_amicablo. a1 sttloment. ‘nt® 9, tari. is as follows : ey 7 NROGGIT PRICE IN CENT{ TER s, THRNOOK IRERITK AT % ERe R a I Tom HIES S FIE|EEsE H b st & .._ & L E Taltim o ra, Md, 5 : B ey nm} 133] 100/781 160| 120190k 18 100 120'90183¢ Ditadet g, B 1| ool ol Phila N, Wilmin g ton, DnL} 135 10075(0% Pittabur, 1, Fa, 80| eolaolay : Wheeling § We 1800 _solaoian) ~ Highs inos, whisky, and aloobolwil bohargey by nctus | weight, % be 2] The rs tes {rom Toledo, Indianapolis, Teori; Cincloas . 81 Touln, Toniaviie S’E‘““ i waukes, snd common pofnts, wall on the ¢ liove Lasis, r Teguliy RAILROAD EARNINGS, The Now York Commercial and Finansiy Chronic le has furnished Tue TrRinung with g advauco mheet glving tho earnings of v, It and com parionn with previous mooths RAILNOAD ZARNINUS 1¥ JANUARY, 16757 L Burlingtory, Cedar Rapids & M..|$ 105.430'% 507 Choctn ’2‘.‘""-“.‘{',.‘ & Ol ot o Cincinnati,. . Lafayetis o Indinnepol iit, Gl & Laayoits, Ear) Lafayetis, . ‘Nortlie Interustionnu & Kansaa Pagfic, . Miszon nuay Dhio & Mix alsaipp!. 81, Louis, /uton & T. 11, (my SgLouls,Al Wn & T.H, (brauchos)) Bt, Louls, I von Mt, & Bouthern,.| Bt. Louis & Houthsastern, Toledo, Feo £:6 & Warsaw...., rea watica only of Jannary in ssch year, : 511048 PARNINGN 1N DIOFMBER, 4 1874, 183, e S $ 102,20505 my 2084 m,& 63, 61,5} 807,130 wsasn $ 1,330,08118 113700’ 1 922,919 o 160, S e e ol PG Atehison, Topeks & Santa Fe....(§ 1,252,391 1,210, Tiindeipbin & Hrie. oo s,n&’\:m * daboan Bt.T. &8, C, L E BT 826,501 Uhion FAci00. ee seresses "“Tha not oarniugs of theao roads for Decomha were as follow:s ¢ 1674, 1678, Atchinon, Topeka & Ssnia Fe...(§ 62,408(8 3,4 lmlhhn{v. Cin, & Lafayette, 54,8700 31 Yhiladelphia & Fricees 104,420 onig AN IOWA PROJECT, Bpeotal Dispteh to The Chicags Tvibune, Dunuqur, Féb, 11.—~Tho citizens of Lancaste, Graat Courdly, Wis., are anxious to socurs o broad-gauge railrond counection with Dubuqu, and a large delejetion of the most prominen wen of Lancaster snd Votosi arrived to-dy to confer with our peopls on the subjock A ontbuslestic raiirosd meating was held atta Court-Houus to-night, and a numher of vigon 4 ous epoeches wow made, all in favor of th 8 enterprise. Another mooting will be held to morrow, snd definite action taken in regadh tho project. T DARING ROEBERY IN BROOKLYY, A Pawn~0ffice on Onc of the Leadis Fhoroughtares Rifilod, Eyout the Nto York Herald, Feb, 9, A most daring and dosperate robboty was e potiated st nn enrly hour lust evaning, ina par- oftice on ono of tiw loadiug ,thoroughfares d Brooklyn, though tho stroot was crowded wid poople st the time, It appears ‘hint abcrat half-past 6 o'clock p.o. threo mou antorod tliw pawn-oflice of Anthonyl, Heenoy, at No, 114 Atiantie street, 8 fow doon from Courz, sud wyatod that (hoy wantedt pawn some axticles thoy exhibitod.” Whils s negutlation was i progress the wmen acted vey ruspicloualy, aud st length snceseded 1 gettisg the pawnbrokor o follow them {nto n comet when they pos need upon him nud slipped a pir of handcuffs aver hinwrists, They nextp ouedod to gase the unfortunate man, the insirn. ment being ©o contrived that, while It permitid tho wearer to breathe, io was unable to ulkt neound orgive an alarm, Quick aa thovgh they tr&pfiud fum up, and while [ytug ou bis buk guarded by onn of the villains, the other robben turned Lis poslots iuside out, sud took $200i groenbacks tharefrom and the keys of theeit With the koys they unlocked the strong sl and, taking out watohes, jewelry, dismonds, silverware to e yaluo of noarly 3,000, b ponrod tho vatuables into & bag, which, wbe packed, stood 2 feet hlfh. Monutime Xt eenoy kicked aud strupgled with all o mih « and main, sud the dcoundrel who was holda him down Lecaraing fearfal that tho strogalnd the pawnbrokur would betzay tbom, mought give him & quietus by atriking him on the bt with & club, 1910 blow deult, though palofil did not depriva him of his sonses, and bet nowed his efforts Lo escape. Tho noiso at qu’: trnoted the atten tion of a littla girl who W the adfoining halway, and she looked iv st store door to as srtaili the cating of the confutitt The rogues imn mdillnl& booamo alarmed b2l fled the place, t:t! ing with them tho bagof ¥ uables. No souzer was Mr, Hoeenoy relt from tho hands o t the fellow who held himdom than he got up 11 his eet, and handouded l:. gayged as hio waw, he gavo chase juto Al stroet {u pursuit ¢if tho thioves, He ovorl the man with (1e Jowals snd struck st b3 with bis shincklod bands, but tho robber dispet of him by tripping’ him up. i Again Jlesuey w080 and ran_after the it who (iually drapyio d tho bag sud was soon 0% sight with Lis dees pacate_companions. CHze! coming up at thits unetaro took the gag 0itG Lhu month of tho plucky pawnbroket Fors nooled tha cuffs £.com hia wrists, A polldEl was summoned, awvd tho narrative glven M was recountod by Mr. Ilesuey, who was W“a Lruised, and fe still suffaring from the srestot :‘vmsn Lo rocolvad a b the hands of tho desye ood. — ASSAULT W'TH A PITCHFORK ipecial Diapat:d: lo The Chicage Trisuné, D:sq;\lomm, In., 1'eb, 11.~—Vesterdsy uvuv.lllg ab Newtou, two youu g mon, Audrew Parker By GUeorge MoCain, got iuto ute .M:dl prd of 84, McCain sti‘tick Parker ou the he/ ity b pitchfork. Buppoing Parker was not u" % 1y hure, hils father ‘t0ld MoCaiu to leave ‘:mfl two hours, Tarker* eoon grew worse. \lnd‘"‘ moruiug diod. Ofti sore are after the W ————— A Lainro Magnote Xyt the New: Haven Palla fivrt. Tie Bhelhond ot s Hoshaoo) e Juss 1241 & vory important addiiion to jts plhysiod o ratus in an immenss eleotro-magnek, WK, ol with tho accoasorios nocessary for the studfgr, illustration of the m, tetio phenunn'ud*w ) mplendid mpparatus laes boou preseute school by ite jugonions aud nmupmmfl' Tx tuoturer, William Wallace, of Ausonis, ¥4, 0 many years Lss mado s spocial study O b tricity aud magnotism, snd for hia mm'l Do cousiructed some of the largest .mp eficient pieces of apparstus over Eofy in this depsrument of plywca, This BIE 1, net, for which the Shotlield Holiool ia 10deViC, Mr, Wallsce's deep intarest in its work 900y 4G traluing, 1a ouly socond o size, 111800 to one other iu the country, which w"dwufi\l" by Mr. Wallaco & fow yoars ago, aud ¥, chased by tho Ntovens lastituto of ‘Te i iy ¥ ‘'ho Yale magnet weighs altogetler uel;'l‘flfnn Z ton, sud f4 capablo of lftiug, it ¥ sl bt 8 thues Luat weight, o orrer 10 toos, W‘" Layes® action. ke public, i i provamed: W0 fopop ¢ opporiunity of soeiug it 1n operaucy bt i banice) COU% ubjet a3 .one of the lecturca iu the LOW going On #b e alaoal, is ou the 8 IRAgLOUNDM